The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-22

etabie mixture, and the sight of any thing green-even a window shade oi that color throws him into fit. He must be confined to his room go about In darkness. for the doctors can do kncthing for him. The miserable old hag \ --despite the fact that he had been her benefactor for years-says nothing but EIoats secretly over his agony. It is to Be ho3ed that satan will give her his personal attention when she goes below. big Bonfire that Is Kept ready to accom- modate all of her kind. =
 Hayti does not amount to much com merciaily. It has teeming population. but uoes not buy near sa many goods as other smaller islands with fewer in- babitants. The natives in the interior live on bananas. yams and other things, which grow wild. The articles that are imported In the largest quantities from the United States are breadstuffs and provisions. Cotton goods are third in the order or importance. Under existing cir cun1stances 1t, is not market that the commercial powers are likely to quarrel over. f-,r.,
 There is a ludicrous side to life in Hayti that will afford the stranger much amusement The plug hat habit has se- cnrely fastened itself on the men. He who leans in the direction of being a dandy gets high hat. even If he had not
 
 ways. The women 70 in for powder to such an extent that being bit dusky Is not considered a barrier to its use at all. To say that one of these bedaubed bellies is sight Is putting it mildly. When ship. comes into the harbor there Is generally free fight among the boatmen who come out to 1t. Each one Is so anxious to get ahead Of the others that brought into play in the offensive and defensive tictics that result from the scrinlmage. These fellows make even more noise than the squawking crowd of black barkers who He In wait for the weary traveller at the old train shed in | Atlanta
 The most sickcning cruelties are prac- tced In Hayti every day, Every enc in power carries a club. which Is used free. ly on, the slightest provocaticn. A police man will beat citizen into insensiblity on the street and no one daros to inter- fere for fear of receiving the same treatment. Officers club the soldiers m til they fall to the ground half dead and If they die of their wounds no one seems to care. Exhibitions of brutalit, | are so numerous that they pass unno. | ticed. When men receive such treatment 1t goes without saving that cruelty tc animals Is procticed to an extent not | dreamed of in other countries Tha l there Is lint to the strength and en- hurance of his beast seems never to have occurred to the native He wiu load it HHA IO DTeak HIS DACK, and then lash 1t and prod it with a met. sl-pointed goad until the blood streams down its legs. If the poor beast falls | from exhaustion. it may have its brains | beaten out by its merciless master. and | that, after all. may be the best thing that can happen to 1t, for then It's mis- | cry Is ended. when otherwise it would only be prolonged.
 Among all the stories of cruelty that one hears in this land ot blood. there l ere none to compare with the deed ef Christophe. whose palace is crumbline to ruin on the side of the mountain above Cape Haytien. The prince of butchers vas tavern cook in Cape Town, San | Domingo. until the revolution against tn, French gave him an opportunity to in. dulRe in his passion for killing, His rise was rapid ana his path to prcnnir ence ! was literallv drenehed with gore. It Is said the building of Le Ferriere the palace in the clouds cost the lives of sNeoo slaves. It has walls nearly twenty 1 feet thiek vhich hristlc rith hu-dreds of | cam 5n AM the material 'c huiId 1t. a: ] well as all of the furnishings. wevs hauled up the mountain by the exertionI FaaH ~ hAsH