Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-12-14
Guuprre Glarkshurg Reglstar
HOW SOME PioPLE LIVE IN PA

York Daily Tribune, gives US the follow
ing insight to certain classes in Partisan
life:
The Wdkers or WaksresS-for none
but women follow this profession-are
individuals, whose occupation it is to
rouse from sleep at an early hour such
persons as have business at the market,
and must Re there betimes. Their wa
yes are two sous a morning for each sub
seriber reused II seems strange that a
profession like this should require any
particular aptitude or capability, but it
has been found that one woman will rake
her customers in Just half the time re-
quired by another. In times gone by,
when the market people lived huddled to-
gether in the immediate vicinity of the
Halles, good rsVillsars would wait up
on fifteen or twenty subscribers every
morning, and thus earn twenty or thirty
sous before day break. But now that the
new Rue de Rivoli has pierced that quar-
ter, its denizeus have been dispersed, and
the wakeresses fiud it impossible to serve
more than half a dozen customers day.
The trade is falling into disuse.
. The Eye a0itnsSs is a man who lives by
crime-not by that which he commits
himself, but by that perpetrated by 9TH
ers. The moment he hears of q murder
or any catastrophe of that sort, he imme-
diately repairs to the scene of the affair,
says he knows all about it, picks up all
the details he can find, adds to them, re-
counts it over dozen times, gets a sort of
notoriety as the individual "that was
there when it happened" leaves his
name and address at the nearest wine
shops and awaits the effect. The ezami-
ming Judge hears of this well-informed
gentleman, and in view to elucidate the
case, has him at once sent for. He comes,
and is sworn. and makes total irrelevant
deposition he tells what somebody else
said that he thought third person had
imagined. and what he guessed was the
motive of the quarrel. Beyond that he
can throw no light on the affair. But he
has earned his two francs-the wages of
every witness summoned to testify-and
by his earnings in this way he lives.
The Second Hand Witness hangs about
the Palace of justice, and as gentlemen
who have testidd, come from the va
rious audience rooms, he asks themif they
mean to draw their two franks if they
do not, he duplicates them in the namo
of God, and for sympathy with a wife
and the usual number Of children. to pass
over to him the paper emitting the bear
er to the two francs in question. The Sc
cond-hand witness makes hap hazard mo-
ney enough in that way to live precari
ously, and die in the hospital.
The Guardian angel is a man whose du-
ty it is 10 frequent the drinking shops,
and the moment a man gets tipsy, to take
him under his protection, Ito accompany
him home and put him to bed The in
dividuals practising this profession are
picked men-men who never drink them
selves-who have the necessary moral
authority to force obedience from the
drunken creature they are conveying
home-who can defend him against at
tack, and, more than all, who can pre-
vent him from drinking at the shops they
pass on their way. The price for this
service is ten sous and there is not an
instance on record of an individual thus
protected home and put to bed. having
failed to discharge this debt of honor
1t is rule at the drinking-shops that
when u man cannot stand, he must be ia
ken off. and the angel is straightway cal
led. The angels are kindly treated by
the shop. keepers, whose interest it is,
that no one of his customers comes to
harm. They receive the odds and ends
of the dinner, and are recommended to
the neighbors, when reliable man for
some confidential errand is wanted
Their honesty is proverbinl, and a BAG
chanalian with hundred francs in his
pocket, who is con6ded to their charge,
is morally sure of finding his hundred
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the next morning.
A rich tippIer, lately deceased, who
spent the last years of his life in drinking
blue wine at the barrier, left in his will
thousand francs to each of the Guardian
Angels who alternately conducted him
home, after his nightly rotations at the
Watering Pot of Montmatre.
1t may safely be said that not one per-
son out of q hundred of the inhabitants OF
Paris is aware of the existence of such
modes of obtaining living. The writer
of the feuilleton 1 have abridged, says
that he has learned to be surprised at no
thing, and that if he were told that there
are people who earn their bread by ma
king tooth-picks out of old moons, he
should accept the narrative with equani-
nifty. and believe it with fnnaticism.
The Perfect of Police has forbidden
wine sellers to have Yoltaic piles upon
their counters for the amusement of their
customers, as one accident has already
o happened. and rs others would be likely
to follow, were the practice continued.
ES y letter. writer, who seuds lot
tings forth from Cincinnati, tells the fol-
lowing story as one that actually occur
red in that city