Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-01-07

IL to the meteorological test. A anaas
without any visible symptoms may be
full Of the lepr0sy bacilli"
Then You or ], for all we know" I
suggested, s'may be full of 1t now"
Kersdale shrugged his shoulders
and laughed.
who can say? II takes seven years
for II TO incubate. II you have any
doubts go and see Doctor Hervey.
Hell Just snip ont a piece OF your
skin and LET you know in jfffy."
Later on he introduced me To Doctor
Hsrvey, who loaded me down with
board OF health reports and pamphlets
on the subject. and took me out to
Kalihi, the Honolulu receiving station,
where suspects were examined and
confirmed lepers were held for de-
portation 70 Molokai These deporta-
tons occurred about once a month,
when. the last good-bys said, the
lepers we're marched On board the lit
tie steamer. the Noeau, and carried
down to the settlement.
One afternoon, writing letters at the
club, Jack Kersdale dropped In on me.
Just the man want to see" was
his greeting. "ril show you the saddest
aspect OF the whole situation--the
lepers wailing as they depart for
Molokai. The Noeau win be taking
them on board In few minutes. But
let me warn You not to let your feel
ings be narrowed. Real as their grief
Is. they'd wall whole sight harder a
year hence II the board OF health tried
to take them from Molokai. We've
Just time for q whisky and soda. I've
! a carriage outside. Ii won't take up
i've minutes to get down to the wharf !"
To the wharf we drove. Some forty
sad wretches, amid their mats, blank.
cts and luggage of various sorts, were
squatting on the stringer piece. The
Noeau had just arrived, and was max
Ing fast to lighter that lay between
her and the wharf A MIR. Mcyeigh,
the superintendent of the settlement,
was overseeing the emharkation, and
70 him was introduced, also to Doc.
tor Georges. one or the board OF health
physicians whom had already met at
Kalihi, The lepers were woebegone
lot. But here and there noticed fair
ly good-looking persons, with no APP
parent signs of the fell disease upon
them. One, I noticed. little white
girl, not more than twelve, with blue
eyes and golden hair. One cheek,
however. showed the sign. On my re-
marking upon the sadness of her alien
situation among the brown-skinned
afflicted ones, Doctor Georges replied:
"oh, don't know. It's happy day
in her life. She comes from Kauai.
Her father IL a brute. And now that
she has developed the disease, she Is
going to join her mother at the settle
ment. Her mother was sent down
there three years ago~~a very bad
case"
You can't always tell from appear
ances," Mr., Mcveigh explained That
man there. that big chap, who looks
the pink of condition with nothing the
matter with him, happen to know,
has mark on his foot and another on
his shoulder blade. Then there are
others-there, see that girls hand, the
one who Ia smoking the cigarette.
See her twisted fingers. That's the
anesthetic form. 1t attacks the
nerves. You could cut her fingers off
with q duh knife, or rub them on on q
nutmeg CRATER and she would not ex.
perience the slightest sensation"
"Yes, but that flne-iooking woman,
there" persisted; surely. there
can't DO anything the matter with her.
She IL too glorious and gorgeous al
together"
"A sad case" Mr.. Mcyeigh an
swerec over his shoulder, already