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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
AGRICULTURE.
STORING CABBAGES.

Every season the old problem of the
best mode of keeping cabbageS in win
ter is discussed, some growers advising
burying the cabbages heads up, while
others advise heads down. This ques-
ton may be disposed of briefly thus; If
the heads are mature and solid they
should be buried roots up, but loose
heads can be pitted roots down, so as to
grow and make solid heads by spring.
One of Ohio's progressive farmers,
Waldo F. Brown, writing in Ohio Farm
er, says:
To bury cabbages select dry land with
a slope to carry off the water, pull them
on dry day and if there is any water in
the heads avert them and let them
drain. Open trench eight inches wide
and deep enough for about four rows of
heads packed as closely as they can be.
You will leave a part of the loose leaves
to protect them and no straw will be
needed, but the earth may be shovelled
directly on to them. Put on from ten
to twelve inches of earth and shape it
up 81 DIS 10 hCCp OuG luC IAN. AIlcI
the ground freezes protect the pit with
straw or fodder so as to prevent freezing
and thawing, as this is what spoils them.
Enough for use up to Christmas may be
stored in boxes in a cool celler.
Loose heads may be stored roots down,
and will grow and make solid heads by
spring. Open fiat trench four or five
feet wide and set row across the upper
end, setting them at an angle of As degs.,
with the heads packed as close as possi-
bic, then cover the roots with earth,
tramp it down on them and place an
other row with the heads resting against
the roots of the first row. When your
pit is filed it will show a solid mass of
heads. Now put up boards foot wide
OF more around the edges and cover to
this depth with light litter, using first
corn fodder and then leaves, and put
roof over it, and although the heads may
freeze a little, the roots will not, and
the cabbage will mature and be crisp
and fresh in the spring. If you see any
signs of mice, put some pieces of apple
with little strychnine on them around
the top of the pit,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
PRUDENCE, PRUDENCEI

In medication, as in aught else, pru-
dence should be our guide. Yet thOus-
ands cast it to the winds. Every new
nOstrum finds its patrons, the medical en-
pires of every false school have their gulls.
Every change in the gamut of humbug is
rung successfully-fora time at least
the notes being furnished by the credu-
lous. In happy contrast to the many ad-
yertised impostures of the stands Hostel,
decade of popularity, approved and rec
commended by physicians, indorsed by the
press of many lands, sought and priced by
invelids everywhere. 1t is an ascertained
spacifc for and preventive of malarial
diseases, chronic Indigestion, liver COM
plant and constipation, checks the growth
and neuralgia, is a peer
less invigorant and useful diuretic. Ner-
vous people benefit by it. 10 AT.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.

There will be vacancy from this con-
gressional district at the West Point mil
itary academy in June next caused by the
graduation of w. A. Bethel, of Harrison
county, and in accordance with the usual
custom the candidate for appointment
will be selected by competitive eXamina-
ton, which will be held at the probate
court room at st. ClairSville, o., on Tues
day, November 13, at o'clock A. NJ.
Applicants must be between the ages
of IL and % years, an actual resident of
the district, and physically sound, well
formed and of robust constitution. The
candidate who shall be accepted will be
required to report at West Point not later
than the 18th day of June, 1889. In case
he fails to pass the examination at the
academy the person taking the next high
er grade, who will be designated the al
ternate, will receive the appointment, but
he must be willing to report at West
Point and be examined at the same time
as the regular nominee. Any one who in
tends to be examined with view to this
appointment viii be furnished with a
copy of small pamphlet entitled "Infor-
nation relative to the appointment and
admission of cadets to the U. S. military
academy" by applying for the same to
the secretary of war.
JOSEPH d. TAYLOR,
Member Congress 18th Ohio District.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
THE LAWN IN THE FALL.

While the frequent use of the lawn
mower is essential to a well-kept lawn
in the Summer the cutting should cease
early in the Fall. Not only the protec-
ton of the roots of the grasses in Win
ter, but the protection of the roots for
their partial rest, requires this. The un-
disturbed growth from six to eight
weeks assists in the ripening, so to speak,
while at the same time it furnishes cov-
ering for the roots during the freezing
and thawing, than which there is moth
ing superior. In addition to this thin
covering-it should be quite thin-of
fine, well-decayed manure will be of
much benefit. The coarse stable ma
nure so often used for this purpose is
undoubtedly good for the lawn if used
in moderation, but it is unsightly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
RAPID RIPENING.

The farmer who makes the greatest
weight in the shortest time, year after
year, always feels that hogs are profta-
BILE stock to handle. The surroundings
of such man, and the testimony of his
neighbors, prove that hogs have made
him money. Such man is not afraid
of ftoo early maturity, does not scrimp
and starVe his stock for six or eight
months to get big improvement from
three or four months feeding in cold
weather.
Men can be found in every communi-
ty, and they are not a few in number
either, who believe when they sell their
hogs at two hundred pounds weight,
well fatted, they lose money, because
they did not feed longer and get greater
weight. The sharp, shrewd and driving
men soon learn that this is the most
profitable weight-so many more pounds
with the same amount of feed can be
made at this weight than if the hogs are
fed to three hundred pounds. Any
farmer can without much trouble dem
onstrate this to his own satisfaction.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Piety enjoins no man to be dull.
Beauty-the fading rainbow's pride.
The purest part of our life runs first.
Our best hours escape, the worst are
come.
If we do not make haste we are left
behind.
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all
countries.
1t is one thing to be tempted, anoth-
er thing to fall.
Wherever there is a flatterer there is
generally fool.
Time which is good for nothing else
We dedicate to virtue.
An acre of performance is worth the
whole world of promise
To-day is important; yesterday has
gone; tomorrow never comes.
A grave, wherever found, breaches
a short, pithy sermon to the soul.
We think very few people sensible
except those who are of our opinion.
God is better served in resisting a
temptation to evil than in many formal
prayers.
The man who is constantly finding
fault is the one spends all his time look
ing for faults.
He who has no mind to trade with
the Devil should be so wise as to keep
from his shop.
He who is the most slow in making
promise is the most faithful in the per-
formance of it.
In all things reason should prevail; it
is quite another thing to be stiff, than
steady in an opinion.
An ounce of keep-your- mouth-shut is
better than pound of explanation after
you have said a thing.
What place is so rugged and so home
ly that there is no beauty, if you only
have sensibility to beauty.
We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"a man is dead;" but angels throng
about him saying, "a man is born"
1t is always a sign of poverty of mind
when men are ever aiming to appear
great; for those who are really great
never seem to know it,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
WHICH WAS IT? BACON OR
SHAKESPEARE.

The authorship of the dramatic pro-
ductiOns 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-
tiOn 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 oncoming
rheumatism or neuralgia; if the kidneys
are inactive-use Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, the finest recuperant of an age
prolific in beneficial and successful rene
dies. Remember, if malaria threatens or
afflicts, that it neutralizes the poison and
fortities the system. IL Lin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
FACTS IN FIGURES.

Our total wealth of all kinds is esti-
mated at s45,OOO,0O0,OOO. There are
five American citizens with private for
tunes averaging $5O,OO0,000 each, fifty
with S10,O00,000, one hundred with
$5,000,000, two hundred with $3,000,000,
five hundred with $1,000,000, and one
thousand with $500,000. In other words,
1856 persons own $3,000,000,000, or
more than twice as much as the actual
money in the country.
A less number of men, not to exceed
1,000-railway magnates, princely bank
ers and heads of vast moneyed corpora
tions-have absolute control equivalent
to actual ownership, of $25,000,000,0O
more. Less than 5000 men controlling
S28,000,000,000 of the $45, ,00O,OO0,OOO of
the wealth in the country.
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BeIutn,tt Ghrn,ttrlr.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER s, 1888.
CLEANING LAMPS.

"Are lamps much called for nova
days?" asked a reporter of a communi-
cative Broadway merchant the other
day.
"Not as much as in former years" he
replied, "but there are a great number
sold, principally in the higher priced
lines and mostly for ornaments. How
ever, the lamp is such necessary arti-
Gle in the household that it is strange
that it should be as often neglected as
it is. 1t requires but a few minutes
each day to keep it in order, yet even
this short time is denied it by many
housekeepers.
"The lamps should always be cleaned
in the morning, for if left till afternoon
they are liable to be forgotten, and
when wanted for use cleaned hurriedly
OF not cleaned at all. Once the lamp is
lighted, the wick ought not to be turned
up to its full height at first, but turned
down until the vapor on the chimney
has disappeared and the glass is clear,
and when then turned to its full height
the glass will never break. 1t is the
putting on of the chimney when the
wick is turned to its regular height that
breaks it suddenly, owing to the sudden
ness of the heat on the cold glass. If
new chimneys are first put into cold
water and placed on the stove and al
lowed to come to boil, then taken OF
and allowed to cool in the water, they
will become very durable and are not
easily broken. If the burner becomes
clogged, boil it in soda water and wipe
and then dry on the back of the stove.
New wicks should always be soaked in
vinegar and dried before using, when
they will give a clearer light and one
not likely to flicker.
"The danger of allowing children to
handle lamps cannot be overestimated.
A tablespoonful of salt put in lamp
renders the oil non-exploSive."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
THE FOREFINGER.

The fore-fnger of the left hand has
among most nations been chosen as a
wedding finger, owing to popular be-
lief that nerve in this finger commu.
nicates directly with the heart 1t was
also, for the same reason held to possess
mystic powers in healing, and still is
used by some people in stirring up
medicine, or like potions, relic of the
old Greek or Roman belief that no poi
son or noxious element in a draught
could escape detection when agitated by
this finger which would Immediately
discover the "unfriendly element" by
means of warming spasm communi-
Gated by the heart.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
A WOMAN'S DISCOVERY

Another wonderful discovery has been
made, and that too by a lady in this
country. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her, and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital or
gans were undermined and death seemed
imminent. For three months she coughed
necessarily and could not sleep; she bot
of us bottle of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for Consumption, and was so much
relieved on taking first dose that she slept
all night, and with one bottle has been
miraculOusly cured. Her name is Mrs.
Luther Lutz." Thus writes w. C. Ham
rick & Co., of Shelby, n. c.. Get free
trial bottle at Pattersons' drug store. 2
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

Advertising a patent medicine in the
peculiar way in which the proprietor OF
kemp's Balsam, for Coughs and Colds,
does it is indeed wonderful. He authori-
zes all druggists to give those who call for
it sample bottle free, that they may try
it before purchasing. The large bottles
are SOC and S1O0. We certainly would
advise trial. 1t may save you from con-
sumption.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
DON'T EXPERIMENT

You cannot afford to waste time in ex-
. perimenting when your lungs are in dan
ger. Consumption always seems, at first.
only cold. Do not permit any dealer to
impose upon you with some cheap imita-
tion of DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, coughs and colds, but be sure
you get the genuine. Because he can
make more profit he may tell you he has
something just as good, or just the same.
Don't be deceived, but insist upon getting
DR.. Kings New Discovery, which is guar
anteed to give relief in all throat, lung
and chest affections. Trial bottles free
at Partersons' drug store. Large bottles
81. 6
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

ONE of the highwaymen who murder
ed two peddlers in Mercer county, West
Virginia, the other day has been lynch
ed. In some of the counties of West
Virginia only white men go unpunished
for their crimes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
American Merino Sheen,

L have choice lot of yearling and two
year-old Rams for sale-all registered in
the Vermont Register. Prices reasona-
bic, and satisfaction guaranteed. Inspec-
tiOn of stock solicited.
THOMAS LODGE,
II l-3t* Bannock, Belmont Co., o.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

MASTER TOMMY is sick, and also
indisposed to take the prescribed rem
edy. 'COme, my precious" says his
mother, "you must swallow your medi-
cine" 81 can't" "One always can
when one wants to-" "But l don't
want to-"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

Ny son has been afflicted with nasal
catarrh since quite young; l was induced
to try Ely's Cream Balm, and before he
had used one bottle that disagreeable ca
tarrh smell had all left him; he appears
remedy in the market.-J. c. OlmSted,
Arcola, Ill.
Mr.. \. Nichols suffered from catarrh
for years: he purchased a bottle of Ely's
Cream Balm of us; he is now almost
cured, and SAYS you cannot recommend
1t to highly.-Evers Bros, druggists, In
dependence, Iowa. II LIT
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

WE often wonder why some people do
not mind their own business. The rea-
son is very simple. In the first place
they haven't any business, and in the
next they haven't any mind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

PROF. GAUTHIER, of Paris, states that
certain vital processes of the body develop
putrefying substances i'll the tissues,
which, if not speedily eliminated, produce
disease. Ayers Sarsaparilla effects the
removal of these substances, and thereby
preserves health.
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TONIGHT AND TOMORROW NIGH

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW NIGHT
And each day and night during this
week you can get at all druggists
Kemps Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs, acknowledged to be the most sue
cessful remedy ever sold for the cure of
Coughs, Group, Bronchitis, WhoOping
Cough, Asthma and Consumption. Get
bottle to-day and keep it always in the
house, so you can check your cold at once.
Price SOC and S1.O0. Sample bottles free. 0
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EXCURSION RATES

TO THE FAT STOCK SHOW AT CHICAGO,
ILL, VIA B. s. o. R. r.
On November II, IA, 16, 10, 21 and 23,
1888, the B. and o. r. r. will sell round
trld tickets to Chicago at low excursion
rates Tickets good going on day of sale
and good returning days, including date
of sale. For rates and time of trains, call
on or address agents of the B. & o. r. r.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

AN austere-looking lady walked into
furrier's recently and said to the yel-
low-headed clerk: 81 would like to get
a muff." "What fur?" demanded the
clerk. "To keep my hands warm, you
simpering idiotT exclaimed the lady.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

Most men take least notice of what
is plain, as if that was of no use; but
puzzle their thoughts to be themselves
in those vast depths and abysses which
no human understanding can fathom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

ST. AUGUSTINE teaches us that there
is in each man Serpent, an Eve and an
Adam. Our senses and natural propen-
sites are the Serpent, the excitable de-
sire is the Eve, and reason is the Adam
Our nature tempts us perpetually; GRIM
inaI desire is often excited; but sin is
not completed till reason consents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

TEMPERANCE keeps the senses clear
and unembarrassed, and makes them
seize the object with more keenness and
satisfaction. 1t appears with life in the
face and decorum in the person; it gives
you the command of your head, secures
your health, and preserves you in con-
dition for business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

AN Indian philosopher, being asked
what were, according to his opinion, the
two most beautiful things in the uni
verse, answered: "The starry heavens
above our heads, and the feeling of duty
in our hearts,"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

EMBELLIsH the soul with simplicity,
with prudence, and everything which is
neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all
men. Walk according to God; for, as a
poet hath said, His laws govern all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

PEOPLE generally despise where they
flatter, and cringe to those they would
gladly overtop; SO that truth and cere-
mony are two different things.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

trains on c., L. & W. R'y; at Bridgeport with G. s.
p. Ry for Steubenville, Pittsburgh, and interme-
diate points; at Bellaire with b. & o, and B., L. &
c. R'ys. e2g@Direct with Street Cars to and from
Wheeling. Only direct route between st. Clairs-
vile and Wheeling.
A. c. DARRAH, T. NJ. TOWNSEND,
President. Superintendent
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

AS TIE flaw in diamond is soonest
noticed because it is diamond, so the
fault of good man is soonest noticed
because he is a good man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

RAILWAYS are said to consume more
than one-half of the worlds production
of iron, the car wheels in the United
States alone taking more than two mil
lion tons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

THE health of the soul is as precari-
Gus as that of the body; for when we
seem secure from passions, we are no
less in danger of their infection that we
are of falling i'll when we appear to be
well.
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ZINE TABLE
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
July Goth, 1888.

Trains leave Wheeling for st. Clairsville at 05 s
m, 90 m, 90 p m, 4 10 m, daily, except Sun
day.
Accommodation leaves Cambridge at 30 a IN,
ZaneSville at 80 m, daily, except Sunday, and
arrives at Columbus IS m, Cincinnati II IS p IN.
Accom-. leaves Columbus at 400 p m daily, except
Sunday, arriving at Newark at 90 p IN, Mt Yer
non at II m, Mansfield at 80 p m.
Accom-. leaves Wheeling at s 90 m daily, except
Sunday, arriving at Cambridge at II % m.
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CHOICE EXCERPTS.

THE flatterer easily insinuates himself
into the closet, while honest merit stands
Shivering in the ante-chamber.
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THE first successful blood-nnrifier NV,

The first successful blood purifier ever
offered to the public was Ayers Sarsapar-
lila. Imitators have had their day, but
soon abandoned the field, while the de-
mand for this Incompatible medicine in
creases year by year, and was never SO
great as at present.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

ONE does not require or think of a
fire often in spring or autumn; yet when
we have happened by chance to pass
near one, the sensation it communicates
is so pleasant that we feel rather in
clined to indulge it. This is analogous
to temptation, and the moral is, "Keep
away from the fire."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

THE most natural beauty in the world
is honesty and moral truth. For all
beauty is truth. True features make
the beauty of face, and true proper
tions the beauty of architecture; as true
measures that of harmony and music.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

A PAPER describes young lady with
chair as black as a ravens" The ra-
vens weren't wearing any hair to speak
of last summer, but we suppose the style
has changed since then.
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For Sale American Marina Rams

Recorded in q. $. and Vermont Registers.
Prices from So to $40 each. Call and see
them. OLIVER WATKINS
ii l-3t Maynard, Ohio
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

PROFESSOR GRAMS calls primrose "a
dicotledOnous exegen," but he wouldn't
do it if the primrose could strike back
Some men are terribly overbearing to-
ward the weak
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

TEACHER, to class; "Why is procras-
tination called the thief of timer" Boy,
at foot of class: because it takes so
long to say it.
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ACCORDING to Solomon, life and death

ANNVNDINV 10 oUIUIIUII, IIIt anu UtIUIl
are in the power of the tongue; and as
Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbri-
died tongue in the end shall find itself
unfortunate; for in all that ever OBJ
served in the course of worldly things,
found that mems fortunes are oftener
made by their tongues than by their
virtues, and more mems fortunes over
thrown thereby, also, than by their vices.
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No PLACE, no company, no age, no
person is temptation-free. Let no man
boast that he was never tempted; let
him not be high minded, but fear, for
he may be surprised in that very instant
wherein he boasteth that he was never
TEMPTED at all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

As FOR the difference of opinion upon
speculative questions, if we wait until
they are reconciled, the action of human
affairs must be suspended forever. But
neither are we to look for perfection in
any one man nor for agreement among
many.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

THE chief dutyof one of the watch
men in the New York Post-oflice is to
collect the keys of boxes that are left in
the locks by careless men and boys.