St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-10

ample recOmpenSe for the "ssVs s"0s
sustain.
The TOuareg FOrays.
The Touaregs call their plundering
expeditions ''harka" when the num-
Der of men on camelS taking part IN
them is a hundred or more; and
"djiche,p when the marauders are less
numerous. Usually not more than
fifteen or twenty brigandS take part in
a foray. All the whites murdered by
the Touaregs have been victims OF
treachery. They have entered the
country under assurances of protection
and assistance, only TO be massacred
when lured so far inland that the venge-
ance of the French was not likely 10
overtake the murdererS. Few white
men have seen the Touaregs and lived
to describe them. DIR. LEM, who
saw them in TimbuctoO in 1880,
SAYS that their wild aspect, thel +
faces half-concealed by coverings, their
dark blue TOBIAS, their big swords and
lances never laid aside for an instant,
their rough, loud voices. and their self
conscious bearing made most disagree
able impression upon him. The Touareg,
outlawed BY all men, is a phase or the
African question with which civiliZa-
ton must yet deal.
Asiatic Pirates.
On Nav is a dispatch from Tonkln
said that the French had been further
successful in their operations against
the pirates, who have been keep
ing third of that country In
a turmoil for over two years past.
This is a lOng-eXisting evil that
assumed its most formidable phases
only after France, four years ago, enGed
the buccaneering exploits OF about 900
outlawed Chinese who, inhabltlng the
little islands off the coast, known as the
Pirate Islands, had been terror 10 the
coast towns, and had almost paralyZed
the Junk trade. When the French i'll
vaded these islands they found stone
slabs erected by Chinese generals de-
claring that these islands had been de-
populated because their inhabitants
were pirates, and fOrbidding any one,
under penalty of death. 10 settle there;
and the children of pirates were play
ing gaily around the OminOus stones.
The Chinese and the Women of
TOnkin.
Not long after the eighty miles of
Pirate islands were swept clean OF out
laws trouble began to breed among the
mountains of Northeast Tonkin. Chi
nese outlaws began to cross the
border in larger numbers than ever be-
fore, and built strOngholds among the
mountains. They found it easy to make
a living by plundering native villages
and CARRYING all sorts of valuables. IN
Guiding food supplies, off to their stock
AIDED camps. But still more profitable
hnSlness was stealing TonkineSe
women and taking them to China TO
adorn the harems or the kitchens of the
wealthy. Dr. HOcquard has described this
odiOus traffic, which was carried on to
some extent long before the French
made themselves masters OF Ionkln.
At first it was not easy to dispose OF
these Door slaves. but the pirates asked
so small a price that the traffic gradu-
alIy grew. Today the TOnkinese
women, gentle, submissive and labo-
rious. bring a good price in China; and
the pirates ann Chinese middlemen VINO
take the freight to China have become
very bold in carrying Oh the traffic.
The outlaw bands, surprising village,
drag off all the desirable women to their
strOngholds. There they are turned
over to so-called merchants. VINO
carry them over the border into China.
Some of these slave traders, now
ever, have had the audacity to put the
women on boats, ship them down the
rivers, past the French posts, to sea,
and thence to China, the women mean
while being so Supplied with Opium as
to be unable to make their presence
known. Only girls and young women
are desired for this traffic. The laws OF
China prohibit slavery, but this diff
= code
permits the rich to become the legal
guardians of the children of the poor by
paving an agreed sum to the parents.
The slave dealers pose as the poor faith
ers, and the officials wink at the subter-
fuge and doubtless profit largely by the
transaction.
Fights with the French.
The French have been exerting every
energy to put an end to the crimes of
these land pirates, and in particular to
stop the capture and sale OF women.
The pirates. well armed and disciplined,
have fought desperately. Thirty or
forty SkirmiSheS or battles have oc-
Cured. The French loss has at times
been heavy,and hundreds of the pirates
have been killed. The French have
executed all the pirates who have fallen
into their hands, and one of these plct-
ures. made from an instantaneous pho
tograph. shows an eXecutiOner and his
victim the moment befor the fatal blow
was struck. The present indications.
happily. point to the speedy suppression
of the widespread bTigandage that has
brought so much suffering upon Tonkin.
The Black Flags.
Another class of Chinese bandits
whom the French have reduced to sub
mission are the famous Black Flags, de-
Serters from the Chinese army, who
nearly quarter of a century ago took
part in the Tapping rebellion, and at
tackled the ports open to Europeans.
Defeated by the Chinese army, about
1000 of the Black Flag rebels crossed
the frontier ipto Tonkin. and terroriZed
the country along the Song KOi river,
where they lived by brigandage, and by
imposing a heavy tax upon the river
commerce. Most of the Black Flags are
now compelled to earn their living by
honest and peaceable methods.
The DaeOlts.
Brigandage has been the greatest evil
with which both French and English
have had to contend in their Oriental
possessions. For years England has
been waglng war upon the DacOllS, WHO
live by plumber, and who have kept up
per Burmah terror-strlcken and dlsor-
ganiZed ever since the soldiers OF the
Indian government steamed up the IT.
rawady to Mandalay. The British are
at last getting the upper hand of these
outlaws; and one of the most effective
measures against them has proven to be
the law requiring the disarming OF the
entire population. which is now being
carried out.
The Great Plymouth Clothing
House.
Straw Hats and Thin Clothing.