South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-23

a da.y-laborer. earned a scanty Nv
isg s,r his sister and her seven
nnldrsn. One time, when the fam
To- wns starving. he stole loaf OF
bread. was caught and condemned
10 the gaIleys for i've years. Twice
he attempted 20 escape and failed.
He ucss a convict for 10 years.
VIA 20 was discharged in 1915 he
w. ~l1oKed. silent, chaste, ignorant
and ferocious: his affectionate ma
ture had been poisoned against SO
cietv But he had taught himself
how 20 read. and he had thought
Refused shelter or food al tavern
or private house he came 70 Mon
signeur BIyriel. Bishop OF D, in
the foothills OF the Alps. He was
treated like a prince: but IN the
night stole some OF the bishops
silver plate. was caught as he made
of and was brought back 20 the
good bishop. who. with a smile. as
sured the gendarmes that the ar
ticles we're not stolen but given.
Adding two silver candle-sticks, the
bishop said 10 him Take them
and become an honest man. Ny
brother. you no longer belong 70
evil. but 70 good. I have bought
your soul Of you. I give It TO God.
AS he fed. he yielded 10 one last
temptation 10 do wrong; he took
from a hurdy-gurdy boy two
franc piece. but almost immediate
is. filed with remorse, he tried in
vain TO find the boy. Two years
later a stranger. dressed like a
working-man. arrived at the little
city % NJ sur NJ. Just as
he arrived a fire broke out in the
town hall and ne rescued two chill
dren belonging TO the captain Of the
police. This saved him from having
20 show his passport He made an
invention and soon became prosper
Gus. He built great workshops, en-
lowed a hospital. founded schools,
paid high wages and was made
mayor
Employed in his factory was
Famine, n girl who had been de-
serted I'm Paris by an unworthy
lover. She had left her baby, Cos
cite. with a crafty and hideous pair
named Thenadier. When il was
learned that she had an Hlegitimate
child, she was discharged without
the knowledge of NJ. Madeleine the
benevolent manufacturer, and was
reduced 10 such poverty that she
could not pay the Thenadiers who
took Cosette's clothes for their own
girls and wrote Famine for more.
The girl sold her beautiful blonde
hair: then they informed her that
Cosette was i'll. which was lie,
and demanded 100 francs. To OBJ
tain this she sold her front teeth TO
a travelling dentist; then she vent
on the town. and when a dissoiute
dandy. 10 annoy her. put snow down
her back. she scratched his face
and was arrested by Javert. inspec-
tor OF police a brutal and over
oficious tyrant. who had been at
tached to the galleys when Jean
Vatican was thCre and suspected the
mayor OF NJ OF being the for
mer convict The mayor freed
Famine She supposed he was the
cause OF her misfortunes and spat
in his face He took the affront
meekly and I'm y stigated her COM
plant. She was in OF consumption
and ne provided for her and prom
ised 70 look out for her child.
About the same time the police
arrested another man who three
former convicts swore was the miss
ing Jean Vatican. Jean Valjeans
conscience would not allow an in
nocent person TO be punished in his
place surrounding extra ordinary
difficulties, ne went 10 Arras. where
the trial took place. and just as the
Judge was condemning the wrong
man. he confessed he was the miss
ing convict that had robbed the
bishop and the hurdy- gurdy boy.
The Judge let him go; but Javert
was implacable and apprehended
him al Fantine's death-bed. He was
lodged in fail. but having enormous
strength. he broke out and returned
10 his house 20 secure his great for
tune. He had time 10 hide his
money in the haunted forest OF
NIontfermeu. but was captured
tnce more and sent TO the galleys for
life.
Nine months later AZ Toulon he
broke his chain and saved the life
OF a sailor who was hanging head
down from the topmast Of a ship,
hut he himself either fell or jumped
OF from the spar and was report
I'd drowned. The Battle OF Water
loo had taken place and the Thena-
diers. who had been guilty OF rob-
hing the dead on the fatal field
kept a wretched inn at Montfermeil
They treated Cosette. now eight
years old with great cruelty
Christmas. 172s was the climax OF
her wretche IS: she was sent aft
er dark 10 fetch water from a sprine
in the dreadful forest a poorly
dressed stranger. passing. carried
her heavy bucket. At the tavern
ne protected her from her mistress
threatened punishment and the
next morning he paid ThenadieI
1900 francs and took Cosette u
Paris. where he occupied a tumble
down habitation just outside OF th'