Show THE HORRORS OF LEPROSY semes in alie kaw imprisoned and heath the ot which abound in the learoy colony of new brunswick Brunsw lck arc not ur in by thoe 0 o common in the fai ort mands alio llio contagion I 1 believed to have originated half a century apo mii named gardner it aud a resident oillie little town of w fawn colored spot on lilt cifes forehead anon cheru n as ominous at alie corners of aliu fawn colored poti were doubled and quadrupled the husband the mackey a young medical bradu tc this physician nude careful study it jt bodied his skill was he in its eloer that lie crew ihan and pale wee p imad to add 10 hit distraction his attention wag directed to a second wee the victim was A mr L andrt seventy live miles rom ot french extraction jhc was in no wa related to mr gardner arflin colored appeared upon her body her iun became transparent and aa scaly as the coo traction ot alie finders and lie ominous swelling ot the were there there were ahe same aches kiil pains as lo 10 the atso ol 01 mr gardner abo was at alie end 0 his medical rope determined to ascertain atie true of ahe dl ho told ills little aud went to lie traveled through kugland france and germany and kleang d no acting up n a hint received in lail he pasted through denmark into norway near the where caplo ot food was dried luh and tall meats lie visited a lazaretto its inmates were lin aured for llie there w u no the they rom the ame 1 l as mr lardner lard ncr and aar landry it leprosy and wan incurable on to dr lackey found the cablay into tho community like a cancer mr gardner had dropic oz at abe joint and her eken wa dry aud diky mm landry was in a aure condition ile r eyesight was cone and alie exhibited lyp loins 0 ele the the alarm the interest of the aldel pricel or two coded at the luex 0 learoy le proy and that alio disease would yield to employed in crofut us and lr ollar complaints their ex however ib doctors and the wis thoroughly startled deverity cases in one cotlon lo 10 a year the was purred to action under per lonal ahe from A bill a was based shelldrake Shell drake lelaud a bay on the coith cat coast ot alie was llie spot selected ait atan violated lio idana od all lines ot travel here building were erected with barred A strict parch borall tainted elih learoy was made od they were confined or alt ll 11 an l kumeh of allo acro captured the lazaretto vb under llie charpe 0 two men who seemed to be destitute ot all no care was alten the leper they were mostly lauora nl french canadians who had aked out a by cul thin soil and cle lill was not a ahey were neither bathed lathed nor dietel dieted clean henr was distributed thrice a year the most abject and never removed clothing but drew the birta over alio old ones at each distribution the sexes were not Cpa rated ano lazaretto wa a prison its like it was the horror or the adjacent parishes ally alaor wretch escaped and appealed to those outside for protection every face was turned rom him ho desecrated e eliat he touched kven llie fence that lie leaned als pitiful hory was contaminated II 11 he drank roni A the was it a capot milk was him anc cup was broken ai soon as drained A tice freighting the polon auld not bavo been with moro horror he wag cither recaptured or driven back to the lua letlo retlo bv huneck borac llian all lepar in eliom the deeds of alie ileac were fructify ine were concealed by friends and the laititi etto was as more of a prison than a hospital A commitment disgraced a family tar more than a to alie and mothers endangered thenn elTes and families in alio llio diffort to 1 gon or it was a to be hidden aad dot to be inanc public the lazaretto wai removed to Tra cadle on the bay of that name about isto ahre aliu treatment of the wa a little belter but there waa an utter lithot clennell aci until fourteen years ro when th eltera of icicy alc charpe aliey found the filiip in and aliey in they tort out the iron bars from the windows the were bathed eacle la and their alcera wire cire fully cd alie bandages banda ees washed and aliu of the acro kept neat and clean they were the of llie ground the wye separated of tobacco were to llie men A tall boat was bought and of I 1 be lepers were allowed to TO aidin and nor wa lie body alone the to the mind the lepers no blooded brooded day and over their unfortunate condition somo of their number played llie annl they to its A sure death was alius robbed of bome of itt errors alen the acro con federated in the dominion of canada the libretto liM palsied under the federal government the alster however in charge receive inea miserable from the labors the ilroy of alie law war by fr joseph A bulor of the little catholic church at Tra eadle when cac of were reported he the ind prepared tbell minds for the in thet dually entered alie and submitted to their fate without a murmur where the rood failed the arm of the law wa nd they were fated like and imprisoned for life was by ibe of the system and aliey dropped into the prave hopeful of B better world to come A VISIT TO ann learn Tra cadle can only be reached by a eltty anve anilo drive from the on abe between and A who recently made n the plo a and of the melancholy he wit ij cd the accompanied by a friend was taken in charge by a french priest who lo 10 turn introduced them to a sister of scercy who wa in charge of thu lepers atler the chapel ibe ald or poc on to that the allotted to the lien in the stiano of ibe un it it with scrub brambles A liepe crons in the center its arms over the unmarked we knocked at abe door of the nase fr was in the for anian he was nm mooed by an and aavo us n craylon cra clon reception with extreme cour lery lie accompanied us to the leavine bis militant fr jolar faced arnau to chant mm at we crossed x rustic near tha liz artto we heard the note of a violin the melody wa ad fand tweet a blend n of the canadian boat sons and annie baurle the clan was a leper aay the weary hours sitter st john ol 01 the octto Is a pl facca woman about thirty six bear old yeara among abe lepar have familiarized her with their man cassom and she has ban a story she hii chanco charco ot abo cabinet ot drues and hiis tiis a clr knowl te ol 01 oclad jaryl wf tk w th finnelle tainted with alia ilme ani trace atio tho T be fame M rain appe arto aloir la he of all A the arn bom in they till come from within a circle 0 seventy binler st john an rec rd 0 the inmates has been kept sinca sitter record iona that kiac out 0 there are now alt in alie ahli kumher 1 at ny lime within tho ut alie li from ten to ikirt allu within three or tow acara nj 1 nw a in ibe who lias been oter eltty fac wa an 0 alic anza on il binl floriy arar aio while there the illi cac and it BM diat been cure sha in hal the tall lule botn annl ho axi remind rd to the slie Is urine and A unlike the or a benj lias tho fram alie anil 1 no in alii institution nl rc to attires att irks aroni there been from arl in onn c aaen llie skin Is dry aej clan anil in otlia r it Is willi ulcers those with ulcers live alio primp M rather lia a alio pit lents ore biml of rheum clr aln aita or drowsiness and sleep or licurs liours diug in winter anil iiii mer ahe improve they arc we were warned mriln lin n alio word leprosy within their it tlc alc dhea sc bacu apparently has an tint there mij be some mistake in alls anc and that he 1 from some clue Is to relieve them from biln any unusual decoction teems to bliem gates hivo occurred ali I 1 leprosy lct the country before they were sent to the asilum two or aco alic spots appealed upon avio ans to well known anitllo to avold the lazaretto the alrh went to ail 1 employed as hous hoid auts of their wrote to shadric Shad lic llevad before their alio carls were alarmed and ird to providence it I 1 one dard lo 10 that city in a private family where she had a chamber mild fr learned the where ot the survivor and acut to providence after a long talk he convinced latr that it WA lier duty to to Trac llo and cuter the she did so ami died within a year the cool father relates the a inin in imad there wire hie foual I of alio dig caw abe father the roans residence and talked wl ill his alfe about it the hus annd insisted alit it was not leprosy iiii wife walh him tint a opinion to alic in private satisfied however lint the wa tainted alie wife lell him lie in the houfe alone not long afterward seeing the priest he took to alio llio anol fr overtook bilm aud walli hloi alic man WAS lie waa alie of alic law the aled arto or three hours anil the ans finalle to enter alic not ions ao the alcis ll Cis broke H ho for tears had 11 red aloud la a lint on iho heiy ol 01 when to enter the lazaretto hl only objection a a icat he mahl baconn in abc for alie of nature A more occurred asa the abath spot on the of four children the repeatedly talked with her and flie f lie wa induced to part nath lier huba iid and enter the living tomb her pAi lIoa etli the was mry affecting and to this d IT alie car hear cries of mammi mi inma the family Is isolated the children hirr no malci aind the the place as it was the neit ot a pestilence is ane nicase 1 alic IK bald to lc but wt could learn of no well ini lanca ot none of alic have elion 0 the itasta ot lc although th leave waited uon alie tor fourteen aycart they uke alio llio precaution li only one on record ol 01 a husband and ire alio were connner la ahe a the me time they acre c ins atte who hyc had chloren by husbands leave on the death of theia husbands sonie of the bythe liesl ocic infected and eliose by allx second escaped in a CIBO the aliro did not appear until the third 1 broke out on alic a nin of herculean herc ahn lalive families of fredeli de cem to lc led that it s the victims of 1 lie disease are arst visited bj near but as iho sea BOTis roll on the talta arc let frequent and at cease turret their aives mothers and vice versa not lone bro a poor boy of nineteen broke out of at nl and walked twenty live milts to aro sro ills mother lie homo a few hoier and returned with a lei heart alie lepers all express a wIll liiK ness to work but many of abc unable lo 10 ill to the S tiers are allowed only a tt reed them aliey have macit on monday tuesday thursday aud saturday nd lili on friday seldom it ever do alicy i ec freih beef they abhor aution abid aral pork ID the meat mostly eaten of alic lepers play the violin and each appears to ba ambitious to axcel the others av the become 1 alic hair falls from iho the voice Is husky in gome cases there 1 a loss ot felling in the fiands and arins A karl lestch lie wrist on a red was Mi malouly louly burned without the cuts alth the knife bleed eha no biln at times hekimi hek iii seeing to ani lulled elih steel cs it cracks open to the bone and gradually shrivels away when the liver and ilic become seriously alic away with all the of lie dies by AH centered the mile ward ten ot the unfortunates here arm dinner it was a plain board table destitute 0 ciolli and napkins nap kinf and furnished with I 1 in plates cups and spoons on ai iron cot within ten feet of the table at a object ills negib looked like hakes of sulphur molded into tho shape of amio ire biad been year airs fild he looked like a min of seventy in alic wards on blackwells ilind finals alili thet ister sill much beter ihan lie aa c entered the apartment a hiravy bleick bc ardeil min clad iu a blue woolen shirt turned liis face from us picked up a black chiy pi pa and moved li the through he ann door ioor fellow his misfortunes were lils own and lie douht no in pithy from thi outer world he was IJu aron alie lone who hid alie fear 0 belaik oneomo lne omo before entering the window were open and a cool breeze rom the sea was felt there were ten oilier males in alie ward all hut lie alier ablo on alio bed ranald in bowed heads and dejected countenance r aar the sisters clieo on ducted us to alic female ward women and irl in all 0 stood in line clasped hands and fie cast down sisters aud colln were amana ahem all arc in some way related to the acu below they were not disposed to bo one woman nearly cieply old sister st jolia cAll loii our attention to the fatt thil she wan conce allne her linnas under her apron she nuns up with spiteful energy the withered stump tho octlona with bitter word she baj hands ilar heart was touched by our ot she was ilic womac released from island forty years BRO under the eliat alic h 11 been cured she called to her aldo her d kuehter a faced twenty tour years old her were tit loii an fn appearance anil her were the joints one by bouc amoas her mother hid in the dormitory we baw a twenty sho looked to bo ninety her eyes were tod her taco and totally unlike the occoa human it he faco 0 a person bruni alie worst fonn of despite ahe arose to receive us imd at heart wo turned away the adlitte l woman in low tones bade u bood by as ve down st alra matsi jeisi Jei ai whilo the ten were iu jail recently for contempt of court two agues of draw poker acro kept up almost continuously ex alder man uw ver who won tho first cotou the lust lu st deal with three aces lucky to tho end and ilis said won all told five times the amount of their jiboa X Y atral 1 l thu country is estimated to be from abreo to four hundred million it wai a boar ago |