White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-30

a BOUT the time of the French
~ revolution, Jean Vatican of La
Rrle, Il day-laborer, earned a
scanty living for his sister and her
seven children. One time, when the
family was starving, he stole a loaf
of bread, was caught ard condemned
TO the galleys for I've years. Twice
he attempted to escape and failed. lie
was a convict for 10 years. When he
was discharged ino1s15 he was wicked,
silent, chaste, ignorant and feroclous /;
his affectiOnate nature had been
poisoned against society. But lie had
taught himself how 10 read. and he
had thought.
Refused shelter on food at tavern
or private house, he came TO Monsign-
eur Myriei. Bishop of D. in the
foothills OF the Alps. He was treated
ike q prince, but IN the night he stole
some Of the bishops silver plate, was
caught as he made OF and was brought
back to the good bishop, who. with a
smile, assured the gendarmes that the
articles were not stolen but given.
Adding two silver candlesticks, the
bishop said to him take them and
become an honest man. Ny brother,
you no longer belong TO evil, but TO
good, have bought your soul Of you.
l give II to God"
As he fed, he yielded to one last
temptation to do wrong he took from
a hurdy-gurdy boy a tw%o-franc piece,
but almost Immediately, filled with
remorse, he tried In vain TO find the
boy. Two years later n stranger,
dressed like a workingman arrived at
the little city Of NJ sur M.
Just as he arrived n fire broke out In
the Town Hall and he rescued two
children belonging 20 the captain of
the police. This saved him from hay-
ing to show his passport. He made
an invention and soon became prosper
Gus. He built great workshops, en-.
dowed a hospital, founded schools
paid high wages and was made mayor.
Employed In his factory was Famine,
a girl who had been deserted in Paris
by an unworthy lover. She had left
her baby, Cosette, with a crafty and
hldeous pair named Thenadier. When
II was learned that she had an illegiti-
mate child, she was discharged with.
out the knowledge of VI. Madeleine,
the benevolent manufacturer, and was
reduced to such poverty that she could
not pay the Thenadlers. who took
Cosette's clothes for their own girls
and wrote Famine for more. The girl
sold her beautiful blonde hair: ther
they Informed her that Cosette was
III, which was a lie, and demanded 10l
francs. To obtain this she sold hei
front teeth to a travelling dentist
then she went on the town. AMI wher
a dlssclute dandy, to annoy her, put
snow down her back, she scratched hi'
face and was arrested by Javert
inspector Of police. q brutal and over
0ficious tyrant, who had been attached
TO the galleys when Jean Vatican wa.
there and suspected the mayor o.
M OF being the former convict
The mayor freed Famine. she sup
posed he was the cause of her mis-
fortunes and spat in his face. III
took the affront meekly and iRvestl
gated her complaint. She was III o
consumption and he provided for he
and promised to look out for her child
About the same time the police ar
rested another mar who three forme
convicts swore was the missing Jeal
Vatican. Jean V~aliean's conscience
would not allow an innocent person t
be punished In his place. Surmount