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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
THE KEEPING OF SECRETS.

A secret, like an oyster, cannot be
kept too close, for the moment it is open
ed it ceases TO exist.
A French philosopher says: A man is
more faithful to the secrets of another
than to his own; woman, on the con-
trary, preserves her own secret better
than that of another.
The explanation given for woman'S
proneness to let the cat out of the bag is
that she is afraid she might die, and
then there would be no one left to keep it.
None are so fond of secrets as those
who don't mean to keep them; such per-
SONS covet secrets as a spendthrift COW
cts mOney-for the purpose of circula-
ton.
"My dear Murphy" said an IriShman
to his friend, 'why did you betray the
secret told your"
''Is it betrayin' you call it? Sure, whin
found l wasn't able to keep it myself,
didn't l do well to tell it to somebody
who could?"
Secrets are poor property, anyhow. If
you circulate them you lose them, and
if you keep them you lose the interest
on the investment"
"What are you sealing in that envel-
ope so carefully Jones?"
Important instructions that l forgot
to give my wife before 1 came down
town this morning; going to send it up
TO the house."
"Win your wife open it at once?"
"Of course she will. I've arranged
all that"
'HOw?'
81 have addressed it to myself, and
put a big private on the corner of the
envelope"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
SENATOR BROWNS REVENGE.

cEN4A 1Oh DlO w N . hE ENOE.
Washington Letter, June 18th.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is a sly
old dog and politician. Who opposes
him usually does so to his sorrow. He is a
protectionist, pure and simple. AT the
recent convention, Internal Revenue Col
lector Crenshaw telegraphed Commits
sioner Miller here that the executive
committee had unanimously agreed to
indorse the Presidents message. Miller
ran over to the White House and proud
ly exhibited the telegram to Mr.. Cleve-
land, as a sample of what the federal
officials could accomplish under truly
good reform in civil service as interpret
ed by the Democratic party. But that
was not the end.
The legislative, judicial, and executive
appropriation blu being under consider
alton in the same. Brown secured the
adoption of an innocent looking amend
ment consolidating the internal revenue
districts of Georgia and Florida, on the
ground that it will save $4,000 per an
mum. This legislates Crenshaw out of
Office, as Brown has agreed to support
the Florida man for collector for the
new district. Senator Brown sOlemnly
remarked to-day that there was more
than one way to skin the administration
cat
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
IN A BOSTON STREET CAR.

Boston Herald
1t was a late car on one of the Back
Bay avenues, and it was well filled with
the sterner sex and two solitary women
Among the former sat a handsome col
ored man, very decidedly colored, but
dressed with elaborate care, and by far
the best looking, the most dudish, of his
brethren. His immaculate kid gloves
rested on the silver head of his walking
stick, and he appeared to be what he evi-
IDENTIFY was, well-bred fellow.
Presently the car stopped to let on a
ladylike little woman, accompanied by a
big man, and as they entered the latter
gave what may be termed the get-up
glance around, to which not soul re-
sponded. The men were tired, and would
not stand for any woman. She seemed
tagged and out of sorts, and her COM
panion, having counted noses and made
up his mind she couldn't be squeezed in
on either side, stepped up to the colOred
passenger and said brusquely, with jerk
of his head in her direction: "Give this
lady your seatP'
The man addressed slowly raised his
well groomed head, and responded in
measured, cultivated tones: 81 do not
object to giving lady my seat, but, be-
fore doing SO, will you tell me why you
choose me?''
Every ear in the car was on the alert
for the reply, every countenance bore
some shade of embarrassment and ap-
probation of the situation, which stag
gered the newcomers, but before the
man could gather his wits together to
excuse himself the gentleman arose, and,
lifting his hat to the woman, stepped
aside, and she, with that conventional
''I'd much rather stand" sank into the
vacant place.
The silence of the next few moments
was remarkable even for a jog -trot street
car, and the only person who bore him
self with dignified Indifference was the
colored man who had received the insult.
The white stuff looked cheap beside him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
ON HIS TRAVELS.

1t is told of Nasmyth, the famous en-
gineer, that, when he was travelling in
Sweden, where he knew not one word
of the language and where his English
was as little understood, he used to order
his dinner at the inn by drawing in his
sketch book whatever he wanted. Fol-
example, he would draw a table covered
with a cloth, and cooked fowl, smok-
ing hot, upon it, with vegetables, bread,
cheese, salt, and anything else pressing
appetite might suggest as desirable.
When the order was completed, the
traveller indicated the hour when he
wished the dinner served by drawing a
clock with the hands pointing to the
hour, and the whole thing was plain at
at a glance. In like manner he used to
order a horse and carriage as he had oc-
casion, and he was always understood.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
GRAINS OF GOLD

Culture is good, genius is brilliant.
That which is won i'll will not wear well.
The man that makes a character makes
foes.
The best prophet of the future is the
past.
Busy lives, like busy waters, are gen
orally pure.
Who purposely cheats his friend would
cheat his God.
No conflict is so severe as he who Ia
bors to subdue himself.
Dishonesty is forsaking of perma-
nent for temporary advantages.
Most men are afraid of bad name,
but few fear their consciences.
Envy may justly be called 1.-The gall OF
bitterness and bond of iniquity."
Christianity compels us to pass by in
juries; policy, to let them pass by us.
He is in the way of life that keepeth
instruction; but he that refuses proof
erreth.
If a good face is a letter of recon-
mendation, good heart is a letter OF
credit.
Noman ever offendeth his own con-
science but first or last it was revenged
upon him for it.
Mean spirits under disappointment
like small beer in thunder storm, al
ways turn sour.
The self-conceit of the young is the
great source of those dangers to which
they are exposed.
No evil propensity of the human heart
is so powerful that it may not be sub
dued by discipline.
Dishoner waits on perfdy. A man
should blush to think falsehood; it is
the crime of towards.
There is a time in every mans educa-
ton when he arrives at the conviction
that envy is ignorance.
Dishonest men conceal their faults
from themselves as well as from others;
honest men know and confess them.
We ought to be guarded against eve
~ appearance of envy, as passion that
alway implies inferiOrity wherever it re-
sides.
Our standard of conduct in the alb
stract cannot be too high. None of our
ideals are so lofty that they cannot still
rise higher.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM.

The young man had asked him for
the hand of his daughter and pang
wrung the fatherly heart of Mr.. Kajones
as he looked at the youth for some mo-
ments in silence and thought of the bit
terness of parting with his well-beloved
child.
81 suppose, Oliver" he said at last, at
is only natural and right that when the
young birds become old enough to fly
they should leave their parental nest
and go off with their chosen mates to
build nests of their own, and yet it hurts,
Oliver; it hurts, when l think of one of
my aedglings getting ready to fly away"
This seems to be a good-sized nest"
suggested the young man, anxious to
soften the blow; perhaps you'd rather
have me and Alvira stop right here"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
THE BEAUTIFUL.

Beautiful faces are those that wear
ii matters little if dark or fair
WhOle-souled honesty printed there
Beautiful eyes are those that show
Like crystal paneS where the earth fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs Of birds,
Yet whose utterances prudence girdS.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that 60
On kindly ministry TO and fro,
Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care
With patience, grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless
Silent rivers OF happiness,
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.
Beautiful twilight at set of sun,
Beautiful goal with race well run,
Beautiful rest with work well done.
Beautiful grave where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep
Over wOn-out hands-oh, beautiful sleep.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
THE HOMELIEST MAN

In st. Clairsville, as well as the handsom
est, and others are invited to call on any
druggist and get free a trial bottle Of
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs
a remedy that is selling entirely upon its
merits and is guaranteed to relieve and
cure all chronic and acute coughs, arthma
bronchitis and consumption; large bottles
soc and 81. 2lj :
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
A GREAT VIOLINIST.

The greatest triumph of the famous
italian viOlinist, Paganini, was probably
achieved at Lord Hollands, in England,
when he was requested to improvise
upon his violin the story of jthe son who,
after numbering his father, leaped into
a bettomless abyss with the girl who re-
fused to listen to the story of his love.
Paganini stipulated for darkness; and
so wierd was the musical Interpretation
of the story that had been proposed to
him that many OF the ladies tainted;
and with the return of light, the scene
in the concert chamber was ikened to
the appearance of q battlefield cumber-
ed with the slain!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
THE NEXT SENATE.

Ohio State Journal.
The Democratic managers have pret-
ty much given up the hope of having a
majority in the United States Senate
after the 4th of March next All of the
Republican Senators whose terms expire
with the present Congress, except Riddle
berger, have been reelected or are sure
to be; and the same is true of all the
Democratic Senators, except Mcpherson
of New Jersey.
If the Republicans carry the New Jer-
sey Legislature this fall Mcpherson will
be succeeded by Republican, and the
Republicans will have majority Of two,
as at present. A majority of the ''hold
over' Senators in New Jersey are Re
publicans, which gives them such ad-
vantage that it is more than likely that
they will have majority on joint ballot.
If Mcpherson be reelected the Senate
will be tie and the Vice President will
have the casting vote. South Dakota
and Washington will be represented in
the next Congress; and probably North
Dakota and Montana-all of which will
be in favor of the Republicans.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
PERSON AT,

Mr.. n. II. Frohlichstein, of Mobile, Ala.
writes: l take great pleasure in recon.
mending DR.. Kings New Discovery fol
Consumption, having used it for a severe
attack of bronchitis and catarrh; it gave
me instant relief and entirely cured me
and l have not been afflicted since. | also
beg to state that had tried other ren1e-
dies with no good result; have also used
Electric Bitters and Dr. Kings New Life
Pills, both of which l can recommend
DR.. Kings's New Discovery for COnsump-
ton, coughs and colds, is sold on a posi-
tive guarantee. Trial bottles free at
Patterson & Sons drug store. |.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
DEATH OF F, a. MARBLE.
Columbus Dispatch.


Columbus Dispatch.
The sad news of the unexpected death
of Francis A. Marble was received last
evening. He expired at his residence,
No. 124 Kerr street, from dropsy of the
heart. Mr.. Marble was born in Warren,
Trumbull county, March 4, 1910, removed
to Cleveland with his parents when six
years old, where he obtained his educa-
tiOn, removing to Columbus in 1856.
For many years he was In the public
service filling all the various positions
of honor and trust with great ability and
strict integrity. He was private secre-
tary to Governor Brough, who died be-
fore his term expired and filed the same
position for the unexpired term of
Lieutenant Governor Anderson. For
sixteen years he was clerk of the Sink
ing Fund Commissioners and was almost
invaluable to the State. Mr.. Marble had
a wonderful remedy on State and Ma
tional affairs. During the war he was
Columbus correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette, and also for the New York
and Chicago Tribune, and for one year
filled the responsible position of city ed
itor of the State JOurnG'. He was prom
inent in secret society circles, at one time
filling the Office of grand keeper of the
seals and records of the Knights of
Pythias, and held prominent positions
in the Odd Fellows, Red Men and Druids.
The deceased was a brother of r. r.
Marble, city engineer, has sister, Mrs.
Rhulen, living in Wyoming Territory,
and leaves a wife but no children. Dur
ing the war he accumulated considera-
BILE property, but lost the greater part of
it by going on the bond of paymaster
in the army who afterwards defaulted.
Mr.. Marble has host of friends through
out the State who will regret to learn of
his untimely deaih.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
JUDGE STEVENSON BURKE, of Cleve

JUDGE STEVENSON BURKE, of Cleve-
land, well known for his connection with
railroads, not many years ago was a
country lawyer with little fame and less
money. Now he is President of the
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
dianapolis railroad, and his check is
good for anything inside of 100000.
He made his business start and his first
$4,000 by effecting purchase for Van
derbilt of the ''Nickel Plate" road,
which was built from Buffalo to Chicago
to capture some of the immense bust
ness of the Lake Shore road. Wander
bit was Oyerjoyed, it is said, by the
acquisition, and Rurke's fortune was as
sured. He is a man of rather unusual
appearance, with small, keen eyes, short,
grizzly mustache and white hair. He is
interested in the management of dozen
different railroads, and is regarded as
one Of tho prime factors in railroad pol
itics,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
BUcKLEN's ARNICA sALyE.

The best Salve 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, 1888-06-28
"ConstantIy Hawking and Spitting.y

THOMAS ]. RUSHING, ESQ.,, es0s Pine Street,
St. Louis, Mo-. writes: ~ was great sufferer
hardly breathe, and was constantly bawIine
and splitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils. /
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
lily, / was advised to try DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, and am now well man. 1 believe
it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give it
fair trial to experience astounding results and
a DernaDant
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
.Untold Agony from Catarrh.,

Prof, W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist.
of Ithaca, N. T., writes: "SOme ten years ago
/ suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. My family ahysician gave me up as
incurable, and said l must die. My case was
such q bad one, that every day, towards sum
set, my voice would become 80 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 DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, I was q wel
man. and the cure has been permanent"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
d3rl1,tu1tt GItrnttirlf.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2s, 1888.
PECULIARITIES OF TIGERS.

One very curious point is the method
in which the tiger teaches her cubs to
kill This she does by disabling the an
imal attacked so that it can not make
its escape from the cubs, who then COM
plete the work. a late hunter witness
ed a scene of this kind, or at least came
on the spot just after it had been enact
ed. and when the marks were so fresh
as to admit of the whole story being
read at a glance An old bull nilgai had
been the victim, and the tigreSs had dis
abled him by breaking one of his fore
legs lust below the knee. She never
touched his throat, the usual place of
siezing. but allowed the cubs to mangle
the disabled brute. He frightened the
three tigers from the carcass and secured
photograph of it in its then condition,
showing how the throat had not been
lacerated. He got a second photograph
the next day, after the tigress and her
brood had again visited the spot and
completed their meal. In the end he
succeeded in shooting the tigress and
one of her cubs.
This same gentleman has number Of
other photographs, which show the ap-
pearance of tigers prey after its first
meal. His experience goes to show the
animal first devOurs the headquarters,
while if tiger and tigress were together,
the one eats at the headquarters and the
other at the fore-quarters.
Again, when tiger has not devoured
the whole carcass and returns to his kill
the next night he never eats at the same
place, but drags off the remains of the
carcass forty or fifty yards before begin
ming operations. Therefore, spOrtsmen
sitting over hill tie it by the foreleg to
a tree. Otherwise the tiger would creep
up and be off with it without stopping
second.
He has timed tigers when at their
meals and has found that a full-grown
tiger takes two hours steady eating to
finish the fOre-quarters of a bullock.
He disSipates the myth about the ''sledge
hammer stroke of the fOrepaw of the
tiger" showing that the tiger simply
clutches with his claws exactly as man
might clutch anOthers arm with his fin
gers. He also gives variety of curious
information about the immense distances
tigers wander during the night; how
they keep the footpaths, avoiding
the more difficult tangled under growth;
how they are partial to dust bath on
the roads, rolling about in it with evi
dent satisfaction; how they do not like
moving about in the heat of the day as
the hot ground burns the pads of their
feet and makes them quite raw; and how
they are sometimes discovered sitting in
pools of water in the heat of the day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN

Are born into the world every day with some ecze-
matous affection, such as milk crust, scall head
scurf or dandruff, sure to develop into an agOniz
ing eczema, the itching, burning and dsfguratOn
of which make life prolonged torture unless prop
erly treated.
A warm bath with Cuticura Soap, an exquisite
Skin Beautifer, and single application of Cuti-
cura, th9 Great Skin Cure, with a little Cuticurl
ReSolvent, the New Blood Purifier, is often Suf-
cient to arrest the progress of the disease, and
point to speedy and permanent cure.
Hence, no mother who loves her children, who
takes pride in their beauty, purity and health and
in bestOwiug upon them childS greatest inherit
ance,-a skin without blemish, and body nOur-
ished by pure blood, should fail to make trial OF
the Cuticura Remedies.
Sold everywhere. Price, Cutieura, Soc; CuticlIra
Soap, d; Cuticura ResOlvent, 81. Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG CHEMICAL Co. Boston. Mass.
~ Send for How to Cure Skin Diseases 6I
pages, 80 Illustrations, and 100 testimonials,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

THERE is the same difference between
two tongues as between the hour and
minute hand; one goes ten times as fast,
and the other signifies ten times as much.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

IF You wish success in life, make per-
severence your bosom friend, experience
your wise counsellor, caution Your elder
brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

Much as friends add to the happiness
and value of life, We must in the main
depend on ourselves; and every one is
his own best friend or worst enemy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

II is greatly wise to talk with our past
hours. and ask them what report they
bore to heaven, and how they might
have borne more welcome news.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

INGRATITUDE is the abridgement OF
all baseness fault never found unat-
tended with other viciousness.
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Three Bottles Cure catarrh.

Bill ROBBINS. RtInyan P. o., Columbia Co.,
Pa, says: My daughter had catarrh when
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured bottle for her, and soon saw that it
helped her; third bottle effected perma-
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

WHO can hear in receptive houl
Christ'S Sermon on the Mount without
feeling deep pain within him at his infn.
ite distance from these requirements
without feeling that these tones, these
blessings, come from regions that are
our true home, but from which we are
far removed, as outcasts in the far coun-
try; that, to fulfil these requirements, a
thorough change must take place in us
that the only thing possible to us is the
feeling of an unutterable internal power
ty, the feeling that our own righteous
ness, our stoical ideals, our aesthetic ed
ucation, our moderate morality, are
a wretched nullity, in which we must
feel hunger and thirst after better
righteousness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

CULTURE is good, genius is brilliant
civilization is a blessing, education is a
great privilege; but we may be educated
villains.
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Constitutional Catarrh.

No single disease has entaied more suffering Ol
hastened the breaking up of the constitution than
Catarrh. The sense of SMELL of taste, of sight, OF
hearing, the human voice, the mind-One or more
and sometimes ALL yield to its destructive influence
The prison 1t distributes throughout the system
attacks every vital force, and makes up the most
robust Of constitutions. Ignored, because but lit
tie understood, by most physicians, impOtently as
sailed by qnackS aud eharlatans, those suffering
from it have little hOpetO be relieved of it this side
Of the grave. 1t is time, then, that the popular
treatment of this terrible disease by remedies with
in the reach of all passed into the lndS at once
competent and trustwhrthy. The new and hither-
to untrled method adopted by Dr. Sanford in the
preparation of his Radical Cure has won the hearty
approval of thousands. 1t Is Instantaneous in af-
fOrdng relief in all head colds, sneeznf, snuffling
and Obstructed breathing and rapidly removes the
most oppressive symptoms, clearing the head,
sweetenlng the breath, restoring the senses of
smell, taste and hearing, and neutralZng the con
stitutiOnal tendency of the disease towards the
lungs, liver and kidneys.
SanfOrd's Radical Cure consists Of one bottle of
the Radical Cure, one box Catarrh Solvent and one
Improved Inhaler, all wrapped in one package
with treatise and direction, and sold by all drug
gists for 81. POTTER DRUG 4 CHEMICLL CO.,
Boston, Mass.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

HAS it never occurred to US, when sur
rounded by sorrows, that they may be
sent to us only for our instruction, as we
darken the cages of birds when We wish
to teach them to sing?