Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-06-02


When a man can't make fool of yoI
in any other way, he can do it by repeat
ing In earnest what you said In fun.
The happiness of married life depend
upon the power of making small sacrl
fees with readiness and cheerfulness.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
The more an idea is developed, tn
mere concise becomes its expressions
the more tree is pruned, the better i
the fruit.
THE world must be often tried anC
thoroughly known before we can pre-
tend to judge of the motives of thos
around US.
LIKE beautiful flower full of color
but without scent, are the fine but fruit
less words of him who does not act &C
cordingly.
SOME of the people who are the mos
anxious about recognition of friends II
heaven are the ones who shake hand
with two fingers in church.
CUNNING leads to knavery; 1t is but
step from one to the other, and that YER,
slippery; lying only makes the difference
add it to cunning and it is knavery.
VERY few people 60 into an argumen
In order to discover the truth of the mat
ter. They want to hold their own ant
rout the enemy. Hence, the general losl
of temper.
THERE is in every good mans heart
sublime strength and purity of attach
ment, which he never does feel, neve
can feel. for any woman on earth excep
his mother.
NOTHING is more odious than that in
sensibility which wraps man up in him
self and his own concerns, and prevents
his being moved with either the joys o.
sorrows of another.
IRREsoLUTIoN is a fatal habit; it Il
not vicious In itself, but it leads to vice
creeping upon its victims with fatal ia
cility, the penalty of which many lint
heart has paid at the scaffold.
If a woman be herself pure and noble
hearted, she will come into every circle
as a person does into a heated room
who carries with him the freshness OF
the woods where he has been walking.
EXTRAVAGANCE in dress is a cOnSe
auence of moral disorganization. NJ
woman ever committed herself In thil
respect until she had been taught to at
tach more importance to externals thai
to the sources of happiness which exist
In the mind.
THAT man which priZeth virtue TO
itself, and cannot endure to hoist ant
strike his sails as the divers natures OF
caIms and storms require, must cut his
sails of mean length and breadth. and
content himself with slow and SUR
navigation.
GooD men generally reap more sub
stantial benefits from their affiictiOn
than bad men do from their prosperity
and what they lose in wealth, pleasure
and honor, they gain with most advan
tage in wisdom, and goodness, and tran
guilty of mind.
1T is not the variegated colors, th'
cheerful sounds, and the warm breeze
which enliven us so much in spring;
is the quiet prophetic spirit OF endless
hope, presentiment of many happ
days, the anticipation of higher, eyeI
lasting blossoms and fruits, and the sc
cret sympathy with the world that is de
veloping itself.
PEOPLE always fancy that we mus
become old to become wise; but, in trutt
as years advance, it is hard to keep OuI
selves as wise as we were. Man become!
indeed, in the different stages of his life
a different being; but he cannot say tina
he is better one, and in certain matter
he is as likely to be right in his twent
eth as in his sixtieth year.
LET us all resolve, first, to attain tn
grace of silence; second, to deem al
fau.t-6nding that does no good sir
and to resolve, when we are ourselve
happy, not to poison the atmosphere TO
our neighbors by calling upon them t
remark every painful and disagreeabl
feature of their daily life; third, to prac
tice the grace and virtue of praise.
The most honorable of all friends
the looking glass, that will not speal
that keeps no secret journal for futur
trreachery, that meets you with the yer
face you bring to it. that beholds all you
weaknesses without chiding, and neve
hints advice; into whose placid deptf
sinks, as into a sea, in utter forgetfu
ness, all the secrets which have figure
on its face.
THE philanthropist. while deservin
all honor for his willingness to spen
and work for the sake of his fellow me
must have judgment to guide his effort
or he will do them real harm in his
forts to do them good. Ii he gives II
. Discriminatory of his substance to r
lieve present poverty until his means a
exhausted, however kind may be his in
LrnLlon, no increases the evil in the fl
ture, and depriyes himself of all pow
to render further aid. The man wi
cannot swim, and who rushes into Il
water to save the life of his friend,
truly self sacrificing in spirit; neverth
less he may drag his friend down to
destruction which he might Otherwi
have escaped