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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-07
BABEL OF CONFUSION.

Every congressman and senator who
has arrived in Washington is eagerly
sought after to ascertain his views on the
financial question, and almost overy one
of them has set plans and favorite pro-
jects to propose which, in the estima-
tion of each, are sure panaceas for the
existing troubles. AS a consequence,
when congress gets to work, a myriad Of
bills will be introduced, covering every
financial proposition possible to con-
ceiye, and this fact alone must be taken
as indicating a protracted and disturbed
session.
Scores of congressman are already en-
gagged in preparing speeches calculating
their ideas of and a remedy for the finan
cial stringency, some with view of set
tling themselves right with their const
tuents, and others hoping patriotically to
contribute something for the general
good.
In this babel of confusion of ideas no
one can foretell the result save and except
that it is reasonably certain that the sill
yer purchase law will not be repealed
unless superseded by some other silver
legislation
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Wnrkino on Mountain Tops

Some practical facts are furnished by
the experience of the worknen engaged
in the construction of the new Central
railway over the main range of noun
tains in Peru. The line starts from
Lima. in latitude ~ degs. The summit
tunnel of this line at Galeria is at the
height of 15.645 feet. OF a little under
the height of Mont Blanc. but it must
be remembered that the climatic condi-
tions are very different and more un-
favorable in Peru than in Europe.
Mr. E. Lane. the engineer in chief.
finds that the workmen up to an altitude
of 5000 to 0.0G0 feet do about the same
relative quantity of work as at sea level
provided they have been Injured to the
height or brought up in the country. AT
$4,000 feet the amount of work deterio-
rates. and at l4.0O0 to 10000 full third
has to be deducted from the amount that
the same man could perform at sea level
Mules and horses are found to do about
the same efficient work proportiOnately
as human beings up to about 1900 feet
ia the district t-Nineteenth Century.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
A Waterloo Veteran.

On Sept. 81, 1892, General Karl Fried
rich Muller, of the Hanoverian army,
died at Hanover in his ninety-seventh
year. The deceased general was present
on the 10Th, 18th and 18th of October.
1913, at the famous Battle of the Ma
tions," an engagement that cost Ma
poleon 7S, 900 men, 800 cannon and 200
standards
Karl Friedrich Muller was present at
Quatre Bras on the 10th and at Water
loo on the 18th of June, 1915. After the
victory he marched with his battery of
artillery to Paris and remained in the
French capital during the whole period
of occupation by the allied armies. Karl
Muller. who began his military career al
fifteen, was never wounded and rose to
the rank of general in the Hanoverian
service.
He retired on pension not long be-
fore the overthrow of his sovereign, with
whose misfortunes he sympathized, and
to whose cause he remained strongly at
tached. On Sept. 80, in presence of a
vast concourse of people, this distin-
guished man was buried with full mill
tary honors, and the identical colors
carried by the brave Hanoverians at
Waterloo were unfurled around his
grave.-Notes and Queries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Danger in Furnace Registers.

81 can tell you of one danger that is
generally overlooked said a friend
"and that is in letting infammatory sub
stances fall through the register. The
other day had case of china unpacked
in the dining room. The box was filled
with excelsior packing, and after the
dishes had been taken out l told the
maid to clear up the litter on the floor
A little later came into the room and
smelled strong odor of burning. 1t was
a very cold day, and there was hot fire
in the furnace, and as the smell seemed
to come from the register lifted it ELL
tirely out and stuck bent poker as far
down the pipe as | could reach. With
a lot of dust and rubbish brought up a
quantity of excelsior shavings which
were distinctly scorched by the heat. 1t
was the first time that l had ever thought
of the danger of 'sweepings' connected
with the open registers. New York
Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Scavengers of Conversation.

"Deliver me from what some author
has called the 'scavengers of daily con-
versatiop,' who gather up the literary
refuse on every side to offend the intel
lectual nostrils of the thoughtful. And
Colonel Marcus Bauermann stretched
himself in his chair and proceeded to ex-
plain. "a dude with a thimbleful of
brains won basket of champagne from
me ON the bet that q-u-i-r-e meant band
of fsingers-which it does, though choir
is another way Of spelling it-and ten
minutes afterward street car conductor
used the word 'transpire' for 'perspire'
and won box of cigars from me ON that.
1.-THE latest is the case Of a drummer
for a Boston shoe house, who is sixty
years old if he is day, and whose gray
hairs ought to indicate some faint
CLEANS of intelligence, and yet who So
berly asked me the pronunciation and
meaning of the word 'bac-kac-he,' and
when told him did not know coolly
said it was pronounced 'backache,' and
meant a pain in the back. CT course
such people are afflicted with paresis,
but oughtn't they to be restrained il
some wayT'-St. Louis Globe Democrat
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
GRAINS OF GOLD.
,nowledge is an excellent drug.

knowledge is an excellent drug.
There is no short cut to excellence.
Never brood over trouble of any kind
Vanity exists only on narrow basis.
Real good never shriDks from an!
kind of test.
No deed can be small when the pur
,ose is great.
No mar falls into contempt but he
who deserves it.
We get impatient, and there crops out
our human weakness.
One conquers bad habits more easily
to-day than tomorrow.
If you pay as you go, You are mere
likely to avoid the rush.
ANY mind that is capable of a real
sorrow is capable of good.
No man can be any stronger than the
foundation he star ds upon.
Wait not for difficulties to cease; the
glory lies in overcoming them.
True happiness consists in the preserv-
ition of firm and equal mind.
There are three things difficult: To
keep a secret. to suffer an injury, to use
leisure.
We understand the infinite hundred
times better by the heart than by the
intelligence.
Whenever the preacher takes square
aim at sin every hypocrite in the church
begins to dodge.
In matters Of conscience first thoughts
are best. In matters of prudence. last
thoughts are best.
The wise carry their knowledge as
they do their watches-not for display,
out for their own use.
Some people are always bewalling
their misfortuneS, but never make an
effort to overcome them.
Not to do honor to old age is to de-
molish in the m rning the house where
in we are to s'eep at night.
Be calm and quiet in your life. You
are not necessarily serviceable to others
when you are troublesome to yourself.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
A Story About the Pansy.

A pretty fable about the pansy is cur.
rent among French and German chill
dren. The flower has five petals and five
sepals. In most pansies, especially OF
the earlier and less highly developed
varieties, two of the petals are plain il
color and three are gay. The two plain
petals have a single sepal, two of the
gay petals have sepal each, and the
third, which is the largest of all, has two
sepals. The fable is that the pansy rep
resents family consisting of husband
wife and four daughters, two of the lat
ter being stepchildren of the wife.
The plain petals are the stepchildren,
with only one chair; the two small gay
petals are the daughters, with chaii
each, and the large gay petal is the wife
with two chairs. To find the father one
must strip away the petals until the
stsmens and pistils are bare. They
have a fanciful resemblance to an old
man with flannel wrap about his neck
his shoulders appraised and his feet in a
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
More Potato,

Renan had a great contempt for mere
words, however eloquent. One evening
he met at sort of literary dinner M
Caro-, the philosopher beloved Of fine la
dies, who set himself to prove the exist
ence of God. His eloquent assertions did
not seem to interest the sage. In the
middle of one of his most sonorous pc
RODS NJ. Renan attempted to make him
self heard
But all the ladies were intensely in
terested. They would not have theil
pleasure spoiled.
''In moment, M. Renan, we viii
listen to you in your turn"
He bowed submissively.
Toward the end of dinner NJ. Caro-
out of breath, stopped with rhetorical
emphasis. At once every one turned to
ward the illustrious scholar, hoping thai
he would enter the lists, and the hostess
with an encouraging smile, said:
"Now, M. Renan"-
81 am afraid, dear lady. that am now
q little behindhand."
mo, nor
81 wanted to ask for little more po
tato. ."-Fortnightly Review.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Professional Reciprocity.

Texas Siftings.
A Texas physician was heard using
very uncomplilnentary language about
about certain butcher.
"Why is it," asked a friend of the
doctor. that you abuse the butcher SO
much?" You are everlastingly saying
mean things about him.
I've got good reason to talk abont
him. Last winter l owned a fat pig.
L sent for the butcher to kill and dress
it. He did SO, but what do you think
he told me when l asked what his bill
was?"
Il have no idea
"Well. sir, that butcher patted me on
the shoulder and said: Never mind the
bill, doctor. We are in the same bust
ness, you know. We professional men
must help each other out. l was so
mad at that fellow could have"
prescribed for him." added the doc
tors friend
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
TAKING DESPERATE CHANCES.
The Sort OF Risks People Run Every Day
Without Getting Scared.


Why don't more people die of pneumo-
mia, quick consumption and other lung
troublesy
That is what | think every night il
upper Broadway. There you'll see 3
score or two of men coming out Of su-
perheated theaters between the acts tc
stand in unprotected full dress around
the cold ard drafty lobbies or out on
the sidewalk for chat or a smoke
You'll see them at the Madison Square
garden-square acres of white shirt
front-sitting for hours in an atmos
phere suggestive Of overcoats. They
pour out of clubhouses and hot restau-
rants at all times of the night. often in
a dripping perspiration from exercise
and with careless or no provision against
the evils of sudden change of tempera-
ture. You can meet them on Broad
way with topcoats thrown wide oper
and the chest exposed from necktie &c
waistband.
Yet it is only now and then that we
know of a man who was out around
town in apparently good health the day
before yesterday who is corpse today
There are more than thousand men
taking such desperate risks every night
during the fashionable season in New
York.
If you were to tell one of these that
he was running greater risk of sudden
death than If he were going into the
heat of an ordinary battle, he would
probably laugh at you. Yet it would
be the solemn truth.
If he were soldier going into action
it would be with blanched face and
trem bling knees and silent prayer,
and fippant tongue and spirited devil
try that he dares the awful specter OF
death.
If he were confined to his room with a
mortal disease he would be surrounded
by his sorrowing family and anxious
friends, and his will would have been
made and duly witnessed. But being
blessed with reasonable health and man.
ly strength and the sublime confidence
of ignorance, he plunges into the danger
without a thought on his partor qualm
of conscience on their part.
Lungs are not made of chilled steel.
Yet it is wonderful what they are daily
and nightly subjected to, and how much
they will stand-sometimes. You must
often feel that they really are practically
indegtructible, they are put to such Sc
we're tests and with so little concern.
Pondering upon this, the faces OF
scores of personal friends and acquaint-
ances who fell in the prime of manhood
men of stalwart frame and superl
muscular energy-rise before US in
memory, while the way is strewn with
physical wrecks of the mortally wound
ed victims of fashion.-New York Her
old
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Nothing New Uader the Sun.


a. am beginning to believe that there
Is absolutely nothing new under the sun,
but that every thought is revival or an
imitation or downright plagiarism of
some one which preceded it years and
years ago." said Calvin 8. Southwood as
he warmed his feet against a heater In
the rotunds Of the Lindell. Even
the inventions that appear SO brand new
msy have existed or their possibility
oesn suggested away back before the
dawn Of history. At any rate this is evi-
deatly true in the realms Of literature.
In this line, if in nothing else, history re-
peats itself and the world runs in cycles.
sttended church Sunday-fsct, assure
you-and heard distinguished gentle
man use metaphor as his own which ]
at once recognized as used once by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and which in different
form 1 once ran across in an old book
containing the Canterbury Tales. Yes
terday / read in a magazine an article
by writer of national reputation, who
used as his own the expression, Pride
that dimes on vanity, sups on contempt.
"This expression was evidently taken
bodily from the Poor Richards Alma
nae of Benjamin Franklin, and this dis
tinguished philosopher | feel sure Dor
rowed it either consciously or uncon-
sciously from an old German book full
of folklore. Many of these old thoughts
in more recent writers are unconsciously
reproduced, and in their new dress car
hardly be recognized. A guilty con
science needs no accuser' may easily be
recognized in Hamlet's soliloquy, Thus
conscience does make towards of us all.
but it appeared far back of that, in the
sacred pages, The wicked flee when NO
man pursueth, and no doubt in other
shapes ages before that. No, there's
nothing new under the sun. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
A London Idea.

In certain London restaurants each
customer is allowed to make his Tor herr
own tea. The waitress lights the gas
burner, which is affixed to each table
and sets thereon silver kettle. Then
she presents to the teamaker silver
caddy divided into compartments and
offering choice of Souchong, Ceylon or
green tea. Any one who is compelled to
drink the lukewarm stuff called tea at
restaurants will appreciate the new idea,
London Letter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09

The snow was particularly light and
fluffy, and it settled on the sidewalks
like fine goose feathers. The janitor Of
a certain fat is a son of Ham. built like
q hercules. The janitor of the next fiat
is son of Erin. The two recognize no
color line. and are great friends. Before
the sun they rose to clear the sidewalks
of the snow ere it should be trampled
down by pedestrians Both were equipped
with snow shovels.
by golly. Pat. shouted the herculean
son of Ham, after he had been working
for few minutes, dis var snow am so
feadery dat shovelin it amt no good no
how. Minds me of pushing fog"
"Well. begorra," replied Pat, without
looking up from his work. get a fan
and fan it off. New York Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ReY. 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-Rev.
Harvey Webb, pastor. Sabbath preaching 10 80
:. m-; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
-venings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nngs; Sabbath school 2:30 pm Strangers cor
dialiy invited tn all rviceS
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Balph, pastor Sabbath school, 10 a. m |;
public worship, IL a. m. weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day of each month, p. m; womans missionary
leiety, last Saturday of each month"; p. m. dis
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, D. m
young wOmen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
.ach month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRf IN NM.E.CHURCH-Rev. n. e. Albert March
pastOr- Sunday service, 10 80 a. m. p. m; Sab
nath school, 2:30 p. m.; weekly prayer meeting.
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Endorsed for Office.

l nice looking old gentleman with a
6orid complexion approached the ap
pointment clerk of the treasury one day
with an application for place, indorsed
by some letters of recommendation.
When the official asked him question
he said: please write it down. am so
deaf that could not hear sound if a
cannon were fired off close to my ear"
General McCauley thought that this
was rather disadvantage for an appli-
can't for employment as clerk, but he
asked the stranger to write his name and
address. The old gentleman shook his
head. SIT is impossible" he said. ]
cannot write at all, because my hand is
palsied. Washington Cor. New York
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Three" In Mythology.

In mythology we find the three (3) occu-
pying even a more honorable place than
the so called mythical Nc. T." There
were the Three Graces, CereIus with his
three heads, Neptune holding his three
tined fork, to say nothing of the Nine
MUSES., which are made up of three threes.
and the third wave, which was though
to bring death and destruction to every
thing in its path. In nature we have
morning, noon and night: fish, flesh and
fowl. Hundreds of trees, vines and
grasses have their leaves and blades set
in groups of three.-St. Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
A Man of Many Names.

There are almost as many ways of
spelling the name of Columbus as there
are ways of arranging the distinguished
discoverer's whiskers. On the French
medal he is called Christophorous Co
lomb; on the Italian he is Christophorus
Colombo. The new Milanese medal calls
him Cristoforo Colombo, while our own
medal has him plain Christopher Colum-
bus. AS for Christopher himself, he
spelled his name Colon.-Boston Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
As Far As Looks Go.

They've raked in pretty tough look
ing lot this morning, haven't they?" OBJ
served the stranger, who had dropped In
at the police station.
''You are looking at the wrong gang,
said the reporter to whom he had spoken.
Those are not the prisoners. They are
the lawyers. s."-Exchapge
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09

The postage stamps of China are queer
looking specimens with their wriggling,
crawling dragons stamped upon them
The Turkish stamps are quite pretty
and are nearly all adorned by the cres-
cent and star. The stamps of Paraguay
present fine appearance, the main de-
sign being lion supporting pole which
is surmounted by liberty cap. The
stamps of England have undergone few
er changes than any other country and
have suffered no change whatever in the
main design, the portrait of the queen
Ohio State Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
A Refractory Youth.

A child four years old is the son of q
man who is almost abnormally pious.
This youth was told to go to see fami
ly visitor who had incautiously shown
/ interest in him. Instead Of doing SC
he backed away, lodged himself in q
corner, and with convincing shake OF
the head and flourish of the fists ex-
claimed: 81 won't, won't, l won't, for
Jesus sake. Amen. New York Re
corder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
His Eetort Courteous.

A well known New Yorker, famous
for his bon mots. was asked by friend
upon returning from Boston recently If
he had renewed his acquaintance with a
certain lady well know for her i'm
pressive style and blue stockingish quail
tiles.
NO" he replied with "a smile. "She
invited me one evening to meet some
minds at tea, but had an engagement
to meet some stomachs at dinner-at the
st. Botolph club, and so had to forego
the pleasure. New York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Bic saIvare in New York Harbor.

In 1889 the City of New York. on her
first voyage to this port. ran ashore off
Sandy Hook. A leading wrecking COM
pany of this city took score OF lighters
down to take off her cargo SO that she
might be foated. A number of tugs
aided in the work.
The wrecking company put in claim
for salvage and was awarded $4,000
Including the compensation to the tugs
which worked with the wrecking COM
pany the total amount of salvage award
ed was over 500. 000.-New York Even
ing Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
ALI Free,

Those who have used DR.. Kings New
Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have now the opportunity to
try it Free. Call on the advertised
Druggist and get Trial Bottle Free.
Send your name and address to H. E.
Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a
sample box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills
Free, as well as copy of Guide to
Health and Household Instructor, Free
All of which is guaranteed to do you
good and cost you nothing. Patterson
Sons drug store. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. "a. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on OF before full moon.
j. b. MEYER, Sec. G. p. BUMGARNER, w. NJ
ST CLAIRSFILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch Mds0ns.-Stated eonvocations first Friday of
each month.
j. B. MEYER, Rec. j. B. RYAN, H. +.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. & s. M
Meets second Tuesday of each 0nIh.
j. B. MEYER, Rec. C. W. = ARROLL., T. /. NJ.
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 26, K. T.-Stated
conclayeS, first Thursday of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Rec W. C. BURGUNDTHAL.E.C.
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The Egyptians and Romans.

The Egyptians and the Romans among
ancient nations present characteristic
examples of inequality in the develop
ment of the different elements of their
civilization. and even of the different
branches of which each of these ele-
ments is composed.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09

Good looks are more than skin deep,
depending upon healthy condition of
all the vital organs. If the liver be in
active, you have a Bilious Look and if
your kidneys be affected you have a
Pinched Lack. Secure good health and
you will have good looks. Electric
Bitters is the great Alternative and Tonic
acts directly on these vital organs.
Cures pimples, blotches, boils, and gives
a good complexion. Sold at Patterson's
Drug Store, soc per bottle. t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09
Quite a Relief.

Husband-Whatd do you do when you
hit your thumb with II hammer? You
can't swear"
Wife-No, but | can think with ali
my might and main what a perfectly
horrid, mean, inconsiderate, selfish
brute you are not to drive the nails
yourself. lf.-New York Weekly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09

1,445, 400 GALLONS of blood are filtered
by the kidneys every year. How can they
stand this prodigious strain? Thousands
die yearly from some form of kidney
disease. Is there any warning given ?
Yes; that stitch in the back, that pain in
the side and hundreds of other symptoms
cry out against neglect. The kidney
poison coursing through the veins, robs
the system of vigor and strength Take
warning then and before it is too late
use Swamp Root positive guaranteed
remedy for kidney disease. Sold by
Druggists. q