Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-12-12
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Think of ease, but work Oh.
Banquet not upon borrowing.
Be not proud even of well doing.
Be willing to do well without praise.
Be more ready to hear than to speak.
He who Injuries another, Injuries him.
self.
Wise ne hesitate; only lis are GER
tain.
To delight in eensure, is sp.enetie
pride.
Honest poverty is better than wealthy
fraud.
1t is a poor soil that yields nothing to
culture.
They need much whom nothing will
content.
Use the means, and God will give the
blessing.
Through earthly business bear heav-
onward mind.
He that would advance should not
look backward.
Humility seeks neither the first place
nor the last word.
In order to Judge another's feelings,
remember your own.
In all thy undertakings, consider the
motive and the end.
The maintaining OF one vice costeth
more than six virtues.
The most manifest sign of wisdom is
continued cheerfulness.
Hasty resolutions are more easily
formed than performed.
He is an adept in language, who ney-
er deviates from the truth.
The first lesson in dyspepsia is a sur
prise to him who thinks he knows ey-
erything.
1t takes money to be fashionable. The
poor man who gets into the swim is liza
BILE to get out of his depth.
NERVOUS ENERGY IN HORSES.
Mr.. II. G. Merwin treats of the Amer
lean trotter in the Atlantic Monthly.
He says:
There is one respect in which all the
most distinguished trotters have resem-
bled each other, and that is in their ner-
vous energy, in high spirit and courage.
That fame which the Washington Hol-
low horseman detected in the eye of
Flora Temple came out afterward in the
resOlute burst of speed with which she
finished her fast miles. Dexter was
represented as being "chOck full of fire
and deviltry," and capable of jumping
like cat. Hiram Woodruff spoke of
his wicked head" Goldsmith Maid
had strong will of her own, and the
excitement she betrayed on the eve of
race showed how fine was her organiZa-
tion. ''She would stand quietly enough"
says her driver, "while being hitehed to
the sulky, although she had been previ-
Ously kicking and plunging in her stall,
but she would shake and tremble
until | have heard her feet make the
same noise against the hard ground that
a persons teeth will make when the
body is suddenly chilled; that is, her
feet actually chartered on the ground.
The instant | would get into the sulky
all this would pass away, and she would
start in walk for the track as sober as
any old horse you ever saw" Rarus
was so nervous that he never could
have been driven with safety on the
road, and his courage was of the finest
temper. st. Julian was exceedingly
high strung, and in hands less patient
and discreet than those of his trainer
might never have been subGued to the
purpose of racing. Jay-Eye-See, though
| know less of his personal history, is
for the pluck he showed on
his last quarters Of his hard miles, and
Maud 5. is the most spirited, the most
and at the same time the
gentleSt of animals
This nervous energy is the result of
generations of breeding, and while it in
spires speed, calls for extra care and at
tention. Once in great while a dull
mettled horse has speed, but the great
majority depend upon their nervous en-
ergies to carry them along. A we'll
bred trotter scents the battle from afar,
and goes into the contest with readi-
ness that shows not only willing spirit,
put desire for the fray. In scoring,
he horse will often give evidence of as
much intelligence as its owner, swing
ng into line, taking the right position,
md showing, by every movement, its
owe of the contest. The desire to trot
las been secured by breeding, and is the
eSult of nervous energy stored through
generations and strengthened by educa-
ion and feeding"