Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — Accurate Information. [ARTICLE]

Accurate Information.

Mr. L believes with Solomon that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, therefore he keeps in a certain closet a leather strap with which he administers punishment to his offspring when they commit any misdemeanor.

A few days ago he had occasion to need the strap, but it was missing from its usual place, and a thorough search of the entire flat failed to discover it. Then he offered a reward of five cents to whomsoever of his olive branches could tell him what had become of the lost article. "Gimme the nickel, ’* cried four-year-old Ben. “I know where it is.” When the coin was safely stowed away in his trousers pocket he said with much pride: “I frowed it down the air-shaft.” — Philadelphia Public Ledger.