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Show ALL JUAREZ FLOCKS TO THE BULL RING JVAHRZ, Ma . May IT. Abiding pea-e yesterday re-entered tha hearts of tha people of Juarea. Forgetting their looted bullet -aba (tared bootee. aa4 i blaok-tned blaok-tned stains that at ill saark tba ptaaa where aotse lnsurracto or federal soldier 41ed. they f!ocfcd to tha bun ring. For the national pastime, tha bull fight, was rounied In Juares yeaterday. Kour bulla wre " marked for alaurfcter and a ceU-Hratx toroador was billed to appear. The poos taken In at tha gate wr to Ym dnvoted to the needs of the families of Insurmrtoa who had lost their Iivts, and to destitute wounded. leeos were plentiful. They earn from the pockta of Inaurrectoa. Hundreds of them, attll barlna; their rlflea and re- voivers. still enwrapped with many cartridge cart-ridge -belle., occupied the higher sun-hllatered sun-hllatered aeata. On the ehady aide, close down to the arena, were many Americana, including not a few women. Two banda played eweet music to Mexican ears, while the shouts of enthusiast rang out from the bleachers. The email boy waa there with hla euahlona. for even the excitement ex-citement of watching tha tortured bulla and the htdeoue goring of th horse did not still the comment. General Paecual Omsen acted aa master mas-ter of ceremnnlee. --To him tha toreador bowed and asked permission to kill. And toward him were directed tha shotlts of hundreds of his companions In arms. After tha first killing, a number of Arnericens left. lxng before that, any resemblance an American mlrht hav traced to the crowds at a baseball game had gone. The horses were still untouched, un-touched, however, and their picadors brought them out for tha aeoond bull. After one or two maddened daahea at the j4 doaka ot Ihm matadors, the ant- t null reached one blindfolded crowbait (hut bore a picador. Twice he gored the flanks of the helpless animal. Then hs turned to another horse so thin that it seemed hardly possible he oould bear the weight of a picador, whll th first snlmal, bleeding and ataggerlng. wit led out of the ring, there to be put anorot-fully anorot-fully out of his misery. The hull bellowed with pain as th bandarlllos thrust their roeette-covored darts Into hla neck and danced out of danger. Once a bandarlllo atlpped and fen. His swarthy skin became gray as he rolled over snd over In a mad effort to get beyond the reach of the deadly horns. A few Americans, sickened try the per-formanos, per-formanos, almoet wished luck to th hull, but the animal turned toward th red -cloak of a matador. Then came the toreador, red flag In one hand, sword In the other. A few furious rushes by the bull and th sword went home between his shoulder blades. |