The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-10-09 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SISTER ROSE GERTRUDE.  The Pall Mall Gazette has received the following letter from Sister Rorie Gertrude. It left lionolala on September 9th : —l' The Bleugield has just oome in with the presents for the lepers at Molokai. I have not them yet, as the sailer is not yet unloaded. I have been so glad of all the help I received from England, as many of the people here at KAMA would have.no clothes if I had ,not given them, and things are so dear in tint country. Besides, I have been able to buy many things for our numerous invalids when they could not eat the regulation food, and we have six men from Molokai; they are prisoners, as they rebelled against their Luna, who, they said, treated them unjustly and carried a revolver in his pocket, and they knocked him down and beat him. They came down here in rags, and without any money, so I have had to clothe them too. I send you an extract from a newspaper, about the spirit of some of the foreigners with regard to the lepers. Poor itawititaus, soon there will be no more ; the ropulatiou is ever decreasing, and the number of lepers ever increasing, in spite of the laws of segregation. Now I must say good-bye. I have so much to do." A gentleman on a visit to Sister Gertrude writes that she gives the following explanation for her resignation which was pending :—" I have been very badly treated by Di. Kimball, the presideut of the Board of Health. 'The patients here are in charge of Dr. Lutz ; but one of the inmates, who is a leper, has been appointed manager. He has interfered with my work in many ways since I .oatne here. I have said nothing heretofore, but matters have now come so that a:change m ,st be made. [don't want to go away, but if I do have to go I want everyone to know the reason. The manager not o:.ly interferes with my treatment of the patients, but is very harsh. I can get no satisfaction from the board. There is no doubt that all the patients are improving under Dr. Lutz's treatment, and two remora who were undoubtedly lepers have heel discharged cured." " When we went into the yard," The letter goes on, "the scene was beyond. description. -In the centre of the room stood the poor unfortunate,, showing plainly the marks of the destroyer. We sat at the other end of the room and.listened to the earnest uttei mime of a German patient as he told of the sister and her work. 'Eh, my friends,' said the leper witness, only God knows what Sister Rose has been to us, or how we should miss her.' and he 'turned away sobbing." The opinion of the writer of the letter is shown in his concluding paragraph : " The real cause of the trouble of whiali Rose Gertrude complains so bitterly is the foot that the missionaries are opposed to her, as the hospital over which she presides is entirely independent of I their work."  The Cardiff Town Council, on Tuesday, decided to ask the Marquis of Bute to accept the mayoralty of the borough for next year. At Aberdare, a tramp has attempted to murder a boy named Jones, eleven years of age, whilst the latter was attending to cattle in a field. The boy is not expected to recover. An address to Lord Tollemache, congratulating him on the jubilee of his accession to the Suffolk estates, and signed by all the leading clergy in that part of the county, was presented to him privately at lielmingham, on Tuesday. .I.3Erran be a boy: "Doctor, why la It that people are generally so inuoh more pleased with boy babies than .th girls?" "Nothiug suppler, madam. A boy baby never comes a miss. Eniazio 1 see you have a broad baud of crape vu your Lat. For whom du you wear it I.'" Air. bhobby Ueuteel On accouut of the moututui condition of the bat iteell."  Zusiness Announcements.  JACKSON & SON,  GENERAL DRAPERS, BRAMPTON,  RRESPECTFULLY call attention to their New Goods for the Autumn and Winter Seasons. Extensive purchases have been made, and a choice Selection of Goods will be found in each department. The Lots quoted below are all new, all specially good value:— FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR New Tweeds, Overcoatings, and Winter Trouserings in best makes. Suits made to measure at moderate charges. New Wool Shirtings, New Shirts and Pants, New Hosiery and Umbrellas, New Gloves and Ties, Braces, &c.