Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21

that which conduces the most surely to
our lasting happiness and true glory.
Go To your bosom, knock there and
ask your heart what it doth know that
is like my brothers fault; if it confess a
natural outlines, such as he is, let it
not sound a thought upon your tongue
against my brother.
WE do not marvel at the sunrise of a
JOY, only at its sunset! Then, on the
other hand, we are amazed at the COM
mencement of a sorrow-storm, but that
it should go off in gentle showers we
think quite natural.
FRIENDSHIP is more firmly secured by
lenity toward failings than by attach
ment to excellencies. The former is
valued as a kindness which cannot be
claimed; the latter is exacted as the pay
ment of debt to merit.
WHEN you descant on the faults of
others, consider whether you be not
guilty of the same. To gain knowledge
of ourselves, the best way is to con-
vert the imperfectionS of others into a
mirror for discovering our own.
IF thou seest anything in thyself which
may make thee proud, look little furth-
er and thou shalt find enough to hum
BILE thee; if thou be wise, view the pea
cock feathers with his feet, and weigh
thy best parts with thy imperfections.
WE would ratheKztlo anything than
acknowledge the merit of another if we
can help it. We cannot bear superior
or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to
prevail over truth, for the malice of
mankind, thrown into the scale, gives
the casting weight.
A DULL axe never loves grindstOnes,
| but keen workman does; and he puts
his tool on them in order that it may be
sharp. And men do not like grinding;
but they are dull for the purposes which
| God designs to work out with them,
and therefore he is grinding them.
NEVER let us be discouraged with
ourselves. 1t is not when we are con-
scious of our faults that we are the
most wicked; on the contrary, we are
less so. We see by brighter light; and
let us remember for our consolation, that
we never perceive our sins till we be-
gin to cure them.
No ONE can have the strength to take
long walks and hard climbs who does not
put forth in active efforts from time to
time whatever force he has. No one
has the strength to endure unusual toll
and hardship who has not struggled
manfully in past conflicts. Bodily idle
ness inevitably results in bodily weak
ness.
THERE is tonic in the things that men
do not love to hear; and there is damna-
ton in the things that wicked men love
to hear. Free speech is to great peo-
pie what winds are to oceans and mala-
rial regions, which watt away the ele-
ments of disease and bring new ele
ments of health. And where free speech
is stopped miaSma is bred, and death
comes fast.
OF all literary exercitations, whether
designed for the use or entertainment of
the world, there are none of so much i'm
portance, or so Immediately our concern, |
as those which let us into the knowl- |
edge of our own nature. Others may
exercise the understanding or amuse the |
imagination; but these only can improve
the heart and form the human mind to
wisdom.
IN order to Judge of the inside of 9TH
ers, study your own; for men in general
are very much alike, and though one
has one prevailing passion, and another
has another, yet their operations are
much the same; and whatever engages |
or digusts; pleases or offends you in 9TH
ers will, changing conditions, engage,
disgust, please or offend in others.
CHEAP POTATOES FROM EUROPE.
New York Tribune.
The recent large arrivals of potatoes
upon transatlantic passenger steamers,
which bring them over practically as bal
last, has occasioned no little surprise in
the shipping world, as well as among
dealers of farm produce. A steamer of
the National Line arrived here few
days ago with 1000 barrels of potatoes,
and upon inquiry it was found that the
freight paid upon them was hardly
enough to cover the expense of putting
them into the vessel, to say nothing of
the transportation of them for 5000
miles; and, too, they were landed here at
a less price than potatoes brought from
Newfoundland, which, after payment of
the import duty of Is cents bushel, are
cheaper than the home product. This
new departure of bringing potatoes from
Europe, together with the proposition in
the Mills free trade bill entirely to re-
move the duty from potatoes, is causing
alarm to everybody excepting the foreign
growers and the foreign ship owners.
The receipts of potatoes from Great
Britain, since October l last up to Satur-
day, were 3,41l $50 bushels, against 106,-
047 for the same period a year ago.
There also came 240,249 bushels from
the Continent, against 1882 bushels a
year ago. This means an attack upon
the American farmer, and more effect
I've OHe upon Ills IHuuSIly IL Cne uuIy
should be entirely removed, as he would
then find it useless to cultivate his un-
profitable lands, but the Democratic Con-
gress is determined to foster the foreign
producer and the foreign capitalists in
preference to the American industries.
G.S. Palmer, a produce merchant, who
has studied the question thoroughly, said
on Saturday: "To remove the present
duty of Is cents per bushel would un-
doubtedly so flood the market with
foreign potatoes that American pro-
ducers could raise them only at loss to
themselves. The present duty was an
equitable one and it should not be made
higher than it is at present, because in l