Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 16, 1913, Page 2

‘PAGE TWO L.W. YARNfll successor to W. K. MeRae. Draying and Hauling of All Kings Prompt and Reasonable Bervice ' Guaranteed. Phone 67 Green Lakeland, Fla .The Protessions- DR. SAMUEL 7. SMITE SPRCIALLI?. Xye, Kar, Noso aad Threa: Glasses Beien' Presoriie Phsne: Offics, 141; Residenes, ' Bryant Bldg,, Lakeland, Fls BR. W. R, GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGSOR Rooms § and 4 Kedtueky diey lakeland, Flerida. I S —————————— B A L RRYAN, DENTINT. Gkipper Bullding, Over Pestobg, Paone 880, Residence Phons 300 Bet. LAKBLAND, FLA. DR. C. C. WILSOR— PHYSICIAN AND BURGEOM Special Attention Gven to Disease of Women and Childrea. OSe Deen-Bryant Bldg., Suite 0. Phone 367. KELAEY BLANTOR LAWYED 2. 0. Blig. Phone 819, Iakeiaad, N BR. GARAE 3. WEEELRY OFY20PATH PHYSICIAW Reoms 6, ¢ anéd 7, Bryant Busi'y Lakelazd, ¥ Oftce Phone 278 Blue. House Phong 278 Blask B o e e e £ e L SR AT SRR €. K & H. D. MNERDRNEALL Civil Engineers, Rooms 313-315 Drane BiGs LAKELAND, FLA, Phosphate land examinatiem, ®= veys, examination, reporta, Bluepriating, A 1. MACDONOUEGR oo § Deen & Bryant By Architest ‘Bewent [deas in Bungalow Degignin T Lakeland, Fioride. - - BONFOEY, ELLIOTY & MENDENHALL Associated Architeota Room 313 Drane Bulldiag Lakeland, Fla, D 0. ROGIRS, Rasm Y, Bryant Bulhitng Phong 880, Lakeland, Fiorida. R. D, HUFFAKRD, ~Attorasy-at-Law= Reer ' Stuart Bldg. Bastew, B« 3 W. 0. BAVID DINTISY Driabllshed in July, 1900 Roewn 14 and 16 Kentucky Dutiée Fhonee: Offce 180; Residomer & TTOEIR & TUCKKR —lawyers— Raymende Blag daksise &, P W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER {Ofce Uypstatrs Bas of Courd Wens BARTOW. FLOR'BA Examination of Titleg and Bss Estate Law a Spestalty, JEREMIAR B. SMITH NOTARY PUBLIC. foans, Investments {a Rea! Bets: Have some interesting snaps » » and suburban property, farmb o Better see me at once. Wil tywe sell for cash ‘'or on easy terms Room 14, Futch & Gentry Ra: Lakeland, Fla T T T — A G 400NN RO ENEL OO . LOUIS A. FORT “THE ARCHITECT” =—. Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Fla. O ¢ FEEEEIELEEFE b EEIIEE ) Some Loss. *Did you lose much in that bamk @flure, Jim?" asked Hawkins. *1 should say I did,” sald Slabsides, *1 $ad an overdraft of a hundred and sixty dollars In that bank, and gee! pow 1 had to hustle to make good] = Barper’s Weevlv Question of Economy, He—"We must economize. Suppose @arliug, that you try your hand a: paking your own clothes?” She— @ph, George, dear, I could never do @at Suppose I begin by trying & ke yours?™ RS ey v - .| gome of the faéts A T IS a elear night on Molokai, The tull tropical moon sheds a serene light over a landscape dotted with little white cottages, from whose windows come & gleam of mellow radiance. A mild breeze from the salty stretches of the open sea blows fnland, gently rustling the leaves of the cocoa palms and cottonwoods and fanning the cheeks of the people with & welcome coolness. The silvery radl- ance of the moonlight accentuates the silence till the hum of hushed voices in quiet conversation is quite audible to him who listens. There is a great peace—a great quiet in the at- mosphere, something different—hard to explain, but beautiful. Its presence fills the heart with wonder that the world 18 so good, so kind a place to live in, and instills into the soul un- altering faith that much better, much greater things must surely be in store for us out there beyond after this great life has been left behind. In a quiet veranda corner overlook- ing the silver ripples of the sea are a dozen men and women, lounging in comfortable wicker chairs, speaking at {ntervals, but mostly silent in attention ! to the voices of the night, One of the party I8 a younger man, He joined his friends as late as two years previous, and he knows much more of that great world out there beyond the waves than they. The hillsides have become a check- ' erboard of silver and jet and the roofs of the cottages are plated with won- cerful silver. There is quiet laughter from the party on the veranda and from somewhere out under the trees come the low notes of a woman's voice, which ceases, calling forth a deeper echo. Lovers. A sudden veering of the wind bears up afresh the ceaseless wash of the waves upon their countless rocks and the sound of eternal roaring as they fruitlessly exhaust their force upon the unflinching faces of the cliff. The wind settles. The moon moves on. From afar off are heard the voices of Caruso and Tettrazini as they join with others in the great sextet from “Lucia” played on a phonograph. One by one the lights go out, the parties break up and all is quiet. Molokal is sleeping—sleeping the sleep of the Just, the pure in heart, the weary of body—and you are alone with the moonlight, the breeze and the restless waves. Life on the Island. Peace and quiet and happiness, beau. ty, cleanliness and contentment, work, play and study—there is probably not one person in a thousand who asso- clates these with Molokai, island of lepers. horror and loneliness and heartbreak, you ask, where people are ill—loath- somely ill—and cut off forever from friends and home ties? Well, that can only be answered by one who has lived | among these outcasts, studied their ways and discovered their point of view. Not long ago Albert J. Arroll, an American passed two weeks—14 | happy days he states—as the guest of | the superintendent of the island, and which ‘most im- pressed Mr. Arroll are retold in this article. In the first place he discovered that Molokai is a beautiful prison, that {s, the part of the island inhabited by the lepers—a plain, well watered and yielding nourishment for every con- ceivable form of plant life. The coast, as is well known, is stormy and rock- bound and looking inland from the set- tlement which is situated upon a ver- dant peninsula the island is seen to rise higher as the eye recedes, until the vision is term'nated by an impas- sable wall of mountains which tower thousands of feet above the sea. No| man has ever scaled these peaks, no one has ever crossed them, Of the 1,000 =ouls who inhabit the {sland 500 have no external mark by which it could be suspected that they are other than perfectly heallhy. Four hundred have some mark—a spot, a boil, a ulcer, which is carefully dressed each day, or other ninor indi- cation of the disease. Fifty are c¢x- treme cases, people in the last stages of leprosy, but they are confined in a hospital in a secluded nook, where they are never seen by any one save | their nurses and the priests. They have attendants, physicians, Japanese nurses, books, music and everything that will help to cheer along the drag- zing days until death may come, a welcome visitor, to release their suf- ‘ering epirits trom a useless and mu- tlated body. Fifty more are superin- &EPERS ESCAPIIG BY A HAIR By MAURICE SMILEY. It was no evidence of any special nhrewdness on my part that I knew what Wilson was watching the train for. The papers were full of the details of Judson's last exploit. The trick he haq turned on this particular occasion was the lifting of a tray of diamonds from the importing firm of Couvier Freres. The police had followed Judson pretty sharply and I knew that Wil- 'son must have got some tip to the *eflect that Judson was going to take \n train for a cooler habitat—most Terer Banp Q- | i tendents, nurses, physicians, priests and directors, all in perfect health—all devoted to the work of making Molo kal a place of love. Children of Lepers. If a man is sent to Molokal, no mat- ter what his station in life may have been, he is given one acre of good ground, farm implements, eclothing, food, a two-room cottage picturesquely buflt and whitewashed, a cow nd sometimes a horse. It he chooses to stay on the farm he gets all he raises, and receives all he needs from the government stores. All of them have plenty of meat, rice, imported foodstuffs and sufficient | clothing. They spade the ground by hand and cultivate by hand, for the reason that it takes up more time. Time is the least valuable thing in the world at Molokal. The only difficulty is how to find some way to waste it faster so that it may not hang heavily | upon the heads of the lepers, giving them opportunity to think of thelr‘ oom. | Perhaps the most interesting organ- ization in the island is the Amateur Dramatic society which puts before its [lntelllgent audiences plays by Shake | speare, Sudermann, Clyde Fitch, Ibsen ! and Shaw. Mr. Arroll says that these | plays are presented with skill and an | | artistic interpretation which are really | wonderful. Few persons realize the fact that a | child born of leprous purents bears ab- | ‘solutely no hereditary taint. Because of this the lepers are allowed to marry | probably the 9:40 for the west. Now, Wilson and I knew each other 'by sight. We had had a protessional "rub or two on former occasions, and I | knew with what I had to deal. It just happened that I saw him get | ' a telegram at the station oflice and that gave me two ideas which I pro;1 { ceeded to put into effect. One was to | Intercept the messenger boy attached to the office, and for a quid pro quo' i induce him to hand to Wilson this mes- sage, scribbled on a telegraph blank: “Mr, Wilson: I forgot in my hurry to copy the message just delivered to you. Kindly return it to me for a moment and I will hand it to you at any time.—Mary. Emerson, Operator.” Five minutes later the boy handed me the message Wilson had received. It read: “Anderson says Judson will take the 9:40 train for Chicago. Will wear a long white beard.—Foley.” Foley was the chief. His dispatch throw new Iight on the Judson tip. So Andérson had turned against Judson. It happened that I was going to take the 9:40 train myself, and I determin- ed to keep a sharp outlook for any- body with a long white beard. I was smooth shaven myself. But the second idea. It was ridicu- lously easy to write a message my- eelf, and my convenient messenger triend for another quid pro quo nanded it to Wilson. My message ran iike this: “Made a mistake. Judson will leave on the 9:15 for Montreal.—Foley.” It was already 9:05 and Wilson had barely time to catch the 9:15 train, for he swallowed the spoon, hook and bait. With Wilson safely side-tracked, I boarded my train. “Message for Henry Wilson. Is Mr. Wilson in this car?” “Ah, yes, I guess that’s for me,” I remarked, casually, reaching out my hand for it as the conductor stopped at my berth. Of course it was from Foley. It read: “Anderson makes complete confes- sion. it they wish, and if a child is born to | Says story of Judson being dis- them It 1s taken immediately upon its | Buised was a blind. He wlill, so far arrival in the world, placed in the care ‘“ Anderson knows, be smooth shaven, of Japanese nurses and brought up! | a8 he does not suspect he will be fol- without ever coming into contact with | lowed, but thinks he has sidetracked lépers. The child so born is never per |U8. Willlams is at Buffalo, and will mitted to see or to know its parents, ) meet the train at Lee's Landing.— but after remaining in the settlement until it has attained the age of five or more years it is carefully examined and then sent to live with its relatives ! on the mainland. Strange and impos- sible as it may seem, for the finest scl- | Foley.” The plot was thickening. “How far are we from Lee's Land- ing, porter?” I inquired. “Next stop, sir.” I started on another exhaustive in- How can there be aught but | entists have wondered at it and failed | spection of the car, but there was no- to find a reason, never has there a case | body there whom I thought Williams been known where such a child has | would be likely to spot as Judson, developed any trace of leprosy. Some | But there was a gentleman with a of the finest men in the various walks long brown beard, sitting all alone in of life in Hawail and in other parts of one end of the car. A white beard the world are children one or both of might be dyed overnight. whose parents had leprosy at the time ! “Would you mind stepping into my of their birth, Since the discovery that leprosy is sald in a weak voice as I bent over no more contagious than blood pmson- the brown-whiskered gentlement. ing, it has not been so hard a task to! “Certainly, sir,” he replied, rising get doctors, nurses, priests, superin. and accompanying me to my drawing tendents and storekeepers to go to the room. Once the docr was locked and | settlement, especially since they are at ' there was something doing in two min. | liberty to return to their own people | utes. at any time upon submitting to a rigid | “That's a very fitd bunch of whisk- ! physical examination. ers you have there, my friend,” I said Lepers—outeasts. Yes, the termsare fiercely, “and I shall have to trouble | synonymous in the sense that these al- you for them! Don't make any fuss flicted people may not ever return to npow and you won't get hurt!” what is called civilization, that they | The sheer absurdity of my words are forever separated from their made him blink bewilderedly and be- ' homes and friends—but outcasts fore he got through blinking I had him lnevor In the sense that they are neg- tied hand and foot and two minutes ll@c‘(’d in the tiniest detail of their later I had neatly snipped off his lives, or that they sufer for lack of beautiful brown beard. sympathy or tender commsslon [ I had become suddenly alive to the fact that a pair of whiskers was TELLS OF THE NEW WOMAN eomething that I needed in my busi. ness. I usually went provided with | Suffrage Leader Asserts Women Will 'spirit gum and other toilet accessories Have Larger Interests Than Those of Past Had. | Miss Inez Milholland, the suffrage ! leader, sald at a tea at the Colony | elud in New York: “The new woman—the woman who is going to vote—has larger interes's | than the woman of the past. The new { woman's broad future contains all pos- | sibilities. The future of the woman nf | the past, on the other hand, contained but one possibility—matrimony. “It's no longer true,” Miss Milholland end;d with a laugh, “but, as the saying goes: | “‘Man proposes and woman ac- cepts.’” 1 Ring in the New. | “The ladies of the Church of Our' Home have started a new sort of en. tertainment—no admission — nothing asked—and the people prefer it to the old style” “Yes; I heard about it. An e‘rort' | pickpocket mingles with the guests— far preferable.”—Puck, Their Advantage, “Opera singers are not affected dy ! the high cost of living.” “Why aren't they?” “Because they can get anything for s song.” | but I had neglected to grow a bunch |of side whiskers or provided myselt with a set of false ones. “Lee's Landing!” shouted the brake- man, as [ stepped out of the drawing Toom to run plump into Williams, | whom I spotted instantly, “He's in the drawing room there!" I whispered hurriedly in Williams' | ear. “Yes. This is Wilson! I am detail- ed on another lay; that's why you ! were wired to meet me. Grew these | over night. Good luck.” | Then half holding my whiskers with | my hand to keep them from (alllng' ioff, I pulled my hat down over my eyes and made my getaway, It wasn't a very cloce shave for the parson, but it was f me. all on ae- count of that traitor derson. 1 just escaped by a hair—1i.- is, by a con- veniently large numbcr of hairs, judi- | clously used. 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