The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-31
Father Dan1fen's Imifator.e

mates with no blazon of trumpets.
Father Damien's IInifator
Father Damien has foand an imitator
in Paris in the person of Pere Sauton a
Benedictine of the Monastry or Liguge,
who has been commissioned by the
French Government TO study leprosy.
The monk who is also a medical doctor,
much appreciated for his skill and
science by the Paris faculty. will first
visit leprous districts in Norway, Lap
land, Finland, Turkey, Asia Minor,
Greece and Egypt. Returning to France
at the end OF year, Pere Sauton will
communicate the results of his observa-
tons to NJ. Pasteur, and under the guild
ance of the latter will pursue his re-
searches in order to find, if possible, a
cure for the scourge, which Is now the
subject of his investigations. Then in
company with his brother, the Able
Sauton, who is vicar of Nogent-le- Rotrou,
the Benedictine Will set out for Molokai,
in the Hawaiian Islands the scene of
Father Damien's labors.
In this place Pere Sauton and other
missionaries will try to alternate the
virus of leprosy, il not to stamp out the
terrible malady altogether. Pere Sauton
has already been among lepe in pro-
dlu CNCh III aiA ilC
says that there are at present nuns dying
in their converts after having contracted
the leprosy while attending the sick
abroad. There We're lepers in the st.
Louis Hospital, and the bacillus OF the
malady has been discovered in the
Pyrenees and Brittany. None OF the
home cases are, however, so virulent as
those in the Hawaiian Islands, which he
intends to treat according to the latest
discoveries Of medical science.
American News.
Politics are lively in the east on
account of the forthcoming session of
Congress. Crisp will undoubtedly be
chosen speaker of the house, and it is
said that he will not put Bland on the
ways and means or coinage commit
tees on account of his pro silver pro-
clivities.
General Dankovsky the newly APP.
pointed governor of Siberia has been
travelling in this country incognitO.
The anarchists have recently threat
ened him with determination.
The supervisors of Riverside county
have passed a prohibition ordinance.
The new ordinance will take effect
August 1st. The vote on the PROPOSE
ton stood 4 to l. This ordinance pro-
vides that hotels having twenty or
more rooms can supply guests with
wines and liquors at meals only.
Heavy penalties in the shape of fines
and Imprisonment are provided for all
violations.
The attendance at the worlds fair
averages about 10000 daily and is in
creasing. All of the features, includ-
ing the Columbus caravels and the
Viking boat, have arrived and are in
place.
The comet is rapidly receding from
the sun and will soon be thing of
the past.
Denver was visited by a financial
panic on July 18th and all but five
banks closed their doors. The run is
over and the closed banks are arrang-
ing to resume. The general business
situation is one of distrust but even
where banks have been compelled to
close it has been found that they are
only compelled to do so on account of
the opportunities of depoSitors.
Russell Sage has been sued in New
York for 100000 for seduction, alleg-
ed to have occurred in 1868. The suit
is generally considered an attempt at
blackmail
The poaching sealers Alexander and
st. Paul have been seized for sealing
in the Behring sea.
DR.. Henry Meyer is in Jail in New
York for poisoning people to get their
life insurance policies.
George Frederick Parsons, the
writer, died at New York on the 10Th
inst. He was one of the best known
literary men in the country, and for
wears edited the New York Tribune.
s. ]. Miller, colored, was lynched at
BardwelI, KY, recently for numbering
two young girls.
Altgeld, governor of Illinois, who
liberated Schwab, Fielden and Neebe,
the anarchists, is preparing PAIN
phlet to try to justify his conduct.
The fruit Gamers all over the state