Show 1 OF HUMAN KIND the true tro story of it french convict onT lct av 1 l toulon no criminal I 1 is altogether hardened springs of kindness and feeling for his fellow beings still cist within his nature if one could but find theio the author of secrets of the prison tells te ils a true atory of a french convict at toulon among the free laborers who i work orl C side by side with tile prisoners was an italian who always treated them with ecat kindness and became in ili conic liti once very much beloved one day however the italian seemed to be much depressed and lie confided to ili his fel 1 low laborers the flie fact that lie was ter ribby in want of money not many days alays after af ter one of the convicts escaped sought tile the italian out at his ciomo ionic and bald to him now I 1 give myself up to 3 you ou my capture will bring you the reward of a hundred francs franc and that will help you yon out of your difficulties I bor or a longtime the italian refused to take advantage of the fugitives self sacrifice but nt at length he yielded and lei led back the prisoner tile ilio wife of a well known journalist was roused one night when slie was alone in the house by sounds which convinced her that burglars must be below the courageous old lady rose and went downstairs into the dining room where she found a man in the act of rilling rifling the sideboard lie ife promptly Iri knocked locked her down but as soon as she could recover berfeld she got up and quietly took a scat cat s then she addressed the burglar 1 I suppose you have been driven to these evil courses by want she said but why add cowardly violence vo to your crime you see I 1 ara am au an old woman old enough to be your mother Is your our mother still alive do you remember her what would you say or do to a man who iho struck her in the f tice ice and knocked her down ifer her words had a marked effect on the housebreaker lie jle was evidently moved to the heart im sorry maam he said and im ashamed of what im doing I 1 won t take anything belonging to you except this five fire pound note kut but I 1 really ana am in desperate straits and I 1 want mone money y b badly a d IY lie he emptied his pockets of the silver lie had taken but with the full consent of the old lady made off with tilt the alic pounds some time afterward an all envelope reached her addressed in a strange liand hand and in it was a five pound note |