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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
THE HUMBLE PIN.

Greek and Roman ladies fastened
their tresses with metal pins, and the
ancient Britons used those of ivory.
They were comparatively rare, and
regarded as luxury. Garments were
fastened with strings, laces, skewers,
even with thorns.
When the pin of commerce was finally
introduced, though a comparatively
clumsy affair at first, it met with univer-
sal favor, and soon found it's important
niche.
For law and literature have both no.
ticed this useful trifle. Hamlet set his
''life at pins fee," and the afflicted
Queen of England compared her
"wretchedness to row of pms"
'Dear mel what signifies a pint"
were the naughty words of the heroine
of poem of Jane Taylor's, dear to a
generation now past. But she soon saw
the value of the slighted object, when,
at the hour appointed for the pleasure
party
'The carriage ratified to the door,
Then ratified fast away;
But poor Eliza was not in,
For want of but Just a single pin.'
Who has not read of the young man
who attracted the attention of his future
patron by STOPPING to pick up pin?
And of the prisoner who saved him.
self from madness by daily casting
three or four from him in the darkness
of his cell, and then painfully searching
until he found them again? When after
six years Imprisonment, the news of his
freedom was brought him, he was on
the ground, hunting for one pin which
had been for two days missing. The
four pins, bent and corroded, were set
in brooch and worn by his wife, to
whom they were more precious than
gems. Superstition has not forgotten
the pin.
Like other pointed articles it is 'to be
lent, not giyen," and we are told in
strains embodying equal measure of
truth and poetry
"See a pin and pick it up,
Ali the day you'll have good luck
In the reign of Henry VIII, a law was
passed enacting that pins should not be
more than six shillings and sixpenee
per thousand.
Pins were then very acceptable
present; "instead of the gifts, compen-
sation was sometimes received in mon
ey." This was called, of course, pin
money, term which has been extended
to a sum of money secured by hus-
band on his marriage for the private ex-
penses of his wife" Addison has re-
corded his dislike of what he calls sthe
doctrine of pin-money," proposing ''nee-
die money" as being more thrifty
name.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Occupation prevents temptation.

Occupation prevents temptation.
Character is a perfect educated will.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A good word is as soon said as an i'll
one.
Melancholy is the convalescence of
sorrow.
Nothing is secret but time and truth
will reveal it.
He who is devoted to everybody is de-
voted to nobody.
What we call time enough always
proves little enough.
What sculpture is to a block of mar
BILE education is to the soul.
Characters never change. Opinions
alter-characters are only developed.
Remember that impertinence isn't
wit any more than insolence is brilliancy.
Men say of women what they please;
women do with men what pleases them.
More failures are to be attributed to
efforts misdirected than to the want of
exertion.
Praise Is sometimes as hurtful as cen
snre. 1t is as bad to be blown into the
air as to be cast into pit.
As oysters are swallowed when they
are opened, so is the frank man taken in
when he tells his plans to rogues.
1t is better to be born with disposi-
tion to see things on the favorable side,
than to an estate of ten thousand year.
Keep doing wishing, dreaming, sigh
ing, mourning, intending, talking, sigh
ing, are idle and profitless employments.
A wise man always keeps in mind
that nothing in this world can retain its
first freshness, beauty and significance.
Sin is to be overcome not so much by
maintaining direct opposition to it
as by cultivating the opposite principle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

membrane the her remedy used must pc NON
been slow to learn this; nothing satisfac-
tory can be accomplished with douches,
SHUTS, powders or syringes because they
are all irritating, do not thoroughly reach
the affected surfaces and should be aban-
doned as worse than failures. A multi
tude of persons who had for years borne
an the worry and pain that catarrh can
inflict testify to radical cures wrought
by Ely's Cream Balm. 11-20-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE California Republicans are proud,
as they have a right to be, of the votes
they polled and the candidates they
elected in the last election. As will be
seen by adyices from Washington they
think that the Golden State should name
the Republican candidate for the Vice
Presidency in 1892.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
HAPPY HOOSIERS

VIM. Timmons, postmaster of Idaville,
Ind, writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines
combined, for that bad feeling arising
from kidney and liver trouble" John
Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same
place, says: Find Electric Bitters to be
the best kidney and liver medicine; made
me feel like new man." ]. w. Gardner,
hardware merchant, same town, says:
" Electric Bitters is just the thing for a
man who is all run down and don't care
whether he lives or dies" He found new
strength, good appetite and felt just like
he had new lease on life. Only SOC a
bottle at Pattersons' drug store. 2
Anger begins with folly and ends with
repentance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE recount by which the Republic
ans have been given majority in the
Wisconsin State Senate will not only
prevent the repeal of the Bennett law
and thus be moral and educational
gain to the State, but it will put a stop
to the Congressional gerrymander which
the Democrats contemplated in the
event that Congress failed to pass a dis
tricting law
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THERE is project to construct ship
canal across New Jersey from the Della
ware river to the Atlantic The scheme
was first suggested by merchants of
Philadelphia, who desire shorter water
route to New York and an abbreviation
of the journey of hundred of miles down
the bay and around Cape May to strike
the ocean path to Europe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

WHILE Senator Plumb's great influ-
ence over the Alliance members of the
Kansas Legislature may secure the re-
election of Senator ingalls,, yet the odds
are very heavy against him, as he carried
only 25 legislative districts out of l25.
Prof. James Il. Garfield, of the State
University, is gaining in Republican
favor
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

In 1880 the State of Pennsylvania had
260 completed furnace stacks for the
manufacture of pig iron. In 1890 the
number had fallen to 224, but the pro-
duction had increased IA per cent. in
the ten years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

A YANKEE in Poquetannuck, who
lost his hand in his woolen mill, has
invented an artificial hand to take its
place which is described nearly perfect
substitute for the natural hand, and the
only thing of the kind in the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

SOCIETY PROPHETS predict gay sea-
son in Washington this winter. Those
who will soon forsake the Capital might
as well have a good time while they can.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE Congressional Record will soon
resume publication. A large number of
new contributors will be added in a
short time, and the publishers hope to
offer the public some fresh and enter
tanning matter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
IF you feel weak
and all worn out take
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
FOR SALE

One of the best brick residences on
Main street, st. Clairsville; also, a fine
farm about one mile west of ST. Clairs-
vile on the National Road; also, a very
eligible lot in Beaver, Pa; also,S 8 other
residences In st. Clairsville. All on reas-
enable terms. Enquire of
10-16-tf A. J. MCFARLAND,
Real Estate Ag't, ST. Clairsville, o.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

In nine Southern States the production
of pig iron in 1890 was 40610 greater
than in 1880. The increase in six
Western States during the same period
was 1892 per cent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

The United States has paid off $685.
900, 600 of its debt since 1880. or more
than one half. The Nation now owes
1929, 100000, or less than the sum paid
off in ten years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE Democratic majority in the House
is made up thus: Nullifiers, 40; hay
fever, 25; gerrymander, 20; blood-raw
luck, Is; off year Republican collie, 10.
The rest may be charged to the advant-
ages that the unscrupulous and the
irresponsible have in an obstructive op-
position, and to the sinister influences
to which the belated Mckinley bill lent
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

CONSIDER for what it is that you sor-
row; it is either remediable or it is not;
if it be, why should that time be spent
in grieving which should be employed
in actively applying remedies? If it be
irremediable, then is sorrow vain and
superfiuous, and tending only to aggra-
vate misery
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE different States of the Union now
owe 1S2,OOO,OO0. Since 1880 they have
paid off s72,0OO,OO0, or more than one
third of what they owed ten years ago.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
A HETEROGENEOUS HOST:


Cleveland World.
1t was ever thus. From the day when
the Republican party was born in the
declaration of eternal hostility to the
slave oligarchy and in favor of progress,
liberty and good pay for him who labors
it has had the same old fight.
Every anarchist and nationalist and
mugwump and single tax crank and
free trader and foreign sympathizer in
the United States is now and ever op-
posed to Republicanism.
They all rejoice in the defeat of the
Republican party just recorded. Henry
George is happy; George William Cur
tbs, the king of the mugwumps, is hilar-
ious; all the Anglo -maniaes in the coun-
try are simply ecstatic in their Joy
BENJAMIN Tucker and John Most and
Lucy Parsons are glad.
But the Republicans can fight its bat
ties alone. 1t is satisfied of the justice
of its position and is calm while all the
heathen rage.
The general proposition on which the
Republican party stands is correct and
all the cheap speeches against it will
not, in the long run, prevail.
The hosts who are arrayed against the
Republican party are like battalion of
ragged and undrilled militia. They
march to no word of general command.
They obey no one leader. They have
no bond of union only the hatred of Re-
publicanism, progress, prosperity and
development of the country. They live
and thrive in disaster and discord.
These things cannot win. The people
will appreciate it when they try to put
them to harmonious action.
THE Hotel Van Keuren, over 81 to 42
Twelfth Street, Wheeling, is becoming
quite popular hosiery to those who de
sire solid comfort and good square meals.
1t is kept on the European plan, and has
in connection a Restaurant, where the
best the market affords, prepared in good
and palatable style, is furnished to guests
No pains are spared for the comfort of
guests, at reasonable rates, and people in
this region, who have occasion to remain
in Wheeling over night, or to take meals,
will find the Hotel Van Keuren just
what they want.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
sECoNDFALL AND WINTER STOCK

CEOONU ID LfI1L ANU W IN I1IN DIVVIN'
Owing to our increased sales this Fall
we had to duplicate many of our fall bills,
which are now arriving, with new effects
and late styles. and at same prices. Come
in early; no advance with us. As we buy
for cash we make our discounts largest
part of our profits.
1t F. TROLL & Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRHSBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R Alex
ander pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning u evening; Sabbath school $50 3 m
young peoples society OF Christian endeayor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting. Wednesday
evening Strangers welcome 70 all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-ReY.
J. H HOIiingshead pastor. sabbath preaching, ii
\ m; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Thursday eve
1ines; mems meeting, Friday evenings; Sabbath
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited TO al
ervices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Balph, pastor. sabbath school, 10 a. m
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday D. m monthly prayer meeting last SatiIr
day OF each month, p. M HoInanS InlssloilaTy
,ciety, last Saturday OF each month, p m dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. IN
young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRICAN II. e. .CHURCH-Rev. J. NJ. Wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 10:3 a. m; p. m; sab
bath school 2:30 D. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

IF you live according to what nature
requires, you will never be poor; if ac-
cording to the notions of men, you will
be rich.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE vainest woman is never thor
oughly conscious OF. her beauty till she
is loved by the man who sets her own
passions vibrating in return.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

LIFE is continually weighing us in
very sensitive scales, and telling every
one of us precisely what his real weight
is to the last grain of dust.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

The world will never be without some
thing to talk about so long as the North
Pole is undiscovered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

How would it do to send some idle
base ball batteries to the seat of the
ghost dance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

WE are told to walk noiselessly thro
the world that we may awaken neither
hatred nor envy; but, alas, what can we
do when they never sleep.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
DELMoNr COUNTY DIRECTORY.

Common Pleas Judge-John B. briggs.
Probate Judge-Isaac II. Castor.
Clerk Of COurts-Henry NJ. Davies.
Sherfff-0liver K. FOulke.
Auditor-R X. Barrett
Treasurer-George Robinson.
Prosecuting Attorney-Jesse w. Hollingworth.
Recorder-JOhn NJ. Beckett.
Commissioners-Miles r. Hart, WIN. J. Berry,
John G. Israel
Surveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
COroner-A. III. F. Boyd.
Infrmary Directors : Burget McConnaughy,
president; William Lodge, clerk; John A. Clark,
auditor.
Superintendent Inirmary John Sidebottom,
East Richland-
superinterdent ChiIdren's Home-Peter Gifin,
Barnesyille.
School Examiners-James Duncan, Bridgeport;
s. c. Murphy, Belmont; L. z. Harris, Somerton-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

It's human nature to get all you can
and keep all you get, and Jay Gould is
working it for all it's worth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
THE NEW DISCOVERY.

You have heard your friends and neigh
bors talking about it; you may yourself
sonal experience just how good a thing it
is; if you have ever tried it, you are one
of its staunch friends, because the won
derful thing about it is, that when once
given trial, DIR. Kings New Discovery
ever after holds place in the house; if
you have never used it and should be af-
fiicted with cough, cold. or any throat,
lung or chest trouble, secure bottle at
once and give it fair trial; it is guaran-
teed every time, or money refunded; rial
bottles free at Patterson's drug storet. 8
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

IT is not what man makes, but what
he saves, that adds to his prosperity;
stop the leaks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

AMEND might ponder its thoughts for
ages, and not gain so much self-knowl-
edge as Love will teach it in a day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THEY are poor who have lost nothing;
they are poorer far who losing have for
gotten; they most poor of all, who lose
and wish they might forget.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

IT is one of the paradoxes of life that
the more wife keeps her husband in
hot water the colder he grows toward
her.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
THOUGHTS ON WRITING.

OllNeT Weuuel HOMES, III AIldntlc.
Writers and speakers have their idio-
syncrasies, their habits, their tricks, if
you had rather call them so, as to their
ways of writing and speaking. There is
a very old familiar story, accompanied
by feeble jest, which most of my
readers may probably enough have met
with in Joe Miller or elsewhere. 1t is
that of a lawyer who could never make
an argument without having a piece of
thread to work upon with his fingers
while he was pleading Some one stole
it from him one day and he could not
get on at all with his speech,-he had
lost the thread of his discourse, as the
story had it. Now this is what myself
once saw. 1t was at a meeting, where
certain grave matters were debated in
an assembly of professional men. A
speaker, whom l never heard before or
since, got up and made long and for
chile argument. 1 do not think he was
a lawyer but he spoke as if he had been
trained to talk to juries. He held along
string in one hand, which he drew
through the other hand necessarily, as he
spoke, just as the shoemaker performs
the motion of waxing his thread. He
appeared to be dependent on this motion.
The physiological significance of the
fact l suppose to be that the flow of
what we call the nervous current from
the thinking centre to the organs of
speech was rendered freer and easier by
the establishment of a simultaneous
collateral nervous current to the set of
muscles concerned in the action have
described.
HOW TO CONCOCT ALOVE STORY.
Take young and tender girl. Take
some men, pining TO get the aforesaid
girl and her money; give one of them
start, and then let the others go for him.
This will bring out the favor of the hero
inc, and occasion some telling scenes.
The next thing to be done is to sever
your lovers promptly. Danish him to
Nova Zembla, or, better still, clap him in
to prison for somebody else's crime, and
get as near hanging him as possible.
Put her on a slow fire made up of
doubts, fears and suspicious, kindled by
the match of jealousy, and bring her
gently to the boil, with couple of rival
suitors.
At this juncture introduce one or
more female relatives to complicate
matters, and keep things generally hot
all round. Go on stirring until the
mess is thoroughly cooked, then serve it
up on toast, with garnishing of moral
and patriotic sentiments.
Bring out the banished lover in tri-
umph Give him title and estate, and
wind up in correct style with we'd
ding.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No IS, r. A M-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before flI moon
II K. MEYER. See'y F. ID. BAILEY, W. NJ
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch MdsoEs Stated convocatiOns first Friday OF
each month. - -
j. b. MEYER, Rec +. d. BAILEY, H. n
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. & S. M
Meets second Tuesday Of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Sec'y. j. b. RYAN, l. l. h-
HOPE COMMANDER, No. %, K. T-Stated
conclaves, first Tuesday OF each month.
j. b. MEYER, Sec'y j. b. RYAN, l. T.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

NOTHING is so swift in its progress as
calumny; nothing more easily escapes
us, and is more readily received; and
nothing can be more widely spread
abroad.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

APPETITE is relish bestowed upon
the poor, that they may like what they
eat, while it is seldom enjoyed by the
rich, because they may eat what they
like
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

PURSUIT is an enduring pleasure, gid
ed by hope; possession is but a brief
disappointment. When we capture the
gaudy butterfly it is found that we have
crushed out its beauty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
Belttrnttt Chronicle.

DEC. 4, 1890.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE common practice of cunning is
the sign of small genius; it almost al
ways happens that those who use it to
cover themselves in one place lay them
selves open in another.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

THE land of marriage has this peculi-
arity-that strangers are desirous Of in
habiting 1t, while its natural inhabit-
ants would willingly be banished there
from
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

HE who loves most generously, ask
ing for nothing again, will receive most
plenteously the affection which can come
only as a spontaneous offering of the
heart
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

LIFE and its conditions exhibit the
operations of inscrutable power; we
know not its origin, we know not its
end; and the presumption, if not the de-
graduation, rests with those who place
upon the throne of the universe mag
nified image of themselves.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

The past is for us; but the sole terms
on which it can become ours are its su-
bordination to the present. Only an
inventor knows how to borrow, and
every man is, or should be, an inventor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04

ways happens that those who use it to
cover themselves in one place lay them
selves open in another.
The past is for us; but the sole terms
on which it can become ours are its su-
bordination to the present. Only an
inventor knows how to borrow, and
every man is, or should be, an inventor.
A CHEERFUL temper, joined with in
nocence, will make beauty attractive,
knowledge delightful, and wit good ma
tured; it will tighten sickness, poverty
and affiiction, and render ,deformity
agreeable.
THE passions are the winds which fill
the sails.of a vessel; they sink it at times,
but without them-it would be impossi-
ble to make way. Bile makes men pas
sionate and sick; but without bile man
could not live.
THERE are no little events with the
heart. 1t magnifies everything; it places
in the same scale the fall of an empire
and the dropping of a woman's glove;
and almost always the glove weighs
more than the empire.
MEN in the excess of happiness or
misery are equally inclined to severity.
Witness conquerors and monks. 1t is
mediocrity alone, and mixture of
prosperous and adverse fortune that in
spires us with lenity and pity.
To ensure long life, recreation should
be part of our daily life. 1t makes
the busy man thoughtful, and the
thoughtful man busy. 1t ensures health,
success, and the accomplishment of
more and better work in less time.
You cannot keep dead level long, if
you burn yerything down fiat to it.
If all the cities of the world were re-
duced to ashes, you would have a new
set of millionaire in couple of years
or so out of the trade in potash.
"AMID my vasta and lofty aspirations, "
says Lamartine, "the penalty of wasted
youth overlook me. Alden, then, to the
dreams of genius, to the aspirations OF
intellectual enjoyment" Many gift.
ed heart has sighed the same sad sigh,
many noble nature has walked to the
grave in sackcloth, for one brief daily
ing in tie bowers of Circe, for one short
sleep in the Castle of Ignorance.