The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-07-14
ABOUT BOYS HAVING FUN.



There are about FIVE papers in this
country, edited by dyspeptic men, who
were dudes in their boyhood days, and
never enjoyed any fun, whicha are claim
ing that the "Bad Boy" articles in the
San are running the youth of the land,
and that they are bad reading matter
because they occasionally allude to
ministers or deacons. The .Snn would
not knowingly do an injury to religion,
and its editor has the greatest respect
for religious people, those who are truly
good. There are shams in religion, as
in everything else, and il is to the in
terest Of the good cause that shams be
shown up, that those who use the cloak
Of religion for vile purposes may repent.
Ministers are not above having a little
fun, and some Of the ablest preachers
Of this country enjoy the "Bad Boy"
articles immensely. The same papers
that are feeling so badly for fear the
San will bring ruin upon boys. have in
the last week published two articles
relating the tricks Of students who are
studying for the ministry that discount
anything the "Bad Boy" has ever done.
One Of the articles was trick played
on the good Bishop Peck, who recently
died, twenty years ago by students in a
Methodist college, who are now preach.
ers. II appears that Bishop Peck, who
was then president Of the college, went
rs delegate 10 Methodist conference
at Statunton, Va. There is a lunatic
asylum there, and the students Of Divin.
ity wrote to the superintendent Of the
asylum that a crazy man, who imagined
he was Bishop Peck, had escaped, and
it was expected he would appear at the
conference, and requesting the super
intendent to confine him in the asylum
until friends could send for him. A
description Of the good bishop was
sent, and when he arrived at S,aunton
he found carriage waiting for him,
and he was driven to the asylum, where
he remained twenty.four hours before
the other ministers could get him out.
This was done by men who are now
preaching the word Of God over all the
country, and yet nobody was particu.
larly injured, and no boy was ruined
The Bishop always laughed about his
experience in the asylum. Another
article in these same papers last Satur-
day was headed, "Riotous Students
a COW driven into the apartments OF
the President OF the Ohio Wesleyan
University" The boys who are study.
ing for the ministry there were having
high old time, but these papers which
publish the particulars do not seem to
think those embryo preachers are ruin.
ing the youth Of the land, though they
feel that our "Bad Boy" is a terror
We have heard dozens of good minis.
tiers tell stories Of what they did when
they were boys, that were worse than
the "Bad Boy" has ever done yet. Our
"Hennery" may hook a few melons
this summer, but we will guarantee he
will not stack the vines, nor poison
the farmers dog, as did, once, a man
who is now most successful preacher
in Wisconsin, and whose name we will
give to these papers who abuse our
"Bad Boy" ifthe minister will consent.
Boys will be boys, and nobody can
help 1t, and trying to make angels OF
them before the time comes will never
work. These sedyspeptic, horror.strickcn
editors, who find fault with boys who
have little fun, are bloodless bache-
lors who are afraid some boy will play
joke on them, and We hope the boys
will, and the San hereby gives its boys
all over the land permission to play
innocent pranks on all such editorial
dudes who hate boys. II these editors
will mind their own business, and let
Hennery alone, we will bring him
through all right, and after he has had
his fun, though We may not make an
angel of him, we will make a better
business man Of him than any ninespot
editor who don't believe boys ought to
have any fun, and We will pension the
families Of all boys who are ruined by
reading the San.