Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-10-20

Economy in our affairs has the same
effect upon our fortunes that good breed,
ing has on our conversation.
The main difference between a wise
man and fool is that the wise mans
blunders always teach him something.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
How much easier it is to sit in the
shade and tell our friends what we in
tend to do, than it is to go out in the sun
and do it.
EVERY one we meet knows something
which we do not, and may improve and
instruct us, if we are only humble and
sincere enough to learn of him.
MONEY and time are the heaviest bur
den of life, and the unhappiest of all
mortals are those who have more of
either than they know how to use.
ALL means of action-the shapeless
masses, the materials-lie everywhere
about us; what we need is the celestial
fire to change the flint into transparent
crystal, bright and clear.
EMPLOYMENT, which Galen calls "Na-
ture's physician" is so essential to hu-
man happiness that incidence is Justly
considered the mother of misery.
ONE of the plainest of human rights
is the right to be let alone and to be al
lowed the privilege of exercising our be-
nevolent faculties and extending our
sympathies in whatever direction we
prefer-a right which cannot be invaded
without tyranny.
How frequently are the honesty and
integrity of man disposed of by shrugl
How many good and noble actions have
been sunk into oblivion by distrustful
look, or stamped with the impression of
proceeding from bad motives by a mys-
terious and seasonable whisperl
A wELL-KNowN divine, In his wise
old age, once took a newly married pair
aside, and said, 81 want to give you this
advice, my children-don't try to be hap
py. Happiness is shy nymph, and if you
chase her you will never catch her; but
just go quietly on, and do your duty, and
she will come to you.
THE shock which jars on the mental,
renders yet softer the moral nature. A
death that is connected with love unites
us by thousand remembrances to all
who have mourned; it builds a bridge
between the young and the old; it gives
them in common the most touching of
human sympathies; it steals from Nature
its glory and its exhileration, not its ten
dernesS.
WERE men so enlightened and studi-
GUS Of their own good as to act by the
dictates of their reason and reflection,
and not the opinion of others, conscience
would be the steady ruler of human life.
and the words truth, law, reason, equity
and religion could be but synonymous
terms for that only guide which makes
US pass our days in our own favor and
appreciation.
THERE is a vast difference between
the expression of due and delicate ap-
probation of merit and that false and
exaggerated praise which is dictated by
adulation. The former is always receiv-
ed with pleasure, but the latter wounds
the susceptibility of those on whom it is
lavished, to mind rightly constituted
there being nothing more painful than
undeserved or even excessive commend
alton.
YEARS of prosperity following one
upon another in unbroken succession
have strong tendency to make us blind
and deaf to the deeper teachings OF
events. We take the world as it is, and
tinding it full of good things, we allow
ourselves to be bribed with comforts
But after time bolt flashes across oul
bright sky, and in glance we read the
tremendous possibilities of existence t6
which we have deliberately blinded oul
eyes.
SOME one writes both gracefully an(
forcibly, 81 should be glad to see more
parents understand that, when they
spend money judiciously to improve ant
beautify their home, they are paying theil
children premium to stay there a!
much as possible to enjoy it; but, wheI
they spend money unnecessarily on fine
clothing and jewelry for their children
they are paying them premium to spent
their time from home-that is, in those
places where they can attract the mos
attention and make the most display"
FOLLOW the straight path; consul
your conscience. You have that some
where about you. God never mad,
a man without it,. and there is this t,
be said about conscience-you canno
educate it, you cannot improve II
you cannot educate it. 1t is the sam,
rude thing. 1t will tell you that lie i
lie at seven, or seventeen, or seventy
when the eyes are dimmed and tn
cheeks wrinkled and fallen. You can
not do bettar than follow that; and b
sure and not stife its voice when |
calls you.
THERE is one way of attaining wha
we may term, if not utter, at least NOR
tai happiness. 1t is this--a sincere an,
unrelaxing activity for the happiness o
others. In that one maxim is cOncen
trated whatever is noble in morality
sublime in religion, or unanswerable II
truth. In that permit we have all scop
for whatever is excellent in our heart.
and none for the petty passions to whic
ur.nature is heir. Thus engaged, what
ever be our errors, there will be nobility
not weakness, in our remorse; whateve
our failures, virtue, not seltishness, in ou
regrets; and in success vanity itself wi
. become holy and triumph eternal.