, 1886-04-24

Zoe or inftfny-
What. indeed, can be done with the
mondicants o. Parisf Arrest them. What
fhcn cnn ~ don. With them' The depot.
dc r~cnCicite are fan. the hospitals ARE
fnil: tho prisons ere too small for the a.
ar-siur rad rabhar5,
II must not be forgotten that among the
professional bog1ars there exists a species
a. taeii conventions. They divide Paris
Ictygccu Clcmaolves-the ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
the rnnrtcrl, md even the houses. At a
car,atn yard OF court, for example, there
VII c. nc every Monday a blind man,
every Tuesday u paralytic, every Thursday
{ ono legged man. 1t Is not chance that
regulates That. This particular place be-
Longs 10 them, and If an intruder Is found
IN posgessionthe three "proprietors" join
forces and turn him away, with a warning
not to come back. Or, In some instances,
n he Is humble md modest. they may au-
thorize him to CLEAN after they hnve gath
cred the harvest. A beggnr's location is a
property-it is sole. it is transferred, 1t Is
LEFT as an inheritance to his children.
do not know how many mendicants
there are in Paris. Statistics would give
you the exnct figures. 1t would even de-
compose the latter into the number OF
men, women, boys, and girls. What ! can
say Is that at the lowest estimate there
ere certainly arcasineurs (house beggarsl.
ramnsliqueurs court or yard beggarsl. and
heggars Of the street, or tendeurs de demi
aune, something like 100000.
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS OF THE STREET.
OF these there are more than one quar-
ter that are worthy Of sympathy-the
aged, the MANNED, the INDECENT; the others
are artists l will not stop TO relate all
the stories about the false cripples," the
beggers hat feign epilepsy by putting n
piece OF soap into their mouths, the false
one armed" impostors who stretch their
arm down their body, hold the hand on the
hip, and leave the empty sleeve Tapping:
the humbugs on -utches, who carry n leg
MS If It were paralyzod. There are IA hun
dred tricks. There are substances, plants,
thai ave a clustering effect on the skin
and produce hideous sores-everything
that can move the public these rascals
Dcver fail to employ.
The arcasineur who forms the elite OF
mendacity in Paris resorts to the most IN.
genious schemes. He does not weep for a
sou. He must do better than hat. We
demands-purdon, he accepts-assistance.
IL he docs you the honor to apply to you 1t
is bes-use he esteems you. He does not
take everybody into his confidence in such
delicate matters. So IL you give him only
lcJ IONS lie puts on n wry face.
"l4y dear friend said one OF them to
ne, Il have a splendid offer. A deputy
VANS a man to run a newspaper. IL is a
place worth 5000 or 6,0OO francs, in the
cJuntry-a fortune. But what am I TO
dot | must go down there to see him;
tat takes money. With a louis | am
saved. nut ave no louis. Oh, If some
teiend would come to my aid"
I gave ldm the louis; the next day met
tAe same t-lOw, who imperturbably accosts
Inc WITH: my lear fellow, l missed the
Train
.A-so tiiat the police are most occupied
Win ere Che street beggars. Look at them
displaying their hideous wounds in the
-nl tstze " everybody UGH
And WHAT is the saddest Of all, see at the
cor-.er OF Inc square that woman with an
elr or saiivrlng. "a face on which are writ
tel tAe traces OF want and despair. In
her uras is a baby, at the right lies u little
girl, at the left is couched n little boy.
The whole form a group knowingly ar
ranged, and pathetically interesting.
Well. all hat is sham. The woman is a
fraud, the young ones on hand for the oc-
casion. Frightful, is it notl Yet 1t is
true. They hire these children, the
wretches- They hire them TO make vaga-
bonds and thieves Of them.
Tho child Is trained to assume a sickly
and w~oe-bogone air. 10 weep, to beg. Who
has not been moved TO pity at the sight Of
4 little boy or girl Of : or 6, who was weep
ing bitterly because, as she said, she had
TO tax hoine % sous as She had not been
rblo to make them" The child was ~
ing. she was repeating her role. Her pro-
prietor was near by laughing in his sleeve
~ the young ones f~alsehoods and well
simulated distress.
THE REQUIREMENTS OF CRUELTY.
II IS children that most move ms to pity.
They now it, the wretches, and abuse it
Would you believe they torture them in
order 10 excite the sympathy OF passers-
hyi Recall the story Of the little Mantle
Iollier, stolen from her mother. She fen
into the hands Of one OF these professional
bcggars, who used her 10 good profit. She
put a bandage over one OF the child's eyes.
under the bandage the shell OF n walnut,
In the shell n spider-a great black spider,
the constant crawling OF which over tho
child's eye wrung from her the most
Ggonizing shrieks, and frequently threw
her into commissions.
Every beggar does not nave these refine
ments, but all Of them resort TO pinching
their children and pricking them with
pins to make them cry n attract alton
ton. What is to be done with all these
iInpostorsf How can these mfamies be
suppressed II You wish to see a curious
sight go, for instance, to the gate that
leads to the st. Quen cemetery. The
beggars calculate that the afflicted are the
most charitable. You will see a
singular scene there. At the foot Of
n post which bears the inscription,
Begging forbidden In the city of Paris
you Will will see a group Of m~endieants,
one pointing at you a stump eaten away
by a loathsome disease. another 2, hihiting
4 cancer. a third invoking sympathy Tor a
doubtful blindness, the fourth thrustinr
out two legs OF wood Opposite are a
paralytic, a man with no feet, and a hor-
rbly-deforned cripple Further ainu- ara
e~pileptics, and persons affected with the
Ct. Nitus dance. The entire length OF the
avenue is a series OF mRladies Of all sorts.
enc more repuisive thar the other. a verit-
allie display u the the human infrmitles.
An this Gbhorrent throng gronns. weeps,
cr.ss out, laments, inc when the evening
comes they 60 away arm IN arm, the blind
Dragging the paralytic, the cpileptio
Calesing the ST. Nitus dancers 70 drink at
c. t..e wine shops OF the route de Revolta,
to count tier receipts, that vary from 5 to
10 fr@ncs, and to 60 whsa drank to sleep
pei inen men and women at the Petit
Hazos or the Femme en- culottes.
This IS what tho project OF police wishes
70 destroy-the besgars OF Paris-an army
OF wickedness, L legion OF infany that
i've by imposing upon the purest senti-
nlent OF the human heart. charity. Paris
oHrrihle and Original
WALKING Skeietos-
Mr.. f. Springer. of Mechanicsburg,
Pa, writes. Il was afflicted with lung
fever and abscoss on the lungs. and re
IL IL ILL., 49, l..