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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

GEN. FREMONT is IA years old, but is
said to look young enough to pass for a
man of sixty. He lives in a commodi-
ous house near the British Legation in
Washington. He is now engaged indus
triously on his memoirs. He dictates to
Mrs. Fremont, who writes each word as
it falls from his lips, and his daughter
copies the manuscript on a typewriter.
One of his sons is in the navy and the
other one lives. in Montana.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

MEN may preach, and the world will
listen; but profit comes by example. A
parent inculcates gentleness in his chill
dren by many sound precepts; but they
see him treat dumb animal in a harsh
manner, and, in consequence. instruc-
tions are worse than lost, for they are
neither needed nor respected. His ex+
ample as gentle and humane man
would have been sufficient for his chill
dren without one word of command.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

To BE good and do the most good we
can now and here. and to help others to
do the same; to seek with all our might
the highest welfare of the world we live
in and the realization of its ideal great
ness and nobleness and blessed1ess-this
is religion,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
@S m3

Democratic watchman in the office of
Democratic county clerk kept so close a
watch that three hundred votes were added
to the strength of Democratic candidates
between Saturday night and Monday morn
ing. Fortunately the objects of the forgers
and those who instigated them were defeated
and the indignation Of the people prevented
the fraudulent 800 from being counted 1t
was just the number necessary to have elected
several Democratic candidates who as it is,
were honestly defeated This is but an in
complete history of two of the greatest
crimes against free government ever perpe-
trated, both of which the Democratic party
is responsible for and both of which will be
indorsed by vote for the Democratic ticket
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

John Mcbride is probably not to blame for
the fact that some of his fool friends have
been endeavoring to gain Irish votes for him
by creating the impression that he was born
in Ireland, when, as a matter Of fact he was
born in this country, of English parents, who
first saw the light of day in Cumberland
county,. England J
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

DEMOCRATS who believe in protection to
American industries land there are many of
them in the rank and file Of Abe party in
Ohio cannot afford to vote for the Demo-
cratic candidates this year, since they stand
free trade platform, and to support
them is to support free trade, and declare
against protection to American industries
and Amarican labor
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

If you would make the most OF life
forget youoself in some interest outside
yourself; do not DRIFT, but steer; do
with your might what your hands find
to do, and trust in God and your own
Soul
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

GET into the habit of looking for the
silver lining of the cloud, and when you
have found it, continue to look steadily
at it, rather than at the leaden gray in
the middle. 1t will help you over many
hard places.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. M.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
W. D. BUMGERNER, W. NJ.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
F. D. BAILEY, q. P.
]. B. MEYER, Rec.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R. & s. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
G. W. CARROLL, T. L NJ.
]. B. MEYER, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. %, K. T.
II Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. J. q. RYAN, E. G.
J. B. MRYKB, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Belmont County omclaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Issac 81. CASTOR.
Clerk of Courts-Wm. B. Cash.
Sheriff-Leroy C. Sedwick.
Auditor-R. r. Barrett
TTreasurer-George Robinson.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. K. Kennon.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-Morris Cope, VIM Berry,
John G. Israel.
Surveyor -Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-P. o. Criswell
Infrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, John
Kintner. VIM. Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
FRAUD AND FORGERY.
DEMOCRATIC ELECTION METHODS
OF 1885.

As Practiced in Ohio, Whose Citizens Are
Now Asked to Indcrse the Forgeries of
Columbus and Cincinnati.
The Democratic party in Ohio has in the
past years committed itself to a course best
represented by the cabalistic figures follow
irlcr.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

Ayers Ague Cure stimulates the action
of the liver, cleanses the blood of malarial
poison and rouses the system to rerawed
vigor; warranted to cure fever and ague.,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
7lG T. Il
pS 6 @S

The history of the forgeries in Cincinnati
and Columbus perpetrated in aid Of Demo-
cratic candidates, disgraceful as it is, cannot
be relegated to oblivion 1t will ever rise
like an evil spirit to reproach the state, until
the criminals are all placed within the peni-
tentiary.
There were many unparalleled frauds per-
petrated by the Democrats in Cincinnati at
the state election of October 13, 1885, Among
the most glaring was that in Precinct A,
Fourth ward, and the efforts by Democrats
in high places-Follett on th, bench, Demo-
cratic senator's and represer tatives in legis-
lative halls, the other Follett on the stump
and at the bar-to bolster it up, make black
chapter in the history of Ohio In this pre-
cinct, after all other forms of fraud had been
utilized, the count concluded and the result
entered, the vote as recorded already for the
Democratic candidates was increased from
72e to 926 by changing rs to 9's in the follow
ing method of mounting ciphers on top of
them-thus
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

HnT n fields scarce, but those who write TO
HHE 4 / Stnson A Co, Portland, Maine, will receive
I-IIL L free full information about work which
HILL they can do, and live st home that will pay
" ~ Ao them from S. to S25 per day. Some have
earned $50 In day Either young old Capital
required You started free Those who start at
ass absolutely sure of sEpg little fortunes. Al new
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

PEPPERMINT, which is considered a
weed, is vtilized in some sections, the
oil therefrom selling at So 50 per bottle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

THE yearly consumption of oyster:
has been placed at 1,464,O00,000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

THE patriotic soldier Of 1S6l-5 can get
nothing but insults from the National admin
istration. He fought On the wrong side to
have his patriotism recognized By the present
ponderous president
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
.BelnnOntChrOniCIe
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms Of Subscription:
Two Dollars Per Year II Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFPIoR South side Main street, nearly op-
posite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Inhn Mcbride Fails to Rssi.t.

In the Sixty sixth general assembly when
the use of the legislature hall was asked for
a meeting of the trades assembly Allen o.
Myers, the leader of the Democratic major
ity in that body, arose and denounced the
members of the labor organizations as
drunken loafers John Mcbride, one Of his
followers, sat calmly in his seat and made no
attempt to contradict his young leader or re-
sent the insult to the organized laboring men
whnsa chamnion he now claims to be.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
- Sn.nSe of the Penitentiary.

THE old soldiers appreciate the fact that
the present National administration is DEM
ocratic-very much so.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Mrs. caau stam.on,x Curiosity.

At Newport, in the summer of 1869,
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker made
her first speech. She held a manu-
script in her hand from which she read,
but having a strong native gift as an
orator she frequently diverged from
the paper. In the course Of her re-
marks she came to some allusion to
Moses, when looking up from her lee
ture she said:
II have always thought that when I
passed to a better world the person [
most wish to see, of course after mem
bers Of my own immediate family,
would be Moses"
Mrs. Stanton whispered, soto voce:
II have often suspected that Moses
was a Beecher."
A gentleman on the platform leaned
over and asked: "Mrs. Stanton, when
you go to heaven do you want to see
Moses"
NO" she replied promptly, "I want
to see Lots wife"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Something AboMt Rings.

1t is understood, says an authority on
the subject, that a gentleman who de-
sires to marry wears a plain or chased
gold ring upon the first finger of the
left hand. When he becomes engaged
the ring passes to the second finger.
After marriage it passes to the third
finger. If, however, the gentleman de-
sires his lady friends to clearly under
stand that he is not sin the market, u
and does not wish to marry at all, he
wears the signet upon his little finger.
This will inform all the ladies that lie
is beyond reach. With the ladies a
plain or chased gold ring on the little
finger Of the left hand indicates "not
engaged" OF "ready for an Offer"
When engaged the ring passes to the
third finger on the right hand. When
married the third finger on the left
hand receives the ring. When a young
lady desires to defy all suitors she
places rings-one on the first and one
on the fourth finger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

world, if put together ~lengtbwise, and
leave some to tie in a bow-knot at the
other side. Those poor little innocents
who stood up in rows with their hands
behind them and spelled long columns
of words that had no meaning to them,
would, as a rule, have been willing to
contribute their ultramarine copies to
lengthening the loops Of that knot.
Those pictures of the irate old gem
tleman pelting the thieving boy in the
apple tree, and of the naughty milk
maid Alnascher, who, very properly
one felt, came to NJ good end, were the
only cases in that dreary waste OF
words, but even for those n was
thankful despite the Addisonian ele-
gance and morality of the short tales"
which accompanied them. Now small
children are taken into a beautiful
howery meadow of learning from whence
leads the road of learning made royal
by all the triumphs of literature and
art. A new primer, just issued, has
fragments from famous songs and
stories as reading matter, and nowadays
children are not taught to spell; they
are first taught to read. and after that
lessons in spelling are unnecessary;
and these fragments are illustrated by
the first artists. Even the old-time
"McG utifey" grows daintier in pictures
and binding each year.
But, after all, the curled darlings of
this luxurious generation will never
know the proud JOY Of being able to
spell in-com-pat-i-bil-i-tv and Con-stan-
.Hti-no-ple without a pause and all the
syllables carefully divided and pro-
bounced, at the age of Z years; all
things have their compensations, it
seems.
But for those children in the past
there was only, by way of light read
ing, Mother Goose, with crude red and
yellow pictures; Sanford and Merton,
with the blackamoor very black, and
the two heroes very pink and white;
and large and uncompromising doses of
piety, morality, and improving informa-
ton by Abbot, Edgeworth, and Aguilar,
unseasoned by any pictures at all.
For these modern babies there are
no allopatllic doses Of anything; even
their religion is ~sugar-coated. But
what hopes may we not have of the
wide and beautiful culture Of this
coming race, fed upon beauty, wit,
imagination, and poesy, as soon as
they al do without mother milk
| NeW Orleans Times-Democrat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Some tstrio"s Marriage 1o,cs.

A"graduate of the University of Mat
rimony" has lately published in England
a handbook of marriages, in which he
tells some amusing stories of marriage
vows. He tells Of anervous bridegroom
who, confusing the baptismal and mar
riage ceremonies, replied, when asked
it he consented to take the bride for his
wife: II renounce them all;" of a
Hampshire rustic, who, when giving
the ring, said solemnly to the bride,
with my body I thee wash up, and
with all my hurdle goods l thee and
thou" OF another who, when asked
whether he would take his partner to
be his welded wife, replied with shame
full indecision: Eyes, I'm willin'; but
I'd q much sight rather have her sister"
and of a Scotch lady who, on the oc-
casion of her daughters wedding, was
asked by an old friend whether she
might congratulate her on the event,
and answered: Eyes, yes, upon the
whole it is satisfactory it is true Jeanie
hates her good man; but then there's
always a something.!!"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
THE ~PiETU

Speaking of clergymen reminds me
of an incident which happened in one
OF the divinity schools Of this State.
One Of the worthy professors, a doc
tor Of divinity, had invited q number of
the students to take tea with him. The
invitation was accepted, and a very
pleasant evening was spent with the
professor. While the company we're
in the study discussing various subjects
She mantel clock struck eight. The
professor looked up at the time-piece
and said, as though rejecting on the
uncertainty of human life: Eight
o'clock. How sad it is to think that in
an hour the brethren will all be going"
The students thought it was sad. Int
they also concluded that they would
have to increase the sadness, and so
left at NJ Traveller
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
TERRA INCOGNIT4.

Prof. Graun, of the Berlin Ge1
ical Society, estimates that, GUY
the polar regions, on area Of a7
800, 600 square miles is still seq|
ically a terra incognita. Euro
been thoroughly surveyed, all
icy summit regions of the nortne7
fields, but in old Asia vast tef]
are known only from hearSa''
solitudes of the Bactrian desert ].
mountain regions Of Western !
The best maps of Central AIRY
show blanks and conjectural u1
secret of the Niles lakes has yt.,
means been satisfactorily sone'
sources of the Congo and ths
tributaries of the Zambezl STU
a cloudland of tradition. Bran
border States still contain cer'p1
stretches of untrodden virgin !
the swamp labyrinth of the ut'uJ
for instance, and the all but lnrl !,
BILE jungles of the delta forl't ~
junction of the Rio MADEIRA ~ :,
chato, where even the native !
can travel only by the watefS''
occasional inundation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
II BABY's DRAWER.


There's q little drawer in my chamber
Guarded with tenderest care,
Where the dainty clothes orc lying,
Tint my darling shall never wear.
And there, While tho hours are waning,
Tul the house is oil at rest,
Isit and fancy u baby
Close to my aching breast.
My darlirg's pretty, white garmentsi
I wrought them, sitting apart,
While his mystic life was throbbing
Undor my throbbing heart.
And often my happy dreaming
Breaks in q little song,
Like the murmur OF birds at b%rooding,
When the days are warm and long.
I finished the dainty wardrobe,
And the drawer was almost full,
With robes Of finest muslin,
And robes Of the finest wool.
folded them altogether,
With a rose for every pair,
Smiling, and saying, Gem fragrant
Fit for my prince to wear.
All. the radiant summer morning,
Sc full of mothers joyl
-17lank God, he is fair aud perfect,
My beautiful, newborn boy"
let him wear the pretty, white garments
1 wrought while sitting apart;
Lay him, SO sweet and SO helpless.
Here, close to my t%hrobbing heart.
Many and many an evening
I sit, since my baby came,
Saying, what do the angels coll him!"
For lie died without a name;
,Eit while the hours are waning,
Aud the house is all ut rest,
And fancy baby nesting
Close to my aching breast.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
NICE GInLs AND COOP WOMEN.

II what q writer in one Of the English
magazines says be true, the women
of Paraguay must be worthy of our adj
miring interest.
Cleanliness is the rule in Paraguay,
and it extends to everything-dwell-
ings, furniture, clothes, and person.
nor are the poorer classes in this re-
spcct q whit behind the richer. Above
all, the white sacques and mantillas Of
the women, and the lace-fringed shirts
and drawers Of the men are scrupu-
lousy clean; nor is any one article in
greater demand, though fortunately
with proportional supply throughout
the country than soap. Each house
has behind it q garden, small or large
as the case may be, in which flowers are
sedulously cultivated they are a decora-
ton that a Paraguayan girl or woman
is rarely without, and one that becomes
the carer we'll. Without %pretentions
to what is called classical or ethnologi-
cally taken, Aryan beauty, the female
type here, is very rarely plain, generally
pretty, often handsome, occasionally
b%ewitching. Dark eyes, long, wavy,
dark hair, and a brunette complexion
most prevail; but a blonde type with
blue eyes and golden curls, Indicative
of Basque descent is by no means rare.
Hands and feet are almost universally
delicate and small; the form, at least
till frequent maternity has sacrificed
beauty for usefulness, simply perfect.
AS to the dispositions that dwell in so
excellent an outside they are worthy of
it, and S~hakespeare's els she kind as
she is fair" might here find an unhesi-
tating answer in the affirmation that
follows, Beauty dwells within kind
ness" A brighter, kinder, truer, more
affectionate, more devotedly faithful girl
than the Paraguayan exists nowhere.
Alas, that the wretched experiences of
but few years since should have also
proved, in bitter earnest, that no
Drawer, no nor enduring, no more
self-sacrificing wife or mother than the
Paraguayan is to be found either.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

HAPPINESS, if not a panacss :.
the ills that flesh is heir w. =
and handmade in the recover! :
servation of health, the yalue u 4
cannot be exaggerated. bu' ~
much more upon the family ' 1s,,
Of a patient to supply tins 10
his physician-a fact to .
mind and constantly heedeo'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
u Cua1ed Darlia9s Of this Luxurious
Generation.

DO the children Of the present day
appreciate their good fortune in being
of the present day? For they are ex-
tremely fortunate; of that there can
be no doubt. In their very primers
are pretty little pictures, that are pre-
pared to give them just and discrimi-
mating views on wood engraving before
they have gotten through words of one
syllable. Don't some of the older ones
remember the four illustrations that
gave such a pleasant interest to the old
blue-back speller? That same blue
speller, that teasing statisticians used
to calculate would go all around the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Hard uo,hing american won.en.

At Stockholm the debasement Of
woman is perhaps more thorough and
complete than in any city of Northern
Europe. She here practically supplants
the beasts Of burden. And I am not
altogether unfamiliar with woman's
work in Europe. 1 have seen her
around the pit mouth, at the forge, and
barefooted in the brickyards of "Merrie
England" and filling blast furnaces and
tending coke ovens in "Sunny France. "
I have sadly watched her bearing
the heat and burden Of the day in the
fields Of the "Fatherland, " and in Aus
tria- Hungary doing the work of man
and beast on the farm and in the mine.
1 have seen women emerge from the
coal pits Of "Busy Belgium" where
little girls and young women graduate
underground as hewers of coal and
drawers of carts, for it is no uncommon
thing in Europe to hitch women and
dogs together that manufacturing may
be done cheaply. Aged, bent, and sun
burned, 1 have seen women, with rope
over shoulder, toiling on the banks of
canals and bikes in picturesque Hol-
land.
Having witnessed all this, I was yet
surprised to find in a city so beautiful
and seemingly so rich and prosperous
as Stockholm, still more de-
based. In Stockholm she is almost ex-
clusively employed as hodcarrier and
bricklayer's assistant. She carries
bricks, mixes mortar, and, in short,
does all the heavy work about the
building. At the dinner hour you see
groups of women sitting on the piles of
wood and stone eating their frugal re-
past.
Those engaged making mortar and
tending plasterers wore aprons. They
are paid for a day of hard work of this
toll, lasting twelve hours, the munificent
sum Of one kroner equivalent to one
and three PENCE. Women sweep the
streets, haul the rubbish, drag hand
carts up the hills and over the cobble
stones, unload bricks at the quays, at
tend to the parks, do the gardening,
and row the numerous ferries which
abound at Stockholm.
The entire dairy business of the city
is in their hands, and here they take
the places Of horses and dogs, carrying
on their shoulders the heavy cans of
milk from door to door. While woman
thus slaves in Stockholm, man parades.
You will see him in q sort of uniform
in the market-place, lounging all day
"for hire" to run small errands or to do
light porterage. Whenever any light
work that pays fairly we'll is to be done
there is the genius of man. On dress
parade you see him as a soldier, swag.
gering about ~beer-gardens, loatng in
the barrack-yard, OF fishing on the out.
skirts Of the town. Ills a pity some Of
the snowy soldiers of these little Euro.
pean powers could not be crystallized
into expert ~hod-carriers or skillful NOR.
tar-mixers, instead Of weighing women
down under the yoke Of double burdens.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Perfect Bliys.

Dearest Gus, how I yearn 10 be with
thee alone on 81 distant island. How
happy we would be-"
Anything else you would like this
EVENING""
eff you get us circus tickets for this
evening, some fried would go down
right slick after the show. "-Teras SiJt-
mas.