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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Volcanic Dust.

Volcanic dust is SO light that it will
float in the air for long time, and
may often be carried to distance
that in tho light of our ordinary
knowledge seems Incredible. Passen.
gers on a ship nearly 900 miles from
n volcano found dust that had been
carried through the air by currents,
and had settled on the vessel in sufIi.
Gent quantity to be easily gathered
and examined. Microscopic investi-
cation fixed the substance as positive
ly volcanic. 1t is somewhat in the
nature of glass or a vitrified substance
very strongly resembling it. In Tex.
as, Nebraska and various parts of the
West, there are enormous deposits Of
volcanic dust. Just where this came
from is q source of much speculation,
and scientists are trying to fix the To-
cnlity whence it proceeded. or course,
1T is not impossible that there may
have been volcanoes in some portions
of our land, but that the site of them
is obscured by ordinary earth, vege.
table growth and other substances
which have resolved themselves into
the usual soil OF such localities. Pop.
ular Science News
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
4 Rnssinn DnnicI.

Not long ago n Russian Judge was
called upon to decide a knotty point
relating TO a promis1ory note, which
the debtor had made payable on est.
Henry's Day" Now, 1t happens that
there is no such saints day In tho
Orthodox Russian calendar. Hence,
how could the court give judgment on
a bond IN which it could not be said
that the debtor had made default?
Yet justice evidently required that tho
lender of the money should be repaid.
Then it occurred to the Judge, who
had n share Of the shrewdness of San
cho Panza or the wit Of Joe Miller,
that the festival OF Cali Saints" must
necessarily include the dubious saint
IN question, and he gave judgment
accordingly for payment on that day.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
THE PRISONER,

a mans skull Is his lifelong Jail;
Behind its prison bars,
From its windows, doth the soul
Peep Mt the earth and stars;
But unlike iails of wood or stone,
lis prisoner ever dwells alone.
Though through It's front doors perfume
gales
Are blown from glens of glNdncss,
Ana through its back doors music strains
Roll in waves OF madness,
And though he hear aud need each tone,
The prisoner still must dwell alone.
Though past the windows OF the Jail
Sweep scenes OF solemn splendor.
And through the doors float hymns OF joy,
Or dirges deep and tender,
The prisoner hears the mirth aud moan.
But In his jail he dwo,ls alone.
No lover ever knows tho soul.
He loves in all its sweetness;
The fullest love, however strong,
Is marred by incompleteness;
No heart is ever fully known,
The prisoner ever dwells alone.
g. w. Foss, in WhiGrs from Wild Meadows
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
LEGEND OF rHE blush eosE

n LEGEND OF THE blush ROSE
Dan Cupid was roaming garden one day
his young heart was merry, his spirits wer,
gay;
He lay meath the trees
Aud talked with the bees,
His yellow locks kissed by the soft summe,
breeze.
The proud lily bent tho fair youngster "a
greet.
Vhe iessamine offered her fragrance so sweet
He pillowed his head
In n violet bed,
by the worshlpine flowers his vanity fed.
Tho modest white rose hung her head II
despair.
And murmured, unconscious that she wa,
80 fair,
"Ah, were 50 bright
As others, then might
Some kind ray of love illumine my night"
Sly Cupid, o'erhearlng her whispered com.
plant,
Arose and approached, while the flower
grew faint;
Then he pressed-oh, the bliss!-
On her petals kiss
She blushed, and still bushes there, think.
ing of this.
H @. Laughlin. in Ladies Home Journal
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
4 Robber.pronf Car

A robber.proof car is on exhibition
at 81. Joseph, Mo. il has made n IA
vorable impression on railroad men.
The object Of the invention is to pro-
ducc defensive mechanism for ex-
press cars and engine cabs. Guns aro
arranged to bo thrown in and ont Of
position in the form of n battery
against robbers, TO be discharged bv
unseen operators inside the cars or
engine cabs. Provision is also made
for safety appliances for the guns
when out of use, for an automatic
covering and uncovering OF the port
holes, a proper reflection Of tho light
and suitable sight openings. IL is
said the invention will be adopted by
the Burlington Road. New York Sun.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07

T. O. Zachritz, of Tucson, Arizona.
is a. the Cochran. Speaking OF he
Territory, he said "1t is the most
wonderful country on earth. It has
the only petrifed forest, the only pet.
rifying spring where anything in the
vegetable line can be turned TO stone ::
is the habitat of the CHA monster, the
best cattle country and richest in
archaeological and anthropological
curiosities. The latest has Just been
unearthcd ut Montezuma Wells, con
sistiug Of tho remains of people of
pigmy race, wholly unlike anytime
over yet discovered. They AVERAGE
but three feet tall, we're we'll formed
and understood the art OF ombalming
as we'll rs the Egyptians did. A great
many OF them ore still most excellent.
~ preserved, and the mummies are
better prepared than those OF Egypt.
There arc a great many relics of the
Aztecs in Arizona, but this race evi.
IDENTIFY occupied the country prior TO
tho time Of the Azlecs. - Washington
Star,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Grandenr of Nntnre,s Fnrcn.

The grandeur Of natures forces may
be understood when one of the glaciers
OF Disco Bay, Greenland, is studied.
Holland estimated that it had thick
ness of 800 feet, with a breadth of
Is, 400 feet and was found to be NOV
ing at the rate of forty-seven feet per
diem. cat this rate three hundred
billion cubic feet of ice would be sent
of of this glacier in n single day.
And this Disco Bay glacier was only
one of the many. Rink estimates that
on the west coust of Greenland there
are 10000 square miles of territory,
all contributing their supply of ice,
and consequently the steady process.
sion of iccJergs found in this part Of
tho world.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Tic BrOalMaY mrnnnrr. .

The autocrat of the police force is
the officer on q Broadway crossing.
says the New York correspondent Of
the Detroit Free Press. Up goes his
right hand, aud every vehicle for half
q block either way comes to q sudden
stop, while the crowd of a dozen or
twenty pedestrians hurry across. If
n cab driver is new at the business
he'll try 10 sneak mp on the officer or
pass along the curb stone. Then there
IS signal which you may fail 10 catch
"A second officer appears from some.
wherc-away goes cab aud driver, and
II Jchu gets out of it for ten-dollar
bill he's n lucky man. The Broadway
policeman is King Of the rond. He
says stop, and every wheel ceases 60
turn; he says go ahead, and the rush
is ON again. Ho seldom smiles and
never Jokes.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Not n Bad Idea

gentleman once asked lawyer
what be would do provided be had
loaned man $500, and the man had
left the country without sending any
acknowledgement.
Why, that's simple just write him
10 send an acknowledgment for the
$4,000 you lent him, and he will
doubtless reply stating it was only
$500. That will suffice for a receipt
and YOU can proceed against him u
necessary"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Misfortune That Amuses.

"There are misfortunes so intensely
funny that no one cannot help laugh.
ing even though theymaY be serious"
said j. ID. Lynch at the METROPOLITAN.
Il went bee hunting in Western North
Carolina last season. The tree had
been located, and it was but a short
distance from the cabin of the man
who found it. We went to the tree.
which was very large one, and hol.
low to the base. 1t was so large that
the discoverer thought he knew a
better way to get the honey than to
cut down thesIee Returning to his
cabin, he secured hatchet, some
thick strips and large nails. He nailed
tue strips on the inside of the tree,
forming n ladder, then climbing up
one step and mailing another, he sue.
ceeded in getting up to where the bees
had stored their honey. We were to
stand below and gather the comb as
he dropped it. One large piece came
down, then there was loud cry OF
pain, and our friend came tumbling
to the bottom, with his head literally
covered with bees. We succeeded in
reseuing him and killing of the bees
by throwing sacks over his head, but
when the fight was over the bee hunt
er presented an appearance that
makes me laugh whenever / think OF
IT. Washington Star.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Strange Legislation.

"The straDgest thing have ever
known in legislation, said T. c..
Walker, of San Jose, CAL, at the
Riggs. sis the defeat of Santa Monica
and San Pedro harbors, OF rather the
defeat OF the first and cutting down
the appropriation for the last named
from $500, 900 to $50, 900. These har-
bors are within few miles of each
other, and Santa Monica is nearer Los
Angeles than San Pedro is. Both we're
provided for in the Rivers and Har-
bors bill, Santa Monica with 80, 800,
600 and San Pedro for $500, 900. The
advocates of San Pedro made a fight
against Santa Monica, saying that they
would rather neither got dollar than
to have Santa Monica made the deep
harbor, although both we're free. The
trouble was that @. p. Huntington's
railroad owned the only line to Santa
Monica, and the fight shows how un-
popular Huntington is with the people
of Southern California. Hence rather
than have him succeed, the representa-
tive citizens of Los Angeles preferred
not to have over $4,000, 600 expended
in their vicinity. The case is without
parallel IN Congress. w Washington
Star.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Only One Mechanic Hnnnro1.

notwithstanding Great Britain's
enormous indebtedness TO her me-
chonics, only ono mechanical work
man has ever been honorcd with bur
ial in Westminster Abbey, London,
and that was Graham, the clock
maker. Graham made exact astron.
omy possible by his great improve
ments aud inventions 10 timepieces,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
The Cost of Religion

Both as purchaser of materials and
supplies, and as an employer the
church has important relations to
business. 1t is manifest, therefore,
that the financial affairs of the church
must be on n large scale, when all its
interests are considered. It's expendi.
lures foot up to an aggregate which is
truly enormous. 1t takes SO, 355, 900
annually to pay the bills of the Pro.
testant Episcopal Church S23, SG3, 600
to pay those of the Methodist Episco.
pal Church; nearly SD, 900, 600 for
the expenses and contributions of the
Presbyterian Church (northern) gil. :
673, 900 for those of the Regulnr Bap.
fists, and $40, $3.50, 900 for those of the
Congregational denomination, making
an aggregate of $4,000, 900 every
year contributed by 1O,76s, 600 mem.
bers-an average Of SS.16 per mem
Der. The grand total for all denomi.
nations could hardly be less than
$50, 600, 900, and it might be many
millions larger. Most of this is made
up of voluntary contributions. The
value of church buildinge, lots and
furniture IN 1890 was about $3.50, 900. .
600. 1t is quite probable that it is
now fully $500, 900, OOO.-Dr. II. K.
Carroll, in the Forum.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Charlng Gross.

In reading English history you will
happen across numerous references TO
Charing Cross, but the chances are
You will wonder il the allusion is 70 n
real cross erected ms a memorial or
simply cross roads. Charing Cross
was formerly one of the noted land
marks of Britain. and its history is as
follows: In November of the wear
1921, Good Queen Eleanor" as she
was called by her loyal subjects, was
called to join her husband, who was
then making an expedition into Scot
land. When Eleanor had gotten as
far on her way as Grautham she sick
ened and died. The remains must, of
course, be buried at Westminster, and
the funeral cortege started in that di-
rection. During the time this ROYAL
funeral procession was slowly winding
It's weary way toward the capital thou
sands of people focked to the wnyside
to get glimpse of it. 1t was a great
event in the history of the rural dis
tricts, and they did everything posi-
bic to make the solemn occasion a
memorable one. Wherever the pro.
cession halted for the night or for
other cause the people afterward set
up memorial. One of the longest
stops was made at Charing, and sub
sequently a richly carved memorial
cross was erected on the site of the
camp. This was the Charing Cross
history. 1t stood until 1647. when
the last vestige of it was destroyed
during the Civil Wars of Charles, the
vandals who destroyed the relic claim
ing 1t to be monument of Popish SUI
perstition. Charing Cross as seen to.
day was erected by the Southern Rail-
way Company in the year 1865. st.
Louis Republic.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
DE- or tlo wonaer. on nnirrlnr.

The rapid manner IN which certain
modern churns convert cream into
butter IL one Of the wonders Of the
dorylng NE. Butter can now be made
while the breakfast table is baing laid,
i've or six minutes being all the time
needed TO churn, while in a few more
minutes the butter can be made up
and brouaht b the table.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
Tie Crowd Saw a Railroad smash-Up.

A big crowd of people at Tucson,
Arizona, had the unusual privilege the
other day OF witnessing railroad
smnsh-up of considerable proportions
that had been prearranged, and they
had sufficient notifications of the COM
ing spectacle to be able TO secure
choice positions for seeing the smash.
A section crew was at work at Wallis
station, some thirty miles east of Tue
son, and long gravel train stood on
the track. A coupling link broke, and
thirteen OF the loaded gravel cars
started on avid slide down the grade
toward Tucson. News of the accident
was telegraphed to Tucson, and prep
arations were made for receiving the
runaway. The switches we're set to
run the cars on the side track, and
then to derail them. The news of the
coming smash was spread about, and
in the half hour before it came a big
crowd had gathered. The cars came
into Tucson at n speed estimated at
from fifty-eight to seventy miles an
hour, struck the side track and then
the distractions, and then the air was
filled with gravel, chr wheels, and
splinters. All the cars were badly
wrecked, and the station yard was
badly torn up. New York Sun.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07
A PERMANENT CURE,

% ETER PATTERSON was
~ Is lll-at least he thought
~ so-and depressed; he
'0o9NSST had u headache and he
9N ~ hated the dusty streets,
IN which the summer
~ 81 heat burnt and the
% summer sun shone be.
!ore the green leayes had draped the
trees and potted geraniums, which
mad come to be SO blessedlv popular
In New York, lent their summer fresh
ness.
What shall do, doctor?" he soiJ
lou say nothing ails me, but / can
tell what my feelings are better than
you can. know [ shall be down with
something soon. rode in car with
II half dozen dirty children the other
'ay-to the smallpox hospital, [
haven't doubt-very re and nasty
looking, all of them and while I was
buying something in n store down
broadway the other day horrid old
woman begged of me because her hus-
D"nd was sick with typhoid fever. No
DOUBT j have caught both diseases.
and It's the complication that puzzles
you. Couldn't relish my coffee this
morning; left my milk toast nm
touched. Hateful life, that of n
inachelor at hotel. Oh, dear mer'
why don't you marry, then?" said
the doctor
They need so much counting. said
patterson. "YOu spend six months
or So Mt least, dangling at woman's
apron strings You must go to the
theatre and opera If she is gay, and to
church II she Is pious. At fifty man
lkes his slippers and dressing-gown
ana chair of an evening. If it was
gust stepping over to the clergyman's
and getting married, putting a ring
on her finger and saying or noddiu@
yes two or three times, why wouldn't
mind it, you know"
An, well, counting is the fun of il
MI, IN my opinion" said the old doc.
Tor, but every one to his taste. And
my advice to You is to get out into the
country"
"Tc another hotel and more mcrcen.
airy waiters" said Mr.. Patterson.
NO" said the doctor; ego to Il
nice, private home. l know one-a
motherly widow lady, who cooks n
DINNER fit tor kim. River before
the house, woods behind it, orchard
10 the lett, kitchen garden to the
right; no fever and ngue; no mos
qultoes. Heavenly! | am going up
there tomorrow, and I'll see if she'll
take you"
Very well, ;" said Mr.. Patterson 81
think will try it."
"And you must drink plenty ofmilk
and eat plenty of nice homo made
bread"
eyes, will, - sail Patterson. over.
Joyed ut least at hearing something
that sounded like prescription. "And
you would advise milk ?"
doctor.
"I'll take a note of it, " said Patter.
son, land if should be very i'll she'll
nurse me.
"5piendidly," said tho doctor, and
went his way.
Mr. Patterson thought the matter
over and thought better of it every
day, and when the little note inform.
ing him that the widow would be will.
ing to lake him in and do for him"
reached him, he had mis- trunk and
portmanteau already packed. and was
ready to start that afternoon. As for
the widow, the doctor had PREPARED
her for her boarder's pec1Iiqrilio,
thus:
Nice fellow socinl; plenty OF
money; thinks him elf ill., but isn't;
ought TO be married told him go. but
be hates the idea OF counting; marry
of some day, no doubt. will Won
have me? Yes Call in clergyman.
but then old bachelors are peculiar
generally.
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Nervousness and PHYSICAL Injuries.

A certain proportion of the cases OF
nervous disease which the physician
sees are due to physical injury. If T.
man be hit on the head with club,
the inevitable result, if the blow be
hard enough, will be break of the
skull, bleeding from the torn vessels
beneath, and crushing of the substance
of the brain itself. If the blow be
lighter, the brain may still be in
jured, but the injury will be less Sc
we're. A blow upon the back may
break the spine and seriously injure
the spinal cord. The injury may be
slight, merely pressure upon a sin.
gle nerve for q few hours, yet that
may cause trouble for weeks. Between
these two extremes the nervous system
may suffer to almost any degree from
injury. In none of these cases need
there be any previous nervous weak
ness or overstrGin; the effect is pure
ly physical. If, therefore, we note in
the neighborhood of Donnybrook
Fair great increase in nervous dis
eases, such increase may be due, not
to the greater demand which the con-
ditions of modern life make upon the
human brain, but to the shillalagh. -
Century.
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ADVERTISING RArKa.

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GIER PATTERSON was
lll-ot least he thought
so-and depressed; he
had a headache and he
hated the dusty streets,
IN which the summer
heat burnt and the
cur,,or 80 -.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-07-07

made his reputation at the bar. Then,
too, Mrs. Muntle did not smile at his
aches and pains and insist that he
must bo perpetually we'll because he
had fresh complexion and dimplee
on his checks. She had savory herb
teas and potions which she produced
wnen he complained of feeling mis-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

1t is claimed that the full capacity
of the mints of the United States for
coming silver is from three to four
million per month and with $3.50 ,000,-
900, gold now in circulation which
would gradually be withdrawn should
the volume of money be expanded
too much, there seems to be no rea-
son for believing that debts would oe
paid in fifty cent dollars under free
coinage.
With this system, with the govern
ment relieved from bonding the
country every few months with inter-
est bearing bonds, and with an as
surance that there would be no fur
Their contraction of the money,people
would not be afraid to make obliga-
tions payable at some future time,
and with the possibility of a little in
crease in the volume of money in Cir
culation. People would, instead of
holding onto their money and credits,
be anxious to invest in property and
enterprises and thus give new life TO
industry, and employment to the
thousands of tramps that infest our
country, and at the same time en-
nance the value of an important pro-
duct of the United States, instead of
establishing a gold standard that will
enhance the value of product, the
greater part of which is owned and
controlled by English capitalists.
OBSERVER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31
To Protect Cd the Treasury.

The bankers of the east have be-
come thoroughly alarmed lest through
the action of the people their occupa-
tion-robbing the public and plumber
ing the treasury vaults of the people
be taken from them. They have
resolved to protect and maintain a
treasury reserve, not required by law,
until after election. j. Pierpont Nor
gan and his associate bankers for the
sum of SlO,0oO,OOO profit on a
fifty million dollar bond
deal, protected the treasury for three
months from the raids of Wall and
Lombard street Jews, and in return
for their protective care obtained
further bonds to the amount of S2l2,-
000,0 900, thus making the total of $262,-
100000. For this protection offered
they after election will demand that
Cleveland and Carlisle issue to them
$500, 100000 interest bearing, non-tax-
able bonds. The way to do this was
left open by the House of representa-
tives in its refusal to take up and
pass the bill from the senate prohibit
| ing the sale of bond without special
enactment of congress. 1t is known
that Secretary Foster and President
Harrison had prepared the plates up
on which these bonds were printed,
and expected to use them to meet the
financial emergency in the treasury
reserve by issuing the first batch Of
bonds issued by Cleveland and Car.
Isle. The gold standard democrats
are no more firmly committed to
this policy than is Mckinley and the
gold standard republicans. They are
all tarred with the same stick.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31
Suicidal Policy.

The intelligent Editor of the San
Francisco Wasp says that free trade
England, which is on gold basis,
has been unusually prosperous during
the last four years. Further, that
the United States, also on gold bas-
is, and provided with a tariff, has
been unusually depressed during the
same period of time. Can the intel
ligent editor mentioned tell US where,
drawing logical deductions from his
statements, the Mckinley argument
of ''high tariff and prosperity" de-
rives its force?
When enragea, "a scorpion, failing
to reach it's enemy, expendsits venom
on itself, and dies. The Wasp, fol,
lowing it's example, jabs its sting into
its own body polite.