Weekly journal-miner., 1914-12-23
HORSE CABS ARE
 AGAIN SEEN IN PARIS

PARIS, Dec. l6.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-Horse- drawn cabs have returned to the streets with the progress of the war, but the outfits and their drivers are not as picturesque as they were an their heyday before the motor car came. The drivers are quieter now, they no longer crack their whips loudly, and they accept hve-cent gra- tuities with humble thanks.
 All the younger taxicab drivers have disappeared, having been called to take their places in the army. Many of them have been put into the supply columns, which perform much excellent and sometimes dangerous service in bringing up munitions and food to the men in the trenches. Those taxicabs still in the city are driven by the older men and by anna teur chauffeurs, who through the dis location of business in some profes- sions, have been thrown out of em- ployment. Che may learn from hls chauffeur that in normal times he IS a baritone of some renown at lead ing opera house, or maybe teacher of languages, or perhaps professor of fencing
 The Russian, British, Belgian and French national anthems form almost the sole items in the repertory os the itinerant singers who wander from courtyard to courtyard of the Parl- sian apartment houses. Every win dow opens when the group, generally composed of quartet, sometimes ot quite passable voices, starts its music, and sometimes the occupants of the apartments. especially in the working class quarters. join in the singing.
 Other parties of musicians take their stand on the corners of streets where they sing topical songs of the heroism of the allied soldiers. The interest of the populace in these ballads is enormous, for nearly every one of the bystanders has brother, son. father or other relative at the front, and all buy. at the price of two cents. copies of the words and often join in the refrain.
 The flower girls. with their sweet violets' direct from the Riviera, which have never looked fresher nor more dainty, appear to have increased in number. perhaps because they arc moro noticeable owing to the smaller crowds of pedestrians on the streets
 A shine" always difficult to obtain in France. is next to impossible at this period. The ancient bootblacks. sometimes women, leisurely wipe oil some of the mud and then lay on covering of the poorest kind of black ing. after which the polishing brush and cloth arc applied without energy. leaving the footwear in a state ot miserable dullness, at a charge m excess of that paid in any city of the United States.
 "Harlequins" are sought for at the central markets by ever-incrcaSing numbers of the outcasts of Paris ev- cry morning at an early hour. The | "harlequins" are composed of what IS left from the meals in the leading res taurants and the name IS derived from the variegated assortment ot small ~ieces of meat. poultry and delicacies set out on plates and sold at prices ranging from two to five cents.
 The adoption by the French ot the fashion of pipe smoking and the en- rollment of most of the male popula- ton in the army have dealt hard blow at the gatherer of cigarette ends and cigar stumps. who for years was such a we'll known figure about the terraces of the boulevard cafes The amount of discarded mites of tobacco he picks up has generally decreased. and the newspaper boys who look to him to sell them for two cents a package of the dried and rolled up refuse. of which they were the chief purchasers. now obtain a smaller quantity for their money.