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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
A HORSES SENSE OF SMELL,

The horse will leave musty hay un-
touched in his bin, however hungry. He
will not drink of water Objectionable to
his questioning sniff, or from bucket
which some odOr makes offensive, how
ever thirsty. His intelligent nostril will
widen, quiver and query over the dain-
tiest bit offered by the fairest of hands,
with coaxings that would make mortal
shut his eyes and swallow nauseous
mouthful at a gulp.
A mare is never satisfied by either
sight or whinny that her colt is really
her own, until she has a certified nasal
certificate to the fact A blind horse,
now living, will not allow the approach
of any stranger without showing signs
of anger not safely to be disregarded
| The distinction is evidently made by his
sense of smell, and at considerable
distance. Blind horses, as a rule, will
gallOp wildly about a pasture without
striking the surrounding fence. The
sense of smell informs them of its prox-
unity. Others will, when loosened from
the stable; go directly to the gates or
bars opened to their accustomed feeding
grounds, and when desiring to return,
after hours of careless wanderings, will
distinguish one outlet and patiently
await its opening. The odor of that
particular part of the fence is their pilot
to it.
The horse in browsing, or while gath
ering herbage with his lips, is guided in
its choice of proper food entirely by its
nostrils. Blind horses do not make mis-
takes in their diet. In the temple of
Olympus bronze horse was exhibited,
at the sight of which six real horses ex-
perienced the most violent emotions.
Aelian judiciously observes that the
most perfect art could not initiate nature
sufficiently well to produce so strong an
illusion. Like Pliny and Pausanius, he
consequently affirms "that in casting
statue magician had thrown Hippo
names upon it." which by the odor of
the plant deceived the horses, and therein
we have the secret of the miracle. The
scent alone of buffalo robe will cause
many horses to evince lively terror, and
the floating scent of railroad train will
frighten some long after the locomotive
is out of sight and hearing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
WORKINGMEN AND RUM.

New York Press.
Before the temperance Congress ad
journed on Thursday some very practical
remarks were made by Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation of
Labor. The question to which he address
ed himself was the attitude of the labor
men toward the liquor traffic. With his
extensive command of all avenues of in
formation in regard to labor, Mr.. Com
perS was able to throw some strong light
on that subject. Labor men, he declared,
look with much Indifference on liquor
agitation, one reason of which lay in the
fact that liquor traffic reformers as en-
plOyerS are usually more unfair in their
treatment of employees than employers
who are Indifferent to the question This
is startling proposition, which, if true
and we are bound to believe in Mr. Com
pers as an unprejudiced witness SIS dis
creditable to the temperance refOrmers,
and requires the same sort of energy in
uprOOting which they wish to have ap-
piled to the traffic itself
In explaining other features of the at
titude of labor men to temperance reform,
Mr.. GOmperS said:
Legislative restriction does not affect the rich,
who buy in large quantities, while prohibition has
resulted in worse liquor at higher prices than be-
fore. Law does not make men sober. S0briety
and temperance result from improvement in men S
condition and surroundings. High wages bring
this about. There are three classes of drinking
men. They are the very rich, who have nothing
to do; those who are worn out and drink to brace
up mt night, and those who are idle. Who can tell
how much our trying climatic conditions cause an
oyertaXing of the powers, and stimulants are in
dulged in to tone the system up TO its work? It is
in the physical and moral condition of the work
ingsHen that we must seek for the cause of intem-
perance.
There is much common sense in these
observations and in the conclusion reach
ed. Happy, prosperous, contented, we'll
paid and well treated-laboring men do
not frequent saloons or go on sprees or
waste their substance in drunkenness,
and the plainest road to temperance re-
form is therefore one that gives these
conditions to the masses of the people in
any country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26

from his trees Do you believe it, boys
even as / stood ashamed of my own act
those ungrafted sprouts bore fruit, AMI
it tasted of the demon embarked il
them.
For two years neighbor Anderson
cared for his orchard, and seemed to
take much pleasure in seeing his trees
grow firm and strong. When he died,
both Jacob and l followed his funeral
train, and as we took our last look at
the corpse, we fancied we saw on his
cold lips the same hopeful smile they
wore when he promised us fruit from
his apple trees. The hopeful dream of
the future that had filled his breast dur
ing life seemed not to have departed, but
nodded itself into an image in the form
of lifeless clay.
"When they came to settle up his es-
tate they found heavy mortgage upon
the farm, and when the place was sold
my father purchased it, and in his will
left it to me. Thus l lived to own the
orchard, and eat fruit from the CRAFTS
had imposed upon harmless old man.
"Now, my boys, / have told you the
story of my apple trees, and when L am
laid in the grave l wish you to destroy
them all, and plant in their stead the
best trees that money can buy. You
must be patient with them few years
longer, for | have use for them while
live. When selfshness or malice tempts
me to wrong another, the ghosts hidden
in the trees rustic about among the
leaves, and warn me to think anew.
When l seek to avoid doing neighborly
deeds voice from the orchard on the
hillside breathes into my ear the GER
tainty of my eating the fruits of my own
charity. No, boys, cannot let you cut
down one tree"
When grandfather had finished his
story James and l stole away to our
work, leaving him to rest his silver gray
head upon his cane, and muse uninter-
rupted over those early memories that
lend the scar days of age the gay cOlors
of youth.
Grandfather Carver has long since
gone home to meet "neighbor" Ander-
son, and share with him such fruits as
never grew on earthly trees. The axe
lldS ldlu low Iu6 Olu OICIdIu, dIu III us
stead are planted trees that bear such
apples as fancy pictured to neighbOr
Anderson long years ago.
His dream has become a reality-has
materialized into living trees with root
and branch and fruit waiting the gath
erer's basket; but after all, they do not
satisfy; there is something about them
that is wanting. In bearing their loads
of fruit they seem to dwarf themselves,
and become commonplace.
1t may be an idle whim, but memory
will have none of them. She still pict-
ures frail old man going about among
the great trunks of aged trees, mOraliz-
ing over the graver problems of human
life, and gathering fruit far more sweet
than that now ripening in the sunshine.
Men may sorrow over what seem to be
the errors of the past, but God lets moth
ing grow in vain. What we scoff at
and call useless, and clear away, makes
us better, and he sees in all some pur
pose, and molds out of it truths that can
never pass away.-NilaR stu. in Yam
kee Blade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
Maj. McKinIey's Great Speech.

Hon. Amos J. Cummings describes Mr..
McKinley's speech as follows:
''The house went into committee Of
the whole on the tariff bill soon after the
reading of the journal on May z. Mai.
Mckinley opened the debate. He arose
at his seat, well back on the Republican
side of the house. His desk was Uttered
with documents and books of reference.
The major wore black frock coat, un-
buttoned, and looked more like Napo-
leon than ever. He spoke nearly two
hours. At first his utterances were
hardly audible to those in the galleries.
As he warmed up, however, his voice be-
came clear, and his notes were shrin as
the notes of chanticleer. Every word
was distinctly uttered, and the points
were sent home with graceful gestures
''Both sides of the house paid the strict
est attention to his speech. As he began
his remarks Mr.. Mills crossed to the Re-
publican side of the chamber and sat
down ten feet away from the speaker. He
rocked to and fro in a pivotal chair with
his eyes fastened on the major, and
seemed deeply interested. Joseph G..
Cannon sat not far away, leaning his
head upon his hand and drinking in
every word. Gen. Hooker and other
Democrats Joined the Republicans and
closely followed the speaker. Julius
Caesar Burrows sat in his seat near the
main entrance of the house, apparently
lost in admiration of Mr.. McKinley's eff
fort. Speaker Reed stood near his desk
for half an hour or more, as though
charmed.
"1he major used his eyeglasses while
reading extracts, but dropped them
when turning his attention to the house.
He was frequently interrupted by sp-
plause. He made compact and an ar
gumentative speech. At times he waxed
eloquent, but he used no oratorical flow
ers. He quoted no poetry, but wove into
his argument fourteen tabular state
ments. When he resumed his seat a
spontaneous cheer burst from the Re-
publican benches It lasted for nearly
two minutes"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
HAUNTED HOUSE

This body of ours has been likened to
a tenement; it often has haunted apart
ment-the stomach; scared by the eldrich
spirit, dyspepsia, digestion flies and re-
fuses to return; what can break the spell
what can raise the ban laid upon the un-
happy organ? We answer unhesitating-
ly, HOstetters Stomach Bitters, and we
are warranted in the response by the re.
corded testimony of myriads, covering a
period of over third of century; a
course of the Bitters, begun in any stage
of the afliictiOn and persistently followed,
will terminate in cure permanent, not
partial; the Bitters restores tone to the
epigastic nerve, renews and purifies the
juices exuding from the cellular tissue
that act upon the food digestively, expels
bile from the stomach and the blood, and
promotes regular habit of body. Mala-
ria, kidney complaint, nervousness, rheu-
matism and neuralgia give way to this
medicine 65-4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
THE FOREIGN FARMER.
Becoming Poorer and Poorer wherever
He Is Under Free-trada

Becoming Poorer and Poorer wherever
He Is Under Free-trade.
A London letter of Mr.. Edmund
Yates contains the following item, which
will be of interest to both the producers
and consumers of farm produce among
us who are still in doubt as to whether
Protection or Free-trade is better for q
country;
Several large sheep farms on the
Duke of Sutherland's enormous estate in
the great county from which he takes
his title are about to be converted into
deer forest. Sheep farming in Scotland
does not pay now"
The great county of Sutherland was
once covered with small farms and the
inhabitants were deported to make way
for sheep. And now this country follows
in the wake of so many Highland estates,
the sheep are turned off the land, the
shepherds follow the crofters, to be re-
placed by deer. sheep farming in Scot
land does not pay now" What will fol-
low the deer?
This proceeding has commenced in
England. Land is now, we said, al
most unsalable at half the price it would
fetch twenty years ago." Grain grow
ing in England does not pay now. Eng
hsh farms, which were once the pride Of
that country, are passing out of cultiva-
ton to be turned into sheep pastures and
an increasing lack of labor applied to the
land is painfully apparent to those who
travel through the country.
The tendency of Free-trade is to devel-
op a single industry or class of indus
tries, allowing others to be suppressed.
The dream of the classical economist is
that all the world should be a market
for the manufactures of one country,
which should command its own price for
such products; that all the world should
contribute its raw produce IN payment
for manufactures to a single market,
which would, of course, put its own
price on such produce. If it were not
for our tariff it is quite possible that we
would now be poor enough to grow wool
for sale in European countries in compe-
tition with the Argentine republic and
Australia. As the price of agricultural
produce decreased we would be forced
to increase the quantity exported to still
further diminish the price. And the
limit of cheapness would be governed
solely by the high price of railroad
freights and money.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
THE TARIFF AND LUXURIES.

~ I Il 4
New York Sun DEM.
We cannot find language strong enough
to condemn the Mckinley tariff tax bill,
considering it as crime and conspiracy
against the tailors of America-IU Illinois
Democratic Platform.
In Major McKinley's judgment, and in
that of majority of workingmen the
world over, the American tajlors are the
most fortunate on the globe. Consider
ing the comparatively slight changes it
proposes for the tariff, the conspiracy
represented in the Mckinley bill must be
directed toward holding the American
workmen substantially where they are at
present.
The chief and evident element of crime
discovered by the Illinois Democrats is
that this bill conflicts with the straight
out Cleveland-freetrade theory which, in
square condemnation of the Jeffersonian
principle, they laid down in their plat
form, when they said that the revenue
necessary for the government shall be
raised from internal taxes and duties up
on articles of luxury" With the internal
revenue once permanently established as
federal system, articles of luxury would
soon get to be as hard to find as Republi-
can chances in Georgia. They would all
fade out, and with them would fade the
last YeStige of the tariff.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
THE DUTY ON LEAD ORES.
Under the New Tariff Bill Our ninin,
InInstrioa HEiII IA Aidad

Under the New Tariff Bill Our Mining
Industries VIII Be Aided.
Our country Is full of the wailing Of
Free-traders over the hardships of silver
smelters who are likely to find their free
supply of Mexican lead ores carrying sill
yer cut off by the Mckinley bill; ores
which 1t is asserted are necessary for the
smelling Of the lean American ores, but
at the same time displace American ores
of the same kind These far sounding
Mutations viii remind our readers of q
retort made during the discussion Of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill, when a represent
ative rose and assured the house, with q
voice choked with fearful emotion, that
the bill would prevent his taking his
dear old mauma to Kansas" to be as
sured it only prevented his selling her
there.
The provisions Of the Mckinley bill
will merely prevent those silver smelters
who use Mexican ores from selling the
lead in the United States which they
extract without paying duty. Just this
and nothing more. Any smelter canim-
port all the lead ore he wishes by pay
ing duty Of one and one-half cents per
pound on the lead the ore Is found to
contain; this gives him a protection OF
half cent pound for smelling 1t. Or
if he does not like to do that he may, by
section 90, smelt and refine the lead
without payment of duties thereon"
together with other metals Of home or
foreign production. In which case, how
ever, he must either export the lead
from foreign ores or pay duty on it.
The hardship of this to the smelter lies
in his loss of profit on tine lead he here
tofore has introduced as silver ore. The
advantage to the country lies in the de-
velopment it will give to mining and al
lied industries in this country, instead OF
in foreign country. As the develop
ment of mining is potent factor in rail-
road building. it will undoubtedly result
in such increased facilities for transpOr-
tation that we will soon have both lead
and silver cheaper for this provision.
Our readers who are not fully conver-
SAINT with. the working Of the Free-trade
mind will be astonished to see complaints
of the necessity for exporting the lead
made from foreign ores, but an examina-
ton of their governing principles will
show that they do not desire the expor-
tation Of any product from this country
the sale of which will interfere with the
profits of the manufacturing and bank
ing classes of England
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
DIR. TALMAGE'S IDEA.

At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
National Temperance Society in New
York, Rev. DR.. Talmage, in the course
of an address, said:
1.-The present attitude of the temper
ance cause is a bewilderment in many
minds. What next p is the question
being asked with moist eyes and trem-
bling voice, and from all parts of the
land there are multitudes looking to this
hour and to this spot and to this society
to declare the latitue and longitude in
which the temperance cause is now sail
ing, to strike the key-not, to give some
decisive utterance, to lay out some new
campaign, to call upon God and man
with a faith and a vehemence which
shall bring the omnipotence of heaven
and the might of public opinion to bear
upon this tremendous exigency. There
has been progression and retrogression.
While We have been discussing such i'm
pOrtant questions as: Shall we have a
third political party for temperance pur-
poses ? Does prohibition prohibit p
What about Atlanta and Rhode Island
and Iowa and Kansas p Are Sumptuary
laws constitutional p and fifty other i'm
portant questions for the last fifteen
years, there has been, with few excep-
tions, an entire silence in the pulpit aud
on platform, in hall and in church, on a
question which overarches and under
girds and encompasses like periphery
and penetrates like diameter all other
questions, the question: How shall we
induce men and women, old and young,
black ane white, native and foreign, to
stop drinking rum?' Great applause.
1.-THE strongest prohibition law that l
ever read is not too strong for my notions
But if the Legislature in every State in
the United States should pass the best
prohibitory law ever contrived, and if the
Congress of the United States should
thunder from Washington national pro-
hibitiOn, and at the same time the public
mind were not educated on this subject
and toned up, and the vast majority of
our people thought it best to tax intoxi-
eating liquors, such laws would not be
executed, or they would be reversed at
the next election, or the Judges of the
Supreme Court would pronounce them
unconstitutional We can not afford to |
let whole generation of drunkards go
down while we are waiting for legisla-
tors, and governors, and sheriffs, and
mayors, and police officers to do their
duty. What then shall we do?
"The path to me is as plain as the sun
light. Go back to first principles. Open
in every hall that you can rent and every
church you can secure, in every city, |
town and village and neighborhood of |
the United States, old-fashiOned tenn
perance meetings. Applause. Open
them with prayer, followed by glee clubs
and great organs playing the hallelujah
chorus, and have on your platforms the
best ministers, the best lawyers, the best |
the best merchants, the best
mechanics, the best farmers, the best
men and the best women"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
SIMPLE-SIMONS OF OREGON.

ClhI LE-DlMoNO oE OOEtION.
New York Sun.
The study of the tariff question does
not seem to have promoted the prospects
of the bright young Democratic candi-
date who traversed the State proclaiming
his faith in theory which was afterward
confronted by an adverse majority of
5000. But the still brighter, though older,
Democrat who had performened his of
ficial duties as Governor to the satisfac-
ton of the voters of the State was reGlec-
ted by majority of $500. The Simple
SimOns of contemporary politics have not
fully recovered from the surprise which
overpowered them in 1888, when, on the
same day, New Y ork elected a Democrat
ic Governor by 1900 and defeated the
pretensiOns of an alleged Democratic can
didate for President by a majority of IA, )
600. Yet that result, so surprising to
some, has now been duplicated on the
Pacific, and voters are indebed to the
1InlaS for calling attention to the inter
eSting and instructive fact.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
WILDCAT RESURRECTION.

New York Press.
The annual phenomenon of rural
Southern Congressman who wants to re-
peal the 10 per cent. tax on circulation of
banks not national, which drove the wild
cat State banking currency out of exis-
tence, is presented this year by Mr. Rich
ardsOn of Tennessee. 1t will not be
taken for granted by any considerable
number of sane persons that because we
want more currency the quality of it is
immaterial. On the contrary, the greater
the quantity the more carefully should
the quality be maintained, lest increased
supply bring depreciation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
LIVING BY ONES WITS.

PUT ENERGY INTO YOUR WORK wHETH-
Err RICHLY GIFTED OR NOT.
Talmage in New York Observer.
Do not get the fatal idea that you are
genius, and that therefore there is no
need of close application. 1t is here
where multitudes fail. The great curse
of this age is the geniuses, men with
enormous self-conceit and egotism, and
nothing else. l had rather be an OK
than an eagle; plain and plodding, and
useful, rather than h-hying and good
for nothing but to pick out the eyes of
carcasses. Extraordinary capacity with
out use is extraordinary failure. There
is no hope for that person who begins
life resolved to live by his wits, for the
probability is he has not any. 1t was not
safe for Adam, even in his unfallen state,
to have nothing to do, and therefore God
commanded him to be farmer and horti-
culturist. He was to dress the garden
and keep it, and had he and his wife
obeyed the Divine injunction and been
at work, they would not have been saunt-
ering under the trees and hankering after
that fruit which destroyed them and their
posterity, proof positive for all ages to
come that those who do not attend to
their business are sure to get into mis-
chief l do not know that the prodigal
in Scripture would ever have been re-
claimed had he not given up his idle
habits and gone to feeding swine for a
living $50 to the ant, thou sluggard,
consider her ways and be wise, which,
having no guide, Overseer or ruler, pro-
videth her meat in the summer and
gathereth her food in the harvest" The
devil does not often attack the man who
is busy with the pen, and the book, and
trowel, and the saw, and the hammer.
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AIASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No 1G, F. q A. M-Meet:
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
j. b. MEYER, Sec'y. +. ID. BAILEY, W. NJ
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, ROyd
Arch MdsOns-Stated cOnYOcatiOns first Friday Of
each month. - -
j. b. MEYER, Rec r. d. BAILEY, IL IL
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, X. d. S. M
Meets second Tuesday Of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Secy. j. b. RYAN, l. l. M
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 26, X. T.-Stated
cOnclaves, first Tuesday of each month.
j. B. MEYER, Sec'y D. IL. RAAN, T.. Z.
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NOT CURTAILED.

Kansas City Journal
The Louisville COuTieT-JOurndl refers
to the "new Kentucky law forbidding
the appearance of any drunken men at
church with bottle of whisky" This is
not such an unwarrantable infringement
upon the liberties of the people. 1t does
not debar men without bottles of whisky,
nor men with whisky bottles who are not
drunk. The Kentucky Colonel may still
go to church.