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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
Senator Hearst,s Men in Buckram.

One day while the late Senator Hearst
was young man and yet had his fort
une to make he and few companions
were on a prospecting tour. Along in
the afternoon they sighted band of In
dians, and, as in those days all Indians
were hostile, Mr.. Hearst and his friends
naturally wanted to get away from there.
All the prospectors, except the future
senator. were mounted on horses. He
was on a retired army mule, and soon
found himself left in the rear. The In
dams were on his trail and things began
to look serious, when he called out to
his rapidly disappearing companions:
"Hold on, boys; there's only few Of
them. We needn't be afraid"
Just then the mule scented the ap-
preaching Indians, and with wild snort
started out at gait that soon left the
horsemen far behind When Hearst was
about quarter of mile in advance he
turned in his saddle and yelled at the
top of his voice:
Hurry up, boys; you'll get scalped.
There's more'n hundred of them.
Chicago Post.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
Old Wnad for Xinlins.

When the old Pierce building, that had
stood at the corner of fremont and
Court streets for more than two hundred
years, was torn down six or seven years
ago, l got a lot of pieces of spruce joists
out of it to make violin tops. That's it,
now. Most people think violins are
made from some queer and costly foreign
wood. They are not. The top is of
spruce boards or timbers, and the strap,
the back and the scroll from curly maple.
The essential, however, is that the wood
shall have been seasoned for generations.
Cheap violins are made from wood that
has been seasoned only four or five
wears. | want wood 100 years old.
The old spruce is easier to get than the
old maple. For that we have to seek in
old farmhouses, where there are veDer-
able chests of drawers and old fashioned
bedsteads of maple, with headboards
and footboards. We buy these for what
we can, but they cost a great deal, for
people usually value them highly as heir
looms. The posts and frame of the beds
we can work into necks and scrolls, and
the headboards, etc., into scraps and
backs. Here is an old piece of board no
more than two feet long, as you see, that
couldn't replace for five dollar BILL
Interview with Violin Maker.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
Conversational Equality.

For conversation society must not be
very unequal. By inequality I do not
refer to the doubtful distinction of bank
ing accounts or family trees. So far as
these are concerned there is nothing SO
democratic as conversation. But it does
demand some approach to a similarity
not in opinions; with good temper these
may widely differ-but in manners and
taste, and, above all, in intellectual
capacity. When people are brought TO-
gether without care for these similarities
we know what happens. If their num-
Der be large enough they invariably split
up, not by cold exclusiveness, but by
natural selection, into mutually appre-
ciative groups, of which each member
has some affinity for the rest.
Where this instructive distribution is,
through smallness of numbers or the
fussiness of host, impossible we may
expect dull time. All know Bret
Harte's tale of a man who had never
heard of Adam before and asked "What
was his other nameT But there have
been takers in real life also who had to
endure much at the hands of the igno-
rant.-Gentleman Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

In the province of Holstein, noted fol
its superior breed of cattle, the country
people are not only very thrifty but ex-
ceedingly fond of their cows, as may be
gathered from the following character.
istic story,
Farmer Jan was walking sadly down
the road one day when the village pastor
met him.
why 80 sad, Farmer JAM" said the
pastor.
"Ah, l have sad errand, pastor, said
Jan.
What is itT'
Farmer Henrik's cow is dead in my
pasture, and l am on my way to tell
him."
ga hard task, JAN"
Indeed it is, but l shall break it to
him gently"
'How will you do thatY'
81 shall tell him first that it is his
mother who is dead. and then, having
opened the way for sadder news still, ]
shall tell him that it is not his mother.
but the cowp-Youth's Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

1t is not always easy in any sphere to
discriminate between the trihing and the
momentous. 1t is often matter of COM
parison, and judgment and experience
are needed in the selection. Trihes are
not to be confounded with details, which
are often most important. Neither are
things necessarily trifing because they
are small. A kind look, a gentle warn
ing, cordial greeting, slight service
are sometimes desplsed as trifes, when
in truth they are signs of generous and
kindly nature, and carry untold blessings
to their recipients.
Many little things are far more i'm
portant than what we misscall great
ones; they may indeed be the true reali-
ties, while the others may be insignif-
can't. If each one will faithfully examine
the meanings and purposes of the various
spheres in which he moves, and endeavor
conscientiously to make them first in his
heart and life, the trifes will sink into
their proper and subordinate place
New York Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
GRAINS OF GOLD

Every guide board pointing to heaven
says, "start now."
Caution is often wasted, but 1t Is a
very good risk to take.
1t costs more to be proud than it does
for everything else together.
Two good listeners may be friends,
but two good takers never.
Love is the only thing that can light
en- burdens by adding to them.
The road to heaven is up hill all the
way to the man who looks back
1t is only the prayers that come from
the heart that are heard in heaven
If the earth were covered with flowers
all the year round, the bees would get
lazy.
The love of Justice in most men is
simply the fear of suffering from in
justice.
The roses of pleasure seldom last long
enough to adorn the brow of those who
pluck them.
There are good many different ways
in which some men can manage to brag
on themselves.
If you will do good whenever you
have an opportunity, you will gener-
ally be very busy.
Heroism needs no toga. Great or small
it consists in doing ones duty at the cost
of personal sacrifice.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never come.
Good tools never made mechanic
skillfpl; college education never made
man brilliant and talented.
This is only sure, that there is nothing
sure; and nothing more miserable, ano
yet more arrogant, than man.
1t is the blackest ingratitude to accept
the best Of any ones endeavors to please
you and repay it with indifference.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
THE LAST ROSE.

flushed is the voice that held our hearts CO.
thralled-
flushed ere life's wine on those glad lips had
palled;
flushed in its joyous prime, while trophies
sweet
Still breathed their fragrance at the singers
feet
And she who sang THE Last Rose" o'er and DER
Since first her girlish hands songs scepter
grasped,
Linking it with her name from shore to shore,
Lies with the last rose in her fingers clasped
As seal of science
Dear the singers fame,
But dearer still each tender household name
We knew her by-wife, daughter, sister, friend;
And while the passing years her praise pro-
long,
With her Last Rose in loving thought shall
blend
The roselike life she welded to her song.
Mary B. Sleight in Harper's Bazar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
The TeredO.

The shipworm or teredo, with its long,
spiral shell, would hardly be taken for a
two Waived shell, yet it is. 1t is the bette
noir of the dock builder on the Pacific
and South Atlantic coasts, boring into
the wood and depositing lining, until
finally the wood is completely honey
combed and falls to pieces. On the
Florida reef found that a new dock.
when the piles were protected by cas-
ings covered with tar, were rendered
unsafe in little over a year. An old
wreck, comprised of the hull of good
sized ship, was visited by me in 1862;
three or four years later it had almost
disappeared.
1t was out of the reach of the surf. and
simply fell apart by the action of these
destroyers that had completely honey
combed it, so that wading up to it at
low tide could puncture the hull any
where with my finger. The only wood
which seemed to resist the inroads of
the animal was the palmetto. | often
found logs or trunks floating, and while
the terero had attacked it they were evi-
IDENTIFY disheartened. Our common terero
is but few inches in length, but in Su.
matra giant of six feet is found boring
III the mud.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
A Horid Sample.

A commercial traveller whom l know
carries perhaps the most unique "sam-
pie" in the drumming profession. 1t is
nothing less than human body, three
years old, an example of the efficacy of a
certain embalming fluid. For three
years this mummy has been transported
on the railroads as sample case would
be, and, indeed, there is no outward sign
which would indicate the uncanny nat
ure of its contents. In this instance the
longer the body is preserved the more OF
an advertisement it is for the fluid il the
veins of the "stiff." The box is zinc
lined, and does not exceed the limits OF
the railroad excess baggage rule in
weight.-Interview in St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
The Odd Use of Words.

1t is amusing to note how many words
and expressions we hear every day that
mean something far different from what
they seem to mean. We are so accus-
toned to this that we pay little atten-
tion to it, except when we are in thought
full mood; and no matter how careful we
are we gradually drop into the habit of
following our neighbor's example, and
in turn setting the example for others to
follow.
Thus we find no fault with the friend
who tells US soberly that the clock has
struck one, when we know that the clock
has never been guilty of striking anybody
We do not protest against hearing an
other declare that ne did something
wrong because he could not help it, as
though the wrong, had it been assisted,
would have committed itself and saved
the actual sinner from all blame.
per's Young People.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
Superficial Judgment of Men,

In our judgment of men we are to be-
ware of giving any great importance to
occasional acts. By acts of occasional
generosity weak men endeavor to re-
deem themselves in their own estima-
ton; vain men to exalt themselves in
that of mankind. It may be observed
that there are no men more worthless
and selfish, IN the general tenor of their
lives, than some who, from time to time,
perform feats of generosity. Sentimental
selfshness will commonly vary its in
dulgences in this way, and vainglorious
selfshness will break out into acts OF
munifcence. But self government and
self denial are not to be relied upon for
any real strength, except in SO far as
they are found to be exercised in detail.
New York Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
The NewsDaDer.

The American journal has placed 6
girdle around the earth. 1t has brought
the whole human family under one roof
The dreams, the hopes, the laughter, the
tears, the achievements, the disasters oi
humanity, yes, the very gossip of the
idle hour, the passing jest, the keer
witticism, all are told through the pres
by one to another of the millions anG
millions of the human race, as if all sal
at the one table and took their rolls and
coffee together.-James w. King in
Philadelphia Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

Look at the most insignificant record
of a grant of rice to some poor Brahmin
in any temple during the days of the
Chola or Chalukya, ten or fifteen centu-
ries ago; each letter, each stroke or dot
stands in clear, distinct form, as legible
as it was years ago when its wording
meant SO much to the poor recipient.
But want of ar. energy is allowing this
to die. Ready az the Indian nation is
to present addresses Of welcome to rajahs
and to English officials of position, the
never take the trouble to engrave last
ones on copper.-Nineteenth Cent,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
Easier to Get Hats Than Dollars.

"Yep," said Pink Whiskers, the tramp,
81 wish't l had as many dollars as it is
easy to git hats. You see, gang of us
will lay down in the weeds alongside of
the railroad little way from the water
tank. Jest as passenger train is about
to start off, after the engine is through
takin' water, we jump up and holler,
'Howdy, colonel? Then all the men in
the cars stick their heads out nv the win
ders and we grab their hats an slide.
Ov course this is in the south. In the
west we say 'jedge' and in the east per
fesser.' Anywhere else we sing out,
'Howdy, Mr.. Smith," - Greenburg
Sparks
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

A modification of what is known as
the Australian ballot plan is in force in
England in the election of members of
the house of commons. This regulation,
however, is not permanent there, as it is
here In the states employing this system.
An act of parliament is passed annually
to provide for the method of voting.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

Names are taken by the Indians in
early life, after period of fasting and
seclusion, which is part of their ''med-
icine" or religion. With some the first
animal seen, with others the first thing
seen by the Indian after rising from this
period of seclusion becomes his totem OF
guardian spirit. and also his name.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

1t is now forty years since the first of
the great series of worlds fairs was held
in London. The receipts for admissions
there were less than two million dollars.
At the last worlds fair in Paris the re-
ceipts were over eight millions. Chicago
expects to multiply that last by two.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

Tramp-You gave me a counterfeit IS
bill few moments ago.
Practical Joker-He! hel he! no!
hol Found it out, eh?
"Yes. sir; and ON my information an
officer is now looking for you. Gimme
g in good money and I'll throw 'em off
the track. Thanks. Ia, tai-Good
News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
ST. CLAIRSVILLE DIVISION.

All trains daily except Sunday: All trains make
close connection at st. Clairsyille Junction VIII
trains running East for Baltimore, washington,
Philadelphia and New York, and with trains run,
ming West for Columbus, Cincinnati, chicago, ana
all points West.
For further information call on Il, o. ticket
agents, or address o. p McCarty, ASS ten. fass'
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio; l.. L. Allen, ASST 1eh'
Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill.
j. I. ODEI.L, G. q. SCuiI-
Cen1 Manager Gen1 Pass Agent
EDW. DICKINSON, Cen. Supt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

Men do not carry facons or scent bot
ties nowadays, nor do they wear jew
eled garters or bracelets. When the
semblance Of manhood is seen decked
out in these effeminate and superficial
trifies it is safe to rs aysided.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

+Trains run daily. tDaiy except Sunday. tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 30 p m daily
except Sunday; Newark IS m; arrive GAINESVILLE
6 SO p m, Cambridge Z 80 pm.
Columbus & Sandusky Accom-. leaves Columbus
H. 20 m; arrives Sandusky II 80 pm.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

WEALTH is more appreciated thar
wisdom-and money, like the mantle OF
charity, "covers a multitude of imper-
fections."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

NATURE is an enormous system, but
in mass and in particle curiously availa-
BILE to the humble need of the little
creature that walks on the earth!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

If Satan ever laughs it must be
at hypocrites-they being the greatest
dupes he has; they serve him better
than others, and receive no wages.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

THAT which is called liberality, is fire.
quently nothing more than the vanity OF
giving, of which we are more fond than
of the thing given.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

THE man who finds fault with the
poor quality of the sermon generally
tries to make the collection equal to his
opinion of the preaching by dropping in
cent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

THIS wolldi is like fruit basket. The
big and attractive get on top, while the
little ones are crushed out of sight in
the bottom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

CHILDREN should be taught to respect
the secrets of their friends and school
mates in all cases where they can do so
consistently with conscientious regard
for right and Justice.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

If you have any opinions of your own
they will never amount to much as long
as YOU are ashamed to father them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

THAT man is most successful who
best and most fully puts to useful
service all his powers and faculties,
who finds and utilizes the opportunity for
their employment; or, in other words,
gets into the place which he is best fit
ted to fill.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

JUSTICE is not postponed; perfect
equity adjusts its balance in all parts of
life. Every secret is told, every crime
is punished, every virtue rewarded, ev-
cry wrong redressed, in silence and GER
tainty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

No human being can be isolated and
self-sustained. The strongest and bravest
and most helpful have, acknowledged
or unacknowledged to themselves, mo-
ments of hungry soul -yearnings for COM
panionship and sympathy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

You must desire to improve your
heart, and SO become good. You must
desire to improve your head, and so be-
come well informed. But you must de-
sire first to become good. That is the
first and great end of life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

1T is the proportionate development
of thought and enthusiasm that makes
the truly valuable man or woman. The
chief bane of success everywhere is that,
instead of being welded, they are so
often divorced.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

THERE is a truth which is seldom fully
realized, that the presence of fraternal
good will not only helps to adjust diff
ficulties but prevent their occurrence.
Fraternal good will shows men not only
how to deal with conflicting interests,
but how to make them identical.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

CoNNECTIoNs-At Barton with all passenger
trains on C., l.. &W. Ry sF-Direct with Stleet
Cars from Bridgeport to Wheeling. Only direct
route between st. Clairsyille and Wheeling.
A. C.. DARRAH, j. +. TOWNSEND,
President. Gen. Traf. Agt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
CLEVELkNO, LORAlN l. WHEELING R. r
Time Card Of Passenger Trains.
In effect Nov 18th, 1890, and until further notice.
Standard Times minutes slower than
ColumbuS Ohio time.
ad Down North-Read 10

CIeVelanu-Wltl 1lst tIlllIls Tot Isl anu Ntsli
Lorain-with the Nickel Plate; Elyria-with the
Sterling with the y Y P& o Ry; WaTwick-with
the A & c Ry: MasillOn-with " & /. 4 R'y and
Z Ft W & c R'y; Justus-with tie & sc Ry; Canal
DOver-with c s. NJ i3y; Uhriesville the
Handle; Bridgeport-vith 4 z ny; Bel
laire-with b s. o R'y.
l. f. TOWNSEND. Cen. Trlf. AIT.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

If to make two blades of grass grow
where only one has grown before is COM
mendable, how much more so is it to
discover, and exemplify, and teach, a
virtue lost sight of or before unknown?
Equally commendable is it to brighten
up old and accepted virtues, and to place
them in better light, that they may ap-
pear more attractive.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

A MAN who has new thought or a
new light on any subject has no right to
thrust it upon another against his will;
nor can he reasonably feel aggrieved
that no one viii share it with him. But
neither has he the right to bury it out of
sight, still less to disown or to be asham-
ed of it because it is not popular. If it
is of any worth, it must make its way
surely, though slowly, into the minds
and hearts of men, and to assist its en-
trance is at once his privilege and duty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30

ALL knowledge is the result of the
union of two factors-one objective, and
one subjective. To know anything is to
prefer it to something known before.
Unless there be an inner group of ideas
to which the object may in some way be
referred, knowledge of it is impossible;
and the character of the resulting knowl-
enge depends upon the character of the
inner group of ideas.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-06

An ELEGANT. modern ten-roomed
"A house. with steam heat hardwood fin
ish electric bells, etc.; hill district; cheap to
(good) parties. Abbott q Dargeloh, 81 Cham
Der of Commerce.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-06
PROFESSIONAL.
MUSICAL.

EELECTRIC AND VAPOR BATHS.
u Mrs. A. +. BagnaIl, 1850 West Seventh