Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-04-11

ties took his place from him and gave it
to another aUeugle, who had long been in
scribed on the Registre de l'Assistance, and
who was not such fool as to SUBJ
NIT to treatment. As for our aforetime
blind man, he could find nothing better
to do than to begin an action against the
oculist who had restored his vision, de-
handing damages in considerable sum,
for having deprived him of his means of
support. 1t is hardly necessary to state
that the suit only resulted in his being
compelled to pay the costs.
There is another class Of beggars quite
as numerous as those who have recourse
to the infirmity dodge, and not less worthy
of notice those women who simulate
maternity. When you see, crouched in
corner, a woman in rags with child in
her arms also in rags, who, by her tear
less whines, seeks to excite your sympa-
thies, examine the package she presses to
her bosom so tenderly: it is quite posi-
BILE that you find it contains dummy"
And if it contains veritable, little, un-
fortunate bunch of flesh, blood and bones,
the chances are that it has been borrowed.
The hiring out Of children from one to
four or five years of age to beggars is one
of the vocations of contemporaneous
villainy that is carried on on much
larger scale than would generally be be-
lieved; and the hideous exploitation of in
fancy in many cases surpasses in infamy
and odiousness every thing that any one
but fiend could imagine. Women have
been known to make large sores on these
children, in order that the cries of the lit
tie victims may attract the attention Of
people and excite their pity.
In order to become well instructed in
the lodges and tricks of professional beg
gars of Paris, it is only necessary to read
the chapters Maxine du Camp has de-
voted to this sad theme, in his compre-
hcnsive work entitled, "Paris, ses Organes,
ses Fonctions, ct sa Vie" Du Camp has
nothing to say about private charity, or,
to employ the official term, public assist
ance, as it is exercised in Paris. The Paris
Administration of Public assistance is
great institutions carefully and admir-
ably regulated machine. 1t does not dis
pense less than five million dollars yearly
to supply the wants of the needy, and yet
this sum is not sufficient 1t is largely
increased by private charity. Du Camp
calculates that Partisan indulgence absorbs
more than eight million dollars annually,
(which sum-" he says, increases, per-
haps, rather than diminishcs it." He
could have been more positive, and sup
pressed the perhaps"
1t is only too true that charity does lit
tie else than foster the plague-the evil
(plaie) Of pauperism. The popular say
ing that "poverty is not a sin" is true, GER
tainly, if that poverty is meant which has
not lost all pride and self-respect, shuns
observation, and is rarely reached by
charity; but that pauperism which groans
and whines, is now obsequious and cow
ardly, and now insolent and cynical; that
poverty is almost always sin, because it
is the direct consequence of vice. Elk
anime into the causes of the misery found
in the dregs of society, and you will al
most invariably discover, and that too,
without much trouble, that it is due to
laziness, drunkenness or some other vice.
And these vices, in nine cases out of ten,
are only encouraged and subsidized by
undiscerning charity. At all events, it
tends to weaken the two great incite-
ments to human action, the surest guar
antccs of morality, public and private
the sense of responsibility and of dignity.
Aims degrade him who receives them,
still more him who solicits them. And
do aims really do honor to him who givesl
Sometimes, but not always. How many
people arc prompted to give from some
ignOblc motive-to cOnciliate public opin-
ion!
But what is alms-giving9 at is ordi-
narily," says NJ. Jules Simon, "giving
momentary relief, which makes the de-
privations of the morrow all the harder to
bear. 1t is often only fostering laziness
and vice, by furnishing the INDECENT with
the means to subsist without work. The
piece of money you put into the hand OF
a mendicant represents for you . priva-
ton, and perhaps is to him who receives
it a temptation to do evil, or to do nothing
at all, which Is almost as bad. / have
often visited the abodes Of poverty, and
there have seen no lack of charity, yet
but little of it was really efficaciOus. As
there are medicines that prolong die
ease by retarding its ravages, so there is
a charity that simply prolongs misery.
For my part should prefer to suffer; for,
if sufferance destroys, it also strengthens.
On the other hand, money that is not
earned, to which one has no real right,
that comes without exertion, like money
drawn in lottery, paralyzes the energies
and destroys the virility. Where is the
manhood in begging, crouching, waitings
Manhood works, contends, depends upon
itself, discharges its duties and suffers
without complaint" formulated for Ap-
pletOns Journal. r. fP " a.
THE CARRIER DOVE ON IT'S JOURNEY
The Independence of wayside lima and
wssHtngS places whtch 1nalns sas canst e
valuable Ia the desert, 4 still more re-
markebly true Of tbs trained plgeon e
the ar. What Is here sstd OF sss naDass
Of fest1ing after long nights shows now
truly Mature teaches those VINO Cannon
reason:
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