Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-01

DuT2tdTS OUT OI LQe uOuS6.
Recreation is not the highest kind of
enjoyment, but in its time and place IS
quite as proper as prayer.
AS men advance in life all passions
resolve themselves into money. Love,
ambition, even poetry, end in this.
A mule would rather hear himself
bray than to listen to any one else's mu-
sic. A good many people are about
ike him.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
EXPERIENCE is the best teacher; he
who forestalls and restrains her instruc-
tion robs the learner of some of the rich
est lessons life contains.
How easy is the thought, in certain
moods, of the loveliest, most unseltish
devotion! How hard is the fulfilling of
the thought in the face of thousand
toilsome difficulties!
In cases of doubtful morality it is
usual to say, 81 is there any harm in do
ing this?" This question may some
times be best answered by asking our
selves another, ais there any harm in
letting it alone?"
HE that loses his conscience has moth
ing left that is worth keeping. There
fore, be sure you look to that, and in
the next place look to your health; and
if you have it, praise God and value it
next to a good conscience.
If you love others, they will love you;
if you speak kindly to them, they will
speak kindly to you. Love is repaid with
love and hatred with hatred. Would
you hear sweet and pleasant echoes,
speak sweetly and pleasantly yourself.
SOME are endowed with good temper
in much greater degree than others
The gift can however be increased by
the effort to cultivate it. Each one can
nourish it in himself if he only comes to
appreciate its value sufficiently. Let
the motive be present and the sacrifice
will be forthcoming.
No old custom can be overturned and
no new one adopted in day. Public
opinion must grow, and growth is never
a sudden process. He who realizes this
will also realize the benefits of intelligent
not cowardly compromise-one that
shall not delay his own steps, but shall
lead others gently to follow them.
THERE is often strong reason why
person prefers his own plan or line OF
conduct, for it may be one which he is
not willing to proclaim. Twenty good
arguments adduced for an opposite
course may be outweighed by the one
which is paramount in his own mind;yet
if he do not wish for any reason, to make
it public, he is open to the charge of be
! ing unreasonable. No one has a right Il
another in so awkward a dilemma.
A POET once asked Haydn show i
happened that his church music was al
ways of an animating, cheerful, ant
even gay dispositions" To this Haydni
answer was, - cannot make it other
wise; write according to the thoughts
which | feel; when l think upon God
my heart is so full of joy, that the note
dance and leap, as it were, from my pen
and since God has given me Cheerful
heart, it will be easily forgiven me tina
| serve him with cheerful spirit"
THAT parent loves well but not wisel,
and is doing wrong who gives unearnet
rewards to the idle and selfish boy o
the fretting girl. If the boy fails t.
proves half spoiled on becoming man
it is in spite of his early training. Th
chances are that he will be willful. be
sides idle and selfish. But an early en-
vironment of industry, obedience ant
thought and faithful religious trainin!
can train the will in such a way as t.
modify natural bad qualities and rein
force natural good qualities, and lead t,
the acquiring of new ones.
A DoTING over-indulgent mother
the most cruel enemy child can have
The insane kindness of such mother
has ruined thousands of sons and daugh
tiers who under proper management
would have been comfort and cred
it to their parents. Compromises ma
sometimes be expedient in political
though that is doubtful if any whole
, some principle is waived or sacrificed
but in family government they are al
most always unwise. All this, it ma
be said, is so true that it is trite; yet, il
view of the lawlessness of the childrel
of this generation, it cannot be too ofte
reiterated.
ENERGY is of two kinds -physica
and mental and both may be affecte
favorably or unfavorably by what W
call comfort. For instance, food, raj
ment, and shelter of some sort ar
necessities to life itself. The poores
and most insufficient may keep ma
alive, but cannot make him strong G
vigorous. But let the food be nonrist
ing and plentiful, the raiment adapte
to the climate. the house staunc
and sanitary, the surroundings clea
and sweet, and they have done the
work in ministering to the health of th
average man and woman. Beyond thi!
of course, lies large area, in whic
. taste, refinement, and wealth have fu
sway. There is, however. very praci
cal and reasonable limit which each c
us ought to set for himself-that no
far are all these things increasing IN
developing ones physical and ment'
energy? For, as surely as there is