Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-22

Reelection increases the vigor of th'
mind as exercise does the strength o
the body.
A man is always ready to listen Il
words of wisdom when he is speaking
them himself.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
Duty comes to Us as something hard
and we shrink from it. No one is larg'
man if he does not feel that his duty i.
larger than himself.
The most Insignificant thing has it.
force and beauty when it is spoken by &
kind father, and an Insignificant trif1t
has its weight when offered by dutifu
| child.
IT is ambition, anxiety, and disap
pointment, the hopes and fears, the
loves and hates of our lives, that veal
out out our nervous system and endan.
| danger the balance of the brain.
EVERY individual owes obedience tO
| something, and there can be no obedi
ence without authority. Indeed, free.
iom, rightly understood, imposes the
most solemn obligations of all.
THE more people do, the more they
| can do; he that does nothing renders
himself incapable to do anything;whilst
we are executing one work, we are pre-
| paring ourselves to undertake still an
other.
For those of us whom Nature means
to keep at home she provides intertain-
nent. One man goes thousand miles
20 see it, he is so shorts sighted. Another
is SO far sighted that he stays in his
room and sees more than Italy.
| WE never knew scolding person that
was able to govern family. What
makes people scold? Because they can
not govern themselves. They who gov
rrn well are generally calm; they are
prompt and resolute, but steady and
| mild.
You may build your own churches,
you may set them on prominent corners
and flush them with beauty and thrill
them with music and eloquence, but the
essence and power of the Christian life
lies in the touch of soul upon soul. Ev-
erything else is machinery. Get rid of
the power and the machinery tumbles to
pieces.
He that loves the country as God
made it, in all its beauty and immortal
freshness, must love God and man too;
and while he seeks, in mountain SOli-
tuds and on sea-shores, relief from the
WEAKNESS of too long jostling in the
crowd, will find how this very solitude
will quicken his appetite for human so
ciety, and his perception of the comforts
and home pleasurse of town.
THERE can be no shadow without
light; yet those who remain in the one
fail to recognize the other. The calam-
ity looms up so massively and so darkly
as to hide the truer and the larger part
of life, which is bright with blessings.
1t is wholesome discipline, though oft
en- hard one, to turn the mind from its
sorrow to its many sources of joy; and
he who can help one to do this is true
friend.
LACK of refinement in ones manner
or incivility in ones ordinary personal
address ought to be a matter of re-
gret to the person whose daily life
displays such a defect. But it is
by no means uncommon for men and
women to think, or to pretend they
think, that rudeness of manner and
neglect of the courtesies of life are evil
dence of strong character, and that
coarse uncivil habit of speech is an
admirable proof that the speaker is
'plain blunt person" who is above
shams and nretenses. Nevertheless,
while rudeness may exist along with
strength of character and integrity, it is
always to them, and never help.
WE must never forget that, whatever
the circumference which claims our al
legiance, we are still the center, and
must remain elf-poised and resolute.
He who despises himself, who neglects
himself, who timidly conforms himself
in all things to other people and has no
respect for his own individuality can
never be force in the world. This in
deed is only another form of selfshness
loving ease and hating toll, living
withot energy or purpose, and sinking
like dead weight on whoever will bear
it. 1t is perhaps difficult at once to pre-
serve our centrality and to identify our.
selves with each circumference; but
what is there of the highest and the
best that does not present difficulty?
HAPPINESS is supposed to be some
thing dropped upon us or withheld, not
drawn to us by any attracting force or
will of our own. 1t is thought to be
easy enough to be happy when every
thing conspires to make one so, and i'm
possible to help being unhappy in oppo-
site circumstances If this be so, while
men may be congratulated in the one
case, they are not to be commended; /;
and, while they may be commiserated in
the other case. they cannot be blamed.
If there is no power, there can be no
choice, and no duty except to bow, with
as good grace as may be, to the de-
crees of fate. Yet, if they were SC, hap
piness would always be in the exact ra-
ito of what are called favorable circum-
stances. Wealth with its various op-
portunities would always let in floods of
unmingled delight, while their absence
would always be attended with unmiti-
gated gloom and sadness. We know
that this is not SO. Some at least on
whom fortune seems to smile are far
less happy than some on whom she only
frowns.