The Other Side

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 15, 4 August 1891, Page 4

The Other Side

There is a military officer stationed "in tliis city who has a son at West Point. Not long ago he hud occasion 1>» take the hoy to task for receiving fauch a low average for conduct The lad, having no excu&e, silently liore the reprimand. As' soon as the parent had left West Point, the boy went to the library and got down the mxnds lor the years in which his father was h cadet, suul carefully mai ked dowu bis father's average for conduct. ISoon sifter the first visit the father called • on his son again, and began to lecture him. The son stood it for a short time, and then quickly going to j his desk, brought out an envelope j addressed to his father, aud handing j it to him, the boy said : " Before you go any further you had better look at this." The father opened the letter, and as soon 'as he began to read it he saw that his son had made a comparison of his conduct average with his own, and as the father's whs the worse he quickly put the letter iv h'.s pocket and said : " Well, my boy, things were different then ; but we'll drop the subject." After that the cadet's , reports were passed by the father without comment. — Exchange.