The age-herald., 1901-03-25
GUY F5. SCULL, IN GOLFERS

l is all over. This came through the French l cable, not from government. so there Is some chance to believe It. President Cas- 1 tro said that if he caught Acosta who was the leader of the revolution about Carupano he would shoot him. This Is not the way they generally do. Capital punishment is seldom practiced. here. When Andrade left after that funny bat tie he cleared with a bar1elftl of uaaes- and a gunboat. But he sent the gunboat back with his compliments to Castro, who had kicked him out He thought that Castro might find use for the gunboat. You see he knew his country. We'll the l President said that if he captured Acosta that would be the end. Now the Branch cable said that Acosta has been captured l and shot. by the Presidents orders. So that finishes that fellow. Here's that eonfounded carriage. Come on"
 Road Leading From Caracas.
 Then the houses became less frequent Beyond rose a high mountain range still and silent in the sunlight. The carriage plodded on steadily The road lay ahead, thin streak of white curving slightly back and forth through the brown and sunburned plain which reached toward the east from the outskirts of the city On either side was the barren land where grew here and there small bushes elus- ters of scrub, all powdered with the dust which had blown across from the road. l Now, there were not even the houses of the poor to mark the dwellings of human beings. All was empty and flat, with the | white, Stifing sunlight and the grand range of silent hills beyond. The carriage turned around a sharp corner in the road, and before us stood a low one-story building-all alone in the country of the forsaken plain-the building which had been reared as, an asylum for the lepers of the land.
 As we came nearer to the place we saw a group of five or six men lying under the shade of a tree. These men looked up as the carriage passed. One of them especially lying on his stomach, had the look in his eyes of some wild and lang uid animal who has eaten well, and SO, wishing to sleep, carefully regards the passing. object. The cheeks of the man were fat and puffy, the eyes were half closed.. 'tt htS
 Are these some of them?"
 Yes" answered the doctor, some of them. See that fellow there lying on his stomach? See the leonine cast of coun- tenance that I told you about? He be- longs to one of the early stages.
 Then as we came to the building the others collected in a wondering group near the cutting in the wall-a high peaked arch--which stood in the place of a doorway They came forth from the in- side of the building, stealthily, silently, gathering from the far ends of the broad bricy veranda which fronted the hospital. l They came in twos and threes, or singly, but always with scarcely any noise. Here l came a man dressed all in white. Here came another from out beneath the arch way resting his weight on the shoulder l of a young boy whose face had already l become horribly marked with the disease. Here came a man walking close to the l balustrade of the Veranda who, with an outstretched, fingerless hand leaned with each step he took on the uppermost stones of the balustrade. Behind him fol- l lowed two women, each with an arm about the others waist. Intermingled with the soft footballs of those who came 1 silently could be heard the regular taps l of the ends of crutches of those whose feet had fallen from them. Thus they gathered in front of the opening of the arch. r
 The man who leaned on the balustrade stood head and shoulders above the rest. l The face of this man was unlovely, and yet when he laughed at something the interpreter said that laugh was like a human beings. In the background stood the two women. One of these was well on in years Her hair had receded far | back from the forehead and there were 1 curls there, like an old maid who Is still l careful of her appearance. On her hand she wore a ring, that she might look the more beautiful. But her face was like the face of the man.
 Her companion was tall and dark-eyed and fair to sec Her skin was clear and unblemished. Her figure was neatly cut and she seemed to have taken care with her dress. Even the knot of her black velvet belt was tied to lie fiat and even. She carried herself with the proud bear ing of an ideal queen.
 "The disease attacks the extrenrities first" explained the doctor as we passed by these two standing in the shade of the veranda. ''She Is beautiful now, but later on 1t will come to her face"
 What the doctor knew the girl also un- derstood-the disease would later come to her face. She stood there holding her self erect, as If proud of what she sti | possessed and wonderous fair to see, with her arm laid resting about the waist l of the other woman-this other woman, who was always present as a living ex ample of what she herself would soon become. -N-
 Interior ct the Hospital.
 Entering through the arch, we came to the open place in the center of the build | ing where there were many plants-some bearing colored fowers-and a fountain of water falling into an earthenware ba- sin. On the edge of this basin sat a girl child and because she was only a child she pushed a stick of wood back and forth through the water of the basin in playing 1t represented some ship. She wore a white dress, and blue stockings, and black shoes. Her hair was bare to the sunlight A green paroquet lay against her breast, and as the girl showed the stick first on way and then the other, the bird pecked constantly at the ruffe 1 of lace about her neck
 And this one?" was asked.
 "She also" answered the doctor. l In following the guide we passed along