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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 The Vendetta of the Madonna By HARRY CHAPIN PLUMMER. “Yes, signori, the vendetta Is sure one terrible thing. But is it not ne ce:-.-&ry some of the time? You have iu this country what you call thj “lynch,” and he vender.la it no wors-* than (hat; ouly It is dlfffc’ent, tha:’p alt.” w A careless query put to young Giuseppe, a Sardinian whom we had engaged in conversation in the tiny restaurant of the Three Stars, had elicited this candid utterance. As we were not prepared to discuss the relative merits, or demerits, o£ “Judge Lynch' and the malevolent vendetta system that prevails In the fever-ridden island province o£ Italy, we urged the youth to pro ceed. Reason for Vendetta. "I give for you one. example,” said he, ‘‘and then you see for yourself the reason for the vendetta. One, maybe It was two, years ago, there was one bandit in the mountains of Sardegna. The soldiers of King Vit torio Emmanuele, they try every day to chase out all the bandit from the island. “Some they catch and put in prison, or exile from the country, but this one bandit they no can find. Always they come where he is, but he disap pear—presto! And they go away, very mad. “This bandit, he no kill. Some of the time he flash gun, but he no harm anybody. Only he steal—mon ey, if he can find; animals, if he can no find the money. “This man, he had the one wife, young, very beautiful, like the lovely white flower what grow up in the mountains of the province, where is snow most of the time. She he love like mad. And he risk his life forty, fifty times any day for to bring her what she liked. "And, also, she love him. And all the other bandit in the highland country, they like this bandit and they think his little wife like one angel from the skies. “Now, one day there come from Genova to Sassari, a big town of Sar degna, one lieutenant of the bersag liere, what wear the fine green uni form, with gold lace an da hat with one big white plume. He has no got the good, honest face, like the sol diers, the caribinieri, of the province. He got what we call the ‘bad eye, the low brow of the forehead. “But he make one grand show in Painful Dyspepsia A Form of Indigestion Caused by Gas tric Irritation from Undigested Food in the Stomach. No kind of dyspepsia is better marked than that known as “pain ful indigestion,’’ and it is also a very common affection. Pain generally of a dull character is felt after meals, and along with the pain, Soreness at -'he pit of the stomach often exists, in some cases the soreness is permanent. The tenderness is com monly restricted to a spot in the mid dle line of the body, immediately be low the breast-bone. It often extends upward under the bone, which consequently feels sore on pressure, or the tenderness is fell toward either side. This ten derness is commonly associated with an unpleasant feeling of heat —“a burning sensation” —as it is termed by some persons. There is also a “gnawing" and “dragging," as well as various other anomalous sensa tions complained of after taking food, and generally within an hour after eating. As might be supposed the intensity oif the symptom is proportionate to the quantity and quality of the meal. When the stomach is empty, a sensa tion of craving or emptiness gives most trouble. This often causes a false appetite, which, by inducing the person to eat heartily aggrevates the sufferings. Thirst generally causes much annoyance; heartburn, water brash, acidity, nausea, and headache are not infrequent attendants. The tongue is usually coated and from a mere inspection of this organ the con dition of the stomach can often be correctly told. ‘ It i 3 a common error with persons who suffer from stomach pain caused by indigestion and gastric irritation, to use such drugs as chlorodyne, Hoffman’s Anodyne, and other “pain killiers" for its relief. Such treat ment is a great mistake. While these drugs afford temporary relief to the dyspeptic pain, they have no effect whatever in reomvlng the cause. STUART’S DYSPEPSIA TAB LETS remove the cause. By com pletely digesting all the food in the stomach, there is no further possi bility of the occurrence of this dis agreeable form of dyspepsia with its painful manifestations, and other concurrent symptoms. All of the ir ritation of the stomach-lining and stomach-nerves as the result of the undigested food lying in that organ and undergoing fermentation and de composition, is quickly done away with. 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And he tell the people of Sassari that he will get that bandit, or he going to make him one very quiet fellow soon. And he trow out his big chest and he p&rade up and down the plaza of the town. And all the fool women, they look at him and they think him one great man, and they believe he is going to fight the bandit all by himself in his grand uniform. “By and by he go away from Sas sari and the people they say he’s gone to reconnoitre in the mountains, where the bandit live. And he’s gone some time—maybe six, seven days. Then one day some bandit, they come into Sassari, in the dis guise like shepherds, and soon every body knows what has happened. “This bersagliere, he has found the mountain home of the bandit and he go no farther. For there he find the lovely wife of him. And he make love to her and stay there till he persuade her to fly with him from the country. And finally she go. “Then —two, three days after, may be —the bandit he return to his home. He call from the distant mountain. He no get the answer. In fear he hurry to his little house. It is va cant. No smile of the sweet wife he see, no kiss of her he receive. And the loneliness of those mountains that he has loved since he was the little baby make him sick. “His sun has gone out forever, and he drop, like the moufflon, the moun tain animal of Sardegna, when he is shot. And when his good friends find him, only he laugh, and he sing, and he curse, and then he laugh again. And his friends, when they hear that laugh, they cry just like women —and they are all strong men of the mountains. Took His Wife. “When came the duty that the ber sagliere rob the * bandit of his wife, all the people of the country they are very mad. And the bandit and the country people they come together, real quiet iike. “A little while pass, and early one evening, just wherKhe great, red sun sing into the Mediterranean, and make Sassari half dark and half light, this bersagliere he appear in the piaz za with one woman who hide her face in one very black veil; and they pass near the Cathedral, where have been seen many miracles of the good Ma donna. “And in one little crowd, five men, in cloaks like the mountain shepherds wear, watch these two —the bersag liere and the woman. When they come close to the big church, these five men hold to their mouths the top of their knives, which are like the croce, the cross. And, sotto voce, they swear to the good Madonna to follow to his death and to track down this one dog of a persagliere. “These five, they then separate without one other word, and they go pway by different directions. And the bersagliere and the woman they take the ship for Corsica, and from there go to Monte Carlo, where is lights and music and the “high life” that make very happy the woman— for a little while. “The bersagliere he gamble like the very devil himself, and the more he play the more he lose. And he curse himself.” “Always he Is watched. The five men are informed of every thing he do, everywhere he go. “Soon come news that he has lost everything in Monte Carlo and his regiment hear of that and he lose his fine job. After this he disap pear suddenly from Monte Carlo and leave the woman without money, without friends, without hope. She is deserted. ‘She try for to make the gay life there, but the Prefects he tell her to leave Monaco. She wander around the Riviera, to Nice, and so to Paris. Then, one cold morning, when it has snowed for two days, she is found m the Seine. She has drowned her self. “But the fellow, he no kill him self. He fly to America. And from bad to worse he go, till one day he is glad to take the hard work ot the slate quarry in Pennsylvania, near the Delaware river. For a long time he bend over the slate and like a dog. And now he drink all the time —not the vino of Sardegna, but a stuff like the fire of hell it self. It is, I think, whiskey, and very bad whiskey. This make him forget himself. “Then one day he is no more seen at the quarry. Nobody know where he has gone. He was drunk when the men at his shack last see him. Then two days after, word come that, he is found. Dead? No, worse! Took Long Fall. “The bersagliere, when he go away, lose himself in the dark. And he come to a mountain, five, six miles away from where he work. And he fall from that mountain to the rocks of a quarry that was no worked for years. He go down, two. three hun dred feet, and break his ribs and arms and legs. "But that no kill him. Oniy # it makes him very sobei. And he call for help, first to man and then to the Madonna. And he call and cry very loud. But there is no house and no people for miles near that old quarry. “The night in those mountains grow very cold, and that no do him any good. It makes him have the chill and the burning fever, and may be that make him think of Sardegna. Still he lives. “Then comma the day, and the! sun. And still he live. An’ the | sun is worse than the cold and the ] dart. For It shine on those rocks and make the heat of the Inferno. The fever almost burn him up. “He call some more. No answer. Then he laugh, and he sing, and he curse, and then he laugh again, like the bandit when he finds his one love- j Iy wife has gone. “When they find the bersagliere no body cry. For he no has the friends, They just take him back to his sharx at the new quarry. But it’s no use. He die on the way. And when the Coroner he come, they bury him ana SAVOY CORNER Broad and Jackson 45 - - PHONES - - 143 JJOAUTY DR. ANDES’ GREAT PRESCRIPTION SI.OO Per Bottle 3 for $2.50. \ DR. ANDES’ GREAT OIL 50c Per Bottle, 3 for $1.25. DR. ANDES’ GREAT EMULSION SOAP 10c—3 for 25c We arc headquarters for these famous medi cines. GEORGIA FARM STORIES By J. C. McAUXIFFE The changes in harvesting during the past few years have been notable in many ways. Throughout the cotton beit the fields used to he so rough / ichinery couldn’t be handled, but nowadays most every farmer has quite an outfit, includ ing a mower, rake and some machine plows. I can remember when the old grain pradle—a#J that wasn't so long ago—was in full sway, but now nobody ever thinks of handling oa/i in such a manner. It’s either the binder or the mower. And there’s another feature to it, the yields are so much better and the soil is Improving from year :.> yea-. The evolution of time is about the most wonderful thing In the world, and no where else under the sun are such won ders being wrought as here In the agricultural districts of the cotton belt. But now, W'hile Is bringing a good price, folks should begin to think about the days when such conditions will not be prevailing. The coming winter sea son will provide ample opportunities for the farmers of the cotton belt to inaugu rate new plans and work to upbuild the home community. In every section in the cotton belt there Is room for one or more farmers who will engage In raising hay and corn for sale to the more improvi dent neighbors, and it will bring a good price if sold at the right time of the year. Then there Is room for small dairies and poultry farms, and the re turns which can bo secured from such a line of farming will be sure to prove satisfactory. With the coming of autumn I always have a feeling of melancholy, for then It seems to me saddest days do come; not. wan cry, no wan think very much about him. “When . hear this, . 1 thank God that the miracle of the Cathedral of Sassari has take care of the bersag liere, who gamble and lose. “Soon I write home to the little ‘Committee of Five’ and I tell them that the vendett is finish; that tl i bersagliere was thrown from the mountain into the old quarry. And who knows? Maybe he was. For the poor workmen at his camp, they fear him after he has cut one Sicilian boy, very young, with his knife." Bt FAIR TO LOOK UPON A Good Complexion Is the Real First Aid to he Homely. A: leant two-thirds of woman’s beauty consists in a “good com plexion,” arid the plain or homely woman who wishes to be attractive should make every effort to have a beautiful skin. But do not rush off for cosmetics or any external applications. Beauty of the skin and complexion is due solely to the quality and quantity of Mood in the blood-vessels of the face. And there is Just one thing, Margo, which will make new blood and impart beauty-giving qualities to the old blood. It clears the skin of pimples, blackheads, liver spots and saliowness, and quickly imparts the rosy glow of youth to the pale and faded cheeks. This new discovery is sold by Green & Horsey, and a good-sized box can be obtained for 50 cents. It is so invariably successful in glvfng a beautiful complexion that,they sell it with the understanding that the purchase price will be refunded If it does not do ail that, is expected of it. THE AUGUSTA HERALt. T. G. HOWARD’S l CUT RATE DRUG STORE SERVICE Regular Our Price Price Hind’s H. &A. Cream . ..$ .50 $ ,40 Frost ilia 25 .20 I). & R. Cold Cream 25 .20 Enthvmol Tooth Paste 25 .19 Colgate’s Ribbon Paste . . .25 .20 Prophylactic Tooth Brushes .35 .25 Cutieura Soap 25 .19 Krom Soap 25 .19 Pompeian Cream 50 .40 Sanitol Face Cream 25 .20 Packer’s Tar Soap 25 .19 Herpicide 50 .40 Ilerpieide 1.00 .75 We have just received a fresh ship ment of Elcaya Cream, and H admit’s Cold Cream in tubes and jars. hut In reality everybody should he happy. Recently I heard a masterly sermon on the things that come with the seasons of the year, and i.ie word picture of autumn was very eloquent. “For,” said the preacher, “we see the fields of ripening crops, the forests robed in beauty with purple and golden leaves, above the Hkios of azure, the birds in their unfettered freeaom, and then—some call it autumn, but others call it God.” And when we come to think of it as nature’s work, the coming of the win ter time ought ,lo bring a tinge of happi ness, and If people would work to make It more cheery, there would be quite a dif ference. The fields of gray could be re lieved by fields of living green If farmers would follow the right policy in farming. Around every home in the cotton belt there could be cultivated with much profit a little grazing patch, or even two or three of them, and the living green in winter would add much to appearances as well as to aid in upbuilding the soil around the house. Now late rye, early wheat, or even barley, can he planted, and the turf oat is mighty good for su<vi purposes. Vetch and Fall Oats. The intfoduction of new crops means much for every section and the man wno starts some good nesy thing in a community is a benefactor, and whettn/ he is recognized as such or not, does not mi , mSSkn MS km/msi. Jp \ vimMzm :3mx\ 1 \ iff't^ M>rjnL V> count so much as the actual service. In the whole cotton belt there Is ample opportunity to have new thlnge of this nature brought Into prominence, but among the many crops that can now bt added In almost any section Is vetch. The native vetch which grows In such abundance Iri the Augusta district will prosper most anywhere end immense yields of hay can be secured. It may be planted to best advantage with fall oats and cut as hay early In the spring. Just as oat hay la cut. The yield will be double, and the quality of the hay very much improved. In addition to this the vetch Is a. winter growing legume nn'd improves the soil, besides making a very beautiful field while In growth. The second crop seeds Itself. But even In the oat crop there Is ev erything nowadays in Improved seed. Tho man who can get genuine Appier oats will be doing welt to pay way up yonder for them rather than take the averago oat as a gift, for the crop Is often dou- Contlnued on Last Column Valuable Records Lost When Sprague Mansion Was Burned h-’ % • iJHHHrI ■A HHyHH HHhKI • J : L.i jjpjaa i% moTo-w m 1 "V y \A/M*‘£>rsojirr, B ,*• , <1 » :* iywL k>'| Id: ” ■ M I I M vV' '■'f'.W/vf < V I j AjJ I - 1 1 % if \t : ■ :• / \i : -V t-J v, • ..y REPUTATION Regular Our Price Price Wampoles C. L. Oil SI.OO $ .75 Angier’s Emulsion 50 .40 Angler's Emulsion 1.00 .75 Seotts Emulsion 1.00 .75 Fletchers Castoria . . .... .35 .28 Papes Diuretic 50 .40 Grove’s Chill Tonic 50 .40 Tutts Liver Pills ... .. .... .25 .19 Peruna . .. 'I.OO .75 Pinkhams Compound .. .. 1.00 .75 Wine Cardui .. 1.00 .75 Golden Med. Discovery ... 1,00 .75 Pierce’s Favorite l’resc. .. 1.00 .75 Colgat.es Toilet Water 50 .38 Colgates Tooth Powder ... .25 .15 Everything else cut—we can save you money. William Sprague, Civil War Gov ernor of Rhode Inland, by the bunt ing of whose $1,000,000 mansion at Narragansett. Pier, shown at the left hand, valuable and historic records were completely destroyed, despite the heroic attempt of tho aged man to save them at the peril of his life. Below the ex-Governor an<l his home is pictured Mrs. Sprague, his seotmd wife, who barely escaped from Ihe flames, which ruined his magnificent, art collection, gathered from all over the world. The mansion was the ren dezvous of noted characters in Amer ican state life, Horace Greeley, Benja min Butler, Samuel .1. Tildon and Roscoe Conkling having frequently met there and been entertained by the Spragues. Because ho was hub. peeled by the former Governor of be ing too friendly with the first Mrs. Sprague, Roscoe Conkling. the hand some and brilliant New York Senator, was driven from the Sprague man sion one morning and a divorce fol lowed. PAGE THIRTEEN SAVOY CORNER Broad and Jackson 45 - - PHONES - - 143 RELIABILITY Sole Agents for Whitman’s Chocolates and Bonbons, .80c lb Premiere Chocolates 80c lb. Quality Chocolates 60c lb. Norma Martinez Smokers Tampa Smokers. Hot Chocolate with whipped cream, De licious Ice Creams and all the popular hot and cold drinks. We want your patron age. Georgia Farm Stories Continued from Fourth Column. bleu through planting the Appier oat as compared to other common varieties. Just got a few Appier oats and plant them alongside others and watch results. I'lease don't ask for seed, get Information from your seedsman, or some of the ad. * vertisers In this paper. I don’t like to be too everlasting prac tical In anything I say; that Is, t don’t want to get tiresome about It, but In the argument I have tried to put forth In the foregoing there is mudh of the sentimen tal. When we are laid away In the last sleep It kindly eo/tens the harshness to think that the green grass will hide the rudeness of the broken soli and tho bitterness is sweetened when we fancy that flowers may bloom In days to come on the grave on the hillside. But as for me. I’d rather plant the green around tho home of my friends fnan to heap the eulogies upon them after they are laid away for the eternal rest. The monotonous things of life often cause us to grow melancholy and fre quently discourage us, but if we keep on struggling, trying to do better, we shall come to the turn in the lane that will lead us on to a higher goal. The road Is rougli and long, no matter what occupa tion you may follow, and incidentally It may he mentioned that there are scores of Jobs worse than following a plow or hoeing on a farm, for though the work may be hard and tiresome, there comes a day of recreation nnd enjoyment, of so cial gatherings, of rest and freedom from cures. A Bright Future. If I were someone talking who did not know, who was not thoroughly acquaint ed, If you will pardon the personal allu. slon, with conditions that exist from tho highest to the lowest, It might be ar gued that all this was theory, but I know there Is no way to combat the Statement, and the truth remains that igrlculture In ~ie South offers greater opportunities than any other celling I know. The field Is not crowded, there s ample room in many departments of 'arming, from poultry raising on up the line. I’d be glad to help any man I could get a place on a farm, or to start him In agricultural pursuits, but I would not like to be Instrumental In getting him to start in other work that I know about, for there is much doubt attached to moat other vocations now. And, after all, when we attain the heights in other walks of life we turn back fondly to the farm, back to Eden, so to speak, and praise again the days that used to be.—Home and Farm. LAUNCH AND CREW LOST IN STORM Government Boat Sent Ont To Look For Wreck age or Dead Bodiee In Leich Lake. ST. PAUL, Minn.—The launch Sa rah L., five days out Of Walker, Minn., Ik believed to have gone down with all on hoard on Letch lake, in the storm which swept the lake. A gov ernment boat has been sent out to look for the wreckage or dead bodies. CITY TAXES DUE. Last quarter City Taxes now due. Payable not later than October 20th. o2oc TWO WERE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT SAN FRANCIBCO—Mrs. H. C. Ed wards and C. N. Anargvros were killed and seven others injured in au auto mobile accident In a suburb of Oak land Thursday night. AU the victims were in one automobile.
