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Show I ., VtNDITTA IN COnSICA. MUal, BliMHlr Cualewa mt Thai Caaa. Ur Uaa Uraally IllaalaUkea. Faraoua who darlva Ihrlr Idaaa ot Coralra aa It la today from l'roaper Marlmea'a novel, "Colomli," will he doomed to aoma dlaappolntmrnt. Manna Man-na ra and cualoma have chanii'i) great deal la the Island altire th date, horlly after the buttle of Waterloo, when the (allaut HrUlah nffli-ar and hit dauxhter vlallixl Colnmlia lu her urealral raatla at rietran.-ra. The vanilrtta. whlih la the themt of that thrilling alory, haa greatly dlnilu-tahed. dlnilu-tahed. During the rarnlvnl fun-fled fun-fled lhat wa had come upoo a real Inatanra of thla plrturemiua barbar-lam. barbar-lam. One workman killed another In I a cafe, and then, In (he eipraialva uralian phraae, "took lo the magula." or bruanwood, which covcri a large j iiorilim uf the laland. and haa, from Itm Immemorial, bean the refuge of outlaw, and baudlta. The legend aub-al.ted aub-al.ted for. aome daya, and ei-flted ei-flted a new luterret lu life In Cor-ha, Cor-ha, and quite a large demand for coplea of "Colomba." Hut a rouveraa-tlon rouveraa-tlon which 1 had with the uge d in-atructlun in-atructlun who had In ventilated Ihe raae proved that It wa. after all, aa he etpreaieil It, a crime rulgalre, and mil, aa w had hoped, a crime corae. Wa afterward had the Benefaction ot aeelng the malefactor led In chain between two mounted policemen on hi way Into Ajacclo, whereaa, th traditional tra-ditional bandit would have been fed and aupplled with powder and ahot by Ihe country people, who would bar rather gone lu the atak than betrayed hi hiding place to th authorltlea. Her and there vendetta may atlll linger lin-ger In the laland, but It ha now become be-come a meana of attracting the tour-lat, tour-lat, who 1 Invited to buy btoodlhlratjr- looking Inlvee and dagger, bearing auch choice Inscriptions aa "Vendetta Coraa; morte al nemlco" ("death to the enemy"); or, even atlll more grew, onie: "Va dlrltto al cuore del nemlco" nem-lco" ("do lratght to the heart of th enemy"). Theae choice weapon form, together with gourd engraved with-portrait with-portrait of Napoleon, or the uegro't head, which I Ihe Coralran rreat, th atable Industry of AJurrlo Wtstmln-ter Wtstmln-ter Hevlew. |