Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-11-26

it is quite obvious that be canno
+ offer the same sum to g. man wht
? burns such a Ii ght, as he would t<
+ one who works by a dismal lamp
: Let as exting11ish the chandelier
/. my satin is paid for.
( Alexander Dumas has waste:
f millions in d few years. In Monte
/ Cristo, a country house in the
neigIborhood Of St. German, fur
, nished with all possible refinement
, and luxury, he kept open table tol
; all his friends, and this was sorne~
. times taken advantage Of by stran-
gers. One day, NJ. Alphonse Karr,
who has since Quilted Bohemia,
and become q gardener, On seeing
a person at table indulging IN a
very remarkable manner, inquired
bis name Of Dumas :; he replied :
4 don't know him; be is sure to
be a friend Of my SON. Karr then
asked the son, who answered Il
don't know him he is sure to be a
friend Of my father Dumas the
elder was very choice in the selec-
ton Of paper hangings, and if no
longer pleased with the design of
one which hs had bought perhaps
only a week before, he took his
pointed cane, bored holes in the
paper, and entirely spcilcd d it. On
the following day he selected an
other, which soon shared the same
fate. Some years afterwards he
he was very much reduced in. cir
cumstances. Once, on the occasion !
ola society Of young fellows, which
included Dumas the SON, dining at
the Maison Doree in Paris, when
the bill for the dinner was handed
to them, it was discovered that not
one Of them had the vhereWithal
to pay it. Dumas alone had q five
franc piece, and, after some consul |
tation, it was agreed that he should
step across the road and fetch some |
money from his father. He soon /
returned with bis pockets ernptier
than before; for he had Just lent
the five francs to his father, to pay
"a very pressing demand from his
cobbler. i
One of the oldest Bohemians /
who ever lived was a man by the
name Of Cabannon, who, in this
civilized century. played tricks
which we world only believe to
have happened in the Arabian
Nights. He liued il hay loft,
but On the Boulevards he always
most elegantly dressed.
He also possessed the livery of a
tootnan, and when courting a lady, /
would sometimes say: "Permit me
to send yon- some flowers by my
negro" He then returned into
lis hay loft, blackened bis face and
1ands, put on bis livery, and carried
he promised .boquet to the lady,
saying: MY master, N. Caban- +,
1on, has the honor Of sending these
lowers to madame" On one oc-
;asion, a gallantry of this kind cost {
Tim his lastfve francs The lady {
@ whom he brought. the flowers s
vas 50 charmed with their beauty:
hat she gave him a louis gratuity:.|
Jabannon was thus compelled to 6
lccept fifteen francs for bis cour- I
esY. a
The Bohemians are often very
generous. When Benazet, the eel G
brated croupier, still geigned at +
he Palais Royal, Bohemian once
gon thirty thousand francs in
,'easte ct quarnoate. He might have t
AIKEN the money to, a banker, but c
!ot knowing one he kept it in his s
,ocket, and while strolling through e
be garden Of the Palais Royal, he il
act three Of bis friends, and at t
nee gave them thirteen thousand a
rancs. .@Eh, WE'LL he said, after c
hey had parted, seventeen thou b
and francs is an odd sum. I had s
etter 60 back and gain three t'
1ousand more to make twenty, i
aousand.' Shortly .~fterward he Q
eturned with & much lighter purse Il
han he had entered with, and pos p
essing, in fact, only twenty-four Il
ous, which he had cautiously laid e
side for his dinner; nor did he s.
,.r1~ II -.o.,.s +- ~ I.on c,so,,st, r. /