Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-27

flowers along waste places and lead
vines to cover barren heaps.
We are apt to forget the main bust
ness of life until vain repentance re-
minds us of it at the wrong end.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THOSE who endeavor to initiate us we
like much better than those who try tc
equal u.s. Imitation is sign of esteem
but competition of envy.
LIKE most garments, everything in
life has right and wrong side. You
can take any joy,and by turning it round
find trouble on the other side.
In marriage, prefer the person before
wealth, virtue before beauty, and the
mind before the body; and then you
have a wife, friend and a companion.
Who is honored? He who pursues
the even tenor of his way. Who is
good? He who has the fear of God be-
fore him. How easy then to be honored
and good.
A GIFT-its kind, its value and ap-
pearance, the silence or the pomp that
attends it, the styles in which it reaches
you, may decide the dignity or vulgar
ity of the giver.
1T is an excellent rule to be observed
in all disputes that men should give soft
words and hard arguments; that they
should not so much strive to vex as to
convince an opponent.
GENIUS is supposed to be a power of
producing excellences which are out OF
the reach of the rules of art-a power
which no precepts can teach, and which
no industry can acquire.
1T is best to strive to cultivate an in
terest in simple, innocent and inexpen-
sive pleasures. We may thus aid in diff
fusing that spirit of contentment which
is of itself rich and permanent pos
session.
If the power to do hard work is not
talent, it is the best possible substitute
for it. Things don't turn up in this
world till somebody turns them up. A
pound of pluck is worth ton of luck.
You may follow luck to ruin, but never
to success.
EXERCISE, to be beneficial, must be
enjoyable. The more enjoyable it is, the
more good it will do Thus, light cheer
full talk, with merriment and laughter,
has always been known, from time i'm
memorial, to be the best thing after a
hearty meal.
If you want knowledge, you must
toll for it; if food, you must toll for it;
and if pleasure, you must toll for it.
Toll is the law. Pleasure comes through
toll, and not by self-indulgence and in
dolence. When one gets to love work,
his life is happy one.
ASK questions and many questions,
and leave nothing till you are thorough
ly informed of it, but be careful of ask
ing only proper questions. Such ques-
tions are far from being ill-bred, or
troublesome to those of whom you ask
them On the contrary they are tacit
compliment to their knowledge, and peo-
pie have better opinion of young
man when he seems desirous to be in
formed.
WITH all that is justly said about the
virtue of contentment, there is one spe-
cies of it that lies like worm at the
core of all human progress. 1t is that
which renders a man satisfied with his
own achievements, content to remain
where he is in the different spheres of
activity or thought or usefulness, in
stead of ascending into others which are
open to him, and for which he may be
fitted.
THE impulse that strives to avoid or
to resent censure, criticism, or contra
diction is one which hinders self-im-
provement, while it builds up a barrier
against future benefits of the same kind.
Probably it is also the cause of much
dissimulation in mems intercourse
Friends who have corrected or differed
from them will refrain from doing so
again if they find it has given offense,
and many persons will give insincere
praise and appear to agree with ones
opinions if they find that it gives pleas
ure to the hearer
INSTEAD of supposing that every to-
morrow will be as to-day, we should bear
in mind the great likelihood that it may
be quite different, and, thus remember
ing, we shall not be utterly dazed and
bewildered if a change comes. This
will lead Us also to reflect upon the
needed qualities for such emergencies,
on the faculties to be then called up.
and the wisdom that will then be re-
quired. The foe openly faced loses half
his terrors, and the changes frankly ad-
mitted to he possible will lose their pow
er to overwhelm us.
THE mechanic, sir, is Gods nobleman.
What have mechanics not done? Have
they not opened the secret chambers of
the mighty deep, and extracted its
treasures and made the raging pillows
their highway, on which they ride as on
tame steed? Are not the elements of
fire and water chained to the crank, and
at the mechanics bidding compelled to
turn it? Have not the mechanics open
ed the bowels of the earth, and made
the products contribute to their wants?
The forked lightning is their plaything,
and they ride triumphantly on the wings
of the mighty winds. To the wise they
are floodgates of knowledge, and the
kings and queens are decorated with
their handy work.