A Yucatan Bull-fight

Hull-flghts have been so mauy times tVscribed that I ivill spare the reader : ha i!etailsofthis battle, writes a Bíexican correspondent of tho Philadelphia EeeofX öufficoitto say it was as eowardly cruel as most of them, evon more so in one particular, something whieh I had nevor Bcea before. After having torturoJ tlio buil into a frenzy of rage they lassocd it aud licld it firmly by theiorns while llie picadores ñzed pon its back tho figure of a soldier in a cocked hat and scated in a saddle, Both BOldier and saddle were made of wood, paper atd gunpowder,forininK a formidable pieoe of fire-works. Wben it was flrmlj secured, all feil back to a safe dlstance. ïha picadores, mounted aud with poised spears, tooktheir places in the ring and the band struck up the Hymno Nacional. At the same instant the noose was slipped, liberating the pull, tho heel of the soldier was fired and a shower of rockets were let off within a few feet of the bull's nose. lts first dash was furious. Maddencd by the whizzing and explosions, the shouts of the crowd, and the fire and smoke of the engine of torture on its back, tho bulldashed blindly at every picadore, recciving thrust after thrust from their spcars. Finally the powder burned out, and tho poor beast, with blood and with its back fearfully burned, bcllowed for mercy and crawld teebly around the ring looking in vain for a way of escape, raising Imploring oyes to the spectators as if pleading to the mild faces of the womeu. Thus live bulls, one after the other, were brought in, playad with and disposed of, and I am almost glad to relate that in the course of the afternoon, three of tho bmtal picadores were uu horsed by their_.victims and carried of for dead. None of T,hem were killed, however, as 1 afterwards learncd, but oue was mained for life and the others so severely hurt that they will not flght bulls again fop many a day. I was amazed to hear peoplenear me oomplaininff bitterly because bull-flghts are such tame affair, unlike what they used to bo beforo tho Government placed so many restrictions on them that their danger have been mitigated and their excitemeut as Tvell. President Diaz 4#ftoly decreed that bull-fights should be gïveu only ón Sunday and other fiestas, because when hsld ow week-days the people neglected their worlt to attend them. Not till long after sunset did the last Sght end. According to time-honored custotn the last buil was a comparatively taineone; end with its advent the ring was thrown opou to tho boys, who swarmed into the arena and, amid roars of laughter, pulled, haulod and hustled the poor toro UU he could hardly stand.