Kansas agitator

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I looked up and saw a piano going

northward over the lake at an eleva

tion of about 200 feet. The wind was

agitating the keys, and I could dis

tinguish the strains of "Ain't It a

Shame?' I have told a lot of people

about this, but they don't seem to

believe it."

The foregoing stories were' gathered

OF HAITI

find a post of soldiers every fifty or

a hundred yards. They live in

wretched guard rooms, which are

merely long hovels, with plazzaa

raised two feet above the street. Be

low flows an open drain. The men

themselves drink, smoke, and gam

ble all the weary day.

You must never allow a smile to

cross your face however, tempted

you may be to laugh if you meet a

Haytlan soldier. A European diplo

matist landed once at i'ort-au-Prlnce

and on his way from the ship he fell

in with what he imagined to be a tat

tered mountebank carrying a rifle. He

smiled, for the black man's pompous

solemnity was Immensely funny. At

once the negro's face changed.

"You laugh at me? You laugh at

me?" he cried, furiously.

He was a soldier of the republic;

his fingers flew to his cartridges, and

the visitor waited for no more, but

fled up the street.

The Haytlan soldier needs but the

license of a political strife to lash

him into frenzy. Given political trou

bles and a modicum of shooting in

the streets, and a man such as we

have Just described, with Intense

irascibility of temper and thousands

of companions like himself, he would

become a very perilous and terrible

element In the general anarchy.

The Haytlan army in peace time

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Kansas agitator. (1902). Garnett, Kan., 1902-08-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83040052/1902-08-22/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Kansas agitator, 1902-08-22.