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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
GRAINS OF GOLD.
.nonnmr withnnt efficiener.

No economy without efficiency.
knowledge is a means not an end.
Truth and reason are common to ev-
cry one.
Egotism is the foam of fermenting
ignorance.
The dignity of truth is lost with much
protesting.
Every one can master grief but he
that has it.
Imagination is the author of major
ity of our ills.
He who loiters by the wayside will
get left behind.
Contentious for trihing can get but a
trifiing victory.
Recall every day one good thought
read one fine line.
When resolution is once formed half
the difficulty is over.
The vicious obey their passions as
slaves do their masters.
Stagnation is something worse than
death, it is corruption also.
Let us learn upon earth those things
which can call us to heaven.
Truth irritates those only whom it en-
hghtens, but does not convert.
He has not learned the lesson of life
who does not every day surmount fear.
To speak but say nothing is, for three
people out of four, to express all they
think.
1t is not the quality of the meat, but
the cheerfulness of the guests, which
makes the feast.
Do not allow idleness to deceive you;
for, while you give him to day, he steals
tomorrow from you.
The most useful truths are plainest,
and while we keep to them our differ
ences cannot rise high.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
THE FISHING PARTY.

wuust we went a-fshin'-me
An my pa an ula-ah three,
When they was a picnic, way
Out to Hanch's woods one DAY.
An there WIS 4 crick out there
Where the fishes is. an where
Little BOYS I amt big an srons
Better have their folks along
Ny "a he ist fished an fisksal
An my ma she said she wished
Me an her was home; an pa
Said he wished so worse-n ma
Pa said ef you talk, er say
Anythin', er sneeze, er play,
Hain't no fish, alive er dead
Ever go to bite. he said
Purt' nigh dark in town when we
Got back home; and ma, says she,
Now she'll have fish fer shore -
An she buyed one at the store.
Men, at supper, pa he won't
Eat no fish, an says he don't
Like 'em. an ne pounded me
When choked.-Ma didn't he?
james Whitcomb Riley
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

A colored man, who, a few days ago,
obtained marriage license, was at the
clerks Office asking that it be taken
back and the dollar refunded. The anx-
ious clerk asked if the license was not
filled up properly, and the answer was,
Il thought so; but find the lady is law
fully married already, and of course
can't marry her."
You don't know" said some one in
the Office; ''her husband may die, or,
there may be a divorce, apd the license
will keep" The applicant went off still
holding the license. w ashington Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
Too Much Light.

A peculiar phase of the use of power
full projectors in naval warfare has been
brought out in some tests made by the
French naval authorities. 1t appears
that in misty weather the reflection and
glare of the light from the projectors
served only to blind the ship, and the
torpedo boats were able to approach
within easy distance ana discharge their
torpedoes without being discovered
New Orleans Picayune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

THE future can never be divorced
from the past. 1t is indeed its inevita-
BILE outcome. We cannot close up the
record of the years behind us as if they
had not been, and open fresh and new
one bearing no relation to those that
precede it. What has been sown will
be reaped, and thus, by reviewing
the time that is gone, we may attain
some degree of knowledge of that which
is yet to come. And as the farmer,
through his successes and his failures,
learns better how to prepare his soil and
how to select his seed, so we learn from
tine to time the lesson of experience.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

The natural accumulation of money is
a great deal more rapid than the average
person imagines. The legal rate of in
terest in New York state is 6 per cent.
per annum. If $4,000 were put at 6
per cent. interest, and if the interest
were compounded semi-annually, the
accumulation at the end of twenty five
years would be $43, 800. Many of the
fortunes in America are the result of in
vestments in lands and enterprises. The
country is growing very rapidly, and
the increase in the value of land keeps
pace with the growth.-New York
World
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

Harassed Father-Mary, l have al.
ways thought that our son prided him.
self on his propensity for lying. Now !
am sure of it.
Patient Mother-Poor JackI What
has he been doing now?
Ii. FL was with him in the base
ment this evening, and every time he
passed the gas meter that boy touched
his hat. t.-Pittsburg Bulletin,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

The washing of the leaves of plants is
very essential to their health; if they
are very dusty little soap may be used
in the water. which should be milk
warm. They should be handled very
daintily; soft sponge is best for this
purpose. Once month the branches
and stems of hardwood plants should
also be washed
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
An Absent Minded Maine Man.

Along in the fall. when he saw his
neighbors digging their potatoes, he took
his hoes. put some baskets into the cart,
and with his boy drove the team across
the pasture to back field. Opening
the bars the boy drove the cart into the
field, when the farmer stepped out few
rods from the fence, looked aDont-hi-4,,
gazed across the field up and down, and
seeing no signs of potatoes said to him
self:
"Well, declare, thought had some
potatoes here, but | guess | forgot to
plant 'em-so did. ."-Kennehe Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
The Acme of Appropriateness.

Fair Pittsburger-What impressed you
most during your visit to my dear old
city?
Fair Chicagoan-The eminent appro-
priateness of Penn avenue.
F. P.-Please explain.
F. Cit is lined with doctors offices,
and it leads to two big and populous
cemeteries. -Pittsburg Bulletin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

An old piece Of zinc is the best thing
that there is with which to mark trees
in an orchard. Make this six or eight
inches long, tapering at the end, and
write on it with a common lead pencil.
The writing grows more distinct year by
year. This label can have the tapering
end wound around the trunk or branch
and looseDed as it grows.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

A small boy, apparently or 6 years
old, pushed open the door of a down
town shoe store the other day, and hesi-
tatingly asked, Got any rubber boots?'
A facetious clerk replied, Eyes, sonny;
what size do you want?" and was para
lyzed by the rep.y, Don't know, but ]
brought my feet with me!' Charleys
friends all moke.-Springfeld Home
stead.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
A Lesson in Retrogression.

Take pencil and multiply-twice two
are four, twice four are eight, etc.-and
you will find that in the twentieth gen.
Grafton you had l.04S, $40 ancestors with
out counting the intermediate genera
tions. Then lay down your pencil and
mediate on the insignificant result of
all those ancestors. indianapolis Jour
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
A Time for Everything.

A Bucks county man drifted into a
Market street eating house and ordered
fried eggs. The waiter promptly formed
a speaking tube of his hands and bawled
to the dim distance, adam an Eve wild
de sunny side up" Rapping with his
fork handle on the table the patron said
emphatically, 81 don't want any of that
Sunday school hddin'; l want a meal. y
A neighbor's explanation averted a tiff.
PHILADELPHIA Record.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

AN Eastern pOtentate once asked
group of his courtiers which they
thought the greatest man, himself or his
father. AT first, he could elicit no re-
ply to so dangerous question. Atlast,
willy old courtier said: "Your father,
sire; for though you are equal to your
father in all other respects in this he is
superior to you-that he had greater
son than any you have" He was pro-
noted on the spot.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
DITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND
Il ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Time Card in Effect June IS. 1890.

tDa1Iy, except Sunuay. daily,
At Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Station with through.trains 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 or address near
est ticket agent. T. A. FORD,
JOS. WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent,
General Manager. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

The Swedish bride seeks to catch a
glimpse of the groom before he sees her
hoping thereby to gain the future mas
terry. She also places her foot before
his while the ceremony is being per-
formed, and sits down first. While the
words are being said she stands near the
groom, SO that in the future no one will
come between them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15


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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

His calumny is not only the greatest
benefit rogue can confer on US, but the
only service he will perform for nothing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

Heartburn may be relieved almost in
stantly if half teaspoonful of table salt
be dissolved in a wineglassful of cold
water and then drank.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

MAN can do everything with himself,
but he must not attempt to do too much
with others.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

FoRBEARANCE and self lf-control smooth
the road of life and open many ways
which would otherwise remain closed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

THE call to religion is not call to be
better than our fellow, but to be better
than yourself. Religion is relative to
the individual.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

THROUGH certain. humors and pas
sions and from temper merely, a man
may be completely miserable, let his
outward circumstances be ever so fortu-
nate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
HARPER'S MAGAZINE. 1891.
IL ILLUSTRATED.
1891.

The important series of papers on South Ameri-
ca, by Theodore Child, will be continued in Har-
pers Magazine during the greater part of the year
1891 The articles on Southern California, by Chas.
Dudley Warner, will also be continued Among
other noteworthy attractions will be novel by
Charles EgheTt Craddock; a collectit of original
drawings by W. NJ. Thackeray, now published for
the first time; a novel written and Illustrated by
George du Maurer; novelette, by William Dean
HOwells; and a series of papers OH London by
Writer brSsrIIU.
In the number and variety of illustrated papers
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

THE disesteem and contempt of others
is inseparable from pride. 1t is hardly
possible to overyalue ourselves by un-
deryaluing our neighbors.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

except Monday
Accom- train leaves Columbus at 80 m daily,
except sunday; Newark 50 pm; arrive GAINESVILLE
45 pm.
Columbus, GAINESVILLE 6 Sandusky Accom- leaves
Columbus "a 20 a m; arrives GAINESVILLE $50 m
Sandusky l. 80 pm.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.
j. I. ODELL, c. O. SCULL-
Gen1 Manager, Gen1 Pass. Agent,
Chicago, ILL., Baltimore. Md.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

SOME persons follow the dictates of
their conscience only in the same sense
in which coachman may be said to. fol-
low the horses he is driving.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

EXAMPLE is dangerous lure; where
the wasp goes through the gnats stick
fast.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

NEVER "knock under" Always rally
your forces for another and more despe-
rate assault upon adversely. If calum-
ny assail you, and the world-as it is
apt to do in such cases-takes part with
your traducers, don't grow moody and
misanthropic, or worse still, seek to
drown your unhappiness. in dissipation.
Bide your time. Disprove the SANDER
if you can-if not, live it down. If pow
erty come upon you like thief in the
night, what then? Let it rouse you, as
a real thief would do, to energetic action.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

IT is good divine that follows his
own instructions. We can easier teach
twenty what were good to be done, than
to be one of the twenty to follow our
own teaching.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

"HoME," that dear old word, is far too
often lightly and irreverently used. To
some any place is home though it may
be as cold as the walls enclosing it, so
little do they think of or appreciate all
there is in home, or how much the word
conveys. The true home is where love
dwells, and that will make the poorest
abode the happiest home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

ALL true work is sacred; in all true
work, were it but true hand labor, there
is something of diyineness. Labor,
wide as the earth, has its summit in
heaven. Sweat of the brow, and up from
that to sweat of the brain; sweat of the
heart, which includes all Kepler calcu-
lations, Newton meditations, s,all sciences,
all spoken epics, all acted heroisms.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

REASONING against prejudice is like
fighting against shadow; it exhausts
the reasoner without visibly affecting
the prejudice. Argument cannot do the
work of instruction any more than blows
can take the place of sunlight.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

IDLENEss is the grand Pacific Ocean
of life, and in that stagnant abyss the
most salutary things produce no good,
the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed,
abstractedly considered, may be, and
often is engenerded in idleness; but the
moment it becomes efficiently vice, it
must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

The volumes Of the Harper's BaZar begin with
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

A GOOD resolution for the average
man would be to determine to be more
civil There is no virtue that pays bet
ter returns than civility. 1t is a first
class personal advertisement, and it
does person good, while it adds to the
comfort of those around him. Try it
for year or two and you cannot be
persuaded TO do without it. There are
few of the gentler sex who might do
well to lay the above to heart.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

NOTHING is more silly than the pleas
ure some people take in speaking their
mind. A man of this make will say a
rude thing for the mere pleasure of say
ing it; when an opposite behavior, full
as innocent, might have preserved his
friend, or made his fortune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

STICK to your Legitimate business.
Do not go into outside operations. Few
men have brains enough for more than
one business. To dabble in stocks, to put
a few thousand dollars in a mine, few
more in mandatory, and few more
into an invention is enough to ruin any
man. Be content with fair returns.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

THERE is one social dishonor which
no one thinks it worth while to think
much of in reprobaiion, but which does
more harm than any other known to us
we mean the dishonor of repeating
conversations, opinions. circumstances.
not made under promise of secrecy, but
which high sense of honor would treat
as confidential, if, happily, a high sense
of honor were the rule.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15

CLAY and rock are given US; not brick
and squared stone God gives US no raj
ment; he gives us flax and sheep. If we
would have coats on our backs, we must
take them off our focks, and spin them
and weave them. If we would Lave
anything of benefit, we must earn it,
and, earning it, must become shrewd, i'm
ventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-15
HARPER'S BAZAR.
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ngthe latest information with regard to the Fash
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artistic attractvenesS of the highest order Its
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essays satisfy all tastes, and its last page is famous
as budget of wit and lumOr. In its weekly issues
everything is included which is of interest to wo-
men. During 1891 Agnes b. OrmSbee Will write a
series of articles on 1.-The House Comfortable =
Juliet CorSon will treat of Sanitary Living, and
an interesting succession of papers on "Woman
in Art and History" Superbly illustrated, win be
furnished by Theodore Child. The serial stories
will be by Walter Besant and Thomas Hardy.
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HARPER'S WEEKLY.
IL ILLUSTRATED.
1891.

Harpers Weekly has never failed to justify its
title as journal of Civilization" and has done
so with a constant regard to enlarge possibilities
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DeNESYLVANlA LINES WEST OF PITTSBURGH.
Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Time Gard In Effect June I 5, 1890.
Trains Run bu Central Standard Time

Trains Run by Central Stanc
The record-union., 1891-11-25
SOCIAL AND Personal,

w. A. Gamble is up from San Francisco
on visit to his old home.
S. r. Murdoch. the Colusa capitalist, is
at the Golden Eagle Hotel.
Captain @. w. Bond, of Irvington. Ala
media County, is in this city.
Miss Jennie E. Davis of Carson, New.
is visiting friends in this city,
Miss Gussie Stevenson is visiting her
friend, Miss Grace Cartin, of San Mateo.
L. T. Williams, of the San Francisco
brGnli71er, came up from San Francisco
last night.
c. A. Zwisler, the Placerville lawyer, is
in the city. and stopping at the Golden
Eagle Hotel.
yesterday to spend Thanksgiving Day
with his family.
Miss Leila Carroll, who has been very
i'll, is able TO be about and will be the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles O. Alex
ander of Oakland, this week.
The parlors of the Crocker Old Ladies'
Home IN San Francisco were filled on
Monday evening by members of the
home, friends and those belonging to the
young people who do all they can to
brighten the lives of those residing in
that institution. An interesting pro-
gramme was interpreted by Henry Keat-
ing, Professor Bachman, Miss HaIlowell.
Miss Judd, Miss Maud Noble, Mr..
Goewey, Mr.. Atkinson, Miss May Nor
ton, Miss Varnich and choruses by the
members of the auxiliary. Supper was
served at the conclusion of the exercises.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday: j. V. Walker, Russellville, XIV:
George Penfield, NJ. Conrad, Chicago
Frank L. Taylor, M. Cochrane, W. C.
Rarig, John D. Sibley, Mrs. E. S. Loud,
9. III. Gray, c. s. Young, San Francisco;
S. r. Murdoch, Colusa; II. II. Dewey. G..
II. Zekind, J. S. Forrest, New York; E.
w. Olds and wife, Omaha; G. A. Zwisler.
Placerville; NJ. Epstein, Jr., Cincinnati:
w. Chauslor, Los Angeles; Lord Digby,
London, Eng; Miss II. f. Wheelan,
Berkeley; d. M. McLanghlan, Portland;
Sol Davidson, @. NJ. Friedberg, Boston,;
e. r. VALERIE, Eau Claire, Wis; d.
Josephy, Newark, II. j.; L. Elkus, city;
T. L. Williams, San Francisco.