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VALUE OF OLD SHOES.

An American who has been travelling
in Europe thus describes the industrial
uses of old boots and shoes which are
thrown out into the streets and into ash
pits: After being collected they are
ripped open, and the leather is subject
ed to a treatment which renders it PHI
able mass, from which kind of artistic
leather is derived. This in appearance
resembles the best leather of Cordova.
In the United States patterns are
stamped on this, while in France it is
used to cover trunks and boxes. The
old boots and shoes are also treated in
another way by which they are convert
ed into new ones. The prisoners in Cen
trail France are employed in this way,
the old shoes coming chiefly from Spain.
They are taken to pieces as before, the
nails being all removed, and the leather
is soaked to soften it. The uppers for
children's shoes are then cut from it.
The soles are also used, for from the
smaller pieces of the leather of the old
soles, the so-called Louis XIV heels for
ladies shoes are made from the larger
and thinner pieces. The old nails are
also put to use, for by means of magnets
the iron nails and the tacks and brads
are separated and sold. The contrac-
tors of the military prison at Montpelier
say that these nails alone pay for the
old shoes. Nothing now remains but
the scraps, and these have also their
value, for they are much sought after by
specialists for agricultural purposes
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SONG OF CHRISTMAS.

Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands
The chorus of voices, the clasping of hands;
Sing hymns that We sung by the stars of the morn
Sing songs of the angels when Jesus was born.
With glad jubilatiOns
Bring hope TO the nations!
The dark night is ending and dawn has begun:
Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
All speech flow TO music, and hearts beat as one,
Sing the bridal o nations with chOrals of love,
Sing out the war vulture and sing in the dove,
Till the hearts OF the people keep time in accord,
And the voice of the word is the voice of the Lord
Clasp hands OF the nations
In strong congratulations;
The dark night is ending and dawn has begun;
Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
All speech flow to music all hearts beat as one.
Blow, bugleS of battle, the marches of peace,
East, West, North aud South let the long quarrel
ceasel
Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing of glory to God and good will to man.
Hark Joining in chorus
The heavens bend DER us;
The dark night is ending and day has begun;
Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one.
John g. Whittier.
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A MAGNIFICENT GIFT.

A quiet, retiring, unOstentious citizen
of Philadelphia has just devoted the sum
of S5,000,000 to the founding of Free
School of Mechanical Trades in that
city. Mr.. Isaiah V. Williamson, the
man who has thus distinguished himself,
is Sc years of age, and is of an old Penn
sylvania family, one of his ancestors
having arrived in this country and tax
en- out patent for 100 acres of land
near what is now Philadelphia, five years
before William Penn came over to settle
on his grant. He is bachelor, and has
been engaged most of his life in the
wholesale dry goods business.
Mr. Williamson has selected, as trus-
tees of the new school, Messrs. John
Wannamaker, Franklin B. Gowen, Lem
uel Coffin, William c. Ledwith, John
Baird, Edward Longstrath, Henry c.
Townsend, Jas. W. Brooks and Alfred
HelmbOid, the last named gentleman
being the donors private secretary. The
trustees have organized and elected Mr..
Baird as president, Mr.. Brooks as treas
urer, and Mr. Helmbold as secretary.
The new school which starts with this
magnificent endowment will be what its
name applies, school where boys who
show aptitude for mechanical pursuits
may obtain technicaleducation free of
charge. 1t will be an institution of the
very greatest value to Philadelphia, and
its foundation places the donors name
alongside those of such men as Peter
Cooper, George Peabody, Johns Hopkins
and Ezra Cornell as great public bene-
factors.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

HENRY WATERsoN, the gifted but
erratic editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal has been writing a great deal
of political buncombe recently, but his
advice to young correspondent upon
entering politics, is good hard sense,
worthy to be acted upon. 1t is:
Except as a citizen and voter, let politics
alone; learn profession or craft, not for the
fame or honors if may bring you but for the means
of honorable and Independent subsistence for
yourself and for the family it is your duty 10 bring
into the world and maintain be true to this walk
in life, and to yourself, loving work for works
sake and money for its uses; it, as you pursue your
way politics and Office come seeking you. put them
to question: accept none of their promises on faith
or credit; and before you conclude to take them,
even on trial, be you are lettering your con-
dtiOn, that is be sure you are not giving up GER
tain living for phantom, and exchanging place
for which you have qualifications and approved
yourself, for place to which you may be nowise
suited.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

WHILE the war ship Galena was get
ting under way to sail against one of
the smallest Nations of the globe on
Monday of last week, for an alleged in
jury to this country, Senator Fry was de-
failing to the Senate the aggravated in
iuries American citizens on the island of
Samoa have suffered from Germany, one
of the strongest nations of the world.
In spite of the fact that Samoa had de-
sired to be independent and had allied
itself with the United States and Eng
lang to preserve her independence, Ger
many demanded to assume absolute
control of it, he said, and in spite of OBJ
lection on the part of the United States
Germany had taken possession of the ISL
and, had boycotted American business
men, had picketed the American Consul
late with German guards, and hauled
down the American flag and put in con-
troll of the island a rebellious chief hos
tile to the American residents. Mr..
Fry's facts prove that the destination of
the Galena and the other three ships
soon to follow her ought to be Samoa
rather than Hayti.
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Established in 1S1 8.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERTAN CHURCH-Rey. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; sabbath school $50 a m ;
Young peoples society Of Christian endeayor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
I ri Hollngshead pastor. Sabbath preaching, IL
4 m; p. m; young peoples meeting, MONDAY
evenings; general prayer meeting, lhurs9aS eve eve
school $50 pm. Strangers cordially invited to all
ervices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIANC HCRCH-Rev-
Thomas Balph, pastor. sabbath school, 10 a. m :;
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m monthly prayer meeting, last oatur-
day of each month. p. m; wOHanS missionary
- iety last Saturday of each month, 2 p. m dis
trlct prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
THURSDAYS and Saturdays each month, p. m :;
Young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
eIch month at the parsonage, l p. m
AFRICANM ". E. .CHURCH-Rey. }. NJ. Wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 1870 a. m; p m; SAD
bath school, 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

"THE size of the Prohibition vote in
the whole country is a suEprise and a
disappointment to the Prohibitionists. -
-NeJO York Sun.
1t is surprise and disappointment to
other folks also. There are same Pro-
hib politicians, it seems, who expected
to cast few million votes. The shock
ing thing is that they actually cast near
" ten thousand votes in Indiana, and at
least eight of the ten thousand were by
citizens who are Republicans on all the
great business questions of the day.
And this large Prohibition vote would
have beaten Harrison in his own State
if it had not been for the votes of the
old soldiers and their sons. The amaz-
ing infatuation that prompts intelligent
men to muddle their brains with senti-
ments chat are beyond realization, and
fool themselves away for the express
benefit of the Democratic party, which
they cordially detest, is one of the phe
nomena that puzzle the will, perplex the
understanding and paralyze all but
the divine Cincinnati Com
merciGL Gazette.
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FOUNDATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY.

FOUNDATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY.
How many readers of The Press ever
stopped to think how important to the
community the wages of labor are after
they are paid? They are spent mostly
for the necesSaries of life, and when they
are spent for the little luxuries which
large home production and low prices
place within the reach of all the indus
trious, they are spent soon for fear some
unforeseen necessity will arise to prevent
the outlay. As a result they get into
circulation quickly and help to keep
trade lively. Wages are the bottom of
the pyramid of business activity.
Notice what happens to a mining
town or small place with one big fac
tory in it when the mine or the mill
closes. Trade is paralyzed. The butch
er, the baker, and the candlemaker feel
it. Everybody discovers that his inter
ests are those of the producers.
Put up another factory in that town
with different product. Business Sill
depends on the producers, but only half
as much on one industry as it did be-
fore. In the ordinary ups and downs of
trade that town will be twice as prosper
Gus as it was before. Protection, by
carrying out this sort of diversifcation
of industries as far as possible, makes a
country as prosperous as possible.
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5el11tn11t Chronicle.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1888.
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.
New York Press.
BUYING IN THE HOME MARKET.

BUYING IN THE HOME MARKET.
Benjamin Franklin wrote as follows
on April y, III, to C. R. Bouton, of
Norwalk, Conn, on the duty of patron
izing home industries:
If our country people would well
consider that all they save in refusing to
purchase foreign gewgaws, and in max
ing their own apparel, being applied to
the improvement of their plantations,
would render those more profitable as
yielding a greater produce, should hope
they would persist resolutely in their
present commendable industry and fru
gality. And there is still another con-
sideration. The colonies that produce
grow very fast. But of the countries
that take off those provisions some do
not increase at all, as the European ma
tions, and others, as the West India col
onies, not in the same proportion.
Every manufacturer encouraged lii
our country makes part of market for
provisions within ourselves, and saves
so much money to the country as must
otherwise be exported to pay for the
manufactures he supplies. Here in Eng
gland it is well known and understood
that wherever a manufacture is estab-
lished which employsa a number of hands
it raises the value of lands in the neigh
boring country all around, partly by
the greater demand near at hand for the
produce of the land and partly from the
plenty of money drawn by the manufac-
turers to that part of the country. 1t
seems, therefore, the interest of all our
farmers and owners of lands to encour-
age our young manufactures in prefer
ence to foreign ones imported among us
from distant countries"
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1889.
Harper's Magazine.
ILLUSTRATED.

Harpez's Magazine is the most useful entertain
ing, and beautiful periodical in the world. Among
the attractions for 1883 will be a new noyel-an
American story, entitled Jupiter LightS-by Con-
stance +. WOolsOn; illustrations of Shakespeare'S
Comedies by Z. a. Abbey; a series of articles On
Russia, Illustrated by T. de ThulStrupi papers on
the Dominion of Canada and Characteristic serial
by Charles Dudley Warner; three Norwegian
Studies,' by BjornStjerne BjOrnsOn, Illustrated /:
"COmmOduS," historical play by the author OF
Editorial Departments are conducted by George
William Curtis William Dean HOwells, and Charles
Dudley Warner.
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1IASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS, F. "a M-Meets
I Il MEYFR- Sec'y. F. d. BAILEY, W. VI.
ST. .1CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER. No. Il, RoBoL
Arch KGsons-Stated cOnyOcatiOns first Friday Of
each month. ~ r, VI
J. B. MEYER, Rec. r. d. BA1LE1- H. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. d S. NJ
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
j. B. MEYER, Sec'y. ). b. h1AN, L. l. NJ
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 26, &. T.-Stated
conclaves, first Tuesday OF each month.
I r NEVER. Sec'y ]. b. RYAN, E. c.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

WE notice that carp raising is still
carried on to some extent in this coun-
try, but the business has subsidized as a
craze. There was time when men i'm
agined that carp pond would be as es-
sential an appurtenence to a rural abode
as a pig pen; that all that was necessary
was to make a mudhole, stock it with
carp, and have big, fine, fat fish when
ever wanted for the table. The folly of
the theory is seen in hundreds of aban-
doned carp ponds that are an eye-sore
and heart-sore to the once enthusiastic
ameteur carp culturists. The fact is,
the carp is poor sort of fish at its best,
and costs more than it is worth except
where there are great natural advan-
tages in the way of water supply.
There are few edible fishes in the streams
lakes and seas which are not greatly su-
perior to the carp. Even the groveling
catfish, and other like scavengers in the
open waters, have better flavor than
the most praised immigrant from Ger
many. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

A DELAYED campaign lie has just ar
rived. 1t is to the effect that an effu
sive Southerner one day called upon
President Cleveland, and exclaimed:
"Mr President, owe you an apology"
"What for?" asked Mr.. Cleveland. "For
not having called upon you earlier, sir
WELL" said Mr.. Cleveland, bluntly, Il
have not been lonesome"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

ALABAMA papers are advocating an
educational qualification for voters in
dead earnest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

AT Philadelphia, Joseph Stephenson,
aged II, is dying with hydrophobia. He
was bitten by spaniel.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
DELMoNT COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge-JOhn B. briggs.
Probate Judge-Isaac H. Castor.
Clerk of COurts-Wllliam Is. CaSn
Sheriff-Oliver E. FOulke.
AuditOr-R. Z. Barrett
Treasurer-George Robinson.
Prosecuting AttOrney-Jesse W. HolnngwOrtn.
Recorder-John NJ. Beckett.
Commissioners-MOr Cope, William j. Berry,
John G.. Israel
SurveyOr-C Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-A. NJ. F. Boyd.
Infrmary Directors = BuTget McConnaughy,
president; William Lodge, clerk; John A Clark,
auditor. ,,.
Superintendent Infrmary John Sidebottom,
East Richland. -
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Giii1n,
BarneSville - -,
School Examiners-L. H. Walters, st. ClairsVllle; !;
H L. Peck, Barnesvile; S. c. Murphy, Ollvett.
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ILTANTEn Agents to sell 'ElwOod's Grain Tables
M hN 1 ED (SI25) for every miller, graiL dealer,
II and Martins Average Tables lS3l, wanted by
every business house; large demands liberal terms
Address L. DARRow & Coz Pubs, Rochester, N.Y.
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AN insane woman stopped at the
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, last week.
She announced herself as Mrs. Francis
Folsom Cleveland.
A PRoTEsTANT-CATHoLIC conflict,
such as Boston has just passed through
is likely to occur in New York over the
school question there.
HAYTIAN Consul General Bassett
was formally removed from office at
New York, Thursday. He is not IN
sympathy with the present government
at Hayti.
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BEFORE the election the Prohibition
lists said that a big vote would show that
their cause was growing. Now that
they didn't get big vote, they say that
small vote is an indication that the
party is looping off the driftwood. This
they saw win make them stronger than
ever. How Mgubriously funny these
ProhibitionistS are.-Ne1C York Trio
lt9e
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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-24

ST. LouIs, March IA special from
Sprinificld, Mo-, says; DR.. George VI. Cox,
United States pension examiner at Spring
field, Mo-. inGuced Ellie Ellis. the mistress OF
Fenton Cox, his son, to enter a carriage with
him and when she was seated he struck he
over the head with a bottle OF vitriOl, break
ing the vessel and smearing her face and
head with the acid. Her screams attracted
the attention of the police, who released her
from the frenzied physician. but not until her
eyes were burned out and her handsome fca-
lures destroyed by the powerful %vitriol, which
burned into the gashes mad by the broken
glass. The agony Of the woman was intense,
and she now lies at the point Of death. Fen
ton Cox met Etiic at a Wisconsin watering
place last summer aud brought her to Spring
field, aud since has pursued a course of de-
bauch9ry and ruin. The doctor by legal
means bioke up the variety show the boy
started with Ellie as leading lady and drove
her out Of town. but the boy ollowed her to
st. Louis and continued his reckless course,
in six weeks throwing away =, 800 on her and
disgracing himself IN other ways. Before the
meeting with hcr be had been a PROMISING
lad and his sundcr min distracted his pa
rents and drove his father TO The terrible
crime.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-24
Republican Delegates.

PlrT>BURG, March i2.-In Glswcr 10 re
pcated request. ior u ruling as TO the method
OF electing congressional district delegates TO
thu next Republican national convention, 3.
+. Jones, chairman Of the national Rcpubli-
can committee, while believing that the action
of the Republican national convention If 1881
is so plain as TO require no ruling has. in de-
ference to these requests, sent u the follow
ing letter. II viii be noted that il simply re-
peats the action Of the convention of 1854 on
this roint, which action was embodied In the
call for the convention OF lssS;
Under the action of the national Republi-
can convention OF 1884 see official proceed
ings prage - whatever has been the manner
of nominating members of congress in any
district is the manner In which congressional
delegates representing that district, must be
chosen.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-24

san FRANCISCO, March l2.-Word was re
ceiycd here today from FL Paso, Tex, to the
effect that United states Marshal Meade. Of
Arizona, whose arrest by Mexican authorities
at Janos, state chihuahua, was reported Sat
urday, has been released from custody. The
arms Of Meade and his party were taken from
them and they were allowed TO walk about
town, but not to leave IT.. II is understood
hat Meade and his party were not arrested
because in pursuit. of train robbers, but be
cause they wen into Mexico with horses ard
arms without being examined by Mexican
custom authorities. 1t is understood that
Gov. Carollo, Of Chihuahua, promised to as
sist in every way possible any United states
officer in pursuit Of robbers, if he should pre-
sent the proper papers, and the governor
states that he will lay the whole affair before
the general government at IN" City OF Mex
ltD