The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-22

of hapless slave and prisoners. Ii + told Cf Cm1stopne inst while the palace val l tn the course of construction. a line oi
 s wno ,Ss gsrs nsn SsnSsns in Secse hausted .a1d sent one. of their members to ask for heIp. lii re9ponse to theiI reasonabIe request the inhuman wretci ordered every foyrth man to fsll out, % ,oi He then told the remaining seventy-five to move the cannon, and upon their fail ure to do so. shot every third man in line. leaving only fifty at the ropes. He the remainder of the men 1T they did not have the cannon at the top of the mountain by nightfall. The poor wretch. es finally gucc<eded in the terrible un- from their exertion. The few who did not diefw were % badly disabled that they were no further use. as burden bearers and were thrown over the precipice.
 Chrfstophe was finally cornered in hii palace by q mob of rebels and to escape the vengeance he knew they would wreak upon him, blew his own brains out. The intervening years have not in the least removed the bane his evil life put upon the mountain; 1t is shunned as persist ently as if 1t were in fact the abiding place of satan.
 | One who walks the streets of the cities of Hayti must wade through piles of unspeakable filth. He must elbow unfor- tunates whose countenances are SO dis figured by disease that they are forced to wear hoods-and anything that is tot terrible for 2 Haytian to look upon is cleaned except by the rain. and by peli- canb Although these diligent scavengers have ( wonderful capacity for devourine nth. the supply is far in excess of their
 possibilities and the smell that arisef from these dirty. dirty towns Is dreadful. And yet. seen from a distance. Hayti Is gem of beauty 1t is another case of distance lending enchantment to the
 beauties. and remain in ignorance o the dark practices that are common to 1t: if one could avoid the dreadful de- pravity. and come only In contact with nature. visit to 1t would be replete with lasting and pleasing memories. Its mountain passes are grand; It's vistas superb. Rare flowers bloom by the way side and sweet singing birds fit into ev
 cry thicket. There are waterfalls that from a distance look like shining threads of silver, and valleys as fair as vale in Eden. But when the sun goes Its way over the hills. and the shadows Of night come down, that awful drum throos ana mystery hangs over the land nke pau chilling the ardor of the traveller as he realizes that he Is making his biyouac Tn the domain of witchery. If bell would ring. or a bugle call. or whistle blow anything but the awesome pounding Of that QfUIu. 6ut WHSu U SOuuuS dit OSAACs things are still It is king and rules with despptic sway. With. the knowledge oi the horrors 1t Is responsible for, there comes a disgust and loathing which over shadows every other sentiment one might feel. When the wrath of God falls on Hayti there will be busy day Tn
 Ever since the French abandoned Hayti nearly ninety. years ago-it has been left to itself; not caring to have anytnine to do with any one, and no one caring to have anything to do with 1t. But ons of these days, as the light of progress continues to illumine the dark places of the world, there will come realization of the fact that sys.h people-hlth rid den, rotten with disease. and living in the abandon of their savage. ferocious natures-have no place in the civilization that is crowding around them. They are now a reproach to the morals Of this hemisphere, and a constant hinderapce to the work of making the West Indies healthy and habitabIe. When the time comes that the purifcation of this hole can be no longer postponed, the power that performs the job will come to nave a perfect understanding of what the
 white mans burden" means. There are few places in the world where the .eiimy trail of the serpent Is so piainN marked a