Show Tr TrI r I A Twelve Tear pear Old Girl Offered Ote Our tor iii 1 aDd buts for tor Dollan lia la tile five I S A MS S LA 11 5 r are Ity bJ BoUt n sad ad 1 V L II n the 11 Mora Own Them Ottest torl of 1 V ilia f marry to 0 LouThe Gallant of as Amerlean II ot l 4 Aprons Our Qu Qui IDlY Ilow Men Women and Children Are Ar Bought Dought and Sold In 0 of I and 10 lob be i ultan lints Qu Quee Dolla 14 0 a the Southern Philippines Ii i com cane Status of the h Y I r v vL i L FRANI G y l by VInk A 0 garpen Oar tr island hind ot of April S Sq i 1 I iI q f fJ four here today 11 v dolla dollars They were owns owned p U 1111 n who claims cIl she b I a Chrle a 10 t not lilt LoY by one on of the y I I 1 went Into the womans d dud tell with her for some IOme Ut I the th human flesh on ale Ie and andI I her to bring the ther sit lIt iu III the yard that I 1 might r I II h h t graph rah of them Three ot of v bore ranging In age ae from fromI I elz iX The other was a gin Irl ot of oth at which the leiria are arem th h II age It married down hero on Ih the m 1 i I h The toy hoy l na on but a shirt which bare baret and the other I t t to III his hll wait ugly coarse pantaloons pantaloon ox eX 1 nom the waist to 10 the knees kneel 1 I II rue a half raked her only pr gar being a wide Ide strip hip of cot It wrapped about her waist and nd I n a I hr In a knot I 1 ud had a photo I h 11 pia with standing be beho beh ho h end and she abe reached Jut Just to my myA myAt A At I stood thus thu the slave nl thought i 1 wanted the thet t f I bt Mucho or Very t n i me that In if 1 bought boutt only a I I uld have to Charge chane me snore I I 11 son In than Ihan she he for Ih the thet t h Bald ald the little nUle girl should n i It at leant Ili and nd Heme sur surp ur p f j I hn h n I did not jump at the barI b r rC C k tI hr her where the tbt slaves cam camf tl f rl I plied that they 1111 hud bud h brim t 1 ht 11 in from the hay hal hayl halI I l I b by ons of the 1 t II nt war 1 with its III r I aid eald they were Atall ur urI I and u as I looked ur III IIII I k skins thick noises and sell sellI n nI I I II are traces ea ot of t d I talked with the ilia slaves 11 t Jc I tn tm Interpreter but could nut not nott t c id n a of their having been out 1 11 Ih they seemed indifferent as aa aaI J q I C r Ih they were to be sold IOhl or not oly had no Idea Idi that the they II cagy I abject lead I 1 bought i told lurd I would have hd had ac c ct t th u tom In liMY about here hert power power ot of life lit II h n Pr them and that I 1 could k I 1 them without of a aL L II ti t LAND OP OF I y I is common among the people t d r LII Luba and the Sulu elo eloI e I IlL I 1 i to 10 believe bellee that there I la II a adi di t 1 t It t elavery In some ot of the II 11 l a n nur north hers Here In 1 art t only debt saves but I II und and by conquest I 1 he have heI I f I t I racy r place I have bave stopped i 1 Ica IA common rommon and that woo wo fly ar are brought bought and sold AllI All I L have t I th ot of their subjects t 1 tIn ms as 1111 the they can support InK of nf this island Illand at although It I is nominally la paw Still human humn hought anti and sold a and even evenI I have hal been accustomed to toI I 1 n I I met this afternoon the ox x r f the town ot of lie lieV lieI I V kyan aan who hR has A large larg farm tarm r frn here Re He owns a a num l 1 s and 1001 keeps verat In hi f f f I have been told I L seldom sell II slaves l I urn I I n y bu buy them and Ind that It I II Is I I r f r I u man to purchase children r r l t m up for tor work about the theS S LI lY AMONG TUG TIIE Onos r f stave dae owners ownell however howver are areM M r I They Th have the right to tor r th tr And have held heldt t r n mine In the put they i i 1 on a great buln business In InI I c oleo women and children I I c I 01 to Borneo antI and e ea else elset a t There ar are white men lIIn Ih ha have hae been Moro slaver Ive n 11 by the Moms In ecord I t fro ro laws the father tather hU has the thea a i I has hll children U lie cn can sell sellI I pI I H ft hI he gets pl Into debt h Pay It The debts debt ot of fathers lavery nr of the children who rk k fur for their creditors until 1011 r I 1 st r one or of the r t J Iy t the hI to eXAm Ii h Phi II I quotes the stave In the island ot of 1 lit nt bushel buhel ot of rice Hutt h hr wu war offered a girl l 1 c My b Investigations IM are areL L 1 are too low Rattle I 1 e f here hert art are estimated d rn Jo In gold fold and SID 10 le Is thought be for tor a grown up woo wo A GALLANT DD told m me that tbt he bought a slave girl for twenty Mexican dollars and gave her bet her freedom It was wal I a cue case ot of sentiment on the part ot of the captain It I is skid Mid that all the world love lovel a lOver and nd this I Is t es so 10 when the lover It is tile the Inc Ine gender ender e girl w wu In love with a young man ot of the vIII village but the mn man was poor sad a 1 her muter mtr was a needing mone money he be waIt about to sell Mil the gIN to a bated rival an oh Moro 1 oro The TIMI girt lAid Id she would rather die than serve him Captain dorn hart was wal touched lie He bought hr her and made her tt free e and antt she h h has since the lover ot of hr her choice DIED POll FOR LOVE IOVE The Id idea that 10 love does doe not exist among mons the slaves ot of the Moro 1010 I b a mistake Cupid does not restrict his hll dart to any Iny rale color or condition ot of servitude and even ven th the sultan of Sulu I Is powerless to restrain him The sul sultan ul tn tan hal ha you know the right of life and death over all 11 bl his subjects They are j really Mally 11 hl la A tr c loam It lt it r rand and thy they obey oty lip has the right to MIl else any Iny ot of th the men and nd he hu has a goodly r or of slave trU In his hIli harem Not ot long ago Igo a female slave Ive connected with h his hou household fell In Inlove 10 love with ont one of hi his She wu was neither wife nor concubine but Inert Inere ly I a servant ervant ot of the harems and nd the r nor asked hl hi majesty that she be given en him III as It a If The sultan refused and the two ran away d and got Kot mar They fhe were wert captured and brought back and the sultan then paid Id that the theman mn man must mut tIle dl Th girl thereupon threw herself at t the feet ot of the lilt sultan And begged Ked that she Ille fa be allowed to dle with her lover The sultan ultan consented and nd the same me sliced oft the thet t two 0 heed had TIm TIIE SLAV TORY RY According to our tty treaty as I under UDder understand stand It an any stave I V In the Islands ruled b by the sultan n of Sulu can ean lit be treed freed upon payment of SM X b hr him to 10 lilt bl muter I doubt douht If this cove covers the island ot of which le II now a Pert ot of our country and therefore sub to the thirteenth ot slaty the Constitution provides Iv Ivel ery el shall not In any ny place subject th the the United Stat States to At pl lawil are In I force and they will 11 so until eon adopts other It was wal mo mom than 3 yarn go that Spain decreed that should hould be abolished In the Philippines ling Philip II then made a decree that all slaves over oer twenty years yeara ot of age I were wre to be freed after nv five years ar armore more service and na that child slaves lles becoming or of are age w were to be freed upon thIs the Si held slaves and about one onehundred hundred and odd yarn n ago I some ot of ahem ha had as many II as NO 00 apiece According to our present policy w w e cannot the Moros a to their treatment ot of their slaver Ilave The June diction ot our Rand a to ales c of dispute and and Christians And th the and the sultans ultan are an to settle We all cues CUfIS between Ib the More themselves Take Ik for Instance a case raae which reo re recently came up before Captain then Ihn In at t the island or of lion go IJ A very pretty girl rushed Into his hili quarters one dAY threw herself henelt It at his hla v v PEACE PERSUADERS FOR PEKIN 7 K 10 I j I J I f r w wI ot of hellish 1101 lr IN a aI Ft rte fret cn can travel this l little detachment I tot I ts 11 forward to Chinas China capital to train Iraln Ito Ion lone 1111 I 1 gun gUll pon pont and mission lIn t n 1 walls behind which statesmen awe t cl are pent in purl pearl feet and belled begged him to her 11 trots from death deth She Shu wu was an escaped slave Va ot of ottile tile she Datlo one ot of the two most moat pow powerful dittos end t he would kill her had run Wf away In It a short hort time III the datto appeared and Ind demanded she shebe b be liven given to him and nd ml to the law Captain had to consent although he made the datto promise her ber lire lite would be spared If he did so IC solie lie made the datto agree ree to bring the girl once a week to his quarters to show how him that she be was dill alive After tb the second visit villi the datto offered the girl to Captain as 1 a present The cap caplain lain night have acct accepted te the gift and freed the girl Irl but h he realised that ibis would not nol be accePtable tl to the ditto and nd refused She 11 was taken back to the dittos datto establishment where she ahe w was evidently maltreated for tor she b ran away awaya wa waa a second time She war Wall again captured and nd shortly after Ilter this the daUo datlo saying he had bad exiled her Whether ht he killed hr her or lr merely sent lint her ber away is II not known SLAVES NOT BADLY TREATED TR As AI a rule however the slaves are well treated They are re not slaves of AI tJ i iUt ih ti masters over them hIpping them to work there I la no such uch tang I nr as trAck trAckIng tracking Ing men with bloodhounds bloodhound and very lit It littie Ittie tie forced labor They are te more like the r feudal servants ot of Ig ages than like our former slaves The slave child Is III brought up much the same me as the son eon ot of the family II y The II slaves et eat with their masters and nd In Jl mat t cue cases thy they do not work without their work with Ith them It Il is II considered dl graceful for a mall to sell a slave whom he be has haa raised In the family although I the man and nd hi his children are M subject to pie I If the muter so 0 desires Vel Very few rew of the Murol Mures are agriculturists Ilta They art are not ac accumulative accumulative cumulative nor thrifty nd the slaves usually have as eb easy 1 0 time a as though they were wre tree free and nd had to 10 work to sup support port themselves Under different con conditions such luch u as will come conle from the tIe do ot of labor Ibor the opening up of coffee and nd sugar Ular plantations their situ situation Uon ml might hl be chi clanged n red but u It I Inow le lenow now their servitude Is II little IItti more than slavery In name I do not apprehend that our our govern government ment would have a great dal of trouble to In the system provided the work II I lone done y il slowly wi although for the present It will be tar far peer Mtr to let It alone oun POLYGAMOUS lc IlAM I DADS DANS i iThe The question or of Y is hi a more moe serious one This la II with the religion and It If the Unit United United ed Slat Stats attempt to It we shall hall hIVe have a war r on our hands bandl which will probably last lut until the doe lOrt fe I wiped out According to the very r Mo Mohammedan Io It ha th the right our wives lie He I is taught that h he keep that number It if he be In can support t them and that when he be gee to heaven a part ot of othi hi bliss bill will consist ot of numerous and beautiful 11 Re hu has also aeo the right to a mn many concubines end 1141 female slaves as h he wishes to take and la larule a a arule rule his hll number I is only halted by III ht i means mean DAtto is a said 14 to 10 have lune bout about sixty women In n his hill harem Irem th the sultan ot of Sulu h has the unlucky number humber ot of thirteen and nd the sultan ot of whose women I 1 photographed at l Cotta Cott lIto bato tI has at least ten mach ot of the head two or more WI wives although mAny of t the lower dUlt on grounds ot of economy and peace peate In fn the family restrict themselves to but ope Some Som I 1 am told VII vary their number ot of wives vea with the tit times atal the t seasons leaN All that a has bill to do to 10 get rid of a wife It is b 10 say y I divorce you I divorce you rou J I divorce you three and nd the weman is III divorced and nd must return to her patents This 1110 is so convenient that some Persian hug hands are said to Ilk teak on an est extra lot lotof ot of wives at h using th them to gather the grain and rObt them when the MOPe ache are re aU In OF OUR I suppose we may no now th these as 1 a part of 01 our nation national al brotherhood and we should there ure therefore fore forI know something et t their castors III es to the family relation They diner In many ways y from the Mola of r I the h but obey bell bellIn believe In It the Koren n and nd are ft ta In the nr tae ill of II its I precepts They do dl not nol notI 11 I It Y so 0 much nor n 0 oft otter as their brothers or Turkey and nd Arabia but they believe just as 81 strongly 1 They the have different cuto customs II as their liar ems em not taint tIO so exclusive aa to 10 their women A As I 1 tIN the women do not bile their fare from the Ibe men Th They g out unversed uryon uon he Ut u and andin In their rude huts hute there are u Imn tj quarters Th Moro Vuro however art are a strict II as the Ihl Turks Turk III as to In their In that thai 11 ti y also Iw thin to f be only b bI by t I n T of r the Ih family to In h th y I I Th man oho hn rubs u or nr lee laM his bill hand on In II a Woman outside his hll family ls II subject to Ii a Ane or of u II a U It the J be a warned married women the IM la I ites The woman who is II eo 10 1 ed must complain com oom plain It at on once to the for tor It If abe Ibe allows lIow the eat t over night In Inthe the lloro oro II law tt that abe b must mill pi pay y half the Ihl ft flits The husband the right to whip bl his wife and It If the is I untrue to him he can kill her are often otten brought about by tM the mutual consent o of both prU and nd III all the laws law are lb In tn of the husband the wife sometimes r I HOW JIOW MARRY I It t i have spent ble time In try trying ing to ascertain just watt the marriage of tilt the are There I In Is n nothing concerning thin In the books and nd m my Information bs been n gathered from talks with theft leading men through Interpreters and nel aleu 1110 from a aGerman German Id lady who h lived among amon them for man many ylla I 1 And that the marriageable age e from twelve to sixteen and aill that thit s a girl Irl le II a very veri old maid twenty When the Moro maiden reaches twelve she he b begins to ban bang her hair share hr and nr 11 r case AT QUICK DASH TO RESCUE NS I I I a v X n I i e if H M jf s 5 Wasp Wua swift wl ft to sting England enemies Is III reported to be under sealed rush orders en for tor Tarn She Ste travels U mil mikes an hour bour and nd will be valuable to tb the joint and British t J ln in pursuing the pirates pirate ot of the lb YI Tang TV Tit river who take advantage of the Bo boxer r to wi bran IMN openly their WU war on on n L mis i has as the mot most approved shape of Moro loro beau beauty I rubbing them off ote square qu at t tilt the bottom and cutting a hollow groove in 10 their front so 10 that the they stand out like minia miniature ture scoop shovel Then Ih she u uses the black tooth wb wash balling some IOme ripe cocoanut milk and dropping a piece of r Iron in ID It Th The milk ud and Iron form torm an n which gives the teeth the appearance ot of having been painted with black leck carriage arra varnish One coloring last for a month or so 10 when hen a new wash wAlh 1 is required lUE BUY BUr THEm About this Ihl time the young roun men ot of the village yea Yel and the old men tOOt too for a Mohammedan le II seldom tao |