| Show A l > HlKt VILLAGE 1 LADY HKNRV soMUnSBT TO RESCUE INgUHlATB S Tn It Itelt 101 Out rev lice froltnhI of moat IoUnloNo to u Tretel as role rto1Aoor Stork for lhero London lllcr M5VV departure intemperance f 7r J work temperance j ii l I his been entered upon by Lady Henry Somerset 111 CJ l J who Is almost as I sell known In America III In England + ti Eng-land This work l conilU of the construction C con-struction end main tensnce of n village of cottages for Inebriate women patients pa-tients llenThe aches Is I n enilbte and practicable practi-cable one Though I do not enllrelY agree with Lady Somerset In all her schemes which she Intends for good this new work of hen U l a noble one and will result In many benefits Every Slate In the Union should adopt her plan anal hate a rural settlement wh lero patients suffering from the habit 01 Intciniicrnnre could be under Judl clouts and Intelligent medical care and bo given plenty of work to do In the olden air There It I nothing like sending send-ing a mm to bed real tired to help his recovery from the disease of alcohol Ism Lady Bomcrms attention was called tome years ago to n wretched oman who hail been arreitcd for drunkenness about a hundred times She tried to reform her by ending her to a homo In the country and though she failed In this cane she made up her mln1 that the plan would bo n good one 1 for drunken women generally So the put her thoughts Into action When Lady Somerset determined upon her special work for Inebriate omen clue looked about for a suitable site far from the presence of splrlluotM quors and where there were good unitary conditions Bho finally ae cctcd ono hundred and eighty acre 01 land In the town of Duihurst high round with excellent drainage and n good water supply and there laid out her village It has been plotted In an Irregular fashion with winding streets and lane aid at varying angles with open place and public ground at frequent Inter alB which will In accordance with Ino projected plans iccelve ornamenta lion In tho way of trees shrubbery and cuntalns On that tract of land she Is I erecting scattered cottages for her patient They ore very tlmple In construction following prlmltlto lines and being hatched according to the ancient rural fashion Each collage will accomm date six patients and will bo surrounded surround-ed by a umall garden for the raising of vegetables and the cultivation of nOV I rs Tho Inmates of each cottage weep w-eep house and attend to the garden work These Inmate will not be treated as outcasts or criminals but as patient ufferlnff from a dltienin in i L u no ov wou hich la tho purpose of the resident phyi I Inns of the village Ilesldes lice cottage homes the vII loge will contain a hospital a chnpc a building for public meetings an office building and a general laundry All 01 these will be well and neatly can strutted but without any attempt at llsplay Exercise for mind and muscle with plenty of out of door life and absence I of temptation to drlnle1I Is tho best med Igloo for an Inebriate says Lady Somerset Ilellevlng this and being firmly convinced that nothing could bo worse for habitual drunkards than the iicdentary employment usually assigned to them In reformatory homes she bill planned for plenty of outdoor work with employment and eutertalnmcn for the mind Provision Is I being made for light ng rlcultural work directed principally In SeAr f Ar i pl 1l 5h A4 t s JhV W I LADY SOMERSET tho line of raising vegetable on small pieces of land assigned to each patient Then hero will be poultry raising with the care of eggs In their preservnll for shipping Ilee Peeping with prep ration of honey for the market will also bo provided for The dairy work will furnish much employment for besides be-sides the milking sad bottling of the product butter and fhtenj making will bo Included Then tho lnmiry Work will bn quite a factor In the vlllaro economy Ilenldei these there will bo a needle and fancy work department together with opportunity for literary employment and retreation On this provision for varied emplo ment which keeps the mind and body occupied with pleuant surroundln away from temptuM to use IIleobolo drink Lady Somerset relies for the de sired results Lady Somerset flY she will give much licrionnl attention lu the el than of her patients will receive them I aA fast M areominodattons prvI I vl < led nod will be governed by the de rmlncd purpose to do the greatest possible loud To Inure a feeling ol Independence and for tie preservation of elfrepect Meh rntl nt will be charge I It per week nIt will be credited by the mount er work which the performs All I that ti earned by each patient over and nbovt the east of her malntennnee will be 1 < ilil to her when she Is I cured nn1 discharged from the village THIRTEEN YEARS AS A SLAVE Itfnlori of > n llallm claw In II Ondo rather I 1nolo llowlgnoll who after n long series of almost Incedlble nil ventures mil thirteen years slavery In tbo SoudJn succeeded In mlrnculoutly caplng from tho hands of the caliph hu been rcrehed by the pope before turning to Africa to the scene of his former pilnful sufferings says the fall Mall Jnjtte lie Is I a strong broad well built man tanned a deep brown b ly the African sun and wears a full beard which Is I rapidly turning white frolll thi sufferings ho had gone trough rather tlonlgnoll was a priest of the Austrian mission of rl Obeld In the ordofin and went through the hor ors of the four and n half months siege until January 1SS3 when he was taken prisoner It would be Impossible to describe all he suffered for thirteen long year until asslited to escape by the Engllihman MaJ Wlngate llcy nnd Sign Suguro archbishop of the Soudan So you arc really returning to Africa Afri-ca t I mid to him tho day Iwforo he eftOh Oh yes and 1 go back with pleasure M Africa Is I for me now a second fatli Hand I feel that my work is I there nail betld think of nil the t rl om > ness > n-ess fortumte than myself whom 1 H I it tclilml I sod whom I must do my utmost to deliver Are these still many About fifty Including five Italians Arc there no Englishmen No all of them died long ago mong Ibwio still nllvo are twelve yrlans ten Jews from Smrnn torn Irccks and Hwlss a few lennans anal 010 Austrian n certain Nle ellt who la l tho mot learned and Intilltgent person now I 111 tho hands of tho Boudinese lie wa a banker at Assouan anal thrro or four years after the fall of Khartoun holed an ixpeilltlon to the center of the Houdan Ills I purpose being to help the Cnbbnblit tribe on the other skin I 01 bo Dongila against the mahdl The I alter Informed In time of hit plans lurprlsed the expedition defeated it I I complete hOCl men being 1 mostly killed or aken prisoners among the latter the fender Nlcfellt who was condemned con-demned tc death The rope hid already al-ready been Iaed around Ills neck to hang him when ho was asked How do you diet Ai a Christian or n has sulman Nlefellt answered quickly I die a Musiulnmn So his life was saved hut he was left for > eons In chains until he gave proof of his ability and bo was then used by the caliph to manufacture saltpeter salt-peter and gunpowder lie also endeavored endeav-ored to make dies for coins and designed de-signed beautiful tomb for tho mahdl which the caliph however did not ap provo of considering It too 1uropean and fearing that If executed Nlefellt would acquire a certain Importance In tho eyes of the Soudanese rasolng to speak of tho situation In tho bloods Father nosilgnoll said that according to the latest news received by him Ills I I mot unhappy because of tho frarhl l misery dreadful anarchy and widespread corruption It Is I flomcthlng heartrending exclaimed the missionary It seems really that the hand tf Ood Is I striking and exterminating exter-minating that people on whom lie so many sins England could now easily reconquer tho Boudan especially as n largo portion of the Inhabitants than would faw It to escape from the tyranny tyr-anny of the caliph There li 1 In fact a party strong enough nhch wishes the Intervention of Kgypllais English or Italians I or any strnngir In fact to end the horrors hor-rors of whlh they lire tho victims nnd witnesses This party Is I becoming so Important hat the caliph some tlmo ago had all the nocalled coffee houses demolished which they were accustomed accus-tomed to fleet and threatened them with a gen < < al massacre However It la I ray oplnon that England will not reconquer us Soudan until her occupi lion of 1fpl Is I permanent and until olio needs no pretext to justify her presence CL the Nile After the recent re-cent defeat on tho lied sea side Ibo Soudanese have a holy terror of trio Holland alu and their most terrlblo curs Iv I May you be struck by an Italian bwil1 |
