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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
GILDEROY'S KITE.

The phrase "As High as Gilderoy's
Kite" is supposed to have the fol
lowing origin: Gilderoy, whom Bish-
op Percy calls t.the Robin Hood OF
Scotland" was noted freebooter who
infested the highlands of Perthshire
with his gang, and upon seven of his
men being captured by the Stewards OF
Athol, who executed them in February
1888, Gilderoy burned several houses out
of revenge. A reward of $1,000 was
then offered for his apprehension, and he
was closely pursued, and eventually
with five of his companions, suffered fol
his crimes at Gallolee, near Edinburg
in July, 1888. There is no reference
concerning any kite, and we presume
that the phrase originated from the fact
that Gilderoy was suspended at an unu-
sual height, for, as the ballad says, he
was chung high above the rest"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
THE WAY OF THE WISE.

at is greatly to be regretted" was re-
marked in the hearing of an Illinois
farmer, ''that farmers boys do not stick
to the farm. 1t seems as if scarcely
any of them do"
"Oh, 1 dunno" said the farmer. "I've
raised eight boys and they're all farmers
'cept one"
''Is that so2 Only one of them caught
by the glitter of the city, eh?'
"Yes, that's all. Poor Bob would 90,
spite Of all 1 could do-run away to the
city when he was II, and we amt never
seen him since, though it's been over 20
years. But l dunno but it's all right;
he hadn't no ikin' for farm work, nor
wouldn't take no interest in it. He jes'
naturally seemed to hate the farm and
didn't know enough about farm work to
drive ducks to water"
"Yes, l think it was better that he
should leave the farm, as he evidently
had no taste for it. Is he in the mer-
camille business?"
"Oh, no, nothing of the kind" replied
the farmer; "no for the last ten years
Bob has been editor of an agricultural
paper. He writes most all of the Hints
to Farmers How to Do Farm Work,
Stick to the Farm, Boys and such
things Fred CGrruth in Chicago Trib-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
THE LANGUAGE OF STAMPS.

THE LANGUAGE OF STAMPS.
1t is understood that when a stamp is
inverted on the right hand corner it
means that the person written to is to
write no more. If the stamp is placed
on the left hand upper corner and in
verted, then the writer declares his af-
fection for the receiver of the letter
When the stamp is in the center at the
top, it signifies an Affirmative answer to
a question, or the question, as the case
may be; and when it is at the bottom,
or opposite this, it is a negative. Should
the stamp be on the right hand corner,
at right angle, it asks the question if
the receiver of the letter loves the send
er; while in the left hand corner it means
that the writer hates the other. The
upper corner of the right expresses de-
sire for acquaintance, and when placed
on ths lower left hand corner means a
desire for friendship. 1t is said that
those who are expert in this mode of in
dication, when correspondent requests
the person to whom he writes to accept
his love, the stamp is placed on line
with the surname, and if the response is
favorable the stamp is placed at the
same spot but reversed. Farewell to
sweetheart is expressed by placing the
stamp straight up and down in the left
hand corner, and the continuance of the
endearing relation is expressed in the
same way. There are also erudite ex-
plantations as to the meaning of stamps
resting on one corner and various places
on the envelope; but what has been fur
nished will probably suffice for fOun
dation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
ANOTHER OUTRAGE.
New York Mail and Express.

NtN hnIA NAL anu II press
Another outrage has been perpetrated
by the administration at Washington.
This time Secretary Bayard is the guilty
person, and Chief Clerk Brown is the
victim. Mr.. Brown has been employed
in the Department for more than twen-
ty-three years. He was appointed by
Secretary Seward, and he has served
through the administrations, for most of
the time as Chief Clerk, of Secretaries
Seward, Washburne, Fish, Blaine and
Frelinghuysen, and thus far through Mr..
Bayards term. He is a most capable
and honest officer. Under him, the De
partment has been well managed, its Sc
crets well guarded, its clerks well dis
ciplined. He has been always faithful
to his chief, and to the public service.
He is now dismissed for the purpose of
making place for Maryland Demo-
| crat.
Mr.. Brown had the right to expect
! from the traditions of the State Depart
ment that he would remain in his place
as long as he performed his duties salts
factorily. The Department was never
refuge for politicians. The principles
of Civil Service Reform had been fol-
lowed By Secretaries of State, before the
reform movement was inaugurated. The
Department was full of Democrats long
after the Republicans came into power.
! Mr.. Brown himself never inquired as to
the party politics of clerk. He was
accustomed to say: "All l want to know
of a clerk is whether he pulls his pound"
He had right to expect to remain es
pecially after the enactment of the Civ
il Service law, after the repeated decla-
rations of Mr.. Cleveland that there would
be no discharges in the service except
| for cause, and after Mr.. Bayard had told
| him that he was to be retained.
Mr. Browns removal at the beginning
of the administration might have had a
| different complexion from his removal
now. Then it would have been simply
ordinary partisanship; now a violation
of pledges and breach of faith are in
volved. Mr.. Cleveland not only per-
mits Mr. Bayard to break his word, but
| he writes the lie upon all his utterances
in behalf of Civil Service Reform. Mr..
Brown goes out to make way for Dem
ocrat. That is the whole truth about
the matter. Every pledge is thrown to
the winds. The country is deprived of
the services of a faithful and efficient
officer to make room for bipartisan. The
new chief may be good man, and he
may make an honest and efficient officer.
But neither his capacity nor his charac-
ter has obtained this appointment for
him. He is in the State Department
because he is a Democrat, and Higgins
as well as he might have been appointed
| for that reason.
What excuse have the MugwumpS for
this performance? A dozen years ago
they made bitter war upon Secretary
Chandler for discharging the chief clerk
of the Patent Office. Mr.. Chandler made
no pretence of devotion to the cause of
Civil Service Reform. What have they
to say to the hypocrites who pretend to
desire the good of the service and who
| introduce, for the first time, partisanship
! into the State Department. and dismiss
a faithful public servant because he is
not a Democrat?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
SURE TO GO IN.

81 suppose you fellers amt got no pa
per you want me to sign an beat me out
O. some money!" said Dakota farmer
near whose house we camped one night.
NO." 1 replied.
81 told the old woman you didn't hard
ly look sharp enough to be in that style
O. business" replied the observing agri-
culturist.
"Have you been troubled much by
sharpers?" l asked.
"Wel, pear to be doin' my share O
s'portin' them. There's churn over in
the corner that cost me $50-they got
me to order a dozen of 'em when l
thought l was signin' a 'greement to
tell the neighbors what good churn
they was. got 800 hay rake out to
the barn on the same plan. Then 1 had
to pay for eight lightning rods on my
house, when l thought l only signed for
one. Mother man ct dinner here, gave
me quarter for it, an 1 signed re-
ceipt for it which turned out to be a
check for $50 on my bank account
Mother good lOOkin' feller said he was
collectin' autographs O. prominent men,
and | showed mine on to blank piece
O. paper, which he went an filled out as
a bill o sale for my best hOss, an led the
critter off.
''Then | made a three hoss ev'ner, that
1 thought up all myself one night, an
bout a month after had to give feller
S15 cause be said he got patent on it
ten years a 20. l got a drive well in the
back yai hat I've been payin' S25 on
on bout Ctict year. There are two
notes at TN bank for me to pay now
that l signed when l slapped my name
on to some Recommendations of a now
in machine, an which the feller cut in
two and made notes of. Then yesterday
another cuss come long with pertiti0n
to the Legislator agin high taxes, an |
socked my name on to it, and now I'm
waitiu' to see whether it'll turn out a
mortgage on the farm or only common
note. I'm mighty glad you fellers amt
got no scheme, cause I'd be sure to go
into it."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
COAL OIL AND WHISKY.

Washington Correspondence Pittsburgh Post.
Ex-State Senator Emmett, OF Wayerlv,
O., is a manufacturer of the fluid which
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of the country is trying to abolish.
Some time since he incautiously stored
a barrel of coal oil in the loft of his dis
tiIlery. As might have been expected.
it leaked down into the malt from which
the liquor was distilled. The ex-senator
knew nothing of the circumstances until,
to his amazement, large consignment
of his hitherto unaPproachable brand was
returned to him by an Eastern purchaser
on the ground that it was tainted. Then
an investigation was made, and the cause
of the trouble became known. The
tainted goods were worthless as whisky,
so the ex-senator ladled it out by the
bucket-full to the rheumatic portion of
the community. In a week or so the most
remarkable cures were reported among
those who had used it, and the thrifty
ex-stateSman bottled up the remainder
of the lot and sold it to the afflicted
This increased the demand. and Mr.. En-
met now announces himself as the dis
cover of the only chemical combination
that can be either drank for stimulant,
burned in lamp, or used to cure rheu-
matism. The discoverer of this wonderful
panacea, through Congressman ThOmp-
son, has sent bottle to President CleYe-
land, which has just been delivered. The
President thanked the donor for the gift,
but remarked that as the rheumatism had
entirely left him, he hoped that in the
future he would never berequired to use
the remedy. \ bottle was also sent to
Senator Payne by the discoverer. with the
somewhat pointed remark that whisky
and coal oil are great remedies when pro-
perly combined"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
Catarrhal Dangers.

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
HIGH LICENSE.
From The Philadelphia News.

From The Philadelphia News.
High license is going to produce a
financial earthquake among the liquor
interests of Philadelphia. The Ominous
rumblings and premonitOry tremblings
are already apparent. Thousands of sa-
loonkeepers will go out of business, and
other assistants must seek fresh fields
and pastures new. The wholesalers see
signs of heavy losses by bad debts and
no way of avoiding them. This will be
a dryer town in 1888 than in 1887, even
if two thousand saloons, as is expected,
do live.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
REV. RoBERr CoLYER tells the story

REV. ROBERT COLNER tells the story
of trained troupe of monkeys he once
saw in London on a stage. They had
been drilled, says the Detroit JoHrRoi,
carefully to 60 through a series Of mill
tary exercises in uniform. and were
making fine display of their attain
ments when man in the gallery threw
q handful of nuts on the stage, and the
Simian soldiery at once broke ranks,
threw down their guns and scrambled
for the hard shelled dainties. That
moment, says DR.. Collyer, tine hand on
the dial of time was turned back a thou
sand years."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
Ii F E.

life, know not what thou art,
But yet know that We must part;
And when and where and how We met,
! own 10 me : a secret yet.
Life, We've been long together,
In pleasant and IN stormy weather;
lis hafd to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps twill cost a sigh, tear.
Then steal away, give little warning:
Choose thine own time.
Say not good night, hut in some brighter clint
Bid me good morning.
Il l. BdrbdGd
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
QUEER KANSAS CITY PEOPLE.

QUEER KANSAS CITY PEOPLE.
From The Chicago Mall.
The night clerk of one of the hotels
tells me this: "a few evenings ago a
man came in and registered. When 1
called boy to show him his room, and
the new arrival boarded the elevator, he
whipped out big revolver and knife.
The elevator boy rushed out of his box
and came to the Office with his hair
standing erect. l went back with him
and the Kansas City man said he meant
no harm, but that everybody in his
town went about now with their weap-
ons exposed, prepared to defend himself
on the shortest notice. He was finally
landed in his room, shown the button on
the wall, and told to push il if he want
ed anything. Later i'll the night the an
nunciator indicated his room, and con-
Guided to go up myself, knowing the
Inan's peculiarities. When l entered his
room he was sitting on the side of the
bed. and asked me to have him sent to the
roIicc station. | tried to reason with
him about his fancy, but ne insisted. i
haven't slept anywhere else for a month,
ne said. Every time I've started in
Kansas City I've been arrested for a
footpad and locked up. l thought
would come up here for a rest, but it is
no use. l can't sleep in bed l ex-
planned to him that he was safe. Then
he begged me to take the Stats off the
bed and put them on the floor so that he
could lie down on something hard, in
accordance with his habits at home.
But he wasn't marker to another Kan
sas City man who came in, registered,
threw up his hands and told me to search
him. Those Kansas City people are
scared out of their wits"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09

JOSEPH HoEsCU, 2S years of age, was
found to be Of unsound mind by jury
at Louisville, Ky, and that the malady
was caused by excessive cigarette smok-
ing
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
ENSILAGE.

n. Y. Observer.
The enthusiasm regarding this food
product has very much abated from what
it was few years since; the fact is, a
more conservative view is now taken of
the matter, and even its best advocates
are less extravagant in the claims that
thev make for it. AS means of secur-
ing under all the varying conditions of
weather, there is no question regarding
its convenience, but that it possesses any
greater feeding value than the same in
the dry state is now hardly claimed.
1t is also very reasonable to suppose
that some portions of the food that would
be hard and woody in texture, if cured
by drying, would, when placed In the
silo with all the natural juices retained
in the liquid state, be continued soft and
so eaten more readily, but it ought not
to be supposed that fodder that would
not be eaten because of its poor quality,
would be likely to be much more palata-
bic from being converted into ensilage.
Major AivOrd, of the Massachusetts,
Agricultural College, in speaking of en-
sllage alluded to the convenience of the
silo for storing coarse fodder, such as
marsh hay, and even mentioned the say
ing of ragweed. In this we can hardly
agree with this eminent authority, and
we hardly think many farmers would
consider it advisable to erect siloS for
storing of coarse grasses and weeds to
be fed to all kinds of animals and even
milch COWS, for if a good favored article
of butter is desired, good sweet feed is
fully as essential as cleanliness in the
operations attending its manufacture.
Old coarse hay that cattle will not readi-
" eat serves a good purpose as bedding,
in which shape it is worth as much as
for feeding.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09

LOUIS SHANKS and Marion Browning
two farmers, quaueled near Owensboro
Ky, and Browning-shot Sharks with q
shotgun, producing instant death.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
ORIGIN OF ST. VALENTINES DAY.

ORIGIN OF ST. VALENTINES DAY.
The origin of the peculiar Observances
of st. Valentines Day is subject of some
obscurity. The Saint himself, who was a
Priest of Rome, and was martyred in the
third century, seems to have had nothing
to do with the matter beyond the accident
of his day being used for the purpose
Mr.. DOnce, in his illustrations of Shakes
peare, says:
at was the practice in ancient Rome,
during the great part of the month of
February, to celebrate the Lupercalia,
which were feaStS in honor of Pan and
Juno whence the latter deity was named
Februata, Februalis and Februella. On
this occasion, amidst a variety of cere-
monies, the names of young women were
put in box, from which they were drawn
by the men dS chance directed. The pas
tors of the early Christian church, who
by every possible means endeaYOred to
eradicate the vestiges of pagan supersti-
tions, and chiefly by some communications
of their forms, substituted in the present
instance the name of particular saints in
stead of those of the women. and aSthe
festival of the Lupercalla had cOmmenc-
ed about the middle of February, they ap-
pear to have chosen st. Valentines day
for celebrating the new feast because it
occurred at nearly the same time. This
is. in part, the opinion of the learned COM
piler of the lives of the saints. 1t would
seem, however, that it was utterly i'm
possible to eXtirpate altogether any cere-
mony to which the common people had
been much acustOmed, fact which it
was easy to prove in tracing the origin Of
various other popular superstitions, and
accordingly the outline of the ancient cere-
mcnies was preserved, but modified by
some adaptation to the Christian system.
1t is reasonable to suppose that the
above practice of choosing mates would
gradually become reciprocal in the sexes,
and that all persons so chosen would be
called valentines, from the day on which
the ceremony took place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
VALENTINES IN OLDEN TINES.


Nilsson. a learned traveller of the early
part of last century, gives apparently a
correct account of the principal ceremo-
NAL of St Valentines day. "On the eve
of st. Valentines day" j" he says, "the young
folks in England and Scotland, by very
ancient custom, celebrate little festival
An equal number of maids and bachelors
get together, each write their true or some
feigned name upon separate billets, which
they roll up and draw by lots, the maids
taking the mems billets and the men the
maids; so that each of the young men
lights upon a girl he calls his valentine,
and each of the girls upon young man
whom she calls hers. BY this means each
has two valentines, but the man sticks
faster to the valentine that has fallen to
him than TO the valentine to whom he has
fallen. Fortune thus divided the com
pany into so many couples; the valentines
give balls and treats to their mistreSSeS,
wear their billets several days upon their
bOsOms or sleeves, and this little sport
often ends in love-"
a young lady who published a volume
of essays in 1854, says in reference to this
day:
"Last Friday was Valentines day, and
the night before l got five bay leaves and
pinned four of them to four corners of
my pillow and the fifth to the middle. and
then if dreamt of my sweetheart Betty
said we would be married before the year
was out. But to make it more sure
boiled an egg hard and took out the yelk
and filled it with salt, and when | went
to bed ate it shell and all without speak
ing or drinking after it. We also wrote
our lovers names upon bits of paper and
rolled them up in clay and put them
into, water, and the first that rose up was
to be our valentine. WONld you think it,
Mr. Blossom was my man? | lay abed
all the morning and kept my eyes shut
till he came to our house, for | would not
have seen another man before him for all
the world"
St Valentines Day is alluded to by
ShakeSpeareand.by Chaucer, and also by
the Poet Lydgate, who died in 1440. One
of the earliest known writers of valen-
tines, or rather love poems for this day
especially, was Charles, Duke of Orleans.
DraytOn, poet of ShakeSpeare's time,
also wrete some observance as a theme.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
DIR. PULBAG's DIAGNOSIS.

To Dr. Pillbags, Patrick came
With a most wOeful face;
Says he, "Dear Docther, phat's your name
Will you plaze trate me case?"
The doctor looked him in the eye,
His tongue he made him show;
Said he, My man, you're going to die;
You've got tic-douioureur."
my faith, says Pat, ''phat's that you say
I've got 'tick-dollar,' OH
Yez iyin' thafe, always pay
Your bill before go.
I'll have no more to do wild yez,
III docther my own case"
He took dose of p. 7. p. P.'s,
And wears a brighter face.
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