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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

THE mold board was first placed on a
plow in Gaul. At first two mold boards
were used. to throw the earth both right
and left.
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Paganini's Vic in.

A Paris newspaper recently announc-
ed the sale of one of the most curious
violins in the world. 1t formerly be-
longed to PaganiAis great vt0ffn1su,
and at first sight merely presents the ap.
pearance Of misshapen wooden shoe
Its history is curious, and is not without
interest.
During the winter of 1888, Paganini
was living in the Rue de la Victoria, 48
One day large box was brought there
by the Normandy diligence, on opening
which he found two inner boxes, and
wrapped carefully in the folds of tissue
paper, wooden shoe and a letter, stat
ing that the writer having heard much of
the wonderful genius of this violinist,
begged, as a proof of his devotion to
music, that Paganini would play in pub
lie on the oddly constructed instrument
enclosed.
At first Paganini felt this to be an i'm
pertinent satire, and mentioned the facts
with some show of temper, to his friend.
the Chevalier de Baride. The latter took
the shoe to violin maker, who convert
ed it into remarkably sweet toned in
strument; and Paganini was pressed to
try the shoe violin in public.
He not only did so. but performed up
on it some of his most difficult fantasies,
which facts, in the handwriting of the
violinist, are now recorded on the violin
itself.
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Every case consulting our specialists, whether by
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Dried and Evaporated Peaches -Ve,y
fine and cheap. Also, Apricots, Prunes
and Apples. GEO. JEPsoN. 1873 ct
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
BRuWN'S IRON BITTERS
Cures Dyspepsia, In
digestion 6 Debility.

THE Egyptian monuments represent
hats in nearly the shape of the we'll
known Mexican sombrero.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

THE breath of chronic catarrh
patient is often so offensive that he
becomes an object of disgust. After a
time liberation sets in, the spongy
bones are attacked, and frequently de-
stroyed. A constant source of discom-
fort is the dripping of the purulent
secretions into the throat, sometimes
producing inveterate bronchitis, which
is usually the exciting cause of pulmo-
nary disease. The brilliant results by
its use for years past properly designate
Ely's Cream Balm as by far the best
and only cure. Call upon your druggist
for it. 3
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
Getting Ready For the Garden.

Getting Ready For the Garden.
First. in planning for the garden, it
should not be overlooked that economy
of space, proper adaptation of plants TO
soils and locations, desirable succession
of crops. and many other considerations,
demand that the campaign be more or
less thoughtfully considered and its sue
cessive moves carefully provided for.
A rough draft of the territory to be cul-
tivated, drawn on good-sized sheet of
paper, upon which pencil notes can be
made, will afford great assistance in
this work, not only now, in the inception.
but throughout the season. With the
help of the catalogues, lists of all seeds,
plants. tools, ETC., can be drawn up.
The best spot for each particular item in
the list can be located and laid down
upon the map, and the time for planting
jotted down. Notes of any contem-
plated improvements to be made,
hedges set, fences built, trees and vines
planted or relocated-can be made in the
margin to keep them in mind. Indeed,
calendar, in which the various opera
tions of the season can be entered under
the dates at which they will need atten-
ton is an excellent accompaniment to
the plan.
Moreover, even at this early day,
there are certain seeds which it is well
to procure and start in the house or con-
servatory for early maturity. This is
often necessary to insure plants of the
best strains; asters, pansies, tomatoes
and many others which might be men
toned, are things in which the amateur
gardner should be critical, yet the young
plants which are commonly offered for
sale are quite unsatisfactory. The most
prolific varieties of many things horti-
cultural are not seldom the least desira-
BILE for beauty of color or form, or for
delicacy of flavor. There is much room
for the exercise of judgment in these
matters, and this of course constitutes
one of the charms of gardening, regard
ed as fine art 1t is rarely possible,
for instance, to find plants of the yellow
ieshed tomatoes, yet these varieties are
not only very delicate in favor. but they
give pleasure to the eye by their deep
golden color when served with their
ruddier brethren on the table. The
young asters which are to be found in
the market are often of most uncertain
pedigree, and the same is true of plants
of ANIMALS in general. Among the seed
merchants, however, one may find what
ever he likes, and thus by little extra
trouble-which is, though, in itself often
new source of pleasure secure
such strains as are most to his mind.
And there is an added interest in plants
for whose entire history one has been
responsible.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
A New Factor in Feeding.

National Stockman and Farmer.
Cotton seed, which but few years
ago was considered nuisance, seems
destined to cut quite figure in the ag-
ricultural world in more ways than one.
For some time cotton seed meal has been
a regular competitor of oil meal and
other condensed foods used principally
by dairymen all over the country. The
oil manufactured from cotton seed has
been used in large quantities in the
manufacture of substitutes for butter
and lard. Within the past few years the
cattle men of the Southwest have been
experimenting in the use of cotton seed
and the meal made from it in the finish
ing of their cattle for the fat stock
markets. The results of these expert
ments have been highly satisfactory if
we may Judge from the appearance Of
the stock thus fed as they appear when
ready for the shambles. Slaughterers in
the West seem to prefer cattle well fin
ished on this kind of feed to those fed
on grain. Cattle seem to do well on the
raw cotton seed fed as Northern feeders
feed corn or other grains. The great
grain producing sections of the West
may find in the future that the South
will be able to compete with them sue
cessfully in the production of fat stock.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
PUBLIC OPINION.
CHEAP But PROFITABLE.

CHEAP But PROFITABLE.
Cincinnati Tribune.
Norman L. Munro died and left
fortune of a million of dollars ms
great sum was accumulated in the print
ing and selling of books of douotiuI
literary merit. Whereupon, there IS
tendency to jump upon this class OF
reading matter.
1t may be an unfortunate thing that
everybody is not possessed of the highest
taste in literary matters; that everybody
is not devotee at the throne of Brown
ing, or worshiper at the feet of Ibsen.
But the world must be taken as it is,
and allowance made for the multitudes
who enjoy this low grade of mental
food. The weary working man or
woman, the tired girl of the shop, and
the worn clerk find real rest and recrea-
ton in the love of Harold, the woes of
Jeanette and the Vaccinations of the
villain. The stories all terminate in a
happy, conventional, and not unnatural
style, and virtue completely triumphs.
OF the fortune thus accumulated we
have no reason as people to be
ashamed.
The tendency now among authors and
publishers is to aim far above the heads
of the masses, or rather, above their
brains. Dickens and Thackeray are
enormously popular in circulating libra
ries and in the book shops. Rnt few
authors copy their style. E. ?. Roe's
works were read by millions, yet they
are far from meritorious from literary
standpoint. The Sunday papers largely
appeal to the masses, and by the masses
are appreciated, yet not much can be
said of them as high class literary pro-
ductions.
If the moral teachings are not bad,
but little harm is done by this so called
'trash." Keep il pure and it may be
useful. In time the people will grow to
like the best in literature. as now they
like the best of food. In the meantime,
don't mourn over taste which enabled
Mr.. Munro to pile up fortune of a
million.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
EnR DYsPEpSv

EUKk sFhESEH.
Indigestion. and Stomach disorders, use
BROWNS IRON BITTERs.
All dealers keep it, 81 per bottle. Genuine has
trademark and crossed red lines on wrapper
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
ARITHMETIC.

l. At SO a rod, what will be the cost of
fencing II acres of land in the form of
a circle? In the form of a square?
2. purchased 20O0 pounds sugar at
10, 10, and 10 off; my discount amount
ing to SIS; what was the cost per pound?
8. l sent my agent $2100 to buy wheat
on per cent. commission. How many
bushels could he buy, at so cents per
bushel, deducting his commission?
4. Three men owe debt: the first
and second owe $3.50, the first and
third $27.20, the second and third 5000.
What per cent. of the debt does each
owe?
5. / bought certain number of ap-
Piles at the rate of 8 for cents, and as
many more at the rate of 4 for 6 cents.
sold them at the rate of 2 for cents,
and gained 33 cents. How many did L
purchase?
6. Allowing 1000 shingles for l2O 50.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

A young Swede was recently scalded
to death by the explosion of boiler in
Oregon. AS the young fellow had been
very popular among his associates
committeewas appointed toerect small
monument over his grave. After con-
siderable hard work the committee pro-
duced stone with the following in
scrlptiOn:
SACRED to the memory of our esteam-
ed friend, Lars Larson. West Coast
Lumberman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15


morning fered, r
NIL be
WONDERFUL CURES @ sa ss s:esls %
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Dr. FRANCE
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
GEOGRAPHY.
(Omit tiCo.)
T. P. HARRIS,

l. Under what four characteristic
plant regions may the vegetation of the
q. S. be arranged?
2. What agencies produce the changes
to which the earth's crust is now subject?
3. What is plateau? By what five
rivers is the plateau of Thibet drained?
4. What are ocean currents? In what
respect are they important,and what may
be said of their influence upon climate?
5. Name four tobacco producing states,
four rice-producing states, four cotton
producing states.
6. Draw map of any state in the U.
S. except Ohio, and locate its principal
rivers and cities, and state for what it is
noted.
z. Name the zones in which each of
the grand divisions is situated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
Alarming symptoms.

A patient who was very i'll and under
the treatment of his medical adviser
was a strong temperance advocate and
a total abstainer His physician pre-
scribed stimulants. which, on geneI al
principles, the patient refused to take
on the ground that the example would
be very injurious to his servants and
his attendants.
The physician said: My dear sir,
you must take the stimulants. You can
ask the servants to bring you warm wa
ter to your room for shaving. You can
have the other there.
The patient did so. Next morning
when the doctor called ard inquired
about his patient the servant said: "Oh.
doctor, am so glad you have come.
am afraid the patient is going out Of
his mind. He keeps calling for warm
water for shaving. Boston Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
ID E. oTT"AN

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THE ECELEBRATED
FRANCE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE,
Ss& 40W Gay s30o0oo
FRANCE nknowna
.imS
Sso TR0q p use Of the snh method
Fenled
Effected
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

ONAAm DAuW
Is Quickly Absobed
Clenses the Nasa
Passages, Allays
Pain and lnfIamma
ton, Heals the Sores
Protects the Mem.
brane from Addition.
al Gods. Restores
the Sense of Taste
and Smell.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

SAMPLE OF DEMOCRATIC HARMONY.
Pittsburg Times
The following head lines from Fri
days New York World serve to show
the delightful harmony which prevails
in the Democratic party, of which it
claims to be the chief organ;
"Troy's Bloody Election = Mayor
Whelan Defeated by Open and Fla
grant Fraud and Violence Murphy
Repeaters Responsible" Specializing
in Sugar-Calls for an Investigation of
Some Ugly Rumors About Senators. {"
"Hill Takes Off the Mask-He Begins
Open Warfare on the Wilson Tariff
Bill" "The Committee Hesitates Still
1t Can Not or Will Not Say When the
Bill Will Be Reported" Sickles At
tacks Lochreu." "a Sugar Tax Benefits
White-One Seeming Reason Why the
Senator Declines to Retire From the
Senate"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-14
CleveIand's Administration.

A very interesting and unique
little paper appears in the Septem-
Der Arena. 1t is, can Astrological
Forecast of the Administration of
President Cleveland" by julius
Erickson. 1t was made at the
moment ofMr. Cleveland 'sinaugura-
ton, March 4, 1898, and copy of
it was deposited with the Librarian
of Congress at the time as an
historical record. In the light of
recent and current events this
strange document should be read
with curiosity and interest in
Washington, if nowhere else. 1t
predicted a bad time for the Cleve-
land administration, and disappoint-
ment for Cleveland, and it begins
to look as if such things were not
out of the range of political posi-
bilities.
This remarkable astrological pre-
dictiOn is published this week on
the first page of the MIDLAND
JOURNAL. No historian could write
the first half of the administration
history. more faithfully to truth
than the astrologist has predicted
it, and if he has struck the letter
half as truly, the democracy and
Cleveland are doomed to rough
experience in the next two years,
everything points that way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-14
"Substantial Relief"

1t is amusing to hear the parrot
papers Ginning in chorus the new
tariff will give Substantial relief
from unnecessary taXation.n Do
their editors ever pause to consider
what rot all such talk is! There
has to be raised two hundred and
fifty to three hundred millions for
revenue by tariff, taxation and
what odds is it to tax payers what
kind OF a tariff is used as a collect
ing tool? Not word is uttered by
these papers against the whiSkey
tax which under the new bill is a
tariff for the protection of that
monopoly of nearly seven hundred
per cent; or the tobacco tariff,
which though called internal
revenue is a protective tax more
truly than the duty on foreign
goods. These taxes are a protection
to two Of the worst monopolies in
the country. The amount of tax
collected by the government by
tariff laws is mere drop in the
bucket compared to the tax the
great mGnopolies, trust and corpora
tons of land, fnanceand trade fleece
out of the people, which aggregates
thousands of millions, when all of
their cost, actual and deferential is
counted. These are taxes which
alllict the people, taking from them
twenty times as much as the govern
ment receives, but not a warning
voice, not a protest is ever heard
from these party cuckoo papers
against the rank abuses which
smell to heaven.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-14
America Becoming a Dependency of
England.

The most conservative estimates of
interest alone, sent abroad from this
country place the sum at $500, 900, 900
annually. In addition to this interest
money the profits from investments in
business swell the outgo of wealth from
this country to enrich foreigners many
additional millions. They have invested
i'll breweries and distil1eries in the United
States about 500, 900, 600 of capital. The
profits or dividends from these concerns
are immense. Foreign holdings in our
railroads are approaching a majority of
the stock, which when acquired will place
their entire management in foreign hands.
All of our best gold mines belong to for
eigners; and numbers of the most profit
able industrial concerns are also owned
by aliens. Fifty million acres of the
best lands in the West are in their
possession, Lord Sully holding i'll one
body 90, 900 acres of the best land in the
State of Illinois which he has worked by
tenants, who are ground under the land
lord heel as oppressively as any Irish
tenants, over which Americans are wont
to make so much pother while their own
people are suffering similar fate
The interest is drawn from bonds of the
States, railroads, municipalities, ETC., and
such holdings are being extended steadily.
The United States is rapidly becoming a
dependency of the monied aristocracy OF
England, almost as much so as India and
other provinces which form the British
Empire. What they failed to accomplish
by arms, they are rapidly gaining by
bribery and corrupting our congress and
Legislatures. The daily press has been
captured and turned to their interest by
the employment of money.
Notwithstanding the repeated and per-
sistent warnings given our people they
appear to be i'll a eini-conscious state and
permit the chains of an approaching wage
slavery to be woven round them, every
year drawing them more tightly. The
AAi'eoAC VI eAS ldSl lllHlS years Is Il
history of the blacklist crimes and cor
ruption by the great international money
trust led on by the Bank of England and
its daughters, the national banks of the
United States. The heads and leaders OF
our old political parties are i'll the grip OF
these gold ring conspirators against lib
erty, and every vote cast for either OF
these corrupt organizations is vote in
the interest of the Rothschilds conspiracy
against the world, and for the enslave,
ment of the rising generation. The glar-
ing corruption which stalked at MONDAY
in Washington during the session of the
present congress ought to be sufficient to
cause every voter to pause and diligently
inquire and thoughtfully consider before
casting another vote.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-14
Made Rich by Legislation.

eve have legislated to increase the
profits of the manufacturers to increase
the profits of railway corporations to in
crease the profits of the bankers and
money spectators. We have made them
all rich They are the richest people on
earth, and every dollar they possess above
a fair compensation for their own labor
has been legislated into their pockets and
out of the pockets of the common people. J"
Thus writes one who sees the abuse of
the legislation for the past thirty years.
That every word of this is true no fair,
intelligent person will deny. But the
daily declaration of the shameless plu-
tocratic press is that wealth cannot be
legislated into the pockets of the people.
That it is legislated ont of their pockets
and into the pockets of the favored few
everybody is at last beginning to under
stand Not millionaire i'll the United
States that has not had by far the largest
part of his wealth 1egislated into his
pocket by class laws, which took it out OF
the pockets of the millions who produced
it by honest labor.
An instance of legislation causing
wealth to accumulate in the hands of the
few at the expense of the many is found
in the except clause on the back of our
greenbacks, which created such demand
for gold that the banks and other specu-
lators i'll gold were enabled to force the
price up to sass at one time. They
established Gold Room i'll New York
for the purpose of gambling in gold and
raising its price, on account of the law
which they induced the American House
of Lords to pass. To this U. S. Senate
may be traced every robber financial act
that has cursed this nation and people for
more than thirty years.
All wealthy me-: in this day, if their
wealth reaches the half million line, is the
result of class laws which discriminate
against the people-the community, and
both old parties are directly accountable
for the existence of such laws the one
for enacting them and the other for allow
ing them to remain ON the statute books,
and these unjust laws will not be abol-
ished until both these old parties are put
under the peoples feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-14
Why Are People Idle And Drunken?

The Voice remarks;-"With
bountiful crops, no war, and no
pestilence, why aren't we all happy?
We might be if we had sense
enough to shut up the saloons and
to put a stop to industrial warfare
for year,
1t is not the "lack of sense" but
the lack of ability. These two
Affections of society are only results
and not causes. While the money
trust is permitted to stand and rule,
national and international, "the
saloons will not be shut upH nor
will industrial warfare cease. Both
are the result ola poverty breeding
economic system, whose existence
compels such results, Our vicious
financial system creates poverty, it
and the saloon in turn act and react
on each other. Give the people an
opportunity to be virtuOus and
they generally will be.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-14

In IS62-3-4, bonds were sold amounting
to $500, 1862, $50. In IS65-6-7-S, bonds
were issued aggregating $I,25I873. 600.
Early in the spring of '65 the war closed.
1t will be seen that about twice as many
bonds were issued after the close of the
war, for the sole purpose of enriching the
gold ring spectators of America and
England, as were issued to defray the
expenses of the war. There was no
necessity for the issue of bonds after the
war closed. And ii is question whether
the government need have sold any bonds
during the war. The taxes it collected
wiih the addition of few more millions
of greenbacks would have carried us
through the war free from debt