Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-23


fined for dislnterring and devouring
corpses. About the same time cask OIL
meat marked porn was sold 10 q foreign
ship. In It were found fingers, finger
nails and human flesh.
Politically speaking, said Sir Spenser,
the Haytians are hopeless people, and
the best educated among them are dis
posed to despair of their country's future
when they see the wreck that follows each
war OF barbnrism.
The people seem to have little or no
moral nature. The native merchant is abb
solutely devoid OF financial honor, and my
informant declared that 1t was sheer reck-
lessness on the part of insurance com
panles TO take risks there,
In the interior districts polygamy Is
generally and openly practiced, and on
Fridays one is sure to see black men
mounted on mules going down to market,
followed by great numbers of wives bear
ing burdens.
During Sir Sponsors long residence in
llayti he saw but one handsome negress.
And he observed that one of the negro's
curious traits is shy dislike of the mon
key. The llaytan dslikes the monkey
because he flnCies that the whites think
there is no great difference between a
homely negro and handsome gorilla.
The lower class in Hayti are lewd.
Confluence Is not deemed virtue; the
stories of intrigues are related by mothers
in the presence Of young daughters, and
all the crude details are laid before the
children.
No effort is made TO keep the girls
Chaste. asked the cause of this lncon-
Thence.
at is not owing to the climate, nor to
the warm blood OF the negroes" said my
informant, "'but TO their want of amuse-
ment and occupation"
"Does Youdousm prevail in Hayti
now" was asked.
eyes, and few living out Of the republic
know the extent to which 1t Is carried on.
The natives strives to conceal it. 1t Is Il
low and revolving worship. The great
spirit is supposed to be manifest in Il
non-yenomous serpent. The serpent is
kept by the priest, and human and other
sacrifices are made to it, The religion
has had, and still has, most wonderful
grasp on the people, 1t was imported
from Africa. The Emperor Sowloque was
q firm believer in it, and caused n child to
be sacrificed to inst rc his success in bat
tie The human sacrifices are made at
their periodical feasts, which are wild
and lothsome reyels. The people drink
ut such times white rum mixed with blood,
and are wrought up to an intense degree
OF excitement, and then are ordered to
give themselves over to excuses. knew
OF man who sacrificed his own niece,
and ate soup made from her head and
bones, which were boiled with yams The
whole company partook of the horrid
broth. The next night they tried to sacri-
flee another child, but were prevented,
and eight OF the worshipers of Voudou
saw tried and shot for the crime"
Sir Spenser st. John is of the opinion
that lIayti is an excellent field for mis-
sionary work, and thinks that Cornelius
Vanderbilt, who is supposed to be rellg-
iously inclined, would make a vast con-
tribution to civilization by spending
S5,00O 600 to humanizc the Black Repub.
lie. The condition of things there Is about
as bad as it can be. The fact that the
true state OF affairs is not widely known
is owing, my informant says, to the prac-
tice of the government employing profess
sional writers to spread rosC-colored aC-
counts of civilization and progress in
llayu.