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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, 'SUNDAY -MORNING, NOVEMBER .22, 1908. a::m&n Director of : Leprosy Investigation Announces Cure Has Been MadeOnly in Late Years , Has Science Held Out Any Hope -to tne Afflicted Metnods of Solving tke Protlem By Edward P. Irwin- A LEPER baa: been cured! The ' enemy ' that ' for thousand of years has baffled medical skill and mocked ; the tireless efforts . .of scientific men been van- quished, , The jnost horrible and spec taoular of diseases is no longer incur able. y-A man h "been, brought ; back . from the Living1 Death! , This announcement that has startled ' the .medical and scientific world and In fused hope into the hearts of thousands' of hopeless 'scattered throughout the .world . was made a. few weeks ago by. two physicians who for years have been working to find a solution of the prob lem that heretofore has confounded the disciples of Aescalaplus, the problem that battled the men of medicine for thousands of years even before the time, of the great physician of Greece. ... Dr. Walter K. Brlnckerhoff, director of the leprosy Investigation station In Hawaii, and Dr. James T. Wayson, mem ber of the board of health of the terri tory of Hawaii, are the two men who announce that they have cured a case of leprosy. Each of them has been fight- ' lng this enemy of mankind of years, confident that, although for centuries the disease had been pronounced Incur- able, there must be some cure for it and that indefatigable effort and perse verance would in time discover the remedy. Before this there have been many cures of leprosy announced, but they all proved to be fraudulent merely the ad vertising of fakers seeking to exploit some patent medicine warranted to curs . all the ills that mankind is heir to. from chilblains to a broken heart Sci entific men knew that there wan no cure for leprosy, and warned the victims of the terrible disease against the quack medicines of unscrupulous frauds. No Hope Held Out. It is only of comparatively late years that science has held out any hope to the leper.( The first gleam of light came with the' acceptance of the bacte riological theory of disease, and later, when the bacillus leprae was discovered and isolated, medical men became cer tain that In time a cure would be found for even this most terrible and baffling of diseases Since that time bacteri- ologista all' over the world have been workinr on the Droblem endeavorin- to find aremed? 7or the White Death In every civilised coufctry in the world the work has been carried on, for lep- , f -.,. V iIJwtZ ZiSfrSl i, tl T k x"3T ep VtuaSy every nation in the world. t. l 5. i n"oa Htftte8' however. u nuwevBi. Vrv?t'?.?rne a . . ytematlcally. terlologlsts have de- to It, and hope of matt, o t;ti iniTiiiLO j i cs, v urcu vai i iru on most vigorously and syRtei Several eminent bacteHologiata VAloH nil thflh tlma j". it ann hnns r r ultimate success became steadily brighter. Sensation Created sensation created. . Some years ago a sensation was ere- . . . , -.7 . . ated in New York society when an- nouncement was made of the engage- ment of one of the reigning belles of the season to Dr. Walter R. Brlnckerhoff, coupled with the startling statement mat aner tneir marriage mey woum go to Hawaii to live fin the leper settle- would devote his life to the work of trying to find a cure for leprosy. The yellow Journals all over the country ex patiated In column after startling col umn on the heroism of the rich young bride wno was giving up all tne com """"""'J A"!, r m""in'UBO"s Ul ueauis an tor w.e saae This made excellent rendlng-of a sort hut thnse who shein tenrs nver the. story wasted their sympathies. The storv merely illustrates how little s r8 la commonly known about leprosy. T)r. Brlnckerhoff did go to Hawaii to tackl ....... v . ...... ...,.. ...v,.v. the puzzling problem of trying" to find young and beautiful bride with him. But thev did not go to the leper colony to reside. They live now in the city of Honolulu, the most healthful and the most beautiful place in the world, and It Is doubtful if Mrs. Brinckerhoff has - ver seen a leper. II I1 II I I" I 1 1 f I I . I 1 1 V I, Till no I 1 1 1 1 K I11H Invades Settlement. It was known that leprosy was a germ disease, caused by a vegetable organ- Ism known as the bacillus leprae, n lm Known n lll imcn'un lupine, ll microscopic bacterium dlfftring not greatly in general characteristics from the Bacillus tuberculosis, the germ of nw K' i in ui tuberculosis. It -was also known that the bacillus lives not In the blood but in the f'.esh of the victim. Beyond this, little was definitely known or Is vet definitely known, although many for- mer beliefs and superstitions had heon i .4 v. ..I.ntlfl. n .... V. The problem that confronted the ex- perimenters was to find some means of rendering the bacillus Innocuous and of driving it from the system. . About two years Rgo a physician of The prooiem tnat conironteo me ex- FASHIONABLE By Reginald Carver. LOWON,, Nov. 14. English people and especially Londoners have a peculiar fondness for all animals, particularly dogs and cats. "Love ma love my dog" or cat is a m'otto that might well be placed over most London households. Last year a London society dame had a 110,000 neck lace made for fier pet dog, while in Park Lane two upper floors of a splen did mansion are given up jentlrely to dogs that are waited on by their own grooms and cooked for by special chefs. Even after their death the pets of the elite find' their way Into an exclusive cemetery which occupies a portion of Hyde Park, London's most aristocratic open space. Tho cemetery is situated just back of tho keeper's lodge at the Lancaster gate entrance of the park. Hidden away in a shrubbery, the gen eral public knows llttl or nothing of its existence. Ever and anon "there mav be- seen" as the dime novels say, a little cortege stopping at this spot from which some well-dressed rnonrner will bear a tiny coffin containing the last mortal remains of "Fido" or "Tab by," as the case may be. The grave, as the saying goes, levels all distinc tions and truly the adage works In this case, for dogs and cats are buried In the same cemetery. Monuments de signed by the best artists and elabor ately wrought in marble from the best quarries tell tales i of the passing of pets of the plutocrats. -' As you walk about HhliPllttle eeme tery you meet pathetic. -or ludicrous, In-. : . .i.tt . ...lifn t vnii. Individual . nrnnt nf vleor. i One reimarkabie head stone, containing letters donA In ancient ' Chaldean, excites -oonsideraoie ,unosity on the part of the few favored ones who 1 are allowed to'tread' the dust of these sa cred precincts;- Strangely enough, this tTiaklean Inscription is a terrible curse' launched by an Irate rat lover against en "unhuman monster," . etc, etc.v who . : placed a piece of poloned meat in the rorts or ner palatial jNew York home evltably done any man who Is accused i..t vU.,.u......ca w r,,,, nrt rosinlnir ber nnitinn in .npi.tv I . . ' . t or thre years as to how the beautiful place of 7 an wlili l7r bfirlt hnshanrt in llvi OI lnK a leper, was piacea unaer ine disease Is transmitted. Once there wns Danger there certain IL ,i.J iIvTI-J .,.. new treatment, known as the Nastin no question about it. The leper was extent, but It Is nowh AV ,' .1" .i jLm .;r . . . i. r. shunned as If he were death Itself, as Is commonly sunn It was not at all necesarv for the u, u..tln anA hn hin such announce that some hero or heroine has have taken up their work there, they refused to setentlct to pn to the 1 ener cetHetnenr Imnrovement In Vila general condition resolved to renounce life and go to are never allowed to leave the settle- other state offered to pay for the main- .'.,, -nrt' hashed Intr. white nnsric- f nawau wf. . ...y .l Vk' ,. scientist to go to the leper settlement Prmm J1 LiSns "at It seems Molokai,-there to labor for the Snfor- ment is utterly without foundation, tenance of the afflicted person. line fnim lnsned lnto wnlte- 8Park- of mallpox which carried off thou- ln order to. do his work. At Honolulu nd In hi s spec Iflc e slonsnat It seems tumUeg of tnat pla t amj , th l heTe , no ,aw or rule to pr.v.nt And Sl'wav, the wind blows the 8ands, ' ,th .natlle"Vi Th.-.23 there Is an Institution known as the Litton . "to his rTep'rosy.'"'1 l end Inevitably to dfe lo.thesomely. The any well person from leaving Molokai Much Exploited. fPh tVade 'hat purifil, nS X 'vacclnf w.sn ne Kal.h. Receiving SUtion. where lepe, "We brln this cas to your attention O;, of hee -r, t'r o rSr-l,0, 'r Mo.oka, h ,s been much exp.olted by nttt 'iS1 suspects are taken for examlnatlbn, anj annxt,ls,ntt0 fre 0hehtaon If he" can nothing in them There is no doubt but Marianne, or any other of the brothers many sensational writlrs. most nf whom tor ??lw.T imagines 1 e c8' detect In !,r7S tuTt f anoPtner Xnd whence. If t in discovered that they E allowed to do so While we are not that occasionally some brave man or or sisters who have far years been ,,,,.,,,,,, ,h,r' ,,,,-, -H hn this Dlace of llvlna -death transferred to that of another. And have the dl-ease thev are taken -o cSnvinca bevond poss hll ity a ooubt. woman does make this resolve but It working with and for the lepers, can knew little about their subject, and hun- thh, pla-e of IH ing death m.tt some of those from whom It was taken Molokai Jt was 'at' thTs recelvCsta- ?hat the "."7fTh i" TJl the Island and no dreds of columns have been printed Jt r JP aA tor 'S'"' dCw which M tlon that Dr. Brinckerhoff set Up his leprosy, we do feel that he has made JJl" nf e tJf'y ' M0,h J J" f;",'lction w,'tevPr " P"t "PO" which dealt generally In Inaccuracies. It what pity Is extended to rW the un watr t '"Teleloned far Srh to .how laboratory and conducted his expert- such marked Improvement while under J"" c?la?intfncJn?thi appears to be the common belief that fortunate wretches know tllartnly death . hlmval Uttorrt thtou." ".?.. trjjUnt-tt areauest for his re- Sird 'V ril"&Sr? r,:-..- sEPps give the Island. a wide berth, lest will release them. They, are shut of-" teXiSSr. l tip tnenrv or wotk whs h mn exammauun i hhouiu. ' : . " . iaaKci ui wuvaot. trio wini iiinn.'inor nrr Th ,ind PArrv w in lorever rrnra ineir iru'iiiiM t has been brought r THE VIULAGB OF KA.LXVAO A PART OPTttE LBPKJ Austrla-Hunga'ry aiscovered and de- scribed a treatment for leprosy. This was rather in the nature of an expert- " ? an aJ,n.ounc.l1 ctu.al ,.ur'5 for tn disease. But as the greatest 'ep- l!"""" ".rfr S'il'i'lJriSnT.."! Ett?J- Enm ".in-ri-ni witi5 ernment for nrm to experiment with; That was a little more than a year waa nreparln to erect on the Islander Molokai. at Kalawao, one of. the two Molokai. at Kalawao, one of. the two vUla" th ?rm th Per settlement, a great hospital, and experdmi-nt wta- tlon for the treatment of leprosy, where It was proposed that the foremost men I -4 of science In the world, along this par- tlcular line, should work and study in an effort to find a cure for the disease that tor thousands of vears had been reck- oneJ ncurable The Un8 for thls stitutlon had been prepared and tho rrnnmi mna hinir clrararl nrenaiatorv fj0"" eW0n "? the bullfln But nothing further had been done. Meantime Dr Brlnokerhoff had set up a J.ii VioS whV In conlunc- tlon with Dr. James T. Wayson. he de- 'clu l" iB i, M.W 7 Vv, i,;rnr AV.WT T n.mlAt.r. h a TLf.r. rf,rm.A jvian was vurea. On December 26 1907 a Hawaiian un uecemcer . a Hawaiian leper, whose name the doctors withhold on account of the injury that is in- t,r5,1" P " k" ;u"7r .'ViV.' of Hawaii that the man treated was Cured. . They made this report with reserva tlons. being too conservative to wish to make a statement which might possibly be refuted by time. Therefore they re- n, awnmniinhsH n . j,,ve accomollahed a P0",Jna' ),eythJl av. TSP i8 , T ' 11 Dractlcai nui dosps' is not to be re- arded us a menace' to the community, The renort of the two Dhvsiclans con- eludes as follows- h. heon iinHer nnr rare since December 28. 1907, nt the Kalihl Ra- CeivlllfC Station He had received treat- "For us to take the responsibility of certifying that, from a scientific point of view, he is cured, would require an l view. n- in i.mru. .u investigation for which the facilities are not atyhand. On the other hand, if it can be shown that the leper- bacilli il nn u- niiwrn ........... , are not demonstrate ry sucn methods as are used In examination for commit- ment, he might be regarded as a 'social cure that Is. one who scientifically considered, might or might not be suf- ferlng from leprosy, but; who. for prac- ttnal nnr ri i on, la Tint to be I'P iTJl Til P ft AS a menace 10 me c.,iiiniuiii..v, i "u , ,t,aj a menace to the community, and so may be safely allowed his liberty. "We recommend that the patient be submitted to a reexamination to deter- mine If he Is 'suffering from leprosy CAT AND DOG CEMETERY way of a prving tabby-rat which refused to stay In her own garden. The heart- broken mistress of the murdered tabby first put up her curse In plain English, but as the wording was all too plain, the park authorities compelled her to re- move It. She then had the inscription done In Sanskrit and the student wno oomnosed it for . her even made it .stronger in the ancient language than in the modern one, but If you are not an adept in this language your morals are safe until your curiosity leads you to investigate. There is a. law against the burial or human beings within the London llm- 4ta hut nnnn n.hin nun the nhMrmlea of cats and dogs. Therefore, the Hyde Park cemetery sees every year a few additions to Its numerous monuments. It is not everybody, mind you, who Is allowed to bury his pet In this aristo cratic west end animal valhalla, but only those who have especial influence with the- guardians of the district. No matter how distinguished, or noble, or self-sacrificing your dog or cat, or bow ever sweety and faithful their Uvea may low that thev will be entitled to Inter- ment In this onen-air Enailsh Westmss- Ste? Abbev fo? dels kd , its ster Aooey ror uogs and cats : Some of the Inscriptions pn the head - stones of these graves might have been written by ancient Egyptians who be- lieved in the transmigration of the spuls of animals. For instance, "Erected to the memory of Zulelka. Until we meet agtln," tells the transcendental tale of a cat heaven, while "Darling Pogey, in everlasting memory of a faithful and devote little companion," speaks of the Immortality of the pet doglet; or the dog petlet as the case may be unless, of course. It happens to be a cat, , ir J It- m- he recalled that T.ord nVrni . Im w, t nn .r.iiSt. t5 l&To "Bosun" so th. rrrlho ratronl the Hvrie Park reti?v Vr2 Ent wlthAiii ? a ftln-?rhd mtnTt. not without a distinguished example. lVt Paris, the la an even more orate animaicemetery titan tne Hyde retrieving or recovering your focmer them -safely through serious scrapes, and still were, a imtll people, ttm aver-Park-one In London. It Is situated on elasticity and buoyancy. Consult your and rf they re iH in body he striven age, height of the men being about the He des Chlena or Img Island father, confide In him, -and ask for his to have them doctered Into good shape; feefi S iilches at every period of their where one may eee truly handsome help la this hour of your .trailty. tatj-er knows .what la ths beat treat-. blBtV. . . c f-. ' , ., . . ; , y t , .-.. , -.' . f y . : IW' sea and capable of transmitting the dt ease.' Respectfully, "WILLIAM R. BRINCKERHOPF. "DlrecJ.,r; 5.y 4nY vBitlon tat,on- ' JAMES T. WAYSON, "ember ritor!al "card of health." n u Conservative Enough. Conservative enough, surely.. For wher. leprosy does not manifest itself outwardly, by crookedV fingers, scales, spots, sores, a sloughing off of the spots, sores, a sloughing off of the fingers and toes, etc., the only way to H, . ,, ' ' . . . de, 5Imi Pe " a ?I! tf6 'StmI a fi' '?i.KVlal ;amlj?a"on- -Thl" e1"1"1111?- lon 's.made of v"ry euspect who Is "VfJ1 S'l.0'. u"1. t" ."A, ,nd ' "J0?,',",. reful.l Af n,a"onr?"ta,h,"'ae- ,lf the bacilli are found in his flesh, he is condemned f.' ht0 ntL p'r, '"f "Jf.fTDJi ''ecauso ne is a criminal but because he 18 "offering from a disease which Li?oapabe ifT-.tranlim,Ut,,nSwto..otneI Aee,;t(,D)- t,non afor leprosy, are not able to detect the pres- ,tncma? e taken for rantdhat th may be taken for srranted that the lIHim 1 1 IK L)liyBH;Hn ' " lilt OOH-ia UI Health w... not be ali. detect any trace of the dlnease. yet. the two inyicins content iiicitit . witn call- nK the man, for the present, only a "cnu cure, that Is, one who is- not capable of transmitting the disease. leprosy is illustrated by the question ,lvy . v i iTT in i in ii v niiiinn huiiul His very touch was suonosed to convey pollution, and amonr the laity it was :VL" w.. "Unclean, unclean!'; Is the cry that has echoed down the ages a wail of 2?" eir 5? ? i TTc,ean uncPean" nc ""J .f,;. wretch (IB his hide ness, or warning, nd the doomed ,WI niueous lace ana crept back to his den among- the rocks or ll,t0 tne desert to wait until merciful death should release him from hjs suf- lour" was aeatn ltseir. An1 now science questions even If leprosy la contagious. Infectious It is known not to be. u umr in bu uurn vnw newspaper" ylJfVh th, e k"?m nl .h .tit?,?, '",?.RaK TJ '?.e "i'i" "Re,r"ow L1" vi"' irP'll";,.8! . wnmer, whn men and women who v to the e ' t js far as Honolulu. ... -. tne lepers may get hut thev ret no . i m . . , : . iL . i"; J;"" . 1 "V", . . in, , settlement, and are not allowed to go. . Uevote Lives. . . ,. . . inere are people at tne ieper set- tlntnent fit MolnlcAl whn r A .1 nt In. their lives to the lepers, but thv are their lives to the lepers, but thy are ,.,. .v,.- not tne nu-and-miss volunteers wnosa announced self-immolation on the altar of charity is so widely heralded. specimens of the monumental art. One beautiful memorial column Is sur- mounted by the figure of a great St. Bernard which saved no less than 40 lives. The pillar Is SO feet high. An- other monument Is Inscribed "To Jappy," and beneath his effigy are the words of fa seal, "Tne more I see or men, the better I like my dog." He Would Return. Marlow was three years old. One day his mother sflld tr him "Nnw Mnrlnw you may go outdoors to play for a while, but If I see you crossing the . ".o'vstiWK BOYS, MAKE CONFIDANTS of YOUR FATHERS By Clara Reese. PEAK out and tell your father, S bov The possible punishment 7: . : p pun snmeni which he may mete shall be as nothing compared with your pres. ent mental torture Make arlean ent mental torture. Maice a clean K-e.-f . v, w ... .T. , . . " """" - ble lB- Tou neea tn a,lvlc -.perlanced head - .P'riencea neaa. ou are facing the law, perhaps, for hot-tempered or thoughtless mtsde- meanol.. ou h t k th iu-v- mm-mii-. jou naie taaen mer umucjcy atep, or spoken the unlucky word; you are i In bonds and fetters. Or. you are m ji,kii.... . -i,.,. , disobedience, C chill from th forbidden river swim, or injured through a fall from heights you wero commanded not to x4lmb. or suffering from a wound from a weapon you should 1 inra ur umiivn-u. mu i transgressed, been indiscreet and are rlsls A apme kind. . . Speak .? wd take you fatherUnto yo.ur eonfldenc before you are worn out, weighted down, reduced to an ex- e'sb--tremlty of depression beyondApower of - -A" 4 1- 'A -l"tsi f V-" O' i HQUtfB Of PR.G00DN0E fcEcJIPENT AT LEPER c3ETTLElIEMT.011110LOK.AL Jack McVeigh Is the superintendent or tne settlement, and ne lives there .with his family and certain assistants, There Is also Dr. Goodhue, the resident physician. And besides these there are iiih v . n. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 uruLiif m hiiii Lilt niHLria of Mercy, who care for the unfortunates tneir nays in mis death. ily is. to a certain ere near so Krat osed. In all the flftv odd ,vears of tne settlement onlv two or three those in care of the .- - ... - Demlen and It Is known that he got the leprosy by his carelessnot to say dirty naoits. KODert Louis Stevenson s famous letter in defense of Father namien gave tne priest a notoriety which he would not otherwise have at- talned and wrapped around hlhi the robe of the martyr which would never have and women wno nave given their lives to the cause of the lepers. Nothing too good can be said concerning them. But the general belief that, once they have v,k in Nothing too BfL ium mi me i5xsr Briiiemni unu Of course, there Is always the danger h,lt disease may at any lime develop i . ,h, .,!,. ,u "' "l -j stantlv exDosed to contaelon. But .o ' j '"nK tn"y ordinarily careful, lhM Q Kreat danger. "I never think of danger in ronnee- tion with my work.'' said Sister Ma- rlanne. in charge of the Bishop home for-girls at the settlement, to the writer nn the fccalnn nf hlfl vlnlt tn the Ian., "nieiiim. ui ckuiih-, wn-n i siup 10 settlement. "Of course, when I stop to think. I realize that I am liable to con- traot tn disease. But I am not afraid, One who always washes In antiseptics after dressing the lepers' sores Is not street to play with that naughty little boy. Willie Burr, again. I'll give you a hard, hard spanking." Half an hour later the mother looked out after her boy and saw him plavlng with Willie Burr. She raised the win dow and called, with forced gentleness: "Marlow, come here to me." Mario w came, but as he did so, he turned to his comoanlon and said: "You stay wight here, Willie. I'm doln' In to det spanked. I'll be wight back." The Delineator. Undesirables? From the New Tork American. IT President Roosevelt does write play, what a lot of villains there will be In It! You have made a mistake somehow, or yu are Involved In a grievous wronB' yu r rrigntened. bewildered, an(j ar keeping your trouble to your- self until you start at the sound of your name or bide apart from the gen- ST.; run friends and acquaintances, T,u your father rlght a-vay. He will AI" T""r. .V""'. "gni aw -ay. e wui f"uw """'y wn?1 " very Desi o do.ne u?der the circumstances. Ho may thrash you soundly, or speak his mlai , no nceI.iajn tonegi or even say, "Be gone. y" wll! feel relieved, somehow; f0" know that in the end he will uaf taln you and counsel you wisely, and be the best friend you have In the wtrrle wide world. So, don't you make a mistake and g0 on carrying a burden whfch wou can- not possibly slip from under unaided; and uon't you go on the outside In search of wisdom and help when you have your father right at hand: and won i you tnuiK lor an instant mat ne docs not rare, or does not take an inter- est In your welfare: father Is tne best friend that had, boys have, for even when he chastise ho is planning how to save them from the Conseohenres of thelf various misleads. how to" pull from a 4r ? v. - w- very liable to get leprosy. The great danger lies in carelessness, jtiut ir i an get it. it is as God wills. I am not afraid." While st the settlement that writer wmk liiiii :i Riurv i nil i 1 1 c in hi uw 1 1 , what a Comparatively slight extent the areaaeii disease is transmission a Ha- wallan was found to have the leprosy and was sent to Molokai. His wife at- companled him. as was at thst time nermltted. as a "kokoa" or helDer. In the course of time the man died. But the woman liked the place and remained. hI'Z ."hiH h-'hiT And now she Is the wife of a fourth leper and she herself Is free from thtf disease: Frequently accounts appear in the newspapers or lepers irom oiner siaies and territories who are to be sent to Molokai. - These s without foundatior torles are Invariabl on. The leper settle ny the Hawaii. tion. fed- erai government, ana no ouier state or terrltnrv m the nliBhtet rlihf to shir. territory lias trie slightest rignt to snip territory lias tne siigm ls lepers to Molokai. stances attempts hav been made to inirt. nun t-t-i i l ,1 ii t receive them, even when tho It contagion. ... rr.:r,- , . comprises but a very small portion of the urn la nnrl nf Mn nk It Is Hllnat. v;-.i. V. ' A0" J" "'"I ?.n ""'J,s .on. ,hr. 'nd- wsro sine or ine isiana. smii ntr rrom the main bodv of land bv en immense cliff "pall" Is the Hawaiian word some 4.000 feet high. It Is about three miles from the base of the pali to the end of the peninsula, which Is about the same distance across. On one side I- I .-ill.. . I . , An . V. oincr tnat 01 Kalawao, (scattered ne- other that of Kalawao. Scattered be- tween the two are manv pretty little farm houses, where some of the lepers live. To all appearances these villneea are just like anv other villages. Thev SALOME AND By Mrs. John A. Logan. r T Is astonishing that In these days of advanced civilization anything so vulgar as the Salome dance should be received with favor, or that re fined people should tolerate such an exhibition. Those who have witnessed the per formance admit It Is shocking In every sense of the Word. And the fact that the designing Herodias used the agility of her daughter Salome to beguile Herod 'the ifina of JudTh Into a Irom- --eiua, in King or j uusn. into a prom- ment always for all the stone bruises. lumps, bumps 'and cuts, the aches and. shakes, ,sore heads, sore throats, mis- erable feeling, Don't carrv vonr nresent hnrden until you are tt father will slfletrack tr too rar gone tor treatment; 111 not tell on you, but he will slfletrack the misery somehow, and then not only tell your troubles to father. but also tell your joys and note the light and sparkle in his eyes. Make a confidant DJ fatnar when happiness is your portion when success comes to the fullness of peace and satisfaction. Joy Is doubled and misery is but half, when shared Make ft confidant of your father; spek out . . .i i,i,. cn 1 meeting of scientists In Dublin Professor G. Klllott Smith, the Egyptologist, said that the earliest known human remains found In the Nile valley, when compared with those of later times, demonstrated tne ract mat at a very remote period Egypt and kubia were Inhabited by th. Jme race. -which had existed In Egypt with little or no? change In' physical characteristics n,rnmit the Inturvenlnir s oon v.r 3 - 4 ; Vv-I - ft I - I! v'' X - v ' until the present dav. ' Thf v. had been. living 9 X s ?! I? si vu. -.v. ..v.v.v w.v.--j v. iii ft ij W have their own municipal government a supervisoi, justice of the peace and police force. And t'e members of tlwse various bodies are pers with the ex- ceptlon of the supervisor who has to Hirpnn m,pi nirB niiiNino inn kii pmftnT and Is therefore a well man. Everything possible has been done for the comfort and well belnir of those condemned lo end their lives In this nlace. In fnct thev are as a rule much iii-ttor sltnntoH ihnn thlr mnrp fnrtu- Sate brethren In th world .Vntsid; eauutul Spot. No more beautiful place than the lep- ,Momen, imrii,en n.,v f ' " 't Is the huire. forbidding mountain, tower ng to the skv. Its summit con- .,..... U . . tinually Houd-capned, its sides so steep ; land precipitous that no man can scale them exoept at one point where a nar- ept at one point where a nar- row trail winds up the face of the cliff. And this trail Is constantly guarded, so that none may escape that wav. : .. . 1 iM 1 . l" . niui. in in- nuraiucr wm, .,,VHV reflecting bark the sun nr h ,'tn', by ia" a Klonming, quivering llltlKn VI HINIUL imjIllllllB CUIUI WlilUII '""".KU-TnJThT'l.li-fEl' I in i rcia- lives. Thev have left the world of n. v. v. , i j ,i, .u.h. they will be burled In the rocky soil of this little SandSDll tnat JUtS out into the rifie tnr..I.a? Ill- . . uim-ic m " " " ' ' u inniiurnm- tions is loo l.ideous for description. The dropping off of fingers and toes, even of legs and crms: the swelling of ears to elephantine proportions: the wiping out from the face of evesy semblance of humanity, are only a few of the phases nr lnr.vr.av' out mere is one miiiKnunx i-wiir But there is on Leprosy Is nearly disappears someti without pain. Leprosy Is a "fr V I'flllll. n- l l.l'll J lmes piecemeal, but freakv" d sease. Some- HER DANCE Ise to grant the danseuse whatever she might ask of him, craitily causing the girl to demand the ' head of St. John the Baptist on a charger," that she (Herodias) might be avenged upon the saint, who had upbraided Herodias. for her unfaithfulness as the wife of Philip, her husband's brother, and of the Bin she had committed in becoming the wife of Herod while Philip lived, should make It all. the more revolting. The spirit of revenge possessed her. All other means for accomplishment of her designs on his life failing, she con ceived the wicked scheme to Insure his being beheaded. It would seem that ghastly spectacle of the head on the platter, which Is held aloft as the terp slchorean executed the figure of the danoe, would so vividly recall the bloody fulfillment of the rash promise of Herod that it would Incite revulsion of feeling and disgust. The dancer, with bare feet and jew eled ankles, keeps time to the wonder ful music said to have been revived from antiquity, and fascinates people by the exqpisite poses assumed. From the description, the scant rai ment is sufficient to taboo the appear ance of any girl or woman before the footlights. "In a pair of flesh-colored silk trunks, reaching from the waist half way to the knee, one skirt of black aauxe. arold-enabroidered at the bottom and reaching to the ankle, a girdle of pearls and Drltnants, oreastpiate ana decolletogu of pearls and emerald with ropes of pearls looped to the girdle and necklace, and armlets of brilliants and Jade, a red wig and a diadem complete the costume. Neither tights nor sandals are worn, the arms, limbs and torso being entirely bare." v. .--;; Admitting that It Is a perfect repro duction of the reel of the past and that Maud Allan, i Gertrude Hoffman, Lill Marberg. Emma Calon. Gefatdine Farrar or any other danceri excel the original "Salome In the manic perform ance, what has been. achleyrd? Should representations of modern .Iclvilisatlon be ambitious to emulate vividly' the dress or the barbaric orgies of antiquitv? Js It possible that we are drifting Into .tha abandon which fharacterliea most lit I III death times its' course la extremal? rapid and death results In a few years. At otiirr times. It advances slowly, often belli -quiescent for . many years. gome of the Inmates of the Molokai Leper settlement have shown no Increase In the outward manifestations of the di sease f6r 20 years or more. And yet at any tlme.' the bacilli may become sud denly active' again and the IhxIv disinter grate in a relatively short llioe. - Nine Hundred Lepers. There are now about 90 fepera en Molokai, the . majority of them Ha waiian. There are a few white men, ' and a good many Japanese and Chln. The Caucasian Is much lees susceptible to the disease than the people of darker skin. In China it la roughly Es timated, that there are in the neighbor hood ofMOO.000 lepers. Japan ha prnl-, ably 100.000. India has an Inrivdihln number, ku have nearly all other parts of Asia. And there are many in Europe, par ticularly in Sweden and Norway. . Out side of Hi wall and the Philippines, th I'nlted states and its dependencies have , comparatively few. There Is a lept-r station on BlaekweH's tland - in - Nw -York, another in Massachusetts, .and there are a few lepers in other parts of : the country hated and abhorred by the people about them. Canada has' more than we have, but like those of the 1 United States, the lepers of the Domin ion are ' mostly Chinese and Japanese who brought the disease from their na tive homes. . - It is probable that the loathing and dread with which the people of this country and other Caucasian countries regard a leper is due both to ignorance and to the ideas conveyed by the scrip tures, which teach that a leper must . not be allowed to live among or near ; those who are well, and which con demn him to worse than death. It has happened in a number of Instances that some poor devil of a Chinaman has been found to have the disease, and he has been locked in a box car and hur ried across the country, while the inhab itants of the towns and villages through which ho passed assembled armed with, shotguns to kill him if he as much as dared 10 peep through a hole in the' door. And yet, a Jiiindred thousand men.: ' could shake hands with the leper with-! ' out more than the slightest possible danger of one of them contracting tint disease. . . There Is one feature of the territory of Hawaii's management of its leper settlement which cannot be too strongly condemned. That is the permitting of the leper men and women to marry and bring children into the world. For many years this has gone on, adding greatly to the number of unfortunates1 in the settlement and postponing In definitely that hoped-for time when the disease shall be stamped out entirely.' Cases of Birth. Fortunately a woman who has lep rosy" Is In the majority of Instances' sterile, but too often the opposite Is the case. A child born of leper parents is rarely, if ever, a leper at birth, but 1 the disease Is sucked in with the moth-,' er's milk, and It is only of late years that any child born In the leper settle ment had the slightest chance of .es-, caping contagion. Some years ago,, nowever. an Institution was established In Honolulu, through private generosity, which is known as the Kapiolanl Girls' : Home. To this charitable Institution are removed the girl babies as anon as they are born into the world. And'th , value of the Institution Is demonstrated by the fact that of the children thus removed from their parents, less than one In 20 ever develops the disease j But the bov babies! There has bevh i r,rm n ih tirir mmh ai VZ3 li,?... -T.nmW. ih-ll ?iw no home for them and they have been - .... - .... . . . . . . Iw! IntS" Biitlv how T lVilalature of Hawaii annro- flfJl-i"- ? w? - Jl.-iiJ, 5 Ji,J """ne. l ne erection or tne noma was retaraeaTor more man two years oy Py politics, but now a Site has been selected and tnere Is nope lor tne un- fortunate male children. Will Take Over Settlement, vu- . " ' imiuawc, m"""ei, umi. m uvn the federal envernment wilt take over ii,. s'tlemnt whlrh will then tu msdn the seaiement, which will then be maaa a Beno.al i,,per settlement wherein . .... be placed all lepers found In the Ln 111 De P'a-ea an lepers iouna in ine uninu States. And when this Is done. there Is little rcison to doubt that Uncle Sam will put an end to the barbarous prac- tlce of allowing the mating of the i . . . i . m i , j i leper a ana Hie ut-ariug- ui lllliaren uy ih. It is a horrible fact that leprosy was HPH ITTM mmi ffnOUT tne MIWH1 HD IS- lands by yacclnation About 60 years x , . . - . i jj iV"""' l. .Vll" no wonaer insi ui nawaniwi m uuw 0lUf"?fc?E?tl! k-IS. fhl h.n1... -- --. viotims'or tnis area a oigease. rne an- nouncement made bv Doctors Brtncker- . . - . . . . .. . . " v ay-"" ment has proved successful and that they have cured one leper by us use in considerably less than A year Is ine longest step that has been taiten try medical science slrtee the remarkable dlSCOVerleS Of PSSteUr STVl niS alSC.lDleS. "'Y' ........ u.u. vu v . - - querea ana pui io ingni, umi ueimn long the dreaded disease leprosy wiu be only a horrible memory. OF ABANDON of the amusements in Paris and that our large cities are to encourage this kind of questionable diversions? Moat people Imagine that we had survived the "Black Crook" and the disgusting dances introduced on the - Midway at the World's Fair In Chicago in 18ii. , Optimistic persons claim the world is growing better, but if demoralising spec tacles such as the Salome dance are to be patronlxed. by leaders in society, and young girls and boys' are to be educated to regard the Salome dance, with its werith of rhythm. Its pulsing passion, and the weird wildnesa which, characterises It, and that it la to be considered the key and the open seaaniu ; of all the books of ancient poetry, all ' the volumes of mythology, all the mys tic legends of the past, pessimists will naturally predict degeneracy . of tasle and morals. It is Incomprehensible how the pro moters of this sort of reeq-iie perform ances manage to secure licenses to pre sent any conception which they wish to put on the stage. At the first perform- , ance the people are shocked, and officers for the protection ef public morals muku noisy threats of suppression and deter mination to drive the particular thln which has invited criticism from th country. In a brief time the storm blow over and the condemned show return-, with probably more dartng exhibition than were iven at first. Americans ai bretrnrhtg-qulte aa-3olatlls jiajhal'r-n, and unless -the sober-minded, rin thinking and right-acting people mand an elimination of the vtidvli and a restoration of . the leiiint ii drama,-we will surely witness Impel,--degeneracy Ion the American tie. Salome, With all of Its lromor.il . geat ions and indecent lack of test., should be suppressed In the Inten -! i decency and morality, . v ; ' iv; - 1 Looking Ahfad. From the J.oiilsvHle fi.-.r "Otmme a few riivm, j "York, crk. fork.'' '"None of 'em i hoping 1 ro:l. I. poetry, 1 . s tine.1' 1'
