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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
For Young Men to Remember.

The Albany Press urges young men tt
remember the following:
That clothes don't make the man.
That their fathers know more than
they do.
That if they once get in debt they may
never get out of it.
That an employer who hears of clerk
living in style good ways above bis
salary is very apt to show him the door
when he least expects it.
That they can't reckon on their fathers
fortune alone to bring them through life
Fortunes are slippery things-betteI
have something besides to fall back on
That girl who decks herself in the
latest thing out, and parades the street
while her mother does the family wash
ing, isn't worth wasting much love on.
That fellow who deliberately propo-
ses matrimony to a young lady when he
can't support himself, is either first
class fraud or fool-unless he marries
for money and becomes her "hired man.
That if they wish to fall stark mad
in love with girl because she is pretty,
they ought to be sure how much powder
and paint there may be in the question,
and figure upon it accordingly.
That they viii need something more
substantial than cigars, light kids and a
cain to start housekeeping with.
That they should devote some of their
leisure moments to the Improvement of
their minds, if they ever mean to amount
to anything.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
jeff Davis Profits.

According to correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution, Mr.. Jefferson Da-
Wis profits from his history of the late
war promise to be very large. The cheap
est form of the book is $40 for the two
volumes, and the price runs from this
up to S25. Mr.. Davis can not receive
less than 80 for each book sold. and the
sale of over $4,000 copies is already as
sured. The English copyright has been
secured. Mr.. Davis has drawn nothing
from his publishers up to date, but there
are expenses of secretaries, amenuenses.
&c, amounting to probably $4,000. The
contract with the Appletons was made
six years ago. Mr.. Davis will probably
receive 100000 as his share Of the prof
its of the first years sales. General John
b. Gordon, writing a history of the night
attack on Fort Steadman, at the request
of Mr.. Davis, on November /. 1880, ad-
dressed him as My Dear Mr.. President
and it is so printed in the book. 1t is re-
ported Hon. A. II. Stephens will review
the Davis history for Scribner's Month
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
Scandal-MORgers.

Do you hear the scandal-mongers,
Passing by,
Breathing poison in whisper,
In sigh?
Moving cautiously and slow; e.
Smiling sweetly as they go.
Never noisy-gliding smoothly like q
snake,
Slipping here and sliding there
Thro' the meadows fresh and fair,
Leaving subtle slime and poison in their
wake?
Saw you not the scandal monger
As she sat, --s
Beaming brightly meath the roses
On her hat?
In her dainty gloves and dress;
Angel like and nothing less,
Seemed she-castingl smiles and pleas
pleasant words about,
Once she shrugged and shook her
head,
Raised her eyes and nothing said
When you spoke of friends, and yet it
left doubt.
Did you watch the scandal-monger,
Through the music. rythm, beauty.
Light and all?
Moving here and moving there,
With whisper light as air
Casting shadows ON a sister woman's
Just whispered word or glance
As she hoated through the dance,
And a doubt forever hangs upon name.
You will find the scandal-mongers
Everywhere,
Sometimes men, but often women,
Young and fair.
Yet their tongues dip foulest slime,
And they spend their leisure time
Casting mud on those who climb by
work and wOrthl
Shun them, shun them, as you go.
Shun them, whether high or low;
They are but the cursed serpents of the
earth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

/. NEWSPAPERS will add nothing to
their reputation by claiming that Re-
publican rascalities are being unearthed,
and that "big Democrats" have been
caught, or are about to be caught, by
the "Star route ring investigations and
consequent prosecutions. All such as
sociations as the "Star route ling are
necessarily composed of "big" men of
both parties. That course is followed as
a matter of mutual protection-the ras-
Gals assuming that neither party will
exposesor prosecute them when the good
name Of thes"party may be involved.
Their estimate was correct as to the al
legged Congressional investigating COM
mittee. The main facts in connection
with these "Star route" swindles swere
in possession of the Democratic Chair
man Of pf.fhatAcommittee, andfwere delib-
efatel ysunpressed Postmaster General
James aud attorney General McVeagh
are, however. real civil service reform
ers, and are not afraid of hurting their
party" by exposing and Furnishing ras-
calls. In point of fact, the fellows who
combine for the purpose of-swindling
the pdblic-whether that public be the
Natien, a State, Il county or city-are
neither Republicans nor Democrats, ex-
cept nominaliy. They are men wholly
destitute of principle, no matter what
their public professions may be.-[O. S.
Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

The railroad war between the advO-
Gates of the Bellaire and Woodsfield and
the Bellaire and Beaver Valley road,
ragged all last week in the Meigs Creek
Valley, and this week is being continued
on the part of the Woodsfield railroad by
re-enforcements from Zanesville and
Caldwell From what we learn, the Bel
laire & Beaver Valley have the advant-
age at Seeleysville and vicinity and have
taken the right-of-way. and considera-
BILE stock. We still think this communi-
ty is leaning upon stick that will break
under them, and build no railroad. They
have this consolation however, that if
they get no railroad, they will have to
pay no money, as not a single dollar
subscribed to the Bellaire and Beaver
Valley road in Noble county can be col
lected, the managers not having COM
piled with the law governing the taking
of railroad subscriptions. We suppose
the railroad is in the same predicament
in the stock subscribed in the adjoining
counties. This failure upon the part of
Sullivan and Atkinson to give notice of
the opening of stock books, more than
anything else, raises grave doubt in
our mind whether they ever cOntem-
plated building railroad on their pro-
jected line.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
The Prospect i'm Ohio.

A staff correspondent of the Tribune,
making preliminary survey of the po-
litical field in Ohio at the opening of the
Republican campaign, finds the pros
poets decidedly favorable to Governor
Foster and the excellent ticket upon
which ne was placed by the Cleveland
Con vention. There are elements of un
certainty in the contest, however, chief
Eamong which is the action of the Tenn
perance vote some portion of this vote
may be dissatisfied at not getting from
the Republican Convention an indorse-
ment of It's movement in behalf of To-
cal option. law. The sober second
thought of these excellent and conscien-
tious. reformers will, we are confident,
convince them that the only practicable
way of securing the adoption of wise
measures to curb the evils of the liquor
traffic is by cooperation with the Repub
lican party. Nobody supposes that the
Democrats, if they come into power in
Onlof ~ III dDOlioh d oliiSiO uuiouOp. 1HO
choice for the friends of Temperance is
between the Republican party, nine
tenths of whose members have always
Supported all salutary measures to re-
strictthe liquor trade, and the Demo
cratic party, nine-tenths of whose mem
bers are noteriously in favor of free whis
Ky. To vote for third ticket, nomina
ted.as distinctively Temperance ticket
is only an indirect and effective way o
helping the Democrats. When th'
friends of Temperance Reform agre'
upon wise and constitutional measure
of legislation, they will find the Repub
I lican party now, as it has been in tn
.. past, the best agency for accomplishing
: their purpose.-[N. Y. Tribune, 15tl
& inst.
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Morocco.

Morocco is inclosed by the Mediter-
ranean, Algeria, the desert of Sahara,
/ and the Atlantic. and is inhabited by a
mohgrel population Of about 100000
souls. The agriculturists are mostly
Arabs and Shelloahs. dwelling en- the
rich plains; they are poor cultivators,
and are taxed to death. The wild Ber-
Der tribes, in chronic state of revolt;
occupy the perilOus heights and passes
of the Atlas chain. The MoOrs, the
Jews, and the blacks crowd themselves
into the towns and villages. From the
blacks the bulk of the emperor's army
is recruited The MoOrs, descended
principally from the Moors driven out
of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella, are
degenerate race, contaminated by in
termarriages with the Arabs; the Jews
are precisely what they were in Eu5:
rope in the Middle Ages thrifty, crafty,
prosecuted, uncomplaining, taking it-eGt
of their oppressors in the way of profits.
Neither their lot nor their nature has
been changed by exile. The notable.
towns are Morocco. the capital, Ell
Araish, Tablet, Agadir, Mogadore, Fez,
and Tangier. They are all ground into
dust under the heel of the emperor.
Tangier, the outer preached wall of Is
lamism,, is regarded with particular dis
favor, her commerce harrassed, and her
trade strangled by whimsical restric5
tionS. No man there dareS own himseE
rich; if suspected of secreted wealth, he
is tortured until he reveals the hiding
place; then both his head and his. money
are removed. The emperor's idea of
taxation is the simplest possible; he
takes what he wants. There is no app
peal. He alters weights, measures, and
prices at will; the multiplication table
goes down before him. The sword, the
cord, the bastinado, and the branding
iron are ever ready to. enforce his ca
price. 1t is no hyperbole when the court
poet assures this monster that he holds
life and death in the hollow of his hand.
He is the only full-blown despot whose
dOminions lie contiguous to civilization.
The Gar of all the Russias is not so
much his own master; the Sultan at
-ConstantinOple is not so absolute. The
great despot breeds host of lesser ones,
and it is these that bleed Morocco un-
mercifully. The nomadic tribes have
their sheik, the cities their cadi, tire
provinces their pasha-and the head
devil at Fez has them all.-[T. B. Az
DRICH, in Harper's for July.
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him. to have the prisoners stop that

hlm, TO have the prisoners stop that
noise.
For minute then he essayed to con-
tinue his speech, until the chorus was a
third time reached. when again his voice
was drowned and this time by an artil-
lery of song swelling. peaIing and boom
ing-a deafening tornado of sound, me-
lodiOusly attuned. The Confederates in
line stood still from astonishment, u
guard upon the stOckade wall, as if stun
ned, let fall his gun upon the inside.
Yet, ere the echo had caught up the
closing word, the thunderOus voice began
to repeatthe-lines, when scene ensued
which battles pen portrayal Poor Grip
pies, with only one foot left on which to
stand caught at their neighbors and
drew themselves upright; and lean,
wasted frames. within an hour of disso-
luton, sprang like schoolboys from the
burning sands erect, and, waving their
bony hands afoft, united their hollow
voices with enthusiasm in the glorious
invocation. - ra.aEtait Z : rfs
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
Lessons i'm Love Making.

Don't love too many at once.
Don't do your spOOning in public.
Give your little brother taffy, and gel
him to bed before your chap calls.
Recolllect that wedding ring on youl
finger is worth good many of them ir
your mind.
Try to find out by some means wheth-
er your intended knows how to earn q
decent living for two.
Be reasonable; don't expect a man
working for $s a week to furnish you
with reserved seats at the opera every
other night.
Don't be afraid to show the man OF
your choice that you love him-provi-
ded, of course, he loves you. Love is a
double-sided sort of d concern, and both
have part to play.
Don't try to bring too many suitOrs to
your feet. They have feet as we'll as
you have and you may see one pair OF
feet walking off from you some day you
would be very glad to call back.
Keep your temper. If you expect your
other-half-in-law to keep his. II he
deesn't suit you, give him ticket-of-
leave. Ii he does suit you. don't expect
him to put up with your humors.
Deal carefully with bashful lovers
lead them gradually to the point (of pro-
posal, of course), but dent let them sus-
pect what you are at, or they might
faint on your hands, or go crazy On the
spot.
1t is said that lovers quarrels always
end with kisses. This is partly true
but if you are not careful those little
spats you indulge in may end in the
kisses you coyet being given to some
other girl.
If it is possible, try to suit your sis
ters, cousins, aunts, grandfathers, neigh
bors, friends and acquaintance when
you happen to fall in love. If you can't
suit them all, don't worry, for the thing
has never been yet.
If you use powder, don't give yourself
away. For instance. it would be well
to spread handkerchief over the left
shoulder of his broadcloth before you
lean thereon. He will be too green, de.
pend upon it, to suspect the reason. If
his mustache happens to look a little
powdery, there are several ways in
which it could be brushed off.
Don't imagine that husband can live
as a lover does-on kisses and moon
light. He will come home to his meals
as hungry as a bear. and any little
knowledge of cookery you can pick up
during cOurtship is about the best provi.
sion you can make for future happiness
Remember that nature has put every
man under the necessity of having q
mother, and that the latter is not in any
way to blame if she is regarded as the
bitter part ofa sugar-coated matrimoni.
al pill. If you feel in duty bound to be
her sworn enemy, postpone this duty
till you know something about her.
Don't seek advice in love affairs from
an old maid who has been crossed in
love, bachelor who has been Tilted, a
woman who married her husbands pock
etbook, or a man who happens to be
henpecked. Don't confide-in yOnr gir
friends; to keep q secret in love affair
would kill them. If you must get in
structioRs from somebody, why not ash
your mother how she used to manage
things with your father? True love
didn't run any smoother in old time:
than it does to-day, and, since she know:
how it is herself, we can't think, JUS
now, of any better way to advise you.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
Words of Wisdom.


How poor are they who have not pa
tieneel
1t is not only arrogant but it is profit
gate for man to disregard the worlds
opinion of himself.
We are hanging up pictures every day
about the chamber walls of cur hearts
that we shall have to look at when we
sit in the shadows.
Socrates said that there are two sci
ences which every man ought to learn
first, the science of speech, and second
the more difficult one of silence.
A desire knowledge is the natural
feeling of mankind; and every human
being whose mind is not debauched will
be willing to give all that he has to get
knowledge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
Pungent Paragraphs

Fowls are gluttonous; they take a
peck at every msuthful. e
A woman always.utilizes wrap when
it is presented to her, but man always
gives it back. 80 -
Why is spendthrift's purse like y
thunder-clOud? Because it is continual
ly lightning.
A young lady at ball called ner beau
an Indian, because he was on he trail all
all the time.
Why are people who stutter not to.be
relied upon? Because they. are always
breaking their word.
1t rains alike on the just and unjust
on the just msiny. because the unjust
have borrowed their umbrellas.
Farewell my own" said the indul-
gent husband, as he provided his wife.
with the best that the market afforded.
The New Orleans Picaynne says that
a man should be the. 'bosssof himself.
But suppose the poor fellow is married.
-Phila. Bulletin.
The secretary of the navy knows some
thing about one ship. anyhow. We re-
fer to courtshlp. He has had four wives.
-Norristown Herald. ss. rsi
When two gushing young women
make great display of bidding each
other goodbye it may be called '.mneh
adieu about nothing. Lowell Courier.
If you were to tell man he could
make fortune by shaking a knife and
hollering, he might not believe il; but
that's the way Buffalo Bill has aecumu-
lated 100000 on the stage.-Boston Post
what do you suppose Lot thought
when he beheld his poor wife turned to
a pillar of salt?" 81 suppose. replied
our wit, with admirable gravity, ''he
thought how he could get 'himself-s
fresh one
Pashence is good thing for a man to
hav, but when he haz got so much ov it
that he kan fish all day over the side 0v
a boat without eny bait on his hook. la
zyness is what's the matter ov hims-
Josh Billings. sst
what is the meaning of the word
'tantalizing asked the teacher
please marn," spoke up little Johnny
Holcomb. at means circus procession
passing the sehoolhouse sHd the scholars
are not allowed to look out"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23
Masonic DIRECTORY.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. M.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be.
fore full moon.
JAMES MELLOR, w. M.
JESSE B. MEYER, sec'y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
lions, first Friday of each month.
G. w. CARROLL, III. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. & s. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
II. T. BUMGARNER, T. |. NJ.
F. d. BAILEY, Secy.
HOPE ycOSIMANDERY, M. 26, K. T.
IL Stated cUnclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. ii r. .BUMGARNElt, L. C..
l. L. ogDwICK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

THE Akron Gazette, Colonel Carson
Lake editor, in its last issue, comes ont
squarely for Governor Foster and the
Republican State ticket. 1t says:
From National standpoint Mr.. Fos-
ter's election will be an endorsement of
the work of the Administration and a
reiteration of the protective tariff views
which received such hearty endorsement
last fall from the workingmen of the
country. From whatever standpoint,
then, We look at the gubernatorial candi-
date we find him intrenched in strong
arguments favoring his reelection, and,
as we write above, We believe he will Sc
cure it by a handsome majority.
Colonel Lake was recently Secretary
of the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee. Straws indicate the direction
of the wind, ard here is good sized
straw
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

For thirty years was afflicted with nerv>
GUS prostrafions, also Liver and Kidney CON-
plaint, and have paid out hundreds Of dollars
to some Of the best physicians, with little eel'-
eft. On the 29lh Of August, 1880, boGghe
bottle Of Bsrosma, or Backache, Liver and
Kidney Cure, and In three days after taking,
The pain began to leave me. andt have oeen
growing rapidly better every day. / would
willingly have given 500 bottle, II / could
have known what Barosma would dc for me.
was % weak could hardly dress myss1;
was white as death, and could not lin leo
pounds without pain, but now am perfectly
free from pain, and can lift Is much IS most
men. A. Z. MCCONNELL
Sworn and subscribed to before me Seps. z,
1880. ]. ]. HOLDEN, ]. p. Ttusville, Pa
For sale by l. Il. Patterson, Druggist. 81
Clairsville, o, 6lVA
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

JUDGING from the later dispatches,
the storms in the Western Stases have
been even more disastrous than had at
first been supposed. The loss of life
seems to have been considerable, to say
nothing of the damage done to property
of every description. In one way and
another this present year is making a
remarkable record for itself in the mat
ter of weather, and although it should
not distinguish itself by any further &C.
centricities. it has already accomplished
enough to ensure it the distinction of
being quoted with admiration by the old
est inhabitant of the next generation.
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WOman's Work.

"Woman's work is never DONE" says
the old saw. Tradition has marked out
the routine of her daily duties some
what after this fashion:
Mondays work is to wash, apace;
Tuesdays work is to iron, with grace;
Wednesdays work is to bake and sew;
Thursdays work is to elean-for show
Fridays work is to sweep, dust and
brush;
Saturdays work is to coOk-with rush
The next then comes is the Sabbath day
And then she's too tired to rest or to pray
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

ALREADY Postmaster General James
has reduced the expenses of his depart
ment about 81 100000. A further re-
duction of several hundred thousand is
in contemplation, and it is believed that
the department'will not only be render
ed self sustaining but made to yield a
surplus. Tally big one for Garfeld's
administration.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

WHEN the people are 50 widely divid-
ed as those of Ohio are upon the subject
of temperance legislation, what PROPOSE
tion could be fairer than to submit the
whole matter to them, the result of the
vote to govern legislative action? In op-
posing so sensible a proposition the Pro
hibitionists furnish fresh illustration
of their impracticability.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-06-23

HARPER's MAGAZINE for July is an
unusually interesting number. Mrs.
Champney contributes charming de-
scriptiOn of OpOrtO and the OpOrtO vine
yards, with beautiful Illustrations. Mrs.
Annie Howells Frecbette describes the
life of Lord LOrne and the Princess Lou
Use at Rideau Hall. This article is illus
trated with excellent portraits of the
Marquis and his royal cOnsOrt. L. B.
Aldrich contributes the first part of an
article-entitled "a Day in Africa"
Samuel Adams Drake white Noun
tain" series, illustrated by w. II. Gibson
is continued. Z. Mason contributes a
paper on "Old Dutch Masters" and en-
cravings from their paintings. A patri-
otic poem by Julia C. r. Dorr, entitled
"The Parsons Daughter" is finely illus
trated by Fredericks.
George II. Holden contributes sketch
entitled Hawthorne among his Friends
containing Il characteristic and hitherto
unpublished letter written by Haw-
thOrne to his friend William B. Pike.
Among the especially timely articles
are Railroads in Mexico," by +. E.
Prendergsst; and "a Bicycle Era" by
Edward Rowland. DIR. &. Austen Pearce
contributes curious musical paper, en-
titled "The Music of the Spheres"
The serial novels by Miss WOolsOn and
Thomas Hardy are continued; and short
stories are contributed by Edward Ev-
erett Hale and Arthur Hastings.
Among. the poems of the Number are
two especially noticeable-"First APP
pearance at the OdeOn," by the late
James T. Fields; and My June Boy by
Christine Chaplin Brush.
The Editorial Departments are, as
usual, full of entertaining and instruct
i've matter for all classes of readers.
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the party from honest motives, when it
is to be abandoned and prOstituted to
the purpose of elevating the Democracy
to power, he and they will have none of
it, but in the future will be found where
they were before the question of resump-
tioB, and scarcity of money, made their
new party seem necessity-acting and
voting with the grand Republican army
of progress, of right. justice and might.
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Noble County.
Noble County Republican, 10TH inst.

Noble County Republican, 18th inst. =
a very large amount Of wool WIS
sold in Noble county last week, there
being two or three buyers in each town.
ship. The firm of Smith and Taylor
bought 10000 pounds in one day. The
price at which the wool was sold was 35
cents. A few small clips were bought
at 80 and 81. No wool sold that come
under our observation for over 35
cents. 1t is thought by the buyers that
they picked up in our county last
week at least 100000 pounds of good
wool ut So cents.