Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07

too mean for any use.
The young man who INDUCES freely
in biting sarcasm will find himself oblig
ed to swallow affronts.
Be not too earnest, loud, or violent il
! your conversation. Silence your oppo
nent with reason, not with noise.
Every man has an ak to grind, ant
looks upon every other man with an ey'
20 inducing him to turn the handle.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WE all have task to do before We
die, and often the simplest and most OBJ
scure people do their best.
IFyou are willing to keep little sin
it is only a question of time when you
will be willing to keep every sin.
NEVER lay out all you can afford; fol
he who lays out everything he can af'
ford often lays out more than he can af.
ford.
MEN and women who are actively en-
ployed in Tightening the sorrows of 9TH
ers do not complain that life is without
interest.
THERE is only one debt-the debt OF
nature-which cannot be repudiated.
We should, therefor ne always ready to
pay it. y
THE truest test of civilization is not
the census, nor the size of cities, nor the
crops-but the kind of man the country
turns out
SILENCE never shows itself to so great
an -ntage as when it is made the re-
ply L>~ualumny and defaml ltion, provid-
ed that We give no just occasion for
them.
IT is far more difficult to be simple
than to be complicated; far more difficult
to sacrifice skill and cease exertion in
the proper place than to expend both in
discriminatory.
THE most fertile soil does not neces-
sarily produce the most abundant har-
vest. 1t is the use we make of our fac
ulties which renders them valuable. Tai
,ent, like other things, may lie fallow.
COLD and reserved natures should re-
member that though not unfreqaently
flowers may be found buried beneath
the snow, it is chilly work to dig for
them, and few care to take the trouble.
TAKE the hand of the friendless; smile
aon the sad and detected: sympathize
with those in trouble; strive everywhere
to diffuse around you sunshine and JOY.
If you do this, you will be sure to be
beloved.
In the ordinary concerns of life moral
energy is more serviceable than brilliant
parts; while in the more important these
latter are of little weight without it,
'evaporating only in brief and barren
flashes.
ALL past sorrow has tendency to
transform itself into something else. All
sorrows, follies, and errors have their
edges wonderfully softened off by retro
spection; they become possessions rath-
.er than detriments.
ALTHOUGH young couple are said
to be married as soon as the lady has
changed her name, the truth is that the
real marriage is a long slow intergrowth,
like that of two trees planted quite close
together in the forest.
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.
NATURE is kinder than we know in
her penalties. Through pain she teaches
the child to avoid the fire that would
consume him; through pain she teaches
the man to avoid the vices which would
ruin him. To counteract these whole
some lessons by continual interference
is no true kindness, but self -indulgent
cruelty.
WEALTH and poverty are abstract
ideas, and they pass into each other at
that continually shifting point where the
balance is struck between wants and the
means of gratifying them. To have few
wlnts is as sure way to wealth as to
have much money. What is wealth after