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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
The Handkerchief in France.

Lace was used to ornament handker-
chiefs in France as early as 1884 In
1913 they were embroidered and had tas-
sells at each of the four corners. In the
time of the Directory, that period of
fashionable eccentricity, they underwent
many vagaries. Those ladies who did
not care to wear the pocket attached to
the girdle and wished to have the hands
at liberty tucked the fan into the belt,
slid the purse into the corsage and had
the handkerchief carried by a gallant,
to whom it was necessary to apply when
it happened to be needed. If the hand
kerchief carrier could not be found, or
was insidiously flirting with another wo-
man, and the nose imperatively demand
ed blowing, the case was serious.
When the French blow the nose, it
should be remembered, it is for all it is
worth. No one who has not witnessed
the performance could ever believe the
nasal passages possessed of such sonor-
Gus quality, and when the effort is sew
eral times repeated one might easily i'm
agine himself listening to the Angel
Gabriel rehearsing for the last Judgment
The French fashion in this respect is not
to be recklessly initiated like Paris styles
in laces, silks and satins, fans, dresses.
bonnets and other things pertaining to
female attire.-San Francisco Chronicle
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
4 DiEerence in Bows.

There is vast difference between the
ways and ideas of amusement of the
small boy uptown and the small boy
downtown who makes his living by sell.
ing papers, shining muddy boots or be,
iRg messenger. For instance, the down
town newsboy scorns to throw snowballs
as usual thing. He will shake dice,
"match' coppers or smoke cigarettes and
discuss some melodrama playing in his
favorite Bowery theatre, but he abso-
lutely declines to throw snowballs. On
the other hand, his more innocent broth
er seven or eight miles higher up on the
island still clings to the good old fash
ioned sport of ''pasting" everything and
everybody with SNOWFALL. That's all
association, of course.-New York Trib-
une
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Anxious to Nurse.

Dr. Scott Todd had been called in to
attend Mrs Keely, who was i'll with
pneumonia.
One morning while he was attending
her an Irish woman came to the door,
''Ez this where Missus Kaaly lives?'
she inquired.
The servant told her it was.
81 hear she ez sick"
''Yes," said the servant.
"Well, me good girrul, shure d ye go
an tell Missus Kaaly Oh KEN to get job
av narsint her."
The servant told her that they had a
nurse already and didn't tneed another
EN- what's it that's tn matter wild
Missus Kaaly, did ye say?"
Pneumonia.
eye don't tell me now!' An who ez
the docktor, to be shore!"
''Dr. Todd"
''Ez that so now? Dim jest the
woman We want thin. Goo oop en- tell
Missus Kaaly Olive joost after narsin'
one ay Dockther Todd's pashuntz ez
died av that same dissaze. Atlanta
Constitution.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

Curious winter phenomena we have
here, remarked the ST. Paulite to the
visitor from ST. Louis. ''You notice that
icicle up there on the cornice of that
eight story building? Should say 1t was
ten feet long. Well, this very morning
one just like that dropped as Sam Bones
vas passing, and the point struck him
square ON the top of the head. 1t went
through him like shot and pinned him
to the sidewalk, bolt upright and stiff as
a statue"
xiii him.
Hardly. As soon as the icicle melted
he walked off all right enough. See?"
IAN extraordinary escape. truly-per-
haps an isolated case. But l should
think he would be liable to take cold
from the draught through the hole in his
body"
mot at ali! You see, the winter eli
mate here is so dry that
'Bosh!''-Nature's Realm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Success.

1t is a great mistake to imagine that
success without effort will ever make Z
man or woman happy. What we
cease to strive for ceases to be a success
and gradually becomes more and more
worthless. Suppose the same wages tc
be paid for nothing that are now ren-
dered for skill and energy and persever.
ing work, or the same applause to be
showered on the mere trifer that is now
given to the public benefactor, could
they possibly kindle the same joy in the
heart of the receiver that they do now!
They would mean nothing, stand fo1
nothing and shortly would be nothing
New York Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Dangerous Lending.

An American who is in London fol
several months every year returned from
one trip with handsome umbrella, or
the silver knob of which was engraved
a complicated monogram-the gentle
mans initials were Fl. A. B. One day q
friend took up the umbrella, and aftel
squirting at the knob for several min
utes said: This is rather queer mono
gram on your umbrella, Mr.. -.
can see the A and B all right, but fol
the life of me can't find the Il. >
"Why," responded the owner quickly,
81 lent the umbrella to an Englishman
just before left London, and 1 presume
he dropped the H!''-San Francisco Ar
gonaIlt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Changes in New York.

"Only fancy" said a stately and
charming representative of one of New
York's Oldest families at dinner, "when
l was young girl in New York 1 knew
personally every one who kept car
riage." This seemed almost incredible,
as the speaker did not seem much past
middle age herself, although, of course,
the time to which she referred had to be
left politely to surmise. "And now, y
she went on, most of my intimates do
not keep horses at all; in fact may say
that nowadays l do not know any Of the
people who do keep carriages. Quite an
inverse ratio, is it not?" she concluded
with a laugh and a sigh. When one
considers the vast size of New York and
the countless number of handsome
equipages that crowd Fifth avenue and
Central park, it seems odd that one indi-
vidual could have noted personally so
many changes in the conditions of the
citizens of this great metropolis. s.-New
York Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
PROUD OF HIS woRX.

An Old Scotch Professor Who Took
Pride in His Labor as Mechanic.
d.. B. ". Richardson. of London, in
an address to workingmen at the con-
gress of the Sanitary institute Of Great
Britain. declared that Work, manual
work-aud that. too, of a resolute kind
is absolutely necessary for every man. =
He spoke also of the Importance of do
ing ones work, not merely TO get it
done, but with feeling of pride in do
ing it well. In this connection he said:
was invited not many years ago to
lecture at St. Andrews university and
to listen in the evening to lecture by
another man, like myself. an outsider.
was not personally acquainted with
this other man, but l knew that he filed
an important judicial office in Scotland,
and was considered one of the most able
and learned, as well as one of the witt
est. men in the country.
He chose for his subject self Cult
ure, and for an hour held US in perfect
dream of pleasure. For my own part l
could not realize that the hour had fed.
1Ht -CCkuIC tllAlcu DIT " ClOCh- anu dl .
found myself seated at dinner by the
side of the lecturer at the house of one of
the university professors. In the course
of the dinner | made some reference to
the hall in which the exercises of the
day had been held-how good it was for
sound and what fine structure to look
upon.
And did you like the way in which
the stones were laid inside?" asked my
new friend
Immensely" I replied. ''The man
who laid those stones was an artist who
must have thought that his work would
live through the ages"
well, that Is pleasant to hear" he
said, for the walls are my ain doing"
He had the Scotch accent when he was
in earnest.
Fortunate man" replied, ''to have
the means to build so fine a place" for !
thought. naturally enough. that being a
rich man he had built this hall at his
own expense and presented it to the uni
versity.
Fortunate. truly" he answered, ''but
not in that sense. What 1 mean is that
laid every one of those stones with my
ain hand. 1 was working mason, and
the builder Of the hall gave me the job
of laying the inside stone work, and /
never had any job in nay life in which /
took so much pride aud so much pleas
ure."
That workman still lives, and is one
of the heads of the university. While he
was working with his hands he was
working also with his brain. He took
his degree, went to the bar, and now he
is man honOred throughout the coun-
try.
But I refer to him here only as the
mason at his work, proud of his labor
That man had the idea of the paradise.
1t sweetened his work; it made it great.
We applauded his brilliant lecture, but
those silent, beautiful stones before him,
which echoed our applause. must. think,
have been to him one cheer more, and a
big one
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
MlmNERMus IN CHURCH.

You promise heavens free from strife,
Pure truth and perfect change of Will:
But sweet, sweet is this human life.
So sweet l fain would breathe it still
Your chilly stars l can fOrego.
This warm kind world is all | know.
You say there is no substance here
one great reality above
Back from that void | shrink in fear,
And childlike hide myself in love
Show me what angels feel Till then
| cling, a mere weak man. to men
You bid me lift my mean desires
From faltering lips and fitful veins
To sexless souls, ideal Quires,
Unwearied voices. wordless strains
My mind with fonder welcome owns
One dear dead friends remembered tones.
Forsooth the present we must give
To that which cannot pass away.
All beauteOus things for which we live
By laws of time and space decay:
But oh, the very reason why
clasp them is because they die.
William Cory.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
GRAINS OF GOLD.


Contentment is full brother to happi-
ness.
Man learns better by example than BY
precept.
For the thankless man there is no
blessing.
The man that tells good news always
has pleasant voice.
Nothing grows much faster than trou-
bles that are nursed.
The right time for a man to repent is
when he finds out he is wrong.
The fact that man wants knowledge
is proof that he has some already.
Alasl this time is never the time foI
self-denial, it is always the next time.
There is no greater evil in human ma
ture than selfishness. 1t is the mother
of sin.
If the whole truth were shown the
world would be full of people with hang
ing heads.
Carelessness at home or of ones per-
sonal interests breeds carelessness of 9TH
ers' interests.
Think well of your important steps
in life, and having made up your mind
never look behind.
The man who is wise in his Own eyes
looks at other people through the wrong
end of the telescope.
Patience is the ballast of the soul, that
will keep it from rolling and tumbling
in the greatest storm
The pleasures of the palate deal with
us like Egyptian thieves who strangle
those whom they embrace.
That time is the worst employed which
we give to regrets, unless we learn from
them the lessons of the future.
One of the easiest things for some
people to do, is to persuade themselves
that it isn't their duty to do anything.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

JOHN ADAMS, of Tacoma, Wash, took
novel bath the other day He fell
into big pot of molten metal and was
immersed to his armpits. But there
was mettle in the man as well as metal
about him. He grasped the situation
and the rim of the pot with rare pres
ence of mind, drew himself out, and
with an almost superhuman effort threw
himself into an adjacent pot filed with
water. His hands were badly burned,
but that was about all. His escape is
explained by the fact that he had on
heavy wooden underwear and outer
clothing, and before it had burned
through he was in the water
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
ForMa1aria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
THAT'S THE SITUATION NOW
"How can / make money!

THAT'S THE SITUATION NOW.
Detroit Free Press.
"How can / make money!"
"How can get rich?"
"Tell me how to become well off ?"
These and many other puzzling in
quiries come so often as to create Won
der. Now for plain word. While it
is only natural that all of us should
want to earn money as easily as we can,
and should look forward to something
in the bank, if not a competence, one
should stop to figure his chances and
take rational view of the situation.
Not more than one man out of a thous-
and who goes to any trade you can
name will ever do better than to get
himself home and school for his chill
dren. Not more than one man ont of
a thousand in the professions, take them
as they run, will ever amass riches. 1t is
not always hard work, persistency, acu-
men or good judgment that amasses
wealth. Accident and circumstance
have much to do with it, The late war
made thousands of men rich. Another
war would make other thousands rich.
A man holds piece of property until
some street is opened or some great fac
tory is built to quadruple its value
Men gain or lose by stocks and other
speculation. In almost all cases it is
chance and circumstance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
RoHIike Ans,Yers-

What comes next to man in the scale
of beingI" inquired an examiner His
shirt" was the reply. Asked to give the
distinction, if any, between a fort and /,
fortress, boy nicely defined them: ga
fort is place to put men in, and fort
ress is a place to put women in" On
being asked what the chief end of man
was, another boy, without any hesita-
ton, said, 1.-The end what's got his head
on.'-Cassell's Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
TRUCK FARMING.

New York Press.
This is not the old truck farm argu-
ment which free traders sneer at. The
subject We propose to discuss in this ar
ticle is a new one, at least so far as the
United States census is concerned. For
the first time the industry known as
truck farming has been made a special
inquiry in the census, and we have the
surprising fact that upward of Sl00,000,-
900 are invested in this industry, the
annual products reaching value of
$76,517,1 ,155 Oh the farms after paying
freights and commissions. This is real
lied from 534,440 acres of land, on
which there are employed in this indus
try 2l6, 765 men, 9,254 women and IA,
874 children, aided by 1886 horses and
mules and S8,971 ,206.70 worth of imple-
ments.
Taken in its entirety, this compare
lively new industry is found to be in a
healthy, prosperous condition. New
sections are being developed from year
to year that to certain extent effect
the prosperity of some of the older
ones, and there is likely to be more or
less shifting of trucking centers every
year. 1t will be upon advancing lines,
however. and new and better methods of
culture, with the further invention of la
Dor saving machinery, must of necessi-
ty reduce the cost of production. Bet
ter transportion facilities will place the
products of these farms III cities and
towns more promptly, and in better
condition and at less cost, while the ev-
er increasing population and wealth of
the cities and towns insure greatly
increased consumption at satisfactory
prices for first class products.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

This Oxford university expression is
by many considered slang which it is
''bad form" to use. But is it not really
an old and somewhat classical phrase:
Thus Archbishop Laud wrote to the
vice chancellor at Oxford under date
Feb. 90, 1889: ''Sir-I am informed
that the masters. many of them, sit bare
at st. Marie's, having their hats there
and not their caps, rather choosing to
sit bare than to keep form, and then
so soon as they come out of the church
they are quite out of form all along the
streets" etc.-Notes and Queries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

Nearly all the government bond
fioated during the war We're at dis
count part of the time during that strug
gle. From 1865 onward, however, all Of
them have been up to or above par, ex
cept the 5s of 1864, which dropped un
der the 100 mark for time in the fiuct
uations in 1866 and 1867. The 6s ma
turing in 1881 were, for time in 1862. a.
low as So.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Waterproof Compnsitions

A liquid waterproof composition has
been placed on the market for coating
articles such as leather, strapping, ma
chinery, polished steel, brass and copper,
which, it is claimed, will resist damp,
heat, cold and acids. The composition
is colorless, and does not rub or peel off.
being only removable by the application
of paraffin or turpentine.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Borrowed Skates Saved Mr.. Flowers Ii

Like all boys, had my trials and vi
cissitudes," said Mr.. Roswell P. Flower.
''While skating one day l slid into an
airhole. 1 would have drowned had not
my companion, at considerable risk to
himself, succeeded in rescuing me after
several attempts. during which he was
more than once on the point of sliding
in with me, When we reached the vii
lage he tried to say that he could not
have pulled me out if he had had his
skates on, but what he eventually did
say was that he would have let me sink
if had not had his skates n."-Epoch
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Great Britain.s Unclaimed Hoards

If all the boxes lying unclaimed for
ten years or longer in the cellars of the
Banks of England and Ireland, at Coutts'
Drummonds, Child's and other well
known bankers, were unearthed and
their contents examined, wonderful treas
ures in the shape of plate, jewelry and
other valuables might be handed over to
the representatives of the original de-
positors. Many missing title deeds, wills
and other valuable documents might
also be restored to their rightful owners.
Chambers Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

The gamboling of whales is often wit
messed by sailors, and Paley says that
any observer of fish must acknowledge
that ''they are so happy they know not
what to do with themselves. Their atti
tudes and frolics are simply the effect of
an excess of spirits"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

If you wish to hear fly walk, yon can
do it without the aid of the nugaphone.
Having made friends with the fly, spread
silk handkerchief over your ear and
induce the insect to crawl across the
handkerchief. As he approaches your
ear you will distinctly hear harsh, rasp-
ing sound, made by the contact of the
insects feet with the filaments of silk.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

The almost universal prevalence of
corns, bunions and other Affections of
the feet, and the race of eccentric shoe.
makers who have arisen as "a legitimate
outgrowth of these Affections, all go to
show that there is something radically
wrong in the care of the feet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
ST. CLAIRSVTLLE DIFISION.


All trains daily except sunday; All trains make
close connection at st. Clairsville dunctlon VIII
Philadelphia and New York, and with trains run,
ming West for Columbus, Cincinnati, Chieaso' anu
all points West.
agents, or address o. Z. McCarty, Asst ten faSS'
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio: l.. l.. Allen, ASST ten
Pass. Agent Chicago, Ill.
j. I. ODELI, G. o. SCuLl-
Gen'l Manager Genl Pass Agent.
EDW. DICKINSON, Cen. Supt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

1t does not take woman MANY wears
TO ind out that men are a mighty uncer-
tam set, But man never entirely loses
the delusion that somewhere in the
world ls to be found n woman about 10
cent. nearer perfection than the an
-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
A Beverly Girl,s Oucer ninr

Miss Minnie Kennedy has been utiliz-
ing an iron washer for the finger ring,
and the consequence is that the flesh has
grown around it in such way as to re.
quire the services of surgeon to re
move it.-Beverly (Mass.) Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Real Hunnor.

SIS that new play you saw last night
funny"
''Oh, immensely funny! One of tho
characters falls off chair and gets
kicked by mule, and another one wears
somebody else's hat. West Shore.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

Dolly-You ask me to marry you. Do
you think I'm an idiot2
De Garry-Well, l thought perhaps
you might refuse me-Harper's Bazaar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

At Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Station with thrOughstrains on the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad for Baltimore. Washington, Philadelphia
and New York, on which are run Pullman Dining,
Sleeping and ParlOr Cars.
At Chicago and st. Louis connections are made
in Union Station with prominent railroads for all
points in the West, Northwest and Southwest.
For further Information call on address near
est ticket agent. E. A. FORD.
JOS WOOD, Gen. Pass Agent,
General Manager. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
Annoying.

"Is Bernhardt really so thin
Really. Why when she smiles there
isn't room on her face for it, and she has
to lie down and let it spread over on her
pillow. Epoch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

WE are apt to fall into relapses; ;where-
fore we had better overcome our sorrow
than delude it.
WHEN people find out that man is
mean at home, they don't care how good
he processes to be at church.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

All new D oz IU fU 1 ~
*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday. tDaily
except Monday
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at so p m daily,
except Sunday; Newark 40 IN; arrive GAINESVILLE
% p M, Cambridge 50 p IN.
Columbus & Sandusky Accom-. leaves Columbus
"a 90 m: arrives SanduSky u 50 m.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

EVERY man has a weak side. Every
wise man knows where it is, and will be
sure to keep a double guard there.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

In the loss of an object we do not pro-
portion our grief to its real value, but to
the value our fancies set upon it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

No recreation is real which does not
recreate. He never has good time
who lives only that he may have good
time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

THE good Samaritan didn't stop to
find out what street the wounded Jew
lived on, or who his father was before
he helped him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

ALL jealousy, suspicion and selfish
sensitiyeness are fatal to friendship. The
man who is looking for Sights will sure
ly find or fancy them them, and by his
want of trust will drive the heart of his
friend from him. 1t is indeed a confess.
ion of selfish weakness when one Ia
ments that he is not loved or priced as
he desires to be. Let him dismiss such
unworthy reflections, and inquire instead
whether he himself is that loving, de-
voted and generous friend that he wish
es another to be to him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

1t must not suffice that man take
steps that shall at last lead to the object
he has in view; each step must be in it
self an object
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

On with your mission, and never a
summing ofresults in hand, nor thirst
for prospects, nor counting upon har-
vests; for seed sown in faith day by day
is the mighty harvest of the soul-and
with the soul we work, with the soul we
see