Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-14

viii have another days sin to repent OF
Moderation is the silken string run
ming through the pearl chain of all vir
tues.
One way to drive boys and girls t.
the bad is to shut up the parlor and liv,
in the kitchen.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
SLIGHT withal may be the things whicl
bring back on the heart the weigh
which it would fling aside forever.
MOST persons are disposed to expent
more than they can afford, and to In
dulge more than they can endure.
If it is not seemly never do it, if it il
not.true never speak it, for your impulst
should always be under your control.
LOOK not mournfully into the past
it cometh not again; wisely improve th'
PRESENT. is ours; 60 forth manfully t
meet the future.
NOT the failure of others, not thei
sins of commission or omission, but hi
own misdeeds and negligence should
wise man take note of.
If you don't wish a man to do thing
you had better get him to talk about it
for the more men talk the more likely
they are to do nothing else.
If you find that it takes good dea
of religion in other people to keep yoU
from finding fault with them, there il
something the matter with your Owl
experience.
OF the two besetting sins of human
nature, selfish neglect and selfish agita
ton, the former is the more common
and has in the long run done far more
harm than the latter.
THE secret of the So called lucky
mans luck will, with some exceptions OF
course, be found in something he has
thoughtfully, calculatingly done, and not
in jumble of accidents.
Do to-day's duty, fight to days tempt
alton, and do not weaken and distract
yourself by looking forward to things
which you cannot see, and could not un
derstand if you saw them.
THE great secret of avoiding disap-
pointment is not to expect too much
Depair follows immoderate hope, as
things fall hardest to the ground which
have been nearest to the sky.
THE blossom cannot tell what becomes
of its odor, and no man can .0a whal
becomes of his :-fGence and example
mat roll away from him and go beyond
his ken in their perilous mission.
IT is one of the maxims of Francis de
Sales-and good men and women in all
lands might well adopt it as their motto
ia judicious silence is always bet
ter than truth when spoken without char
ity."
JUST as it is not always easy to ex-
press our thoughts with simplicity and
truth and in such languages as shall
convey their real meaning to others, SO
it is not always easy to translate our
feelings correctly. Both must be the
result of culture.
l PRAY you with all earnesness to
prove, and know within your hearts,
that all things lovely and righteous are
possible for those who believe in their
possibility, and who determine that, for
their part, they will make every days
work contribute to them.
2 BRAVE old world she is, after all; and
right well made; and looks right well
to-day in her go-to meeting clothes; and
plenty of room and chance in her for a
brave man to earn his bread, if he will
but 90 right on about his business, in
stead of peaking and pining over what
people think of him.
AFFECTATIoN of refinement is vastly
different from the sincere desire to ex-
press the best that is in us. The effort
to do this reacts upon the character it.
self to purify and exalt it. Every no
BILE principle, every lovely feeling, every
warm emotion is intensified by being ex
pressed sincerely and naturally, and thus
the refining process may go on indei
nitely.
EVERY quality of the human mind,
however valuable in itself, loses much of
that value by being developed out of
proportion to some other contrasting
quality. Even virtues may in this way
run into vices. Self-respect unbalanced
by respect for others degenerates into
egotism and pride; affection and amia-
bility unattended by firm principle lapse
into weak concession; benevolence with
out judgment begets pauperism.
THERE is no just reason why the man
of intellect and high requirements
should not surround himself with the
luxuries of life, if he has a taste for
them and can crafty it consistently with
his duty to others. But, if he worships
himself, makes his appetite his god, and
employs all the powers of his mind in
inventing ways and means for their
gratiication-then he is simply brute
who has dishonored the divine image in
which was formed.
ELoQUENCE appeals mainly to senti-
ment; its object is often to make people
do something which their cooler and
better Judgment would reject, and to
carry them away almost against their
win. A masterpiece of eloquence may
be inaccurate and deceitful-may, in
fact, be lie. The lawyer who defends
a prisoner whom he knows to be guilty,
and who by his ability persuades the
jury to pronounce an acquittal, may be
aIvery great orator, but he is not sin
cere.