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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

Government and trainers or the Uonsu-
tuition, coupled with the doctrine OF.
American reciprocity, as developed and
put in practice by Blaine and Mckinley.
Because the one is the logical sequence
Of the other, and because, as expressed
in a Kansas county platform recently:
Protection means defense, while re-
ciprocity means conquest"
s. am for protection, because, under
its wise administration, the Nation has
continually grown greater and stronger,
despite the efforts Of those who oppose,
and who, while opposing. have never
offered any other or wiser scheme for
the upbuilulng and betterment of the
condition of the toiling millions in
America
And, finally, may add that, recog-
nizing Major Mckinley as the chief ex-
ponent and most conspicuous defender
of this cardinal Republican doctrine. the
Republicans of Kansas confidently hope
for his triumphant election III the pend
ing canvass in the grand old Buckeye
State. LYMAN U. HUMPHREY.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

Mexico has free coinage of silver, and its
silver dollar is legal tender for any
amount Notwithstanding these facts, the
Mexican dollar will purchase only its
bullion value which was seventy-seven
and one-half cents last week. With such
an object lesson, how can any one favor
free coinage in this county?-[Meigs
County Republican.
When the editor of the Register was
in Mexico, not long ago, he changed q
$40 National bank bill and got $3.50 III
Mexican dollars. The reason is that
free coinage had driven out gold by
cheapening the silver In lowering the
value of the currency, Mexico put a
burden on the labor of that nation which
presses it almost to abject bondage.
Free trade and free coinage in Mexico
limit labor to an by 10hut and five cent
per diem diet of chilliconcarne.-[I Ironton
Register
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

ROBERT P. PORTER gloomy prophecy by
free traders, we have added nation to
a nation-a nation complete in every
particular.
Other reasons why l am protectionist
are that du ing this period education has
kept step with the advancement of popu-
lation, that the social condition of the
people is improving in spite of the
statements that all wealth is accumulat-
ing in but few homes. The masses of
the people of the United States were
never better off than they are today;
never received better wages: never were
better able to buy more manufactured
products and provisions for dollar;
never better able to build good homes
for small sums of money; never better
able TO clothe themselves with good COM
Portable clothing; and never better able
to lay up money for the rainy day, than
they are at the present time.
RORERT p PORTER
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
IA, teria Killed by Electricity.

Ii1e disease producing bacteria may
be killed by current of electricity, as
las been shown by experiments with
bottles of water containing them. By
passing the current from battery
through a loop of wire suspended in the
water it was found that a small voltage
was sufficient to deprive the most active
bacteria of life. The consumption ba-
cillus died under two and a quarter
volts, while other more hardy species
could not survive more than three volts
and half.
Unfortunately, this electrical method
would be too expensive and troublesome
for the householder to pursue. 1t is sug-
gested, therefore, that cities or water
companies shall perform the entire task,
delivering the water to consumers in a
condition guaranteed harmless Accord
ing to the plan proposed the killing of
the microbe is to be accomplished at the
reservoir. Nothing could be easier than
to apply the energy of battery by a
current at one place in the supply pipes
as to kill with absolute certainty every
mlcroDe tn;it passed through III Cne HOW
ing water.
A dynamo with capacity of 1000
volts would do the work perfectly for
the biggest possible pipe. Staying all the
bacteria going through and rendering
innocuous all the millions of gallons
daily that a metropolis consumes. All
that is necessary is that length of the
pipe shall be made of insulated material,
and through holes in its sides will be in
serted wires representing the poles of the
battery-positive on one side and mega
tive on the other. Set the dynamo going,
and the current springs through the wa
ter. filling it with powerful electric
waves necessarily fatal to all living or
ganisms floating in the stream.-New
York Telegram.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY.
GOVERNORS OFFICE,
TOPEKA AupuSt 1891.
R. A. ALGER.

lOIEhA, uoIs lOOls
Answering your inquiry briefly and
hastily, l will say that l am protec-
ZIONIST:
/. Because l believe the results of
protection inure very largely to the
benefit of the vast army of wage earners
of the country, and thus promote the
dignity, independence, and prosperity of
American labor, both skilled and un-
skilled.
2. Because 1 believe that the Ameri-
can citizen and producer. who fights the
battles of this country and supports Its
institutions in peace and in war, has the
right on general principles to demand
such reasonable protection as will give
him an advantage in the American mar
ket as against the foreign producer OF
like commodities, employing the cheap
labor of Europe.
3. Because such protection multlplles
employments, stimulates and diversities
our industries, increases the wages of
labor, and creates and builds up home
market for the products of American
agriculture at better prices.
a. Because protection develops the
skill and quickens the genius Of our
American artisans, makes us strong
and many-sided people, and, as Nation,
truly independent.
5. Because it compels the foreign
manufacturer and importer to bear a
part of the burdens of our Government;
and thus furnishes the only source of
revenue from which to maintain our
munifcent system of pensions to the sol
diers and sailors of the Union army and
navy, their widows and orphans, to the
men who, in the troublous days of
1861-5 eeriled life and limb for the
protection" of the Union against the
assaults of the Southern Democracy, and
their British free trade allies and SYM
pathizers.
6. Because protection is opposed to
the other policy of free trade, under
whatever guise that is sought to be
forced upon us, by our great CONNER
cial rival-Great Britain, through the
Democratic party of this country. 1t
is, in my opinion, quite safe, as rule,
not to do that which John Bull would
have us do, especially in matters of
National policy.
z. Ibelieve in the policy of protection
as advocated by the founders of the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
The Contracts of Silver Mine Owners.

Hon. NJ. D. Harter, Democratic Con-
gresham from the Mansfield district, is
not in harmony with his distinguished
fellow Democrat the Hon. James E..
Campbell, Governor of Ohio, on ques-
tions of finance He is not like Mr..
Campbell willing ''to chance it on free
silver" In recent letter to friend in
Cincinnati, Mr.. Harter calls attention to
the following interesting facts relative to
the free coinage of silver:
Perhaps ought to call your attention to
the fact that these same silver people who
live in Nevada, Idaho, ETC., while advocat-
ing a law to compel the wage earners of
Ohio to take seventy-five cents worth of
their silver as full payment of the work
ing mans dollars worth of sweat, are
careful in their notes, contracts and agree
ments to stipulate that every one of their
debtors shall pay these same silver advo-
Gates exclusively in gold coin of the
United States of the present standard of
weight and purity. Yes, and if it is an in
terest bearing debt, these silver patriots
also provide that all the interest due them
shall be paid IN gold.
Such action on the part of owners of
silver mines ought to convince any one
of their real object in demanding the
free and Unlimited coinage of silver:
Personal interest to them is paramount
to the public good.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

0L-N a VAf n l.
LEWISTON, Me-, Augu

LEWISTON, Me-, August, 1891.
Theoretically the doctrine of free
trade" is well enough, and were the con-
ditions equal the world over, or as nearly
so rs they are amongst our States, prac-
tically it woul1 work well. But they
are not. and it will take centuries of the
present slow progress in the improve
ment in the condition of the working
men and women of Europe to bring
about such result. know from care
full personal investigation that the wages
paid in Europe today in manufacturing,
mining, aud agriculture are not, on the
average, quite one-half those well estab-
lished here; that the product of these
wages seeks our market and cOmpeteS
with the product of our industries; that,
while fifty years ago difficulty of COM
munication, cost of transportation,
length of time consumed by it, and the
enormous prAlts demanded by invested
capital abroad. tended somewhat to
equalization. Today these elements
must be almost entirely eliminated from
the problem. Can we compete with
these countries in these industries under
these conditions?
We can, first, by reducing the wages
of our men and women to the scale pre-
vailing there. and their manner of living
to that obtaining abroad, then opening
our ports to the free admission of their
products. The contention, the misery,
the wretchedness which would newt
ably follow such an experiment no man
can measure,
Second, we can by imposing upon all
imports, competing with the products of
our labor. duties equivalent, or nearly
so, TO the difference in the wages of the
workmen there and here. This is pro-
lection, and exactly what the Mckinley
bill seeks to accomplish. Enforced, it
secures to our people the lions share of
their own market. the best in the world,
fair wages, comfortable living and gen.
eral prosperity, while competition here,
new methods and machinery secured by
it, thorough organization, and economy
of management, in time, inevitably re-
duce the cost of all manufacturers to our
consumers.
Learning something by the experience
of our past, and knowing that our future
depends largely upon the comfort. hap
piness, intelligence and good disposition
of our wage earners, cannot be other
than protectionist.
WILLIAM P FRYE
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
The Wills of Noah and Jacob.

The origin of testaments is lost in OBJ
scurity, but doubtless they followed soon
after the first institution of private prop
erty. Eusebius says that Noah made a
will soon after the flood wherein he dis
posed of the whole world. He was GER
tainly possessed of a considerable landed
estate, but Eusebius' story of the testa-
ment in writing and witnessed under his
seal needs confirmation.
In the forty-eighth chapter of Genesis.
however, we do find mention of will.
wherein Jacob bequeathed to his son Jo-
seph twice as much as to his other chill
dren This was not testament in writ
ing, but a verbal or "nuncupative" testa-
ment. declared by the testator Sin ex-
tremis' before witnesses. and depending
upon oral testimony.
Such ''nuncupative' testaments were
at one time recognized in English law,
but in the eighteenth century Black
stone says they were fallen into disuse,
and hardly ever heard of.-All the Year
RO1nd
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
A Desperate Way to Raise Money.

desperate way TO haise hoAey'
About the most desperate thing | ever
heard of in the way of money raising
came to my professional notice some
years ago, said a detective TO me-
Complaint wasmade at the office that
a diamond stud, valued at over thou
sand dollars. had been stolen from GER
tain up town house. was detailed on
the case, and after few hours found the
stone, which had been pawned for $500.
when stolen property is found at a
pawnbrokers the amount advanced on it
is returned to him, either by the owner
or the thief, if his resources will allow
of such a thing The law protects the
broker, and it is proper that it should,
but the capture and conviction of the
thief is necessary factor in such cases.
''This time no trace of the burglar
could be found
THE owners proved property and the
brilliant was returned to them. 1t rep
resented at this stage a clear gain for
the rascal and dead loss for the pawn
broker
IL was HOI loHS DtiOTo we udu QUIZ
man, though, and then there was prompt
conviction, sentence of one year in the
Elmira reformatory and vain search for
the owners of the property.
1.-The matter dropped from my mind in
the rush of other business, until one day
| learned the secret of the whole opera
ton. The theft had been the deed of the
son of the robbed family. They were
sorely in need of money, and had resort
ed to this way of getting it. When called
on to reimburse the luckless pawnbroker
they were apparently penniless. The
thief had then gone free, and all the par
ties interested had dropped from sight.
THAT fellow was paid, or rather paid
himself, at the rate of three dollars per
day during his stay in Elmira. New
York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
No TyrO at the Reins,

saw big three horse dray in Four
teenth street the other day, the driver
of which admired very much. He was
backing the truck down, and before him
was the trio of powerful, gray, half-bred
Percherons He used his reins merely
to give the direction of the desired
swing to his horses. and for this touch
sufficed. Then he would speak to them,
and they would move as he wished, most
intelligently. When they backed the
reins lay idle and loose, mere Come
back herer' being sufficient Any man
who has the sense to manage horses in
this fashion is man worth knowing
New York Telegram.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
How the Tea Plant Started.

AS you drink cup of tea do you ever
think how tea came to grow? Tell your
next visitor the story. A Persian prince,
on his way to meet his betrothed, vowed
that he would not sleep until he saw
her. After travelling seven days, he
stopped to rest under shade tree, and
there, being no longer able to resist the
temptation, he fell into sound sleep.
When he awakened he was SO sorry
that he cut off his eyelids and threw
them on the ground. From them grew
the tea plant. 1t is rather unfortunate
that the story stops here, because it
would be interesting to know what the
lady thought of a sweetheart without
eyelids, and whether it would be posi-.
bic for them to grow again--New York
Sun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
GRAINS OF GOLD.

False modesty is the refinement of van
ity.
Home is the chief school of human
virtue.
Pride in beauty is like a flaw in di-
amond.
Occasional praise is wholesome as well
as agreeable.
The most certain sign of wisdom is
perpetual cheerfulness.
Patience is plant of slow growth, but
it bears precious fruit.
One fault begets another; one crime
makes another necessary.
Hear one man before you answer; hear
several before you decide.
No man of woman born, coward or
brave, can shun his destiny.
1 can promise to be sincere, but l can
not promise to be impartial.
Virtue, like dowerless beauty, has
more admirers than followers.
Display is like shallow water where
you can see the muddy bottom.
Every good man should belong to his
family first and to other organizations
afterward.
How white are the fair robes of Char
ity as she walketh amid the habitations
of the poor.
You can't tell anything about mans
religion by what he does when he knows
he is watched.
There are many people in the world
who laugh all the way home and stop as
soon as they reach their own door.
The man who takes your advice never
gives you chance to forget that it was
your advice, if it turns out to be bad for
him.
Every heart has its secret sorrow
which the world knows not, and often
times we call man cold when he is on
lY sad
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

Oliver Wendell Holmes was class
mate of DR.. Clarke at Harvard, and ac-
cording to the "reminiscences of the lat
ter, the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Ia
BILE" was as witty then as now. One day
the two were talking of metaphysics,
when the bright tongued little great man
exclaimed: "I'll tell you, James, what |
think metaphysics is like. 1t is like a
man splitting log. When it is done he
has two more to splitr'-San Francisco
Arponaut
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
A WONDER WORKER.

Mr. Frank Huffman, a young man of
Burlington, Ohio, states that he had
been under the care of two prominent
physicians, and used their treatment un-
til he was not able to get around They
pronounced his case to be consumption
and incurable. He was persuaded to try
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, coughs and colds, and at that time
was not able to walk across the street
without resting. He found, before he
had used half of dollar bottle, that he
was much better; he continued to use it
and is to-day enjoying good health. If
you have any throat, lung or chest trou-
Bile, try it. We guarantee satisfaction.
Trial bottle free at PattersOn's. (5)
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

THE medical profession disguises from
the public the fact of the prevalence of
kidney troubles, because of their inability
to provide their patients with success
full treatment. The most noted physician
speaks plainly. H. C. Mccormick, NJ.
D., Ph. g., of Penn Argyle, Pa, writes,
with 30 years experience l find DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp Root by far the most
successful kidney, liver and bladder spe-
ciic ever used in my practice. 1t has
cured hundreds of the worst cases for
me-" Sold by druggists. l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

WAS troubled with catarrh for seven
years previous to commencing the use
of Ely's Cream Balm. 1t has done for
me what other so called cures have fail
ed to dO-cured me. The effect of the
Balm seemed magical. Clarence l..
Huff, Biddeford, Me. After trying many
remedies for catarrh during the past
twelve years, tried Ely's Cream Balm
with complete success. 1t is over one
year since L stopped using it and have
had no return of catarrh. recommend
it to all my friends.-Milton 7. Palm,
Reading, Pa. 9-3 2t.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor Public worship every sabbath
morning ald evening; sabbath school 9 80 a. m.
young peoples society of Christian endeavOr Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev.
Ezra Hingeley, pastor. Sabbath preaching, IL
L. m; p. m; young peoples meeting Monday
evenings; generalprayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nings; Sabbath school 2:30 pm. Strangers cor
daily invited to all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERLAN 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. wOman's missionary
)eiety, last Saturday of each month, p m; dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
young wOmen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRICAN NJ. M.E.CHURCH-Rev Albert March
pastor Sunday service, 1870 a. m; p. M; Sab
bath school, 2 30 p m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
Harvest Excursions.

On August 25th, September 18th and
29th, excursion tickets at especially re-
duced round trip rates will be sold from
all principal coupon ticket stations on
the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pitts
burgh to points in the West, Northwest,
and Southwest, good returning for thirty
days from date of SALE For further in
formation apply to the nearest agent Of
the PENNSYLVANIA Lines. s 20-6t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
What Are You Getting for Your WoOlf
YOUNGSTOWN Telegram.1


] am entirely willing to answer your
questions by saying that sold my wool for
about twelve cents more per pound than
my Canadian competitor got for the same
grade of wool, and about fourteen to
fifteen cents more than the same grade of
wool was quoted in the London market.
And feeling morally certain that my excess
price was caused by the duty put upon for
eign imported woods by the Mckinley bill,
| decidedly prefer it to the Mills bill,
which put wool on the free list, and which
would have compelled me to have sold my
wool at the same price of the Canadian
farmer and the English speculator.-lGen-
eral A. w. Jones.
l cordially endorse every word General
A. w. Jones says on the wool question.
We cannot get as much for our wool as one
would like, but we will always be sure of
getting as much more than the foreigner
as the tariff on wool is. This year was
paid twenty-one and one-half cents pound
for my wool in the dirt, which was one
third off the price for clean wool, thirty
two and one-half cents. was formerly a
Democrat and voted for Grover Cleveland
when he was elected President, but | with
drew my support from his party when he
wrote the message advising that wool be
placed on the free list and ever since have
voted the Republican ticket. Yes, sir
am in favor of protection, but we will
always be at something of disadvantage
so long as Australia is willing to grow
wool for nothing. Farmer J. E. Gray, of
Coitsville.
Facts speak louder than words. The
testimony of General A. w. Jones and
Farmer J. e. Gray, both well ksavny
both experienced in wool growing, both
competent to judge, and one until re-
Gently Democrat, who was driven from
the party by this very wool question,
will be almost conclusive evidence to the
farmers of the Mahoning valley that a
wool tariff is better than free trade.
And they won't forget it election day
either.
Modern Democrats, such as Cleveland
and Campbell, say of wool: ''It is raw
material. We can buy it cheaper in
South America and Australia. Put it
on the free list. The farmers will stand
it if we do fleece them" Farmers shoild
not forget that during Cleveland's ad-
ministration wool sold lower than it is
selling now, and lower than at any time
since the war. The average price of
domestic wool at the farm was as fol-
lows: 1885, twenty-three cents per
pound; 1888, twenty-four cents per
pound; 1887, twenty-four cents per
pound; 1888, twenty-six cents per pound.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
A Question of Form.

Mrs Wayuppe-Yorr enthusiasm. my
young friend, marks the vulgarian.
Utter repose of manner and perfect con-
cealment of all emotion is the highest
type of good form.
Miss Ingenue-Then the stolidness of
the noble red man entities him to be re-
garded as the type of your highest breed
ing. -Pittsburg Bulletin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
State Fair. Wheeling.

For the above occasion the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company win sell ex-
cursion tickets to Wheeling, September
Sth to l1th, for all regular trains at half
rates; tickets good for going passage on
date of sale and good returning on all
trains until Sept. IL. To accommodate
excursionists returning train No. Is,
which ordinarily leaves Wheeling at 2:55
p. m., Eastern time, will be held ON Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, until 500
D. m. Eastern time, or 400 Central time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

If you could see your own scalp
through an ordinary magnifying glass,
you would be amazed at the amount of
dust, dandruff, and dead skin thereon
accumulated. The best and most popu-
lar preparation for cleansing the scalp
is Ayers Hair Vigor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
Pittsburgh Exposition.

Excursion tickets, including admission
to the Exposition, will be sold to Pitts
burgh at reduced rates for all regular
trains via the Pennsylvania Lines from
September End to 0ctObers 18th, good re-
turning two days from date of sale, or
if sold on Friday until the following
Monday. S-21-St