The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-14

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side and the women have their seats
on the other. making 0 think OF a
collection % nuns who are dead TO
the world.
| am told it is different when
church is over. The people then put
on their gay clothes. Some go TO the
bull fights and others have evening
parties and ances. | would say that
the costumes at church are far more
soerlly than those OF our co0rtf1',
| where one looks over h tropical gar
| den Of flowers md birds OF ~pa"ai'se
feathers III a vain attempt TO reach
the eye of the preacher.
The Sunday sights of the streets are
also more seemly. There i no bust
ness done in Lima on the Sabbath.
| The stores are closed and you walk
between blank walls or great doors
fastened with ~padlOcks. Every store
| has its windows of boards, and there
is not a sign of goods of any kind 10
be seen. Sometimes there is a graf
ing at the top Of the loo for ventila-
ton n sometimes a round hole has
been made at the height of mes face
so that those within might look out;
but there is no business carried on
anywhere. This is also the case in the
evenings on week days. The ordinary
business hours are from 9 until g.;
and at night there is no walking
along and looking into the store win
doWs. Indeed, after dark TIE streets
are almost deserted, except near the
moving picture how which have re-
Gently captured Lima by storm.
And just here / would say that
there is a great liberal movement go
ing on in this country. The people
are demanding liberty of religious
thought and worship. New laws
have been passed by the rational con
gress and it is now possible for any
person to establish any kind OF a
church where he pleases. Until now
the Protestant missionaries have not
been permitted to push their religion
into the interior, but the new laws
provide for full religious freedom
throughout the country.
This movement is at its beginning
in Peru, but it has been going on
throughout South America for several
years past. Ecuador, which was ono
very intolerant, has established com
plete religious freedom. Paraguay
has done the same, and Uruguay is
about to adopt a new constitution in
which d section shall be inserted pro
viding that there shall be no union
of the church and state. Similar
demonstrations are going on in Chile,
and there a general demand is eX-
pressed that from now on religious
and secular institutions shan stand
!, alone.
But before | leave the churches
{ want to take you into the cathedral
! o. IlzarrO. 1t faces the Plaza IaVul
= with its palm trees and its beautiful
: foundations. 1t is in the heart of the
: city, II its towers can be seen almosr
anywhere over the Rimac valley. TIL
: building is said to be the finest church
l. OF 1ticp on tho South >1;a o1-x:
nent with the single exception Of tn
: cathedral at Mexico City. The in.
terror is very impressive. and i
! makes one respect the Catholic re
llglon when he remembers tina
Catholics have W~OrShipped for NOR,
than 500 years on that spot. Tn,
nigh altar is a fine example of mas
> slVe silver construction and the stall
or the sanctuary are ~tXtraordinar
specimens of Indian carving, whel
indian carving was still in its prime
On the walls are fine paintings b.
Mur1llo and other great masters, ant
- the cnapels are of exceeding beauty
u was especially impressed by that O
Plzafro. The little verger Of tn,
" cathedral took me into it, and unde
- the altar he showed me the coffin il
winch Plzarro's bones lie. The cot
I'm Is of white marble with glass side
and top, so made that one could sc
~ plainly the remains lying within. Tn
4. rerSer lighted a Candle and wave,
j 1t up and down over the glass. A
III he did so | could see all that is noy
II lett of the great Spaniard who frs
- explored and conquered the ives
le coast of South America. 1t consiste
OF a skeleton lying upon a red velve
IL CuShlon embroidered with gold. Tn
lie skeleton is black as an
- 1t looks as though ii were vanished
lie The skull lies on d pillow. the nee
10 being fastened TO it by wires throug
the ears. The Jaw is a trifle droor
ing, the nose Is prominent and I'll
"a great eyeleSs sockets looked I'D at IN
IA as ] sazed down through the Ola.
a top OF the casket. AS ! looekd MOI
closely the whole seemed merely
n. shell. The skin has begun to D..
OF from the Shins and there are lit
r worm holes in the bones. I am tol
that in times past patches of 60;