Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — A Sad Day. [ARTICLE]

A Sad Day.

“We had a sad day at our house last week, auntie,” said little Kate. “The sun did not rise clear, and the wind was very cold. Sam stepped on Nellie’s shoe-string when she was going down to breakfast, and she fell all the way down and cut her face on his skates that he had thrown on the hall floor the night before. Trip stole one of baby’s kid shoes and chewed it all up. When Puss saw the little bare toes popping about she thought they’ were for her to play with or to eat; so she caught them between her sharp claws and her teeth and scratched and bit them till the blood came. Mamma and all of us had to kiss her little foot twenty timesJiefore it got over the pain. May lifet Bpr spelling-book, and it was found under the big apple-tree all wet and spoiled with the dew. She was late to school, and so was ‘kept in,’ and that made her cry’ so that she had the headache all the evening.

“In the afternoon Bam climbed up on the shelves of the china-closet to reach papa’s pistol. The shelf gave way, and he came down all mixed up with broken china and glass. His hands and face were badly cut, and mamma was very much grieved with him, beside. “We-were all ’rlad when bed-time came, so that we could get asleep and be out of danger, and mamma was more glad than anyone else. Wasn’t it an unlucky day? ” >. . . “ No, I do not call it so,” said the kind aunt. “God sends the rain, in love, to make grain and fruit grow for our comfort. If Nellie’s shoe-string had been tied at the proper time, and Sam’s skates hung up in their place, she would not have fallen and cut her face. "If nurse had put baby’s shoe in the toilet-basket in the closet, Trip would have found something nicer and cheaper to cut his new teeth on. Nurse’s carelessness did not make that *an unlucky day.’ Had dear little May put her book on the shelf made for it in her room she would have saved herself being * kept in,’ and crying till she had the headache. “ Sam’s trouble among the china and glass came from a greater fault than carelessness. He was disobeying his father. It may have been mercy instead of ‘ bad luck’ which brought him and the dishes down; for had he reached the pistol it might have gone off in his hands and killed him. If you all ‘ turn over a new leaf’ you will find that * bad luck’ vanishes before good order as the clouds do before the sun,” said Aunt Miriam.— Watchman.

Near Hillsboro’ N. H., lives a swain, who supports an aged father with the aid of about two dollars a week from the town. A short time since one of the Selectmen called on him and expressed the idea that a dollar ought in future to satisfy him. “ A dollar! you don’t mean a dollar!” was the reply of the astonished son—“ why, you ought to see the old devil eat!” The deduction was not insisted upon. Da. Pibrcb’s Pleasant Puboativb Pellets are so compounded from concentrated principles, extracted from roots and herbs, as to combine in each small grannie, scarcely larger than a mtutard teed, as much cathartic power as is contained in any larger pills for sale in drug stores. They are not only pleasant to take, but their operation Is easy—unattended with any griping pain. They operate without producing any constitutional disturbance. Unlike other cathartics, they do not render the bowels costive after operation, but, on the contrary, they establish a permanently healthy action. Being entirely vegetable, no particular care is required while using them. ’ SSOO .Reward is offered by ths proprietor to anyone who will detect in Pellets any calomel or other form of mercury, mineral poison or injurious drag. They are sold by Druggists.