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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
The Growth of Two Cities.

Just as the Atlantic cities were sur
prised when Chicago distanced all but
two of them in population, and chal-
lenged all of them by her enterprise, SO
will they be astonished again and from
another quarter if they refuse to study
the forces that are operating to build IN
new capitals in the west. In another
ten years there will be another claim of
a million population, and the counting
of heads will not make nonsense of it.
The new and wonderful assumption of
metropolitan Importance will be that of
the twin cities of the wheat region
Minneapolis and st. Paul. They may
not be Joined under one name and gov
opinions differ about that
but all agree that they will jointly pos
sess a million of population. The last
census credited Minneapolis with 1884,
700 population and st. Paul with 1876, 900,
or, jointly, 297 900. At the time of the
preceding census uSSU the two cities III
cluded about $4,000 souls. At that rate
of increase they will boast in 1900 q
population of 976, 600 and more.-Julian
Ralph in Harper's.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07

One of the qualities necessary to sue
cess in any line of work is the ability tt
think and act practically upon the every
day questions Of life.
A young woman who had charge oi
the cataloguing of the accounts of &
Philadelphia bank employed as an as
sistant girl apparently intelligent and
well educated. to whom she gave ths
necessary directions for the work. One
OF the instructions was that, while she
was to write out the full name where al
abbreviation was used. she must never
abbreviate name
One day the young woman in charge
found the following peculiar name and
address. neatly written out by the as.
sistant, "Saml Brown, trustee for
George and Minnie Section. Academy OF
Natural Sciences
Somewhat surprised at the address,
she asked to see the ledger'from which
it was copied. The ledger read, ''Saml.
Brown, trustee for Geo. and Min. Sec
tion, Academy of Natural Sciences"
The young woman had never studied
either geology or mineralogy. but when
the matter was explained to her she
found that the word ''Section" is not al
ways a surname, and that ''Geo." may
be an abbreviation for something quite
different from George-Youth's Com
panion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
uo,neu's avs,

Women have their own ways of keep
ing their cousciences clear and their
minds freed from all unchaI'itableness.
One woman when she encounters dis
agreeable person goes off into corner
and counts off on her fingers the agree
able people she knows. This she does
rot in effect, but literally as she might
tell her beads, and she keeps on doing it
until the image of the disagreeable one
is effaced.
Another woman in the presence of an
unusually annoying circumstance was
observed to unlock and rehook her
gown. The rehooking miscarried sew
eral times to her great impatience. She
was asked why then had she unlocked
it. Her answer was that hooks and eyes
were the most disagreeable things ever
invented. One always began to hook
them in the middle, and the chances
were ten to one that you linked the
wrong pair. But this you did not know
until you were half through and one
side came out ahead. So with that,
and the strain upon your fingers, you
WClO NATURALLY OAdSpCAdtC1, elHA Do lACy
were only hooks and eyes it didn't much
matter what you said. With the chance
to free your mind other disagreeable
things seemed almost pleasant.
1t will be observed that it occurred to
neither of these women, who were both
religious, to fall on their knees and ask
in the old fashioned way to be delivered
from anger and i'll feeling. This was
not because they distrusted the efficacy
of this method, but simply because they
hadn't at the moment, and seldom had,
the time or place. Also, both being sci
entifc minded the one knew that in
thought as in physics two beings cannot
occupy the same space at the same time,
and 80 pried out one thought with an
other; Thile the other, by simply trans
muting her angry force from an incor-
poreal offense to hooks and eyes, had
the relief of its expenditure without its
sin.-New York Evening Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
Public Office in China

The Chinese system of government
lacks entirely the progressive and uni
flying element of popular election The
people have no voice in the choice of
their rulers, and the rulers consider the
people as so many sheep to be fieeced.
The officials are paid starvingly low
salaries. and many offices are openly
bought. Corruption and extortion may
therefore be said to be almost sane
toned, the only restraint being the dread
of insurrection and the power of gnilds.
clans and secret societies. There is i'm
perfect protection from robbers and
pirates, many villages prefaring to sub
sidize robber bands rather than to have
to deal with the worse form of robbery
practiced by the oficials.-Westminster
Review
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
Kent the Least for Himself.

Three ragged newsboys were trying
to sell the earlier editions of the after
noon papers. A man carrying a large
basket of fine looking oranges on his
shoulder passed close by. The motion
of his body loosened one of the biggest
and iripest and it fell to the ground. The
man kept on, not noticing or caring for
the loss. The orange lay upon the pave
ment for about half a minute unseen.
Then the largest of the three ragged
urchins spied it, and with cry of de-
light he ran over and picked it up. It
was natural to suppose that he would
proceed to eat it all himself, but instead
of doing SO he called his companions and
exhibited his find. They eyed it greed
lily.
Without any request from them for a
share in the coveted fruit the finder di-
vided the orange into three parts and
gave his fellow newsboys each a part.
The smallest part he reserved for him
self 1t was only small thing in itself,
yet it proved, l thought, that there was
something noble hidden under the ragged
garments of that little urchin.-New
York Recorder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
An Anecdote of washington.

1t was while plunging through the
"leaden rain and iron hail" at the battle
of Monmouth that Washington's horse
was shot under him. The chief coolly
stepped from the prostrate charger, and
having received from the hands of an
attendant orderly "a fresh horse, ready
caparisoned, he turned to the sable body
servant who followed him close through
all dangers. and without the presence of
whose ebon visage picture of Wash
ington and mis- family would not be
complete, and quietly said
Here, Billy, take the saddle from
that dead horse and look out for it. -
And then he dashed away to direct the
planting Of Oswald's battery.
"Gollyr" exclaimed old Billy, as he
related the incident to one of the family
on his return home, ''who ebber did see
such man as Mas'r Washington? Who'd
ebber a thought oh dat saddle but him?
| tell ye, mas'r remembers eberyt'ing-
eb'ryt'ing down to de berry httlest.
New York Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
An Awful Tragedy-

Thousands of lives have bee sacri.
feed, thousands of homes made desolate
bv the fatal mistake of the ''old- school
physicians, still persisted in by some
Notwithstanding the light thrown upon
the subject by modern researcI, that
Consumption is ineurable. 1t is not.
Consumption is a serofulons disease of
the lungs, and any remedy which strikes
right at the seat of the complaint must
and will cure it. Such a remedy is Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1t
is a certain specific for all scrofulous
complaints. 1t was never known to fail
if given fair trial, and that is why the
manufacturers sell it under a positive
guarantee that if it does not benefit or
cure. the money paid for it will be re-
funded. The only lung remedy pos
sessed of such remarkably curative
properties as to warrant its makers in
selling it on trial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
A Sort of Digital Denression,

Did you ever notice when a man
smites his thumb with a hammer while
putting down a carpet under wifely
supervision and criticism how quickly
he thrusts the bruised and throbbing
member into his ready MOUTH People
think it Is because the application is
soothing. But no: it is an involuntary
movement, same as winking. The man
cannot help it. Nature knows what the
man would be apt to say under the cir
cumstances, and 30 she has provided
him with stopper and has ordained
that whenever he hits his thumb hard
enough to hurt-and it doesn't take very
much to nearly kill a man when he is
doing something he doesn't want TOBY
a sort of interlocking system The thumb
flies into his mouth and stops him up, so
that he can't say anything. Some men
whom you and ! know should be pro-
vided with an extra thumb which they
might carry about in their hand all the
time it wasn't in active use. 1t would
bea great thing. wouldn't it?-Robert
J. Burdette in Ladies' Home Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
The Necessity of the Times.

Inventive faculty will not have
reached high tide until some one per
fects an envelope flap warranted to
stick. One of the considerable discom-
forts of life takes the form of a non.
adhesive mucilage that allows the en-
velope upon which it is placed to peel
open again and again as it is pressed
down, until in a fine frenzy the letter
writer is driven hither and yon for real
mucilage. And the finer the quality of
the stationery the more trials lie in the
wake of the envelope.
If they are trusted to the mails with
out an extra dab of mucilage. they may
be depended upon to arrive at their des-
tination invitingly opener accessible
to the sneakish individual, who in spite
of our civilization does exist. who is Ca
pable of going against all written and
unwritten laws and tampering with a
seal. A padlocked envelope is one of
the necessities of the times.-Boston
Commonwealth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school $50 a. m.
young peoples society of Christian endeayor sun,
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome TO all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
Ezra Hmgeley, pastor. Sabbath preaching, IL
4. m; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, W Wednesday eve
nings; Sabbath school 2:30 pm. Strangers cor.
daily invited to all services
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m /:
public worship, IL a m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
aay OF each month, p. H.; womans missionary
sJciety last Saturday Of each month, 2 d. m Dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays
thursdays and Saturdays each month, y. N
young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. N.
AFRICAN N. e. CHURCH-Rev Albert March
TaStor Sunday service, 10 80 a. N; p. m; Sab
ain school, 2:30 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
sup.rstitious wsarers of Rings.

The use of amulets for disease seems
to belong to past age, yet, in truth, su-
perstition is almost as rife today as in
the romantic times when people discov-
cred fairy rings in the meadows and, by
every wandering stream, the footprints
of the water sprites. 1t hardly seems
possible that copper rings or inlaid rings
of iron or other base metal should be
worn today to ward off disease. Yet
there are wise people, men of affairs,
who would scorn to show superstition in
greater things, who are firmly convinced
that they owe immunity from disease to
some such token-Exchange.
An Agreeable Companion.
Next to the one who will let you talk
all the time about yourself, the most
pleasing companion in this world is the
one who will occupy all his time in tell
ing you Of good things that other people
have said about you.-London Tit-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
Thackeray's Realism.

Thackeray is verify as great a realisi
as great artist can be. He prides him.
self ON presenting life as it is, unseas.
oned by the hot spices of artificial ro-
nance. Nay. he employs devices to en-
trap the credulity of the reader-the de-
vice, for example, of making Arthur
Pendennis, whom we know independ.
emily, tell the story of his young friend
Give Newcome, and the noble, meek
hearted gentleman with whom he had
seen the boy at the Cave of Harmony.
Yes, Thackeray is a great realist, if
ever there was one. His characters are
no decorative Pigments to amuse our
fancy. They have become some of the
men and women we know best-personal
friends or foes of our own. 1t consoles
us for living in these late days of re-
formed parliament that we have lived
late enough to have known Colonel New
come. They were no tears of unreal
sentiment that we wept over his martyr
dom; it was a very genuine itch we felt
to kick Barnes. Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
The F1imdam.

A Customer-Give me dozen shirts
Shopkeeper-Here you are, sir. the
best quality.
Customer-How much?
Shopkeeper-One fifty each.
Customer-All right. wrap them up.
Now, how much are these socks?
Shopkeeper-Fifty cents pair.
Customer-Well, I'll take three dozen
pairs instead of the shirts.
The socks are done up and the Gus
toner starts for the door with the bundle.
Shopkeeper = Hold on there, you
haven't paid for those socks.
Customer-Certainly not. took them
in exchange for the shirts
Shopkeeper-Yes. but you didn't pay
for the shirts.
Customer-Certainly not. because |
didn't take them.
Shopkeeper- a fact. and he
spends the next half hour trying to make
his cash balance.-New York Herald
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
A History with $500 Pictures.

Mr.. A. NJ. Palmer's History of the
Union Square Theater Under A. NJ.
Palmer's Management" includes twelve
bulky folio volumes, and contains up
ward of 600 autobiographies of actors
and actresses and $500 portraits, play
bills and other illustrative matters. Mr..
Palmer also owns many privately Illus
trated editions of Shakespeare and of
the early English authors, several of
them fine examples.-NewY York Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
GROWING OLD.
,me day. looking in my mirror,

Some day. looking in my mirror.
I'll discover. here and there,
Slowly on my head intruding,
Scattering threads of silver hair.
But do not think I'll murmur, =
And do not think I'll scold, =.
And my heart will not be saddened
When see I'm growing old.
/ will make no lamertation
And no tear will dim my eye.
There will be no touch of sadness,
Nor a vain. regretful sigh;
Youth will be a mere remembrance,
Just a story that is told
But I'll not wish to recall il
When see I'm growing old
shall think that, of LIES battle,
OF the hard. relentless grind.
There is less ahead TO conquer.
There is more that's left behind
Nearer, then, my rest from labor
On Life's path so bleak and cold.
So the gray hairs will be welcome
When see I'm growing old.
Joseph Bert Smiley.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
THE BIG BONANZA MINE,
Smoking Hole in the Ground Out of
Which 1Iackay Took $3.50, 900, 900.


l was stroIling with Mackay som,
years ago in Virginia City, when W,
looked down a smoking cavity in tbs
ground that was soon lost in the dark
ness, and at the mouth of which wind
lass was slowly grinding. '-Out of thai
hole" he said, Il took $3.50, ,000, 900 il
bullion" This was one of the famou:
Bonanza mines, whose history all mer
know. The Big Bonanza, as it wa:
called, and as Mackay described it to mt
at the time, was a kidney" or 6
pocket of crude ore, about as high a:
the steeple of Trinity and in area az
large as the City Hall park of New York
This ore, shoveled out and reduced
gave the stupendous yield to which Mr.,
Mackay referred, and was the founda.
ton of the Bonanza fortunes.
Associated with him were three other
gentlemen, whose names were to win q
worldwide mining fame-James G. Fair,
afterward senator from Nevada, whose
skill as a mining expert had attracted
the attention of Mackay; William
O'Brien, and James G. Flood. O'Brien
and Flood had come to California as
friends in the Argonaut days, and had
like other men taken their humble parts
in the creation of the Pacific states. In
those times men who were to be major
generals in the army drove drays for a
living. Others who were to become
luminous in craftsmanship and juris-
prudence joyfully mended their own
trousers and washed their own linen.
They were partners. term that
Bret Harte has pathetically explained
in one of his exquisite stories. Part
ners," that is to say, friends, with a
friendship such as we who live outside
of the atmosphere of adventure which
infolded the Argonaut days cannot un-
derstand, and which would be but
vaguely explained if we compared it to
the love of man and woman.
Billy was my partner once" as Mr..
Flood said to me one day in Menlo,
while we were looking at the portrait of
O'Brien; BILLY was my partner once.
He is my partner now, will be my part
ner forever"-a speech which made a
deep impression, coming as it did from
the lips of one of the most resolute, self
restrained and undemonstrative of men.
Flood was the financial representative
and the ally of the two young miners
who were at work on the Bonanza;
O'Brien, the partner" in the firm, be-
cause Flood could have no interest he
did not share.
O'Brien passed away in Bonanza
not many months since, in
Germany. He was brave, independ-
ent, reserved, conscientious man, es-
pecially charming and true in the higher
relations of lfe-no better citizen, no
truer friend-''in all that goes toward
the true development of manhood, the
best man have ever known" as Mackay
said to me when the hour of irrevocable
silence had fallen. 81 know only one
man in the world that can break me,
and that is Mackay." This Flood said
to me and note itas showing the strong
links which in those days bound the
Bonanza firm and gave it a strength
and confidence which were the basis
Of its power.-John Russell Young in
Munsey's Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
Emile Zola,s Working Hours.

Emile Zola's habits are extremely regu
lar. He takes a walk every morning
usually leaving his house, whether a;
Medan or at Paris, about 9 O'Clock. 81.
lunches at midday, and writes from
o'cloc,, till 6, receiving no visitors ani
transacting no business in the afternoon
He has particular liking for large and
massive pieces of furniture, so his writ
ing table and his library chairs are Of
colossal proportions, as is also his ink
stand. which is in bronze and represents
hon.-Paris Cor. Philadelphia Tele
pranh
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
GRAINS OF GOLD.

No one can disgrace US but ourselves.
Hearts may agree though heads differ.
Kindness will creep when it cannot go.
Our heaviest burdens are those we bor-
row.
True prayer never stops looking for an
answer.
He that has endured evil knows best
what good is.
Raise no more spirits than you can
conjure down.
All fame is dangerous; good brings
envy; lad, shame.
Take things as they come and give
them up as they go.
1t takes two to make bargain, but
only one Of them gets it.
Disappointmentsa are to the soul what
a thunderstorm is to the air.
There would be more good boys if
there were more good fathers.
One who teaches great truths should
live up to the doctrine he processes.
Crimes succeed by sudden dispatch;
honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Refusing to confess and forsake known
sins is as bad as recommitting them.
The man who speaks before he thinks
often has to do lots of thinking after
ward.
Good manners is the art of making
those people easy with whom we con-
verse.
1t never makes children better to tell
them a dozen times day that they are
too mean for any use.
The young man who INDUCES freely
in biting sarcasm will find himself oblig
ed to swallow affronts.
Be not too earnest, loud. or violent in
your conversation. Silence your oppo-
nent with reason, not with noise.
Every man has an ak to grind, and
looks upon every other man with an eye
TO inducing him to turn the handle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07

AS there can always be found in this
world plenty of things to find fault with,
so there can always be found an untold
number of blessings. Never stop to
worry because some people are better off
than you are; rather keep your hearts
full of thankfulness because you are so
much better off than are thousands of
other human beings.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS, F. d H. M-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full NOON
j. B. MEYER, See'y. Ed BAILEY. w. NJ
ST. CLAIRSV VILE CHAPTER. No ~ BsoyoI
Arch Mds0Rs.-Stated convocations frst FRIDAY 1f
each month. -
j. b. MEYER, Rec. Ed BAILEY H "
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. d S,M.-
Meets second Tuesday of each month
j. B. MEYER, Seey. j. b. RYAN TIM
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 26, K T-Stated
conclaves, first Tuesday of each month
j. Il. MEYER Sec'y j. B. RYAN &c
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
How n Hindoo Uses Clocks.

The Hindoo places clock in his show
rooms, not because he ever desires to
know what the hour is, but because a
clock is foreign curiosity. Instead.
therefore, of contenting himself with
one good clock, he will perhaps have a
dozen in one RON. They are signs of
his wealth, but they do not add to his
comfort, for he is 50 Indifferent to time
that he measures it by the number of
bamboo lengths the sun has travelled
a~ove the horizon.-Temple Bar
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07

Not long since London lady went to
a stationer and ordered o number of in
vitation cards which she proposed to is
sue for an evening party. She particu-
larly instructed the stationer to print
Ugh tea" in the left hand corner of
each. When at length the cards came
home they all bore the letters 81. T." in
the corner specified. Opinion.
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The yalae of Pearls

Nothing varies so much in value as
pearls. With them fashion affects the
market constantly. Sometimes white
ones are sought, while other tints at in.
tervals are in demand. For some years
past black pearls have been the rage. A
fine specimen, worth 5000. will fetch
81 600 perhaps if another can be got to
match it perfectly.-Kansas City Times.
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wives of Some Enrlish WrIters.

Beaconsield married a lively young
widow, who made him perfectly hap
py, and he never lost an occasion of
singing her praises. DR.. Arnold, of
Rugby. is cited as having an almost
ideal home life, and also the late Dean
Stanley. All the world knows how hap
py the Gladstones are in their family
circle, and SO it is with many Others
Writer
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
Thoroughly Alive.

Young America is in thorough touch
with the times. An up town boy of
eleven rejoicing in little printing
press, at once announced forthcoming
newspaper, of which he was to be editor
and proprietor. And Helen" he add
ed, referring to a nine-year-old sister,
'may do the woman's page" New York
Timas
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07

ALEXANDER army knew no defeat.
The same is true of Dr. Fenner's Golden
Relief; it is warranted to relieve tooth
ache, headache, neuralgia, or any other
pain in to 8 minutes; also bruises, burns,
wounds, wire-cuts, swellings, bites, sum-
mer complaints, collie, (also in horses(,
diarrh9a, dysentery and fux.