The Republican journal., 1903-08-27
IA PAS De AYACUCnO.
,cpFET SCENES IN A SOUTH AMER
ICAN CAPITAL.

No eS Duond ell Id uldlldId,
ming that music, honey and stand
5Y the window are inGulgences not
.3 ,ar the early part of the day. Not
landing the injunction let us step
..n our hotel balcony, which over
III. the central plaza of the queer old
mil. 20 enjoy the street scenes and
.-.qg sunshine inthe"City of Peace"
,... at the stupendous mountains
al stretch away to the horizon on
..s -ue. one ceases to wonder at its
.4 tltle, remembering that when
rarly Spaniards explored these
... qeights in search of gold and
.... 0ered Indians, and found this
.. md cup-like hollow, they were
~ rest here awhile from their
.v This led to the establishment
itary post, which afterwards
... ...1 Il city; and in l54S Don AlonZo
-...razO. who seems to have had a
... N poetry in his Sordid soul,
... . ehristened it Maestro Sonora
4l Our Lady of the Peace"
up was changed about seventy
.-e lust after the decisive battle
...tucho, by means of which 30
med her Independence from
.. .ie final treaty of peace being
r-d here, to La Paz de Ayacucho.
A. rrtainly the very spirit OF peace,
..-r Of idleness, seems brooding
scene. Because of the great
H.. ~. more than $4,000 feet above
-g,.. everybody moves about slow
+. moves at all, for that distressing
-....at known as Sirroche, or diff
v ST breathing, is sure to follow
..- Nercise. Away up here winter
~mer are much alike, because,
... 0ompletely sheltered by noun
5 from all the winds that blow,
-.... Las in it the chill of the nearby
....r SNOW fields. Out of doors in
. n.IdLe of the day it is tolerably
liable, but the houses, not one of
las any sort of apparatus for
r.-E purposes, are damp and cold
many tombs. except in rooms
are thoroughly penetrated by the
. .at sun Imagine civilized COM
where water freezes nearly
81. tl-ut in the year, depending sole
... the sun for heat, especially
.... A. his altitude that orb is more
. slant than the moon is said to be,
...,.t.es refusing to show his face for
ether summer clothes are
.Gired in La Paz. Everybody
overcoat at all seasons, and
- much more indoors than out.
IS say. the uncomfortable PEG
utng around the house IN
i furs, have an unconquer
l1Ice against artificial heat
.- that to keep fire in stove
would mean total destruction
.,. An American gentleman
Ufe loaned us a contfiyance
..aL kerosene to mitigate the
il i'll our rooms, and great
MuSternation i'll the hotel when
H~covered' Not only were we
-....4 warned that our lives were
- endangered thereby, but that
gt.re household as we'll; and
4-hppe came along a little later
gud its harvest under this roof,
81. .- excessively annoyed by dark
town out to the effect that all
.urss and death in the town was
raceable to that same little Oil
-Arre are cOmpensationS every
.ol most of the ills of life, and
.-5 Au eye to the picturesque, may
.rr even in La PaZ. Let us ''look
"a. -.- nils" with the Psalmist, just
aderful with patches of light
j.. allow, varying from darkest pur-
.aest gray. Directly opposite
low, sky-piercing Illimani, the
.4 IulDtain of the Andes, looms up
aeeted ghost, white as unsoiled
:r U make it: while on every hand,
'r)ag far as the eye can reach, are
-, fountains rising tier above tier
. VIE Norizon- golden-green on the
si'7 foothills. amethyst and brown
tAem, and the distant heights
sas'y blue. In front Of Illimani, and
@2sHg close beside its snowy back
sl tut in reality more than forty
4'. 'ls side of it, rises the dark, five
I-aheI nd many-belled tower of city
a1rtlary, and nearer yet, fronting us
Oil W ather side of the plaza, is the
@-o.a building with dark red doors
"A4 2 ATS, and tall white tower with a
'.A b. which was formerly church,
wy new stuck all over with circus
'4a ot'ery placards is used by the Bo-
4'laI congress for its sessions. On one
'as Nj { long, lavender-hued struc-
4t stretches to the corner, with a
"8t 7lmp Of pea-green painted across
~e front in which appears in black let
FiA ut legend, Cafe de Paris" while
'. 'af other hand, two-story building
".- IcheS above and below, all pale
s'eea completes that side of the square.
separated by a narrow street from the
'Aei3d-hued arches aforesaid rises the