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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-8, Page 3A WONDERFUL METAL: *00.. The Evclution in the Methods of Isolat- ing Alumiaum From Clay, 'FROM $91 TO 50C. A POUND alts Remarkable danalittes—The lievoiutton It 'Will Prodoce In metal:leerily—Its Wee in Aneati Rapid 'alert:nee an Producitounmhe Most Abuteilant metal fit mateire. • IIIRTY-five years agoaluminuin metal was merely [whined - cal curioeity ; to- day 4 would be difficult to meusure its possible influ- ence on the arts end industries of the future. That It should to lone: ave altogether bafiled cientieo renearch is remarkable when it is minenehered that with the exception of ,Oxygen and eilicon it is the moat widely :fillifueed and abundant of all the elemente ; ibis estimated that it constitutes more than one -twelfth of the earth's cruet. There lea been as yeb no complete scientific explanation of its origin, but in view of the attiention it is now receiving this WIR doubtlese not be long wanting. Aluminum ia never found native, but item= united with oxygen in clay, feldspar, harunclum, oryolite, and most other :minerals. The chief source from which ib 'below obtained, is bauxite—BO called from laving been first discovered near Baux, a village in the south of France. It wee thought to be an iron ore and was worked au such until an analysis by Berthier re- vealed its true character. Since Ikea time mitnilar depoeita have been found in Ger- many, Austria, Ireland, Rudy, and in Alabama, Georgie., and Arkansas in the 7J:ti1ted States. EARLS EFFORTS TO ISOLATE IT. Aluminum was first isolated by Wohler in 1827, although its existence had been believed tome years previously and minty efforte had bete made to separate it. While Wohler Wan the diecoverer of aluminum, to Deville le due the credit of isolating it in an alnaest pure state, determining its true -properties, and establishing its production as an industry. In 1854 both Deville and ;Bunsen invented precenees for isolating aiturainum by electrolysie. Devine soon nurned to chemical methods which he invented and carried to a high Mate of perfection. A DISCOURAGED METALLURGIST. Before 1855 metallic sodium sold at the auto of nearly $200 per pound; in 1859 the experimental work of Deville, e aided by Driamay, had reduced it to but $1, and in 1886 A. T. Outlier, of New York, had dis- icovered a means by which it could be pro- duced at 20 cents per pound. Joseph W. iiinhards, in his recent admirable work on alumisrom, elms of the sodium process : To find a subatitute for sodium as a re- ducing agent has been the favorite object of amearch among °herniate for the peels 30 eyeara, and although every element mour- ning in any abundance has been tried under aboorst all condition; yet absolutely nothing ham been accomplished in this direction that would ea title anyone to the belief that eibaminuna can ever be produced chemically mithout the use of sodium." . 33.1i011 $91 To 50 CENTS A POUND. The high price of sodium had maintained a correspondingly high price for aluminum. When the Costner prooess was added to ,Davillets, under the name of the " Deville - 'Mather Proems," the highest point of chem. rnal production was reeiched, and it is ex- itatemely doubtful that any further subritan- itlal decrease of cost mat be effected by such methods. The metal which sold for $91 per mound in 1856 could be obtained for $2 in .1889, and by the preeent electrical processes van be obtained now for 50 cents per pound. Enhe electrical furnace devised by Messrs. IA. IL and E. H. Cowles, of Cleveland, 0., roolped to forward these important reduc- tions. A pewerful electrical ourrettt is made to pass through a mixture of carbon and ant:unite, decomposing the latter, per- imiteting the oxygen to unite with the carbon and thua setting the aluminum free. SODIUM PROCESS oBsomen. Alittie after 1885 Dr. Gratzel, of Hanover, 'Germany, tuned to the Deville electrolytic method, subatittiting dynamo machines for batteries, and in 1887 aluminum by his pre- heat: was aold at $8 per pound. In 1888 0111 another manufactory waa establiehed by M. Here.ult at Nouteusen for making nilturdnizra alloys. The oilman of simplicity and economy le thought to leave been mached by the Hall invention. By it the prlce of Mundt:um has been reduced to a ittle less than 50 cents per pound. One dollar per pound le the cheapest production attained by the sodium process, and it le .now gaits improbable thab sodium wLll nva, in figure in the metallurgy of aluminum. glee eleetrical prooessee themselves will in lime doubtless, be superseded by a pure neetalurgical one, loweriog. the price to etemothing corresponding in ratio to ita abundance. THE QUALITIES OP ALUMINUM. Deville pronounced aluminum an inter- mediate between the noble and base metals. .In its use it seeme almost able to displace them ail. Its tentele strength is twelve tons to the eqttare Mob, while ite weight Is only about one-third that of iron; it is amity ono -seventh of the weight of gold and. le nearly as ductile. When oast it is as melt as silver, and when rolled or hammered It becomes nearly as hard as iron. The mommercial metal has a bluish white cast and melts at about 815 degrees, while the • pure metal is quite white and melte at 650 ologreea. Ib is oxidized by neither air nor water, and evennitric and sulphuric acids but slightly attaek it when in mace. While tailver quickly tarnishes, pure aluminum natithis its lustre undimmed even by • imipteurettecl hydrogen. In all bob rarity Ibis the more noble metal of the two; Ite leightnese, strength, and rernatance to corro- sion inaking it touch more desirable than liver in the manufacture of plate. IT WILL WORX A itavollitiTION. De nee in surgical instruments is particu- larly attilisfactory, as it le entirely unaffected by the acids of the body. It is very toner - e= and will probably take the place a all tether metals in bellshorns and Nitire eitinge foe Musical instruments. Deville bayn it ocincluots electreity eight times better than iron ; this and ite lightness maheii it prefer:: able to eibber More or copper for telegraph neinen—onte mile of iron Wire weighing moistly mfich as three o aluminum. It is eke an eatraordine.ry omeductor of heat iand its tee for cooking utensil:1 Would gave ranch Itiel and th° ne while the handling nould be affeoted withnuich greater' cue because of the lightness of the vessele. tittle or tot corrosion ctould take plate, paid even if Ib &weld, the *aka proditoed, un glke teeieee fkoni copper and brittle, would he harmlese. When great deneliy and etreugth are Deeded, iron and Meet are more deeirable than aluminium but the metat in the future used for ri u paenoees will doubt - hoe he .sbt ALLOY OP ALTIMINTEd ARA IRON OR STEEL. It is Aimec1 that even re little ae one-teoth of 1 per cent of aluminumadoled to iron. effect.: redioal chatige, incoming the tenon° strength front 20 to 50 per mot and reeder- lug it much tougher and lees ineseeptibla to oxidization. Alumiouin broom: will have an enormous field of usefulnese, beeides being very orneanental. Alloyed with copper it possum extraordinary strength, and It of a. heautiful, gold color which hardly tarnithes at all. For artillery and beavy orduarem a 10 per cent aluminum bronze is the mend of all others. Moreover, it eau be made free from flays and of uniform etrengch. The uoexpected and disestroue bursting of gum) will no longer occur when it use becomee general. For propeller shafts and blades, pistons, cylinder; and all objects requiring a homogeneous metal of exceptional strength its usefulnese cannot be exaggerated. Aluminum can now be elec- trically welded and the diffioulties in soldering it have been so far overcome that the operation is quite simple. To aluminum MD FAMOUS DAMASCUS BLADES owed their excellence. Clay was used in making Mee smelting furnaces, and the slight amount of alumitturn taken up from it by the metal was what enabled the ancients to attain such a flne tamper in their steel. The celebrated Bombay Wootz steel of to- day always containri aemail amount of alu- minum. The importance attached to the recent discoveries of bauxite depoeits in this min - try teems somewhat overestimated. It does nob much matter where aluminum ore is found, the only advantage 'being that one may prove richer than another in alumina. The metal itself to nearly omnipresent in organic nature, from the beautaful ruby, aapphire, amethyst, and turquoise down to common clay, and its production upon a male commensurate with its desired use only awaits the discovery of A PROCESS OP GREAT SIMTLICITY. Perhaps the way has been suggested by the recent inventiono of W. A. Baldwin. He alumnizes metals by the direct mixture with them, in a molten state,of clay, bauxite or other mineral carrying aluminum in the required amount. The mixing is accom- plished in the presence of common salt and charcoal in the Willa into which the metal is drawn. The ohlorine gas freed purifies the metal; the sodium and carbon uuite with the oxygen, and the released aluminum Is taken up by the boiling metal and a homogeneous product results. The same re- markable fluidity is observed as when block aluminum is used, and the metal is incom- parably cheaper and more homogeneous, as the miurnieum is added in the minutely di- vided form in which nature has lefb it in the May. RApIDLY INCREASING PROMOTION. The production of aluminum in the United States for the year 1892 was 294,313 pounds. The Societie Elootro-Metallurgique Francaise,at Troyes, France, produced 122,- 000 pounds, while the output at Neuhaueen, Switzerland, the moat important of all, was for the sanae year, 69400 pounds. The in- crease of production is now going on at a yearly rate of about 80 per cent. It is impossible to predict the revolution which will follow the introduction and gen- eral use in construe:rive work of a material at once so light, so durable, and so strong. Architecture seems to change with the building materials which man is able to ob- tain, from the massiveness of stone to the graceful and ornate styles made possible by modern glass and metal work. When, as is inevitable, aluminum, so much more abun- dant in nature than iron, shall become as cheap, there will be little to cheek the architect's flight of fancy. r og rem Ot Wolsian. A young woman stopping in San Diego, Cal., recently went from ehe East to Cali- fornia, fell in love, married, settled down, broke up housekeeping, lost her husband and resumed 'her maiden name all within the last month. Her husband, during the same time left his situation, met and mar- ried the girl, ()hanged his name twice and disappeared to parte unknown. First Little Girl—Has your sister begun takize mud() lessons yet? Second Little Girl—She's takin' somefln' on tee piano, but I can't tell yet whether it's music or type - writhe." Carrie Lamode—So we're not going to have crinoline, after all. What a pity we were all so vvroughb up aboub it I May Saver—I don'b think it's a pity at all. Papa bought me the material for two new gowns, and now I can have six made out of it. • A Maine farmer is making a good income by breeding swans, the market rates for which range from $40 to $75 a pair. , geignseMedm7e1 cfs4liro F• is fh best Shortenittp ft:3 r aHCOOkir(9 pt..41110SeSo o.) gpmm,"4 0 RV, arro L apt is the ortty healthFol shOrtettalig e . Pitysichzax endovre LAD "04411 y: lhaf tot c onereirtztdu feel;',29 of ertoo rrtuteh richrgessu from hoot ec:iokedirularti, 07' T e.°0 LVill 13 IS • . deircZte, delletous, heAfilthil conifortit3, .U0 TOU use Coll.° sag dal trade ante' tin N. K. FA1RDANIC & CO., Weihngt on and Ann Streets, leI0 TH AL. HORRID ITC000RITS Children Stolen, Butchered and Eaten by liaytian Priests, MYSTICISM AND DIABOLISM. A Voodoo Reuintort—Oilicials Recognize tile Order—An Iniriailott—Illuouta Sacrit• !Ices—Stories of a Frenchman and a Priest—A. Case Ervin tire Court Records —The Monsters Condemned and Snot. ESPITE every civil- izing elewbich teeheeyhave nt ntiiree ) 1 / been brOuglat foto al* e contact, the ilaytian • of to -day is more Afrioan than were his Daherneyan fore- fathers brought over by the slave :Mips of 150 years ago. The ifmass of these ignorant negrom live in the interior, and there are few Christian any notion of true rPielrigeiaotnis to inogivateMbhereni los officers to prevent their cannibalistic care - monies. And a black government dare not Intel fere, as its political strength is bated upon the good will of the mune, ignorant and deeply tainted with fetish worship. Boleraud Cartel made an effort to break it up, but without mamma. The decrees that • he issued forbidding their religious dances were found unpopular and quickly repealed, since which tines officers of State leave openly EN0017RAGED THE v0tTE00. Salerno, Legitiree and even Hippolyte, the present President, have been known to attend these ceremonies, distribute money to the papalois, or priests of the order, and to openly applaud them in their most fran- tic excesses. Indeed, few living outside of Hayti itself are aware of the extent to which voodoo wership and human sacrifice are carried, and those who know the terri- ble truth usually have some good reason for wishing to conceal this evidence of the bar- barism of their countrymen or neighbors. Upon my arrival MI' Port au Prince a few weeks ago, says a correspondent of the Bos- ton Herald, I asked an American who had lived for 30 years in Hayti, "Who is tainted with voudooism ?" "Who is not?" was the ready reply. "Christophe, King of the North, himself a Prince of Dahomey by birth, was a high priest of the order. So we Sonlouque, Emperor of the reorganized Hayti, who oame after him; so was President Salnave. The latter's minister, Theriouge, a noted mulatto general, otten came to Cabinet meetings in the priestly robe of the order, as did also Panama, a prime minister, who succeeded to the high priesthood." A V0I7D00 REUNION. The system of domination on the one hand and blind obedience upon the other being established, they at fixed dates meet together, the Papaloi and Mainaloi presid- ing, following the forms they probably brought from Africa. These reunions occur in the dead hours of the night in se- cluded places of supposed safety from the profane eye. There each initiated puts on a pair of sandals and fastens around his body a num- ber of red colored handkerchiefs. The Papaloi has a red handkerchief around his, forehead and a blue one around his •waist, while the Mamalon or high priestess, wears a blood red sash. These two then place themselves at one end of the room near a kind of altar, on which is a box where the serpent is kept and where each member oan see it through the bars of its cage, when is commenced the ceremony of the adoration of the serpent by protestations of faithful- ness and submissiveness. They then one by one renew, holdiog the hands of the Papaloi and Meanaloi, the oath of secreey. At each of theue invocations the Papaloi appears absorbed in thought. THE SPIRIT SEIZES HMI. Suddenly he takes hold of the box in which the serpent is confined, places it on the ground and commands the Mamaloi to step upon it. As soon as tbe sacred ark is beneath her feeb the new pythonesa is filled with the spirit She trembles and the oraole speaks by her mouth. Now she flatters and promises happineas ; now she bursts into reproathes, and, according to her wiehes, her interesb or her caprice, she dictates or decrees without appeal every- thing whioh she is pleased to prescribe in the nanae of the serpent to this imbecile crowd, that never experienced the slightest doubt of the most monstrous abaurclity, and that only knows how to obey what is des- potically dictated to theta. After the questions have received some kind of an answer from the oracle, many which are nob without ambiguity, the audience form a cirole, and the serpent le again placed upon the altar. Then the faithful bring as tribute the objects they think most worthy, and that no jealous curiosity shall raise a blush, the offerings are placed in a covered pot. When the meetings are over a fresh oath, as execrable as the first, engages each one present to aid in the furtherance of plane settled upon and to be silent as to what was passed; then a vase, in which there is the blood of a goat (?), still warm, seals on the lips of those present the promise to suffer death rather than to reveal anything—to inflict it upon anyone he may know to break the vows of secrecy. A VOUDOO INITIATION. This over, the dance follows. If there should be a new candidate for membership, the fete commences by his admission. The Papalol with some black substance braces a large circle upon the floor, in the centre of which the novice is placed, a packet of herbe, bits of horse hair, pieces of horn, tigers' teeth and other trifles being throat into his hand. Then, liightly touch- ing him upoo the head with a slight wooden wand, the Papaloi thunders Mirth anAfrican song, which is repeated in chorus by those who stand around the circle ; then the new member begins to tremble and to dame which is called to practice voodoo. He continues until he arrive* at length at so convulsive a Mate that the Pepaloi orders him to stop, striking him on the head with hie Wand. The candidate is then taken to the altar, ;Wears faithfulness, drinks of the goat's (?) blood, previously prepared, Orlt of a calabash richly carved with figures of ampents, and is declined a full-fledged voodoo. A WEIRD blarCir. The fete is then continued by dancing, a signal for the comineaceitient of which is given by the Mainaloi Apr:Notching the altor, seizing the box containing the holy serpents and shaking it. The hawebell attatihed to Ib Mounds like a fool's bauble- A tilde drum—an exeltin drroWn otter a nail keg—is breught in; while one beats it amethor tempo a gourd with an old MeV machete. A tub of water IS he3th IHOUghli in ; an empty jug fleeted in tide and beat upon by in a neighboring Humfur. In the afternoon, when the mother re turned and asked for her child, she was told that ib had strayed away. A pretended search' was made by those in the plot, and another Papaloi was consulted. This man told the mother nob to be uneasy, that a water spirit, or Maitre dean, had taken her daughter, but that she would be shortly brought) back. The mother believed or pre- tended to believe this story, and by the Papaloi's direction burned candles before the altar of the Virgin Mary for the prompb return of her child 1 What a strange mingling of religion and superstition ! On New Year's eve a large party aesam- bled at the house of Jeane to await the arrival of the and who had remained for four days bound under the voodoo altar. When the ohief plotters came to lead her forth, the child gussed ab her fate, and be- gan to scream ; but she was gagged and bound anew, and carried to Jeane's house, where she was thrown on the ground, her aunt holding her by the waist, while Floreal, the Papalm'pressed her throat and °there held her legs and ern% Her struggle soon ceased; Floret.' had strangled her 1 The aunt then handed him a large knife, with which he CUT OFT THE aum's HEAD, a bottle, Makes arrOthei which makes one's ffeefe weed Tete upper pare of gee feeelye thee shouldeee of the deneee;felpeneitE tee e located. They 4000 S'404 agitated, aed, drinkfug. freely Lorne lee gourds of white reera mined Welafe gen* fe blood, their feeozy inerneeeeee :04 tkirIV : citement they toar eachf teeri 4igatadr4 Obhers tear their hair eatl Mee theft fleeb. As they faint) away or fail ,eelieteltted by their fury tbey ere dragged Away, one ay ono, to the dark teem, in the obeezerley which, AO their senseeturo to them, they too often indulge in uurcatrained rens of moat shamefel licentiotiencom • unman seenureene Of7HRXD, Do the emulous of Hayti ever inctulge in human sacrifice I have no doubt of ite But tbe asSertion has been as often denied as horde. The Whelk) archbialeop of Hayti, however, is strong in the belief that they do. "Some years ago, says he, "a young priest whom I had jut placed in charge of the church at Aux ()eyes persuaded some of his parishioners to take him with them into the forest, where a meeting of the voodoos were to be held. "They wereat firet unwilling, saying that if discovered he and they would bs killed ; but he promised faithfully that whatever happened he would not speak a word that would dlaclose his identity. So they black- ened his hands and face end allowed him to go along. Tbe 1VIetneloi otood on the box contain- ing tee serpent, the people kneeling before her to ask that their wishes he gratified. The Mameloi went into a violent peroxyhm, and then in a sort of half trance she promised all that they could desire. A white °oak and then a white goat were kilied and the lip of those present were :stained by the 131°°"Plreeently an athletic young negro came up and kneeling before the Mamaloi asked some favor in an undertone. She nodded assent. The asserably became a flutter of excitement. Then some one whispered, 'THE GOAT WITHOUT HORNS.' "As the crowd made way a procession entered, bearing at its head a child of 6 years, with its feet and hands bound. In an instant a rope already passed through a block was tightened, the /ittle onete feet flew up toward the roof and the Papeloi approached with a keen mediate. As the child's head was severed from its body with a single blow, the Frenchman left the scene. There was a short pursnit, but he reached the city in safety and tried to induce the Governor to send police to the spob, but that offioial declined to interfere. The next morning, however, a party of foreign mer- chants accompanied the priest to the spot They found the remains of the feast, and near the building the boiled akull of the child." The authorities of Aux Cayes were highly incensed at the priest for his interference, and, under pretence that they could not an- swer for his safety, shipped him off to the capital by the first steamer bound for Port an Prince. Another priest the bishop tells me, saw the entire ceremony afterward at Jacmel, where a black goat and a 10 -year-old bleak girl were eacrificed,but on it being rumored that this priest bad been present his wife's Haytien relatives is:tinted that kis life me ID danger and coropelled him to leave the district. AN AUTHENTIC CASE. In general, when incidents are spoken of in society in Hayti relating to voodoo wor- ship, Haytian gentlemen endeavor to turn the conversation, or they say you have been imposed upon, but the following incident is a ratter of record and formed the subject of a trial before a Haytian criminal court during the executive term of General Geffard—next to Boyer, the most enlight- ened president the country has had since its independence. A couple of miles WeSB of Port au Prince lies the village of Blzoton, in which there lived a man named Congo Pelle. He had been for years a lazy longshoreman, but one day an idea occurred to him of a way to iroprove his "luck" His mother had been mamaloi or voudoo priestess, and his sister Jeane*was a rising leader in the order. He talked the matter over with Jeane, and be- tween them it was settled that about the new year he should offer some fitting sacri- fice to the holy serptnt. Two Papalois, Julian Nicolas and Flores' Appellate were called in, and it was decided that he must offer a female child. The lot fell upon Clairoine, a little niece of Congo and Jeane. It appears that human sacrifices are offered only at Easter, Christmas New Year's Eve, and more particularly on the Twelfth Night or Les Fetes des Bois• . On December 27th, Jeane invited her sister, the mother of Claircine to accompany her to Port au Prince, and the child, a girl of 12, was thus left alone with Congo. Im- mediate advantage was taken of the naother's absence, and Clairoine was conducted to the house of Julian, one of the Parialoie, and from thence to tlae residence of Floreal, the other, where she was bound and HIDDEN UNDER THE ALTAR the eine:Want:a 'botching the blood in a jar. Fioreal then skineeed the victim and cutting the. fleth from her bones placed it in large wooden &Oa; The merlins and skin were carefully buried under One oozier of the house. • Tim whole party then started for the EapaloPe house. The flesh was borne itt the wooden platters by the Manitalois, and the apa1ois Carried the heed Open hie staff held high elate all keeping Step to the tune Of Is hideous African song. goosed by the noise, a Woman and a little girl Who were eleeplea in a house near by looked thrOugh the cliiiike and stiv all that passed-40am cooking the fieele with Congo beaus, email and bitter, while Mortal put thu head in a ' pet W.th yaitie to make soup. While the others Were eri gaged in the ki When one of the women present, Roselde Sainero,- ttegeilly the fearfuleppetite oftseennibitie mit from the ohiltte"paine a 0000 of flesh and rite it 114W. APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY E, MOV. DANDRUFF 'D. L. CAVN. , Travelling nszateer Ageot, 01! IL safes Ant4ontlruifior,Furfeebr.eereriVetalat. a tew rnazratlenr not eelr raeablenenevee ereirein wenn io eservelleEtniltrutin ealle GUARANTEED Di'4111'Vst'figi,12s'4uutlultIP1°A/44 donarulf acemun on eut stopped fleeteree Fadloo bale to original calm Pope fallen° ef hake Keeps the kelp etezine Makes heir soft and Pliable Prometes Growth. /1•010,1•1101,,,,,,11•11M01111,11, Thu leoulernan nen'. The cooking over, portiona of the pre- pared ditat were banded round, of which all preeent partook, and the soup, being reedy, was eagerly drank. The night was paeeed in dancing, drinking and debauchery. In the morning the remaina of the ilea, were warmed over, and the two neighbors who had watched the proceedings were invited to join the repast. The woman did so, but the girl declined. Displeased at the latter's decimation, the Papalois mized and bound her, intending to also steam her later on. The mother of little Cif:Amine, however, when the child failed to return, even after taperhad baen burned to the Virgin for her, grew euspicioue, and coming to Port au Prince, reported the affair ro President Geffard in person. Police were sent out at onco to the house of Fierce'. Upon search the fresh -boiled skull of the child was found in the bush near by. Some of the cooked meat wee discovered under the altar, and aloe the intended second victim. Fourteen arrests were made • evidence was neoured against eight as principals or accomplices. The Mimi laded two clays. On a table before the judge were the clean - ;naked bones of the murdered child, in a jar the remains of the soup and the calcined bones. Many incidents came out in course of the evidence which showed how the lower Ilectian classes are sunk in ignom ance and barbarity, and renewed the proofs, if any fresh proofs were required, that the voodoo worship is even associated with the religious ceremonies of the few pre- tending Chriatiaus, even the Papalois quoting THE STORY OF AIIRAHAM ARE Isaac, and recommending the burning of tapers in Christian churches, and the having crosses and pictures of the Virgin Mary strangely mingled en their altars with the object of their voodooism. ' Amongthose who gave evidence was the young girl, who through the crack of a neighboring house, had witnessed the cere- monies, and for whom the Papalois had re- served the fate of Claircine. The judge, M. Lallemand, one of the few magistrates Hayti has had with the courage to do justice, conducted himeelf with great dignity. He called the girl to his side, put his arm around her waist and in a &Needy voice said "Tell me, ray child, all you saw. Yon may whisper to me and then I'll tell it to the court." Drying her tears she told the story in its horrible detailsfrom beginning to end. The woman who had been with this girl that night was then called. She confirmed the latter's accounb,even con- fessing her own part injoining the feast New Year's morninF. The mother s testimony followed, and the guilt of the accused was thoroughly °stab- liehed, when one of them, with an evident hope of thus securing pardon, entered into every particular of the affair, to the annoy- ance of the others, who tried in vain to keep leer silent. Then Jeane, the Mamalon piteously ftp. pealed for mercy, saying she had only done what her mother had. taught her as the religion of her ancestors. . They were all found guilty of sorcery, torture and murder, and TAREN OUT AND SHOT. But this is the last instance in Hamblen history, of any of the order being punished for their crimes. And to -day President Hippolyte, instead of attempting to dis- courage the dances, takes part in them, and maintains the Papaleis from the national treasury as a kind of secret police, or as political under -heelers. Some yeare back human flesb, rolled in little bundles of sweet scented leaves, was openly sold in the capital, and the oil thereof was much sought after aa containing rare medieinal qualities in connection with the treatment of rheumatic disease. Children of tender years frequently dis- appear even now, and no trace is ever found of them by their grief-stricken parents. It is not astonishing to one who has studied carefully the history of Hayti that fetish worship continues to flourish in the country. The negroea imported here from the west coast of Africa naturally brought their re- ligion with them—a strange mixture of East Indian serpent worship, Moham- medanism and idolatry. 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