The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-20


them to the dudes for fish bait. He says
some of the fools will pay ten cents apiece
for minnows, SO if we sell a million min
nows, we make fortune. I am coming
back in September and will buy out your
grocery. Say, let me have a pound of
raisins. and III pay you when 1 sell my
nncle's minaxs.,,
About Boys Having Fun.
From Peck's Sun.
There are about five papers in this
country, edited by dyspeptic men, who
were dudes in their boyhood days, and
never enjoyed any fun, which are claim,
ing that the "Bad Boy" articles in the
Sun are running the youth Of the land,
and that they are bad reading matter be-
cause they occasionally allude to minis
ters or deacons. The San would, not
knowingly do an injury to religion, and
its editor has the greatest respect for re-
ligious people, those who are truly good.
There are shams in religion, as in every
thing else, and it is to the interest 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 little fun, and some
of the ablest preachers of this country
enjoy the Bad Boy articles immensely.
The same papers that are feeling SO bad
ly for fear the Sma 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 STU
dents in a Methodist college, who are
now preachers. It seems that Bishop
Peck, who was then president of the COL
lege, went as a delegate to Methodist
conference at Staunton, Va. There is a
lunatic asylum there, and the students of
Divinity wrote to the superintendent of
the asylum that a crazy man, who imag-
ined he was Bishop Peck, had escaped,
and it was expected he would appear at
the conference, and requesting the super
intcndent to confne him in the asylum
until friends could send for him. A de-
scription Of the good bishop was sent,
and when he arrived at Staunton he
found carriage waiting for him, and he
was driven to the asylum, where he re.
mained twenty-four hours before the
other ministers could get him out. This
swa$ done by raen who are now preaching
the word of God all over the country,
and yet nobody was particularly Injured,
and no boy was ruined. The Bishop al
ways laughed about his experience in the
asylum.
Another article in these same papers
last Saturday was headed, "Riotous Stu
dents-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 a
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 terror. We
have heard dozens of good ministers tell
stories ofwhat they did when they were
boys, that were worse than anything the
Bad Boy has ever done yet. Our "Hen-
merry" may hook few melons this sum-
mer, but we will guarantee he will not
stack the vines, nor poison the farmers
dog, as did, once, a man who Is now a
most successful preacher in Wisconsin,
and whose name we will give to these
papers who abuse our Bad Boy, if the
minister will consent. Boys will be
boys, and nobody can help it, and trying
to make angels of them before the time
comes will never work. These dyspep-
tic, horror stricken editors, who find
fault with boys who have a little fun,
are bloodiess bachelors 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.
If these editors will mind their own bus:-
ness, 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
better business man of him than any
ninespOt editor who don't believe boys
ought to have any fun, and we will pen
sion the families of all boys who are ruin
ed reading the Sun.
"Where do the wicked men go who
drink liquor?" asked temperance lee
turer of small boy at an Austin Sunday
school. ".Well, some ofthem 60 to Borne
fields saloon and some go to the Iron
Front, but the wickedest ones-the legis
lators-always go to the nearest saloon.
If you ask pa he will show you where
you can get the best beer"
John W. Young, the eldest son Of
Brigham, the Mormon, being disappoint-
ed at the failure of the church to elect
him his fathers successor, left Utah and
became all exile in Arizona with three Of
his wives. Young has had very yalu-
able construction contract on the Allan
tic and Pacific Road, and made a large
sum of money.
John Losee, of Queens, L. l., got out Of
bed a few nights ago to get some medi-
cine from closet for one of his children.
He felt his way, as he thought, to the
closet, but, instead, opened the door at
the head of the stairs and fell to the bot
tom, receiving injuries that it is feared
will prove fatal.
Rev. Mr.. Stein opposed dancing by
members of the German Lutheran church
at Norwich, N. Y, and was compelled to
resign. Rev. Mr.. Geschward was asked
to preach on trial, and after filling the
pulpit several weeks he was told to go
without pay. He has sued and attached