Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-12

gun. dogs Of Noted Ameri-
ca'as," By Gertrude Van Il. Wickhan,
az st. Nicholas.
THE BEGGARs OF PARIS. :
The census of Paris beggars, which
was taken recently by the prefecture
OF police, has brought to light some Gu
rlous facts respecting mendicancy in
that city. 1t is matter of history, of
course, that Paris beggars have always
been q peculiar set of people from the
days of the Cour de Miracles to our
own, but the gueux seem to thrive more
than ever in these times, when money is
made with comparative ease and dis
trlbuted with generous hands. The
Paris beggars have accordingly grown
prosperous with the age, and we are,
rather far from the days of the genuine
rags and squalor of Miracle court. The
beggar is nowadays well trained in his
profession. There is the novice who
begs indiscriminately from door to door,:
and the "old Bird who only rings the
bells Of mansions. The gueux have a
directory Of their own, in which the
names and addresses Of rich philan-
thropists are given, as we'll as the
lodges to be used for unloosing their
purse-string This is called the "Guide
OF the Grand Jehu," or "big game" and
costs 6 francs. There is small volume
|
for Speti-jeu," which gives the adj
dresses OF mere bourgeois people and
only costs francs. These guides are
carefully compiled and are constantly
increased by new additions, each beggar
who has discovered a donor selling the
name, address, and charitable qualities
OF the philanthropist to the publishers
for franc OF two. Full instructions
are given to the mendicants in the
guide books as to how they are to de-
mean themselves before those to whom
they apply for aims. Rich radicals,
they ale told, give largely to people who
represent themselves as victims of the
reactionaries, Or even to those who al
lege themselves to have suffered as COM
munists at the hands Of the Versailles
government. Others are told what
clothes they are to wear when on duty
for prosperous beggar is supposed
nowadays to have robe. Some phi
lanthropists, for example, give gener-
ously to those who affect clean pow
erty"-that is to say, poverty, with a
4 wei-washed face and faded clothes.
Others are munificent to shabby gen
teel people who have been ruined in
trade, while some are only fetched" by
famished jaws and absolute rags. M.
Jain, a police inspector, lately came
across in noted haunt of beggars man
who had been q notary, and who, to
show the officer what he knew, babbled
legal phrases in Latin. Members of
the assembly are as rule great mark
for the beggars.-Lo7l0On Telegyuph.
Al THE RICH BOsTONI.dNS DO IT.
He's very great and good man"
said Putney. "He's worth million,
and he runs big manufacturing COM
pany at Ponkwasset Falls, and he owns
q fancy farm just beyond South Hat
boro'. He lives in Boston, but he comes
out here early enough to dodge his tax
there, and let poorer people pay it,
He's got miles of cut stone wall round
his place, and Conservatives and gar
dens and villas and drives inside Of it
and he keeps up the town roads outside
at his own expense. Yes, we feel it
such an honor and advantage to have j..
Milton in Hatboro' that our assessors
practically allow him to fix the amount
Of tax here himself. People who can
pay only little at the highest val,,a-
ton are assessed to the last dollar OF
their property and income; but the as
SCISSOR knows this wouldn't do with Mr..
Northwick. They make guess at his
income, and he always pays their bills
without asking for abatement; they
think themselves wise and public
spirited men for doing it, and most
VI UA0lI 4C11OWsClSlZGuS UUlllh 81 GOO.
You see it's not only difficult for rich
man to get into the kingdom of Heaven,
Annie, but he makes it hard for other
people.-W d. Hoacelps ss.41a7eie XII
barn, /" IN Ha,per's Magazine.
WHAT sMOKING DOES FOR BOFs.
A medical man, struck with the large
number Of boys under fifteen years of
age whom he observed smoking, was
led to inquire into the effect the habit
had upon the general health. He took
for his purpose thirty EIGHT, aged from
nine to fifteen, and carefully examined
them. In twenty-seven he discovered
injurious traces Of the habit. In
twenty-five there were various disorders
Of the circulation and digestion, palpi-