Political feeling runs high among the people, and a certain district is solid for a certain leader or party. There are no minorities; the minority moves into the next district. A line from a certain district rode down the boundary of a neighboring and a position district. There he met a stranger. When they picked him up, he was wounded in a dozen places, and the stranger was dead. "What did you think about?" they asked him as the picked him up. "Nothing," he replied. "I asked him if he was "guape," which may be freely translated "nervy" or "game"). He said he was "guape."

The survivor looked over his wound. "He was guape," he admitted with sigh.

Performed Dining Carte Duty.
Men such as these could be counted on to put up a stiff resistance to revile officers, especially as they felt the right was all on their side. All the five American officers of the Frontier Guard were shot at one time another, nor were seriously wounded. Several members of the guard were killed in the first year of its being. But now the natives of the district have a saying that burns up the whole work of the force. "Not even a bird can fly across the frontier without a permit," they say.

The presence of American marines in Haiti last year proved a great relief to the Frontier Guard, by breaking up the large gangs.  Of lawbreakers on the Haitian side. 