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

Emulation is a noble passion.
Nothing oyercomes passion more than
silence.
five do not wrong others, God Will
right us.
Whatsoever We beg of God, let US also
work for it.
Habit if not resisted, soon becomes a
necessity.
To rule oneself is in reality the great
est triumph.
You cannot make a general rule ap-
ply for everything.
Those who would have happy death
should lead a holy life.
Friendship gives no privilege to make
ourselves disagreeable.
AS the flower is before the fruit, so is
faith before good works.
Repentance clothes in grass and flow
ers the grave in which the past is laid.
1t is the bright day that brings forth
the adder and that Graves wary walking.
What 1 want is not to possess religion
but to have religion that shall possess
me.
There is no fit search after truth which
does not, first of all, begin to live the
truth which it knows.
Idleness is the hot bed of temptation,
the cradle of disease, the waste Of time,
the cankerworm of felicity.
Purity of heart is that quick and SEN
sitive delicacy to which even the very
thought of sin is offensive.
One of the mistakes in the conduct
of human life is to suppose that other
mems opinions viii make US happy.
If we are in doubt what to do, it is a
good rule to ask ourselves what we shall
wish on the morrow that we had done.
The slightest sorrow for sin is suffi-
cient, if it produces amendment; and
the greatest is insufficient, if it does not
People in this world almost always
have ideals and they are generally siren
uOus about having other people live up
to them.
There are two kinds of lOve-that
which lives through time and trial, and
that which withers before it is ripe, like
cut grass spread beneath burning sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
FAITHFUL AFTER DEATH.

The police had savage fight at Sa-
lem, Mass, lately, with dog that stood
guard over his dead masters body, and
would not yield until fourteen bullets
had been lodged in its body.
Then the faithful animal fell dead be-
side the remains which he had guarded
so well The man, John Gym, had
committed suicide by hanging. He was
a well-to-do bachelor, who lived alone at
South Point. His only companion was
huge Newfoundland dog. When Gyms
body was discovered, the dog was lying
beneath, and the shoes showed where
the dumb animal had tried to rescue his
master. While the policemen were cut
ting the dead man down the dog stood
by with his eyes Tiveted on his masters
face, but the moment they tried to re-
move the body he became ferocious. He
bit both men unil they were glad to
beat a hasty retreat. Then he caressed
the dead mans face, whining piteously
the while. The police tried to coax
him away, but he showed his teeth ev-
cry time they approached and his saw
age growl warned them to keep their
distance.
The blockade continued for over an
hour. Then one policeman fired two
shots at the faithful brute. Then the
dog plunged down the stairs to the door
and again blocked the way, swapping at
all who approached. He became so rab
id that it became absolutely necessary
to kill him. Fourteen bullets were fired
at close range before he fell dead.
Then the dead body of the master
was carried over the inanimate form of
the pet dog.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
WHY GO WEST

When such grand opportunities await
you in West Virginia, Maryland and the
famous Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, a
section possessing all the requisites for
health, comfort and prosperity.
NoregiOn in the United States is attrac-
ing greater attention than those States;
people form the North, West and extreme
South are looking that way with the view
of locating. Improved farm lands are to
be obtained at from IS per acre and up
wards, unimproved timber and grazing
lands at from 81 to Sc per acre.
Rich mineral lands are cheap. excellent
water powers, manufacturing sites, busi-
ness locations, etc, are numerous. The
schools and churches are excellent; the
people are hOspitable and extend warm
welcome to new corners. The climate is
unequaled, no severe storms or cyclones,
no contagious diseases.
If you wish to know more about these
States you should write to NJ V. Richards,
Land and Emigrant A gent, B. & o. R. R.,
Baltimore, Md, stating what you want
and he will give you full information
free of charge. II 1-3t-eOw
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
HANDLING APPLES.

DR., Hoskins makes the following
points in the AmericGn Garden respect
ing the handling of apples: 1. AS soon
as the seeds in an apple are cOlored the
fruit has reached the point where it will
begin to loose the firmness upon which
keeping depends by longer exposure to
the sun and the elements. 2. Apples
do not sweat, the skin of a sound apple
being made water-tight 8. Mere damp
ness does not of itself have any tenden-
cy to cause sound apple to decay. 4.
A sound apple will not freeze at a tenn
perature of 80 degs. or even % degs. s.
Ventilation by through draft is iniur-
ious, and all ventilation is injurious
which causes any considerable alterna-
tions of temperature. 6. Apples to be
kept and shipped should be handled but
twice-when taken from the tree and in
packing and these operations should
be as nearly consecutive as possible z.
The first grade, especially if intended
for keeping or shipping should consist
of as nearly perfect fruit as possible s,
A cellar for the storage of apples for late
sales or shipment ought not to be under
a dwelling house. 9. The sOrter and
packer of apples has a trade to learn,
and having learned it and being trust
worthy is skilled hand, worth high pay
Underneath all these rules and princi-
pies lies the presumption that the orch
ardist who is to be guided by them
knows how to plant, train and cultivate
an orchard, so as to raise fruit which
will justify the expense Of scientific
handling.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
1elntn11t Chronicle.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1888.
WHEN 1 AM OLD.

When is one old? The remark is oft
ten heard, 'He will never grow old" or
s.She will never grow DID," as applied to
some one whose heart and feelings are
still in sympathy with the young, and
also an advocate of progress in various
directions.
Yes, there are unquestionably many
delightful persons whose hair is white,
whose eyes are dim with age, and per-
haps whose forms are bent, who yet are
excellent company for the young and
lively.
And yet these people often suffer pain
and are conscious of weakness and in
firmities attendant upon increasing age.
In contrast to this, who has not heard
it remarked of person still in middle
life-"Oh, he has been as old as Methu-
selah ever since he was twenty-one."
No sensible person will attempt to
conceal the flight of Time or pretend
vouthfulness of which the passing years
heart and soul can retain much OF the
brightness and vigor of youth even
when many years have brought their
lights and shadows, their frequent joys
and many griefs.
1t is often remarked of many persons
that they "take the world hard" While
of others it is said "they take things
easy." And herein lies much of the Sc
cret of retaining young heart even ID
very old body.
To be 'as good company as young
girl when past seventy is a great bless
ing to the person possessing the young
old heart, and to those about her.
If the question is asked what makes
the difference-why are some always
youthful in their feelings while Others
are correspondingly old even before
their time, the answer will inevitably
be, it is owing to the different tempera
ment or disposition of some from thai
of others.
But is this true? 1t cannot be denied
that naturally sweet, placid disposition
is a most desirable trait, but to great
degree any disposition can become botf
placid and sweet.
1t takes much of the grace of God tc
overcome a fretful, fault-fnding tenden
cy, but it can be overcome by dint OF
prayer and effort.
Much of the nervousness" of which
constant complaint is made, and which
requires no end of patience and fOrbear
ance from those unfortunate enough tc
have to encounter its subjects, is moth
ing more or less than unrestrained i'm
patience and culpable petulance. Ther
again, there are those afflicted with weak
and shattered nerves whose real suffer
ings are never realized by the strong
and healthy, and toward whom too much
of sympathy and kindness canot be ex
erciSed.
We have a strong suspicion, so strong
in fact it amounts to positive belief
that could many of our old people preach
a short, effective sermon to the young
it would amount to an earnest plea tC
learn great self-control while able to dc
so; to curb restless passions and restrain
impulses before the weakness of age
and a multiplicity of cares and sorrows
impair the once strong will and render
self-restraint a difficult thing to prac,
tice.
1t is beautiful to grow old and yet re.
tain sunny, calm and hopeful disposi-
tion. Age will betray itself, and who is
not willing it should in a pleasant, heart
felt way?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
OVERRULED.

The threads our hands in blindness spin
No selfdetermined plan weayeS in;
The shuttle Of the unseen powers
Works out pattern not as ours.
All small the choice of him who sings
What sound shall leave the smitten stinSs;
Fate holds and guides the hand Of art;
The singers is the servants part.
The wind-harp chooses not the tune
That through its trembling threads IS blown;
The patient organ cannot guess
What hand its passive keys shall press.
Through wish, resolve, and act, our will
Ismoved by undreamed forces still;
And no man measures in advance
His strength with untried circumstance.
As streams take hue from shade and sun,
As runs the life the song must run;
But, glad or sad, TO this good end
God grant that varying notes may tendi
John G. WRittier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
COLORs OF THE RAINBOW.

New York Mail and Express.
''The cochineal insects furnish a great
many of the very fine colors," said an
artist recently to a reporter for the Hail
and ETpreSS. Among them are the
gorgeous carmine, the crimson, scarlet
carmine and purple lakes. The cutie
fish gives the sepia. 1t is the inky fluid
which the fish discharges in order to rem
der the water Opaque when attacked.
Indian yellow comes from the camel.
Ivory chips produce the Ivory black and
hone black. The exquisite Prussian
blue is made by fusing horses hoofs and
otherrefuSe animal matter with impure
potassium carbonate. This color was
discovered accidentally. Various lakes
are derived from roots, barks and gums.
Blue-black comes from the charcoal of
the vine stalk. Lamp black is SCOT
from certain resinous substances. Tur-
key red is mud from the madder plant,
which grows in HindOstan. The yellow
sap of a tree of Siam produces gamboge;
the natives catch the sap in cocoanut
srells. >.iaw sienna is the natural earth
from the neighborhOod of Sienna, Italy.
Raw umber is also an earth found near
Umbria and burnt. India ink is made
from burnt camphor. The Chinese are
the only manufacturers of this ink, and
they will not reveal the secret of its
manufacture. MaStic is from the gum
of the mastic tree, which grows in the
Grecian Archipelago. Bisteris the SCOT
of wood ashes. Very little real ultrama-
rine is found in the market. 1t is OBJ
tained from the precious lapis-lazuli,
and commands fabulous price. Chi
nese white is zinc, scarlet is iOdide of
mercury, and native vermilion is from
the quicksilver ore called cinnabar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
WHICH WAS IT? BACON OR
SHAKESPEARE.

The authorship of the dramatic pro-
auctions attributed to the last of the
above-named is agitating literary circles
to the very centre, but affects the prac-
tical masses far less than the momentous
question, how to regain or preserve health,
that essential of bodily and mental ac-
tivity, business success and the pursuit
of happiness, We can throw far more
light on this latter subject than the most
profound Shakespearian can on the ques-
ton first propounded. If the system is
depleted, the nerves shaky; if indiges-
ton or constipation bOtherS one at times,
or constantly; if the skin is yellow and
tongue furred as in biliOusnesS; if there
are premOnitOry twinges of Opcoming
rheumatism or neuralgia; if the kidneys
are inactive-use HOstetters Stomach
Bitters, the finest recuperant of an age
prolific in beneficial and successful rene
dies. Remember, if malaria threatens or
affiicts, that it neutralizes the poison and
fortifies the system. IL lin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THE. United States Supreme Court
has rendered a decision in a life insur-
ance case, holding that a husband and
father has full right to insure his life
in the interest of his wife and children,
and that where such policies are effect
ed in the name of the beneficiarieS, they
are no part of the estate of a deceased
insolvent, and, therefore, can not be re-
garded as fraudulent assignment of
any part of his estate when so effected.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
CONDITION OF THE FARM.

The habit of most business men of
taking an inventory of stock at certain
times in the year is one that can be ju-
diciously followed by farmers. Most
good farmers in these times keep enough
accounts to know what crops pay and
what do not, and whether they are max
ing or losing by the various kinds of
stock which they keep. But in all such
calculations one of the most important
elements is often omitted; that is, the
state of the farm itself, not merely in
regard to visible improvements, but to
fertility and productiveness. The farn-
er, apparently prosperous, whose soil is
yearly becoming more exhausted, is
steadily growing poorer. This is doubt
less the condition of greater number
of farmers than is often supposed.
Nearly all the improvements on the
farm tend to deterioration unless con-
stantly added to or repaired. Buildings
and fences run down and must be re-
placed. Orchards of young fruit trees
grow in value as they come of bearing
age. These are the investments that
the thrifty Scotchman advised his far
mer son to make. "Plant q tree, Sandy.
1t will aye be growing while you are
sleeping" But even young orchards
need much care in pruning, else their
growth will be of little value. With al
most every variety of small fruits, in
cluding the grape, neglected growth is
more expensive to get into good bear
ing than is new plantation. So that
even with fruit trees there is no assur-
ance of increased value by lapse of time
without labor. For everything else
there is certainty of depreciation.
Whenever the profits of farm crops
are small the greater care should be tax
en- not to let the farm itself run down.
By the judicious expenditure of whatev-
er can be afforded in buying manure and
in undertaking, the cost of making a
crop may be decreased. In this is bet
assurance of profitable return for labor
thanis possible from high prices that are
the result of causes beyond the farmers
control. If all our farm lands were
made as productive as the best of it now
is, there would be few complaints of
hard times among farmers. 1t is the
poor spots on the farm that run down
the average product below the cost of
production.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
CAUTIONS FOR TAKERS.

Seven is the perfect number, and if
the following seven rules were faithful
ly observed, they would do something
toward making a perfect man.
Before thou openest thy mouth think
l. What thou shalt speak.
2. Why thou shouldst speak it.
3. To whom thou art about to speak.
f. Concerning whom or what thou art
about to speak.
5. What will result therefrom.
6. What benefit it can produce.
z Who may be listening.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
AGRICULTURE.
RESTORING LOST FERTILITY.


Through larger part of the country
than the advocates of the Great West
will admit,the means of fimprovingworn-
out or impoverished land are the most
practical questions in farming. 1t is al
most certain that in large portions of
Dakota, even before it is admitted to
statehood, successive wheat cropping has
seriously diminished the yield. In Min
nesota this failure of the soil occurred
several years ago, and so suddenly that
it is recognized as an era by farmers and
other business men. Talking with a
farmer recently from that State, he re-
marked that it was common thing to
hear events dated from the year of the
wheat failure. 1t was at the time
thought to be temporary affair, the re
suit of bad season, drouth and insects,
but experience has shown that the dimi-
mutton in the wheat yield then expert
enced was due to more serious causes, as
it has continued ever since.
This condition of affairs is not an un
mixed evil. 1t makes impossible the
spendthrift extravaganza of fertility
which has marked western farming, and
has put the eastern farmers at so great a
disadvantage. The greatly improved
machinery for harvesting grain crop
has not only enabled western farmers to
| exhaust their farms more rapidly, but
has also obliged farmers in the East to
pursue the same system. Less stock has
been kept in localities where grain can
be grown, and the deficiency in barn
yard manure has been made up by the
purchase of commercial fertilizers, good
in themselves, but not furnishing last
ing manure for the improvement of the
soil.
The unsymmetrical character of much
modern farming is shown by the small
er proportion of land devoted to grass
and hay. These do not give the imme-
diate profit that grain crops do to aver
age farmers, but they are better for the
permanence of the business. If farm.
is plowed every year, and the product
sold at low prices, 1t is scarcely possible
for the farmer to avoid financial ruin.
The fertility of his land, which is his
capital, is being exhausted, and when
that is gone he has no way to easily re-
place it.
The best of all restoratives of fertility
is clover The farmer who sows clover
seed literally can hardly make a mis-
take. On the great majority of farms
the distance from market is so greaG
that clover hay does not pay at the COM
paratively low price it brings to draw
away If fed on the farm it makes
valuable manure, and at the same time
the hay crop is growing the clover roots
are deepening the soil for future crops.
The farmer who grows clover largely
can afford to try the commercial fertili-
izers, for the clover roots fasten the min
eral fertility in the soil, instead of allow
ing it to become inert and worthless.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

DIR. ROBERT NABoBs and W. W.
Shortridge, lawyer, quarreled at Mon
tevallo, Ala, about some collections by
the latter, and agreed to fight it out with
bowie e-knives in a darkened room. Both
were killed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SAI,vE

The best Salye in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
COrns and all Skin EruptiOns, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, % cents per
box. For sale by Patterson & Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

ELI ROBBINS, Runydn P. o., Columbia Co.,
Pa, says: my daughter had catarrh when
she was FIVE years old, very badly. i saw DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured bottle for her, and soon saw that 1t
helped her; third bottle effected a perma-
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Time Card IN Effect dug. 5, 1888.
GOING EAST.

At Pittsburgh connections are made I'm Union
Depot with through trains on the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad for Baltimore Washington, Philadelphia
aud New York, on which are run Pullman Buffet
Sleeping and Farlnf Cnrs
Al Chicago and st. Louis connections are made
IN Union depot with prominent railroads for all
points IN the West, Northwest and Southwest.
For further information call on or address near
est Ticket agent. T. A. FORD,
'dAS, Mct REA, Gen Pass. Agent,
General Manager. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
NATIONAL DELAINE MERlN0
6 H E E p

A choice lot of Yearling Rams for sale
at prices to suit the times. Stock all reg
istered in the National Delaine Register.
Parties wishing a good Sheep will do well
to call on or address
STEWART & GIFFEN,
StewartsYille, Belmont Co., Ohio.
Inspection of stock solicited. 10 25-6t*
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"Constant,y Hawking and spi,ting.s

THOMAS ]. RUSHING. ESQ.,, sSos Pine Street,
81, Louis, Mo-, writes: % was great sufferer
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and fer the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils.
lily, l was advised to try DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, and l am now well man. believe
it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give it q
fair trial to experience astounding results and
q permanent cure"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

Miss BELLE BRIDwELL, a teacher In
the Sickerman School, near Chicago,
died from hemorrhage, caused by boy
pupil whom she was furnishing knock
ing her down and kicking her,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

SOME men have Sunday soul, which
they screw on in due time, and take off
again Monday morning.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THE love that lives is independent OF
all outward and material circumstances
1t can be killed only from within.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

IF the passions sometimes influence
US more than the judgment, it is be-
cause they give us more force to execute
them
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

IF man empties his purse into his
head no man can can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge al
ways pays the best interest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22

THE opinions of the misanthopical
rest upon this very partial basis, that
they adopt the bad faith of few as ev-
idence of the worthleSsness of all.