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The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-31
THE TALE or LIFE.

Mar Is to day what man was yesterday
WIN be tomorrow; let him curse or pray,
Drink OF be dull, he learns not nor shall learn
The lesson that win laugh the world away
Tue word "a gray or Just as golden shines,
Tho wine as sweet or Just as bitter flows,
For you as me; and you, like me, may find
Perfume OF canker In the reddest rose.
The tale Of life Is hard TO understand
But while the cup waits ready to your hand
Drink and declare the summer roses blow
As red in London as in Samarcand.
Lips are as sweet TO kiss and eyes as bright
As ever fiattered Omar with delight;
English or Persian, while the mouth is fair
What can 1t matter how It says good nighti
Justin A. Mccarthy
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-31
Gases Neac Cheese.

Pure Java Coffee Roasted and Ground, ID. tins
Sacks Green Coffee
Chests Japan L ca, ID. papers,
Chests Japan Tea, " 10, parers
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-31
The Meanest Thing Yet.

Fogg has said the meanest thing any man
ever was capable of saying. When Mrs t
left him alone in the house the other evening
she remarked; "You won't be lonely dearl
"No, p he replied. ~ sha'n't miss you at all.
The parrot, you know, ia re"-Hoston
Transcript.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-31
Very Kind, Indeed.

An Englishman thus writes TO French
friend II an delighted at the recollection of
the pleas oars have passed with you in
Franc visit England come at once
TO my W. Airect you 10 very
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
Happiness as 1t in in Youth and
Maturity.

Isn't II little queer that as we grow
from youth to manhood the objects
change which bring Us pleasureP The
amount of happiness realized varies but
littlei There seems to be a certain
amount of the article implanted In US
no more, no less. The boys sled gives
place to the richly caparisoned sleigh,
the toy house to the imposing residence,
the toy watch to real one, the toy boat
to an ocean yatch-but the first yielded
quite as much pleasure as the last.
The Christmas gifts and pleasures of
youth brought as much happiness as
houses and lands. honors and fame dc
in after years. Our happiness is all relr
ative. anyway. We enjsy by compari.
SOB. The boys sled is big enough to oil
his mind. The mans yateh is merely g
toy. which has its use for a time and
then ceases to amuse. Christmas is q
reality TO the young-a defnate pleas
ure point. To the full grown boys and
girls it is an attempt 20 arouse the OLD
enthusiasm, the belief in Santa Claus
the enjoyment in gift giving and gift
receiving. 1t comes and goes, and they
try hard to pursuade themselves thai
they enjoy 1t with an old time zest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23

Apples are only 50 cents a barrel in
Oregon.
Paper shoes are now manufactured in
Paris, and are quite fashionable.
Strawberries were picked in a garden
at Norris. Mich, during snowstorm
last week.
"Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux chief
who killed Gen. Custer, has began to
study his A B C's.
The Chinese population of New York
is about four thousand. They mostly
engage in washing.
During the present year there have
been seven embezzlements in Boston,
which aggregated 81 ,233, 400.
A demand for the enforcement of a
local law against smoking in the streets
10 mildly agitating Boston.
The rage for collecting postage stamps
is said to be on the increase in France.
Paris reports $50 firms in the business.
Maine has during the last year put up
0,701. 800 cans of corn. over $4,000 cans
of succotash, and over $4,000 cans of
lima beans.
A young man and his wife walked a
distance of 500 miles from Canada to
Central Wisconsin in order to save their
money to buy land with.
An Italian bootblack. Jersey City, has
just gone to Italy in firstclass style with
$4,000. which he is declared to have
made by shining shoes.
A lawyers clerical error in the trans
fer of piece OF property in Kansas City,
which, in 1884, was sold for $3.50, has
led to lawsuit over the possession of
the land, now valued at 100000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
CONSTIPATION!

Thers is no medium through which
disease 50 often attacks the system
n by Constipation. and there Is no
other Ill flesh is heir o.mors apt to
be neglected. from the fact material
inconvenience may not be immediate
ly felt from irregular action of the
bowels. When there is not regular
action, the retention of dsCayed and
enste matter, with its poisonous
gases. soon poisons the whole system
by being absorbed into it, causing
piles, fstula, headache, impure blood
and many other serious affections.
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS viii
Immediately relieve, and one bottle
positively cure or relieve any case
Of Constipation.
@Was troubled for a year with
torpid liver and indigestion, and after
trying everything Imaginable, used
BURD0CK BLOOD BTITERS. The
frst bottle revived NE and the second
cured me entirely.'oJ.S. Williamson.
Rochester. n. 7.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
Grains of Gold.

Make friends, but don't encourage fa+
vorites.
Keep down expenses, but don't be Pc
nurious.
Expect not praise without envy until
you are dead.
Try to see yourself through the eyes
of those around you.
The foolish and the dead alone never
change their opinions.
Make plans for little way ahead, but
but don't cast them in iron.
1t is a great shame to man to have a
poor heart and rich purse.
No man is matriculated to the art of
life till he has been tempted.
The only bondage in Gods creation
that is toIerable is the bondage of love.
1t is better to be eternally forgotten
than to be remembered only for evil.
What we believe is right is more often
so because it grinds our axe than other
wise.
Five enemies are there to our peace
Pride, anger, envy, ambition and ava
rice.
Do the duty that lies nearest to thee
thy second duty will already have be-
come clearer.
Man is a violin; it is not until his last
string is broken that he becomes q piece
of wood.
Let us be content, in work, to do the
thing we can, and not presume to fret
because it's little.
"We never see tear in the eye," says
celebrated writer, "but we are remind.
ed of warm heart"
Victory over things is the Office OF
man. Until it is accomplished, it is the
war and insult of things over him.
True politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. 1t consists simply in treating
others as you like to be treated yourself
The mental requirements of the laws
of health are cheerfulness, contentment
calmuess, and to live within ones iu>
come, however small 1t may be.
A good temper and an obliging dispo.
sition, when combined with honesty and
inustry, are invaluable qualities In ev
cry one who has his way to make in the
| world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
CHRISTMAS.

Hang up the vine and the holly,
Sign the cross over the door.
That JOY coming in with the Christmas
May go from the place nevermore.
Gather love gifts for the children,
Guard well the mystical way,
That the Christ child comes at the mid
night
To bless with bright favors the day.
Bring in good cheer and be merry,
Dance and ring out glad song;
The stars of Bethlehem desert
Look down on Christ happy throDg
Go ye in hovel and highway,
Guests to bring in to the feast;
Angels shall unawares greet ye
In those the world counteth as least.
Sound the sweet Christ loving anthem
Echoes will bear it on high
To the angels made joyous forever
By Christmas love in the sky.
Bow down and worship the spirit
OF the feast, the invisible King;
LOi He cometh in scarlet and purple
To gather worlds offering.
Marie LIE Baron.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
CHRISTMAS.

Among all our holidays Christmas is
the happiest. Other days. like the
Fourth of July and Decoration Day,
have patriotic association which is
inspiring, and New years Day has an
admonitory Significance which Is pathet-
ic. But the tradition of Christmas Is
more universal and ideal than that of
other holidays, because it is the feast Of
fraternity, of human sympathy and
helpfulness. Not only is its sentiment
glory to God, but its distinctive gospel
is peace on earth good will to man. 1t
is the one day in the year on which
sel6shness is the most odious sin. Its
peculiar observance is obvious. palpable
active thoughts of others. We all live
under the general law of charity and of
doing good. But this Is the day on
which we must make sure that our
light shines 80 that men shall see our
good works. Wendell Philips, when
asked to write a sentiment In autograph
albums, often wrote:
s'Count that day lost whose low descending
sun
Viewsfrom thy hand no worthy action DONE"
But Christmas is the day which permits
no discretion nor delay in that duty. If
he who at any time gives quickly
doubles his gift, he who does not give
at Christmas is doubly guilty. The
community surrenders itself to a senti-
ment and owns it power. John Bull
pretends to be very skeptical of senti
ment, but 1t is he who has given the
character to this day. 1t has become In
effect an English holiday; that is to say,
holiday which derives Its peculiar
character from English usages, tradi>
tions, and literature.
AS commemerating the birth of the
founder of the Christian religion, 1t is
a religious feast. Buts sin the popular
apprehension its religious character has
been superseded by its social and chsri+
table significance. 1t has become the
feast of good fellowship in the highest
sense-good- fellowship with religious
sanction. Nominally 1t is the birthday OF
the founder of Christianity. Practical
ly it is the day of Saint Nicholas, the
feast of Santa Claus. Historically it Is
the blending of the earlier and the later
dispeDsations, the mingling of heathen
and Christian symbols. The Yule-log
was kindled by spark from the Druids'
altar. The pagan bosr's head is brought
Ia with Christian carols. The Christian
doctrine is the subjugation of the flesh.
The Christmas celebration is the enjoy.
ment of the senses. But the religious
aspect and feeling consecrate the day
and complete 1t. Is the essential charm
of the festival the conciousness that 1t
does full justice to human nature, that
it tempers the asceticism of the religious
tendency, and asserts the due impor'
tance of sense and pleasure, and holds
that a joyous benevolence Is no less a
religious service than the hagellation
and modification and sad pensnce Of the
fasting neophytep To assert that this
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
The Legend Of Christ Church.

Near the southern coast of England.
Rising dark from hills of green.
An ancient church with Norman towers
By the sailors eye is seen.
Seven centuries have written
Strapgest stcries on each stone,
Making thas a vast Paiimpsest
With rank ivy overgrown.
OF the legends, rarest, sweetest,
Is the story of its birth,
When the mighty frame was lifted
Skyward from its native earth.
In the time of william Rufus,
Norman monks both brave and good
Laid with zeal its strong foundations
For its timbers hewed the wood.
Day by day there labored with them
One who from the forest came;
No one knew his home or nation,
No one ever asked his name.
As wild violets on the hillside
Bloom when southern winds have
blown,
By the deft blows of his ehisel
Flowers sprang from solid stone.
And the woods felt all the magic
Of his gentle artist hand
Yielded shapes that filled with wonder
All the skillful Norman band.
When at eventide the master
Paid the wages Of the day,
Heeding not, the wondrous stranger
Wended to the bills away.
Then the puzzled workmen queried:
"Who is this, who asks no hire.
Yet whose perfect skill leaves nothing
Truest art could e'er desire?"
None gave answer to their question.
But as whiriing mountain SHOWS
Heap great drifts among the gorges,
Steadily the church arose.
Till the hour came for placing
The great beam which spans the nave
For its length the oak tree, bowing,
All bis mighty fiber gave.
No oak on the hills of England
lowered so far above his kin.
As this monarch. strong, sound hearted
Fit church walls to enter in.
| Ahl we all fall short in something,
Measured by the laws demand,
And the oak beam failed in inches
| By the distance of hand.
Then despair possessed the workman;
When the toilsome day was done,
Mournfully they plodded homeward;
| fingered the Silent One.
How be labored in the starlight,
While cool night winds round hin
stirred,
| While the world in silence slumbered,
There is no recorded word.
But the first faint flush of sunrise
Showed the beam set in its place,
While the stranger met the workmen
With smile upon his face.
Speaking low, in accents gentle,
Like some distant anthems strain:
f"Uniess the Lord doth aid in building,
All the work of man Is vain."
As the mists drift from a landscape,
Swept the dimness from their sight;
Knew they then twas Cbrist,th Master
Who had labored through the night.
| B. W.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23

IT is fashionable to say that "tbe rich
are becoming richer and the poor boor-
er." The first half of the proposition
even is doubted. If used in any general
sense; but as to the second half, NJ. LIE
roy Beaulieu. famous french econo.
mist, has demonstrated that S5 per cent
of the wealth of Europe is in the hands
of people who are actually clssssd az
poor" In this country the possessions
of the millionaires, although too great
are but as drop in the bucket compar-
ed with the immense resources in the
hands of the millions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS
Iss6-7-Belmont County, Ohio.

I'd Saturday OF Oct at st ClairsvIlle.
ID Saturday of Nov at Belmont.
ID Saturday OF Dec at st Clairsvtlle.
I'd Saturday Of Jan at Bridgeport.
I'd Saturday Of Feb at st ClRirsville-
I'd Saturday of Mar al Barnesville
I'd Saturday OF April at S. Olairsville.
I'd Saturday of May at Bellaire.
ID Saturday OF June at Morristown.
At Flushing at close OF Institute In Aug.
RULES.
Examinations begin at O'Clock a. m.
Testimonials of character are required II
applicant is not known to the Board
Certificates Will not be antedated nor ex~
tended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given
ct close of Institute ONLY.
Certificates will be dated and issued by the
Board in adjourned session on Saturday fols
owing each examination.
Envelopes furnished by the Board. AppliN
csnts pay return postage.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFIoATEs.
A frst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon an average OFFS per cent, including three
higher branches and the scnool law, with no
grade below 20, provided applicant has bad 30
months experience n teaching.
ed upon an average OF 80 per cent, including
two higher branches and The school law, with
no grade below 20, provided applicant has had
months experience in teaching.
A third>class q years. certificate is granted
upon eu average of IS per cent. including
one higher branches and the school law. with
no grade below 65. provided applicant has had
Is months experience In teaching.
A fourth-class q years. certificate is granted
upon an average OF IS per cent. including the
school law, with no grade below go, provided
applicant has had II months experience In
A nfth-class n Year, certificate Is granted
upon an average Of 65 per cent, with no grade
below SIS.
R. ALEXANDER. Pres
H L. PECK, Board Of Ex
s>2Iy L Il. WATERS. Clerk.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23

WHEN we opened fire on the appoint
ment of DR.. Dabney, now in the pension
service, we were of course convinced
that the story of his connection with
the Andersonvitle system of assassinat
ton of Union soldiers-the miserable,
cruel, moDstrous massacre of brave men
because they were bearing arms for the
salvation of their country-was true.
We gave place promptly to the denial
that DR.. Dabney was one of the sssas-
sins. though it was total surprise that
there should be any dispute of the facts
as we hsd understood and declared
them. The statement of DR.. Dabney is
seen, when closely examined, to be pc
culiar in construction. and the assertion
is made in his behalf that ne is citizen
of the United States, and The equal of
any. This would seem to cover the
ground that if he wss an ADdersonville
assassin, still he is good enough man
for the pension service at this timel
The inselence of the appointment of
Dabney was understood to be In placing
in a position to examine the claims of
Union soldiers to pension a man who
had been one of the most malignant and
nerciless of their enemies-indeed, one
engaged in carrying on a process of dew
iish murder in the Southern prison
pens, the places in which were seen the
last and worst of the illustrations of the
infinite barbarism of slavery.
Our Washington correspondent, Gen.
Boy ton, informs US that there is proof
in the Pension Office that DR.. Dabney
has been boasting that be was at Ander-
sonvillei An application for a pension
was made by an Indiana soldier on the
ground that his mind had been impaired
by the treatment he bad received at
Andersonville.
This application fell into the hands OF
DR.. Dabney, appointed for the examina.
tion of pension claims, and alleged to be
an expert in nervous diseases. Dabney
made derisive remarks" about the claim
laughed at it and treated it with con-
tempt" and said he knew such claim
to be ridiculous, for he was guard al
Andersonville and knew what he was
talking about" And this is straight
and solid and can be supported by in.
vestigation.
1t shows that the infamy of turn+
ing over the Pension Office to Con-
federates. 1t displays the jecring OF
one who ridiculed and derided the suf.
ferings of a soldier at Andersonville
Here was iend gibbering with horri.
rible levity over an Indiana soldier who
had lost his reason amidst the scenes Of
Andersonville-aDd this happens in the
Pension Office of the United States, be-
cause this country, SO far as the Execu'
tive Departments are concerned, was
turned over to the Democratic party
The only incident comparable with thil
in atrocity was in the brutality of the
President himself in his scandalous
messages vetoing pension bills.-Cin
Com. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
what the chinese Consul Saws.

aWhy is it that so few Cinnamon learn Eng
hshl Is it simply to maintain an exclusive
ness peculiarly their own, or it Is because
they find it dificultP
SFor the educated Chinese, those who un-
derstand the grammar Of their own language,
English is very easy. 1t IS simpler than ours
and does not contain sound that Is not IN
ours, so we do not find it difficult either to
read or to speaker, at least, to understand.
Tie ear of the uneducated Chinaman viii
very readily catch English words and he win
learn to understand them long before he viii
trust himself to an attempt to express him
self in them He is apt to be timid about e.
saying an imperfect utterance, through fear
of ridicule Though, as said, al the sounds
of the English language are employed in the
Chinese. there are several dialects in China
and in those of southern China, whence come
most of the Chinese in this country, where tha
r. is little sounded and is generally uttered
with difficulty. That accounts for some
Chinamen's trouble in sounding that letter
without substituting an II for (which some
Americans find to be very funny. They never
think how infinitely more funny they would
be if they attempted to talk Chinese New
York Sun Interview.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
Is tendency which requires no foster
ing, and that the gods of pleasure are
always sure of their worship, is to for
get that whether


ing, and that the gods of pleasure are
always sure of their worship, is to for
get that whether
"Religion never was designed
To make our pleasures less,"
or not, yet the presentation of religion
and of Christianity as unsmiling and
immitigable. requiring the surrender of
all that We desire not to do, is view
from which the human soul gladly takes
refuge in the eheerfulness of Christmas.
Christmas comes but once a year" I"
was the old saying by which generosity
was exhorted to be more generous and
to broach another barrel. But the spirit
of Christmas sho VS. itself to be so truly
benignant and bene6eent upon its own
day that it might well be entreated to
come more than once year. Why uot
every day? 1t would be inconvenient,
undoubtedly, to have perpetual Christ
mas tree, and to hang the stocking
every night by the hearth, and to listen
for the tinkling bells of the airy rein
deer. The Christmas tree could hardly
come TO fruit every morning. the disap>
pointed stocking would hang limp, and
how could the faintest sound of the
bells of Santa Claus be heard in the dog,
daysp But the perpetual presence of
the spirit of Christmas would not imply
perpetual snsp.drsgon and kissing un+
der the mistle toe. The spirit of Christ
mas Is that of charity, and what an as
founding revolution it would effect if
that spirit should enter into every de
partment of life for one yeari Imagine
the results of actual charity in society,
in politics. in the churchl Can any fan
cy properly depict Mrs. Grundy speak
ing Of her friends in the spirit of
Christmas, or political party taking a
fair or generous view of the other side
or one sect SHINING by an excess of
kind feeling for another2 In trade sup
pose the rule of caUedt enlptor-let the
buyer beware-to be suspended; In poli4
tics, the maxim of the Devil take the
hindmost to be spurned; in the church,
the exhortation, little children, love one
another, to be obeyed. The imagina-
ton reels before such millennial sug-
gestion, The spectacle would work the
miracle that seems impossible. for
Santa Claus would hasten at midsumr
mer to see, and would stay during the
sight, and the old saying would be trans
figured into new form, christmas
comes all the year."-Hsrper's Weekly.
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Church Directory.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 300 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday 2 pm.
Strangers welcome TO all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IuRev. W. II. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; z pm. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
p.m.; general prayer meeting: Thursday z pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all oul
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday s p.m.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday Of
each month, Q pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2 pm. Young women's prayer meet.
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23

To ABBREvIATE and neglect the forms
of politeness is really to diminish the
sentiments and the needs of the heart
AS soon as one ceases to express out
wardly even the most essential senti-
ments, these sentiments become weak
ened to certain degree in the soul they
lose something of their delicacy and of
their energy. The cultivation of the
forms of politeness must be begun in
family life between husbands and wives
parents and children, brothers and sis.
ters. Till courtesy is honored In the
household it will not appear elsewhere.