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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THE "PLACE CALLED CALVARY?'
From an illustrated article under thu
above title by Rev. DR.. Charles S. Rob
inson in the November Century we quote
the following:
"The only representative site for Cal
vary now offered pilgrims in Jerusalem
is found in couple of rooms inside the
old edifce; one is owned and exhibited
by the Greeks, another by the Latins
These share the same disability; both
since the church is already so full of ira
ditions on the ground f1oor-had to go uI
flight of stairs into free space near
er the roof. And there it is, amidst
tawdry curtains and gilt bedizenments
of candles and altar -shrines, that this
ancient spot upon which the cross OF
Jesus Christ rested is pointed out, and
the veritable hole is shown in which il
was planted. And the thieves crosses
"a decorous but rather inadequate d.
tance of five feet between them on the
right and left of the middle one-are
ranged alongside. And down under
meath, far below across some intervening
space left by grading away the actual
soil of the hill, so we are sagely told is
the grave of Adam! Tradition has re-
lated that at the crucifxion of Jesus
some drops of blood fell through upon
Adams skull and raised him suddenly
to life; and there are commentators who
declare that so the prophecy quoted by
the apostle Paul (Ephesians VIA was
well fulfilled: Awake thou Adam that
sleepest for thus the former versions
read in the text and arise from the
dead, for Christ shall touch thee.I
The art-people say that this is the orig
in of the fact that in those early rude
representations of the death of our Lord
a skull is introduced.
"Can any man of sensibility be blamed
if he makes an imperious demand that
something more something else at
least-shall greet him in anwer to his
question, where was our Lord crucified?
If there should be no other advantage
gained by the acceptance of new site
as now proposed, this would be enough;
it would put an end to the awkward
and offensive impostures daily exhibited
under the roof of that filthy old church.
They are standing mockery of the
claims of the Christianity they profess
to uphold. Those ceremonies of Easter
at the tomb where our Lord is declared
to have been buried are a caricature of
an event 80 glad and holy. The strug-
gle around the flames that are chemical
ly forced out of the smoky hole in the
sepulcher, so that devotees in frantic
zeal may light their lamps, bring death
from the trampling of thousands, fills
the house with howls that put heathen-
ism to shame, and sends true believers
away with an infinite disgust and hor-
ror deep in their hearts. How long must
such a scandal be patiently endured?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

FLATTERY is often traffic of mutual
meanness, where, although both parties
intend deception, neither are deceived,
since words that cost little are exchang-
ed for hopes that cost less.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
"UntoId Agony from Catarrh.,

Prof W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist,
of Ithaca, ". Y, writes: "Some ten years ago
l suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
incurable, and said must die MY case was
such bad one, that every day, towards sum
set, my voice would become SO hoarse could
barely speak above a whisper. In the morning
my coughing and clearing of my throat would
almost strangle me. By the use of DR.. Sage'a
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was well
man. and the cure has been permanent"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

CoNNECTIoNs-At Barton with all passenger
trains on c., L. &W. Ry; at Bridgeport with G. &
P. Ry for Steubenville, Pittsburgh and interme-
diate points; at Bellaire with B. & o, and B., T. g.
G. R'ys. Sg@Direct with Street Cars to and from
Wheeling. Only direct route between ST. CIairs-
vile and Wheeling.
A. c. DARRAH, F.M. TOWNSEND,
President. Superintendent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THE knowledge which we have ac-
quired ought not to resemble a great
shop without order, and without an in
ventory; we ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve us
in need.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

AS THE language of the face is uni
versal, so is it very comprehensive. No
laconism can reach it. 1t is the short
hand of the mind, and crowds a great
deal in little room. A man may look
a sentence as soon as speak word. The
strokes are small, but so mastery drawn
that you may easily collect the image
and proportions of what they resemble.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
American Merino Sheep.

NTIVI IVUII HTOTITIV OIIOOPi
! have a choice lot of yearling and two
year-old Rams for Sale-all registered in
the Vermont Register. Prices reasona-
BILE, and satisfaction guaranteed. Inspec,
tion of stock solicited
THOMAS LODGE,
II 1-3t* Bannock, Belmont Co., o.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

APPLICATION is the price to be paid
for mental acquisition.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

oar a MONTH and BOARD for 3 Bright Young
NUu Men and Ladies' in each county Z. W.
W ElEGLER " CO., Philadelphia, Pa,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
FACTS are to the mind the same thing

FACTS are to the mind the same thing
as food to the body. On due digestion
of facts depend the strength and wisdom
of the one, just as vigor and health de-
pend on the other. The wisest in coun-
Gil, the ablest in debate, and the most
agreeable companion in the commerce
of human life, is that man who has as
simulated to his understanding the great
est number of facts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
Time Schedule, in effect Man 18th, IS.

CT. CLAIRSVILLE & NORTHERN
~ RAILROAD TINE CARD.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

EVERY failure is step to success; ev-
cry detection of what is false directs us
toward what is true; every trial exhausis
some tempting form of error. Not only
so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely
failure; scarcely any theory, the result
of steady thought, is altogether false; no
tempting form of error is without some
latent charm derived from truth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

Books are guide in youth, and an
entertainment for age. They support
us under solitude, and keep us from be-
coming burden to ourselves, They
help us to forget the crossness of men
and things, compose our cares and ON
passions, and lay our disappointments
asleep. When we are weary of the Iiv-
ing, we may repair to the dead. who
have nothing Of peevishness, pride, OF
design in their conversation,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

As TIE stream gradually wears the
channel deeper in which it runs, and
thus becomes more surely bound to its
accustomed course, so the current of the
mind and heart grows more and more
restricted to the course in which habit
has taught them to flow. These intel
lectual and moral habits form many pc,
culiarities of character, and chiefly dis
tinguish one individual from another.
They are, therefore, of the utmost i'm
portance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

OUR strength often increases in proper
tion to the obstacles which are imposed
upon it; it is thus that we enter upon
the most perilous plans after having
had the shame of failing in more simple
ones
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THE truth of our individual ability to
have share in raising the Eternal Tenn
pie is full of comfort and encourage
ment. The chiId's hand may mould,
the poor mans arm may carry, the strug-
Cling widow may adorn, the aged saint
may set in place there, some token with
whom God is well pleased.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

VICIOUS habits are SO great a stain to
human nature, and so odious in them
selves, that every person actuated by
right reason would avoid them, though
he were sure they would be always con-
cealed both from God and man, and had
no future punishment entailed upon
| them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
TWO BRAVE GIRLS.

New York Times.
All nature smiled in the Catskills, No.
4, the weather being perfect from every
point of view and just right for a ramble
in the woods, where the Sere and yellow
leaves make a rich carpet for the feet of
pedestrians. Three young ladies, a
Miss ]. Robertson, of New York City,
and two sisters named Burke, of Phila-
delphia, who had been making sketches
of the beautiful autumnal scenery for
day or two, took walk in the afternoon
through portion of the Stony Glove.
They had an experience that they can
talk about and try to depict upon can
vas for some time to come. While
strolling along, kicking the thick bed OF
leaves with their feet, one of them, who
had picked up a stout cudgel, said:
'FNow you just watch me hit that
tree with this stick"
Then she threw it, and, of course, she
missed the tree. She hit something else,
however, and it was rattlesnake, that
lay basking in the bright sunshine. 1t
is presumed that the stick gave the rep
tile right smart blow. 1t lost no time
in twisting along towards the pedeS-
trians, and its cleaning eyes, red tongue
and ominous rattle showed that it meant
fight with all the powers that it COM
manded. One Of the Burke sisters, who
had hit the snake, screamed and ran
from the scene as fast as she could. The
other two ladies, as it fortunately hap
pened, had taken their stout alpen-
stocks in their hands when starting out
for their stroll, and it only took them a
moment to decide that if they, too,
turned and ran, the rattler would have
the advantage of them. 1t was possible
that in running one or both of them
might trip and fall, and then the Shiny
thing with its poisonous fangs would
attack them in jiffy. They decided to
stand their ground and to fight the
snake. They stood about six feet
apart, alpenstock in hand.
The snake decided to attack Miss
Robertson, who wore the brighter
dress of the two. As the reptile ad-
vanced toward her she trembled like a
leaf in the wind, and when it was with
in two feet of her she swung her weap-
on and struck his snakeship whacking
blow. She tried to hit it over the head,
but instead struck it seven or eight
inches further back. The blow partial
" stunned the rattler, and the moment
it dropped down on the leaves both Ia
dies piled their cudgels thick and fast,
and in two minutes time the snake was
as dead as dead could be.
Then the two brave girls sobbed on
each others necks, and if they didn't
have Mysteries, they came pretty near it.
Meanwhile the Miss Burke who had de-
cided that in flight was to be found her
only safety was to be heard screaming
in tree, which she had climbed, some
distance away. Motions were made to
her that all danger was past and that
she ought to come down and view the
body of their common foe. She decided
that she was near enough to the snake
where she was, and she remained on
her perch until her sister and Miss Rob-
ertSon arrived at the foot of the tree to
help her down. The snake measured
over four feet in length and it had seven
rattles.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THOSE who are in the power of evil
habits must conquer them as they can
and conquered they must be, or neither
wisdom nor happiness can be attained
but those who are yet subject to their
influence may, by timely caution, pre-
serve their freedom; they may effectually
resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they
will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

TRUE eloquence does not consist in
speech. 1t cannot be brought from far
Labor and learning may toll in vain.
Words and phrases may be marshaled in
every way, but they cannot compass it.
1t must exist in the man, in the subject,
and in the occasion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

Standard Time, So Minutes SIolper than Local TIN,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
PENNSYLVANIA LINES WEST OF PITTSBURGH.
Cle0elGnd and Pittsburgh Railroad
Time Card In Effect Aug, q, 1883.
Trains Ran By Central Standard Time
GOING NORTH.
GOING SOUTH.

DITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND
l. ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
The evening world., 1888-09-05

youth who. q moment before. had addressed
her as mother" ~ annot bear to hear
you speak like that of the poor boy who ID
now in his gravel"
1T is q hard thing. i know, TO pass Gen.
sure on the dead. but not easier to look for
givingly on vices and follies INDUCED in at
the expense of o mothers beggary."
An angry flush passed over the woman's
face and yet, to one contrasting its sharp
and crafty lines with the young mans frank
and open countenance, It must have seemed
not q little strange that her hand. and not
his, should bo extended to draw the mantle
of charity over the dead proAigate's misdo-
ings.
But to one that knew Judith Spencer's
history. II would not have appeared strange
at all. When her debassd husband, on whose
account her relatives had cast her on, evaded
q felon'S doom by self destruction. leaving
her and her newborn babe 10 other heritage
The evening world., 1888-09-05

the girl he loved forbade her to receive his
addresses, while he sanctioned those of a
rich ~usurer's son, he could not help feeling
that il might not be solely owing to disparity
OF wealth. II was tins same usurer, too,
Caleb Boke by anne that held the mort
cages under which the Norman estate was to
be sold-a circumstance, II is fair to infer,
that added not a little to the bitterness of
Arthur's reflections.
"Old Boke is a swindler!" Mrs. Spencer
exclaimed, after a prolonged silence. ~
don't believe, ii the truth were known, Cecil
Norman ever had half the money he had
charged him with"
Very likely" Arthur moodily answered ;
- but bonds and mortgages are not to be in
validated by mere surmises, however plausi-
ble."
Can nothing be done9 Must this foul
injustice"-
Mrs. Spencer suddenly checked herself,
but her eyes cleaned with q strange excite
ment, which IL cost her . visible mo to
There IL nothing to be done. mother. but
to prevail on our benefactress to share our
present humble home till We can offer her q
better"
The evening world., 1888-09-05

There is something else that might be
done" the widow muttered. half -musingly.
And it shall be. too :" she cried, rising
suddenly, and speaking in a tone that sur
prised and startled her listener.
Listen to me :" she continued. have
a secret to tell-one that should blister my
very lips with shame-one that no torture
could have wrung from me, a d that / had
thought to die without diyulging. But no
good can come Of keeping it now-no good
to him for whose sake l have kept 1t so long
nor can its disclosure bring harm now save
to myself. For n long time after the birth of
Gertrude Norman's child had sole charge of
both il and my own. For many weeks she
lay Frustrated by fever, towering between
life and death, and constantly. delirious. l
don't know when the thought first came
upon me. but it came with irresistible
force. Gertrude had not yet seen her
child. and in our previous interviews, mine
had not been present. Long before she had
sufficiently recovered to remember she was q
mother. the inequality of the children's ages
had ceased to be apparent. To dress my
child in the garments of hers, and when she
asked for her babe, to place mine in her
The evening world., 1888-09-05

The indicted policy gamblers have made an
effort to stave Of justice and put of the hour
Of punishment, but their resources and arti-
fees are now exhausted and they can escape
the law no longer.
Their trial is fixed for tomorrow in the
Court Of General Sessions, and a long term
of imprisonment threatens them oil.
The defendants, who were exposed and in
dicted through the efforts Of The EVENING
WORLD. are VIM. McCurdy, of Washington
and Watts streets; H. Smith, of 1871 Greene
street Charles Siebert, Of Canal street and
West Broadway; George Brown, of A
Thompson street. and Frank Collins, of 2Sl
South Fifth avenue.
The Grand Jury indicted them several
months ago. and as they made no pretense
of having q defense to offer it seems strange
that they have not yet met their deserts.
But they strained every nerve 10 put of
the evil day of trial and good luck and law
yers' technicalities favored them. The
Tombs was crowded with prisoners not more
so o. N being a rule of the District. Attorneys
Office to try such cases first, they took up the
time Of the General Sessions Judges and the
policy gamblers got a precious respite.
Now every trlck ana artince mas Deeu ubeu
and exhausted and the gamblers are in the
last ditch.
Will they plead guilty and throw them.
selves on the mercy of the court? Such is
the impression of those who know how des-
perate is their case.
Three weeks ago, when called to the bar OF
Part IL. of the General Sessions Court to
plead to the indictment, their counsel,
| MIR. John M. Conan, at once approached
Judge MARITIME on the bench with an offer OF
a plea of guilty IN behalf of all five defend
ants, provided they were let of with a fine:
But as the crime for which they stand in.
dicted is q felony, and punishable BY, two
| years. imprisonment and q fine of $l. 900,
| Judge MARITIME very promptly declined to &C
| cede to the proposition.
He fatty refused to be a party to such 6
bargain with justice. and the gamblers plan!
were once more foied.
So these men know that if they plead
guilty they will receive a just, sentence, and
If they stand trial it does not ap
pear how they can be found no
guilty, by q jury, Representatives O.
against the policy dealers and what evidence
| Of their guilt the reporters secured. ,
The action of The EVENING WORLD struck
| the most severe blow which policy gam.
bling has ever received in this city. The
expose Of the system of gambling;
the arrest of the proprietors cost the
hackers of the game and the writer's of policy
thousands of dollars and opened the eyes Of
many patrons of the game to their small
chances of winning pack the money which
| they invested.
With the conviction Of the men TIL
EVENING WORLD will have demonstrated that
| tina braRs of these criminals have been with
| out foundation, and that IL 10 not impossible
10 bring this class of law breakers to Justice
The evening world., 1888-09-05
A Fnilurc with n Trnric Side.

CHICAGO, Sept. &C. G. holton, q well-known
furniture dealer at 224 Wabash avenue, made .
confession Of judgment yesterday aggregating
SEQ, 900. His liabilities are estimated At from
$50. 900 to $40, 600; his assets at $50, 200 TO $40. 600.
MIR. HoltOn was not at his place OF business,
and 10 said to be dangerously ILL., There 10 .
murder of Millionaire Smell Mr.. Holton's youngest
son purchased q revolver aud constituted himself
night Waterman for his fathers house. one
morning. ~ the boy and hs older brother were
getting up, the lad pointed his revolver at his
brother, saying: "fou are q burglar and ! Will
shoot you" The weapon was discharged, giving
the elder son a wound from which he died Q few
days later. The son thus accidentally killed was
Mi Holton's chief buainess associate, the cashier
and assistant bookkeeper OF the establishment.
From the shock OF this tragedy Mr.. Holton has
not recovered. He lost interest in his business,
which sufered in concurrence.
The evening world., 1888-09-05

a mothers attachment, and when at length
the boy grew up and began to develop serious
faults. over which his mother grieyed sorely,
il was Judith that stood forth in his defence,
ever ready to palliate and excuse whatsoever
he did amiss.
Not one Of his dead fathers virtues, or OF
his gentle mothers traits. seemed TO be re-
produced in Cecil Eorman's character, His
days and nights were spent in all manner Of
vicious pleasure. His extrayagance knew no
bounds, and when at length, having barely
attained TO mans estate, his shattered health
gave way and he fell a victim TO his excuses,
he left mis- mother i'll poverished, and his W
estate encountered far beyond its value.
Widely different was the poor widows son.
With heavy odds TO struggle against In the
shape of poverty, aud disgraoed name--Ren-
erously aided for a time, II Is true, by the
kind lady whose good Offices we have seen he
had not forgotten, but, mainly 10y his own
eforts-step by step Arthur Spencer won his
way, and he was now ready to enter q profes-
sion to whose brightest honors he might
aspire without vanity.
Still. the ~dishonored name he bore weighed
heavily upon him and when the father Of
The evening world., 1888-09-05

than o 4" wounded name "-when the outcast
mother and child might have died I'M
friendsd in the public streets, and society
would have seen in It only the righteous VS.
itation upon them of the dead husband and
fathers iniquities. gentle Gertrude Norpan's
heart was touched with pity.
She. too. was o widow; and though wealth
and an honored name were hers, and though
an almost p~rincely fortune awaited the little
stranger for whose coming one fond expect
ant had not been suffered to tarry, there was,
between hor and her humble sister In sorrow,
Q common tie that seemed to bind them to-
gether.
And when. after not many days, the little
stranger came, and for a long time Ger
trude's life was despAired of, it was the poor
widow that supplied Q mothers place to
the helpless infant.
Towards the child she had thus fostered it
was but natural she should feel something Of
The evening world., 1888-09-05
CONGRESS NIGHT BIZ PROROGUEn
The President Said 60 Have the Power
Under Certain circumstances.
ESPECIAL TO THE woRLDJ

w.su,soros. semi. b.-Wuh regard TO the state-
y. !. .s.' a. ~. uo.,n 49,. 90
meh' IN . oesps'es W n "oALD Y Ne.s
Branch that Congress might, under certain cir
oumstanoes, be adjourned BIZ the President, Repre-
ss.,.,,-. or~,..., 49,. "a en-. mo-, s.,,,, ra,u.-
sen'st'e optihketi VI y w ss"e 49,"
mentarians IN the House, SAID 70 . WohLp CORE
spondent to-day
,,Tl,.,s can hs M o~us.,,on NJ tina pres,den,s
right to adjourn Congress under certain condi-
fiona Suppose. for example, the House should
-, ,..,,,,,o, ox,n, 80, Can, M a a.. the dav
s ~ v n s5iourn an, srStt" vonIa he s.nt over 10
iSs senate and he a,sa oreed IA. ConfrTees wouid
"a ~. h.,o,h IN. S.na,s and Inc
tnen % appoin.eu ~ LOW vo ~ Sa ,u,rns,sa 10
,nam snon,a a,,bsp sonse maintain ,ts nosition'
" "o my wonid r.snii in INA event or
sahtuh M prss,d.n, nv ,hs srsreise NJ MA sonsii.
,,',ona, An, co,iI ad,anr, Congrsas a, liza Meas
The evening world., 1888-09-05

HANOVER, N. H., Sept. Three men lost their
lives and many were injured In q landslide at Mon
roe yesterday. The men were repairing dam
age done by the Connecticut River In the spring,
when a grist mill was carried bodily down the river
aud q deep washout made. II 10 on Q steep hill
side rising from the river. The men below were
given no warning before the mass OF trees, logs
and earth started, burying them beneath L. The
noise of crashing timber and the tremendous plunge
into the river alarmed people AZ the village q mile
back. They cams in time to see O few men be-
grimed with dirt, bruised and bleeding, emerging
from between the trees which had fallen 90 as u
protect them. Forty men we're soon at work search
Ing for the unfortunates who had been buried alive
The body of Henry Bidel, of Monroe. was recov
cred. Three men are known to have perished ant
q humble to have been fatally injured.