Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — He Had to Give it Up. [ARTICLE]

He Had to Give it Up.

When M. Casimir-Perier became the president of he had some very large and sentimental notions about the responsibilities of his office to the common people, and his duty to look out for the worthy in distress. The beggars and bummers of Paris soon found out his weak spot, and ho was continually besieged by unfortunate workmen out of employment (as they represented themselves) and all that sort of thing. At first housed to answer many such appeals himself at his gates, and no applicant went away empty-hand-ed. The police authorities ventured to remind him that there was a law against begging. “But there is none against charity,” he magnificently replied. At first he tried hard to believe that the army of tramps which beset him would not last long, but finally the police, by spotting and tracing the people who made appeals to his benevolence, and showing him their records, managed to disabuse hisl mind, and he consented to allow them to deal with the beggars. The majority of them were professional vagabonds, and he has been emancipated from them. O ! Handsome patterns and grades in miroir velvet, in elegant fruit foliage, and wine shades, are to be put upon the market early in the season to retail at the low priee of $1.25 a yard, fine quality.