The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12

Here, jolted and bumped against the other camels," continued the au- thor, unable to move and nearly suf- located. the slave was confined during a days march, and when taken out more dead than alive his limp body was thrown over a donkey"
 For months they marched north over the sand and rocky lands of the desert. Now and again slave paid his last tribute to the sands and added his bones to the many others bleach ing in the sun beside the caravan trails. And then one night the slave and one other companion escaped. For seven days and nights they trav- eled without stopping. Hear the slaves own story:
 "The hot sun beat down upon our heads; the second day a sandstorn dried up what little water we had in our goatskins. By turns one of us. tied in his saddle. slept while the other led the camels. Sometimes we would slide down from the humps and allow the animals to graze as we walk ed along. We found no water. and the beasts began to show signs of thirst and uttered cries, grooming and gurg- ling as they redrank the water from their stomachs One evening we skirted the outlying palms of an oasis. Everything was clear in the moonlight and water was there. but we dared go no nearer the habitations for fear of capture, knowing Ahmed. uoc not far behind us. We knew that we could not much longer cling to our saddles. SO we lashed each other on, The last time that Bako fell to one side I was too weak to help him, and he rode with head hanging lower than his heels The camel ticks burrowed into our skin; our tongues were cracked and bleeding" It seemed miracle that ultimately they made good their escape.
 What will the man hunters do when their trade is spoiled? Black boys in the vicinity of Tripoli have been cap tured by bands of Arabs and sent. sick and shivering. across the sea to Constantinople.
 Slave SnipS or tuTNCys
 Loaded into tiny and miserable shius. made too small so as the more readily to keep out of view of the watchful cruisers and warships of Great Britain and Russia that are prowling about, these wretched human beings are forwarded in great patches in the depth of winter and shipped like cattle across the waters at the season of the year when they will be least likely to attract attention. Girls are sold on the steamers which ply up and down the Bosporus. The African negroes are taken regularly to Con by professional slave deal CTS. who secrete them in places which are perfectly well known to the pur- ehasers. If any Turk has the ambi- tion and the money to buy a slave he will not have much difficulty in pene- trating the secret" of where to go. Laughing genially. Turkish pasha said recently to an American who was living in Constantinople: "Of course we have our slaves-we could never get, along without them"
 VIII TripoIi's abolition as an under
  ground railroad" center for aiding the slave dealer and man hunter of north east Africa to get their pitiful trophies before the Turkish markets mean the abolition of the blot itself?
 The public sale of slaves in Con- has recently been sup nressed in deference to European But the system of slavery still exists throughout the whole of he empire. The cargoes of slaves are said to arrive at Constantinople with a precision of schedule almost equal to that of railroad. Sometimes an ugly storm may cause a few hours delay. Or. as now and then has hap oened, the vigilance of the British cruisers in the Red sea and the Rus sian warships in the Black may com pei the captain to go far out of his .ourse.