WORSHIP OF THE TOREADOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 35, 14 February 1901, Page 4

WORSHIP OF THE TOREADOR.

Ii.\TKA()i;IUMAHV SCKNK AT A ■M.UUUII IN l IIr.MENT,

Mtdri-.i w.i-i ru'Ntly tha sofiip, of one if tin extrwir.li'iary funer.da ♦hat has t.!c "i y.' ,-••• t-lsi'iv f >r many n <<day. I.e -'i .h' !u tv-.1 ~f » iml fighter, ai d t : .:ou"i ■ nf rropUi v. cpl OTCf the «r iv \ At B-trce o 11. lA> i.i:i ;uii;, nn t.f the t , is t h:j Jca'li i.t tha li'irm •>; .!: if., ii.' :■ i. X iuia i'uii. A vw.ek :: rc. ?i - iy isoapuii de»th whi " .n,i lv> iu tlu reau»;ic p, -.i; - f ill( m "at JlAy • *1: U*| il. i;,i ril) -j wis in- ■ tfMllcna I!'. till M'uh <c«-n». On h'.B ' t f < lit n the :i'r>un ke ftli, and wiij..; h ■ ■*, •• nu.ii 'uciliumli'rili; hj.ji hs" a. hii rival. d;«.l ii (11- i/i-.k 'roof.d. /Bis VdiL&iti ffno auiin'.Tid Mid carried i s frit; --ph t . 15 ■ r - lona «o .i!. driiV " u--"-: pj-e dcvott d 61! v 0-l*>1 i uii-; v f.i ifcy cr-pt!ODS ut tlio l;!-Wii;s ip ~{ I'If: dead Tor ■ '.■r r.

Thenosiii? the: 1 ur-. .i- T:ii; 'i r, accoinpn'.urd t y . '.it u<??s \ e -p'e, tn*ny of ;hsw woimu £iu,.i ti;: pooror olthec'iy, arrive 1 ".t lie c in 'iery, whtrj ;ui :idiii s 1 ciu I,! v, as \v iu». ttie mourner-, mcsly tun: do: -:, were Mparitcd from :.)ie ii n • \,y fi.i- ru .h < f people, ,i«d vthrn -li? oitiu :i!. last reached tho t»:-aT>.tid? th«-re was a drcitifa! iuci If ut

'lfce ptessiug crowd fotcei Jutiin, priest, niid Mveral n oumes forwu d, •tsel they f«;I together in Ur; o;.< n grave. There wis a tcciiu of horror and wild t xcltemcnt, and with drtwa swords the poi:s charged the mob, and cleared a space. While iln thousand* lookfd on the hut ii »iiv performrd ovrr boi y of 1.1 p di.»d hero.

But timi was not all. While tLe po'ice wrrc cii :ui ig the croAfl oul of the cmutiiy ;.f',w thii ceremony two tw-autitui 'woukii, dretawl i<i liinelc, drovo up and made thtur way to th-i gn»vip, '1 !i ' younger aud aioi'" bcaati lul p ace] ;i wreath on the cutliri, and fcffr gaz : n„; through the glass p\ue fitted abo\o tho face of the dead Doraingoin fell swojuiug to the gronnd. Shu wa? a lady from Paris, who fell in love with the ioreador at Biartii^. Now that the fmeral is orfr the Madri I papers era pouring ecorn on the popul »r lorradur-norship,