Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Kindness Costs Ears in the Soudan. [ARTICLE]

Kindness Costs Ears in the Soudan.

In the Soudan, according to a traveler who recently returned from that country, a slave who considers himself ill-treated has a right, not to freedom, Indeed, but to select a master more to his liking. To be safe from recapture and punishment, the bondsman has only to escape from his old home by night, go Immediately to the house of any man to whom he chooses to belong, and, arriving there, snip a bit of cartilage from the ear of its sleeping proprietor. This acompllshed, the matter is settled; neither the old nor the new master can question the transaction’s legality or binding force. The traveler reports that he saw several men in the Soudan whose ears had almost disappeared, so often had the discontented slaves of others thus disturbed their slumbers.—New York Times.