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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

To justify this argument it is neces-
sary to represent the workmen at Home
stead as in a state of semi-staryation,
while the testimony taken by the House
Committee shows that the wages paid
ranged from over 5000 month down to
Sl.15 a day-tke former being paid to
high-priced men and the latter to boy.
The lowest pay for labOrers was Sl.56 a
dav. Some of the better paid men aver
aged about s. day. The payroll for
one mill showed that fifty-three skilled
mechanics earned an average of 81 day
each; fourteen men averaged little
over 81 day each, including the boy
above referred to. 1t is not at all re-
markable that at these rates some of the
men should have accumulated property.
Il is said in behalf of Mr.. O'Donnell
that he lives in house costing $1,000,
earned in six years, and fully paid for.
AS to the proposed reductions in wages,
they applied only to persons earning
from $3.50 to 1914 day, and it is
claimed that owing to increased facilities
in manufacturing these persons would
have earned more money this year than
last.
1t will not be denied that very differ
ent scales of wages exist in iron and
steel mills in free trade countries, but
strikes and lockouts are as common
there as here. If low wages and labor
troubles exist in countries where there
is free trade, is it not absurd to contend
that the Homestead difficulties can be
obviated by substituting free trade fol
protection?
There is one sense, we admit, in which
such struggles between labor ann capi
tai as that now witnessed at Homestead
could be prevented by the change pro-
posed. In less than ten years under a
tariff for revenue only there would be
nothing at Homestead to contend over
The splendid mill property would be
idle, and the workmen would be scat
tered. Some persons are rash enough
to blow their brains out that they may
escspe physical and mental suffering,
and when the Democratic party proposes
free trade to the wage workers of Home
stead it suggests to them industrial
suicide.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

There are great many interesting
facts and figures connected with post
offices and their masters. For instance,
when countryman is tired of walking
or driving several miles for his mail and
concludes that the government should
bring it nearer, he should state that fact
to the first assistant postmaster general,
whose clerks will furnish him with in
structions and blanksb petition for the
neighbors to sign. If he wants the new
Office bad enough to make the govern
ment think it a necessity, he will doubt
less get it.
At the same time he will be told that
in naming it prefixes such as ''east,"
center and the like, the suffixes
"boro," ''burgh," ''city," etc.. are equal
ly Objectionable. Short, characteristic
names are preferred.-Kate Fields
Washington.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
LICENSED OPIUM JOINTS.

London Times.
w. E. Hoare, the Vice Principal of
the Wesleyan Mission College at Mad
ras, relates his experience of the opium
habit as follows:
"Toward the close of March a friend
and paid visit to some of the opium
dens at Madras. The worst was filthy
hovel. There were about twenty men
crowded in two small rooms and about
twenty outside. Some were not smok-
ing; none were drowsy; all were awake
and quiet. The place seemed decent
enough to one who remembers the reek-
ing odors, glare and language of Lon
don gin palace. We read the regula-
tions. 1t struck us that they might well
be adopted by the licensing authorities
in England.
"The proprietor had to keep strict
account of the opium sold and that re-
naming in stock. He was forbidden to
take wearing apparel, ETC., in exchange
for opium; he was to sell only limited
amount at any one time-one tola's
weight. A tola is considerably less than
an ounce. The proprietor was further
instructed to allow no bad character in
his shop, and to report to the police the
visit of any such. The Government In
spector counts the number of smokers
that he finds when making his perIodi-
cal visit to each "den." This was the
lowest den in that district, and we next
proceeded to visit the best. This was
kept by an intelligent Chinaman, who
was dressed in the English style, spoke
English and did not smoke opium. We
found some men smoking ganja outside
and about twenty-five smoking inside.
"Some were in the drOwsy state, 9th
ers were smoking quietly. Complete si-
lence prevailed, and once more the con-
trast with an English beer shop was fa-
vorable to the opium den. In reply to
question as to whether the consump-
tion was increasing we were told that it
was decidedly decreasing. We learned
that when the Government last put up
the right to sell opium in Madras at auc-
tion no one would give more than 10000
and odd rupees. What, ask, would be
the feelings of temperance advocate
if he heard that In Birmingham, whose
population is not greater than that of
Madras, the exclusive right to sell beer
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
BRIEF AND STRIKING STORIES.
Some are Funny and Some are Not.
STOOD UP FOR PRUNEs.

STOOD UP FOR PRUNEs.
New York Herald,
NO! You cannot have your hash
served in your room That is my ulti-
matum.
The colored waiter boy brought the
message from the landlady. l told my
wife to pack up our trunks and move at
once. l went out and looked for anoth-
er boarding house and found one within
ten minutes.
returned with grim and desperate
looking expressman. The landlady was
awaiting me in the vestibule. She was
sobbing, as if her heart would break.
She threw her arms around my neck as
| crossed the threshold. The grim ex-
pressman stood there and looked at this
act with a sneer as if he had seen the
same sort of thing before.
"Do not leave me-" howled the land
lady, her tears effacing the pattern from
the carpet. l owe the plumber S160
and the grocer $3l0. The ice cream man
has Judgment against me for $50. If
| cannot keep you all summer l am
ruined, as L know not where there are
any other boarders to be got"
"Hal hal" | laughed. You are in
nv power. Never before was board
ing house keeper in my clutches. Now,
take this Bible" and Ipulled one out of
my pocket-being a newspaper man,
land make this oath:
81 swear never again to feed my
boarders on fried liver"
81 swear" said the landlady.
81 promise not to deluge them with
shoe leather steak"
"That 1 willingly swear" answered
the landlady. kissing the book.
"And not to give them apple sauce
with their meals
81 swear"
| "And forever abandon stewed prunes."
"HoldI" screamed the landlady. "Here
you encroach on the most sacred rights
of the boarding house mistress. Rutiian,
| will die rather than submit to your
infamous demands"
l was stony hearted. "Do your worst" "
1 said to the grim expIessman, and he
proceeded to do his worst.
The landlady became hysterical. 81
am ruined" she squawked, "but l die in
noble cause, and the boarding house
keepers in the United States will re-
member me. perish, proud, sir, but it
is in a sacred battle. / die on the altar
of stewed prunes. May they ever rule
the roost in American boarding houses,
and may no landlady ever prove recreant
to the glorious canse of stewed prunesP'
With that she tainted, and with the
aid of the expreseman we quit. Wheth-
er the stewed prune still lives in Amer
ican boarding house | leave to the read
er to decide.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
Specimen Cases,

S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis.,, was
troubled with neuralgia and rheuma-
tism, his stomach was disordered, his
liver was affected to an alarming degree,
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,, had
a running sore on his leg of eight years
standing. Used three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and
well.-John Speaker, Catawba, o., had
live large fever sores on his leg, doctors
said he was incurable. One bottle
Electric BitteIs and one box Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold
by Patterson & Sons. 3
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
A BOY'S ROOM.

Demorest's Family Magazine for August.
In the first place. give boy as good
a room as you can spare him. He should
not have the best bed in the house, of
course. That would be impracticable
for many reasons, the most important of
all being that it would give him too great
a sense of his Importance.
The furniture of the room should con-
sist of a good bed, dressing case, a
washstand with drawers, two straight
chairs and rocking chair, book shelves,
and writing desk. If he is fond of
reading and is likely to collect a num-
be of books, a low bookcase may be
used. But if yon do not have the book
case, at least have hanging book shelves;
for every boy has few books which he
likes to keep as his own. If the writing
desk can be so arranged that it can be
locked, so much the better; and have
one or two drawers in the dressing case
or washstand so that they can be locked.
A boys treasures are very valuable to
Hill, dlO HC always Hdo q iOW lulIiSo
which he thinks it is important to keep
under lock and key, whether any one
else thinks so or not.
The decorative articles should be Sc
lected with view to pleaing the occu-
pant of the room; and, so far as possi-
BILE, it would be well to let him exercise
his own taste in this regard, under the
mild guidance of more experienced
person. A few good pictures on sub
jects pleasing to him may be selected
If he is fond of military subjects, and
most boys are, any army relics fastened
againtthe wall will be suitable; and a
rack for his gun or hook on which to
hang his racquet will be appreciated.
An American flag is also very appropri-
ate to drape on the wall. Do not clut-
ter up the mantel with pieces of bric-a-
brac, but leave plenty of room for him
to arrange as he chooses the picture of
his dog, or of the last football game, or
any other subject which has passing
interest for him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
RELEASED AFTER 30 YEARS.

Perhaps no more pathetic tale of innO-
cent incarceration has come to light than
that which occurred in Greensboro, n. c.,
on Aug. 30, 1890; John a Phillips, a re-
spected citizen of that town, says: "FOr
29 years | suffered from dyspepsia; could
not enjoy one mouthful of food; my liver
and kidneys refused to act, and my whole
system was completely deranged; tried
everything without benefit. DIR. Kilmer's
Swamp Root cured me-" Atdruggists. 3
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
AN IMMENSE HOME MARKET.

New York Press.
Michael G. Mulhall, the great statisti-
clan of free trade England, has estimated
the purchase of the whole world, exclu-
sive of the United States, in 1889, as
1888, 100000. Poor'S Railroad Manual
shows that the railroads of the United
States carried in 1889 total freight
traffic of 619,165,630 tons, 1t is esti-
mated that 25 per cent. of this was
Implications, which would pull it down
to 469, ,352,928 net tonnage. Thirty dol
lars a ton is the usual estimate of the
average value.of this tonnage, and that
would make our home traffic worth
something like $14,050,5S7 $40. Deduct
from this our exports of $492, ,221,557
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889,
and we have as the net annual value of
our home market $13,558, ,366, ,283.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
PROTECTION AND WAGES.

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
Free trade papers at both ends of the
State are ringing the changes on the
proposition that protection tends to
make work scarce, increases the number
of idle or competing laborers, and re-
duces wages. The condition of affairs
at Homestead is the "Object lesson"
which teaches these free trade truths
According to these wise political econo-
mists the first step toward permanent
peace between capital and labor in the
iron and steel industries, and prosperity
plenty for the wage workers, is the total
destruction of the protective principle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
TO pRAPE WORKS OF ART.

The Imagination is wearied, and fancy
in her loftiest fligh falls far below the
possibilities in attempting to conceive
of the art hall at the Chicago Exposition
as Butler, of Iowa, would have it. But
Ter, of Iowa-the honorable (and in this
case that term really meacs virtuous
and honorable) Walt H Butler, of the
Fourth Iowa district, has actually in
troduced into Congress a proposition
that every nude figure, every plastic or
pictorial representation of the human
form divine, shall be appropriately
draped," to make it decent.
What an advertisement that would be,
and how the nations would laugh!-
There would be the Greek Slave with
plated petticoat and snug bodice, the
Venus de Medici with her snowy bosom
in basket corset and her marble limbs
gowned, old Atlas in knee breeches, and
Hercules we should expect to see
him in John l.. Sullivan rig, with a
smashed stovepipe hat showed down
over his forehead, and-if consistency is
to be observed stub cigar in his
mouth. On second thought we are not
sure but there is money in the Butlerian
scheme. Its realization would be the
joke of the ages.
Walt H. Butler was born February Is.
1852, in Crowford county, Pa, went to
Iowa, in 1875, became in due time a su-
perintendent of railway mail service
and was elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

Ar New York.. 90 1910 - Ij
TRAINS run daily. tDaily except Sunday. tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 50 d I'M daily
except Sunday; Newark 5 10 D IN; arrive GAINESVILLE
50 p m., Cambridge 90 IN.
Columbus 4 Sandusky Accom-. leaves Columbus
I? 20 m; arrives Sandusky Il sop IN.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains
All trains daily except Sunday All trains make
close connection at ST. ClaIrsville Junction with
trains running East for Baltimore, Washington
Philadelphia and New York, and with trains run
ming West for Columbus, Cincinnati Chicago, and
all points West.
For further information call on B. & o. ticket
agents, or address D. Z. McCarty, Asst Gen Pass
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio; L. 5. Allen, Asst Gen.
Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill.
ROBT. B. CAMPBELL, CO SCULI
Gen Supt. Gen1 Pass Agent
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
Tells It's Own Story.

In the House, March "a, on the Bland
free silver bill:
Democratic vote for free silver. -. 130
Democratic vote against free silver. 81
Democratic majority for free silver. 49
Republican vote for free silver. 80. IL
Republican vote against free silver. 67
Republican maj against free silver. So
In the Senate, July l, on the Stewart
free coinage bill:
Democratic vote for free silver. -. IS
Democratic vote against free silver. Z
Democratic maj for free silver ...... ii
Republican vote for free silver. -. II
Republican vote against free silver. Is
Republican maj against free silver. z
Or, reckoning in the thirty-two Sena-
tors who we're paired, the actual stand
ing of the Senate was:
Democrats for free silver. ........ 81
Democrats against free silver. ...... 10
Democratic majority for free silver. q
Republicans for free silver. ...... IA
Republicans against free silver. 81
Republican maj against free silver. II
In the House, July 13, on the Stewart
bill, the vote, including pairs, was as
follows:
Democratic vote for free silver. :. 130
Democratic vote against free silver..10l
Democratic majority for free silver. 90
Republican vote for free silver. -. II
Republican vote against free silver. 68
Republican mai against free silver. So
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
Now Try This.

1t will cost you nothing and will
surely do you good, if you have cough,
cold, or any trouble with the throat,
chest, or lungs. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for consumption, coughs ar d
colds is guaranteed to give relief, or
money will be paid back. Sufferers
from La Grippe found it just the thing
and under its use had speedy and
perfect recovery. Try sample bottle
at our expense and learn for yourself
just how good a thing it is. Trial bottles
free at Pstterson's Drug Store. Large
size SOC. and $1.0O. 3
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

In France, when funeral passes
every man raises his hat to salute it.
The deceased child may have been a
child, pauper, beggar; it is no mat
ter; the cortege is saluted by every man,
whether he be prince, millionaire, or
mendicant. 1t is a good and lovely
custom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
Meters for Measuring Electricity

In discussion in London on meters
for measuring electrical energy it was
shown that in the Frager meter the
energy could be made from 300 to 400
times greater than that indicated by the
meter by simply closing and opening the
circuit at proper intervals. With O
Thomson meter it was said to be very
easy to force the readings with the aid
of strong magnet applied outside the
meter boxes. Fraud is therefore very
easily practiced upon such meters, pro-
vided one understands them. - New
York Telegram.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

loicuo-- Ar b % lO % OD ~ 10
*Daily. Train No. runs daily between Wheel
ing, Steubenvle and Jewett, and daily except
Sunday through to MOnrOeville connecting with
l.. 5. & Nj. ). Ry train No for points west.
Through car service between Toledo, Cambridge
and Marietta; Toledo, Steubenville and Wheeling;
Toledo and Akron, and Youngstown and Pitts
burgh; Chicago, Akron, Youngstown and Pitts
burgh. JAMES NJ HALL,
A. G. BLAIR. Genl Mang'r. Gen1 Pass. Agt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
THE DEMOCRATIC BANKING IDEA.


Pittsburgh Dispatch
While the Democratic platform
avoided the financial error of indorsing
free silver coinage, and still more
narrow escape has been made by the
Democrats in Congress from commit
ting the same error, it cannot be ig-
nored that in proposing to revive
the old system of irresponsible State
bank circulation it has lent its indorse-
ment to financial vice of much more
widespread and evil results.
To reduce the currency of the coun-
try to the silver basis means but sim
gle change. That made we would be
on tolerably steady basis with dol
lar worth 20 or 80 per cent less than
the present one. But to call into ex-
istence a system of State banks, as var
led and as uncertain as that of forty
years ago, means the Introduction of a
constant and always incalculable un-
certainty as to the value of the none
tary system. Not only would it vitiate
the reliable and uniform value of bank
note circulation, but it would extend
the same vice to the whole system of
bank deposits created by the new banks.
The bank note circulation, judging
by the past, would equal in volume the
amount of coin passing from hand to
hand But the great mass of CONNER
cial payments is made neither in coin
nor notes, but by the transfer of bank
deposits through checks or drafts. To
revive the old system of banking would
be to infect the whole mass of such pay
ments with an epidemic of worthless
ness. We might expect to see the day
return when man learning of the fail
ure of bank would indulge in thank
fulness, as men used to in the fifties,
that he had neither the notes nor the
drafts of that bank or any other.
A party that adds this Endorsement
of financial instability to its remarkable
attack on industrial prosperity has Pc
culiar notions of the way in which to
commend itself to the public favor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

THE costliest mats in the world are
owned by the Shah of Persia and the
Sultan of Turkey. The Shah and the
Sultan each possess mat made of
pearls and diamonds valued at over
$2,500,00O. The largest mat ever made
is owned by the Carlton club, of Lon
don, and is a work of art.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
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or money refunded. Price, % cents per
box. For sale by Patterson Il Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

A LADY, whose hair came out with
every combing, was induced to give
Ayers Hair Vigor faithful trial. She
did so, and not only was the loss of hair
checked, but new and vigorous growth
soOn succeeded that which had gone.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

YOUNG MEh-Who have become victims Of so-
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diseases of the head. throat. nose, or skin, afec-
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

THE value of good name was we'll
exemplilied the other day, when man
asked one of our druggists for bottle
of Sarsrparilla. "Whose?" inquired the
clerk. "Whose? why, Ayers, of course.
Ye don't suppose I'm going to run any
risks with Hannah, do ye?"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

APPRoPos of the alleged discovery of
Noah's ark on the top of Mount Ararat,
it is related that Colonel Kalazko, a
Russian engineer who made the ascent
in 1850, found no ark there.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

GOVERNOR PECK of Wisconsin was
once humble printer on back street.
He now lives handsomely in the house
in which Ole Bull, the famous violinist
once lived
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
A Ten Dollar Gold Piece for a Cent

A Ten Dollar Gold Piece for a Cent.
Some time ago gentleman bet that
if he stood at the corner Of Broadway
and Fourteenth Street, New York, and
offered gold eagles to the passers-by for
a cent each he would find no purchasers.
The experiment was tried, and it turned
out just as he said. No one would be-
lieve that the coins were genuine. 1t
seemed too good to be true. An equally
remarkable offer is that made by the
proprietors of DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery, the sovereign cure for
Consumption. Think of it! restoration
to life and health for mere song.
There is not case of Lung-scrofula -
in other words, Consumption-that will
not yield to it, if it is taken in time. 1t
is the greatest blood purifier ever known,
and is guaranteed to benefit or cure in
all diseases of the throat and lungs, or
money refunded. Only extraordinary
curative properties could warrant or
sustain its makers in selling it thus, on
trial.