Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-26

tiny, and more especially of the destiny
of their children.
1t is as cowardly to talk about man
behind his back as it is to. throw stones
at his house in the dark.
1t is the religion that begins in the
heart and then gets into the hands and
feet that lifts the world.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE man that swears at his children
would want to hide his head forever if
he could just know how mean he is.
If angels are permitted to look down
upon US, they never see anything on
earth more beautiful than godly life.
Money dishonesty acquired is never
worth what it cost, while good con-
science never costs as much as it is
worth.
SCANDALS are like dandelion seeds,
they are narrow headed, and stick where
they fall, and bring forth and multiply
four fold.
THE first consideration with knave
is how to help himself; and the second
how to do it with an appearance of
helping you.
WE sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav
ing when the sun went down, is weaving
when it comes up tomorrow.
THERE is little pleasure in the world
that is true and sincere besides the pleas
ure of doing our duty and doing good.
L am sure no other is comparable to this.
He that is proud of the rustling of
his silks, like madman, laughs at the
rafting of his fetters; for indeed clothes
ought to be our remembrances of lost
innocency.
IT is wiSe-nay, often absolutely need
ful-to have something for the mind to
feed upon, something to look forward to
and live for, besides the round of daily
labor or the counting of profit and loss.
INEXHAUsTIBLE good-nature is one
of the most precious gifts of Heaven,
spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind
smooth and equable in the toughest
weather.
AN obtuse and stolid adherence to
things as they are should never be dig
nified by the name of loyalty. If no one
changed his ideas or methods, if no one
lifted his thoughts or his conduct from
lower to higher plane, the world
would stand still, and stagnation would
ensle.
To die and know that when men think
OF you no inspiration will arise, but only
the memory of harshnesS, or hatred, or
falsehood, or pitilessness-that makes
death terrible. Be otherwise Let YOUR
works follow you with inspiring power
Speak from the grave to comfort, kindle,
redeem.
THERE can be nothing to say worth
saying upon any important subject un-
less thought has been first actively en-
gagged; and, where the mind has not been
employed, the lips should keep silence.
If all the useless babble that now so
often goes under the name of discussion
were hnshed, the world would be wiser
and happier.
THERE are more clever women in the
world than men think for-our habit is
to despise them; we believe they do not
think because they do not contradict US;
and are weak because they do not strug-
gle and rise up against US. A man only
begins to know women as he grows old;
and for my part, my opinion OF their
cleyerness rises every day.
THERE is no reason why we should
not take all the comfort we can in the
temporary oblivion of merriment, and
to seek to cleanse our bosoms of the
perilous stuff that weighs upon the
heart. Our right to demand pay is just
as inviolable as the worlds right to de- |
mand work of US; and the whole tract of
humor is the playground of the mind.
WELL-REGULATED mirthfulneSs, dealt |
out as it is able to be borne, will find
way in time to the heart of any man I'M
less he be an unsouled lout. Once get
the cross grained disturber of the peace,
crammed with contrariness, to laugh, |
and his merriment will carry off the
sulkiness of his temper as lightning
conductor empties storm-cloud of its
danger.
Too many children never accomplish
anything because they fear both their
parents and their teachers; too many
never succeed because they are made to
feel they never can. Many a child who
is full of animation and life and fun and
happiness is made to hate his school and
school books because his teacher does
not take the time and trouble to study
his disposition, and thus learn how to
govern him.
CARLYLE says, BLESSED is he who has
found his work; let him ask no other
blessedness." But to attain this blessed
ness be must not only find his true work
he must honor it. He must put into
it his best powers, esteeming no effort or
sacrifice too great to render it as perfect
as possible. He must always recognize
that it is the highest and best for him,
because it calls forth the best that is in
him, and thus enables him to contribute
his share to the welfare of the commu-
nifty. 1t ought to be dearerto him than
any other, andh should be jealous of
its dignity.