Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-07-09

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who hates music and the laugh of child
About the poorest occupation you CA
find is to sit down and admire yourself
Patience, humility, and utter forget
fulness of self, are the true royal qual
tiles.
There is no such thing as white lies
lie is as black as coal pit and twic
as foul.
1t is the care of great part of man
kind to conceal their indulgence from
the rest.
AS turning the logs will make a dul
fire burn, so change of studies fires
dull brain.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE man who goes around comparin;
himself to other people, to their disad
vantage, is in small business.
THE seeds of love can never grow bu
under the warm and genial influence o
kind feelings and affectionate manners
EVEN more than greater length o
days we need ardor, perseverance, and
clear perception of the rightful object
to be attained.
THE man who is in trouble can al
ways see what an easy thing it woult
have been for him to keep out of it i
he had only thought.
LAUGHTER, merriment, cheerfulness
and everything that conduces to cheer
fulness, are absolutely essential to ena
BILE us to live our best.
NEVER trust man who pretends to
have no faith in women; either he is
fool who talks for effect, or he is lib
ertine who is to be stunned.
WHERE men fell most, they speak
not most, for in the deep things of the
heart, as in things spiritual, there are
feelings which cannot be uttered.
IT is not pleasant to hear misanthropy
from young lips, and to find eyes that
are scarce twenty years old already look
ing out with distrust on the world.
How much trouble he avoids who does
not look to see what his neighbor says
or does or thinks, but only what he does
himself, that it may be just and true.
EVERY man who rises above the CON-
mon level receives two educations. The
first from his instructors, and the Sec
ond, the most personal and important,
from himself.
How easy is the thought, in certain
moods, of the loveliest, most unselfish
devotion; how hard is the doing of the
thought, in the face of a thousand un-
lovely difficulties.
THE every day cares and duties which
men call drudgery, are the weights and
counterpoises of the clock of Time, Civ
ing its pendulum a true vibration, and
its hands regular motion.
THAT man only has learned to live
rightly who takes with a smile the
worlds praise and blame, and with
steady heart and hand goes straight on
with the work he has in hand.
TRY to keep clear of prejudice, and be
willing to alter any opinion you may
hold when further light breaks upon
your mind. He is clever beyond prece
dent, or weak beyond measure, who new
er sees reasons to change his judgment
of men and things.
EVERY man is tanner of wild beasts
and these wild beasts are his passions
To draw their teeth and claws, to muzzle
and tame them, to turn them into ser
wants and domestic animals, fuming,
perhaps, but submissive-in this con
sists personal education.
WHILE hope and contentment have
their sway, despair may strive in vain tc
conquer the heart. The secret of that
life whose joys are not all faded fruits
consists in finding all the happiness there
is in everything that surrounds it. Il
uses for life's great purposes every
thought and act that the world gives it
APATHY and indifference are perhaps
the very worst foes which any good en-
terprise can have to contend with. Act
i've opposition may be met on its OWL
ground, and is at least definite force
to be counted upon ana resisted; but
apathy is dead weight, crushing what
ever of hope and energy exists.
THE habit of superficial thinking i:
one which we should avoid as much a:
possible. 1t is far oftener the result OF
mental Incidence than of pressing bust
ness. 1t is better to think deeply on &
few subjects than to skim over thOus
and; and. if we once form the habit Of
doing so, we shall soon find it satisfac
tory and pleasurable.
HEAVEN forbid that any process o.
philosophy were capable so to sever anC
indurate our feelings. that nothing should
agitate them but what arose instantly
and Immediately out of our own selfisf
interestsl L would as soon wish my han(
to be as callous as horn, that 1t NIGH
escape an occasional cut or scratch, as
would be ambitious of the stoicism which
should render my heart like piece o
the neither milestone.
WE must never forget that, whatever
the circumference which claims our al
legiance we are still the center, ant
must remain sslf-poised and resolute
He who despises himself, who neglect
himself, who timidly conforms himsel
in all things to other people and has NJ
respect for his own individuality Cal
never be force in the world. This in
deed is only another form of selfshnes
loving ease and hating toll, liyin
without energy or purpose and sinkin