Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 18

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Millions of Chinese opyrighted, 150, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ANTON, Nov. 14, 1900, (Special Corre spondence of The Bee,) If the powers arc to .modernize China they must in some way bring about the abolition of slavery. China I8 now the great slave country of the world It has perhaps more slaves than all the rest of the world put together. There are, 1 should say, at a low estimate, 10,000,000 human beings who are in servitude here China has 400,000,000 inhabitants. It has 80,000,000 families, and this makes one slave to every eight families. The average is greater in South China, Here nearly every one owns slaves, There I8 scarcely a Chi nese family of means in Hong Kong, Canton, Macao or Amoy but what more slave girls. Slave boys are less com mon, but the girls are found in every block and in almost every house 1 was offered a beautiful Chinese girl in Sborghal for $30. 1 did not the girl herself, but her photograph was among scme 1 was looking over at Yuen Ming's shop, and 1 admired her. Yuen Ming said “Yes, she is pretty and she is for sale She is a slave girl, but her master will with her, and his price is $60 silver in cash.” Girls bring from $10 to $100 and upward in this part of China. They are sold at any age from 3 to 15, and most commonly at 7 or 8. The prices range from $10 upward according to age and beauty. The prettiest girls are the most desirable, as in case of marriage or sale they will bring more to the family which buys them. The most of the girls are bought to work about the house, It 18 cheaper to buy a servant than to hire one, for if you take a girl of 8 you can have her services until she is 15, get- ting eight years of work for nothing but her board and clothes, and then sell her for perhaps ten times your original price. In such sales a clause 18 often put in the agreement that the girls are not to be re- sold for improper purposes. If not, their masters can do as they please possesses one or see Theoretically there are no slaves in Hong Kong, as it is British territory, but in real- Female Slaves are the Chinese slaves to full and of them, nur lady needs ity the city maid Every is They servants the small-footed help her and in the houses of the rich, where tnere are many daughters, it is not uncommon to find from twenty to thirty family. When 1 called millionaire, slave 8 of about single Qua, the in a How slaves upon two I I T IR Y sassabusEne LEE RN N Y 2r03reBansa [ TR P PPN it AT PpeusMRONEEE e bitetol ] (AR 22 LT RN 2452802808550 | 680l bt bbbdtdd e abitdittt s SHVYRB S92 80 s2bsers988ss snsbbnsbasy senpaas . <+ ——] Pr505000s800 88854 856y ey NING, KING & COS HOLIDAY WINDOWS In the above plcture we show an ensemble view of some of them, but plain black and white cannot do Justice to the<e gems of th These window decorations were executed and designed by Mr, Nate Horton, who has been with this firm for the past eight years in the slave. He wants her as one of his second- ary wives, in which he can sell her again if he chooses. This man is connected with the viceroy of Canton and his income is nominally $50 a month, although it s probably ten times that in reality. He has case four wives, sixteen children and twenty- one slaves. He keeps his family in an- other province and recently wrote his mother to send down two of his wives to him, as he was lonesome. The old woman replied that she needed the wives to take care of his sixteen children and that he had better buy two more where he was. The mandarin nhas decided to do this and inas- THE INFANT ASYLUMS PAY TWENT girls brought his mother in to sece me. The old woman weighed about 200 pounds, but she had feet not bigger than the end of a base ball club. In going through the streets here you often sce a gaily-dressed woman riding out to call on the back of a slave girl. The woman's arms are thrown about the neck of the slave and her bound legs and little feet peep out of her petticoats behind as she thus toted to the house of her neighbor, Female slaves are often presents from one man to another and not infrequently they form a part of the bridal outfit, They are commonly bought as sccondary wives and often as teachers I heard the other day of a mandarin who is looking out for an English-speaking Y CENTS APIECE FOR GIRL BABIE much as he is anxious that Lis boys should learn English he is now looki fler an English or American girl to act as his companion and at the same time prepare his little ones for the new Chinese era. How much he will pay 1 do but 1 suppose he would consider high price Ther anywhere know, $300 a not is as much choice in girls here a the world. There are locali ties in China where the girls are noted for their beauty. The cities of Yang Chow and Suchau are as famous for rearing handsome young girls as is Georgla in the Caucasus, from where the sultan’s harem is replen ished. There are persons in these who make a business of raising slave girls They drum the country about for promising cities rresaeny Chvnsatsgy trasusgy thee . thhsen v by s sany “ver ey . SEnsannaye ChBseBy ey “naan SRLnBennes sensanse Sabesnany sdonsnnasn sheanehning TP avnane “fraann sasey SRR bPany .- D) B RD ey “rey bt bl 2 N obbbd il “ntunnsy “esan - sno0bans thunw "sEppbenn (TR TN 4RI REny fepananany X ey XXX aEsssans sanes L R YTy SBEIBLBRANERE R AYbro b8 08000s ABSRBGB BR800 00 L ittt i il ol ‘QDC: Qpbz00940ouoo > Ak BIERIARARENES o004 Vohhy S804 494854 $44 04 494454 2y ds of others The Bee artist was struck with the exceptionally tasteful and beautiful display of clothing and haberdashery shown in Browning, King & window dresse art, and young females and put them through a reg ular course of training. They have farm whera the slaves are taught to sing, play upon musical instruments and to acquire the other accomplishments, which, added to beauty, will cause them to sell for high prices to the rich mandarins. These girls are chiefly the daughters of poor peo ple or the daughters of slaves. The slave girls of Stanghai are good looking and there are thousands of vight pretty slaves on the tiower boats of Centon, It is common here for a man to purchase his wile Indecd, there are more wives acquired in this way than in any other Bvery man in China has a right to as many wives as he can maintain, and as I have Ire ndary wife is cheaper tha rl The first wite is the legal one, but the others have their rights, ire practically slaves, Indeed, the est ¢l of slaves here are these ' fary w or ubires, I have een ‘ 1 ed 1l there are millions of uch ves in the empire All men of all cla have on r more of them and men with mean v number, Such women are u well treated, and if their masters are rich they may have slaves of their own The standing of the secondary wife in the household is largely at the caprice of the master, although shoe | Supp 1 to have no voice in the management of aifairs and cannot even control her own children Sometimes her lot is a 1d one Perse- cuted by her hushand mother and his other wives she ea her heart « in dis content, for although well dressed she is still a slave Their Hushands Sell 1 n. It is not a common thing for a Chinese hus! 1 to 11 h wife or hi neubing Iy when they have given him chil n. There are cases, however, in which wives are sold, but the act is disgraceful ind i 1lly confined to opium fiends gamblers and the poorest classes The man who addicted to the oplum habit will sell h children and not infre- quently h wife to supply his appetite Wives are sometimes sold by gambling hus band being put on the turn of a card or the rakeout of the cash at fantan A case of this kind recently happened at Pe- kin. An inveterate gambler there, having squandered all his ancestral property at Al December 23, 1000 A aA S I s D et .. 4rbenes er e “ede rereen . chesnns ety CLELRRESR4 2440420090 449000000y Visennes bl bdbdis sl Shr8pteny cnse P4900satbon 49000 0abba P80t t ety PEA0 809SSP dssore FORPQ S0 4400 buey At St d "8t any Bl 05085 0bbias "ea.. P8 sssans roadnayp | d Sodvassas 4090 0b009s Lasnssnman 9600000000 OOOQOICIICOCC 2404040 000004944 *44 2000 R4 0004 000 vy sess0ss0b0000a z. ssbsabanstany G4000008b004y sepsansransbasy sevsbane * » 0-;:9 by L els Company's windows for the Christ we would advise our readers to view capacity of window trimmer, and they fantan, arranged to cover his losses and Bt o new capital by eding away his bet- ter half. He made all arrangements, but before the sale was consummated the wife forestalled his brutal design by taking her own life. She swallowed opium and when the gambler came home to tell her that he SLAVE GIRL—FOR SALE FOR SIXTY DOLLAL IN SILVER. {8 had sold her she was dying. He called in a doctor, but it was too late Dr. Coltman, one of the professors of the university at kin, tells the story of a Judge Yuan of the district of Chinan Fu which gives some Idea of the standing of women in China. This judge was some- thing of a Dr. Parkhurst in character and he attempted the reformati of his dis trict. He ordered all the gambling houses and other improper places to be closed and demanded that all the questionable women of the town should be brought to his palace (Continued on Seventh Page.) | |