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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

Ann PER PROFIT and SAMPLES FREE to men
lVV CENT. canvassers for DR.. SCOTS Genuine
Electric Belts Brushes, etc. Lady agents wanted
for Electric Corsets Quick sales. Write at once
for terms. DIR. ScoTT, sI4 Broadway, New York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

NOTHING is so certain to bring genu-
inc happy smiles to our own faces as to
watch such smiles grow on those of 9th
ers as the result of our sympathy, our
gentle words, or helpful deeds.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

"Paine's Celery Compound has been God
send 10 me. For the past two years have suf-
fered with neuralgia OF the heart, doctor after
doctor falling TO cure me. | have now taken
nearly four bottles OF the Compound, and am
free from the complaint / feel very grateful
10 you.n CHAs H LEWIS, Central Village, CT.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

ALL pleasure must be bought at the
price of pain. The difference between
false pleasure and true pleasure is put
thus: for the true, the price is paid be-
fore you enjoy it; for the false after you
enjoy it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

MANNERS are of more importance
than laws. Upon these, in a great meas
ure, the laws depend. The law touches
but here and there, now and then
Manners are what veX or soothe, corrupt
or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or
refine us by constant, steady, uniform,
insensible operation, like that of the
air we breathe in. They give their
whole form and color to our lives. Ac-
cording to their quality, they aid NOR
ais, they supply them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

GAS has been found at Minshal, Ind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

IHAvE great hope of wicked man,
slender hope of a mean one. A wicked
man may be converted and become a
prominent saint. A mean man ought
to be converted six or seven times, one
right after the other, to give him a fair
start and put him on an equality with a
bold, wicked man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

THE Empress of Austria is danger
ously sick.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

ST. LOUIS will be lighted by electricity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

In all the affairs of human life, social
as well as political, courtesies of small
and trivial character are the ones that
strike deepest to the grateful and appre-
ciatinp heart
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

He that to what he sees adds observa-
ton, and to what he reads reflection, is
in the right road to knowledge; prOvi-
ded, in scrutinizing the hearts of others,
he neglects not his own.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

IF misfortunes have befallen you by
your own misconduct. live, and be wiser
for the future. If they have befallen
you by the fault of others, live; you
have done nothing wherewith. to re-
proach yourself. If your character has
been unjustly attacked, live; time will
remove the aspersion. Ifyou have spite
full enemies, live, and disappoint their
malevolence. If you have kind and
faithful friends, live, to bless and pro-
tect them. If you have hope for i'm
mortality, live, and prepare to enjoy it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

pApIrc Living upon Ldctdted Food are Healthy,
Dd0fEo HdPpy Hearty. II is Jheq,sdted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04

IT is a noble and great thing to cover
the blemishes and to excuse the failings
of friend; to draw curtain before his
stains, and to display his projections; to
bury his weaknesses in silence, but to
proclaim his virtues upon the house top,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04
ct. CLAIRSVILLE & NORTHERN
- RAILROAD TINE CARD.

Time Schedule, in eject May 18th, 1883.
tdnddrd Time, 80 Minutes Slolrer than Local Time
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04
Effects Lasting Cures

Paine's Celery Compoundh has performed many
other cures as marvellous as theSe,-copies OF
letters sent TO any address Pleasant 10 take,
does not disturb, but aids digestion. and entire
" vegetable: a child can take It. what's the
use OF suffering longer with rheumatism or
neuralgia?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04
Paine's
Celery Compound

"I have been greatly afiicted with acute
and could find no relief until
used Paine's Celery Compound After using
six bottles OF this medicine ! am now cured Of
rheumatic troubles"
SAMrEI HrrCHrssON. 50. Cornish. ". A.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
A lireaL Wnrker.

Among the interchangeable workers OF the
day there are few to compare with the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. Besides the duties
incident TO the care Of large and wealthy
church engaged in manifold chalita un-
dertakings, DIR. Hale Is the organizer and
chief promoter of numerous young people 8
clubs, is identified closely with Chautau.
qua, where every year he renders active
assistance, has at least half "A dozen re
forms always under way, is the editor of
three successful periodicals and has the
charge Of an editorial department in at
least one other, finds time now and then TO
deliver lecture on some historical topic,
takes practical interest in education and
is promoter of Industrial schools, does not
refuse when some important political topic
is uppermost, TO let his voice be heard at
conventions and rallies, writes several
stories every year and turns out book of
travels as occasion may offer; and now to
I'LL in his intervals Of leisure, he is TO un-
dertake TO write the biography of the late
James Freeman Clarke, IA task TO which he
will devote, it is said, two years of consec-
Cttys jsbor.-Boston Beacon.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
How sece ision Was Taken.

Co. Watterson puts, in his character
istically punSent way, the position of II
good many men, probably, who We're
secessionists during the late war. 1t is
worth copying. if tor nothing more than
as an example of kind Of Kentucky
spirit which is we'll illustrated in this
Kentucky editor lie says:
THE case was admirably stated some
time in 1868 or 1864, when Meredith y.
Gentry, who had been n member Of the
confederate Congress, was arrested on
his farm in Bedford county, Tenn, and
carried a prisoner 10 Nashville, and be-
fore Gen. Rousseau. General said
that prince of orators, "the preservation
of the Uaion was, from my boyhood,
the dearest passion of my heart. 1t be-
came the dream of my manhood. l
fought for it the best years OF my life,
both in and out Of Congress. At last,
do all | could 30 prevent it, the damned
old stern-wheel boat Secession came
along. First one neiGhbor got aboard,
and then another, until, finally, was
left alone on the bank. Then it was
that, as they We're drawing i'm the gang
plank / said; Boys I'll get abroad, too,
and so with you, if you so to hell. "
That was about the size of it in all the
border States; though it does not
amount TO Jug of whisky now who
took his secession straight, or mixed it
with a few dissolvinC grains Of Union
ism found in the bottom of the glass.
All of us. in the end, slnned alike. and,
for our part, if we did anything we are
sorry for, we are glad Of it.
Meredith i. Gentry was one Of the
old-fashioned Wings Of the South. They
were so intensely southern, after all, in
their temperament that they could not
hold out against their section as we'll as
some of the newer-fashioned Democrats
of East Tennessee. What these Wings
needed then. as indeed all their lives,
was not patriotism and good sense, but
their enforcement by an adequate in
Stallment Of backbone. We fear the
most of the Kentucky Democrats, in
GLIDING Col. Watterson himself. took
their secession straight-Bostoa Herald
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05

When visiting a friend last summer
he called my attention to q curious
plan for preventing tho plague OF flies
in his house. The upper sash Of one OF
the windows in his sitting-room be-
ing open for ventilation, there was sus-
pended outside piece of common
fishing-net. My friend told me that
not fly would venture to pass through
it. He has watched for hours ut Il
time and seen swarms fly within few
inches of the net, and then, after buzz
zing about fora little, depart. He told
me that the flies would pass through
the net IL there was thorough light
that is, another window in the oppo-
site wall. Though the day was very
warm, 1 did not see a single fly in the
room during my visit, though else
where in the town they were to be seen
in abundance. suppose they imagine
the net to be spiders web, or some
other trap intended for their destruc-
tion.-Notes and Queries.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
A Letter from Mrs. Garfield.

An interesting letter from Mrs Gariieio
20 her husband is being read and discussed
In northern Ohio just now. General Gar
field was In congress at the time 1t was
written, aud the letter, of course, was not
intended for any eyes but his. However,
ex-President HiEsdale of Hiram college,
when he came 10 write Garfields life.
found it, and dew days since, in a lecture
to the students read it To them. Baking
Bread is the subject of the letter, which
Is as follows:
81 am glad TO tell you that out OF all the
toll and disappointment OF the summer
just ended l have risen up 20 Il victory.
That silence OF thought since you have
been away has won for my spirit triumph.
heard said something Ike this the other
day: There is no healthy thought with
out labor, and thought makes the laborer
happy" Perhaps this is the way / have
been able TO climb up higher. 1t came to
me one morning when l was making bread.
j said 10 myself: Here | am compelled
by inevitable necessity 10 make my own
bread this summer Why not consider 1t
IA pleasant occupation, and make 1t so by
trying 10 see what perfect bread l can
makeP IL seemed like an inspiration, and
the whole of my life grew brighter. The
very Sunshine seemed flowing down
through my spirit into the white leaves,
ana now | believe my cable is furnished
with better bread than ever before, and
the truth, old as creation seems just now
TO have become fully mine-that l need not
be the shrinking slave of toll, but its regal
master, making whatever do yield me its
best fruits You have been king of your
work so long that maybe you will laugh at
me for having lived SO long without my
crown but | am TOO glad TO have found it
Mt all to be entirely discouraged even by
your merrimentN
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
HAVING THE EVIL EYE.
A Familiar Superstition Among
the Italians.


Shortly after his election Plus TX,
who was then adored by the Romans
and perhaps the bestowed man in
Italy, was driving through the streets
when he happened to glance upward at
an open window ut which nurse was
standing with child.
A few minutes afterwari the nurse
let the child drop and it was killed.
No one thought the pope had wished
this, but the fancy that he had the
evil eye became universal and lasted
till his death. In & rniola, If you tell
Il mother her baby is strong and large
for its age, u farmer that his crops are
looking well, or II coachman that his
team is good, all three will spit at
your feet TO avert the omen, and, il
you understand the custom, you will
do the same as an act OF politene9s.
A person who wandered through Up
per Carniola and praised everything he
saw would soon come to be considered the
most malevolent of men. In Naples tho
same feeling exists. The terms of en-
dearment which mothers of the lower
class used TO their children and the pet
names they call them by are often so
indecent that it would be imp )ssible TO
reproduce them in English and always
so contemptuous that they would DO Of
fensive in any other relation.
The well known habit OF Neapolitans
to offer "a guest anything he may praise
has probably the sam origin. 1t is, of
course, now to very large extent only
form Of courtesy; but even now an
other feeling turks behind, at least in u
good many cases. Your host has been
delighted at your admiration of his pos
sessions; he would have been disappoint-
ed if it had not been so warmly express
ed as it was; but still he is little
afraid OF the Ill luck the kind things
you have said may bring. BY Offering
the objects you have liked best TO you,
and receiving your certain refusal ID ac-
cept them, he puts them in bad light
and thus counteracts the evil effects OF
your praise. He says to fate, you see
their value is not great, after all.
This superstition, however, Is ny 20
means confined to Naples or Italy; 1t is
said to he common in China and Japan,
and among negroes and red Indians.
Even in England it is not unknown. In
lACJ' III All Countries Wutu NlSlIluB II
sick acquaintance it is better TO say, Il
am glad to hear you are little better
to-day than II am glad TO SEE you
looking so much better" Nor is the
belief by any means confined TO the
/ lower classes. A person who is highly
educated, very intelligent, and by no
means Fl ejudicel in religious matters
was cnce asked whether the words
acted as an evil charm or whether they
merely foyctold evil. The reply was:
II don't know; but do know from ex-
/ perience that whenever anybody tells
me AIN looking well fall i'll within
! three days and the more intimate |
am with the person that says it the
worse the illness is" There may be a
connection between the superstition
and that Of the evil eye we are in
clined to think there is-but they must
not be confounded as one is often
found in districts where the other is
unknown. London Saturday Review.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
Gathering Rams.

They eXerted greater power thsn any
gun or cannon invented up TO the year
1860, saws II writer in st. Nicholas.
These battering rams were probably as
effective in knocking down a wall or
staving in the side OF a ship as the best
modern cannon, but for making breech
the guns are far superior. Such was
the solidity and thickness OF the walls of
Jerusalem that, Josephus tells us, it
took all of one night for an enormous
battering ram to dislodge four stones.
Vitruvius has left us the description
of a ram weighing 4S0, 900, but probably
the most celebrated Of all the ancient
moving tower rams was that construct
ed by Demetrius Poliorcetes at the siege
of Rhodes. The base of the tower was
70 feet square. The ram itself was an
assembly of large square beams resting
on wheels in size proportioned to the
weight of the structure, and all riveted
togeth er with iron. The felloes Of the
wheels were three feet thick and
strengthened with iron plates. From
each Of the four angles of the tower
a large pillar Of wood was carried up to
u height of $50 feet, aud these pillars
were inclined toward one another. The
tower had three stories, communicating
by two stair.cases each. Three sides of
the machine were plated with iron TO
protect them against fire. In front of
each story there were loopholes. screened
by leather curtains TO keep out darts,
arrows, etc. Each story was provided
with machines for throwing large stones
and darts, and in the lower story was
the ram itself, 80 fathoms long, and
fashioned at the end into an iron beak or
PROV. The entire machine was oved
forward by $500 soldiers.
But it can be easily understood that
among so many men some must be
more or less exposed TO the enemy's
darts and arrows. and so to drive the en-
envy from the walls and open places, to
break the roofs of his houses and other
wise annoy him, machines were neces-
sary for throwing missiles, from small
darts up to huge boulders.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05

every one of them milking her cows.
General Frye, whose home WAS in Dan
vile, was ut that time in command ut
Camp Nelson, and TO him the old lady
made her complaint.
The General came 10 my camp and
informed me that an old lady had COM
planned to him that my boys were
milking her cows. | told him that l
was verv confident there was not a word
Of truth in the complaint, and to prove
il to him invited him TO come to inspec-
tion at my quarters the next morning
(Sabbath) at ten o'clock, and that l
would ask the boys IN his presence,
whether they were guilty. l informed
the boys that General FRYE would be
present at inspection in the morning,
and that l would expect everything 10
be in the best of order. but said nothing
to them about "The Blue Goose mat
ter.
Promptly at 10 o'clock next morning
the General was on hand. l called the
company out, feeling proud of their
soldierly appearance and still prouder
that they, by their denial, would vindi-
cate themselves from the unjust charge
of stealing. After the inspection the
General, in neat little speech, COM
plimented the boys on their fine, sol
dierly appearance, and said that he WIS
glad to hear OF their regular attend
ance ut church. 1t spoke volumes for
their early training aud good morals.
After the Generals talk, l called the
company'G attention to the complaint
of their stealing "The Blue Goose's"
milk, and then said: Every man who is
guilty Of the charge, step three PAGES
to the front ~ Every darned man
stepped out except one Corporal
White remained in his place, looking as
innocent as babe. l looked at the
General, and thought l could detect a
smile on his countenance, and then
turned to the Corporal and asked why
he did not step forward with the rest of
the company. He replied that he had
not MIXED any of 1.-The Blue Goose's'
cows. asked him how in the world he
resisted the temptation, when all the
others were guilty. He replied, "Well,
Captain, / had all l could do to hold the
cows Still proud Of my company. l
turned to the General, and asked him
what he thought of that company. lie
replied, smiling, THAT is the first COM
pany Of George Washingtons | ever
saw" The company was then dismiss
ed, and instructed by the Captain to
not forget TO attend church at II O'Clock
and Sabbath-school at 3 p. m.-Caps
NJ. ID. Rcdocker, 1S5th Ohio.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
Miss Fisher Gets Her Money.

Detroit (Mich.) Sunday Sun, July 2S:
Miss Amanda Usher of POI Champlain
street has sudden,y steppsi from compare
tive poverty 10 afflue2Ce. she is the fore
lady in enc of tie fats Of Gray, Toynton *
Fox's candy factory in this city. On Sat
urday, the 9TH of July, Miss Fisher bought
a one twentieth part Of ticket Nc. 4?,75S in
the July Il drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery. On Tuesday last she received a
telegram in which she was notified that
her ticket Melted her $4,000.
"Of course | am delighted at my good
fortune said Miss Fisher TO Sund4y
Sun man.
did you experience any difficulty in get
ting the money!
mo; put my ticket in IT, hands of one
Of the BANKS here, and they got my money
for me-
~ suppose your friends are delighted at
your good fortune
Yes; 1 must say have received many
congratu lations. OF course | am delighted
for | shall not have to work sc hard. "
The money was paid to Miss Fisher at
the Commercial National bank, this city,
Wednesday.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
BURLINGTON ROUTE,
Through Sleeper Daily to Texa,
Points

On and after August H. 1889, the c., Is.
4 q. Il. X. will run in connection with the
Missouri, Kansas < Texas Ry from Han.
nibal a sleeping car from Chicago TO
Galveston, Texas, without change,
thus making new short daily
line between Chicago and Sedali', TT.
Scott, Parsons, Deniso.., TT. Worth, Waco,
Austin, Houston. Galveston, and other
points in Missouri, Kansas, lnC'an Terri
tory and Texas. The sleeper will leave
Chicago on the Burlingtous fast train
Eli at ; 40 p IN. daily. connect with &. b.
q c. train leaving Peoria at 20 pm daily
except Sunday, and reach Texas points
many hours quicker than any other route.
Through tickets Can be obtained of ticket
agents Of the Burlington Rou g and con-
Meeting lines p. 5. Eustis, Genl Pass. IL
Tiki. Agt., c., Is. & q. II. r., Chicago
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
.SIamma's GIttIn Better"

There is a gladness in the households;
The shadow fades away
That darkened all the sunshine
OF many summer day
40. mammals getting BETTER"
The happy children cry,
And the light of hope shines bright again
In the loving husband S eye.
In thousands of homes women are 'sicli
onto death with the terrible disc Sc so
common TO their sex, and it would seem as
if ali ths happiness had gone out OF life and
the household in consequence. For when
the wife and mother suffers all the family
suffers with her. This ought not to he,
and it need not be, for a neyer-fa ling rent
edy for woman's ailments is at hand.
Many home has been made happy because
the shadow of disease has been banished
from it by the potent power of Or. Pierce S
Favor,te Prescripticn-th unfailing RENE
dy for all weaknesses and diseases peculiar
10 women.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
A French Juryman in England.

1t is the immemorial privilege of an
alien domiciled in England. if he be
arraigned for n criminal offense, to
demand that he shall be tried by n
jury, one-half of which shall consist of
foreigners. In the jury which tried
such a man n few weeks ago it was
discovered near the end Of the trial
that one OF the foreign members, a
Frenchman, could not really under-
stand English at all, and the proceed
ings went for naught.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
The Temporal Power.

a political and historical document
of much interest and some Importance
has just been discovered in the archives
of the ministry of public instruction at
Rome. This is the rough draught OF
speech delivered on the 9th OF June,
1913, by Count Mamiani. at that time
first minister OF Plus TX, on the &C.
casion Of the opening OF the Ro man
parliament. Count Mam.anal speak
ing for the pope told the Roman depu-
ties that the holy father really made
but little account of the temporal
power. lie preferred TO live in the
high sphere of his spiritual realm, in
the calm atmosphere OF dogma, and be
connected with the lower world only
by dispensing 10 it the word of God
and by his prayers for it and his bless
ing and his absolution. This statement
of his attitude was not long afterward
disavowed by Plus TX, in an allocution
which he delivered at Gaeta, in which
he denied expressly that any authorizes
had been given TO Count Mamiani for
such an expression. 1t is, therefore,
rather interesting to find that the rough
draught of Mamiani's speech had GER.
tainly passed through the pope's hands
since 1t shows number OF annot atoms
and corrections in the well-known
handwriting Of Plus TX. The Italian
government considers the new-found
document OF so much Importance that
it has had it photographed, the Temps
says, and sent copy to every public
library in the kingdom. Doubtless
Sig. Crispi feels some satisfaction over
the detection of an almost sainted pope
in n niece of Practical nolitics
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
4 FnIry Tale.

A famous woodsman once boosted that he
could find his way through wilderness
and return by the same path. Being test.
ed, he carried with him slender thread,
which should serve as q guide for the re.
turn trip Reaching the end of mis- journey,
he lay down to rest. While he rested came
the genius Of industry and breathed upon
his thread and changed it into two shining
ribbons of steel. 1t was q railroad
Throngs Of people whirled past him in lux
urious cars, and he read upon the tain the
mystic legend WISCONSIN Centralnh