The Republican journal., 1903-11-12

cept 10 substitute for the medicine
which works wonders for weak women.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate
stomach, liver and bowels
lounging places and unrivalled bathing
facilities; and an immense hotel, where
in it is the fashion, especially on Sun
day, for parties coming ont by train
from Valparaiso, to breakfast about
midday. A great many English peo-
pie reside in Vino, therefore it goes
without saying that there is fine race
course, and that horse back riding is
greatly INDUCED in by both ladies and
gentlemen Nowhere in the world can
better society be found, and the din
ner parties, high teas, lawn fetes and
kettle-drums are like bit of London
life transferred to this remote corner
There are numerous villages between
Valparaiso and the capital, but only
two of size and consequence. They
are Cuillote and Santa Felite; and at
both stations s~arms of ragged men
and women are always collected when
the train stops, with fruits and flowers
to sell. Such gorgeous bouquets one
sees nowhere else in Chilli. They
are arranged in high, pineapple-shape
punches. often larger than an ordinary
water bucket-some composed entirely
al, .f- oil al
roses or all pansieS or Of mixed flow
ers-every one Of them put up in the
same ungraceful shape and surrounded
by a vast circle of scalloped paper.
Lazy as these bedraggled traders look
there are no fools among them. step
out upon the platform TO purchase a
bouquet, and every one of them ''sizes
YOU up in the twinkling of an eye.
Therefore they unblushingly demand
five dollars for the over-grown bunch
of violets, (and it would be we'll worth
it if grown III Northern greenhouse
but will take twenty-five cents for its
counterpart without a murmur from a
native customer who is posted on local
prices. Gillian flowers seem to be par
ticularly short-lived. The hot sun
withers them Immediately; the enter
prising bouquet vendors plunge those
that have failed to sell during the day
into the nearest stream, and palm them
off as freshly picked on unwary pas
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ceived by their dying fragrance but
cannot see their dilapidation in the dim
light.
Some of the hamlets along this road
are as quaint as their names. There is
Lleillai, pronounced Yi-yI, where you
take breakfast or supper according to
the train you happen to be on; and
Thal-Thal, where you may have a cup
of hot tea or a glass of milk, chichi, or
whiskey, and sandwich, or a cigar
cite, according to your taste and sex.
Then there is Linanche, with its beau
tiful gardens and orchards, where many
families of the middle class, who can
not afford the prices at aristocratic
Vino del Mar, retire to pass cool and
quiet summer and Los Andes, where
you change to a branch road if bound
for the mountains, or for Mendoza, on
the Argentine side of the famous Up
sallata Pass, which we must traverse
by and by Hereabouts in Central
Chill the country is gently undulating,
the hills on both sides covered with
green scrub and the valleys crowded
with vineyards, orchards and fields of
barley and clover. There are occasion
al groups of palm trees, but they are
rather dWarfed and sickly so far from
the Equator; and we are delighted to
behold long stretches of those gorgeous
yellow flowers known as "CalifOrnia
peoples" wherever the English Ian
guage is spoken-only in this alien soil
they grow much larger than those that
carpet the valleys of the Golden State.
The fields and pastures of Chill present
the most vivid emerald tints l ever saw
PClIOpo Ny Will GIC OAoW IL
of the foothills and the SHOWS of the en-
vironing mountains; at any rate they
look as much greener than northern
barley and clover as the sky is bluer
and the sunshine brighter. The land is
generally owned in immense estates,
and irrigation is necessary in nearly all
the coast districts. Yet there is no
lack of rivers in Chili--as many as
seventy eight of them being deep
enough to float crafts of various kinds,
with total navigable length of $500
miles; not to mention multitude of
smaller streams, numerous lakes and a
long line of sea coast. Farther in the
interior the climate is more equable
than az naar the Pacific and the sOil ia