Show Y IU 1 a aThe T The City Cil of o f t x L The Three Kings I of 5 It Peculiarities of or s i n t m I n n n n n n M inra uv win winF It 71 Special F Cill Correspondence C Nina Lima na Peru S 8 A March 10 rd rb r i the must have been rather hard up for tor names when h n ho hod d his Peruvian capital La Ia dp do IOs los Tree Royce Reyes the City of or the Three Kings It came about In this way fla R After Arter he had subdued ona one of the royal foral brothers who claimed the tho Inca throne and strangled the theother theil theother other il her he IIa found Cound little In la con conquering Cuzco Cuico the splendid s City of ot Gold which was os at ot that time the cap capital ital of ot Peru As 8 soon as he and his few tew ll I followers a n band of at drunken adventurers whom Spain was waa as glad glod to tobe be rid of bf had glutted themselves with the vast treasures of that place they westward not so o much In of ot new worlds to liquor co as oS to a II more mure convenient spot in III which to enjoy their III gains gain They The did dill not n being surrounded on all nil sides b by the tho Indians who although subdued outnumbered them a 1 hundred to one Lilt preferred J to be ho In sight eight of the sea SM the broad brand highway that led lell towArd home Mme This valley olle of ot time Klimo With a It river elver running through It II tho the thoan ocean an on the one side and nOlI the towering toV Andes Andel on the all the ad adVantages Vantages they tho sought So hero here they the established tho the second Spanish city In South America which soon grew to be beon on ont ot of the proudest proud t and most mOlt luxuriant capitals of those profligate pro days end and continued to be the r of a 1 corrupt lilt pt court c court for tor forr three centuries It happened hapP ried that Pizarro designated Its lis site lite on January 6 J 1655 1656 told old style the day of at the festival of the or ur orthe orthe the tho manifestation of our Savior to the Magl i in III n King James Jomes version of tho th New Nen Na Testament are n called rolled the Wise I Men Ien from the East Enst but Are known In all rill tile tho old Spanish h traditions an as tho thoI I three Three Kings Henc he made a n Ire tre Irem m celebration c l of ot that feast of th the 1 and christened n 1 his capital Then orbs Carlos V Y of Spain ocr not lIot only his benediction and but added some somo com corn i words to Its already ponder ponderous ous OUI title this making It II The Most lost Noble and City of the Three e l II it appears ir In the original c formally ceded Its appropriate p late coat o arms three golden crowns for or the three kings and a n rayed star on the ther azure Meld field ehl In memory of the tho star which ltd led them thom to the spot where the young child lay Iny Dut that was altogether oolong too lont a 1 title for tor f 1 rv v us use use and so 10 the easygoing elU Spanish h fell tell Into the chic habit of calling It tt The rhe City Of ot the latter being the name or of the valley In which It stands and also ali of or the th river rh r that runs through It It Is 8 a Ii ln l and quiet n n n Stream through most of ot the year ear except during the summer months the season reason of ot melting snOWs nOW and rains among nInon the mountains mountain when It swells swell Into a It deep II p swift turbulent torrent ho c yellow ellow tide resembles r emble the Missouri In springtime spring springtime time It Is as os essential to this valley OB ns It tho the Nile to luver and In Indeed Indeed deed cleOO without It Lima Lime would long have dried up and disappeared from this rainless region To T i the lUmac which furnishes ample Irrigation the city owes owe Its own awn water Vator supply and the fertility of Its surrounding fields and gardens One walks about the streets of Lima LImn as aB In n a n dream d oppressed by b a n multitude of historical reminiscences that crowd croud upon the memory Here a n long line of ot viceroys viceroy ruled tull d with almost Independent power not only on over tho the territory that now nol constitutes the republic of ot Peru but also the vast provinces of Chill La 11 platta and New Gr ChillI Including tile ud lag ing nl the modern divisions of He Re I Retractor c tractor and antl Bolivia Hern Here Santa Hoso LH irr Patrons de los las Ameri merl Americas cas cap tho the Patroness latr of at all nil tho thu Ameri Amerl American can cne burn born and died the only American woman of ot the northern or southern continents who ever had the honor hOllor of canonization Here stout tout stouthearted stouthearted hearted Pizarro was assassinated by b bythe b the men of ot Chile the avengers oo of ot Almagros murder and hero his bones bone repose In the crypt of the great cathe cathedral dral drill For Fo years ears Lima was the tho most Important ecclesiastical ec dependency de of ot the Church of or Rome nome on the oho Western hemisphere In this stronghold th tM the Inquisition with nil All Its ItH horrors re remained reo flamed and powerful long after aCter Its decadence In Madrid The churches and convents of or Lima were as fie magnificent i cent as ha any In III Europe and endowed I with Incalculable wealth The de San Marcos the oldest college In America was nas founded here In 1661 Just M 00 G years earl before the Pilgrim Fathers rs landed at Plymouth and 68 8 years earn before beCore Hendrick Hudson rolled called Into the harbor of Dt New Now York Turk Here H tl too were centered the products of ot the mines of Potosi and Certo del of Puno Castro and anti those El 11 Dorado about which fables were Iere told that thai sot gut su all the tho world agog In 1081 I think It was eos La then viceroy Icoro of Limn rode through these streets on a 11 horse whose mane was WAil strung with and Whose hoc shoes were of pure purll gold over oyer a II broad brond pave pavement pavement ment made of ot solid ingots of silver smyer To It its gate On lino came Ime the tho of orthe the cast enat bringing silks and spices pic from far Co Cathay limy and ancl the Philippine lne tel ISI Islands ands n lad ind nd following fast In fn their ke came clime the UI buccaneers buccaneer Anson Hawkins Drake and others all eager to snatch from the treasure Ir trips ships the rich booty boot which even tho the virgin queen qUe n did not lICIt disdain to share with her loyal 1001 free Looters boaters Of tiC the South Seas Sens and tho the Span ish Ih main maln These The things all nil belong to the th distant past hast but no less lees Interesting are arc the thee e events of the last half century even of ot the present decade Earthquakes I have repeatedly shaken this city from tram center to circumference and Innumerable wars and resolution have hae drenched drench tl Its the with blood In the plaza where the he auto nUlo de fe to of at the Inquisition used to burn burp KB Its victims I In the tile name nome of ot Jesus J scores of oC political martyrs have been publicly l executed fly Ily and by b the I liver reins nine of at Salcedo Salado ran dry dr and the sands funds o or of were no longer er washed d for tor gold and the world had hod discovered that away own up north nor word were two to new states slates California and Nevada Which could supply more silver every year than Pasco and onel Poled POlol and all nil the theother theother other mines of New Spain Spam put together The conquered Indians Indiana could no longer long r be bl parceled out ut to the favorites of pow power Ow Ower er under the abominable law of La Ln Mica burs nor the tho negroes be compelled to pay to the th Ih rich the trie tribute of ot anre unrequited qu ted labor Yet the profligate city of ot tho the Three Kings flourished more gaily and luxuriantly It If possible than ever eTer for a It richer fountain of wealth had brim be n opened than any of oC the older 8 In the guano Islands lelands scattered all flung along the arid coast rocky Slid and forbidding haunts haunt of seats seals and 1 sea aen seabirds birds which were the terror of ot the early earl mariner For halt half a II century they the poured pour l Into the lap Iop of Lima a more than Ihan shower of gold Then came dalk r days day 1111 t tit et f cruel croll warfare and bitter titter bItter poverty after a n Sister Bister republic re has u slopped ed the country of ot everything available and an though starvation stared them in the tho face faco the tho descendants of ot the haughty hall hr grandees had no Idea of ot the dignity Il labor bor till the Orace n enterprises s of oC the time present day brought the dawn of ot a Q new era ern of pros prel prosperity prosperity Modern Lima Is II about 10 miles mild In n cir clr circumference but as at a large part art of ot Its It area at a is I laid out In gardens garden and public squares the whole Is la by b no means i I densely den ely populated The Tho old walls of tho the city which that energetic vIce La LIt Palata caused d to t be bo built In de described described scribed an Irregular oval on the left bank bonk of ot the about three miles milts long by b a mile and a n half wide There were from 18 to 24 21 feet teet high and 20 feet thick and wore entered by 12 2 gates intes nut tut they were never neer of ot much use uso except to facilitate the tho collection of ot local duties and to nf at afford atford ford nn an elevated pan pa o or bridle path for equestrians and Were demolished dernoll hed long lon ago ngo The Ih S present population Is 18 variously estimated between to Much of the beautiful re reo region glon gion round about ab Ul was 1109 laid waste by I the tho Chilian army during recent wars and has not been Ll n rebuilt The Invaders were score as all s and as n needlessly heedlessly ly cruel as 08 they were Ware completely victor Ions furs In the tho battle that decided tile the fate of Lima Limo Jl hundreds of country countr vII vil villas Ins las and all time the Ih suburban villages were burned to the tha ground Thus l the tho Iong Long at ot the coast was en destroyed de il A A it railway i lla leads from to 10 Lima passing through the once lovely 1011 village of oC whose name literally translated tran means See Seethe Seethe the Ule flowers Tim Thu landed at nt and having reduced that hat town to ashes they tile along tho tholine th line of the them railroad o 0 Lima ruthless ruthlessly ly destroying everything On Ou the route For one olle whole night Lima was waa In the hands of a n mob of ot brined armed who had broken oil restraint and were only onh prevented pr from entirely burning and sacking time the city by b the en energy energy ergy of at the minister and other oth r members of ot the diplomatic corps back cd d by b the English and French whose warships were m 11 n the harbor at fir Callao It Is Mid said that there arc lt oo foreigners In Lima and no fewer than priests Tho The latter gentry fire are mi nut t tat at It every ever step In black robes and wh t gray cowls and shovel shoel hats monks of ot all orders varieties of at habit and clergy of every eer degree Prof Prot Orton af affirmed affirmed affirmed firmed that there thOre are at lit least 25 26 differ different ent eat admixtures pf blood In n Limn Lima Be Re that a n as i It may ma certainly a more mixed collection of people would be hard to find Ond There are aro English French Span lards North Americans Belgians Chi Chinese ChInese Chinese nese and nn Negroes white yellow elloW and all nil the th Intermediate shades of at com corn mingled among the leather hu hued cd ed native natle population one need not walk halt half n a square quare to hear benr n dozen dlf ferent languages spoken n Doing Being situ situated situated under the tho tropics and ond at an ele ell elevation of only feet fecU It might reason reasonably reasonably ably be expected that hat time the climate of ot LImn Lima would be too warm for comfort cOm tort but such Is I not nOI the case cage During the tM six alx months that answer for winter on this side of ot the equator from June to No N time tile thermometer ranges rangos from tron 57 to 01 61 degrees P s f and Is III often so O cold coM that warm woolen clothing Is 19 necee spry for tor comfort especially B indoors where the walls wall retain t dampness slid exclude the Iho sun tendering rendering the 11 In Interiors Int t much more chilly chili than the open street The low temperature of ot the place may IOn maybe bo partially Recounted accounted for tor by the close clos proximity of the snowy Cordilleras and also from the fart fact that the great antarctic current tu nt of the Pa la cine sets from troll the tho southwest full tull on the coast where here the temperature Is SI 31 1 degrees tees less than the waters vaters of ot the op open open en rn sm sea en 10 miles ladles from land It Is le not notI I positive cold rold that renders life lito In Lima Limn unpleasant during tho Ih winter ter time so much muchas as the fogs togs and anel dampness Some Sometimes Sometimes times for days together the te sun refus retus refuses es u to show bin Ide face and ond a regular Scotch mist mUt ml I hear heay hll enough to 10 form forma n a drizzle makes the tho sidewalks slippery as III Ice le c and so permeates th t tie r air that even elIn the Wo sheets of ones onea one bed fe f feel l 1 sticky stick that Though visitors are arc r often assured that It never flavor rains In Lime Lima tho the most partial citizen Is le obliged to ad nd admit mil mit that what he M calls U la guara a dense dene tot fog to that forms Itself into Inlo minute drops drop brings all nil the discomfort without any an of ot tho the benefit of ot a good food healthy health shower FANNIE B n WARD |