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Ata meeting of the board of direc.
IRIS Of the Peoples Bank held on
Wednesday, January 10, the present
efficient officers OF the bank we're re-.
elected BY acelamat alton. to- wit: +. A..
Dalfenes, president: E. y. Sims. vice
president: Y ]. Leblanc, cashier; j..
G. Bouchereau, assistant cashier.
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!. D, BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor

d. D. BENTLEY, Managing Editor
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Proclamation of Election.
state Of Louisiana-parish Of Aaes

sIlsJG o. L0uIBIEus===EslF ISn Oh 12EGEnsIul
0EFICR OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTION,
ASCENSION PARISH,
Donaldsonvil1e, La, Jan. Is, 1909.
N ACCORDANCE with the law and with the
Il proclamation of Hon. j. Y. Sanders governor
of the state of Louisiana, due notice is hereby
given that an election will be held in the sixth
police jury ward of the Parish of Ascension at
the polling places established by the police jury.
on Tuesday. March &c. 1903, from q. m. TO 7 p.
M. for the purpose Of eleeting the following
officers. viz: One police juror forthe sixth police
Jury ward. S. H. ST.. MARTIN,
Registrar
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SATURDAY. JAN. SO. 1909

I. C. Dnhon, formerly of Ascension
parish, but who for the past two years
has been in charge of M. lannon's
sons Eureka plantation in the parish
of Tberville, recently removed with
his family from Bayou Goula to
soulouque, where be has accepted the
position of manager of the Allemania
plantation. Mr.. Duhon is one OF the
very best filters of the soil and han
dlers OF Labor in the Louisiana cane
belt, having had years of experience
on some of the largest sugar estates
In this section, and in the perform
ance of his duties as field marshal of
Allemanfa he may be relied upon to
meet the entire expectations of his
employers snd well-Wishers.
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The Ignorant Man.
REPORTER ventured. on j

A REPORTER ventured. on John d.
Rockefeller's SEVENTEEN birthday, To
question him about his very remarkable
present, a jar OF petroleum butter. the
latest by-product of Standard Oil that the
remarkable Standard Oil chemists have
evolved.
AIR. Rockefeller. however. would not
discuss the petroleum butter He shook
his mead. laughed and said:
Dung man, / am ignorant about this
butter. | am as ignorant as the man
in the fable.
There is a fable, you know. about a
man in an eastern city who followed a
lady about the bazaars and shops a long
time. Finally she turned TO him and said:
Why do you follow me? p
Because, he answered YOU are very
beautiful. and my soul goes out to you
in love
THE lady smiled and said:
But, l am not half SO beautiful as
fountain in the square. Look at her,
filling her water jar She is vision of
loneliness. Go, then. and make love to
her.
1.-The man took the lady at her word.
He fastened TO the fountain. But the
very ugly. and he returned TO the lady
and said angriiy:
Your sister, beautiful. Why did YOU
tell me such a falsehood?'
'.'!Ah, but why. said the lady. did you
tell me falsehood first?
But ] didn't said he. When he
added. did r.?
".When YOU told me you loved me
said me lady. For If it had been true
tkat YOU loved me, YOU would never have
gone of 10 make love 10 another wom-
en-"
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men:s the Huang HoutzeS lost more
than 600 men, or about one-hlth OF the!l
whole number.
On my way from Mukden to Shan mai
Kwan I saw fires blazing on the noun
tains. They were of peculiar SHAPE.
forming a ring like a horseshoe, ana l
was told that they might possibly be the
signal fires of the Huang Houtzes. these
men have the same telegraph system that
once prevailed in Korea. They commuhl-
cate intelligence by fires built on the hill
tops. BY the number and shape of such
fires they tell their fellows what they are
doing and within a short time are able
to send word from one part OF Manchuria
to the other Many OF their signal Lights
are made Of wooden pegs. which are nor
lowed out at the top and filled with
composition. Half way down each peg
there is a hoe to which fuse Is at
tached When this is lit the compassion
hlazes up giving very bright, round
light, which lasts several seconds. One
such flash means one tn ng, two another.
and three another. the number of flashes
indicating the message.
The Huang Houtzes have their spies all
over the country. ard that even in the
magistrates offices. Your coachman may
be a brigand in disguise. You are not
sure as TO your fellow-p ssengers. and
the native who says he is not afraid and
boasts of his immunity from the Huans
Houtzes is pretty sure to be robbed.
These same men carry on piracy alors
the coast. They 90 out in junks. pre-
tending to be merchants, and later put IN
at little known harbors to take on their
fellows. They have captured sailing
junks and the smaller trading craft Of
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by the Cossacks relay the tracks and
fired parting volley at them as the
train pulled away.
These bandits will have to be controlled
by the Chinese. Neither the japanese
nor the Russians will permit a continue
ton of the attacks upon their trains
AS it is now. there seems to be u COM
bination between the Chinese troops and
Chinese officials and Huang Houtzes 1t
is even said that some of the policemen
of the villages are themselves Huang
HOutZes. and that the officials of the
larger cities are in alliance with them
Every few months some soldiers are
sent ont to pull them down. They come
back. bringing the heads of what they
say were Huang HoutZes. but which. it
is generally believed are the heads of
coolies. whom they have killed instead.
These brigands are very daring. They
do not seem afraid of death and they
will fight when attacked. 1t was just
after the Boxer trouble that 400 of them
came down through the great wall and
advanced toward the railway. The
Chinese asked for help: and some British
officers and company of East Indian
troops were sent against them. This COM
pany was the 18th Punjab Infantry. 1t
found the brigands in town about ten
miles from the railway. and fired upon
them. They returned tine fire; and at
the first volley Maj. Browning, who was
in command, was killed and Lieut..
Stirling was wounded. Several of the
Sepoys were also killed. The firing be-
came general and retreat was ordered.
The East Indians. VINO We're on foot, were
pursued by the Huang HoutZes on horse
back and they had great trouble in get
ting back to the railroad. The next day
g company of 100 from the same infantry
regiment went out with so japanese SOL
diers and attacked the brigands. They
found them In the same village. and it
took four hours of heavy fighting to
drive them out In these two engage
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break Of the Huang IIoutzes. They have
been holding up trains in the various
parts OF Manchuria, and just the other
day they robbed the express under the
very shadow Of the city of Hardin and
captured $4,000. Even here, in the south
the trains are not safe. and they all have
soldiers upon them. The first thing one
sees on his arrival at every depot is a
squad OF Chinese soldiers carrying
Mauser rifles. They line themselves UP
in front of the train and stand TO at
tention until it pulls out.
These guards are necessity on account
OF the Huans Houtzes. who form perhaps.
the most remarkable organization Of
brigands now known. They might be
called the Tuaregs of Manchuria, for they
surpass in number and daring the yelled,
camel-mounted bandits of the Sahara
They have rapidly increased since the
Boxer uprising, and especially since the
Japan-Russian war. They now number
over 100000, and their agents are To be
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that they have never been so associated
together now. Their resorts have been
the mountainous regions of Mongolia and
Manchuria. from where they have gone
down regularly to prey upon the people
of the lowlands. The words Huang
Houtze mean red boards. 1t is said that
these outlaws sometimes dye their hair
and boards red. and that thus decorated
their names BECOME synonymous with
Vie devil in the minds of the northern
shinese. l understand that each band
has one chief, with several minor chiefs,
who form his bodyguard. There are
about fifty of. these head men in band,
and each has ten or twenty brigands
under him. the whole making a gang OF
one thousand or more. Such band will
take charge of certain part of the
country. similar bands being located in
other regions. The brigands have a sys-
tenn of intercommunication by which they
can combine and by which the guarantee.
of one company is respected by the
others.
Every band has its secret agents in
the locality where it operates. These men
know all about the business of the towns
and villages. They notify the bandits
what cargoes of goods are to he shipped
and, as far as possible, the wealth and
standing of the shipper. They are said
to keep books. including the rolls of the
bandits Eames and the pay they receive.
as well as the protE of each robbery and
its disposition.
The Huang Houtzes are taxing the
villages of Manchuria. The chief Of the
band holding the right TO certain terri
tory keeps track of the wealth of its in
habitants and he makes almost every
man pay for protection from the Huang
HoutZe raids. Villages are taxed as such,
and in these cases the brisands agree to
keep off other robbers. They sometimes
station guards about the towns. and i'll
case of attack come TO the aid of the
police In such places the Iuang HoutZe
agent furnishes the flags to travellers,
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BANDITS RAVAGE ENTIRE COUNTRY

found in every city and village. They
have a regular toll which they collect on
all travellers outside the railroads, and
every Chinese passenger who goes over
Manchurfa on foot. in a cart, or on
horseback, must pay tribute to them
They have fixed charges as to goods in
transit, and the carts carrying freight
are marked with little printed flags with
red borders. furnished by them. Upon
the flags are printed Chinese characters,
certifying that the owner has paid his
toll, and that the vehicle and drivers are
not to be molested. Otherwise the man
is sure to be robbed and his men may be
killed.
A few months ago on the same day
one hundred carts started out from Muk-
den. OF these all but two had paid their
toll and bore Huang HoutZe flags The
men and goods in the carts so tagged
completed their journey in safety; but
the others, who had refused to pay the
toll were attacked by the bandits before
they had gone thirteen miles from the
city. The goods were stolen and their
drivers were killed.
X x
During my stay In Mukden, l talked
with the agent of big mining concession,
a man who represents a large organiza-
ton of British and Japanese capitalists.
He is opening up a gold region in the
NlTlH province, ara mas 10 SEND Ills sup
plies to the mining camps across country.
He says he dares not start out a cart
without such protection and that in i'm
portant cases he usually employs one of
the brigands to go along in person He
did this with two English mining engi-
neers whom he sent forward last week.
Said he:
..They might have gotten through all
right with the Huang HoutZe flags on
their carts, but. outside the great organi-
Zation of brisandS. there are petty bands
of robbers who might attack them. Such
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convcts. He replied that he had. and
that he would point out one in the next
ward we entered. He did so. The mans
head had pigtail as black as that of tile
ordinary Chinese and there was nothing
TO distinguish him from the others i'm the
shop where he worked. ! afterWard pho-
tographed two Huang IIoutzes between
the guards i'll the yard of the prison
DIR. Christie, the medical missionary. in
charge Of the great hospital at Mukden,
tells me that he always has patients under
treatment who have been wounded in
these Huang Houtze raids and that some
times they are Huang Houtzes them
selves
The authorities say tha5 the time has
come now when these brigands must be
exterminated. Their raids have attract ed
the attention OF outside nations. and the
reform movement which is going on here
demands that trade be freed from their
taxes. 1t is only on account of the
duties having been comparatively light
that an cutlery has not arisen long before
this. The administration Of Mukden. the
capital of Manchuria. is one of the most
progressive o the Chinese empire, and the
army connected witt; it is especially we'll
drilled. The country could be poiiced
as far as the main trade routes are con-
cerned, and this will probably be done
within a short time. If the government
once puts its foot down and insists that
the Hpang Houtzes be destroyed an end
Will soon be made to these raids and the
brisands. with the exception of those in
the mountainous districts, will disappear.
During my stay in Korea the mill
tary officials told me that their chief
trouble is noS with the insurgents but
with some Korean brigands who are much
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the Chinese. Their sphere of operation
has been the Gulf of Pechili and the
coasts of Manchuria and northern Korea.
If they are chased by the men-of-war
they sail up into the rivers. where the
water is SO shallow that large vessels
cannot follow. Some years since a Japa-
nese gunboat captured two of these pi-
rate junks and found more than three
hundred thousand dollars worth of silver
in them. The pirates frequently appear
near Newchwang, lying in wait for the
junhs as they come out of the river. and
making each junk pay toll. They some
times leave their junks and pillage the
villages on shore.
): ::
one of the chief seats of brigandage
is the province OF kirin, which lies north
of here. 1t is a rich territory three
times as big as the state of Indiana,
having altogether a population of about
six millions. It's capital is IAirin, town
Of about one hundred thousand people,
There are many mountains in that region
which are infested with Huang Houtzes
They are we'll mounted and well armed,
and they collect a heavy toll on the big
cart traffic which Is always moving be-
tween tie capital and hNan-ChenS-Isu,
tile nearest station on the south Man
chrlrian railroad. Not only here. but III
the OTHER pIUAIllCeS iiIS "a eouipdiiita
have been established TO protect trade by
hribing the brigands. Each of these
companies has its flag, which is usually
of triangular shape. This takes the
place of the Huang Boutze flag. and II
the Huang Houtzes have been properly
paid it Is respected. Otherwise not. The
insurance companies send armed guards
along with their carts, but it is an open
secret that 1t is the money Which they
pay the brigands and not their guards
that affords them protection.
During Il visit that | made to the peni-
tertiary i'll Aiukden | asked the director
if lie had any Huang Houtzes among his
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the Transsberian railroad and especially
on that branch of it which comes down
through Manchuria. / talked last night
with a man who was on a train stopped
near Harbin. This is one of the biggest
cities of northern Manchura, a large
military post, and surrounded with Rus
sian soldiers. Nevertheless. the Huang
Houtzes had arranged to ditch the cars
and rob the passengers They had twist
ed the rails just above an embankment
about twenty feet high and were waiting
on the hills nearby for the express to
come. In the meantime the patrolman
had discovered the injury done to the
track Tie fired three shots, and thus
warned the engineer so that the train
was stopped within about fifty feet OF
where the rails We're broken. Upon the
ears was large guard of Cossacks. who
made demonstration. This frightened
the bandits and they remained on a
neishboring hill while the train stopped.
They watched the railroad men, guarded
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Worse Than a Joy Ride.

t<T LUNCHED with ". s. Trites on
Grand Prix Sunday. at .Armenon-
VILE" said a Philadelphian. MIR Trites
has made hit abroad with his novel,
John Cave Though the book only an
peared in May. the first edition is already
selling at premium to London collectors.
In the white and elegant restaurant
In the heart Of the Bots de Boulogne, Mr..
Trites was naturally jubilant. Our table
was under tree. 4 soft air rustled the
leaves. The sky looked very blue and
the pale and elegant toilets about us were
dapped with dancing patterns of shade
and sunshine.
Over his coffee and cigarette Mr. Trites
talked. lie talked. since it was Grand
oriN Sunday, about horses He told me
number of horse stories.
one OF these stories concerned young
Philadelphian who drove tandem from
the Country Club home to Chestnut Hill
on very dark night after a very elabor-
ate dinner. It's a good thing there are
not many Philadelphians like that Young
man."
The narrator shook his head, COM
pressed MS lips, and smiled a shocked
smile.
I'm a very high cart" he resumed
after a very elaborate dinner, this young
man drove with friend, on q very dark
night, to Chestnut Hill. Dear me.
lne pace was terrlnc. Inc horses were
invisible in the black gloom. but their
hoofbeats made sound like thunder The
cart bounced, jolted ran on one wheel;
and then the friend held on very tight. re-
fiecting with horror on the great height
of the fashionable vehicle.
AT last the brilliantly lighted facade
of mansion appeared. and like the wind
the cart rushed through lofty gateway.
But it made the turn it leaned-it
leaned
Easy, jim, Easy round the corner,
old chap gasped the guest.
'Whatsn't at?' the host asked. Sleep
lily. Why, haven't you-hic-got hold the
einsh-hic-either? -
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men will not dare to touch any one guard
ed by a Huang Houtze. for. II caught.
they would surely be killed by the latter.
The Huang Houtzes are well mounted.
They have Chinese ponies. which can go
thirty miles day without firing. and can
be pushed to twice that. The ponies are
never eroomed and are exceedingly dirty.
The bandits carry nothing with them but
their arms. except long fur coat, which
they wear in the winter and a quilt,
folded over their saddles. They have
modern guns and are armed with revol-
vers. The majority carry Mauser rifles
or big bore Winchesters. Some have
Russian pistols, and many have japanese
weapons which they have collected from
the battlefelds or have gotten hold OF
In some way or other during the war.
Their ammunition Is of European make,
and some of them have cartridges of
smokeless powder. During the China
Japan war they bought or stole a guam
tity of rifles from the runaway Chinese
soldiers. and got additional arms in 1900.
when the arsenals of North China were
looted and the arms distributed gratis
by the officials. They have captured some
guns from the Russians during the past
few years and they have altogether a
splendid equipment.
am told that these bandits have ey-
listed as an organization for ages, but
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like the Huang Houtzes. They have their
homes in the mountains and sally out
to prey upon the villages. These Korean
brigands are supposed to number 1900:
and they have one chief who is practically
the head of the whole. The Japanese
soldiers are policing the mountainous dis
tricts, and they are killing these brigsnds
wherever they find them. 4 similar policy
is bound 10 be instituted in Manehuria.
The Chinese government is now sending
emigrants into the country north of Muk-
den, and it expects to open up much
of its rich government land to settle
ment. Mining concessions have been
granted to foreigners, and the Japanese
are insisting that the country be made
peaceful. Above this and more important
than all. is the very general desire on
the part of the men who are running
the Chinese government to introduce
western methods and the new civilization.
so that. altogether, it would seem that
the Huang Houtze, powerful as he 10
today, is doomed to soon disappear.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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and this is done likewise in the larger
cities.
Take, for instance, Newchwang. which
is the chief seaport OF Mancluria. 1t has
a Huang HoutZe agent who has a regular
office where any one may go and buy the
right TO travel over the country. 1t is
only recently that it has bsen necessary
for foreigners TO have such protection,
but now all people going alone will do
we'll to get Huang HoutZe flags. Just
the other day a young woman. an Eng
lish girl, who was going across the coun-
try in a cart, was swooped down upon by
a band of fifteen mounted Huang
Houtzes. They robbed her of all her
belongings. including even her shoes and
stockings. leaving her barefooted and
bareheaded by the roadside. She had
only $40
In this case the young woman was
missionary and the brigands knew that
she was probably poor. Had she been
rich Chinese lady she might have been
held TOR ransom. This has been done
With Chinese merchants. Not long ago
= silk trader was caught within five
miles of the city in which he lived and
carried off 10 the mountains. The Huang
Houtzes kept him there until the 10000
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TWO Hundred Thousand
! Bandits Who Collect
Toll of All Travelers-How
Villages Are Blackmailed-
Spies and Signal Fires-Re-
cent Holdups on the Trans
siberian Railro a d. The
Bandits and the Sepoys-
Piracy-Danger to Foreign
ers-The Brigands of Kirin-
A Mighty Army of Robbers
Which Will Soon Be Wiped
Out.
Copyright, 1909. by Frank e. Carpenter,
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CHIN-CHOU. Manchuria, 1909.
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HAVE been riding
all day on the rail-
road with armed
guards at both
ends of my car.
We had a company
of soldiers In the
third-class c o M
partment next to
the engine and
every station was
guarded. There la S
been a recent ont
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which they demanded as ransom was
paid. Not few merchants when they
have valuable cargoes to take from one
place to another hire companies OF these
brisands to go along with them, aud this
IS SO on both sides of the great wall.
In the past few months the Huang
Houtzes have held up several trains on
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News for Dad.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Tommie-I see wood yields about one
fifth as much heat as COAL
Bobbe-I guess my dad don't know
that
Tommie-Why?
Bobbie-Because when he "warms' me
he always uses a shingle.
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The Cabin Boy.

WILLIAM SHfLLABER, the secretary
w of the newsboys summer camp on
Staten Island, was praisinS newsboy
character
The newsboy is a good fellow he
said His bitterest enemy can attribute
no worse fault to him than mischievous-
ness. And mischievousness isn't a fault
it is only an excess-an excess of high
spirits
Mr.. Shillaber laughed
~ newsboy friend of mine,' he said,
took to the sea- He became cabin boy
on a tramp collier. He was a good boy,
but
Once, when our white squadron was at
Newport, this collier steamed in her slow
way shoreward with her ensign upside
down. the signal of distress-distress of
the direSt.
Instantly a pretty sight was to be
seen Every warship in the feet lowered
a lifeboat, and all those beautiful, snowy
boats, manned by jackies In spotless
white duck raced for the grimy old col
lier at breakneck speed. A pretty sight
indeed.
1.-THE captain of the collier stood on the
bridge He waved his hat. And the
crews pulled all the faster.
AS they drew close, they heard the
mans cries.
Come on. Pull! Get down to f." he
roared. dancing about wildly.
Whats the matter captain the first
officer to reach the collier asked breath
lessly.
why. nothing's the matter the cap
Then why's your ensign upside
down?
The captain looked aloft. then frown-
It's that boy Hank again said he.
And here ] thought it was a regatta.