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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Dear Sirs: For the past two years we have
used your buggies side by side with other
makes IN both our stables. and are perfectly
satisfied with the strength. durability and
workmanship. compared with others; rs fsst
as our stock In livery is used up we shall re-
place them with your manufacture, knowing
from experience that IL is the best we can
do. Respectfully, .,,,u
Quincy, Ill. SWEET q FOLLANSbhh-
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Gentlemen: Having sold your buggies for
some time. l can heartily say they give en-
tire satisfaction; have never seen any factory
buggy equal to them In finish; know OF two
Of tnem that have been in use for two years at
least by men who are very hard drivers, ana
the buggies are as good as when bought.
Mansfield, Pa. Yours, d A GAYLORD.
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Gentlemen: With over fifteen years exper1>
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rfages are strictly first class in Workmanship,
and proportions. filling q long>felt
want for reliable article that can be sold at
. price lower than any ordinary manufacturer
can produce and sell the same quality of work
at. Yours, &C..
Conneautville, Pa. 8. KRICKs
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Dear Sirs: Your work has not failed in sins
gle instance to give entire satisfaction, and
proves equal to greater emergencies than you
claim for 1t; we heartily recommend IL as
superior for the price to any buggy OF which
we have any knowledge. Yourstruly,
Baldwin, Miss. THOMAS & BRO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Gentlemen: We have been handling your
work for two seasons, and have in every in
stance found your buggies first class; we have
never had one of your jobs returned to us for
REPAIRS neither have we had sigle complai
on account of work not being perfectly satis>
factory Yours respectfully,
Springfield, Ill. Il BUCKLEY & 90.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Gentlemen. have no hesitency In saying
that the buggies manufactured by the Colum
bus Buggy Company are the best WORK lot tne
price have any knowledge of; in not single
In stance has there been any dissatisfaction on
the part of any one of my Istomers-
Greensboro, Ky. FRANK HALL.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Dear &r5: We have been. using your busgies
the last four or five years; they have given en-
tire satisfaction; think they are the best bug
Eies made for the money.
Whitehall, Ill. Liverymen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Gentlemen: We have used the Columbus Bug.
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can conscientiously recommend 1T as strictly
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and durability; your buggIes have gwen bet>
ter satisfaction than any other make of Ve-
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Red Oak, Ia. PALMER WHITTAKER. =
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Dear Sirs: AS an evidence of my appreciation
of your buggies, which 1 have teen using for
some time in my livery. enclose orders for
more. Yours respectfully.
Dsuv'lle, Va. W W NEW.
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Gentlemen: 1t gives me pleasure TO state that
l have been selling your buggies and carriages
for four years. and can safely recoTnm end them
to any one in want of buggy or carriage.
Macomb, Ill. Yours truly, ]. L. GRIBBLE.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-15

Dear Ssrs: We have b1ggles of your make
tt at have been in use three years, and no bug
gy that we have that cost twice the amount
has given better satisfaction.
Johnstown, Pa. JAS. 81. ALEXANDER.
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TESTIMONIALS:

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have used them for the past three years: our
recent Improvements on the road wagons !
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Frederick Md. ia ii. RAMSBURG.
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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
ITO be Continued
Tell-tale Fingers.s

The old art of palmistry telling for
tunes by the lines in the hand) has sort
Of revival in popular interest once in a
while-mostly as an amusement for young
people. A curious branch of it, us prac-
ticed by very ancient nation, comes to
us with just novelty enough to stimulate
observation-and the use of lampblack.
Says Chicago paper:
Chinese criminals from the earliest times
have been made to give the prints OF their
fingers and thumbs-'just as we make
ours yield their photographs"
The tips of the fingers and thumbs are
slightly blackened, say with daub of
printers ink, and then pressed on sheet
Of white paper; then out come the idiosyn-
crasies of these fingers.
Now, this new process of Identification
is based on the fact that those fine lines
which form loops and patterns, starting
sometimes from q common centre about
halfway in the last joint Of the finger,
are never alike in any two persons, for the
fingers have distinct skin physiognomies.
There seems to be heredity about it, and
children of the same parents have The
same identical lines.
Now, when q murderer leaves his tracery
on q wall, his hands red with the gore of
his victim, it would be curious to study
the peculiarities of the horrible imprint
he may have left, and the minute whOrls
or loops which might indemnity him. Les
ser crimes, such as pilfering, might bring
about their detection in this way. Ones
light silk dress bears certain smutty i'm
print, or q pot of jelly in the closet shows
Daby's sticky fingers, and then Bridget OF
little Billy is summoned to justice.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

her, though the latter with tears in her
tender blue eyes begged to be allowed to
do so.
But no one could be more tender than
the old lady. She was continually at her
bedside, night and day; fed her and fond
led her until she was again on her feet
and Mt work.
All this she had kept from Tom Ark
right and Mrs. Bascombe for she did not
wish to annoy either of them, and so they
remained in entire ignorance of the fact OF
our heroine's sickness.
Both Mrs. Bascombe and Tom had tried
to prevail on Gertrude to leave the facto-
ry, now that she was engaged; but for
reasons best known to herself she would
not consent; one of the reasons being that
| she had contracted for certain length OF
| time, and she could not break her word.
She was greatly touched by the kind
ness she received at the hands of Mrs.
Vickory, and every voice in tho house
echoed her praises.
Nellie Jones said:
"That Vickory is an old darling, and
when we are sick she will attend To us
like a good old hospital nurse. Amt it
lucky for Miss Weldon that she is here,
girls2"
Barbara Glendon had volunteered to at
tend on Gertrude, hut the latter would
not allow it. any more than Madge. How
ever, all this passed away as l have said,
and our heroine was once more on her
feet.
But these three attacks had made a
great change in her appearance. Her
eyes were dull; her face was thin and
white, her walk weak, almost tottering.-
Those who knew her were startled, and
when n fourth attack more fierce and
formidable struck her down, Mrs. Moriar-
ty and her boarders became frightened.
The doctor was again called in, the
boarding house doctor; he looked Mt her
coolly, felt her pulse, left prescription,
and advised change of scene
"She'd better get into the country for a
week or two; she wants building up. brol-
en- down by hard work. and so on" and
the stupid Esculapius took his fee and his
departure.
Madge was determined to stand this no
longer, so without the knowledge of Ger
trude, she wrote to Mrs Bascombe explain
ing matters.
The moment the good lady received the
note she ordered the horses into the car
riage, and without n word to her brother,
drove Immediately into the city, where
she soon arrived, the carriage driving up
before the door causing great futter
among the boarders of Mrs. NJ. who were
just setting down to dinner.
In n moment Mrs. Bascombe was ush-
cred into Gertrude's room, much to the
surprise and delight of the invalid who
could only utter in Il faint voice:
"Why, Mrs. Bascombe!" unconsciously
her eyes sought the door in way that
caused Marion Bascombe to smile, but
Tom wasn't there as his sister soon gave
her to understand. But what need dwell
ing further at this point of our story p
Suffice it to say that Gertrude was COM
fortably wrapped up and carried down to
the carriage. and was soon rolling rapidly
on her way to Belville Park.
by her own request, that good kind
hearted Old lady, Mrs. Vickory went with
her.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
Without Capital.

1t is bad beginning business without
capital. 1t is hard marketing with empty
pockets. We want nest egy, for hens
will lay better where there are eggs
already. 1t is true you must bake with
the flour you have, but if the ack is emp
ty, it.might be quite as well not to set up
for baker. Making bricks wit hout straw
is easy enough, compared wi th making
money when you have none to start with.
You, young gentlemen, stay as journey
man little longer, till you hav,, saved
few pounds; fly when your wi ngs have
got feathers; but if you try too iocn, you
will he like the young rock that broke its
neck through trying to fly before it was
fledged. Every minnow wants to be
whale, but it is prudent TO DO 6 Ii tile fish
when you have little water; VIII, N your
pond becomes q sea, then swell as n Iucll as
you like. Trading without capital is like
building house without bricks, aking
fire without sticks, burning candles with.
ont wicks; it leads them into trick y and
'nnds them in : fix.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
Making Money.

Some people can hardly make living,
and some lay up money. Why is ltp In
to village of few hundred inhabitants,
q young man came and was employed as
clerk in the store; he lived there fifty
years and laid up 100000. Other men
worked as hard, but did not lay up any
money.
Near the village was large and beau
tiful farm. The owner of it had it from
his father. He did not drink or gamble,
and yet he could not make n living, and
so borrowed money, and, to secure it, gave
mortgage ON the farm. In few years
the farm was sold and he was oblige to
move away. A Scotchman, with but lit
tie money and large family, passed by
and saw that the house was vacant, and
struck bargain with the owner. He be-
gan to work, to save and to pay, and in
ten years he was the entire owner. Then
he went on and laid up money, and to-day
he is rich man.
The art of making money should be care
fully studied. If you take a doller and
buy something with it, and then sell that
at a profit, and keep on doing so, you in
crease your capital. If you take dollar
and lend it out at 6 per cent. j.. est, it
will double itself in sixteen years. These
three ways are foundation ways of money
making. All business is one of the three
forms. Those who succeed best are those
who understand the best what they do.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
Asking Boys Questions.

If speaker is not an expert in the art
of asking questions he had better avoid
putting them to boys in public meeting.
The following history illustrates what
may happen:
"Now, boys, when 1 ask you question,
you mustn't be afraid to speak right out
and answer me. When you look around
and see all these fine houses, farms and
cattle, do you ever think who owns them
all now? Your fathers own them, do
they not ?"
"Yes, sir" shouted hundred voices.
swell, where will your fathers be ir
twenty years from nowY
dead y shouted the boys.
THAT'S right. And who will own all
the property then?''
"Us boys ~ shouted the urchins.
fright. Now tell ME, did you ever, in
going along the streets, notice the drunk
ards lounging around the saloon doors,
waiting for somebody to treat them?
"Yes, sir, lots of them"
swell, where will they be in twenty
years from now"
"Deadw exclaimed the boys.
"And who will be the drunkards then p
Gus boys"
The questioner was thunderstruck for q
moment, but recovering himself, tried to
tell the boys how to escape such fate.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

"Explain, explain man!'
1--WE must let Sam Barr into the affair
Sam is whole-souled fellow, and better
than that, he is a practicing attorney, Just
admitted to the bar, and still better, a JUS
tice of the Peace!"
swell, what of thatY"
"What of that's" Why man don't you
see. Sam will marry them instead OF
this cuss Chesley, and thus make il q
6ondtide affair. Now do you seer
mot yet, l must confess" returned
Sanborn in puzzled tone. "For i don't
see how he's going to take the place OF
Chesleyw
"That is easily arranged: When Sam
understands the case, he will send for
Chesley and tell him, what is the truth,
that if he don't assist in hoodwinking this
fellow Blake, he will be prosecuted for con-
spiracy; the result of which will be n sure
term of Imprisonment. Now, men like
Chesley hate the law worse than the devil
hates holy water and he won't talk long
with 6ue attorney like Sam before he
caves, l tell you.
"will Sam go into it, that's the ques-
toni"
$50 into it-why lord bless your soul,
Sam ii jump at it. He's never had case
yet; and, although l don't know that We
can exactly call this II case. he'll jump in
to this affair to see how it will feel to talk
like u lawyer with business. Sans i'm
mense on the talk, and he'll scare the life
out of Chesley-besides, you see, Sam
never married couple in his life yet and
he'll like to do it just to see how it feels.
Lord what sport it will be to catch that
Blake in his own franz
And both young men laughed uproari-
ously as they thought of the villains dis
comfiture.
The next day the two genial schemers
made their way to the Office of Sam Barr,
and found that legal light seated comfort
ably in a brand new easy chair, before a
brand new desk, on n brand new oil
cloth, surrounded by lot of brand new
law books, and many quires of fresh writs
and legal cap; even Sans inkstand was
new.
Sam was round faced. merry looking
fellow, his eyes trimming with humor, and
when he heard the story of Barbara, he
entered into it with awill.
"Never you mind boys, how / do it but
I'll fetch that Chesley to his cruel in
way that'll astonish him. I'll marry that
fellow Blake so tight that the whole
bench of the Supreme Court can't unite
him."
And so it was understood.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
Deterioration of the Eye.

BY the law of development man pro
crosses to physical perfection. But by the
accidents of civilization the eye, which is
the light Of the whole body, is in immi-
nent danger of deterioration, and after be-
ing evolved by the brute, ii is being ruined
by map. Already the increase of short
sightedness and color blindness is attract
ing considerable attention, and even when
these defects are not present the eye of
civilization is much inferior to that of
many birds, and beasts and savages Not
to speak of the cats ability to see in the
dark, what eye can compare for range with
that Of the condor Of the Andes, or for
keenness with that of the Indian on the
trail Of his enemy? Mr.. Brudenell Car
ter, whose address at the Health Congress
ut Brighton is one of the most interesting
and suggestive Of recent contributions to
popular science, insists upon the import
ance of checking this gradual deterioration
OF the organ of vision. School boards, he
says, should educate the eye as well as the
tongue, volunteers should institute tests
of distant vision, and trade-unions should
strike against every employer whose fac
tory is badly lighted. Even the most short
sighted people can see the importance of
MIR. Brudenell Carriers warning, and as the
spectacle-makers are not q very powerful
corporation, there is some possibility that
science, common sense, and humanity
may succeed in arresting the farther dete-
riorati0n of the eye.-PaH Nall Gazette.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

BE kind 10 the Lion, and study his Will,
And assist in inserting the claws"
And don't interrupt him-keep perfectly SIN,
No matter how awkward his paws.
Be- kind TO the Wombat and Tapr so mild;
BE kind 10 the winsome Jackdaw;
L, kind to the Tiger, and don't make him wild
Or he'll give you too much of his jaw.
L. kind to the Oyster, Ichneumon and Snail;
Be kind to the brisk Kangaroo;
Be kind 10 the Leopard, don't tread on his tail
Or he'll spot you at once II you do.
BE kind to the Gasterpod, Gurnard and Rat;
Be kind 10 the Ndtrir t0r0uator;
BE kind to the Rama pallstris and Cat
Be kind TO the Tubercuator.
BE kind 20 the Bullinch, the Goat and the Scope,
To the Yak, Whelk and Lesser Peewit;
IL kind to the chaste, odoriierous Ape,
To the Beaver, the Perch and the Tomtit.
BE kind to the friendly and vigorous Flea:
Be kind TO the bold Cockatoo;
lie kind to the Pussycat, Baalamb and Gee,
And be kind to the Bowwow and Moo.
De Kind to the Phascolome, Yarrell and Boil
To the Boscovitch, Coffin and Skoo
Be kind TO the Chug-chus and bold Prairie IIok,
To the within, the Smoke and the Spoo.
English IdDcr
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
Medical Nonsense.

Those who have at last got reconciled to
enjoying most poisons freely-tobacco,
beer wine, spirits coffee-need not have
scruples lest they should injure their
health, or shorten their lives, or set bad
example; for close attention to medical
opinion will, if they entertain such notions,
entirely reassure them. i notice that poi
sons, like fashionable health resorts, come
up and go out just rs medical imagination
or the popular craze may happen to jump.
One year we are told how drop of tobac-
co juice killed cat; the next year beer
brings rheumatism, wine is responsible for
govt, spirits for insanity, and coffee for
bile. Tea was my last stronghold. Sir
Henry Thompson had informed the world
that afternoon tea would not be so bad If
il were not for the cream taken with it.
So left off cream and was comparatively
happy with milk, when to my horror, l
learned from another distinguished medi-
cal authority that tea would be even who'll
some and nourishing, if people always took
cream with it, but the milk in tea sets up
peculiarly acid fermentation within,
most inmical to digestion. This last
shock was tremendous; but on recovering
from it. determined to eat, drink, smoke
and be merry, whatever doctors might
write about my food and my liquor. Since
/ have acted on this resolution, my health
has been eXcellent.-L0ndOn Truth.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
Nathan Knapp says:

Gents.-I have been troubled with
rheumatism for several years to such a
degree that found it impossible to at
tend to my business, which is that of a
foundryman, and have been confined to
the house and to my bed much of the
time. Have tried all sorts of remedies,
and have been treated by several doc
tors, all to no purpose, until L finally
heard of your Rheumatic Syrup, and
was induced to try it. and l am very
happy to say, after the use of few
bottles, am as strong and well rs ever,
and never feel a symptom of anything
like rheumatism any more. can cheer
fully recommend your Rheumatic Syr-
up to all who are afflicted with rheu-
matism, for it is certainly most inval-
uavle remedy, and too much can not be
said in its praise.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

SAN FRANCIsCo.-Consul A. +. Bee
OF the Chinese Consulate Office, ex-
presses himself clearly. in saying that
he, as well as his family have suffered
severely from Rheumatism and neural
gia, and that medicines were used in
vain. AT last st. Jacobs Oil was tried,
which effected immediate cures in every
case. The Consul regards the Oil as
the greatest pain-curing remedy in exis-
tence.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
IDnDOrtant.

When you visit or leave New York City save
Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire and
stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand
Central Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one mil
lion dollars, reduced to 81 and upwards per
day. European Plan. Elevator. Restaurant
supplied with the best. Horse cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all depots. Families can
live better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other trstclass hotel in the
city.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

BE HAPPY.-There is nothing TO be
gained by melancholy or fretiulness. Yet
some people acquire the habit of sadness.
They fall us naturally into moody trains
of thought and ways rs bird takes to its
wings for flight. The sunny side OF life
has no charm for them, and they seem like
Jonah when he said, II do well to be an
gry.' They never see the silver lining on
any cloud, or the flush of any morning in
the eastern sky. You hear them "croak-
ing everywhere. 1t might be well for
such people TO remember. among other
things, the advice which Sidney Smith
gave to n young lady of this unhappy dis
position always keep box of sugar
plums Oh the mantel-piece, n kettle sim
mering and singing on the hob, and re-
member all the charming things that peo'
pie have said OF you.'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

All persons about to visit foreign
lands, sailors, fishermen, lumbermen
and miners should take with them a
supply of Johnson's Anodyne Lintment
IL is both for internal and external use
and is worth lis weight in gold.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
GIVEN UP BY THE DOCTORS.

is 1t possible that Mr.. Godfrey is up and at
WORK, and cured by so simple remedyln
VI assure you 1t is true that he is entirely
cSred, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, and
only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and
hlel ~ -
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

Poverty is uncomfortable, as many can
testify, but nine times out of ten the best
thing that can happen to young ma . y
10 be tossed overheard and compelled To
swim fol. himself.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27
The yellow fever-The love of gold

Hip disease, fever sores, ulcers,
blotches, pimples, and many loathsome
diseases originate in impure blood
Parsons Purgative Piils make neD rich
blood and will change the blood in the
entire system in three months, taken
one night.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

1t 10 no disgrace not to be able TO do every
thing; but to undertake, or pretend to do,
what you are not made for, is not only shame
full, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

A young woman who was frightened by
little dog until she was yellow, said II made
her terrier caught her color
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless
1t concur with our own opinion, and extOl US
for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.