Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1869 — A very Rich Young Man. [ARTICLE]

A very Rich Young Man.

We call him “ Bobolink,” and “ Pappoose,” and “ Old Blessed,” and all sorts of names—you know how they do call ha bies. You great, six-year-old Harry would not think him much of a fellow, I suppose —this small man of six months—but he thinks he is, and so does his mother, and his father, and all the family. He considers himself very rich, too, or, as grown-up people say, “ well off.” He has such white, round, little pegs fixed on to his hands for him to play with. He sticks them up and looks at them side-way, and edge-way, and every way, and they never get lost like your playthings—they are always on hand. They are so nice to eat, too. First one fist goes into his mouth, then the other, and then both fists. The only trouble is he can’t swallow them, they are so big or so something. Too bad! ißn tit ? But he don’t get discouraged. Why it was only yesterday he was trying to swallow a large blanket shawl and all his petticoats; then he banted his head into a big feather pillow, and opened his mouth at that in a way which must have been very alarming to the pillow. Sometimes he gets hold of those little pink fellows down below. He thinks they are the cuimingest. There is such a drove of them 1 He can’t count them himself, but I believe there are as many as ten. One of them “ goes to market,” and one of them “stays at home,’ 1 ’ and then there is a little mite of a one that don’t get any bread and butter. How he does squeal! Dear! dear! You would think this young man would cry to hear him, but he don’t; the tipples of laughter come gurgling up his little fat throat, until, when at last the poor piggy gives his very hardest squeal, he almost explodes with glee. It’s so pleasant to have jolly little fat pigs of one’s own to play with! Ten live pink piggies! Just think of it I But that is not all—oh! no I He owns a most lovely old piece of red flannel, which gave him, that is very valuable. It is such a pretty, and so bright! He turns it over, views it

-in every ”BgßlT'"OT3“lMles ofTt.~lfyou should lay a ten-thousand dollar greenback down beside it, he would grasp, in preference, that gorgeous, magnificent rag. You oouldn’t buy that from him with ten or twenty thousand dollars. Then he has a great many fine musical instruments that he plays on splendidly. Every newspaper he can get hold of he turns into a piano or an organ. He scratches his nails into them, and digs holes through them, and you ought to hear how beautifully they do rattle; but the brown paper that comes around the sugar is the best, that is so cracklr and hightoned. Besides, he has a most entertaining round hole in the top of his crip, which is very interesting in an astronomical point of view. He studies it intently, especially at times and seasons when he ought to be sleepy. Through it the sunbeams creep softly down to play with him, filling the air with their yellow bars, until his little hands cannot grasp the gold. Every thing around him is wonderful, and beautiful, and bright, and all is created solely for him, he thinks: nothing, however, that comes within his grasp escapes athroongh “reconstruction,” from papa’s whiskers to pussy’s tail. —Hearth and Home. Valuable Mbdicinb.— We presume no medical preparation ever offered to the public hat been more thoroughly tested than PERRY DAVIS' PAIN KILLER. Thousands of persons, were they called on to do so. would cheerfully testify that they have used It for various Ills, with the most satisfactory success. It Is within our own knowledge, that an Immense amount of suffering has been relieved by it. Its proprietors, Messrs. Perry Davis A Son, save no j>alns or expense In order to satisfy the public. Being strictly honorable men. thev observe the utmost uniformity In the manufacture of their celebrated Pain Killer. The materials of which It is composed are carefully selected—none but the best quality being used. By these means the high reputation which the Pain Killer has long -since acquired Is at all times triumphantly sustained. In view of these facts, we are by no means surprised to learn that Messrs. Davis A Son's sales are constantly and rapidly Increasing. While we congratulate our friends generally that so valuable a preparation as the Pain Killer Is placed within their reach, we must be permitted to rejoice at the well merited success oflts liberal and enterprising proprietors. Providence General Advertiser.