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THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER tigation into the ramifications of ODD WEDDING CUSTOMS. the refusal of the reformers to sane- j tion his action in the proposed sec the disease. How Matrimonial Ceremonies ond marriage. In answer, there- MeMncrviLLi, - O regon . The lepers forming the settle-j were Conducted in the Past. i fore, they drew up a most remark-1 20, 1890 ment of Molokai, in the Sandwich March Islands, number upward of 1,100,. When men stole their wives able document, disapproving of! and here it is said all phases of the without the formality of consider- such marriages in general, but con-| Leprosy. -------------------- t disease can best be observed. The ingin the least the feelings, wishes firming the act of Phillip, who, A number of events have recent- ] locality has recently become fam- or preferences of the ladies con- thus fortified by clerical authority, ly occurred which indicate that sci- ( ous as the scene of Father Damien’s cerned, there was no thought of married, morganatically. Marguer entists and philanthropists at the , self-sacrificing labors and heroic presenting the bride with anything ite de Staal. and gave her what was centers of civilization are waking ( death. Public attention has again save the necessary utensils for said to be the most beautiful wed up to the necessity of steps being | been directed to this singular com housekeeping, and the promise of ding casket ever seen in Germany. In these days the wedding casket taken for the acquirement of fuller , munity by the arrival in this coun condign punishment in case they and more correct knowledge of the ( try on January 30th of Miss Amy were not properly and efficiently was for the bridegroom a solemn disease of leprosy, to the end that C. i Fowler, the daughter of a cler used. When, however, marriage reality, for he was expected not on its victims may be relieved and the , gyman of the Church of England’ became a contract and was recog ly to provide the casket, but also to further spread of the disease may who has embraced the Catholic nized as such, says the St. Louis fill it with the finest jewels his be checked. faith, and is now known as Sister Glohr-Drwocrat. the consent of the means could procure. When this On January 13th last a dinner Rose Gertrude. She is now cn bride was an important prelimin species of gift was found to l>e too was given in London as a means of route for Molokai, where she will ary and was generally secured by much of a tax, the jewels were promoting the interests of the Na devote her life to the lepers, taking gifts, sometimes of nominal, often omitted from the programme, but the box was retained and presented, tional Leprosy Fund, which has re up and carrying on the work of of real value. As civilization changed the con usually with a single piece of mon cently been started in response to a Father Damien. very strong feeling that something It will be seen from the facts ditions of life the married state be ey inside, as symbolic of ‘‘all the should be done to check the spread here presented that while the dis came much more expensive; the wordly goods” with which the of leprosy in the British possessions, ease of leprosy is scattered over a wife became a drag on the resour groom, even to the present day. is not only from motives purely hu wide extent of territory, it numbers ces of her husband, and then the supposed to endow his bride. mane, but also because the contin many victims. It is known to be men began to demand that, instead Legal Fees Then ami Now. ued increase of the disease is in increasing in Cape Colony, and it of paying for their wives, they J From Chauncey M. Depew's ju danger of becoming a national per is said to lie spreading in South should receive some compensation diciary centennial speech: “For for being willing to marry. This il and plague. Africa and the West Indies; but The Archbishop of Canterbury notwithstanding the fact that the originated the bride’s dowry, on forty years after the supreme court said in his speech at this dinner disease is of very ancient origin, the principle that, as marriage is a began its work the fees of lawyers that in the old churches of England and has come under the eye of phy contract and the expenses of a mar were not so large as they are now. could still be seen the leper’s side sicians for ages, comparatively lit ried man are far greater than those In fact, the most eminent attorneys window in thebe’' cel, where in tle is actually known about it or of a bachelor, the bride should con received no more than $25 for former times the lepers stood to the best methods of treatment. On tribute to the resources of the drawing briefs and presenting! cases to juries. Those were the I hear the services and receive alms 1 this point Dr. Prince Morrow said, household. without coming in contact with in an address before the New York In every Welsh neighborhood un-l I happy days for the client. Nearly those unaffected by the plague. I Academy of Medicine, in June last. I ; til almost the middle of the present I all lawyers died poor. A rich law- Now. however, the disease is sel that “it is the reproach of medical century, there was a functionary | I yer was as much of a novelty at dom met with in England, but it is science that a disease which has known as the bidder. The duty of that time as a rich literaav man is more widely diffused through the been characterized as the most an this important official was to give now. The distribution of "How different at the end of this earth than most people imagine. cient and the most exclusively hu notice of an approaching marriage, the premiums offered It prevails, in fact, over more than man of all diseases should, after i which he did by perambulating the century! It is a common thing! will take place on the one-half the habitable glolie. It is centuries af observation, be so im neighborhood and surrounding nowadays to hear of attorneys re Fourth of July. 1890, known from the tropics to the Arc perfectly understood.” This points country announcing the festivities, ceiving $150,000 for the organiza in this city. This tic regions, embracing almost every unmistakably to the fact that a inviting everybody to attend, and tion of a railroad or for organizing gives the lucky sub variety of soil and climate and the wide field is open to the scientists stating in pleasant Welsh doggerel a trust, and the queerest part of it scriber time enough various races of men. Maritime as well as the philanthropists of rhymes the important people who is that his clients look upon him to use his binder dur populations are the most generally the world for the invcstigation»and would be present, the merits bf the with a respect commensurate with ing the coming har groom, the beauty and graces of the his charges. Moreover, the com affected, but the disease is by no I ■ relief or cure of the leprosy. vest. means confined to them. It pre-1 The National Leprosy Fund, of bride, and the abundance and deli munity applauds the attorney’s vails in marshv as well asmoun-l i which upward of £7,000 has been cacies of the viands that would be moderation. “Clients are most illogical. They tainous regions, in the lowlands of! subscribed, will be used in part for placed before the guests. He also Louisiana as well as in the elevated the endowment of two scholarships, served notice on all persons indebt reason from no commercial basis. table lands of Mexico. It would the holder of one of which will ed in wedding gifts to the groom or In the early days of my career as a be extremely difficult to make a re make it his businese to study the bride or to their parents to pay up lawyer I wrote an opinion for a liable estimate of the number of disease in the United Kingdom and at once, the meaning of which pe client and timidly asked $5 there lepers in the world. The I’rince of Europe, while the holder of the culiar dun will be apparent in the for. He grumbled a great deal Wales, who has of late given a other is to go abroad and study lep light of the fact that on previous about paying it. Then he took the great deal of time ’and thought to rosy in India, China, and the Brit occasions the parents of the pair opinion to a famous New York ad the subject of leprosy, and who pre ish colonies. As a proof that there have contributed to the household vocate to find out whether it wasj sided at the recent leprosy fund is a good prospect of achieving sub I effects of half the neighborhood, all right. The advocate glanced over it, wrote across the first page dinner, said that the wide preval stantial results from efforts in the and naturally desire a return. ence of the disease in the Indian direction indicated, it is only neces On the day of the wedding the “correct,” and asked $500 for his empire is an undoubted fact, but I sary to quote the opinion recently presents arc laid out in rows on work. My client paid the sum that the true extent of it is not re expressed by so eminent an author- table, and an auctioneer, paid for gladly, and is yet talking about the ly known. The census ot 1881, he ag jjr Jonathan Hutchinson, i the purpose, attends and values at kindness of the great advocate. “For the first legal paper I ever said, gave 131,618 as the number ; President of the Royal College of ■!a cash rate everything that has drew I charged $1.50. A farmer of lepers in all India, 53,886 being | gurgeongj London, who said that been presented. Receipts in due was my client, and he beat me credited to the Bengal presidency onjy earnest and steadfast devotion form are given, and in case the gift alone. It is thought there arc now an<j ¡motion f0 (jie disease is need- . is not the payment of a debt simi- down to $1. Twenty years after 200,000 lepers in India, while in ed in order to discover the causes i larly incurred, a return of similar wards I wrote a paper precisely China. Japan, Africa and Egypt, of leprosy ami the means of putting ■ value is expected when a marriage similar and received for it $500 which is supposed to be the start an end to it. The discovery of the . takes place in the family of the do- with many thanks.” ing place of the disease, there arc remedy might not immediately fol . nor. By this plan the drain on re-1 Wanainaker’s Office. many victims. In Norway and low that of the cause, but it would sources of families for wedding Wanamaker’s office is a little Sweden there are many victims, follow with sure and certain steps, presents is. in some measure, made like a parlor. It is very prettily though the methods adopted by and he believed that it would not good bv a return, for among the carpeted and hung with pictures, the government for treating persons | “ far’aigfant ’ He said that Welsh the same kind of article is, and his desk is in the middle of it. afflicted with the disease have sue- K >e f far OP f, from doing anv- . if possible, returned when payment ; he would i be If you talk to him of anything ex ceeded in checking its progress, " which would reflect "on'the , is requested so that he who gives Farmers take ad It is said that the development of diligence and zeal of his profession, a pickle dish receives a pickle dish, cept business you feel that you are disarranging some peculiar machin- 1 vantage of this leprosy throughout a greater por but he would say that its members . and to prevent a multiplicity of ery, you feel in the way — precisely chance to secure the tion of Europe early in our present were all the better for a good vigor . pickle dishes a consultation of era may be traced along the routes ous push from behind occasionally, neighbors is held, at which the as if you put your hand against one best' paper in the of the Roman armies, and its gen and if the public should take this , gifts to I k - made are determined. of those revolving fans that keep county and a McCor Deering eral diffusion throughout Christen question up and feel an interest in , Among the wedding presents, how- the flies away from a restaurant ta mick or ble. But when you talk business Binder. The lucky dom in the eleventh, twelfth and it, an increased interest would be , ever, there is often one which, from Wanamaker is quick, clear, cool, person can have his thirteenth centuries was materially taken in it by the medical profes . its peculiarity, is observable. It is firm and masterful. There is only influenced by the return of the sion. a gift from the groom to the bride, one subject that he can talk better choice. If he wants the McCormick bind Crusaders. Leprosy was first in As a further outcome of the , and is in the form of a small box, troduced into Central and South awakened interest in regard to the , to contain such little trinkets as than business, and that is John er complete, it is'his America by Portuguese traders, in disease of leprosy, a meeting oc . she may have. Once it was an in- Wanamaker; that is a subject he to hitch his horses to discusses freeh’ and off-hand. Yet and take home. Mexico probably by the Spanish, curred in Brooklyn, N. ¥., Febru • variable accompaniment of a wed- and into Canada probably by the ary 13th, when papers were read on 1 ding. but. like the bidding and the Mr. Jones will tell you, says the Chatter, that his home on Walnut French imigree. As regards the the subject, and a meeting took bidder, is now falling into disuse. place of the recently formed Amer street is a veritable museum of United States, it is said to have ican Leprosy Society. Miss Amy , and is more rarely seen than even pretty-pretties and luxurious ap been carried to Louisiana by the Fowler was present, and it was an . in the middle of the present cen- pointment. and that he has daugh Acadians, and it still exists there. nounced that she would sail from i tury. But three or four hundred ters to whom he is a devoted fath In the winter of 1888 there were 42 San Francisco for the leper settle years ago . he wedding casket was as er. You will even learn that his cases reported in New Orleans, and ment at Molokai on February 28th. important an accessory to the cer — Scientific American. finest daughter has for a plaything there arc two leper settlements in emony as the ring. a regular house — as big as a horse the state, one at La Fourche And In the middle ages there were car—all set apart in rooms, each Canada has a debt of $230,000,- the other at St. Martinsville. The 000,000 and a yearly taxation of among the kings and noblemen of disease was planted in Iowa, Illi $47,000,000, and has a population Europe two kinds of marriages— room beautifully furnished and nois, Wisconsin and Minnesota by of 5,000,000. We have a popula the one in which the wife shared complete in all respects. the Scandinavian colonists, and tion of 65,000,000, and our national the honor of her husband, and her Saying Disagreeable Tilings. this section was visited in 1888 by debt would be over $3,000,000,000 children inherited his rank and Nothing is easier than to say dis the distinguished Norwegian physi and our annual tax above $611,- fortune, if lie had any; the other in agreeable things, says the Boston cian, G. Armaner Hansen, who for 000,000 if we owed as much or which he gave his left hand during Courier, and there are people who many years was associated with spent as much in proportion to the ceremony, his wife was merely labor under the mistaken opinion Dr. Danielson in the government numbers as our adjacent neighbor. his legalized companion, her child there is nothing more clever. It hospitals for lepers in Bergen, Nor This terrific burden upon the peo ren could not inherit his property, was one of those mortals who was way. He gave considerable atten ple of the Dominion explains why and she herself did not take his asked not long since what was the tion to the disease as it came under so many of its people are scurrying name nor share his rank. The lat age of a maiden lady of his ac-I his observation. In Minnesota, over the border to come to us, and ter marriage was confirmed < " the | quaintance. Wisconsin and Dakota. Dr. Hansen suggests that the United States morning after its celebration by a “I do not know,” he said; “I found that 160 lepers came there should pause and consider before gift—the morgengabe—generally of have never studied archaeology.” from Norway, of whom 13 were liv taking, if it had the power, a people deeds to property, the documents As fate would have it, the lady in ing, and of all their descendants so heavily hampered, under the being enclosed in a small but valu question chanced to overhear him. not one had the taint of leprosy. American flag. Canada will l>e able box. In passing, it may be “And yet you remember,” she Along the Pacific coast in Califor obliged to discover some other mo noted that many complications said, with a suspicious smoothness dus vivendi than shelter under the nia and Oregon the disease was grew out of these two styles of ma in her voice, “I have heard my wings of the American eagle. planted by the Chinese, and on the trimony, for certain noblemen con mother say that I was l>orn the first Southern Atlantic coast it was Long before water-tight compart ceived the idea that, besides a reg year that you were old enough to brought from the West Indies. In ments were built in the ships of the ular, right-hand wife, they were en bring home the washing.” Salt Lake City the plague was im ‘‘civilized” world the Chinese divid titled also to a morganatic or left- ■ The retort was cutting, and the ported by a colony of Kanaka ed the hold of their ships*by water hand spouse, if they wanted one.! passage not overrefined—the fact women brought by the Mormons tight partitions into about a dozen Phillip Landgrave, of Hesse, was that the man was anxious to con- from the Sandwich Islands. There distinct compartments with strong one of the supporters of the refor- cca] jyS origin giving a sting to the is a lazaretto for Mormons at the planks, and the seams were caulked I mation. a id also this opinion, but, Words in which the other took her village of Traeadie, province of I with a cement composed of lime, I being a man of prudence, deter- revenge; but the woman was. on New Brunswick, in which general oil and the scraping of bamboo, mined to lake- ecclesiastical counsel | the whole, to be blamed least, locality the disease lias existed for This composition rendered them on the subject, and accordingly many years. Recently the ('ana- Iimpervious to water, and was great- wrote to Luther and Melancthon, -dian government has decided to re- ]y preferable to pitch, tar ami tal- requesting an approval of Jiis B&by was sick, we gave her Castoria, tain the services ot Dr. Ar C. low. since it is incombustible. This I course. The question was exceed jyiien When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, •Smith, an expert in leprosy, who division of their vessels seems to ingly delicate, for Landgrave was When she became Miss, she clusg ;o Castoria, since the discovery last year of have been well experienced, for the , not a man tube trifled with, and When she had Children, she g^ve them Castorif three Cas s on Cape Breton Island, practice was universal throughout threatened to appeal to the emper- has been making a thorough inves- the empire. . or, or even to the pope, in case of 1 » We Want Subscribers To THE WEEKLY TELEPHONE-REGISTER!” * ♦ ◄ As an inducement above the genuine worth of the paper as a news medium we offer to the lucky man amongst the new subscribers obtained during the next three months a self-binder. He has his choice between a ■Deering and a McCormick Binder! THE TWO BEST MACHINES PLACED IN THE MARKET! 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