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SOWED WITH ARTILLERY.
How ~Gunpowder Helped to Plant
Tree ON a Rocky Crag.

Trees ON a ROCKY Crag.
Alexander Hasmyth, the landscape
painter, was a man fruitful In expe-
dents. To his mind, the fact that a
thing could not be done in the ordin-
airy was no reason why It
should be given up. His son relates
the following interesting example Of
his ingenuity.
The Duke of Athol, says he, consulted
him as to some improvements which
he desired to make in his woodland
scenery near Dunkeld. Among other
things, a certain rocky crag needed to
be planted with trees, to relieve the
grim barrenness of its appearance.
The question was how to do it, as it
was impossible for any man to climb
the crag, in order to set seed or
plants in the cleft Of the rocks.
A happy idea struck my father. Hav-
ing observed in front of the castle a
pair Of small cannons, used for firing
salutes on great days, it occurred to
him to turn them to account. A tin
smith in the village was ordered to
make q number Of canisters with Gov
ers. The cannisters were filed with all
sorts Of suitable tree seeds. The can
mons were loaded and the canis.nrs
were fired up against the high face of
the rock. They burst and scattered the
seed in all directions. Some years af-
ter, when my father revisited the place
he was delighted to see that his
scheme Of planting by artillery had
proved successful; the trees were
fourishing In all the recesses Of the
rock.-London Answers.
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sessed by Il government official, of
Which a large portion was levied upon
this district. Although the Naction
was unjust and uncalled for, all the
other districts paid their share neon
plainingly and without protest.
The elders of Tong-an, however, sent
word that they would not pay II
farthing. The mandarins replied that
they would go up and collect it there
themselves. The response was prompt
and significant: Come and collect,
but bring your army with YOU" A
general was accordingly dispatched
with a regiment, with Instructions to
collect the impost and 10 hehead all
the elders who had taken part in the
refusal. He marched into the district
and met with no opposition until he
reached the leading town. He found it
deserted and every house empty, This
so enraged him that ne burned and de-
stroyed Il number of houses and killed or
captured many buffalocs and horned
cattle.
Made short Work of Him.
1t was evening when he got through
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THE COBURC FAMILY.

Before Many Years 1t VIII Reign
Over the Most Of Europe.
From the accession of the prince of
Wales the British royal family, by
British custom, will be called the Co
burgs, and it had been the lot Of the
little Lady Alexandra Duff or any fut-
urc brother Of hers, to found q new
line, that would have been called the
Duffs, alike by historians and by the
people, a prospect which inspired 10
pleasure. The Coburgs are better
liked; they are supposed, and so far
rightly supposed, to accommodate
themselves more easily than any other
reigning family to constitutional Ton
aroby, they are royal by descent, and
they have had the strangest good for
tune in their alliances.
Within q few years the three greatest
thrones in the world, those of Great
Britain, Germany and Russia, will he
filled by descendants Of the prince
consort, while seven minor thrones,
those of Belgium, Portugal, Greace,
Hesse, Saxc-Gotha, Rumanla and Bull
garia-one Of which two last may reign
Ut tl UC Illtu ny
men of Cohurg blood. A position Of
that kind is Il very great, though a
very REGULAR one, and when the change
occurs-may it be long first-the Eng
lish will have no need to explain
whence their new dynasty springs or
how it got there. The feeling for ped
igree, though it is inexplicable, for after
all the founder is usually the greatest
Of his line, is permanent and indie
structible; and there was therefore uni
versal pleasure when it vas announced
that the duchess of York had been
safely delivered of a son IN that the
line of Coburg was, humanity speaking,
destined to continue.
England, some people think, will be
a republic before the new baby be-
comes a monarch, say fifty years hence,
but dynasties are lony-lived. England
mas been nearer republicanism than she
Is now, and within the time Of men
still living a new rampant has built it.
self around the monarchy. When the
royal standard is pulled down the en-
pire will be pulled down, too, and it
is the empire that the people delight in
rather than in any dream of u fedora
ton in the English speaking peoples,
which would transfer all political in
iuduVe 1fOHn LoHuOn 10 SOne Guy
across the Atlantic. We do not see why
language should be much of n bond,
and we do not see that the Spanish
speaking republics are no friends to
Spain. For anything any one can fore
cast, not only may the newest Coburg
reign in Great Britain and India, but
his tenth descendant. The hold of the
word republic" over the Imagination
Of mankind has not increased of late
years, nor the evidence that democracy
and monarchy are inherently incompat-
ible.-London Spectator.
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tional Congress is strictly non-partisan,
but no other organization of farmers
has so much influence with state legis-
lative bodies. 1t is said that to it alone
is due the provision made by Congress
for a test of rural free mail delivery.
The Congress is composed of one dele
gate from each congressional district.
two at large, appointed from each state
by the Governor, and Il from each
state board and agricultural college. Its
principal object is to make rural life
more attractive.
Admiral Ting.
Admiral Ting, recently removed
from the command of the North
Squadron of the Chinese fleet and de-
prived of his peacock's feather for his
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Chinese land forces at Tien-Tsin. From
this office to a full fledged admiral
ship. without any preliminary training,
his failure as a naval commander was
only to be expected. Admiral Ting is
between so and 60 years of age. He
has a commanding appearance, being
about six feet tall. He is an inveterate
gambler.
Major George j. Cakes.
Major George j. Cakes, the new
Commander-in-Ch Chic of the Union Vet
Grams Union, is a native and resident
of Rochester. n. Y. He was born In
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The Morphine Habit In France.

DR.. Jules Rochard, in the Union Med
icale, draws a gloomy picture Of the
increase Of the morphine habit in
France and elsewhere. The habit, he
finds, becomes incurable at the end Of
six months of indulgence. The fair
sex and the doctors are, in his opinion,
the most deeply addicted to morphine.
He draws an unpleasant comparison
between the behavior of each kind Of
delinquent. Women, he says, delight
In declaring how tn " indulge in this
vice, and show ornamental hypodcrmic
syringes to their friends. DR.. Notet
states that a lady, having broken the
needle of her syringe in u remote coun-
try village, wounded her skin with
scissors and thrust the stump of the
needle into the wound, injecting in this
name till n new syringe arrived from
Paris.-London Public Opinion.
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ace Greeley was a member, which
drafted the terms Of agreement that
led to the uniting of the old Wing party
with the Republicans. Mr.. Stebbins
became an Odd Fellow in 1850. He
was Grand Master for two terms; sew
enteen years ago became a member of
the Grand Lodge and was successfully
Grand Warden, Deputy Grand Master
and Grand Master. He has risen from
Chairman Of the Appeals Committee
to the office of Grand Sire.
John NJ. StahI.
AS Secretary Of the Farmers Nation
al Congress, Hon. John NJ. Stahl. of
Quincy, Ill. will be one of the leaders
Of the annual meeting to be held at
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various banking, manufacturing and
other business enterprises. He served
the Union throughout the rebellion, and
in 1862 became Colonel of the 18th
New Hampshire regiment, which was
raised mainly by his efforts. Col.
Kent has held high state offices and
been a member of the legislature on nu-
merous occasions. He was nominated
for governor by reclamation.
Lord Hawke.
The appearance of Lord Hawke in
the United States, accompanied by his
team Of expert English cricketers, re-
wives interest in the sport of old Eng
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has done from the beginning of history.
Children have their regular market
price, which varies according to the
prosperity or adversely of the times.
In general, a snail boy, below the e
of ten will bring from So to $75, while
a little girl of the same age will COM
mand from $40 to 500. In warm eli
mates little folks do much of their
playing after the SUI has gone down
and the intense heat Of the day is over.
Then is the time for the pirate child
%stealer. The trade flourishes chiefly
on the larger streams and rivers where
the children are stolen, and in the great
cities, where they are sold.
The fate of these poor little captiveS
is not so bad as might be supposed.
Most of the boys are bought for adop-
ton by Chinese families who have no
son. and who, in adopting them, give
them all the rights which a natural son
would have. Others are sold as MAJ
servants, who, in the main, are very
we'll treated.
The female children do not have as
happy a lot. One-third are sold to be
come ladies' maids and house slaves,
one-third to be brought up as concu-
bines, and one-third for the most I'M
moral purposes. There is hardly an
abandoned woman i'll all of China but
what owns II or more of these So
called pocket daughters"
Justice Bribed.
TIE penalty for child-Stealing is de
capitation. but it is very seldom inflict-
cd. The pirates who are arrested gem
orally get out upon the pleas that the
child was lost or sold to them by some
impoverished parent. This, with the
addition of Il handsome sum paid to the
magistrate, together with the lack of
positive proof on the part of the prose
cutiOn, usually insures their acQuittal
and honorable discharge.
The Oriental pirate when he goes in
to the naval service of his country or
of foreign nations is well disciplined,
obedient and sober, and also fights with
the same ferocity as in his w call
ing.
If new China ever to the
fore he will constitute the material of
its future navy, and will make a name
and fame as great in the annals of
ocean warfare as he has done in the
history of crime.
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cowardice and in
competence, has
been Il Hung
Chang's rusty lieu
tenant in matters
pertaining to the
Chinese navy since
its organization i'll
1855. He is, how
ever, more of a
soldier than sailor.
Before taking COM
of the North
ern Squadron" he
was a Brigadier
General of the
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signed TO the dragons, and promoted
first lieutenant in 1861 and captain in
1862. His war record was a most bril-
liant one, he was advanced to high Of
fees and in 1865 was brevetted Briga-
der General and Major-G eneral in the
regular army for gallant services. AT
ter the war he was employed on the
frontier until 1882, was in charge of
the military academy at West Point
for Z years and since then has served
in the west. In 1887 he became Briga-
der General
John w. Stebbins.
John w. Stebbins, recently elected
Grand Sire of the world in Odd Eel
lowship by the Sovereign Grand Lodge,
+. O. 0. F., at Chattanooga, Tenn, Is
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Land of the Rising Sun, is China,
which was a mother of pirates before
the first pyramid was built, and still
produces them in regular harvests year
by year. / have studied the Chinese
pirates in his home and native lair
and have heard wierd tales Of piracy
from the lips Of pirates themselves.
AT least that is what they made when
the translator had done with them,s says
a writer in the New York Herald. For
instance:
In the good old days, when a pirate
had achieved a certain amount Of sue
cess he could come back to his OWL
country and after a little negotiation
could be welcomed by the officials and
mobiles who before had set a price upon
his head. Nor has the practice died
out. In 1860 a young man in South
China by the name of Ii Yu, who was
noted for his gigantic strength and fe-
rocious courage, started out on the ca
reer of crime. He vas a thief, burglar
highwayman, murderer and pirate.
name and fame spread far and wide
until the Chinese government offered n
princely ransom for his capture, living
or dead.
He defied the officers of the law and
organized a band of men of the same
type and nature as himself. They
adopted the old pirate banner the
"black flag" and under the name of
BLACK Flag became famous or infa-
nous throughout the Monaghan En-
pire.
More than one hundred families of
high distinction in China derive their
title and their sicial and political posi-
ton from some pirate ancestor. Such
examples as these form the staple sub
iect of conversation throughout the en-
pire. They exert q profound influence
and lead them to believe that crime.
however reprehensible in a single trans
action becomes respectable and meri-
torious when committed wholesale, and
that piracy is one of the best callings
in which to attain fame, fortune, and
imperial favor.
Hotbcds of Buccaneers.
The two great hotbeds of buccaneers
in the East are the same to-day as
they have been for administrations
and Canton. In each case the name
is not strictly accurate. The Amboy
people proper, who speak the Amboy
language and live in the walled city,
are very quiet, peaceable and orderly.
and have a pronounced antipathy for
fighting. whether on sea or shore. But
back of Amboy is the mountainous
district of Tong-an. 1t is connected
With the ocean by many arms of the
sea. Its soil is sterile and its ,e-
sources are very few; its people, like
all mountaineerS, are thin, muscular,
brave and resolutc. Even to-day they
preserve Il semi-independence of Il mill
tary nature.
They are admired and feared by all
their more pacific neighbors. Once
aroused they are perfect demons in the
fay. In 1891 a new local tax WAS IS
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they succeeded in winning but one
match. Lord Hawke felt chagrined at
the result and is now here with a
stronger team than before, most of
them being college men from Cam
bridge and Oxford. The series of con-
tests he proposes to have with New
York and Philadelphia will be watched
with interest all over the country.
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Is years Of age. He
is a native of New
York, and resides
at Rochester. At
ter graduating from
Union College he
became principal of
Macedon Academy.
He studied law,
was admitted to
the bar and in 1856
was elected to the
State Legislature.
He was one of the
committee of if-
teen. of which HOr-
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born in 1881 and
in 1854 was grad
uated from the
Military University
at Norwich, vt.
He read law and
s a later was
admitted to the bar.
About this time he
became editor and
proprietor of the
Coos Republican,
which he conducted
for twelve years.
Since then he has
been engaged i'll
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practical and ex-
tensive farmer, has
served on the Iowa
state board of agri.
culture, in the legis-
lature, and declined
further political
honors. His opin-
ions are said to
have o weight
than those of any
other agriculture
writer. The farm
er's Congress is not
a political body, as
is shown by the
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and in America.
Lord Hawke who
is in charge of the
English team has
been in America
several times be-
fore. In 1892 he
brought over a
cricket team, and
as the game was
strictly their own,
they expected to
wipe the platter.
This was a dis
astrous visit for
them, however, as
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likely to be promot-
ed. 1t is believed
that Gen. Wesley
Merritt will u
of Gov
ernor's Island when
Gen. Miles goes to
Washington to sue
coed Maj. Gen.
Schofeld. Gen.
Merritt was born in
New York City in
1886, was gradual
ed at the United
States Military Aca-
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fact that delegates have been appoint
ed by both Democratic and Republi-
can governors. President Clayton was
being prominently mentioned as the
Republican nominee for Governor Of
Iowa when he was appointed delegate
by Gov. Boies. The Congress is a
most important one and it owes much
of its success to the efforts Of its
president.
MIR. s. Woods, NJ. r.
One of the foremost men in English
labor circles is Mr.. S. Woods. He Is
a member Of Parliament and was re-
Gently elected Secretary of the Parlia-
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With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health md strength and internal cleanli-
Figs, is unknown to n few who have not
progressed beyond the old time medicines
and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered
but never accepted by the well Informed.
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lnentary Commit
tee Of the Trade
Union Congress
He is also the Vice
President Of the
Miners Federation
and has charge of
most of the recent
strikes and negotia-
tons Of that great
combination. He is
a typical miners
~leader-drove a pit
pony when he was
II, aud was in turn
pitman, check
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weighman and miners agent. MI.
Woods is now 4S years of age. He is
a Baptist local teacher. a Sunday
School teacher, a teetotaller and a
Gladstonite.
Henry o. Kent.
Henry o. Kent, Democratic nominee
for Governor of New Hampshire, was
born and has always lived in the town
of Lancaster, in that state. He was
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ParkerSburg, w.
Va, October 3 to
G. Mr.. Stahl is a
nan of prominence
nd influence in his
Eative state. He
las held political
4hce, and when ap-
Rointed delegate to
the Farmers Con
sress by Gov. Alt
geld, he was chair
MlaR of the Repub-
Ifcan Central Com
mittee of Quincy.
Tho Farmers Ma
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1888, and educated
in the Rochester
public schools and
at st. Charles Col
lege, near Balti-
more. He was in
the mercantile bust
ness when the war
began, and prompt
ly volunteered as a
private in the 18th
New o and was
with the regiment
in the first battle
of Bull Run. He
sapuoI with liSt;no-
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OF New York have just issued the most at
~tractive policy, combining both protection and
investment ever offered by any old line COM
pany, Cash surrenders, loaning feature, etc,
all absolutely guaranteed. Profitable agency
contracts can be secured. Write for particu-
lars to FRANK +. LOOMS, Manager North
western Department, 1868 Pioneer Press
Building, ST Paul.
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ganization of the supreme temple at
indianapolis later in the same year she
was elected Supreme Senior. She pos
sesses excellent ability as an executive
officer, and in other orders has gained
high rank.
H.. r. Clayton.
B. T. Clayton, of Indianola. Ia, is
president of the Farmers Congress
which will meet at Parkersburg, w. Va,
October 3 to 6. President CLAYTON is a
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TIC UIuest system Oh TtIeSfuphy.
Is that established between the brain and
the nerves, whicI transmit instantaneously
every shock they experience. These cleo
trio shocks are very vivid, painful and dis
turbing when the nerves are weak. Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters strengthens, soothes,
and renders the nerves tranquil. 1t induces
sleep, sound digestion and appetite, and con-
quers. biliousness, malaria, rheumatism and
kidney trouble.
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The Result.

Mr.. Povvynu-Yahs, we are having
II %genealogy traced up now.
Dickson-YOur blood be on your own
head, then.
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ton throughout the war, became Il
captain of the 151st New York regi-
ment. was brevetted Major for con
spicuous %gallantry on the field and was
honorably discharged in 1866. Re
turning to Rochester, he resumed his
mercantile pursuits. He is a promi-
nent musician of Rochester, is a choir
leader and a quartet singer.
Mrs. Hattie A. Robinson.
The Supreme Chief of the Pythian
Sisters, Mrs. Hattie A. Robinson, Of
Dayton, Ohio, is a most interesting
person. She was the first woman in
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Beware of ntmen for Catarrh thai
Contain Mercury,

Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from repu-
table physicians, as the damage they will
do is ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co,
Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces Of the system.
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get tho genuine. 1t is taken internally and
made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney s
Co. Testimonials free.
az Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills. 25c.
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OHIO to sign an ap-
plication for a char
ter for the sister
hood. which was
formed in 1883 by
permission of the
Supreme Lodge
knights of Pythias,
at the Cincinnati
session. Its mem
berS are the wives,
mothers, daughters.
sisters and widows
of knights. At the
organization of the
grand temple in
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It isn't the best man who is bested in the
prize fight. ~
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Some of our race are leaders of men, 9th.
ers are followers of women.
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The oldest system OF Telegraphy.

Take care of the poor Indians, and the
poor Indians will take hair of you.
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Hegsmnn's CamphOr Ice with Glycerine.
The original and only genuine. Cures Chapped Hands
and Face, Cold Sores. &C. q. G. C:sSk Co. N.Havcn CT.
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II tho Baby is Cutting Teeth,

One Of the most uncertain Of all things
Is a sure thing-the future.
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Attraction

did she seem to draw to you?"
II couldn't say if she was drawn or
not. She was certainly painted.
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That joyful Feeling.

The full man and the empty pocketbook
usually go together.
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WE'LL KNOWN PEOPLE
SOME INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES.
Celebrated People Who Have Ac-
Guired Fame in Various Ways and
Whose Names Are Familiar to the
Public.

Important changes soon to take place
in the officers Of the army by the re-
tirement Of some who have reached
the age limit, excites interest in those
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Much charity that begins at home Is too
feeble to get out of doors.
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Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mas.
WHsLow's SOOTHING sYRur for Children Teething.
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Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your
druggist for it. Price Is cents.
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Karl's Glover Root Tea,
The great Bloou purifier, gives freshness and clearuess
to the Complexion and cures Constipation. 25c. SOC. 81