Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — Victor Hugo’s Appeal for the Blind Man. [ARTICLE]

Victor Hugo’s Appeal for the Blind Man.

Victor Hugo, leaving the Cafo de Paris, where he had just breakfasted, saw on the Boulevards a wretchedly poor blind man, and in an impulse of pity improvised the following lines, which he wrote on the placard hung around the beggar’s neck: "Aveugle comme Homere, et comme Belisaire, N’ayant qu’un fa.ble enfant pour aide et pour appui, La main qui donnera du pain a sa miscre Il ne la verra pas:—Dieu la verra pour lut* Freely translated: “Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind, But a weak child to guide his vision dim. The hand which dealt him bread, in pity kind— He’ll see it not; God sees it, though, tor him. The sous of the passers-by flowed freely after reading this touching appeal to their commiseration. Mu Gail B. Johnson, business manager of the Houston, Texas, Post, has used St. Jacobs Oil with the greatest benefit for rheumatism, says the Galveston, Texas, News.