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Show 0O 0 aivvwwwvvwwwwvvvvwwvvvvwvvwvvwvvvvvvvwvv Pathetic Scenes in the Leper Colony on Molokia Island. The Rat. Dr. Philip Anderson, who boa returned to his home In Pomona Valley, In southern California, after an absence of two years among the islands in the southern Fscllle archipelago, last summer preached to ably the most remarkable congregation In the world. The doctor is the missionary of the Pacific Ocean Evangelical Mission union, and his duties caused hlfn to spend much time in the Hawaiian Islands. He preached in Honolulu for several weeks, and there attracted the attention of President Dole, of the Hawaiian republic. Tbs doctor desired to visit Molokai, the famous Island to which lepers are exiled by the national board of health of the Hawaiian republic. No one except the offleers of the national board la permitted to land at Molokai, and even the offleers are guided by strict regulations as to where they go and what they do in the leper colony. Pres- ident Dole gsve permission to Rev. Dr. Anderson to go to Molokai for one, hdt bo was constantly to be accompanied by a physician in the service of the national board of health. A Tragedy at Leva and Malt NsrrlOr. A pathetic love tragedy is being played in th leper colony of Molokai. A beautiful native girl fell In love and married the man of her choice. Boon he developed symptoms of leprosy. They were slight, and might have been concealed, but were not. The young husband was banished from Honolulu to Molokai. His beautiful girl brldo cross tbs towering cliffs and fearful gulches and canyons, no one could get away from Molokai. S( Ar ful Plrturai Tbs territory occupied by the lepers contains about 18,000 acres. It Ilea In a little valley, well watered and protected by mountains from the winds of the great ocean. Oranges, lemons and bananaa grow wild. Tbe chief product la rice. The lepers are cared for at the expense of Hawaii. There are now nearly 600 lepers In the colony. A few of them have been there for twenty-liv- e years, but most of them have been transported to Molokai in the last ten years. The lepers know there is absolutely no hope for them to leave the leper colony and that the Joys of home are forever denied them. "The very air In the colony seems heavy with leprosy, for there la a peculiar sweetish odor wherever one goes As I among the homes In Molokai. went past the hospital, the odor of the seventy nr eighty lepers who lay on coia In the dooryard, or who sat Idly about the broad porch, waa distressing. I met the Rev. Father Drake, who voluntarily went to Molokai from Syracuse, N. Y., to take the place of Father Damien, who, himself a vigorous young man, went to live In Molokai to work among the lepers until death released him from the inevitable years of pain and disease. "Father Drake told me that he had suffered the first stages of top rosy, although he had avoided the disease a These nuns go Into the little frame homes of the lepers, sit by them la their hours of pain and suffering la tbe hospital, and minister to tbs religious welfare of the dying. The little girls In Molokai, who havo been tom from their homes In Honolulu and other Hawaiian towns, almost worship tbe nuns, and have found much solace in the presence of the heroic American women, who have gone to the colony as to a living tomb. If there ever were heroes and heroines In this world those Americans at Molokai are heroic. "1 was the first white person, except Father Drake, who bad preached In tbe little chapel at Molokai. When it became known In the colony that 'the strange white man was going to preach In the chapel, nearly every leper In the place who could get about came Immediately on tbe ringing of the bell. The physician who accompanied me had the windows and doors of the little wooden structure opened wide, so that there might be fresh air In the meeting, lie also advised me to handle nothing in the church, and to touch no one there. mUweaLh".15eu a stronger friend held the hymn book IN WOMANS CORNER. for tbe little one so that she could sing with the ethers. There were several little boys, bright-eyeand evidently SOME CURRENT READING FOR from good Hawaiian families, wbo had DAMES AND DAMSELS. lost fingers and other members. They seemed more cheerful than any of tbe Thn Anaerh-nWeahnoae In Following others probably because they did not Fnehlona Hodlro of Alloror Foreign to realise that they were never again embroidered Mull Folt llnta and see home and parents and friends. Volvot Toqnon. and crutches were seated "When all tall canes stuck up hers and ther all over the chapel. A few persons re11E foreign ides of clined on their benches because of InAmerica and American manners ability to sit up. I gave a talk on the blessings of a resigned and morals Is Christian life and the Joy that awaits something so luChristians In the other world. I think dicrously and comd half-ho- ur of my audience knew English sufficiently well to follow ms. Ltpan Tray for a Cara. When I had finished a tall Scotchman, evidently a former sailor, of about fifty years of age, aroee and offered prayer. When be bad finished a native of Honolulu, who, I was told, had been a' rich rice grower In the islands, spoke for about five minutes. He said be wanted to tell the American man how glad the lepers of Molokai were to have a person from the outside world come to see them, and that the event would never be forgotten by any one In the colony as long as life remained. He broke Into tears and said he wished I would tell the white people what a horrible thing d t0 Urge th Whlt d0C- ,epry two-thir- ds entered the ehapcl. Among them were several Americana who had lived iu Honolulu and had contracted leprosy among the natives. They came in limping on crutches and canes. There were, too, a few Englishmen who hobbled down the narrow aisles. There were two English women, who could "I NEVER FELT SO SAD AS WHEN THESE 350 AFFLICTED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ENTERED THE CHAPEL. AMONG THEM WERE SEVERAL AMERICANS WHO HAD LIVED IN HONOLULU AND HAI) CONTRACTED LEPROSY AMONG THE NATIVES. THEY CAME IN EVERY ONE IN THE STRANGE ASSEMBLAGE BORE MARKS OF LEPROSY." UM PINO ON CRUTCHES AND CANES. Rev. Dr. Philip Anderson. followed. She preferred the place with year or two by extreme care In hla not have been over thirty-fiv- e years tors to discover some cure for the disUa hideous menace, to Honolulu withmode of living and association with the of age, who were without fingers but ease. Between his sobs he said that out her husband. Now she attends di- lepers. He said that the eurlleat symp- had preserved their fresh complexion. If It had not been for a hope of hapvine worship In the leper colony, and toms of leprosy were constant head- About half a doxen Frenchmen and piness in heaven there would be suila a pathotlc figure among the con- aches, slight nausea and later numb- three Germans were In tbe throng. cides In Molokai every day. He said demned, Into whose limping ranks the ness of the fingers and toes, so that They had all been sailors and bad con- they were all living as best they knew dread disease will soon push her, for one might hold bis fingers or toes to tracted leprosy In the Hawaiian Is- how, hoping for speedy death to renone that live at Molokai ever escape. any unbearably bot substance and lands. All the rest were natives of the move them from misery. As he proIt la, In fact, an unwritten law of feel no heat. Then the fingers and Islands. Every one In the strange as- ceeded the congregation began to weep, the Samoans thst a bride shall share toes begin to mortUy at the Joints, and semblage bore marks of leprosy. and the lamentation of the girls and tbe fate of the husband If he contracts later to drop away. Father Drake had young women was the most affecting Fnthetln Iloy and Girl Leper. leprosy that she shall go with him to lost but one finger Joint when we saw thing I have ever beheld. The little girls and boys who came riie leper colony and there, without him, and he believed he might live ten The physician with me said he hope, await tbe approach of this hor- years more. He said he was happy to hear me preach were the most pa- never had seen such a rible, lingering death. The young that he could mlnUter to the suffering thetic of all. A few were attractive la scene, and he had witnessed many bride, with the pathoa of despair on and dying at Molokai as no one else spite of their sad, pinched and tearful among the people who were forcibly her countenance, looking sadly but re- could, and his only desire to prolong faces. A few children were as young taken to Molokai. I started a familiar signedly upon the miserable men and bis own life was to cheer and convert as ten years, and about twenty were hymn, and In a few minutes had the between fourteen and eighteen years. weeping people under wijnen about her, waa noticed by tbe those about him. partial control, Rav. Dr. Anderson standing at the edge One little girl, the child of parents for all Hawaiians love muele dearly. Women. of Ilrrotam of tbe etrange congregation to which be from San Francisco, who had been Then, the congregation waa dismissed, There ore nuns four wbo in born was young carried to a and whilq the lame and halt went on Honolulu, preached. The island of Molokai, said Rev. have gone to a living death at Molo- bench. She had lost both her feet crutches and canea slowly down the Dr. Anderson, In relating his exper- kai. One is from Syracuse, K. Y., two and oeveral fingers. She had been In road to their cheap little homes, my iences there to a Sunday World corre- are sisters from Newark, N. J aud the the colony for four years, and the nuns companion and I silently walked to the spondent, Is about ten miles long and fourth came from Philadelphia. Two said she went to sleep every night dock, where we took the government four wide. Its name means land of have been attacked by the dread dis- weeping and longing for her father and boat for Honolulu. I've witnessed soma precipices. There Is but one landing ease. one Is probably not yet innocu-late- d mother. Another Hawaiian girl of very touching scenes In my life, but with leprosy, while the other had fourteen had lost one band and an car. that at Molokai was place on the island, anil that near the the most affectcolony, so even If it were possible to been mildly attacked when I was there. Her remaining hand waa so weak thst of all of them." heart-breaki- ng ing ASBESTOS Tay Hava Como BANDAGES. Into I'w a Surylral Brewing. Asbestos baa come into use ns a surgical dressing. Its sortness to the touch and glistening, silky appearance com- mend It aa being unlrrltatlng to the skin and cleanly, says the Philadelphia Press. But the chief reason for Its use Is Its Indestructibility by fire. This quality makes It possible to render surgical dressing absolutely free from germs. No other form of lint or cloth can be thus sterilised. Antiseptic surgery waa Introduced a little after the death of President Garfield. The original Idea waa to kill all the germs and microbe in an operation wowd by means of strong disinfecting oa solutions, sucb as carbolic acid or bichloride of mercury. All operations were carried on under a spray of antiseptic solutions until the surgeons beftgn to poison themselves by too free Ufa of them. Next the surgeons found that If they balled all their Instruments and dressings they could dispense with the eprey and many of the "antiseptic precautions." The Ingenuity of instrument-maker and surgeons was exhausted In devising new forma of sterilisers. All hospitals in the city have a great number of devices for sterilising dressings with superheated steam under a high pressure. Instruments are bolleA In various solutions or baked In ovens. Tbs chief material used Is puiltod gsuie, which hsi Uhaa Iks place of lint Immense quantities of it are used every day In the large hospitals, for a gauze dressing la never used twice. Asbestos dressings can bo used over and over again, for no germa can stand the heatlug that asbestos can go through, and each time It becomes as good as new and absolutely germ-prqp- f. It will be chiefly used for military aurgery. The great problem for army surgeons Is how to be perfectly antiseptic or aseptic, which means simply absolutely clean In a surgical sense, with the limited means at their service. A handful of asbestos can be sterilized Instantly In a soldier's campfire. Asbestos Is made from a mineral subetance and consists of fine crystalline elastic fibers. It is quite cheap. A single fiber of asbestos fuses to a white enamel, but in the match It is capablo of resisting ordinary flame. The ancients used It to wrap around bodies to preserve the ashes of the dead when on the funeral pile. A workman In an English foundry was accused of witchcraft In the early part of the century for having a pair of stockings which ha cleansed In a furnace Instead of a laundry. Oar Manners AatonUh Them. American and English manners seem bald and often astounding to well-bre- d people In many parts of the continent of Europe. We lift our hats only to ladles. All over the continent nodding to a man without lifting your hat is treating him as an Inferior; In some parts of tbe continent no one thinks of entering a shop, a restaurant or a railway carriage containing other human beings without taking off his hat and wishing the-good morning. New York Post n "SCRAPS." There are said to be over 3,000,000 deities in the Hindoo mythology. Two million glass eyes are manufactured yearly In Ueriunny and Switzerland. The largest theatrical building Is the Grand Opera of Paris, which covers three scree. In 1 1 portion to Its else, Britain has eight times as many miles of railway aa the United States. An apple contains as much nutriment ss a potato, and In a pleasanter and more wholesome form. Cad by I'rsjer. In some of the farming districts of Five minutes of silent prayer was ofmnt fered In church at ML Storm, W. Va China pigs are harnessed to for Mlu Alice 11. Schaffer, near death wagons and made to draw them. with paralysis. Soon thereafter, Misa After long agitation on the subject, Schaffer arose without assistance and a monument to Jules Simon, tbe Is steadily Improving. Francb statesman. Is soon to be ereotsd. placently wide of natives of the mark that all this great and glorious country must find It perennially amusing If It la brought to their notice at all. Why It Is that European nations, priding themselves on an age, wisdom and education far superior to ours, should yet openly display an Ignorance of our civilization and manners which would cause an American child to laugh, Is a mystery, the more so that we have a tolerably accurate knowledge of their varioue social and political peculiarities, which enables us to understand the philosophy of their actions even when we dc got approve of them. Foreigners cannot see that the American girls liberty and Individuality are simply the result of a social system which la In essentiala more conventional and restraining than that of tny of the more ancient civilisations, if In nonessentlals It appears to be Felt lint and Velvet Toqnee. The fancy for. felt hats is They are of all colors, dark, light, brilliant and subdued. The newest and most startling shades In drese goods are reproduced In felt In a way that would have astonished observers twenty years ago, when felt hats were always dark or neutral tinted. Besides the usual plain felts there are the newer felt braids, sometimes intermixed with silk, mohair or chenille. Red, green, blue, mauve and vlolrt are among the striking colors employed, these gay articles of headgear being as a rule toned down by black trimmings, ostrich plumes, coq feathers and quilla Green velvet toques are among the millinery novelties of tbe momenL They are adorned with black feathers and white trimmings. Black and violet toques are likewise much seen, but gTeen ones are preferred at present. Gray, beige and light brown felts are fashionable aa well aa more brightly tinted ones. Indeed, this Is a season In whyh any and all colon may be worn, and are worn without let or hindrance of any kind except such aa imposed by the taste and complexion of the wearer. Light and white gloves are still In vogue for day as well as evening wear. This is an expensive fashion, hut fortunately not a compulsory one, for colored gloves are not considered out of date, and many women wear them for the street, where they really seem more suitable than white ones. This sketch wlds-sprea- d. more lax. There being little to guard shows two Juvenile costumes. The agalnsL the American girl Is naturally first, for a girl of 14 years. Is of golden not on guard, but lives her own nat- brown wool goods, with velvet spots ural, bright, free life In a security un- of the same color. The skirt Is plain. known to her European sisters, who are defended and hemmed In on every hand In a way that seems to Imply thst a perilous amount of barbarism still lies hidden under the polished surface of social life there. If w laugh and with Justice at their ideas of America, however, we are willing to accept their ideas on the subject of clothes. Tbe Illustration shows a fur cape of a new cuL It Is moderately full and falls a little below the waist. In front there are two long stole ends simulating revere. The flaring collar of fur Is lined with white lace, which reappears In front in coquilles. The cepe and ends are lined with white satin. An I'nlnrky Find. Some time ago an Austrian peasant, who was cleaning an old picture for hie Bodice of Allovrr Embroidered MnlL aunt, found. 50,000 florina in paper Distinctly French Is the mode exmoney In It. He claimed tbe usual 10 per cent as reward and got 1L There pressed in the exquisite nightdress ilwere two aunts and as each claimed lustrated. India linen Is the material the garment the picture aa her own an expensive employed in the make-ulawsuit resulted. Finally the sisters decided to go halves, but when the bank notes were examined they were found null and void, the government's term for redeeming them having expired. The peasant refused to return ths 5,000 florina which he received' In current money, wherefore hie aunts have now sued him. Exchange. p, Thn Tain Log. The yule log in England la a relic of Druid lam; Its name la believed to be a corruption of the wheel log, a wheel in Druldlcal symbolism typifying the march of the sun. The lighting of the yule fire la reminiscent of the sacred fires kindled by the Druids at In the round towers which yet remain In many parts of Great Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. Ing fashioned high at tbe back. Tbs sleeves are so arranged by buncblxg gathers at tbe upper lines as to admit of their falling away from the arm In picturesque drapery. The crossed bodice opens over a plastron of golden brown velvet, the edge of the bodice and the armhole being outlined with galloon. The collar, belt and cuffs are of velvet The second figure wears a long Mother Hubbard coat of Russian green cloth. It forms hollow plaits and la bordered with black cord embroidery and a band of beaver fur. The collar of green figured velvet la edged with fur and adorned with two cloth straps fastened by gold buitona Llvlug Heroin! lonnrjr IVlilowi. It is not generally known that there are eight persons still on the government pension rolls In connection with the Revolutionary war, but such Is the fact. They are widows of soldiers who fought gallantly from Ilunker Hill to Yorktown. Here are their namea. ag. The Wonderful Growth of Chicago. and addresses: Ixiyey Aldrich, 97, Los The population of Chicago in 1330, Angeles. Cal.; Patty Richardson. 9i was 70; 1340. 4,853; 1345, 12.088; 1850, East llethel, VI.: Nancy Weatherman. waist at form the drawn to the being 29.963; 1855, 60.227: I860, 112.172; 1865. 87. l.lneliaek. T'nn.; Helieeea Mayo, band Interlaced embroidered an by 178,900; 1870, 298,977: 1872. 364.377; 1880, Allorer embroidered New hern, Va.: Nancy Cloud. 84. Chum! with ribbon. 503.185; 1884 (estimated), 675.000; 1835 mull of the oriler forma the Va.: Esther S. D.imon, S3, Plymouth daintiest (estimated), 727,000; 1886 (estimated), Ui which turns bodice, away dorp I'nlon. Vt.: Xnn.y Jones. S3. Jonesboro. 750,000; 1987 (estimated), 760.000; 1889 from the neck a ike front, be- - Ti f.n.: Mary ?n sd. 81. I'niksley. v'r points (estimated), 1,000,000; 1896, 1,750,000. mid-wint- er |