Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1859 — The President in the Year 1900. [ARTICLE]

The President in the Year 1900.

The boy is now living who will be PresL dent of the United States in 1900. He is about ten or twelve years of age. His parents are in humble circumstances, but of sterling traits of character, and their son is not one ot tho.se dirty, noisy boys that spend their days, evenings and Sabbaths in idleness and rowdyism. On the contrary, he is of a serious cast, is very studious, and, withal, is well behaved. Teacher, weigh well your responsibility! The future President may be in that grammar class that yon think scarcely worthy of respectful attention. What boy of all our readers will lay claim to this distinction] Recollect, the future President is not found emongst the Sabbath-breakers, the everyday idlers, the evening rowdies, the blasphemous, the vulgar, or among those that tell a lie. He is not one of those who pride themselves as being Young America, and despise the authority of a father, or break away from the gentle restraint of a good mother.