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

Much of the music sung in city
churches would scarcely be character
lied as sacred" if it were heard any
where except in the house of God. And
there are some odd people who even IL
this age of progress consider that such
music belongs rather to the concert
room than to the church.
Parson Snow was one of these people.
and when he exchanged" one Sunday
with an old college friend who was set
tied over large city parish he was both
amazed and shocked by the vocal dis
play-the anthem-with which the
members of the choir electrified the con
gregatiOn.
They had fine voices, my dear. he
explained to his little wife when he was
safely back in his own home, ''and
presume they wanted to show them off
and so took advantage of time when
their pastor was away. | thought al
first of rising and requesting them tC
desist Then felt that perhaps it would
be my duty to report the matter tC
Doctor Green.
But | finally concluded that, as il
was undoubtedly first offense and
caused by an almost pardonable vanity
| would deal gently with them. So
waited until they had finished, and ther
rose and said, we will now begin the
religious services of the morning.
And feel sure" concluded the sim
pie minded pastor, that they felt my
rebuke and will not let such a thing
occur againr'-Youth's Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
Lost a Valuable Relic.

When the Army of the Potomac.
in the spring of 1862, moved into the
fortiication at Manassas and Centre
vile, the boys spent much of their time
gathering relics from the battlefield of
Bull Run to send home to their friends
One day a gawky member of the
Fourth New York brought in an unex-
ploded bomb and started to extract the
load before sending it away. He should
have taken it to an artilleryman, but in
stead took it to a blacksmith shop and,
with a hammer and cold chisel, sat
down on the floor, took the bomb be-
tween his legs, placed the brass screw
at the point and gave it heavy blow.
The next instant the atmosphere was
dense with disintegrated blacksmith
shop. A section of the batting roof had
business over in another country, and a
chunk of the side wall went down to
visit the neighboring camp. Pieces of
iron and steel that were once tools took
an immediate vacation and fled to parts
unknown.
When the boys rushed to see what
was the matter there the man sat bolt
upright i'll the midst of the debris, with
his legs stretched out, hammer in one
hand and chisel in the other.
"Gosh,' he said, as he slowly crawled
to his feet, 81 guess the folks It home'll
have to get along 'thout that she'll"
The only injury that had been done
him was the singeing of his hair and
whiskers. He wasn't even very much
frightened till the next day.-New
York Recorder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
"Old IrOnsides."

If the portrait of some grandam who
lived in the early days of the century
could ''materialize," and, stepping down,
take her place beside the tailor made
girl" of today, the difference would be
no more marked than that between the
good ship Constitution and a modern
ocean greyhound" Nevertheless, in
spite of the topheaviness of the old ship
as compared with the new, if the two
sailed down our harbor there would be
no necessity for an order of Hats off, ''
and our heartbeats would tell MS for
which rang out the three times three
Well does this great foremother of
ours command both love and reverence.
Stanch was she with the strength of oak
from the forest primeval: unwavering
ever as the pole star in the path of duty,
and like a true woman of the olden
time, ere rights" and suffrage" had
lifted their heads from the neither chaos,
she obeyed her master, while he, true
and brave man of the olden time that he
was, loved and honored her.-Jane de
Forest Shelton in Harper's.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
The "First Edition" Craze.

Is this hankering after first editions
but mere craze or fashion?-in which
case would venture to predict that
when the book loving and book buying
public once begins to consider seriously
what it is that really constitutes the
value of any first edition the ridiculous
and artifcially enhanced prices of such
issues will fall.
Upon this public weakness, whether
fostered by sentimental or any other
feeling. the booksellers are now trading
and are in the habit of calling attention
in Roman capitals in their catalogues to
first editions of almost every conceiv-
able book-of course at the same time
adding a correspondingly increased
price to books which are hardly worth
purchasing in any edition.
For the present great demand for first
editions the keen competition among
English speaking peoples from abroad
for any book of special value now
offered for sale may be in a great de-
gree responsible, aided by large class
of unreasoning beings who buy books
merely because they are first editions,
and who by dint of their long purses are
able to rush in where angels fear to
tread" These are they upon whom
ordinary book lovers look with dread,
and the booksellers not always with
approval.-Notesa and Queries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey. r. AIex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning asd evening; Sabbath school $50 a m
Oung peoples society of Christian endeayOr Sun
ay evenings; general prayer meeting Wednesday
Fenmg. strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUROH-Rev.
End hhgeIey, pastor Sabbath preaching, IL
/. m; p m; young peoples meeting Monday
NenlngS general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nihSS; SaDDath school 2:3O pm. Strangers cor
daily invited TO all services
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN " CHURCH-Rey
lhomas Balph, pastor. sabbath school, 10 a. m. !:
puDlc worship, ii a. m; weekly prayer meeting
FRIDAY D. m; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
aay OF each month, p. m.; woman's missionary
slclety, last Saturday OF each month, p. m; dis
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, ? D. m
young wOmen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRICAN N. .E. .CHURCH-Rev Albert March
pastor. Sunday service, 10 80 a. m; D. M; Sab
9ath school, 2 80 p m; weekly prayer meeting
thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07

To the question, What is electricity
which is often asked, no absolute and
satisfactory answer has yet been found
Notwithstanding the wonderful develop
ment of electrical applications cleo
tricians are still feeling their way ~ to
the nature and many of the principles
of the operation of the mighty force that
they are learning to control. This was
suggestively shown by Il remark made
by the vice president of the American
institute of electrical engineers at the
annual convention of that body.
The speaker claimed that the present
theories of electricity should he regard
ed merely as stepping stones to more
comprehensive and satisfactory ones
He contended that modern theories of
electrical phenomena, if adopted as an
absolute framework of all our knowl
edge of these subjects, may, in Il few
years, become prison bars that will pre-
vent the mind from making free and
unprejudiced investigation of new theo
ries and new phenomena, and giving
due weight and significance in the gen
eral science of electricity to the results
obtained by the most recent experiment
ers.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
Educate Children to High Ideals.


We are too ready to impart instruc-
ton to children from low moods and on
a low plane, because we do not ourselves
habitually dwell in the latitude of the
uplands. Motives of policy, of vanity.
of seeming instead of being right, enter
into our own lives and, alas! poison the
lives of the little ones at the fountain
A grand life, brave example, a splen-
did instance of fortitude, of self abnega-
ton, of courage against odds is never in
vain. 1t is an object lesson that flames
out from the sky, as the planet amid the
host of lesser stars. Whether it be an
arctic or an African explorer, the leader
of a forlorn hope, the missionary living
among the island lepers, or the army
nurse, leaving home and luxury to min
lister to the wounded and soothe the
dying, the noble ideal is uplifted before
the eyes of those who are yet in the in
itial stages, and whose characters are
not yet in the mold of destiny
This thought of the lofty ideal gives
the chief value of our annual Decoration
Day, giving us pause amid the pOmp and
ease of peace, that we may think not of
the pageantry of war, but of its suffer
ings, its fever and thirst, its rigors of
cold and furnace heats, its weary
marches, fierce battles and the patriot
ism which alone condones its bitter woe
and the mourning that follows in its
track.-Harper's Bazar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Fear is not lasting teacher of duty.
You NAV know the workman by his
work.
Be at peace with all mankind, but at
war with their vices.
No man can be free unless he is strict
ly governed by himself.
Men are more civilized by their pleas
ures than their occupations.
Services and kindnesses neglected
make friendship suspected.
Christ proved centuries ago that the
sympathetic touch is healing.
Yesterday suggests, to morrow prom
ises, but to-day accomplishes.
Misery may love company, but the
company doesn't generally return the
compliment.
Be always at leisure to do good; new
er make business An excuse to decline
offices of humanity.
Some peoples lives are like warm
water on a hot day. Nice to look at, but
one taste is enough.
He who is puffed up with the first
gale of prosperity will bend beneath the
first blast of adverSity.
The very thing that men think they
have got the most of, they have got the
least of; and that is Judgment.
When you are in danger from external
enemies, look out. When the peril is from
your own unbridled passions, look In.
Brevity and conciseness are the pa
rents of convictions. The leaden bullet
is more fatal when multiplied into shot.
No matter what its professions may
be, the love that halts and turns back
when it sees danger coming is sham.
Most men spend too much time in
signing for the earth, and too little in
cultivating the little patch that legiti-
mately belongs to them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
NO Hard Feelings.

A man about forty-five years old. hav-
ing three new scythe stones tied up
with a string under his arm, got aboard
the train at Smiths Centre, and as he
passed down the car to find a seat, a
passenger who was considerably young
er, and who also appeared to be far
mer, called out:
"Wall, declar', but who expected to
see you here, How are ye. Jim Tomp-
son?''
''Oh, toler'ble well, considerin," was
the reply of the newcomer. "How's all
your folks?"
cable to be around, thank ye. Get
tin ready to sharpen up, see?'
"Ya-as."
"Look here, jim, l want to talk to ye
a bit. Folks is tellin round that you'n
me is mad at each other an ready to
fight
"Ya-as, I've heard it."
"But it amt so. / amt mad, and |
don't know what you've got to git mad
over"
''Oh, l never thought of gittin mad"
II D JOSG ILC SOooipS, WIN MdAh ouLi-
phin to blow about. | married Mary
Jane Hopkins. We didn't hitch very
well, and | got divorce. Then she
married you. and that set folks to
thinkin we orter be mad at each other.
Lands alivel but it would take more'n
that to make me madr'
"And here too"
''How is Mary Jane now?"
"Fust rate-fust rate"
"Does she git mad and go into hyster-
icks?"
"Hasn't yit."
"How's her breath?"
"Improvin right along all the time"
'Glad to hear it. Willin to git up in
the mornin?"
Perfectly willing?"
"Kick any bout milkin the cows and
feedin the hogs?"
Mot kick"
"Waal, I'm glad on it. We couldn't
hitch, but amt got word to say agin
Mary. Somebody had to marry her,
and it might as well be you as any one
else. Don't You mind what folks say.
l amt mad nor goin to git mad jest
cause you married my old wife. I'm
after another, and as soon as git her
you'n Mary come over and stay all day,
and We'll make it pleasant for ye."-
New York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

VuunM UhuW
C1 e a n S e s the
N a S a | Pass
ages, ALA y s
Pain and In
fl a m m a ion,
Heals the Sores,
Restores I h e
Senses of Taste
and Smell.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
A COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL.
A Queer Mixture of Children in One o.
New York's Zig School Buildings.

A Queer Mixture of Children in One of
New York's Zig School Buildinss.
Until about q year ago the principal
of ward school No. %. New York. did
not realize what Il queer lot of pupils lie
had, although he had sometimes laughed
over the strange collection Of names
upon the rolls. A year ago he took a
census and carefully traced out the
exact part of the earth from which the
parents of each of his pupils had come.
He found that there We're in his school
no less than twenty-seven different ma
tionalities, speaking about twenty-five
languages other than English and its
dialects He found that of these sixteen
We're in the primary department alone.
So not long afterward he arranged a
novel feature to one of the school enter
tainments. At certain place in the
programme each child arose, holding
in his or her hands two flags. One was
the American flag, the other the flag of
the nation from which the father had
come. The visitors to the school were
astonished. They recognized half a
dozen flags well known as the banners
of European nations-Italian, German,
Spanish. French, Swiss and the like.
Then they saw nearly a dozen others,
recognizable from their shapes and colors
and designs as the banners of barbaric
or semibarbaric countries, known to us
in vague way as heather.
When these children, none being un-
Il Of 70 fh,o
school they are foreigners to the very
core. They speak the language of their
fathers, and perhaps have never even
heard the sound of an English word.
They are of the country from which
their parents came both in customs and
ideas. Their clothing alone bears the
stamp of America, and that so out of ac-
cord with their faces and expressions
that they seem i'll at ease, and even more
poorly clad than they really are. They
enter the primary department. And
here it may be said that, although the
youngest are five years old, the ages of
many extend upward toward eighteen
and twenty years.
1t is the business of Miss Rose O'Neill
and her seven assistants to teach these
children the English language, and then
to make American children out of them.
Go into the school at the beginning of
the school year, and you will think the
task hopeless, impossible. Come back
at the end of six months. and if you
close your eyes and listen to the reading
exercises you will not be able to dis
tinguish Chinese child or Arab child or
Tunisian child from the few pure blood
ed Americans who form the curiosities
of the school. Then you will wonder
how the miracle has been performed
Harper's Weekly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07

A missionary had taken his wife with
him to India. There she died, and the
brokenhearted widower received permis-
sion from the missionary board of his
church to come home. Here he promptly
consoled himself, and with his second
spouse returned to the field of his former
labor. But fate was still unkind and at
the end of year he was once more be-
reaved. Again he besought the permis-
sion of the board to return home, but
this time they gently but firmly de-
clined. saying that they did not feel
justified in the expense of giving him
two vacations within two years. They
suggested, delicately. however, that if
his desire was to recoup himself for his
recent loss it was possible for him to
deputize friend to secure for him a
new partner of his joys and sorrows.
This he accordingly did.
The day the steamer was signaled the
bridegroom elect went down to meet 1t.
accompanied by married friend. When
the latter returned he was pounced upon
by his own wife, who demanded all the
particulars of the meeting. did DR..
Smith seem much overcome when he
saw Miss Brown was the first ques-
ton. "Well-yes-a little" Wasn't
he overjoyed?' "Well-overjoyed is not
just the word, perhaps" why, didn't
he say he was delighted?" ''Well-no-
not exactly" But, at least. he seemed
pleased?" "Well-I don't quite know" p"
For mercy's sake, tell me just what
he did say and do" "Wel"-wlth evi-
dent reluctance when he saw her
she was at the other end of the deck and
she was pointed out to him by the friend
she had travelled with. Smith looked at
her for a minute, and then he passed
his hand over his eyes and l heard him
murmur, Red hair-for the third time
and after so much prayerr err"-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
A Bit of Correspondence.

A remarkable correspondence has been
published, ending in true Irish fashion.
1t begins: ''Mr. Thompson presents his
compliments to Mr.. Simpson, and begs
to request that he will keep his doggs
from trespassing on his grounds"
'Mr Simpson presents his compli-
ments to Mr.. Thompson, and begs to
suggest that in future he should not
spell dogs with two gees"
"Mr. Thompson's respects to Mr..
Simpson, and will feel obliged if he will
add the letter 'e' to the last word in the
note just received, so as to represent
Mr.. Simpson and lady"
''Mr. Simpson returns Mr.. Thompson's
note unopened, the impertinence it con-
tains being only equaled by its vulgar
ity."-London Tit-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
A Curious Salvage Case.

Perhaps the most curious salvage case
on record is that of the ship Two Friends,
which stranded ON the coast of Cuba and
was abandoned by her crew. Another
ship, the John Blake, met similar fate,
and her crew, in attempting to find a
landing place, came across the Two
Friends, which they managed to get off
and to navigate to England without fur
ther mishap. The judge who tried the
case decided that salvage services had
been rendered, but of only ordinary diff
Guilty and merit, inasmuch as the crew
of the John Blake salved the Two
Friends in order to save their own lives.
The owners of the John Blake of course
got nothing, but the salving crew re-
ceived $3.50 out of the total value of
e1 ,237.-New Orleans Picayune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
The Future of the Mississippi Valley

The delta of the Mississippi. below its
junction with the Ohio, richer than the
Nile or the Rhine, exceeds the combined
area of Holland and Egypt, and is des-
tined under the stimulus of free labor
and the incentives of self government TO
build fabric of society more opulent
and enduring. Add to this the mex
haustible alluvion of the streams above
and the fertile prairies from which they
descend, and the arithmetic of the past
has no logarithms with which to com
pute the problems of the economic and
commercial future of the west. 1t will
be predominant in the development. not
of this country alone, but of the hemis-
phere, and will give direction To the
destinies of the human race.
We stand in the vestibule. We have
not yet entered the temple. }. In
gals in Lippincott's.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
The Art of Conversation.

Conversation, says brilliant Amer
lean humorist, sis, in this generation, a
lost art.
1t was an art which our grandfathers
studied perhaps more than any other.
A gentleman, in the beginning of this
century, was usually more ambitious to
tell story well or to state his argument
clearly than TO understand science or
statecraft.-Youths Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
Powerful Indian Air Guns.

The Indians along the Mirida river
hunt with blow guns made out of the
young stalks of certain kind of palm.
from which the pith is removed. The
arrows employed as projectiles are sim
ply splinters of reed. sharpened at one
end, the other end being wrapped with
enough silk cotton obtained from another
kind of palm to fill up the bore of the
blow gun. The arrows are about ten
inches long and very light. They are
tipped with the famous and deadly
"woorari" poison.
Used by one of these naked savages
the blow gun is weapon of great accu-
racy and effectiveness, even a small bird
on treetop being brought down by the
skilled shooter with reasonable certainty
at the first try.-Interview in Washing
ton Star
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
A Pitiful Sight,

81 was at Sioux City during the rise
in the Big Muddy" said T. p Sinclair,
a prominent farmer and stock raiser of
South Dakota, land there witnessed a
sight that haunts me. Pretty much
everything that would float came swirl
ing down the angry river-wrecks of
buildings, household goods and gods
and among the drift was, what do you
think? cradlel One of the old fashioned,
wooden sort, and in it sat white headed
little tot, apparently about year old.
There was not boat within hailing
distance, the cradle was fully 800 yards
from shore and the river was running
like mill race. l started on dead run
down along the bank, hoping to find a
boat of some kind, but before had gone
twenty-five yards the cradle tipped over,
spilling its little occupant into the mud
dy waters. | am pretty well seasoned,
let me tell you. | walked over rows of
dead men at Donaldson and Shiloh, have
shot Indians and helped hang COW
thieves, but that sight at Sioux City
broke me. just sat down and cried
like woman. st. Louis Globe-DemO-
crat
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
He Was the Duke.

When, in 1888. Professor Freeman
was examining Battle abbey. he found
himself dogged by person who, as he
thought, somewhat officiously obtruded
his offers of assistance. After vainly
trying to shake him off. he broke forth
with: II don't want your assistance.
The Duke of Cleveland promised that |
should not be interfered with by the
gardeners" Exactly So" was the re-
ply; 81 hope they have obeyed my or
ders. am the Duke of Cleveland.
San Francisco Argonaut.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
Compress Heater and steriIizer

A useful appliance has been intro
duced in hospitals in the shape of "a com
press heater and sterilizer. There is no
moistening or wringing of hot cloths
necessary. 1t does away with the use of
oiled silk or cotton, as it cannot wet bed
clothes and will retain heat longer than
the ordinary compress. and the com
presses may be applied to different pa
tients without washing, as they may be
easily sterilized and freed entirely from
germs.-New York Telegram.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
Entirely Satisfied.

A suit had gone against the defendant
who arose and gave his opinion of the
Judgment and was fined $40 for con
tempt of court. A bill was handed tC
the clerk which proved to be SEQ. al
have no change" said the clerk, tender
ing it to the offender. '.Never MIND
about the other $10." was the retort
Keep it; I'll take it out in contempt.
Black and White.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-07
Discovered Affection.

Clara-Can it be, Dolly. that you are
to marry Mr.. Smith, after saying to me
repeatedly that you could not endure
him?
Dolly-The truth is, Clara, dear that
until | heard that his aunt had died
leaving him fortune | was deceived
in my own feelings toward him.-Ex
,.ba