Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-21
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The centenary of Alexander Dumas
birthday, made the occasion of the re-
vival Of many stories illustrating the more
notable characteristics Of the famous au-
thor. On one occasion. according TO re-
port, he returned to Paris from abroad
with an empty pocket. He began TO try
to remember who was his best friend, and
decided it was Cain, the great French
sculptor, then already rich in glory but
poor in gold. Dumas straightway hired a
cab and drove off to Gains fat The
sculptor was out but Nine. Cain received
the illustrious visitor.
my dear Madame CAIN" said Dumas.
after a while, 1T is really awkward that
your husband is out, for / wanted TO Dor
row some money"
"Ohr' said the lady. somewhat confus-
ed, and half ashamed, my husband has
only left me twenty franc piece for the
household but If it is of any use you are
welcome to it."
why, certainly, let me have it." said
Dumas. pocketing the louis with as much
unconcern as he would have given 1t him
self. AS he rose to go he espied a jar OF
pickles on the sidebOard, ''What delicious
pickles!' he exclaimed, tasting one.
With a housewives pride, Nine Cain ex-
planned that they were home made, and
feeling fiattered, she offered a JarIul 10
Dumas He wanted to take the jar under
his arm there and then, but Nine Cain
insisted that her servant should carry II
down to his cab.
When Dumas was gone the poor woman
began to wonder how she was going 70
manage for the day without money, and
was in a quandary, when the girl came
back her face all wreathed in smiles, and
with a louis in her hand Dumas had
handed her as a tip for carrying the jar
downstairs the gold coin he had borrowed
a moment before.
Another time he had given NJ. Paul Meu-
rice, who elaborated with him, and who
is still alive, a bill for s20 a month. Meu-
rice passed the bill on to furniture deal
ed named Granba, in whose debt he was.
The bill fell due, and was presented sew
eral times, but Dumas was out of funds.
At length Granba began to get impatient,
and Dumas told him to come up next
morning to the theater, when he would
pay him.
Granba. was punctual to the appoint
msnt. Dumas, on seeing him. drew out Il
ego note, and was about to hand II over
to Granba, when young actor, standing
by who had never seen a note for so
large an amount. asked to allowed TO look
at it out of curiosity. Dumas Immediately
handed the note to the young fellow, who
kept turning it over, and murmuring,
"Only to think, this little bit Of paper is
worth G20."
Dumas laughed good naturally. Keep
it. my boy" he said, 81 make you pres
ent of It," and turning to the crestfallen
furniture- dealer, he said, "Granba, come
and see me again; you and know what
eco note is, but this boy doesn't Just
look how pleased he is"
During the height of a terrible cholera
visitation in Paris, when fruit and espe-
cially melons, were tabooed, Dumas the
son came home and found Dumas the ia
Their quietly eating melon, while three
AT his nIhnW
What! are you going to eat all those
melons?" exclaimed the son aghast.
'Oh," said Dumas, they are not dear
at all. thanks to the cholera 1 got them
for next door to nothing
The other morning a man stood on the
roadway of the bridge near the outer rail-
ing engaged in tearing paper into bits. A
glance showed another man engaged SINH
Iarly near by. BY and by third man
gave a sharp cry AMI the two shot their
small bundles into the air over the water
at the same moment. The scraps OF paper
spread out lowering and fluttering in two
hocks. for all the world like a flock OF
small doves For a time the three men
watched the two fiocks with keen interest.
The two who scattered the fiocks OF paper
had a series Of bets as to which hock
would touch the water first; whether they
would fall on the Brooklyn or Manhattan
would touch land. 1t is a bridge sport
on which there are pools.
A Gordon setter dog is highly priced
as a pet by a Brooklyn family. II has
all the amiable and affectionate qualities
which belong to the breed, and is rarely
allowed to run loose. Somehow, however,
it has been able to contract strong
friendship for a disreputable bull dog OF
the neighborhood, which has an unsavory
reputation for disorderly conduct. The
bull is a regular tough among the CANNES
of the section, and is rarely without
black eve, a torn ear or a cut lip But ne
returns the affection Of the Gordon setter
with all the ardor of his strenuous nature.
Daily he calls on the Gordon and entices
II out for a short stroll. Never has the
Gordon been known to enter into night,
but the bull has had many a battle on
the Gordons account. In fact he acts