Show THE REWARD ABOLT SUED I 1 the french are born sell schemers emers and are ai always ays on the alert to turn an honest penny one of the latest illustrations is afforded by the action of some of the dispensers of liquids doing business in the neighborhood of the hotel des Inva invalided Invalid lides ed where two or three hun hundred dred of the count rys aged pensioners await the final summons during 0 their perambulation a around paris these ancient heroes frequently meet friends who as a mark anark of their appreciation insist on drinking to their health the result has been in many cases that after meeting mealing seve these convivial friends in succession the aged heros churbe courbe homeward was likely to become serpentine instead of straightforward and he be would hardly be in fit condition for dress parade learning of this and wishing to spare their old comrades humiliation the military authorities established a fund and any person who found a pensioner unduly exhilarated or hopelessly drunk and took him home was wae rewarded by being given a franc the cabaret keepers bad learned by experience that by judiciously mixing his lueb the average pensioner sinner could be brought to a properly hilarious condition by the expenditure pend iture of about one fourth of the reward for taking him he home in e As A 6 a result the old boys boy with bibulous prop propensities entities always went home loaded and the concierge was kept busy receiving them steering them to ailed bed and paying the promised reward this reward was abolished temperance increased ind and if one of the old veterans gets gay ay he now has to totter his way home as best he may |