Show AN ITALIAN BANDIT A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND PURSUES PURSUED BY SOLDIERS lifus outlaw Is t protected by tile peasant rin Pea gant nt wio who regard him as a hero bifero his HI career of at rent leance special letter one of the mot moat remarkable brigands brigande bri gands who ever lived Is Gill gillseppe who tor for years has ben pursued by soldiers in italy but who safe eafe in the love of the p a antty for him has evaded all the traps of his bis would would be catto a to 9 biery man woman woma n and litte choln in tle tie province provi ace ot of cal calabria a Is willing to ilah anthina an thing to befriend him and so OIL oa whose bead is a price leads the soldiery a never ending race dy by the peasantry lie he Is re regarded ardad as a victim of tho law by the latter he Is looked upon as a bancia up to three nears ears ago lej the uneventful life of a wood cutter one day he became Inva invaded ved qui quite te blamelessly la in a sudden quarrel in his fathers win estop in the village of san estefaro Ste faro ills two opponents whom he wished to separate turned on him with their knives ile he defended himself and the quarrelers aquirre ers were parted A few days later vincenzo Vince azo Zoc call one of the pair in whose wrangle Mus olno had inter interfered feied was shot dead by sonae some unseen marksman was arr stad d arraigned and by a chain of petty evidence the fas ta sity of which was admitted at the time and it has since ben demonstrated ils as a personal cors against by some women concerned he was condemned to twenty one years of hard labor as the murderer of the unlucky Zoe call lie he was sent to the prison at gerace flom that hour young giuseppe was a changed man in his attitude toward towan justice and authority in his country he said 1 I shall es escape ape and once I 1 do escape all italy shall hear of 0 what wha I 1 shall do so he be wiled his hour bour to ti escape from the prison one nahl lie hi effected his release by digging a holi hole in the wall and therewith bexan began hi his promised langeance lenge ance and aad his new nev career hla his career of vengeance the first thing did was to t to a as a sl si at every single pr son man by man woman by woman who had sworn away ills his life ila hi was a one shot anil and yeu die clie fusi fusilier leer he prowled about san an stefano and anc other localities but his haunts were af rz GUISEPPE known only to hl hit true ir lends and his carbine grew to he be the dread of every guilty con conscience science in the already notorious case but false witness spy or hostile companion had not much time to worry with conscience first the former filand he of the original fight in the inn next the chief traducer a soldier named chirico Chirl co then a illdage billage woman francesca then two spies agostino Agos lino and saraceno then a witness named crea then the wife of the said witness crea then the uncle of zoe zoc call in the course of a few months each of these was a corps each one picked out in an d moment by that awful rifle moreover a young girl who had bad been betrothed by a cousin in tact fact had died during his confinement broken heart led ed and sneered at by all her village iino was secretly and accurately informed as to just ali it persons had made life such a ritt bitterness erness to this young girl garl he made a most correct conservative selection of those that taj plainly had bad been unwind to her ul deeds deed of deriedl of the honesty and gentleness gen leness and gene generosity rosity of Mi isolino the stories are arc an all en endless colless chiu chaa ch iu ile he Is as br vo ve as a badger and as friendly to the helpless as a st bernard dog ile he does not try to kill when a bodler in pursuit of him and of military duty I 1 at clos alosa quarters but just al he wll merely break the soldiers old lers arm or leg with that unerring ri rifle ile ball and p prevent event his continuing the chase ache ago he was wandering in ill the hlis and vast mat a peasant and lamenting what has baa happened ened to you he asked the man a poor drove explained that he had been robbed of 1000 lire while returning from the ca cattle tile fair by whom by mu declared the man and he be described ds bibid an impostor imposter a common roid road thief who had done the deed gly gling aig himself out to the tb victim as the terrible we shall go and find ili alino said the 0 outlaw and they dd find him with his revolver rev over made the thief get down on his klevs k levs to the drover confess that he haj lied hed con hit his arms ob obi him to TO the money and I 1 1 s ahlm thorough thrash th ln 11 d riv nv ra r whip now be iff 41 i d it outlaw and remember that Glue oppe muro atno never steals tim then as his bis impudent counterfeit hobbled away he be turned to the drover and said 1 I am st jo joeph joceph eph keep you my friend befriends a poor foor girl A young woman oman one bitter morning was cutting sticks in the woods near bova she was shivering trum from the cold shoeless and halt half clad came her way may lie ile happened to speak of bova and the soldiers nearl ng it in search of 0 the bil brigand gand Illus and the girl an ansa sered ered that nobody said anything but good goed of Mus olno cut her billets tor for her gave her a lire note and his own war warm m silk scarf carried the wood for he her r to athin a nil ml e of 0 dova bova and with the usual aril simple declaration farewell st be with you I 1 am aug I no nj ha van abe L the only church la in a near cirace needed a new root the money came one oie day from last november an elderly couple living on the monto one sunday night gave not knowing to who whom in they were kind in the course of 0 the evening they confred to him their trouble in regard to the aness of 0 their toa son tor for wh se proper care they needed a small sum lut one impossible to such a household after alno had gone away at dawn they lound found a handful of notes odd a ivor iver and copper and with it the line 1 I am sorry I 1 have no more I 1 will try to send th rest |