Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-05-25

ence, there would be no discOurtesies.
The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market. 1t depends chiefly OF
two things s-industry and frugality.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
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| A PERSON is never so much in need OF
encouragement and appreciation as when
he is conscious of not deserving it.
| As the shadow of the sun is largest
when his beams are lowest, so we are al
ways least when we make ourselves the
greatest.
HEARKEN to the voice of considera-
tion; her words are the words of wis
dom, and her paths shall lead thee to
safety and truth.
A VERY wise man will always have
sense enough to see that he is a great
fool; but very great fool always looks
upon himself as a very wise man.
ed there is not much hope of peaceful
and fruitful evening. Sun-risings and
sun settings are closely connected in ev-
cry experience.
LET us never forget that every station
in life is necessary; that each deserves
our respect; that not the station itself,
but the worthy fulilment of its duties,
does honor to a man.
ALL beauty is bound together, and
leads up from the smallest things of life
to the greatest, from the most material
to the most spiritual, from the simplest
and humblest to the most exalted.
DON'T worry whether the man who
says nice things to you means them or
not. The fact that he takes the pains to
say them is a compliment. He doubt
less has an AK to grind, but it doesn't fol
low that you must turn the grindstone.
PEOPLE Numerically opposite in
views may be excellent friends, but there
must be other directions in which they
sympathize. Persons of the most di-
verse characteristics may be tenderly at
tached, but there must be certain tastes
or interests in common.
IT is because so few have definite
goals before them that so many fail; it is
because so many aim at impossibilities
that so few succeed; it is because there
is too much wishing for success, with so
little unremitted striving after it, that
so many end with wishing; it is because
there is too much eagerness for speedy
triumph that so many end in defeat.
MUCH greater efforts are bestowed
nowadays on making young men and
women learned and accomplished than
on cultivating in them either sympathy
| in the pursuits of others, or good tenn
per or geniality; yet neither learning be
it ever so profound, nor accomplishments
be they ever so brilliant, will bring them,
or those about them half the happiness
that kindly sympathetic, good natured
manners will diffuse.
SYSTEM is as essential in the govern
ment of the household as in that of the
State. Order, promptness, punctuality,
industry, and good judgment are the
necessary and efficient forces in the
home. To these add cheerfulness, pa
thence, and thoughtful care for the
general comfort, and happiness of its
members, and all unpleasant friction
will be avoided and the home made what
it should be-the center of all that is
best and dearest to the human heart.
THERE is general feeling that to con-
fess wrong implies certain inferiori-
ty. The very reverse is true. 1t is not
the inferior but the superior man who
intelligently discovers his errors and
hastens to admit them and, as far as
possible, to repair them. To deny and
excuse them, whether to self or others,
is the real mark of inferiority, and leads
not to improvement but to deterioration.
Why then should we hide our best self
and put forth only our worst? The shame
should come when we endeavor to ap-
pear what we are not, never when we
frankly acknowledge what we have done
and stand for what We are. Children
should be accustomed to this, not as a
penalty, as is too often the case, for then
they will naturally dislike and evade it.;
but let them regard it as necessary
duty, relief to themselves, debt of
honor which they owe to others, and the
habit will grow with their growth and
be invaluable to them in after-life.
THE man is poor indeed who cannot
in some way help his neighbor, if only
by words of sympathy; and unless he
has the disposition to do this when he
is poor, there is little likelihood that the
possession of riches will transform his
nature. "Who is my neighbour" is a
very old question to which some mis-
leading answers have been given. The
common reply is to sweep the whole hor-
izon with an indefinite gesture, and to
say-Everybody. But we do not like
such generalities. They afford cheap
! way of escape from individual feelings;
they excuse us from caring much about
anything because we have such high
3 regard for everybody. Our benevolence
is thus in danger of becoming like the
circle in the water (which bv broad
0 spreading doth disperse to naught." 1t
9 is case of diffuse and lose. Let us not
1 say word against the sense of univer.
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