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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
Attractive Offerings from Our Growing Wash Goods Section

Monday morning place sale three trc The 5 5Oc and 65c grades of this superior fabric unequaed in finish, wearing and washing qualities Warranted not to thicken up.
 Our regular 65c number ............... 44c
 Our regular 50c number 33c
 Our regular 35c number. ............ 25c Masaia Cloth 42 inches wide perfect bleach. Soft smooth finish. Unsurpassed for finest underwear waists and children's clothes. OEo Regular soc number ....................0O .0OV Waist and Suit Linens, 36 inches wide. Firm round thread and ready shrunk. Excellent materials for waists and suits. 35c and 4Oc 0En values ................. ......... .AON Paiama Checks 36 inches Soft finished and very desra ble for underwear and children's clothes. fAo The 15c kind for r................... .1VO India Linon, 32 inches wide Sheer, smooth quality. strong 15c number. 1EO Very special at .......................... lOV Shamrock Lawn 45 inches wide. Looks and like real linen cambrlc. Our 25c 1en Vole and Repp Sutings5O pieces in all the spring shades. An ideal wash fabric for spring suits. 16O 20c and 25c values Special at x. ............ lOV Bleached Domestic excellent soft finished material Full yard wide; 15 yards l(l fOr.. ...1sVV Ridgewood Sheets, 81x9O with wide hens. Made from 9-4 sheeting Regular 69c EEo Rdgewood Pillow Cases, 45x36 inches Selling regularly for 121ac. Special sale 10O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
The Best Values We HEaSyssf Offered lin Silks
News from BirIningham'S Most Talked-Of Millinery Department

Most every express brings us new things-new patterns, new shapes, new flowers, new ribbons and new feathers, from which our busy work rooms are turning out those talked-about hats at $1O.O0, $500 and $18OO Such values we've never produced before-never before have we succeeded so well in copying our highest grade patterns into reasonably priced and wearable hats-and never before have we been so busy Avist to our Millinery Department will con- vince you that we have the hat you want Come tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
85c FOuIardS 65c

There is nothing better this season than
 Foulards. Ours is a very complete stock. This number comes in a wide range of colors and designs; is twill back and satin face. This sale HED only .......... WY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
S1.OO Fancy Silks 65c

Herringbone Messalines in wide selec- ton of colors; monotone striped, Peau
 de Cygnes and Jacquard Messalines.
 Elegant for street dresses and GEO calling gowns. ....... ...... VON
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
75c POngee Silks 55c

An all pure silk, full 27 inches wide and
 heavy enough for tailoring purposes
 Come in many beautiful colors. An eX- cellent silk for coat suits and EEo summer dresses S...........O .OOV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
S1.25 FOuIardS 85c

Very heavy satin faced, twill back silk absolutely shower proof. Has a per
 manent face that will not wear rougf nor fuzzy. Wide range of colors; nea
 pretty designs. Up to SIPS QEf values. Special. .............O OON
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15
nds of FIirin.

One of the chief seats of b~rigandage 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 alto
gether q population of about 5000, 900. Its
capital is Kirin, a town Of about 100000
people. There are many mountains in that
region, which are infested with Huang
Houtzes. They are well-mounted and we'll
armed, and they collect a heavy toll on the
big cart traffic which is always moving
between the capital and Kwan-Cheng-Tsu,
the nearest station on the South Manchu-
rian railroad. Not only here, but In the
other provinces, insurance companies have
been established to protect trade by brib-
Ing the brigands. Each of these companies
has its flag, which is usually OF a triangu-
lar shape. This takes the pace of the
Huang Houtzes flag, and If the Huang
Houtzes have been properly paid 1t is re-
spected. Otherwise not. The insurance
companies send armed guards along with
their carts, but 1t Is an open secret that 1t
is the money which they pay the ~brigands,
and not their guards, that affords them
protection.
During a visit that I made to the peni-
Tertiary in Mukden / asked the director
If he had any Huang Houtzes among his
~convlcts. He replied that he had and that
we entered. He did so. The mans head
had a pigtail as black as that of the or
binary Chinese and there was nothing to
distinguish him from the others in the shop
where he worked. l afterwards photo
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15
Railroad

In the last few months the Huang Hout-
yes have held up several trains on the
Transsiberlan railroad and especially on
that branch of it which comes down
through Manchuria. l talked last night
with a man who was on a train stopped
near Hardin. This is one of the biggest
cities of northern Manchuria. a large mill
tary post, and surrounded with Russian
soldiers. Nevertheless, the Huang Houtzcs
had arranged to ditch the cars and rob
the passengers. They had twisted 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. He fired three
shots, and thus warned the engineer so
that the train was stopped within about
fifty feet OF where the rails were broker
Upon the cars was q large guard Of Cos
sacks, who made a demonstration. This
frightened the bandits and they remained
on a neighboring hill while the train
stopped. They watched the railroad men,
guarded by the Cossacks, relay the tracks,
and fired a parting volley at them as the
train pulled away.
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wipins out the Brigands.

The authorities say tina the time has
come now when these brigands must be
exterminated. Their raids have attracted
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 al account OF the
duties having been comparatively light
that an outcry has not arisen long before
this. The administration OF Mukden, the
capital of Manchuria, is one OF the most
progressive OF the Chinese empire, and the
army connected with 1t is especially we'll
drilled. The country could be policed
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 Huang Houtzes be destroyed, an end
will soon be made to these raids and the
brlgands, with the exception of those in
the mountainous district, with disappear.
During my stay in Korea the mill
tary officials told me that their chief
trouble is not with the insurgents, but
with some Koeran brigands who are much
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 brigandsI
wherever they find them. A similar policy
is bound to be instituted in Manchuria.
The Chinese government is now sending
emigrants into the country north OF Muk-
den, and it expects to open up mucha
of it's 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 ali, 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, 1t would seem that
the Huang Houtze. powerful as he is
today, is doomed to soon disappear.
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
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able uniformity throughout the orchard.
Spraying was again resumed and the re-
suit is now manifest in the perfected and
perfecting fruit and the production of over
1900 bushels Of late summer and early tall
apples, to say nothing of the winter varle-
ties.
The varieties OF apples In the Sibbersen
orchard include all those best adapted to
this latitude and include the Duchess, Red
Astrnkan. Wealthy. Winesap, Genitan,
Jonathan, Ben Davis and a few other
varieties Of summer and early fall apples,
with a few Russets, Crabs and Greetings
and others of the winter varieties.
Just at this time the orchard is a ma rvel
OF beauty. Tho trees look like monstrou'
bouquets Of flowers with their burdens OF
fruit of red, purple and yellow among the
rich healthy green Of the leaves. The long
aisles of fruit laden trees are veritable
fairy bowers and the fragrance of the
ripening fruit adds to the beauty of the
scene, So heavily burdened are the trees
with fruit that the limbs are fairly bent
10 the ground. Braces rave had 10 be put
under the heavier laden limbs and with the
continued growth of the apples these
braces are bending under the weight of the
fruit. In spite of the care to preserve
the trees. many of the large limbs have
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Taxing the villages.

The Huang Houtzse are taxing the
villages of Manchuria. The chief Of the
band holding the right to certain terri
tory keeps track of tho wealth of its In
h~abitants, and he makes almost every
pay for protection from the Huang
Houtze raids. Villages are taxed as such,
and in these cases the brigands agree to
keep off other robbers. They some times
station guards about the towns. and In
case of attack come to the aid of the
police. In such places the Huang Houtze
agent furnishes the flags to travellers,
and this Is done likewise in the larger
cities.
Take. for instance, Newchwang, which is
the chief seaport of Manchuria. 1t has a
Huang Houtze agent who has a regular
office where anyone may go and buy the
right to travel over the country. 1t is only
recently that it has been necessary for
foreigners to nave 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 English girl, who was
going across the country in a cart, was
swooped down upon by a band Of fifteen
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broken down under their fruit loads.
AS an example Of the proflificness of the
trees, 400 bushels of apples have been
gathered from sixteen trees thus far this
season. not including the windfalls. The
picking season Is now at it's height, under
Mr.. K~oslowsky's superintendent. Then
boys are almost constantly employed in the
work. The apples are picked direct from
the trees, tall ladders being utilized for
the work. The apples are all selects and
are carefully barreled in the orchard and
hauled direct to the railroad station. Most
OF the product has thus far been shipped
to a commission house at Blair and thence
TO Minnesota and northern Iowa points.
The average product per tree is about
twenty-five bushels, though some OF them
will produce even q greater quantity. The
wirdfalls will be fed to the hogs, though
some of the better specimens will be made
into cider and vinegar,
A noticeable thing in connection with this
orchard is the absence of low grade,
stunted or wormy apples, over thirty
tIees were examined in various parts OF
the orchard and not a bad apple could be
discerned on the trees, All Of them bore
the appearance OF perfect development.
The trees all have a healthy appearance,
few or no dead or dying branches or leaves
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15

The work Of restoring the orchard was
necessarily one Of patience and persistence
and the following year the trees began
showing q renewed energy, recovering from
the severe trimming of the previous year
made necessary by the decayed and broken
limbs, and while the product of the
orchard was not large. yet double the
amount Of fruit. all Of a superior quality,
was harvested in 1908.
Spraying was resorted to again during
that year with most encouraging results.
The trees all showed vigorous, thrifty life
and were getting themselves In readiness
for a bumper crop in 1909.
Frank Koslowsky. a practical orchard
man. was put in charge of the orchard
last year, and given carte blanche to see
he could do. He is an ardent believer
in the efficacy OF spraying and every tree
in the orchard was given its spray bath
when needed. The bloom OF the present
spring showed that the orchard was bent
making a record. Just simply to demon
strate that eastern Nebraska can do as
much in the big red apple line as any other
on earth IL given half a chance
The location OF the orchard and the Vigor
of the resuscitated trees reduced the hkeli-
hood of winter killing to a minimum and
the fruit began forming with a remark
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15

these outlaws sometimes dye their hair
and boards red, and that thus decorated
their names become ~ynonymous with
the devil in the minds OF the northern
Chinese. 1 understand that each band
has one chief, with several minor chiefs,
whe form his bodyguard. There are
about fifty Of these head men in a band.
and each has ten or twenty brigands
under him, the whole making a gang of
1000 or more. Such a band will take
charge Of a certain part OF the country,
similar bands being located in other
regions. The brigands have a system OF
intercommunication by which they can
combine and by which the guarantee Of one
company is respected by the others.
Every band has it's secret agents in
the locality where 1t operates. These men
know all about the business Of the towns
and villages. They notify the bandits
what cargoes of goods are to be 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 names and the pay they receive,
as well as the profit Of each robbery and
its disposition.
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help; and some British officers and a COM
pRny of East Indian troops were sent
against them. This company was the
Fourth Punjab infantry. 1t found the
brigands in a town about ten miles from
the railway, and fired upon them. They
returned the fire; and at the first volley
Major Browning, who was in command,
was killed and Lieutenant Stirling was
wounded. Several Of the Sepoys were also
killed. The firing became general and a
retreat was ordered. The East Indians,
who were on foot, were pursued by the
Huang Houtzes on horseback and they
had great trouble in getting back to the
railroad. The next day a company Of 700
from the same infantry regiment went out
with 300 Japanese soldiers 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 engagements the Huang Houtzes lost
more than 800 men, or about one-fifth Of
their whole number.
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of mind and a knowledge OF fruit p
bllities. saw at once that the location Of
the orchard was In ideal one. with east,
west and north slope and that the trouble
with the trees did not lie so much with
generic barrenness as with neglect Mr..
Sibbersen went TO work at once to have
the trees trimmed UP, the decayed trees
removed and to give the orchard a chance.
The orchard responded at once. The trees
began to brighten VI. The process of spray
ing was adopted and the first year Of Mr..
Sibbersen's ownership OF the orchard, from
a product Of practically nothing for some
years previous. about thirty bushels of ex-
cellent apples were produced; but the chief
feature was the Frightening up of the trees
and their manifest Willingness to respond
to care.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15

On my way from Mukden to Shan-hai-
Kwan / saw fires blazing on the noun
tains. They were OF a peculiar shape,
forming a ring like a horseshoe, and 1
was told that they might possibly be the
signal fires of the Huang HOUSES. These
men have the same telegraph system that
once prevailed in Korea. They communi-
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 followed
out at the top and filled with a compost
ton. Half way down each peg there is a
hole to which a fuse is attached. When
this is lit the composition blaEes up. giving
a very bright, round light, which lasts
several seconds. One such flash means one
thing, two another and three another, the
number of flashes indicating the message.
The Huang Houtzes have their spies all
over the country, and that even in the
magistrates offices. Your coachman may
be a brigand in disguise. You are not sure
as to your fellow passengers, and the ma
tive who says he Is not afraid and boasts
of his immunity from the Huang Houtzes
is pretty sure to be robbed.
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Huaue Houtxe. and sepoy..

These bandits will have to be controlled
by the Chinese. Neither the japanese nor
the Russians will permit a continuation of
the attacks upon their trains. AS 1t is
now. there seems to be a combination be-
tween the Chinese troops and Chinese Of
ficials 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 out to pull
them down. They come back, bringing the
heads of they say were Huang Hout-
yes, but which. 1t 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 to-
ward the railway. The Chinese asked for
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being manifest. Most Of them are Of the
maximum bearing age. some being twelve
or fifteen years old. There is a noticeable
absence of gnarled or ~misshaped trees.
neither is there sny evidence of attempt to
preserve only the most symmetrical trees.
The real secret of the healthy appearance
of the orchard and its fruitfulness is the
intelligent system of cultivation and spray
ing that has been carried on. The trees
were sprayed four times this year.
1t is simply an illustration that the Ne
braska richards are readily responsive to
care, and that as fine a quality OF fruit
can be produced from Nebraska orchards
as anywhere in the country. The flavor
OF the fruit from this particular orchard
surpasses any of the irrigated products.
The apples are almost universally SYM
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15
Dead Old Orchard Made New and Fruitful Through Proper Attention

metrical, plump and juicy, and have every
indication of long keeping qualities.
Incidentally, Mr.. sibbersen has had
blackberry, raspberry and gooseberry
patches planted in parts of the orchard
where the old trees were grubbed out.
Eighty crates Of raspberries have been
taken from hat patch this year, as we'll
as many crates OF gooseberries and a con-
siderable quantity Of blackberries The
production of the smaller fruits has been
q secondary consideration in view OF the
greater work in caring for the orchard.
That fruit growing can be made a success
in Nebraska is pretty well shown in this
instance, where a small orchard of bur
twenty-five acres can be made TO produce
a,OOO bushels Of marketable apples in one
season.
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ington county, sixteen miles north or
Omaha. The Park View orchard il a re-
suSoitated orchard OF twenty-five acres
owned by L. SIbbersen OF Omaha. who
bought It three years ago Il n summer
home. The trees of the orchard had up to
this time been permitted to struggle along
as best they could, and the entire orchard
was in q dilapidated condition generally.
Many of the trees we're broken down, and
but few OF them bore any fruit at all. and
that OF a scrawny stunted variety.
MIR. sibbsrsen, being Of . practical turn
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15

the coast. They 80 out In junks, pretend
Ing to be merchants, and later put In at
l~ittle-known harbors to take on their fell
lows. They have captured sailing junks
and the smaller trading craft of the Chi
nese. Their sphere of operation has been
the Gulf Of Peohli and the coasts of Man
churla and northern Korea. II 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 Japanese gunboat captured
two of these pirate junks and found more
than $500, 900 worth OF silver in them. The
pirates frequently appear near New
chwang, lying in wait for the junks as they
come out of the river and making each
junk pay toll. They sometimes leave their
junks and pillage the villages on shore.
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big ORGANIZATION.

I I'm told that these bandits have ex-
listed as an organization for ages, but
that they have never been so associated
together as now. Their resorts have been
the mountainous regions Of Mongolia and
Manchuria, from where they have gone
regularly to prey upon the people
of the lowlands. The words Huang
Houtzs mean red boards. 1t is said that
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ND around Omaha is capable
Of producing apples Of as fine
quality as can be grown any
where. This is abundantly dem
onstrated in the Park View or
ohard, at Fort Calhoun, wash
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railroad with armed guards at
0 both ends Of my car. We had
FERkHH a company OF soldiers In the
GsS&@ third-class compartment next to
me and every station was guarded.
Tnere mas been a recent outbreak of the
HuanB Houtzes. They have been holding
up trains in the various parts of Man
churia, and just the other day they robbed
the express under the very shadow Of the
city of Hardin and captured $40, 1000. Even
here, in the south, the trains are not
safe, and they ali rave soldiers upon them
The first thing one sees on his arrival
at every depot is a squad of Chonese SOL
dlers carrying Mauser rifles. They line
themselves up in front Of the train and
stand In attention until II pulls out.
Tuaregs of Manchurta-
These guards are q necessity on account
OF the Huang Houtzes, who form. perhaps
the most wonderful organization Of brig
ands ever known. They might be called the
Tauregs of Manchuria, for they surpass In
number and daring the yelled, camel
mounted bandits OF the Sahara They ave
rapidly increased since the Boxer uprising
and especially since the Japan-Russian
war. They now number over 10000, and
their agents are to be found in every
city and village. They have a regular toll
which they collect on all travellers outside
the railroads, and every Chinese passen-
ger who goes over Manchuria on foot, in
a cart, or on horseback, must pay tribute
to them. They ave 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 100
carts started out from Mukden. 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 thir-
teen miles from the city. The goods were
stolen and their drivers were killed.
During my stay in Mukden, 1 talked
with the agent of a big mining concession.