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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-17
UNDESIRABLE HEBREWS.
The Most Dangerous Immigration OF
MOdcrn Times.

lilo MObG DhUKoEOuA vs.
MOdern Times.
LONDON, Sept 12-The action of the
local government board last week in
authorizing the exclusion of immigrants
not able TO give an address in the
United Kingdom was prompted by the
action of the American president in is
suing his order for twenty days
quarantine of all immigration ships. 1t
was feared that the influx of Russian
Jews, regarding which the people OF
Great Britain are already sufficiently
impatient, would be diverted altogether
to Great Britain, and that the larger
cities to which these people invariably
throng would be over crowded with
them.
A we'll known statistician, who has
made immigration a study, said that
the movement of the Russian Jews was
the most dangerous immigration known
to history since the days of Attila, and
in some respects it was infinitely more
to be dreaded by civilized communities.
He said that all sorts of deception had
been resorted to in order to get these
miserable refugees into England and
America without exciting public sus-
icion.
They were sent in patches to Glas-
gov, to Liverpool, Havre and other
places, in order that the volume of their
emigration by way of Hamburg, which
was their principal port of departure,
should not attract too much atten-
ton. They were told to call them
selves Austrians, Persians or Germans
in general way, and anything but
Russian Jews. They were instructed to
represent themselves as DESTROYS OF
working on farms, in order to allay the
impressions of the people in the cities,
but not one in 10000 had any idea OF
remaining on a farm, even if pre-
tense should be made of entering upon
agricultural work. If they wanted to
do farming the statistician said they had
ample opportunity in the Argentine
republic, to which number had been
sent, but those sent there had not only
refused to work, but had attacked the
people appointed to take care Of them.
What they really wanted, added the
statistician, was to crowd into the cities
and make living at peddling or some
thing of the kind
Everybody is confident here OF tho
correctness of Prof. Koch's statement,
made after thorough examination, that
the Russian emigrants brought the
cholera to Hamburg.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-17

81 want a dogs muzzle," said lit
tie fellow, entering a hardware store
els it for your father?" asked the shop
keeper. mo; ofcourse it isn't" replied
the little fellow, indignantly. ats for
our dog"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-17

Bombay has population of SCI, 200,
and Calcutta with its two immediate
suburbs q population Of al, lao.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-17
FAR UP NORTH.

sept. .S.-The North
IN of 1s9l-92 has re-
ell, with ono excep-
ton, safe and sound.
Capt. Peary gives
this account of his
trip:
Two days after tho
Kite left last year Red
Clifi house was sum
GENTLY completed TO af-
ord q somewhat bctter
protection than the tent
from the constant rains
and heavy winds which
prevailed for ten days
followingher departure,
and ! was moved into IL
and slowed on q pile Of
boxes IN one corner.
u,u-a xrnolsa Iafap fha
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Nitrate Fields of Chilli.

The caliche, or raw nitrate of soda, is
not equally distributed over the pampas
of Chilli. The most abundant deposits
are situated on the slopes of the hills,
which probably formed the shores of the
old lagoons. An expert can tell from
the external appearance of the ground
where the richest deposits are likely to
be found. The caliche itself is not found
on the surface of the plain, but is COW
cred up by two layers. The uppermost,
known technically as chuca, Is OF frla-
bic nature, and consists of sand and gyp-
sum. while the lower-the costra-is a
rocky conglomerate of clay, gravel and
fragments of feldspar. The caliche varies
in thickness from few inches to ten or
twelve feet, and rests on soft stratum
of earth called cova.
The mode in which the caliche is ex-
cavated is as follows: A hole is bored
through the chuca, costra and caliche
layers till the cova or soft earth Is
reached below. 1t is then enlarged un-
I'll it is wide enough to admit of small
boy being let down, who scrapes away
the earth below the caliche so as to
form little hollow cup. Into this
charge of gunpowder is introduced and
subsequently exploded. The caliche is
then separated by means of picks from
the everything costra and carried to the
refinery. Both in appearance and COM
position it varies very much In color
it may be snow white, sulphur, lemon,
orange, violet, blue and sometimes
brown, like raw sugar.-Blackwood's
Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Age of Fresh Eggs.

As to just how old the eggs may be
when they get into the hands of the con-
sumner in this town is matter for con-
lecture, and task that would cause
pleasant thrills in one inclined to mathe-
matics. Any one who has ever spent
any time in the country and made
proper use of his eyes knows it is the
habit of farmers to keep their eggs un-
til they have a certain quantity before
disposing of them.
The farmers may collect the eggs for
an entire week and then dispose of them,
or they may keep them for two weeks
before the huckster gets them. That de-
pends entirely upon the number of eggs
which that particular farmers hens will
lay in a given period.
The hucksters go about the country
once or twice week the dealers say.
They gather the eggs here and there,
and when they have gathered certain
quantity turn them over to the shippers.
The shippers, in turn, hold the eggs
until they, too, obtain certain quantity
and then consign them to the dealers in
this city. When the eggs get here final
ly the dealers say they have received q
shipment of fresh eggs, and mean it too.
The dealers maintain that an egg two
weeks old in ordinary weather is just as
good as an egg that is not more than
twenty-four hours old. In fact, they
make bold to say they would eat an egg
two weeks old just as soon as one two
hours old, and relish it just as much
New York Evening Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Green Fisherman.

1t is amusing to veteran when visit
ing angling resorts to watch the beauti
full way in which the guides seduce the
greenhorns into buying tackle or outfits
from them or from the local stores.
There is always some particular fly or
spoon without which it is useless to fish.
and then when it comes to going out to
the fishing grounds, woe to the man who
has not been there before, for unless he
happens to have an unusually conscien-
tious boatman the chances are that he
will be taken over some very convenient
ground where there are few if any fish.
''They are not biting today" or You
ought to have been here last week." ETC.,
are the consoling remarks made by the
guides; we have all listened to these re-
marks time and time again. Anglers on
their first trips to the Thousand Isles
suffer from this to very great extent:
there are so many good looking and con.
venient localities barren of fish while
the best and prolific waters are at con-
siderable distance from the hotels and
require hard work at the oars to reach
them. In fact the experience of sports
men is that the first season at new re-
sort, whether for fishing or shooting, is
usually wasted. Forest and Stream.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
Do You Know Your Letters?

ANY man who can read would proba-
bly, resent such an imputation of igno-
rance as this question conveys. "Do
you know your letters?" is what is asked
the little tot when he or she first sets
foot in school. But grown up men and
women may be pardoned for believing
they are speaking the truth when they
answer "yes" to the question. The
chances are. however, that they don't
know their letters. Why has "a" its
present shape? Stumped the first time!
Every American ought to know that.
A takes its shape from picture of an
eagle. B was once the picture of an
Egyptian bird. d represented a man,
hand. was the horned viper. The
two upper strokes are the remains of the
horns and the perpendicular line the up
right body of the viper. H was once the
semblance of sieve.
We got our letters from the Phnnician
alphabet, which in turn came from the
hieroglyphic picture writing of Egypt.
So don't be so sure of your knowledge
next time you are asked simple ques-
ton.-Detroit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
A Very Old English Cloth,

Fustian is species of cotton cloth
much used by the Normans, particularly
by the clergy, and appropriated to some
orders for their cashubles. The Cister-
clans were forbidden to wear them made
of any material but linen or fustian. A
stronger description was first manufac-
tured in England. at Norwich. temp
Edward vi.
1t was much used for doublets and
jackets in the Fifteenth century, at
which time it appears to have been i'm
ported from Italy. ''Fustians Of Naples"
are named in a petition to parliament
from the manufacturers of Norwich,
Philip and Mary, 1854. The name was
corrupted in England into "fustianapes"
and ''fustian and apes" i. e., .'fustian
a Naples. Notes and Queries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Year 1881.

The year 1881 was a chronological
oddity of the oldest kind. besides being a
mathematical curiosity seldom equaled.
From right to left and left to right it
reads the same. Eighteen divided by
gives as quotient; 81 divided by
gives 9; if divided by the quotient con-
tains 9; if multiplied by the product
contains two 9s; and are 9; 8 and are
9. If the IS be placed under the 81 and
added the sum is 80; if the figures be
added thus, s, 8, lit will give 18 as the
result Reading from the middle from
right to left or from left to right it is 49,
and 19 is two-ninths of 81. By adding,
dividing and multiplying, 10 9s are pro-
duced, being one for each year to the
beginning of the last decade of the Nine
teenth century.
No wonder the fortune tellers, the as
trologers and the 1nathematiciansw weave
SO many strange fancies around that
curious combination of figures 1t may
have been what induced Mother Shipton
to end her prophetic jingle with, "And
at last the world to an end shall come
in eighteen hundred and eighty-one." y
St. Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12

"While l live purpose to live," one
of our modern world conquerors is cred
tied with having said, and it was noble
sentiment to which any earnest indi-
vidual is equal, since God sets our task
every twenty-four hours and watches
with us to its close as well as rehearses
US for the drama of death as often as our
limbs and faculties become weary from
the strife. Then let US gather up the
golden days as heavenly treasures and
roll them on before us into the greater
sphere of eternity, when we shall come
to possess them again as the least of the
bright dowry of one who awakes from
pleasant dreams of days well spent, to
behold 1.-The perfect day. christian
Advocate
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Secret of Happiness.

Not long ago Professor Blackie had oc-
casion to be in the Fair Cty-Perth. He
was waiting for certain train, and was
marching up and down the platform
whistling gayly, and for all the world
like schoolboy en- route home for his
holidays A gentleman near by, at once
recognizing the picturesque figure and
wishing to enter into conversation with
him, went up to him and asked him:
Professor, may l ask the secret of
your happiness
The genial professor smiled and an
swered:
"Well, here is the secret of my happi-
ness: l have no vain regrets for the past,
l look forward with hope to the future
and l always strive to do my duty.
There" he ended emphatically, "you
have it." And he straightway set to
and walked up and down again, ,whistling
as before.--London Tit-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
And Yet He Gave Him Six Months.

A fine, stalwart man, with a frank,
open expression. was arraigned for steal
ing pair of shoes from dealer. "Did
you steal the shoes" asked the judge.
He caught me, judge, with the shoes
and the box in my hand. I'll tell you
how it was," began the complainant,
but he was cut short and reminded that
the prisoner had pleaded guilty. "How
did you come to steal the shoes? You
look like hard working man." re-
marked the court. well, l stole them.
judge. and he caught me-" was the re-
ply. He was committed for six months.
The judge remarked later: 81 was rather
taken with that man. He came up to
the bar like Marc Antony, not with
the sleek expression, Your honor or a
whine of any kind. Had he given me
any good excuse would have been very
lenient with him, for if | am not very
much mistaken in my judgment he is no
thief, but an unfortunate fellow who
was pinched by poverty. Brooklyn
Eagle
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
scared Burglars by His Voice.

The ventriloquist, Fred Maccabe, has
put his special gift to good use. Retir-
ing late one night he tossed about for
some time unable to fall asleep, and
then, hearing footsteps down stairs, he
felt convinced that thieves had got into
the house. Crawling down stealthily
close to where they were at work he,
by means of ventriloquism, began con-
versation and hullaballoo in many voices:
"Here they are! Bring the lights! There
they go! Shoot, shoot them quickr The
whole gang of burglars thereupon bolted
in panic, leaving all their intended plum
der behind. Tit-Bits
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
ONE, TWO, THREE.

I saw three witches as The wind blew cold,
In q red light to the lee;
Bold they were, and over bold,
AS they sailed over the sea;
Calling for "One, two, three-'
Calling for "One, two, threei"
And think | can hear
II a-ringing in my ear,
A-calling for their "One, two, three-
And clouds came over the sky,
And the wind blew hard and free:
And the waves were bold, and over bold,
As we sailed over the sea;
Howling for 'One, two, threet"
Howling for their "One, two, threer''
Oh. think ! can hear
1t a-howling in my ear,
Howling for their ''One, two. threei''
And the storm came roaring on,
Such a storm as never did see,
And the storm it was bold, and over bold.
And as bad as a storm could be;
A-roaring for its 'One, two, three!'
Allowing for its ''One, two, threei''
Oh, think can hear
1t a-howling in my ear,
Howling for its "One. two, threel"
And a wave came over the deck,
As big as wave could be,
And it took away the captain, and the mate
and a man;
1t had got the ''One, two, threer'
1t had got the 'One, two, threer'
And it kept the "One, two, threet"
Oh, think can hear
1t a-rolling in my ear
As it went with the Zone, two. three!"
Charles Godfrey Leland in Longman' s Maya
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12

week" he added, Frightening up bit,
land hope to pull off five this week
While the unfortunate man was talk
ing and moaning was not smiling at
him. was thinking of a clever and
pretty young lady who had similar
grievance and who that very day had
tremblingly faltered in my other ear:
DO you think I'm any thinner than !
was last Thursday. Honest, now, am |
growing thinner? l weigh only 125
POUNDS today; month ago | weighed
126. Awful, isn't it,
l admitted that it might be awful, but
at the terrible rate of falling off given
she couldn't have lost more than three
ounces since saw her last, and this was
quite iInperceptible.
''Now you're making fun of me-" said
she. 1T is too serious. I'm getting to
be nothing but skin and bones! Every
thing | eat and drink makes me thinner!
Everybody says | look badly, and know
I'm just wasting away!'
| must introduce these two unhappy
people and let them talk it over.-Ncw
York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Evidence Was Agains. Her.

Finally, when the end of the meal was
marked by the appearance of half doz-
en- new cut glass finger bowls, infantile
wonderment could contain itself no
longer.
Mamma" piped the eldest cherub,
whats all this for?"
'.All whaty'
''Oh, havin the real silver out, and all
these new things an two kinds of meat. :"
"Why, Willie, what do you mean by
talking in that fashion? You know this
is the way we dine every day. Really,
Cousin Mary, that child is losing his
memory"
mo, amt. We had Irish stew six
times this week, already, an if Cousin
Mary don't believe what say
.'Willier'
well, just let her come in some day
without tellin nobody, and if she don't
get stew, too. hope the boogey man1l
get me. -
"Yes, tome often, piped the other two
children, IAN let mamma know you're
comm, for we're orful tired of stew
Troy Standard.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
CarlYle,s View of Aprons.

Carlyle in his ''Sartor Resartus" was
able to find deep philosophy in aprons.
Aprons are Defenses; against injury to
cleanliness, to safety, to modesty, some
times to roguery. From the thin slip of
notched silk las it were, the emblem and
beatified Ghost of an Apron), which
some highest bred housewife has grace
fully fastened on; to the thick tanned
hide girt around him with thongs,
wherein the builder builds and at even
ing sticks his trowel; or to those jingling
sheet iron aprons, wherein your other
wise half naked Vulcans hammer and
smelt in their smelt furnaces there
not range enough in the fashion and
uses of this vestmentT'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
GRAINS OF GOLD.
| gentleman makes no noise.

a GenIl6uldu UldheS 10 noise.
Never to learn, means to remain ig-
norant.
The devil has no better friend on earth
than the hypocrite.
Never to do good. means that you are
continually doing bad.
We like the devil because he makes us
believe We are somebody.
A man with pure heart ought to be
a man with clean mouth.
People with empty heads most gener-
ally have tongues that rattle.
The greatest of all pleasures is to give
pleasure to one whom We love.
Do nothing in thy passion; it is like
putting to sea in violent storm.
Never to plan for anything, means
that you will never accomplish it.
1t is better to suffer wrong from every
man than to do wrong to single one.
He who cannot command himself,
should not attempt to command others.
1t is a way of calling man a fool
when no attention is given to what he
says.
1t is of very little use trying to be dig
nified if dignity is not a part of our
character.
There is no human life so poor and
small as not to hold many divine
possibility.
Many boy is frightened out of being
religious by the way religion makes his
friends look.
Affiiction is a school of virtue. 1t cor
rects levity, and interrupts the conf
dence of SHINING.
Life's smallest miseries are perhaps
its worst; great sufferings have great
strength to bear them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
The Way of tho World.

Funny world we live in. A man who
has six horses standing idle in stable
walked two miles out in the country on
little matter of business day or two
ago. while another man who had no
horses and very little money hired q
team to go the same distance. This was
an actual occurrence this week, and
shows the perversity of human nature.
He who has the facilities for driving
prefers to walk. while he who could
much better prefer to walk and has no
team, goes and hires one. Men are
crazy to own a team, and it soon be-
comes bore to give the horse necessary
exercise. 1t has always been thus, and
we presume always will be.-West-
chester Record.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12
FACTS FOR AN OBITUARY.
The Good Men Do Lives After Them and
Is Detailed to the REPORTERS

Is Detailed to the Reporters
AS disagreeable duty probably as
any that ever falls to the lot of re-
porter is the getting of facts for the
obituary notices of persons who are not
especially prominent Newspaper men
always shrink from the work and are
loath to enter a house of mourning.
The exigencies of the profession demand
it, however, and strange as it may seem,
sometimes the men actually have COM
ical experiences.
This is best illustrated by the narra-
ton of a recent occurrence in New
York. A death notice had been re-
ceived late in the evening, and to the
trained eye of the night city editor bore
all the earmarks of ''good obituary"
These are indicated by the penmanship
of the notice, the location of the home
of the deceased, the name, the wording
and numerous other minor details, such
as one unfamiliar with newspaper work
would scarcely notice.
The reporter assigned to the task pro-
ceeded to the residence given with feel
with the corpse. In response to the ring
of the bell an airish young woman, pre-
sumably the widow of an elderly man,
opened the door of the house, which was
in good neighborhood. The reporter
introduced himself and the subject as
delicately as possible.
"Oh, I'm delighted to see you," replied
~ 80 rk1.1
deprecating words of the man. I've
always wanted to see a reporter" she
added. looking curiously at the specimen
before her, as though astonished at see
ing q respectfully appearing individual.
Then followed the ordinary questions
by which the reporter found out when
and where the man was born, where he
was educated. the list of clubs and fra
ternal lodges of which he was a men,
Der, whether he had fought in the war,
and dozen other things.
1T does seem SO strange remarked
the woman. Here am telling you all
these things. and he Will never read
your article. He would have been 50
pleased. You know. he was literary
man himself"
"lndeedr said the reporter. brighten
ing up at the prospect of swelling his
stickful of matter to at least a quarter
column. 81 had forgotten to ask the
occupation. Will you kindly furnish
me with list of his works.
'Oh. he didn't write books!''
Magazine articlesT queried the re-
porter, with wavering hopes.
mo-" said the woman.
Newspaper man perhaps?" asked the
reporter sadly. for his imaginary quar-
ter column had again shrunk to an ac-
tual stickful
HE did not write at all" remarked
the woman, at last brought to bay.
"Whatw said the reporter, his curios-
ty at last thoroughly aroused, mot
even for trade papers. advertising liter
ature, theatrical posters, programmes
mo. His father was an editor,
though" exclaimed the woman, with
pleased smile, land he worked for
publisher. He had the agency for Long
Island of the 'Cyclopedia of Useful In
formation OF course you need say
nothing about that. Just write it down
that he lived simple, Christian life and
was engaged in literary pursuits.
New York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-12

SOCIETY may aid in making the labor
ers virtuous and happy, by bringing chill
dren up to labor with steadiness, with
care, and with skill; to show them how
to do as many useful things as possible;
to do them all in the best manner; to
set them an example in industry, So
briefly, cleanliness and neatness; tomake
all these habitual to them, so that they
shall never be liable to fall into the con-
trary; and to let them always see good
living proceeding from labor.