Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-02-14

IelI pTtue III e&HlpitiHS hios Po"oiS "
my visitors. Upon the blackboard he
could perform wonders for one SO young
In reduction, in fractions simple and
compound; in iHvolution. In factors, and
in the roots, he was perfectly at home
So, too, in spelling was he prompt and
sure. And in grammar he was excel
lent. He, sometimes made lmistakeshin
analyzing sentences, where the meaning
of the author was not plan; but he re-
membered his rules and knew how. to
apply them. -.s~ -
/ With Luke Weston I.was sorely per-
picked. He did not get his lessons, well
at all. When he came to compound
fractions he could do nothing with them.
Left to himself, he would worry the
sums out, but he was behind hand iusF
citations, and always sblunderad Rpo =
the black board In grammar be was !
also remiss, though not so bad as in
arithmetic. When he came to parsing g
he got along much better than I. could
have anticipated, since he had been
lclumsy in com mitting the rules and e1-
ercises of, Lindley Murray to memory.
In anal lying language and omprehend-
| ing the powers of words, and in under
| standing the author, he betrayed a
| keennessfof perception for which l did
not give him credit? remember once
the class were parsing passage in Mil
ton. A relative pSonoun came to Luke,
and he parsed. I corrected him in
matter of its relation l told him it re-
lated to "a different person from the one
he had named. He read the, sentence
over again. and objected to my idea,
maintaing that he was right; and he was
proceeding to Show me wherein I was
in error when interrupted him and
made him stand out on the floor for his
disobsdience to- my instruction. That
night when alone in my. room, read
the passage over, and at length became
convinced that Luke had been right
rButrI would not own it ttos him; no, no
that would have lowered me in my
own esteem. Yet ]. resolved to be more
careful in the future how l corrected
him in his parsing lessons. However
he was, in my estimation, full of short
comings. With his general behavior
had no. reason to find fault, for he Was a
noble, generous hearted fellow, and was
beloved by his friends. -.
sasLuke, said 1, as I stopped him one
night after school, why is it that you
do not get your lessons gc- ,1src0-
He said that he didn' know. . st'..,
Don't tell me- cried, that you
don't know. You don't study, that's
the reason. See how James Shute gets
his lessons. You are older than he is
Luke said he could mot get sucf
lessons-he could not remember them
He had tried hard enough to do tht
lpuzzling sums, and to spell the lons
words, but he could not do it. = +5ilA
Il told him it. was, all nonsens. HI
could 40 it if he had mind to. H.
did not Try. He was more. fond of play
than Of study. In short, I talked very
severely to him, and assured him tha
if he did not have his lessons perfectl!
on the following day, l should punisl
him. He, went away with his, heae
bowed, and l thought in a sulky mood
The following day came, and with i
came the first class in arithmetic Jane
tShute could do every sum. Luke Wes
ton had not done half of them. Whel
the class came up to spell, James spelled
!. all the words and gave all the ,defni
tions promptly. But Luke could no
remember them 2-as <@- 10 2' '..
/ Is So Itold Weston I must punish him
and 1 stood him out uponth floor, ant
made a great fools cap and put it upor
, his head, and there he stood until tn
school was done. He did not cry, no
did he look particularly ashamed; bu
; he compressed his lips and looked yer,
ugly. AT all events, SO 1 thought at til
time. When. I relieved him of hi
: fools cap at the close Of the school.
told him hoped he would get hi
lessons better next time. He made m
t no reply, but left the room with quick
stern step, aud went home without stop
e ping to play with his mates. On tn
e following day Luke did not come t
e school, and on the day after I learne
that he had gone to learn the shoe
maker sitrade, l made some little in
! quiry, and found that he had declare
e he would go to school to me no more
! if he had to run away; and as his par
! ents were poor, they had allowed him
= go to work in neighbor's shop.
!, 81 In time | finished my school, an
/; James Shute bore off the palm G
vi scholarship. Upon him | bestowed tn
< highest encomiums, and held him up t
t the admiration of visitors. -4'
e Daring the vacation I visited neieh h
+ boring State and found employmen
: there Then went South, and fnaH
; became engaged as a teacher of mathe
!, matics in School in New Orleans
Ten years slipped by and still Iremaiue
S in my new home. One day l received
t paper from my native State. and sa'
), mention of one Luke Weston. as bein
y the leader of strong faction in tn
t Legislature. Of course it could not b
), my Luke-it could not be the one upo
d whom l had put the fools cap. No
d it must be another of the same name
II Time passed on, and by and by | rea
It in the papers that Luke Weston ha
n been elected President of the Senate ,
my native State, and was now the pow
e erful leader of powerful party.
|, course this was the same Luke of who
r | had before read; but it could not /
y the same Luke who had worn my fool
e cap. Of course not.
1t And still time passed on, and 6nall
n read that Luke Weston had bee
IF elected to the Senate of the Unite
k States, and that be was greatly houore
, by all who knew him.
IF In another year visited the home