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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26
"HERE.n said the farmer. "inst S

"HERE," said the farmer, "just split
up some of that railroad timber, and I'll
give you good meal" "Alas! 1 can
not" said the tramp. "The greater part
of my life has been passed walking on
such as those. 1t is too much like
breaking up home ties.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

THE Teachers Institute to be held at
st. Clairsville, this summer, and the Ep-
worth Assembly at Bethesda, have the
same dates One of the two should be
changed or both will suffer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26
Costly.

Fine carriages with rubber tires are
said to be coming into use in the cities.
These tires cost about one hundred dol
lars for set of four, and rarely last more
than one season, but they are a comfort
to those who can afford them, making
the motion of the carriage easy and
nOiSeleSS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

MANUAL GARCIA, who taught Jenny
Lind. is still teaching, although he is in
his Goth year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

"WILL you give me this little hand?''
he pleaded, lovingly. "Reginald, this
hand is already pledged" she replied.
II will redeem it" he answered absent
", "if you will let me have the ticket"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

A BILL has been introduced into the
Ohio Legislature proposing to pen
sion at the rate of SIS per month school
teachers who have taught % years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

In China VIII en- pupil is reciting his
lesson he turns his back to his teacher.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

FOR the nine months ending with
March 81, the gross earnings of the b.
and o. were over two millions less than
in 1888.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

STAFFORD Lodge No. 300, F. and A. NJ.
will hold grand demonstration at Stat
ford, June 23d.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

IT is thought that tie W. and L. E..
Railway will change its terminus from
Wheeling to Steubenville
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

TIE Steubenville Gun Club will give
a two days shoot at blue rocks on May
18th and 10th.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

THE venerable John A. Bingham will
address a G. A. r, Post at Deersville,
Decoration Day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

IT won't cost you cent to read all the
advertisements in this paper, while it
may save you many dollars.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

Tile Caldwell Canning Company has
sold 5000 dozen cans of tomatoes al
ready.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

SOME birds live to an extreme old age.
The raven has been known to live 166
years and the swan lis.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26


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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26
but will add something to exist

borrow, but will add something to exist
ing taxes.
The American deficit is mainly caused
by the act of the Government. The
official report for the month of March
shows a decrease of $1S,223,970 in the
dutiable imports in that one month, or
46 per cent, which is indeed an aston
ishing change. In nine months ending
with March the dutiable imports were
s208, 1884 1863, against 1921, ,l91, ia for
the same months of the previous year
decrease of 35 per cent. 1t is obvious
that much of this remarkable decrease
is due to the proposal and determined
effort of the Government to cut off a
great part of the duties by which Amer
lean industries are now shielded against
foreign competition. With a proposal
that the income of that nature shall be
reduced by the pending bill from $685.,
100000 last year to less than Sl22,O0O,-
900, it is natural that imports of dutia-
bic articles are deferred as much as
possible. The decrease in imports of
articles free of duty during the nine
months has been only $45 100000, or IA
per cent, and in March the decrease was
only $2,453,000, or about per cent.
The contrast shows convincingly that
the great loss of revenue is mainly due
to the warfare of the Government
against the present system of taxation.
Having thus caused an enormous de-
fcit, the American Government proposes
nearly to double it by throwing away
dnties which have been tested, so that
their natural outcome is definitely known
and then to make up the doubled def
cheney by imposing new taxes the out
come of which can not be definitely es-
timated. The plan is to raise $41 ,50O,-
600 by duties on sugar, $50, 100000 more
by new income tax, s20,000,000 more
by additional taxes on spirits. and $3,-
100000 by new tax on playing cards.
Whether these taxes would yield $685.
100000, in the condition of business
which the removal of protective duties
would cause, or many millions less, no
man really can calculate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26
See the Worlds Fair for Is Cents.

See the Worlds Fair for Is Cents.
Upon receipt of your address and fif
teen cents in postage stamps, we will
mail you prepaid our Souvenir Portfolio
of the Worlds Columbian Exposition,
theregular price is Fifty cents, but as
we want you to have one, we make the
price nominal. You will find it work
of art and thing to be priced. 1t con-
aains full page views of the great build
ings, with descriptions of same, and is
executed in highest style of art. If not
satisfied with it, after you get it, we will
refund the stamps and let you keep the
book. Address
H BUCKLEN & Co., Chicago, Ill,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

MEN OF MANY WORDS.-How many
words are included in the vocabulary. of
ordinary persons? Prof. Max Muller
thinks a farm laborer would not have
more than 400 words in actual use, and
the same writer declares that well-ed-
ucated man, who has been at the uni
versity and who reads the Bible and
Shakespeare and the daily papers to-
gether with circulating library books,
seldom uses more than 800 or 400 words
in actual conversation. A contributor
to Cassell's Saturday Journal has been
at considerable pains to check these the
ories, and the conclusion he arrives at is
that the figures given are too small.
Farm hands, he finds, are able to name
all the common objects of the farm, and
to do this involves the use of more than
the entire number of 300 words allotted
to them. Then, by going through die
tionary, and excluding compound
words, or words not in pretty constant
use, he found that there were under the
letter IS" alone 1,018 words that are to
be found in ordinary peoples voeabula-
ry. 1t would be nearer the truth, we
are told, to say that the agricultural Ia
borer uses 1.500 words, and knows or
can guess the meaning of 1,500 more,
and that intelligent farm hands and ar
tisans command 1000 words, while edu-
Gated people have at call from 5000 to
10000. Journalists are credited with
$4,000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26

DR. n HI
THE CELEBRA EXAMINING PHYSICIAN
FRANCE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE.
$50 40W
DRS FRANCE AND oTTfAN
Of
GsSCsR positively cured the
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Sa Is cure effected by home Entirely applied
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
TO PREVENT REAL BLIGHT.

Experiments during three years
have been carried on at the New York
State experiment station by ID. G.
Fairchild TO compare the efficacy of
different fungicides against the leaf-
blight, so destructive of nursery stock
OF plums and cherries Windsor, Yel-
low Spanish and Montmorenoy cher
ries on Mahaleb stock, and the same
variety on Mazzard stock, we're treated,
and in every case whore the Bordeaux
mixture was used the leafblight was
prevented to notable degree. The
same was true of plums on Myrobolan
and Marianne stock. The sprayed
trees held their leaves later than the
unsprayed. The tops and roots
weighed more, and the stem was
larger. Rochester Post Express.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
Flood UncOyers an Old Village.

Since the subsidence of the recent
flood which swept through the Genesee
Valley, curious things have come to
light. Among the most interesting is
what appears to be the unearthing Of
an old Indian village. On q farm
worked by James Shefiiin, on the west
side of the Genesee River, near where
the Jones bridge crosses the stream,
about two miles and half from this
place large quantity of the earth was
washed away. Since the water got
down SO that an examination
of the place could be made
to deter mine the amount Of
of damage, the prospectors were con-
siderably surprised to find lot of old
style pottery, such as was In use in the
eighteenth century by the aborigines,
scattered over the place left bare by
the water. Further examination re-
suited in the finding of a number of
old copper coins, arrow heads, etc.,
and among other things a double solid
silver cross four inches long apd we'll
preserved These ancient relics are
being treasured by the finders, who
are still on the search. The suppo-
sition by many is that at some timo or
other an Indian village was located
here, os the site is only few miles
below the junction of Canaseraga Greek
with the Genesee River, and about
three miles from the White Woman's
Spring on the Squawkie Hill plot.
Considerable interest is manifest and
the digging will be continued
Rochester, IN. Y. Herald.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
FEEDING WHEAT TO HORSES.

The difficulty in feeding wheat to
horses is the quantity of gluten it con-
tains, which, when masticated and
swallowed, is apt to pack the food in
the stomach, and thus caused lndiges-
ton, which is one of the worst OF all
the ailments horses are subject to.
Oats, having thirty per cent Of thick
husk on the grain, do not act in this
way, and are, therefore, safe food.
The simple way out of the difficulty
is, therefore, to initiate the compost
ton of oats by adding to the coarsely
ground wheat quantity Of cut straw
or hay, or even mixing wheat and oats,
or by feeding the wheat in the ear,
providing 1t is not bearded. II hay
or straw cut finely or chopped, as 1t is
termed, is used, it should be wet, and
a handful of salt added to each feed to
prevent fermentation. New York
Times.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
OLD ASPARAGUS BEDS.

How long will tho asparagus bed
last9 A suburban market gardner
says he has largo bed about twenty
years old which has about run out.
The roots have grown into thick
mass all over the field. The rows OF
sprouts have widened until it is diff
cult to cultivate at all and the stalks
have become small. Repeated losses
by winter killing have left large gaps
in some places
To renovate such field is hope
less job. and to kill out the asparagus
is almost equally difficult. Perhaps
the easiest way to reclaim the land
will be to chop up the surface with a
wheel harrow and SOW to oats OF bar
Icy, followed by rye. 1t will take
several seasons to kill out the plants.
1t may be said here that an aspara-
gus bed will last much longer than
twenty years if the plants are set in
wider rows and farther apart i'll the
row. Plants which have plenty of
room for their roots will send up large
sprouts when fifty years old, in land
well manured and clean. In the bed
above mentioned the plants were
crowded in only six inches to II foot
apart, with less than four feet be-
tween the rows. - Massachusetts
Ploughman.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25

can only make substantial progress as
the impetus and general intelligence
reach all who have part in the work.
The creamery that hasn't the cooper
alton of educated patrons striving to
attain good results is effectively hand
icapped, and this difficulty furnishes
one of the greatest obstacles that but
termakers and creamery managers
have to contend with. Not long since
we heard O buttermaker say that be
was going to quit the business on ac-
count of this one discouraging feature
of the work. The first great work that
Elgin had to do was to make dairy
men out OF practically the entire farm
ing community. With this accom-
plished, her reputation was easily
made and maintained. We must emu
late Elgin and Denmark methods in
this respect in every district where
dairying is practised. That condition
is coming and coming quickly. Farm
and Dairy.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
ESSENTIALS IN DAIRYING.

M. j. r.. Dunstan, director of agri
cultural education of Nottingham,
England, after recent visit to Dem
mark and an investigation of the dairy
industry of that country, wrote; in
my opinion, the supremacy OF Dem
mark in this industry is due in great
measure to the education of every one
concerned, from the farmer to his
dairymaid, and also to the system of
cooperation adopted. " In other
words, education and intelligent
methods all along the line, as the Farm
and Dairy has frequently put it, is the
basis upon which Denmark has been
able to take foremost rank among
European countries in dairy matters,
for Mr.. Dunstan says that Denmark is
not better adapted to dairying than
the county of Norfolk, England, and
she very largely supplies that county
with butter. This is just the situation
in America today. The dairy industry
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
HOthOuses on Wheels.

An enterprising scheme has been
started by firm of horticulturists
1t very often happens that protection
or forced heat is required for u GER
tain time and certain spot in the
garden, where it would be hardly
worth while to go to the expense and
trouble of making the ordinary pro-
vision for such conveniences. To
meet such cases system of moving
glass houses has been organized. The
houses, which have heat or not &C.
cording to requirements, run on rails,
and crops which are to be forced, pro-
tected and ripened in succession, may
be brought under the glass as they
stand in the soil or on stages. Thus
more rapid and at the same time
more economical production Of fruits,
flowers and vegetables may be under
taken. In securing u succession OF
crops the expense is but too often pro-
hibitive, and the new system certainly
seems to be means of overcoming
climate irregularities and inclemen-
cies at nominal cost that will be well
coined by horticulturists, both profess
sional and amateur. Philadelphia
Times.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
EOH FARM AND GARDEN.
BEEE BLOOD FOR POULTRY.

Beef blood is said to be an excellent
food for poultry, as it is rich in nitro
gen, approaching the white Of an egg
IN composition. One who has tried it
says that it must not be fed oftener
than once or twice week. A good
way to prepare it is to thicken the
blood with mixture of meal and
bran, put into bag and boil it.
New York World.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25

Nobody else noticed It, but with
each verso these voices, 80 estranged,
grew stronger, clearer, more jubilant,
till with the last one the spirit seized
them all, and deafening chorus Of
the company closed the song.
They drifted away, broke up into
couples and groups, while Harold
Russell, affecting to turn over some
music, said in low voice:
"Can we indeed be as in Auld Lang
Syne, Effio? Gan you forgive me?"
For answer she slowly turned the
ring upon her finger until he recog-
nized the device he had chosen for
her twelve years before.
mamma, MAY Marshall whispered,
edo you see Aunt Effie dancing with
Mr. Russell? 1 do not see one young
couple SO handsome and distinguished
looking as they are"
A sudden memory flashed over Mrs.
Marshall.
"The last time Efiie wore that vio-
let silk" she thought, "she danced
with Harold Russell, and the next
thing we heard of him he was on his
way to China. remember now, Ef1ie
soon after began to withdraw from
society. 1 wonder"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
A Novelty Safety Boiler.

A French engineer, nj. Chatenel,
has invented safety boiler of novel
character. The boiler consists OF
nest of horizontal tubes placed over
tbe furnace Into this nest water IS
injected in the form of spray, under
which conditions it is instantaneously
eyaporated and superheateed. "Solid
water is never admitted to the tubes.
The eyaporated power of the boiler is
remarkable, and the tubes do not burn
out.-Engineer.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
The Best SmOkeless Powder.

1t is reported that the military ex-
perts have decided that sample of
smokoless powder, with which they
were experimenting Saturday at the
Iudian Head proving ground, is the
best that they have seen SO far. 1t IS
called the Leonard nitroglycerine
smokeless powder, and is manufact-
urcd by an American company. With
eighty five pounds Of the powder be-
hind 250-pound projectile IN an
eight inch gun, the enormous muzzle
velocity of 2650 feet per second was
secured with chamber pressure OF
only IA. 8 tons. With the best brown
hexagonal powder, the regular powder
of the service, under similar conditions
the muzzle velocity secured is 2l0o
feet with fifteen tons pressure. The
keeping qualities of this powder have
vet to be determined. 1t has been
found that in the naval service, where
vessels make long cruises frequently
in tropical ATTITUDES, powders com
posed in part of nitroglycerine are
subject to rapid deterioration. The
makers of this powder claim that 1t
will keep perfectly for an indefinite
time, and if the claim provo true, the
United States has better powder
than any of the European powers
New Orleans Picayune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never give fattening animals moro
food than they can eat up clean.
Too much rich, soft food when
fowls are confined is one Of the chief
causes of infertile eggs.
The French have discovered thas
veriety in the bill Of fare of the mitch
COW means health, vigor and profit.
Mich COWS should be encouraged to
drink plenty of water in warm wealth
er by providing it for them, fresh aud
cool.
He who plants melon patch too
near the public highway can scarcely
be regarded as promoter Of public
morals.
Goal ashes worked into stiff clay
soil make it more pliable and easily
cultivated. Wood ashes help the soil
to retain moisture
A few extra dollars spent for
choice pure-bred boar will have tell
ing effect upon all the hogs you raise
for the NEXT twenty years.
There is nothing superior to com
mon land plaster for absorbing and
holding stable odora Dry and finely
pulverized road dust is good.
No animal Will thrive if overfed.
1t will seem to gain rapidly for awhile.
but, sooner or latter, the digestive
organs become impaired and disease
results.
Market gardeners dig up the rhu-
barb roots in the fall and place them
in cellar or greenhouse. The shoots
are forced and are ready to be mar
keted very early.
The Massachusetts Experiment Sta
ton made On experiment in feeding
skim milk to calves and pigs. The re-
suit showed that it was equivalent to
selling milk at thirty-five cents hun
dred.
Raspberry canes may as well be cut
away as soon rs the fruit is gone to
make room for the new shoots. To
make the raspberries branch out, top
the young canes when about three
feet high,
The best way to checkmate low
prices for feed stuffs, says writer, Is
to keep good stock to eat them. 1t Is
bad policy for the farmer to do the
hard work and let the commercial
feeder make all the profit.
If there are dogs about put wide
awake COW or two in the sheep pen
with the sheep at night. If the COW
has a young calf she will do especially
faithful service. A billy goat would
do the business pretty WELL
One dairyman has reached the con-
clusion that no self-respecting COW will
pay more for her feed and care than it
is worth. Her milk is her capital, and
if you get it you must pay for it, and
you get what you pay for and no more.
If you haven't raised corn enough
to fill that new silo-and it takes lot
of it-cider pumice can be packed in.
II is well worth the trouble of hauling
especially if made by the old process
which leaves behind some OF the
juice.
The young steers are the ones that
pay. They should be well bred, so as
to grow rapidly. There is no neces-
sity for keeping steer longer than
when it is three years old. The great
est gain in weight is when they are
young.
Now is the time to think about what
you will do with your boys IN the
way of education III they are to re-
main on the farm and follow the call
ing of their father, will they be any
worse off by reason of scientific
training?
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-10-25
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The sense of touch is drllest on the
back.
Musical vibration will cause high
explosives to go off.
The meat of animals which have
been bled to death keeps the best.
There is sufficient energy latent In
cubic foot of air to kill q regi-
ment.
An electric van for parcel delivery
is now working in London, and is said
to be cheaper than horse power.
Lunar halos are sometimes large
and sometimes small, because they are
formed at different heights in the air.
Bodies of moths are covered with
thick down because the insects require
protection from the dampness OF the
night
Silver furnishes when exposed to the
light because of the actinic or chemi-
cal property possessed by the rays Of
the sun.
A burning gas jet is unhealthy In
bed chamber, as one gas light gdvds
out as much carbonic gas a. two
sleepers
The eyeball is white because the
blood vessels that feed It's substance
are SO small that they do not sdmiS the
red corpuscles.
An object which weighs one thou
sand pounds at the sea level would
weigh two pounds less on mountain
four feet high.
The chemical composition Of the
epidermis of the heel Is nearly the
same as that Of the matter Of nails,
horns and hoofs
White clothing is cool because II
reflects the heat Of the sun; black
clothing is warm because 1t absorbs
both heat and light.
Swallows fly low before rain be-
cause the insects they pursue are then
nearer the ground to escape the mois-
ture of the upper air.
Spontaneous combustion occurs IN
many substances because during fer
mentation heat is evolved and in8am-
mable gases are engendered.
Professor Campbell Of Lick Obser-
vatory, California, has demonstrated
with the spectroscope that the planet
Mars presents no evidence Of having an
atmosphere. Thus popular fsnoies
concerning that planet are incorrect
Two men at work on an iron ship at
the Norfolk (va.) navy yard we're
killed by electricity recently, though
there was no visible lightning flash.
The ship acted as condenser and
conductor, and poured the current
through the men, who were standing
in water.
Electric melting of metals, notably
cast iron and steel, as produced by o
new German process, is said to have
some very great advantages. In cru
cible steel the new process shows an
economy of fuel of more than half.
which for metal VIII ch is difficult of
fusion is favorable result. Iron OBJ
tanned this way from the ores is very
pure.