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Ij PASO HE BAUD 4 C Saturday, Dee. 13, 1913 SlaLverj Flourishes In Philippines; Brides Are Sold at $10 on the Block By Frank G. Carpenter Mares Persist in Practice Despite American Efforts to Put Stop to Evil; Many Cruelties Perpetrated. , ASHINGTON. D. C Dec 13 W government Is again bavins trouble -with our Mohammedan cousins. The More in pwes are up In arms against the new laws, and are opmiIv and secretly fighting the regu lations as to slavery. - ,... There is no doubt that slavery exists r-ot only in the Moro country, but also L.e and mere in other parts of the i-land?, ana it will be a long time be-f.- e it can be wiped out. I mean actual (.'nr. ?uoh as existed when we took xuld of the islands. I traveled through Mindanao and the -i!u archipi-iago when we were Just ' ginning to pacify that part of the 3 h iiPpin s I then found slaves every -v iprc. ai.d once had a chance to buy fur likelv Mohammedan children for S ,o The owner was a Filipino woman, who lived several hundred miles west of Zamboanga. at Davao. under the Bhadow of Mount Apo. She had the little ones brought for me out Into the sunlight and I made a photograph, ot them There were three boys and a Sirl. ranging In ages from 9 to 12 years. The elrl was the oldest and. as is com mon In tropical countries, at that age she was almost ready for marriage. She was half naked, her only garment be ing a wide strip of dirty cotton wrapped around her waist and falling to her knees. As I looked at her her fat old mistress seductively said: llucha. buena." or very good. She toldme such a. girt ought to be worth $2a of any man's money and seemed surprised that I did not jump at the bargain. Dean Worcester says he was offered Blave girls on the island of Tawi Tawi for 15 bushels of rice, and that a many of the islands he could buy Klrls of IB for S apiece. A captain of the army told me how he had recently bought a slave girl for 10 and given lier her freedom. This sale was made Sout of pity. The captain, who was en gaged to a very pretty girl in the United States, sympathized with, the iemale slave, who although in love Vith a young man of her village was about to be sold into the harem of an old Moro chieftain. The girl said she would rather die than submit, and the 'captain bought her and gave her to the taan of her choice. Another man whom I know, an of licer of our army, saved a slave girl from death. She had angered her mas ot who was one of the Dattos and ijad run off from the harem and thrown therself at the foot of the officer say ing the Datto had threatened to kill jner. The officer made the Datto promise to spare her life, to agree to jbring her once a week to his quarters Jto show that she was still living. This was done for several weeks and then the girl disappeared. Whether the Datto killed her or sold her to one of her friends was never known. Divorce is Bay Mntter. A few years ago the Sultan of Sulu got up a new code of laws -which he sent to Manila for approval. Many of them related to slavery ana to the treatment of the women of the harem. Our government does not like to be mixed up In religious matters, and ac cording to the treaties we allow the Moros to worship practically as they please. By the Mohammedian religion every follower of the prophet has the right to four wives and all he has to do, if he wishes to ehange, Is to say to such of his wives as he does not like three times: "I divorce you! I divorce yqu! I di vorce you!" This means that they must go and not return, and he can than fill up the quota with a fresh assortment Accord ing to this code the relations between ttio mvirna and thn rfavpR -were Tilainlv laid down. It was provided that ir a (Copyright, 1913, by Frank G. Carpenter). The , aerage price for a good-looking girl was $16 in silver, a water Dutlaio worth about SIS,' and S0O pieces of rice cake, worth lcent each. Of the money paid $2 went to the girl and the rest to her parents. The Mohammedans of the Philippines number about 250,000 and they are just about one-thousandth part of the Mo hammedan population of the world. Few people have any idea of the extent of this religion. There are abut 250, 000,000 followers of the prophet. Mo hammedanism is the principal faith in a great part of Asia and of Africa, and it has millions of adherents in Eu rope. There are 600,000 Mohamme dans in Austria-Hungary and almost 4,000,908 in Russia. Koumania has 50 000 and the Balkan states, which have been creating so much trouble lately, have almost three-quareters of a mil lion. There are 3,000.000 followers of the nronhet in European Turkey, and in all Europe there are about as many Mohammedans as Jews, or between 8, eOO.OOO and 9,600,000. ' China is generally looked upon as a Confucian and Buddhistic country. Nev ertheless there are something like 20, 000,000 Mohammedans in the republic and its dependencies," and there are 10, 000,000 Mohammedans who live north of the Yangtse river. Many of the people in Mongolia are Mohammedans, and there are 200,000 Mohammedans in Pekln. Malays Are Mohammedans. The most of the Malays are Moham medans, and there are millions who follow the prophet in Java and in the other islands of the Dutch East Indies. As to India, it has more Mohammedans than there are people in the whole German empire. It has far more than Turkey, and there are certain prov inces in which the Mohammedans are the controling class. The largest and most beautiful mosques in the world are at Delhi and Agra, in northern India. The big mosque is at Delhi, not far from the place -where the new government build ings of the British capital are to be erected. This mosque covers acres. It took S8S0 men. workine six years, to build it, and it has as many steps as the capitol at Washington. I shall never forget my visit to it, and how I was there shown a relic which was pointed out as the most precious object in all Hindustan. I was made to take off my shoes before l could see the relic, and in my stock ing feet I was led through corridor af ter corridor until I came to a great chest which contained a. nest of locked boxes. These were opened one after another, and at the last, in a little glass casket, on a green velvet cush ion, was displayed a hair which l was assured came from Mohammed's i mustache. The hair was as red as that of my own head, and the priest told me that Mohammed had red hair I and a red beard. It is for this reason I that many Mohammedans dye their hair and whiskers a bright red. They want to pass their way into heaven by having beards of the same color as Mohammed. Indeed, it seemed to me that I was treated with respect In the mosque on account of the red color of my own mustache. Most Beautiful Mosque on Earth. The most beautiful mosque In the world is the Taj Mahal, at Agra. It was built by the same man who erected the Jamma Musjid, the mosque I have just described. The Taj Mahal is not so large, hut It was far more costly and its wonderful workmanship is still the admiration of the world. The building stands upon a mosaic platform of black and white marble covering about two acres, at the cor ners of which are high marble towers in which the Mohammedan priests stand morning and evening and shout out the calls to prayer. The mosque Itself, which is also a tomb, is of the purest white marble, to build a fence around the grounds of the white house at Washington. It is a strange commentary upon the wonders of true love that this SlS.000.000 build, lng was built by a Mohammedan sul tan in honor of his wife. The sultan's name was Shah Jehan. He had over a hundred wives, but he was especially fond of only one. and when she died he erected this building to her memory. He drafted the un believers among his subjects and set them to work upon it. There were 20,000 laborers, and it is said that it took them 17 years to complete the construction. They got only their food for their pay. Going westward from India one finds many Mohammedans in Persia and in Asia Minor, and especially in Arabia. It is now possible to go to Mecca, in Cen tral Arabia, where Mohammed was born, by railroad, and in the same v a1 you can visit Medina, where his bones rest In a coriin wnicn is supposed to be suspended half way between the floor and the roof by invisible strings. Hundreds of thousands of Mohammed ans make pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina every year, and from now there will be a large accession to the number by these new railroads. Mohammedans on the Desert. I have seen a good deal of the Mo hammedans of Africa. They are found by the millions in Kgypt, and, indeed, the greater part of northern Africa is Inhabited by them. Among the most fanatical are those of Morocco, the most' of whom acknowledge no alle giance to Turkey nor to the sultan at Constantinople, although he claims to be the head of the Mohammedan world. There are Mohammedans throughout the Sahara desert, and I found millions of them in Algeria and Tunisia. I traveled among them in Tripoli, where the people are also fanatical, and saw something of them in Zanzibar and In parts of South Africa. The Egyptians are almost altogether Mohammedans, and some of the finest mosques of the world are in Cairo. There is one which is mado of alabas ter, on the edge of a court in which is a great alabaster fountain, where the worshipers bathe their feet and hands before they go in to pray. Another fine mosque is in Jerusa lem. It stands on the site of Solo mon's temple, and it is impossible to enter it without a permit from the Mo hammedan governor of the Holy city. In that mosque is the rook upon which Abraham built his altar upon which he was about to sacrifice Isaac when the Angel of the Lord called out to him to withhold his hand. The mosque is called the Dome of the Rock, and the Mohammedans say that the Angel Gabriel will stand there when he blows his last triimnot Thpn. all the people of the world will some ! heaven. The wickea will be unsup ported. They will slip off Into the val. ley and descend straight to helL Wierd Ghost Dog Is Haunting Farmhouse London, England, Dec. 13. A "Hound of the Baskervilles," or something much like it, is reported from Ipstones on the border of Derbyshire and Staf fordshire. It is a weird ghost dog which haunts a farm house called the Hermitage, a building that has stood more than three centuries. The tenant, a prosperous agricultur to Jerusalem, and Jehovah, sitting j ist named Bennet Fallows and his upon his throne upon this rock, will separate the sheep from the goats. Some Mohammedans say that the whole human race will have to walk a tight rope or nun wire wnicn will then De stretched across the valley of Jehoso phat, and at one end of this Mohammed will sit. As the people go over the righteous will be upheld by the angels from falling. They will cross to the Mount of Olives and thence go to family firmly believes in the hound which they have seen frequently they say, during their 13 years tenancy. "One man kicked at the beast," de clared the farmer and the foot hit nothing at all but the air it went right through the animal." Moreover, "people" walk, scream, and moie furniture in a bedroom on the north side of the farm house and the doors cannot be kept shut. L j Is Good Cocoa Of fine quality, made from carefully selected high-grade cocoa beans, skil fully blended, prepared by a perfect mechanical process, without the use of chemicals or dyes. It contains no added potash,, possesses a delicious nat ural flavor, and is of great food value. Choice Recipe Boo sent free upon request WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. The Wretchedness of Constipation "Cut qtadd j be OTccocae by CARTER'S LITTLE b LIVER PUIS. fiX. ess, tad IndSgcsbes. They do lies dor. Small Pill, Scull Det, 'Small Pries, j Genuine nmbr Signature . (MFFED KINS NEED oinvp laid iiis hand unon a free married i ji' - i,m,i iti.- h woman with any Improper intention he seems to float In the air over it. Its should be the property of the woman s aoors are of lacework of the purest nusoano. ana aiso mai u. . "c "" white marhie, ana the interior con laid his hand upon a married slave wo- tains enough of this marble lacework man ne snouia oe tinea iwu. jj. - slave -woman Informed as to the out rage the fine was to-be divided between her and the state, but if it was detected by others the whole fine went to the state. This code was turned down by our government, but it shows that the Moros still regard slavery as a divine right, notwithstanding their American rulers. Resort to Many Cruelties In the Philippines women are not veiled, as In other Mohammedan Coun tries, and both wives and slaves go about bare faced. I was told that a datto was considerer rich according to the number of slaves be owned, and that children were stolen from other tribes to be kept as slaves. Some of the dattos were notorious for their cruelty In regard to their slaves. I met an old villain named Dtto, who gave unheard of punishments for minor offenses. Slaves who ran away from him were often punished by cutting the ' tendons below the knee, so that they icouia walk only with difficulty and f:ould he easily caught if they tried 'again to escape. This man had a slave girl whom he disliked. He bound "her over a place swarming with red ants and she was bitten to death. Utto had a man tied naked to the trunk of -a. tree, where he was' eaten by the mos- quitos at night. TJtto had also stooks In which he left people to die- One of our officers found a Moro dead in the stocks. He was lying there, no one having dared to remove the corpse. Priest Makes Report, . Some of the above instances I give on the authority q a Jesuit priest who was traveling among the Moros Just tebout the time we took hold of the is lands. He wrote about them to one ot the generals of the United States army :and the latter Included them In his re port to the government This man des cribed other punishments meted out by the chiefs of these Mohammedan Moros He says that they had one way of tan talizing their enemies. They would tle a man in the river where the tides -came In such a way that? he could Just 'escape drowning by standing on his iJptoes and thus keep the water from entering his nostrils and mouth. At times of extraordinary tides such men were drowned. One of our American officials says that he saw a Moro in Jolo who al wavs wore a bandage over his mouth. This was to bide from public view Its deformity which has been caused, not by nature, but by a datto to whom he had spoken disrespectfully. The datto ordered that the man's mouth be split and opened to the edges of the jaw bone. This was done with a kris and it was then left to heal. Strange eo say. the man lived. Is Dlfflenlt to A"Ipe Out. It i! strange that slavery cannot be put down in the Philippines. The Spaniards attempted it 300 years ago, and there have always been laws against it. One reason for the trouble with the Moros is that It is hard to cHFUngulsh between the wife and the slave. The Moros believe that they have the right to as many wives as they can support and, as I have said, the' Koran gives them four. Frequently the chiefs have hut one real wife and the rest are slaves -'Whose children do not inherit rank or titles. Some of these -wives are right good looking. I rember seeing the favorite of Datto Mandi's harem at Zamboanga. The Datto was almost SO years of age. but this girl was IS. and she would have been a beauty almost anywhere. She was tall for a More, as plump as a "par tridge and of a rich mahogany brown. She had fine eyes and large, sensual lips. She was dressed in a kimono when I saw her and the datto stood be side her while I made a photograph of the two. I asked something as to the customs of marriage and was told it w; larere lv p ne!?ioti r" hqrp m .,i,.l .-le Tne h' - p " ' 'i'- 1 ie jfl at time ve tovit hold of Uic tjulus ike CUTICUFk Cuticura Soap and Cuti cura Ointment keep the skin clear, soft and beau tiful under all conditions of outdoor exposure in cidental to winter sports. 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