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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-08-20
London and the Modern Slay'
Trade,


Trade.
Systematic business:
Established marts;
Successful traders
Male aud female
Procuring innocent girls
BY lies;
by fattcry:
Promises OF all the pleasures
Wealth can procure;
BY making the victims drunk;
BY drugging them;
BY force. when necessary!
Results:
Suicide, or
A life Of shame.
The victims, the daughters OF the
poor;
They who are not able to fee law
yers;
Those who cannot lose day from
their struggle for bread.
The customers
Where are they found?
They are your leading profession
al men;
And your leading merchants;
And the SONS OF the rich!
They are found in every large city
As well in this country as IN En-
gland!
They have so made the laws
That the fathers Of the victims
Earn the money which buys the
child!
The earnings go into the pockets
OF the scoundrels.
How?
BY class laws;
BY watered stocks;
BY bonded robbery;
By reason Of
The corporate monopolies.
The head OF these in this country
The king devil OF them all
The national bank monopoly!
Destroy these
Deprive them OF their power
For evil
The rest dwindle and die.
Are you brave men,
Who dare to demand your own
Exercise your God given rights?
Or. are YOU craven cowards-
Trucking to your party bosses;
Obeying the commands OF him
Who for self-aggrandizement,
And an easy berth,
Gained by trading with
The old parties?
The tools of the mOnOpOlies
Command you-frecmen-
That you must not
Discuss politics
In your oranges,
Your trade assemblies!
II you are worthy Of freedom
Entitled to be called men
Do your own thinking!
Do your own voting!
Get ready to elect In 1856
A Congress
Not Of lawyers,
Nor OF political schemers-
But OF your own callings!
Sweep away, and forever,
The national banks,
The other monopolies
And their dishonest metnOds
Will die
Their head being cut of.
Then the thieves
Who have piled up millions,
BY watered stocks
And other thieving,
Will find homes
In our prisons,
Or 60 to curse Europe
With their presence.
But you have q present duty t.
perform
In suppressing this horrible
Slave trade In young girls,
And putting the procuress and
The purchasers In prison,
(Or hang them by lynch law.
Compel the officers
To do their duty!
Don't let the effort meet
The same fate
Which befell the effort
OF New York Truth in 1883.
-[National View.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-08-20
HACANsS
Magnolia Balm

is a secret aid to beauty.
Many a lady owes her fresh
ness to it, who would rather
not tell, and y0n CAN'T tell.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-08-20

MiNNEAPONlS AND ST. PAUL,
Leaving Chicago via the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railway, st. Louis Via the st. Louis,
keOkuk u Northwestern Railway, and Minne-
apolis and st. Paul via the Minneapolis a. st.
Louis Railway.
THE MAIN LINE
extends from Burlington, Iowa, to Albert Lea,
Minnesota; Muscatine Division from Muscatine,
Iowa, to What Cheer and MOnteZuma, Iowa;
Clinton Division, Clinton, Iowa, TO Elmira, Iowa:
Iowa City Division. Elmira to Riverside, Iowa;
Decorah division, Cedar Rapids to Postyille and
DecOrah, Iowa; Iowa Falls Division, Cedar Rap
Ids to WOrthingtOn, Mtnn., and WatertOwn,
Dakota: Belmond Division, DOws, Iowa, to Mad
tson. Iowa.
1t win be seen from the above that almost any
portion OF Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota and MOTH
or the east, south or southeast, can be reached
by this line and its connections.
Maps, Time Tables and all information fur
niShed upon application TO Agents. Tickets on
sale ut all coupon OFFICES to all points In the
United States and Canada.
C.J. IVES, J.E. HANNEGAN,
Prcst. & Gen. Supt. Chi. elk. Pass. Dedt.
CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
Something About the History of Chew
ing and Smoking.

Cigars were not known until about
1915. Previous to that time pipes were
used exclusively.
Chewing has been in vogue to limit
ed extent for some time, while snuffing
dai es .ck almost as far as smoking.
Tue first package sent to Catherine de
Medici was in fine powder. She found
that smelling it in the box affected her
similarly to smoking, which led her to
fill one of her smelling bottles with her
dust. Her courtiers adopted the habit
of snuffing small portions of it up the
nostrils, and as the precious stuff became
more plentiful the snufing habit became
more general. until at last a man or a
woman was not considered as in proper
form unless they snuffed.
The custom became so common in En-
gland that snuff-box was no longer a
sign of rank. Then it was the law pro-
hibiting the culture of the plant, except
for medicine, was passed. About the
same time heavy tariff was placed on
the imported al ticle, thereby practically
placing it beyond the reach of the COM
mon herd and giving royalty complete
monopoly.
Since it first began to be used as lux
ury there have been conflicting opinions
in regard to its effects. The Ronish
church once forbade its use and the
Church of England declared against its
use.
The Wesleys opposed it hotly, and at
one time it was considered so unclean as
to unit men for membership in the
Methodist church.
Baptist and Presbyterian ministers
preached against it, and societies were
organized to oppose the spread of the
habit, but all to no purpose. Parents
disowned and disinherited their children
because they used it. and husbands di-
vorced their wives on account of their
having contracted the habit of smoking.
1t is singular that when women get
into the habit of smoking pipe they
prefer strong one.
There are few men who have nerve
enough to smoke pipe such as woman
likes when she has become a confirmed
smoker. When they first begin putting
cigars they prefer them very mild, but
it is not long until they want them black
and strong and lots of them
Tobacco is an Indian weed,
And twas the devil sowed the seed;
1t robs yonr pocket, burns your clothes.
And makes chimney of your nose.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
Three Words of Strength.

There are three lessons / would write
Three words as with burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
Have Hope. Though clouds environ
round,
And gladness hides her face in seorn,
Put off The shadow from thy brow
No night but hath its morn.
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is
driven
The calm's disport, the tempest's
Know this: God rules the hosts Of heav-
en-,
The inhabitants of earth.
Have Love. Not love alone for one;
But man, as man, thy brother call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these lessons on thy soul
Hope, Faith, and Love-and thou shalt
find
Strength when life's surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else vert blind.
Schiller.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
THE BETTER PART.
iSelected.1

Selected.
AS through life our way is vending, as
we meet each daily care,
Wherefore should we in repining. null
tiply the trouble there?.
Why not "string the pearls" of gladness,
and whatever fate betide,
Cast glance of deeper interest. over
OF the brighter side?
From the blackest waste of water,on the
darkest, starless night,
There will flash unto the gaver, some
faint CLEAN of silVery light;
Never yet so cold winter, but some
bird would wave its wing,
Never noontide heat of summer, but has
heard the robin sing!
Though crushing weight OF sorrow,
bow CUR spirits to the dust,
Must we therefore in the future, lese
for ave our faith and trust?
Surely the Almighty Father never wills
us to despair,
And His Christening hand no heavier
falleth than our souls can bearl
Every lightest wave of influence, Wldens
to oobliyion's shorei
OIL It's not heightened vissge, nor a
stern and awful tone,
That can draw our wandering footsteps
nearer the eternal home,
These may waken awe and reverence,
but they cannot kindle love.
And they fail the deep emotions OF the
yearning soul to move,
'Tis the voice of gentle pleading, that
the human heart can sway,
Stirring strong desires for heaven, long,
ing for the better way,
Teaching by cheerful spirit that re-
IigiOn's paths are peace.
Pointing with an upward finger, to the
land where striyings cease,
Wherefore tell US that life's pathway
lieth through vale of tears!
And but transient are the visions that
surround our early years?
Though full soon will pass the glowing
of Youths dawning golden ray.
Still there dwelleth MONDAY shadows,
where the morning dew-drops stay,
There are flowers that open only at the
Silly eventide;
When the nightingale Is singing, when
the sounds of day have died,
Why not bid US, as We journey, prize our
present blessings more?
Brighten at each CLEAN OF sunlight
though a cloud may lie before,
Could we not to duty's calling, ever lend
willing ear?
Giving unto all around US, kindly Wsrds
and smiles Of cheer?
Let no gloomy, lowering shadow Ger the
social circle fall;
If one heart-string be bat broken, dls-
cord will pervade them all;
Offer to the God of being sincere and
grateful heart,
Brothers, sisters, on life's Journey is not
this the better part!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
Afghanistan. War in the East.

Unless the Emperor of Russia calls off
toward India two of the greatest en-
pires of modern times will come into col
lision before the appearance of the apple
blossoms. The British willjnot suffer
their empire in India to be put in peril =
will not suffer the Cossacks to Cypress
their allies, the Afghsns. They demand
that Alexander shall keep his distance -
shall respect the neutral belt, some four
hundred miles wide, lying between the
Russian and Indian empires.
Should war ensue the scene of military
operations will be Afghani5tan, one of
the most interesting countries on the
globe. TheAfghans claim TO be decsend+
ed from Afghaun, the son of Ismia or
lshui, the son of Saul, King of Isarel.
Their national histories begin with
relation of the transactions of the He
brews from the time of Abraham to the
death of Solomon. That part of their
history agrees with the historians of
Arabia, and differs very little from the
Scripture account. The Afghan histo-
rians assert that during thirty centuries
their people have preserved the knowl-
edge of the unity of the Deity, and that
they have never at any time abandoned
the worship of the God of Abraham.
Hence, when their kinsman, Mahomet,
appeared, they recognized him as the last
and greatest of the prophets of the Lord,
and marched to the aid of the true faith
under their king, Abdul Reschid, who
was the thirty-Seventh in royal descent
from Saul, the son of Kish, who was
anointed King of Israel while hunting
his fathers asses.
Whether the Afghans be, in fact, de
scendants of King SaHl is, Of cOu,se,
problematical. but all travellers agree
that.like their reputed ancestor, they are
from the shoulders upward" taller than
the people of the surrounding naLions-a
noble race of men. both physically and
intellect laIly. they are Mohammedans-
of the straitest sect that of the Sonnitcs,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19

and, like their Arabian cousins. they have
from the earliest ages maintained their
liberties and the independence of their
country, except when temporarily over
wbelmed by the vast armies of Medea
Persia and Babylon. and, In later times
by the barbarian hordes under Zingis
Khan and Timour the Cripple. They are
exceedingly pious, and entertain great
horror of heretics, infdels and idolators, I"
and yet the time has never been when
they did not maintain that, religion be
ing a matter of conscience, no man
should be molested on accout of his
speculative faith. The Hindoos and
other idolators residing in Afghanistan
are allowed the free exercise of their
religion. but they are net permitted to
exhibit their idols in public or to carry
them in professions, even if veiled.
Such are the people whom the British
will have as allies should war break out
between the two great Northern powers.
Very few European troops will be needed
on the British side, for the Afghans.
when properly armed and equipped, are
among the finest soldiers in the world
man for man more than match for the
Cossacks.-O' s. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
GENERAL GRANTS MALADY.

NEW YORK, March 12.-The Medical
Record of Saturday contains the fol-
lowing
"Since the last bulletin of the Medical
Record was issued, consultation has
been held on General Grants case at
tended by Drs. Fordyee Barker, j. H.
Douglas, Henry B Sands and George F.
Shrady. At that time, March s, the gen.
eral condition of the distinguished pa
tient was quite feeble. although he was
able to walk across his library and seat
himself in a chair for the necessary ex,
animation of his throat. The latter was
possible without giving him pain. 1t
was found that the liberation of the pos
terror pillar of the right fauces had ex-
tended, and that the perforatiOn at the
base of the anterior pillar had increased,
SO that its internal edge was converted
into small bride of tissue. The entire
soft palate was uniformly redeemed and
swollen, and the right posterior border
ofthe tongue was indurated from point
just in front of the inferior pillar of the
fauces as far back as could be reached
by the finger. The gland under the right
angle of the jaw was still enlarged and
hard, but quite movable. The pain in
the ear had entirely disappeared, and
there was no special difficulty in swal
r,,ifhar ad
salvation.
The most grateful application to the
throat next 10 spray OF per cent So
tion of cocoaiue Was that OF hot Solu
tion of salt and water, in the proportion
of five parts TO a thousand, used occa-
sionally as a gargle. The patient COM
planned that his sleep was irregular and
ttful and was thereby converting night
into day. COdeine in grain doses was
accordingly recommended as an anodyne,
otherwise no change in the general treat
ment was suggested. The local applica-
tions employed by DR.. Douglas were
fully indorsed. The previous diagnosis
Va VIC dAOOooO VI buC bilAOo1 was
mously confirmed. The administration
of tue anodyne was subsequently attend
ed with good result. securing i've hours
of uninterrupted slumber at time. In
the course of the following three days
the effect was not so marked, and anoLh-
er sedative was prescribed.
"The angry redness of the palatal cur
tain has In measure disappeared, and
there is now occupying considerable
portion of its left side a triangular
shaped, sharply defined granular exuber-
ance which has an omnibus appearance.
The Lucrative process in the anterior
pillar has since the consultation, extend
to the adjoining side of the tongue, and
the bride of the tissue bounding the
perforation of the anterior pillar inter
nally gave way ou Wednesday. During
Thursday the patient was in reasona-
bly, comfortable state; his tempature was
nominal and pulse regular, but he was
suffering somewhat from the effects of |
insomnia. His digestion is good and
semi-solid food is taken easily and with
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
THE NEWS.

Mai. J. NJ. Hawortb, Superintendent
of Indian schools, died at Albuquerque,
n. NJ.
Scott Neal, wanted in Lawence county.
O., for murder, has been arrested in Illi-
nois.
Three negroes, arrested for murder,
were taken by a mob at Union City.
Tenn, and hanged.
John McVan, brakeman on the n. Y,
2. & o., was killed while coupling cars
at Mansfield, o.
A council of the National Union League
has been called to assemble at Philadel-
phia, March 2S.
st. DominicEs Catholic church, Wash
ington, D. C., was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000.
The House of Representatives of Con-
necticut passed resolution Of sympathy
with Gen. Grant.
River improvement work is being Sc
riously hindered by the neglect to pass
the necessary appropriations.
Charles Nelly vas foxnd dead in a
room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, To-
ledo, O., smothered to death by gas.
Sewell, who succeeds Logan as Chair
maD of the Senate Military Committee,
is an ardent friend of FitZ John Porter.
James Dwyer, an empioye of the Pan
Handle, was probably fatally crushed
between an engine and car. at Day ton,
Ohio.
The saloon Of Harry Burton. at Rose.
vile, O., became objectional to the citi
zens of the place, and it was blown up
with powder.
An impression prevails in New York
that the strike on the Missouri Pacific
and Wabash roads will extend to the
Gould sy stem East.
Anthony Janus, son of Prof. Janus,
of Columbian University, ID. c., died
from "heart trouble superindueed by ex-
cessive cigarette smoking"
Judge John W. Alberty, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Cherokee Nation, has been suspended by
the Chief for malfeasance in office.
The final contracts have been awarded
for work on the Art Museum at Cipcin>
natl, and the Institution is expected to
be ready for occupancy by December i,
next.
The Texas Senate passed the House
bill providing that railroad companies
shall give employees thirty days notice
before any reduction of wages shall be
enforced.
The New York Union League Club,
by a small majority, reScinded the forms
for admission to Blaine and Logan test.
George Harrison, a disabled soldier,
was mustered into the G. A. R. at his
home, near Fremont, Ohio. He has been
bed-ridden eleven years, and was in bed
at the time.
The Coroner's verdict in the case of
Bernard Bohlman, who was killed in
Cincinnati by coming in contact with an
electric wire, is that death was owing to
the imperfect insulation of the wire.
John Google was publicly horsewhip-
ped in Vincennes, Ind, by Mrs. DR..
Bake, practicing physician, as a pun
ishment for having repeated certain
slanderous rumors against her character.
A heavy storm, accompanied with
thunder and lightning, passed over Gen.
trail Ohio Thursday afternoon. Three
barns in the vicinity of Lancaster were
struck by lightning and entirely con>
sumed.
The Democrats of Vincennes, Ind, in
mass meeting, refused to adopt a reso-
luton cordially indorsing any appointee1
for the Postoffice that Congressman
Cobb, of that district. may designate"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19

PAwNINe HER BoY's CLOTHES FOR MEDI-
oINB.- poor woman in Wales, whose boy
had been very i'll for several years, had ex>
pended all her means for medicine; at last
the doctors gave hin up and said be must die;
he suffered so terribly with rheumatism that
he could not be moved; one day some one
told her about the Mount Lebanon Shakers;
the evidence of the curative powers of their
Extracts of Roots :gas so convincing that she
pawned the poor boys clothes to buy bottle
Of the remeday (Siegels Syrup. but now she
feels proud that she did so, for it was the
means of curing her son; Shakers say that was
the result of indigestion, and that the medi>
cine cured the dyspepsia, and that the rheu
matism was only symptom of the real dis
ease. For coughs the Shaker Tar Capsules
are strongly recommended.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
Cold Comfort.

WASHINGTON, March 12-Vice Presi-
dent Hendricks and Senator voorhees,
have bad an interview with the Presi-
dent in which they tried to persuade
him that he ought to move promptly in
putting Republicans out and filling their
places with Democrats. They presented
all the arguments of party policy and of
the doctrine to the victors belong the
spoils. President Cleveland heard them
through and then told them plainly that
he intended to carry out the propositions
he had set forth in his letter on the civil
service and the declaration Of his inau-
gural on the same subject. He held the
party by its civil service law to be bound
to an effort to carry its principle into
effect.
Both Mr.. Hendricks and Senator Voor-
hees dissented most emphatieally from
the position of the President, and espe-
cially from the purpose he announced
of making changes very slowly, and ex-
cept in those classes of offices which ev-
cry one expects to change almost at
once, with an Administration, making
them only for cause. The Presidents
views, if carried out, will not, speaking
generally, give the offices to the Demo.
Gratis much faster than commissions ex>
pire.
The report of this interview has had a
chilling effect upon large company of
crusaders, who are iocking in from all
quarters to help defend the Treasury.
A raging fight against Cleveland from
within his own party, waged by those
who insist upon having the offices, and
having them quick, already seems to be
a foregone conclusion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19

THE Philadelphia Press quotes one OF
the leading iron men of that city as say
ing that in his opinion the prices of iron
had touched bottom, and that any
changes that will be likely to occur
within the next six months will be for
the better. The following is the con-
Guiding paragraph of the interview re-
ferred to in Press:
The outlook for the spring trade is
very cheering. and the starting up of the
FURNACES in the West, as indicated by the
increase in the production of coke, is en-
couraging. Manufacturers here and in
the West agree that we are on the eve
of a much better trade in iron. 80 far
as can see there is nothing in the pres
ent condition of the country to prevent
an early revival of business. Just be-
fore You came in l was visited by two
of our leading local manufacturers, who
told me that they were in daily receipt
of large orders, and that business was at
last looking up. Undoubtedly there is
an increase in business in the market
for manufactured iron, and while there
has been no appreciable advancein prices,
save in nails, there is nothing to indicate
that there will be decline.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
Remarkable Escape.

Mrs. Mary A. Daley, of Tunkhannock,
Pa, was afflicted for six years with ssthma
and bronchitis, during which time the best
physicians could give no relief; her life was
6espaired of, until last October she procured
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery, when
immediate relief was felt, and by continuing
its use for short time she was completely
cured, gaining in flesh so lbs. in few months
Free Trial Bottles of this certain cure of all
throat and lung diseases at Pattersons' drug
store, St. Clairsville; large bottles 81.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19
These Are Sold Facts.

The best blood purifier and system regula-
tor ever placed within the reach of suffering
humanity, truly is Electric Bitters. Inac.
tivity of the liver, biliousness, jsundice, con>
sumption, weak kidneys or any disease of the
urinary organs, or whoever requires an ap-
petizer, tonic or mild stimulant, will always
find Electric Bitters the best and only certain
cure known; they act surely and quickly,
every bottle guaranteed to give entire satisfac-
ton or money refunded. Sold at SOC bottle
by Patterson & Sons, St. Clairsville.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19

A PLEASANT little episode occurred on
the occasion of the call of the Justices
Of the Supreme Court onthe President
the other day. Justice Miller, whose
Republicanism is of the staunchest char
acter, and whose name has frequently
been mentioned in connection with the
nomination for the Presidency, took Mr.,
Cleveland by the hand and said: "Mr
President, Mr.. Benton once said of the
Court, in politics we are none.' We are
not quite so far Hnsexed as that, but 1
wish to say for my associates. as well as
for myself, that we cordially welcome
you to the Capital, and wish your ad-
ministratien every success.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-19

W. E. Brown, cancer specialist of
North Adams, Mass, was called to New
York by Fred Grant and Senator Chaf-
fee to give his advice and counsel as to
what means could be employed to save
Gen. Grants life.s The attending physi
clans declined TO give permission for the
specialist, who expressed a confidence
that he can cure the General, to see the
natient