Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-06-10

a BOUT the time of the French
| ~ revolution, Jean Vatican Of Ii
~ Brie, day-labOrer, earned Q
Scanty living for his sister and heI
seven children. One time, when the
family was starving, he stole a loaf
OF bread, was caught and condemned
to the galleys for FIVE years. Twice
/ he attempted to escape and failed. He
was a convict for 10 years. When he
was discharged ine1S15 he was wicked,
silent, chaste, ignorant and ferOcious ;
his affectionate nature had been
poisoned against society. But he had
taught himself how to read, and he
had thought.
Refused shelter or food at tavern
or private house, he came to Monsign-
eur Myriel, Bishop of D, in the
foothills Of the Alps. He was treated
like prince, but in the night he stole
some of the bishops silver plate, was
caught as he made off 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. My brother,
you no longer belong to evil, but to
good. have bought your soul Of you.
/ give 1t to God"
AS he fled, he yielded to one last
temptation to do wrong; he took from
hurdy-gurdy boy a two-franc piece,
but almost Immediately, filed with
remOrse, he tried in vain to find the
boy. Two years later a stranger,
dressed like wOrkingman arrived at |
the little city of M sur M.
Just as he arrived a fire broke out in
the Town Hall and he rescued two
children belonging to the captain Of |
the police. This saved him from hav-
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,
B girl who had been deserted in Paris
by an unworthy lover. She had left
her baby, Cosette, with n crafty and
1ideOus pair named Thenadler. When
It was learned that she had an illegiti-
nate child, she was discharged with
Dut the knowledge Of NJ. Madeleine,
he benevolent manufacturer, and was
'educed to such poverty that she could
lot pay the Thenadlers, who took ,
COsette's clothes for their own girls
md wrote Famine for more. The Kirl !
old her beautiful blonde hair: then
hey Informed her that Cosette was
Il, which was lie. and demanded 100
rancs. To obtain this she sold her
rOnt teeth to a travelling dentist
hen she went on the town, and when !
dissOlute dandy, to annoy her, put 1
now down her back. she scratched his '
ace and was arrested by Javert, I
lspectOr Of police, a brutal and over. q
ficious tyrant, who had been attached
, the galleys when Jean Vatican was n
here and suspected the mayor Of Il
- Of being the former convict. e
he mayor freed Famine. She sup a
osed he was the cause Of her mis- e
Drtunes and spat in his face. He
'ok the affront meekly and Investi- "
lted her complaint. She was i'll Of e.
and he provided for her
I'D promised to look out for her child
About the same time the police ar
'sted another man who three former r,
'nvlcts swOre was the missing Jean II
nljean. Jean valJean's conscience
Ould not allow an innocent person to II
punished In his place. Surmount- B