The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-10-05


who aims 10 d. bis best. 10 bc told
'hil others ucconplshc ! in chilihoo'
what be can do only by hard study it
tho best years OF his youth. But
such boy should not relax his OF.
forts lie will succeed, If h. give,
his mind to the work. That distin.
guishtd teacher. DR.. Arnold. Of Rug
by, after speaking of those who z,al-
onsly cultivate iuferior powers oi
mind, sad Of such apupil II would
stand by that man hat in han l." lie
once spoke SHARPLY to dull by, who
replied
why do you speak so ongrily sir
Indeed, | am doing the best can
DR.. Arnold said that he never 81
felt rebuke in his life. Sir Isaac
Newton was pronounced Ounce in
his early school days. IIc stood low
in his classes, and seemed to nave no
relish for stu ly. Ono day the bright
boy Of the school gave him kick in
the stomach, which caused him severe
! pain The insult stuns young New
ton to the quick. and he resolved To
make himself felt aud respected By
improved scholarship. He applied
himself rcsolutclv to study, and ere
long stood in his classes above the boy
who hal kicked him. uul ultimatcly
became the first scholar in the school
Newton owed his emincncc iu hi,
philosophical studies more to pcrsc-
vcroncc ani application than to auy
marvellous natural tndown!cuts.
Oliver Goldsmith, than whom
boy could appear more stupid, was the
butt Of ridiculc at school, A school
dame, after wonderful patience and
perseverance, taught him the alpha
beta thing which she deemed ere l.
table to her skill, aud which she lived
to mention with pride when her pu-
II pill became timUus. lie made no
progress in the exact studies, bat
hr liked history and Latin poetry.
He was sore trial to his ambitious
mother, who made many fruitlcss ef.
forts TO quicken his wits 10y her sharp
words. His relatives, teachers and
schoomatcs all told him that he was
fool. which verdict he did not dis
pu,e, but took good humoredly. Even
when be had produced the Travel
er, an eminent critic said to friend /:
Sir, | do believe lhot Goldsmith wrote
that poem and that, let me tell you
is believing great deal"
Sir Walter Scott was dull boy.
aud when attending the university at
Edinburgh he went by the name of
l"The Great Biockhcud." But he
wasted no time on triiies, aud, in pur.
suing study that he lovcd-as, for
example history or the clasSics--he
was persevering and methodical He
was one Of those whose knowledge on
subject that Interested Increased uu
til it lay like great volume in his
mind. When Walter Scott began TO
make use Of that knowledge society
gave him another name, somewhat
different from the Edinburgh appella-
ton. 1t wos "The Great Magician.
Hutton, the antiquarian whose
knowledge Of books was deemed re-
markable, was slow to learn when n
boy. lie was sent to school to Ger
tain Mr.. Meat. iIo thus tells his ex.
pcrisncc: my master took occasion
to beat my head against the wall. hoI-
ding it by the hair, but he never could
beat any learning into it,
Sheridan found il hard to acquire
the elcmenis oil learning Ills mother
deemed it her duty to inform his
teacher that be was not briIht to learn
like other boys, Adam Clarke was
pronounced BY bis ialher to be "a
gricvous dance and DR.. Chalmers,
was pronouuced by his teacher MS IN
incorrlgible one Chatter,on was dis
missed frou' scho by his master, who,
finding hip,self unable to teach him
anything in a satisfactory manner.
settled IL that Tho boy was II "lool."
Teachers are apt to become impa-
tient over dull scholars, and predict
!of them that they will never come to
anything Such uocallod for prophe-
cies ought to discourage no scholar
who tries to do vol. 4 certain Ed.
inburgh professor one pronounced up
on student his severe opinion :
Ounce you are and danco you will
ever remain That student was Wal
ter Scott. Ifa dullboy feels an in