Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Why He Growled. [ARTICLE]

Why He Growled.

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* ths side aisles of the chapel, leaving the -center., alstos Jor the officers andrtiieir famines, <eays •Dr. djww Townsend Brady Ju fUndpr Tops'ls and TertCa.” / When the offering was. the two,, boys, charged with the duty :of passing, the plates.,did not make the al|ghtest efforttocinculatethemamotog. the cadets, for we. never had sny tndney. 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 be 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. . nt<,. . The chaplain made a, piteous, appeal for pennies even, and when the ajstoaIsbed cadets who passed the plates started on,their perfunctory promenade the strong, one armed meq aforesaid .promptly relieved them of the; xnetal, plates, and .each one dropped. In .one copper 1 cent,.witjb .an ominous crash, and- then defiberately.ihanded the ptete tp the,, next zboy.i who, did the same thing, ,Ik rained copper cents,for ,about ten minutes. The chaplain, was.drepdifully. disconcerted, the officers fidgeted and looked I aghast.. Borne>!of: them laughed,., and the cadets 1 preserved i • deadly,, solemnity. The affair waa a striking.success.,> . ~ ,n < < .i