THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. TORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 21. 1SS7.
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SOCIAL settlement wsrk l carried
on ; In two places - In Portland.
The Council of Jewleh Wom'n
have neighborhood hous. In
8outh Portland, where all line
or practical help and of mental and
physical training" are carried on, brlnav
iiieT enlightenment and brightness Into
the homes of the poor people of that
part of town. .- .
At Fourth and Burnslde' streets Is
the mission of the First Presbyterian
church which bears the double title
of "lien's Resort and People's Insti
tute." It might have several more
names and yet Its title would Inade
quately express the scope of the broad-
J uvin.H.GII. . U 1 ' WlfVU ' V-1IUIB.
Many- forces conspired to the -estab-
llshment ' of the work as it now Is.
Chief among- these must be accounted
the vital energy and the broad under
standing; brought to the work by Edgar
P. Hill. D. D., then pastor of the First
Presbyterlsn church. now occupying the
chair of homlletlcs at the McCormlck
. i neoiogy- seminary, Chicago. He came
fresh from such labors In the east,
with a deep understanding of the needs
of the people and of the value of such
organised work.
Mat Free Reading Room. ' . ' ,
, Prohablv the hll-st Icnowlt- fenartmint
of the work, certainly that oftenest
seen by the paseerby Is the men's
free reading room, where a score
nf mn mit . .ilwav, Im 1 sfn . n
joying the comforts of the cheerful
. irora ana it pvnuaicai ana pKpvr.
.' The attendance here shows the appro
- elation felt for the quiet resting place,
one of the few of . such places apart
from saloons which the cltr affords.
; In planning the new building for the
Men's resort ample provision was made
for resuming the work along Industrial
.lines and--for extending aid to. women
and children, and the Institute club wss
organised with Mrs. Helen Lsdd Cor
' belt as president. - She remains In this
: office, giving amply f her time, her
energies and her means to Its upbulld-
. ljif. - The original movers in the enter
prise were a band of women of the
First Presbyterian church, but as the
work has crown It has commended it
self to all denominations, who now sup
port It and assist in the work, so that
It Is no longer denominational, but
. stsnds now as sn example of broad
non-sectarian charity. t - 'v --"Miss
Prlchard, who 4a. the director,
had many years' experience in such
- work before coming ' to Portland, and
to her intelligent management the suc
cess of the work is largely due. A
Tlnance committee attenda to -raising
' the funds for carrying on the work and
me use : ot mimcnmn ivvvnHinkij
growing. v'-- -
The work among the women and chil
dren is carried on In several depart-
(Continued From First raga of Thla
Section.)
Should the Increase of production
continue as during the laat few years.
. it Is estlmsted that the 20-yeVr period
between 1880 and J91 II years gone
and nine te come will add more gold
to the world's wealth than did all the
aanturtaa between 14SS and 1895. ,
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In use as money Is estimated by the
United States oureau or mt mini as,
approximately, IMOO.000,000.
. While men are being drawn, figura
tively, to the Mountains of the Moon
by the yellow lure, the fact remains
that right here at home. In the United
States, or at least In contiguous terrl
tor v. are : prospects , scarcely equalod
elsewhere. " ,
Greater than ever before wss the
American output laat year. Western
mines were worked actively with grat
ifying results. -. The mines of Colorado
-alone, in ItOS, produced S26.67?,04. and
i those of Csllfornla $1.H.04S.
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'l has ceased to suffer paradoxical -4erml
rrom goia isvwr mimviy "w
such erases as those of California. Mon
tana and Alaska of former-yesra are
now In evidence. Quietly, seriously, the
" pursuit goes on.
" In California large, modern smelting
works have lowered the cost of treating
ore. thus - penrtimng me proniaDie
'working of low-grade mines. . Improve
. ments in hydraulto methods. Introduc
tion of modern dreages to reworx oia
placers, have tended td revive the bual
" nesa. -
Nevada as a gold-producing state la
again coming to the fore. Its produc
tion In 10& was tt.S69.100, and the yield
of Its new mines last year caused a
sensation.
- . While the spasm following the first
discovery of gold In Alaska and the
Yukon has passed, there hss ensued an
even, logical, constantly growing search,
' which in many cases has shown Increas
ingly profitable results.
Dredging 1s being Instituted on such
rivers as the Saskatchewan, Yukon.
Quesnal and Frasler, which are said to
1 asaaa 4. avaMraal Kswt M SnH
posi.es.
' auriferous sand.
- Nor has the romance, ' the hardship,
, the adventureiis spirit lessened since
'thnt time, a few years back, when whit
ening bones were left by mnny a pros
pector on "those" selfsame wsstes.
' A company of Englishmen, newly ar
rived at Montreal, recently responded to
' A .. rr . t f aril , 1 I. "H , H 7
menta necessitating the services of 10
paid teachers snd SO volunteer assist
ants. One of the cheeriest and happiest
places In the city is the kindergarten,
where In the large sunny room the lit
tle ones with shining morning fsces of
all complexions gather dally and learn
the deep lessons of life through contact
with- devoted. ' refined -women and
through the plays and childish - Indus
tries of the chud garden. The little
ones had a aeries of leasona leading up
to Easter and celebrated the season of
Joy with an egg hunt which gave them
unlimited delight. -
A - very helpful department is that
known as the mothers' club, which has
after long and discouraging efforts at
laat found foothold and is now attend
ed by 40 mothers of that part of town
and especially by those whose children
are Interested in the classes. They are
mostly working mothers, who have lit
tle leisure time, but It shows what or
ganised labor will do when these wom
en are able to make, as they did last
year, two crib quilts which they gave
to the Baby home, one large quilt for
the Children's home and another which
was given to the Crittenton borne. :
Mothers Help Themselves. '
When these women become Interested
so that they not only work for them
selves, but aid others. It shows that
they are being reached in a wholesome
way. The mothers gather In the after
noon and devote the flrat half hour to
sewing carpet rags. They have sold
six ruga, the result of this work, and
the calt-Of the yellow alren. They be
came, as most goldseekera become, more
than optimistic they became fanatic
Dividing Into couples, they maHe their
way through the tamarack swamps, over
slippery stones, and began to dig. On
the seventh day besr tracks were found
about the camp; all the provisions had
been eaten.
Canoes were got ready, but the men
had been caught in the relentless grip
of winter; were frosen In." So they set
out afoot for the nearest place where
food could be "found, 00 miles distant.
Intense cold, weight of packs, hunger
and uncertainty made the trip a.verlt
Kble nightmare.
On the sixth day they narrowly es
caped from -wolves. On the seventh
they reached' Toms Town, where food
and warm thr restored them. ' -'
"But," said a member of the party,
"we have not been cured of the fever.
We ahall go back again."
Prominent among: the world's gold
producers stnoe I860. Australasia, especially-Australia,
continues to draw It
quota, of prospectors, although the dif
ficulty of financing mining operations
In such a remote, sparsely settled coun
try prevents any phenomenal Jumps in
the business. , v ; -'
Another rich field Is being opened up
with Improvements thayare making Ti
bet accessible to commerce and travel.
An engineering triumph of note, aside
from the commercial aspect, la the open
ing of the Himalayas by narrow gauge
railroad and s wagon road. ,
Always Tibet has been regarded as a
land rich In gold. Even Herodotus; "the
father of history , .related an amusing
fable of a gigantic race of anta which
dug gold from the earth in the country
northwest of India.
' To the present-day traveler thla is
not entirely a fable. One may see In a
small space hundreds of -Tibetan gold
dlks-era, enveloped - In thick blankets,
working on their hands and knees, often
using as digging tools the horns of an
telopes. They, even sleep in that posi
tion. Did they work thus in Herodotus'
day. and were they the ants he meant?
Today's conquest or darkest Africa Is
not on of biological research: It Is aH
conquest for gold.. Rsrely In history
have such dangers and hardships been
faced as now, when thousands of daring
fortune seekers are threatened by hos
tile savages, menaced by wild animals,
venomous teptlles. . imperiled by nox
ious dlsetae and deadly climate.
For 1.000 miles along the coast' south
of Liberia the country la rife with
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have four for aale And orders for eight
more. These mothers need, more raga
for this work and any ons who has
them to give will confer a favor by
informing Miss Prlchard. Also sny one
who wants rugs made cannot do betf
ter than to order the work from these.
mothers. ,-,'
Do we realise- that this Is thetr only
glimpse of social JtfeT And they are
learnlna- through It many helpful things.
Following the sewing comes a short
devotional service. Musical programs
are given and helpful talks. Dr. French
gave a talk not long ago on the care
of the eyes, Dr. Whltesldes gava tnem
advice on the feeding; of children and
others have aiven of their plentltude.
Refreshments are served st the social
hour. This year through the sale of
the ruga the mothers' club hopes to be
self-supporting. They recently' .fur
nished the . refreshments for a social
evening to which' the fathers were in
vited and they became very much In
terested In the work which their chil
dren are doing in the industrial classes.
Girls Learn Housekeeping.
' One of the pretty sights is that of the
"I Little Housekeepers". in their
dainty white caps and aprons, with
their toy equipment, learning all the
niceties of housekeeping. Little beds
sre made up with care and exactness,
and each little girl learns to set her
breakfast table with tiny pewter knives,
forks, and spoons. After a little prac
tice, and as she becomes proficient, she
ts sllowed -to use delightful little sets
stories of fabulous "strikes." ' Throngs
every week respond to the call; a gTeat
number of them never return. And no
wonder they risk death, when told that
the gold landa are composed of a-ast
areas of rotten quarts, so soft that
prospectors may work it with stones,
as the natives have dona for centuries.
Australia waa - droughty, Alaska cold,
India pestiferous; but in the Aahantee
country a moat deadly combination of
man, beast and nature oppose the ad
venturer. -
One stretch of Jungle on the way to
the gold fields tney are 180 miles in
land has been christened the "white
man's gYave" from the number of pros
pectors who have left their bones there.
But the gold-seeker is the one man in
all the world who never recognlsea the
word impossible. This fact has Justified
the remark: "If it were known that the
north pole was surrounded by, placer
gold fields. Its site would be a hustling
mining camp within a year." -
Witness how, -within" a few" years
since gold waa found in Alaska, swift on
the heels of the pioneers have , gone
'railroad bulldecs and telegraph linemen,
englueera. capitalists, bankers, teachers
and settlers, until the whole stretch of
the northwest Is repeating the won
drous story of California's development
almost 0 years ago.
In 18(7 the United' States bought
Alaska for-17,000,000, and thought the
price exorbitant, Up to the present the
government has received almost twice
that sum In revenues from her pur
chase, and President Roosevelt tins said
of li: "I predict that Alaska, within the
next century, will support aa large a
population as does the entire Scandina
vian Peninsula of Europe."
All this because of gold, nothing
else. '
There, one day not many year ago, a
United States soldier, while digging a
well, mnile the strike which in 20 days
had produced $3,000 worth of gold. On
that spot today la Nome, ' a city of
about 80.000 population. .. ''
In Klondike and -the Yukon gold
spells for the Immigrant, as welf as for
the native - cltlsen, wonderful oppor
tunity.
Ir Is significant that, while gild pro
duction In the newly opened fields Is
Increasing by leaps and bounds, a nota
ble Increase haa been shown In all the
rolil-produclaa stales whffte bonans
days were supposed to have vanished
long since- ,
help's to set
the dinner table.
Little play tubs and clothes lines.
clothespins and hampers are provided
for wash days and tiny irons and boards
for ironing day. It Is to them a delight
ful sort of play but although they are
unaware of it they are learning thee
larger lessons which, such training gives
and a seal for housewifely arts is de
veloped. After finishing the course with the
toys the girls take a course of training
with real kitchen equipment, are taught
the care of the stove and sink, and
finally become skillful and intelligent
little housekeepers. 'On finishing the
course they are given a diploma. The
class of "Little Housekeepers" gave a
practical test of their, ability the other
day when they set table, cooked mush
and served the younger children. Any
one who knows how Important a part of
child life "playing house" Is will appre
ciate what delightful fun thla la to the
litUo girls. Mrs. Charles Tinker has
chargs of this department of the Insti
tute club work and she has as able as
sistants . seven , , well known young
women. :,
Saturday Is a busy day at the Insti
tute club. Ths boys have manual train
ing and. gymnasium practice and the
girls have sewing end cooking classes.
The sewing Is carried on in a syste
matic course. , When a child has 'made
an acceptable sample of one kind Of
work, hemming, patching or darning. It
Is placed In her book and tjie comple
tion of the course entitles her to a
diploma. ;ii .s f. . .)-,'..'.
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Manua, Training Classes.' -
Boys and ' girls both take manual
training and it is really remarkable
what good work they do. The group of
objects represented la the photograph is
composed solely of the work of the chil
dren in this department. The Mother's
club made The rug on which the objects
are placed - The children : themselves
could scarcely realise what practical
and excellent articles they were making.
When they saw their pottery glased and
fired - they . were delighted beyond
measure.., ., . . , ,
- The mental and moral growth whloh
comes through doing Is of the greatest
practical value. The Joy of creating
and the conscious effort of putting
one's bast work into the task is of the
deepest significance In character build
ing. . v . .
What does it mean, think you,, to
mothers who live In dark, dingy quar
ters to have the (bathrooms with an
abundance of hot water, soap, and clean
towels open to them twice a week, free
of charge? Everyone who haa even
glanced Into settlement work and the
'Colorado, Calif orala. Utah. South Da
kota. Arlsona, Nevada, Montana, , all
show gradually advancing yields each
successive year. The territory of
Aleska is yielding more than four times
aa much gold aa It did in 18S; but In
tho same time Arlsona haa more than
doubled lta production, Oregon'a haa be
come a third greater and that of Utah
haa nearly quadrupled.
' One reason for the Increase Is found
In the development of processes by
which the precious metals may now be
secured from ore which' once would
have been thrown away. These have
made possible an Increase of 10 per
cent revenue- from some Of the mines,
and have greatly aldod all miners. The
chlorlnatton and cyanide processes save
OS per cent of the pure metal. It is
stated.
A very large percentage of the In
crease, too, comes from mines which
have been ' previously overlooked or
which - have' not been worked to their
full " possibilities. The story' of Tom
Cruise In Montana Is. in scarcely less
romantic form, repeated every now and
then.. v ., . '-,.,"'
' After working for years In the bed
of a creek, securing anywhere from a
dollar's worth to five dollars' worth ot
gold a day, he auddenly came upon
tho ledge of -rock which, hacked away
by Ms pick, bewime the famous Drum
Lomond mine, one of the moat famous
In the world, '
Another Montana mine, the Granite
Monntnin, was about to be abandoned
by order of the company when the su
perintendent found that 'another, vein
Iny beneath the surfye ore. Tba prof
Its of this mine since have been enor
mous. '
In the west there are lost mines here
and there, which, every year, men
search after with all the ardor that
marks the quest of new fields. One
Bryfoaie once came , out of the Mo
Jnve desert with a bag of naggets.
which he sold for some supplies snd
returned to work the bonansa which
ho had found. He was never seen
again, nor has the mine been discov
ered. -
On a hill In southern California is the
Peal eg mine, originally found by "Peg
leg" Smith,- wtifi disappeared Just as the
people were wildly excltel over nuggets
which he hdd brought from it,
Only the ether dny the northwest
produced a story which shows that the
romance surrounding tho old El Dorado
of china with which
conditions under which the poorer peo
ple live knows that cleanliness comes
to be accounted as among the greatest
of luxuries, - . Children of destitute
families are gathered in frequently and
given a bath and an entire change or
clothing. A nurae from the Visiting
Nurses' association is in attendance for
this duty one morning each week to
help the mothers or the settlement
workers. : .... .
Fine Work for the Idle.
How shall we compass the work of
this- excellent practical endeavor in one
brief article? One can only hint at the
other " branchos which are doing such
good service In the cause of humanity.
A decorating committee keeps flowers
In the Institute rooms and gives each
child who attends the story-hour ses
sion a flower to carry home. A branch
of the W. C A. Travelers' Aid
Employment bureau finds positions for
women and girls needing work ana
helps those who are ill and In trouble.
A visiting committee goes among the
residents of that part of town visiting
in their homes the parents of the chil
dren who attend the Sunday school and
the day classes. Without this close
knowledge of their needs and conditions
the vital helpfulness of the whole un
dertaking must lag.
A Junior committee of 100 boys and
girls of. well-to-do - families furnish
twice a year their outgrown ' clothing.
books and toys for thene less fortunate
ones. .' At the- request of the playground
committee tho park commissioners last
summer donated two of the park blocks
and appropriated 1400 for an equipment.
Here the youngsters made merry- all
summer, without molestation with hand
ball, seesaws and other games dear to
the childish heart. ; . , . .
Will Have Mountain Outing. ,
A luncheon committee furnishes ths
kindergarten children with refreshments
every Friday throughout the year. It
la a "party." A children's chorus Is a
regular feature.- '.' "
Last summer In cooperation with the
Juvenile court two parties of girls and
three of boys were given an outing at
the beach and. one party of mothers
was thus remembered. Next summer
the children are to have their outing In
the mountains. One who has large
grounds near. Hood river has Issued the
Invitation. ,
We but dimly guess all that the In
stitute club means to the women and
children of the North End. Right liv
ing, right thinking, social pleasures,
practical helpfulness ; all these It brings
tbem and its uplifting educational and
moral helpfulness must cling to them
all their lives.
days is not past. Miss Ethel McNeill,
a Winnipeg school teacher, la the hero
ins W IL , ' . .
- She waa engaged to marrv a man kn
doveloped tuberculosis. An idea seised
upon the girl she would make "money
enough to take him to a favorable cli
mate, ,
Disguised as a man. ahe haa worked
In gold mines of Idaho, Montana and
South Dakota, has made a , lucky
strike" and is now preparing to take
her husband to New Mexico.
Bo gold does, at times, bring real
happiness. .
Girls to Avoid.
Avold the girl who shirks her share
oi ins worn.
x ne giri that does not love her
ine gin who never sees anything to
do. - ,
The girl who tries to steal another
glrl'a lover. .
- The gjrl who telle tales about her
companions. . . ,.-,..
Tho girl who gets Into debt to -buy
i,iy iur nerseir . ,
.vlln ' "ho Sever speaks of any
thing but men... . ,
The girl who haa a score of lovers all
at once. j ... (, ,
The girl who la always pretending to
be better than every ono else.
' The girl who seldom speaks the
truth..'. -, v , ., .... .. .
The girl who la cruel to children!
The girl who never, denies herself
-anything. -.- .-. - - - .
The girl who la never on good terms
with her sisters.
" The girl who says one thing and does
another. .
The girl who speaks slightingly of
her parents. .
The s-lrl who' would marry the first
man who asked her. no matter what
his character was like.
Suppressing Nocturnal Disturber.
Geneva Cor. Pa!l Mall Oasette.
' There has Just been enacted at Basel
a piece of pollf-e prudery .which the
champion among the official martinets
of Berlin might have envied.
A Journalist given to using his type
writer late at night proved himself
somewhat trying to his fellow lodgers
or occupiers of the house, who, falling
to procure a cessation of the annoyance
by, private protest, at last reported the
matter to the police aa a nuisance.
The case wss not exactly simple,
though It was certainly novel, but po
lice Intelligence finally overcame - the
difficulty. They summoned the Journal
ist for creating a nocturnal disturbance,
and the tribunal imposed a line of 1
franc, with the alternative cf four
hours' Imprisonment
THE. MOST rAHOuL
BRIGAND DEAD
Ttv VMtnund Hurst. '
C
ORSICA has lost Its most pictur
esque character and one of Its
most profltsble assets ,as an at
traction -to tourists. . Antonio
Bornelll. better known aa Bella-
coscla, the last and most distinguished
of its bandits, is dead at the rl?e old
age of St. For nearly half a century
he kept the bush defying the efforts or
the gendarmes to captur him in his
Inaccessible eyrie of Pentlca, It Is es
timated that- the various expeditions
sent against him cost the French gov
ernment no !ss than 1875,000. " He
passed unscathed through ' countless
blood-thirsty adventures and laughed at
ballets only to fall a victim, in the end,
to tbe onnlaughta of a more insidious
and deadly foe Influensa. . - .
Granted a pardon In 1892, for the last
IS years of his life he enjoyed the
fruits of his fame, that of being, next
to Napoleon, who was a good deal of a
bandit, too. the greatest man Corsica
has produced. , Every collector of pic
ture postcards on the continent was
proud to number the grim visage of the
old brigand among his souvenirs, and
no tourist who visited the wild Island
of the Mediterranean considered he bad
done justice to Its attractions had he
not called on the old outlaw. He
brought more money to the Island than
he had ever taken from bis victims
Therefore, the Corslcans mourn his loss.
There is none to take his place. The
vendetta is well nlah ' extinct. The
bandit business la played out. In fhese
degenerate days of commercialism, the
young . men of Corsica openly deride
highway robbery as a profession. To
such Ignoble depths have they descend
ed that they even prefer being streetcar
conductors,
Tbe Bellaeoscla family lived in the
village -of Bocognano. Antonio s father
had himself been sometime an outlaw,
had had three wives, eight children and
70 grandchildren. Antonio was-born
In 1326. His Arst difficulty with the
law-, was when he was -still a mere
youth. It was in -1848. The notary
MarcsgTl came to expel him from a
holding claimed alike by the commons
and the Bellacoaclaa. Possibly the law
yer did not show sufficient tact In car
rying out his mission. ' Be that as It
may, high worda ensued and Antonio,
raising his rifle, put an end to the ar
gument by shooting the man or law.
When the gendarmea appeared to ar
rest the murderer he bad fled to the
wild pass of . Pentlca and waa beyond
their reach. 1 .'.
Antonio Bellaeoscla waa now, by the
force of circumstances, an outlaw.
Jacques, his brother, waa at this time
finishing his studies at AJaccio, prepar
atory to taking holy -orders. He hur
ried home bent on advising his brother
to surrender and stand his trial.- AlasI
while the brothers were conversing, s
gendarme surprised them and raised his
rifle to cover Antonio. The hot Corslcan
blood waa fired In an instant. Jacques,
the future priest, seised a gun and the
rash gendarme was a dead man. There
were now. two outlaws Instead of one.
Then began a merciless pursuit, the
two . brothers being hunted down like
wild beasts for mors than 40 years.
Columna of gendarmery and soldiers
were over and over again dispatched
against them. . Their property was con
flacated, their flocks sold, at one time
or another all their relatives Impris
oned on the charge of aiding, abetting
and harboring them, but - all in vain.
The prestige of the two brothers only
grew with each vain endeavor on the
part of the authoritiea to capture them.
They became In the! eyes of every good
Corslcaa the incarnation or that inborn
sentiment of defiance of law and au
thority which la the very essence of
vendetta tradition. Each new -deed of
prowess was hailed with delight and
the brothers were undisputed lords of
the maquls or bush.
In the same village lived a young
man named Marcangeli, who bad fallen
deeply in love with a girt to whom
Antonio was paying his attentions.
Marcangeli, taking advantage of his riv
al's absence, persuaded Mile. Ceratl to
favor his suit and preaently married her.
Marcangeli paid dearly for his success
ful wooing. - A few days later a young
widow-was weeping over her husband's
corpse,
Only once did the police succeed In
Inducing one of Antonio's countrymen
to turn traitor, and the result waa not
encouraging to possible Imitators. The
shepherd Plnelll undertook to guide the
gendarmae to the outlaws' lair. After
long and painful march , the parry
waa approaching the goaL when sud
denly the shepherd, who was leading
In front, fell dead with a bullet through
his brain.
Such feats excited admiration and
respect. Antonio, whose kindness, hu
manity ..and affection for his own peo
ple were the theme of constant praise,
waa generally held to have chosen "the
only way." If he had killed. It was
argued, he had done so from necessity
or to defend his honor. And in, saying
thla his frlnds felt that his case might
any day be theirs, for your true Cor
slcan Is a thorough believer In the adage
that if you wish to be well served
you must do a thing ' yourself. One
of the few Instancea of Antonlo'a bullet
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Citadel From Which Bellaeoscla Was Hunted.
missing Its mark was when he pursued
his sisters betrayer, severely wounding
but not killing him. It happened once
such accidents can easily occur in
the course pf.. a long residence In the
maquls that Antonio Bellaeoscla killed
a gendarme by mistake. He appears
to have been sincerely sorry, for he
paid for' the schooling of the orphan
out of his own pocket, which Is cer
tainly an Original , trait In a bandit's
character. ' .
Once also a party of gendArmes
which had been sent out to capture
hint lost their way In the heat of pur
suit. They finally became trait,,,
and were able neither to advance
to retreat. Antonio, who had i
watching them from his vnm
ground gallantly went -to their res
piloted them aafely out of 1.inj-r
bade them a courteous. If sIik
scornful, farewell.
Very typical of Corslcan reverrr
for the laws of hospitality Is the f
lowing anecdote of the meeting l
tween the prefect and the bria-
One day In 1872, the prefect of bu--
waa visiting the districts under hi nu
thorlty when he happened to rs tie.,r
Bocognano and therefore not far fr, i i
Pentlca,, which Is between three an i
four miles from the former place. 1
day waa hot, the sun hUn In t ,
heavens, and the prefect decided to rt
by tbe wayside and lunch. I'rasentW
a handsome peasant was seen sp-
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Antonio Bellaeoscla.
preaching with a roebuck on hia shoul
ders. He laid it at the prefect's U'
In sign of submission to authority. ' I
accept it," said the functionary, "bu
you must come and help me eat it."
The peasant was punctual at th
prefecture and in hia gala dress looke
more handsome than ever. He eho-wf
himself to be well mannered, not with
out dignity, and won the heart of Mm
la prefete herself by his respect fu
compliments. All at once the prefer
waa drawn aside.
"M. le prefet do you know who I
Is that Is eating at your table? Bella
coscla!" : .
But no one dreamed of molesting Br!
lacoacta even at the prefecture. He w
a guest and, as such, his person
Inviolable. And yet the list of con
demnatlons In "contumaciam was ai
palling; sentenced to penal servitude I
1851: to death in 1SS4; again to den
In 18S5, and for the third time to dent
in 1877.
A halo of glory settled round the hen
of this really extraordinary brlgan
His feats, his hairbreadth escapes, h
vendettaa caught the fancy of .-t:
"Continentals." . aa tho French a
called by the Corslcans, who wei
mightily proud of Antonio. In fx- '
one is if mpita ui uviivvv, mat jubih
In the end waa inclined to look t!
other- way as soon as Bellaeoscla vei
tured forth from his fastness. By tar
consent be seems t have resumed pn
session of his little farm with Us f lei
of chestnuts, and though ha was to
Intents and purposes deprived of h
civil rights, no one appeared to thlr
It prudent to remind him of the far
He. even took to himself a wife whl
he waa an outlaw, and yet the mayor t
whom he applied treated H aa a matt,
of course that be ahould preside at t
civil ceremony. Bellaeoscla was. too,
political power, and the candidate
candidates who had his good word wc
certain to be elected. It is een a
serted that ha went to law in one
two trivial matters while yet an ou
law!
During the France-German war H
lacoacla showed his patriotism by r:
Ing to Gambetta and offering to raise
battalion of brigands: The great Fren
patriot refused, but to this day t
Corslcans are Inclined to think th
Bellacoscla'a prowess might have turn,
the course of events.
-Jacques, who was far less . populi
than Antonio, appears to have nev
made his submission.. He died In is ,
of pleurisy, and was buried by his f u
lly in the bed of a dried up torrent Wl;
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Antonio BcllaccmrU dUm-i
plcture-niie an, I romunn
Corslcan life. Kr vvn ,,.
It survival of th 1. e
Corsk-nn manners I -v. .
marked chanite of )t y,,
fluenc of ths a- ho.. I U i
felt an I tde youin i.f i .. .
to prfr ti-K.le, i . ' . ,
mest a"rvl' i i . , ., i
of a r.oii i -nil.
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