Evening star., 1902-02-01

of smell. IAN expert might distinguish a
difference. He might sniff and say, this is
the iron market, or thistis the open market.
Howeyek that might be- the smell Of either
place is a magnificent specimen of smell,
from the quantity standpoint 1t may be
weak as to quality. but there can@be no
criticism as to strength. 1t Isl a. combina-
tion of all the extreme odorssffrom fish,
decayed stuff of all kinds. refuse and thou
sands OF human beings of the colored per-
suasion. The hotter 1t gets the more vigor
the smell attains. 1t is always hot enough
! in Hayti to keep the smeIlrwide awake and
attending to business. &
I remember floating down the Potomac
once with party on a sailboat. 1t was a
beautiful day. The air was sweet and
balmy. Everybody was happy and hungry
and the lunch baskets were produced. The
| first basket was opened A look of sadness
crept over the crowd and several shifted
audibly.
Whose basket is that?" said somebody.
miss AS"
whats in it?"
Chickens"
well. let's pretend we don't eat any
chicken today. Hang 1t over the side of
| the boat out of the wind"
| Miss A. hurst into tears.
The next basket was opened 1t was
| Mrs. BIS. filled with tongue sandwiches
| Every body held their handkerchiefs to
| their noses. and Mrs B., herself, threw the
basket overheard.
| The third basket had been contributed
| by little Miss c. 1t held potted stuff and
| pickles When it was opened Miss G.
| tainted, and the crowd decided, unani-
| mously. they were not hungry and didn
| want any lunch.
| Just then the captain said, s'That place
over there is Patsey Mann's dead horse
! factory. 1t smells worse than any place
between here and New Orleans,
| We had wronged the ladies and their
| baskets.
| At a distance of three miles the markets
| in Port au Prince approximate somewhat
| to Patsey Mann's establishment When
you get closer to the markets, however,
| Patsey Mann is left way in the rear.
I The market Is bright with color. All
| sorts of gaudy calicos are displayed and
| the women nearly all wear bright bandana
| handkerchiefs around their heads
The iron market was built by Hippolyte,
| who also built an iron custom house here.
| This president seems to have been the
/ leader in building operations.
The Haytien Army.
| The army Of Hayti! Is it possible to de-
scribe this aggregation of warriors. Never
was such an army seen before off the comic
| opera stage It, isycomposed of 10000, SOL
diers; 3,0eHHr rettrght here in Port AIN
! Prince. TIE ss5faaierss have no stated uni
| form The$1 ragged, only one In ten
has shoes. agSd aS L hfeo e Is looked on as an aris-
sie saSea No basa Sss sas srspq, re-
| Of the army IN the city is Kept on guard
right along rAfidearly every corner there
! is a benchss sr an Rench worn smooth with
much sitting. and lat every bench. there are
| ten or twelve sSIdiers. On these benches
| the army passes the time, playing cards.
| throwing di9e ard sleeping The world
may wag as it Adil the Haytien army is
content SO Ipflg-ias the cards, the dice and
| the benches hold put.
Several <imea 81 day the army has roll
| call The sofdfefy are lined up In front of
their benches and Officers go from street to
street calling the roll 1t is an affecting
| sight to SCI. Eiis Xarlike organization gath
| cred thus iii sforthal array. 1t is an .exag-
Grafton to say that the squads line up.
They don't. The men just string along ac-
cording to their pleasure, either with their
guns or without. We tried to take some
| pictures of the SQUADS while arrayed for
! roll call. This attempt was not entirely
successful AS soon as a camera was
pointed at the army the men promptly
| broke ranks ahd scattered. 1t was either
/ modesty or policy. Probably the Haytien
1 army doesn't want the United States to
copy its style OF equipment
| don't know how 1t would turn out in
practice. but r should guess, from appear
| ances, that 100. real soldiers, with real
guns. could run this army eleven miles. or
maybe twelve miles, by firing one volley
| The soldiers In the 4faytien army ret
| so cents week In their money, or Is cents
| IN ours. A rntion Is issued consisting of
| two green bananas and drink Of rum per
man per day. Anything outside OF this the
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