Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-20

lprod it with a metal pointed goad Unit
1.-The blood. streams down its legs. IfHth,
tpoor beast falls from exhaustion. IL may
have its brains beaten out by us merci-
Hess master, and that. after ALL may bt
the best thing that can happen 70 ~ toI
then its misery. is ended when otherwise
it would only be prolonged.
Among all the stories OF cruelty -one
hears in This land 81 blood. there are none
To compare with the deeds OF the En-
lperor Christophe, whose palace Is crum-
bling to ruin on the side OF the mountain
above Cape Hayden. rms prince. oi
butchers was tavern COOK IN Cape
Town San Domingo. until tue revolution
against the French gave him an oppor-
tunity to indulge in his passion for Kill
ing. His rise was rapid and hIS ratA 1"
prominence was literally drenCnei Win
| gore ID is said the building of La Fer
riere. tine palace in the clouds, cost the
lives Of 10000 slaves 1t has walls nc3ri;
| twenty feet thick, which bristle with hug
drcds Of cannon. Al the material 10
| build il. as well as all of the furnishings,
was h4uled up the mountain by the eXer-
tions Of hapless slaves and prisoners.
| 1t is told of ChriStophe that while the
palace was in the course Of construction
( 4 line Of 100 men who were dragging an
| immense cannon up the mountain became
exhausted and sent one Of their members
| to ask for help. In response to their rea-
| ~Onablc request tie inhuman wretch or
| derCd every fourth man 10 fall ont OF .inc
and he shot them in their tracks. he
| then told the remaining scventy-tive Il
tmuVe the cannon, ana upon their failure
/ to 40 20 shot every third man in the line.
| leaving only fifty At the ropes. He then
! save orders to his guards to shoot the re-
maindcr If the men if they did not have
the cannon at the TOP of the mountain by
| niAhtlall.
The poor wretches finally succeeded in
the terrible undertaking. but nearly all 0
them died from their eXertion. The few
WHO did not die were so badly disabled
I rl, 1aAr
den bearers and were thrown over the
IN, cipicc Christophe' was finally COR
Nered in his palace by mob OF rebels,
ard to escape the vengeance he knew
they would certainly Wreak upon him,
LEV his own brains out. The Intervening
Years have not in the least removed th@
bane his evil life put upon the mountain:
il is Stunned rs pe:sistently rs II It We're
in fact the abiding place Of Satan.
one WHO walks the streets of the cities
Of Haiti must wade through piles of I'M
spGakable filth. He must elbow unlOrtu-
mates whose cOuntcnances are so dislig
ured by disease that they are forced 70
wear hOods-and anything that IS too ter
Iible for a Haitian to look up IS lndeot
horrible The streets are never cleaned
except by the rain ana by peicans. Al
though these dilgent scaVengers have q
wonderful capacity for deVourinS MIA,
the sIpuly is far i'll excess of their posi-
hiIities ana the smell that arises from
these dirty. dirty towns is dreadful.
visit to one Of them is like a nlgntmars
And vet. seen from a distance, Haiti IS
Il gem of beauty. 1t IS another case q,
distance lending enchanImeht TO th9
If one could see only its scenic Seauties
and remain in ignorance Of the dafN
practices that are common 70 IL; If on
could avoid the dreadful stenches ana the
sight of its uepraVltN, and come only III /
contact with nature, visit 70 Il WUulu
be replejc with lasting ana pleasing mem |
orics. It's mountain passes are grand; IT, |
strfgaF
Waysidc and sweet singing birds fit in-2
every thcket. There are waterfalls that
from Il distance LOOK like shining threats
of silver and vale. as fair as a vale II:
Eden. But when The sun goes It's We
over the hills. ana The shadows Of night
come down. that awful drum throps ana
mystery hangs over the land like pail. |
chilling the ardar o. the traveller as he |
realizes That he IS making mis- blVOuac lh
the domain of Wtchery.
II a bell would only ring, or bugle |
call, or a whistle biow-any but Inc
awesume rounding OF that drum But
when it sounds all other things are stlll, |
1t is king ana rules with despotic sway |
With the knowledge of the horrors II Is |
responsible for, there GENES q disgust ahd
lOa hing which oNcrshadoWS every otne-
sentiment one might feel. When the |
wrath OF God falls on Haiti there will be |
u pusE DAY in HadeS 49,
Ever since the French abandoned ttalE |
nearly ninety years agO-it mas hecn |
left to itself; not caring 10 have anything |
to do with amy one. and no one cairns |
to have anything NJ do with il. But ami |
N these days. Az the light VI proGrcers
continues t. iliumiGc the dark places Oh |
ne world. there will cone realization III !
the fact mat such people ridden.
rotten with disease. ana living ID the |
abandon Of their savage, ferocious n&-
tures-haVe no place on the ClNillzalon |
that is now crowding around them. They |
are now il reproach to the morals of this |
hemisphere, ana Il constant hindrance, 70
the work of making the West indies
comes chat thc purtication Of this pes |
hole cannot longer be postponed the |
mower that performs the job viii come u
have 4 perfect understanding OF what the
white mans burden means. 1,hefe afe
few places in the world where the Siimy
tran Of the serpent is 50 plainly markcu
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