Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-07
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panied by an italian. Italians Gre The,
most ubiquitous raoein tho world. Here
in Rome, for instance, ! have found one
VINO was imprisoned for 10 years on
DEVILS Island, whore Dreyfus, innocent
or guilty. now languishes. A distin,
guished personality, "a years old, who
has fought all his life in Italy and
Franco for tho liberty Of the people, is
General Paolo Ttbaldi Of Piaoenza.. His
family was originally F~lorentine, nnd
among his ancestors another Paolo IT,
baldi, tho we'll known painter, was q
master Of Michael Angelo. The general
Is still q strong, we'll built man, with
flowing white beard.
When I called on him, he entered
with admirable quioknesso of memory in.
to the past, recalling all the details Of
his Adventurous life. ooh, Devils is.
land" no exclaimed, with q twinkle In
his eye, sis q devil Of q place to live in.
I was landed there on tho bare rock,
without a tree, grass or other vegeta-
ton. Fortunately all tho other ~conviots
In the island had been condemned, like
myself, for political reasons. They greet
cd mo With warm sympathy, and one of
them shared with me his hut until I
built my own, which was 80 feet by 8
feet, with thatoh for q roof and benton
earth for q floor. The furniture consist.
cd Of q camp bed without mattress, a
handful Of straw for a pillow and two
big stones for chair and writing desk.
My Ifs was spent with IL others, each
taking his part Of tho hard work Of try
ing to cultivate the portions Of tho is
land that seemed tho least sterile, catch
ing birds without firearms and fishing
from the shores. Tho government pro-
visions, sent daily from the adjacent
Royal island, consisted Of q pound aud
o half Of tho worst bread for each con-
yiot, n pieco Of old moal or salt fat,
beans or rico, q little Oil and six centt-
lttors OF tafia, q kind OF spirit. We took
turns as cook, and I gained quito q rop.
utation for preparing italian dishes
which I had learned to mako when q
volunteer in the italian wa Of 184S
against Austria.
'lG ls impossible to describe the suf-
forings to which wo woro subjected by
our oruol keepers. According to thoir
caprice, we woro chained and kept for
months on bread and water or beaten
almost to death with ropes, and SO
obliged to remain in bed for weeks at q
time, suffering horribly. Mazzini md
C~ampanella, tho philosopher, had boon,
although absont from Franco, condemn
cd with me to deportation for life on
tho charge Of having conspirod against
the life Of Napoleon III. In 1867 Ledru-
Roiiin gave Genorai Nino Bixio G1, 900
to organize an expedition to rescue mo,
but s'roral attempts Of tho kind only
SorF to mako my situation worso.
Contumporaneously, however, the press
and public opinion In Franco claimed
my liberation, which I obtained at last,
arriving in timo to fight for tho French
republic and to have tho sad privilege
Of signing with Troohu tho oap~itulation
Of Paris to tho Germans. "-Rome Cor.
Westminster Gazette.