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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
THE FINGER NAILS.
IMPORTANT REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD
lNr L, A

IMPORTANT REASONS WHY THEY SHoULI
BE KEPT CLEAN.
Boston Post.
There is common belief that the fin
ger nails are poisonous, which idea is
natural enough, considering the fact
that scratches made by them are gener-
ally quite irritable and much inclined
to unusual Inflammation.
The reasoning is erroneous, however,
for, as far as is known, the nails them
selves do not have any poisonous prop
critics. The trouble excited by them is
due to the foreign deposits under them.
In other words, if one keeps his finger
nails clean scratches caused by them
will be no more irritable than those pro-
duced by any like instrument that is
considered innocent.
The results of the examinations made
in Vienna show that it is more import
ant that the finger nails be kept clean
than any would suppose. Seventy eight
were made, and there were found 30
hlAOo VI u1IClOOCSy 10 OAlIClCAO
and three kinds of sarcen@; besides
common mold spores were present in
many instances.
1t would seem from this that the
spaces under the finger nails were favor
able hiding places for minute organisms
which are more or less prejudicial to
health, and that therein lies the poison
GUS element attributed to the nails
Furthermore, that cleanliness of the
nails is very important essential. 1t
is not sufficient to use merely knife
blade, but at the toilet nail brush and
plenty of soap and water should be call
ed into service.
Surgeons long ago learned that depos-
its under the nails was a menace, and
them wounds were easily poi
soned. This led to extreme care in the
matter of personal cleanliness on their
own part and on the part of all their as
sistants. Before an operation is per-
formed all who touch the patient or the
instruments which are to be used must !
first clean their hands thoroughly with
soap and water, being especially careful
to have the spaces under the nails abso-
lutely clean. After this the hands are
put into disinfeetant solutions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

"THE Heart of the Desert" is the ex
pressive title of Charles Dudley Warmers
fourth and concluding paper on Cali
fornia and the South Pacific slope, in the
February number of Harper's Magazine.
Mr.. Warner will describe, in his own
delightful manner, his impressions of
the Yosemite, of the giant trees ot the
Mariposa region, and of the Grand
Canon of the Colorado. The paper will
be profusely illustrated from photographs
and from drawings
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

GEORGE M. WISE, addressing the
Farmers Institute of Belmont county,
said: "If the people want taxes re-
duced they must quit calling for public
expenditures for everything they can
think Of" That one sentence has more
practical sense in it than the whole of
many a labored essay on political econ
omy. The rage for public expenditures
grows yearly, the taxpayers seeming
always to forget that every dollar ex-
pended by State, county, township or
municipal authorities comes out of
the peoples own pockets.-Ohio State
Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
THE responsibility of writers is ably

THE responsibility of writers is ably
discussed by Charles W. Warner in the
"Editor's Drawer" in Harper's MdgG-
zine for February. He says:
1t is difficult enough to keep the world
straight without the interposltion of fic-
ton. But the conduct of the novelists
and the painters makes the task of the
eonservators of society doubly perplex-
ing. = Perhaps the most harmful sin
ners are not those who send into the
world of fiction the positively wicked
and immoral, but those who make cur
rent the dull, the commonplace, and the
socially vulgar. For most readers the
wicked character is repellent; but the
commonplace raises less protest, and is
soon deemed harmless, while it is most
demoralizing. Unfortunately the
world is ordered that the person of the
fesblest constitution can communicate
contagious disease. And these people,
bred oD this pabulum, IN turn make
books. If one, it is now admitted, can
do nothing else in this world, he can
write, and so the evil widens and widens.
No art is required, nor any selection.
nor any ideality. only capacity for in
creasing the vacuous commonplace in
life. A princess born may have this,
or the leader Of cotillions. Yet in the
Judgment the responsibility viii rest
upon the writers who set the copy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
CONGRESS.

JAN 13.-Se'lGte-Bills passed: Fol
construction of bridge across Red River
at Drayton, N. D.; for certain public
buildings.
Senator Sherman and others spoke on
the financial bill.
House-Senate amendments to sundry
public building bills were agreed to.
The army appropriation bill was taken
up but not disposed of.
The report of ballot-box commission
was laid before the House.
JAN. 14.-SenGte-Bill passed: Pro-
viding for the free coinage of silver.
The election bill was then taxed up as
unfinished business.
House-Bills passed: Increasing by
$4,000 the limit of cost of public build
ing at Portsmouth, Ohio.
Making appropriation for the army.
JAN 5.-Senate-Several resolutions
were reported.
Bills introduced: To credit the late
postmaster at Minneapolis with named
sum; to establish branch mints at
Omaha and Boise City.
Resolution offered: On subject of the
recent information for a writ of prohibit
tion in Supreme Court in connection
with Behring Sea dispute.
House-The silver (free coinage (bill
was received from the Senate.
The speaker announced the committee
to investigate the silver pool question.
JAN. -SenGte-The day was spent
discussing the election bill, and the
debate wat going on at the honr we go
to press, with prospects of an all night
session.
House-Resolution adopted: Allowing
the silver pool investigating committee
to sit during the sessions of the House.
The District of Columbia bill was
taken up.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THE ever-busy statistician figures that
for every man in Italy worth five. thous-
and dollars there exists three thousand
beggars. If it were not for the vigilance
of the immigration Commissioners in
the seaboard cities the number of men,
dicants in Italy would be largely reduced
by transporting many of them to the
Uuited States.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
NO MATTER HOW HARD

Any druggist tries to sell you his own
cough medicine, remember he does it be-
on having Kemp's Balsam for the throat
and lungs, for there is no cough remedy
so pure and none so quick to break up a
cold; for influenza, soreness of the throat
and tickling irritation with constant
cough Kemp's Balsam is an immediate
cure. Large bottles SOC and 81. At all
druggists. 194-4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

The steamship Oceanica has made the
trip from Hong Kong to San Francisco
in seventeen days and six hours, in
Guiding stops, the fastest on record.
A shortage of $1,000 has been discov-
cred in the accounts of the Teutonie
Building Association, of Cincinnati,
caused by a payment of excessive
dividends
Hon L. b. Gunckel has written a
letter declining the appointment of
Manager of the Soldiers Home, Dayton,
Ohio.
The scare of Wheeling, w. Va, over q
supposed case of small -pox has subsidized,
the disease having been found to be itch.
AT Columbus, Ind, Mary Seat, aged
sixteen, growing respondent on account
of the death of her mother, drank car
bolic acid and died in two hours.
By decision of the U. s. Circuit
Court at st. Paul, Russell Sage comes
into the possession of land valued at
S10,000,000.
fridays NEWS.
The Kentucky Constitutional Conven-
ton has adopted that section of the
revenue and taxation report exempting
from taxation property used for religious
purposes, growing crops and personally
to the amount of $3.50. The section
gives cities and towns right to exempt
manufacturing establishments for five
years.
Prof. Koch, of Berlin, describes his
lymph as a glycerine extract derived
from the pure cultivation of the tubercls
baccilli.
Charges of corruption in Office and
mismanagement and private immortality
are made against Warden Dyer, of the
Ohio Penitentiary, and bill is being
to provide for full investiga-
tion and reorganization of the peni-
tentiary management.
The Republicans of the Illinois Legis-
lature in caucus decided on ex- Governor
Oglesby to succeed o. S. Senator Farwen.
Miss Dora Marcum, of Danville, Ky,
broke the neck of her illegitimate babe
and herself died a few days later This
occurred last September, and her crime
only became public Thursday.
The Republicans of the Legislature
of New Hampshire nominated Jacob H.
Gallinger for U. S. Senator, retiring
Senator Blair.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Two inches of snow fell at Sheffield,
Ala, Friday.
Senator Quay says he has no intention
of resigning.
The Pennsylvania coal miners strike
has been officially sanctioned by the
United Mine Workers
At Harrodsburg, KY, J. Mack Sizer,
was instantly killed by the discharges of
MS pistol as it fell from his pocket
Ericsson, the inventor, made bequests
aggregating S125,000. 1t is found that
his estate amounts to but 100000.
General Barnett, of Cleveland, has
been agreed upon by the Ohio Repub-
leans in Congress for Manager of the
Dayton Soldiers Home.
The Ohio yearly meeting of the Society
If Friends adopted resolutions express
ng high appreciation of President Har-
.ison's efforts to settle disputes by
arbitration instead of by war.
A Peruvian lady has offered prize of
Il 900 to the girl between eighteen and
wenty years of age who shall be judged
~ a committee to have most distin-
,uished herself for amiability, intelli-
,ence, accomplishments and charity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THOSE free trade journals which are
continually asserting that domestic
manufacture of tin-plate is impossible,
do not relish the information that the
black oxide of tin found in the Black
Hills of Dakota yields 100 pounds Of
pure tin to the ton.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THE cold winter is going hard with
the poor people in England, thousands
of whom, before the pinching weather
came, were reported to be starving in
that free trade country, where the laws
of commerce are calculated to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

Has it ever dawned upon the farmers
and others interested that the antitrust
laws that caused the death of the
harvester combine were enacted by
Republican Legislatures and Repub-
lican Congress? Paste this in your hat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THE Bad Lands of Dakota are de-
scribed as a strip extending about a
hundred miles north and south, by
fifteen to thirty miles wide. They are
composed of sticky white clay. and
have been washed into deep, steep-sided
gullies. To get through them on foot
or horseback is very difficult, and with a
vehicle, next to impossible. The Indians
are very fond of resorting to them when
ever they get into trouble with the
Government.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
TAXATION IN PENNSYLVANIA.

TAXATION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
National Stockman.
Secretary Edge, of the Pennsylvania
State Board of Agriculture, has for three
months past been collecting data relating
to the average rate of taxation upon
farms in the various counties of the
State. In each county the actual value
of large number of farms was obtained
as far as possible actual sales were
taken as the basis of value-and the
total amount of taxes of all kinds paid
on each farm was also obtained. From
these data the average tax rate of each
county and of the State at large has
been obtained.
The work involved in obtaining this
data clearly shows that assessed values
form very uncertain basis for taxation
comparisons. Some counties assess at
less than one third the actual value, and
in such cases many farmers are paying
tax at the rate of sixty mills on the
assessed value of their farms. In
Susquehannah county the average rate
of taxation on farms appears to be 1872
mills on their actual value, and some
farmers are found who are paying from
IS to 55 mills on the assessed value of
their farms.
From data obtained in this way it is
shown that farms valued at $5,22S, sol
are paying taxes to the amount of
$47,8 ,89I.08. This indicates an average
taxation of 910 mills on the actual
value of the farms. The tax duplicates
contain, in addition to the actual or
assessed values of the farms, such per-
sonal property as is assessed with the
farm. This on an average is found to
amount to about ten per cent. of the
value of the farm. In order to obtain
the rate of taxation on the farm itself we
must deduct ten per cent from the
above rate for the tax upon personal
property. This will give rate of S.25
mills upon the actual and real value of
the farms.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THERE will be important State elect
ions next fall in Ohio, Iowa, New York,
and Massachusetts,. Massachusetts elects
a Governor every year. These will be
contests the result of which will have
great bearing on the Presidential election
in 1892. This is by no means an "off
year" for the Republicans of the Buckeye
State. The duty devolves upon them
of regaining the Goyernorship and
Legislature.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
ForMa1aria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWNS IRON BITTERS

BEACoNsFIELD says: The girl Of the
period sets herself up to be natural and
is only rude; mistakes insolence for in
nocence; says everything that comes to
her lips, and thinks she is gay when shs
is only giddy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
RITCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
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Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required; III
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, 20 cents per
box. Fer sale by Patterson 81 Sons. ".
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
A SAFE INVESTMENT.

Is one which is guaranteed to bring you
satisfactory results, or in case of failure a
return of purchase price. On this safe
plan you can buy from our advertised
druggist bottle of Dr. Kings New Dis
cOvery for Consumption 1t is guaran-
teed to bring relief in every case, when
usedfor any affection of throat, lungs or
chest, such as consumption, Inflammation
of lungs, bronchitis, asthma, whooping
cough, Group, etc. 1t is pleasant and
agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can
always be depended upon. Trial bottles
free at Pattersons' drug store
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

In all road improvements the question
of expense is a serious one: We are
aware of that as fully as our farmer
readers. But it must be set down as a
rule that turnpike roads are too good
things not to cost considerable money.
The relative expense depends upon the
material used and the nearness of the
source of supply. But there are few
places where good roads are impossible
because of cost, if the public only come
to think 30. They are worth all they
cost, as every farmer in such counties
as Shelby, Champaign, Auglaize, and
Hardin will bear willing testimony.
When pixies were being built in the
counties named the farmers were heavily
burdened for several years but the end
was worth the cost. But where turn
pixies seem impossible now because of
their cost there is no community so poor
that it can not afford to properly drain
the roads, and, that done, a long step
will have been taken toward satisfactory
highways ClecelGnd Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
A REAL RAISAM

Is Kemp's Balsam. The dictionary says
"a balsam is thick. pure, aromatic sub,
stance flowing from trees" Kemp's Bal
sam for the throat and lungs is the only
cough medicine that is a real balsam:
many thin, watery cough remedies are
called balsams, but such are not; look
through bottle of Kemp's Balsam and
notice what pure, thick preparation it
is; if you cough, use Kemp's Balsam. At
druggists, Large bottles soc and 81. lila
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.

In every case the first need of most
country roads is good drainage. A tile
drain put down in the center OF a bad
piees of road with proper outlet pro-
vided would not be an expensive i'm
provement, and yet would very greatly
benefit the highway. Better methods of
road making ought to be studied every
where and especially in sections where
materials for turnpiking are scarce.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

WYOMING raises more potatoes to the
acre than any spot in the world. One
farmer in Johnson county dug 975
bushels from one acre of ground.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
BeItttnttt Gttrptttrle.
THURSDAY, JAN. %. 1891.

WHILE swallowing the camel OF free
coinage without grimace, the Senate
gagged on the rag baby.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

STANFORD has been elected to succeed
himself as United States Senator from
California, and Mitchell from Oregon.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
MERIT WINS.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies that SELL as well, or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
$50 the belle of the choir has married

the tenor"
"Yes."
Il thought she favored the bass"
Eyes, but she got some high flown no.
tions into her head, and threw over the
bass for the tenor"
"For what reason?"
because the tenor was more high
toned"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THE average man can never under
stand why watch runs slow at church,
and fast at the theater.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
belmont COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge-John B. briggs.
Probate Judge-ISaac II. CASTOR
Clerk Of Courts-Henry II. Davies
Sherfff-MadisOn NJ. Scott.
Auditor-Joseph A Henderson.
Treasurer-Frank b. Archer.
Prosecuting Attorney-Jesse w. Hollingworth.
Recorder-John NJ. Beckett.
Suryeyor-Chalkley Dawson
Coroner-A. NJ. +. Boyd.
Commissioners-Mes X. Hart, John c. Israel,
W s. Mechem.
Ipfrmary Directors-Wiliam Lodge, president;
John A Clark, clerk B. NJ. Loper, auditor:
Superintendent Infirmary John SldeDottom,
East Richland.
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Giffin,
Barnesville.
School Examners-James Duncan, bridgeport;
q G. Murphy. Belmont T. P. Harris SomertOn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
Established in 1918.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERLAN CHURCH-Rev. K Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every SaDoath
morning a.d evening; Sabbath school 9:3O a In {;
Young peoples society OF Christian endeavor, Mon
dsy evenings; general prayer meeting, wednesday
avsnfng Strangers welcome to all services
NETHODJST EPISCOPAL CHUROH-Rey.
J. I'd Hollingshead pastor. Sabbath preaching, IL
4 m; p. m. young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting. THURSDAY eve
1inrs; mems meeting, Friday evenings; Saboath
scbooi 2:3O pm Strangers cordially invited to AL
erTices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev
rhomas Ralph pastor. sabbath school, 10 a. m. /;
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeung
Friday D. m. monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day Of each month, p. m.; womans missionary
s,ciety, last Saturday OF each month, p; m dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays
THURSDAYS and Saturdays each month, p. m. {;
Young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. m
AFRICANM E. CHURCH-Rev. J. NJ. wilkes,
pastor Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p m; SAD
bath school, z: 80 p. m; weekly prayer mesthg,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

THE medical profession DISCUSSES from
the public the fact of the prevalence of
ty to provide their patients with sue
cessful treatment; the best and most sue
cessful physician speaks plainly H c Nc
Cormick, NJ. D., Phi. G. of Penn Argyle,
Pa, writes: with 80 years experience
find DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root by far the
most successful kidney, liver and bladder
specific ever used in my practice; it has
cured hundreds of the worst cases for
NO." For sale by druggists. L
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22

WAIT till after dinner before you fall
out with the cook.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-08
BREAD BETTER THAN GOLD.
An Incident OF the Iil-fsted Dounsr Party.

During the closing days OF Decem.
Der. 1916. gold was found in my
mothers cabin at Donner Lake by
John Denton. / remember the night
well. The storm iiends were shrek
ing In their wild mirth. We were sitting
about the fire In our little dark home.
busy with eur thoughts. Denton with
his cane kept knocking pieces Off the
large rock used as iire-irons on which
to place the wood. Something bright
attracted his attention, and picking up
pieces OF the rock he examined them
closely; then turning to my mother he
said. Mrs. Reed. this is gold" Ny
mother replied that she wished it were
bread. Denton knocked more chips
from the rocks. and he hunted In the
ashes for the shining particles until he
had gathered about a teaspoouful.
This he tied in small piece OF buck
skin and placed iu his pocket. saying.
III we ever get away from here / am
coming back for more" Dcuton start
ed out with the lirst relief party. but
perished on the way. aud no one
thought Of the gold in his pocket. Dem
ton was about thirty years of age; he
was born 10 Sheffield. England, and was
n gunsmith and gold-beater by trade.
Gold has never been found on the
shore OF the lake. but few miles from
there In the mountain canons, from
which this rock possibly came. rich
mines have been discovered. Centary.