Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

dead and wounded. The outrage aroused
too much attention to he ignored by the
Turkish vail or governor, aud company
of infantry Was sent to the hills
TO PRETEND A PURSUIT
of the raiders. The Kurds had, of
course, by this time disposed of their
booty to Slvas or Mosul, or perhaps
some more distant centre of the traffic i'll
women. Ii is no wonder that, under the
provocafion of such outrages, often re-
pea.ed, the Christians of Armenia are on
the point of re Jellon, and ready eve to
fly into the arms of Russia, az refuge
from the unspeakable Turk.
The supply of Persian slaves, male and
female, has been very much diminished
by the Turcomans of Russia. Formerly
the raids into Persia, ami especi ally the
garden province of KhorassaD, were as
regular Us SEASONS, and every year saw
hundreds of that peace-loving race borne
awey TO serve as the tools aud toys of the
Musselmen, the Persians not being re-
garded as orthodox followers of the
prophet bY the remainders of the Ma
homedan world. Persian slaves were for
sale in every Moslem mart, from Mecca
to Salonica, and they brought, as rule,
Il good price; their comparative dociIity
the races of closer European affinity
The Persian villagers near the borders
looked upon these annual raids much as
the people in mythology who had TO sup
ply victim every year for the dragon
rs a matter of course. But Russia, in
gratifying her own ambition for terri
tory, has been of inestimable service to
Asia in putting an end to the depreda-
tons which Kept fertile districts from
cultivation and subjected harmless aud
industrious populations to the most cruel
barbnrities and privatious. Except on
the side of Turkey,
PERSIA is NOW FREE FROM RAIDS,
and her people are no longer in danger
of being snatched at any moment from
their homes and devoted to a fate which,
to many OF them, must have been worse
than death.
Not only the supply of women for the
harem, but also of the black servants
who have for thousands OF years been
Indispensable in Eastern households, is
becoming limited. The traffic in negro
children for this service has. howaSsr,
by no means ceased. Indeed it fioH !sHe6s
on the Red sea where, sirangelyl3fbugh,
the British ships Of war are eH@lfely in
adequate TO deal with thsN1Fil. The
number OF these victims cohing By way
of upper Egypt down the Nile must be
insignificant; although this used to be a
and was as late as ten years ago, tho
principal source of supply for botEi
Egypt, Turkey and Arabia. BrissaH
rule in Egypt has virtually put an end
the traffic on that route, only to driY55t
in another direction. The ctaEdfen
taken in the soudan and convey edssSfths
coast are sH
sMUGGLED ACROSS THE RED SEA
In Arab dhows, landed at points on the
Arabian coast, and distributed by wav
of SYRIA to the various places in the east
where there may be demand for them
Even in the Mohamrdan households of
British India these negroes find ready
employment, although there, of course,
they cease to be slaves. One Arab
dhow, recently captured by a British
wsr vessel, had over 200 of these chill
dren on board, and all of them had TO be
sent TO the hospital at Alden. Propriety
prevents more than an illusion to the
atrocious treatment to which they are
subjected to ut them for domestic sla-
very, but it may be stated that, accord
ing to the best Information, only one
out of four survives. This slaughter of
the innocents Is doubtless the worst fea-
ture Of servilude. as prevalent in the