The Republican journal., 1903-05-14


kept taking it for two months and found at the
end of that time had completely regained my
usual health also found that it was Of benefit
| to take a few months prior TO baby's advent i'll
fact it is of great benefit i'll all forms of female
| weakness"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be
used with "Favorite Prescription when
ever laxative is required.
House of Correction, contains an aver
age of $50 prisoners, who are serving
out life sentences for murder. The Lib
eral government long ago abolished cap
ital punishment, but political offenders
are still tried by military courts, and
shot when adjudged guilty of conspiracy
OF treason. Hanging "by the neck until
dead is crime which was never per
petrated in Peru, even in the darkest
days OF the Spanish cruelty. The prison
ers are mostly engaged in making uni
forms, shoes, and other equipments for
the army.
The central market of Lima is as
spacious and convenient as any in a
Northern city. The squares are very
large and this market covers a whole
one, including part of the old convent
of Conception, which was forcibly
appropriated by the government and
the nuns elected in the year 1871, at
the Imminent risk of a revolution. The
market-house proper is built around a
great open courtyard, with exterior
shops and an inner corridor, and is
traversed by wellpaved pathways radi-
ating from big fountain in the center.
This arrangement forms a series OF
small courts, and each is appropriated
to special products. The principal
dealers have stalls, but the mass of ven
ders, who are women of lowest degree,
squat all day upon the pavement at the
edge of the galleries. or on the ground
in the open spaces, with their fruit, or
fish. or vegetables, OF whatever it may
be, heaped up in flat baskets, or on mats
spread before them in small piles called
''m1ntones." Each monton has a fixed
! price. which never varies whatever the
hutuations of the market; but the rise
ard fall of the commodity is marked by
the size of the monton, a little more or
less, AS the case may be, for the same
amount of money. AS do their conferres
in other parts of the world, they chatter
like magpies with one another and with
their customers, perhaps nursing then
babies the while, or performing other
less pleasing maternal duties. The
children of the market, begotten, born
and reared on the spot, begin to tumble
and sprawl about in very promiscuous
? manner as soon as they have gained
sufficient strength, and in due course OF
time take to the vocation of theiI
5 parents as naturally as ducks to water.
+ Many of these maIket-people, spend
l their lives on the spot and know nc
? other home, eating and sleeping on the
ground.
Peruvian cookery is an incongruous
: mixture of foreign and native styles,
: the latter predominating at private
, meals, the former at ali ceremonious
$ repasts. A dinner-table custom, which
was once common and is not yet entire
Z ly done away with, even in proud Lima
is called the bocadita, and is rather
comical, if not always entirely accept
Il able demonstration of friendship, OF
p something warmer. 1t consists in Sc
+ lecting a choice morsel from your owl
: plate and handing it on your fork tc
some lady present, who, in her turn, is
u privileged to not only pay back the deli
cate compliment, but to intensity it b.
l. taking tid-bit from her own plate
without the aid of her knife or fork
S and presenting it to, the gentleman wh'
Z has made the challenge, he leaning owe
+, the table and receiving it in his moutl
!, from her fingers.
e 1t used to be customary in Peru OF
IS all occasions of formality for the hos
l, and hostess to eat by themselves, i'm
Il mediately before the banquet; and thel
IS during the progress of the ceremonlou
il repast to take nothing whatever
II IHO tSu SlUllllg OllC dC CdSH OAu VI VII
I. table, being suppo sed in that way t.
81 give their undivided attention to tn
IL guests.
Y, MI. Knox, in his 'Boy Travellers
II makes Frank say in letter to nj
IL mother: 1--WE cannot say much for tn
q cookery of Lima, if we are to judge b
's what we have seen. One article tina
q may be called the national dish OF Per
l. is known as puchero. have obtalne
"a the receipt for you and here it is: Hav
re kettle according to your puchere
ID put into it large piece of beef or mu1
1t ton, some cabbage, sweet potatoes
y salt pork, sausage, pigs feet, yuca'
ID bananas, ounces, Irish potatoes, pears
'f peas, beans and rice; with spices OF al
sorts, salt and plenty of red peppers
le Add sufficient water, and stew tn
Il whole gently four or five hours; the
Ia serve on n deem platter. PucherO