HE HAD ARMED GUARDS] RIDING WITH HIM O ON TRIP IN RAIL- WAY COACH. + Ftank G. Carpenter, the Tourist, Writes an + [Interestifg Letter From Chin-Chou, -Manr-. chooria, Respecting a Remarkable Tyranny of Violence--The Huang Houtzes Been Holding Up Trains. Frank G terestingly Carpenter, the tourist, writes in- from Chin-Chou, Manchooria, remarkable tyranny of violence: been riding all day on a railroad with | guards The Huang Houtzes have | holding up trains, and the other day they robbed the express under the very shadow of the city of Harbin of $40,000. Even here, in the south, the trains are not safe and hence the soldiers upon them; ~ry depot is a squad of Chinese dias carrying Mauser rifles. The Huang Houtzes form, perhaps, the nyost remarkable organiza- tigh of brigands now known. They might be | lled the Tuaregs of Manchooria, for they hl ins number and daring the veiled; camel-mounted bandits of the Sahara. They rapidly increased since the Boxer up- and' especially since the Japan-Russian war. They number over 200,000, and their agents are in every city and village. They exact regular toll. on all travellers outside the railrodds; every Chinese passenger who goes over Manchooria on foot, in cart or on horse- back, must pay tribute They have fixed! charges as to goods in transit, and the cagts rrying freight marked with little with red borders, furnished by them, which in Chinesd characters, certify that the owner has paid his toll, and that the vehicle drivers ot to be molested. Otherwise, the man is sure to be robbed and his men may be killed. A few months ago of the same day one hundred carts started out] from Mukden; all but had paid toll and bore Huang Houize The men and ds in the carts other attacked by bandits before the thirteen miles, ers killed. These bandits have tion ages, but they have never 1ssceiated together as now Their have been the mountainous regions of Re and "Manchooria The words Huang Houtze mean red beards. These out! sometimes dye their h and beards red, and their names become synonymous with the devil in thé minds of the Northern Chinese Each band has one chief, several minor chiefs, who form his bodyguard. There are fifty of these head men in a band, and: each has ten or twenty brigands under him. re- specting a 1 have armed been have rising are and are n two flags. thé goods stolen and the driv existed as an organiza' been resorts Mon= for sO sha aws with band will take charge of a certain part of the! ] ! monks have -to.mourn the loss of four of their | and many on both sides | brigands - have system -af including signal fires, by and' by which the guaran country The intercommunication, which they combine a tee of one company is respected by the others' who know very band has its secret agents, all about the business of the towns and wvil- lages. They notify the bandits what cargoes of goods are to be shipped and of the wealth'] and standing of the shipper.. An English girl, going across the country in a cart, was swoop- ed™~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 bare- headed by the roadside. She had only: $460. In this case the young woman was a mis Have ! flags | so flagged journeyed in safety but the | , who had refused to pay the kl were | hey had! gene Fach | a sionary, and the hrigands Khew that she was probably 'poor. Had she been a rich Chinese oman she might have been held for ransom. Not long ago a sitk trader was caught within five miles of the city in whick he lived and carried off to the mountains.' 'The Huang { Homtzes kept him these until the $30,000 they { demanded as a ransom'was paid.' Now they are making almost every man pay for. protec- ition from raids. Villages are taxed. and the brigands agree to keep off other robbers. They sometimes station guards about the | towns, and in case of an attack come to the | aid of the police. In such places the Huang Houtze agent furnishes the flags to travel Merchants hire companies of the 'bri- | gands to escort their cargoes. The Japanese and Russians are demanding that the Chinese suppress tlie robbers, but it will be difficult as ! the officials and brigands are in league un- | doubtedly. Occasionally soldiers are sent out | to put them down. They come back, bring- {ing the heads of what they say were Huang | Houtzes, but which, it is generally believed, | ase the heads of coolies, killed instead. | ters. { The Huang Houtzes carry on piracy along | {the ¢oast. They go out in junks, pretending {to be merchants, and have captured sailing junks and the smaller trading craft of of Manchooria and Northerft Corea. If chas- ed by the men-of-war, they sail up the rivers where large vessels cannot follow. Some tyears since a Japanese gunboat ¢ aptured two | i of these pirate junks and found: $300,000 worth | of silver in them. -The pirates lay in wait {for the junks as they come out of the river, making each pay toll. They sometimes pil- i' lage tife villages on shore | th «Corea are 15000 brigands, under | chief. ~The Japanese policing mountainous districts, | ever they find them | tg be instituted in Manchéoria. The Chinese 1 Government sendmg grants into the country north of Mukden, und expects to open up much rich land to gettlent nt. been granted to foreigners, 1at the one soldiers, the em 15 cesstons have and the Japanese made peaceful are msistung i The Church Militant Triumphs. | The recent attack by brigands en the monastery of Lugansgi, in the Ekaterinoslav district, was an exciting affair, though the Russian press gave | few details beyond stating, without comment, that i lamong the dead bandits were a rural policeman land a Cossack in uniform! Attracted by the | great treasure and valuable ikons possessed by the monks, the brigands in the dead of night | { made an organized dttack on the K monastery, | which has a very solitary position. The aged monks, who have a plentiful supply of arms, made | a stout resistance, boldly sallying out and engag- ing the enemy at close quarters. 'A veritable bat- tle, lasting a good hour, took place, and, finally, the oa triumphed, the brigands being driven {.off 'with their 'chief and three others killed. The | courageous brethren, | were wounded. [Psau Wood's Wood Story. Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau 'Wood would saw wood. would saw. Fsau saw to saw Esan sought to sa Oh, the wood Wood would saw! the wood-saw with which wood! But one day Wood's wood-saw would saw | so. wood, and thus the wood Wood would saw | if Wood's wood-saw would saw wood. 'NEW SASH ARRANGEMENT. rHOoT® BY Into the lovely drapery effects pleasing sash-arrangements have been introduced. JOEL TEPER. on this gown odd yet not un- The soft satin ribbon, threaded through fringe netting ofisilk cond, helps to weight down the tunic of soft crepe, and both tunic and ribbon are drawn through a crochet ring at the back of the knees, the drapery falling close to the figure and giving @ slender line. The crepe tunic hangs over a skirt of embroidered -chiffon. sleeves also are of the chiffon. The the | Chinese in the Gulf of Pe-Chili and the coasts | are killing them wher- | A similar policy is bound | Mining con- | country be | All the wood Esau Wood saw' Esau Wood | In other words, all the wood | And oh, | Wood would saw | A GREAT Fa TERING. Kingston Old Boys Had a Time of it in the i. - There has been a great gathering of the | "Kingston Old Boys" in the neighborhood of | the ancient Grammar School of the Thames- side town in England. Neighbors and visi- tors have been celebrating its six-hundredth armniversary of the foundation, Very little of the originar Farid ng remains; and of all the range the only portion of great antiquity is the little chapel at the corner of the two | roads, said to have been founded in 1309: The school dates back to the reign of Edward I., | and the founder, one Lovekyn, furnished that monarch with the material for his wedding feast. Descendants of the founder kept add- ing to or repairing the building he had erect- | ed, and when, in the middle years of the fcurteenth centpry, his son became 'Lord Mayor of London three times, he gave of his means. jo the beautifying of the chapel. One ci Lo ee old employees also assisted the | school. This was Sir William Walworth, fa- miliar as the slayer of Wat Tyler. Like many other organizations, the school and its asso- ciated institutions suffered at the hands of Henry VIII, who confiscated its funds, set- ting the example to future generations of dis- endowment advocates, and thus left it in diffi- culties from which it did not recover until | Good Queen Bess cdme along. She, having | re-endowed. it, handed it over to the town of Kingston to be public property, and to be used for the education of the youth of the district for ever. Conscience Comapelied Confession. James Hunter. Wright appeared before Magistrate Crane in New York city to plead to an indictment. - He said the sooner he be- Zan serving a term in State's prison, as an atonement for his crimes, the better satisfied h he would feel. A charge was made against him and he was commigted to the Tombs in $1,000 bail. Wright was a partner in Several art studios and stores. When business wotlld get a little slack, he would burn ouj the stock, | collect the insurance ahd start at a new busi- | ness in another place. In describing his feel- ings he says: . That silent monitor, which tells us when we | have done right or wrong, began to 'work in a little way at first, and then its condemna tion overwhelmed me and 1 became the most | miserable of God's creatures.' I could not work, I could not sleep, a voice keptimrging me to confess my crimes and sécute relief. [I was too cowardly to end my life. I am per- haps the happiest man in prison. 1 know now the satisfaction that comes to those who do { right. I did not confess until after a terrible | battle had been fought between my criminal instincts and consciences' It was an awful struggle. I knew there was not the slightest | chance of my ever being convicted for any { crime I had 'committed, yet with this know- [1edze I have suffered more than the torture of a thousand years under the thumbscrew during the last two years by the persistent | appe als of my conscience to acknowledge the and pay the penalty. wrongs I have done Blunders of Lofty Critics. Denham placed Fletcher above Shakespeare | as a dramatist. Voltaire called this greatest | of all poets "a drunken savage. Coleridg | saw no good in Sir Walter Scott, = a { izing his best novels as "wretched abortions." | Horace Walpole called Dante "extravagant, | absurd, and disgusting." Dr. Johnson said that Gray was a very dull and Swift a very [ shallow fellow. Of Coleridge's "Ancient Ma®her," his friend Southey said: "It.is the clumsiest attempt at German simplicity T ever { saw." In Landor's view Gibbon' was "an old | dressed-up fop." Ruskin was at first greeted by the critics with unmeasured -ridiesle, and | Carlyle was detounieed a mountebank. | Professor Edward 1. Channing, then regarded as the highest ih ary aythority in New Eng- land, described Tennyson "a great calf." Another critic tells us that Tennyson's: "In | Memoriam" conveys no impression of reality | or truthfulness, and when he comes to | "Maud" he cries out: "O dear, dean! | manner stuff is this?" as as of Becomes A Scottish Objector. It is only now being told jn America that | Pastor Jacob Primmer (the Scottish' Kensit), [in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, immediate- {ly before the Communion, in: connection with { the General Assembly, rose near the Com- munion table, and, holding a printed liturgy | to be used at the service, in a loud voice said: | "I, Jacob Primmer, an ordained minister of | the Church of Scotland, in loyalty to Christ and obedience to my ordination vows, protest against the use of a printed liturgy in this service, because it is illegal, being a deliberate | violation of the Act of Union, 1707, and con- | trary to the constitution and usage of this | Church, and because, in addition, it is both | unseriptural and Popish. So help me God." | tere Playing Shakespeare in Syria. Could a more picturesque stage setting be | imagined for a Shakespearian production than | a grove of stately pines on the shores of the Mediterranean with the Lebanon range, ris- ing to a height of several thousand feet, as | the distant background. Such was the actual | setting for the al fresco production of "As { You Like It," given on the beautiful campus of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, Syria, by its students. The chief interest of the performance lay in the difficulties en- countered by the actors and in that it was the first play of the kind ever given in that an- | cient country. | Mobile, Alabama, has purchased a large tract of land and the aldermen have named it Ryan Park in honor of the late distinguished poet- | priest A monument to Father Ryan will be erected. What] LAND OF THE PEOPLE. Where Prices Ate. Low Low And Church Is Managed by the State. /Denmark is the smallest country in Europe, but once it was held in great dread. In East Yorkshire the Danes were even more feared than the evil gne, hence the Dane's Dyke, {the Dane's Graves, and so forth. There is not. a railway tunnel in the whole Danish country, not a hill, and much less a mountain, Motor-cars are not allowed to gd faster than ten miles an hour. But the Danes are most Why Many People N Never Need '. You ave & Nort Jasative i your hospitable, and when the English walking|and parson, C. N. Cooper, set out for the Port of Harwich he had many letters of introduction and counsel from Danish merchants in Eng. land. * He found things in Denmark amazing- ly cheap. A large bottle of corn brandy can be had for fivepence, yet the sale of liquor is severely restricted. "There are few rich peo- ple in Denmark and few who are very poor. The prayer of Bishop Grundtvig for his coun- try, "May few have too much, and fewer still too little," has apparently been answered. There is much political feeling in the land, and it is shown in the extempore prayers of the parsons. There are few "dissenters" in Denmark--that is few forms of religion out- side the state church. This church is entire- ly regulated by one of the departments of the|gng state, and lately the minister who looked after church "affairs had formerly been a village |tos schoolmaster, He evidently considered re- form necessary, having introduced an appeal providing that in every parish four parishion- ers should be elected to help the pastor to manage matters which hitherto he had dealt with alone. At Odense, a town of 40,000 inhabitants, Mr. Cooper found a royal palace about the size of a poor country gentleman's house in Eng- land. It was the home of Queen Alexandra before her father rose to the Danish throne. He succeeded to it not because he was the heir, but because his wife was the heiress. He, however, did not become Prince Consort, but King, for the Danes have never had a queen since the days of Queen Margaret in the fourteénth century. Old inhabitants of Odense remember the simple lite of Prinez, Christian, as he then was, and especially see- ing all his six children with their parents packed into the one roomy carriage he pos- sessed. There is no House of Lords, and all that Counts and Barons possess in the way of privilege is to move in the highest society and to send their sons and daughters to schools reserved for the nobility. No titles are conferred nowadays, so every titled family must be fairly old. In one town is a High School for Servant Maids. The girls leave thein situations for three months to complete their education and return. They are not obliged to go, and they pay for what they receive. There are about 140 students in residence of ages between eighteen and twenty-five. Mr. Coaper de- livered an address through an interpreter, and was presented by the girls with an ancient flint knife of the probable date of 1500 B.C. In Copenhagen everything was cheap. He paid at an hotel 37 cents a day for his room, and the same for his dinner. The price of admission to places of amusement is very low. In Copenhagen the admission to the Arts Academy is six cents. There was no collec- tion in the churches; no one is allowed to "cadge" on any pretence. The great name in the hearts of the people is that of Bishop Grundtvig, whose portrait is everywhere, He is to Denmark what Bismarck was to Ger- many, Cavour to Italy, Thiers to France. Mr. Cooper, on the same tour, visited Sweden, and it is a remarkable record that during his seventeen days' walk across the country from the North Sea to the Baltic, he neither saw a beggar nor a drunken man, not- withstanding the cheapness of liquor, The Dignity of Sunday. Catholic Register. A writer in the American Magazine for August declares that "most working-people are too tired to go to church." Yes, and they would be more tired still if there were no Sunday and no church. The French Revolu- tion: abolished the Sunday ostensibly in the interests: of the workingmen. They soon found themselves working the seven days of the week the year through. It was religion that established the Sunday, and by raising man's thoughts to G Iped him to under- stand that he was sofiiéthing 'more than a pack-beast. The old paganism made the working men serfs and slaves. The Carpen- ter's Son dignified, ennobled and elevated labor. The new paganism, despite its plat- itudes and its professions of sympathy, would put it back where Christianity found it. The giant figure of the Man-God, raised to smite, has stood between labor and oppression 'for almost twenty centuries. When workingmen give up Christ, the Son of Joseph, the carpenter, they are paving the vay for a return to the old serfdom and slavery. Custom Is A Hard Master. The Portuguese are extremely conservative. Every one follows rigidly the methods em- ployed by his father and forefathers. In many parts the old wooden ploughs are still used. When a man dies, instead of one of the heirs taking the whole property and paying the re- maining heirs for their parts, it is divided into. as many parts as there are heirs. More than this, each separate part of the property is, thus divided. Thus, if a property consisted of ten acres of pasture land, eighty of vine- yard and ten of grain land and there are ten heirs, each heir would receive one acre each of grain and pasture and eight acres of vine- yard. This process has heen going on so long that in the most fertile part of Portugal the land is divided into incredibly small pro- portions. The result is that the land is bare- ly sufficient to sustain its owners. South of the River Tagus, on the other hand, are en- ormous tracts of excellent land lying unused. A Boston Century Oak. A wide spreading oak which experts have declared must have been growing at the time of the discovery of America by Columbus is a landmark on the estate of the late Arthur Hunnewell in Wellesley, near Boston. It measures twenty-six feet in circumference at the base, and is a noticeable landmark on account of unusual size. The late Mr. Hunne- well took great pride in the ancient tree. It has withstood the ravages of pests and is ap- parently in condition to live for a great many more decades. Mr. Hunnewell once had the tree examined by an expert from the Smith- sonian Institution, who declared that it was between 400 and 500 years old: Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, frequently passed the towering oak while going to and from South Natick, where he preached to the Indians, with hand up-|' Calomel, ¢ascara, salts senna, com- a er pills and sweet losengers and all thes purged] tives do not act on the er or al merely irritate and inflame the eT "Fruit-a-tives" cure cause they aot on the liver. principles Stmuinias Some le he be- The fruit troubles due to a Torpid or Disordered Liver. §0c a box, 6 for $2.50, or trial box, 25c. At dealers or from Frult-a- tives Limited, Ottawa, Wood's Phosphoding, Tones Be ru body, Meri and Brain EEE Price $1 FES Hfor FA david ii pisos, 1 wife Hin 0 Tampnle | A Modicine Oo. ormorla Widen Toronto, Ont (Gasoline 16¢c. A GALLON! = Put in Your Tank at Our Dock. Garage Repairs , to Automobiles ar Marine Engines promptly attends to. 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