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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
A Great Invention.

81 have here" began the energetic
man as he bundled into the young law
yer's Office, ''the greatest invention of
the age.'
1t was cases that the lawyer wanted,
not inventions, and he said something
rather rude, but the energetic man
proved to be philosopher and merely
smiled.
81 call it, pursued the visitor, the
eternal kisser, because there is simply
no end to the kisses it bestows. 1t is
this" He hauled out spray of mis-
tletoe covered with white berries. This
interested the young lawyer, who raised
his eyebrows inquiringly.
"Mistletoe," proclaimed the agent,
sis very scarce this year, and bunch
containing a score of berries would
bankrupt poor man. Now, this great
invention brings happiness within reach
of all. Tradition permits you kiss for
each and every berry, you know. You
hold this spray above your beloved's
head-so. You bend-so-andk kiss her.
Then you grab berry -so-and pull it
presto, it flies back again in place.
The leaves and berries are india rubber,
sir, and-two did you say? Fifty cents.
Thank you, sir. Good day. '-Harper's
Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

CIRCUMSTANCES in his life
of Goethe, says, "Instead of saying that
man is the creature of circumstances, it
would be nearer the mark to say that
man is the architect of circumstances"
Our strength is measured by cur plastic
power 1t is said, that when John G.
Calhoun was in Yale College he was
ridiculed by his fellow students, for his
application to study. "Why," he re-
piled, II am forced to make the most of
my time, that l may acquit myself cred
itably in Congress. Do you doubt it?
l assure you, if | were not convinced of
my ability to reach the national capital
as representative within the next three
years, | would leave college this very
day" When there is will there is a
way, but the smaller and easier the way
is, the less that is durable and substan-
tial can be accomplished. The difficult
ties and obstacles we encounter on the
road to fortune and fame are positive
blessings. and nerve us to undertake
what seems impossible to overcome. All
difficulties come to US, as Bunyan SAYS
Of temptation, like the lion which met
Samson; the first time we encounter
them they roar and gnash their teeth,
but, when once subdued, we find nest
of honey in them. Toll is the very ele-
ment in which power is developed.
Pythagoras said ability and necessity
dwell near each other. Carlyle says,
HE who has battled, were it only with
poverty and hard toll, will be found
stronger and more expert than he who
could stay at home from the battle" :"
Lord Palmerston said. LET us wait and
look ahead" But to wait and look
ahead we must have what Carlyle calls
"the seeing eye.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

THE American people ought certainly
by this time to be able to form correct
estimate of the character and talents Of
Grover Cleveland. Could there be better
evidence than the Presidents course in
the Hawaiian trouble, that he is blum
dering, touchy, ignorant and insolent!
He persistently concealed what he was
doing in the matter, when there was no
reason for concealment. Under the
demands of the people as to what he
was about, he was restive and to the
official demand from the Senate and
Congress he was insolent. If Growers
second administration goes down in
history at all, Growers portrait will show
a man of proud spirit and limited
knowledge, the nature of an autccrat
and bigot, selfish and peevish, caring
more for what people should think of
him than for the country's interests.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

1t is notable that of the Democratic
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, not one comes from manufac-
turing locality, though that committee
is charged with legislation Of the greatest
moment to every kind of manufacturing.
Neither do they come from representa-
tive agricultural regions as much inter
ested in the tariff as manufacturers.
Most of the members come from cross
road villages of the South, which excel
in nothing, except it be in q surplus
product of loafers and colonels. How
then can they know what the diversified
interests of this country need since none
of them, in their daily life, are brought
in contact with the interests that make
this country what it is? With such men
to formulate the tariff policy it is not at
all strange that every interest is crying
out against the Wilson bill
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
AFTER THE FAIR
i. ne,mnnt County Teacher.

Belmont County Teacher.
Ihave been to the Windy City
have boarded so near the sky
That l heard the tread OF the angels feet
As they walked the streets on high.
With fieecy cloud for eoyeriet,
And the stardust in my hair,
1 heard the night birds whispering
In the tree-tOps way down there.
And what did il all come TO?
OH please don't ask me that
For the circus is all over,
And my pocketbook is fat.
We had coffee and sandwich for breakfast
Sandwich and coffee for tea,
And very excellent dinner
OF sandwich and coffee.
The room was so nice and so cosy
The friendly walls tried to meet;
could drape them well with towel,
And coyer the floor with a sheet
And what did ii all come to?
Oh, no; don't ask me that
For the circus is all over,
And my pocket-bOOk is fat.
Ny trip TO the city was lovely,
My company could never be beat
We chatted on all the gay topics
In our elegant palace car seat.
Arriving we did " up the Midway,
And turned in the big, foolish wheel,
And went to Wild West nonsense,
And saw the gi-l dance on her heel
It's true We came home in a smoker
Don't ask me the reason for that,
For che Jolly old circJS is over
And my pOckes-book 5 awfclly fiat
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Crossroads Burials.

Formerly it was general custom to
erect crosses at the junction of four
crossroads on place self consecrated ac-
cording to the piety Of the age. Suicides
and notoriously bad characters were
frequently buried near to these, not
with the notion of indign1ty, but in a
spirit of charity that, being excluded
from holy rites, they by being buried at
crossroads might be in places next in
sanctity to ground actually consecrated.
Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

SUCH howl was raised by the
Democracy over the tin plate tariff,
that no one for a moment thought the
Wilson bill would countenance particle
Of tariff on that article. Yet the Wilson
bill places a tariff of II cents pound
on tin plate. Two years ago they said
we could not make tin plate, but they
have since found that good deal of tin
plate is being made in Indiana, and
Indiana is very close State politically.
OF course the political standing of the
State has nothing to do with the tariff,
though.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
An Odd Visitor.

The Worcester, Mass, Spy relates the
following incident:
Among the visitors at the court house
recently was snow white pigeon that
alighted on the sill of one of the win
dows of the Clerks office. The window
was opened and the bird calmly walked
in with all the confidence of a lawyer
1t as calmly walked the whole length the
office and quietly observed everything.
Pretty soon as his acquaintance with the
officials increased, he perched himself
upon the desks aud later on the should
ers and head of one of the assistants.
1t was not decided by the officials wheth
er he had a case to try or whether he
wished to enter a writ. Anyway he
was placed on shelf among the ancient
deeds. The window was opened, but the
inner atmosphere was more congenial
to his excellency, SO he stayed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Deserving Praise.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and
have never handled remedies that sell
as well, or that have given such universal
satisfaction. We do not hesitate to
guarantee them every time, and we
stand ready to refund the purchase
price, if satisfactory results do not fol-
low their use. These remedies have won
their great popularity purely on their
merits. Sold by Patterson & Sons,
Druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

AS INTRNsICALLY bad and ruinous as
the Wilson bill is, it is the proud boast
of free traders that this measure is only
the first step in the revolution contem-
plated by the leaders of the Democratic
party. If just God allows even this
first step" to become a law, certainly
He will do it only to punish the credulity
OF the Republicans who helped the
Democrats into power, and to make
surer and more overwhelming the over
throw of these tariff thinkers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

; YOUNG MEN-who have become victims of soli-
tary vice, that dreadful and destructive habit.
which annually sweeps to an untimey grave thous-
ands of young men of exalted talent and brilliant
intellect may call with confidence.
DRS. FRANCE AND 0TTMAN, after years of ex-
perience, have discovered the greatest cure known
for weakness in the back and limbs involuntary dis
charges, impotency, general debility, nervousness.
languor, confusion Of ideas, papiaion of the heart,
timidty, trembling, dimness of sight, giddiness,
diseases Of the head, throat, nose, skin, afec-
tons of the liver lungs, stomach, or bowels-those
terrible disorders arising from the solitary vice OF
youth-and secret practices. blighting their most
radiant hopes or sntcipations. rendering marriage
impossible. Take one candid thought before 1t is too
late. A week or month may place your case beyond
the reach of hope. Our method Of treatment will
speedily and permanently cure the most obstinate
case, and absolutely restore perfect manhood.
TO Ml0DlE-AGED MEN.-There many from
the age of 80 to 60 who troubled with frequent
evacuations Of the bladder, often accompanied by
slight burning smarting sensation weak kening tie
system IN manner the patient cannot account for.
On examination of the urinary deposits, a ropy
sediment will be found the color will be thin or
milkish hue. There are many men who die of this
difficulty, ignorant Of the cause, which is a second
stage OF seminal weakness. We will guarantee
perfect cure in all such cases, and healthy
restoration of the genito-urinary organs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

The Democrats are determined to
admit Utah, New Mexico and Arizona
to statehood. The character of no one
of these territories fits it for statehood,
yet because they are supposed to be
Democratic they must come in. Utah
is run by the polygamous Mormons.
and New Mexico and Arizona by Mexi-
can greasers, but they are Democratic
and will each send two Democratic
Senators, which will further increase the
Democratic majority.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
A Million Friend DIS.

A friend in need is a friend indeed,
and not less than one million people have
found just such a friend in Dr. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds.-If you have never used this
Great Cough Medicine, one trial will
convince you that it has wonderful cur
ative powers in all diseases of Throat,
Chest and Lungs. Each bottle is guar
anteed to do all that is claimed or money
will be refunded. Trial bottles free at
Patterson's Drug Store Large bottles
SOC. and $100. l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Women at the Polls.

'Do unmarried women possess the
ballot in this country?" asked the Eng
lish tourist.
Mot to any great extent, replied the
native. ''In Wyoming women are al
lowed to vote, and in few other states
they vote on school questions.
"Don't they vote in Pennsylvania at
alp
"No."
''That's odd. certainly heard some
one speak of the maiden vote the other
day. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Stagnation Is Death.
The sun would be consumed by its
own ardor if it did not shine. Nature
knows nothing of boarding. The sun
gives away its gold without ostenta-
ton. The ocean gives its vapors to the
clouds, the clouds return them to the
earth, the rivers to the sea. There is
constant exchange between lungs and
leaves. Stagnation is death. Give to
get; get TO give.-Ram's Horn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

EVEN the Britishers are afraid of the
effect of the Wilson bill. They think it
is all right for them as it stands, but
fear that it is too radical to last They
see that if the manufactures of America
are closed there is certain to be a re-
action which will drive the Democracy
from power and British trade from the
country. With this view held by the
English, where then is the Wilson bill
to find its supporters since it has none
in this country?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

A good story is told upon a Washing
ton woman who now makes her home in
Colorado. With evidently no thought
as to the curious sound of the combina-
ton if spoken quickly, she has called her
oldest child Helen Virginia. Not long
ago upon visit to this city she proudly
brought her young daughter in to see an
old friend. "What have you called your
daughter" queried the visitor. Helen
Virginia." was the complacent reply.
"Ah, and what do you call her in Col
orador' was the unexpected but very
natural response.-Kate Fields Wash
inptOn
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

In Nebraska banker who stole one
million dollars has been sentenced to
five years imprisonment, while COW
boy, who held up a mail carrier and
secured one cent as the result of the Job,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. The moral of this seems to be that
the more one steals the less the crime.
One was defaulter, the other thief,
hence the difference in punishment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

There is a difference in the time of
digestion between one meat and another
and between different conditions of the
same meat. Raw beef disappears from
the stomach in about two hours. The
same beef boiled takes three hours,
while thoroughly roasted beef is not di-
gested until four hours have elapsed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Rehuked.

A Texas clergyman who ran as the
Democratic congressional candidate in
that state two years ago was once in
terrupted in the midst of public pray
er by man who shouted, "Louder!"
He stopped short, looked at the inter
rupter and said coolly: 81 wasn't ad-
dressing you, sir. l was addressing
the Almighty" Then he went on with
his PRAYER. Siftings.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Another Bar Darzn

Froken Louisa Hommarstrom, a
Swedish lady, has commenced business
at Kopparburg, the center of the min
ing industry, as an analytical chemist.
She has studied under celebrated pro-
fessor at Stockholm and has for several
years held responsible position as
chemist in large iron works.-Kansas
City Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

AFTER all these months of work it is
announced that the only internal rev.
enue taxes definitely settled upon is a
tax on cigarettes and playing cards.
The tax on whisky, beer, incomes, etc.,
is still unsettled and is likely to remain
so for some time. As far as they have
gone the taxes will affect chiefly dudes
and congressman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

In this Christmas season it is well
to remember that "the greatest of
these is charity" Do not let the
pinch of hard times stand as an excuse
for doing away with your legitimate
and habitual giving. Make some one
happy with a remembrance in this
holiday season.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Tno american Abroad.

Diggs--Thcro is one thing about an
American | don t understand.
Fises--Wlatr
Diggs-Ho braSs about his country
all the time ho is here and about our
country all the time after he gets
home.-London Tit-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
contempt for Congress. In either case
his action is discreditable to the Chief
Executive of the United States.
AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT.

AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT.
New York Press.
SHOULD Hawaii be annexed" weep
ingly observes that Cleveland newspaper
without a country, the Evening Post,
"we may be sure it will be a precedent
under which other islands probably
West Indian-and other States, inhabit-
ed wholly or in part by a colored popu
lation, will be brought into or under the
dominion of the Union" As viewed
through Anglo maniac spectacles, the
admission beneath the American flag of
the fertile and valuable islands that be-
long territorially and naturally to the
North American Continent would be
sad calamity. 1t would give a large
population the benefits of living under
American institutions; and it would deal
a final blow to the schemes of European
governments to fetter and restrict the
development of the American Republic
by holding chain of powerful fortresses
that constitute 4 perpetual menace to
American seaports. These reasons are
quite sufficient to arouse the hostility of
the Cleveland Administration to any
project of annexation which would in
crease the power of the United States
ut the expense of foreign nations. Oi
course the little tin trumpets Of the
Administration squawk mornfully at the
idea of anything of the kind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

Mr.. FUssY: Ny dear. l can't see why
you are always holding up your skirt
with one hand. Mrs. Fussy, sweetly:
Because l have no trousers pocket to
stuff my hand into.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
Let Christmas Time Pervade All Year

Let Christmas Time ferVdQe ali ear
Madison C. Peters, in Chicago Mail.
Christmas is preeminently a day of
domestic pleasure. And it is to be re-
gretted that the cheerfulness, good will
and domesticity of Christmas do not
pervade the entire year. Christmas is
about the only season when busy Amer
lean fathers take time to realize that
children are the poetry of the world, the
fountain of love, the flowers of home,
the incarnations of the smile of God and
benedictions from Heaven.
A father-who usually left home be-
fore the children had gone to bed
coming out of his house one morning
found his little boy playing in the gut
ter and boxed his ears. When his
mother asked him what was the matter
he replied: "A man hit me-" "What
mani" "The man that stays here Sun
days" The busiest man should find at
least few moments every day to give
to his children. A father never seems
so interesting as when during the
Christmastide he becomes boy again
and helps the children in their sports
and games. Your children have the
inalienable right to expect happiness at
your hands. Weave yourself with the
memories of your children. Make the
days of childhood happy. Richer than
millions is the heritage that parents give
of a happy childhood, with tender mem
ories of father and mother. If we could
send the Christmas domestic love in all
its purifying power through the year it
would bind all hearts into one bundle of
life, breathe music into the voice, take
the sting from disappointment, put
lightness into the footstep, make home
the place of which we could never tire,
and be to US a sweetful taste Of the
eternal Christmas day in Heaven when
there will be family reunion without a
son or daughter absent and when our
Heavenly Father shall have all His
children with Him in glory.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

To THE idle workingman whose hearth
is fireless and whose family are hungry,
the offer by the Wilson Bill of the
"markets Of the world" is a very far-off
and hazy means of relief.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
Cures Dyspepsia, IN
digestion 6 Debility.

AN up town shoemaker has a card in
his window reading: "Any respectable
man, woman or child can have fit in
this store"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

NAMED your boy John after yourself,
Mr.. Barrows? No, Mrs. Tomson. We
have named him James after a pro-
longed family row.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

THE Wilson bill is an odd sort of
measure. After enacting everything
possible to do away entirely with in
comes, it proposes then to tax incomes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

A CLEVELAND panic and the threats
of free trade make it doubly important
that the incoming Legislature should
practice the most rigid economy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

The chorus girl and the bank note are
alike, inasmuch as they are all priced
according to their figures or face valne.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
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CoAsTINe is very exciting sport, but
like some other amusementS, it has its
drawbacks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

PAT MURPHY; Please, sor, want to
sign my name to git a penshin. Pension
Agent; Upon what grounds do you
base your claim? Pleae, sor, jumped
the bounty twicet, and the last time |
broke me lig. and l'Ve had throuble wild
it liver since.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21

CHILDREN's STORIES. = Our general
position is that there is a fair, wise
moral lying hidden in sound healthy
fiction, which all may read who will.
1t may not always lie on the surface,
yet always near enough to be apparent
in good natural story, allegory, or
fable, Facts should disclose their own
virtues. He who is able to benefit by a
lesson will, no doubt, discover it under
any husk before it is stripped and laid
bare to the kernel. Too much teaching
hardens the heart" The youngest
reader, who has any brains, and takes
an interest in what he reads-as every
child does who is kindly taught t--gets
hold of the moral for himself, without
having it preached into him, and with
out even a reflection tagged on as an
antidote to the fiction. He takes in all
together, the seed and the soil in which
it grows; by and by, in due season, the
dainty seed will spring apace into leaf,
blossom and golden fruit.