The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-18
WAGE-EARNING dRIsT0CRATS.
Plenty of Material for American HeIress
cs Who Want stiles.

Plenty of Material for American HeIress-
es who Want stiles.
Spurious noblemen have been recent
ly a good deal before the magistrates,
A search after real noblemen who have
stopped to win a livelihood by honest
work will at least have the interest Of
novelty. Any number of aristocrats
and of the Oldest houses in France now
toll as wage-earners, and with cheer
full philosophy greatly to their honor.
A marquis de Beaumanoir labors in
carrying grist to a mill at Guerande,
near Nantes. The cab company of
Paris employs Vieomte de st. Megrln
as driver. This title reminds one Of
the limitations of Henrietta Stuart,
duchess OF Orleans. A Comte de st,
Pol is a clerk of the gas company at Il
salary Of five pounds month, The
Comics de Pol We're mixed up in the
faction fights OF Burgundians and Ar
magnacs. A De Crequi-what recollec-
tons of the court and camps OF Louis
XIV this name calls us--is tapster at
st, Denis, now the Whitechapel of Par
Is. A Comte d'Anteroche is glad to
serve his country as a gendarme In the
department Of the Lot. He Is amiable
and has CHEEKY temper. When, ne
comes into the fortune of wealthy
great aunt he intends to revise his
motto. 1t now stands: MY faith, My
Lady, My King" Hereafter, in re-
membrance of hard times, 1t will be,
Better to Lock than to be Locked UP.
An omnibus conductor on the Batig-
nolles-O deon line is Marquis de Polig-
NY. A duke of Alcantara, descended
from Dom Duarte of Portugal sells
scented soap in a bazaar at Marseilles
Jean de Retz, who comes in line direct
from the uncle and guardian Of Giles
de Retz or De Rais--the Blue Beard of
the story-is gravedigger in La Vendee
A Viscomte de Moustiers-cousin of the
Duke of Aosta-is custom-house
searcher He has as his colleague"
Baron d'Aubinas. My concierge, to go
no further, is first cousin once removed
of brilliant ex- foreign minister.
My man servant, Emile. is an anthem
tic marquis, and head of one of the old
lest families in Brittany. Emile is his
nom de guerre. The real name is Gas
pard 1T required twelve hundred
years of monarchy and one century Of
Revolutionary upheaval to make this
valet Emile is a grandson of a vice.
admiral who lost heavily nineteen
years ago in Turks" and. trying to re-
coup in the union generate, found him
self with nothing but his pension in his
old age. His only son got rid OF heri-
Ii ~ ~, ,f1 how
speculations, and died In poverty. The
widow soon followed him to the grave.
Three sons were reared at the Chris
tian Brothers school in Brittany, and
as fast as they grew up went as con-
scripts to sea. All their high relatives
could do to help them was to keep them
in Mediterranean stations and in the
Eprivate service OF the captains under
Whom they were placed. My man SER
want is now twenty-eight. He was six
years a sailor. In that time what did
he not learn to do In the way Of being
handy and generally useful? He can
cook as well as an Italian, sew, cut out,
mend, darn, wash, iron, and has the
light and agile foot of II French sea-
man. The sailor on this side of the
channel Is not bit like Jack. He Is a
nimble, neat being, smallish, and looks
best fitted for opera comique seaman
ship Nevertheless, he Is a good man
at sea, and on land has in some re-
speets the advantage of your nautical
compatriot. Emile hopes soon to be q
clerk in a bank. Meanwhile, he does
what he can. The rough life on board
a man-of- war, varied by domestic
life in the houses of port officials, has
tempered land breezes to this shorn no.
bleman. He has an open, ingenious
countenance If only some American
heiress--but forgot Emile is married.
On being released from service he fell
in with a distressed widow who had an
orphan hanging to her skirt and anoth.
er in her arms. Sailor like, he became
so enthusiastic about her as to serve
actes respectueuses on an uncle to be
free to marry her. This left him with
out a relative and made him the father
of ready made family. Talk of wo-
mans rights after that! came on
Emile the other day at work with knit
ting needles and soft wool He was
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