Show I a a aI r I UV iI I r Q UTE mi II IId Ii BY FREDERIC J HASKIN HUU d u e U c LIma Peru l 1 1 OUT hn has always s been beena S a rich field for enterprise The first I 1 that was taken late made its er a fortune In a few creeks eek t was W patron feed by everybody from the members or of the city etty down to the school It wa Va a sorry oM old machine that had traveled the munde or of many j c QUilt fair and vae bout about rendy nUdy for the scrap pile but It fot saw W its II d daya ya helL It owner wandered this rrt c y The natives went against I it rig right Jt to UM the la language u g ot of the proprietor A barber put up his shop Ii tr tickets afta aft rode rod them out In rf of two days and several veral en mort K e i their houg a In n order to lal raise e I with W which ih to purchase more rifle In ft f few weeks week the lucky owner i had taken n la fa enen t money to kelp keep I tit th wolf from his door for tor many a 3 1 Flay y II He finally b traded the old merry j round for tor a halt Interest t In the big biggest gest t store tor In town coner his claim Into cash and went on bis 1118 wasp wa rejoicing ing He Numbered the Rouses Houses I The man maa who furnishes he the numbers for houses leas been this thle way He num numbered th theta and but In one lit tl tewil he arranged wIth the authorities ties to be paid a certain price for each ach number he be put up His RIs contract I Iho ld read numbers to be attached at to the door of each house bouse but buthe buthe he ln the letter a and made mado floor door read plural He put a 8 number on doOr ot of every house inside and out upstairs u rs and down and told them it was the latest style sQl In the United 1 States tate There watt was some objection raised but the tho agent told them their city would soon grow and when their mall mail waa brought by carriers each member or of the family could have letters and papers left leet at the door or of his or her room He collected his mosey awl aDd promptly shook the tho dust of oC that town to n from his hla feet teet The Inhabit Inhabitants ants are patiently waiting for the place to 10 grow tO so they can have their mail de delivered livered In their rooms room The Ring of of Grafters The greatest granter grafter who whoever ever vIsited Peru Pent and the m most t successful was Henry The accomplishments of aU alt others ot era are small compared to hl his ns He was was one one of the bold boldt et t and most successful lobbyists In his torr It is 15 told of him that von on a 8 occasion when he hail n bill pending before congress which he passed e that he went to toa a ball and sol ted eted for his partners the wires ot of tho who could vote ote his hl m h for him M As he danced with them he left a bill In the hand of each and told them Waiting for a Train at a Country Station w 4 F Mif I I z 4 S d a Y Yr P r r rs s e ey I I w I m y Shackles Make Him film Feel Odd Palaces of Rn Fn Inca Important Sovereign Q I ii the bill became a 8 law lIe he would pa pay I his respects to them in u SImilar man manner ner the tho next time he danced with them There was no delay In making Tile measure a law when whon it came up for rOl The that Meiggs ever eer worked Was when he employed ed a French gambler to wit win back money spent as bribes This dodge was worked with success ss for fOt a long time and saved saed the plunger man many thousands ot of dollars The professional gambler posed as Meiggs prIvate secretary When a big I deal was about to be pulled off the parties who were wro to be bribed for put putting putting ting It through would be asked to Meiggs home for dinner Just before b e ore sitting down the money would be given given en them After the meal the tho promoter I would be never er played cards the secretary would I i Invite the guests to join him In a game Hp He never neel failed to get the money I back because that than was the wa way he I earned his salary j Rocky Roads a s to Travel Railroads were specialty and he built them no matt r what the cost The average resl resident ent of the United States does not nol properly appreciate the excellent transportation facUlties facilities he has at his If he ever tray tra i 1 j The Number Was Here els eIs on some me of the railroads d ot of Central and South America Amedea th then n h wIh think I of those at home and resolve that blessed Is their name I saw a sign at atone atone one station which stated that the morn mornIng morning Ing train would leave at S or thereabouts This meant that It might go at S sharp harp or three or four I hours afterward It If one of the officials I happened up the line Une and andI anda I a 3 notion to hurry struck him he u might order the train Aut out m an hour ahead of time Those two words or there thereabouts thereabouts I could be given a very e broad broadI Interpretation when necessary and andI I used to cover up a ot of irregularitIes In hi the tim table I The printed passenger ot of the railroad revealed some astonishing privileges It quotes the r rates for first second third fourth class p gelS gers and stated that travel travelers rs of oC the fourth class claM might rooster or orone one pig provided d the rooster was con concealed In ht a 8 f suck or the piss pigs nose nose was as tied HEd so It could not squeal TI The regulations regu regulations lations authorized a traveler of the third class to c carry r both a rooster and If f they were properly sacked and ga gagged ed edThe The cost of at some or of these little jerk water lines was enormous A contractor told me that laborers died white while he was building miles of I track through a swamp The handling of this mongrel labor is an Intricate problem If you ou beat them In doer doeg lIt litlie Ue lie good The They will get up niter after a thrashing and kiss your ou hand If you I putS pur them In chains they feel lIke mar mart martyrs t rs Instead of disgraced the shackles seem to adds add to the natives sense ot of Importance He f feels els that h he must be a bold bad n mini to be treated in Duch a decisive way wa It rather glod slots fies him In his The Dunes Dunc Cap Game One contractor who haS h had d lots ot of experience with theca thern says it does no na good to punish them ln in ordinary wars a S SHe He saki l e had bad one fellow tellow who waS teas waSe very e shiftless and who ua a a constant source of H He kept up a run running running ning fire or of talk ali those around him and constantly shirked his work ork Finally the contractor called him up from the tren trench h and said to him You are very tired That is wh why you ou dont work bet better tar Sl Si down here In Inthe inthe the shade arid and rest Have a rink ot of water and Idol do yourself vv th this fan T The e astonished had noth lug log to dO but COmplY Ills fellows be began began gan at once to tease lim lm He was In much thes the same ine position as the small boy in school aught at t his mischief and made to wear n a dunce cap The big booby stood the fire ot of his comrades com comrades rades t for r awhile and then began to bawl like a bab baby Heb He be ged to go goback goback back to work and tind offered oro to work vork all the rest of his life without p cents pa pay just to shoW that he was as In ear earnEst earnest nEst When he was allowed to get back In the trench he did not shirk again and nd on that job rom from that time on aU all that was to arouse some game Idler was t td a ask k him If he want wanted wanted ed to come up In th the shade shad and rest Have aYe Eun The innumerable fe feast st days cause much trouble among the laborers The They hate to work vork on h holiday One contractor con tr tractor solved the problem b by having n priest com come to tray faY early mass on thE works and givIng his men a sort of at barbecue barbee e later in the day da e gave I I them several sheep shep to kill and nd several ev r I kegs ot of rum t l S work was done They always had bad a joIl jolly spree ot of It but 11 dill not mat matter r so long as their usual time ha had 1 been n I put In These nath natives s rune function tion Into a feast They have hae just AS j 1 good a time at a funeral as At a wed wedding ding Once I had a little fellow feild working for me as chore choro bo boy One evening he came ome round around quite dressed up and In Incited i cited me to his house He said brother was dead and were ere geinS to give a 8 gathering I made up my mind to attend the gather gathering 11 ing It proved to be a sort or of wake The corpse was laid loid out lp n one ne ot of f front ont rooms When en the guests arrived they would go In and take ta e a look Jt at atthe the dead body never nevet failing to men mention mention tion how natural he looked nail ud what j i jn ia n a brIght boy he had been when he was vas alive This part ot of the e c r mon over oEr the they would join the is In Inthe the front yard ard where there was a 8 awash wash boiler bolter full of ice crew cream ready to be served and plenty ot off of ofa a strong nature Th They plaYed kisSing I and hugging games all night and It I was HiS reported to me next d day yas as hay I lag Ing been a very jolly party part The customs of these days are very I tame Indeed compared with those of the barbarians who were the ancestors or of the poor wretches we see about us now When hen the Sp Spaniards Invaded the tEmples or of the Inca sovereigns during theIr search for treasUre they Invariably bl bly round found a room where human beings had bad been sacrIficed It was as always a aI veritable ble chamber ot of horrors In some gome dark corner comer would be the ugly wooden I idol In whose name aU all this needless slaughter was committed The l bal c ceremonies of the past have been r gradually gradual reduced to harmless wakes at funerals nd wholesale sprees spree In which all hands get as jolly full as their hides will l l hold ld I FamouS Chincha Island f r The Chincha islands are tainted pointed out outto outto to every passenger on the ships which sail down the coast Of Peru Th They are volcanic rocks sticking out of the water and are famed for tor the large Quan Quantities quantities ot of guano which h wera formerly deposited on them Guano is bird rno ma manure nure It Is valuable as a fertilizer lizer These ocean rocks were favorable roost roosting Ing places for millions of sea birds and gradually became becam over with their s years ears ago this stuff sold stId for per ton and Its sale In the markets of the 4 world brought more mone money into the I treasury of Peru than any gold mine I on earth has ever produced The sup supply supply ply seemed at almost most and I for man many years hundreds of ships Were employed in transporting it to nd the United States When the In Iii I ryas as at its height there would sometimes be as man many as ag a hundred I sailing salling ships waiting at the Chincha islands for cargoes The work of dispatching them was very stow slow and it was not uncommon for a vessel e sel to be waiting eight or f r nice nl months Many a captain broAs broil at this waiting gum G fraud was pra practiced by the officials in charge They w would uld accept bribes and some captains to load ahead of oth others rs In the tt They would send seed those who refused to pa them to Callao to have hae their d decks caulked and force farce them to take their places at the end ot of the line when 11 l they returned the guano was on of t i nastiest jobs job that nun men ever ev er had to pF t term When a deposit was as T the stench that came up from It weY 04 s m dreadful l The men had t wear masks on their faces to prote t theIr lungs and nostrIls rom from the s of ammonia Chinese e coupes were Imported to do the work an ant I roan many a poor devil distracted ted from hi hie s 5 awful task deliberately jumped in inthe into the sea or down a chute Into a ships bold filled with guano the fume or If which w ch soon choked him to death Tl Th Industry has abOut died out the supply Is nearl nearly exhausted ani the demand deman Is growIng much less Jess JessA lessA A British minister h has s Just been NEn NEni i sent to Both and tills this Is the fiat firt I representative En England land has had in th that t country for nearly forty years eart Th last diplomatic agent sent there at ar art t rh rived at the capital on a feast dy I and immediately ly APplied for an audi aud audience ence with the pr president It did nt nt t suit his majesty to receive I on that particular day so he sent sentI I word ord for the Englishman to comp como around seine ome other ime Jl rebuff rather nettled British dignity and th s president was verY very much surprised to hi receive a note a little later saying I that t accredited representative of Great BrItain wes not to being put off on pretexts by press dents or anyone else Then the president dent got ruffled The upshot of r Ute the I matter was that the minister was tl tied d to a 3 mw mule head backwards and drIven out of the country n this Uti I I I I undignified attitude When hen V the outraged Englishman finally reached a cable office he Cote oom 4 the account ot of his woos woes to the British foreign office The story goes that the In charge with without without out taking the trouble to look up Bo II geographical position ordered a battleship to the scene to Insist upon roper p am amends being made tot the 1 ib t suit Th This was a great joke for tor Ute the reason that Bolivia is a an id and coun country un try and has hag no port at all When the British head ot of foreign affairs got down his map to look up Bolivia be bei took his 1116 pen and scratched a line Une through It thus severing all diplomatic connection with It When the president of Bolivia BoUdo heard of this several mo months afterwards he retal retaliated te In smart fashion An American tir firm was g getting out some Rome new nea geographies fer B Bolivia uIa and herot he them theist e et I t England on ma masin s In our ee b books Iok This was many years 1 ut I there are still many of tho old geog geographies g In circulation which show no noI I British red |