Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
Misfellaneons.
From the New York Mercury.
JOB TH0RNDYKE:
when FOrbearance Ceases to be
a Virtue.
BIZ GEORGE ALBANY.

:. A pious grandmother, pious father,
and pious mother, had left nothing un-
said or undone 10 Undue Job, from infancy,
with good principles. "Love to God and
peace and goodwill to man" was impressed
upon his young mind with depth, clear,
ness, and precision, which won for him,
from his Sabbath-school teacher, the fiat
teriug appellation of "the best boy in the
class" - i1 .yca e ..s.
At eight, Job was sent to the village
school-a modest establishment, where the
sehool-marm, stout goodly- y-sized maiden
lady of fifty, boxed the ears of her charges
through readin', 'ritin,t ,tjografee, and 'rithme-
tic, and then complacen,ly dismissed them
as finished scholars, and competent for the
praeticl duties of life. u
From this institution Job retired, at
fourteen, with handsome awe of the
school-marm's knuckles, vague ideas of
grammar and figures, and a big jaek-knife
for which he had given in exchange his
top, his kite, and four cents, which he had
wheedled from grandmother, who had in-
tended the money for the heath'n ea7
After two years of holyday at home, Job
was one day proudly called by grandmoth-
er from romp with old Towser, to read a
chapter in Isaiah to the minister, who, con-
siderately disregarding fourteen gross blum
ders in the finished scholars pronunciation,
expressed himself very much pleased; and
patting the delighted youth paternally on
the head, called him a good and bright
boy; grnvely adding, however, that "little
more schooling" might not be found wholly
useless, in case he should ever cross the
mountains to go out into to the world.
Job, conscious of his delinquencies-
words of more than three syllables having
proved too much for him-aloue under
stood the significance of the hint; and blush
ingly looked down-the little rogue with
an air of modest merit.
The dominic was too good-natured and
well-bred to expose him, for which Job was
privately thankful, and in after years evin-
ced his gratitude in many generous gift,
to which the dear old man, having long
forgotten the incident, never rightly under,
stood the key.
. Grandmother, inferring from the timely
suggestion that the minister, whom she
regarded as the greatest and best man on
the earth, had discovered in her pet some
hidden mental quality which might, with
proper cultivation, send him to Congress,
or some equally famous position, declared,
after tbe pastors departure, that she alters
knew there was some'n in the child more
than in most folks, and he should have as
good learnin' as anybody else's young one,
If she died for it. 80
Grandmother had been in the Revolu-
tion: and she had with her own hands
melted all the old pewter plates and pans
into bullets for her husband, when he took
his gun to go and fight the British; and
when grandmother once said anything had
to be SO "if she died for it." SO it'had to
be-that being clincher which no one in
the household would have thought for q
moment of opposing. = sa8 ni
True, Joos parents-simple, benighted
souls-thought the boy knew enough al
ready. He could read, write and cipber
and what more, in the name of goodness,
could the child know, unless it was wicked.
ness, which he would be sure to learn soon
enough! But then, grandmother had said
he should have more learnin', and that was
sufficient; more he should have--for grand
mothers will was law. rs
And therefore Job was sent to Meadow.
ville-a rival village, some four miles dis
tant, which, boasting of a bank, q paper
mill, four stores, a regular seminary, and a
BARRIERS shop, proudly looked down on Olo-
averville (Job's native village), which had
no bank, no seminary-regular or irregular
mo paper-mill, no BARRIERS shop, and on
ly two stores. .R rs ~ Aram
- Job, ignorant of the superiority of the
Meadowvillesns, at first innocently suppos.
ed himself as good as they-or at least o.
that portion who daily attended the Mead.