Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Children of the Period. [ARTICLE]

Children of the Period.

Dr. Prime it thoroughly disgusted with the children ot the period. During hit recent summer travels, as he takes pains toinforarthe readers of thh New York Obeerror, they have forced themselves upon his attention. At one ol the largest hotels, where he passed a Sunday, the children ruled the house. They rioted, without interference on the part of their parents, so as to make a bedlam of the house, and Sunday is turned into half a tosen Fourths ot July. In the evening, when the guests had met in the parlor, sixteen boys and girls, from six to twelve yean of age, rushed in and cleared the room of all quietly-disposed people almost as soon ss so many Comanche Indians could have done it. Their boisterous romping made conversation impracticable, and the parlor was speedily deserted. Dr. Prime remonstrated with the landloi d, and n ceived the reply: “The parents teach them to be saucy and rude and profane. I spoke to a child four years old, in th° presence of bis mother, reproying (him for misconduct, and, to my horror, the little rascal turned and swore at me. His mother laughed, and said, 'How funny I’ It is an every-day matter for the children to tell me 'to go to a place not to be mentioned, and their mothers seem to think it very smart tor their children to use such words and to have such manners,” In another hotel Dr. Prime saw six tables in the parlor at one time surrounded by people pl&yisg cards, and some of these tables wholly occupied by little children, who at an age when they could scarcely be expected to have the rudiment* of education, were now adepts in games that it would be better for them never to learn at all. On the whole. Dr. Prime is inclined to say a pleasant word lor the wag who at dinner toasted “good King Herod.”

h 'isville, Ohio, had been accumulating t ft avtngs for forty years, until he could count the snug sum of $8,500. This amount he had invested in Government four per cents. Last week 81y*s evil dsy arrived and he went to Cincinnati, where he exchanged the bonds for gold. He put the gold in an empty cigar box and the box into a valise. With bia son-in-law to aocompany him on his Journey Sly struck out for the Little Miama depot and secured a seat for himself and companion. Just before the train atarted Sly left the ear to get a newapaper, the aon-ln-law remaining in charge of the precious valise. The Kuara’s attention was diverted for a mement from the valise, which stood on the floor in the aisle, tty **m» incident. There was a hurried movement through the car of a party of men. A taw minutes altowards Sly’s companion noticed that the valise wm displaced- He pulled it back Into place, when a heavy body rolled in it. Thisalarmed him, and looking at the valise he found it was not hi* A new but very sommon looking affair bad been substituted for his gripsack. He tore open and found that it contained nothing bat three bricks. To give the ,i»fm was the work of a second, bot the thieves were already safe with their booty, ii the description W« ton-in-law coufd give of the robber was that he «"*prob*hfy a heavyAet, dwk-looking man, who bad followed them part of th« way to the depot. The valise was take# » fammond street station. It way made pf paper painted to imitate leather, and SJSJS had been thrown in SO hastity as to break out the ends in aeveral placet. Bristly U k* purpose after ***•«<**# mmuf

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