Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-09

THE first object of all effort must be
excellence. If that be absent, the at
tempt to rise above others is mean and
dishonoFable.
No gentleman will ever use the pow
er which the knowledge of an offense, a
false step, or unfortunate exposure of
weakness, gives him merely to enjoy the
tpower of humiliating his neighbor
A BUSY life, with good principles,
strong purposes, and wisdom enough to
secure fair cultivation of the different
sides of the nature, is one of the most |
important factors for securing ripe and |
happy old age.
THERE is loyalty which is higher |
than any government, any party, any
cause, or any friend can claim; it is the |
loyalty we owe to our honest convictions |
of truth rnd right. Whenever these con-
| flict with lower claims, the latter must |
give way.
81 HAVE three rules" said Lord
Brougham. 1.-The first is, to be a whole
man at one thing at time-the second, |
never to lose an opportunity of doing
anything which can be done-the third,
never to entrust to others what ought |
to do myself"
THE mutual tolerance and forbearance
of life are as greatly the secret of hap
piness in marriage as in anything else.
We have to tolerate unpleasant things
in cur companions in any relations of |
life. and why try to build up law of
marriage in any other way?
WILLIAM CORBETT has said-"Go and
kick an ants nest about, and you will see
the little, laborious courageous creatures
instantly set to work to get it together;
again; and if you do this ten times over
again, they will do the same. Here is a
sort of stuff that a man must be made
of to oppose, with success, the misfor-
tunes of life"
1t is well to repent of sin, to abandon
wrong-doing, to break up bad habits, to
correct errors. Whatever is needful for
such results is unquestionably right.
But, beyond this, we had better turn
them out of the doors of our memory;
so will they soonest perish, and we shall
have time and energy to welcome better
things in their place.
NOT only by our example, but event
more by the unconscious influence which
emanates from us, are others being help
ed or hurt. We are part of their sur
roundings, and they are part of ours;
and, as such, we are all helping to form
each others character by our daily life.
AS we are and as we do, so we teach
others to be and to do, though we utter
no word of instruction or advice.
OF all the dispositions with which,
mortal man may be born, there is no
other that on the whole is so likely to
assist him to make his way through life
satisfactorily as that of being born a
man Of expedients. Whatever gifts of
wealth man may chance to inherit, he
is sure sooner or later to come to grief
unless he inherits also the art of manag-
ing them. 1t is by no means enough to
get fortune; it is necessary to use ones
wits to preserve it.
ONE cannot always protect oneself {
from rudeness that comes to all thedwell-i
ers In this not wholly socially satisfaeto- {
~ world. To be snubbed, however, is
impossible to one who keeps the posi-
tion to which he is entitled. He Is fool !,
ish to accuse himself of having been
pushing his way where he had no right r
by asserting that he has been rebuked !
by anybody. If he is capable of taking '
the high ground that is his wherever it
may please him to go, of course he at I
one streke does away with the possibili- 9
ty of being rebuffed by anybody whom :
soever.
THE science of good housekeeping in
these days, when we can buy so many
conveniences, is not so much superiority
in any one thing as general excellence
in everything. We do not need cook
ing schools for girls so much as schools
where all branches of home-making are O
taught, in order to preserve the balance a
of usefulness in the girls mind. A man d
does not want to marry "chief de cui- S
sine;" and it is no wonder the papers c
make fun of cooking schools. To learn d
one department of housekeeping to the v
neglect of everything else is ruinous. "
A BOY Is apt to be Influenced in the Il
choice of his life work by some accident h
or petty motive. His father and grand Il
father have been successful physicians y
or manufacturers or merchants, and it VI
seems natural and right for him to fol-
low in their footsteps. Or his intimate "
friend at college is going to study law, Il
and he must do the same. Sometimes a n
4 pious father and mother cherish m
fond hope that the boy will devote his Sc
ife to preaching thesgospel, and, rather b
han disappoint them, he does it, with a.