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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
improving an Opportunity.

A man who was somewhat the worse
for frequent libations boarded Market
street car the other day, and while he
rode he kept the other passengers con.
vulsed After ne had comfortably seat
ed himself two young ladies got on.
There was no room for them to sit down,
so the inebriated man remarked to two
young men next him, why don't you
felloshs gesh up and givesh ladies sheath
Seeing that they did not move, the
man addressed himself to the two young
ladies in about this style, ''Girlsh, f l
could shtand, you could have my sheat. "
Here the conductor thought it time to
interfere and admonished the well mean
ing fellow to be qniet under pain of be-
ing put Off. This seemed to have the de-
sired effect, for he kept still after he had
said: Conductor, I'm married man.
Have TO talk now, for after | get home
my wife won't give me chance. Phil
adelphia Call.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
PUBLIC OPINION.

TO COERCE TIE SENATE.
New York Press
In his anger at the Senate for exer-
cising in a dignifed and deliberate
manner the powers vested by the Con-
stitution in the representatives of the
sovereign States, President Cleveland, it
is announced by Cleveland organ, has
resolved to send no more nominations
to the Senate until the case Of Wheeler
H. Peckham. nominated for Justice of
the supreme Court. is disposed Of That
is to say. the President refuses to do his
duty because the Senate will not sur
render its constitutional authority. 1t
is by coercion of this kind, and by other
methods little short of absolute cor
ruption, that Mr.. Cleveland is endeavor-
ing to compel the Senate TO yield to his
will. and to divest itself virtually of one
of the most solemn and important Sen
atorial functions. Senators, it is stated
have been informed that their influence
over appointments will depend upon
their subservieRcy to the White House
on the question of confirming Peckham
One member of the Senate who was SC
informed did not hesitate to denounce
the course OF the Administration as an
effort either to coerce or bribe him.
This language was not too strong
The Cleveland Administration is already
so disgraced in public estimation that
any new outrage hardly excites surprise
The people look to the Senate to defend
the integrity of the Constitution and tht
fair fame of the Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

OUR financial conditions is thus
strikingly portrayed by the Pittsburgh
Dispatch. AS word picture of exist
ing conditions and their causes it is
rarely equaled:
Can anybody now sincerely misplace response
blity for the depression in business which is
affecting everybody but the pawnbroker, the re-
ceiver and the Sheriff? When it came upon us
last summer, swiftly as a cold shadow atthe heels
of the Democratic accession, we were told that it
was OccasiOned by the Sherman silver act of 1880.
which Thus suddenly, after three years of pros
perty, had done this deadly work. The lamb was
slaughtered. at the appeal of the wolf, as in the
fable, but the stream runs mudder than ever.
The Sherman law was repealed months ago, but
for one industry forced to the wall when the re-
pealing act was signed there are now ten; for one
railroad in the hands of a receiver there are
twenty; for ten idle men there are now regiment,
and where twenty were hungry in September
there are a thousand helped by charity in
February. Business drags along with narrowing
credits, and bills are difficult TO collect; while
money by the millions is hidden away, necessarily
unproductive, in order to be safe from the risks
lurking in the decentralization which this war
against the tdflH mas drought upon every lOiih vi
industry. Investments which were sound enough
for trust funds have ceased to pay dividends. or
to promise them in the near future. The course
of wages, where wages can still be had, reversing
the direction of years. has been uniformly down.
ward Landlords are making concessions to the
necessities of their tenants, and thousands who
rented houses last year are now looking for rooms
Dust gathers on idle money while charity is over
worked and the manufacturer tallows his ma
ehinery to keep OFF the rust, while skilled work
man are digging in the frozen ground for a dollar
a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
EFFORT NEEDED.

Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The subject of improved roads is de-
manding more general and widespread
attention just now than at any previous
period in the history of the country.
Since the special bureau of the Depart
ment of Agriculture began operations,
shortly after the present administration
took hold, a remarkable revival of in
terest has been shown, and State after
State has begun operations in system
attic and thorough manner. One of the
latest to join the ranks is Maryland. and
a bill prepared by the Road League of
that State will receive thorough atten-
tion at the hands of its Legislature. In
commenting on this bill the Baltimore
Sun says:
The Department of Roads and High
ways for which the bill provides is in
tended 70 accomplish two objects; first,
scientific and systematic study OF all the
questions connected with the betterment
next Legislature meets we may have
definite and reliable data upon which to
base further legislation, and, second, to
furnish such assistance as can be rem
dered in the meantime by competent
engineers in the repair and construction
of roads in the various counties without
extra expense to them.
In Maryland as in Pennsylvania the
systematic improvement of roadways
has been so shamefully neglected that
the work of reform involves a start
practically at the beginning of the sub
ject It is not and has not been so much
a lack of means to carry out improve
ments as lack of knowledge of how to
proceed. Hence the value of efforts now
being put forth in the latter direction
both by State and national authorities,
for it is the present intention to dissem-
mate the information thus gained in
generous manner.
In view of the fact that Pennsylvania
presents one of the most inviting fields
to be found anywhere for road reform,
it is high time that our authorities were
putting some pronounced efforts in this
direction. There are few, if any, ques-
tions of more general Importance con-
nected with the affairs of the Common
wealth, and it is hardly proper for the
second State in the Union to continue
on trailing at the rear of the procession
in this matter
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
Marvels of the Microscope.

Leuwenhoeck tells US of animated in
sects seen with the microscope, of which
twenty-seven millions would only be
equal to a mite. Insects of various
kinds are observable in the cavities of a
common grain of sand. Mould is a
forest of beautiful trees, with the
branches, leaves, flowers and fruit fully
discernible. Butterflies are fully feath-
cred. Hairs are hollow tubes. The
surface of our bodies is covered with
scales like fish: single grain of sand
would cover one of these scales; and a
single scale covers 500 pores; yet
through these narrow openings the
sweat eXudes like water through sleeve;
how minute, then, must be its particles
The mite makes five hundred steps in a
second. Each drop of stagnant water
contains world of animated beings,
swimming with as much liberty as
whales in the sea- Each leaf has a
colony of insects grazing on it like oxen
in meadow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
AN AUTOMATIC LIGHTHOUSE.
There Is No Keeper, but the Bright Ligh
Blazes PerpetualIy

There Is No Keeper, but the Bright Light
Blazes PerpetualIy.
A remarkable lighthouse is the one
which sheds its warning rays from an es-
tuary of the Gironde, in France. where it
stands upon an isolated rock in the midst
of treacherous reef. The popularity of
this lighthouse is that it is unoccupied,
and vet its lamp is burning perpetually.
The famous Eddystone light on the coast
of England, rising from a rock that is
only large enough to afford a foundation
for the structure, is remarkable because
the men having it in charge are able 10
leave their confined quarters only once
in three months, when vessel comes to
them with supplies, letters, papers and a
new detachment of watchers.
1t was to do away with this exacting
and lonesome life that the French engi-
neers set themselves about the task of
devising method by which the useful
ness of the lighthouse could be main
tanned without so much personal atten-
ton. 1t thus happened that lamp was
invented that would burn continuously
for two months without being trimmed
or replenished.
The burning fluid used in this lamp is
an ordinary mineral OIL The tube in the
interior of the lamp is furnished with a
wick having thickness three times as
great as those employed generally in
lighthouses Around she burning sur
face of the wick is citSe made of pat
ented preparation consisting largely of
carbonized tar. This protection assures
the duration and the uniformity of the
fame. A chimney made of mica is
placed around the fame, and this in
sures an increase in the power of the
light. The supply of oil is assured by
means of a reservoir containing 100
quarts, the lamp consuming so grams
each hour. To provide always for the
reservoir being furnished with sufficient
fuel gauge is fixed at its side that gov
erns the supply flowing in from another
reservoir at a distance, and this gauge
permits just 80 grams per hour to perco-
late through the little supply pipe into
the supply reservoir.
The diameter of the lantern is Sc inches
and it cost 81 ,490. The intensity of the
light keeps equable until the expiration
of two months, when it is necessary to
visit the lighthouse and replenish the
wick The light can be seen more than
10 miles at sea. The wick is cleansed
and drawn up gradually by the action
of the tar cake at its mouth. The French
government is arranging toput upothers
of these houses, and it is also perfecting
an invention by which perpetual eiec-
trio light can be controlled by wires run
ming through submarine cable to the
the land.-Exchange
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
CAN NOT EXPLAIN IT AWAY.


Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
The Democratic leaders are busy try
ing to explain the overwhelming defeat
which their party encountered in the
very citadel of its power, under the
shadow of Tammany hall. 1t is hope
less task, however The true reason of
the election of Republican Congress
man in the district which sent Col
Fellows to Congress by majority of
nearly 5000, is most emphatic protest
against the Wilson bill. So, too, is the
pulling down of the Democratic majority
in the adjoining district from 1000 to
1867. Had it not been for the personal
popularity of the Democratic candidate
who has been giving literally to the sup
port of his idle constituents, he would in
all probability have been defeated.
The only political issue was that of
the tariff, and the Democratic and Mug
wump press rallied the voters in defense
of the administration and in support of
tariff reform as embodied in the Wilson
bill. The result has been an unmistak-
able rebuke of the administration and
reputation of the Wilson bill. The Re-
publicans, in the opinion of many, had
but very remote chance of success in
either district, but they made vigorous
campaign and have won an astC nishing
victory. The two districts cast nearly
one-fourth of the entire city vote, and
the combined plurality of $4,000 was re-
duced to less than 5000, with one can
didate defeated outright. Such an over
turning as this in a section in which
Democracy has seldom known defeat in
a long series of years is an object lesson
which the authorities at Washington
may well lay to heart. 1t is indicative
of the general condemnation which will
be visited upon the party of free trade
at the fall elections.
That the supporters of the administra-
ton and the Wilson bill well understood
the consequences of defeat was plainly
manifested by the appeals which they
made to the voters of the party. Ohe
of the strongest of the tariff-reform
organs said on the morning of the
election: 'The election of single
member from the city of New York, the
port of the United States. who opposes
the principle of the Wilson bill, would
have more calamitous effect upon the
cause of tariff reform than the election
of half dozen members in any other
part of the country" Every word true,
and yet it is doubtful whether the stub
born free trade majority in Congress will
give a moments consideration to the
.calamitous effects" which are sure to
follow the consummation of their de-
structive policy. Their day will come
in the near hereafter and they can not
prepare too soon for the fearful reck
oning.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

A considerable proportion of failure
in business and 80 per cent of the de-
falcations and theft and ruin of youth
among people who are employed in
places OF trust are duo directly to gam
bling. | have seen in my vast employ
ment so much misery from the head of
the family neglecting its support, and
squandering his earnings in the lottery
or the policy shop. and promisingyoung
men led aStray in small way, and final
ly becoming fugitives OF landing in
the criminal dock. that have come to
believe that the community which Ii
censes and tolerates public gambling
cannot have prosperity in business, re-
ligion in ITS churches or morality among
its people. -Chaunccy Depew.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

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On examination of the urinary deposits, ropy
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
Two Lives Saved.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction
City, Ill.,, was told by her doctors she
had Consumption and that there was no
hope for her, but two bottles DR.. Kings
New Discovery completely cured her
and she says it saved her life. Nr. Thos.
Eggers, 139 Florida ST., San Francisco,
suffered from dreadful cold, approach
ing Consumption, tried without result
everything else then bought one bottle
of DR.. Kings New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally thank
full. 1t is such results, of which these
are samples, that prove the wonderful
efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and
Colds. Free trial bottles at Patterson &
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
TIE Wilson bill passed the House OF

TIE Wilson bill passed the House on
Thursday as per schedule with all the
odious features of income tax, free wool,
etc. intact. On the final vote only
seventeen Democrats voted against the
measure and it went through by sixty
four majority. The whip of the office
dispensing power of the administration
scourged the backs of the recalcitrant
Democrats who had declared their hos
tility to the bill with the result that
about half of those expected to
vote against the measure came into line
when the final roll was called. Since so
few Democrats carried their opposition
to the bill to the point of voting against
it. the outlook for its defeat in the Senate
is much less hopeful now than a week
ago. Only by the united and most de-
termined efforts of the opponents of the
bill, both Democrats and Republicans,
if at all, can it be prevented from going
through the Senate IN practlcaiIy lhe
same shape in which it leaves the House.
The future offers little promise to the
stagnant business interests and needy
thousands of our nation. 1t is useless
to protest, it is waste of words to
plead. The only appeal vouchsafed the
suffering country is in the ballot-box,
and that appeal, unfortunately, is not
near enough to prevent months and
even years of sitting depression and
grinding want before relief can be Sc
cured. In the meanwhile the country
can only suffer and wait while the Dem
ocrats experiment with interests to which
uncertainty is ruin.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

KENTUCKY wants men on the Supreme
Bench of the United States who believe
in the principles of Jefferson and Jack
son, and consequently her Legislature
passed resolution asking her Senators
to assist Hill in defeating the conirma-
tion of Peckham. The only trouble
about the matter seems to be that very
few modern Democrats adhere to the
principles of Jefferson and Jackson.
The modern brands bear the names of
Cleveland or Hill, and either is base
adulteration in comparison with the
Democracy of Jefferson or Jackson.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

For the relief and cure of cold in
the head there is more potency in Ely's
Cream Balm than in anything else it is
possible to prescribe. This preparation
has for years past been making a
brilliant success as remedy for cold in
the head, catarrh and hay fever. Used
in the initial stages of these complaints
Cream Balm prevents any serious devel-
opment of the symptoms, while almost
numberless cases are on record of radical
cures of chronic catarrh and hay fever
after all other treatments have proved
of no avail. 6
BIGGs-You say your wife always
pins flower on your coat before you
leave home? Yes; she has for month.
Biggs-Well, it shows she thinks of you
-. No; it's because she can never
remember to sew on the button.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

W. G.. Piummer of Prileville once
witnessed an exciting fight between an
eagle and p coyote. The eagle had
caught rabbit. and the coyote under
took TO take it away from him. The
eagle defended his prey manfully for
some time. but the coyote was too much
for him and finally got away with the
rabbit, but not until after the eagle had
clawed several handfuls of hair out of
his back and left him somewhat disfig-
ared. Portland Oregonian.
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unchanged; at the end of the Sth month
A puts in S400, B 500, and c draws out
5000; at the end of the year they sell
out for $1,000. What was the rate of
loss or gain? How much each9
Z. A box II feet long and feet wide
has capacity of 720 bushels, what is
its depth?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
Ancient Preservation os the dead

Herodotus gives good description of
the manner in which the early Ethiopi-
ans preserved their dead. Having thor
cughly dried the corpse, they plastered
it over with paste made of gypsum and
then painted the face and exposed parts
so as to make them look as natural as
possible. D. / bodies served in this
manner remained intact for hundreds of
years.-St. Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

WATERLOO, avalanche, or cyclone
used in a political sense are entirely too
inexpensive to describe the result in the
two congressional elections held in New
York City last week. In one the Re-
publicans made net gain Of over 5000
votes, and in the other, of over 1000
votes. One Republican was elected and
the Democratic majority in the other
district was reduced from 1000 to
1000 in round numbers. With a like
gain in a State election New York would
give a Republican majority of more
than 100000. On the same basis of
gain throughout the country in a con-
gressional election the Democrats would
elect but twenty-six members of Con-
gress. OF course, it is not probable that
such an enormous gain could be main
tanned in a general election, but the
result in any event is sufficient to dem
onstrate the overwhelming discomfort
existing among the masses over the
policy of the Democracy as manifested
in the Wilson bill. Just as certain as
election day will come next fall, just so
certain is it that the Democracy will
feel themselves drop with an awful
thud.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
How's This,

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

IT is gratifying to note that when the
final test came on the question of
biennial sessions in the House Repub-
lican caucus, only twelve members cast
their votes against the proposition, and
that it passed the House without a
single dissenting Republican vote. The
friends of the reform scarcely hoped for
such an overwhelming majority in its
favor. The result shows that the repre-
sentatives of the Republican party be-
lieve in standing true to campaign
pledges. We are glad to note that our
worthy representative, Hon. J. C. Helm
lein, was enrolled in favor of the reform.
The Senate should pass the resolution
at once and end the matter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
BUCKLEN,s ARN1CA SALYE.

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08
WE boast that we have gotten beyo

WE boast that we have gotten beyond
the era of superstition, yet where is the
man who did not note the fact that last
Friday was ground-hog day and indulge
in the belief that the fact of the sun
shining on that day will influence the
weather for the next six weeks?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08

Loring says that during SO years in ons
western state. whose name he does not
give. the number of mortgages executed
was 200, 900. and their nominal value
k1SO. 600 900.