Show death of also leper priest tho f icil ln 1 1 l ilI tl bo u w borsi sun alte lory f fallier is biser ahe inott of aidy lini or in 1873 ahen lie iia lul sa cifa eifa dij in full pi ft and man of and r a i tiling to his dairiki Dt iriKi i the lepere t ri c y bilut knowing fiill trall giai he ia lauie would 11 leper lo 10 lu the ottlie alis ae in abil lime alie arit ann iljin the moat lindt ring anil frightful known to mill the lali to lie most willingly him felt ilia decease has been daily tor mouths past faury has been often told to llie world but never ai ulla it to arty ajie sun prints imn of his life ainora tho lepers as lie anite it unthinking in a bild report to the government is thefil st nud only ic count aver given lv father damien of iiii lile at molokai the story of as told by himself him is of course the record which history will preserve of bis noble lif while ahe the lumi lily the gentle and kindly spirit of the roan utterly itself in love and cara for a word dami ty ideal heroism is I 1 ere fully though displayed which Is generally the leper Eill lenient 13 an island of the hawaiian group and kalawao a village on the island is the lepers biome As we well know the is simply n hospital none oatho people living there being permitted to depart A pairon in thaine kalawao is a prison io reality so far as isolation n concerned no better place for leper settlement could have licen imagined simply a tongue of land washed oil three idea by the ocean and thrust out there faiai a line thousand feet high no buo lias ever escaped from kalawao the little is three miles and a mile wide it is fand ex ls asyl naked to tho full dorco of the northeast trade wind during lie the climate of kulawas is bleak cold and rainy lime the aun beats down fiercely the mountains liang over tle little peninsula like giants the lepers were brought here in 1805 for decades before leprosy had prevailed in tho hawaiian but not extensively in tho disease became a scourge eco urge and a few cars later tle alpe r colony was established and all tho lepers on the sandwich I 1 lands were ordered to be removed thence parents were front their children from their wives and brothers bro and bisters from each other the friends and relatives of those infected with the disease in many he created the and officers charged with enforcing the jaw of often had to capture their victims by in the dead of night in nearly every cabe the officers had to anso lorce tn april of last year there nere lepers chere occina or desgain DEs iAin alo lepers first taken to kalawao were in u condition little better aljan blat of helpless who haij been marooned or put anthore liy their comrades upon desert islands they had no houses but huts no decent no medical attendance worthy of llie name and but ahe kind of iod the oldest of the miserable sank into n kind of apathy and laid down and died among the youngest after the first lew years had killed hope in their hearts began what may only be termed the orgies of despair they themselves to they made native alcohol and ki arnot beer the outrageous hula fiancee fiances were matters of continual the hawaiian go paid no attention to hern jn the opening sentences of his story father has told what lie found there it ia doubtful it there was upon the face of the wide earth t hc lime of damiens coming in 1878 lucli a scene of and despair as at the at kalawao father demien in honolulu at the lime of the beginning of the of tho lepers in went oat the catholic in hawaii he was 2 arg old a native of belgium and A member cf the society of Ii cpus he had labored boma time in bog land he was upon as a young man of ability and lna predicted fur him a great felure nine acari after going to hi one day heard hii with that eon 0 irest neild volu n leer to an oa t among the lepera damien over the matter lor a week luring which time it was clearly brought to his attention that if be went to molokai he must not only atay there forever but mut in all aumau probability ie a death he offered alie place and his oner was accepted ju a few days he was landed nt kalawao he had no money nor m of pro viding for he had to entirely to the kind hearted jia imori im the lepers the her ablo lie anet with at first appalled him there w many eollo in the last abonio and froien pent 0 o anich lime with 1 hem that fora time he wa not able toLu ild himself a hut and he biad to adeep at night under a tree the hawaiian government treated hiim damien was pot permitted to go out to any of tho near by to meet a broiher for confession and the berify at molokai had orders to put the ariett in jail if he froan the gloomy peninsula 1111 ivsich the lepers were became at kalawao as lio wroth himself physician of the soul and body magistrate school teacher carpenter joiner painter gardener housekeeper cook and often under laker and tua poor lepers camo to look upon him na their friend and in every possible way lie moved amona them and lived with them as one of unbounded iio as lie arbiter if all di iputcha the dual in every trouble J the hawaiian government came to look upon kindly they put hidu on the bame footing as th medical inspector alio at tinn s visited alie colony and allowed hain every privilege danian not leave the bland but remained constantly lahori Bg among the lyca IN THE 1 I ENT lu darian Dari cn B story which bullowa ful lowa there is a constine con between le tween the leper aanie it aal the jeper a dozen years later now there aro at kalako and the ud joining villages good frame houses built of lumber which waa of course brought there from remote parts of the island several for both males and females attended by an efficient corpa of physician ician Cene roua supplies of food and clothing riven by alo government good schoola for ahe children and an increase of comfort in every way but more surprising than this there is a strange chainge in the life and habits of the lepers the licentious dances areno more heard of comparatively ively little of the alcohol is distilled the lives of the people are much more moral and the lenen have taken to cultivating garden spots around their homes kalawao ia a peaceful aud apparently a happy community with characteristic modesty damien merely states these wonderful changes without accounting for them but that they were due almost entirely to himself alono is the instant verdict of all who have been conversant with hii lie and work at kalawao damien speedily saw when he went among the lepers that he could do little for their spiritual welfare until they were better off temporally in their miserable hop clesa condition they jeered at god and man and rioted ill a frenzied attempt to drown the of their end damien immediately began to write letters to the government detailing the horrible state of affairs on molokai he sent letter after letter unceasingly finally committee ef the board of health and of the hawaiian legislature Lepi slature appeared on molokai the devoted priest hia eyes filled tears pointed out to the officials what was deeded medical men in hawaii began to pay a great deal of attention to the study of leprosy and the leper settlement at molokai was much discussed one by one the bad things at molokai were measurably remedied he did not relax with little benefits given the settlement but pushed ahead zealously continually demanding governmental aid he finally had the pleasure of seeing the most hurtful of the evils entirely removed and when jhb was ione he found too that alie leper settlement biad become in a preat degree a god fearing and christian community looking to him as its head all this was the work of years it came slowly inch by inch aa the result of a mana self devotion and indomitable will whan kapiolani visited the peninsula in july 1884 her her the neat white cott aires standing among the cultivated flech the barns filled with produce the orderly streets a community showing everywhere the hand of industry and religion and then pointing to damien aho vho blood at a distance said he is the father of it all later the fleen visited the school for incurable leper boys and gills personally founded by Damie ii and heard lie children singing masarn damien was with the leberg of courtne court fe daily and hourly he was in coutant with lepers of all grades including the most severe cases he had acme knowledge of medicine and before ahe advent of the physicians was medical adviser to half the settlement until 1884 he felt fairly well in that year pains in the lift foot troubled him theao continued to get worse and in the absence of any other sign were attributed altri buted to rheumatism toward the of 84 dr a physician at kalawao diagnosed DA miens trouble as leprosy la may 1885 the doctor afier a careful examination found no signs that the disease was spreading in damien but in auguar of that year leprous tubercles tub ercles plainly manifested thero selves in his face and poor damien duew aliat hia doom was scaled but the heroic priest did not re hn work he still walked and talked with the lepers minis bering to the hick teaching the children living the ame old life of poverty and bardi hip and thinks ing only of alleviating the lot of the lepers and caring for their boula his only reward was in seeing that he had both the souls and bodies of his charges in abao dant nieam rc TO all in the of arrived an assistant to father dinnien Diu nien father konrardy a native of oregon and a young man in full health father conbary Con like damien volunteered to go ansong the lepers and hastened am departure when he learned that darrien had been with the leprosy father darrien willingly received conrardy knowing that he himself would soon be too sick to work and that he must have a successor in a few months there alao arrived seven sisters of the franciscan order in the leper hospitals two of the and irene came froio syracuse in ihu state that Con js a hero of the same stun 0 damien may be CD from thi extract from a letter which he wrote in 1886 t grost iia true 80 far that no cure fur has been found but after 11 we leavo to ile aal to me it is u matter of small importance cheter I 1 die a leper or not I 1 will ay like holy job if I 1 ever take it my only is to to die in the servie of the lepers iny only regret would lie tint I 1 cinie here BO lale but I 1 anny live onie twenty years among the leper my j rayer has becu and I 1 got what I 1 prayed for a place which few only cared for n account of the disease itself tune will prove the sincerity of the hope aad will I 1 came here to live and die I 1 hope with gols help to be able t stand it to the lait will I 1 ever go my friends nu this in very doubtful although poor father dangien Dani ien who a few weaks ago seemed to go down very fast lias taken u now grasp on life every day you might nw him working iu lie new will a like A common laborer lie adya sometimes that my health and strength compared to hi are nothing liy that you see low well he i except for the leprosy which 13 eating him up slowly father damien aud I 1 are living under the fame root but I 1 next spring to have a house built for myself in the center of the gi aveyard they bay it in not healthy to leave a house built there as miny poor lepers have beau buried not very deep but it is ahe best location near the church my little house will be et andin over a number of graves we have been thinking several times to stop burying so close to us but habit is stronger than talk three sisters of st francis have arrived and father wendelin Wend eliu with them they arc located at two miles and a half from us at the other end of the settlement I 1 have to stop writing fora funeral bervice I 1 hear the big drum a poor lad of 20 to bury by this time the world was ringing with damiens fame the king of hawaii mado hima Knight commander of the order of kalakaua I 1 but the priest never wore the glittering decoration of the order he said that it would shame his worn and patched casi sock in england henry la started a subscription for in his paper which caroe to this amount was forwarded to damien liy cardinal manning shortly afterward the alev hugh B chapman a clergyman ol 01 the episcopal church the vicar of st lukes Cain berwell london forwarded to father damien a draft for the contribution of himself and gome of his parishioners shortly after ibis mr edward clifford treasurer of the church army an english episcopal institution visited damien bringing money and presents and wrote of bis visit to the church anny gazette darrien Da roien is just what you would expect him to be a simple sturdy hardworking hard working devout liaa no job was too beniel for him build ing carpentering tending the tick washing the dead and many bolher such things form part of his daily work he is always cheerful often playful and one of the most truly bumble men I 1 ever aw the leprosy has disfigured him a good eal but I 1 never feel it anything but a pleasure to look at him and already abo goriun oil which I 1 brought is making a manifest difference in his face and hands and in his power ol 01 sleeping how far tho cure will reach it is of impossible to say he is euca a busy man that I 1 fear he will not find lime to do the medicine full justice 1 lie english affection and sympathy touch him very much indeed pray lor him for must bo many times when ho is tempted to be dij con rage J aud over sad at all the terrible cases bodies and souls around him I 1 was very glad to be here at christmas you would have enjoyed the hearty way in which the lepers sang 0 come alt ye faithful there Is one final picture of damien that disclosed in a letter written by father conrardy to friends in this country a few months ago I 1 am going to give you a few lines about the dear father damien who will soon bo no more as he is falling a victim to his charity in england and america they call him the hero martyr it is my privilege to be near him to live feitli him leprosy hag done its work iu his ears his eyes nose throat his bands and his lung the poor father hat suffered dread fully lie incompletely disfigured his voice is almost extinct isyou could only the him as he lies in his bed of suffering tears would come to your eyes at the sight of that man who has done so much fur thousands of lepers now himself reduced to so terrible a condition with so little that can be done for libin damiene Da mieng own tory which afie sun herewith prints wes written by him in the form of a report to waller at gibson president of the board of health of hawaii in at this time there aas compelled by the hawaiian board of health to tho annual report of its president a large special appendix on tho subject of leprosy all the physicians ut the leper were asked lu write reports fur thia appendix anil was especially re quested to contribute the story of ins personal experiences during his thirteen yearn residence and labor among the lepers complied with the though he begrudged the time it took him from lepers it is the only alicle ho capr wrote descriptive of hh lire at kalawao the reader bear in mind that at the time deimien wrote the article be was a leper with but a few more years to live it is not the most excellent damien had to write in a foreign angue here is the sin pie and modest recital of ft life of the most bravery and self abnegation THE LEPERS by special providence of our lord who during his pub ii clife R particular efm batby for the kepets my way was traced toward in slav A D 1873 I 1 was then aa years of age enjoy bog robust ool leal ill Luna lilo ix ing alshut time king af alie and his excellency L 0 biall president ortho board of health A great ninny ledem had lately arrived froni tho different island aliey numbered wire old acquaintances of mine from hawaii where I 1 n as previously stationed as a priest to tho majority I 1 wad a stranger the Ku laupapa landina place was it that time a somewhat deserted village of three or four 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