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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
THE Democracy is disposed to make

THE Democracy is disposed to make
a great bluff and blow over the election
of Sorg, in the Third Congressional Dis
trict, last week. They pretend to hail
it as great Democratic victory. Sorg
has majority of LOO. In '92 Cleve-
land carried the district by $3.50, and
Houk, Congressman, by 4,316. Last
fall Mckinley carried the district by 463,
but McKinley's majority was phenom-
email one. On the basis OF last falls
vote the Democrats make a gain of
about 1000. Although they are still
more than 1000 below their normal
majority, they are satisfied that they
have won great victory. But to carry
out the argument, if the same ratio
should hold in this falls elections, Ohio
would go Republican by nearly $4,000
and the Democrats would elect only
seven out of the twenty-one Congress
men. Would that be Democratic
victory? If it would, it is the kind the
Republicans want. Had the Republic
ans nominated man identified with no
faction and had the Democrats not had
access to a $5,OOO.000 barrel, coupled
with all the strength of the administra-
tion at Washington, Sorg would have
had still less of a majority. If this is a
Democratic victory, it is pertinent to
inquire by how much do the Democrats
of Ohio want to be beaten in order to
call it Republican victory?
This also contains some lessons to
Republicans. The thought that every
thing can be carried by any candidate
must not be entertained. If the Repub-
licans regain control of the government
only the best men must be put forward
as candidates and no effort spared to
elect them. The Democracy is fighting
for the life of the party and there must
be no over confidence among Repub-
licans.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

HARPER's WEEKLY expresses the
opinion that no Democrat can point
with pride to the achievements of his
party during the first year of its admin
istration. 1t notes the repeal of the
Sherman law, but adds that repeal was
accomplished outside the Democratic
party. As to the tariff bill the Weekly
thinks the platform pledges have been
fulfilled in SO small degree as to
amount to a practical violation of all
pledges. 1t evidently gives the Weekly
no pleasure to make such statements,
but in the interest of Truth they can not
be withheld.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
Nothing In If.

A great deal of commotion has been
created throughout the country over the
alleged intention of the Post-office De-
partment to prohibit the mailing OF let
tiers in railway postal cars. Wholesale
houses having "drummers on the road
have been particularly worried over this
matter, and letters of inquiry have been
pouring in from all directions. The au-
thorities declare that the report is a
canard and that no such regulations
have ever been contemplated. The law,
not the regulations, makes railway
car post-office, and clerks are especially
ordered to handle all mail received in
their cars just as though it had been re-
ceiyed from postmaster.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE Gazette seems to think that it is
called upon to run the Congressional
campaign on behalf of the Republican
party in this county. Since the editor
of that organ is in such bad repute with
his own party that half the Democrats
in st. Clairsville took pride in voting
against him for local Office, and then
rejoiced at his overwhelming defeat, it
might be just as well for the aforesaid
editor to devote some time to gaining
a decent standing in his own party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
A Quarter Century Tes

For quarter of century DR.. Kings
New Discovery has been tested, and the
millions who have received benefit from
its use testify to its wonderful curative
powers in all diseases of Throat, Chest
and Lungs. A remedy that has stood
the test so long and has given so uni
versal satisfaction is no experiment.
Each bottle is positively guaranteed to
give relief, or the money will be re-
funded. 1t is admitted to be the most
reliable for Coughs and Colds. Trial
bottle free at Patterson & Sons Drug
Store. Large size SOC and $100. 6
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
Interesting Relics.

Rev. r. II. Reed opened a mound on a
farm near Batesville, recently, and found
two skeletons, one much larger than an
ordinary person. They had evidently
been buried, but were placed face down.
ward. Although side by side, their heads
were not even, neither were they laid
with any reference to the compass. As
soon as the air touched them the bones
began to crumble. The place in which
the bodies reposed was kind of cham
ber, enclosed by sides built of rough
stone with roof of timber and earth.
They had been laid upon the leafy turf, as
this could be traced out to the edge of
the mound.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
THE cities of Indiana held their loc

THE cities of Indiana held their local
elections last week, and those that did
not go Republican are almost too few to
be enumerated. Fifty-three cities were
carried by Republicans and only nine by
Democrats. Places like Terre Haute,
which never before gave anything but a
Democratic majority, went Republican.
Had State election been held, Indiana
would have given something like $4,000
Republican majority. Even Democratic
times are having effect in Indiana.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

A BILL is now pending making the
boards of county school examiners
superintendent of the schools in their
respective counties, with salary of 5000
year each, each county to be divided
into three divisions. We do not know
more about the bill than is contained in
the press dispatches to the above effect,
but on that alone we venture the opinion
that it would be good bill to vote down
by big majority.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
Kill Them at Once.

The local member of the school board
at Malaga, is reported as saying that he
will not pay over $50 per month for
teaching winter terms of school, and $50
for summer term. Better reduce it to
$40 and kill the schools at once than by
slow degrees. There is no better way of
killing schools than by reducing the
wages of teachers below what good
teachers can make in other professions
or lines of business. 1t is false economy.
Quaker City Independent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
Are You Interested

S. B. Belding, Myrtle Avenue, Albany,
N. Y, writes: 81 have suffered for IL
years with itching and bleeding piles,
was treated by specialists and tried every
sort of remedy. Aliens Discovery for
Piles cured me, and say with confidence
after it cured case as bad as mine it
will cure any case. l wish all could
know and use it sooner than l did"
Sold by all druggists. Price soc. 26-4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

ONE of the most beautiful tributes to
Tennyson is that paid by Archdeacon
Farrar, in which he says that thousand
things which we never should have no.
ticed, in which we never should have
read Gods autographs of beauty and
blessing, Tennyson has now taught US
to observe with delight and love-the
black ash buds in spring; the rosy
plumelets which tuft the larch: the pure
green streaks on the white leaves of the
snowdrop; the gummy chestnut buds
which glisten in the April blue; the sea
wind singing shrill, chill with fakes of
foam; the liquid azure bloom of the sea;
the Pleiades glittering like firefies in
silver braid; the little pink, five-beaded
baby soles; the light feet which treading
on the daisies make the meadows rosy;
the dragon fy's sapphire head of living
light; the river sloping to plunge in cat
aract shattering on black rocks its
breath Of thunder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
HOW Much DID He setp

A horse was raffled off in neigh
boring town last week on tickets num-
bered from to 100, the tickets being
sold at cent for No. and 81 for No
100, the intervening numbers being at
the same gradual ascending price. A
good many people have been trying to
figure out what the man got for his
horse.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

AN English scientist, after careful ex-
periments, finds that when potatoes are
cooked without removing the skins they
lose only 8 per cent. of nutritive quality
through extraction of the juice. When
the skins were removed before boiling
the loss was IA per cent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

The Brooklyn Eagle, whose Democ-
racy has been of the rock-ribbed brand,
announces that it prefers the Mckinley
tariff without an income tax to the pro-
posed Wilson tariff with an income tax.
The Eagle is getting ready to come into
the Republican party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
pouRrLrss those Democratic Senate

DOUBTLESS those Democratic Senators
who have been speculating on the inside
information they possess as to the tariff
bill would like to have a tariff bill
under consideration frequently. Thus
they could soon make enough money
to purchase Democratic Legislatures in
definitely and have a little spending
money besides. 1t is sad spectacle,
but just what is to be expected of such
an aggregation as the Democratic party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
Future FHim.

Things are pretty slow now, " said
the czar to the minister of police.
eyes, your majesty, l know Of but
one matter which is likely to be brought
to your attention. It is the case Of 9
man who threw bomb at your majesty
and broke a window block away. He
wants to be released. I"
He expects great deal
He says he will reform He thinks
he can go to America and get place as
a baseball player and lead better life"
-Washington Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
A POLICY OF DESTRUCTION.

Cleveland Leader.
The action of the Ohio State Chamber
of Commerce in opposition to the abroga-
ton of the reciprocity treaties negotiated
by this government under the provisions
of the Mckinley law, which has been
communicated to Senator Sherman,
ought to have some weight with the
Democratic reformers who are now put
ting the finishing touches to the Wilson
bill.
The memorial from this great COM
mercial body, representing all the cities
of the State, was adopted by practic-
ally unanimous vote. There is no
politics in the movement. The manu-
facturers and business men of the
Buckeye State, irrespective of politics,
realize that they have reaped great ad-
vantage from the treaties which opened
the markets of Cuba and Brazil to the
products of the farms and factories of
Ohio, and they feel that the abrogation
of these treaties now would mean a
serious loss to the people of this section
of the Union.
If the Democrats were able to grasp
a business question and to act upon it
intelligently they would not hesitate to
strike from the Wilson bill the section
which repeals the reciprocity clause of
the Mckinley law. They have declared,
however, that reciprocity must go. They
do not believe in policy which encour-
ages trade between the United States
and countries which want things that
we produce and can sell us things that
we do not produce. They prefer the
larger reciprocity which opens our
markets to the products of England and
other European countries which come
in direct competition with the products
of American skill and labor.
The Democratic policy is a policy of
destruction, and they are determined to
destroy everything which contributes
directly or indirectly to the prosperity
of the whole people or any part of the
people.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
BIJCKLEN'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
or money refunded. Price, rs cents per
box. For sale by Patterson & Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

WILLIAM BELT, "a citizen of Woodslield,
who had held a position in the Treasury
Department at Washington, died last
week, and his remains were brought to
Woodsfield for interment. He was an
old soldier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
THE street money changer is an in

THE street money changer is an in
teresting character in Spanish cities.
He stations himself at principal street
corner early every morning, and ex-
changes bag of coppers for silver. By
ten o'clock his bag is exhausted. and he
goes home. All the servants on their
way to market get their money changed
by him, as they are not skillful in count
ing and are afraid of false coins. He
gives them full change, his coppers
being obtained from tradesmen, who
get rid of their coins at discount.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE Board of Education of Smith
township made reduction of per cent.
in the salaries of all the teachers for the
ensuing year. The township is in debt
through building new school-houses.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

OSCAR TOWNSEND, for many years
General Manager of the Cleveland, Lo-
rain and Wheeling Railroad, died at his
home, in Cleveland last week, from an af-
lection of the liver He was well known
along the line of the road.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE PRESIDENT AND THE TRAMPs.
New York Tribune.
President Cleveland is reported tc
have saddled the responsibility for the
tramp agitation upon the newspapers
In his Judgment they have paid undue
attention to the vagaries of men like
Coxey and to the maneuvres of the
wandering unemployed now parading
in the West and in the East and un-
furling their banners in the streets OF
Washington. They have created, the
President thinks, an appetite for noto-
riety and a thirst for eccentric adventure.
If the newspapers had not advertised
the first travelling variety show organ
lied by Coxey, it would not have en-
listed a swarm of imitators nor have
involved disturbance of railway traffic
and an outbreak of criminal lawlessness.
We suspect that the newspapers have
had something to do with instigating
the tramp movement, but not in the way
suggested by the cynical reflections of
the President. 1t has been the respon-
sible duty of the press of both parties to
discuss the great public issue which the
President himself brought before the
attention of the country in the last two
annual messages of his first term, and to
which, as ''the Peoples cause" he con-
secrated himself in the last National
canvass. That issue has developed So
cial restlessness and class discomfort,
and eliminated in Populist agitation,
class legislation and the march of the
tramps across the continent.
President Cleveland has done more
than any other American in recent times
to produce this prevailing feeling of
social unrest. His first appeal to the
spirit of discomfort was made in Decem-
ber, 1887, when the country was pros
porous, the public debt shrinking every
year, and the Treasury overfowing with
surplus revenues. In his tariff message
he denounced the system to which labor
and capital had been satisfactorily ad-
justed for nearly thirty years as vicious
source of unnecessary taxation, by which
working people were Systematically
robbed. He described the Treasury as
boarding place for money withdrawn
from trade and the peoples use, and
asserted that the country's development
was suspended and paralyzed by prevaiT-
ing financial methods. In that message
were the germs of the ensuing Demo
cratic agitation against protection as an
"inequitable and monstrous system for
enriching the few and robbing the
many" and also of the Populist idea
that the Treasury should be emptied for
the peoples use. The Presidential can
vass of 1892 witnessed the triumph of
the Democratic Populist coalition. The
Nation voted against Protection, not
because the times were bad, but because
President Cleveland and his Populist
allies had convinced a large majority of
the American people that prosperity
was unequally divided among classes,
that the rich were getting too much, and
that the farmers and the wage-e -earners
were not obtaining fair and proper
tionate share of the country's wealth.
1t was in the hour of defeat in 1888
when the people repudiated his ideas
and opened the way for four Harrison
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

IT is noted that the st. Clairsville
Presbytery in choosing VIM. Alexander,
of Bridgeport, Moderator, departed from
long established custom that the Mod
orator should always be minister.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

ALL the farmers who got 40 cents a
pound for wool and laborers who have
had their wages raised under the Dem
ocratic reign will please rise to their feet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

EUGENE ARNETT, a son of Colonel
Arnett, the Wheeling attorney, is under
arrest, charged with burglarizing physi-
clans Office. The articles stolen were
found in his possession.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

A number Of small boys of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, placed dummy on trolley car
track the other day and the motorman,
thinking he had run over man, faint
ed. The boys were arrested and held
on a charge of malicious mischief.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

Nell Isn't it just too provoking?
What's the matter, dearF Nell
Why, promised to marry some man
at the ball last night. and can't think
who it was.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

A CALDWELL man won fine bicycle
offered by great New York paper to
the person who should guess nearest to
the time it takes silver dollar to fall
from the top of the said newspapers
building to the ground.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

W. M. BUsHFIELD, of Cambridge, has
been disbarred from practice before the
Pension Bureau for Improper, unpro-
fessional and illegal conduct"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE Guarantee Nursery Co., Geneva
N. Y, wish to employ several reliable
men in this vicinity to sell their guaran
teed nursery stock. Write for terms at
once. 4-19-4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

The Wheeling and Lake Erie station
at Martins Ferry will be closed, and
trains will stop there only on signal or
to let off passengers
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

The women suffragists are not going
to stop with school elections. They are
now asking to vote at every election.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

PROTECT yourself against Tornadoes
by insuring your Buildings with the
agency of G. G. SEDGwICK,
6-1-ly Martins Ferry.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE summer schedule on the b. and
o. will go into effect on May 20. The
changes have not yet been announced.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

AMONG the recent graduates of the AL
legheny Theological Seminary, United
Presbyterian, were W. n. Love and E. C.
Paxton, of New Athens.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
LOVE-.

Sudden upon my night there woke
The trouble of the dawn.
Out Of the east the red light broke
To broaden on and on.
My days are tuned to finer chords
And lit by higher suns.
Through all my thoughts and all my
words
A purer purpose runs.
No matter If my hands attain
The golden crown or cross;
Only to love is such gain
That losing is not loss.
And thus, whatever fate betids
OF rapture or of pain,
II storm or sun the future hide,
My love is not In vain.
So only thanks are on my lips,
And through my love / see
My earliest dreams, like freighted ships,
Come sailing home to me.
John Hay.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE small boy who thinks it is time to
"go in swimmin'" is mistaken. The
water isn't warm enough yet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE store of Andy Yaus on the Ma
tional Road, east of Morristown, was
burned one night last week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

THE latest scheme of robbers is to dig
into corner-stones where valuables are
stored away and steal them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
IF you feel weak
and all worn out take
BROWN IRON BITTERS

Stern Parent.-Young man can you
support family? Young Meekly-I
only wanted your Sarah.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

The mortar and pestle still in use In
most parts of Asia and all over Africa is
the prototype of the modern flour mill.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

SOh1d1A 1ACACoAyt
as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces -saoha articles
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10

The syrinx, or bundle Of reed pines.
Is the prototype of the bappipA