| Show A FAMOUS ESPAtA I A cablegram announces that Frascuelo one of the most famous of the Spanish bull fighters has been seriously injured in a bull fight at Mineo France Few people realize the great danger attendant I upon bull fights and foreigners as they I watch the movements of the men in the hull ring do not comprehend that for I I one of the men to make a single I false move is for him to endanger his life The bull fight is really a drama in five I r acts First there is the grand entrance and it is a grand sight to see the whole I train of performers enter to the sounds of martial music and in the midst of the I waving of handkerchiefs hy twenty thousand hands or more When this is J over and all have retired there reigns a silence as of death The picadors are ranged around the ring and soon at the sound I of allumpet the doors of the dungeon in which has been confined the torro are ojwned and out he rushes dazed by the light of the day and the brilliancy of the assembly In his bewilderment be-wilderment he first stands at bay for around him are fhose bent upon taking his life and for him there is no escape I from that fatal ring save through the gates of death He rushes f wildly and madly at a picador and plunges his horns into tho breast of the horse and as with a knife disembowels him Perhaps he may cast the horse upon his side but the picador as he values his life must not move for if he were to do so he would but draw the attention of the bull to himself and receive re-ceive his assault When the bull has been taunted and tired by the picadors the trumpet sounds and another scene is ushered in Behqld there come I the gaily caparisoned banderillos who with a dexterity most wonderful plant their painful darts in the shoulders of the bull When the playof the bull and the banderillos is over again is the sound of the 11 umpet heard Then enters the espa da who advancing to the stand of the president asks that he may be allowed to kill the torro promising to do so in a manner worthy of the noble ladies assembled and honorable to himself In his left hand he carries a small flag which falls over his trusty Toledo and with alight a-light and elastic step advances towards I the bull The bull is attracted by the I flag and at it plunges but he finds that he i r i l tJ t r > J < Ar1 has struck that which was at best but a shadow and so he plunges and plunges again but each time only to find himself foiled At last weary and wondering he stands with eyes firm fixed upon the deceptive banner ban-ner Now is the time forth espada to deal his deadly blow now iii this moment I of supreme suspense a moment when as Th Gautier says not the most beautiful i woman in the world could get the aim of a look he plunges his Toledo up to the hilt into the neck of the bull just where the back begins If well struck the bull sinks to the earth and makes no move Again the trumpet i sounds and there enter three fantastically i fantas-tically harnessed mules and the carcass I of the bull is drawn from the arena I And so it is until all the bulls are killed When Frascuelo was injured it must have been while playing with the bull before killing it and the laws of the ring forbid any one to kill the bull but in the manner described If the bull has gained an advantage it must be accorded him Frascuelo is spoken of in Edmundo DAmicis Travels in Spain Bizets Carmen is an opera founded on an incident in-cident at a bull fight and all who have seen that charming work have seen avery a-very good representation of Spanish bullfighters bull-fighters |
