Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-10

not 1OrSaKe US.
There is no lack of industry in the
world-the lack is in making the right
application of it.
Let us read with method, and propose
to ourselves an end to which all our
studies may point.
There are never too many flowers in
this world, and not one kind word too
many has ever yet been spoken.
-CHOICE EXCERPTS.
ALL men ought to maintain peace
and the common offices of humanity and
friendship in diversity of opinions.
THE indolent are not wholly indolent.
Though the body may shirk labor, the
brain is not idle If it do not grow corn,
it will grow thistles.
THE covetous person lives as if the
world was made altogether for him, and
not for the world--to take in everything
and part with nothing.
OFTEN the soul is ripened into one
fuller goodness while age has spread an
ugly film, so that mere glances can new
er divine the preciousness of the fruit.
NONE are so fond of secrets as those
who don't mean to keep them; such per-
sons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets
money-for the purpose OF circulation.
MUTUAL courtesy oils the wheels of
life and makes them roll easily. 1t
sweetens what is inevitably bitter, and
cannot bring about that result save by
making the best of things.
THERE is no action of man in this
| life which is not the beginning of so
long chain of consequences as that no
human providence is high enough to give
us prospect to that end.
ALL honest men are working for 9th
er men; all love of industry, all love OF
integrity, all love of kindred, all love of
neighbor, all love of country, all love of
humanity are expressed in labor for
others.
o, IF the deeds of human creatures
could be traced to their source, how beau
tiful would even death appear; for how
much charity, mercy and purified affect
ion would be seen to have growth in
dusty graves!
PRIDE is as loud a beggar as want,and
great deal more saucy. When you
have bought one fine thing you want ten
more, that your appearance may be all
of piece; but it is easer to suppress the
first desire than to satisfy all that fol-
low it.
THE man who respects himself and is
conscious that his ardent hope will new
er be Satifed does not proclaim his grief
to the world; nor, in all probability does
he tell it to his nearest friend. He wears
his shirt of sackcloth, and conceals it
under fine linen.
AS the body itself is rather necessa-
ry thing than great, so the comforts
of it are but temporary and vain; where
as peaceful conscience, honest thoughts,
virtuous actions and an Indifference for
casual events are blessings without end,
safety, or measure.
PROBABLY nothing could have a more
powerful effect upon social, domestic,
and individual welfare than the wide
spread diffusion of the spirit of truth
| fulness 1t underlies all honest and
faithful work, all right fulfillment of re-
lations, all independence and self-re-
spect; for he who is in this high sense
| faithful to the truth will be faithful to
himself and to others.
IF mothers could be convinced that
large proportion of the troublesome
faults of children proceed from errors in
their physical treatment, much useless
fault finding would be abandoned. Fresh
air and wholesome nourishment, regular
hours and happy surroundings, would
lcure many irritable nerves, prevent many
fit of passion and brighten up many a
sluggish and torpid mind.
HESITATION and vacilation are two
qualities which count for good deal in
the histories of disappointment. A man
who is not quite certain which way he
means to go, and stands hesitating at
the cross roads, makes no progress on
his journey; and woman who has a
heap of odds and ends to attend to
household duties, letters to write, visits |
to pay, etc-and sits down with her
hands before her, trying to make up her
mind what she will begin at first, will |
never do anything so long as she sits
there.
Tur, 1oua thof on6nrac ic iDdonandpnf |
of all outward and material Circumstance |
es; it can be killed only from within.
In spite of all who believe in the virtue
of humanity and the continuance of |
love, no one need doubt who looks |
round the world he knows. For we all
number among our acquaintance old |
couples who have weathered the storms |
and outridden the tempests of domestic
life, who have long been safely anchor
ed in the harbor of mutual love, mutual
friendship, mutual esteem, and so have
become one mind and one life, their love
lasting to the end.
ALL men who are worth calling men
like to wrestle with difficulty. If it does
not lie in their way, they go out of their
way to find it. One starts for the source
of the Nile, another for the bleak Ant
arctic, third for the North Pole. Each
has his hobby. "There's no such word
as impossible said Napoleon; and he
was never in such high spirits as when
he was bearing Europe in the attempt
to prove the truth of his axiom. Noh
man being cares to trot his hobby over
macadamized road. There is no ex-
citement in ease and safety, and with
out excitement of some kind we should