Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-02
Choice Misfelanlu.
They who sup with the devil have
need of a long spoon. t..- EE-L ~

They who sup with the devil have
need of long spoon. s..- EE-L q
The plainest and best instructions are
of no avail, unless their be an under
standing heart to receive them.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken
in vain. 1t is seed which, even when
dropped by chance, springs up flower.
Prejudice turks in hidden corner of all
minds over which knowledge has not
shed its penetrating light, and prejudice
is the natural foe of magnanimity.
Every man is tasked to make his life,
even in its details, worthy of the con-
temptation of his most elevated and
critical hour.[-Thoreau
A white garment appears worse with
slight soiling than do eolored garments
when much soiled; SO little fault in a
good man. attracts more attention than
great offences in bad men.
1t is much easier to get money than to
get Justice. The world is apt to resent,
as wrong done to its self-esteem, that
you should claim anything as right.
1t prefers to bestow, as a charity, that
you properly, perhaps, can regard only
as debt.
Take up the learned mans skull, and
what is the difference between that and
the skull of the merest pauper that
scarcely knew his letters? Like impal-
pable power, they both crumble down
iato the same element.
To die IN respectable position, what
is the use oft? What are few more
plumes on the hearse, or longer line of
mourning coaches? Will these ease the
miseries of hell ? ALI friends, you have
to die, and why not make ready for the
ineyitable?fa --sftEa -s.
If thou workest at that which is be-
fore thee, following reason seriously,
vigorously, calmly, without allowing
anything else to distract thee,-fearing
nothing, but satisfied with thy present
activity according to nature, and with
heroic truth in every word and sound
which thou interest, thou wilt live hap
py.l-Marcus Aurelius Antonius.
To make or word our act sublime, we
must make it real. 1t is our system that
counts, not the single word or support-
ed action. Use what language you will,
you can never say anything but what
you are. What l am, and what think
is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts,
to hold it back. What L am has been
secretely conveyed from me to another,
whilst was vainly making up my mind
to tell him it. He has heard from me
what never spoke. e.[-Emerson.
MIDNIGHT.-Therei is something beau
tifulandsublime in the hush of midnight.
The myriad of quiet sleepers, laying
down their life burden, insensible alike
to joy or sorrow; helpless alike the
strong man as well as the infant; and
over all the sleepless Eye, which, since
the world began, has never lost sight of
one pillowed head. Thoughts like these
come to US in the wakeful night-hours,
with an almost painful intensity. Then
eternity seems real, and every life a
bauble. But morning comes and the stir
and hum of life chase them away, as the
dewdrops, which, like these thoughts,
perform their reviving mission ere they
depart.
THE INFLUENCE OF MUslC.-Luther,
in his writings, is frequently andk fer
vently thankful for being enriched
with love of music. He says: ut
is one of the fairest and most glorious
gifts ofGod' to which Satan is Bit
ter enemy for it removes feom the
heart the weight of sorrow, and the
fascination of evil thoughts. Music is
a kind and gentle discipline it refines
the passions, and improves the under
ftanding. Those who love music are
honest and gentle in their tempers. I"
This latter assertion is not true in these
days of professional musicians; but
then, those who live by music do not
necessarily love it, so that Luther may
be correct after all.