Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-20


from indulging to excess.
IT is not so much the length or the
variety of our opportunities as the way
in which we use them that will decide
how much they will benefit US.
To man with disposition bent to-
ward melancholy the choicest of earthly
blessings cannot bring happiness. Over
the contented mind fate has no power
for harm.
If evil doing were the matter of sin
cere concern to every heart that it ought
to be, no mere pity for pain would inter
fere with the Just measures taken to pre-
vent its recurrence.
A PROPER amount of confidence, and
words of encouragement and advice, and
giving him to understand that he is
trusted in many ways, help to make
man of boy long before he is man
in either stature or years.
ALL harsh and hasty judgments tend
to strengthen and perpetuate evil, while
the patience and modesty which wait
for the truth, and the chastity which
gladly emphasizes the good, are the most
efficient weapons against every kind OF
wrong.
ECONOMY is virtue which is needed
everywhere. No matter if persons are
rich or have large incomes, they should
be economical. To waste is wicked.
There are better ways to spend money
and goods than to waste them. 1t is the
poorest use they can be put to.
THE natural tendency of our lower ma
ture is toward idleness; our higher nature
drives us to work. But no man ever at
tanned the habit of work without an eff
fort. If once that effort is slackened,
then the lower nature gains sway by de-
grees and idleness creeps in.
GOOD nature disarms enmity, allays
irritation, stops even the garrulity OF
fault-finding. 1t more than half over
comes envy. A really good-natured
man is the most troublesome morsel that
the malign passions ever attempted to
feed upon. He is the natural superior
of irritable persons.
LIFE is short, considering how much
is to be done in it, how much there is to
be put into it, how much there is to be
won from it; its work requires dispatch
the prompt thought, the decisive will,
the instant deed. The winged hours,
the approaching end, rebuke our david
ling and punish sloth-
IT was a judicious resolution of a
father, as well as most pleasing com
pliment to his wife, when, on being ask
ed what he intended to do with his girls,
he replied: 81 intend to apprentice them
all to their excellent mother, that they
may learn the art of improving time,
and be fitted to become, like her, wives,
mothers, heads of families and useful
members of society,""
LET parents make companions of their
e children; converse with them familiar
ly, put to them questions, answer in
quiries, communicate facts, awaken their
curiosity, explain difficulties, the mean
ing of things, and the reason of things,
and all this in an easy, playful manner
without seeming to impose task, and
they will themselves be astonished at
the progress which they will make.
JUST as the successful gardener pays
as much attention to the quality and
condition of the soil as he does to the
character of the seed he sows, so the
wise teacher needs not only to give good
and sound instruction, but to see to il
that the minds of the learners are in
such state of preparedness that the
knowledge he strives to impart can be
assimilated and developed within them.
IDLENEss is the beginning of almost
every form of i'll, and the idlest man
dashes down the steep to ruin either OF
body and soul, perhaps both. 1t appears
that the best of men, especially oi
youthful men, feel the subtle charm OF
an invitation to laZlness. Look around
over the ranks of the hurtful creature;
who spoil the State, corrupt and sap the
better nature of young men, and dis
grace the name of our race. What are
they all but idlerS pure and simple'
Idleness, idleness, the tap-root of misery
sin, villainy!
MEN of action acted yesterday, act to
day, will act tomorrow. They do TO-
days work before they begin to-mor
rows, but they complete to-day's work
to-day. They act in the living present
and never allow procrastination tC
break through and thieve. Opposition
acts as a stimulant to them, and calls
out their best powers. There is some
thing in the determined use of forcs
which commands degree of respect
even if the use is for an unworthy pur
nose Rnt when an enduring mora