Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1874 — Youthful Integrity. [ARTICLE]

Youthful Integrity.

A friend sends us the following. It reminds one of Casablanca, but two points, of difference may be noticed: Casabianca would not take water, but the Washington youngster did; Casabianca got “ blowed up,” this one did not. There is nowadays a good deal of complaint about the want of obedience to parental authority on the part of the rising generation, especially on the part of the boys. We heard of a case the other day which proves that there are noble exceptions td the average “ boy of the period.” A young son of one of the principal examiners in the Patent Office at Washington went to pass his school vacation at an uncle’s in Kentucky, near the Ohio River. There was but one restriction on the scope of the boy’s ainus.ement. Horses, dogs, rifles, shot-guns, etc., etc., were freely allowed as companions of his amusements; but, as his cousins were as fond of the water as so many ducks, he was requested to shun the boat which the cousins were wont to use in their aquatic excursions. He promised faithfully, like the dutiful lad he is, and departed rejoicing. A recent letter to his father graphically describes various excursionsand the “ good times" he had enjoyed, among the very last one in which the cousins had desired to visit the Ohio shore. “ They .went over in the boat,” writes the boy, “ but I remembered your wishes in that respect, and so swam the river!” It is understood that the next mail announced to the youngster that the embargo upon the boat had been removed.— Harper's Magazine.