Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1881 — Ingersoll Bossing his Household. [ARTICLE]

Ingersoll Bossing his Household.

Ingersoll was in Virginia City the writer had the pleasure of spending half an hour with hint.» He talked about the effect of kindness in the management of children, and said he bad never spoken an unkind wo.d. to his daughters or struck' them in ids life. ' r . “I manage them by argument. Sometimes I have some pretty hard tuseels, for they come al a man in such curious ways that they floor me. You know when you box with a novice, you offer get a whack iu the* eye when you least expect it.” Just then his two young daughters, aged about nine and twelve, appeared from au inner room, and saiu they were going out to take a walk, pro-* vided th-' rather had uo objection. A good-natured argument began, and Ingersoll and his daughters had it pretty lively for some minutes. It is but justice to the girls to say that they got away witn the oiu man, and showed conclusively that there was no good reason why they should not take a walk. “All right; I give in,” he finally said. “You out talk me, but it’s two to one,” and the children started down stairs. “If I can’t beat my children with arguments, I never use duos,” he said; “but they won’t be gone long,” He had hardly spoken before the children returned, and the eldest said: “We didn’t want to go very bad, anyhow, and as we saw you didn’t quite like to have us, we thought we’d come back.” Now, does any one think that nnfta, hard words and a rawhide would have made those children more tractable, or the parent any happier ?

New York Sunday Dispatch: We give Senator Conkling credit for many good qualities. He is an outspoken foe, a firm friend and an honest public man. But we are thoroughly disgusted with his airs, his insolence and his arrogance. We say that if he desires a fight With the administration of Mr. Garfield, we hope be will get it, and that it will be just as bitter as he may wish to make it. We think that about nine-tenths of the Republicans of this state are beartly sick of Mr. Conkling and his arrogance, and they will in no way regret t see him taken down from his very high horse. Bigger “bosses” than he have been discovered by the people of New York before this day. Mrs. Van Pelt, of Nanuet, Rockland county, N. Y., has just presented her husband with a sixth pair of twins in succession. .