Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-02-18
for the Toniap folks.
Good B~y Wanted.

Good Bsy Wanted.
w AS was walking down Randelp
\. street last week / saw u large card hang
l, ing out at the door OF shop sn whic
+ was painted in great black letters tn
y words, '.Good Boy Wanted"
e Most of the sh pkeepers content them
n selves with saying, s"Boy Wanted" il
a such cases. but this NAH was .particuia
|. about the kind of q boy he took into hi
;, store.
a well, y said to myself II wonde
) if there are not a good naiIy other peo
q pie who might hang out the same sign.
There is my friend Mr.. Wholesale
r He advertised for a boy, and had to turn
: him off in a week because he was 81
a saucy. Then he tried another, and hs
j was a regular loafer, and would stop ant
! play marbles in the street when he was
/ sent on errands. Besides, he took the
. silly netioR that it would be great
) thiag for him to learn to smekegan
:. ciIew tobacco, and he actualfy stoIs
money to buy the filthy stuff. So Of
, he went, and Mr.. Wholesale is still in
want OF boy-a good boy wanted. =
u There are some of my neighbers who live
in beautiful marble houses, and wisll all
i their wealth they feel poor sometimes
because they have no little children TO
RI make their beautiful homes bright aud
4 happy. Some Of them are talking of
adopting child; aud there are more
good boys wanted. 7.a.-5 eifa-as-Hi-,a
( There is a lady living down in 49, -----
street whose heart is made very sorry
by she bad habits of her son. He is a
bright little fellow. but he is willful and
disobedient, and sometimes cruel To the
fstnalier boys. Once in awhile he swears
flr haf nfv l,- "A. Il. ..r,
heart; and If you could hear her praying
for her wayward son you would SEE what
God sees, that the meaning of that poor
mothers prayer is good boy wanted. u
a Some good boys are wanted in all the
city schools to set an example TO those
rude little rascals who throw stones and
call names, and shout to people going
along the street, and who never have
their lessons iwell 4earned.iii psss
! They want ever SO many good boys in
! the Sunday schools f9SSrain up to be
! Christian meretfAnts sud mechanics,
and teachers, jand efsftsionar arles-indeed
| do not k ON Of sn5 place. where a
good oy would not be- *elcsme. The
savior wants gpo'i boysIs work fer him.
and what is r1orH. ;ftile bsI4 bows will
only give him their Selrts he will help
them to De good bays taes
| And sometimes, away up m heaven
there is a good hoy -wanted"~ for some
of the pleasant things they have to do
up in that happy land. And then the
Lord looks down to find out one who is
true and gentle, anu who loves to do
Fgood for the sake Of pleasing the Savior;
and t,e sends for him and puts him into
a better pia,-e than ever was offered to !
boy on cart /. So everyw here though |
you don't see the sigu hanging out there
are good boys wanted: Indeed there is |
50 great demand for that kind of boys |
that it would take every lad in the
world to supply it; and they are wanted /
IMMEDIArELY. Attention, my lad! good I
bow wanted! Will you swer the call? |
Advance. ap
DEFINITE.--ln class of little girls in I
one o. the schools of Boston the question
was asked. What is fort?"
A place 20 put men in," was the an
swer. 1i-
What is fortress, them" asked the
teacher. - -,y,., d. /
p This seemed a puzzler, until one little
girl ofeight summersianswered, A place
to put tie women in" was
II Ssr,sse=sszs- -, -ss q. 2 . AZ SHFs
- = The Whisky Rins. --ss- = - I
The Washington correspo ndefft of the
Baltimore Sum, under date OF February
3, makes the following revelations IN 4
regard to The operations of theswhisky I
ring at Washington: st. s.sssi = - -
A comm rtee of whisky deaieFe. were 2
to-day before the Ways and Means
Committe urging an extension OF the
time for removing whisky in bond.
which, by the present law is to bs re-
maved on or before April 20, 1859. In
thia ho ,valI fn oorrocr
my paragraph of Monday last, wherein I
it was set forth that the receipts of in
ternal revenue received under the
reduced tax 80 cents per gallon exceed
those of the corresponding period when
tine tax was 81 per gallon. This state
ment, without expl nation, is calculated
To mislead. The receipts for the period {
indicated, it, should be borne in mind, 4
are not for whisky manufactured during Is
that space of stime, but are for the tax II
ON whisky accumulated durinls several
years in bond, having been there placed \
by many who, under the old law had c
bern engaged in evading and refusing to
pay the tax. The amount of receipts {
instead of showing q favorable c
of things for the government. I
shows the reverse. The government
should have received many millions of {
dollars more. The reduction of tax on
whisky in bond was part of q scheme of
4 special whisky ring, promoted, 1t is al
eged, by few members of COngresst
who We're in tie secret. The operations {
,f the ring were on the grandest scale r
known to revenue history. 1t will be t
that during all the early c
period of the last session of Congress, it G
was given out by members who, from y
heir position, were SUPPOSED 70 be a
,hori5ed' TO speak for that body, that
here would be no reduction. of the tax,
md the Committee of Ways and Means !,
lsii reported that there should be no u
'eductioih During ali, this lime the p
our grand managers. Of thea scheme. !
knowing what was to come, plEcbastd q
nearly all the whisky in bond, amount
ny to $4,000, 900 or 16, ,0D0,000l gallons, .,
jayfng for it prices ranging from five
q. ii teen. cents. When these purchases a
we're completed, it was announced in a
lie House of Representatives that the q
AK was TO I've re'.uced not only OIL what I
vas to- abe ins,i,e in future. but on wha, {
vas in honll yAlc:l Already the govern
nent field far bIs q rae price Of handfd u
whisky ut once il,ivsneed 10 80 anfidii !
,euts, thus netting 10 the ring the pur- c
.h.tsers s0lshQlJe,l W b lax y ,ahdut Ss,N1,-ik
NO, which was divided Among tho SMART !
of the scheme. How many d
CONGRESS received diyidends e.
n this gigantic trick will probably never d
,e truthfully made known, One of the 0
ing, already millionaire in New York. Il
Idded S., ,000, ,0aD to this fortune. Instead y
II. this reduction ( tax being great
,sin to the government il was a nous
rous loss. q If this whisky paid the 50 a
AK as it should have done, it would 81