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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-11

IT costs more to be vicious than it does
to be virtuous. It is matter of economy
to practice virtue in all things. One vice
often costs more than ten virtues.
BARLEY SoUP.-Take two pounds OF
shin of beef, quarter pound of pearl bar
ley, two onions sliced, two carrots chop
ped, salt and pepper to taste place in a
gallon pot, fill up with cold water, boil
gently for five hours. Celery tops i'm
prove its flavor.
THE TRACKS OF TIME.-The passing
years drink a portion of the light from
our eyes, and leave their traces en- our
cheeks, as birds that drink at lakes leave
their footprints on the margin.
Sorrows gather round great souls as
storms do around mountains; but, like
them, they break the storm and purify
the air of the plain beneath them.
LABOR Is GENIUs.-When lady once
asked Turner, the celebrated English
painter, what his secret was, he replied:
''I have no secret, madam, but hard
work. This is secret that many
never learned, and don't succeed be-
cause they don't learn it. Labor is the
genius that changes the world from
ugliness to beauty, and the greatest curse
to great blessing.
THE LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD.
When the new Union Hotel of Leland
Brothers, at Saratoga, is completed, it
will the largest hotel in the world.
It will have q frontage of l ,05O feet, five
stosries high. 1t will be built of brick,
and the building will be divided sinto
nine compartments, almost fire-proof.
It is to be finished and furnished, ready
for the reception Of guests, by the LIST
day o. June nexr ~ = -.
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farm aud 5tousehuid.

PLANTING VEGETABLES IN OCTOBER
OR NovEMBER.-Lettuce and spinach
can be raised nearly month earlier by
planting the seeds late in the autumn,
and covering them an inch. Make your
beds rich with hen or barn-yard manure
for lettuce and spinach; the latter is said
to be the best test of the richness of the
land-it must be well fed to flourish.
Cover the beds with leaves, straw. or
hemlock- and, if possible, place
boards over them to retain the coverings.
In April, remove the rubbish, and
your plants will soon flourish. The
careful observer will remember how
often lettuce and spinach come forward
early in the spring from having sown
themselves the previous autumn.
Last year several onions were left in
the ground unwittingly. They sprang
up in April, producing fine potato-onions
very early. We are now saving onion
seed from roots which lived over the
winter. A potato was planted on rose
root. to keep in the sap; it fl urished
through the summer unmOlested. In
the spring, fresh potatoes were found
in the ground, and they are growing
now. s-
Lettuce and spinach are hardy, and
the early frosts will not injure them.-
Hearth and Home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-11
The Oak and Ivy Theory.

1t is poor compliment to women
when men style themselves oaks and
the women ivy vines. The oak is of
utility, affording shade and fruit, but
the ivy is merely ornamental! Now l
love beauty as well as any body ought
to, and love ornament when it is con-
sistent with good sense, but I don't
want to see our women ornamental, de-
pendent, good for nothing ivy vines.
Human ivy vines who are too delicate
for labor and are afraid of the dark un-
less protected by the oak, whose fingers
like tendrils, are forever clutching at
theoak's pocket. and whose knowledge,
opinion and religion are uneXamined,
shadowy reflections from that self-same
oak, may be very pretty to look at, but
they can't perform woman's mission.
Yet we are beseeched to be ivy vines in
one breath, and reminded of the wonder
full influence and usefulness in our
"proper sphere" in the next.
Women are wanted, not ivy vines.
Women who can stand without sup
port, who think and act as conscience
dictates. Women who are thoroughly
developed and highly cultivated in every
particular. Women who will dress fol
comfort and beauty combined, and ac'
cording to their work and means, Wo.
men with strong bodies. brave, affec.
tionate hearts, and large brains, who
are capable of preparing hygienic and
palatable meal; of supporting them
selves, and others, if need be. ~
A thoroughly developed women seems
to be beyond the comprehension of some
people. So long has she been dwarfed
by her own folly, by being kept in q
hot-house or in cellar, that some seem
to think women must necessarily be
one-sided. According to them, if wo.
men is strong physically, she is weak
mentally, and Uice versa. If she is a
good housckeeper and q loving mother
she can know nothing of literature and
politics. If she is "a writer, her house.
hold suffers. If a "woman's rights wo-
man." the instinct of maternity is want.
ing. They are afflicted with narrow.
sightedness and can not behold wo-
man possessing all these qualities any
more than we can look at the sun al
midday. If women would but gain
self-knowledge and attend to self-cul-
ture, the assertions of these croakers
would be refuted, ere long, by the con-
vincing logic of visible facts. [-Castelle,
in Ldaies' Owo Magazine.
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Floors for Horse Stables.

Plank floors, either for horse or cattle
stable, are fast falling into disrepute. -
In the case of the horse, they tend to
render his feet feverish and ultimately
permanently lame. Cattle, are, per
haps, less afflicted in this way, but they
often receive injury by slipping on the
plank floors when wet.
A better plan is to make compact
earthen floor, and cover it literally with
sawdust or something equivalent to it.
Stock stand easier on such foundation,
while the material used absorbs the
liquid eXcretions, makes a fertilizer
for meadows in the fall or composted for
other purposes. This saving alone will
soon pay for the change Of the stable
floor, to say nothing of the comfort and
ease.it will afford farm stook.-Ameri-
can Farmer.
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Lime for Wheat.

1 have applied lime to wheat for the
last three years with the best results. ]
turn under my oat stubble as soon as
possible after harvest, and then top dress
with from thirty to sixty bushels of re-
fuse lime to the acre. Just before SOW
ing the wheat scatter it on the land
out of wagon with shovel. 1t costs
ten cents per bushel with US. BY this
treatment l have raised over thirty
bushels of wheat to the acre each year.
My object in early plowing is to have
the oats come up; then though harrow
ing before sowing kills the oats, and
mixes the lime and manure in with the
soil thorougal
think lining is great benefit to the
land for several years. l cut nearly
four tons of hay per acre, this season,
from land that was lined for wheat
three years ago.--[D. l.. Dunning
(Broome: Co., NJ " in Moore's Rural
New Yorker.
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Tn. 1luence Of Theught.

Young people who wish to be beau
tiful should make note of fthis: Think
beautiful. and you'll be beautiful. y
This is the homely expression of good
motto. The lines of our faces tell of
certain thoughts which have used GER
tain muscles. Eminent physicians and
careful surgeons will til you how long
continued avarice, or sensuality, OF
pride. will write their traces all over
the face, just as benevolence and Its
kindred virtues will also. There is no
sculptor like pure, good though. 1t
refiI1es the face once heavy and gross
with the prevalence of animal. 1t
chisels off the blunt edges of the nostrils,
and cuts a clean, sharp corner to the
mouth. 1t Trims the lip; clears the eye,
and makes it bright; it rounds the
face it causes the countenance to glow
with theheafth of the heart. And all
because a new principle of life has got in,
and because we use our privilege ol
thought Alright. have seen faces
which were almost ugly, became at times
positively beautiful-so great is the
power Of Thought over these very bodies
in which we dwell, and over the face
which is now, as always, the index el
the mind. And she who looks may
learn.
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Mr.. cough and HI. Mother. Bible.

In one of bis touching addresses in
Exeter Hall, Mr.. Cough said: After a
speech in Boston, short time ago,
lady came to me, the daughter OF Rev.
DIR. Choufes, and said, My father is
dead, but he was collecting curiosities,
and he happened to light on your moth
er's Bible in Bristol. 1 had resided
there twenty-five years ago, and pleased
was to hear the Bible was found. L
had it sent to me by express train.
There were the names: Jane Gilbert,
that was my mothers name before mar
riage, born August 18th, l776;' John
Cough, q present from his mother; on
his leaving England for America; John
Cough, born August %, 1917 held
my Bible in my hand. remembered
howl had seen that mother with hel
lips white with hunger, and L recollect
how she took her iron-rimmed specta-
cIes from her eyes to wipe away the
tears as she turned page after page, saw
her marks-'When the poor and needy
seek water and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, then l the
Lord will help them, the Gud of Israel
will not forsake them;' with hundreds OF
passages; more like that, all blessed
promises, marked in that book. That
mothers Bible brought her history be-
fore me. There remains no token to
mark her last resting place; no hearse
and mourners followed her to the grave;
she was followed by myself and sister
alone, and WITHOUT prayer sue was
consigned to the dust. But she left her
children the legacy ofa mothers pray
ers and the Lord God Almighty as the
executor of her last will and testament;
and though that poor little body of
schoolmistress has gone before, and heI
spirit has taken its flight to its eternal
home, I stand before you tonight to de-
clare that If ever accomplished any
thing in the world, if 1 have ever done
aught Of good, what 1 am and what
have done by the grace of God, has been
through the influence of that mother.
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06uifeZ ZMisffllanu ).
rhe Hardest Lesson.


Ehe hardest lesson q hum an being
An learn is that of self-conqu' sst. Per-
hans it is most difficult for We man, for
women are mere implusive tn an men.
II il terrible for any enc to set aside all
things else for the sake of dut y; to say
this hope, this joy, this tn ing that
makes life beautiful, stands in the way
of what ought to be first, and turn ones
hack upon it; but it can be done foy
every one at some time. tOne must
learn, also, the suppression OF emotlo' ms
which it is not wise to expires s. Ii THEY
cannot be killed, than bury them al i've,
and saw nothing One almost dies in
the attempt, but the proudest moment
ofanv life is when it can be said with
trnth tiI can do what viii with my.
seIf: have no habit cannot break
have no thought cannot refuse ex-
nressson: 1 can forbid myself to be angry
TO seek vengeance, to resent ev en- uncall.
ed-for insult and impertine,Ice and
can take even love, the strougest of all
the human emotions, from my heart,
and strapgle it, when to love would be
either wrong or foolish" The men who
drink to excess, the men who gamble
and the women who die of love fol
some fellow incapable of appreciating
y them. are incapable of self-ccnquest
Think of that, and learn to conquer
your heart, your mind, and your ap'
petite ~ -. ill43-5- -ra
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-11
what sleep wuI Cure.

The cry for more rest has always been
louder than the cry for food. Not that
it is more important, but it is often har-
der to get. The best rest comes from
sound sleep. OF two men or women,
otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the
best will be the most moral, healthy and
efficient.
Sleep will do much to cure irritability
of temper, peevishness, uneasiness. Ii
will cure insanity. 1t will restore to
yigor an overworked brain. 1t will
build up and make strong weary body
1t will do much to cure dyspepsia, par
ticularly that variety known as nervous
dyspepsia. 1t will relieve the languoI
and prostration felt by consumptives.-
1t will cure the blues. 1t will cure the
heartache. 1t will cure neuralgia. II
will cure broken spirit. 1t will cure
sorrow. Indeed, we might make along
list of nervous maladies that sleep will
cure.
The cure of sleeplessness, however, is
not so easy, particularly in those who
carry grave responsibilities. The habit
of sleeping we'll is one which, if broken
up for any length of time, is not easily
regained. Often severe illness, treated
by powerful drugs,so deranges the nerv.
Gus system that sleep is never so sweet
after. Or, perhaps, long continued
watchfulness produces the same effect
or hard study, or too little exercise o.
the muscular system, or tea and whisky
drinking, and Tobacco using. To break
up the habits are required:
1. A clean good bed. s-As
3. Sufficient exercise to produce weari
ness, and pleasant occupation
8. Good air, and not too warm.
4. A clean stomach.
5. A clear conscience.
For those who are overworked, hag
gard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights
we commend the adoption of such habits
as shall secure sleep. otherwise life will
be short, and what there is of it sadly
inperfected'-[Herald of Health.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-11

Let any man pass an evening in
vacant idleness, or even in reading some
silly tale, and compare the state of his
mind when he goes to sleep or gets up
next morning, with its state some other
day, when he has spent a few hours in
going through the. proofs, by facts and
reasoning, of some great doctrines in
natural science, of learning truths wholly
new to him, and satisfying himself, by
careful examination, of the grounds on
which known truths rest, so as to be not
only acquainted with the doctrines
themselves, but able to show why i.e be-
heves them and to prove before others
that they are true; will find as great a
difference as can exist in the same being
the difference between looking back
upon time unprofitably wasted, and
time spent in self-improvement; he will
feel himself, in one case, listless and dis
satisfied -in the other comfortable and
happy; in the one case if he did not ap-
pear to himself humble, at least will not
have earned any claim to his own re-
spect, in the other case. he will enjoy a
proud consciousness of having, by his
own exertions,r become wiser, and
therefore more exalted nature.-[Lord
Brougham.
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l will attend in person, or by deputy at the
places of holding elections in each Township
for the purpose of receiving Taxes as follows:
Washington, Monday, October 4th.
York, Tuesday October 5th.
Mead, Wednesday, October 9Th.
Pultney, Thursday, Friday &Saturday, Oct
7th, Sth and 9th
Colerain, Thursday, October 18th.
Smith Friday, October 18th.
Wheeling. Saturday, October 10th.
Goshen Monday, October 18th.
Flushing, Tuesday, October 18th.
KirkwoOd, Wednesday, Goth.
g , Union, Thursday, October 2lst.
Pease, Friday, October 22nd.
Bridgeport, Satul day. October 3rd.
Col B. Mackall, will attend as follows:
Wayne, Wednesday, October 18th.
Somerset, Thursday, October 18th.
Warren, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10 & l6.
The books of Wayne, Somerset and Warren
Townshiris and GAINESVILLE and Somerton, and
BarnesvilIe and Hendrysburg Nackodamiked
Roads. will remain In the hands of Col. Mac
kali in his Office at GAINESVILLE, until Oct End
after which all Taxes will be received at my OF
fice in 81. ClairsvlIle, until December 10Th.
-''T JAMES IRWIN, Treas. Bel. Co. D.
Treasurers OAse, Sept. IL, 1859.
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Consumption.

For the encouragement of patients,
and to illustrate the course of life most
likely to restore vigorous health, con-
dition incompatible with consumption
[ usually relate cases that have come
under my observation. The following
is one example among many:
A young medical friend, having a
hereditary tendency to consumption,
began to realize its first well-marked
symptoms. Itprogressed rapidly toward
fatal determination. The cough,
emaciation, and hectic betrayed his con-
dition to the most superficial observer.
Alarmed at his condition, but dreading
to yield to the conviction of his friends
that he was q victim of this disease, he
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Preventing Damage to Farm Fields by
Winter and Spring Rains.

The ground is oftened injured, and
the season for blowing in spring often
delayed, on account of the excess OF
water with which the soil becomes satu-
rated. In many fields there are consid-
cradle plots of ground which remain in
a miry or soggy condition until late in
the season owing to the incessant rains
and the oozings from wet weather
springs. Of course. understanding is the
thing really needed in such cases. But,
in the absence of undertaking, if the
farmer will in autumn take his plow
and make furrows to act as open drains
to carry of the coming superabundance
of winter rains, he will find when spring
comes that he has been richly repaid for
his trouble. Ho will be able to put in
his early potatoes, oats or spring barley
l or 2 weeks sooner this forethought,
and his ground will break up in much
nicer condition. Such furrows or open
drains to carry off the excess of winter
rains, if constructed so as to have only
a gentle fall, will also be of great service
in preventing any washing away of the
soil.
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LET US see a woman possessing the
beauty of modest and meek deport-
ment Of an eye that bespeaks intelli-
gence and purity within-of the lips
that speaks nc guile; let us see in her a
kind, benevolent disposition, heart
that can sympathize with distress, and
I will never, ask for the beauty that
dwells in ruby lips, or flowing tresses, or
the forty other ct ceterds upon which
our poets have harped for SO many ages.
These fade when touched by the hand
of tine, but those ever enduring qualities
of the heart outlive their reign, and
grow brighter and fresher as the ages OF
eternity roll away.
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BURNING POTATO VINEs.-Some farm
ers burn their potato vines at the time of
digging, to kill out the baridus, or stem
worm, which bores out the pith of the
stock during the summer, and retards
the growth of the roots. By burning,
the larvae in the vine is destroyed, which
gives some security to future crops
IOhio Farmer.
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Executors Notice,

NOTICE is hereby given that in the Probate
~ Court of Belmont County. Ohio the UNDER
signed were appointed and qualified as Execu--
tors of the estate of Benjamin 5. Cowen dec d. :
late of said County.
All persons indebted to the estate are reQuest-
ed to make immediate payment, and those hay-
ing claims against the same will present them
to the undersigned within one year from this
date.
D. d. T. CowEN,
@. w. HOGE,
Exrs. of Benjamin ). Cowen
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Notice to the Public.
Mrs. T. Frazier'S

Mrs. T. FrazierS
Compound Extract of Fruit Leaves,
I NOW COMPOUNDED AS A GUM, and
/ made into Salve. The Gum contains moth
ing but the PURE EXTRACT of the three
special kinds of Leaves, and will dissolve In
water in a short time.
For 25 cts. and two Postage Stamps, we
will send by mail, circular and Gum enough
to make pint OF Liquid, which will be four
pints when used as directed.
In case of FEMALE WEAKNESS, the pa
tient is safely and speadily relieved of all suf-
fering For the EYES, if they are intiamed
from cold, wound or erysipelas. II will draw
out the inflammation and restore the eyes to
health. H-
A BOX of Salve will be delivered for the price
above mentioned. 1t heals without scar
When once tried il brags for ITSELF
For Piles, Boils, Gatherings, Burns, Cuts,
Bruises, litter, Sores, Chaped- -hands. Bunions,
and all eruptions of the skin, il makes perfect
cure. 1t is also perfect in cure of all those
diseases, sores and wounds peculiar to horses.
For self-intereSt many physicians will say,
this Compound Extract OF Fruit Leaves. is OF
no account. If you doubt it, call and will re-
fer you to many who have been cured by its
use.
Wholesale Price, s., 90 per doz. boxes of Salve
or sticks of Gum, . for Sl.0O.
T. FRAZIER & CO.,
-..- Martins Ferry, Bel. Co., o.
ap9 lS6S-ly* chfe2o
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Take Notice.

Mr.. j. II. McMonies would respectfully an
nounce to the public that he has leased for a -.
of NJ. Kellar, and will carry on the businsss - .
branches and as he expects TO do a cash busi.
ness, wiz sell goods as cheap they can be =
bought at any other house in town,
Juns lo-sn
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THE NATIONAL HOTEL
TO The Public.

The undersigned announces that he has pur-
chased the entire interest and good will OF
Messrs. Campbell & Downing, in their line OF
wheeling leaving Morristown in the morning
and Wheeling in the afternoon. He will now
be prepared to accommodate all travellers with
comfortable Omnibusses, under the charge OF
careful and sober employees. Fair Fifty cents
between Morristown and st. Clairsville and
Wheeling and st. Ciairsville-way passengers
in proportion.
Mr.. Isaac H. Patterson will act as his, and the
Express Agent, in st. Clairsville. Ali orders
and packages left with him will be promptly
and carefully attended to
JOSEPH B. BUTLER.
November l2-tf
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CONTAINING
Full instructions and Practical Forms adapted
10 Every Kind of Business and to all the States
of the Union.
BY FRANKLIN CHAMBERLIN,
OF the United States Bar.
There Is no book of the kind which will take
rank with IL for authenticity, intelligence, and
lican.
This is the ONLY NEW BOOK of the kind
puoished for many years. II is prepared by
an able PRACTICAL LAWYER, of twenty-five
years experience and isJust what everybody
needs for daily use.
n is hightyrecopnlepdeiby By many eminent Judges
including The Chef Justice aud other Judges o.
Massachusetts. and the CHEZ Justice and entire
Bench Of Cbnnecticm.
Sold only by Subscription. AGENTS WANT
ED ENERYWHERE. Send for Circulors.
u. ID. CASE& CO., Publishers, Hartford, Conn.,;
No; Spruce St, New York; Cincinnati, o.;
and Chicago Ill.
CAUTION.
Since this work was put to press, an old law
book, published many years ago, and long since
out of date, has been hastily re-issued as a
new book, !" without even "a suitable revision
OF its obsolete statements. Do not confound
that work with CHAsBERLIN's LAw-BooK FOR
THE PEOPLE. agI2
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WANTED--AGENTs ~-
'aG .aa Erasl -. --E 'a1l f
For Our Family Physician.
Early Rose Potatoes.

} Barrels for sale at Vests Drug store They
= are put up in 8 and 10 pound packages. and
sold at 10 cents per pound We Will forward hu h,,
mail pounds for (S0) eighty cents. ~
st. Clairsville, Oct, z, tS80.
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Misffllanfnus,
Great Improvement in
Washing Machines.
TIL { Old Wooden Wash Beard
again Turned-Up.

ID power and the old wash-board, IN the con-
struction of the
Keystone Washing Machine,
the best machine ever introduced, has been
brought into use.
The cry of "humbug" is completely silenced,
and the prejudice against Washing Machines
overcome wherever this machine has been tried
and its good qualities and capacity tested. IL Is
universally pronounced just what was needed
as labor saving Washing Machine.
For reference as to the superiority OF this ma
chine over all others now in use, we give the
following names:
George Dilworth, Mt. Pleasant, o.
Isaac Guyton,
VIM. Hall, Harrisville Ohio.
stephen Hobson, Flushing, Ohio.
Joseph Walker, F"
Jacob Holloway,
Isreal Lewis, st. Clairsville, Ohio.
Jesse Bewley,
H. c. Welday,
Elijah Pickering, East Richland,
Enoch Carman,
and all others who are using the machine.
For Information, address,
maaD-tf Flushing, Ohio