Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-31

when touched, but blooms not again
though watered with tears.
MEN spend their lives in the service OF
their passions, instead of employing
their passions in the service of their
lives.
NEITHER length of acquaintance. mu-
tual secrecies, nor height of benefits, can
bind vicious heart; no man being good
to others that is not good to himself.
THE end of learning is to know God.
and out of that knowledge TO love him,
and to initiate him, as we may the near
est, by possessing our souls of true vir-
tue.
THERE is a Sunday conscience, as well
as Sunday coat: and those who make
religion a secondary concern put the coat
and conscience carefully by to put on
only once a week.
IT is generally known that he who
expects much will be often disappoint-
ed; yet disappointment seldom cures us
of expectation, or has any other effect
than that of producing a moral sentence
or peeviSh exclamation.
CHARITY should never be brought
down to the level of amusement. 1t
should be looked upon as a duty, and as
a sacred one that is given to us all, poor
or rich, to be done to the best of our
ability and means.
THERE is a sanctity in suffering when
meekly borne. Our duty, though set
about by thorns, may still be made a
staff, supporting even while it tOrtures.
Cast it away, and, like the prophets
wand, it changes to snake.
HE that easily believes rumorS has
the principle within him to augment ru-
mors. 1t is strange to see the ravenous
appetite with which some devourers of
character and happiness fix upon the
sides of the innocent and unfortunate.
TIE first years of man must make
provision for the last. He that never
thinks can never be wise. Perpetual
levity must end in ignorance; and in
temperance, though it may fire the spirits
for an hour, will make life short or mis-
cradle.
TIE art of spreading lies may be COM
pared to the art of pin-making. There
is usually some truth, which 1 call the
wire; as this passes from hand to hand,
one gives it a polish, another point,
others make and put On the head, and at
last the pin is completed.
No MANS spirits were ever hurt by
doing his duty; on the contrary, one good
action, one temptation resisted and over
come, one sacrifice of desire or interest,
for conscience'S sake, will prove cor
dial for weak and low spirits, far be-
yond what either indulgence or diver
sion or company can do for them.
THEY that have read about everything
are thought to understand everything
too; but it is not always so. Reading
furnishes the mind with the materials
of knowledge; it is thinking that makes
what we read ours. We are of the ru-
minating kind, and it is not enough to
cram ourselves with great load of col
lections-we most chew them over
again.
LET not mistakes or wrong directions,
of which every man, in his studies and
elsewhere, falls into many, discourage
you. There is precious instruction to
be got by finding that we are wrong.
Let man try faithfully, manfully, to be
right, he will daily grow more and more
right. 1t is at the bottom the condition
on which all men have to cultivate them
selves.
NOTHING truly precious swims help
lessly in the great wake of Gods clear
method, but every part of the man can
be, and therefore strives to be abreast
of the other The mountains follow the
earth, the air has claSped the mountains,
and daylight and starlight stream for
ward entangled in the air. Clutching
for dear life to each other, all solid and
tenuous things describe the great inva-
riable motion, and God is in the mani
foldness, drenching it with uniformity. |
In regard to the effect of the passage
of the Mills bill on the price of wool,
BrGdStreet'S, recognized authority in
statistical and trade matters, SAYS
Careful estimates of the probable eff |
feet on prices of the remission of the |
duty on imported wool have been made
Ixr n 1irrr
opinion appears to be that the general
decline from present values would be
from five to six cents pound. 1t is as
serted confidently by some dealers that |
the removal of the duty would not have |
any effect on Texas and California wool,
because they believe that even if there
were no duty no foreign wool could
come into direct competition with these
selections at their present low values.
This is, no doubt, very conservative
of the depressing effect of free
wool. But accepting this as the mini
mum, five cents pound taken off the
present low price of wool would effectu-
ally destroy all the profit in wool raising
and ruin the sheep industry of all the
Eastern States. Texas and California
might not feel the force of foreign COM
petition so severely because of the diff
ferent and cheaper conditions under
which wool is raised there, but to sheep
raisers of all the older and more thickly
States, such reduction would
be disastrous. Farmers of Ohio, this is
what the Democratic party is trying to
effect through the free trade Mills bill.
-Cleceld1ld Leader.