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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
Yourself and NeighbOrs.

james McMonies and Will White,
musicians of this place, left on Monday
for Columbus, to join Barrett's circus,
with which they will travel this Season,
ss members of the band.
". NJ. Fulton. Esq, teacher of the
Glencoe schools, made this Office pleas
ant call on Saturday. The people OF
Glencoe are much pleased with their
schools under his management.
We had call Saturday from Mil,
lard Fillmore Helsley, Republican cons
stable elect of Pultney tp. "Phil" is
proud of his election, although he takes
1t quite medeStly.
Misses Mamie Randolph and Bessie
Hoge, of Bellairs, and George Kinney,
of Lewis Mills, were guests of the Misses
Clark. of this place, over Sabbath.
Mrs. Charles Clark, of Columbus, is
visiting the family of Thes. Clark, Esq.,
in this place.
Robert Courtney, of Bellaire, spent
Sabbath with his father and mother in
this place, and shaking hands with his
friends.
DIR. George E. Furbay, the dentist
looks proudly upon the sweet little girl
baby that came to his house to stay, on
Monday evening.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
You Cannot Get

A particle of impurity in our SPICES, TEAS oI
SUGARS, and you don't want any when you can
buy perfectly pure goods at same prices or less,
do you?
GEO. JEPSON.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
Sheriff $ Sale.
BELMONT COMMON PLEAS.

Emma FL. Close
VS..
Robert Steadman. ct al.
- URSUANT to an order of sale in the
above entitled case, issued and to me
directed, from the court of common pleas, OF
Belmont county, Ohio, l will offer at public
sale upon the premises, on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15

The township assessors, thirty iu
number, met at the office of the county
auditor on Tuesday, and received theil
blanks and instructions. Their names
are as follows:
Colerain-Isaac Taylor
Flushing prec-Wm c Holloway.
Belmont Ridge Isaac Shotwell,
Goshen tp-Z 7 Hicks.
Belmont prec-Jacob Stidd.
Hendrysburgh prec George Hayes.
Sewellsville prec "A L Hibbs,
Mead tp-George Creamer.
Bridgeport prec Will l. Cook.
Martins Ferry prec-T ] Cochran.
1st ward-Jacob Pence
I'd John White.
Sd Levi w Jones.
Pultney tp-C B Knox.
West Wheeling prec-Thos Moore.
Bellaire, lst ward-Wm II Stadler.
Cd Pat Lynsky.
Sd George E Littleton.
4th " C L Shuttleworth.
9Th o P Mason.
Richland tp-Eli Piggott.
Smith tp-Silas Hart.
Somerton prec-ThOs Wilson.
Boston prec-J o Neptune.
Union tp-Albert Schlientz.
Warren tp-Jacob Hager.
Washington tp-JOhn Hess.
Wayne tp-Geo Powell, jr.
Wheeling tp-J A Coleman.
York-A F Korner.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15

; Chronic constipation is the national curse
Of America; cure it with Ayers Cathartic Pills
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT

PEOPLE who are on the lookout for
bargains will consult the columns of THE
CHRONICLE.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
Now Clean Up.

SOAP, LYE, PoTAsH, LINE, SCRUB AND WHITE
WASH BRUSHES, BRooMs, CARPET TAcKs, &C., in
great abundance; very cheap and of the best
quality.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15

We Beat the Country
On SOAP in either TOILET or LAUNDRY, and
can prove it to you in about one minute Come
and see US; we are "full up" with everything
in our line, and can do you good.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
NOTICE toCON TRACTORS

AUDITORS OFFICE, BELMONT CoUNTY,l
ST. CLAIRsvILLE, ONO, Mar. %, 1856.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26

meath had kept unswervingly on their
course.
When he reoched his chambers. he sat
down by his table and drew paper and
ink toward him.
Il shall not accept your dismissal Ell
sie," he wrote hurriedly in answer to her
piteous letter. II should be very shallow
if could not read the motive which
prompted your letter. I shall come down
as usual, and we will talk over it till we
understand each other fully. Till then,
you must believe me when tell you that
I love you all the more for your act of
sacrifice, and that 1 love you more now
than I ever did,
Frank and Elsie have long been mar
ried, and are content. He knows now
that he was on the verge of comm lifting
grievous mistake, and one which might
have darkened all his future life. For it
is not great events, involving tragedies
and tears, that impress themselves most
deeply upon the body of our habits and
thoughts; but the tendency of our life is
most affected by what is no more than an
everyday occurrence"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
Wheat Growing.
Rural New Yorker

During our farm experience of twenty
years, every year of which we have raised
wheat, we fancy we have learned one or
two things; that is for light or sandy
soil, though matter as a matter of fact
a sandy is heavier than clay soil. One
of the things we have learned is to pillow
the oat stubble as soon as possible after
harvest. Oats in our rotation always pre-
cedes wheat and timothy seeding. Wheth-
er farm manure is spread Or not, our
wheat seems to be benefited by light
dressing of a complete fertilizer just be-
fore sowing The land is then rolled and
narrowed. For several years we rolled
both before and after seeding, but were
convinced that it is not good thing to
do.
The rolled surface bakes and causes the
rain, instead of soaking directly into the
soil, to form cutters and to run in little
streams. It also appears that wheat
rolled after seeding did not stand the
winters as well, always being killed out in
places.
Why can nationally advise farmers in
general as to the quantity of wheat that
had best be sown per acre? We can not.
Some wheats tiller little, Others a good
deal. The amount of seed wheat must be
determined accordingly. Is your land
light or heavy, we'll or imperfectly drain
ed, rich or poor? Eveey farmer must
consider these questions for himself and
SOW accordingly. From careful expert
ments made years ago we settled upon
one and half bushels to the acre for
either Clawson, Silver Chaff or Fultz.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
They gather the delicate sea-weed
SneckS in Butter.

J.H. Denham, Ohio, states in the Stock
man that people do not agree as to the
cause of white specks in butter. One says
that cream is too sour, another that
cream that stands too long without
skimming, and has become somewhat
dried on top, will cause white specks; an
other, that germ in the air will cause
it; and still others have other theories.
We confess our ignorance of the real
cause in all cases, but are certain that if
COWS are in healthy condition, and are
regularly MIXED, and the milk is set in
air-tight cans, with good cold water
(either ice or spring., and is skinned
"a hours after setting, and ripened in
some good vat, and churned in a good
barrel churn, or other churn that runs
on the same principle, and the butter is
well washed in the churn while in the
granular state, no white specks will be
found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
An Uncertain Test.
Prairie Farmer.

There is a homely old saying that "You
can not tell by the looks of cat how far
it can jump" 1t is equally impossible
to judge by the cream-gauge how much
butter can be made from given amount
of milk. The question how much cream,
by measure, was required to make a
pound of butter came up last winter, and
thorities in the West upon dairy matters.
1t elected the fact that the quantity
sometimes varied fully one-third, and
even more. Some milk throwing up 20
per cent of cream will be as rich in butter
fats as other samples showing 80 er
cent. These variations may be caused
be difference in food, temperature of
milk when set, or other circumstances.
Whatever may be the causes, the fact is
we'll established. The cream gauge is,
therefore, very uncertain test of cows
value for butter making.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
TurnipS a Profitable Crop.
Farm and StOckman

Turnips are grown at small cost, and
those who have planted a crop as we'll
recommended, will End that they have
benefited themtelves and their stock by
so doing. We admit all that has been
said against turnips, that they are COM
posed largely of water, and that the
amount of nutrition in crop is small
compared with grain. But turnips pro-
duce largely, and grow so quickly as to
cost but very little. We do not claim
that if turnips are made the principal
portion of the ration they can be used in
place of grain or more concentrated food.
No one would attempt to winter cattle on
turnips alone, but in this respect those
who do not grow them take a mistaken
view of them. Turnips should be used as
an addition to the food, not as speciality.
They may not contain those elements in
excess that are desired in food, but they
contain them in form in which material
can not be secured in any other manner.
The very water which is Objectionable In
the succulent turnip is solvent of that
matter which is desirable, and which, in
combination in the turnip. is more easily
digested and appropriated than when
dried An apple is composed largely of
water, but all know that there is differ
ence in apples containing water and those
that have been dried and then soaked.
And so with turnips. They may, in fact,
contain much water, but in that juicy,
succulent condition they act as cor
rective to the bowels, increase the appe
tite and promote health, making desire
able change from the dry food of winter,
the proof of which is the readiness with
which they are accepted by stock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
Applying Lime TO Land.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

There is one point which should always
be observed in applying lime, and that is
to have it in as fine condition as possible.
The two kinds mostly used are the oyster
shell lime and the stone lime. The later
is best and should be thoroughly Stacked,
which renders it fine and easily handled.
When the stone Or shells are placed in
the kilns the composition is carbonate of
lime, or carbonic acid and lime. During
the process of burning the carbonic acid
is driven off, leaving the lime, which is
really an oxide of calcium. When Stacked
IN lime the mass is hydrate of lime, and
remains with it although no trace of it
is seen. It is this finely divided hydrate
of lime that is applied to the soill which
is readily carried into all the spaces Of the
soil by the falling ratus.
After the lime is applied to the soil it
slowly returns to its original condition of
carbonate of lime, and in doing so it
seizes carbonic acid from the air, the
soil Or any substance with which it may
come in contact. It thus causes change
in some of the other substances in the
soil, which, in turn, act upon others, and
in this manner the lime influences many
reactions, the effect of which is to break
down barriers and render inert substances
soluble. It cances the soil to become
more fertile, not because it really adds
anything but lime, but because the ma
terial which formerly was unsoluble In
water is converted into plant food. The
soil may appear more fertile when it is
only improved, as all the elements are
taken from the soil itself.
But loss of fertility should be prevent
ed by growing some kind of gree3 crop
to turn under with the lime, so as to add
as many elements of plant food as posi-
BILE, and the land may also receive manure
and fertilizer Lime always works down
in the SOIL and when about to apply it the
land should be deeply plowed and the
lime broadcast over the surface. 1t is
best to hurry it down before applying;
but some prefer to pillow the ground and
apply the lime, so as to leave 1t on the
rough land, especially in the fall, believ-
ing that by so doing the frost more readi-
" penetrates and assists the lime to rem
der the soil in better condition.
Lime is said to render light soils heavi-
er and heavy soils lighter but much de-
ponds upon the drainage, the climate and
the quality of the lime itself. The chief
benefit is derived from its fine condition,
which hastens chemical action. As near
ly all soils contain lime, it does but little
good of itself; but it should be used, even
on limestone soils as its chief benefit is
due to its chemical and mechanical &C
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
Building a Corn-C Crib
Kansas Farmer.

Whether the farm is large or small, or
whether corn is one of the principal crops
or only a sufficient quantity is raised to
feed q few head of stock necessary to
properly work the farm, crib sufficiently
large to store all the corn needed from
one end of the year to another is a neces-
sity.
On many western farms the corn wasted
by being exposed to all kinds of weather
and lose from the depredations of YER
min would, in a short time, if saved, pay
the expense of building good, suitable
crib.
The first thing to be particular about
is to have it rat and mice-proof. This
can easily be done if the building is de-
tached from everything else, is built up
from the ground at least ten feet, set on
stout posts or pillars, over which good
sized pan or large piece of sheet-iron Is
put "a pan is the BEST, so that these
pests can not gain access in this way. Do
not have any steps or allow anything to
be placed leaning from the ground to the
building; build it entirely detached and
then take pains to peep it so. If proper
pains are taken to build so that they can
not get in there can be security from
these parts.
A double crib will in many cases be the
most convenient, far enough apart so that
a team and wagon can be easily driven be-
tween them. When this is done, board up
the outside tight, and use Stats two or
three inches wide by one in thickness,
leaving them about one-half or three
quarters of an inch apart. This will give
free circulation of air. Corn when gath
cred reasonably early in the fall must have
a free circulation of air around it when
stored in large quantities or a portion of
it will spoil. Be careful to have a good
tight roof. The corn should be kept as
dry as possible. A very good plan is to
build two cribs side by side, eight feet
wide, and as long as may be necessary.
This would make the building twenty
four feet wide, and it could then be made
as long as desired.
Good stout sills and posts should be
used, as there is not only considerable
weight, but pressure, when such build
ing is filled with grain, so that it pays to
take considerable pains TO have the build
ing strong.
Build early in the fall, so as to have
the crib ready for use whenever you need
it.
Ten feet high from sill to roof is plen-
ty high. If built double, use slaths on
the insides, as this will be better than If
built tight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
AROUND THE FARM.

A good grade of horses on the farm is
an evidence of thrift and prosperity.
Regulate the feed of your horses to
correspond with the amount of work they
are required to do.
Seed corn should be changed every four
or five years, or at least new kinds mixed
with the local sorts.
a mans farm is a volume, every acre
of which is a page bearing the marks of
his character, indicating the degree of
mentaland moral culture to which he has
attained.
Whatever farming may have been in the
past, the time has come when the highest
intelligence is demanded as a necessary
qualification On the part of the agricultur-
list.
True economy in farm matters is wise
use of resources, with care to prevent
waste. The word signifies something
more than saving, for there is economy
in dispensing the proceeds of labor as
well as in outstanding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
Mr.. Gould as a LabOrer.
New York Times.

A gentleman who had business with Jay
Gould called on him yesterday morning
at the millionaire's office down Broadway.
'Is Mr.. Gould in?" he demanded of the
clerk who confronted him.
He is too busy to see anybody to-day"
was the ans yer, to which in glib tongue
this further information was added: "He
is attending meeting of directors now,
and will be kept at that till noon; then,
while he lunches, he will dictate his CORE
spondence, and afterward he's got two
other meetings to attend and a half dozen
appointments with his lawyers and other
folks. He won't have a single spare mo-
ment before 3 o'clock; then on the minute
he picks up his hat and makes straight
way for the Atalanta, to get his dinner up
at Irvington."
The moral of all this is that Mr. Gould,
monopolist or what not, is something of
q wOrkingman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26

to do. am dairy farmer. Now and
then / have to sell an old COW or crinnle
for beef, but l never calculate upon it. I
claim that my milch cows do so we'll that
when their milking days are over I can
afford to give them decent burial and
still be ahead. This keeping a COW for s
or 10 years and then being obliged to sell
her for beef in order to come out
whole, looks to me like very poor bust
ness. We don't need any general pur-
pose" cows; aim at the bulls eye and not
at the whole target. Decide upon what
you want beef, milk, butter-and then
breed for that special purpose. Have a
definite purpose and steady aim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26

A Missouri farmer who has been testing
seed corn from the butt, the tip. and the
middle of ears for three years, finds that
corn from the tips of the ears will ripen
first, that from the middle next, and that
from the butt last.
Nine farmers out of every ten do
something in dairying. The many titles
make much, and as consequence, it is
estimated that mnch of the butter of the
butter of the United States is produced
outside of the so-called dairy regions"
The most successful farming the past
lew years seems to have been made by
men who had little land and were able
themselves, with their families, to do the
greater part of the work with little ex-
pense for the hired help. To such farm
erS the growing of small fruits on a small
scale generally pays well.
As rule the most Intelligent and
faithful farm hands, those which COM
mand the highest wages, will be found
much more profitable than help which
can be hired for little money. This is
particularly true of those to whose care
Is Entrusted the feeding and management
of stock during the winter.
The Importance of lime as plant
food, to be supplied by its use as fertiI-
lzer, may be perceived by the following:
In % bushels of oats there are 9 pounds
of lime; in 80 bushels of barley. Is
pounds; in two tons of clover hay. 35
pounds; in $50 bushels of potatoes, 27O
pounds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
LITTLE BROWN HANDS.

They drive home the cows from the pas
lures
Up through the long shady lane,
Where the quails whistle loud in the wheat
fields
That are yellow with grain.
Where the scarlet-lipped strawberry
grows
They gather the earliest snow drops
And the first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss new hay in the meadow.
They gather the elder bloom white,
They know where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft tinted October light;
They know where the apples are ripest,
And sweeter than Italy wines;
They know where the clusters are thickest
On the long thorny blackberry vines
They gather the delicate sea-weeds
And bHild tiny castles of sand;
They pick up the beautiful Sea-shellS--
Fairy boats that drifted to land;
They wave in the tall-reaching tree tops
Where the oriole' IS hammock nest swings
And at night they are lulled into slumber
By the song that fond mother sings.
Those who toll bravely are Strongest
The humble and poor become great.
And from these broWn-handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers Of state;
The pen of the author and scholar,
The noble and wise of the land
The chisel the sword and the palette
Shall be held in the little brown hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
THE WEST.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Oh no! for the West, the boundless West,
Where pastures and creeds are broad.
Where the breeze is a tonic that thrill the breast,
Blown straight from the hills of God.
The East is land of dead mems bones,
Laid tier on molderDg tier.
And the damp naalarial wind that means
LIS the breata of those dead men near.
And its slow, pale people seem merely wraiths
That have strayed away from the tomb,
Clutching the cold ancestral faiths
And wrapped in the garments of gloom.
And the mountains rise up and restrict the sight
AS its creeds restrict the soul;
But away and over the frowning height
Those billowy pastures roll.
And there the people are flesh and blood,
Sinew and muscle and brain,
And the strong life-tide is crimpson flood
Thrilling through nerve and vein.
They ride for miles Ger meadows Of green,
The follow the trail of the kline,
And scarcely tomb by the way Is seen,
And the air they drank is liRe wine.
Brown of feature and bold Of heart
They ride in the face of the blast;
And nature is dearer to them than Art,
And the Present is more than the Past.
They do not sit down by the tombs of the dead
They live in the world of Today;
For the Present is here and the Past has fed,
And the future is on the way.
Then no! for the West land, fair and broad
The land where thought is free,
Where people lire clc SO to natures God.
Oh, that is the land for mel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-26
BASE BALL CONTRACTS.

Legal Lights Who Claim They Reduce the
Players to Mere Slaves.
A well known Pittsburg attorney, who
has made close study of base bali play
ers' contracts, and has figured in suits
growing out of them, says they are illegal,
and would not stand for moment in any
court in the land. As for blacklisting a
player, which is practically issuing an in
junction to prevent him from making a
livelihood, it gives the victim the best
kind of grounds for a suit for conspiracy
against the club or association of clubs
placing ban upon him. AS soon as
players realize these facts, and demand
their rights, there will be radical change
in the manner of engaging them. Judge
Stowe. at the time of the trouble between
the Allegheny and Baltimore clubs, who
both claimed the services of Sam Bark
ley, expressed great reluctance to hay
ing anything to do with the case. His
reason was not given then, but it has
since cropped out in conversation that,
on making a study of the association con-
stitution and rules, he saw that the whole
thing was radically wrong, from legal
stand-point,.s SO he advised the litigants to
settle the difficulty among themselves,
which they did.
II do not understand" the Judge is
credited with saying, show intelligent
men, such as think the players in the
American Association usually are, would
allow themselves to be tied down by such
pernicious rules and regulations as were
embodied in their contracts. It is slavery
"a worse form of slavery than from
which the negro was released twenty
three years ago. I am surprised that the
players did not seek legal redress years
ago."
It does not suit the managers to take
the initiative because they have the best
Of the matter by long odds. No other
form of contract on earth, so far as
known, contains provision by which
player can be released or sold to another
club for a momentary consideration. If
he refuses to go he is blacklisted and
neither the league nor the association will
recognize him. The fact of the matter is,
there is probably not a legal base ball
players contract in existence in the
United States to-day, and every player
that is blacklisted can sue and recover
damages from the club that blacklists
him. Have you noticed that neither the
League nor the Association has blacklist
ed a player since the Allegheny Baltimore
Barkley difficulty?