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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
GOOD REASON WHY.
Munsey's Weekly.

Munsey's Weekly.
Mamma-Well, Willie, what good re-
solve are you going to make for the New
Year?
WILLIE won't fight with Johnny
any more.
Mammal m very glad my little son
sees how wrong and sinful it is to flight.
Willie-Yes m. He always licks me.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
BITCKLEN's ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, OF no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, 20 cents per
box. For sale by Patterson i Sons. ly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

WITH fifteen to twenty million dol
lars capital going into new mercantile
and manufacturing enterprises weekly,
the old business year is closed out with
a good record, and the wisdom of the
tariff law is established.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

IT is frequently stated that "Mr.
Cleveland is the logical candidate of the
Democratic party" but in figuring on
this matter it is we'll to bear in mind
that the Democratic party is not always
logical.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
New Series, Vol. 81, No 1

800, manifestly he is $50 better off. So
) of this annual interest charge of $50.
At so cents a bushel the 100 bushels
which he has saved will just pay the
interest. But if he gets a dollar a
bushel, he will have 800 left to apply on
the principal of the mortgage.
But, as matter of fact, the Mckinley
bill does not on the whole increase the
cost of living to the farmer. Take the
ordinary items of expense in his yearly
account. The Tariff remains unchanged
or has been lowered, or affects only in
directly and remotely, nearly every one
of them. Tea and collective import
ant items-are untouched. While the
finer cottons used by the wealthy and
stylish have been generally increased,
yet the common goods which farmers
use have either been lowered or remain
untouched. Prices of ready made cloth
ing are not affected by the bill. Leather
rates are either untouched or lowered.
The chemical schedule is generally
lowered. So of metals. Furniture is
not affected. Lumber is lowered Then
there are hundred other items in the
expense account untouched by the
Tariff. Examples are blacksmith's bills,
building or repairing buildings, fencing,
masonry, newspapers, local taxes, and
countless other of the common every
day expenses. Then there are classes
of goods whose price could not be affected
by any Tariff. Agricultural machinery,
wagons and carriages will serve as ex-
amples. The United States leads the
world in the manufacture of these.
They are of better quality and cheaper
than in any country of the globe To
sum up the case in a few words, three
fourths of the farmers expenses are
either untouched or lowered in the new
Tariff bill. The reductions more than
overcome the increase in the cost of the
other fourth. Take, for instance, tin
ware, about which such a Free Trade
howl has been raised. The extra ten or
fifteen cents which the farmer will have
to pay on his yearly purchases of tin
ware will be many times made up to
him in the advantages which will come
from free sugar. On the other hand,
the direct tendency of the bill is to in
crease the price of everything he has to
sell. 1t does not require the brain of a
philosopher to gather from these con-
ditions how the Western farmer shares
in the benefits of the new Tariff.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
AN oBJECTLEssoN IN THE TARIFF.

AN OBJECT LESSON IN THE TARIFF.
New York Mail and Express.
Col. George w. Thompson, who repre-
sents the largest tissue paper mill in the
country, is getting an object lesson in
the workings of the new tariff laws that
ought to last him for the rest of his life
time. Col. Thompson's company is the
only one in America that makes the
higher grades of tissue paper, and when
he read last summer in the free trade
newspapers that the measure then being
framed would give American manufact-
urers an opportunity to advance the
selling price of all their wares, he huT-
ried to Washington with a plea for an
increased duty on his special line of
goods. He got it, after ten trips, re-
turning home to read with greater glee
than ever the reiterated assurances of
the Democratic journals to which he
subscribes that he could mark up the
prices all around, which he proceeded
to do.
Hence his present discontinue. The
new tariff, by stimulating American en-
terprise and inviting American capital,
has broken up his monopoly in the man
ufacture of high grade tissue paper, for,
as Col. Thompson mourfully admits,
Everybody is going into the business"
He has personal knowledge of three mills
about to start up in competition, and
nearly sixteen will be running inside of
six months.
Meanwhile, the selling price is totter-
ing and the Colonel has had to begin
marking down instead of marking up.
He has Topped off 5 cts. ream already
And, ''let me tell you," he adds, s'the
price of tissue paper will be lower than
ever inside of six months"
Naturally Col. Thompson's grief is the
more bitter because he alone is respon-
sible for the suggestion of an increased
duty, and the breaking up of his monop-
oily is, therefore, his own work. He can
see now from actual experience that a
protective tariff means only the building
up of our home industries, and steady
lowering of the price of goods, no mat
ter in what line of industry, as the do
mestic output increases. The results
that have followed the new duties on
tissue paper are only in line with those
that have been attained in other branch
es of American industry. And CSl.
Thompson is only one of many whose
eyes will be opened to the truth about
the tariff in the near future.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

poses was S27,912, ,980.8S. The State
tax was less than one-sixth of the total,
and as the State school tax was all re-
turned to the counties, less than one
sixth of the taxes paid actually went for
State purposes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

THE price of American print cloths
three cents yards lower than it has
been for years, and is below the tariff on
foreign prints. Thus the tariff is made
prohibitory.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

WHEN the Democratic members of
Congress get to ranting in favor of free
coinage some one ought to read them
few passages from King Growers anti
silver message.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

CASES are rare in which the Republi-
can party has benefited itself or the pub
lie by keeping Democrats in Office. Bel
mont county Republicans should bear
this in mind always.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
BPlt1tuttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, JIM. 1, 1891.

IT is remarkable how promptly poIt-
ical dead beats who have lost their pull
on the old parties turn up when there is
talk of forming a new party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

WEhave a large number of subscribers
who would accommodate us greatly by
securing subscription receipt to 1892
We hope as many as passible will do SO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

FROM official figures the taxes paid in
Ohio in 1889 were distributed as fol-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

THE lessons of life make deeper i'm
pressions than the lessons of books, be-
cause they touch the heart before they
reach the head.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
snder, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning AID evening; Sabbath school Q 30 a. m
Young Peoples society Of Christian endeavor, Mon
DAY evenings; general prayer meeting, "wednesday
evening Strangers welcome 70 all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHIRey
]. n Hollingshead pastor Sabbath preaching, II
Am; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings general prayer meeting, THURSDAY eve
1inQs; mems meeting, Friday evenings; Sabbath
sehooi 9:3o pm. Strangers cordially invited to all
l<erviees.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a: m
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m. monthly prayer meeting, last satur
day of each month, p. m; wonans missionary
pciety last Saturday Of each month, p; m {; dis
sfct prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
THURSDAYS and Saturdays each month, p m
4 oung women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
ach month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRICANM e. CHURCH-Rev.I ]. NJ Wilkes,
hastor Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p. m; SAD
ath school. 2:3O D. m; weekly prayer meeting,
thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

Judge Alton has given 100000 to
the Garden City Cathedral in fulllllment
of an agreement with the heirs of Mrs.
A. L. Stewart.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

THE. MONEY CRISIS AND FARM LANDS.
More th:n one shrewd financier ex-
presses the opinion that the money
stringency now resting upon business
circles will in the end rebound to the
benefit of the farmer. Indeed the belief
is general that the disasters connected
with current financial disturbances will
continue to be, as they have so far been,
confined largely to the cities. 1t is be-
lieved by many that the feeling follow
ing this must be one of distrust of
stocks and investments of various kinds
which have been so largely absorbing
the surplus cash of the country; and
that reaction in the popular estimate
of the value of real estate must ensue.
Should this prove to be the case the
tendency will be to enhance the demand
for farm lands. 1t will be remembered
by old observers that two or three
times in the history of the country a
similar feeling of distrust has resulted
in Just this way. Whether the current
difficulties will be followed by similar
action on the part of capitalists is not
certain; but it is among the possibilities
well worth considering in attempting
to size up the early future of the gen
eral business of the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
DELMoNT COUNTY DIRECTORY

common Pleas Judge-JOhn B. briggs.
Probate Judge-Isaac HI. Castor.
Clerk Of Courts-Henry NJ. Davies.
Sheriff-Oliver E. Foulke.
Auditor-JOseph A. Henderson
I Treasurer-Frank B. Archer.
Prosecuting Attorney-Jesse w. Holllngwortn
RecOrder-JOhn NJ. Beckett.
Commissioners-Miles r. Hart, VIM. j. Berry,
John @. Israel.
Suryeyor-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-A- NJ. +. Boyd.
Infirmary Directors : Burget McConnaughy,
president; William Lodge, clerk; John A Clark,
auditor.
superintendent Infrmary john Sidebottom,
East Richland.
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Gifi1n,
GAINESVILLE.
School Examners-James Duncan, Bridgeport;
s. c. Murphy Belmont 7. P. Harris Somerton.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
LADIES

LADIES
Needing tonic or children who want build
ing up should take
BROWNS IRON BlTTERS.
II Is pleasant TO take, cures Malaris, Indt-
gestion. Biliousness and Liver Complaints.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01
PARTISAN BIAS.

National Stockman.
We have before us letter from a
friend who deprecates the fact that a
great many farmers are unable to break
party ties, and are also unable to dis
cuss questions affecting farmers with
out dropping into political grooves. We
sympathize with our friend in his opin-
ions, but at the same time must say
that his letter is one of the most thor
oughly partisan letters which we have
received for long time. 1t is this ina
bility to see Others as we ourselves are
seen which forestalls much of the good
which might arise from discussion. One
man will express an opinion, believing
it to be non-partisan, which expressed
by any other man strikes him as being
altogether of a partisan character. What
is non-partisan opinion? 1t is hard
to give definition of an opinion of this
kind, and still harder to hold such an
opinion; for one can hardly hold fixed
belief which is not advocated by some
one or other of the various political or
ganizations before the country. How
ever, in matters of this kind consistency
is most important, and one cannot well
afford to accuse another of partisan
bias who is himself altogether handi-
capped in the same way.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

The total for other than State pur-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-01

THE blizzard which swept over Western Kansas
during the winter of 1886 productive of many
thrilling episodes. The story of Niles Nelson was
related to the author of this poem in the spring,
succeeding the winter of the great storm, while he
was on visit from his home in Denver to his cattle
ranch near Purdyville, Hodgeman county, Kansas,
the scene of the incident. How true is the proyerb
Which as serts that fact IS stranger than fiction
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
Grant and sherman.

Like most silent men, General Grant
was little given to witticisms. A writer
in the Chicago Tribune relates an anec
dote, however, which shows that he was
not without ability to say bright things
on occasion. Grant and Sherman We're
discussing the plans of campaign, when
a third general, a brigadier, entered the
tent-a good soldier. but notorious for his
carelessness as to his personal appear
ance.
The brigadier finished his errand and
went out. General Grant pulled upon his
cigar for few minutes in silence and
then said:
SHERMAN, wonder whom that man
gets to wear his shirts the first week.
Grant and Sherman We're diametrically
opposite in temperament, but each be-
lieved fully in the other, and their mu-
tual confidence and affection were never
disturbed by any of the petty jealousies
so distressingly common among army Of
ficers.
During the siege of Vicksburg Grant
announced his determination to move to-
point below the town. All the generals
vigorously opposed the plan, and Shel
man in particular gave it as his decided
opinion that the movement would be
fatal.
Grant had studied the situation thor
oughly, and was not to be shaken in his
resolve. At last Sherman drew up for
NAL protest, explained its contents to
Grant, and asked him if he had any OBJ
jections to sending it to General Halleck,
Certainly not, replied the man of few
words.
Grants bold scheme was successful, As
all the world knows, and after the capt.
ulation of the city he said to Sherman:
"You remember that protest you wished
me to have sent to the War Depart
ment?"
YES" answered Sherman.
swell, here it is put it in my pocket
l thought any time would do. I'll send
it now, or you may have it, just as you
wish"
Sherman took it, Grant never referred
to the matter again, and the circum.
stance was given publicity by Sherman
himself
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
Flexible Caat Iron.

W. J. Keep, of the Michigan Stove
Company, of Detroit, Mich, who has
been conducting extended experiments
in the alloying of cast iron with mangan-
ese, gave elaborate details of his results
at the meeting of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers in Cleveland, and
exhibited some specimens of cast iron
that possessed phenomenal qualities.
A strip of cast iron about one inch in
width by three-sixteenths in thickness,
containing high percentage of mangan-
ese and silicon, was so intensely hard that
it could not be cut cold by chisel and
sledge, but when passed between bending
rolls it was curved to a radius of about
1S inches, and this curvature was rigidly
maintained
A bar of similar metal one-half inch
square was also bent at its center, retain
ing its set like wrought iron.
Ordinary cast iron would break short
under such tests.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
The Country's Wood Products.

Among the special reports of the Cen
sus Bureau one of the latest is devoted to
statistics of the wood production of the
United States in 1890. The bulletin in
question embraces nearly all the indus
tries in which wood is the principal ma
teral. OF these industries there are III
shingle factories, Sc cooperage establish
ments, and 16S in which materials for
wagons and agricultural implements,
chair legs, aXles, chests, and other articles
of wood are produced. OF the planning
mills only such are, included in this bull
letin as come in connection with the saw
mills. Within this limitation the statis-
tics show that of the wood products of
the mills the value was $115, 500 900: of
wood products not worked in the mills,
$50 ,426, 1874, and of products il more fin
ished forms, sci, 12,61S-making a grand
total of $161 ,231 SIG.
For the production of these values
capital of $270, 1872, ,102 is employed, with
an army of 95,25S men and 1O4 women
and children cutting timber in the woods,
and aided by 80 49l draught animals. In
the mills is required the labor of 81, ,939
men and | ,299 women and children. The
bulletin gives full statistics of the steam
and water power, machinery, and me-
chanical apparatus, railroads, and tram
ways employed in these industries. For
wages and salaries the expenditure last
year was $99, ,6SS, ,256. The report shows
the growing tendency to concentration
of the wood industries and economy of
production by working the raw material
into finished forms at points located as
nearly as possible to the forests in which
the lumber may be cut
In the three greatest lumber States the
increase of production within the last 10
years was: Wisconsin, 176 per cent for
Minnesota, 1896 per cent, and for Michi-
gan, 30 per cent In portions of Michigan
the forest supply of timber has been al
most completely exhausted, while in
other portions different kinds of timber
in place of the vanished pines is worked
into great variety of products. The
city of Menominee, in Michigan, shows
the greatest increase in wood production
in the last 10 years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05

}nything else, ma'am, and pressed the
mt to her lips while the tears ran
own her face. Then seeing me looking
t her a bit curiously--whichI | couldn't
ave helped doing to save me. ma am
he sits right down here close to the.
open door where | were driving, and. as
We started toward the city again, She
Ills me why this little copper was SC
precious to her Seems it was the first
.'"nny her little son, who is dead, eves
wncd. and he gave it to her to keep fol
i'm. and-and-" with little trembl,
"a the gruff voice-"she's keeping it
he gave me this for finding it, ma am.
and the driver held up for my inspection
yellow disk | knew to he s. in gold
Detroit Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
PefriGcl Wills of Houses.

A gentleman who has just returned
from visit to the mountains in the Vi
cinity of Crawfish Springs, now Chcka-
mauga, and who has devoted considerable
time to the study of archaeology, has
much to say of the wonders and beauties
of that section.
Few are aware" says he, shat high
up on Pigeon Mountain, which joins
Lookout in making McLemore's Cove,
there is strange and beautiful forma-
ton of stone and rock strikingly re-
sembling ancient buildings i'll process of
decay. Many perfect petrifications are
found on the mountains, and one can
readily imagine that these stony, rigid
remains, which the credulous mountain
GERS call the Rock City, are the petrified
walls of houses which once echoed to the
voice and tread of mantle simulacher
of ruined city."-[Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
SOME VERY ANCIENT BATHS.
A Model of Them Being Set Up at the
Museum of Hygiene.

A Model of Them Being Set Up at the
Museum of Hygiene.
Dr. Wales is setting up at the Army
Medical Museum, in Washington, a most
interesting model of certain ancient
Roman baths, the remains Of which have
recently been dug up at Bath, England,
having been constructed at period some
little time before the birth of Christ
From date so far back that history has
no record of it the baths of Bath have
been used for their medicinal effects.
When the invaders from Rome came they
built great structures on the spot, which
for centuries have been buried beneath
ruins. Lately the spade and the pickax
have been set at work to dig out the re-
mains, and most interesting relics have
been exposed.
The model at the museum shows only
part of the original buildings, which
are represented, 50 far as they have been
unearthed, in the very middle part of
the city of Bath, the present street cross
ing at a higher level. There is shown in
the oldest built section a vast apartment
that was heated by fires below, and in
which the bathers of 90 centuries past
enjoyed the pleasures of unlimited per-
spiration. Attached to this We're warm
plunges and big cold plunge 60 feet in
length.
Subsequently, as the building plans
show, another great structure was added
on, with a swimming tub 100 feet in
length, wherein the bathers might dis
port themselves. Along both sides of
this huge plunge bath We're high couches
of stone, upon which the swimmers
might recline and be scraped with knives,
in the old Roman fashion, by slaves.
Thus far the building described is pre-
historic, but the next addition that was
made to it is known to have been erected
in the year 1927. 1t contains further
provisions for bathing, of a similar nat
ure, and to the whole has been added
within the last few years huge editice
that includes a pump room, where peo-
pie come to drink, and anumber of single
bath rooms, in which frequenters may
find private quarters and tubs to them
selves Very interesting it is to observe
the way in which these several parts of
this ancient establishment have been
added on, each one being at a higher ele-
walton than the next of earlier date, be-
cause of the covering up of the old time
buildings with the dust and ruins of cen-
turieS.