Mexico Missouri message

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find a post of soldiers every fifty or

hundred yards. They live In

wretched guard rooms, which are

merely long hovels, with piazzas

raised two feet above the street. Be

low Hows an open drain. Tho men

themselves drink, smoke, and gam

ble all the weary day.

You must never allow a smile to

cross your race however, tempted

you may be to laugh if you meet a

Haytian soldier. A European diplo

matist landed once at Port-au-Prince

and on his way from the ship he fell

in with what ho imagined to he 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.

'Vou laugh at me? You laugh at

me?" he cried, furiously.

He w-as a soldier of the republic;

his fingers flew to his cartridges, and

the visitor waited for no more, but

fled up the street.

The Haytian soldier needs but tho

license of a political strife to lasa

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 Haytian army In peace time

may be like that upon a comic opera

stage, but given a war, it would be

come a hotbed of tragedy. London

Express.

TEETH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

Interesting Particulars Which Have

Recently Come to Light.

George Washington's teeth were

made from hippopotamus and ele

phant's ivory.

We know this from the records left

by his own particular dentist, John

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Mexico Missouri message. (1902). Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., 1902-10-23. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89067273/1902-10-23/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Mexico Missouri message, 1902-10-23.