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Show FATHER LAMBERT DYING 0FLEPR0SY CJhirago. March 21. Rov. Fa.lhor I-ambert I-ouis Conrardy Is dyin? of leprosy among the leper colony, near Canton. China, according to a letter received here yesterday. Father Conrardy labored among tho lepers in the Hawaiian Islands for eight yenrs before going to China. Before setting ont for China, hn spent two years lecturing in the United States, raising atout $30,000 for his project. He bought an Island In the river sixty miles from Canton, transported there five hundred lepers and built 1 hem shelters. This took $10,000 of his money, nnd from the remainder ho had au income of $1,000. As he was physician, nurse, altendant, oibce force and executive head for the colony, and as food cost only tbrco cents a day for each person, he was in a fair way to carry his great burden. |