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A FRAGMENT. Lae eineee tee peers noon licse. rib 1 fi A TT i 1) A IS:1 SAB Q1DWIril and the other is , that it would. hor- ae-isees-deasii,--ssa-aeeese ,
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_es_ __ie. pin your mem down for this \vette lee i kJ -a -LI ZA- haze- KJ k) -L. V • ' RAISING' TU,RKEYS.
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She turns pale but is too proud to
show a sigi of the oeufusion elle feels.
Her compoeurei erfeet and laOr men -
rear teat of a lady who sees a eieaug-
;sr for the first, time.
'`ntty 1 Sieve the limier of this neet
idisteciti ?"
Col Dare iseeeeks, so humbly that
alio is diserusecl and mut:inure an as -
Cant. In another moment they are
esia,ssing on together, her ban
4 res
log lightly on his arm, leeving the
Heatesin Chine° chneklin,ei
"lady Loigia, I belieye I have to cep-
teratutate you. Is 11 not so?"
"On weat, Colonel Dare?
On your engagement to Lord Downe.
Tot hadie InY sit:mere hopes for your
lappinesti."
°Thal:ace for the gooci wishes; they ere
Iviss a.eseptable. Out the eonjeeture
is a false one—I am net, nor neve'r
"1 Ile, engaged ,to Marry Lord
ajul
Vewnee"
There is a deepsdrawe breath, and
then a long silence, which she is the
lirst to break, with a laughing light
in her eYes, aud mleing his rather
lere thern to see the dreadful changes
which tiene causes'in the beloved lea
, -
tures while at the same time they do
, ,
not want to constantly be reminded,
of the cure, which, like a Demecles
'
Sweet IzI;IsQuttli7dowfall, splendid as Oa .south,
Love touched With speech tioemeelo's wean • , , '
if you 1 140 we'll, sih it out--tlia is I
Yau 3-41!°113.1.e Lc) uP ilt 'HU TRACADIE N. B.. WHERE OUR LEPERS
joy leaned lied 115afterflueit full with song,. east ..tn.(1, talk. I like it. DO you think 'ARE CONFINED.
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reel sutiee exelad on doom that wrought no y011 Can tin,Inage. tO do so'?"
wroog.
4 Wirier luster of:lordlier music rose
neyond the sandering har of sca4 and snows
Whea'Chaum's thought tot* tile and light from
his.
And Englapies crown was one with Itelyte.
Loftleet end laA, hy gisen af Slailiewelties wore,
Arose lbove their quiring spheres e third,
Arose and attsiled and tailored, .q6ag's deep 6kY
Saw Shakespeare piss in light, in music che,
No light like his, 00 1.81,0, noll might give
To bid the darkened sphere, left songless, live,
--Alernon Charles Swinhurna.
I A eLevaR t
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MAKE UP.;
Story of a
Fency Dress BalL
4***4"e0essiee.sseee4>eleeeiho+64e-eheethe
Henry AppS of Lioxton Gompleted
the fixing of the wires on the lawn
of Rasleigh court. He looked up at
the dim light in the dressing rooni and
chuckled softly as he bent the last yard
i.itiff anti vompous tones. of wire.
"Colonel Dare, I believe I have to "A trip In time," says Mr. Apps,
condole with you.
"On what, Lady Leigh?" he ans-
Wers, light hearted enough, now that
le knows the falseness of that report, , the air, and at the eirst effort it caught
to enter into her hu,mor, t the projecting nail.
:Tie the shortness of your memory.
Me is not so very long since we last
naet, and yet, the other day— the rope ladder, "and the girl is mine."
e inclines his head to her level as ._
e opened the window yery gently
labs' pauses, and his tones are very low hi
When he replies: and soon stood inside the dressing
"1 could only have one reason for roorn. Near the table in the corner of
*that, Lady Leigh. I did not wish to the room was an iron safe.
"saves nine,"
He threw the „rope ladder gently in
"Once on board the lugger," quoted
Mr. Apps facetiously, as he mounted
compromise you by admitting, that
time had been a. previous acquaint, -
Mag. Was I very wrong?"
"No, very right. YOU are always
Tight," she exclaims, quickly, and then
molds. "I want you to forgive me for
no much, Colonel Dare."
s 'Won't you cry quits I" he asks, gent -
1, too, was so much to blame."
"Tort saved my boy's life. You must
Nave thought me a monster of ingra-
eitude to forget that."
"You know well what I thought, and
hk still—that Lady Leigh is the
=oat perfect woman to which the world
eataS lay claim,"'he answers, simply.
He has led her into an empty con-
servatory, where the flowers are full
.of fragrance, and a cool night air is
:blowing in. Some minutes they stand
elbere, missing. Then he spea.ks again.
'When may I come back—and teach
aollo I"
. The question, in its full significance, jimmy sticking out of his capacious
kiUs on Lady Leigh's ears like a strain sidepocket, a few steps towaxd the'
of sweetest musk, and she turns away
stairs. Suddenly a girlish figure- turn -
Tier face Test he should see the sudden
right that has brightened it at his
smite.
"Toe v,*III have to teach me, too,"
she whispers, shyly.
e di will teech you both, dear jenny."
"How did you know my name?" she
ask% trying, with a woman's perver-
afty, born perhaps of 'cowardice, to des
:der a- little longer the end that is
doming fast,
He clasees abook from. his breast coat
sesaket and opens it at the written sue
siereoription.
have had it all the time," be ex-
elairase and then again he says -very
manifestly, "Jenny, darling, jenny,
When will you come to me to be taught
' the lesson that only love can teach?"
Shedoes not speak even then, but she
' turns and hides her face on his should -
end be is more, far more than con -
*ant. Lady Leigh's sore and wayward
*Meet lees found its master Ett last,
"Well, I'D.3 jiggered!" exclaimed Mr.
Apps. He loosened the flaps of his fur
cap and mopped his brow with the
back of his hand. "Well, I'm jigger-
ed! If they 'event been and left the
key in it for me. I might have saved
myself a lot of trouble if I'd a know -
ed."
Mr. Apps swung open the heavy door
of the safe and listened to the -music
down stairs. Young Lady Stapieleirst
was giving, as Mr. Apps very well
knew, a dance, a fancy dress dance,
on her return from the continent after
her term of widowhood.
just see first of all," he sold,
"that the coast is absolutely clears and
then—then for a bagful."
Henry Amps stepped chit into the
broad passage. He slouched, with hie
ed the corner.
"Bless my 'art ii cried Mt. Amps,
"Why, how do you do?" said the
young lady, stepping forward. She
gave a soft laugh that was very pleas-
ant. "This is really delightful. Do.
you know, I recognized you in spite- of
the costume?"
She beld the hand, of Mr. Apps for
a moment, causing tent gentleman to
gasp for breath, and called one of the
maids.
"Just bring me a pencil and a cardi'r
she said, "I must arrange for a. car-
riage to take Captain Norman back to
his hotel in the morning. I wasn't
sure that he would come."
"I can walk," remarked Mr. Awe,.
with restored self possession.
"I won't bear of it. When shall- we
, 1,
end silo is not too old to begin life say' "„ "w'
regain wider these new and happier cir-
"Say in an hour's time," said. Mr.
e ueestan ass. Apps. "I can go up stairs again alone,.
• "What will they say ?" she asks, aft- change my togs and do all I want to."
sir tievnife, clasping her hands in pret- "And can't you stay longer?"
disins.y. "What will they say at She gave the card to the maid and
thIn sudden ending of a romance ' ordered it to be dispatched at once.
areackt they have not seen the begin-
)ning
"let them say what they Will. I
etre not, so that you. are mine.
geese eisele 15 Rene. He may refuse and feared it might give an 'hiiswunscnt, and than ----" tune bark. Besides, the safe was still
'end then I must marry you with- open, and the diamonds were waiting
wet itt," he answers, laughing, seeing for him. He had uoticed with satisfae-
lam fear of that. "Be content, sweet, tion that Lady Stapleburst was wear-
ing none.
iteo. -lose" "You were always an active man.
See lifts her face tO hiS, and, smiles captain."
e
take up my vows of obedience. Court other." He shook his head reflectively.
noes's/se again, dear, because the world
- "I often wonder I don't write a book
ces oeneorious, and I should, not like
"I've got a busy night before me,
urged Mr. Apps excusingly. He
thought of his dog waiting on the lawn
Caere is no escaping from the bondage
of love, it svill hold you, too tightly,
lianrlessly into his passionful eyes. "Always a -doing something," agreed
"Let it be as this once, un Mr. AppS. s on g.
til If it int e thin It's an -
;leer happiness spoile.d by its spite. Be-
n:ides"— looking down demurely, -"I
not be sorry for the reprieve."
16e folds her tenderly in his arms.
"Let it be as you wish—to the last,
alte Vslirlow 1"
The End. '
Lost His Thumb.
11 Reeve reason to remember our visit
k'ae the Andamans, for I lost the top of
sr thnra there—bitten off by a parrot
Us. The brute came to the surface after
mimic torpedo experiments, shamming
?Reath. 1 incautiously put my thumb in
41iibmeuth, when the creature's jaws shut
etii'a• a horrid snap, taking off the flesh
4+2; iny thumb to the bone. Our surgeon
.4ber.ssd the wound, l‘ty cockswain piek-
eer'S rho portion of my thumb and, fol-
14)77tQg me down into my cabin, asked
Txttat he should do with it. I told him
,,•,e give it to a panther cub we had on
c'slicerrd...---"Eurrah For the Life of a Sall-
ee!: ety, Vice Admiral Nennecly.
Not an
"Why dim% you
ned errew with you,
litce-e.gee Bloomblin10 0
"Sly bow end art
senile idezzani. "I
"But pitpa 51 -ad
a.),Rg, • bolt ti On' t
liettoit, Free Press.
Areber.
ever bring your bow
Mr. Gazzam?" asked
•ow, Benny?" repeat'
'55) no archer."
you often draw the
ou, show it to me?"—
.
0 trivem.
'"l)a" etrilie Inuit be oinking ell kinds
et busiiiess vontuted the street ear
eosseneer ivith valtee.
The ptissentier nes.t to him
,,iiertigged his shoulders and discreetly said
naehilag,
rte. was a ea withroker,--Chicago Trite
este;
'herr! Are Otherri,
nedgire-1 see a kerisconein court 1188
,;`,7tilDtOd en injunction against a young
W110.8e friends ilen't Want him to
4et, married.
Dripeek—I wish to heaven ley friends
aind been 80 l.110oglituj I—Cleveland
alain Dealer.
"ilittli012," 1111 id Apes,
°And it is a eapital make up, Caplan
Noonan," 5110 Went on. "Du you linow
that at first, just for ono moments L
1-1101.1glit 'Yee 'were a lent buieglar."
"Fancy that limed" said Appe, II
was relieved at seeing' ati oliviotte wey
out of Ins "Therees nothing
like doing the thing in a proper, strife -
forward W'y."
"Aud," said Lady Stapleburst, with
her inta on Ids arm zee they walked
neross the room, "you haye got the
east end aceetit capitally."
" "linhet Ouste, 15 it'?"
She beckeneel to the giondolier.
"Captain Norman and I are great
friencia" else said in an explanatory
Wile. "He bes not been long home
X1'0111 abroad, and he knows scarcely
any Que."
"Not a blessed soul," echoed Mr.
Apps.
"Isn't it capital?" asked Lady .Steple-
hurst of the gondolier deligt
emeiv much more interesting it would
be if every oue waled only talk to me
In their character!"
"Well, blow rue," said Lady Staple-
hurst, screwing her pretty mouth lu
her effort to imitate the cockney's ac-
cent—"blow nee if this ain't a fair take
—1 mean like Mehl" she laughed. -It's
no use, Captain Neerman, I can't talk as
you can."
"It's a gift,!' said Mr. Apps. 'That's
what it is." ,
"You don't want to be introduced to
anybody here, I suppose?"
"Not me,"
"Yon have heard of"—
She pointed in the direction of the
gondolier.
"A111 want to."
"He's really making a big name in
the bouse, you know. I watch hie ca-
reer with great interest."
"'Thinks a jolly lot of hineself."
"Ob, 1 think a lot of him. too," re-
marked Lady Stapiehurst pleteeantly.
"And is tat a jimmy sticking eut of
y,our eacket pocket? This is indeeti re-
afisus. Yon don't know how it sverks,
3 suppose?"
I've got a kind of Iridea," said
Apps. "Look 'ere. You put this
end in.. and"—
Mr. Apps, found himself' getting quite
excited in the explanations that lie
gave. It was a* new seneation to meet
one who showed' an intelligent ieterper
in his professicire and he eould not help
feeling flatlet:ed. Looking up, he EDNV
the gondolier gazIng at bine
-Ile don't look 'appy, that ebapei said
ern Apps.
"W I1 you, excuse me f er one mo
neut.?'
"Wot are you going up te*:.?"' he saiSi
apprebensively.
"I want to sparse. to him."
"Obi" with relief, "1 don't mind
that!"
While Lady Staplehurst wee useltieg
the gondolier restraae his ordinary ee-
pression Ma Apps thought ft,tati
thought. The couple promenading aft-
er the waltz looked curiously de eine
"You are in the- worst fix yen wee.;
ever in, 'Enery."' said Ma eerie.
"'You're 'eying 'ens 01.1 toaSt, you are.
but you'll' be glad to get up staimagen.
You want tbem, di -emends, thates wilier
you want Vale nseans money -10 yen,
'Enery."
Lady Staplebtarse hurried towerd-tbe 1
doorwey. A murmur of amazement'
Iwent through the room as the guests
saw a new arrival .12 the COSI:111W Of a
came constable accompenied by a man
in plain cl•othes. Mr. Apps, thinking '
over les exploits. gazing abstraetedly
at his boots, regretted their want of
polish, did not see them mitil the piain
clothes man tapped him on the shoul-
der.
"What, Appe again!' exclaius.ed• the
man.
"Y.n.e.." said the burglar discontented-
ly. "Yrte, it is A tips agine, Sla Walker.
And ourry glad you are to saa• Lune
rye DO clatite
"Always a plensuee to meet a, gentle-
man lite yore" said 11r. Wale.er cheer-
,
fully, as be conducted him to the door I
way. "I've wanted to run up against I
San before."
Mud] commotion in the ballsaoro at
the diverting, little scene. Genera
agreement that Lady Striplehurse wee
a perfect genius at entertaining.
"But, loyeliest," said the g,ondolier
confidently to Lady Staplehurst, "isn't
,this carrying a joke rather too, far?
That's a real detect's-0.
"I know," said the love/lest girl,
trembling now a little. "That's, a, real
burglar too."
"A real"— (*
"Yes, yes. Don't make a fuss. I
don't want the dance spoiled. Take me
clown to supper, like a good fellow."—
Columbian.
about it all."
"I don't believe you will know anY-
body here, Captain Norman," she said,
as they walked down stairs, "but I
couldn't help sending you a card, see-
ing. how friendly we were on the Pe-
shawur. Do you remember those even-
ings On deck in the Red sea?"
She was really a very fine young wo-
man, and in her costume she looked
extremely well.
"Do I not?" said Mr. Apps, with
much fervor. "Shall I ever forget
'em?"
"And then the journey from Brindisi,
you know. and that funny little Ger-
man—you remember him'?"
"He was a knockout, that German
was."
"And the girl who played the banjo,
and"—
"It was great," agreed Mr. Apps—
"great."
The large ballroom was. very full. A
small covey of brightly dressed young
people flew toward the yo'ung hostess
to complain of her temporary absence
from the room, and abroad shoulclet.ea
goadolier shook bancls with her and
took up her card with something of an
air of proprietorship.
tliduebt I had left the key ID the --
excuse me." The young', hostess took
back her card from tile gondolier. I
ELM eng,aeed to Captain Norman,. Yon
don't know* him'? Allow me."
"Pleased to meet you," said Henry
Apps. "'Ow's the world Using you ?"
"That'S. an original costume el!. yours,
Captain Norneati," remarked the gon-
dolier. "I don't know that I've OVOT
seen anything so daringly neat before."
wot of it?" demanded Mr.
Apps, witb sudden aggressiveness.
"Wot's the odds to you wilt I like to
d ou're"--
EL017/ the Dread Diti01480 Was First Intro.
dueed Into That Pair Frovluee of the
Detainiou--Canadlaus Who Art1 CUt Off
Frew the World—How Nature Kind
anti Clothes Them la a Mantle of For.
getfulness.
Tracadie, New Brunswick. Be it
bright or be it dull, be there sun -
allele or rain, this to the stranger,
Is the saddest spot in all North
America. Here, where the waves of
the mighty Atlantic, driven by the
storm into the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
rumble and roar on, the beach, are
confined the outeasts of Canada.
Here tb.e lepers of the Dominion live
and die.
For the Province of New Bruns-
wick, a province which a kind Pro-
vidence has provided with all possi-
ble blessiegs, a province which is a
veritable sportsman's ,paradise, is
cursed with the curse of leprosy.
Tilow it came, where 1E' came from,
is merely a matter of tradition, and
tradition tells, how, some eighty
years ago, two unclean sailors from
the Levant were cast upon the Gulf
shore at Caraquet. The kind-heart-
ed A.cadians, not knowing what a
terrible thing they took among them
clothed and fed them, but when, dur-
ing the next summer the sailors went
to parts unknown, they left the seeds
of the terrible disease , behind them.
Two young women who washed their
clothes ,first absorbed the dead
germs. They married, and had chil-
dren, and their children married and
multiplied, and then, all of a sud-
den, the evil, which had lain dorm-
ant for years, made itself known
with a vengeance, and thrived, and
scarred and tortured, and will go on
thriving and killing till the descend-
ants of these unfortunate girls have
died osut.
Some fifty years ago the Ca,nadians
Government began to take steps to.
crush out the disease, and prevent ita
epread. At erst, these efforts, like
the medical science of that time, in
the matter of strange diseases, were
crude; and more or less inhuman, but
gradually, Improvements were made;
and at present, not only do the un-
fortunate unclean receive the best of'
trea.tment, but the disease is being
gradnally stamped out. Strange to
say, the people of 11'racadie, wliere
the leper lazaretto is situated, and
the people in the serrouncling coun-
try ,do not seern to mind the disease
In the least. Familiarity in this
case ha.s, bred contempt with a veng-
eance. It is true they do -not go
near the. lazaretto, or inside of its
wear? You nee nthinky
"Captain Noienatt," interposed the greet credit for his bOld ninl clever ex -
h gess latighingle "you meet Wait-
TRAOADIE LAZARETTO.
grounds, unless it is absolutely neces-
sary, but the idea of possible con-
tagion or infection does not enter
their mind, and at the sense time
they are fully aware that through
that part of the province there are
scores of. famikes which are subject
to the evil., yet men and women will
marry members- of these families,
and take their chances. Another
sword, hangs over the remainder of
Lite family.
On the other hand the patients
themselves in. most cases take the
matter very philosophically. They,
on their part, seem as 80011. as they
enter the institution to forget all
about the outside World. Their
treatment, which is, in moet eases,
better than they received at home,
for nearly rill of them belong to the
poorer classes. The wonien Etre the
Leos', easily reconciled to their fate,
and bear their sufferings with the
greater equaramity. The men are
apt to worrY, and are often very sur-
ly and troublesome.
The Lazaretto building, whech has
been erected almost on the beach,
at Traca,die, has the appearance of
a large modern hospital, Its ground
are wide and extensive, and are ,cut
off from the highway neighboring
farms by strong, big; long fences.
'rite number of patients at Present is
twenty-one, fifteen men and six wo-
men, all of them French Canadians
from New Brunswick, with the ex-
ception of three Icelanders, settlers in
the North West. The number shows
a decrease of forty per cent. within
the last few years.
The institution is kept wonderfully
clean, and everything is kept in ap-
plepie order. Downstairs is the
pharma,cy and the remainder of this
floor is taken up with reception
rooms, and a beauties/ little chapel,
which is arranged in such a way,
that the female patients can attend
the services without leaving their
dormitory. The general public is al-
ways admitted to this floor, though
very few, and never the people of the
surrounding distriets, avail themsel-
ves of the privilege. The next floor
contains the dormitories, dining
rooms, and private rooms for parti-
cularly bad cases. Upstairs
everything is as neat and clean as on,
the first floor. Everything has ap-
parently been arranged to give the
inmates the impression that the place
is not a prison or a compulsory hos-
pital, but a home, and everything is
as cheerful as, possible. There is ac-
commodation for about forty or fifty.
The dormitories in the, male and fe-
male departments are much aailto.
Large airy rooms full of light and
bright fittings. • On each side are
rows of beds. Not the regular hospi-
tal cots but little iron beds with
sliding curtains of a light white ma-
terial on each side. In the centre, are
%lige tables. These in the female dor-
niiitory were adorned with flowers,
these in the men's department with a
game that is- played with colored
marbles. '
The rear of the female dormitory is
composed of plate glass. This, as a
rule, is covered with blinds, made of
matting, but when there is a service
in the chapel the,blinds are drawn up,
and the female. patients are thus en-
abled to take part in the service
without going downstairs, Almost
the only pain the lepers suffer is of
' kind of Peen like rheumatisnaanct
the disease, far from being accom-
panied by horrible physicaa sufferings,
as most people, imagine, can be best
Compared in that respect to chronic
rheumatism. Even death comes, ill a
les-. painful form than in the case of
any other di.sease, and, is directly
caused by a gradual wealsening ot
the entire organism.
Tile dining rooms are small, but
clean and cheerful There is little
that.. is human in any of the faces
belonging to the advanced cases, and
they are not sights that anyone
should go to see out of- mere wan-
ton curiosity. Puffed up. and swol-
len in horrible fantastic ways, they
are living nightmares, the dreadful
-
aspect of evhich is intensified by the
knowl tleat every part of the.
body is in a similar condition, if not
vs,orse. Thera is a general indiria_
tion on the pare of the sufferers to
hide their disfiguration. Past of
the cases are of the tubercular kind,
usually spoken of as Elephantesis.
There are a few. cases of the Aneste-
thic oied, in which the contraction
of- the nerves and muscles does not
produce such a horrible though per-
haps more fantastic appearance.
Thanks to the remedies used to re-
tard aed alleviate the ravages of
.
thing, which never seems to trouble
them is the possibility of contagion !
by means of bites and insects. This
is one of the greatest difficulties with
which physicians interested in the
disease in the Hawaii, Jamaica and .
1
the east have had to contend.
Up to this time very little has been
known. about the Canadian lepers, in i
fact, very few people know there are '
any in the Dominion, excepting those
that are occasionally imported am-
ong the batches of emigaants from
A SL:ater,s Daring.
Few teats of seating hay& ever ex-
celled the exploit of cue of Napoleon's
oil -leers performed shortly after the
fight lit Jena in 180(3. The emperor
dispatcliecl an officer to efarslial Mor -
tier requiring bite to seize certain im-
portant towns without delay. Mien
the officer arrived at the mouth of the
Elbe, tvhere the river is Tys miles wide,
he was threatentel \vie] serious loss et'
inie. The river was just covered with
lee, therefore to row over was out of
the question. He could not cross by
the nearest brietge without goilig 20
miles out of his ens, on rotic18 hen ry
with snow, and he grudged the time
that woula thuS be wasted. So he re-
solved to skate across the thin, fres'ely
formed ice. nail he tried walking Ise
wetild have sunk nt once, but by eldne
ming along on ble elzates at the top of
his speed lie got over tbe rii.er both dry
and unharmed. By this daring if dan-
geeous deed he saved six bout's, did
what Napoleon bed° him do and won
other countries, who come to settle
in the North' West. For the latter
there is a small receiving station
from which the s-ufferers are trans-
ferred to the litzaretto here. If the
disease is in the first 'a
no danger of contaeion or infection
0
and the patients, who as yet cannot
be distinguished from healthy peo-
ple by the unpractised eye, are trans-
ported by means, of the regular chan-
nels of tra,vel, but when the disease.
es advanced, they are taken here ire
special railroad cars, and vehicles,
a,nd often- by means of specially char-
tered schooners. Onee here, they are
entirely cut off from the world. They
are dead to every one and every one
Is dead to them, with the exception
of' the nuns, who are devoting their
lives to the alleviation of their euf-
ferings, Father Badineau, the parish
priest, who visits them, and Dr, A.
C. Smith-, the Governmemt Superin-
tendent of Leprosy, who no doubt,
some day or other will lose hie. life
In his unremitting attention to 'duty
and his unceasing effort to find some-
thing that will combat and destroy
the terrible bacillus.
As soon an the Government stamp
is set upon them by their removal to
the lazaretto. the unfortunate people
are truly cast out. Up to that time,
their relations will do .all they can.
for them. They do not tvant, to part
-with their loved ones. They will
hide the latter. They will he, ancl
do almost anything to prevent their
removal. There tvill be the most
pathetic, and most heartrending
scenes when finally they must Mee
them up; but after they have once
left, and after the door of the laza,r-
etto has once been closed upon them,
all ties that, bound them the world
seem. to he suddenly snapped off.
None, be they friends ot relatioris
come to see them.; eo one even en-
quires after them, excepting On rare
occasions, and they are allowed to
live on in the lazaretto, and suffer
and become unrecognizable, as if they
had never been known beyond it, till
I I ff J3'or rtpparently heartless and peculiar be-
haviour on the part of relatives two
reasons are given. One is, thee they
do not want it known that any ono
belongleg to them is in the lazaretto
young ci
•
death enc s t lair erings, or
care or the Poults Is a Difficult am I
Is an Important Matter.
,Ncrsv, when we have got things in
shipshape order, the question of hatch-
ing and dare of the poults is the ab-
sorbing thought. I Set about two ehiek-
en hens and one turkey ben or put tur-
key eggs with cluck eggs in the incuba-
tor and give the turkey the poults to
raise. I leave the turkey undisturbed
Until I see that she begins to get nerv-
ous about coming off, then1 tak.e the
little poults in a well warmed basket to
the kitchen stove and take madam tut. -
key to my louse box that is painted
with a lice killer dileted a little. I shut
her in laere for au hour or more. I
have a large square dry goods box tvith
a square door eitwed out -with a lath
door made to in. I make a pen
around the cop of l'oot wide boards.
Instead of. a floor to the coop I put in
dry straw, and as Soon as I turn the
poults out I put in cleae straw every,
day. I only keep them coopecl three or
four days if the weather is good and
warm, then I turn them out when the
clew is off and let them run until be-
tween 4 and 5 o'cloelt, when I hunt
them up and drive them In mad feed
Lor the night. At first it is quite a
bother to find them at uight, but after •
the little oues learn that they get their s
supper when you •sbut them up they
will conie your call.
After tbe ground is dry and warm 1,
move the coops every day instead or
putting In dry straw. I go over them.
once a week eor lice until they get so
large it is impossible to handle them.
This is when tbey are 6 weeks or 2
months old. We tben drive them to the
field in the inbrukig and go after them,
as we do the cows. In a week or twc
they will conic up themselves. I put
fresh laid eggs in cold water and let
them boil half an hour or more and
cbop, them. up shell and all. This is
their first food, with a little fine grit
sifted M. After a day or two I chop
dandelion leaves with the eggs for
their breakfast, with a little curd made
of sour milk for their dinner. Onion
tops and egg and curd mak.e their sup-
per. I mix a little fine grit in every
morning in their food and as they grow
older give grit a little coarser. This
feed; with oatmeal and millet seed,
makes up their bill of fare until they
are driven to, the field and told to help
theniselves to -what they like nest.
In two years I have lost only three
turkeys by being sick when little. I
have. tried feeding johnny cake and
cornmeal in different ways and always
lost my turkeys. I think cornmeal in
arty farm le too hearty for little poults.
I keep them a little hungry, feeding
only three times a day what they will
eat up clean, in a short time. A great
many people do not look for lice be-
tweeu the quill feethers of the wing,
and there is just where the lice set up
housekeeping.—Mrs. Charles Jones in
Reliable Poultry Journal.
tne disea.se, very few cases tvhere
fingers a,ndi other parts of the, body
have dropped off are met with here,
but all are more or less ulcerated
though earefully applied bandages
hide the soars. In all cases, the skin
and the parts of the body have lost
11 eisat'on of pain
The patients are allowed to roam
at their own sWeet will over the laz-
aretto grounds, and two boats are
at their disposal, With which they
can go out arid now, and sail and
fish, and shoot on the gulf. They
also have a workshop, but they are
absolutely forbidden to, go outside
the lazaretto boundaries on land, an.d
they never break this rule. Of late
years very few attempts have been
made, at escaping.
The routine of their life is simple.
They get up, at six and retire at
eight. They get the best of foo,d and
attendance. Baring their periodical
ettaelts of pain, which has been said
before is not near as had as in ma,ny
other diseases, they lead comfortable
Bees, appareritly healthy, though
subject to the same little illnesses to
'which otherwise healthy people are
subject. They have great appetites,
and get four big meals a day. They
cling to life, and when they get a
severe cold cry for a doctor as
quickly as any one else. Sortie of
them live in the lazaretto for thirty
years. Some of them die in two.
When they die, they are buried in
Leprous ground with nothing to dis-
tinguish their graves from that of
any of the others, and leaving no,
more void in the world than If they
had never existed, But the bed they
"have vacated, the chair at the din-
ing boa,rd which they have left em-
pty, are certain to be filled some
day with another member of the fam-
ily which has cast them out and
forgotten them.
EGB=s. and Fesultry In Great Britain.
el. de Loverdo has read before the
Societe de Nationale d'Agriculture de
France an article on the importation of
eggs into Great Britain of which the
London Times gives in an issue of re-
cent date a translation a full column in
length, and in, turn I use this material,
condensing and adopting freely.
The importation of eggs into Great
Britain last year was valued at $24,-
5,18;227, while the poultry and game
figures were $3,821,633, an outlay of
$25360;860 in addition to that for the
poulLry and eggs produced in Great
Britain.
el. de Loverdo describes the special
cars in use, which are so roade that
cleickens for this market can be fat-
tened during the transport, one attend-
ant being able to take care of a number
of cars. Youug Russian chickens
bought at low prices are tbus prepared
for the English inarket and reach here
alive, rind the same ,system has been
followed with success in Italy. Bel-
gium has been fortunate enough in es-
tablishing a specialty not only for the
London market, but also in Paris, with
its "petit poussin," for which restau-
rant keepers in both places wiliingl3r
pay 45 cents apiece. They areready-
for the table in six weeks, the particu-
lar breed of Flemish fowls whicb fur-
nisbes these early maturing chick-ena
being known as the Braekel, which has.
long been famous for its precocity.
French poultry breeders are urged to
exhibit the attractive Mans and La
Bresse chickens at the Smithfield dead
chic/seri show held annually in London.
—Consular Reports.
Air the Eggs.
M. 111. Johnson, a Nebraska expert,
says: "Close confinement invites a dor-
mant condition, or, in other words, ex-
ercising the embryo chick causes it to
move, stretch and develop its 'own
strength. A movement of the egg
makes a corresponding movement of
the chick. A breath of fresh air on the'
egg has the same effect. I find by ex-
perience that if the temperature is
right and the eggs are bandied enough
they will hatch, and it matters but lit-
tle whether they are in a basket, box
or an incubator if the teraperatere has
been right and the eggs exercised. The
time has come when we realize that
airing the eggs does them good, but
very few have any idea or have an ex-
planation to offer , why it is So. The
reason is plain and easy. The change
of conditions or rather the fresh air
causes the chick to wake up, but this is
not all there is to it. The temperature
or the hen's body expands the shell.
When she leaves the nest, the cool air
contracts it. Through the alternate
expansions and contractions the Ilbera
of the shell are weakened, or, in other
words, the shell has become brittle
throuet the action bf expansion and
contraction, and when the chick Is due
to hatch It has the strength to make
If all the cabs in London Were the effort, and the shell Isin dondltion
placed in a line there wotild bi a to, to make It possible for the chlett to
tat length 0144 mites! break Out.'