Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-07-19
Not Ashamed of Ridicule.

Not Ashamed of Ridicule.
shall never forget lesson, which | re-
ceived when quite young lad, at an Acade-
nv in the B. Among my school fellows
were Hartly and Jemson. They were some.
what older than myself, and to the latter
looked up as a sort of leader in matters o.
opinion as we'll of sport. He was not at
heart malicious, but he had foolish ambition
OF be ing thought witty and sarcastic, and he
made himself feared by besetting habit of
| turning things into ridicue, SO that he seemed
! continually on the look out for matter of de-
rison.
Hartly was new scholar, and little was
known of him among the boys. One morn
ing as we were on our way to school he
was seen driving COW along the road to-
ward neighboring field. A group of boys
among whom was Jemson. met him as he was
passing. The opportunity was not to be
lost by Jemson.
'Holloa!' he exclaimed whats the price of
milk! say, Jonathan, what do you fodder
on! What will you take for all the gold on
her horns! Boys if you want to see the la
test Paris style, look at those boots!'
Hartly waving his hand at us with pleas
ant smile, and driving the COW to the field,
took down the bars OF a rail fence, saw her
safely in the inclosure, and then putting up
! TIE bars, came and entered school with the
| rest Of us. After school in the afternoon he
let out the COW. and drove her off, none of us
| knew where. And every day, for two or three
weeks, he went through the same task.
The boys of B--Academy we're nearly
all the sons of wealthy parents, and some of
them, among whom was Jemson, were dun
ces enough to look down with a sort of dis
dan upon scholar who had driven cow
The sneers and jeers of Jemson, were accor-
dinghy often renewed. He once on plea
that he did not like the order of the barn, re-
fused to sit next to Hartly. Occasionally he
would inquire after the cows health pronoun-
cling the word kc-ow,' after the manner OF
some of the country people
With admirable good nature did Hartly
bear all these silly attempts to wound and an
noy him. do not remember that he was
even once betrayed into look or word of
angry retaliation.
Il suppose, Hartly,' said Jemson, one day,
'l oppose your daddy means to make milk
man of YOU
'Why no,r asked Hartly.
20 nothing; only don't leave much water in
the cans after you rinse them-that's allp
The boys laughed, and Hartly, not in the
least mortified, replied
Never fear; il ever should rise to be u
milk. man, III give good measure and good
milk
The day after this conversation there was
public exhibition, at Which number of la
dies and gentlemen, from reighborng cities
were present. Prizes were awarded Dy the
Principal of our Academy, and both Hartly
and Jemson rece, ed q creditabe number; for
IT, respect to scholarship, these two were a
bout equal. And the ceremony of distrbu-
tion, the Principal remarked that there was
one prize, consisting of gold medal, which
was rarely awarded not so much on account
of its great cost, as because the Instances
" ere rare which rendered its bestowal proper.
1t was the prize of heroism. The last boy
who received one was young Manners, who,
three years ago, resued the blind girl from
drowning.
The Principal then said that, with the per-
mission of the company, he would relate a
short story. Not long since, some scholars.
were flying kite in the street, just as poor
boy on horseback rode by on his way to the
mill. The horse took fright and threw the
boy, lnjuring him so badly that he was car.
red home, and confined some weeks to his |
bed. OF tho scholars who had unintention-
ally caused the disaster, none followed to |
learn the fate of the wounded boy. There
was one scholar, however, who had witnessed
the accident from the distance, who not only
services.
This scholar soon learned that the woun-
ded boy was the grandson of poor widow,
whose sole means of support consisted in
selling the milk of fine COW of which she !
was the owner. Alas! what could she nov
DO! She was old and lame, and her grand |
son, on whom she depended to drive the COW
to pasture. was now on his back elpless.-l
Never mind, good woman said the scholar,
Il can drive your cown With blessings and
thanks the old woman accepted his offer.
But his kindness did not stop here, Mon
ey was wanted to get articles from the Apoth-
eccry. Il have money that my mother sent
me to buy pair boots with; but | can do
without them for while 80 no. said the
old woman; Il cannot consent to that; but
here is pair of cowhide boots that bought
for Henry who can't wear them, Ii you
would only buy these, giving us what they
cost, we should get along nicely The