Show II THE CLIMAX OF I RUSSIAN BARBARITY I I h II Mrs hS lis A. A ro r. r l I Copyright COI 1907 It was vas recently reported on seemingly seeming ly reliable le authority that eight girls b between tween the lie ages of oC twelve and seventeen seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen wore were sold at auction in a village of the province of oC Kosan Kasan in nus Russia to the highest bidder bringing front from 50 to 75 each The distracted parents par par- cuts of these guileless peasant girls explained in extenuation of their in inhuman inhuman inhuman in- in human barter of ot their children that they were driven to this extremity by threatened starvation for their families families fam fam- and themselves Many pathetic scenes followed the sales as the girls departed with their thir purchasers to lo lands unknown The fathers father and anti mothers gave wa way to their grief as they said ail goodby forever to their daughters while the lie dazed girls obeyed mechanically the strange men who vito owned them as dill did the slave el who once trafficked ed In human beings in this country countr The rhe heartless merchants doubtless know of a market in fn Turkey or in hi the Caucasus or 01 in some of the provinces of nu Russia la where whelo the they could realize a handsome ome profit on each of their slaves especially on those possessed of oC beauty It IL is h a well vell known fact that a u majority ma ma- of uC the tho most attractive inmates of C Turkish h harems como come from froni tIme the Russian provinces awl aral that Ic trl traffic 9 Ic h In I J I gil 1 I I I nf itt h BUI til rUll cud d of or Christianity and Visitors lo n Egypt g Il lUll anti to Constantinople Constan doll fae faces are 1110 with thu d b by an all intelligent enl expression sion that are arc HO so 0 often seen behind the lit harm bars thai hint screen them from front the public in lii th the palaces 8 or through brought h the windows of tho lie carriages es as the they hey drive in the th streets street when wh n they the put aside the lie masks masl s they are arc supposed to wear wem but which they often oHen stealthily remove The rho destiny of or these peasant slaves N is revolting to contemplate as they are mire almost without exception doomed oom d to be he incarcerate 1 l In some place where they hey are arc forced to cX exist in absolute idleness except for the time time that Lh they y must it t devote to thou their persons that may maybo mayho mayho ho bo attractive to their masters They smoke cigarettes anti and gratify gm their tI take lake but little and no intellectual occupation so 50 that they hey soon oon become repulsive c to every Cly everyone everyone one with any mind or ur sense of oC de the the- cone colic A life liCe of oC if Indulgence destroys s 's e every ry noble instinct an and makes them hut but MUIo more than animals of the lower order God pit pity them hem all I It would have o been better to have allowed the ravages sax sax- ages of If f hun hunger I to have done Ha Us work and antI to have laid haiti thorn them away In their than to tn have havo sold them Into hit abhorrent slavery that thal must mUHl eventually CUI culminate in Iii au an unhallowed death |