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Chicago & North Western
RAILWAY.

Passengers for Chicago, Detroit,
Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls, Plttsburg, Cincinnati, Roches-
ter, Albany, Toronto, Montreal
Quebec, Portland, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, St. Louis, Cairo, San
Francisco, Sacramento, Ogden, Salt
Lake City, Denver, Council Bluffs,
Sioux City, st. Paul, Marquette,
Escanaba, Menasha, Madison, Chey-
enne, Omaha, Yankton, Winona,
Duluth, Green Bay, Milwaukee, and
all points North, West, South and
East, should buy their tickets via
Chicago aud the
CHICAGO l. NOR TH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
Close connections are made ut
Chicago with the Lake Shore 81
Michigan Southern, Michigan Cen
trail, Baltimore 4 Ohio, Pittsburg,
Fort Waue e Chicago, Kankakee
Line and Pan Handle Routes, for
East and Sop.n East, and with tht
Chicago e Alton and Illinois Cen
trail for all points South.
Close connections are also made
with the Union Pacific r. II. at
far Omaha for all West points.
Close connections are made at junction
points Nth trains IF all cross roads.
PULLMAN PALACE CARS.
These celebrated cars are run on
all night trains on all the lines Of
this road
This is the Only Line running
these cars between Chicago and St.
Paul or Chicago and Milwaukee.
AT Omaha our Sleepers connect
with the Overland Sleepers on tho
Union Pacific Railroad, for all
points west Of the Missouri River.
Among the
Inducements offered BY This Route
to the travelling public are all the
modern improvements: Rock and
Gravel Ballastcd Track, Steel Rail,
Rock and Iron Bridges, Parlor and
Drawing Room Day Coaches,
Smoking and Lounging Cars, West
inghouse Safety Air Breaks, Millcrs
Patent Safety Coupling and Plat
forms, Speed, Safety and absolute
! Comfort
Running Through Five Great States,
and operating over 1000 miles Of
road, this Company presents to the
traveller facilities that Are Not and
Cannot be offered by any Compel
| itor.
All ticket agents can sell you
| tickets via this route.
If You wish the best travelling
accommodations, you will buy your
tickets by this route, and will take
[ no other.
MARVIN HUGITT,
Gent Superintendent.
w. II. STENNETT,
GenI Passenger Agent. ST.
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DR. j anneS.

persons IN the city, Or JAMES has stooi b, 80
head Of the profession or the past u years. Age and
experience IA 81 important ia the successful treat
meut II syphlius in all ms. Gon0rrhra beet,
structure, can positively cared IN the shhytpu
possible time. seminal weakness, emissions ~
semen AZ night eaused BY Sc i-ibuse y iet pro
impo'ency. pimples Oh the face. siso can he culed
by tur bvst known remedy N the World. A book
fpr the million MARRtAgE GripE. when sells you III
about these dis-asss marriage love, ard thr'r :, n
sequencts free b. Office 10 10 prepay post
age. Ladies requiring the most delicate siteHi on,
home or abroad. may call or write All business
stueliy confidential. DIX JAMES has ~ rooms md
nsJiafs Ia calling gee one but the d@eior ono.
hours: %. utii = N. sunda 20 10 Is.
Consultation aiways rglx aud Invited. l,ly
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1t is my aim TO keep on hand at all
time a full stock Of everything appertain-
ing TO the dong trade.
j. II. VIVIAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01
Food For Lean Women.

If any one wishes to grow fleshy
a pint of milk taken before retiring at
night will cover the scrawniest bones.
Although nowadays we see a great
many fieshy females, yet there are
many lean and lank cnes who sigh for
the fashionable measures of plumpness
and who would be vastly improved in
health and appearance could their fig
ure be rounded with good solid flesh.
Nothing is more coveted by thin wo-
men than full figure, and nothing
else will so rouse the ire and provoke
the scandal OF one of the "clipper-
builds" as the consciousness of plump
ness in rival. In cases of fever and
summer complaint milk is now given
with excellent results. The idea that
milk is 'feverish' has exploded, and it
is now the physicians great reliance in
bringing through typhoid patients, or
those in too low a state to be nOurished
by selid food. 1t is great mistake to
scrimp the milk pitcher. Take more
milk and buy less meat. Look to your
milkmen; have large-sized, well-tilled
milk pitchers on the table each meal,
and you will have sound flesh and
light doctors bills.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01
How to Detect llarried People.


The Deer Lodge (Montans) New
Northwest lays down the following
rIles:
If you see a lady and gentleman dis
agree upon trif1ing occasions, or correct
lug each other in company, you may
be assured they have tied the matri-
monial moose.
II you see silent pair in a car or
stage lolling carelessly one at each
window, without seeming to know
they have companion, the sign is
infallible.
If you see lady drop her glove and
a gentleman by the side of her kindly
telling her to pick it up, you need not
hesitate in forming your opinion; or
If you see lady whose beauty and
accomplishments attract the attention
of every gentleman in the room but
one, you can have no difficulty in de-
termining their relationship to each
other-the one is her husband.
If you see q gentleman particularly
courteous, obliging and good natured,
relaxing into smiles, saying sharp
things and toying with every pretty
woman in the room excepting one, to
whom he appears particularly cold and
formal, and is unreasonably cross
who that one is nobody can be at loss
to discover.
The rules above quoted are laid down
as infallible in just Interpretation
they may be resorted to with conf
dence; they are upon unerring princi-
pies and deduced from everyday exper-
ianoa
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Miscsllaneens.
The Sharp Man.

The sharp man IL mistaken for the
wize one, but iz just az different from a
wise one as he liz from an honest one.
He trusts tew his cunning for success,
and this liz the next thing tew being a
rogue.
The sharp man liz like razor-gen-
orally too sharp for anything but q
shave.
These men are not to be trusted;
they are SO constituted that they must
cheat somebody, and, rather than be
idle or lose a good job, they will pitch
Into their best friends.
They are not exactly outcasts, but
live close on the borders of criminality
aud are liable tew step over emmy time
1t il zbut a step fronl cunning TO ras.
cality, and it liz short step that liz al
wuz invitin tew take.
Sharp men have but few friends, and
seldum a confdant. They learn to feal
treachery by studyin their own nature
They are always buzzy, but like the
hornet want heap of sharp watching
The sharp man iz alwuz vain one
He prides himself upon his cunning
and had rather do a shrewed thing
than kind One.-JOsh Billings.
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Anecdotes Of Henry Clay.

Mr.. Clay'S knowledge of human ma
ture was thorough and profound; and
he was able to put it to use at any mo.
ment, as the following anecdotes will
show:
On certain occasion he met an old
hunter, who had once been his support
er, but who afterward went against him
on account of his vote on a certain bill
in Congress.
Have you good rifle, my friend?'
he.asked of the hunter.
Yes
Does it ever flash in the pan?'
1T never did so more than once the
hunter answered, proud of his weap-
on
well, what did you do with it? You
didn't throw it away, did you :? contin-
ued Mr.. Clay.
No; 1 picked the flint, tried it again,
and brought down game
Have L ever flashed in the pan, ex-
cept on the Compensation bill?'
mo, can't say you have
well, will you throw me away p
No; I'll pick the flint and try you
again. So the hunter grasped Mr..
Clay's hand aud gave him his vote.
At another time Clay was visiting a
backwoods county in Kentucky, where
the man who could fire the best shot
stood highest in esteem, and the man
who couldn't fire at all was looked up
on with contempt. He was canvass
ing for votes, when he was approached
by some old hunters, one of whom
approached by some old hunters, ,one of
whom told him that he would be elect
ed to Congress, but that he must first
show how good shot he was. Clay de-
clared that he never shot with any rif9
except his own, which was at home.
NO matter. Here's Old Bess.''
answered the hunter, giving him gun,
'and she never fails in the hands of a
marksman. She's put bullet though
many squirrel at hundred yards,
and has let daylight through red-skin
at twice that distance. If you can
shoot with any gun, you can shoot with
sOld Bess.' @
A traget was set up, and Mr.. Clay
aimed old Bess' at it. He fired faint
heartedly but, the shot struck the BULLS
eye in the center.
"A chance shot a chance shot y cri-
ed his opponents.
Never mind he answered. you
beat it, and then WILL
No one could beat it, and Mr.. Clay
had too much sense to try again.
William III. Rideing, in st. Nicholas
for July.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

Illinois loses every year more than
quarter of million OF dollars Of taxes
by the exemption of church property.
The consolidated Virginia mine of
Nevada has Just declared IFS regular
little dividend of 81 ,0S0,0 900 to its stock
holders.
Ex-Governor Weston, of New Hamp.
shire, is in constant receipt of letters
desiring to engage him for walking
match. The Republicans gave him his
walking papers.
A big strawberry market. New
York consumes, at present, nearly
three hundred thousand quarts of these
berries daily.
Pope Plus scorns the iinputation of
having small grain Of fcOmmon sense.
He denies that he has made peace with
the King of Italy.
The ancient city of Cetobriga, in
Portugal, submerged by the sea, with
all its inhabitants, in the fifth century
of our era, is to be disentOmbed.
For the hundredth time, more or
less, the Utah Mormons announce
their determination to seek some for
eign cline. Why don't they stait?
I A st. Louis boy named Turton is
now an Australian nabob worth five
millions of dollars. st. Louis is an eX-
cellent place to move away from.
On the basis OF three persons to each
name, Chicago's population is claimed
to be 43S, ,399, beating st. Louis by 2l,-
900, and Cincinnati by 1S,CO0.
Tennessee expects to realize $500, 900
this year by tax on dogs, and in this
courageous way to increase her reve-
nues nearly twenty per cent.
The Centennial managers estimate
that the minimum attendance of visi-
tors at that affair will be 5000, 900, and
that the average daily attendance will
be $4,000.
Advices from China say that the dis
order in Chin Kiang, growing out of
the arrest of two native soldiers for in
sulting the American Consul and his
wife, has subsidized. The Chinese have
partially satisfied the demands for re-
paration.
An attempt was made some days ago
in the Baltimore City Councils to cut
off all sectarian appropriations from the
city funds. The propositian was
promptly defeated. The Democrtic
majority in Baltimore is ten thousand
votes. Put that and that together.
The dependence of foreign countries
upon the United States for their bread
stuffs supply is shown by statement
from the Agricultural Department,
which gives the aggregate breadstuffs
expectations in the last forty-nine years
at 81, ,742 ,908, ,059. In 1874 the exporta-
tions was $161, ,225, ,931, an amount very
much larger than that Of any previous
year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

AN AMERICAN YARN.-An English-
man-traveled, of course-relates an
American gentleman who had at an
early day gone the overland route to
California told him this: I'VE crossed
the sand hills near the scene of the In
dian mail robbery and massacre of 1856,
wherein the driver and conductor per-
ished, and also all the passengers but
one. But this must have been mis-
take, for at different times afterward,
on the Pacific coast, was personally
acquainted with a hundred and thirty
three or four people who were wound
ed during that massacre, and barely
escaped with their lives. There was no
doubt of the truth of it-I had it from
their own lips. And one of the parties
told me that he kept coming across
arrow-heads in his system for nearly
seven years after the massacre.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

During the year ending April 1, 1876
there were exported to France from
foreign countries 15,3l8,345 bottles of
champagne. France herself consumes
3,000,0 900 bottles.
Half hog piece is what the hog
crop of this country would come to if
divided up fairly among us-leaving
out the young infants, Any one wish
ing our half hog can have 1t by merely
enclosing one dollar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01
LIFE AND DEATH.


Does Life survive the touch OF Death?
Deaths hand alone the secret holds,
Which as to each one he unfolds,
We press to know with bated breath.
A whisper there, a whisper here,
Confirms the hope 10 which we cling:
But still we grasp at anything,
And sometimes hope and sometimes lear.
Some whisper that the dead we knew
Hover around us while we pray,
Anxious to speak. We cannot say
We only wish it may be true.
knew Stole who has thought,
''As healthy blood flows through his veins
And Joy his present life sustains,
And all this good has come unsought.
ssFor more he cannot rightly pray; 80
Life may extend, or life may cease;
He bides the issue, sure of peace,
Sure of the best in Gods own way.
Perfection waits the race of man;
If working out this great design,
God cuts us off, we must resign
To be the refuse of his plan.
But /, for one, feel no such peace;
/ dare to think have in me
That which had better never be,
If lost before it can increase.
And oh! the ruined piles of mind,
Daily discovered everywhere,
Built but to crumble in despair P
/ dare not think him so unkind.
The rldest workman would not fling
The fragments of his work away,
If ev'ry useless bit of clay
He trod on were sentient thing.
And does the Wisest Worker take
Quick human hearts, instead of stone,
And hew and carve them one by one,
Nor heed the pangs with which they break
And more; if but Creations waste,
Would He have given us sense to yearn
For the perfection none can earn,
And hope the fuller life to taste?
think, if we must cease to be,
1t is a cruelty refined,
To make the instincts of our mind
Stretch out towards eternity.
Wherefore L welcome Natures cry,
As earnest of lifeagain,
Where thought shall never be in vain,
And doubt before the light shall fly.
e, r. in Maenaillan's Mag.
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POETRY.
Is LETS PLAY"

oh the blessed and wise little children,
What sensible things they say!
when they can't have the things they wish 10
They take others and cry, "Let's play"
sIet's play that she chairs are big coaches
And the sofa railroad car,
And that we are all taking journeys
And travelling ever so far.
sI,et,s play" that this broken old china
Is dinner set rare and fine,
And our tincups filled with water
Are goblets of milk and wine !
ssLet's play" every one of our dollies
Is alive and can 20 to walk,
And keep up long conversations
With us if we want to talk.
ssLet's play" that we live in palace,
And that we are the queens and kings:
sLet's play we are birds In a-free-top,
And can fly about on wings.
''Let's play" that we are .school-keepers
And grown children come to our school;
And then punish them most soundly
If they break but single rule.
Oh. the blessed and wise little children,
What sensible things they say.
And we might be happy as they are,
If we would be happy their way.
What odds twixt not having and having,
When we have lived out our day.
Let us borrow the childrep's watchword,
The magical watchword, "Lets pray"
--Neae York Independent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

bought one Of your N o. Reapers and Now
from your agent. Can say that 1t has more
than filled the bill. 1 have run several ma
chimes since began to farm, among them the
Rnckeye. Woods and Mccormick, but the
Champion is the best of them ALL cut with
INV machine where the new improved Buck
eye could not strike a lick. cut twenty acres
~ oats that could not have been down more IL
a roller had been run over them. l cut eleven
acres of flax that the Buckeye tried TO cut, and
they had to get me, with the champion, 10
complete the job. Il. W. CAMMACk.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01


Hards is Cleaned Ont on Their OaOn D,ag-hiU.
Canal Fulton, Stark county, o.
Messrs. Champion, Machine Co., Springfield Ohio:
Gents-This is to certify that the Champion
Self-Rake and Buckeye Self>Rake, made at
Canton. Ohio were tried as reapers on Mr.. John
Kurtz's farm this harvest. The Buckeye folks
had been blowing their trumpet that they
could beat the Champion at any time and
agree to give them trial, and on the iarm OF
Mr.. hurtz. The Buckeye agents went into
strikers from their shops, and two from the
Russell shop OF Canton, and after making their
appearance, they began to blow that 1t would
only take three rounds OF the field to clean the
Champion out: they got cleaned out themselves
and they were politely invited by Daniel
HartZ 10 leave the field as they were constant
Iy breaking their machine and OBTAINING the
hands from work. The blow was from the other
side then. Yours truly, &C, -
r. A. PORTER,
BARNY 4ESAMAN.
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White Hall. Illinois


Iknow have saved 500 bushels Of wheat this
year that could not have done with any other
machine hut Champion. AS a self>raker 1t
runs rs light an a Buckeye dropper. My neigh
bors say II they could have bought Champion
they would have saved the pricA of 1t in adj
ditional saving of grain, this year. AS mower
have tried to choke it in the heaviest blue
grass, by stopping and starting without back
Ing of, and it Is no use, "she'' wont choke,
but will cut grass or grain fn the worst condi>
tion. Z. A. POTTS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

S6y IuOuIu
bought one Of your No. five foot cut now.
ers, of c. Klippel, sgent. consider it the best
grass cutter | have ever used. 1t will cut grass
OF any kind, wet or dry, without choke. and
can stop or start without backing the team.
have used the Buckeye, and have seen many
others cut and consider the Champion far su-
perior to all others now in use.
w. II. MASSMAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

Beard & Kearns, of Gallipolis, Ohio. say In a
letter dated July I'd: The Champion self-raker
came to hand yesterday, and is to-day making
Mr.. VIM 81. Brian rejoice after his troubles and
trials with the Buckeye, which he returned.
He says ne would not accept Buckeye as a
gracious gift.
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White Hall, Illinois.

firmly believe 1t runs as light, as a self
raker, as the Buckeye does as u dropper. In
TACT, gentlemen, il is the only machine ever
had that Just fills the bill in every particular.
have used the Buckeye. Jr., and others, but
It gets away with them all, either as self
raker or single mower. LOU. BALDWIN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

AT a trial Of moving machines held on the
farm of Gordon Wallar, near Antrim, Ohio,
June 2oth Champion was awarded the PRICE
The following ls the result OF the draft test:
Cham plOn 16eL aoo
Superior, feet IDS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

IAffUI6s IudIdId,
The Champion pitted against the Buckeye on
the farm OF K. T. Harris, yesterday. Mr.. Harris
bought the Champion and dumped the Bucks
eye III the fence corner. j. +. QUlGLEY.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

His Neigfbors had TO Lay tfei, Second-cldss Ma-
chimes aside and BoTTOao his Champion TO Cut
their Dosrn, Tangled and Hedry Crops
Xenia, Illinois.
Ny neigh hbors are using the Buckeye, and had
10 come and get me to cut their flax with my
Champion, as the fax was very ripe and linty
their machines " ould not cut 1t. The CHAINS
pion did the work with perfect ease.
j. w. MORRIS. .
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

Macon, Illinois.
Run II against the Buckeye In down grain
The Buck eye left the field. lwiil put my IMAM
f-o JAMES ID. SMITH.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

Columbus, South Carolina.
Before purchasing the Champion tried the
buckeye. My objection to the Buckeye Is Its
utter inability to cut in rough ground. The
Champion is simple in construction. and l
have cut down Cotton Rows, and on very un-
even ground. II. Z. LEVY.
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The Buckeye Table Rake Prores Failure.
Middle Branch, Stark county, o.

Middle Branch, Stark county, Q.
The Champion was placed in our hands on
its merits, subject to a season trial with the
Buckeye Table Rake. After thorough and
mpartial trial OF both machines, we have de>
cided that the Champion is our choice, 1t hav>
ing gone far beyond our expectations. In mow-
ing It runs much lighter than the Buckeye, and
cuts q wide sWath. JOSEPH HOLDEN,
CONRAD SPEELMAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

Green Castle, Indiana.
The Buckeye in the fence corner. The Cham
piop bought in its pl ace. E. A. CAIN.
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A0ain the Buckeye Fails to do the Work.
Columbia Bottom, St. Louis county, Mo.

used the Buckeye machine fifteen years, but
L bought one Of your No. Mowers and Reap
ers in July last. the machine WORKS 10 per,
lection. Many of my neighbors had lodged
wheat and rye, and.t they had to come to me to
get their crops cut. In my neighborhood tne
Buckeye is in common use, put ltIails 70 mar
vest lodged grain, and had to cut their crops
io- ALBERT H. THlELE.
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80, 600 Being Built for the Har-
vest of 1875.
Works rllere all Others F'da. Buy Early j
you rant a Champion for the Haruest Of ''75.
Found it Economy to Hire the
Champion to Finish his Crop.
His Buckeye Having Wasted Half Enough to
Pay for n Good Reliable Champion.
Waverly, Morgan county, Ill.

Two years ago last harvest myself and broth
er bought new Buckeye combined, and TINS
year with that machine as good as new, was
necessarily compelled or considered IL econo-
my, to hire Champion to cut my wheat, or al
all events, a balance Of thirty acres, the Buck
which evideptaliy lost wheat enough TO half
pay for q new Champion. The wheat was bad
ly down where the Buckeye failed and the
Champion succeeded. If should buy another
machine 1t will certainly be a Champion.
THOMAS PATRICK.
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Elyria, Lorin county. o.

Elyria, Lorin county, y.
After having the Buckeye with Miller's Ia
HE Rake). Russell and Champion on trlai on
nv farm. bought yours, IL doing the Des'
work and giving the best satisiacSi9n; gl, 9nn;prup
My 20>3m JAMES "
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01

L.
An author who had wrought book
of Fables (the merit whereof transcend
ed expression) was peacefully sleeping
atop of tine modest emipence to which
he had attained, when he was rudely
awakened by a tbrong of critics, emit
ting adverse judgment upon the tales
he had builded.
Apparently said he, Il have been
guilty of some small grains of uncon-
sidered wisdom, and the same have
proven bitterness to these excellent
folk, the which they will not abide.
All! we'll, those who produced the
Strasbourg pate and the feather pillow
are prone to regard us as rival creators.
L presume it is in course of nature for
him VINO grows the pen to censure the
manner of its use.'
So speaking he executed smile q
hand's-breadth in extent, and resumed
his airy dream Of dropping ducats.
MORAL: AS above.
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The Fables Of Zambrl. the
Parspe

Translated by the Persian by bod Grille, i
London Fun.