Connecticut western news., 1883-09-12
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO.
The Boys of the Olten Time and he Boys of TO-day Compared and the Results Given.
From the Milwaukee Sun. l

>Se--]" From the Milwaukee Sum-
 The Whitewater Chronicle, 8 paper published by an old schoolmate of the | editor of Tue Sun, starts out an article scoring the boys as follows:
 "At the risk of being thought too fas- tidious, and called 8 grumbler, the Chro'e- | icle wishes for about the fourteenth time, | to make few mild remarks upon what | 1t considers 8 growing evil. There has for long time past seemed to be a strong tendency on the part of quite 8 number of the rising generation to in dulge in 8 good deal of idiotic enthusiasm and general devilishness."
 Stop right there, old pard. When any man who has been boy himsel1, as we know the editor of the Chronicle has, at tempts to put on dignity and take the boys of the present day across his jour nalistic knee, because they indulge in ''idiotic enthusiasm he starts the Irish in us, and the red hair snaps like strok- ing the fur of cat the wrong way. Let the editor of the Chronicle look back twenty five years, and think of the devil try that was going on among boys at that time, and compare it with the quiet of to-day. He complains because boys who can raise two shillings go to the hall and get in the gallery and whistle and stamp and shout at an entertainment
 Twenty-Five years ago, in the same town, boys never thought of paying to go in show at that same hall, but crawled up to the windows on boards, and got in, and the audience could con- sider itself in luck if they didn't raise the roof. The boys of a quarter of 8 cen tury ago, in that town, gwere regular cow boys compared with your truly good boys of the present day. Why, men, don't you remember when 8 Sunday morning in summer would have seemed tame indeed if the people on the way to wagons on Main street, placed there the night before by the "boys." Don't you remember how every wagon contained 8 crockery crate, with 8 dog inside, and each cage labeled with the name of some rare animal, caught in the jungles of Africa, or lassoed on the plains of Venzuela by the Indians. You remem- Der how a man had to chain down the would be liable to find it on Main street in the morning, with 8 sign on it full of information.
 Of course, your great mind can go back to the time when every sign in town that was not printed on stone, or cut in marble in the sidewalk, would ap- pear in the wrong place in the morning, and you can recall how the long-faced citizens who could not see any fun in such monkey work, said those boys | would all fetch up i'll State prison. We have watched the State prison records for quarter of 8 century, and not a water boys is recorded in any prison, but we can point out fifteen of them who occupy high positions in all branches ol business. There are lawyers, as good | 1 nocturnal menagerie organizers and smokehouse movers, of the olden time. There is judge of a Western State who used to make 8 speciality of putting zebra stripes on white dog with g backing brush, whose name we sup. press out of regard for his sisters, who never could be made to believe that the son of Baptist minister had in the na- ture of things, any of the kittenishness oi other boys, but he had it bigger thar anybody.
 And yet his decisions, on the judicial bench of Colorado, are said to be marked with no evidence that he ever worked half the night to carry the northwest corner of smoke house around block to have it ready in the morning. There is capitalist living in this city, who helped place two hundred pound wood en boot, stolen from the front of 8 shoe store, upon 8 school house at White
 water one night, but the exercise dit him good, and nobody was harmed | DOIuo OL Il0 UoSI H0lCuduGS, Dauk0fS manufacturers and professional men o
 the State, grew up from these devils
 who made Whitewater fairly howl ol
 dark nights twenty-five years ago, an'
 it is astonishing that paper, publishes
 by one of the boys, should kick becaus the boys of the present day whistle an stamp their feet nowadays. The Sc
 does not wish to have boys do sue
 things now. because it is not necessary and there are other ways to stir up tn blood, but it does not want people feel that boys are all going to the dev because they do occasionally slop ove1 l A Little Mistake.