Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-01-28

globe would Wnlri-
He that aspires to be the head of
party will find it more difficult to please
his friends than to perplex his foes.
IOICE EXCERPTS.
No sound ever went to the heart whose
arrow was not feathered by sadness
True sentiment is twin with melancholy,
though not with gloom.
PosTERITY preserves only what will
pack in small compass. Jewels are
handed down from age to age; less port
able valuables disappear.
THERE is nothing which this age from
whatever standpoint we survey it, needs
more physically, intellectually and NOR
ally, than thorough ventilation.
WHATEVER high station you may be
placed in by fortune, remember this,
that God will not estimate you by the
office. but by the manner in which you
fill it.
No one need be the slave of circum-
stances. and no nature can be so hope
lessly inert or weak or bad that rightly
directed and resolute habits VIII not
reform il.
MAN can no more be Christian
without facing evil. and conquering it
than he can be soldier without going
to battle, facing the cannon's month and
encountering the enemy in the field.
As modesty is the richest ornament OF
a woman. the want of it is her greatest
deformity; for the better the thing the
worse will ever be its perversion, and II
an angel falls the transition must be
to a demon.
NOBLE heart will disdain to subsist
like drone upon the honey gathered by
others labor; like leech 10 filch its
food out of the public granary; or like a
shark, to prey on the lesser fry; but Will
one day or other earn his own subslst-
sence.
THAT point of lf-education which
consists in teaching the mind to resist its
desires or inclinations until they are
proved to be right is the most important
of all, not only in things of natural
philosophy, but in every department OF
daily life.
Joys have three stages-Hoping, Hav-
ing and Had. The hands of Hope are
empty, and the heart of Having is sad.
For the Joy we take in the taking dies,
and the Joy we had is its ghost. And
which is better, the joy unknown or the
joy we have clasped and lost?
GoD, who is liberal in all his other
gifts and favors, is sparing in the dlstrl-
button of time, never allowing us to
have two moments at command. He
gives bat the second as he takes away
the first, and leaves us in absolute un-
certainty whether the third shall ever be
ours or not.
OUR Affections are like weights, and
have tendency to bow us to the dust;
but there is a way of arranging weights
by means of wheels and pulleys, so that
they will even lift US up. Grace, by its
matchless art, has often turned the
heaviest of our trials into occasions for
heavenly JOY. I'VE glory in tribulations
Also"
l AN glad the world is full of children.
To me earth, with all its other charms.
were gloomy waste without them.
love to feel as little child. There is no
solace in affliction so sweet as the sym
.pathy of children; there is no music so
enchanting as their unaffected joyous
laugh. l am never so happy, and the
gentle spirit of humanity never breathes
so freshly and cheeringly into my heart,
as when am surrounded by company
sof affectionate, merry children.
RECREATION is intended to the mind
as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen
the edge of it, which otherwise would
grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, who
spends his whole time in recreation, is
ever whetting, never moving; his grass
may grow and his steed starve; as, con-
trarily, he that always tolls and never
recreates, is ever moving, never whet-
ting-laboring much to little purpose
AS good no scythe as no edge. Then
only doth the work go forward when the
scythe is so seasonable and moderately
whetted that it may cut, and so cuts that
it may have the helpof sharpening.
The tastes, preferences and opinions
of guest should receive respectful at
tentiOn. The habit, once so common, OF
urging food and drink upon the visitor
beyond his desires is happily passing
away, and he is now properly left free to
eat or forbear at his pleasure. But moi
always are his opinions and predictions
equally respected. They will sometimes
be criticised and sometimes ridiculed in
"A way which seriously interferes witt
good companionship. Differences Of
party or sect or nationality or ideas
should be touched with the utmost re
spect, if at all, and the gnest should fee
that his liberty of thought is absolute
and honored. In the occupation of hi
time, also, hospitality demands that h'
be left free to consult his own prefer
ences. Liberty of action is hardly les
dear than liberty of thought, and wher'
there is a feeling of constraint there can
not be unalloyed pleasure. 1t involve
a little sacrifice to allow our friends t,
be happy in their own way instead o
.ours. but ii is a sacrifice well worth max
ing.