Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1879 — The Cost of Carelessness. [ARTICLE]

The Cost of Carelessness.

How often do we hear as an excuse for some harm done or wrong committed, “ I did not mean to do it. I had no thought of causing any such trouble.” Certainly, “want of thought” draws after it a great train of evils and leaves behind it a broad trail of cost and sorrow. Wc see the results of carelessness in all departments of life, and in all degrees, from the most trivial, causing only inconvenience and confusion, to the most far-reaching, casting a shallow into eternity. A nurse fell down the stairs with an infant in her arms, and fifty years afterward there was a hump-backed man creeping about the streets. A child threw a piece of lemon-peel on the sidewalk, and there was an accident an hour afterward, in which an old lady was severely injured, so severely that she will never be able to walk again. A switch-tender opened the wrong switch, and the heavy train dashed into a great building that stood at the end of the short side-track, and lives were lost amid the wreck. An operator gave a careless touch to his instrument, and there was a terrible collision on the rail. A boy shot an arrow from his bow; it went whizzing away from the string, and a comrade is blind for the rest of nis life. A woman {loured oil from a can into her stove to ias ten her lire, and there wasjan lexplosion and an outburst of flame, which burned down the building about her. A young man pointed a gun in sport at his best friend, playfully saying that he would shoot him; and one noble youth was carried to his grave, and another goes through life with an awful shadow of memory hanging over him, which quenches all his joy and makes all life dark to him. A druggist’s clerk compounded the prescription in haste, and in an hour a sick girl was dying in terrible pain and convulsions, from the poison in the prescription. A beautiful young lady danced at a party one chill midnight, and then raised a window in a side room to let the fresh air fan her hot cheeks; and in a little while they followed her to an untimely grave. What long chapters of accidents are every year recorded, all of which result from carelessness! A little careful thought on the part of the responsible persons would have prevented all of them, with their attendant horrors and their long train of suffering and sorrow. —Surulay School Times. Among the tourists who returned from Europe this week are Dr. E. B. Foote, of the Health Monthly, anil Mr. Dana, of the Sun. Attaches of his establishment state that Dr. Foote has combined business and pleasure by attending to publishing interests abroad, his “Home Talk,” “Medical Common Sense” and other works being translated and republished at Berlin and elsewhere.— N. Y. Local Reporter. In former years it was a common occurrence to find SO per cent of the field hands in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama struck down with Bwamp Fever, Chills and Fever or Dumb Ague, Just during tho busiest time of summer. Now, we are glad to hear that the planters succeed in curing every case of tbe disease in a few days by the use of Dr. F. Wiihoft’s Anti-Periodic and Fever and Ague Tonic, which is sold by all Druggists through tbe country. The m National” is a vegetable, dry hop yeust, containing no mineral ingredients whatever. It is the cheapest sad beat in tbe world. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.