. The Spanish-American republics . t hereI was actually in Chili, in a saloon-car running between Santiago andValparaiso. At the door are brown-faced newsboys, with a good dealof Indian blood in their veins, but just as noisy and enterprising asyoung men in the same profession in more northern latitudes. ElEerrocarril, La Union, La Epoca tengo / they cry. El Mercurio !El Hcraldo / Diarios, scnor; newspapers! Buy some papers toread on the road, sir! There is a ringing of bells and a blowing of whistles, and we areoff. Half the passengers are talking English, and the others are socosmopolitan an
. The Spanish-American republics . t hereI was actually in Chili, in a saloon-car running between Santiago andValparaiso. At the door are brown-faced newsboys, with a good dealof Indian blood in their veins, but just as noisy and enterprising asyoung men in the same profession in more northern latitudes. ElEerrocarril, La Union, La Epoca tengo / they cry. El Mercurio !El Hcraldo / Diarios, scnor; newspapers! Buy some papers toread on the road, sir! There is a ringing of bells and a blowing of whistles, and we areoff. Half the passengers are talking English, and the others are socosmopolitan and correct in aspect and manners that I am inclined to 7o THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. wish for a little local color and a little more character. One blondEnglishman is reading a railway novel; another has a bundle of illus-trated papers from the old country; a third is reading to his friend aSpanish journal, El Heraldo, which prints its telegraphic news in Eng-lish. The ladies in the car are English or American as well as Chil-. ian, and their costumetion in Broadway or Re-its good taste. The con-kepis and silk dust-coats,polite as the passengers. UKMENETA VJNKVARI). would not attract atten-gent Street, except forductors, with their whiteare as cosmopolitan andAll this, especially the predominating Anglo-Saxon element, is rather surprising to the new-comer, who has yet to learn that Valparaiso is an English town, andwho does not remember that, commercially speaking, Chili has foryears been more or less an English province. At Limache we areto get out, our object being to visit the vineyards known as LoUrmeneta, situated in a charming valley hemmed in with brown hills,about twenty miles from Valparaiso. As the Westinghouse brakegrips the wheels, and the train slows into the station, we see beviesof ladies promenading on the platforms, dressed in the gayest ofsummer costumes and the most coquettish hats that Paris invented-— AGRICULTURAL CHILI. ~I a year ago. Outside the sta
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