Evening star

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a thousand shivers

Long Periods down the back be

nf A, cause of the wildly

of Weird Orgies. welrd nolse

make?a noise that sounds low nearby,

but which carries for miles and miles

over the Haitian hills, calling the wor

shipers In to the secret temples. Their

sacrifices may be fruits and flowers,

chickens or goats, or even children. It is

said that women willingly give their ba

bies to be boiled, and help to eat them

afterward.

Haiti up to now has been a failure.

"Where once were the splendid plains of

Cul de Sac, producing exports worth 2",

00U.000 francs, today there is a tropical

jungle. Where once there were rich and

prosperous coffee plantations, today there

are here and there wild coffee trees, but

no attempt to do more than pick the vol-

unteer coffee. And so it is everywhere.

wreck and ruin and desolation, helpless

ignorance, the people but brothers to the

ox. Can President Comte change it all?

If he does he will deserve a high niche in

the temple of fame.

JEALOUS MAN SHOOTS

LANDLADY AND SELF

i

Parisian Objects to Civilities

Extended to Fancied

Rival.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

PARLS, May 1, 1912.

There is a great excitement in

the Passy district of Paris over a drama

which has been enacted at a trim hotel

on one of the principal streets. The

house, which was very prosperous, is

kept by M. and Mme. Mathieu, who were

regarded with the utmost esteem through

out the neighborhood. The landlady, a

very handsome woman of forty, was the

object of considerable admiration.

A man a few years older than herself

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1912). Washington, D.C., 1912-05-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1912-05-15/ed-1/?sp=13

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1912-05-15.