Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-09

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the souls of my feet, and IL | walk icrl lis
support in every part.
MAkE.SHIi'TS or POVERTY IN PARIS.
Poverty in France is thousand times more
active, more ingenious, more untirIns III It's
efforts after SubSi>tcncr than Is that OF any
other country. 1t is on y after L long and
sharp struggle that the wrestler with Fate
sinks to the earth and declares himself van
uushcd. \ part from the minute economy,
which is pracliccd iii every branch OF con
sumption, whether Of food or fuel, or cloth
inc. there are numerous odd trades, to which
the INDECENT resort in order to gain lIvclI-
hood. Enough has already been SAID about
the rag-pckcrs whom one meets so constantly
at night, with their baskets slung on their
backs, and armed with III iron hook and Ian.
fern. Among that class arc often to be found
those who have known better days, and |
have been told of one instance where among
their ranks WIS discovered Il once noted phy-
sican, whose professional career had been
ruined by an unfortunate operation, resulting
in the death Of the patient. y few weeks
AGO female ray-pickcr, aged tifty-thrcc, and
IL married woman, committed suicide Tor
love, and among the members OF her own pro-
ir<sion, present at her funeral was an cX-l're-
feet of the Seine, and Il man who had once
kept IL fashionable store on the boucvardS
There are other trades, to establish which
must have called for Il certain amount OF m
vrntivc talent. There is The vcndcr Ol >mok'
ing-tobacco, whose stockn-trade Is formed
from the ends Of cigarS, picked up III the
streets in front Of the cnics and the theatres,
and these ci gar ends, chopped up fine, form
his merchandise. 1t has been estimated that
in Paris, the consumption Of cigars, amounts
to three hundred thousand daily; so Il vast
number Of cigar->tumps reward daily this en-
lrrpr>ing dealer and his numerous associates.
Then there are the numerous tirc-Scllcrs and
the "guardian angel" The fire seller goes
round with Il brasicr Of hot Goals in Il little
covered wagon, lined with shect-iron, and for
Il sou he heats up the tootwarmcrs Of the
markct-woman lie makes his appearance
at the markets rs early is four o'clock III the
morning in winter The "guardian angel is
IL strong fellow, whose business it Is to 60
round to wine shops and convey home those
Consumers who arc too drunk to 20 home by
themselves. Some Of the large lavcrns have
:: "guardian angel" all to themselves. This
celcStialv-mmcd individual must not quit
the drunkard confilcd to his care, till he is
beyond all danger from police or from thieves.
Sobricty is his primary qualification, and the
first day lie is found drunk he is gnomnious-
lydischarged.
The potato,maker washes, scrubs, skins
and poIishc< old potatoes Of small size till they
assume the silky, lighlcol lorcd SKIN OF new
potatoes, and may then be cnvclopcd in tissue
paper, and sold rs the earliest productions OF
the season The ham.bonc maker, the lccch
letters, the bird.tccdcrs, all exercise odd pro.
tcssions The itcm-collcctor is the man who
scours Paris in search Of items for the daily
papers, one of which, if found and carefully
written up, may bring him from one to two
francs. \ A,rv.t'llu accident, or fire, run
away horse, or q mason fallen from high
scailoIding, arc to him precious prizes. Tn.
fortunately, he is often obliged to draw on
his imagination for the material for his work.
The most horrible of I'LL the little trades is
imdsputably that of the sorer, or person
whose business it is to sort over and classify
the rubbish collected by the rag-pckers. In
the miserable dcnS, where this industry Is car
rcd on, it often happens that the lamps die
out, and refuse to burn so ictd is the atmos.
phcre arising from the filthy masScs accumu-
lated there. The Sortcr either dies soon or
abandons his profession for another; for no
human life can long endure the miasma en-
ycndcrcd by the dirt in which they arc obls-
cd to work.