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GRAINS OF GOLD.

Good counsels observed are chains t.
grace.
We give advice by the bucket, bu
take it by the grain.
No man ever prayed heartily without
learning something.
1t is good thing to learn caution by
the miSfortuneS of others.
Let prayer be the key of the morning
and the bolt of the evening.
The violence done us by others is oft
en- less painful than that which we do to
ourselves.
Here is a day now before me; day is
a fortune and an estate; who loses day
| loses life.
Repentance begins in the humiliation
of the heart and ends in the reformation
of the life.
Devote each day to the object then in
time, and every evening will find some
thing done.
1t is with charity as with money-the
more we stand in need of it, the less we
have to give away.
Do not wait for extraordinary circum-
stances to do good actions; try to use
the ordinary situations. -
The best and sweetest flowers of Par
adise God gives to his people when they
are upon their knees.
Pride is vice, which pride itself in
clines every man to find in others, and
to overlook in himself.
Tears are the softening showers which
cause the seed of heaven to spring up
in the human heart
The cheapest pleasures are the best.
and nothing is more costly than sin, yet
we mortgage futurity, counting it but
little loss.
When we feel a strong desire to thrust
advice upon Others, it is usually because
we suspect their weakness; but we ought
rather suspect our own.
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3elutnt1t Gltrr,tirIe.
THURSDAY. MARCH S. 1888.

MILLS'S committee has. among other
things. taken a lively whack at wool and
iron. While deranging the business OF
the country, their estimated reduction in
revenue is eighty millions, but it would
not be that. As the increased revenue from
iron and its products alone. at the reduced
rates of duty, would largely increase the
imports. OF course the bill will not be
enacted: but its introduction and the ag-
itation will do harm. and this disturbance
will continue until the country, next No
vember, will turn theSparty out that is
responsible for all this.
There never was day in the history
of the country when protection principles
were near so strong as they are now, and
the man who best understands these prin-
ciples and is capable of intelligently sus-
tanning them, will be next President of
the United states.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-08
SNEEZlNG CATARRH.

The distressing Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, the acrid,
watery discharges from the eyes and nose, the
painful Inflammation extending 10 the throat, the
swelling of the mucous lining, causing choking sen
satiOns cough Tingingn0iseS in the head and split
ting headaches-hOw familiar these symptoms are
to thOusanda who suffer periodically from head
colds or Influenza and who live in ignorance OF the
fact that single application OF SanfOrd'S Radical
Cure for CatarTh will ofI0rd ilStdItGEi0,tS relief
But this treatment in eases of simple Catarrh
gives but faint idea of what this remedy will do
i'm the chronic forms. where the breathing is Oh
structed by choking, putrid mucous accumIlationS,
the hearing affected smell and tiSt gone, throat
liberated and hacking cough gradually fastening
itself upon the debitated system. Then il IS that
the marvellous curative power of Sanford Radical
Cure manfeSts itself i'm instantaneous and grateful
relief Cure begins from the first application. It
is rapid, radical, permanent, encOnomical, safe.
SanfOrdS Radical Cure consists Of one bottle of
the Radical Cure. one box CatarIh Solvent and one
Improved Inhaler, all wrapped in one package
with treatise and direction, and sold by all drug
giSts for 81. POTTER DRUG & CiIEMICLL Co,
Boston, Mass.
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T EGAL NOTICE.
Estate of A. R. MEAD, Deceased.

a. H..
Mrs. Hattie Mead, whose residence is West Lib
erty, MuScatine county, State of Iowa, viii take
notice, that Frank j. Mead administrator of the
estate OF A. r Mead, deceased on tie 18th DAY OF
March, A ID. 1887, filed his petition in tie Probate
Court within and for the county of Belmont and
State OF Ohio, against the abOye-named party and
Others praying for the sale of the said ~ r. Meads
interest, tO-wit-a full One-tifth undivided interest
in the following described real estate. situate in
the said county of Belmont and State OF Ohio: The
same being part of the Joseph Mead farm on
saltwater Creek with exceptions hereafter notc-
ed, and bounded on the north by lands OF B. w.
Humphrey and Samuel Crawford; on the east by
the lands of the heirs of Z. Collins Simpson Price
and II. Cash: on the south by the lands Of W 6.
Cash and Thomas Hopkins: on the west by the
lands of Mrs. Thirsa ID. Fritttr, Mrs. Carpenter
and the heirs of George Ciilndler, and more par
ticularly described as part of the nOrth-half of
section q, township TO- range 6. beginning at the
northeast corner of said section thence north Sgr
deg. west 1S99S poles; thence south 10 deg west s
poles; thence south 22ls deg. west 3.SI poles;
thence south 80 deg west $40 poles; thence south
23 deg. west S6.36; thence south S9Ia deg east 129
poles; thence north 3is deg east 9I7 poles thence
south 81 deg. east $3.50 poles: thence north ISL
east SS poles to the place of beginning, and con-
tanning l61 acres, 3 rOOdS, more or less.
Also part of the nOrth-half of section q. town.
ship 10, range G, beginning at the northwest
OF said section; thence S9la deg east III ~ pOleS
thence south 10 deg. west so poles; thence south
22. deg. west 3S4 pOles thence south ~ deg. west
57G poles; thence south 81 deg. west $50 poles;
thence north S93 deg. west 50 poles: thence north
deg east 1880 poles TO the place of beginning.
and containing 123 acres, II square poles, more or
less.
Ereeptiig from the first tract above described
about seven acres in triangular strip off of the
east side of the same. heretofore sold to George
Wayble, which is particularly described by deed
of transfer from Joseph Mead to said George Way
BILE, and on record in the Recorders Office in Bel
mont county Aforesaid. And er.cUiiig from the
above second described tract part thereof off of
the southwest corner of the same, and containing
about 11O acres, sold prior to said A. r. Mrad's
decease to Mrs ThirSa ID. Fritter. as appears by a
deed of transfer duly recorded in the Recorder
Office of said Belmont county, Ohio
Said party. Mrs Hattie Mead, is REQUIRED to
answer on or before the DIST day OF April, A. d.
1898. +. j. MEAD Admir-
. lot of A. X. Mead decd
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IMPERTTNENCE REBUKED.

Boston Advertiser.
Amusing scenes occur sometimes in a
dry goods store where the ultra officiOus-
ness of a salesman runs amuck of the
amour propre of a purchaser. A lady
was looking over some articles of femi-
nine wearing apparel the. other day which
a mild hammered young clerk was laying
before her, when pushing member of
the floor walker staff, feeling, doubtless,
that the mild young man was not doing
his full duty toward pushinga sale, came
forward and let fall perfect shower of
verbiage in praise of the goods, their
quality, cheapness, &c. The lady listen
ed without looking toward him or reply
ing, and presently made her purchase,
whereupOn the OfficiOus one turned to an
other of the guild, with knowing look,
and remarked soto rOce, "That'S the way
to make them buy" Quick as flash the
purchaser turned to where he stood and
answered. with firm distinctness: Il can
not permit you, sir, to think that your
impertinent interference could affect me
in any other way than to make me quit
the store if the goods had not particularly
suited me and had already decided to
take them"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-08

At the last National Democratic Con
vention Thomas A. Hendricks arose and
said that the Democracy wanted to get
at the books of the government and ex-
pose the rascality, robbery and jObbery of
twenty-four years of Republican rule"
Democracy has been digging at those
books for three years, and what has she
found! Simply that twice two equals
four, and seven from ten leaves three
Not a mistake, nor an alteration. Even
the cash in the Treasury came out all
right to a cent. If all Democratic book
keeping, however, is like that in some of
the Democratic counties of Ohio, it will
take skilled Republican experts more
than three years from March +, 1889, to
straighten out the books of the nation.
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LONDON'S KING.

Liverpool Courier
The annual salary of London's Lord
Mayor is $39,S00. The mansion house
is sumptuOusly furnished and provided
with plate, &c., worth S150,000. The
household consists of twenty persons, in
Guiding the sword-bearer, common crier,
common huntsman, and water bailiff.- -
The Lord Mayor is provided with a gor-
geous state coach, but not horses; and he
has to provide the dress, carriage and hor-
ses for the Lady Mayoress. He is ex-
pected to give certain number of State
banquets during the year, in addition to
bearing half the cost of the Inauguration
dinner. The mayoralty expenses, unless
he keeps "cool Kitchen" generally ex-
ceed by about $4,000 the amount allow
ed by the city.
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TIE LIQUOR QUESTION.

Cleveland Leader.
For several years the State OF Rhod
Island has had an amendment to its Con
stitution prohibiting the lanufactur
and sale of Intoxicating drink. The reSul
has been that no revenue was cOllecte,
from the traffic and there was very little
/ if any. decrease in the amount of liquor
sold and drank. The failure of the amend
ment to do the work which was expected
of it has been fully proved. The PrOvi
dence Journal. q paper which is as fair
minded and reliable as any in New Eng
land. is now advocating the rIsubmissioI
of the amendment to a popular vote foI
its repeal and the substitution in its place
of high license law. 1t says:
And if such people as those of Rhode Island
with the laws and machinery of justice which have
been sufficient for their seIf-government and the
administration OF law, have allowed PTohibitory
legislation to pass into default, it is simply and
solely because they do not believe in its efficacy as
a remedial measure and disapproye of its smptu-
AIRY spirit in regard TO a moral question. And the
sentiment cannot be supplied in day or year or
ten years by the StimuantS OF crlSading OratOry,
or other inilammatOry appeals, when it has not
l..
There may be SpaSInS OF enthusiasm and reactions
of disgust but the only basis fof practical lagisla-
ton is sound judgment and wise consideration OF
actual conditions The claim is made that the pro
hibitory law should be tried as long as the
license system was before it is pronounced fail
ure. But the results of prohibition are so appar-
eat that the community need not waste more time
or undergo more injury before it attempts to rem
that can be rooted out by statute and the practical
thing do is TO regulate and restrain it rs far as
possible, fitting the laws to the people and not try
ing to force the people to fit themselves to the laws
The Jo,nnal believes the high license system, as
adopted in Philadelphia and elsewhere, is the best
that can lie adopted with hopeful results in Rhode
Island and that it is for the people to ask aud the
General Assembly to adopt the means to bring the
question of the prohibitory amendment to a ropu-
lar vote for its repeal 1t is not question for pas
sonate appeal for political intrigue, but for so
ber reflection and wise and calm action for the
best interests of the community
This is a clear, fair, and conclusive
statement Of the case. Prohibition has
not prohibited i'll Rhode Island. If it can
not succeed there, it is pretty certain not
to succeed in States that have a greater
number of large cities. High license has
proved effective in closing large number
Of the dOggeries, and effectively restricts
and regulates the perniciOus traffic. Be
sides it brings in large revenue which
helps to bear the burdens that the traffic
puts upon the public. SO long as prohi-
DitiOn fails to prohibit it is certainly the
part of wisdom to adopt a high license
with local option provisions. as the best
because the most practical legislation
Rhcde Island is moving in the right direc- |
ion, 1t is about the Ohio idea.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
1883. BELMONT COUNT. 1885,

Examinations will be held at St. Clairsville on
January IA, February II, March 10, April H. May
r. and June g. and at Flushing at close of Institute
in August, 1888.
RULES.
Examinations begin at o'clock A. NJ
Testimonials Of character are required If appli-
cant is not known to Board.
Certificates will not be antedated nor extended.
Tests in the higher branches wilLbe given at close
of Institute at Flushing.
Certificates viii be dated and issued by the Board
In adjourned session on Saturday following each
examination.
Envelopes furnished by the Board. Applicants
pay return postage.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
first-class % years. certificate Is granted upon
an average of 90 per cent, including three higher
branches and the school law, with no grade below
'75 provided applicant has had 80 months expert
ence in teaching.
secOnd-clasS a years. certificate is granted up
on an average OF 80 per cent, including two higher
branches and the school law with no grade below
20 provided applicant has had - months expert
ence In teaching.
third-class (3 years. certificate is granted upon
an average of 75 per cent, including one higher
branch and the school law, with no grade below
t65 provided applicant has had 1s months expert
ence in teaching.
fOurth-cass q years. certificate Is granted Iu-
an average of Is per cent, including the school
law, with no grade below 60, provided applicant
has had II months experience in teaching
A fifth-claSs Il year, certificate is granted upon
an average Of G5 per cent. with no grade below 55
l.. II. WATERS,
II. J.. PECK
$. C. MURPHY,
.9Sly Board Of School Examiners.
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FRITZ'S STOLEN SMOKE.

| Pail Mall Gazette.
There are many anecdotes afoat con-
cerning the love of the German Crown
Prince for his pipe. The FremdenJlatt
(Hamburg) adds new one, which is now
obtained "frOm q source of worthy Of
credit. 1t is both new and true" adds
| that journal, "and throws a clear light
on the Oft-praised amiabiIity and bon
homie of our Fritz" The present man
ager of the Hamburg Stadt Theater
was formerly manager of the Berlin
National Theater, and he is known to
have sacrificed a considerable fortune to
his ideal national aims as a guide and
leader of the drama in Germany: At
that period the Crown Prince was a con-
stant attendant, it used to be said, a "de-
monStrative attendant" at Herr Buch-
holz's theater. The manager, for the spe-
cial convenience of the Prince, caused a
little ant6chamber to be constructed next
to his box, to which he could retire be-
tween the acts. One evening Herr Buch-
hold entered this little cabinet, according
to his custom, to give the Prince a loyal
greeting. He observed that his patron,
with sudden action, thrust something
behind his back, but an instant afterward
drew it forth again, exhibiting with a
smile burning cigarette.
You will betray me, Buchholz," said
he. Smoking, as the notice board says,
is prohibited in the theater" But,
your Imperial Highness," expostulated
the manager, this is your private sit
ting-rOom." "That is all one" retOrted
the Prince. Il claim no privilege You
have the right to denounee me to the po-
lice. l see only one way of escape-yOu
must be particepS cTiminis." So saving
the Prince handed his cigarette case to
the manager. Herr BuchhOlz bowed,
took cigarette and stuck it in his breast
pocket. IF your Imperial Highness will
allow me-" said he, Il will keep it as
memento." "Ah" replied the Prince,
"you will escape yourself and betray me.
You must take a second and light il"
The manager obeyed, and the Prince
said: Now you are a fellow criminal"
This happened long before the fire at the
Ring Theater, at time when the prohi- /
bition of smoking was not very strictly /
carried out, when there was not little :
smoking room among the actors them /
selves, according to the narrator.
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PRINTING AT THE CENTENNIAL

/ PRINTING AT THE CENTENNIAL.
Col. R. B. Brown, of the GAINESVILLE
COHrjeT, Commissioner Of the Depart
ment of Printing and Journalism of the
Ohio Centennial, in addressing his cir
cular to the publishers Of Ohio, asking
for old copies of papers and periodicals
and any curiOSities in the offices. SAYS:
1T may very confidently be assumed
that the editors and publishers of this
State are heartily interested in the com
plete success of the Ohio Centennial and
that they viii have an especial pride in
the department of printing and Journal
ism. The mighty progress in the art of
printing during the last one hundred
years viii be thoroughly illustrated in q
practical manner in the operation Of the
presses of century ago alongside of
the best printing machinery of to-day
The Department of Printing and Jour
nalism VIII include all exhibits OF news
papers (Old and new: printing OF circu-
lars, pamphlets. magazines. books, etc;
plain and ornamental job work. exhibits
of printing presses, type. type-Inaking
machinery, electrotyping, stereotyping,
engraving on wood blocks and on chalk,
and zinc and copper etching; book-bind-
ing and book-binding machinery; also,
processes illustrating the rapid transit of
news and messenger service. and ali
matters pertaining to newspapers and
their printing and distribution"
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Established in 1S1 3.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH-Rey r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school $50 a IN.
young peoples society Of Christian SndeayOT, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome 10 all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
j. II. HOllingShead, pastor Sabbath preaching, II
a. H.; p. M; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Thursday eve
nings: mems meeting. Friday evenings; sabbath
school 2:30 PIN. Strangers cordially invited 10 all
services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN v f'HCRCH-Rey.
Thomas Balph, pastor. sabbath school, 10 a. M.
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday y. III; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day of each month, p. m; wOlnaIls mlsslOIall y
society, last Saturday of each month, p. H.: dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month"; p. M.
young wOmen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, D. H.
AFRICANM NJ. Z. CHURCH-Rey. j. A. Wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p. m; Sab
bath school, 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting.
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-08

ONO will be missed this year. No
October election will be held, to cast its
reflection on the Presidential contest,
which occurs November 6. But Oregon,
which may be termed doubtful, elects
Congressman and State officers on June
/, they day before the Democratic Ma
tional Convention meets in st. Louis
But besides the election of President
on November 6 many States viii choose
Legislators, State officers, and Congress
men on that day, and the vote will be
heavy. State officers and Congressman
will be elected in Vermont september 4,
and in Maine September 6.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-08

TIE right sort of boom" for the next
three mOnths-a "boom" for the Repub-
lican party. Let all the leaders devote
their best energies to this boom and trust
to an intelligent and unpledged COnven-
tion to decide which one has best earned
the right to the official leadership of the
party.
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New Series, Vol. %, No. 10.
ASSAULT ON UNION VETERANS.

ASSAULT ON UNION VETERANS.
| Cleveland Leader
In his harangue against the pension
bill in the Senate on Wednesday, Mr.
Vest. of Missouri, was evidently labor
ing under restraint that was irksome
to his Bourbon spirit. He said enough
to show his hatred to the whole plan of
pension legislation, but he manifestlv
wanted TO say great deal more that he
was afraid 70 utter. His professed regard
for the honest and brave, and real sol
dieFs of the Union" can count for moth
ing in view of his insinuations that the
pensioners are lot Of worthless paupers,
who have been bleeding the govern
ment to the extent of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, and that the Grand Army
Of the Republic, composed as it is of
hundreds of thousands of the flower of
the Union army, is a blackmaiiing, pO-
lltlcal organization. Vest was a men,
Der Of the Confederate House of Repre-
sentatives and Senate, and he has never
forgiven the North for conquering the
iNbCAilOi. liC NOltll Int ~ NSuOtiICe
the Republican party for voting pensions
to any Union soldiers that were not
equally applicable 10 those who bore
arms against the government, and moth
ing but the responsibility he is under
to the Democratic party prevented him
from doing it.
The pension bin which caused this
Missouri outbreak of Confederate wrath
provides relief for ext niOn soldiers and
sailors who for any reason are incapaei-
tated from earning a living. and is de-
signed to wipe out the disgrace attached
to the presence in the poorhouses of
Union veterans whose disabilities were
contracted, or developed. since the close
Of the war. 1t is Just bill and ought
to be adopted. The sneerS and gibes
Of eX-Confederates in Congress, and
their ill-cOncealed hostility to everything
that recognizes the patriotism which
combated and Overcame secession, should
not influence loyal men to withhold
hearty support from the measure.
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JAPANESE SACRED NUTS.

New York Mail
A quantity of japanese sacred nuts,
the first ever brought to this country,
has just been received at a Broadway
fruit store. They are called sacred from
the fact that they are used in certain
forms of japanese worship. The nuts are
placed on the altar and ignited. They
burn with blush fame and give off a
peculiar Odor. They are rich in oil, and
the fumes are supposed to rise as incense
to the gods. They grow under water,
have leaf like pond lily, and are
shaped like steers head, with two pro-
jecting horns. This resemblance is so
great that it is difficult to believe that
they are not carved. In the raw state
they are hard and tasteless, but when
cooked they have the flavor of boiled
chestnuts. They retain their qualities
ten or fifteen years, and are fit for food
when even twenty years old.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-08

POSSIBLY the placing of the name OF
General Joseph II. Hawley on the list OF
the declining was little premature; but
we do not think he is Il man who lies
awake at night praying that the Presi-
Dental lightning may strike him.