The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

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 Especial Correspondence of the Journal l and Courier)
 Lima, Peru. April 10, 1903.
 In common with other Spanish Americans, the Peruvians show a strange mixture of gentleness and cru city, sentimentality and heartlessness., They are excessively polite to the mi nutest detail of an exaggerated eti-> quette, on all occasions, at home or abroad. Their voices are always low and musical, their vivacions gestures and profound obeisances the perfection of grace. and their everyday manners such as Lord Chesterfield might have envied. If a lady-young or old, hand some or hfdeous-comes into any public place where gentlemen are congrega- ted, instantly the buzz of conversation ceases, every man rises to his feet, takes off his hat and remains standing until she has passed out or is seated. When a funeral procession goes by, men in their carriages, in the horse cars, on the streets and in the door way, or balconies of their houses, un- cover and bow their heads; and the same custom is observed whenever the door of a church is passed. Their def erence to. the aged, the obedience of adults to their parents, their tender ness to the young and their toleration af so,1d ot1o orifx fnu Inc of beggars. are beautiful to behold and worthy of emulation. They will put themselves to the greatest amount of trouble to serve a stranger, without expectation of reward; their hospitality is unbounded, their generosity prover- biaI, and for point of honor most of them will lay down their lives. Yet the temporarily reduced will resort to thousand polite pretexts to get money out of you: such, for example, as dead friend who had recently lost all his property and whose coffin must be bought by subscription; won't you do- nate ten dollars toward so charitable an object? Or tale of woe about poor widow and her children, left pen- niless in the cold world, who are desir- ous of going to their delatives in some distant place; "surely the sonora will be happy to assist them," etc, etc. I, myself, subscribed small amounts from time to time for dozens of collins and poor widows with weeping families, unail learned the little game Even the Peruvian highwayman will take off his hat to you in the most deferential Il.,fa, money or your life; and if it comes to the unpleasant necessity of forcibly taking the latter in order to secure the former, he will crave your pardon while plunging his dagger into your viz tals; will compliment your handsome appearance in death, and tarry long enough, at whatever risk to himself, to not only bury you decently, but to set up cross over your grave, so that fu- ture passers-by may pause to say prayers for your unshriven soul. In all the months I have remained in this country I have never seen a. child whipped and have scarcely heard one cry. The poorest Peruvian loves mu- sic and poetry, flowers and sentiment tality more than his daily meat and drink; yet a vein of coldest cruelty and utter heartlessness runs through the best of them. This is evidenced in many ways besides the bull-fght, the cockpit and the national conduct in war. Perhaps the most common exam pie is in their treatment of Sonkeys. No tongue can tell what those patient and tractable little creatures are made to endure till merciful death at last re- leases .hem from torment, over-work and slow starvation. Everywhere we see pitable examples of beasts bearing heavy burdens upon raw and bleeding backs, which daily press deeper and deeper into the fostering flesh until the bone is laid bare and still no attention is paid to it, nor is the burden in any way frightened. We see them with huge welts, criss-crossed along their backs and Hanks, raised by the merci- less whip, which falls unceasingly whether the poor animal travels fast or slow. Some have their ears Topped and broken by blows from cudgels, and many have their nostrils slit up on each side the nose, so that there may be ano nonsense" in the way of diffi- culty of breathing and consequent loss of speed in the higher attitudes. The theory appears to prevail that a don kel can carry as much as can me piled upon him. and he is generally covered from head to tail with loads that bulge