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The Red Cloud chief., 1897-01-08

a stronger friend held the hymn book
for the little one so that she could sing
with the others. There were several
little boys, b~right-eyed and evidently
from good Hawaiian families. who had
lost fingers and other members. They
seemed more cheerful than any Of the
others-probably because they did not
realize that they were never again to
see home and parents and friends.
when all we're seated crutches and
tall canes stuck up here and Their all
over the chapel. A few persons re-
clined on their benches because Of in
ability to sit up. I gave a half-hour
talk on the blessings Of a resigned
Christian life and the Joy that awaits
Christians in the other world. think
two-thirds Of my audience knew En-.
glish sufficiently well to follow me.
Lepers Pray for q Cure.
when I had finished a tall Scotch
man, evidently a former sailor, Of
about fifty years Of age, arose and Of
fered prayer. When he had finished q
native Of Honolulu, who. / vas told,
had been a rich rice grower in the
islands, spoke for about five minutes.
He said he wanted to tell the Ameri-
can mar how glad the lepers Of Molo-
kai were to have a person from the
outside world come to see them, and
that the event would never be forgot
ten by any one in the colony as long
as life remained. He broke into tears
and said he wished I would tell the
white people what a horrible thing
leprosy vas and to urge the white doc
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ucroism Of Women.

place OF lint. Immense quantities of It
are used every day in the large hos
pitais' Tor a gauze dressing is never
used twice. Asbestos dressings can be
used over and over again, for no germs
can stand the heating that asbestos
can go through, and each time II be-
comes as good as new and absolutely
germ-proof. II will be chiefly used for
military surgery. The great problem
Tor army surgeons Is how to be perfect
~ ahtiseptic or aseptlc, which means
simply absolutely clean in n surgical
sense, with the limited means at their
service. A handful of asbestos can he
sterilized instantly in a soldiers camp
1re. Asbestos is made from a mineral
substance and consists of fine crystal
line elastic fbers. 1t Is quite cheap. A
single fiber OF asbestos fuses to a white
enamel, but in the match it is capable
OF resisting ordinary fame. The an
clients used 1t to wrap around bodies TO
preserve the ashes of the dead when on
the funeral pile. A workman in an En-
glish foundry was accused of witch
craft in the early part OF the century
for having a pair Of stockings which no
cleansed In a furnace instead Of a
laundry.
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not have been over t~hirty-fve years
of age. who were without fingers but
had preserved their fresh complexion.
About half a dozen Frenchmen and
three Germans were In the thrOng.
They had all been sailors and had con-
tracted leprosy in the Hawaiian is
lands. All the rest were natives of the
islands. Every one in the strange as
semblage bore marks of leprosy.
Pathetic Boy and Girl Lepers.
"The little girls and boys who came
to hear me preach were the most pa
thetic OF all. A few were attractive In
spite OF their sad. pinched and fearful
faces. A few children we're as young
as ten years, and about twenty were
between fourteen and eighteen years.
One little girl, the child of parents
from San Francisco, who had been
born in Honolulu, was carried to a
bench. She had lost both her feet
and several fingers. She had been in
the colony for four years, and the nuns
said she went to sleep every night
weeping and longing for her father and
mother. Another Hawaiian girl of
fourteen had lost one hand and an ear.
Her remaining hand was SO weak that
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The Rev. DR.. Philip Anderson, who
has returned to his home In Pomona
Valley, in southern California. after
an absence of W years among the
Islands In the southern Pacific archi-
pelago, last summer preached to prob
ably the most remarkable congregation
IN the world. The doctor Is the mis-
sionary OF the Pacific Ocean Evangeli-
cal Mission union, and his duties caused
him to spend much time in the Hawaii
an Islands. He preached in Honolulu
for several weeks, and there attracted
the attention of President Dole, OF the
Hawaiian republic.
The doctor desired to visit Molokai,
the famous island to which lepers are
exiled by the national board Of health
Of the Hawaiian republic. No one ex-
cept the officers of the national board
10 permitted TO land at Molokai, and
even the officers are guided by strict
regulations as to where they go and
what they do in the leper colony. Pres
ident Dole gave permission to Rev. DR..
Anderson to go to Molokai for one.
Out hC wan toiStdhtiy W ot uctOihpu-
MED by a physician in the service of
the national board Of health.
A Tragedy Of Love and Self Sacrifice.
A pathetic love tragedy Is being
played in the leper colony OF Molokai.
A beautiful native girl fell in love and
married the man OF her choice. Soon
he developed symptoms OF leprosy.
They were slight, and might have been
concealed, but were not. The young
husband was banished from Honolulu
to Molokai. His beautiful girl bride
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Our Manners Astouish Them.

American and English manners seem
aid n often astounding to we'll bred
people In many parts of the continent
OF Europe. We lift our hats only to
ladies' All over the continent nodding
TO a man without lifting your hat is
treating him as an inferior; in some
parts OF the continent no one thinks Of
entering a shop, a restaurant or a rail
way carriage containing other human
beings without taking off his hat and
wishing then good morning.-New
York Post.
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cross the towering cliffs and fearful
gulches and canyons, no n could get
away from Molokai.
An Az fol Picture.
1.-THE territory occupied by the lepers
contains about 5000 acres. II lies In
a little valley, well watered and pro-
tected by mountains from the winds
Of the great pecan. Oranges, lemons
and bananas grow wild. The chief
product Is rice. The lepers are cared
for at the expense Of Hawaii. There
are nearly 600 lepers in the colony.
A few of them have been there for
twenty-five years, but most Of them
have been transported to Molokai In
the last ten years. The lepers know
there is absolutely no hope for them
to leave the leper colony and that the
joys Of home are forever denied them.
1.-The very air In the colony seems
heavy with leprosy, for there is a pecu-
liar sweetish odor wherever one goes
among the homes in Molokai. As I
vent past the hospital, the odor OF
the seventy or eighty lepers who lay
on cots in the dooryard, or who sat
idly about the broad porch, was dis
tressing. met the Rev. Father Drake,
who voluntarily went to Molokai from
Syracuse, N. Y, to take the place Of
Father Damien, who, himself a vigor-
ous young man. went to live in Molokai
to work among the lepers until death
released him from the inevitable years
OF pain and disease.
Father Drake told me that he had
suffered the first stages Of leprosy, al
though he had avoided the disease q
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tors to discover some cure for the dis.
ease. Between his sobs he said that
II 1t had not been for a hope of hap.
piness In heaven there would be sui.
cides in Molokai every day. He said
they were all living as best they knew
how, hoping for speedy death to re-
move them from misery. AS he pro-
ceeded the congregation began to weep.
and the lamentation of the girls and
young women vas the most affecting
thing | have ver beheld.
THE physician with me said he
never had seen such a heart breaking
scene, and he had witnessed many
among the people who were forcibly
taken to MOlokai. l started a familiar
hymn, and In a few minutes had the
weeping people under partial control,
for all Hawaiians love music dearly.
Then the congregation was dismissed,
and while the lame and halt went on
crutches and canes slowly down the
road to their cheap little homes, my
companion and silently walked to the
dock, where w took the government
boat for Honolulu. I've witnessed some
very touching scenes in my life, bu,
that at Molokai was the most affect.
ing Of all Of them"
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! Pathetic Scenes in the Leper Colony on Mooka Island. {

These nuns go into the little frame
homes Of the lepers, sit by them In
their hours of pain and suffering in
the hospital, and minister to the re-
ligious welfare Of the dying. The little
girls in Molokai, who have been torn
from their homes In Honolulu and 9TH
err Hawaiian towns, almost worship the
nuns, and have found much solace In
the presence of the heroic American
women. who have gone to the colony as
to a living tomb. II there ever we're
heroes and heroines in this world those
Americans at Molokai are heroic.
81 was the first white person, ex-
cept Father Drake, who had preached
In the little chapel at Molokai. When
II became known in the colony that
the strange white man was going to
preach In the chapel, nearly every
leper in the place who could get about
came Immediately on the ringing of
the bell. The physician who accom-
panied me had the windows and doors
Of the little wooden structure opened
wide. SO that there might be fresh air
In the meeting. He also advised me to
handle nothing in the church, and to
touch no n there.
81 never felt SO sad as when these
$50 afflicted men, women and children
entered the chapel. Among them were
several Americans who had lived in
Honolulu and had contracted leprosy
among the natives. They came in limp
Ing on clutches and canes. There
were, too, a few Englishmen who hob
bled down the narrow aisles. There
were two English women, who could
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THE WELSH PRINCIPALIrY.
Why Oid-Time Superstitions, Custom,
and Flavor Are Preserved.

why Oid-lime SuperstitiOns CustOmf
and Flavor Are Preserved.
1t is related that an English lord
once said to his guests: 81 have a
mansion in Wales which | have never
seen but which | am told is very fine.
Every day dinner for twelve is set
there and the carriage drawn up at the
door in case l should arrive This
may illustrate, says a Scotch writer in
Lippincott's, the relation of Wales to
the average Englishman, for although
almost all the Welsh towns are merely
ten hours ride from London, there Is
perhaps nc other country in the world
lying so close to the center of civillza-
ton Of which so little Is known to the
outside world. Book stores nay load
their shelves with volumes on all SUBJ
jects but few books will be found
among them on this quaint. quiet and
perhaps most picturesque of all coun-
tries. The fact is. Wales is not much
visited, is lightly spoken OF and little
re:d about-not having produced a
Walter Scotland perhaps these cir
cumstances have done much to pre-
seDge the place in its typical state and
enabled the people to cling to old-time
superstitions, customs and language
and to present to a visitor a unique
and refreshing flavor wholly its own.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-01-08
CHARACTER AND HYPNorIsM.
An Individuals strength Is Power
Against All Control.

Against All Control.
There would be little indeed In hypno-
tism and the scientific world might
rightly ignore its Importance as a sub
ject of investigation II 1t were proved
to have nothing more in 1t than the
dominance of one will over another or
the power of so-called suggestion" to
control human minds. says Harper's
Bazaar. But as with any other subject
worth investigating, much more is re-
vealed to the student Of hypnotism than
that which he at first sets out to dis
cover. No sooner, for instance, has
he established beyond question proofs
Of the power Of mind over mind and
Of suggestion" in contro! than he Is
forced to recognize how little potency
lies In either when compared to that
great power of resistance to them
which Is generated by an individuals
own strength of character. No hyp-
notism In the world, as a great au-
thority has shown. can make a really
temperate person when under hypnotic
control, simulate or yield to drunken
heso, hoi Gan d truly HnouesI peTSOn %
induced to do that which would, in
waking hours, SAVIOR of immodesty.
The man with true dignity of soul
keeps his dignity intact, and one Of real
kindness of nature shows no glimmer
Of harsh feeling. And thus, as can
readily be seen, one more proof from
an unexpected source has been added
to those already in our possession 60
ing to show the value and power OF
character, Of that which a man in
herently and intrinsically is, rather
than that which he appears to be. It
makes out. too, even a harder case
against Adam, who need never have
yielded to Eve but for a weakness in
himself.
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SCRAPS"

There are said to be over 5000, 900
deities In he Hindoo mythology.
Two million glass eyes are manufac-
tured yearly in Germany and Switzer-
lano.
The largest theatrical building Is the
Grand Opera Of Paris, which covers
three acres.
In proportion to Its size, Britain has
eight times as many miles of railway as
the United States.
An apple contains as much nutriment
as a potato. and In a pleasanter and
O wholesome form.
In some of the farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small
wagons and made to draw them.
After long agitation on the subjeo,.
q monument to Jules Simon, the
French statesman. is oon to be erected.
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They Have Come Into Use ms Surgical
Dressings,

They Have Come Into Use rs Surgical
Dressings,
Asbestos has come into use as n sur
gical dressing. It's s~oftness to the touch
and glistening. silky appearance com
mend 1t as being unirritating to the
skin and clearly, says the Philadelphia
Press. But the chief a for It's use
is it's indestructibility by fire. This
quality makes 1t possible to render as
bestos surgical dressings absolutely
free from germs. No other form Of
lint or cloth can be thus sterilized. An
tiseptic surgery was introduced a little
after the death of President Garfield.
The original idea was to kill all the
germs and microbes In an operation
wound by mean Of strong disinfecting
solutions, such al carbolic acid or BIZ
chloride of mercury. All operations
were carried on under a spray of an
tiseptic solutions until the surgeons
began to poison themselves by too free
use of them. Next the surgeons found
that II they boiled all their instruments
and dressings they could dispense with
the spray and many OF the "antiseptic
precautions" The ingenuity of instru-
ment-makers and surgeons was ex-
hausted In devising new forms OF ster-
ilizers. All hospitals In the city have
q great number OF devices for steriliz-
Ing dressings with superheated steam
under-a high pressure. Instruments
are boiled In various solutions " baked
In ovens. The chief material used ia
purified gauze, which has taken the
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followed. She preferred the place with
Its hideous menace, to Honolulu with
out her husband. Now she attends di-
vine worship In the leper colony, and
Is a pathetic figure among the IN
demned, into whose limping ranks the
dread disease will soon push her, for
none that live at Molokai ever escape.
II is, In fact, an unwritten law of
the Samoans that a bride shall share
the fate Of the husband II he contracts
leprosy-that she shall go with him to
the leper colony and there, without
hope, await the approach Of this hor-
rible. lingering death. The young
bride, with the pathos Of despair on
her countenance. looking sadly but re-
signedly upon the miserable men and
women about her, was noticed by the
Rev. DIR. Anderson standing at the edge
Of the strange congregation to which he
preached.
"The island OF Molokai," said Rev.
DR.. Anderson. in relating his exper-
fences there to a Sunday World CORE
%spondent, "is about ten miles long and
four wide. It's name means land of
p~recipices. There Is but one landing
place on the island. and that near the
colony. SO even II It were possible to
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-01-08
DRINK WATER PLENTIFULLY
For Nervous Diseases It Is Especially
Good.

GOOd.
The general tendency of people is not
to drink water enough. says an ex-
change. Pure water itself cannot be
unwholesome, unless it is taken at too
low a temperature, when food Is eaten.
The reason for this is that digestion
stops until the cold water in the sys-
TEN is brought up to the proper tenn
perature. In the Chautauquan the fol-
lowing advice is given: I'VE have
proof that an insufficient quantity
OF drinking water Is a frequent
source Of disease. George Henry
Fox. NJ. d.. professor of diseases
OF the skin in the New York College OF
Physicians and Surgeons, says in a
recent article on this subject: 1t is
quite certain that few people drink too
much water and l feel sure that many
unpleasant feelings and symptoms Of
actual disease would quickly disappear
II the sufferers appreciated the value Of
this best and cheapest of all remedies
(pure water).' DR.. Charles l.. Dana,
professor of v diseases in the
New York POSTGRADUATE Medical
school, in an article on diet in nervous
diseases. says: Water should be drunk
between meals or before meals and a
moderate amount at meals. At least
three pints OF about six tumblerfuls,
should be taken daily. American neu-
rotics do not drink water enough.
They have half dessicated nerves and
dessication increases nervous irrita.
hilitY,n
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A Restful Trip.

did you get rested?" Fogg asked OF
Henderson on the latter's return from
Europe. Eyes, l did" answered the
traveller. Got into Liverpool Friday
morning, reached London in the aft
errAon; went to Paris next morning;
left for Switzerland the day after that;
stopped there two hours; then started
for Berlin and did 1t up in a fore
noon; back to England the next day
and caught the steamer just in time.
Rested? BY Jove, l feel like a new
man!'-Boston Transcript.
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An Unlucky Find.

Some time ago an Austrian peasant,
who was cleaning an old picture for his
aunt. found $4,000 forms in paper
money in It. He claimed the usual 10
per cent as reward and got it. There
were two aunts and as each claimed
the picture as her own an expensive
lawsuit resulted. Finally the sisters
decided to go halves. but when the
bank notes were examined they were
found null and void, the governments
term for redeeming them having ex-
pired, The peasant refused to return
the 5000 forms which he received in
current money. wherefore his aunts
have now sued him.-Exchange.
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The Name Of Boston,

In the seventh century a monk
named Botolph-which means Bot
holp, or boat-help-founded a church In
Lincolnshire. England, a y the Ave
Maria. When a town grew about the
church 1t was named Botolph's town.
which. after several contractions, sc,.
tied down into Boston. From the old
town Of Boston in England a famous
Puritan divine emigrated to the New
England, and gave the name OF his
birthplace to the metropolis which be.
came his second home.
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SOME ODD DREAMS.
THE WRITER RELATES HIS RE-
MARKABLE EXPERIENCE.
There shouId Re an Interpretation
Physical improvement Kept Pace with
the Strange visions N Their Regu-
larity.

REAMS are not
without ! g n ! f.
canoe, especially to
those who have a
high-set purpose in
life, says the Meta
physical Magazine.
And as this sub
ject is of interest
to many, I will re-
late a series OF
dreams in my own
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Cured by Prayer.

Five minutes Of silent prayer was Of
fereI in church at Mt. Storm, W. Va,
for Miss Alice B. Schaffer, near death
with paralysis. Soon thereafter, Miss
Schaffer arose without assistance aud
10 steadily improving.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-01-08
The Yule LOg,

The yule log in England is a relic
of Druidism; its name Is believed to be
a corruption of the wheel log, a wheel
in Druidical symbolism IMPLYING the
march OF the sun. The lighting of the
yule fire Is reminiscent of the sacred
fires kindled by the Druids at mid win
ter in the round overs which yet re-
main In many parts Of Great Britain.
Ireland, France and Spain.
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The wonderful Growth of Chicago

The population OF Chicago In 1850,
waa 20; 1910. 1883; l845. 12.08S; 1850,
20, 963: 1855, . 0 .227; 1860, 112.172; 1865,
IT'S, 800; 1870, 2sS,977; 1872. S64.377; 1880,
500, 1856; 1884 (estimated), 675. 900; 1885
(estimated). 727.000; 1886 (estimated),
100000; 1887 (~estimated). 9 5000; 1883
Cestimated). 1.000.000; 1896. i.750.00o.
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year or two by extreme care in his
mode OF living and association with the
lepers. He said that the earliest symp-
toms OF leprosy were constant head
aches, slight nausea and later numb
ness OF the fingers and toes, so that
N might hold his fingers or toes to
any unbearably hot substance and
feel no heat. Then the fingers and
toes begin to mortify at the joints, and
later to drop away, Father Drake had
lost but one finger Joint when we saw
him, and he believed he might live ten
years more. He said he was happy
that he could minister to the suffering
and dying at Molokai rs no one else
could, and his only desire to prolong
his own life was to cheer and convert
those about him.
Heroism of Women.
There are four young nuns who
have gone to a living death at Molo-
kai. One is from Syracuse. N. Y, two
are sisters from Newark, n. j., and the
fourth came from Philadelphia. Two
have been attacked by the dread dis
ease. n is probably not yet innocu-
lated with leprosy, while the other had
been mildly attacked when ! was there.
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Was an Angel.

Mons. X-"Before ! married my wife
I thought she was an angel" Mons. z
-"And now?" Mons. X--"And now /
know that she was an angel."-LIllus-
tire de Poche.
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Salt thrown on a low coal fire will
revive II.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-02-13
WESTMINSTER.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Corscr of Putney visited
at George IL. Walkers Wednesday.
Mr.. Fuller, farmer at the Kurn Hattin
Home, fias gone to Lenoxville, Canada for
short visit.
A party of young people from Westminster
West came over to the singing school, Tues
day evening.
Tho recent rain made many ponds which
are now frozen over, making fine skating
which is being highly enjoyed by the young
people.
Rev. f. b. Hyde's subject for next sabbath
"Humanity and its destiny, viewed from the
standpoint of the Divine Fatherhood.
Matt. Is, II.
Mrs. G. ii. Underwood and daughter Mar
garet, Miss Nettie- Rice and Miss Allie Banks
attended the meeting of the Windham County
Pomona grange at Vernon Tuesday.
Female Masonry will be exempliiied by
ladies Of the Eastern Star chapter Of Putney,
at the Town hall, Wednesday evening
February II. Come and learn the secrets o. o.
masonry. Also laughable farce, Souls
above skittles," after which there will be a
social dance. See posters.