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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
TRY THE CURE. HAY-EEVER
NURSERIES.

We sincerely thank our customers who have so
generously patrOniZed us in former years for your
kind favOrS We give our attention wholly to the
Nursery business. Aided with thirty years eX-
perience in the business, customers may rely upon
receiving the benefit of our large eXperience-the
greatest care being taken to have everything true
TO name Our grounds are open and free to all
visitors.
Our stock for spring is the largest we have had
since we have been in the county.
Consisting of 10000 Apples, and years, of all
the best old kinds. Also, Lawyer York, Imperial
PawakOe, Walbridge Mann, Hydes Keeper, Stark,
LankfOrd, Mcintosh Red, Sutton Beauty, Wealthy
ClermOnt, Yellow, Transparent, and many others.
Also, a full line of Pear, Cherry, Plum, Peach,
Apricot, Vines and ornamental stock. We guar
antee satisfaction on all sales We have fruited
several of the new varieties, and have some %
others in our experimental grounds. Our trees
are healthy and free from insect disease. Price
about One-haf what you pay to foreign agents.
Come and see us, or address
2 7-2m j. MORRISON, CadiZ, Ohio
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

In the Pennsylvania Legislature res
olution has been introduced providing
for survey for a ship canal from Lake
Erie to the Ohio River. Out in Ohio
some people favor abandoning the canals
we already have.
With a ship canal emptying into the
Ohio at Pittsburgh, why could not the
upper Ohio be rendered navigable at all
seasons of the year?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
PRACTICAL ADVERTISING.

Philadelphia Times.
Every community now has successful
business houses which confess that they
owe their success to artistic and persist
ent advertising. Indeed, however judi
ciously any business that seeks popular
patronage can be organized, it must seek
it's trade through the columns of widely
read newspapers.
The voluntary testimony of H. B..
Gross, of Brookes' Crystal Soap, who
speaks from practical experience, is that
Liberal use of printers ink Is always
profitable, but the advertiser who inserts
an advertisement to-day, and then to-
morrow waits at the front door to see
customers rush in, will very likely be
disappointed. Continuous publicity In
the best newspapers of any article OF
merit, will achieve the desired result"
1t is only within the last few years
that systematic and artististic advertls-
ing has become at all general among
business houses, and to-day the charac-
ter and business of nearly every house
is determined by its newspaper adyer-
tisements. Customers read the fresh
daily business announcements of mer-
chants and others as regularly as specu-
lators read stock reports or farmers scan
the markets, and if people do not see
what they want one day, they know that
they will see it in few days and they
wait for it; and in innumerable instances
people are induced to shop by the prof
fer of bargains when they are not in
special need.
1t is only within the last ten years
that leading business men have learned
that iudicious and constant advertising in
widely read newspaper will create trade
in dull seasons. A full score OF the
leading New York merchants recently
publicly expressed their views on con-
tinuous advertising, and all declared
that since they had adopted the system
of advertising during the whole year,
thev have had no dull seasons. Mid
summer and midwinter, when trade is
usually dull and large houses protitleSs,
they have been transformed into COM
paratively busy seasons with steady
profits by continuous advertising. 1t is
practical advertising that pays, and
practical advertising means the employ
ment of the best newspapers to reach
the people and the constant use of them
not only to attract trade, but to create
trade when the busy season has passed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

THE little girl of eleven years who ad-
vises Secretary Tracy by letter to have
the cooks in the navy take thinner par
ings from the potatoes in order that he
may save enough to "build ship to send
where the others got lost" may be very
generally laughed at, but there is more
than little wisdom in her suggestion.
There is call for "thinner parings" in
every department of public economy,
from the national government down to
the smallest town council.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
New Series, Vol. 90, No II.
THE SHEARERS SHORN.

Pittsburgh Dispatch.
There is a good deal of satisfaction
for the public in the fact that the Sugar
Trust has caught a Tartar in its endeav-
ors to control the market for raw sugar.
In addition to its policy of squeezing
the last possible cent out of the consul
mers of its refined product, it has tried
to add to its profits by bearing the prices
which are paid for the raw MATERIAL
Last year it was successful in this poll
cy, and this year it tried to repeat the
game by refusing to pay more than 333
cents. This price the sellers of sugar
generally refused, and while outside
refneries bought some at an advance
upon the prices offered by the trust,
the contest between the trust and the
producers of sugar was protracted. The
trust now wakes up to discover that
some one on the outside has stepped in,
and bought almost the entire stock at
an advance. The market is cornered,
and the trust must pay the price that the
without its supply for the coming sea-
son.
There is good deal of poetic justice
in this disclosure that the cOrnerers and
fOreStallers have suddenly reached the
point where they themselves are corner
ed and forestaIled Such things ought
to be impossible, with the slightest re-
spect to the laws of trade. But when
one conspiracy has succeeded in estab-
fishing a control of the refined trade it
is healthy to find that some one else has
cornered the raw sugar market, and will
make the trust schemers pay dearly for
their supply. Having dug pit for the
public, the Sugar Trust obtains slight
measure of the justice due it by falling
into the pit itself.
The public must pay the cost of these
corners and manipulatiOns in the long
run; but it will be some compensation
to it to perceive that those who started
out to do the biting have got badly Bit
ten themselves.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

THE BeZlaire Independent reports that
N. K. Kennon, Esq, will be a candidate
for Representative on the Democratic
ticket. This is news in these parts.
Hon. A. T. McKelvey will be nomina-
ted for reelection, and is reasonably GER
tain to be returned to the Legislature
He has been a useful member, and will
be found hard man to run against.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

SOME Maryland people think they have
solved the problem of an automatic rail-
way, for the transportation of the mails,
express matter and light freights gener-
ally. 1t is to be operated by electricity,
powerful dynamOs being placed at sta
tions % miles apart, and very high rate
of speed is said to be possible. The sys-
TEN works very well on an experimental
basis, but may fail when tried on com
mercial scale, in spite of the enthusiasm
of experts, including Edison, who declares
it to be the greatest conception since the
telegraph.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

Mr.. JAMES H. DRENNEN, of the Ohio
Valley NeouS, called to see us last Thurs
day. Mr.. Drennen thinks Martins Fer
ry will experience busy and prosperous
summer. Some thirty-fiye or forty new
buildings are already under contract, and
carpenters and masOns are all busy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

The Chicago Inter- Ocean has published
a significant extract from speech made
by an Englishman named Underhill, at
a meeting held in advocacy of a return to
at least modified system of protection
in the Corn Exchange of the old uni
versity town of Oxford. Every many
farmers have been ruined outright by
free trade because it brought foreign
wheat into England cheaper than it
could be grown at home. Others have
been forced to emigrate, and the money
and labor which they took abroad for the
enrichment of other countries was Just
so much value lost to England. Others
had abandoned their farms and gone to
the towns, thus depressing the price OF
labor in an already Overstocked market" -"
The Inter-Ocean adds: "Nlr. Under
hill is farmer himself, and knows
whereof he talks. He might have add
ed that the value of English farm lands
has decreased by more than 80 per cent.
in the last ten years and the acreage un-
der plows in like degree. 1t is plain
that free trade has not benefited the
English farmer"
And Americans know why protection
has made the American farmer better
off. 1t has given him a home market
for his products by building up manu-
featuring and trading towns close at
hand, thus enabling exchanges to be
made at minimum cost of transporta-
tion for the farmer to pay.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

DIR. LYMAN BEECHER, when asked
what he thought of the pre- existence of
human life, propounded in a book by
his son Edward, in 1854. said: well, if
the Almighty has been running the uni
verse on this plan all these ages and has
succeeded in keeping it a secret, l think
it's a shame for Edward to expose it"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

EXCURSION to New York via the Bal
timOre and Ohio Railroad, April 9th and
2Sth. The b. Il o. will sell round trip ex-
cursiOn tickets to New York City on
above dates at very low rates. These
tickets will be good for passage on the
limited vestibuled trains without addl-
tional charge via Washington, ID; {.
Baltimore and Philadelphia to New
York: passengers can also so via Pitts
burgh, Pa, if they desire.
For rates, &c, apply to passenger or
ticket agents of the B. 4 q. II. r., or to
W. L. Reppert, Columbus, o. All 2t.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. I6, F. d A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon
r MFy-ER Sec'V F. ID. BAILEY, W. VI.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. Il, Royal
Arch Mdsons. Stated conyOcations first Friday OF
each month III VI
J. B. MEYER, Rec r d. bAlLEl, n H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. d $. NJ
Meets second Tuesday of each month:
j. b. MEYER, Secy. D. Is. hhANs l. l. W
HOPE COMMANDER, No %, K. T.-Stated
r NEVER. Sec'y j. b. RYAN, Z. C.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

PROF. T. c. MENDENHALL gave the
National Academy of Sciences the re-
suits of his investigations in atmospher-
ie electricity, which are that the phe-
nomena are of no value in weather pre-
dictions. They do not appear until the
storms do.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.

New York Press.
The Press more than year ago urged
this tremendous point in favor of pro-
lection. that to buy abroad what we can
produce at home is a source of national
loss, inasmuch as the nations wealth is
drawn on to pay for the maintenance Of
the laborer who would be employed to
make the imported article if 1t were
made at home. They are realizing the
force of this point in England, nay, in
Manchester itself, the ancient seat of the
free trade oracle. Here is what Mr.
HILBERT of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce said in a recent speech:
"Free trade is all very well as theo-
ry, and so long as machinery was crude
and imperfect in foreign countries and
excellent in England it worked well
enough. But as soon as other nations
found out that they had better make
their cotton goods and knives and rails
and plows at home, and use as much as
possible of their home grown grain and
meat to feed their own people, then free
trade ceased to be blessing to England.
1t is a recognized fact that the wealth of
a nation lies in its labor. If an English
railway company had two offers for iron
to build bridge with, one from an Eng
Iish firm at e10 and one from Belgian
firm at SO, the company would accept
the lower, but England would be poorer
and Belgium richer by just the amount
of English money sent into Belgium" "
So that Mr.. HILBERT did not think much
of 'the blessings" which now accrue to
the British manufacturer from free
trade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
Established in 1918
NHURCH DIRECTORY.

GRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Saboath
morning and evening; sa6oath Seno3l S d Mon. .i
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Medhesua!
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
n uailingShead pastOr Sabbath preaching, IL
a M D. IN: young peoples meeting, MOhla!
evenings; general prayer meeting, lhursGdf eNJ
1ings: mems meeting, Friday evenings; SaDDalil
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited 10 all
ervices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAAC CHI RCH-he'.
rhomas Ralnh naStOr SABBATH school, 10 a. IN
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer neetiLg'
FRIDAY D. m monthly prayer meeting, last odluI-
day of each month, p. m; woman nllssloldi. /.
,Dciety, last Saturday of each month, =; m us
trict PRAYER meetings first Tuesdays, Wednesday
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p m
yolng Women's PRAYER meeting, second SATURDAY
each month at the parsonage, p m
AFRICANM E. .CHURCH-Rey.J J. NJ wilkes,
hath school 80 D. m weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

A FOUR years old daughter of Winfield
Worcester, glass blower at Barnesville,
fell into a well last Wednesday and was
drowned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

THE probabilities are that Mr.. Clark
sons axe will commence work upon the
fourth class post offices of this county at
no distant day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

A CURRENT paragraph explains that
the average watch is composed of Us
pieces, comprising upward of 2400 sep
arate and distinct operations in its man.
ufacture. The balance has $4,000 beats
or vibrations per hour, 1l,OOO,OSO in 30
days, 157 $4,000 in one year; it travels
l 43-I00 inches with each vibration,
which is equal to % miles in "a hours,
292 miles in 80 days, or 355SS miles in
one year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

"No money shall be draeOn from any
"cO1t11ty or township treasury e.rcept by
"GuthOrity Of la,o," says Sec. 5 of Art.
Y of the Constitution of Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

Hon. EMMIT ToMPKINs, Representa-
tive from Athens County in the late Leg
islature, will locate in Columbus, for the
practice of the law.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

THE outlook for the winter wheat
crop, in spite of the rather dry and un-
certain weather of the last two months,is
excellent in by far the greater part OF
the winter wheat belt. Another year of
abundant harvests is certain unless the
season should prove extremely unfavora-
BILE between now and July.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

THE sugar trust has advanced the price
one-half cent per pound, but that is no
reason why retailers should mark it up
three OF four cents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

DIR. VON BULOw, the pianist, stopped
in the middle of piece, at Cincinnati,
went off the stage. brought in stalwart
man, with him removed the piano to
the left and resumed playing. The
day was warm and the theater warmer,
and a lady who sat directly in the range
of his vision was tanning herself yigor-
time! He said that if
she had only kept time with the music
he could have stood it, but her false
beat nearly drove him frantic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

Col. WV. DUDLEY'S libel suit against
the New Y ork EceLiHg Post for the pub
lication of the blocks-Of-five letter is to
be tried, after all, the motion to throw
the case out of court because the plaintiff
refused to answer questions put to him
at Washington as the authenticity of the
letter having been decided out of order
by Judge Beach, of New York. Colonel
Dudley would hardly have gone into it if
he had not felt confident of vindicating
himself, and the Post may have to pay
dearly for its zeal in behalf of the Demo-
cracy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

A oNE-TINIE chief judge of Bagdad
was remarkable for the modesty which
accompanies wisdom. Once, after a
long investigation of case, he publicly
confessed that his knowledge was not
sufficient to enable him to decide it
"Pray," said pert courtier, ''dO you ex-
peet the caliph to pay you for your ig-
nLrance?" Il do not" meekly answer
ed the Judge; ''the caliph pays me well
for what 1 know; if he were to attempt
to pay me for what do not know, the
treasure of the empire would not suffice.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

In Paris there is a room almost COM
pletely furnished in cellulOid. The cur
tains, the furniture, the door-knobs and
even the mating was made of the ma
terial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

Mr.. JOHN II. FIMPLE, a member of the
late Legislature from Carroll County, has
accepted the position in the General Land
Office declined by Mr.. Poorman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

Now the doctors are saying there is no
such thing among men as hydrophobia,
or rabies; that what is so called is wholly
a matter of imagination.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

Hon. c. l.. PoORMAN aspires to a po-
sition on the Inter-State Commerce Com
mission.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
SINGULAR DOUBLE CURE.

New York Sun.
A distinguished physician of this city
tells of a recent case in his practice that
has certain features of interest. In Il
household of this city there was boy of
twelve who possessed many excellent
qualities, being amiable, truthful and up
right. Passing along the street one day
a piece of board fell from the second
story of house that was being built, and
struck him, inflicting a wound on his
head. After a time the wound healed
and left merely slight scar. But 1t soon
afterward appeared that the boy had un-
dergOne an unaccOuntable change OF
character. He had become a liar and a
thief. and was almost brutal in his nature.
At last the parents consulted the ply
sician to whom we have referred, and
who made a study of the case. He finally
suggested that the boy should be trephin-
ed, in order to ascertain if any injury had
been done to the brain when the skull
was struck.
When the operation had been perform
ed in the vicinity of the scar it was found
that splint from the inside of the skull
had pierced the brain. After the Splint
had been carefully removed and the
wound properly dressed the boy rapidly
recovered. To the delight of his parents
it was then made apparent that the evil
traits which had been brought into play
by some unknown means had disappeared.
He was changed again, and was once
more the amiable, truthful and upright
boy that he had been before he was
wounded "This case said the distin-
guished physician who narrated the facts
of it. would be remarkable if the medi
cal books were not full of similar cases."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

THERE are schools for ounces in Ger
many, at which dull children receive in
struction suited to their capacity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
BENEFITS OF GOING BAREFOOTED

BENEFITS OF GOING BAREFOOIED
l consider the following, taken from
the London Lancet, very sensible and
worthy the respectful attention of par
ents. l have ever found the writer's
views confirmed by personal experience
with my own children.
"Children who are allowed to go bare
footed enjoy almost perfect immunity
from the danger of cold by accidental
chilling of the feet, and they are alto
gether healthier and happier than those
who, in obedience to the usages of social
life, have their lower eXtremitieS perma-
nently invalided and, so to say, carefully
swathed and put away in rigid cases. As
regards the poorer classes of children,
there can be no sort of doubt in the mind
of any one that it is incOmparably better
they should go barefoOted than wear
boots that let in the wet, and stockings
that are nearly always damp and foul
There could be added to the above the
testimony of many eminent physicians,
who give as an additional reason the i'm
possibility of child'S foot growing
naturally, shod as it has to be, with the
conventional shoe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

WHAT is house without babyF-
Well, comparatively quiet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
DELMONT COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge-JOhn B. briggs.
Probate .Judge-ISaac II. Castor.
Clerk of Courts-WiaIn B. Cash
Sherif-OIiver Z. FOulke.
AuditOr-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-GeOrge Robinson
Prosecuting AttOrney-JeSse W. Holllngworth-
Recorder-John NJ Beckett
Commissioners-MOrris Cope, William j. Berry,
John c. Israel
SuryeyOr-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-A. NJ. +. Boyd. ,
Infirmary Directors : Burget McCOnnaughy,
president; William Lodge, clerk; JOhn A Clark,
auditor. c.,,..
Superintendent Infirmary john Sidebottom,
East Richand. ~
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Glfln,
BarneSville. -
School Examiners. H Waters, ST. C!alrsVllle;
H. L. Peck Barnesville; S. c. Murphy, Olyett.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

FIFTY colored men are studying for
the priesthood in Rome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
GRATEFUL-COMFORTlNG.
EPPS'S COCOA.
BREAKF AS1

BRtAKF AST.
''By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nu-
triton, and by careful application of the fine
properties of well-Selected Cocoa, Mr.. EppS has
provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
Favored beverage which may save many heavy
doctors bills. 1t is by the judiciOuS use OF such
articles of diet that constitution may be gradual
" built up until strong enough to resist every ten
dency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies
are floating around us ready to attack wherever
there is a weak point. We may escape many a
fatal shaft by keeling ourselves well fortified with
pure blood and properly nOuriShed frame"
CiUH Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling
water or milk. Sold only in halfpOund tins by
grocerS, labeled thus:
JAMES EPPS s. CO., Homeopathic Chemists,
London, England.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

vTTE zrmun Statesmen to sell Nursery
MI n MTEI Stock. All Goods Warranted
HU FIRST-CLASS. Permanent,
pleasant, profitable positions
for the right men. Good salaries and expenses
paid weekly Liberal inducements to beginners
No previous experience necessary Outfit free
Write for terms giving age. Mention this paper
CHAs. H. CHASE, Nurseryman, Rochester, New
York. 4 l2-St
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25
RATES OF ADVERTISING

One square one insertion. iOn...................s1 90
Each subsequent insertion .............- 50
Professional card and paper per year. 90
Local advertising 10 cts. per line for first inser
tiOn and cts for each additional insertion.
Rates for commercial advertising furnished on
application.
eB-AIl kinds of Job Printing done at reasons
BILE rates. Estimates furnished.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25

drowned.