Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — “Love is Enough.” [ARTICLE]

“Love is Enough.”

The New York Evening Post is responsible for the following pretty story: It is profitable sometimes to be sentimental. Let us to-day remember that it is spring-time, however gloomy the weather may be, and recount a simple love story. Last summer a German boy and girl, Henry and Susie, living in Minnesota, fell in love with one another. Her family, at first indifferent, early in tne winter put themselves in opposition to the mach. But this Romeo was no drawing-room lover. Desperately in earnest himself, and confident of the fidelity of his he bravely ■went to work to make a home for her. He already owned a quarter-sec-tion of land. Taking his ax he went to his “estate” and there cut down trees and hewed out logs enough to make a cabin, which-he put up without help and furnished in a rude but comfortable fashion., This done he asked Susie to come and be his wife. Bhe consented. Unfortunately, the young man had not yet set up his carriage, and, since it wasunbecomingfor a bride to goon foot, a hand-sled; drawn Tiythe bridegroom, was pressed into the service of the pair. Thus they went forth in secresv to theg new home in the woodland, she rldinir trimly on the sled, he tugging bravely at the strap. It was eight miles to the little cabin, but love made the journey short. There the wedding was to take place, a clergyman haying promised to be in waiting to make them man and wife. Unfortunately the clergyman was not there and Susie was frightened and ashamed. She wanted to go home. But Henry, grieved at her distrust, andyet secretly pleased with her modesty, proposed that until a clergyman could be found the cabin should be divided by a partition wall into two cabins, of which one should belong to her and one to him. T 6 this she agreed, and the young man went eleven miles through the snow after the boards for the wall, dragging them home on the sled which had just carried a more lovely burden. When the parents found their runaway Gretchen- it was under these circumstan cea—shewas keeping house by herself; he living like a bachelor, ana bearing himself in every way with a chivalrous courtesy worthy of Henry Esmond himself. Tne father and mother, notwithstanding their grief and anger, were touched by the unconventional honor and purity of the young people, and then wisely concluding that the match etas made in heaven, gave their heartieet assent to it.

——— _ .. . i.a. s I. i i ii t Hotel Living at Tienna A pew days since I applied for apartments arid board for the season at the Grand Hotel, and was informed that I could be accommodated, but that my bill would be rendered every hour during the day time, and three times during the night, and that this was necessary in order to enable the landlord to take advantage of all “rushes,” and raise his prices hourly if he thought best. Though it was somewhat annoying to accept these terms, I was forced to do so, and after placing $2,000 in letters of credit in the hands of the landlord, signed a contract not to climb out of my chamber Window at night, nor steal the soap or towels. This last clause came near giving me offense, as I have heretofore confined my depredations on landlords to destroying live stock in hotels, but when the landlord showed me where Bayard Taylor, Bull Run Russell, and other newspaper correspondents sojourning here had given similar bonds not to pilfer, I was satisfied, and was im mediately shown in to dinner. The table d’hote was first-class, and as I ran my eye down the bill of fare, that in expressible feeling of comfort came over me that only a hungiy man knows when the facilities for filling the aching void beneath his vest are near at hand. As is my usual custom, I commenced in the middle of the bilL ofTare and began advancing simultaneously in each direction toward the extreme flanks, which were guarded, as in America, by soups and fruits. Hardly had I commenced eating my dinner, however, when a waiter approached, and, slipping a card in my hand, placed his hand upon the back of my chair as if to draw it from beneath me. I glanced at the card, which read as follows: Dear Sib—Owing to a fresh influx of foreign guests, and an advance in the price of potatoes in Irerand, llie proprietor of the Grand Hotel is obliged to announce that 90 per cent, has been added to the prices upon the bill of fare since yon commenced to eat. Should von desire to complete yonr dinner at the new schedul&of prices, retain your seat and wink at the waiter, who will notify the cashier. N. B.—American guests are informed that there is no increase in tbe price of costard pie, which will be furnished at the old rate of one thaler apiece, ten krentzers additional if the pie w»" baked in a square tin and the goest has the corner section. Of course I finished my dinner, after which I retired to my r,om to enjoy a cigar, but hardly hffi* the smoke of the burning Havana curled above my head when a rap sounded upon the door, followed by the horizontally elongated countenance of the landlord, with the bill ot my dinner, which was as follows: I give the amount in dollars and cents: Admission to dining-room $1 00 Reserved seat 75 Use of plate, knife and f0rk................. 80 Brushing fly-speck from plate 05 Keeping flies off from bald spot on head while dining 50 Ravages in bill of fare. 6 00 Not ordering wine -5 ~- 50 - ittine with feet crossed 100 Napkin and ring (nse of). 25 Not giving correct accent to orders. 1 00 Tooth-picks (second-hand) 150 Walter’s perquisites 2 50 To making out bill 1 00 Presenting in person 50 T0ta1........ sl7 15 Assuring myself that nothing had been overcharged or omitted from the bill, I cheerfully paid it and then asked the amount due for my room. My genial host replied that tne first hour had been charged up at the rate of six dollars an hour, but that now the room was worth eight dollars per hour, and he thought there would be no further advance in prices until sundown. Settling for my accommodations to date • I left the house, and am now sojourning at the Grand Hotel de 1’ Europe—St. Joseph Strasse — a smaller house than the Arch Duke Charles Grand Hotel, and where the prices are yet moderate. Very many Americans arc here, with their families—men of wealth at home, and who never travel without ample funds; yet who, by the sudden and unexpected rise in prices, have become, in vulgar parlance, “strapped,” and are now fairly suffering for the necessaries of life, awaiting the arrival of letters of credit from home. One family, by the name of De 81immens, from New York, closely connected with the oldest Knickerbocker families, and possessing millions, have excited much sympathy ftom their countrymen by reason of their temporary poverty. The family, in fact, ars entirely broken up, and are living in a suite of dry-goods boxes and discarded beer-tubs in the outskirts of the city, and do their own cooking in a cast-iron kettle over an out-dopr fire. De Slimmens ekes out a miserable existence by varnishing pretzels at the Royal Pretzel factory, while his accomplished wife is superintendent of the flav wing department In a Litnburger-cheese mill. The two daughters, through the influence of noble friends, have been appointed to pcsitions in the kaiser’s household, where their duties consist in keeping the imperial eats from sleeping on the bread when the latter As “rising” in the imperial kitchen. A month, _ however, will materially change the social condi- j tion of the De Slimmens, and I merely mention this that my countrymen may provide themselves against similar troubles. In conclusion I would state that there are pjaces in /the city and its environs where moderately wealthy visitors can live and not subject themselves to bankruptcy. For instance, good rooms just vacated by death of cholera patients can be had for a dollar a day, ana many English visitors are taking their chances in these quarters. The cholera may prevent many from coming here during the summer months, but to those already o~n the ground it is a welcome guest, ao affording the only means of liquidating their hotel bills and getting out of the city.— Vietma Cor. Si. Louis Democrat. —A company hasbeen formed in New York City For the manufacture of artificial butter, the principal ingredient of which is beef fat or suet. This is put into ordinary meat choppers and minced fine. It is afterward placed in a boiler with as mneh water in bulk as itself. A steampipe is introduced among the particles of the suet, and they are melted. The refuse or membrane goes to the bottom ol the water, the oily substance floats and is removed. This latter consists of butter matter and stearine. A temperature of eighty degrees melts the former and leaves the stearine at the bottom. The butter matter, or cream, is drawn off; then about thirteen per cent, of fresh milk is added and the necessary salt, and the whole is churned for ten or fifteen minutes. The result is Orange County butter at about one-half the usual coat. It is claimed that this butter bee already been largely introduced, and that there is no doubt of the success of the enterprise. Hartford, Conn., had aa auction of coffins, the other day. Salem (Oregon) mills are shipping flour to China.