Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12

tanned by flank movements; 1t is the zig
gag road that leads to the mountain top
IT is the vain endeavor to make our.
selves what we are not that has strewn
history with so many broken purposes
and lives left in the rough.
CONVERSATION is a traffic, and if you
enter it without some stock of knowl-
edge to balance the account perpetually
betwixt you the trade drops at once.
GREAT men, like great cities, have
many crooked paths and dark allies in
in their hearts, whereby he that knows
them may save himself much time and
trouble.
WHEN wife and husband have each
others confidence and are determined to
make each other happy, the world may
wag as is will, there is peace and JOY in
that home.
KNOWLEDGE may slumber in the mem
ory, bus it never dies; it is like the dor
mouse in the ivied tower, that sleeps
while winter lasts, but awakes with the
warm breath of spring.
THE heart will commonly govern the
head, and it is certain that any strong
passion set the wrong way, will always
infatuate the wiSeSt of men, therefore
the first part of wisdom is to watch the
affections.
IT is safe to say that, as general
thing, every one enjoys doing that which
he can do well, and the spirit and energy
that he instinctively puts into it enable
him to produce the largest results in the
least time and with the least fatigue.
EXPERIENCES are possible to the
gravest and most methodical, which may
utterly break in upon their order, and
absorb their thoughts; which may be
great enough in their gladness or their
grief to sweep away from before them
all ordinary claim or obstacle.
As it is unwise to strain a pattern
in rder to makea lItg,f glfm ent, or
to make garment too large for the
person, so it unwise to try TO be great
er than one has the natural ability to
be; and it is reprehensible to fail to
be as good and great as one is ma
turally qualified to be- Every man has
his own pattern by which he should
be guided.
GREAT griefs, Shakespeare tells US, are
as medicines for our lesser sOrrowS. The
remedy, it may be thought, is worse than
the disease. And yet it is not so alto
.gether; for the overwhelming anguish
which swallows up the minor tribula-
1tions disciplines the mind, and, when it
has felt the shock of real calamity, it is
less likely to be disturbed by petty an
noyances.
To be beaten, but not broken; TO be
victorious, but not vainglorious; to strive
and contend for the prize, and to win it
honestly or lose it cheerfully; to use ev
cry power in the race, and yet never to
wrest an undue advantage or win an un
lawful mastery-yerily, in all this there
are training and testing of character
which search it to the very roots: and
this is result which is worth all that it
costs rs.
KNOWLEDGE and character, like ma
terial possessions, are ours not only to
have but to give; but, unlike them, the
the more we give of them the more we
have. The miser's heap grows smaller
if he shares it with another; but the
knowledge that is shared knows no de-
cline, and character, like the fragrance
of flower, is forever giving itself out
in unconscious influence and gain
ing by what it gives.
WIEN man allows his friendship for
another man to become tinctured with
distrust, it is seldom that he can entirely
conceal his feelings. His friend gener
allg discovers it, and with masculine
strategy goes bluntly and directly to the
root of the matter, which is thereupon
settled one way or the other. But,
when distrust enters into woman's
friendship, the combination is so elusive
and puZZling that the ordinary man can
not combat it. He does not know how
to defend himself because he does not
know where his adversary is.
WHENEVER by extra care or labor or
expense We diminish our own peace or
calmneSss or pleasures in entertaining
guest, we may rest assured that We
have by the same means diminished his
qualification to similar or even greater
extent. A foreigner on a visit once said
that one popularity which he always
found at dinners to which he was in
vited was roasted lady at one end of
the table" While the good taste of the
jocular remark may be questioned, it
certainly suggests the thought that, if
less pains were often spent on the prep
aration of the table and more on the
mental and social fitness of the hostess
to entertain her guests, the result would
be more gratifying to all except the in
.corrigible epicure.