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Oh Lima at 4:30 p. m., and some of the
prettiest women south Of the equator
are going to and fro past US. If you
could drop this street down In an
American city, how our young men
would stop and open their eyes. How
their mouths would water as they saw
the luscious lips all about us, and how
they would drink in the beauty of the
Lima girls eyes. The young ladies Of
Lima! They are a class nearer perfec-
ton ins bea uty Of form than any girls
l have ever seen. They are straight
and we'll rounded, and their soft, round.
beautiful faces, with their luxuriant
black hair combed high up from the
foreheads, are lighted up with eyes
which fairly shine with the souls of
their owners
If you could drop Lima down in New
York the men would think the city had
been taken by young widows or fe-
male orphans who had just gone into
mourning. All of the ladies of Lima
dress in black when they go out to
walk. They do not wear bonnets, but
wrap fine shawls Of black goods about
their heads pinning them fast on their
backs, so that the face alone shows
The background adds to their beauty,
ard the costume, on the whole, is
good one. 1t saves the buying of new
hats and bonnets, and Is easy to put
on or take off. Many seedy waist and
frowsy head are, I doubt not, hidden
under those black shawls, and the
wearers are never bothered by the
question which one of our girls asked
her mother, when preparing for an
evening function, calling over the BAN
listers: Ma, shall / wash for a high or
ow-neck dress?" The Peruvian woman
needs to wash only her face for the
streets, for the rest of her person is
hidden. AS a rule, am told, she often
dispenses with washing her face, for
In Peru they say that cold water brings
fevers and that frequent bathing is
productive of all kinds of diseases.
There is much powder used and Lima
has as many perfumery shops as any
city of it's size in the world. Both men
and women are fond of sweet smells,
and at carnival time they go about
with squirt guns and atomizers with
which they drench their fellows of the
opposite sex. The girls throw powder
upon the boys and men, and women
dash water into each others faces
Sometimes a crowd of Lima bellies will
catch hold of one of the beauX and
souse him In a bath tub full of water
met yesterday young man who was
suffering with fever on account of q
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city. The business streets are from
twenty to thirty feet wide, more often
the former, and the sidewalks are not
over four feet in width. Four people
cannot we'll walk abreast, and party
crowds you off the pavement. A DON
key with panniers took the right Of
way from me this morning, and 1 step
ped out into the road to let him go by.
LAZY MEN AND PRETTY WOMEN.
The street scenes Of Lima are inter-
esting. Let us stop under the arcade.
which runs about the plaza, and watch
the crowds. Here are some of the best
shops of the city They are full of fine
goods, and here between and o'clock
every afternoon the people come to buy
and do business. These hours are the
gayest Of the day, and the crowd is
now as thick as that Of lower Broadway
at noon. 1t Is a far different crowd.
however. No one hurries. The men
saunter along or stand on the street
and chat with their friends We see
little Knots OF men every few yards,
and the messengers, the merchants and
clerks seem to have time and to spare.
Nearly every one Is we'll dressed. There
are many plug hats and kid gloves,
and nearly every man, old and young,
carries a cane. They are very polite.
They bow, smile, shake hands and lift
their hats. when they meet, and bow,
smile and tip their hats when about to
depart.
They are the pink Of perfection as far
as form goes, and you would imagine
them gentlemen of leisure rolling in
wealth. The truth is most of them are
poor. Peru has been playing a losing
game with fortune for years, and the
day of her enormous riches has long
since gone by. If you will look closely
you will see that many a coat is shiny
at the seams and that many of the
silk hats are fast losing their nap.
There are, perhaps, more reduced gem
tlemen here than in any other city of
the world The Chileans looted the
country some years ago and took away
Its chief sources Of revenue The
Peruvians have been losing from that
day to this. They have been patron
izing the pawnbrokers and the foreign
bond buyers until the people nationally
and individually are comparatively
poor. They are not business people,
and having fallen do not know how to
get up. The business Of the country,
Is, In fact, in the hands of foreigners,
and there are not two big Peruvian
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rural voters were earning their Hveli-
hood.
OPPOSITION.

rural voters were earning their Iveli-
hood.
OPPOSITION.
The charge against the amendment
was led by Senator Allison, who comes
from a state largely peopled by Ger
MANS, and whose name stands so far
up on the roll that his vote is accepted
by wavering partisans on his side of
the chamber as a hint what to do. His
following. of those Republican sena tors
who still retain their seats. included
Messrs. Burrows, Chandler, Clark, Gull
lom, Davis, Elkins, Frye, Gallinger,
Hawley, Lodge, Mcbride, Mcmillan,
Morrill,, Nelson, Perkins, Platt, Pritch-
ard, Shoup, Wetmore and Wilson.
Eleven Democrats voted with the Re-
publicans, among them the present
Senator'S Caffrey, Cockrell, German.
Mitchell, Pasco, Smith, Turpie and
White. Mr.. Pettigrew, who was then
Republican, voted on that side also,
The support of the amendment came
from the remaining silver Republicans,
the bulk of thesDemocrats and all the
Populists.
Four days later, ON motion Of SEN
ator Dubois, the beer tax project was
revived in the form of another amend
ment to the same BILL but this time
the amount Of the additional tax was
lowered to rs cents. Senator Sherman
moved to table, and the motion was LOST
-25 to 30-a number Of the men who
had opposed the former amendment 60
ing over to the either side. Among
these were Messrss Pettigrew and Caf-
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in fact, to tell the dorners from the
chicken coops. There are thousands
of chickens which are born, lay their
eggs and grow fat on the roofs of this
city, There is a hen cackling on the
opposite roof now. I am awakened
every night by the growing Of the
roosters above me, and the noise Of
the early morning In the middle Of
Lima makes me imagine myself in a
barnyard. There is one asthmatic old
rooster which crows me awake regu-
larry at a. m., and another that some
times makes the air shake at mid
night. I have not yet seen a cow on
the roofs, though l am told that some
families have their stables so located,
the cattle not being taken down until
they are ready for killing.
From such buildings you might think
the houses Of Lima would be always
tumbling down, and that the city would
be in constant danger from fires. This
Is not the case. The houses are al
most earthquake proof, the larger build
ings often having their first story walls
from four to six feet thick, though
those of the second story are thin.
These mud walls never take fire. The
furniture may go up in smoke, but as
soon as the roof is ablaZe it falls in,
and the mud which covers it puts out
the fire. There are, indeed, but few
losses from fires here, and even out In
the country away from the fire COM
panies houses like these are insured for
one-half of per cent. Such a thing as
block or square burning down is un-
known in Lima.
THE STREETS AND HOUSES.
From the hotel roof we got some idea
of how compactly the city is built, and
we see more of this during our walk.
There are no gardens and very few
back yards. The larger houses cover
a great deal Of space, as they are con-
fined to one, or at most, two floors.
The smaller ones are in many cases
so small that it is hard to imagine they
are houses at ali. There are hundreds
Of little blind alleys which are reached
through doors in the walls along the
main streets, which have cell-like
rooms, not over ten feet square. Each
of these rooms is house, and in one
such alley which 1 visited today l
was told that the average was about
eight people to each tenement. Such
houses have back yards about six
feet square, surrounded by high walls.
They have no windows, and the light
comes in through the front and back
door.
None of the houses Of Lima have
chimneys. The most of the cooking
is done over charcoal fires. Even the
best houses have few windows in the
ground floor, and as a rule the light
comes from the interior courts or the
roof. In the two-story houses Of the
better class galleries run around the
courts, and the rooms opening out into
these are very large and airy. All out
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LINN, THE CAP|TAL OF PERU
Magnificent City, Containing 100000 People,
Made of rIud and Fishing Poles

hotel and take bird's-eye view of the
city before we begin to explore it. We
are now in q vast field of fiat roofs,
above which here and there rise the
massive towers of the great churches
for which Lima is noted. At the back
of us, at the edge of this field, are the
bleak foothills of the Andes, gray and
forbidding, their tops in a smoky sky
and with white clouds rushing here and
there ON their sides. On the edges OF
the city we see the green crops of the
valley of the Rimac river, and over
there are the three bridges which cross
this stream as it flows Through Lima.
Look down upon the roofs all about
you. They are more like garden beds
than the coverings of houses. Don't
stamp ycur feet or walk heavily as you
move about The roof trembles under
us and with little effort We could push
our feet through. The supports of many
of the roofs are merely cane poles, on
which dirt is spread.
On some mating is first put and
then layer of earth, sand or ashes.
1t is supposed to never rain here, and
from years end to years end Lima
has not a shower. Waterproofs are
unknown and the umbrella members
cry is never heard. 1t is on this ac
count that these mud walls stand
throughout the generations, and 1T is,
indeed, through lack Ct rain that Lima
exists. A big shower would reduce the
town to a mud heap, Whi e a two weeks
pour would wipe it out OF existence.
Even here, however, nature sometimes
varies her course. Last year the peo-
pie were Mortified by hearing the rain
drops pattering on the roofs. The water
which fell would have hardly been call
ed a sprinkle in some parts of the
world, but it did more damage here
than an earthquake.
CHICKENS LIVE ON THE ROOFS
Much Of the light of the Lima houses
comes from the roofs. Each house has
a court in the center, and many of the
larger buildings are cut up by courts,
around which the rooms run. When
there is a double row of rooms the
inner ones are lighted by little dormers
which extend up through the fiat roofs,
and which look like chicken coops from
where we are standing. 1t Is difficult.
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end of the campaign.
NOT A NEW SCHEME.

Its forces for great stroke toward the
end of the campaign.
NOT A NEW SCHEME.
The excellence of the project admits
Of no reasonable doubt. The best
economists in the country have been
urging it upon congress for a number
of years, even when there was no des-
perate emergency in sight. The men
in congress who frankly spoke their
minds, admitted the truth of all these
arguments, but said that they dared
not appear to countenenoe the imposi-
tion of a tax which would fall upon a
body Of men SO powerful in politics
everywhere as the brewers and the
saioonkeepers, to say nothing of the
vast army of consumers of the popular
beverage, which has come to be recog-
niZed as almost one of the necessares
of life for the workingmen. Yet here
we see the party In power in the gov
ernment, with an election of tha ut
most importance staring thsm in the
face, coming boldly forward with a
plan for rails ng a pure revenue tax on
the poor mans champagne
A FORMER BILL.
The last time the senate had the
beer question before it was about two
years ago, when we were just emerg-
ing from the Venezuelan "war scare" !"
The Republicans had been making a
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though, like Mr.. Decker, he was at the
time unacquainted with the fair young
Cuban. When the night of the rescue
from the Havana prison. Mr. Carbonel
was at Decker's side during the entire
affair.
To Carbonel was assigned the duty
and privilege of accompanying the girl
to New York. The companionship be-
tween the two natives of a common
cline soon r1pened into love, and the
usual details Of courtship followed, with
the result that the wedding will short
ly take place. probably before Lieut..
Carbonel shall be ordered into field, al
though no definite time has been de-
cided on by Miss Cisneros. her guard
dian, Mrs. Logan, or the groom-to-be.
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Republicans in the senate, and the ma
jority in the house, ON the beer ques-
ton. Sensible citizens will approve the
change, but this will not lessen their
establishment. The moral suggested by
the incident Is one which few politi-
clans seem to learn: That the course
which has saved many a public man
from humiliation and confusion is the
seizing of a good thing whenever and
in whatever company 1T may appear,
regardless of temporary eXpediency. If
the beer tax, as a revenue measure, Is
good, today, it would have been good
two years ago with deficit in pros
pect. That any man in the senate who
votes for it now should have voted
against 1t then, raises a presumption
Of playing politics. with a highly i'm
portant economic question.
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from the front, though the larger es-
adjustments have courts and extend
a long distance to the rear. MANY of
the shops are more like caves than
anything else.
They are cells, separated only by thin
walls, and walk along the Mercadores
Is more like journey through mu-
scum or an American department store
than along the chief business street of
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live in the second stories which are
divided up into flats or apartments.
There are many floors rented out, and
only the rich have large houses The
ground floors are stores and shops open
to the street. The stores have no win
dows and the doors run the full width
OF the store. so that the whole front
Is showed back or taken away during
business hours. The light is usually
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side windows and doors are barred
with iron, and the better parts ofS the
city make you think of a long row of
prisons. There are many fine homes,
which are entered through iron-barred
gates, and the doors going into, what
seem to you blank walls lead into pa
latial mansions, surrounding courts
filled with flowers.
In the business sections the people
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business houses in this Peruvian cap
itaL The; young Peruvians. are clerks
In the stores or the government offices,
while their fathers, as a rule, are
skimping along on the remains of their
once great estates.
PRETTY GIRLS OF LIMA.
But we must not forget where we
are. We are In ore Of the main streets
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VERY LOWEST RATES EAST
Via NORTH Western" Line.

Via NORTH Western" Line.
Buffalo, s14oo, Hrst-class.
Toronto, S1400 frst-class
New York, sl400, irst-class.
Boston, $780, frst-class.
Many other points in proportion.
Second-class rates 81 less than above. All
tickets good on the New North-WestCrn Limit
ed Goth Century Train) electric lighted inside
and out For tickets and information cal at
S95 Robert street, corner Sixth, ST. Paul.
Alb Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis.
Use the Long Distance Telephone to Mime
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POOR MANS CHAMPAGNE
CHANGE OF OPINION ON IN
CREASED TAX ON BEER
Brewing Interests AstOnishfnEly
Quiescent Under the Project of
Gathering Another 81 Per Barrel
Revenue From Their Product
Change of Front of the Repub-
licnn Party on the Matter.

Special to The st. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, May 1s.-The most
astonishing phase of the agitation for
a 81 ecial war revenue is the composure
with which the brewing interest is TAX
ing the proposal to double the tax on
beer. Hitherto, whenever any Incl ease
upon the dollar tax has teen suggested,
Washington has been fairly flooded
with brewers. a few have been seen
In the lobbies of congress since the
pre- sent bill was brought In by Mr..
Dingley; but the trade as a whole has
either lost much of its former energy.
or has become too patriotic to re-
sist, or has been secretly'Aelarshaling
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PRETTY ROMANCE.

EVhngeIina CfsnerOs to Wed n Gal
liant Cuban.
WASHINGTON, May 2o.-Evangelina
Ccssto Y Cisneros, the young Cuban
girl, is soon to wed Carlos Carbonel
the former Cuban banker who was
yesterday named by President McKin-
ley to be lieutenant and aide on the
staff Of Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
When Karl Decker went to Havana
with the express purpose Of liberating
Miss Cisneros, he found a trusted lieu
tenant in the person of Caribonel, al
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HOW HOUSES ARE BUILT

They Are FircprOOf, but Rain
Does More Damage Than an
Earthquake - Chickens Live on
the Roofs-A Walk Through the
Streets - Something About the
Queer Stores, Which Look Like
Caves-Among the Beaux and
Relies of Great South American
City-Lima Beauties and Their
ans Rights Movement-Lima on
Horseback.
Copyrighted 1S9S by Frank G.. Carpenter.
LIMA, Peru. April 17.-Take a walk
with me this morning through the
quaintest city of the hemisphere. We
are in Lima, the capital of Peru. The
streets on which we stand were laid
out more than 300 years ago. Lima
was a city when Boston was in its
swaddling clothes, when Philadelphia
was a baby, and all to the west and
south of it an unbroken wilderness.
l can show you houses here which are
200 years older than Chicago or Gin
cinnati, and l can even introduce you
to one of the oldest citizens, the found
er of the town, who, dried and picked
by this pure Peruvian air, has for over
three centuries stayed here with his
property. l refer to the Spanish free
booter, Indian robber and butcher, Pi-
Iai iY,oo in 10
was assassinated on the spot where the
president of Peru now lives, and his
skeleton and his brains corked up in
bottle are kept in a glass case in the
cathedral across the way. The skin is
dried and it sticks to the bones, but,
with the exception of q patch which
has been cut off here and there for
relic hunters, the hide is intact, though
decidedly leathery and worse for the
wear
A CITY OF MUD.
Everything but money lasts long in
Lima Where else in the world will
you find a city built of mud 300 years
old? Lima has more than 100000 peo-
pie, and it Is built of mud. 1t is about
six miles around it and two miles from
network of narrow streets, which cross
one another at right angles, with
spaces clipped out here and there for
parks or plazas. The houses are all
of one or two stories, flush with the
sidewalks, and in the business sections
cage-like balconies hang out from the
second stories, so that you are shield
ed from the sun as you pass through
the city. Lima looks wonderfully sub
stantial, and you would imagine it to
be made of massive stone, which here
and there is wonderfully carved.
Some of the walls look like marble,
others initiate granite, and the houses
of all the colors of the rainbow line the
streets like substantial walls. About
the chief square there are inclosed bal
comics from the second story walled
with glass, and under these are what
look like massive stone pillars form
ing an arcade or cloister around two
sides of the square in front of the
stores. These pillars are of mud, the
polished walls Of the houses are made
Of sun-dried brick coated with plaster
of paris, and the second stories are
combination of mud and bamboo cane.
Think Of a great city built of mud and
fishing poles! That is Lima. There are
some of the finest churches here OH
the continent made of mud. The great
cathedral of Lima, which cost millions,
Is a mud structure, and could you take
sharpened rail and shove il against
cne of it's massive towers it would
go through the wall like bird cage.
LIMA FROM THE HOUSE TOPS.
But let US get up on the roof Of our
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-30
ALDERMEN TAKE IN ST. JOE.
Rock Island Council Committee Sees the
City by Lamp Light

Rock Island Council Committee Sees the
City by Lamp Light
Aids Charles Bleuer, L. A. Pender
and G.. w. Aster, the fire and light
committee of the Rock Island coun-
ell. saw St. Joe, Mo-, by lamp light
Wednesday night. The Daily News
of that city had half-column article
about them and their mission We'd
nesday. 1t says in part:
The aldermen have been to Mil
waukee. ST. Paul, Kansas City and
other places of importance, but they
are free to say that St. Joseph stands
very high in their opinions of the
cities they have already visited. Rock
Island owns her own water plant,
and the visiting aldermen say they
are as enthusiastic in their praises of
it as St. Joseph is proud of her light
ing plaRt. The contract for street
lighting has almost expired in Rock
Island, and as preparations are not
completed to point that will make
municipal ownership possible at this
time. they will be obliged to renew
the private contract under which
they are now working. They desire
especially to inspect the combination
system in use here-that of hanging
lights and towers. Their purpose is
to look into the matter thoroughly,
examine many plants and then give
Rock Island the best they can find
when the contract is renewed. This
afternoon a number of the local alder
men and city officials secured tally-hO
coaches and took the visitors for
drive over the city. They were
pleased with what they saw, and
speak of St. Joseph in words of high
est praise. The aldermen will remain
over tonight in order that they may
see st. Joseph's lighting plant in
operation. 1t has been fully eX-
planned to them that what lights the
city has are all right, and that the
only cause of the semi-darkness is
lack of engine power and more
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-30
The MIX In the Coeoanut.

Every boy knows the three eyes to be
found in one end of cocoanut, and
many boy, has bored these eyes out, or
one or two of them, with the small
blade of a pocketknife so as to get at the
milk in the cecoanut, which he has then
drained out into cup or drunk direct
from the cocoanut itself. But there is u
more fascinating way still of getting at
the milk in the cocoanut.
By this other method the cocoanut is
opaned at tho other end from the eyes
The cocoanut is struck all around gen
tly and repeatedly with hammer, or a
stone will do, at distance of about one
third of the way down from the top,
about where the arctic circle would be
on globe.
A continual gentle tapping win final
~ crack the she'll Of the nut all around 4;
not in line exactly on the circle per-
haps, but pretty near to it. Sometimes
it cracks Shell and meat of the nut, too,
SO that both can be lifted off together I;
sometimes it cracks out only shell cap
at the top, which is lifted off, and the
cap Of meat underneath is then cut out
around with knife.
And then there you are with tho
white lined cocoanut cup to drink from.
New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-30
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