Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — Page 7

The Tipping of Waiters Nuisance.

Dr. Holland, in the July number of Scribner'* Magtuine, says this whole mati&mr ii ■tliiwi —hi am expecting it^s*to if' 3 t^pl±fc tlie" fiiiifcfliler’sbbligat ions are all discharged. lnta, theft* stands the eiroectitilt waiter, xfrlfo hopes to twice paid tqb his work, or. Wth< hopfs fojfedelve something for nothing. The whoiqarmy’of waiters hare become, ki ilddr ionta/begg^s, v Thoir pn&ttolti.Uld, is a nuisXfcfb mme ©o*»muntfy? J, fts well as a curse tftltelD. Mdfcoqd; goes out as a ttiwferayiHra hankering for a tip We hare said that the waiter is paid for his service by his employe*, but this is not always so. This same subject is beginning to be dispussed in tiutiShgijsh and Continental papers.;. T** reports that the Swiss innkeepcfs inTfcuu to make: to toreygnt from-ltfing gratujtieaf (or, rather, tylackmflSftifMke guesiß.j TThc innkeeper d,isikes because they disorganize discipline. The waiter is looking out for those gifts, wliWSThe (Appreciates more thanr his wages,;when lie ought to be carrying oht fcruecsj and fe aiesfowing on libend gu«tl titoe pvhicp tae landlord thinks should be devoted to the perfection Of the general arrangements of the house. A part of the Swiss- ifioWeinent to abolish fees is said to come from the waiters themselves, who resent the tmfaimearivith which tho. silver-shower falls—the popular watters*'getti rtg tti#-«oiiey,' aixi-«ot the harder-worked ones—and so they are beginning to resept this shown to thetr more , smiling and obsequious competitors; and now. they are,beginning to declare that taking “ tips” is contrary to the dianite de I'homme. Moralizing on this “ Jjp” (nuisance, Me pondon Spectator obsoffea: ‘ 3' .! • <*fllie praoftd Of giving fees cannot be stopped bv innkeepers, who do not see them given; and it will not lie stopped by the public, who, if Englishmen, anathematise gratuities in books, but give them none the less, undSr sofne irresistible and unacknowledged |eeling-of compulsion. Nothing is more curious’Than the intense reluctance of English people to do away with a practice which many of them denounce and none of them cordially approve, which costs them money, involves inconvenience, and helps to keep up a dltforenee df classes bThjph one-half at least of those who give regard with a strong theoretical, dislike. The sensible man does not deny that &u unearned gift is anialms, that an alms given to one who can live without it pauperises, and thht to harden, jdl men against the tendency to mocal daty of a definite ' 3 |mJf bht, while' -faSeirting fully to the argument, he puts his hand to his pocket for th*, .expected, .Shilling. The thrifty man will acknowledge fully that his waste on petty gifts makes up a large portion of his-silver expenditures, much larger than the proportion at which we recently fixed it, but will give all the same, as readily as the judicious pi* ll who grumbles, sometimes, audibly—and rather unfairly—that all gifts ate, "sooner or later, pour-boire, gifts of .drink. He gives nevertheless. And even tiie just man, who knows tliat in giyipg his shillings at a railway station he is directly depriving second and thirdclass passengers of their fair proportion of attendance, nevertheless, though ne asserts the proposition .gives themjust as readflv, ,or at "all events Just as freely, as if he had not asserted it. Here and there an exceptionally firm man or its exceptionally conscientious .woman wtill hold opt, and ffcrmcorla. lilfle time and temper to tlie welfare of society; but, as a rule, .who cm!'give; rives, atid'a great many #ho cannot, till we hive seen woriring-womeo, whose-bundles had been carried to the edge of the platform, apologize for not having the twopence to spare which they thought it either right or poHte-“-Ve neVer could make otitj wfiiqli—to give hi return for the attention: As to thi they give every,day, and.aUdaTjba. If you'stay at a friend's mjm give t> the servants; if you sh'Sot, son tip the gamekeeper ; if you are dMvhn you reward the coachman; if your horse is baited, you paw the hostler as well as the inn; if an urchin ripens k cab-door, he gets a copper; add if a Cabman restores the book you have forgotten, you pay him for his honesty or Iris consideration. A properlydisposed English corpse would tip the hearse-driver, if it only could. The impulse is positively irresistible. Over and over again the prAdiheO oi' givihJlfeeS ifi private housjes has been condemned, and ap'pWentiy tossed, bu| jit revived; while tne railways, which for years tpade'the receipts of gratuities an offense; have at last abandoned the effort, beaten by the lavishness of customers, ■who wotlld. break into open mutiny if the ‘*■ usual -price of their tickets WAS increased by .as much. ’ '—Chicago Tribune.

Mr. Parker Buys a Broom.

»• *hlsl> brooms at all; hehad no need of a whiskv 'itroom, and in fawWbaa Alwafyasaid he should never buy a whisk-broom, as he thought A.clothe&bMßb much preferable. “A whisk-irponu!’ sajd he, Tast evening) “ is altwja«flkffi£eja' yoii,<!onMider it as a whisk-broom, but viewed in any : ythtHtfMHjyjilk is * failure. Who ever Jjjettrdlf§hsi h*t, slhooth"■fhf r hfti*hmf.'%id pdlWainghis hoots with a whisk-broqjpa i. Now, with a clothesbrush one cau..jteir£»an all tiveko, operp-, tionsofthe toilet; therefore,” continued JUr. Parker, “ Ifhall never buy- awhiskbroOm, but, on the other hand, I'shall alWays invest my surplus capital in clothesbrushes.” Just as Parker had concluded his philiwßMqMwfnaski, an Italian,Count (in» disguise, m \ douhti) entered the room' wiftr 4trElfeftbethan niff of whiskdirooms about his neck. • ‘ 6 Buy b k' bfddm ♦"• chanted he like an echo from the once popular song. *MJ«t-out, "said Mr.-Parker.— ‘‘Nog” °° ifl Hia Italian gpnt.lprrmn MlPtoA ftf s<Kflfta|-yf-caat.,« Buy a broom f>> Jj *• won^h/alaMr. Tarker ; u seventyfive cents ii too’ much, and, besides, you you tried.” ■ “ He is sheep at seventy-sees ceilS JU Cfffiriot sell hiitt sheefpr as dat,” said the man; preparing to go. Just then another distinguished nobleman entered, wearing another Elizabethan ‘ raff of Whisk-brooms, and chanting in another key: “ Buy a broom V? The first

comer glared at his rival, who returned the compliment. ‘‘Get out,” said Mr. Parker to the newcomer. That gentleman smiled pensively, ■■>l nnlui4ing, one Of his brooms, remarked: “ Her is von us die best brooms fur unlee feefty sent. Buy a broom ?” Mr. Parker glanced at the' broom. It was Just such a one as the first one wanted seventy-five cents for. “Go away,” said Mr. Parker, stoically resisting the temptation to make a bargain; K get out; -I don’t want your broom*.” , “Dot man is von ties,” said Italian number one. “ I will sell you my broom for thirty-fetef cents,” and he cast a glance of triumph at the opposition. Mr. Parker hesitated, and went so far as to examine the brooms. “ You shall has de broom for thirtce cent; dal robber shall not sell you de broom,” shouted Italian number two. Mr. Parker fingered the two brooms. Meanwhile the Italians shook their fists at eachtother and exchanged personalities. “ You ties!” saiu one. “You robber!” said the other. “Liar!” “Scoundrel!” “Villain!” “Wretch!” Mr. Parker .began to grow excited. “I’m sure to get a bargain out of these fellow's,” said he, “ they’re so mad.” Then he spoke in a musing way, “I don’t know but I might give fifteen cents for one of these brooms.” “ It is rain,” said the first, rolling up his eyes with pathos, “ it is starvation, it is death; but you shall has de broom for twentee-feef cent.” The second man gnashed his teeth as Mr. Parker handed over,the money, and then followed number one out of the door. When the two got round the corner they leaned up against the area railing to laugh. “Dat vas a good idee, my brother, dat you has to getae ole man excite,” said the socrind nobleman. “ Vat vas de broom wort?" “ Feefteen cent,” said the first man, chuckling, and then the partners in iniquity went off together to work upon the susceptibilities of some other philanthropist. -N. Y. World.

A Very Little in Bank.

Among the subscribers to Audubon’s magnificent work on ornithology was John Jacob Astor. He was always ready to encourage such works, and he put his name down upon Audubon’s book for one thousand dollars. During the progress of the work, which proved to be more expensive than had been at first anticipated, Mr. Audubon often found himself obliged to call upon his generous patrons for assistance ; but he did not call upon Mr. Astor until the letter-press and the plates had been delivered. When the final delivery had been made, however, he called upon the great merchant for his thousand dollars. . “ Ah, Mr. Audubon,” said the owner of millions, “ you come in a very bad time. Money is scarce and hard, anri I have everything snugly and tightly invested.” And so the ornithologist called, time after time, and was often put off. It was not because Mr. Astor did not wish to pay, but it was from the strong desire, growing stronger with his years, to keep his property intact, and see it increased. When he had paid away a hundred thousand dollars for a really benevolent purpose he felt good, as a man feels good who has got rid of an aching tooth. It was only the wrenching away of the money that hurt him. At length Audubon called the sixth time. Mr. Astor had commenced to bemoan the low-ebo condition of his cash in hand, when he caught a disapproving look from his son William, who happened to be present. “But,” said the old man, after a pause, “ I suppose you want your money, and, really, I should like to let you have it. I may have a very little in bank William, have we any money in bank?” Evidently John Jacob had expected his son only to answer a simple yes; and it may be that William B. thought his father wished to know something of the bank account. At any rate, he was just fresh from the cash-on-hand page of the ledger, and he answered: “ Yes—we have a little over a hundred thousand in the Bank of New York; eighty thousand in the City Bank; ninety thousand in the Merchants’; ninety-eight thousand four hundred in ” “ That’ll do, William! That’ll do! I guess, Mr. Audubon, William can give you a check for the money.”

A Texas Desperado Killed.

A recent dispatch from Okmulgee, I. T., gives the following account of the killing of Bill Posey, a notorious desperado of Texas: Three years since Bill Posey, of Limestone County, Tex., of wealthy parentage, committed a number of crimes. Among other pleasantries he hung his brother-in-law in his own dooryard. He ran on in his wild career until twenty-nine indictments had been found against him in that State, when he was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary. He escaped from jail and fled to the Indian Territory. Subsequently he was arrested by Lee Hall, and served ou* twenty months of his time, and again escaped tp the Territory, where he has been scouting for fifteen months past, often visiting Okmulgee and Muskogee, and bidding defiance to the United States Marshals who sought to rearrest him for the SSOO reward offered by the State of Texas. A few weeks since the Governor of Texas made a requisition on the Creek authorities, through the United States Agent, for Posev. Chief Ward Coachman ordered Sun Thearpee, Captain of the Creek Light Horse, to take him, alive or dead, as he had sworn he never would be taken alive. This was no easy task, and thq result show's it was no idle boast of Posey. Friday lasi Poeev visited tins place to have a finger amputated, and left or home in the erenlUg. The Ctfptain followed his trail with two picked assfKtanfe, and came up with him on Polecat Creek, near the Arkansas River, and ordered him to surrender. Posey was armed with a sixteen-shooting Henry rifle and two revolvers. He informed the officer that he would never surrender, and drew down his rifle. A lucky shot broke fcii right arm, and it dropped by his side. Rrawmg a revolver with his left he fired two shots, when a charge of buckshot tore off his left shoulder, completely disabling him. He charged on the Light Horse at full speed, knocking the Captain and horse over the bluffs. Another charge of Httksbot struck Posey in Iheithigh, and Tns n&e was shot off, and still he refused ‘to surrender, tfll a.bullet struck his lower ja fa and mot up crashing' through his brain, and he fell dead from his horse. He lay where he, fell till the ne*t day, whet |M was bqried on Sunday last bv the citizens. Great credit is due the Creek authorities for ridding the of a terrible desperado. —Jenny Lind is fifty-one, and her beautiful little baby is three months old.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Evert weed, plant and flower calls upon the farmer to study botapy, the poetry of the natural sciences.— lowa State Hathaway Cake— Whites of three eggs, one cop white sngar, one cup corn starch, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half cup butter, one cup flour, two teaspoons bating powder—or one teaspoon soda and two cream tartar. Bake with increasing fire. Tomato Catsup.— Cut ripe tomatoes in thin slices, and put them in c tin vessel, with salt between each layer; boil moderately half an hour; strain through a hair sieve, and to every gallon of tlie liquor add three mots of horseradish, an onion sliced, with cloves, grated nutmeg, an ounce of black pepper, a red-pepper pod and an ounce of allspice; boil well, and add a pint of vinegar to the gallon; it is then ready for bottling. It appears that parsnips are now proposed as an article of food for horses, and have received considerable support _in France. It is stated that M. le Bian brought with him to Paris for the winter season several horses fed exclusively on parsnips. The appearance and condition of the animals are said to speak well for the nutritive value of their present food, while its cost is below that attending the use of oats, being as one to four—Leaden Live Stock Journal. Cckbant Jelly. Procure currants that are not too ripe, as they will make the firmest jelly and the handsomest color. Wash the currants; mash slightly, and let them boil until they are Soft; strain through a stout coarse bag, squeezing and pressing them closely so as to extract all of tlie juice. To each pint allow a pound of white sugar; put the juice into the preserving kettle and boil for twenty minutes, then add the sugar, let it boil for five minutes longer, and put into your glasses while scalding hot, placing the glasses on the wet towel to prevent their cracking. Noodles. —Two eggs well beaten, a little salt, -stir in as much flour as you can with a spoon. Place it on your moldingboard, and mold in flour till it is very stiff. Cut in halves and roli out very thin, about like wafers. Cut in strips three inches wide, sprinkle on flour to keep them from sticking together, and roll each piece up into a roll. Then, with a sharp knife, begin at the end and cut in fine strips, the finer the better. Place them on a dish, sprinkle on flour, and shake them lightly through the fingers to straighten them out. Cook five or ten minutes. — Cor. Inter-Ocean. A market gardener had a very fine cow that was milked week after week by two hired men. He observed that the amount of butter he carried to market weighed about a pound more on each alternate week. He watched the men and tried the cow after they had finished milking, but always found that there was no milk left in the teats. He finally asked the Scotch girl, who took care of the milk, if she could account for the difference. “ Why, yes,” she says, “ when Jimmilns he says to the old cow, ‘ so, my pretty little muley, so ■' but when Sam milks he hits her on the nip with the edge of the pail, and says, ‘hist, you old brute.’ ”—Sacrarnento Record.

Noxious Weeds and Insects.

A short time since a friend asked us, What are weeds? We immediately replied, any plant, growing where it is not wanted. Then you would call portulacca a weed? Certainly! Fully as much so as any other variety of purslain, if it was self sown, and grew where it was not wanted. We are too apt to regard a weed as being something noxions in itself, when, if weeds be in their proper places, they occupy their own appropriate niche in the economy of nature, and have their legitimate use; whether in the arts, a 3 medicinal plants, for the beauty of their foliage, or blossoms; or, as with a comparatively few plants, as food for domestic animals or man. So with animals, birds and insects; they may have place in the economy of nature; the few are beneficial to man. When out of their proper places they are destroyed, but when useful they are sedulously cared for. Among those, very properly considered gs vile weeds, not only in the West, but everywhere in the North, are the clot, or, as it is generally called cockle burr, —Xantheum strumarium and, its more Southern relative the thorny clot buri, X. optnosum. The first, if ordinary pains be taken, is not hard to eradicte. The second is not so easy to destroy effectually, when they are natural to the soil. Neither of these, however, are so difficult to manage as the weeds called beggar ticks, Rkhus chrysanthemoides , and beggar lice, Cynoglossum Morritoni , a very constant tenant at will, of slovenly farmers, and, one by trespass upon the fields of their more careful neighbors. These may be taken as types of prominent noxious weeds in the West; for, whatever may be said of the Canada thistle East, it never has, and probably never will, become naturalized to the average prairie soil. But, in connection with weeds, certain Xantheum, Chrysanthemums, Cytwglossums , and even some numbers of the thistle family, are cultivated in gardens for their bloom, and are highly prized by florists and amateurs. Then, they are not weeds ; if they escape, and grow among other cultivated plants, they indeed become weeds —neither more nor less—and should be treated as such; so this brings us back to the original definition of weeds —a plant growing where it is not wanted. The more careful class of farmers and horticulturists do not allow weeds to trouble them seriously. They take them in time; for, any species taken while young is easily killed. It is only when, through neglect or from untoward weather, they get a foothold, they are difficult to eradicate. Weeds have ’even been called the friend of the farmer. Said a thorough farmer and careful cultivator, once: “If it were not for weeds we should have little incitement to cultivate—we should let crops pretty much take care of themselves, and in return we should only get what might be palled a volunteer crop. Yes!" continued he,-“ it is weeds, a warm soil and scarcity that brings Lirge returns, as the result, in the long run It has brought the English average of crops of every kind to double and treble that of our own, and will, in the end, bring our agriculture and horticulture to compete in yield with that of England. It takes work to get crops, and those who work with their brain usually get the best returns. The same thing may be said of noxious insects. They all have their places in the economy of nature. - Some years since, one of the most prominent horticulturists in the West —now dead—a leading member of the Illinois Horticultural Society, and of that live organization, the Alton Horticultural Society, lamented to ua that he feared they Bhould be obliged to give lip fine fruit culture at that favored locality. Said he: “We may fight, year after

year, the curculio and other noxious insects; we may kill our own, and keep them from breeding; but, for every good cultivator among cs, there are a dozen outsiders who have trees, the only use of which seems to.be for breeding-places to furnish the yearly stock, to make that reaped by careful cultivators cost them all it is worth.” Nevertheless, intelligent culture has won there. It is gradually working everywhere. It is easy to discriminate between the weed and crop. Whatever is not of the crop is a weed, and should be destroyed. Among insects it is not so easy to distinguish. We may destroy our best friends. Thus, a little entomological knowledge is a good thing. For instance, the squash-bug, f7or«M# trintti, is noxioqs to the l&rmer and horticulturist. It feeds on plants of the cucumber family, preferably the squash. The soldier beetle, Armi tpinosa, looks very much like it to the ordinary observer, and vet the latter is one of tlie most persistant destroyers of vege-table-feeding insects known, and particularly of the Colorado potato beetle. They should be carefully preserved. Again, the eggs Of lady birds, hippodamia and coccinella, look somewhat like those of the Colorado beetle, and are often laid on the same leaf with them. The lady bird is a persistent destroyer of vegetable-feeding insects and their eggs, and should be carefully preserved; yet we have known people kill them, supposing them to be the cucumber beetle. This is, of course, inexcusable ignorance. These two insects are not at all alike. Such a person would Srobably feel indignant if he were told he id not know friend from foe. We presume the cucumber beetle has its place In the economy of nature; it certainly is not beneficial to tlie gardener. And this brings us back to the original proposition, animal, a bird, an Insect, or a plant, may or may not be noxious; it makes all the difference in the world where it is found. And it also brings us to the other proposition, that any plant growing where it is not wanted is a weed.— Prairie Farmer.

Paris Green as a Household Poison.

State Assayer Hayes, of Massachusetts (whatever his other duties may be), in conjunction with President Chandler, of the Board of Health, are acting in a peculiar manner by opposing the use of Paris green as a destroyer of potato bugs. The first-named official declares that if the tubers are not poisoned, the earth is sure to be, and the Y ankees are 90 careless that they do not wash their potatoes carefully, so that while eating dirt with their esculents they are cerUun to be poisoned. The Board of Health declares the poison to be so dangerous that it has “ strictlv prohibited ” its sales at retail. The Colorado bug first made its appearance in the West in 1864, and until it was discovered that Paris green would check them, all the laborious attempts at hand picking, etc., were useless, and it was feared that they would finally exterminate this useful vegetable altogether. Many ignorant and unclean persons were poisoned by handling the unclean larva of this repulsive pest, ignorant as they were of its dangerous qualities. About 1868 various poisons were tried, diluted with certain powdered substances, such as plaster, wheat middlings and flour, corn meal, road dust, etc. The ar senite of copper, or Paris green, was found to be most effectual, and in the West hundreds of tons have been consumed, a single firm in one city having bought five tons at once for retailing to customers. Hundreds of thousands of persons have used it, without a single authentic case of poisoning from it that the writer has ever heard of. Of course, as an active poison, it is very dangerous, and must be used carefully. The writer has bought a large quantity of it within tne past ten years for himself and neighbors, has mixed it, in the proportion of one pound of Paris green to thirty of wheat middlings, and has dusted it over fully a hundred acres of potatoes, shaken from an old can with the bottom punched in hoies, early in the morning when the dew is on. In no instance has the slightest injury ensued to anything except the potato bugs. If any of the powder did touch tlie ground, the iron in the soil would render it inert. — Prairie Farmer. *

Rules for Bathing.

As summer approaches rules for bathing are apropos , Whether in bath-tub, river or ocean, bathing should be accompanied only by pleasurable sensations. The whole body should be kept aglow. If any shiverings or chilly sensations are experienced, either you are not well, the water is not of tlie right temperature, or you are bathing too long. At all events, such feelings are Nature’s warning that you should at once leave the water and give yourself a thorough rubbing with a coarse towel. Bathing, especially swimming, necessitates great muscular activity, therefore in order that digestion may not be interfered with, at least one hour, and better still two or three, should elapse between a hearty meal and bathing. It is easily seen that eleven in the forenoon, four in the afternoon, and just before retiring at night are the best times for bathing. Soue like a cold dash on rising in the morning. Very few, comparatively, can stand such a shock to their nervous systems. Let those who enjoy it, and experience a glow during the operation, continue the practice; but let them be careful how they urge its adoption upon those whose nerves possess a less degree of resistance. Any one desiring to acquire the habit of a cold bath every morning should begin the custom in the warm weather, continuing it during the winter, and not commence it in the latter season. If you are perspiring from walking, rowing or other exercise, as you reach ths place of bathing do not (as some advise) sit down on the bank to cool ofl before entering the water. Doff your clotlies and dash in as soon as possible, only being careful to Keep up the exercise without intermission after you are in the water. In tiiis way you continue the glow which you experienped from the previous exercise. Ten or aj longest fifteen minutes in the water should suffice for the strongest aqueously-inclined urchin. Strive always to leave the water before you feel chilly, or certainly at the first approach of any such sensation, and continue or rekindle the glow by a vigorous rubbing with a coarse towel. Turkish superstition says wet your head thoroughly upon entering the bath; we say do it to prevent rush of blood to the brain, which event may cause death. Finally, as bathing, apparently a simple process, is not without its dangers, we would warn all boys not to begin the practice too early in the season, or to repeat it too often daily. Many have found an early grave by over indulgence, while others nave endured long years of suffering from the obscure effects of excessive

bathing. No physician should con sider it below nis calling to give specific direction to all seeking his aavice as to when and how long they should bathe. —Chrittian Union. ,

A Year’s Earthquakes.

Manifestations of Internal force benealh the earth's crust in the shape of either earthquakes or volcanic eruption*, occur on an average nearly three limes a week, in greater or less intensity in some part of the- globe. Such, at least, la the conclusion to be arrived at from the compilation of all the recorded phenomena of this kind in the year 1875, lately prepared by Prof. Fuchs, and published in a German scientific journal. Out of the three hundred and sixty-five days of that year one hundred were marked by terrestrial disturbances of which authentic records exist, while there must have been many shocks of more cr less violence in unfrequented portions of the globe where volcanic forces are Known to exist. The most serious of these observed phenomena occurred at Cucuta, New Granada, on the 16th, 17th and 18th of May, when several towns and villages were destroyed; at San Cristobal and Guadalaxera, in Mexico, on February 11th; at Lifu Island, in the North Pacific, on March 28tli; at Lahore, in the Punjaub, and at Porto ltico, on the 12tli ami 21st of December. All these places, it will be observed, are in the torrid zone, with the exception of Lahore, which is only a short distance north of the Tropic of Cancer. It is estimated that no fewer than twenty thousand persons lost their lives during the destruction caused by these earthquakes, while the damage to property was enormous.— London Time*.

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