Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-21

of your chair a pin-cushion, with the
points of the pins all turned upward.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THERE is no surer mark Of the absence
of the highest moral and intellectual
qualities than cold reception of excel
lence.
THERE is no man so good who, were
he to submit all his thoughts and ac-
tions to the law, would not deserve
hanging ten times in his life.
THERE is no thing that love so much
needs as a sweet voice to tell what it
means and feels; and it is hard to get
and keep it in the right tone.
BAD men are never completely happy.
although possessed of everything that
this world can bestow; and good men
are never completely miserable, although
deprived of everything that the world
can take away.
In common familiar everyday inter-
course we can get the sympathy for
which we yearn only from the firm
sweet natures that are not easily fur
ried by every passing cloud nor tarie
away by trivial eXcitements.
THERE is no greater work on earth
than that of developing everything in
man-of bringing it into harmony, of
holding it back from wrong doing, and
pushing it forward to positive excel
lence. He builds a great thing who
builds a pyramid; but he builds greater
who builds character.
AMONG the many powers OF mind
which are far-reaching il their influence
is the power of discrimination. The
habit of mentally mixing up things that
are essentially separate, and confusing
together what should be kept apart is
the cause of much of the trouble and
sorrow, disappointment and heartburn
ing in the world; and the fact that this
is not appreciated makes the uprooting
of the habit very difficult.
A wELL-oRDERED home is paradise
on earth. No other earthly pleasure is
equal to the calm contentment felt at
the family fireside. The excitement of
even successful business is attended
with vexation; the enjoyments of travels
are associated with fatigue and danger;
the pursuit of fame is distracting; and
even the pleasures of knowledge are
combined with bitterness. But the hap
piness of the fireside is III alloyed.
No good work that can be commenced
at once should ever be postponed. Men
sometimes compromise with their con-
sciences by promising to abandon some
pet vice at future day. We have no
faith in post-dated promises of reform.
Persons who make them may think they
are in earnest, but they deceive them
selves. Why not resolve and execute
simultaneously? If habit is evil and
dangerous, give it no quarter. Slay it
on the spot Respited vices are rarely
conquered.
Much of the intellectual feebleness
which cares little To acquire knowledge
or to distinguish truth from error, which
escapes from the drill of study as from
an enemy, comes not from incapacity,
but from cowardice. The power to do
these things lies latent within MS, but
we lack the courage to put it forth.
This is why idleness and cowardice are
SO often found together. One who, low
ing his ease, constantly yields to self
indulgence, feels less and less courage
to make an effort, and the coward in one
thing soon becomes the coward in all.
NEATNEss is commendable virtue.
Who does not admire this quality? Who
does not admire this quality? 1t should
be seen in and about every home in the
land. Sometimes it happens that the
housekeeper may be neat body, aud
the husband who manages outside may
be sloven, and vice versa. The home
of slatternly woman is one to be avoid
ed always This habit of neatness may
be carried too far, but we think it better
to err on that side than in the opposite
direction. A good housekeeper will
never permit things to become untidy.
The habits of neatness are partly natu
l al anu pdiIiy aSduiiCo. lo ououiu NC
the aim of every father and mother to
teach their children and insist upon it.
A GOOD memory is so very useful and
desirable thing that persons who pro-
fess to teach artificial systems of memo
rizing easily obtain attention and profit
able patronage; but there is really no
such thing as an artificial memory" or
even an artiicially- assisted memory.
Many people would undoubtedly have
better memories than they now have if,
in their youth or in their past life, they
had understood the simple physiological
principles upon which the memory is
founded. The most important part of
the memory is the slowing away of
things, not the bringing of them forth
again; and, if people are careful, during
the period of life which is chiefly occu
pied in slowing away things, to do this
work with attention and thOroughness,
and If they are able in after life to keep
themselves in fairly good state of
health and vigor, they are not likely to
be troubled with poor memory. The
first and most important element of
memory is the taking of an impression
in such way that it is likely to be
retained; the more sharp and vivid tn. s.
impression is made, the more permanent
it is like y to be. Attention in taking
in what we wish to learn, then, is the Sc :
cret of remembering it afterward.