Show sit TE rYA IT I 2 ii OF WEST 1 DIES 5 2 AuG 1 I I au u Tort rort discoVery by Europeans h their linca travelers Nava b been cen f I the necklace or tM e stands ting g ge ems Caribbean ot of the Vave Jew jaw Jewe th the e ring ling and other In act e a value nil as great to express be uty and It I fe frequently 01 n 11 all as lit tho Spanish tented Uncle Samuel will 4 later loter stretch out his hili strung or band and gather them nil Into t ceder ot of hut Dut If Prest PreaL ble or oily ot of his idea ot of such harbors barboN an the sooner he Puls ta the ambition out ot of his mind JI Thu the for lor all 1111 concerned compare the tho best bost o lit b beyond fond have serious ws called gems uit most of them h and absolutelY eo fill far I as Is concerned all ns long as the tle descendant of at the thu present remains above ground It la Id lat Ide r degenerate of at the West del t e block sheep of the family Our soldiers might easilY i all o tube and ante suh thet ports I along the edges of at the tho but the dreadful rites of at JUri African barbarism would still BUll be practiced tan can III the Interior and the mile pendent In the swamps and ad fastnesses w would ullI carry s murderous Implacable guerrilla en ca to tho bitter end bidding de deuce uce to tilt best while troops as nu u as thoy did In years gono ono O oy to 10 the tho armies ot of l France und and Spain Ith It II h an open boast In Haiti today that It if Iu aD invading force lou land upon Ibm they would at once burn I Ih towns destroy the crops on th the I plantations kill 1111 or drive ort ott thu tho caW cattle I Iud I ud mid polson all tho streams and wells end Ind then they would retire Inland the tropIcal sun lun yellow ellow fever ague and malaria to complete completo the wort worl ct t exterminating the whites Undoubtedly edly y they liar would keep their word nud tr far every negro life lite hundreds of ct white soldiers would be d America has hILs trouble enough rosy rolV with her but alai h adulterated and mostly civilized colored without mil all Ilan blacks who at heart are aro as savage u as the trl tribes s ot of the tho Congo In this eo called republic there Is no semblance of at law and order Every Eef Everything thinG bends to the tho power ot of brute force and Ih the ot of men are taken ns as cool coolY coolly ly Y os as If they wl were re Ales The lIell the head hend that wears the crown rown I Is hero hem exemplified to the tho ut utmost utmost most where There out of 18 t successive dents ani only one to complete his ot of The army from to as limo Inno Innocent I tent cent of at anythIng like discipline as of arms and But ut what it II lacks In n other respects it dl coons than makes up In plethora pl thora ot of In gorgeous stray It Is ly y stated that there thero ore arc upward t 2000 Ii generals to sa say ot of m lore QI colonels colonel and all f Test rest of them therm Some ome years ears ago oso Prest 8 common whom ba happened to see In the chain tang and admired on account of hI his bare and brawn brawny arms to the thc rank of general of brigade The new had no m money e to bu a uniform and BO 80 he h began egan by y swIping a 0 beautiful pair cf trousers from IL a tailors chop op I For or this offence he was paraded around Port rort au Prince on a donkey bh face tace toward the tall and the stolen trousers tied lel around d his neck This un to toward Incident c en however did not at af att atI t t his career as general ot of brigade I It OCCUrred on the very er Ila day h lie received his commIssIon lie He made a I record J in th the army from the thc o t and his ugly por Walt today m a place lac so of honor In the palace Th The bee an government Is 18 supposed to be after that of the fatted mates ats n Ith several Important as for r example article 6 0 tf 01 the iu on prohibits white while era lD from trum owning nf any real estate In rape This Iother 18 rigorously to tolI bUe clauses such nr lI hot er lIuch nil n nr e I 16 personal to 10 everyl Is s Ignore hi tuU Is t hr the tho but only y for or the election of the tho a ate The Is IsIT not tl IT bT e but nominal e an tho a of congress As Asat Iatter ot fact f act he Is neer cleet d It at alt all but seizes el the reigns of govern goern inert an and holds hold H Re ts Is s them m ns as long as Ito ho can allays ala s srI rI a general amid eu a oxen Ixer dIctator the d tr sway of n a military Masts either rr the he cabinet nor the tho nor b house ot of representatives UI It an any r over oer him he be so long as minor can control contro the h teh arm army Yet 1 ct every lie Ite or r the e government haM hilS Power Ower t to Imprison whomever he heI I r details ea without t going Into Inlo the Ile ns as to 0 t the 1 alleged offense of bt r on Titus Thus It frequently lib ith hi h that I nn an gets even I n hie or hearts wlee In fm JK content for Cor Corone oteIs one Js Jan Jsu mil this country fitly 0 remain there thou II of at no rant until the next revo reo to h 1 Ure throws thrall s open the prison doors 8 r f rubs Article 21 of the tho tj 11 for tor the Ihl death penn pena 1 ai offenses hut but wholesale at t take f place after each ench pett petty he Ita n expressly I guar 1 to the religious and thIs hIlS re open 11 revival of fetishism nil as of Africa tRe tn CalbI NomInally Ha HaI Lii I r tetu 0 ot of the theS n S es th r oNs ua Ia cults ot of Obea nail The el is the 1 o serpent which the ne neno r no t aea th t II as thin t Ie supreme being It Ltd d t r st the o present Rent the future Re e U Is 10 o t T honor rt c to t be th rh fun Q na j w low obeyed Both thee tte lot I IH Ii b rs must he e to tott tt th lr their followers In at Iti th JI nil the er ert a cat t tI II s tho en in There nrc 1 that SQ aerie S note at Voodooists ts Ono One Ib th Ol nfl are silt Hlf I I human II sac eTt I n t this Ull ini t c ann Ib I It and nl I f of Sigh of th c n g gt e o tr 1 lUco Then h em t O d was n faithful 1 m his tore tOIl If mf Th ic was II high t taco about Jut lido tt thirty th years nl r h a ea n ignorant b black It e Ute t 5 tha h r t t himself lt Into th the e exe e eI I Wren and after 1 a short ref rei a d 4 OuI U b by clubs club and ale killed t r In tb II Jut the t to obtain by sc u e ng clau ot obtain Ua s I u as the cult a fUal J 1 mistake as he lI seen n l tt nd a lh e en h e e er erv M to the tn r he trl d to ty kr III the blood eT I n cane b bath bath loata under the il di ilo o t wD ort of the high priest and after afterwards wards In the most tear tearful ful debaucheries rles Incidental to tho sa sacred cred rites or of Still the tho war went against him anti the high priest declared that nothing would save Into but the tho sacrifice of the tho guat without terns term for what tha South Sea call long pig I e ea en n a humai sacrifice It was obtained In inthe the th person ot of 1 a young youn white girl who waa by ho he heels heel alivE but rendered insensible ble by br u u negro decoction tion of tools lilt hilt with as 0 knife her blood was and her flesh boiled holled and eaten nten timid or orgies gies up In n a wild dance In which the and women spun round und and round like crazy area turEs tearing off r every overy thread or of clothes their own and others other flesh and at last failing down ble The most terrible thin thing about dool m Is its stealth Like the grant snake I itself It Il lurks In hidden places and crawls tinder cover coar always un unseen when lt it strikes the fatal blow Poison Is tilt tiro usual weapon and the tho Voodoo priests are vast past In Its Ill use es those who offend the true truo believers belleve Sometimes the victim becomes stone bind In a 0 night or at I insane without I a moments warning or surfers the tor tortures tures of Inferno from seine skin does not kill but cannot lie tle cured hundreds of for Instances might be cited In Cape Calle t I was told It a pill ful tale talo of it It a limn who lead hall unintentionally his hlA nearest neighbor an old woman who had been heen his hili friend for many yearn I t that her pigs had been In the habit ot of his garden ane and In driving them ort off the thc nian one day threw 1 a club that hit t a porker in a a vital Ital part and killed It lie He went at once to apologize to hla neighbor and offered to 10 pay for the tho pig 18 nut But the ld woman would lake taku nothing t tru truly It was her fault as much ILS as his hili In allowing her piss pigs to trespass Next day she I brought him hima a 11 pitcher of buttermilk After Arter drink Sn sonic ot of It ho began to art act In the strangest el Clown on his and knees frothing nt at the tho mouth and anel trying train to 10 ell eat t f e D a He hal hail been poisoned by his tl nejl tr and former friend with H acne my lou lots vegetable mixture whIch do does kill nf af affects the nerves In such 1 n manner that forever afterwards the sight ot of nay thing u a tree or a 0 window stutter ot of that col throw him Into nn an agonizing lit Ill The doctors cnn can cando do the tha miserable old ha hag who poisoned him Is powerless to undo her work and henceforth liS as long as ashe aslie lie he lives hI he must be confined In II a room which has none of oC the fatal color about It and affords no of the tho world outside or go abroad on only In the Ule dark darkness ness of night It I is will known that u a brotherhood of sorcerers and extends al nil over Africa Their fraternity Is ot of the e roost most ancient origin and they unusual knowledge concerning maty things ln ular they thoy are acquaint 01 with ahU mineral minerai poisons including some drugs 0 as yet unknown to science lIy Jj they can prod produce lice chosen choun vIctim Insanity idiocy or o mind and body In Africa ca of Fetish usually act ns as secret a for tor the tho native chiefs smelling out us switches uny Person whose destruction may be desired The Bantu brotherhood rUns the machinery or of the tho Voodoo faith all 1111 over oer the ladles In Matti and the blacks are descend descended elt ed from the Lulu and races In Africa the tho wise men speak to n a pall pair of yellow serpents which t tell 11 them therm secrets On Om the eastern coast of the tho dark continent where the iC C have come ollie Into with Orientals and are nominally Bans as these thee of Hullt urn Roman Catholics In ht outward 8 Is said to wear a golden goMen goldencrown crown rown nail to hold court Among oUt our own southern negroes belief In the wisdom ot of this particular serpent Is not uncommon The special varle variety ot of ser serpent pent depends upon what part ot of Africa the ancestors ot of the thu believers came camo from Of course coune is hi the most primitive form forni of at religion for forman forman man naturally 11 what he was ilS afraid of and must propitiate long be before tore fore ho he learned tn t revere reel IL a l Deity of at goo good Thus Thill propitiation of the powers ot of evil requires sacrifice and train earliest times the most moat acceptable from the of the lend has been living human hUllum I flesh h and blood In the great yellow etlo snake is 18 never thor thOl thoroughly satisfied miless gorged with in In the none maIo ac acceptable Hence the frequent of children to In various provinces or of the black republic at certain seasons of the year One ot of th the must remarkable features of at the business is that mothers often otten connive ut at the slaughtering or of their own offspring Jut but perhaps not stranger than the re ra religious mania that Incites the tho mol mother her to 10 throw her baby to In the yellow A few tew years earll ago allo night eight per ons were shot ahot In Port nu lU Prince for tor n a little girl flue child was by her own on aunt with the tho ill full consent ot of the mother and subsequently was eaten Less than thana II a year ago a Voodoo tem temple In the neighborhood of oC the island capital wn was raided called and 1 a package of salted human flesh was waR found rolled up In a 0 banana I leaf ler Persons ons accused In this lion boldly declared that members of bt the tJ best In the thu city were mem Lens of their society nail anti It proof ot of this were wan wanted 1011 It waS Wa only n necessary to bent the Iho which would bring them Into court ly Iy It appears that no I believer In the tho cult dares arcs disobey the It Is Isa isa a very curious fact that limo tho negroes have grafted Catholicism upon Voodoo 50 as to make a blasphemous mix mixture lure ture ot of the two Voodoo temples located In every Er province of Haiti are adorned with pictures or of the virgin and the Saints and candles are burned at atthe the shrines or of Oben Obea no 00 part of at the thc cere ceremonial Notwithstanding all al thes horrors I land the tho uncertainty of life by reason of I constant revolutions there Is n a lu ludicrous i side to most things In Matti l For or example toke We the lu habit I which hn has fastened itself upon most ot of nten The sable dandy may not leave mono money enough to buy a pair of at sho shoes and certainly not 1 a coat hut if hat iii II n a tall silken one though and obsolete In ht style the castoff rello ot or orsome some departed missionary Or Yankee trader its Ita Is tu 10 fait fult The wo women women men gain 0 In for powder and to nn astonishing extent nM the tho blacker they are ale the deeper the drifts of snowy pow powder der 1111 while their wooly hair is II decked gaudy ribbons or natural flowers and each ench tat finger sticking out b by stiff with Its burden or of brass rings The Om lire department ot of Port ot of three old engines drawn b by mules yet ret water has piped down to the 11 city for Its use and anda a 11 water plug Is on nearly every ery corner FANNIE D B WARD t |