Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-04-03

the liberal example, and the lost dollar
is thus easily pade up. The whole
thing. however, is only atrick, IN which
two or three are generally engaged,
and a hundred steps further on the ac-
complice awaits the fortunate result,
II, as at times will occur, the police
interfere, the father himself comes up
and confirms his SOM statement; Il
more often the unhappy boy bolts on
the appearance of the sergeant de
vile. The PariSiauS are well aware OF
these tricks. but this does not prevent
them from being taken in again ana
again: but foreigners are the principal
persons on whose purses the SWlndlerS'
great and small, speculate. mus,
some wears ago, a man went from motel
to hotel in the Faubourg 81. Honore,
who Knocked at every door and begged
for aims, $50 that he could bury MS
only son. who had died Yesterday
The man. though he wore a blouse
looked perfectly respectable and II
est: he wept bitter tears at the same
time, described his sons illness and
sutferingS cirCumstantially, and IN con-
clusion produced a sum of four dollars
which he had a ready collected. but he
must have eight, as the funeral cost
that amount, This man had been hv-
ing on his sons burial about two
years.
With the nightfall other industriaIS
are visible, who can only show in the
evening. A man comes up and posts
himself in the middle of the road, puts
his hat cautiously and mysteriou>ly on
the ground, with a candle by lis side,
and then begins his pathetic address.
His object is TO attract public attention
to what is hidden under the hat,
Never, 50 long as Paris has existed, ~
he exclaims, "has any thing so cheap,
so fine, so remarkable been seen. Inc
greatest sayantS are not agreed as TO
the solution of the marvel. The nat
| still remains at the same spot; at times
the orator prepares to raise il, but hes
itatc>. and begins his speech afreSh.
This lasts a good quarter OF an hour
and longer, according to the impa-
tiencc of the hearers, who at length
throw him a couple Of pennies so that
he may raise his hat. What is then
visible is naturally not worth the
trouble; a gold watch chain for five
cents, small gold rings, with real
stones, for two cents, or something OIL
the sort. Many 90 away annoyed and
abuse the humbug, who probably has
not breakfasted yet though it IS nine
o'clock at night. The chairs on the
bouleyards on fine afternoons. although
there are thousands of them, are all
engaged; you seek IN vain an empty
one. 1t is Of 10 use. "a kingdom
for a chair!' A clean lad at once Of
fers us two for monsieur ct madame.
he has engaged them at his own risk,
and paid two cents apiece for them, sc
we give him ten cents.
For the following trick two gamins
are needed, but they are easily found.
An elegant gentleman comes up, who
is glad to get off the dirty macadam or
to the clean trottoir. The gentleman
steps daintily through the mud, but
untuckily, a gamin stumbles agains
his stick, which falls in the dirt. An
other gamin (the accomplice), how
ever, runs up at once, picks the sticl
out of the dirt, wipes it clean anC
hands it to the gentleman, who is glad
at any rate, to save his new gloves
This service is worth its couple o
cents. why do not the rascal
work." one may ask. Well, the trutl
is, the Partisan gamin is a vagabond
and if he worked like other homes
/ people the French capital would b
poorer by one of its most interestin!
types. Besides the gamins are not $
very bad, for nearly all, as they do no
know what else to do, volunteer il
their seventeenth year and become cap
ital food for powder. -Br0okiyn Eaglt