Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-28
Chat by the Way.
From the New York Herald.

FROM the New OK herald.
Ignorance of the truth is the source
whence proceed the greatest errors.
The secret which you never tell is the
only one that is absolutely safe.
The man who does not help us at the
right moment does not help us at all
Some one said that there is no pleas
ure that can equal that of going to
church.
Of all the colors which grace the paint
er's palette the hardest one to manage is
dun.
He who has true friend has great
riches; he who has a false friend is
hopelesly in debt.
There is happiness enough in the
world for all of us. The chief difficulty
is IN getting our share of it.
A blow is hard thing to bear, gener-
ally, but there are certain persons in the
the world who strike you agreeably.
1t does not follow that man will at
last learn to keep his word because he
finds that nobody will take it.
The man who conposes a fine speech
in order to shame his neighbOr ought
first to recite it before a mirror, and so
shame himself.
A kind word is worth sometimes more
than dollar. And yet if the exchange
could be made at par everybody would
make business of saying kind words
and so their kindness would be de-
strOyed.
| Events are only the winged shuttles
which from one side of the loom of life
to the other, bearing the many colOred
threads out of which the fabric of our
characters is made.
These lines are too beautiful to be for
gotten
Be still, sad heart; cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining;
Thy fate is but the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days be dark and dreary.
Take away the power to find fault and
you would leave nothing for certain per-
sons to do. Byron in one of his fitful
moods was reading Job. His attention
was arrested by the words. "Why should
a living man complaint" and he an
swered the question in gruff tones by
saying, simply because dead men can't,
| suppose" UncOnsciOuSly to them
selves, perhaps, to find fault occupies
more time and attention in most mems
lives than they are willing to admit.
Our ideas of religion are very various.
1t is said to supply every need. We
have heard preachers elOquently plead
this fact in its favor There is not, they
tell us, human i'll in all the long cata-
logue of ills which it will not effectual-
| 1,ro hot hot 4haca
words should sometimes be taken liter
ally. as, for example-A poor woman
who had attended several combinations,
was at last noticed by the bishop, who
thought it very strange that there shO'd
be at least half a dozen old ladies in the
world looking so exactly alike and all
seeking confirmation. So one day he
detained her and said, "My friend,
haven't seen you before?" She hum
bly, curtsied and replied. with the most
charming innocence, "Yes, your Lord
ship: find it good for the rheumatic,
and as have it bad get confirmed as
often as l can"
There is a certain class men in the
!. world who say all sorts of mean things
about you when you are absent and all
kinds of pleasant things about you when
you are present. They are unlike any
of the other vermin which lavish ma
ture has produced. Even a mosquito
would as soon light on the top of your
nose, right in front of your eyes, as on
) the bald place at the back of your head,
and the noble wasp or reused hornet
wastes no time in buZZins about the
rear, but comes in a straight line for the
first vulnerable spot. 1t is reserved fOr
the human stinger to be cautiOus-hence,
perhaps, his name of backbiter. Mark
Lemon has left hehind him four lines
which aptly describe all these descend
ants of Uriah Heep:-
No, Varus hates thing that's base;
own, indeed, he's got knack
Of tiattering people to their face,
But. scOrns to do t behind their back.