Show cure of sleeping malady in sight sigh t missionary from congo holds out hope new york after 12 11 years abroad with but one a interruption larrup timi dr D arthur 1 L piper a medical abic 1 missionary of the congo mission conference mi ference of 0 t the he meth odist episcopal church has bea just re turned for six months furlough ac compan led by his wife and two fee dimalla tere tem both daugh daughters lers were born in on the conga cong the family cornea from the h e mos most remote rollion station of the Met methodist holst church at the village of awata yam a of the P paramount mount chief of the lu launda u ada tribe at coumba near kananga japa age belgian congo dign all are vic v tims thes of mala mal a contracted in the I 1 tropics apic doctor pip piper e r carroc corroborated 0 rated reports vis of cruelty in the port portuguese upuese posses alone of arigo angola ile he explained the 11 he b had experienced in fight ang ing mag malaria bleeding bleeping Ble sickness and ad leprosy s 1 sy among the bantu natives native 11 awata were lano iam 0 where the pipers have lived tor far 12 ears with but one brief furlough fie 3 bears ears ago 1 Is 1200 miles from the he coast c it I 1 is readied reached by a 2 in mile tail rail journey army ia from cape town to tho the congo capital foll followed by another edmay journey to it the railhead i of bugara blosat bugala to ill awata laivo is B H aavo 21 day journey by carat an are am only whites white I 1 it Is SOO ISIO in milea ties from the northern thear rhodessa 11 border and it miles ile from the a border of angola 9 degrees south of the eq equator ater a and d has a an altitude of 3 feet fee t with wit the except exception of two 0 officials official at th the g government at post past at an hap anga five ca aw awai the pipers are the only whites I 1 in a native nathe pop u lation of 45 the entire family were yellowed an nd d its listless lea from the malaria which kiteli attacks all white men man in the congo cargo joe jungles alezi taking live five grains grain of quinine R dy d ly has been their custom for far years and ad the chi children dr were fed quinine from the age of tw two w am los drainage of 0 compounds and mosquito proof house are powerless power lesa to protect them fr from this scourge org chev ia said of th the child children an ruth boon boin in 1915 was wag I 1 the b first white baby be born m in bluit section amr of the con congo I 1 a on be her birth she be r received eel ad the name dome of match and ad the gift of a bull calf from the its local chief the baby margaret born in 1920 Is mald 4 g her lint brut trip to civilization doctor piper said that fil ble esping sick ness s and leprosy were the scourge of ye the 4 per cout cent of the papal that baing being lepers no attempt was made to segregate the loper lepers he declared blared and only sporadic efforts made to relieve th them con gm germ now known although the germ of bleeding bleeping Ble mie sickness Bick neBB Is 19 cnown kno he bald hitherto no great progress lamure as be has been in made do in fight ong the disease the government tries to see a that the gift melves do not live in the sleeping sickness belt along streamed and th elveia where the earner carrier anut the toas tsetse fly breeds breads F for r it the same to reason n attempts attempt are made d to I 1 keep up am the villages clean the two drugs a have used have not been successful they do don t cure or but merely delay death they are injected inter luter muscularly and tartar letter fame emetic tle which is glen ghen rivers three cures are am now in existence and ad give definite hope far or the mure future they are the german prep antion known a as 13 eavor r a rockefeller institute preparation called try mr and a french apeci specific fic I 1 chese base are not at yet ID 1 general use but I 1 hope to adopt them who when I 1 get balk back last vear I 1 made my first attempt 1 to treat front the lepera in the dietr district ct they flier are not segregated as the disease 1 IB of a comparatively mild ild variety and ad they constitute 4 per real cent of th the papa lation I 1 gave them oil by mouth and injection nod and the results were not satisfactory the taste of the oil I 1 la disgusting and lingers on the tongue for or ban bourn to while injections are so no painful that a man a Is incapacitated for days A new treatment with will sodium morr it note isi la reported more satisfactory and I 1 hope to try it out at |