The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-21

they have to endure in these yernnin-
infested novels, which are no protection
from the inclement weather. And all
this is heroic efforts Of q noble woman.
the heroic efforts of a noble woman.
Kate Marsden, after 4 short rest in
which she was not by any means idle,
as she arranged the plans for the diff
ferent buildings and adopted measures
for organization, started on her return
trip in August. OF course the journey
from Jakutsk to Moscow was as diff
fcult to make as the one from Moscow
to Jakutsk, but with ind omitable cour-
age SO characteristic Of the woman she
bore the hardships Of the return trip.
The receptions that she met with at diff
ferent places on the road We're most
gratifying. She conferred with the diff
ferent committees and every where large
donations were made for her work. In
st. Petersburg and Moscow she worked
for four months with zeal and an en-
ergy that were simply inspiring pro-
ducing splendid results She had large
sums Of money given her, the empress
donating 5000 rubles and the heir-ap-
parent 5000. She persuaded the mother
superior Of one of the converts to send
to Jakutsk in May five nuns who We're
willing to nurse the lepers. She in
terested the doctors and organized a
society for the investigation of this
dreadful disease. She met the aristo-
cracy and awakened desire among
them to contribute for the benefit Of
| the sufferers; in short she accomplished
what she had deemed impossible even
in her widest expectations. When she
reached England she received the hearty
approval Of Queen Victoria in letter
| recommending her, efforts and the work
| which she had accomplished and wished
to accomplish. This was the means of
awakening a wider interest in her work
throughout England and numerous con-
tributions came to her from all sides.
! Leprosy I'm the United States.
It is matter of congratulation and
gratitude on the part Of the, American
people to know that their country, bar
ring isolated instances, is free from this
terrible scourge, significantly called by
the Russians "the curse of the devil
In certain parts of Minnesota there are
q few cases of leprOsy. which have
been confined to Norwegian immigrants.
1t has not been ascertained to what
il any degree the disease is contagious.
A contributor to the FOrtnightly Re
view is Of the opinion that the disease
is extremely contagious, and wherever
it makes it's appearance the patient
should be strictly isolated. DR.. Robe,
an authority on the subject, says that
there are but three cases of leprOsy in
Maryland. Two of these were curious
~ related. A man named Brown, in
Baltimore, was leper, his next-door
neighbor, a woman of large family,
whose husband was in apparent good
health developed into a case Of unmis-
takably leprosy and became a victim
of the dread disease. At one time
1eDerS We're not unfreQuent in Louis
lana, but they have almost entirely dis
appeared. Some years ago Mrs Our
blanc, whose father came from the
southern part Of France, developed lep-
l rosy. She died, leaving four sons and
two daughters, the first, second and
fourth sons and a daughter become
lepers. They had all lived with their
mother. A nephew who lived in the
neighborhood and a young woman not
related in any way to the family, but
who had 1ursed the mother became
leprous. The same fate befell young
man who had often slept with the
fourth son. There is as yet no known
remedy for this terrible pest, and it is
4 mystery how contagion will attack
one member Of the family and leave
the others only to appear in the next
generation or sometimes later.