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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
The Walls of Jerusalem.

The lofty wall of Jerusalem and the
massive towers of the citadel are i'm
mediately before us. We are on the
outer slope of Mount Zion, the sanctu-
ary and the abode of David. The pom
derous blocks which form the lower
strata of the wall might have been
shaped and put in place by some pre-
historic race of giants. More than al
most anything else to be found around
Jerusalem, or within. this wall bears
an appearance of great antiquity. We
can easily believe that its foundations
We're laid in the time of David, though
its upper portions are unquestionably
modern.
The books vary. One says it was the
work of Sultan Suleiman in the six
teenth century, another that it was
erected much earlier, and my guide, a
most intelligent and well informed Jew
of Hungarian origin, told me that it
was built by the crusaders after they
had got possession, for the purpose of
protecting the inhabitants against the
rascally Arabs, who would ride up in
small parties. rob some rich family and
be off with their plunder before any
thing could be done to stop them. But,
however this may be, the wall, from
is to 90 feet in height, fully incloses
the town, and although it could soon be
knocked to pieces by a 10 FOUNDER can
non it stands in good order, solid enough
for all peaceful purposes, and perfectly
the city from the country
about it.-Charles A. Dana in Nc
Clure's Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
Some Timber Strength Tests.

1t would be difficult to convince the
average man, especially the Missouri
pioneer, that fir is stronger wood thar
oak, but such has been proved by ac-
tual tests that were made by fair and
impartial committee appointed for the
purpose. The timbers used were each
. by inches and feet long, both ends
solidly braced and the weight applied
in the middle of the span. Yellow fir
stood strain of 8, O62 pounds, common
Oregon oak 2,922 pounds. Fine grained
yellow fir from near the butt stood
strain of 3, ,635 pounds. and best Michi-
gan oak snapped with a strain of only
2,428 pounds. These tests were made
by the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany at Tacoma. Louis Republic
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
Old Johns Translation.

Every one in Boston knows of old
John the Orangeman, that picturesque
and almost historical parsonage who
presides over the affections of all Har-
ward men. And every one who knows
John knows also that his life's motto is
that familiar phrase which expresses
briefly and to the point the wish that
Yale may be forever relegated to the re-
gion of sorrow and perpetual darkness.
One afternoon strangers were walk
ing through the yard at Harvard, and
ON every hand they saw the college seal
bearing this motto, ''Christo ct Eccle-
sia.''
Not being on speaking terms with
Cicero, Caesar and the other Romans,
this did nothing but to arouse their Gu
riosity.
Finally they met John.
Il say!' said one of the visitors. 81
see these words everywhere. Can you
tell me what they meanf"
John looked carefully at the Latin in
sciption, bit his pipe little harder and
then replied gravely:
''Oi don't jist know, fr'nd, but Oi
t'ink it means To h wild Yale. ~
Boston Budget.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11

WHAT fools fhe Democrats are for
persisting to remodel the tariff, thus in
tensifying the existing distress, when a
solution of the whole trouble is so easy.
By simply announcing that they had
abandoned al tariff tinkering and that
the present laws would be allowed to
stand indefinitely, the trouble would all
disappear almost instantly. 1t would
be the easiest thing in the world to do
and more than that would show that the
Democratic Congressman had some hard
sense, a quality which many Democrats
all over the country are now disposed to
question.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
HALL GALUsHA A. GROW.

New York Press.
Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow has been
chosen by Pennsylvania Republicans
their Representative at Large in Con-
gress. This was a noble choice. Mr..
Grow was first elected to the House to
succeed David Wilmot forty-two years
ago. He was the Speaker in 1961-62.
But by a single act of legislation, of
which he was the author, Mr.. Grow
earned the everlasting gratitude of his
countrymen.
He is the father of the Homestead act
Over thirty years have passed away
since this great law became reality,
and yet, go where one may in the
Western States and Territories, one finds
constant proof of its blessings. On the
banks of the Missouri. in the vast forests
of the Northwest, on the borders of
Puget Sound and by the shores of our
inland seas are the marks of its wonder
full influence and the evidences of its
magic power. The benefcient result of
that great law cannot be measured by
the boundary lines of the Republic
1t is one of the greatest acts that ever
graced the pages of human legislation.
The farms which it has created from the
Blue Ridge to the Sierra Vevadas have
been the homes of peace, plenty and
progress. The happiness of their fire.
sides has been an inspiration to freedom
throughout the world. The prairie
plowman recouuts the blessings which it
has showered upon his race, and the
shepherd boy, in his lonely watch on the
Colorado, chants the toiler's anthem of
"Free Homes for Free Men,"
The influence of ex-Speaker Crows
great work will live as long as the Re-
public survives. How fitting that Penn
sylvania should honor him in his green
and vigorous old agel
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
HEALTH BETTER THAN WEALTH.

And You Can't Retain the Former and Give
Exercise the Go BY.
| DR.. A. Symons Eccles has struck the
keynote of radical improvement in the
general health of city communities
when he says that the most potent fac
tor of present day ailments is the abey-
ance intS which the muscular system is
allowed TO fall by dwellers in cities,
who are daily becoming more and more
| aert-dent on artificial means of loco
motion and labor saving apparatus, un-
| Gil disorders of digestion and nervous
maladies are now as common among
the comparatively poor as they are
among the wealthy. The rich man en-
ieavors to overcome the mischief
wrought by his sedentary life by horse
back exercise or golf, but the poorer
man, who is unable to afford these recre-
ations, neglects lis muscular develop
ment and invariably tumbles into his
train or mounts his street car rather
than waste the time necessary for a
brisk walk or half hour in the gym
nasium.
uO VI bllC DlCN ClO HdS
tended to cOunteract the disrse of mus
cles engendered in large proportion of
town residents, but there are still num-
bers of persons of both sexes who re-
quire vigorous muscular exercise in or
der to maintain health, Women are
the victims of modern, social and COM
mercial changes almost if not quite as
much as men. The Capitalization of
many domestic industries may have i'm
proved the character of the products
thus manufactured or of the work per-
formed, but when bread was made and
washing was done at home the female
members of many families fairly well
off, but not too richly endowed with
this worlds goods, were proftably en-
ployed in kneading the dough and iron
ing the linen. One of the results of
this general disinclination to take the
amount of exercise essential to health
is the revival of practice which is re-
corded in the earliest medical papyrus
in the British museum.
The introduction of massage may be
regarded as specific evidence of the ten
dency in these latter days to the neglect
of muscular exercise, and DR.. Eccles
holds that if it be true that the abey-
ance of function in certain glands is
productive of diseases which can be
cured by the injection of organic lq-
uids derived from similar source
and modern research has esta blished this
belief-much more is it evidently true
that the failure to employ the great bulk
of muscular tissue, which is so large
portion of the human frame, will, and
invariably does, give rise to disordered
function and altered structure in the
other organs and tissues of the body,
which are interdependent on the activ-
ity of the muscles and each other. Men
tai and nervous oyerstrain is rarely
disassociated from muscular disuse and
fiaccidity. The burden of DR.. Eccles'
exhortatlon is: Even if you make a
little less money, take more exercise.
You will save the difference in DOCTORS
bills and bring more happiness not only
into your own life, but into other peo-
ple's. '-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
MURDERS AND SUICIDES.
ttsburgh Commercial Gazette.

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
There was a fearful sacrifice of human
life in the murderers, hangings, lynch
ings, and suicides which blackened the
record of 1898. A growing civilization
and an expanding Christianity should
serve to lessen these dreadful happen
ings, but they seem to keep pace with
our increase in population if they do
not outrun it. There were 6,6l5 muir
ders in the country during the year, q
decrease of 76 since 1892, but an in
crease of 709 over 1891, and 1925 over
1890. The causes assigned are twelve
in number, 3,162 being attributed to
quarrels and 1880 being unknown.
Liquor caused 713 murders, while jeal-
ousy resulted in 456. Robbery caused
525 deaths, $50 having been killed by
highwaymen while 175 robbers were
killed. The infanticides number 256,
while insanity caused 102 deaths. Over
against this appalling list of murders
the record places but 126 legal execu-
tions, an increase of 19 over 1892
There were only 6 executions in Penn
sylvania, while in Georgia there were
l6. The executions in the South were
nearly 3 to l as compared with the
North.
There were only 200 lynchings in the
whole country during the year. Sc less
than in 1892. OF these 1873 occurred in
the South, IL less than in 1892, and II
in the North, or 9 less than in the pre-
vious year. There were 154 negroes, 80
white men. Mexicans, z Indians, and
4 women lynched. There was no lynch
ing in Pennsylvania, or east of Indiana
and north of Mason and Dixon's line.
There was a large increase in the
of suicides-the total being
4 ,436, an increase of SIC over 1892 and
], 1,105 over 1891. Of those who took
their own lives 1913 were supposed to
have been the victims of dependency,
$50 of insanity, 245 of domestic infelic-
ity, 297 of liquor, 220 of disappointment
in love, 245 of ill-health, and 81 of
business losses. The causes of 972
cases were unknown. The women who
suicided numbered 858 and the men
3,578. 1t is singular fact that physi-
clans head the list among pro-
fessional men, So having died by their
own hands last year as against 81 in
1892 The most common means of
suicide is the pistol; next in order comes
poison, hanging, drowning and throat
cutting. There are thousand ways of
shutting off this mortal coli" and the
number who resort to self-slaughter
every year bespeak an appalling amount
Of mental and physical suffering, to say
nothing of moral degradation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11

NONE of our Democratic contempor-
aries. who are so rampant in their
advocacy of the Wilson bill, have yet
risen to explain why, if the bill will be a
boom to the business interests of the
nation, such numerous and lengthy pro-
tests against its passage are going In
every day. These protests are coming
from every branch of business and trade,
from the farmer, the merchant, the
manufacturer, the workingman, all with
The grievance of the ruin the passage of
the bill will bring. But if it is urged
that this is only Republican opposition
will any of our Democratic friends point
outa single great interest favorable to the
bill, or has any one heard a single peti-
tion from the farmers, workingmen, etc.,
asking for its passage? If any. petition
favoring the bill, to which intelligent
men have subscribed their names, has
been sent in no Democratic paper has
singular if the Wilson bill promises such
good things for the country, that thous-
ands of intelligent, thinking men are
protesting against it. while none do it
reverence by asking for its passage. Is
not this fact remarkable? If these facts
are true, and let him deny them success
fully who can, where then is the demand
for the passage of the Wilson bill and
why does the Democratic party still per
sist in its mad course in opposition to
the will of the people expressed in thsse
remonstrances? Many leading Demo
cratic newspapers, seeing that it is mad
ness to commit their party to such a
measure, are opposing the. bill and in this
they are wiser than their brethren in
Congress.
But even with thousands of Demo
. Gratis uniting with Republicans in pro-
testing against the bill, it is doubtful
whether our Congressman will heed the
cry, although at times it looks somewhat
like some Democratic congressman were
beginning to see the folly of their party
leaders in pushing the measure, and
would break over party lines. But for
the outcome the country will have to
wait.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
BANKING AND COINAGE.
ttsburgh Commercial Gazette.

PlttSDurgn commercial CIdLetIe.
The latest projects under these heads
are Mr.. Springer's banking bill and Mr..
Oates bill for the coinage of the silver
bullion in the treasury. The former
provides for national currency COM
mission, to be composed of the secretary
of the treasury, the treasurer and the
comptroller of the currency, who shall
execute the provisions of the act. Legal
tender notes shall be printed blythe gov
ernment and shall be issued to any
solvent bank with a paid-up capital of
over $25,000 on the deposit of either
United States or state, county, parish or
city bonds which have been at par for
two years and the interest paid. The
circulating notes are exempted from the
10 per cent. tax on state bank issues
and the bonds are also exempted from
taxation, federal or local. Banks de-
posting other than national bonds may
receive 80 per cent. in notes. The
IL
for the redemption of the notes. The
banks must guarantee the payment of
bonds deposited, and all the assets of
the bank are liable therefor. The notes
are to be redeemed in coin on demand,
and the banks are to be placed under
the provisions of the national banking
law as to examinations, the criminal acts
of officers and agents, etc.
The Oates bill provided for turning
into silver dollars all the bullion now in
the treasury, which shall be legal
tender for the payment of all debts,
public and private. One-seventh of the
bullion may be made into alf-dollars,
quarters and dimes. as directed by the
secretary. Of the dollars so coined
$40000,000 are to be set apart for the
redemption of the notes paid out for the
purchase of silver bullion, which sum.
when reduced by the redemption of said
notes, shall be kept up to the total by
adding thereto other silver dollars in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
until the aggregate of the notes out
standing is reduced below $40,000,000, |
after which the redemption fund shall
equal the amount of notes outstanding
until all are redeemed. The secretary
IS authorized to reissue any of the notes
SO redeemed. 1t is also provided that
any contract hereafter made.payable in
dollars, may be paid in any lawful coin !
of the United States.
As to the banking bill it may be said
it is the best which has yet been sub
mitted from the Democratic side. This
may be no great compliment, but it is so
much better than the average of the
state banking schemes that it is not
likely to receive the approval of the
house. A much better system can be
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11

ORDINARILY during the winter many
organizations hold banquets, dinners and
the like, which range in expense accord
ing to the financial standing of the
members. This winter many of these
organizations are foregoing the pleasures
of such festivities and instead are giving
the money, which would be thus spent,
to relief of the needy. Such action is
commendable, and in one sense it is well
that such times of distress sometimes
come upon us, since it seems to show
how much human kindness there is in
the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11

J. STERLING MORTON, the Secretary
of Agriculture, is being denounced by
the farmers organizations from all
quarters. 1t seems that the only farm
ing Morton ever did was with his mouth,
but at this occupation he was quite sue
ceSsful until he began to say mean things
about the men he is supposed to repre-
sent. Now they are after him. His
actions since his appointment have
shown that he is not in sympathy with
the agriculturists, and his retention in
Office is an insult to these sturdy sons
of toll.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
SHE GOT A BARGAIN.
Better Than That, She Knew How to Use It
After Getting Ii.

After Getting It,
A lady surrounded the bargain coun-
ter of one of the big retail stores on
Sixth avenue the other day and cap
tured fragment of china silk with
which she wanted to make a screen.
To accomplish this required degree of
strategy and physical exertion Sufficient
to equip college eleven for active serv-
ice on the gridiron. But she got there.
Il spent the whole afternoon, said
the to friend, "and when | got home
figured the whole thing up. l could
have bought the same stuff up stairs at
the regular counter for 80 cents yard,
and wanted only 31a yards. Well,
that mean little clerk sold me four yards
for S5 cents-it was a remnant, you
know-so found had been trodden
upon for about two hours and squeezed
black and blue and had lost just cents
by the operation.
But, law, that's nothing! What dc
you s'pose? Why, when | examined
that silk the next day, found hole in
every fold.
Mad? Well. think l was mad! Ny
husband laughed at me. He says wom-
en- were born to be fooled, don't you
know-that most of us haven't sense
enough to spread an umbrella when ii
rains
What would you dor l asked him.
Do, says he, I'D throw that away
and never go back to that store again.
Not much, says L. I'm going tc
make them take that back if | die for
it. Now therel And if you should miss
me when night comes, you II find my re-
mains at the foot of the china silk coun-
teri
II went back. After another two
hours of shuffiing and crowding | got
chance to confront the young man who
sold me that silk. l was prepared TO
make him ashamed of himself, now
tell you. But he merely looked at it and
said IN bored sort of way. oh, yes,
that is the same piece of silk Mrs. Blank
returned last week.
Yes, was stricken dumb. If there
had been room enough, I'd have drop
ped. But that's nothing. Let me tell
you. While he was making out my re-
bate check another lady glanced at the
silk had just laid down.
That's real pretty, said she. How
many yardss'
" -Four, ma'am, says he.
"'How much?'
" Forty cents says he, with the
most unblushing face. It's the last piece
of that shade in the house, says he.
"'I'll take it, says she. pulling out
her purse just as he gave me my ticket
for the return of that identical piece.
Well, then l knew that young man de-
liberately cheated me and was going to
cheat that lady right before my face. But
| got my breath quick enough to tell her.
And did. | said: Madam, I've just
this minute brought that back. It's
damaged. Look at these holes! He
knows it's damaged. Here's my ticket
for the rebate for its return
well, if you could have seen the
look she gave himl Then she turned on
her heel and went out. Yes, l should
say I'm about even with that house
one of the finest stores in town too. -
New York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
IT'S ALL THEIR OWN FAULT.

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Cincinnati Tribune.
Were it not for the fact that the
troubles of the Democratic party are of
its own making, it would be entitled to
and would receive abundant sympathy.
To all thoughtful and obseryant persons
the existing conditions are no surprise.
Their coming was inevitable, for they
are in the nature of retribution for the
violation of certain laws which never
fail to assert themselves in the shape of
prescribed penalties.
For third of a century that party
has encouraged every form of govern
mental heresy, and has given aid and
comfort to all manner of vicious inf1u-
ences and dangerous tendencies. While
it was in the minority it ignored every
duty to society and put itself squarely
athwart the path of every desirable pro-
gress. 1t prostituted itself to the duty
of promoting dangerous public senti-
ment for the purpose of mere temporary
success, and by all the rules of govern
ment ethics, it forfeited its right to con-
troll, if it did not really forfeit its right
to live as party organization.
The wisest and most patriotic of the
leaders of that party seem to be utterly
blind to the real cause of the difficulties
by which they are environed, and if they
were not so blinded they are hampered
by those whose heresies they have
adopted and fostered, and are so circum-
stanced that they can not repudiate
them without greater evils in other di-
rections, involving the utter disruption
of their party as an efficient organization
for the successful management of the
Government.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
Not Obscure Enough.

You intend this novel for the Bos-
ton public, do you?" said the publish
er, leaning back in his chair.
Yes, sir, said the novelist.
We'll, Mr.. Pensling, said the pub
Usher. 1.-THE work has its merit. 1t is
pointed, interesting, and the style can
be readily read and understood, and l
think, he continued as the novelist's
face broke into smile of hope, Il
think therefore that you should give up
all effort to get Boston people interest
ed IN it. Chicago Record.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11
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, 1894-01-11
Epynt's Monuments,

Recent discoveries in Egypt and Chal-
dea indicate that. although the monu-
ments there carry us back about 5000
years before the Christian era, they do
not constitute the limit of our sources
of history They indicate the origin of
these people to have been in western
Persia. Kurdistan and Luristan show
more ancient remains than have been
studied in any part of the world. The
old Babylonian civilization and Chinese
civilization both come probably from
this region. and it may yet yield us
knowledge of times far earlier than any
that we know of.-Chicago Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-11

While female suffrage has carried the
day in New Zealand. it has experienced
defeat in South Australia, where the
adult suffrage bill, which embodied the
principle, was rejected in the popular
house on the third reading, but only by
a narrow majority. The friends of the
cause. however, are not at all discour-
aged and will return to the battle with
undaunted spirits till victory crowns
their efforts. Letter.