The Bolivar County Democrat., 1920-06-05


wr,ting long plays in verse
y while hardly more tnan q
Nv ,,,o his 21st year he had won
pd nish prizes for his verse; Iu., ~ =
n,sn M his own resources by the
~ h,s m mother. he found it dim
,,,. M ~ his pen. He moved into
h.s Shere :, he had his only expe-
!. actual poverty. His writ
-.vsr ~ soon became popular
~. able to marry, at the age
ADELE Foucher. his playmate OF
y dsvs. It was a happy mar
!. "a years. Then Hugo be-
vs.,nated y with an actress TO
= was devoted so years.
-. youth until his death. on
';'s ,ssi. Hugo wrote rapidly
NAYS and novels. No other
r hIs time had such an inter-
renutation. m Swinburne hailed
abe greatest man born since
N OF Shakespeare" ,,f
49, famous novel. Les Mis-
was published in 1862, but
heen working on It for Is years
years before had appeared his
80 prose romance. "Notre
and the third. "Toilers OF the
line out In 1893.
OrT the time Of the French
revolution, Jean Vatican of La
Bria. a day-laborer, earned a
living for his sister and her
lhil]ren, One time. when the
was starving, he stole a loaf
b, vas caught and condemned
galleys for five years. Twice
hrttd to escape and failed. he
onv'ct for 10 years. When he
rharged ini1S15 he was wicked,
hasre, ignorant and ferocious
lectinate nature had been
agiinst society. But he had
hiusslf how to read, and he
usht
ed shelter or food at tavern
te h, use, he came to MOnsign-
iei, f.shop of D, in the
Of tie Alps. He was treated
fince, but in the night he stole
tie lishop's silver plate, was
Is lie lGade off and was brought
the god bishop, who, with a
Esured the genGarmes that the
were not stolen but given.
two silver candlesticks, the
aid to him: "Take them and
an hof est man. My brother,
longer belong to evil, hut to
bave b>ught your soul of you.
to Col"
fled, h. yielded to one last
pn u d. wrong; he took from
gurty Ny a two-franc piece,
psf Immediately, filed with
he trieu in vain to find the
70 years later a stranger,
like a wdrkingman arrived at
city o. M sur NJ.
Ae arrived a fire broke out in
p Nall and he rescued two
belonging to the captain of
3. This saved him from hay
now his passport. He rlaGe
ion and soon became prosper
Du'lt great workshops. en-
hospital, founded schools.
wages and was made mavor.
'ed in his factory was Fantine,
Q had been deserted in Paris
worthy lover. She had left
Cosette, with a crafty and
'alr named Thenadier. When
med that she had an illegiti-
q she was discharged with
knowledge of NJ. Madeleine.
|olent manufacturer, and was
? such poverty that she could
me Thenadiers, who took
eIo1hes for their own girls
fant'pe for more. The girl
beautiful blonde hair; then
'ued her that Cosette was
was a lie. and demanded 100
OBTAIN this she sold her
: 10 a travelling dentist ::
e',t on the town. and when
J candy, to annoy her. put
ner back, she scratched his
was arrested by Jayert.
y police, a brutal and over
rant, who had been attached
'ess when Jean Vatican was
inspected the mayor of
0e'ne the former convict
freed Fantine. She SIM.
was the cause of her mis-.
Y" spat in his face. He
.on! meekly and investi-
Z s0'np,aint. She was III Of
= and he provided for her
% look out for her child
MI. .ame time the police ar
~. 81. man who three former
ssas s was the missing Jean
.ssn ., valjean's conscience sra,,
! s''ow an innocent person to