Show ayr ff IT ir 1 arv W r v 01 ull G G I 1 R L FROM LIFE OF f BONDAGE ON A DAKOTA FARM 4 L A 17 year old white slave girl ax rived in chicago last week A twentieth century underground rail rait way helped the child slave to escape from a life of bondage in south da kota liota louise haby the girl who at last has found freedom was clad in the rough garments of a farm laborer and showed the simplicity of a georgia cracker when she arrived in chi cago A single carrr 11 I 1 t of one piece covered her entire body on her head was a broad brimmed straw hat and on her feet were the heavy brogans of a laborer john mayer an uncle of the girl living in chicago is the one who ac complis hed her deliverance his wife Is a sister to the girl a mother two months ago the girl heard of the ex istance of the two relatives in chi cago surreptitiously she wrote a letter and contrived to slip it into the hands of a neighboring rant ranchman hman going to ward the postoffice post office she had been bound to a family which owned a ranch near highmore S D for fifteen years she had known no other parents or other life except what she gleaned from stray papers as her father had sold her and disappeared when she was two years old he is now believed to be in south america but after he re calved 95 5 the price for which his old daughter was sold he paid no further attention to his child the chicago relatives of the girl were astounded to hear of her ex istance the money tor for her deliver dellver ance was quickly secured and tor for warded to a neighbor of the ranch era ers for a distance of ten miles from the ranch where the girl lived men came to assist in her escape considering her privations the girl is unusually intelligent all except two years of my life have been years of cruel treatment and hard work said the girl from the time I 1 was large enough I 1 was made to do the work of a man every morning at 5 0 clock I 1 was called to louisa HA haby PIP WIL Z 5 on PAC R URI 1 6 work my first duty was to bring in the cattle which every night strayed three or four miles across the prairie from the ranch morning and evening for years I 1 have milked eight of the cows every day there was the churn ing and the preparing of the butter for market it was my duty to wash up the cans after the milking before starting starting to as with the regular work on the ranch I 1 worked with the men in the fields and rode with the boys across trie prairies I 1 can pitch hay with the best of them or breaid a a horse tor for rid ing or driving arthis his summer I 1 dug a twenty foot well wall and no one else touched pick or shovel to it every evening in the winter I 1 pumped enough water for sixt six ty cows during the following day A at that time I 1 wore felt boots and a man a reefer and cap to protect me from the biting wind which swept over the prairie in all these years my only rest was during a fe few hours on sunday after then rhen I 1 was able to read or amuse myself as I 1 pleased if I 1 waa was successful in eluding the other mem mena bers of the family it was in this way that I 1 picked up what little knowl edge I 1 have of the world it has al ways been my fondest dream to escape from the ranch but until two months ago when I 1 learned of my relatives I 1 never imagined that it would be ful filled |