Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-01

The secret of being loved is in being
lovely; and the secret of being lovely is
in being unselfsh.
Many lives contain whole chapters of
goodness, not word of which is ever
put on a tombstone.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THERE is something so beautiful in
trust that even the most hardened liar
must needs feel certain respect for
those who confide in him.
THERE are prating coIcombs In the
world who would rather talk than listen,
although Shakespeare himself were the
orator, and human nature the theme.
ACTION is, after all, the main business
of our lives-we are to work "while it is
day." and thought is worth nothing un
less it lead to and embody itself in prac-
tice.
In the moral world there is nothing
impossible, if we bring thorough will
to it. Man can do everything within
himself; but he must not attempt to do
too much with others.
FAsTIDIoUsNEss is only another form
of egotism; and all who know not where
to look for truth, save in the narrow well
of self, will find their own image at the
bottom, and mistake it for what they
are seeking.
SOME persons are born with strong
natural instinct to be just. But it is
also habit of mind which may be in
creased and improved by study and re-
: fection, and which should be sedulous-
1y cultivated.
OBSERVATION and experience COM
bine to teach us how small part of the |
incidents which chequer life can be fore
told. Therefore 1t becomes the wise to
enjoy with equanimity or to suffer with
fortitude whatever happens.
No wave on the great ocean of Time, |
when once it has floated past us, can be |
recalled. All we can do is to watch the |
new form and motion of the next, and
launch upon it, to try, in the manner
our best judgment may suggest. our
strength and skill.
In the conduct of life habits count for
more than maxims. To reform ones
maxims is nothing; it is but to change
the title of the book. To learn new
habits is everything, for 1t is to reach
the substance of life. Life Is but It's
sue of habits.
EVERY enterprise of life, from the
simplest to the most complex, has its
necessary drudgery. On the faithful
performance of this is founded all true
success; and only those who are willing
to bear the burden with courage, ener-
gy, and perseverance have any right to
expect prosperity.
EVERY man is divinity in disguise,
god playing the fool. 1t seems as If
heaven had sent its insane angels into
our world as to an asylum. And here
they will break out into their native
music, and inter at intervals the words
they have heard In heaven, then the
mad fit returns, and they NOPE and wal
low like dogsl
A PRETTY face and an amiable man.
ner may win husband, but something
more is necessary to retain his admira-
tion. When beauty begins to wane, the
enduring qualifications of good wife
hold him in the bonds of love and duty;
and one of the best qualifications of a
good wife is the ability and inclination
to make home attractive.
THE mere sentimental and slothful
indulgence of feeling or emotion always
wears out even its own capacity. Just
as muscle or an organ of the body that
is never put to any use contracts, loses
power, and fully withers up, so the sensi-
tiveness that does not quicken thought
and imagination, that does not teach
any lesson or suggest any duty, gradual
ly loses even its own power of impressi-
bility.
No man should do more work of
muscle or of brain in day than he can
perfectly recover from the fatigue of in
good nights rest. Up to that point
exercise is good; beyond are waste of
life, exhaustion, and decay. When hun
ger calls for food and fatigue demands
rest, we are in the natural order, and
keep the balance of life. When we take
stimulants to spur our jaded nerves or
excite an appetite, we are wasting life.
GRUMBLERs are of all people the most
depressing. 1t is net necessary for you
yourself to be personally found fault
with to make it worse than misery to be
with them. 1t is the atmosphere they
create about themselves, the life they
give you to lead. And when their cross
humor translates itself into personal
displeasure and quarrelling over triies.
then they are the very scourges OF their
time and place, and no one can be
blamed who tries to escape from them.
THE real force of personality consists
chiefly in its constant upward growth.
The spiritual energy which lies at the
core Of a mans being and inspires all
his faculties will, if healthy and sound,
increase and strengthen. And, just as
the tree grows by assimilating the ele-
ments that nourish it; just as the body
grows by the reception of food, which,
by the process of digestion, is turned
into flesh and bone and blood; so the
individuality which each man and wom-
calls "I'' must grow, if at all, by assmi-
lating into IFS own being its proper nu-
triment from outside of itself.