Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1889, Page 20

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. MAY 19, 1859.~TWENTY-FOUR PAGE | BerssCREAT EARLY SUMMER SALE, ek. It you want first class Spring and Summer Dry Goods for very little money, you'll find them at Barr’s G. E, S. S THIRD GRAND OPENING. #* §, LACE WRAPS, WHITE SUITS, B and Special Opening of Ladies’ Summer Suits and ‘A Wraps. All the latest novelties, Imported Sateens in the ’R new Empire styles, Empire Tea Gowns, with silk-fringed ?l sleeves and Sashes; exquisite new Lace Mantles, and ‘ 'S R EARLY SUMM SACRIFICE SALE OF * TEA GOWN } L Barr’s Millinery Manager is just returned from a third w ash TESsS Goods' visit this season to the leading markets of the world with the choicest high novelties in Millinery the world pro- 25 picces NEW FAYAL BATISTE, satin striped, with fast colored de- o signs, 82 inches wide, A STARTLING OFFER, At 10c yard. duces. Third Gra‘nd Opening plaids and checks, S D i — At 25¢ yard. Of this scason Monday and Tuesday. Milinery Parlors A large new assortment, latest designs and colors, in SATEENS, very fine, will be handsomely decorated with blooming plants, At 25¢ yard. Youare cordially invited, Have you seen them? Short Wraps with Russian sleeves, elaborate White and Lace Gowns, All are invited to this special display on Monday and Tuesday. 82-INCH FINE ZEPHYR GINGHAMS, in small beautiful for children’s wear, B A R o 8 * Dress Gooils. Calicos. 15) pleces cholce styles bast American Chiallls At 15¢ per yard, . FANCY (IMPORTED) CEYLON MULLS. Spocial this waok Silks. Extraordinary value this week. Silk RICS at price BELOW co. es light weight Gros de Royal price #c, A fow pieces of our Real China 8ilk, 23 inches wide, $1.00 and $1 2 quality, T5c yard, FAD- yard, Binck Silks—In order to reduce our black silk Btock, we offer special values this week, You ©an bity a good pure silk for xtra_quality, 90, All gradesof Black Silks at 20 per cent be- 10w regular vaiue, Parasols. Parasols and nmbrells 1ong and short hanale It will pay you t 20 dozen ladies' cream parasols, plain and with borders, at 1,00 each Children's parasols at 20e, Hc, Hc, 81.9) and upwards. in“Gloria” and all silk rom 3123 to the finest, Black Goods. Just opened, n new line of o ol Grenadifes in new desig e in biack Nuns' Veiling and ( wilh sutm and hem stitched borders handsomest gnods shown in Omaha, stik and silk and 19, See cur nov- A full ine of summer weights in Tamess Brilliantine, Mobair Brilliantine and Sicillan Brilliantine, Complete line of silk warp and atl wool bor- dered Nun Veilings for mouring veils at Barr's mourning department. WHITE GOODS, SPECIAL. Another large invoice just received of those handsome SATIN PLAID MULLS, 30 AND 82 INCHES WIDE, which we will close At 10c yard. Hosiery. Lodies' pxtra fine Cotton Hose, “Raven' black, warranted fast, with protection ribboed top, 40c a pair. Children’s ho: crock Siz 4, 8, and 84, % Barr's “E 4 and 6, will Children’s Ribbed Cotton Hose, double knees sress” fast black, seal and navy, not fade. Sizes 6 8and 85, 8c; 9 and H4, 3c. These bargains in hose we guarantee absolute- tafnlessi Notions. Roman Fearl Buttons, card of 2 dozen, new shades, special price 10: card, Full Ball Pearl Buttons, sl shanks, card of 3 dozen worth ¢ card, special prico Kerns' Hose Supporters, children and ladics’ size, worth from 40c to special price 25¢ pair, Mourning Mixed Pins, (30 in box) worth 1ic box, special price te box. G-inch Pocketbooks, funcy clasp, “Aal price Side combs in amver, black and shell, silver and oxydized trimmings, worth $1 pair, ‘special all ie pair. worth 6%, Iy fast, aud can bo depended on Whien Wo suy 50, | price ife pair. B — Fancy Notions. ,.Catioura, White rose Glycerine, Pears Scented, These soaps are the bost m ade; our price, 15 cake. Tinported Whit tile soap (3 1b bars), ow ,llrlm'. 25c bar, Balsam Fir Soap and Pillow, worth 25, our price 10c, Best Bay Rum, pint size, worth % bottle, our price Ic. Lubin's perfumes in all odors, worth tle, our price 50 bottl Best Standard Florida Water, pint size, worth > bottle, for 2le bottle L Dbot- Fra nch Challts, W pi \ ade, at bl per st designs and by yard. 40 pieces 404nch all wool Fronch Albatr oss cloth at per_yard. , croim, whit tan navy, sage, sky blue, pink, lavender, Nil wreon, malogony and drab e e i e e e BARR'S FASHION CHAT. Fashion has turned he or back sq French Cheviots and Porcales, 1ic yard, worth Remnants sateons, 2 to 12 yards in plece, 100 yard, worth Best Cotton Challfs, 5e yard, worth je. Ribbons. . Sash 100 fuch Black Moire fneh Black Gros Grain, satin edge, #i. uality Sinch Moive, satin edge, in colors, at 31 atin od ). 12, e por yurd \in, satin odgs, in all shados, ¢ por yard Art Needlework. Ladies wishing to find bargains in art goods call at onco and xee onr low prices on_the fol lowing articles: %) handsome Sk Chale Phi- Tows worth $1.5), at 4) dozen Stampod Tidies, 5e each, ) dozen Stamped Splashers, 10c each, Lessons in all art work given. Stamping doneto order, No, & e on the severa English lightfully becoming French styles, with all their flounces and flummeries. Talk about the severe rorm of dress being sensiblo- ol it's_sen enough, no doubt, but hiow many women caro for being sensible at the cost of goo 0ok, or liow many men give & lought to @ sensible woman when there's a protty one around? 1 can't all be pretty, Don't you all Know some rown and nat, and adopted the de- Gloves. 40dozen Black Silk Mitts at 35 per palr. B0 dozen Black Silk Gloves at Thc per patr, 75 dozen first quahty Carola dressed S-putton § Monday we offer 100 19-4 extra heay 3 R GRRQUATAITe, kb SRV par pate. 1 {sethion Pattern Bed Spreads at 31 eacts, O We carry only the best makes of Kid Gloves. 1100 124 Mars s Wi o re Qloves fitted to the hand. Ss CRbirs e DU LG FDECBABEAS (__We havi 172 inch Drapory net e Gents’ Furnishings. Linens. 1t always pays to make your selaction as Barr's Gents' Furnishing dcpartment, as_ tho stock is always frosh, large and varied; and the s the lowest, 15 weok we Show many s i Scotch Flannel shirts and a splon- assortmont of gents’ nockwear with all the differeut grades and toxtures o underwoar, ts variety of gents socks, Note the 43-inch yard, worth $1.2 Chantilly Lace Flouncing, Guip Lace Flouncing at o you cun bo charming, You know beauty 13 felt as well as seen. . = fascinating” plain or even homely girl Whose gre at and irresistuble enarm {3 a grace of manuer, exprossion ana movement? A beaity that's felt rather than sc This girl Is hever bolster ‘Lhere's the whirlwind girl, always in a rush, talks and lau Joudly, and keeps a fellow in a constant wonder as to what she's going to do next. And thel the giggling, gushing girl, who gigles at everything and nothing. And then by way of blessc contrast coles the qulet, even-mannered girl, whose sweet, dlgnified reposc of manner giv man a sense of rest and wins a place in hix regard for which tho boisterous girl might sigh for ebody, I belicve Ruskin, says, “Keep absolutely caln of temper, girls. under all 2 inch, at 81,50, well Not and Fish Nets in rd, Llogaut line of Drap dots an Aigures, from $1.60 to E2.50 por Just received 12 new patterns in atin Tatle Damask and place them following: Corsets. At summer prices 's Ventilating Summer at $1.00. 2 Fronch Woven Corsets,.extra length, usual price $1.50, at §1.00. Freuch Corset, “a la Reine," $2.25 for 31.50. Corsats, ion sale Monday moruing at $1.50, Don t | fail to see tnem as thevalue is extraor- {dinary S — 4, 1L youl want men dressed woman, verybody comfortable, « ions. young, young women adds maden this style ing the broad and light woolen dry stitched on the skirt above the hem, are al ally in basque shupe, A new lace mantte, ud there's no ex interested in warm weather gowns just now, and everyboy ol, sensible and beautifui Empire styles, or some modification of th “Ihe straight, full skirt and yo to admire you,” And son e fOr ADy Woman 1ot being well dress od,0F surpliced walst, Sateens, zephyrs, lawns with a border of five or six ro made in Em pire styles, except vith hig slee to be exhibited af Barr's opening on Monday and Tuesday lace over a bodlce of faille silk, the huge Ru opody else fays a mian always admires & we and chi drawers at can wear the very i fasih- . 18 worn 1d or lies are beautifully s of watered ribbon that the waist is usu- P for $1.00 in Chantilly an sleeves falling to the foot of t he dress. Don’t miss this special summer opeuing, it it’s possible for you to be there 1s the advice of Country orders for goods or samples will receive prompt attention if addressed to the Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co., I6th and Douglas Streets, Omaha, Neb. VIRGINIA. Y 23 dozen gents' white corded P, Hand Ties, 2Jc oach. 90 dozen gents genuine Baloriggan Shirts and S0c each, the cheapest in America dozon gonts' stripsd British Socks, 6 pair K. Fourin ————e————— Handkerchiefs. Don't fail to visit Burr's Handkarchiet partment this week, as specinl indncem Wil be offered. Wo fiav 1n 1 1ot of manufacturers s g dozen, which we ofter at a littie over half pri These goods will be arranged in lots from which n can have your clioice, in ladies at fc, 1244, 10c. 20, In gentlemen's at 10¢, 150, Asthisis the best value in handkerchi: ever offered in Omahu, we advise an early so- lection. e . S I B PR ST Great ‘Central Dry Goods Store, fronting on 16th and Douglas Streets, in the retail and street railroad centre of Omaha. T0 BE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST Miss Kate Drexel's Prospective Re- nunciation of the World. BADE HER FRIENDS FAREWELL. She Has Taken the Frelimmary Steps and Entered Upon Her Proba; tion — Seven Millions For the Catholic Church. Her Life For God. Miss Kate Drexel has suddenly be- come an object of unusual interest. Rumor has it that she is about to enter aconvent and relinquish her rights to a vast fortune and astation in life which would render the world enjoyable to almost any one, says the New York cor- respondent of the Chicago Herald. The Evening Telegram of this city gives an interesting account of the lady’s chari- ties, and also explains the provisions of the will by which her father disposed of his many millions. Among the passen- gers for Burope who sailed this morning on the North German stenmer Lahn, says the Telegram, was Mr. A. J. Drexel, the wealthy Philadelphia banker, and his nieces, Miss Lizzie Drexel and her sister, Mrvs. E. De V. Morreli, daughters of the late I'. A. Drexel. They go to Carlsbad together to spend the summer, and Mr., Morrell is one of the party. Bofore leaving their home yesterday they bade an earthly farewell to Miss Kate Drexel, their remaining sister, who has startled society by resigning the world and all her millions of money to become u pos- tulate or “‘earnest-seeker” in the Order of the Sisters of Mercy On Monday morning Miss Drexel at- tended mass in St. John's church in Philadelphia, and cho that sacr place to take farewell Jfimr relatives, excevting such as were to accompany her and one or two very intimate friends. She was attired all in black, and, according to custom, kuelt in frout of the altar dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The mass over, her ¢ tant relatives and one or two others and her old governess and her maid and one or two faithful servants crossed from the other aisle and bade her farewell, She kissed them all. Although evi- dently deeply and greatly affectoa, she aid not shed tears, and in this very so- vere ordeal showed remarkable firmness and fortitude. All the necessai rangements had previously been made, and with her two sisters and Mr. Mor- rell she drove direct to the station and took the traan for Pittsburg, arrivingat the convent Monday night. Miss Kate Drexel is tho second daugh- ter, and is about thirty years of age. In Lruenl'lmuu she is the most attractive of the three sisters, though not so tall a8 the other two. She has a good com- plexion, u sweet expression and was noted for her smile. Her eyes are blue or bluc-gray, and oue of her greatest charms is a wealth of uncommonly beau- titul brown hair, much more than ordi- nary. It issaid to rench far below her waist. One of the sad thoughts in con- nection with her withdrawal to some of her relatives was that she should sacri- fice this part of her personality and “Ywoman’s glory,” bui, according to usage, she will have to sucrifice her hair uutil she takes her final vows. » The vows she will take should she coptinuo in her determination will be three, ‘‘poverty, chastity and obeai- ence.” In taking them she will have to assert, as she did in tnat she does it *of her own free will and accord.” The vows of oblization are very solemn, and are made before the altav, crucifix in nd, and a part of the ceremony in th order consists of ¢ho novice ‘appearing in a complete wedding outfit and having a ring put upon her finger, and made a *“*hride of Christ.” This is before e assume the black habit and veil, which involy a funeral service. In some of the orders of sisterhood the novice prostrates her- self at the entrance and u\lu\ s the mem- bers of the order to step over her body in token of humility. Miss Drexel appeared with the other members of the order in the chapel of the mother house, made her professions and went through the customary devo- tional exe During the "coming six months she will be required to con- form to the routine :\u& di pline of the order, but her attive will be largely option: will be put to many s r, to prove her faithful- ,and the conventual life will be very different from that which s has been leading. The habit of the Sisters oy is the most picturesque and gnified of all the orders of the Cath- sisterhood and religious ladies. vins and a deep colla covers the breast, and that come her profession, that entirel small, close-fitting caps under the chio. Miss Drexel is the young lady who has shown s0 much interest in Indian missions. With Bishop O’Counor, of Nebraska, she traveled through the Indian countryand gave $150,000 for the work of Catholic missions among the Indians of the northwest. Sheisof a very amiable and beautiful dis i and her mind has always had a religious turn. Unless at the end of the proba- tionary period of six months she con- cludes to change her mind and re- nounce her intention and profession, which is within her power to do, Miss Drexel, so well known as the most at- tractive of the sisters of her branch of the family, and one of the groatest heiresses in America, will henceforth be **dead to the world,” and the circles of Walnut street, where she has been s0 familiar, will know her no more. No incident of the sort since the beautiful Miss McTavish, of Baltimore, entered a convent, will cause so great a social sen- sation, as it was uttcrly unexvected, and, until now, has been absolutely un- known outside of th@family. Miss Kate Drexel is one of three sis- ters who inherited from their father the enormous fortune, now cstimated, of #21,000,000. This is invested not only in real estate all over Philadel- phia and in securities and bonds of va- rious organizations and industries in and out of Philadelphin, but in the fk'qx\t banking house of which her ather was & member. The way in which it was lefv also has an important beaving. In case either of the three daughters should marey and have an heir, the heir inherits the whole for- tune after the daughters: deaths, If neither should leave an heir, tha entire fortune goes to the Catholic church, The youngest daughter, now Mrs, E. De V. Morrell, married a few months ago. Miss Kate Drexel, who entered the convent, hus quite a large fortune, independently inherited from her wmother, who died before her father, but should she remain in the order her in- come from her interest in her father’s estate, and probably her share of the prineipal, amounting to $6,000,000 or 7,000,000, will be relinguished to the church, Miss Lizzie Drexel had not contem- plated going to Kurope, buv upon the | detwrmipation of Miss Ko Drexel bo- | coming knowun, the sister determined to go, not desiring to he left alone at | Ban Atichael, near Torrssdate. the ex- tensive country place where all three of the sisters have spent most of their lives, where their father and mother are interved in a grand sarcophagus, over which a memorial church vdjoin- ing the Convent of the Sacred Heart has been erected. R T o GOULD ON PLUTOCRACY. He Considers the Concentration of Wealth a Good Thing. Jay Gould has been asked for his views regarding Bishop Potter’s re marks about the rise of the money power. After some preliminary con- versation, the reporter asked - the lead- ing question: **You do not, then, Mr. Gould, accept the belief that America is becoming a nation of plutoerats, and that men of vast wealth are a source of danger to the perpetuity of constitu- tional government’ “Indeed I do not,” and the brown eyes opened widely. *I have made what money I possess by hard work. While it may not he the generalim- pression, I owe all my success to unre- mitting labor—entively. Work is the only thing that will succeed in America. In some of the monarchies of Kurope, wealth, ancestry—blood,” if you lik will make a man and put him'in a pos tion of the greatest prominence; but in this country industry alone can bring fnen to positions of trust and financial supremacy—can make them great or rich. Besides, remember that neither blood nor inherited wealth creates statesmen here.” “You do not regard the accumulation of wealth itself as dangerous?’” “On the contrary, so long ns the money is kept in this country I regard its concentration in certain localities or in the hands of individuals as of the greatest benefit to the nation. Where men accummulate fortunes and take the money out of the country it is a serious injury, but a corporation which creates capital vhat is to remain here and keep in motion as a circulating medium is a benefit to the whole country.” Continuing his comments on Bishop Potter’s address, Mr. Gould said: ““Has man, as he has developed under our splendid, our glorious civilization, grown {less self-respecting, less pure, more venal? ‘Would Bishop Potter tell us that men in public life are mostly careless, small, potty, penurious, pur- chasable crentures? ~ Ah, he takes the pulpit into the job lot, too, as speciul pleaders for bribory 8nd. yotecvending, I am glad I cannot agree with Dr. Pot- ter. 1 don’t think so badly of my fel- low-men, and I’'m not called an Abou Ben Adhem.” . Rhbymes for the Times, Boston Courier. I The Cathoat Is Overhauled, Sweet May is here The skies are clear; Through azure seas the cloudlet floats, And men find cheer In drinking beer And getting reaay sailing boats. 1 They Go Together, Sweot are the hours; “The scontod flowers Are all awakening from thoir slumbers; The sun rides high Aud the housewives buy Jamaica ginger and cucumbers. nr. A Morning Cry. In meadows green The lambkin's seen, Where blooms the golden buttercup, And peddlers shout The streets about, *Fresb strawberries—gid ape—gid up!” ——— The city of Rome consumes an aver- age sf 300 tons of coal a day crssing the ocean at top speed. THE CHRIST OF TRE LEPERS A Priest’s Noble Work on the Island of Molokai. HIS HEROISM WAS SUBLIME. How Father Damicn in the Flush of Youth and Hope Exiled Himself Forever at Kalawao's Prison Hospital. A Modern Nazarine. The story of Rev. Father Damien, the leper priest of Molokai, who died at Hawaii on Aprild, 1s one of the most impressive of any time or age, says the New York Sun, Tn 1873, when he was but thirty-threo years old, in fuil possession of health and fortune, a man of education and refinement, “a prince commg to his kingdom,” Damicn deliberately offered himself us missionary to the outcast lepers of the Sandwich Islands, knowing full well that he in time would come @ leper too. In 1884 the first symntoms of the horrible disease manifested them- selves in Damien, and since that time the heroic vriest has been dying the most LINGERING AND FRIGHTFUL DEATIE known to man—the death to which he will- ingly condemned himself. His decease has been aaily expected for months past. Damien’s story lias been often told to the world, but never before as the Sun tells it to-day. The Sun prints Damien's own story of his life among the lepers us he wrote it, with unthinking heroism in a cold report to the Hawaiin government. This 1s the first and ouly ount ever given by Father Damien of his life at Molokai. The story of Damien, as told by himself, is, of course, the record which history will preserve of his noble life: while the modesty, humility, the ontle and kindiy spirit of the man, utterly forgetting iteelf in love and care for others— ma word—Difmien’s absolutely ideal her- oism, is here fully though unconsciously dis- played. Molokai, whict is generally spolen of as the leper settlement, is an island of the Ha- wailan group, ana Kalawao, a village on the island, is tho'lepers’ home. As is well known, the setticipent is simply a prison hos- pital, none of the. people living there being permitted to depart. A prison in name, Kai- awao is & prison in reality. So far as isola- tion is concerned, no better place for the leper sttlement ould have been imagmed. Kalawao is simply a tongue of land, washed on three sides by the ocean, and thrust out thiere frota a link of clifts 4,000 feet hiffth. No one has ever esédped from Kalawao. Tho little peninsula is three miles long and a mile wide. It is Yreeless, und exposed, naked, to the full force of the northeast trade wind, During the wiuter months the climate of Kalawao Is m%{. cold and rainy. In the summer time sun beats down flercely. The mountains hdng over the little peninsula like giants. P The lepers werd brought heredn 1865. For decades before 1 leprosy bad prevailed in the Hawaiian islands, but not extensively. In 1860 the diseasc became a scourge, and & few years later the leper colony was estab- lished, aud sll the lepers on the Bandwich islands were ordered to be removed thence. Parents were scparated from their children, husbands from their wives, and brothers and sisters from eaoh other. o friends and relatives of those infected with the disease 10 many instances secreted the sufferers, and the officers charged with enforcing the “law of segregation”’ often had to eapture their victims by stealth in the dead of night. In nearly every case the officors had to use force. In April of last year there were 740 lepers there. . OKGINS OF DESPAIK. The lepers first taken to Kalawao were in a condition little better than thut of the hap- less seaman who had been ‘‘warnoned,” or put ashore by their comrades upon desert islands. They had no houses but flimsy huts, no decent clothing, no medical attendance worthy of the name, and but the poorest kind of food. The oldest of the wmiserable creatures sank into a kind of apathy and laid down and Among the youngest after the first fe s had killea hope 1 their hearts, began what muy only be termed the orgies of desp They abandouned themselves to excesses. They made native alcohol and ki-root beer. The outrageous hula dances were matters of continual oceur- rence. The Hawalian government paid no attention to them. In the opening scutences of his story Father Damien has told what he found there. It is doubtful if there was upon the face of the wide earth at the time of Damiea’s coming in 1873 such a scene of mad- ness, wretchedness and despair as at the settlement at Kalawao. Father Damien arrived at Honolulu at the time of the beginning of the segration of the lepers, in 1561, He went out to join the Catholic missionaries in Hawaii. He was twenty-four years old, & native of Belgium, and a member of the Society of Picpus. He had labored for some time in Eogland. He was loosed upon as a _young man of ability, and his superiors bredicted for him u great future. Nine years after going to Honolulu he one day heard his bishob wish that some priest would volunteer to go out among the lepers at Molokai, Damien ponderod over the matter for a week, during which tune it was clearly brougit to his attention that if he went to Molokai he must not only stay there forever, but must, in all human proba- pility, die a leper’s death. nE oF INMSELF FOR TILE PLAGE, and his offer was accopted. In_a few days he was landed at Kalawno. He had no money or no means of providing for himself. He had to trust entirely to the kind-hearted ones among the lepers. The horrible scencs he met with at first appalled him. There were 80 many people in the last agonies, and Damien speut 0 much time with them, that for a time he was not able to build him- self a hut, and he had to sleep at night under atree. The Hawaiian government treated him with sternness. Damien was not permitted .to go out to any of the islands near by to meet a brother priost for confession, and the sheriff at Mo- lokai bud orders to put the priest in jail if he stirred off the gloomy peninsula on which the lepers were. Damien became at Kalawao, as he wrote himself, “physician of the soul and vody, magistrate, school teacher, car- penter, joiner, pain gardener, house- ceper, cook, snd often undertaker und grave-digger.” The poor lepers came to 100k upon him as thewr fricud and assistant 1 every possible way. He moved umong them and lived with them as one of them. selves, His influence became unbounded, He was the arbiter of all disputes, the finul resource in every trouble. Finally the Hawailan government came to look upon Damien kindly, They put him on the sams footing as the medical inspector who ut times visited the colony, aud allowed him every privilge. Damien'aid not leave the island, but remained constantly laboring among the lepel In Damien's story which follows, there isa coustant comparison between the leper set tlement, as he found it, and the lo ptile. ment a dozon years later. Now there are at Kalawao and the adjoining villages good frame houses, built of lumber, which was, of course, brought there from romote purts’ of tho island; several hospitals for both wnales and females, attended by an eficient corps of physicians; generous supplies of food and clotbing, given by the government; good schools for the children, and an increase of comfort in every way. 13ut more surprising than this, there is a strauge change in the life and habits of the lepers, he licentious dances are no more heard of. Comparatively little of the native alcohol is distilled. The lives of the people are more woral, and ke lepers have taken to cultivating garden spots around their homes, Kalawao Is a peaceful and APPARENTLY A HAPPY COMMUNITY. With characteristic modesty, Damien merely states these wonderful changes with. out accounting for them. But that they were due almost entirely to himself alone is the instant verdict of all who have been conversant with his life and work at Kala- wao. Damien speedily saw when he it among the lepers that he could do little for their spiritual welfare until they were better | off temporally. In their miserable, hopeless condition they jeered at God and man and rigted in @ frenzied sttempt to drown the thoughts of their end. Damien inwediately | began to write letters W0 the goversment de- tailing the horrible state of affairs on Molc kai. He sent letter after letter unceasingly. Finally committces of the board of health and of the Hawaiian legislature appeared on Molokai. ‘The devoted priest, his oyes filled with tears, pointed out to the officials what was needed. Medical men in Hawaii began to pay a great deal of attention to the study of - leprosy, and the leper settlement at Molokai was much discussed. One by one the bad things at okl were measurably romedied. He did not relax with little benc- fits given the settlement, but pushed uhead zealously, continually domanding govern. mental aid. He finally had the pleasure of seeing the most hurtful of the evils entirely removed. And when this was done he found, too, that the leper settlement had be- come,'in a great degree, a God fearing and Christian community, looking to him as its head. All this was the work of years. It came slowly, inch by inch, as the result of a man's self-devotion and imdomitable will, When Queen Kapioluni visited the peninsula in July, 1884, her officers showed her the neat white cottages standing among tho cultivated ficids, the baros filled with produce, the or- derly streots —tho commuaity showing every where the hand of industry and religion and then pointing to Damien, who stood humbly at a distance, said: *‘He' is the father of it all.” Later the queen visited the school for meurable leper boys and givls, personally founded by Damien, and heard the children singing. Damien was with the leper, of course, daity and hourly. He was in contact with of all grades, including the most se- vere cases. He had some knowledge of med- ieine and bofore the advent of the physicians was medical adviser to haif the setilement, Until 1834 he felt fairly well, In that year PAINS IN THE LEFT FOOT troubled him. These continued to get worse and_in the absence of any other signs were attributed to rheumatism. Toward the close of 1834 Dr. Aming, a physician at Kala dingnosed Damien’s trouble as leprosy. May, 1845, the doctors, after a caroful exam- ination, found no signs that the disease spreading in Damien; but in August of t yoar leprous tubercies plainly manifested themselves in his face, and poor Damien knew (hat his doom was scaled. But the heroic pricst did not relinguish nis work. He still wallea and talked with the lepers, min- istering to the sick, teaching the cnildren, living the same old life of poverty and hard" ship, and_thinkmg only of alleviating the lot of the lepers and caring for their souls. His only reward was in seeing that e had beno- fitted both the souls and vodies of his charges abundant measure, GOING TO DAMIEN"S In the spring of 1836 rived an assistant “ather Dumien, Father Courardy, a n: of Orewon, and a young man in fu health, Father Conrardy, like Damien, voluntecred to go among the icpers, and has tened his departure when he learned that Damien bad been stricken with leprosy. Father Damien will received Conrardy, knowing thut he himself would soon be too sick to work, and that he must have a su or. _In & few months there also urri - n Sisters of the Franciscan Orde serve as nurses in the leper hospitals, I'wo of the sisters—Cyrilia and Ireno—came from Syracuse, in this state Conrardy is a hero of the same stuff as Damien may be seen from this extract from a letter which he wrote in 1586 to Archbishop Cross SItis true so far, that no cure for leprosy has been found. but, after all, we b die, and to me 1t 1% & natter of small i ance whether I die a loper or not. [ w Like hioly Job, if 1 ever take it, ‘my on bition is to itve und die,’ in the service of the lepers of Molokai: my only rogret would be thut I came here so late; but I may live some twenty years among the lepers. My prayor | has been heard und I got what 1 prayed for, & place which few only cared for on accouut of the diseaso itself.” Time will prove the sincerity of the hope and will; T eame here to live and die. 1 hope with God's help to be able to stand to the last. Will I ever see my friends again? This is very doubtful, although poor Father Dauie fow weelks ago, soemed o go down very fast, has taken a new grasp on life. Every day oue might see him working the new church with @ blouse, like common lahorer. He says sometimes that ) haulth and st b compared to his are nothing: by that you ses how well he is, ex covt for the loprosy, which is ecating him up slowly. Father Damien wud 1 are living under the same roof, but I bope next spring | a | tion, | presents ter of the gravByard. They say that it is not healthy to have a house the poor lepers have been buried not ¥ deep, but it is the best location near the church, My little house will standing over a number of gr: We have been thinking several times to stop burymng so close to us, but tha habit talk. Three St Fr ed and Father W lin with them. They are located at I papa, two miles and a half from us, other end of the leper settlomeht. I to stop “writing for a funeral service. 1 hear the big drum. A poor lad of twenty to oury.” By this time the world was ringing with Damien’s fame. The king of Hawail made him a knight commander of the Ordoer of Kalakaua I, but the priest never wore tho glittering decoration of the order. He said that it would SUAME TS WORN AND PATCHED CASSOCK. In England Henry Labouchere started a subscription for Damien in his paper, which came to $1,500. This amount was forwarded to Damien by Cardinal Manning, Shortly fterward the Rey. Hugh B. Chapman, a reyman of the Protestant Ipiscop h, the of St. Luke's Cumberwell, London, forwardedsto her Damien a draft for 5,000, the contribution of himself and sowe of his parishionors, Shortly after s, Mr, urer of tho church army, nstitu- visited D ing money and nd wrote Visit to the Churshy t him devout, rs of nde lau- at tho Aimy Gaz Damien is just v 0 be, & simple, sturd man,” No job was too menial for him, build- ing, carpentering, tending tho sici, washing the dead, and many other such things form a part of bis daily work, He is always cheerful, often playful, and one of the most truly humble men I eve w. The leprosy has disfigured him a good deal, buv I never felt it anything but a pleasure to slook at him; and already the guriun oil which | Dbrought is making a manifest difference in his face and Lands, and in his power of sleeping. How far the cure will reach it is of course impossible to say. He 18 such a busy man that I somet four he will not find time to do the medicme full jus- tice. The English affection and sympathy touch him very much,indoed. Pray for him, for there musi be many times when ho is tempted to bediscouraged and over-sad af the wrrible cases—bodies and souls—arofind him. 1 was very glad to be he at Christ- mas, You would have enjoyed the hearty way in which the lepers sang, “Oh, com ye faithful,” There is is disclose rardy 1o {r au t you would cxps havd-working ne final picture of Damien, that na letter written by Father Con- nds in Lhis ¢ am golng to give the dear I"ather Dan wore, as he is falling In F bua few lines about will s0on be no vietim to his churity. nd ana America thoy call him tho r. Itis my privilege to b neur . to live with him. Leprosy has done its work in his car oyes, nose throat, his bands and b 1gs. Pho poor futhor has suffered droadfully. He is complotely dis- figured. His voice 1s a.most extinet. If you could only see hin a8 he lies in s bed of suffering tears would come to your eyes at the sight of that man who had done so ‘much for thousands of lepers,now himself reduced t0 80 terrible a condition, with so littie Wt can be done for him " she Landed H *You watchee mo ketehum,” said Piute squaw at the union depot yeste day aftornoon. She had just from the Utah & Northern’ train, and had piled about two hundred pounds of luggage on her broad shoulders, says the Ogden Commercinl, A crowd of travelers, who weve waiting for out- going trains, had ‘gatherad about tho spouse of a noble red man, interested in her performance, aud cagor Lo see how she would manage o put the pappovsa on top of the load. The words guoted addressed to the spectators. As _spoke she caught the innoc quickly, and, with & movement very much like u base ball player striking o 4 high ball, lung the cherub ou top of the load. The future brave's faco broadened 1uto o smile aud sucked its dirty tltumb, while the old woman widdled off with her load, amid the 10 have & house buill for wyseif in the cen: cheers of the by-stunders,