The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-10-25

nlent to gaining living; consequently
all Par.s beggars are either cripples,
blind, MANNED or suffering from hideous
sore or cancer affliction which is not in
frequently assumed or initiated with 10
small degree of skill and to our special
loathing. A good many of those whose
inErmities are not OF the most hideous
or repuls,ve character do not beg out
right. They pretend to sell pencils,
pins, knives, flowers; they play on hand
creams and other musical instruments
invented to torture the public, go from
house 10 house, singing heaven help
me, but l should have said howl.ng!-
some sort of an air, which these
Johnny Crapeaus call musical. Each
beggar has his Cor her) tradi-
tons, his especial manner of exhibiting
his claims on charity--in fact, the
usual mise en- scene of the profession.
numerous, important and wealthy cor
poration among the beggars almost
invariably maintain rigid immovabil-
ity, petiifaction which extends even
to the dog or little child that may ac-
company hem. Another distinguishing
feature of this blind nuisance is that he
rarely addresses any verbal appeal to
the passer-by; but he is very careful
that his placard shall speak for him,
and on tais siGn-hoard re sometimes
takes flights into the realm of poesy
that are really startling. Often this
card appeals to the readers sympathy
by mentioning the name of the depart
ment or province from which the beg
gar has come. | saw one smart fellow
awhile ago who heads his cards with
the words: "Plty poor, blind Paris
ian.'
/ said above that the blind are the
weaithiest among the beggars; a state
ment not SO paradoxical as ii m y seem.
A good, honest. Industrious workman
will earn more in day than most beg
CARS pick up, but some blind rascals are
wond rfully lucky. One mar, who had
lived by begging many years, was at
last induced TO change his mode of life.
Some time after he met one of his old
pals. who asked him to take drink
But are you not going to treat, too?"
asked the beggar, when they had sat for
some time with empty glasses before
them.
''Ah. mon ami, the fact is have very
little money, now that am no longer
poor
There is young man who begs IN
front of the Press Club, Boulevard des
Italiens, who applied not long ago to
one OF the matrimonial agencies to find
him wife. He did rot insist that she
should be handsome, nor did he demand
a virtuous woman, but he was firm in
his insistance that she should have a
dot of no less than $1,000. q pretension
on his part which was fully justified by
the amount of his average daily income
from charity. The opposite of the
blind beggar is the cal de jattc, or fell
low without legs, who runs around on
his hands and thigh stumps. or is drawn
in hand-cart by an associate. These
cr'prles are always the most active and
the most dissipated to be seen in Paris.
They are bold diseraceful lot Of beg
CARS, and the police are powerless be-
fore them. Stay! 1t is indifference
rather than lack of power that permits
policemen to overlook the impudence of
the csa de .jattcs, who are. in a majority
Of cases, thieves as well as beggars.
Some few of these detestable individuals
are as sound in limb and as physically
well formed as any man Of my acquaint-
ance. There is no telling the artificial
from the genuine, and the safe and wise
plan is to avoid giving charity TO al Of
them. In Par.s, US IN all large cities,
thorn. q re- va0,.I !, xct His A ;<