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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
THE FAULT OF THE AGE.

The fault of the age is mad endeavor
To leap to heights that were made to
climb,
By burst of strength or thought that
is clever
We plan to outwit and forestan Time
We scorn to wait for the thing worth
having;
We want high noon at the days dim
dawn;
We find no pleasure in toiling saving
As our forefathers did in the good
times gone.
We force our roses before their season
To bloom and blossom, that we may
wear;
And then we wonder and ask the reason
Why perfect buds are so few and rare.
We crave the gain, but despise the get
ting;
We want wealth, not as reward, but
dover;
And the strength that is wasted in use
less fretting
Would fell forest or build tower
To covet the prize, yet to shrink from tn e
winning,
To thirst for glory, yet fear the fight
Why, what can it lead to at last but sin
ming,
To mental languor and moral blight?
Better the old slow way of striving
And counting small gains when the
year is done,
Than to use our forces all in striving
And to grasp for pleasures We have
not won.
Ella Wheeler
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
Miser and SpeculatOr.

Your miser starves himself and does
no harm to others. Your banker who
CANDLES in great schemes and dresses
and lives like a gentleman like great
many gentleman put together, and all of
them very rich-and when he falls he
drags down with him thousands of we'll
to-do individuals. and along with them
the business and other legitimate inter
ests which give employment to thou
sands of labering men and women. Ev-
erybody holds the miser in contempt,
but everybody admireS the prince of the
great scheme The latter has stables
crowded with horses which he never
sees. His different country and city es-
Adjustments are maintained at cost of
thousands of dollars week. His famit
ly select their attire from home store
house as large as an average dry goods
establishment. His pleasures are paid
for in diamonds, and his path is strewn
with gold. When the miser dies nobody
is injured, and his grave is soon forgot
ten; but when the prince falls, there is
wailing over wide space of territory,
for his extravaganza and fall have taken
the bread out of mapy children's mouths.
1t is held, and perhaps properly
enough, that the law must not say to
any man: "You have enough; you must
be contented with that; you must not
only live, but let live; you must curb
your rapacity and permit others to have
their fair share of comforts and luxu-
ries." What, however, shall be done to
check the passion for for great and un-
rned wealth which has taken posses
sion of so many men, who are otherwise
worthy of respect? This passion has
uprooted many of the old systems of
business. 1t has destroyed safety, and
put public and private confidence on the
rack 1t threatens breaking up which
wilde incalculabe damage. Mostcertain-
there can be not many more cases OF
wholesale scouDGreliSm on the part of
men in positions Of trust without crea
ting a panic whose melancholy effects
may run through several years. The
gentleman miser must be checked. The
avarice which insists upon millions for
private use must be stopped. Lorenzo
Dow told of an avaricious farmer who,
given the whole world, wept because he
had not patch outside to plant potatoes
in. Had the farmer been located in
Wall street, or at the head of d bank,
nobody to-day would find anything ex-
travagant in the character.-N. Y.
Graphic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
Grains of Gold.

A good heart breaks bad luck.
IL every one mend one, all may be
mended.
The more man knows, the less he
believes.
The best instruction is to practice what
you preach.
No gentleman will insult gentleman
and none other can.
The greater our dread of crosses, the
more necessary they are for US.
Associate with the wise, and their
knowledge will cling by the skirts
No man can answer for his own valor
or courage till he has been in danger.
Who never walks save where he sees
mems tracks, makes no discoveries.
Ia passing through life, learn every
thing you can. 1t will all come into play.
He who Can implant courage in the
human soul is certainly its best physi-
clan.
Do not trust to uncertain riches, but
prepare yourselves for every emergency
in life.
As TO the hungry soul every bitter
thing is sweet, so to the nurmuring soul
every sweet is bitter.
L dlot lodIS UtSIu OH true N6XdllOnS, !,
the imaginary grievances of our lives
are more than the real.
How great bounty and blessing it
is so to hold the royal gifts of the soul
that they snail be music to all.
Blessed be he who gives to the poor,
albeit only penny; doubly blessed be he
who adds kind words to his gift.
There are men who love only them
selves; and these are men of hatred, for
to love ones self alone, is to hate others.
To judge without reserve of any hu-
man action, is a culpable temerity, of
all our sins the most unfeeling and fire.
quent.
True repentance consists in the heart
being broken from sin and broken for
sin. Some often repent, vet never re-
form.
We always know everything when it
serves no purpose, and when the seal of
the irreparable has been set upon the
events.
Witty sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping off broken string; but
a word of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain
A quarrel is not unlike spark which
is produced by flint and steel striking
together; either might go on hammer
ing at wood forever. and 10 fire come.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
The WirA Age.

Future analysis may we'll describe
this period of American history IS the
wire age, says the Boston Advertiser.
In no part of the economy of our daily
life are we divorced from wire. 1t is
our slave and yet an ever present mas
ter Sleeping, we repose on wire mat
tresses. Eating, we SEE foods that have
passed through sieves and which are
sheltered frcm insect appetite by wire
covers. Calling, we pull wires to ring
curled wire gOngs. Travelling, we are
conveyed bv cable or electric railways
hoisted by elevators hung on wires, and
hurried over wire bridges. We an
neunce our coming by telegraph or tel.
ephone wires, and we thread our way
by night through streets lighted by
means of electric cables.
Across our fields are strung many thou-
sands of miles of barbed wire fences.
against which dumb brutes protest. Tex
as rangers draw the knife, and lawyers,
juries and reporters whet their intel
lectaal blades. Our clocks are set by
wires, our watches run by wires, our
books are stitched with wire. our pict-
ures are hung by wires, and our politics
managed by wires.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
POETRY.
A QUIET PICTURE.

The shifting shadows lay
In changing Quaintness on the bare white
floor,
Creeping in softly through the open door,
In still, drCwsy way,
Coming through maZeS of the 1Vy-Vlnes,
That fall in shapeless masses from the
pines,
The freight gay and bright,
With CHEEKY bushes for its rudds charms
Steals trembling from the old hearth S
huge black arms,
Where, in their rich light,
The giant logs in splendOr fall away
In glowing shapes among the ashes gray.
The baby on the floor,
With tiny hands closed Ger her pearly
toes,
Watches the fire-blaZe as it comes and
goes.
And wonders more and more
Whence comes the red light on the
snowy feet,
And strives to catch it in her fingers
sweet.
The happy mother sits
With folded hands, her weary work all
done,
With the last smiling of the harvest sun,
And lists, her eyes love-lit,
To the low prattle of her eldest born,
Whose cheek is rosy as the early morn.
In homespun garb of gray,
The father sitting by the window vide
Unfolds bis paper with an honest pride,
And, in his homely way,
Reads of the pomp of state-lts wealth
and art
With scarce one envious longing In his
heart.
Upon the lowly steps
The grandame watches for the coming
moon,
While nurmurs of some half -remem ber-
ed tune
Drop from her faded lips;
She dreamed again of olden days more
fair,
Nor marks the shadows fitting DER her
hair.
o baby, glad with play!
o. mother, knowing not the hearts re-
COLL
o father, wearied only by your toll.
o grandame old and gray!
Would that the quiet of your days de
cline
Might hush the throbbing of this life of
mine!
Every Other Saturday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
SPECIAL NOTICE.

All persons having long standing ac-
counts with me are hereby notified that
| intend closing my books to July 1st
and hope all will respond promptly and
avoid trouble aud expense.
We have full stocks of everything in
our line, and can guarantee quality and
price satisfactory We do not sell im-
pure or aduiterated goods.
6-26 4w. GEO. JEPSON.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
Popular Line East & West
Time Table In Eject January 25th, 's4.
CENTRAL STANDARD TINE.
GOING EA at

Going East-All trains run daily from Steu,
benville, except train leaving at 6 81 am and
daily except Sunday from Wheeling; going
west all trains run daily from mUhrichsville, ,ex-
cept train leaves at OF am.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars are run on all
through trains.
Passengers by this line can obtain through
tickets and baggage checks to all prominent
points East and West. and make direct cons
nections in union depots, thereby avoiding
annoying transfers.
For further Information address,
JAMES MCCREA, EA FORD
Manager, Columbus Genl Pas. Ag't,
ll3l-tf Pittsburgh
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
NASBY'S DREAM.
The Ex-POstmaster of the COnfeder-
ate X Roads Hat Pleasant Dream
but Terrible Awakening.

Teledo Blade.
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS, (which is in
the State NV Kentucky, June 8. 1881
he'd a dreem last mite which l wish from
the bottom NV my heart Good be realized.
1t wuz dream so rich, so full Nv every
thing which wuz deliteful. that almost
wish l he'd died afore awakenin from it
to the cold realities NV crooel and un-
sympathetic world. 1t wuz dreem
which extendid over considerable space
Nv time.
Methawt wuz delegate to the Dim
ekratic Nashnel Convenshun from this
deestrik in Kentucky. 1 wuz entirely
happy, for he'd rooms at fust class
hotel and plenty NV money. for L he'd
promised the managers Nv all the candi-
dates to vote for their man, and wuz re-
seevin money from each. In addishn
he'd sold all five NV the tickets he'd at
my disposal to the convenshun to outSi
ders, and he'd turned handsome penny
buyin up from other delegates, and sellln
agin at a higher price. All The delegates
wuz on the make, only l he'd soOperior
intelligence.
1t wuz a deliteful experience, only it
wuz in my sleep. Thank heaven fol
sic, pl All my good times | hev in my
dreeuls. We wuZ about to concentrate
On Tilden, Samuel j, his bari hevin been
tapped at both ends and
THE BUNG KNOCKED OUT.
The old gentleman he'd actooally de
terminpd to be candidate on a reform
platform, and wuz buyin up NV dele
gates at rate witch | never dreemed he
wuz,capable Nv No matter what may be
sed Nv his honisty, ther aint no doubt e7
to his liberality or his akkerit khollege
NV the makeup NV Dimokratic conyen-
shuns. l he'd sold out to him four times
and 81 he'd the heft NV the delegates, and
We got our money every time. SamyoOel's
managers said thet 50 sot wuz the old
man on the question NV reform thet he'd
scoop the nominashen eff ne he'd to buy
every delegate to the convenshun.
,Jist ez we he'd made up our minds to
vote for him and end the matter, we re-
seeved d dispatch from Moo York tibet
the old man he'd bin struck with parali-
sis and his rite side wuz completely ded
His managers were appalled, at the terri
BILE intelligence, but not SO the delegates
One gentleman from Injeany riz to his
feet and demanded in thunder tones il
he Good still yoose his left hand
He KIM" wuZ the reply.
Very good then. He kin sign checks
with his left hand, and so long eZ
HE KIN SIGN CHECKS
he is good enuff reform candidate fol
for me. With him ez our Standard bear
er the Djmocrisy NV lnjeany will pay
cash for likker this fall any how"
Then the dream went On. We went
into the campane and l moved immeji-
ately to Injeany becoz there amt nc
money in bein a Dimycrat in Kentucky
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
AYERS
Cherry Pectoral.

No other complaints so insdious in their at
tack as those affecting the throat and lungs none
so trified with by the ma ority OF sufferers. The
ordinary cough or cold, Resulting perhaps from a
triring or unconscious exposure is often but the
beginning of a fatal sickness. AYERS CHERRY
PEcToRAL has well proven its efficacy in a forty
years fight with throat and lung diseases, and
should be taken in all cases without delay.
A Terrible Cough Cured.
"1n 1857 took a severe cold which affected my
lungs. / had a terrible cough and passed night
after night without sleep. The doctors gave me
up. l tried AYERS CHERRY PECToRAL. which
relieved my lungs, induced sleep. and afforded me
the rest necessary for the recovery OF my strength
By the continued use OF the PECToRAL a pernIa-
nent cure was effected. / am now e. years old,
hale and hearty, and am satisfied yOur CHERRY
PEcTORAL saved me. HORACE FAIRBRoTHER.''
Rockingham, Vt. July 10, lsS2.
Croup.-A Mothers Tribute.
"While in the country last winter my little
boy, three years Old, taken i'll with Group; it
seemed as if he would die from Strangulation.
One of the family suggested the use OF AYERS
CHERRY PICTORIAL, bottle OF which WAS al
ways kept in the house. This was tried in small
and frequent doses and 10 our delight i'll less than
half an hour the little patient was breathing cas-
lily. The doctor said that the CHERRY PECToEAL
had saved my darling's life. Can you wonder at
Mrs. EMMA GEDNEY.''
159 West 12sth ST., New York, May 10, 1852.
"Ihave used AYERS CHERRY PECTORAL in my
family for several years, and DO not hesitate to
pronounce it the most effectual remedy for coughs
and colds we have ever tried. a. j. CRANE"
Lake Crystal, MIMI, March IS, 1852.
al suffered for eight years from Bronchitis, and
after TRYING many remedies with no success, was
cured by the use of AYERS CHERRY PEcTORAL.
JOSEPH WALDEN"
Byhalia, Miss, April s. 1SS2
al cannot say enough in praise of AYERS
CHERRY PICTORIAL. believing as l do that but
for its use l should long since have died from
lung troubles. Z. BRAGDoN."
Palestine, Texas, April %, 1852.
No case of an affection of the throat or lungs
exists which cannot be greatly relieved by the use
of AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL, and it will Arrays
cure when the disease is not already beyond the
control of medicine.
PREPARED BY
Dr.. J. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
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LTaInS run Oh COIumbus Time west OHIO river
EAST BOUND.-New York Fast Llue daily;
with through Sleepers from Chicago to New
York; Washington and Baltimore Epress with
through sleeper from Chicago to Baltimore
daily. and Through Coach from Sandusky to
Columbus daily. New York and Baltimore
Express daily Newark to New York; on other
Divisions, daily. except Sunday. Sleeping
Car Chicago 10 Cumberland. All other trains
daily, except Sunday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

Trains run on Baltimore time east Ohio river
WEST BOUND.-Chicago Fast Line Daily
with through Sleepers FRO New York TO
Chlcago; Chicago Express daIly Through
sleepers from Baltimore to Chicago daily.
Chicago Mail runs daily on Main Ii se and z.
.. Division; on other Divisions daily, except
sunday. Other trains daily except sunday.
LORD. q = A., BaltimorS.
w K REPPERT PASSENGER Agent. Columbus
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
Fourth Of July Excursions.

The B. 6 o. Railroad annual 4th of July
excursions to and from all stations on the
trans>Ohio divisions, on July and 5, will
sell round trip excursion tickets to and from
all stations on the trans~Ohio divisions at low
excursion rates. These tickets will be good
returning until July Z, inclusive.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

The Florida Democrats declared in
favor of Cleveland.
The Rhode Island Democratic dele>
CATION is solid for Cleveland.
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Fayorite Remedy

prevent Is and cures Malaria, rest9rs Ina oiood nd
10 health and keeps the Liver hiuheSs anu
Bowels in good working order.
Read Ex-senato. Wlley's Endorsemt
Elizabeth, N. j., Feb. z 1884.
Dr u Kennedy, Rondout. n Y; ,,,,a.
Dear SHINY wife has the higneit 3pini1n u1.
OF your .Favorite Remedy for Maiarla ,haro,SS WE
have used 1t In our family anu alsr a. the best
trial and experience, cohSiuoi !" w
medicine ever produced. ,u TT WILEY.
u.,.o~,,a pemedy is medicine no family
shnn,J ho without. All druggists Keep it'
81 per bottle. -
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uzzs PITTSBURGH. PA. Eszs

BOOKS. TONS
Of Standard Books, many OF them the best
editions published. Your Choice sent for ex>
aminati before payment, on reasonable
evidence of good faith, the books to be
returned at my expense If not satisfactory
Special bargai this month. New publications
every week; prices lower tn n ever before
known. ranging from Two Cents for Tenny>
son 'sEnoch Arden" unabridged, Large
Type, to SIS for the lar gest an best American
Oyclopedia Not sold by dealers-prices too
low. Circulars free. Mention this paper.
JOHN B. ALDEN, Pub'r.. Vesey st. N. y.
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Time Card.
nnHuhnnnllNn
NORTHROUND
NUN 7 III3OU n d
Ls No II No IA

Tbree Through Trains Daily each way Sun
dav excepted) will run from st. Clairsville TO
Bridgeport via O., L. & W. Ry track from
Trains will stop at Taggarvs, Anderson's.
Boegs'. st. Clairsvile Junction. Patton's
Buriey's and Heil's to let of, and on signal
to take on passengers. - ,
Connections at Barton with all passenger
trains on the c., L. q W. Ryi at bridgeport
with G. 4 p, Ry for Bellaire, Martins Ferry,
Pittsburvh ard other points East and West.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

GOOD blue grass pasture for rent. In
quire of George Brown. 5 S-tf.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
MALARIA

Is due To a low and Impure state OF the blood.
frequently fatal disorders Of the dlgestiSe ,
functions, wasted and enfeebied ooGy are .ns ne
dire effects OF malarial poisoning. DIR. David
auuedy,a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

Go wEnK; sl2 day!ssd sddp a1ms'sSs psas True o.
> ugusts, Maiue
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

single dose of Sanford's Radical Cure in
stantly relieves the most violent sneezing or
mead colds. clears the head as by magic stops
watery discharges from the nose and eyes,
prevents ringing noises in the head, cures
nervous headache, and subdues chills and
fever. In chronic catarrh 1t cleanses the
nasal passages of foul mucus. restores the
senses of smell, taste and hearing when effect
ed, frees the head, throat and bronchial tudes
breath. stops the cough and arrests the pro-
gresss of catarrh towards consumption.
One bottle Radical Cure. one box Cas
tarrah Solvent and Sanford's Inhaler, all in
one package, forming o complete treatment
all of druggists Tor 81. ASK 70 Santord's Rad1s
cal Cure. Potter Drug Chemical Co.. Boston.
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St. cIairsviIIe g. Northern Railway
The st. Clairsville Company.

TimesSchedule OF Trains, in effect May IL. 'S4.
Standard Time, which is Is minutes slower
than Columbus time.
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Cleveland, .Lorain and Wheeling
Railway.
TIME TABLE.
In effect Sunday, June Sth, 1884.

lew Standard--90th Meridian time, which is
2S min. slower than Columbus time.
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&c

You will find at this popuiaS Drug Store
anything and everything usually Kept in first
class drug store. Prescriptions careful.
compounded.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

SCALED Heads with loss of hair without
number, heads covered with dandruff and
scaly eruptions. especially of children and
infants, many of which since birth had been
mass of scales.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

Itching, burning and scaly tortures that
bsffied even relief from ordinary remedies
soothed and healed as if by magic;
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03

ing to pay for the same, and willing to
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ments should 60 with the bill and abide its
Es.4 The -7rlAs NJ tI,- u~>..-- - -
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either either [Laugh,er.l l viii read another
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-12
Japanese SuperStitlOns.

The japanese haye many amusing
superstiti0ns similar to ours when we
prefer to see the moon over the right
shoulder and object to being among
a dinner party of thirteen. On the
days of the month containing the
number four bamboo shall not be cut:
seven, no stranger can be invited
home; eight, no marriages occur !:
nine, good days to eat egg plant. and
the 9th of September is the day of
days to eat that vegetable. 1t is a
good omen to spill salt, because of It's
purifying quality. If child's left
hand he put through its sleeve first.
it will be left handed. If man
sneeze once he is being praised; twice,
he is loved by some woman; thrice,
he is being talked of; four times he
is taking cold. The wife must get
up and make the fire because the
crow calls her. If two funerals meet
it is good luck, but if one Oyertake
the other it is bad luck, If a child is
born when the father Is Al it will be
disobedient. So the child is placed
in the street and friend takes it to
his house until the next day. when
he calls on the father, who proceeds
to complain that he is lonely and has
no child and then asks the visitor if
he cannot give child away. The
friend has one that he has fourd in
the street with which he is willing to
part. So the boy is restored to his
home and the evil omen averted.-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-12
THEOS. 3. HORWITZ.

m nR IN Great chance 10 mare money.
EUE III Those who always take advantage
RtkNuas of the good chances for making
u " ~ ~. money that are offered, generally
become wealthy, While those who do not i'm
prove such chances remain in poverty. We
want many men. women. boys ard girls to
work for us right in their own localities. Any
one can do the work properly from the first
start. The business will pay more than ten
times Ordi@ary wages, Expensive outfit furn-
lShed freq. NOone who engages fails to make
money rapidly. You can devote your whole
time to the work. or only your spare moments
Full Information and all that is needed sent
free. Address STINSON Il Co., Portland,
Maine. Dec. 81 ly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-12
A Golden Opinion.

A well known author has said:
LIVERY youth should live with an
eye on old age. If he should die be.
fore he gets there, it will never do
him any injury" Just so should all
youth be taught by their parents and
teachers that Perm1a, the great tonic,
is Just the remedy he needs for all the
ailments to which flesh is heir. MANY
golden opinions of its value and of its
unprecedented success have been re-
ceived by its discoverers, all of which
express the most undoubted conf
dence in its value as a remedy, and
all tell what it has done for the afflict-
ed.
G. H. Walron writes from Brook
lyn, New York, that he began taking
PertuaG while at COnneauton, Pa, for
a severe pain in his side. After taxi
ing three bottles. the pain was almost
entirely removed, and he now asks
where he can get the w0rld-renowned
tonic in Gotham. He knows where
he gets relief. Ask your druggist for
Per10'G and also the ILLS of Life"