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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
HOW WE STAND.

New York Tribune
While the Democrats are in worse
shape for a Presidential contest than
they were three years ago, the Repub
licans are remarkably free from embar-
rassment. They have an administration
which serves the country with conSpicu-
Gus fidelity and honor. President Har-
rison has gratifed voters of all parties
by safe, judicious and honest discharge
of executive duties, and in the various
departments of the public service has
achieved success which the people re-
gard with satisfaction. They see that
reciprocity has begun its good work with
Brazil, and will soon secure great ad
vantages to them in their trade with
Cuba; they see that European restrictions
against American pork products are in
fair way to be removed and that the
Canadian and Behring Sea difficulties
are likely to be honorably settled. They
see that a powerful Navy is being
created, and take pride in recent dis
plays of its efficiency. They realize that
the Treasury Department has been so
administered that, in spite of the outgo
of more than S7O,000,000 in gold, there
is no impairment of the public credit
and the money markets are easy. They
observe steady improvement in the
postal service and valuable work for the
country by the Department of Agri
culture.
In the light of these things, the
Republicans are not disturbed in mind
nor are they wrangling among them
selves. They find that their honest
administration of public affairs and
their steadfast fidelity to principles,
Notwithstanding the prevalence of all
sorts of dangerous heresies, are steadily
gaining public favor. When elections
come this fall, they will not be divided
into hostile factions, each more anxious
to knife the other than to see the country
well governed. They have faith that
the people know good government when
they see it and will stand by the party
which shows the courage and ability to
govern wisely and honestly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
WOOL AND PROTECTION.

Fluctuations in the price of wool
always operate against the farmer.
When wool is low at the opening of the
season, the farmer who is forced to sell
at once, suffers from low prices. He
needs an advance in price, yet is unable
to wait for that advance, while his
wealthy neighbor can hold for a later
and better market. Such conditions
work to the injury of the weak and the
advantage of the strong, and any policy
which secures steady market from the
beginning of the season to the end, is
for the benefit of the poorer producer
and places him on an equal footing with
the more well-to-do.
Showing the advantages of protect
i've tariff as causing less fluctuation than
a free trade tariff, the Home Market
Club has prepared the following COM
parative table of fluctuations in prices
of roadium olothino wool.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

AT a meeting of the Republican
National Executive Committee on
Wednesday of last week, Chairman
Quay and Treasurer Dudley rendered
their designations, and were relieved of
their official duties. This action is
calculated to make the Democrats re-
ioice for they do hate Senator Quay
most cordially, and they never lose an
opportunity to pour out their viols of
abuse at the mention of his name. This
hatred is caused, too, by the way he
defeated G. Cleveland so magnificently
three years ago. Senator Quay is an
excellent organizer, has done meritorious
service in the position which he resigns,
and should have the best feelings of
every Republican for his valiant serv
ices in behalf of the Republican party.
The Democrats do not feel greatly
reassured, however, over the fact that
Gen. Clarkson succeeds Senator Quay.
Clarkson thoroughly understands Dem
ocratic ways, and will watch them as
closely as Senator Quay has done.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
A RUSSIAN HERCULES.

Famous athletes, possessing wonder
full powers of endurance, are frequently
to be met with among the Russian
peasantry. In the Buzulook District,
in the province of Satatoff, there lives a
moujik (peasant) athlete named Osipoff,
a single man. One day he met in the
forest rich peasant named Ignatieff,
who was taking load of wood for sale
in neighboring town, distant about ten
versts. .Osipoff began to make fun of
the old man, who was noted for his mi
serly habits, saying to him: "Do You ex-
pect to get that load of wood to town
with such q miserable old horse harness
ed to your cart? Why, L could easily
carry the whole thing there myself" .
This enraged Ignatieff, who said: 81
will give you horse, cart and wood
if you are able to do as you say, but if
you fail you will have to pay me the val
ue of all three" Osipoff instantly ac-
cepted the challenge, and Harvesting
himself instead of the horse to the cart
he started for the town, followed by
crowd of peasants who were to act as
witnesses. Much to the chagrin and
surprise of Ignatieff, Osipoff won the
bet with but little effort.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
M'KINLEY's TARIFF TESTED.

Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Free-traders, or tariffites- for-revenue
only, found little comfort in the sum-
mary and review of the foreign commerce
of the United States during the year
ending June 30, 1891, which the Treasury
Department has already given to the
public. This is the first opportunity to
Judge fairly of the effects of the McKin
ley tariff. Democratic statesmen have
had gigantic fun with fancies. They
will not have much with the facts.
A favorite argument against the Nc
Kinley bill was that it would be certain
to bring about decrease in imports,
but no decrease in taxation. The theory
was that the increase of duties would
cause shrinkage of importation, while
exacting greater revenue The figures
and the facts of the official report do
not sustain this argument, for while
through the extension of the free list
the importations have increased no less
than $31, 100000 in value, the customs
revenue has been diminished quite as
positively
The report does not contain an exact
statement of the customs revenue for
the nine months under the Mckinley
tariff, as compared with that under the
old tariff, but official figures for seven
out of the nine months are obtainable,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
An Epidemic of Bloody Flux.

Last summer the fluz ragged here to a
fearful extent; about five miles north of
here at the Whiteside grave yard there
were five victims of this dreadful disease
buried in one day; the doctors could do
nothing with the disease; when my fam
lily were taken, l went to Walter Brothers
of Waltersburg, and told them the stu
alton; they said: Give Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy;
that they had sent out several hundred
bottles into the infected district, and
"every day we hear how this medicine is
curing them; so far we have not heard
of its failing in a single instance" l
went to giving it, and could soon see the
good effects, and cure was the result;
any one in doubt about these facts NAV
write to mel ID. ELLIS, Rock, POI e
county, Illinois. For sale by Patterson
IL Sons. S.6.4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
IF medium clothing wool:

Under the revenue tariff it will be
seen that the fluctuations increased from
year to year, while under the protective
tariff the fluctuation has been diminish
ing year after year. Under that free
trade tariff wool was from to 26 cents
pound less in the beginning of the
year than the figure it reached at some
time during the season. Under that
tariff wool was always low at the be-
ginning of the season. All this was
against the farmer. But looking at the
protective prices it is seen that for
several years the prices have been nearly
the same at one time as at another.
Can any farmer believe that protective
tariff does not protect him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
THE difference between the protective

THE difference between the protective
tariff, which the Republicans advocate,
and free trade tariff, which the
Democracy wants, is this: Protection
places a tariff on articles which we our
selves produce and gives employment
to home laborers, and admits free all
articles which we can not produce. The
free trade tariff places horizontal tax
on all articles, tea coffee, and sugar in
cluded. Thus the poor man pays a
disproportionate amount of the revenue.
What laboring man can support any
such policy? Under such policy the
laborer would receive less wages and
pay more for the daily necessities of
his HOUSEHOLD.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
FOREIGN LOTTERIES, TOO.

New York Press
Foreign lottery tickets are to be frozen
out by Uncle Sam through the custom
house, which lends to the post office in
this moral warfare the benefit of its
right to open packages of "printed
matter" such matter when imported
being dutiable. The custom house can
expose its character and the post-office
can then proceed to confscate. We are
pleased that dishonesty can thus be met
at every point. Lottery gambling is
essentially dishonest in its teachings and
tendencies because it encourages the
wish to get something for nothing, and,
as Horace Greeley put it, "the darkest
day in any mans career is the day when
he first dreams of some easier way of
getting dollar than by squarely earn
ing it."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
JOHN CHINAMAN LIKED PORK.

San Francisco Chronicle
The principal article of meat diet
with the Chinese is pork. 1t is to them
what beef is to the true son of Albion's
isle. The Chinese butcher having only
the one species of animal on which to
exercise his skill, has become by prac-
tice hog anatomist in the full sense of
the word. A fat porker as soon as it is
placed on the block in retail Chinese
butcher shop is scientifically rid of all
its bones. The carcass is expertly cut
into strips, so that every customer gets
an equal quantity of fat and lean with
his purchase. 1t is sold salted, smoked
or roasted ready for eating.
1t is also smeared with nut oil and
disposed of in semi-dried state. The
hungry Celestial is frequently to be seen
investing a five cent piece in large
strip of roasted pork, which he eats with
every evidence of satisfactory relish as
he strolls along the street.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
PUBLIC OPINION.
cLEvELAND's POPULARITY

New York sun.
"If the Claimant goes TO Ohio to speak
in behalf of Governor Campbell, the vote
guage can be used to test his value to
the Democratic party. In each town
and each district which is fattened by
the presence of the Claimant the decrease
in the number of votes received by Gov.
Campbell this year from the number OF
votes received by Gov. Campbell at the
last election fer Governor will show the
exact measure of the strength and pop
ularity of Mr.. Cleveland. 1t is test
which a man with his enlarged idea of
his own goodness, greatness and indis-
pensability might shrink from submit
ting to. but to the Democratic party and
the Mugwumps the result of it will be
interesting and instructive. For the
Claimant himself it may easily prove
destructive"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
SATURDAYS NEWS.

Dillon and O'Brien decline a renewal
of the Boulonge negotiations with Par
nell and will enlist with Mccarthy.
1t was determined to open the Repub-
lican campaign August 22nd, with a
speech by Major Mckinley at his birth
place.
At Selwood, Fla, beautiful 16-year-
old girl shot and killed man, who after
counting her two years had married an
other woman.
A huge fraud was discovered in
Philadelphia. in the fact that only one
third of the merchants listed in the
mercantile appraisement, paid at the
rate they were assessed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

AN odd result of rivalry between two
tiger snakes is recorded by De LeSouef
Assistant Director of the Melbourne
Geological Gardens. One of the snakes
was large, the other small. 'Not long
ago both happened to fasten on the same
mouse, one at each end. Neither would
give way, and the larger snake not only
swallowed the mouse, but also the
smaller snake. In about ten minutes
nothing was seen of the smaller snake
but about two inches of its tail, and
that disappeared next day"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
Like a Good conundrunn

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
PLATFORMS AND PRINCIPLES.

PLATFORMS AND BklNClFLES'
Pittsburgh Dispatch Gnd. Dem)
There is some foundation for the crit
icisms of Republican journals on the
summary notification by Gov. Campbell
and his campaign manager, Lawrence
T. Neal, of the silver and income plankS
of the Ohio platform. That frank pro-
ceeding is justified by Democratic leaders
with the pertinent plea that the tariff is
the real issue, and that all others must
go to the wall in campaign fought
solely on that question. So far, Messrs.
Campbell and Neal are right, and the
fact that they are on the wrong side of
the leading issue should be given due
weight by the people of Ohio.
Nevertheless it is very singular view
of political ethics that permits candi-
dote to accept the nomination of party
and lightly throw overheard its authorit-
ative profession of principles. If party
platforms are worth anything at all,
candidate has the choice of but two
courses. One is to accept and maintain
the principles avowed in the platform;
the other is to decline a nomination
which pledges him to false principles.
1t may be said with some force that
party platforms, especially of the sort
which catches votes by such devices as
the free coinage and income tax plankS,
are not worth anything; but that is more
damaging to the sincerity of party
methods than indicatory of the party
candidates. The way in which such
course as that pursued by Campbell and
Neal can be made to work is shown by
the fact that it would leave a candidate
at liberty to repudiate the tariff plank
and make his campaign on the free
silver and income tax issues, if he chose
to do so.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
THE EIRST STEP

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat
can't sleep, can't think, can't do anything
to your satisfaction, and you wonder
what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step in
to Nervous Prostration. You need a
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will find the exact remedy for restoring
your nervous system to its normal, healthy
condition. Surprising results follow the
use of this great Nerve tonic and Alter
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gestion is restored, and the Liver and
Kidneys resume healthy action. Try a
bottle. Price soc. at Patterson & Sons,
Drug Store. &
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06
The Parent of Insomnia.

The parent of insomnia or wakeful-
ness is in nine cases out of ten dys-
peptic stomach; good digestion gives
sound sleep, indigestion interferes with
it; the brain and stomach sympathizes;
one of the prominent symptoms of a
weak state of the gastic organs is a dis
turbance of the great nerve entrepot, the
brain; inivgorate the stomach, and you
restore equilibrium to the great centre;
most reliable medicine for the purpose
is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is
far preferable to sedatives and powerful
narcotics which, though they may for a
time exert Soporific influence upon the
brain, soon cease to act, and invariably
injure the stomick; the Bitters, on the
contrary, restore activity to the opera
tions of that all-important organ, and
their benfeent- influence is reflected in
sound sleep and tranquil state of the
nervous system; wholesome impetus is
likewise given to the action of the liver
and bowels by its use. Sow
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

AN Alabama girl actually laughed
herself to death After the laughing,
which was provoked by funny happen
ing to her brother, had lasted for some
time, her parents advised her to stop,
but she couldn't. They then threw cold
water on her, but as this had no OBJECT,
they sent for physician. He arrived
to find the girl unconscious, and in a
few minutes she died from exhaustion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

A Cuthbert, Ga, boy found nest of
young rats and made a trap out of a
cigar box and transferred the rodents
into it, hoping to get the mother rat.
The next morning he hastened to it and
found the trap door down with which he
supposed to be the mother rat safely
Gagged. Carrying the trap out into the
yard ne carefully raised the lid to take
a peep at his big rat, when, to his utter
dumfounding, snake poked out its
head and significantly licked its tongue
in the boys face. The trap was dropped,
and the boy made hasty retreat to the
house. His snakeship had made a supper
out of the juvenile rats, and had had a
comfortable nap through the night.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

AS TO the Democratic cry that the
consumer pays the tariff here is the
opinion of an English manufacturer
given in the Birmingham Gazette:
The additional tax on my goods going into the
United States in the present year. by reason of the
Mckinley act, l estimate will be at least 5000.
which sum, without shadow of doubt, has to come
out of my pocket and the pockets of my work
people
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

PRESIDENT ANGEL, of Ann Arbor,
University, says that the Chinese have no
straight streets or walls, because they be-
lieve the devil travels in straight line.
They are great believers in signs and
portents, thousands in numbers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

A VIRGINIA old gentleman who is
mildly insane upon the subject of ad-
vantages of out-of- door life has taken
up his residence in an apple tree.
Strange to say, his health has not
suffered by the exposure, but has actu-
ally improved.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

OVER the tariff, the silver, the income
tax and other such issues, it should not
be forgotten that one of the most villain
Ously partisan Legislatures closed its
labors few months ago, and it should
receive proper attention.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

STEAM navigation was once looked
upon with doubt: so was the power of DR.
Fenner's Cough Honey to relieve any
cough in one hour. until thOusans of trials
demonstrated the fact Gives energy
and strength; money refunded if salts
faction not given.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

THE American farmer gets price for
the same grade of wool, higher by the
amount of the tariff, than any other
wool-grower on earth. The Democratic
wool liar will not admit this, but the
intelligent farmer can find it out for
himself and he will.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

JOE BURKs, of Panther Creek, N. c.. is
an enthusiast upon the subject of egg
eating. He lacks one inch of being seven
feet high and claims record of having
eaten l30 eggs at one meal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

To KEEP the beard from turning gray,
and thus prevent the appearance of age,
use Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers,
the best dye made
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

Count Won MOltke eompels all the
members of his household to spend at
least an hour each day in the open air,
even if the rain be pouring.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

THE Democratic platform will make
a hump too large for the Ohio Campbell
to run well with.