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mas holidays. In tho above picture wo show nn onsemblo view of boiuo of thorn, but plain black and whlto cannot do Justice to thc-m gems of tho window dresser's nrt. and wo would advise our readers to view
them beforo they are disarranged. These window decorations wero executed and designed by Mr. Nnto Morton, who has been with tills llrm for thu past eight years In the capacity of window trimmer and they
aro conceded my many to be superior to any previous effort. '
Millions of Chinese
Female Slaves
(Copyrighted, I'M), by Frank a. Ourpcnter.)
CANTON, Nov. II, l'JOO. -(Special Corro
upoudouco of Tho llou.) If tho powers aro
to .modernize China they must In some way
bring about tho abolition of slavery. China
Is now tho great bIiino country of tho world.
It has perhaps more slavus than all the
rest of tho world put together. There are,
I should say, at a low estimate, 10,000,000
human beings who aro In servitude hero.
China has -100,000,000 Inhabitants. It has
80,000,000 families, and this mnkca one slave
to overy eight families. Tho average Is
greater In South China, Here nearly every
one owns slaves. There Is scarcely n Chi
ncso family of means In Hong Kong, Canton,
Mm no or Amoy but what possesses one or
more slave girls. Slave boys aro less com
mou, but tho girls aro found In overy block
and In almost every house.
1 was offered a beautiful Chinese girl In
Slim. glial for $30. I did not see the girl
herself, but her photograph was among
seme I was looking over at Yuen Ming's
hI. op, and I admired her. Yuen Ming said
"Yes, shu Is pretty and she Is for sale.
She Is a slave girl, but her master will
part with her, and his price is $00 silver In
CtlBll."
Ulrls bring from $10 to $100 and upward
In this part of China. They aro sold at any
ago from 3 to ir, and most commonly at
7 or 8. Tho prices range from $10 upward,
according to ago and beauty. Tho prettiest
girls are tho most desirable, as In casu of
marrlngo or sale they will bring more to
tho family which buys tliem. Tho most of
the girls aro bought to work about tho
house. It Is cheaper to buy a servant than
Ity tho city Is full of them. They are tho
maid servants ami nurses of tho Chinese.
Every small-footed lady needs slaves to
help her about and In tho houses of tho
slave. Ilo wants her as one of his second
ary wives, In which caso ho can sell hor
again If ho chooses. This man is connected
with tho viceroy of Canton nnd his lncomo
Is nominally $M a mouth, although It la
probably ten times that In reality. Ilo has
four wives, sixteen children and twenty
ono slaves. Ilo keeps his family in an
other province and recently wiolo his
mother to send down two of his wives to
him, ns he was lonesome. The old woman
rich, where tnero are many daughters, It Is replied that she needed tho wives to tako
not uncommon to Mud from twenty to thirty caro of his sixteen children anil that lie had
slaves in a single family When I called better buy two more where ho was. Tho
upon How Qua, the millionaire, two slave mandarin Iwib decided to do this and inas-
THE INFANT ASYLUMS PAY TWENTY CUNTS APIECE FOR OIKL HAWKS
girls biought his mother In to see me Tho much ns ho Is anxious that ids hoys tlnuld
old woman weighed nbout 1!00 pounds, but learn Kngllsh ho Is now looking after nn
she had feet not bigger than the end of a Kngllsh or American girl to act as his
base ball club. In going through iho streets companion and at tho same time prepare lil.s
hero you often see a gaily-dressed woman little ones for tho new Chinese era. How
riding out to call on the back of a slave much ho will pay I do not know, but I
girl. Tho woman's anus aro thrown about suppose he would consider $300 a high
to hlro ono, for If you tako a girl of 8 you ,lu "'ek f tho h1iu' 1111,1 lu'r llH,in'1 leK8 I""lco-
can havo her services until sho Is 15, got- ,u"' 11,1,0 f,'ot 'u',,l' out r lu'r I'i'ttU'onts There Is ns much choice In girls hero as
ting eight years of work for nothing but hor "' h l"ls ,otL'11 t0 ,l10 lloll8 ,,f anywhere In the world. There aro locnll-
board and clothes, and then sell her for nor "''iKhbor. tjlis ciilnu where tho girls are noted for
perhaps ton times your original price. In Female slaves aro often presents from one tholr beauty. Tho cities of Yang Chow and
such Bales a clauso 1b often put In tho man to another and not Infrequently thoy sueliuu are as famous for rcnrlng handsome
agreement that tho girls nro not to bo re- form a part of tho bridal outfit. They aro young girls as Is (leorgla In tho Caucasus,
sold for Improper purposes. If not, tholr commonly bought ns secondary wives nnd from where tho sultan's harem Is replon-
masters enn do us thoy please. often ns teachers. Ished. There aro persons In these cities
Theoretically there are no slaves in Hong I henrd the other day of a mandarin who who make a business of raising slave girls,
Kong, aa It Is British territory, but In roal- Is looking out for an English-speaking They drum tho country nbout for promising
young females and put them through a reg
ular course of training. They have fnrun
whera tho slaves aro taught to sing, play
upon musical Instruments and to acquire
tho oilier accomplishments, which, added
to beauty, will cause them to sell for
high prices to tho rich mandarins. These
girls are cliiolly the daughters of poor people-
or the daughters of slaves. The slave
girls of Shanghai aro good looking mid
there aro thousands of right pretty slaves
on the bower boats of Canton.
It Is common hero for a man to purchaso
his wife. Indeed, there aro more wives
acquired In tills way thnn in any other.
Every man in China has a right to as many
wives ns he can maintain, and is I have
already in Id, a sciondary wife is cheaper
limn a hired girl. The llrst wife is the
bgal one, but the others have their rights,
although they are practically slaves. Indeed,
the largest class of slaves here aro theso
secondary wives or com ubir.i s. I havo
seen it csl limited that there are millions of
hiu li slaxes in the empire. All men of all
i lasses have one or more of Iheni nnd men
wiih means a number. Such women are
usually well treated, and If their masters
nro rich they may have slaves of their own
Tho standing of the secondary wife in tho
household Is largely at the caprice of tho
master, although slu- is supposed to have
uo voice in the management of alfalrs ami
laniiot even control her own children
Sometimes her lot Is a sad one. Perse
cuted bv her husband's mother and hla
other wives she eats her heart out In dis
content, for although well dressed she Is
still n slavo.
Tholr lliiNltiinilN SHI Tliem,
It Is not a common thing for a Chinese
husband to sell his wife or his concubine,
especially when they havo given him chil
dren. There nro cases, however, in which
wives are sold, but tho act Is disgraceful
and Is usually confined to opium Heads,
gamblers and the poorest classes.
Tho mnn who Is addicted to tho opium
habit will cell his children and not infre
quently his wife to supply his nppotite.
Wives aro sometimes sold by gambling hus
bands, being put on the turn of a card
or tho rakcout of tho cash nt fantnn. A
case of this kind recently happened nt Po
klu. An Inveternto gambler there, having
squandered all his ancestral property at
fantan, arranged to cover his losses and
get a new capital by deeding away his bet
ter half. He made, all arrangements, but
before tho sale was consummated the wife
forestalled his brutal design by taking her
own life. She swallowed opium nnd when
the gambler camo homo to tell her that ho
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SLAVE (JIKL-FOn SALE FOU SIXTY
DOLLAHS IN SILVER.
had sold her she was dying. Ho called in n
dm tor, but It was too late.
Dr. Coltman, ono of the professors of tho
university at Pekln, tells tho story of a
Judge Yuan of tho district of Chlnnn Fit
which gives mmio idea of tho standing of
women In China. This Judge was some
thing of a Dr. Pnrkhurst In character and
ho nttempted tho reformation of his dis
trict. He ordered all tho gambling houses
and other improper plnccs to bo closed nnd
demanded thnt all tho questionable women
of the town should bo brought to his palace
(Continued on Seventh Page,)
