Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-08


Hatred is active, and envy passive
disgust; there is but one step from envy
to hate.
The world is never interested in mar
who talks about his wrongs, or woman
who talks about her rights.
Such as thy words are, such will thy
affections be; such thy deeds as thy at,
fections; such thy life as thy deeds.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
YESTERDAY is yours no longer, to-
morrow may never be yours; but to-day
is yours, the living present is yours, and
in the living present you may stretch
forward to the things that are before.
To show that man was sincere in
all his life-course is to show that he did
not intend to be wrong; but it does not
show that he was right in his opinions
or correct in his conduct. There is such
a thing as giving too much credit to a
man simply on the ground of his unmis
taxable sincerity.
FLATTERERs are the worst kind OF
traitors, for they will streEgten ones
imperfections,e encourage one in all evils,
correct one in nothing, and so shadow
and paint follies and vices. Because all
men are apt to flatter themselves, to en-
tertain the addition of other mems
praises is most perilous.
MISFORTUNE is never mouTnful to the
soul that accepts it, for such do always
see that every cloud is an angels face.
Every man deems that he has precisely
the trials and temptations which are the
hardest of all Affections for him to bear;
but they are simply so because they are
the very ones he needs.
SOME children are utterly broken
down physically and mentally by over
education; others have no education at
all. OF the twain, the former are more
to be pited. The uneducated can after
ward educate themselves; but children
who have had the vitality and spirits of
their youth dragooned out of them by
martinez teachers can never repair the
damage that has been done to their
bodies and minds by tasking.
SELF-DIsCIPLINE is, or should be, the
end and aim of all other discipline. and
the test of its quality; and every one
who is at all intelligent will be thankful
for having been subjected to control
in early life that has gradually prepared
him for and emerged into self control.
Only thus can any one experience the
meaning and the blessing of freedom,
for, without, though no hand may direct
him and no voice command him, his
own breast will be scene of anarchy
and confusion and tyranny, and he its
powerless victim.
MATRIMoNY cannot change human
character, and, when two persons of es
sentially antagonistic natures are unfor-
tunately united in its bonds. it is only
by the exercise of mutual forbearance
that they can hope to live together in
peace and amity. Intellect, therefore,
should never mate with imbecility. No
good ever came of such unions, yet they
take place every day. Passion blinds
the Judgment in these cases, and, when
the love-lamp goes out and the ordinary
daylight looks in, one of the parties at
least is sure to stand aghast at the real
tiles which it reveals.
WE make a great mistake in treating
the affections and emotions OF human
nature as if they were goods to be bought
and sold on equal terms of exchange. No
one, of course, admits this in words; yet,
when we selfishly complain OF or secret
ly harbor the thought that we have re-
ceived less than we gave in love or SER
vice, in sympathy and goodwill, what
other construction can it bear? To re-
proach another, even in thought, with
giving us less confidence or sympathy
or love than We have given him is SIM
ply to show that we know nothing of
the nature of these sweet affections.
Their freedom is their life. We may
injure them, but never by pressure or
can we force them to flow
in any channel but. their own. 1t is very
true that love begets love. but that is not
the selfish love that is ever grasring, but
the generous and self forgetting love
which pours itself forth gladly and
without thought of return.
That is the love which wins love from
every one, not consciously or intention
ally. but naturally and freely, because no
one can help it.
MosT of the best men of the present
day whose names will pass down to our
children's children have been quiet
workers, and only ambitious in the good
sense of doing thoroughly and deserv
ingly the work which will most CON-
pletely express their ASPIRATIONS and char
acters. Such men are genuinely honor
ed and trusted when their tmerits are
known; but the man who is once brand
ed ambitious or self seeking remains al
WAYS under a shadow of suspicion
" Do you mean to say some one re-
"that l am not to try to
improve my position in life and rise as
far as may be possible in the social
scale?" Certainly you are; but the surest
way is by putting the effort forth in
whatever work or study may be under
taken. To be definite and practical is |
the great lesson of youth. The vague |
yearnings that would overlap all obsta-
cles and win lffe's rewards with wish |
or not at all the noble sensations that
they are credited with being. Day
dreams, as rule, are but a play In which |
the dreamer is actor and audience COM
bined, and the effort exhansts the ener-
gy which is needed for carrying the
dream to realization. The men who
have been successful have not usually |
been of the far-seeing ambitious sort.
who have seen the end from the begin
ming, but they have worked at what has
been near at hand; they have seen their
fitness to do something here and now,
and they have done it.