Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-14


A wise man ought to hope for the best
equanimity whatever may happen.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WHEN we are alone, we have oul
thoughts to watch; in our families, ouI
tempers; and in society our tongues.
THE wounded heart still smiles, if re-
ligion light it-just as the ruin that the
sun gilds; decay may be there, but the
gloom is dispelled.
THOSE who are incapable of shining
but by dress would do well to consider
that the contrast between them and
their clothes turns out much to theiI
disadvantage.
WHAT a comfort a dull but kindly
person is at times. A ground glass
shade over gas lamp does not bring
more solace to our dazZled eyes than
such an one to our mind.
NOTHING is so good or wholesome as
the simple truth; and he who helps us
to find out single real thing about our
selves does us a far greater service than
he could by indiscriminately underval-
uing us.
THE most agreeable of all companions
is a simple, frank man, without any high
pretentions to an oppressive greatness
one who loves life, and understands the
use of it; obliging- alike at all hours;
above all, of a golden temper.
CULTIVATE happy spirit; walk the
clean side of life, and look on its bright
places. Cast the eye upward for strength
and onward for hope. Those who look
down and try back for comfort or
strength are disappointed and easily de
spair.
SELF CONQUEST consists in the tri-
umph of the reasoning faculty, the judg-
ment, over impulses. emotions and ap-
petites; and in this victory over the less
er parts of the being by the greater and
better and higher quality of judgment,
self is gloriiied.
THE great enemy of knowledge is not
.error, but inertness. All that We want
is discussion; and then we are sure to
do well, no matter what our blunders
may be. One error conflicts with an
eother, each destroys its opponent, and
truth is evolved.
THERE is a sunshine of the mind, a
happy temper of disposition, which far
Outweighs all external advantages; but
this sunshine of the mind the man of
honor and probity alone experiences.
No bribe can purchase it for the unjust;
no black devices, no means arts, can
pluck it from the upright.
WHENEVER vanity and gayety, love
of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage,
buildings, great company, expensive di-
versions, and elegant entertainments get
the better of the principles ana judgment
of men and women, there is no knowing
where they will stop, nor into what evils.
natural, moral, or political, they will
lead us.
A COMMON sin of housekeepers is
woodworking for fear the work will
not be done, or something may happen
for which one is unprepared. Those who
will worry will always find enough to
worry about. 1t is well to think of the
work to be done. but the wise house
keeper will have a plan for each day,
and follow it as nearly as possible.
MODERATION in, yet sufficiency of,
food and exertion, with the greatest
prudence and cheerfulness in self con
duct, constitutes the policy of health
preservation; and such policy should
be carefully followed out. Late hours
exhausting pleasures, oppressive labor
and worry are the enemies that make
depression" danger and potent cause
of untimely death.
THE man who desires to be character.
lied by excellent parts must take him
self seriously in hand-the earlier in
life the better-and root up the weeds
prune the errant offshOOtS, and foster
the growth of the good parts of his be
ing, mental and physical, while he graft:
what example and reason show to be de
sirable properties, but which he find:
absent in his own nature.
SOME CHEEKY souls never grow weary
A green old age succeeds to life OF
energy and perseverance,. These arr
the folk who enjoy life, the men who
triumph over its difficulties by smiling
the sour looks of Fortune out of counte
nance. The world would be a sorr,
place but for the halo of happiness sucf
characters cast around them, and BY
which less sunny temperaments art
warmed into life and sent on their wa!
rejoicing.
A NUMBER of people possess wha
may be called an aptitude for injury
They not only accept it at every turT
and receive it at every pore, but actu
ally seem to hunt it up and lie in wal
for it. Nothing falls that does hi
them; nothing breaks that does not hur
them; nothing happens in any way tina
4 ey do not reap a golden harvest o
wrong from it. These people are mis-
-erable, as matter of course-that goe
without saying; but they would be ut
terly and hopelessly miserable if the,
could not at any moment scrape the sub
stance of an injury together to solae'
some heavy hour despite of other ex
-citement.