SPAIN'S BRUTAL
CHARACTERISTICS FOSTKRED BT
l THE
RI9PON8IBLB FOR TRB DBOBNBRACY
OP THB NATION.
l.)liAiVl yioLS
LD SPAIN, despite
the disgusting im
morality of the
thing, knows of
no tight mora
stirring nnJ im
posing than the
first part of an ex
pensive bull fight,
with the cere
moil ions entrance
to the blare of
trumpets; the pro
cession of hlstorlo
oostnuios of orim
eon, pale blue,
white and canary;
of pea green, silvery white and pink j
of scarlet, blank, dark blue and white
and over all of it the brilliant sun
light, the perfumes of spring in the
sweet air, and the enthusiasm of a
mighty audience thnt moves and
shouts and blazes with excitoment.
The ring at Tarragona, for example
little, old, lost-to-the-world Tarra
gonagives seats for 17,000 people
more than the entire population of
that backward town along the Medi
terranean; and yet, the seats are often
full, for the conutry people for milos
round flock in, on foot, on donkeys,
sses, horses and in bullock carts. Ho
that when the bit band strikes up the
old barbaric mar oh, and the thousands
on the benches move themselves un
easily, and shout down greetings to
their favorite flshters. you have a
scene before vou not to be forgotten
The central idea of a bnU-Hgbt, tue
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fipanish will tell the visitor, is to dis
Blav tue eonracre and dexterity oi men,
It is acknowledged that the bull is
more than a man's match the bull
-with his strength, ferocity and sharp
horns, and the man alone, armed with
a sleder sword. Again, it is essential
that the ball should be killed with but
one single stroke, given while the
swordsman, the espada, faces him.
This stroke must also be delivered in
one speoial spot, behind the shoulders,
to penetrate the heart. Should it
glance and strike the lungs instead,
so that the bull will drop blood from
his mouth, the audience is disgusted,
nd expresses its disgust. All this is
delicate and dangerous work, and it
requires preparation to make con
ditions equal for both parties, man
1K8ELTINO A LA2T BULL.
and bull. Besides there must be cere
mony and a show. Out of these ne
oessities the numerous and well-defined
aots and scenes of a bull-fight
take their due progression.
The bull must first be exeroised be
fore the audience, that they may take
pleasure in his strength. The ani
mal is noble, with pedigree as long
as that of many Don. He is slender,
with small hind-quarters and tremen
dous neck and shoulders. Neverthe
less, he is rather small than large.
His horns are straight and sharp; aud
he Is quick, tricky and vicious. The
ordinary bull-fighters, toreadores,
i flaunt their cloaks before his face and
escape witn aiinouity, ouen being
obliged to jump the fence around the
ling. But for the poor horses there is
no escape, and here is where the ill
ness of the stranger takes its sudden
.Tise.
The object of bringing in the horses,
early in the game (poor broken-down
old oreaturesj, is really four-fold. It
is first to exhibit the vigor of the bull,
when he lifts and tosses them with the
most abominable strength. Next, it
-is to tire the bull a little, so that it
1 1 haI KAimMtBotltlA 4rm o alnnla wnskn
Nr lit hui uv iiuvbbiviv wa t mib uu
o face him, later on. Thirdly, it is
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LAST GREAT AOT
to give the bull a smell of blood, that
being naturally what he himself is
lighting for. Lastly it must be said,
unhappily it ia to give the people
i 'themselves a sight of blood.
' I believe this latter to be absolutely
! true, in spite of all denials of Span
iards. The audience seems to like the
tlood of mangled horses I
And now, while the bull is being
t-unted in the ring, almost at the be
r'zz'.P'i, the horses, blindfolded, are
' re being slowly ridden around
v V:"t than art mounted, the
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BULLFIGHTS
THB TOREADORS ABB
most degraded of all bull-fighters, the
picudores, so little-thought-of by the
people themselves that the lowest,
cheapest brand of Spanish cigarettes
are called, with one consent, the pica-
(lores. It is the trade of these gentle
men who ride in always, it is said,
half drnnk to see that the blnd-folded
horses which they ride are properly
ruined by the bull; it is their trade to
spear the bull with a long lanoe, to
irritate him, and to save themselves.
They, themselves, are protected on the
legs by iron ahentuings. After two or
four or even eight horses have been
gored and tossed and tumbled, and
are dragged away dead and bleeding,
the trumpet Bounds and a very diner
ent set of men clash into the wide bull
ring. "THE ENTJUNCE TO THE
These are the banderilleros. Eaoh
one of them has two be-ribboned darts,
like little harpoons, In his hand, whioh
he must fix in the bull's neck to pain
him, to infuriate him, and to make
him exhibit the agility of men.
It is a matter of no little skill and
danger; if successful, it almost crazes
the animal, giving him the maximum
of ferocity with the minimum of
strength. It in also one of the "pret
tiest" parts of the oorrido de toros; for
the bull comes on with a rush to these
most nimble and courageous banderil
leros, who often must evade him by a
siugle inch. Each evasion and eaoh
trick of daring has its name, and is
applauded or hissed by the excited
thousands on the benches, aocording
to the audacity, coolness and dexterity
of the men, or the reverse.
These lively fellows, who take ter
rible risks, will seat themselves on
chairs and let the bull come thunder
ing down on them. Then at the very
instant that he would strike them,
toss them, mangle them, they rise,
plant their harpoons into his neok,
and leap aside. The bull must be
content to toss the chair. Or they
will take n long pole, and leap over
the bull's back as he oomes at them.
Or they will kneel down on one knee,
with grace, and tickle the puzzled
beast upon his nose with a laoe hand
kerchief and slip aside from him.
Their harpoons, whioh they jab into
his injured and insulted neok, should
make him wild.
But if he does not show sufficient
wildness, the people ory for "Fire!"
And here it is too siokening and cow
ardly to proceed in detail. Suflloient
it will be to say that there have been
invented banderillas with firework at
tachments, that they may burn after
they have been thrust into the bull's
neok I
Enough. The time has now arrived
for the great aot of the matador, or
the espaas, the most important man,
the high professional who has to kill
a orazy bull, made monstrously wloked
by ill-treatment and a thousand goad
ings. The bull is weakened, it is
true, but he is still so dangerous that
OP THE ESPADA.
half the matadors of history have
found their death in the ring.
It is in vain that the Spanish de
fend their bull-fights as "the heroio
Karnes" of their anoestors, "oonse
orated by antiquity." The truth is
the anoestors of their anoestors long
ago abandoned the corrida to paid
Erofessionals of low birth. Spanish
ull-flghts ceased to possess anything
of the old chivalry when chivalry it
self expired, m&re than two centuries
aro. Apologists or the ring, inaeea,
claim for the and of "the ariitooiatio
X.AROB-
period" a date as late as the accession
of the Bourbons, in 1770; but as their
chronicles are silent concerning the
exploits of the Spanish nobility in
CART TO DBAL WITH A 01 DDI BULL.
this regard all through the eight
eenth century, there is reason to give
the date of "the accession of the
Bourbons" its mere sentimental
value. The chronicles of tho ring
begin again in 1770, with the name
of the plebeian Fedro Romero; with
the Corrida de Toros in full swing as
BLARE OP TIltJMPETS."
mercenary show; and with the
Spanish dons oontent to patronize it,
in the simple aot 01 paying lor meir
seats.
Romero found the national sport
'degenerated" to a simple conniot be'
tween a bull and professional-with
out-a-profession. Apart from the lack
of noble Spanish blood in the bull
fighter, the degeneracy appears to
have consisted in an exchange of the
heavy armor in which ohivalry waB
wont to prudently envelop itself for
the cheaper suit of padded leather and
shirt of mail of the time and trade.
Fedro Bomero, first, threw aside
every kind of protection, appearing as
a gymnast, light, graoeful and exact;
and secondly, to counterbalance the
obvious disadvantage, hit upon the
device of "tiring out" the bull by a
whole series of "preliminary exer
cises " to be performed by under'
stadies. He invented, also, a new and
very dangerous method of killing the
animal, a single sword-blow, whioh
must penetrate a certain spot behind
the shoulder of the bull, while the
bull-fighter perilously fooed him. How
mnoh this was "degenerating" Irom
the prudonoe of the old aristocrats
who, in their knightly armor, speared
the bull from the baoks of their war-
horses, and hacked at him, when un
seated, with their battle-axes, is I
question rather delioate than diffioult
to answer.
During the past twenty years two
FBASOtTXXiO.AND LAQARTIJO.
names have been all-powerlul in the
peninsula. Bafael Molina y Sanohez
(called Lagartijo) and Salvador San
chea (Frasonelo) have done for their
trade what John L. Sullivan did
for the fighting business in America.
They refused to fight for the com
paratively small pay oi their preueces
sors, and by reason of their popularity
were able to make extraordinary terms
with the Spanish publio and impreS'
arios. . The profession is grateful to
them to-day, now tnat they are in
their old age, and they are still called
bvoourteav the two stars at Spain,
Lagartijo, in particular, was always a
ferooious fellow, insisting that the
publio should have its full of blood
and excitement.
Nowadays the success of the fight
ers does not depend so mnoh on the
applause of wealth and beauty in the
boxes as it does on tne ndeiity oi tne
respectable middle-class publio in. the
reserved seats of the grade, to say
nothing of the yelling popnlaoe on the
stone benones immediately around tne
arena. As for the modern Spanish
lover, he feels that be is doing a great
deiofwhen be pays the admission prioe
to the grada for his sweetheart and
her mother. The Spanish lover is
ordinarily, spoony, and the Spanish
girl is seemingly ordinarily, timid to
a degree; the Spanish mother is very
often pretentious, and the wbole mid'
die olass and lower class population
astonishingly demooratio and out
spoken.
This, then, is the bull-fight, and the
spirit of the bull-fight audienoe. The
audienoe ia composed of every type of
citizen the rsspeotable and good, as
well as the depraved. Little children
suck their oranges contentedly while
the miserable horses are squealing
with pain, their entrails protruding
from their mined bellies. It seems
to be only a question of getting nsed
to it. They say yon can get used to
anything.
YOUNG HERO OF 8ANTIACO.
Chariot Ksanriflro, of Ohio, Age Fenrtoon,
Carried Tfator to tho Wounded
oa Bon Juan Rill.
Although Charles Escnrtero, four
teen years old, doesn't realize it yet,
time will show that as the water boy
of the Ninth Infantry in Cuba he was
as much a herd as any man who car
ried a gun lu the wild fight and
fearless charge up Han Juan hilt.
Charlie arrived at New York City, a
few days ago, on the transport Lou
isiana and was shipped to his home,
Columbus, Ohio, by the Children's
Aid Hooietv.
Charlie looked like a picturesque re-
concentrado, wearing a regulation
brown cavalry hat, an old brown jacket
and a pair of trousers mnoh the worse
for the Hantiago campaign. The rem
nants of the shoes that carried him np
the rooky hill of Han Juan held his
feet, and a blue flannel shirt, much too
large, was lapped about him.
His father was a bugler in the Ninth
Infantry, which Charlie managed to
join at Tampa. There he was smug
gled on transport, and when he got
to Cuba he was told he might aot as
water boy for the Ninth Infantry.
He was in all the fighting at Hanti
ago and wherever there was a man of
the Ninth with his gun there the
water boy went at the call of the sol
dier.
Charlie la modest in his stories of
what he did at San Juan hill.
"I carried water to the soldiers.
My father is bugler and I was with
him nights. When there was fight
ing I had to work. When I saw our
men getting killed I wished I had
gun, but I had to carry water. I bad
four canteens. One held about two
quarts. The men firing would see
me and yell to ask if I'd got any
water. If they were all empty I went
to the creek and filled them. At the
last it got long way to go. 'Wasn't
afraid?' I just thought I'd get
CHARLKS XSCDOERO.
(He marohed beside his soldier father
and gave water to the men as they
fought before Santiago.)
killed, and we'd all get killed that
day, the bullets came so thiok. I saw
men I knew get bit.
"I kept rnn of my father by the
bugle, mostly. Did I see many
wounded? Yes, Icarrisd water to 'em
when I could. Sometimes I had to
pour it into their mouths, but most of
the men I saw wounded were able to
get on their elbows to drink.
"I've got plenty of relics for my
mother Spanish cartridges and other
Spanish relics. I'm going back to
sobool. I'm in tne mtn grade.
The boy seems to have suddenly be
come ajed by his experiences. He is
only a little chap, with big brown
eyes and long lashes, and be says he
does so want to see his mother and
sisters.
Consumption of Coal.
The consumption of coal per head of
population is lowest in Austria, where
it is only one-sixth ton per annum,and
highest in Great Britain, where eaoh
person averages three and three-tenths
tons eaoh year. In the United States
the average is two and one-fourth tons
a year. .
Too. Time It Called.
Mrs. Callahan "Don't yea re
mimber Oi told yea th tuarnin' not to
go in swimmin to-day?
Patsy Callahan "Oh, come off,
mudder, louse want me ter say yes,
an' den you're goin' ter say, 'Fergit it
an remember de Maine. Judge.
Bussia is said to own 8,000,000
horses nearly one-half of the whole
number in exiitenoe. .
thb realm
ok fashion;
Shirt of Visum! poniard.
Figured foulard in sage green and
white ie here shown with a pretty sim
ple foot trimming, composed of three
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XiAOIRH SIX flORKD SKIRT.
narrow frills of sage green satin rib
bon. Having a straight back breadth with
each bias edge of gores joined to the
straight edges, this skirt will not sag
and is, therefore, especially adapted
to sheer fabrics, such as organdy, lace
net, silk tissue and other light tex
tures, while for washable fabrics it is
more than desirable. The front gore
is of moderate but fashionable width
and separato two narrow gores on eaoh
OIItL'S
side, whioh fit smoothly over the hips
and fall in pretty folda with the fash
ionable flare at the foot.
The lower edge measures about three
and one-half yards in the medium size.
Bands of braid, ribbon or insertion,
with or without ruffles, ruohing or
other applied trimming can be used to
decorate the skirt in any preferred
style.
To make this skirt for a lady of
medium size five and three-eighth
yards of 'material thirty-six inches
wide will be required.
Dross For a Grow log Girl.
Whatever number of more elaborate
and delicate gowns the growing girl's
wardrobe may inolude, one of sturdy
stuff, simply made, is essential to her
comlort and well-being. The model
shown in the large illustration ia of
light weight serge in royal blue and is
trimmed with fancy black braid. But
cheviot, covert cloth and all the
new spring suitings, as well as cash
mere, are equally suitable.
The foundation for the waist is a
fitted lining that closes at the centre
back. On it are arranged the full
body portions and the yoke, whioh is
extended and divided to form slashed
epaulettes. The straight strip shown
at the front is lined with crinoline,
then applied to the waist proper, cov
ering the edges of full fronts. The
sleeves are two-seamed and fit
snugly, except for the slight puffs at
the shoulders, whioh are universally
worn by children and young girls.
The pointed wrists are finished with
frills of lace, and at the throat h a
high standing collar.
The skirt is four-gored and fits
smoothly across the front and over
the hips, the fulness at the back be
ing laid in backward-turning plaits.
It is lined throughout, but unatiffened,
and is trimmod with two rows of fancy
braid.
To make this costume for a girl of
eight years will require two and one
half yards of forty-four-inch material.
A Curo For Bod cAraploxlons.
Bad complexions have sent more
women to the grave than epidemics.
Nothing frets a woman like a rough,
muddy skin, A cure-all for blemishes
Is certainly simple enough. It is thist
Wash the face in very salty sweet
milk every night and let it dry with
out wiping. A mixture made of one
small tablespoonfnl of milk and a tea
spoonful of salt applied to the most
obstinate blemish of the skin will cure
it almost like magic. This is the
remedy prescribed by one of the best'
skin authorities in England, and it is
said that the use of milk and salt is
half the secret of the English woman's
smooth, beautiful skin.
Fancy OrnliU For Mllllnrry.
To some extent fancy braids have
reappeared in the autumn millinery,
and may be used a little, although the
Paris model bats shown in the whole
sale honses scarcely use that material.
The braid has been popular, and it is
likely to take a long time lu "dying
out."
Striking Foil Coitnme.
The popularity of the skirt made
from tafluta, either black, gray or
beige color, seems to inorease as the
season advances, and it bids fair to
take first place for wear with waists of
various sorts. The model shown is in
a soft shade of gray and is worn with a
fancy waist of figured silk, showing
bits of pale corn color in conjunction
with mousseline de soie of the same
tender yellow. The foundation skirt
is oircular and fits snugly about the
hips. The frills, which are five inches
in width, are eaoh out bias and edged
with velvet ribbon stitched on.
COSTUME.
The fancy waist is made over a fitted
lining whioh closes at the centre-front,
but is itself fitted by ahoulder seams
and smooth underarm gores, and
closes below the left side, the basque
being separate and seamed to the
waist proper. The full mousseline is
faced to yoke depth at the back and
stitched to the right-front, but hooks
over into place at the left shoulder
and beneath the left rever. At the
neck is a soft collar of the same, sup
plemented by a frill. The revere are
each faced with gray, and are trimmed
with tiny ribbon frills, whioh match
the mousseline in shade. The sleeves
are not seamed, and show only slight
fulness at the shoulders. At the waist
is worn a belt of straw-colored velvet,
with an oblong buokle of rhinestones.
A POPCLAB MODEL.
To make this waist for a woman of
medium size five yards of material,
twenty-two inches wide, will be to
quired.