Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-01

anlCy ana jealousy are Tie IhO Ncdh-
est passions in the human heart, and,
strange to tell, the most common.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
FRIENDSHIP is silent gentleman,tha
makes no parade; the true heart dances
no hornpipe on the tongue.
STUDY gives strength to the mind;
conversation grace. The first is apt to
give stiffness, the other gives suppleness.
SPEND as much time in counting your
blessings as you do in worrying over
your troubles and you will soon be rich.
VIRTUE wants more admirers, wis
dom more supplicants, truth more real
friends, and honesty more practitioners
IT does not depend upon me, said the
Grecian, to prevent being ill spoken of,
it is only in my power that it be not
done deservedly.
A FIRM faith is the best divinity;
good life is the best philosophy; clear
conscience the best law; honesty the best
policy, and temperance the best physic.
To be happy at home is the ultimate
result of all ambition, the end to which
every enterprise and labor tends, and of
which every desire prompts the prosecu-
ton.
ILL-HUMoR arises from an inward
consciousness of our own want of merit,
from discomfort which ever accompa-
MES that envy which foolish vanity en-
genders.
YOUTH beholds happiness cleaning
in the prospect Age looks back on the
happiness of youth, and, instead of
hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recol-
lections of hope.
THERE is one special reason why we
should endeavor to make children as
happy as possible, which is, that their
early youth forms a pleasant or on un-
pleasant background to all their after
life.
DON'T be whining about not having
fair chance. Throw a sensible man out
of the window, he'll fall on his feet and
ask the nearest way to his work. The
more you have to begin with the less
you will have in the end.
WHICHEVER way we look the pros
pect is disagreea6le. Behind us we have
left pleasures we shall never enjoy; and
before us we see pleasures which we Ian
guish to possess, and are consequently
uneasy till we possess them.
VERY sad is the Arabic proverb that
the remembrance ofyouth is a sigh; but,
of course, it is only true when youth has
been badly spent. Youth is the time for
"settling habits" and if these are set
tied in wrong direction, the man in
middle and old age cannot but be with
many retrospection curst."
If you desire to enjoy life, avoid un-
punctual people. They impede business
and poison pleasure. Make it your own
rule not only to be puncIual, but little
OuOil ~ lidOlb oONui 20 "a WIN
posure which is essential to happiness;
for want of it many people live in
constant fever, and put all about them
in fever too.
THOSE persons who gain the hearts of
most people, who are chosen as the CON-
panions of their softer hours, and their
reliefs from anxiety and care, are seldom
persons of shining qualities or strong
virtues; it is rather the soft green of the
soul on which we rest our eyes that are
fatigued with beholding more glaring
objects.
1t is great mistake to suppose that
the best work of the world is done by
people of great strength and great OPP
portunities. 1t is nquestionably an ad-
vantage to have both these things, but
neither of them is necessity to the
man who has the spirit and pluck to
achieve great results. Some of the great
est work of our time has been done by
men of physical feebleness.
OUR respect for the dead is something
wonderful, and the way we show it is
more wonderful still. We show it with
black feathers and black horses we show
1t with black dresses and black herald
ic; we show it with costly obelisks and
sculptures of sorrow which spoil half
our beautiful cathedrals. We show it
with frightful gratings and vaults, and
lids of dismal stone, in the midst of
quiet grass; and last but not least, we
show it by permitting ourselves to tell
any number of falsehoods we think
amiable or creditable in the epitaph.
"No almsgiving of money" says Rus
kin, sis so helpful as almsgiving of
care and thought; the giving of money
without thought is indeed continually
mischievous; but the invective of the
economist against indiscriminate aims
giving is idle If it be not coupled with
pleading for discriminate charity, and,
above all, for that charity, which dis
Germs the uses that people may be put
to, and helps them by setting them
to work in those services. That is
the help beyond all others. Find out
how to make useless people useful, and
and let them earn their money instead
of begging it."