Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-23

GOOD temper is ike sunny Ody-l
sheds brightness over everything; it il
the sweetener of toll, and the soother o.
lisquietude.
IT is a great blunder in the pursuit OF
happiness not to know when we have
rot it; that is, not to be content with {
reasonable and possible measure of it.
THE belief that guardian spirits hover
around the paths of men covers mighty
ruth; for every beautiful, pure, anc
good thought which the heart holds i:
IN angel of mercy, purifying and guard
ing the soul.
IT is the great art and philosophy OF
life to make the best of the present
whether it be good or bad-to bear the
me with resignation and patience, anG
% enjoy the other with thankfulness
md moderation.
ONE reason why we mee' with so few
people who are reasonable and agreeable
n conversation is that there is scarcely
my person who does not think more OF
What he has to say than of answering
What is said to him.
A MAN that only translates shall never
Ie poet; nor painter that only copies
lor swimmer that swims always with
ladders; so people that trust wholly to
others charity, and without industry OF
heir own, will always be poor.
LIFE is a succession of lessons which
dust be lived to be understood. All is a
iddle, and the key to riddle is another
'iddle There are as many pillows OF
Illusion as flakes in a snow storm. We
wake from one dream into another
lream.
WHEN one eye is extinguished, the
Dther becomes more keen; when one
land is cut off, the other becomes more
powerful; so when our reason in human
hings is disturbed or destroyed, Oul
lew heavenward becomes more acute
md perfect.
To know ones self is the hardest les
ION we can learn. Few of us ever real
re our position; few see that they are
Ike Bunyan's hero in the midst of Van
ty Fair, and that all about them are
mares, illusions, painted shows, real
roubles and true miseries, many trials
md few enjoyments.
TIE perception of the comic is tie OF
,ympathy with other men, pledge OF
ianity and protection from those per
yerse tendencies and gloomy insanities
n which fine intellects sometimes lose
themselves. A rogue alive to the ridic
llous is still convertible. If that sense
5 lost his fellow men can do little fol
lin.
ALAS! it is not till Time with reck-
.ess hand has torn out half the leaves
from the book of human life, to light the
Tres of passion with, that man begins t.
zee that the leaves which remain art
'ew in number, and to remember family
1T first, and then more clearly, that upon
he early pages of that book was written
story of happy influence which he woulc
fain read over again. Then comes list
less irresolution and inevitable inactior
If despair; or else the firm resolve tC
record upon the leaves that still remain
more noble history than the child'S
story with which the book began.
WHEN once man has established {
home, his most important duties are fair
ly begun. The errors of youth may bt
overlooked; want of purpose, and ever
If honor, in his earlier days may be for
gotten. But, from the moment of hl:
marriage, he begins TO write his indeli
5le history-not by pen and ink, but b!
actions, bv which he must ever after
ward be reported and judged. His con
duct at home; his solicitude for his fam
ily; the training of his children; his de
votion TO his wife; his regard for tn,
great int rests of eternity--th are thu
tests by which his worth will ever after
ward be estimated by all who think o
care about him. These will determine
his position while living, and influence
MS memory when dead. He uses wei
or i'll the brief space allotted to him on
of all eternity TO build up franz
founded upon the most solid of founda
tions-private worth.
PERHAPS ten out of every dozen peo
Pile have been disappointed in life. The.
are not precisely what they should be
The wise poor man. in spite of his wis
dom, envies the rich fool; and the foo
If he has any appreciation-envies tn
wisdom of the other. One is too tall
the other is too short; i'll health plague
a third, and so on. Yet there is not on
of the SORROWS or troubles that we hav
but might be reasoned away. The shor
man cannot add a cubit to his stature
but he may think. after all, that man.
great heroes have been short, an
that it is the mind, not the form, tha
makes the man. Happy are those who
in this world of trial, meet their disar
pointments in their youth, not in thei
old age; then, let them come and we
come; not too thick, to render us me
rose. but like spring mornings, frost
but kindly, the cold of which will XII
the vermin, but will let the plant live
and let us rely upon it that the best me
land women too) are those who hav
been early disappointed.