The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-16
PERUVIAN CHARACTER.
4 MIXTURE OF GENTLENESS AND
SENTIAdENTALITY.

illustrative Anecdotes-The People Are
Quite Polite, Yet VIII Try and Work"
the stranger-Hard Fate Of the Dom
keys-Love Making With a Brass
and-Benevolent Bull Fights.
From the Washington Star.
LIZA, PERU, 1S90.-In common with
o.hsr Spanish-Americans the Peruvians
show a strange mixture Of gentleness and
cruelty. sentimentality and heartlessness.
They are excessively polite to the rlinutest
detail Of an exaggerated etiquette on all
OCCASIONS at home or abroad. Their voices
ara always low and musical, their vivacious
gestures and profound obeisances the per-
lection Of grace, and their everyday man
rsrs such as Lord Chesterfield might
have envied. If a lady-young or
old. handsome or hideous-comes
into any public place where gentle
men are congregated, instantly the buzz
of conversation ceases, every man rises to
his feet. takes of his hat and remains
standing until she has passed out or is seated.
When funeral procession goes by, men in
their carriages, in the car. on the streets and
in the doorWays or balconies Of their houses,
uncover and bow their heads and the same
custom is observed whenever the door of a
church is passed. Their Difference TO the
AGED the obedience of the adults to their
parents. their tenderness to the young and
their liberation of, and charity toward the
vast army of beggars, are beautiful to be-
hold and worthy Of emulation.
ARE POLITE, BUT WILL TRY AND WORK
YOU.
They will put themselves to the greatest
amount Of trouble to serve a stranger,
without expectation of reward; their hos
uitality is unbounded. their generosity pro-
verbal and for point of honor most of
them will lay down their lives. Yet the
temporarily reduced will resort to a thou
sand polite pretexts to get money out of
YOU. such, for example, as a dead friend
who had recently lost ell his property and
whose coffin must be bought by subscrip-
ZION. won't you donate $40 toward so
charitable an object? Or a tale of woe
about poor widow and her children, left
penniless in the cold world, who are desirous
Of going to their relatives in some distant
place; surely the sonora will be happy to
assist them! ETC., etc. | myself sub
scribed small amounts from time to time
for dozens Of collins and poor widows with
weeping families, until l learned the little
game. Even the Peruvian highwayman
will take of his hat to you in the most
deferential manner before politely requests
ing your money or your life; and if it comes
10 the unpleasant necessity of forcibly TAX
ing the latter in order to secure the former,
he will crave your pardon while plunging
his dagger into your vitals; will compli-
ment your handsome appearance in death
and tarry long enough, at whatever risk to
himself, to not only bury you decently, but
to set up a cross over your grave, so that
future passers-bY may pause TO say prayers
for your unshriven soul.
BRUTALITY TO BEASTS OF BURDEN.
In all the months I have remained in this
country have never seen q child whipped
and have scarcely heard one cry. The
poorest among them loves music and
poetry, flowers aud sentimentality more
han his daily meat and drink; yet vein
of coolest cruelty ana utter hartlessness
runs through the best of them. This is
evidenced In many ways besides the bull
fight, the cock pit and their conduct in
war Perhaps the most common example
is their treatment of donkeys. No tongue
can tell what those patient and tractable
little creatures are made to endure till
merctul death at last releases them from
torment, overwork and slow starvation.
Everywhere we see pitiable examples of
beasts bearing heavy burdens upon raw and
bleeding backs, which daily press deeper
oHA NASpput ALbO Iu6 1CSbSTlIR u6Su bDe
bone Is laid bare and still no attention is
paid to it, nor Is the burden in any way
ightened. We see them with huge wells
criss-crossed along their backs and TANKS,
raised by the mercileSs whip, which falls un-
ceasingly, whether the poor animals travel
fast or slow. Some have their ears lopped
and broken by blows from cudgels, and
many have their nosSrils slit up on each
side the nose, SO that then may be mo
ing and consequent loss of speed In the
higher attitudes.
HARD FATE OF THE DONKEY.
The theory appears to prevail that
donkey can carry as much as
can be piled upon him, and they
are generally covered from head
to tail with loads that bulge far out on
each side, or when carrying human
freight, two men or q couple of women or
three or four boys bestride him at once.
when hardly able to move, either from
excessive burdens or lack of food, his ener-
ges are stimulated as long as possible by
TWISTING his stub of g tail or sensitive ears.
or BY the boy who rides him, who selects a
nee soft spot somewhere on the animals
hanks or foreshoulders and works away at
WIN rusty nail or scrap of iron or tin
Vii 1he hide is worn away, the raw flesh
exposed and bleeding, and then to continue
nagging the wound.
Not less to be pitied are the street car
mules and horses, which are beaten inces-
sanity no matter how hard they pull or how
desperately they exert themselyes-Iash.
iasn, goes the long heavy whip over their
sunering backs, up grade and down, from
ga"n TILL midnight. An extra man is hired
oot Ine express purpose of whipping the
animals, who stands beside the driver and
Peru. -'4'' -AS pei'0l Al
HOW "PIGsKENsn ARE MADE.
Inc most blood-curdling cruel thing that
Los YET come under my observation is the
manner In which are obtained the so-caIIed
.plgSKlns" that SO commonly serve for bot
SeS and casks. They are not the hides of
pRs, out those of sheep, and, horrible to
,elaIe, are pulled off the living animal, the
poof sneep being actually skinned alive. or
Lure correctly speaking, skinned dead, for.
- course, he does not long survive the CD
TSetton' The modus operandi is as follows:
me beasts are driven,i one by one. to the
TTPpOlnted place and firmly tied to stake.
No ugn she hide Is neatly cut around the neck
49, uown the middle without touching
sb 1o uesh or severing the arteries or hurting
f fav salmal much; after which hooks are
ISSUED into the loosened skin, a rope being
or riaoaed TO each hook, strong men take firm
H'ap On the ropes and pull backward. pull
ce aaa pulling until the hide is torn off
fD 1lu 70 the tail. 1t is said that during this
sAtIuI torture the cries of the poor sheep
almost human in their expression of
sessIy and that the bloody, quivering mass