SOCIALISTS

Among the stories told of the late Baron de Rothschild is one which

details how a "change of heart" once came to his valet--an excellent

fellow, albeit a violent "red."



Alphonse was as good a servant as one would wish to employ, and as his

socialism never got farther than attending a weekly meeting, the baron

never objected to his political faith. After a few months of these

permissions to absent himself rom duty, his employer noticed one week

that he did not ask to go. The baron thought Alphonse might have

forgotten the night, but when the next week he stayed at home, he

inquired what was up.



"Sir," said the valet, with the utmost dignity, "some of my former

colleagues have worked out a calculation that if all the wealth in

France were divided equally per capita, each individual would be the

possessor of two thousand francs."



Then he stopped as if that told the whole story, so said the baron,

"What of that?"



"Sir," came back from the enlightened Alphonse, "I have five thousand

francs now."--_Warwick James Price_.