Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — Punishment ant Reward. [ARTICLE]

Punishment ant Reward.

Whenever a certain Atchison boy is bad, his mother makes him put on his Sunday clothes. She finds that this is punishment enough, though it is reward tor her girls when they behave.— Atchison Globe. Never give up to children if they are in the wrong. Do. not rob them of a memory that their mother and father were always true to their principle®.— Ladies’ Home Journal

, it Rained Copper. The cadets of Annapolis sat in the side aisles of the chapel, leaving the center aisles for the officers and their families, says Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady in “Under Tops’ls and Tents.” When the offering was received, the two boys charged with the duty of passing the plates did not make the slightest effort to circulate them among the cadets, for we never had any money. They would walk rapidly down the aisle and then come deliberately up the middle, gathering thence what they could. One Sunday the chaplain announced that he would preach a missionary sermon the next Sunday. It did not have the ordinary effect in emptying the church, for we were obliged to go as usual. During the week it occurred to the bright mind of a senior, or first class man, who is now a prominent New York financier, that it would be well for the cadets to make an offering. So he sent out to the bank on Saturday morning and succeeded in smuggling in over 300 copper cents, which he distributed 1 cent per boy to the Episcopal battalion. We stationed a strong, long armed man on the outside seat of the first pew In each aisle. The chaplain made a piteous appeal for pennies even, and when the astonished cadets who passed the plates started on their perfunctory promenade the strong, one armed men aforesaid promptly relieved them of the metal plates, and each one dropped in one copper cent with an ominous crash and then deliberately handed the plate to the next boy, who did the same thing. It rained copper cents for about ten minutes. The chaplain was dreadfully disconcerted, the officers fidgeted and looked aghast. Some of them laughed, and the cadets preserved a deadly solemnity. The affair was a striking success.