The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-09
MANS KINGDOM.
Granther C1eanshaved's Ex-
pertinent. in Bringing
Up Modern Boy.
REV. THEOPHILUs CHAMBERS SON.
Nothing Is Like II Used 10 Be and
Everything Now Is Wrong.

"Boys amt trained as they used to be
in my day." snapped old Granther Clean
shaved. as he dropped into The Annex
the other morning to get his morning
dram, and spied his hopeful young gra nd
son at a table, slipping an absinthe frappe.
and looking W a pink tinted sporting
paper for a good thing" on the after
moons races.
"Aah, ratsi old antedeluvian. Whatever
goin' t. havei" calculated Young Hope
full, as he took a sip of his absinthe and
sm oothed out the crease in his trousers.
"See here young man." said the
granther, as he sank into a chair and re-
marked with a nod to Mr.. BarKeep, "the
same as usual, Tommy" you don't want
to put on any airs with me. Tvs been
through the mill myself and I'm proud to
say that, when / was a youngster, kids
like you We're put to driving the horses to
water or weedin' potatoes, and never
knew what a ten to one shot was, ugh!"
The last expression came from the old
man as he downed four fingers of raw
apple jack. "An' the VIII o
would have dreamed OF flIies and geld
ings and one, two, three or place. would
have been soundly cowhided and sent to
bed without his supper" sneered the old
man as he wiped his chin and started out
of the place leaving his check for his
grandson to pay.
Broad street. where his sou had an office.
William" he began in high du dgeon
as soon as he saw his son, 81 dropped
into Sneers on my way over here and
there l saw Henery, with a head on him
as big as ten gallon keg. drinkin' some
burned green stuff wot looked like pisen,
and readin a paper wot reminded me of
trayed in Holy Writ. He wuz
altogether too fresh to me and he's
a disgrace to his name, that's just what
he is. He had no more reverence for me
than if l wuz 49," Here the old man
was at an utter loss for a simile, and after
wot's been turned out in the pasture to
die"
"Oh, that's all right. father" remarked
the son. as he eagerly scanned the tape
which his ticker was clicking OH, Henry,
You know, is-Lake Shore forty-nine-one
OF the leading young men of Jersey, and
has-Jersey Central ninety a. IN eighth
"a position to keep uD over
there. Besides. Father Times has-St.
Paul seventy-six n a quarter-chan ged
since you were young and take my adj
vice and-scratch Billy Button second
race oh! dam the second race-let the
boys be boys"
"That's what's the m after exactly"
snarled the old man as he peered over
his sons shoulder at the tape. 81 blame
you aud Eleanor for-how did that little
venture of mine In the Luck of CORY
Clutch turn u ycsterday-lettin' him
grow up a graceless scamp with no
reverence for his elders and-dropped
two points, did you say? dash iti-of no
earthly use to himself or any one else.
Yes, buy MT a hundred shares of old
Gopher, will you? | feel In my bones
she's going to rise in a week.
Old Granther Clearshaved carried Oh in
great shape. He was a typical Sussex
county farmer, who had made a few dol
lars by putting q layer of big apples on
top and filing the rest of the barrel with
culls. His son William had obtained a
position as office boyin a brokerage concern
on Broad street and had wound up by
marrying a cool million and the brokers
only daughter and succeeding to the bust
ness when the old broker died of heart
failure at the termination of a prolonged
business engagement with Miss Dolly
Briefskirts, the queen of old Niblo's bal
let.
1.-THE truth is, William" continued the
old man after he had sworn several
streaks at his Ill luck in his CORY Clutch
investments. 1.-THE truth . lie, William,
you don't know how to raise boys. Jes'
let me take Henery back to Delivers Mills
with me and PHI show you in a week"
Henry was consulted and said he didn't
give a darn. He thought it would be
great fun to go aud rusricate for a while.
Besides there was Il Hebrew gentleman
who sold diamonds and jeweIlry on in