Bull Fights for Benevolence.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 103, 2 May 1891, Page 4 (Supplement)

Bull Fights for Benevolence.

The Sociedad Benificencia or Benevolenb Society of Lima, which exercises a general supervision over all the public charities, has lately givon a scries of Sunday afternoon bull fights, wibh hired mabadores and picadores from afar, to increase their funds from the proceeds. The bull fights of Peru are not nearly so barbarous as those wa have witnessed in Mexico and Cuba, because here no blinded horses are forced on the horns of the maddened toro to be gored to death for the delectation of spectators and then dragged out wibh entrals protruding. Bub, at its best, the so-called sporb ia cruel enough bo satisfy the mosb bloodbhirsby and bo sicken the unaccustomed. The ' Sociedad,' though made up of the stricbesb church people, does nob scruple to accept a share from Sunday bull fights, from the cock-pits, lottery ventures, gambling - houses and similar entertainments and institutions, contending that it is well to take from the devil anything that can be captured for a worthy cause, rather than to * let the tail go with the hide.' I have often heard in churches here the finest waltz music rendered by the full choir in a jubilant burst of melody jusb before bhe mosb solemn and impressive of all ceremonials,ithe elevation of bhe Hosb ; and when I mentioned the matter one day to a priest of my acquainbance, he said : 'And why nob, pray? Why should bhe Prince of Darkness have all the best and most joyful music, and the Lord of Hosts only the most dolorous ?'—Corr. ' Washingbon Star.'