Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10

GENTLENESS in the gait is what SIM
plicity is in the dress. Violent gestures
or quick movements inspire invOlunta
ry disrespect.
THE popular preacher tells the people
truths about their neighbors, and makes
it point not to tell them unpleasant
truths about themselves.
CHEAT the doctor by being temperate;
cheat the lawyer by keeping out of debt;
and cheat the demagogue of whatever
party by voting for honest men.
GRATITUDE was fancifully said to be
the memory of the heart; but, alas! for
poor human nature, hearts are more
than suspected to have wOndrous short
memories.
By looking into physical causes our
minds are opened and enlarged; and in
this pursuit, whether we take or wheth
er we lose the game, the chase is GER
tainly of service.
No one is idle who can do anythin'
1t is conscious inability, or the sense OF
repeated failure, that prevents us from
undertaking, or deters us from the
prosecution of any work.
IT has been well said that no man ev
er sank under the burden of the day. 1t
is when TO- morrow's burden is added to
the burden of to-d day that the weight is
=mure than a man can bear
If you wish to hear all the evil in
peoples character, wait until they get
married. If you are desirous to learn
all, and more than all, their good quail
ties, have patience till they be dead.
The consciousness of being loved soft
ems the keenest pangs, even of the mo-
ment of farewell; yea, even the eternal
farewell is robbed of half its bitterness
when uttered in accents that breathe
love to the last sigh.
For forming a good converser, good
taste and extensive information and ac-
complishment are the principal requis-
ties, to which must be added an easy and
elegant delivery and welI-toned voice.
think the higher order of genius is not
favorable to this talent.
No man can justly censure or con-
denim another, because indeed no man
truly knows another. This | perceive
in myself, for am in the dark to all the
world, and my nearest friends behold me
but in cloud; those who know me SUI
perficially think less of me than do
myself; my near acquaintances think
more; God, who truly knows me, knows
that am nothing.
THE race of mankind would perish
did they cease to aid each other. From
the time that the mother binds the child's
head till the moment that some kind as
sistant wipes the death damp from the
brow of the dying, we cannot exist with
out mutual help. All, therefore, that
need aid have right to ask it of their
fellow mortals; no one who holds the
power of granting can refuse it without
guilt
AN overweening affection for money,
an idolatrous worship of gain, have alb
solutely confounded the general intellect
and warped the Judgment of many to
that excess that, in estimating men or
things, they refer always to "What is
he WORTH" or "What will it fetch?"
Were we to point out a person as he
passes and say There goes good man,
one who has not vice." he would
scarcely be noticed; but exclaim "That
man is worth $5,000,000l' and he will be
stared at till out of sight.
CHILDREN are the salvation of the
race. They purify, they elevate, they
stir, they instruct, they console, they
reconcile, they gladden. us. They are
the ozone of human life, inspiring us
with hope, rousing us to wholesome sac
rilice. If in the faults which they in
herit, they show us the worst of our
selves, and so move us to salutary re-
pentance, they also stimulate our finer
qualities. They cheat us of weary care.
They preach to us, not so much by their
lips as by their innocence.
THERE are people who do not exert
the powers they suppose they possess, be-
cause they do not occupy a position
adapted to call forth these powers. They
stand idle, because, they say, no man has
hired them. When asked if there is
nothing for them to do, they reply, in
effect, nothing worthy of their powers.
Those who thus wait for stations worthy
of their supposed powers may spend a
life in idleness. The true man does Wig
orously whatsoever his hand findeth to
do. He is never out of employment, be-
cause he is ever ready to accept any
work which he can obtain. Let no young