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" On reaching the scane of his encounter with the panthera the day before, Cracker found his hat and the body of the slain pan- ther. Nelse began taking cfi its skin, when in glancing up in a. use near by. he saw ar- other crouching down on a limb. Cracker shot it, and it tumbled to the ground, but; jumped to its feet and climbed to the top of a. small chestnut tree, which bent over with the weight until it was only a few feet from the ground. The panther dropped to the ground, and_ CROCKER'S DOG AT 050!) SEIZED 11‘, but with one blow of its paw it knocked the dog twenty feet away. Cracker had been trying to reload his gun, but the ramrod stuck in the socket, and delayed him so that the panther, after its tout with the dog, rushed upon him While his gun was still empty. The second experience of the dog was again too much for his valor and he ran away. CIScker. taken at a. disadvantage, was also compelled to seek safety in flight. The panther lollowed him, and was gaining “When he reached his cabin he found his dog there ahead of him, looking shee fish and ashamed of himself. The more 19213:: though t}of the way he had left the field alone to the panthers the madder he got, and when he discovered that he had left his hunting-cap, which was made out of a. wolf’s skin, behind him in the swamp, he swore that he would go back and recover it. skin the panther he had killed, and tackle the rest of the drove, if he got chewed up him- self. The dog wasn't hurt so badly as be thought, but he did not suppese that it would ever go around where there was a panther again. Yet, when Nelse started back for the swamp next morning to rederm his reputation as a [anther hunter, what was his surprise to see the dog gather him- self up and march msolutely Along as if aware that he ought to retrieve his reputa- tion, and was determined to do it. “ Crocker caught up his gun, and lost no time in starting in pursuit of the panther. The dog had iollowad it immediately. and was yelping along ahead on the track of the animal. Crooker‘s dog was an exception to most hunting dogs, for, as I have many times heard the old hunters say, there were very few dogs that would follow a panther's track. Nelse’s dog overtook the panther, or probably the panther waited for him. At any rate he pitehed into the panther with- out delav. and was whipped in three eec~ onda. Cracker met his dog coming back badly used up. The hunter went on, and found the panther in a tree. As he was aiming at it, enoiee ofi‘ in the swamp at- tracted his attention, and looking in that direction. he saw another panther rushin toward him, bounding over the tops of the laurela like a rubber ball. Crocker's inter- est in the animal in the tree vanished at once, and he turned his gun on the new at. rival, and by alucky shot killed it. The report of the gun was followed immediately by yells of par-there from all parse of the swamp, and, as Cracker had now no dog to aid him, he thought that the best thing he could do would be to beat a. retreat from the swamp, Two panthers brought up his rear, but did not approach to within shoot- ing distance of N else. They followed him, however, to the edge _of the swamp. " Noise Crocker was a general favorite be- cause of his great fund of rugged wit and humor and his great sociability. Hi» stories were told in a. vein that kept his hearers in a perpetual roar of laughter, his illustrations being broad and original and his powers of mimicry wonderful. He aeldom made his own adventures the subject of narration, but always had some good thing to tell, either in favor of or at the expense of some one else. His great bane was rum. Under the influence of that be war but LITTLE BETTER THAN A DRIVELLING men- am, end his sprees lasted ft r weeks. One of Nelse Cracker’s adventures with panthere. or rather the siory of it. I “collect as well as if Ihad heard it only yesterday, although it oceured sixty years 3.20. Crochet lived near White Lake, in Bethe] turnpike, where his grandfather had bern a pioneer settler, and kept a tavern. 1n the fall of 1820 Nelee had his cabin in the woods near what was called B‘g Pond, and one day he and his dog struck the trail of panthers along the edge of Painter Swamp. Tho practised eye of the hunter discovered that there were tracks of no less than seven of the f: rooiuus am? male. He followed the trail with his dog a long distance in the swamp without discov- ering any game, and then eat down on a log to eat his lunch and reel: himself. Suddenly his dog began to bristle up and growl, and the next instant a laree panther sprang from a tree near by, almost; touching Crocker’s shoulder as it shot past him. It struck the grounds few feet beyond and bounded eff into the swamp. _ Stories 01' Wud Lite Heard Sixty Years Ago by an old New Yorker. “ I lived twenty ysars in the wilds of Sullivan county, and le:t them over forty years ago," Saul the venerable \Villiam R. Sands, now a resident of this city, “ and have a. lively rscollection of the old huhtn‘s referred to by Fin Teeple, the Pennsylvania Nimrod, in his narrative of 01:1 timrs in the woods of that region, as given in last Sun- day's Sun. I was much surprised in bear that Peter Stewart was still living. He must certainly be between 90 and 100 years old. The last time I was in Sullivan County was in 1872, when I atttnmd the funtral of Stephen Carry, one of the pic-Jeers of the county, who died at the age of 101. I re- member Nelse Crocker, the panther hunter, whom Teeple mentions as having killed him~ self because he broke the temperance pledge. Be, as well as many others of the old hun- ters, used to lounge at a tavern kept by an uncle of mine when they were in that v1~ cinity. In those days rum was the favorite beverage, and those free and easy Woodsman punished quantities of it. I can remember, when l was a boy, sixty ysnrs ago, sitting on a bench in the bar-room of that old tav- ern and listened in open-mouthed wonder to their recitals of adventnrts with panthers. wolves and bears. “ At that time some of them were old men and had roamed the Woods before the Inâ€" dians had given up their claim to them as hunting grounds, and they enlivened the meetings on such occasions with tales of In- dian atrocity and personal encounters with the savage, which were then still fresh in their memory. These men lived in different parts of the county, but they seemed to look upon the whole ngion as a common stamping ground, and is was no unusual thing to see half adozen hunters in that little bar-room. which was in the town of Neversink, whose homes were thirty miles away in different directions. TOLD IN A BACK‘WOODS TAVERN. The Cuinc se compositor has a many time while working. One would imagine he was on a six-day-go-aa-y ou-please walking match instaad of setting type. He cannot sit at the case as our printers do, but must con- stantly trivel from one case to another, as the characters needed are so numerous and cover: so much space that: it is impossible to keep them in anything like the room re- quired for the ordinary cases. In setting up a piece of copy the Chinese printer will waltz up and down the room for a few moâ€" ments, and than go down-stairs fcr a. line of lower-case. Then he takes the elevator and goes up into the third storey after some caps, and then out into the wood shed after some astonishera. Intelligence in his case is not so much a. requisite as being a good pedestrian. “ But panther stories were not the only ones those hunters of the olden time used to tell. Wolves. bears, and wounded bucks furnished subjects for endless tales of back, woods proweaa. If that old tavern were standing now, and its walls would spetk, the life of Davy Crookett would be as tame as a dictionary alongside of the tales they could unfold. ’ an expression of Tertullian. It was possibly suggested by an erroneous translation of some Latin expression for capital punish- ment. At any rate, it stands condemned as a sentimental anachronism, bearing on its front the traces of later and more morbid forms of piety rather than the simple hu- mility oi the Apostles, who rejoined in all things to imitate their Lord. Those who accept these legends must do so on the au- thority of an heretical novel, written with an evil tendency, not earlier than the be. ginning of the third century ; or else on thnt of the aprocryphal “Acts. l’etri at Pauli,” which appeared nta still later date. All that we can really learn about the closing years of St. Peter from the earliest Fathers may be summed up in a few words, that in all probability he was martyred at Rmme. That he died by martyrdom may be regard ed as certain, because, apart from tradition, it seems to be implied in the words of the ristn Christ to his pcnitent Apostle. That this martyrdom 107k place It Rome, though first asserted b Tertullizm and Gains rat the beginning a the third century, may (in the abuurxce oi any rival tradition) ho accept- ed as a. fact in spite of the uculesimticsl tendencies which might have led to its in- vention ; but the only Striptural authority which can be quoted for any visit of St Peter to Rome is the one Word, “The Church in Babylon saluieth you." The notion of the Apostles crucifixion head downward: is derived from a. pasuing allusion it; Otigeg. an} 3661133 to contradict " Another hunting story that made a deep impression on my mind in that old hack Woods tavern was about a man named DJdgu who Was a great panther hunter. lie was driving a deer once near one of the ponds of Sullivan county, and was walking along the edge of the pond. when he discovued a. pan- ther glaring at him from a tree and making ready to spring. Quick as a. flash he had hid rifle to his shoulder and before the panther had time to spring he sent a bullet in its brain. The panther fell dead and rolled in- to the pond. The echoes of the shot had hardly died away when the woods seemed literally alive Wlth companions of the dead beast. Dodge said he saw them leaping ab- out in the trees on all sides. He knew that he had no possible chance for his life in a LODtGSt with such numbers unless he could obtain some advantage which they could not overcome. It suddenly accurred to him that no member of the cat family would en- ter water under any circumstances, so he waded out into the pond until he was waist deep. He counted seven panthers leaping about in the trees, uttering blondeurdling yells, and glaring at the hunter. From his position in the pond Dodge would shoot at a panther whenever one wonld rush down to the edge of the woods. He killed four, when the other three retreated into the woods and disappeared. Fearing that they had gone after reinforcements, Dodge made all haste to get to his cabin. The nexz day, in com- pany with another hunter, he followed the remaining three and succeeded in killing two of them. at evary jump his rifle. The thrown the gm inapscc it, we escape {1012 My animal (I‘d not “ \Vhen Cru alighted directly in iroot of Neale. It jumped for his throat before he coal 1 deliver ablow with his axe. tie drew his knife, and by a lucky thrust buried it in the pan- ther’s heart. It was more than lucky, tor the panther's lorepaws Wire on his breast, audits wide open jawa at his throat. Iu falling back it set. its claws in the hunter’s clothing, and tore them from him from the shoulders down. Leaving the panther in its death throes, Cracker hastened to the spot where he had thrown his rifle, and found‘it. He lest no time in loading it, for he knew that it was more than likely trat the dying crie of the panther would sum- mon others to the spot, and he had barely got his rifle ready before he heard one springing from a tree toward him. It soon came in sight, and, discovering Cracker, crouched tor a. spring in the crotch of a tree, a. few feet away. Nelse waited for the lea , and as the panther left the tree be fire The ball entered its heart, and the animal fell dead at Crocker's feat. failed to carry on eitt to the swamp. Armm back to meet the pant He had not long to m but a short distance in infuriated beast apran “Nelse’s dug, probably unable to face has master after deaerting him twice in a trait, had disappeared, and Cl‘uCkkl‘ never saw him again. Finding himself thus left in combat pmihers alone. Na-lse concluded it wouli be best to let the ones still remaining have the swamp to themselves, so he took the skins of the three panthere he had killed and broke camp. Cracker signed the temp: r‘ ance pledge in Monticello in 1843, and did not drink anything until the fall of l844. He joined a party on a. hunt that full, and they had plenty of rum in the camp. Nils), got; drunk and remained so for a week. When he became sober he was to nshamed that he shot himself in camp. )Wai J \l The Martyrdom of St. Peter. Chinese Composition. , when Crocker threw panther ran to where I 3 and pumed a abprt t WOunded. had gone , when the he huehes, h the doWn e had me to ad. his Those fomilinr with the Oneida com- munity can not avoid making eomprri-ous. Though the latter and the Shakers bear a general resemblance one to the other, yet they are unlike ‘in some particulors, and in one point are as dissimilar as the Autipodes. Before Oneida community resolved itself in- to a. stock company and conformed to the state marriage laws its members were “ free lovers. " Their peculiar and abhorrent prac~ tices were a. part of their creed. The Shakera' faith is based upon the plm of pro perty in common, but nl-o up \n "the prac- tice of living a. strictly Virgin: ceiibate life.” The Oneida, community contains more mem- bers and has imnreme trap-shops, silk- worke. blooded stock, barns, and a canning factory. The Smker settlement have none of these. They may lack the collective vigor and laluit for business and manufac- ture which formerly characterized the Oneida community under the leadership of J. H. Noyes. the founder. There is no pre- tense here to landscape gardening ; no hand- some lawns. or flOWer-beds, or mureams. The buildings are not unlike in general character those of the ordinary farm sort. There is more evidence of simplicity and oontentednees than of an ambitious desire to pcie before the world. - This is the perent Shaker settlement. Mother Ann Lee went lrom England to New England xn l774. She claimed to have re- celved arevelnlion undo 02mmision from Christ toform a kingdom of Christ on earth. In this kingdom the sexes were to dwell together in virgin puriw. She but been the mother of {our children, all of whom died in infamy. Old as her that ry was. she brought with her firom England seven converts. In witchcraft New Eng- land she met with no favor. Then, with a soulety numbering lea members, she wandered into the Wilderness here in Al- bany county about the year 1780. The first church was built in New Lebanon, Colum- bia county, in 1785. In 1795 the society appeared under the name of “The United Smiety of Believers of Christ’s Second Ap- pearing." Now there are seventeen socie- ties in the United States. There are none in anyother part of the globe. The com~ mon name “Shakers” was applied to these people in deiision, and, like many another, the epithet stuck until it has ceased to be opprobrious as was at first intended. In their religious services the worshippers, when moved by the Spirit, shake or darned. They hold public services in the church on The members of the Church family num- ber about fifty. The tntzl of the four vil- lages is no: more than 150. Two-thirds of the whole number are females, All, or the major partion, of the Church family sleep and eat in one large building. The slef ping rooms are divided, the male from the fe- male, by a long hall. The meals are taken at a long table in silence, and with strict do- corum. A ball on tnp of this bmliing gets the members out of bed at 4:30 am. in the summer and at 5 a..m. in the winter. It summons them to breakfast at 6, to dinner at 12, to supper at 6. Tue male members do very little manual labor. They superin- tend the outdoor work, which is mostly performed by hired help. About twenty hired man are employed, at a salary of $290 a year, with board. Aithough some Jrrsey and Holstein: are raised, no effort is made to rear thoroughbred caltie. The women are engaged in tailoring, mending, making shirts and other garments for family wear. Brooms are also made here. and small pails. The buildings. aside from the church. the otfice, the house, and the need store, are de- voted to factory or workshop purposes on a small scale. We How the Disciples of Mother Ann Lee luvs and. Tut-We â€"â€" Thetr Parent senemtfletâ€"Property held by the Community for the Benefit of all. What are known as the Shaker settle ments are situated seven mllm n irthwast of A boy, in the town of Watervlicc. N. Y. There are four villages mustered together, (lisfaut from each other about half a. mile. The principal settlement is lulled the "Church" village. The church in which all the members worship in common is lo- cated here. The other three villagea are known as the “North,” "South," and "West." The names ll‘ldlc&te their direc- tion from the Church satlement. Ea. :h community holds its own propety and com trols its own tam; oral nfl'lirs. 1n religious matters the (our settlements are controlled by the pastor of the church, though each has one “presiding elder." Tne land held by the four communities formsa total of 3.000 ncres. Some of it is woodland and a small portion of it is marshy. There are no hills of prominence. and generally the land is level. fertile, and cultivated wmh ex reme care. The land owued by the Church vil- lage comprises 769 acres. The term village is rathers. mienomer here. Ordlnarily it conveys ma idea of a. greater number of dwellings, streets, a tavern. and some signs of public business. The buildings which compose the Cuurch settlement number twenty or thirty about. They form a. sort of square or courc. There is nothing which at all represents a. traVelled highway. Nor do these building appear like dwellings, as they serve various what and difierent purposes. The first, which mantis near the public road, is a neat and substantial structure. This contains the 0f- fice, the “store,” and reception-room. Here Samantha Bowie, Birbara. Hooper, and Ella. Beimdiob preside as hOsts, and re- ceive the public gracefully and graciously. In the store various articles of home maau. iactnra are exposed for sale. Buketwork, needlework, mats, canes. elem, rei resent the patience and deft hand labor of these inter- esting people. The female costume. like that at the Oneida community. is peculiar to themselves. It consists of a. dress with long kilted skirt of block alpaca. end a. cape of the some material. This, with a white apron and a bonnet-frame for the head, coured with white goods, makes up a neat and efi'ectire indoor coetume. The general appearance of the women here, With the white apron omltted,is notunlike thatofthe Sistvta of Charity. When the women folks go to Troy and Albany on business they wear the straw bonnet and caps which is known to the female creation everywhere as a “shaker.” The men wear no peculiar or distinctive costume. Theirs is that of society at large. 35’ ‘ers of sightsee Cohoes, Wate ‘ervicers THE SHAKERS. me n this city, from Lmaingburg, and public who at- fl'era and disturb- e worshippers, shake or dance. | the church on m. The public There are many bananas raised at Bonae on. but they do not run so large as on the mainland -, the coconuts do splendidly. In- deed. it is to encourage the coconut grow- ers that the fruit men take their bananas. At present there is a sort of a boom in the coconut business. and many are starting coooanut plantations. or "cocoa-nut walks, ” as they are called here. It is a safe invest- ment of money, but the return is slow. The trees are planted along the see-shore in a sandy soil mixed :with loam. From the time a tree is planted it takes seven years before it is sufficiently large to bear nuts. But just as soon as the oocoonuts form on the trees then a steady income sets in. Tue average number of cocosnnts to a tree is 120 per year. In the best places trees will bear 150 per year. They are sold according to the season of the year. from $16 to $30 per thousand. Our captain wee paying $20 per thousand for good nuts. The cocoa.- nut walk needs hardly any care. When ripe the nuts (all off themselves, and all that is necessary is to pick them up. The husk- ing of cocosnnts is the most tiresome work on a plantation, but the native inhabitants are very skillful at it, and they charge very little for their services. After being husk- ed the cor: innuts are piled up, and when the first steamer arrives are loaded into dories and psddled to the ship. As they are pass- ed up the sides they are counted. and a check given immediately to the planter, who on going to the captain or pnrser re- ceives his money in Mexican dollars or Hon- durian money. The whole business is con- ducted on a. cash basis. There are plenty ol small islands which can be bought cheap for cash on which there are now sulficient trees to pay for the money investel in a short time, as well as to support the planter while waiting [or his new “9/38 to grow. The cocoannt industry is increasing every ear, while the demand for the nuts in New hork and New Orleans is always equal to the supply. Tne usual method} of a planter who comes into this country ta start a new Rinntntiou is to bem’n with the bannnx. ine months a'ter the banana sucker is planted a yield is obtained. The young shoots are lanted eighteen or tWenty loot apart, and etween till m n cocvanut tree is placed. The heavy growth of the banana shades the young plant until it is well root ed, when it 500: shoots up ahead. Tue soil is 8) rich that banana. and coconut will soon interfere. Then the banana. suckers are out down and the trees kept clean. Thus, while the planter lives upon and makes a profit from his biluanai, the More fortune in coeonnnts is rapidly nearing its consummation. There is little trouble in making plantations in this country. Lind making plantations in this country. Lind costs nothmg, add large concessions may be obtained from the Hondurian government. Tm heart's oil of the pure furnish light for God’s candle, the heart: of the impure, darkness for the devil's scandal. The solitary oyster m a. church festival kettle, is accorded more honorIthun a whale in a school of leviathan. the Bunzcca is an island and in its way is one of the liveliest places in Spanish Honduras. Itslivelinsu, however, is peculiar to itself, and there are fnv places like it. The island has two uses. It grow: excellent bananas Ind coconuts and affords a. refuge for all the fltes of the surrounding islands. Shakers point wish pride to their mortal- ity record, which testifies to their longevity. The average age at dcath in the seventeen sooieties, embracing nearly five thousand persons, in 57% years. “Aunt Dolly," who recently died at: Mount Lebanon. was 108 years old. She had been a. Lhaker nearly all her life. The only peculiarity notice- able in a Shaker's speech is the omission of the fin1l letter in “yes.” It is add at first to heu- “ye” instead of the usual affirma- tive. It is a corruption of the Quaker “yea,” perhaps. A5 one of the Shakers ob- served \0 the writer, "It takes all sorts of people to make a. world.” munity. More than Ital; a century ago the Shakers first originated the drying of sweat corn for food, and they first. raised, paperzd, and (ended garden needs in the preaent styles. From their first methods of propar ing medicinal roots and herbs for market sprung the immense patent medicine trade. Tney began the broom-corn business. The first buzbeaw was made by the Shaker: at New Lebanon. This in now in the Albany Geological hall. The Shakers here at \Va- tervliet invented the metallic pens, first made of brass and silver. All distilled li- quors were abandoned no a beverage by the Shakers sixty years ago, and during the past forty years no fermented liquor of any sort has been used except as a medicine. Pork and tobacco are a'so numbered among the “ferbidden articles.” Though the Shakers are not strict vegetarians, the amount of meat nnd grease used as food is reduced to the minimum. Males and females are "not allowed to touch each other unnecesmrily nor to hold aecret carreapondence." The Shakers chin) to be auti~Mormon and anti Onadian. Be- f( re a. new member is admitted he or she must confess all. sin in the presence of an elder or an elderees and coufeasor. Married and single persons are admitted on conform- lug to the rtquirements. Whatproperty they bring goes voluntarily into the common fund. Sometimes a. member "baokslidea.” An Philip Smith, one of tlgimanagen, said: the S be kers: carried on. n ‘They come and go. When a member “backslides” he or she may return, if no serious objection be madev Childlen with their parents are received with reluctance. They are educated in the comma school, branches and are given trades. In the of- ficebulding members receives visits from relatives and acquaintances belong to the outside world. These friends are pzrmitted to remain for days or weeks, though indis- criminate intercourse with “worldlinga” is discouraged. ers of the peace. Th aisles of the church : gcep that_ is u. ahqrt of rmned mne tbmlsnn'i mato plants. These Tomatoes, apples. an had here by the Shah municy. _ More than The memb the :pirit I buried in which rest 32F An Island of Cocoauuts and Bananas. ltXODB Gardening is the principal employment of Le Shakers, though all sum: of fuming are ,rried on. Tue recent severe fro is utterly ,lned nine thousnni of the finest Early 20 ato plants. These can not be replaced. omatuen, apples. and other fruits are can- :d here by the Shakers for the Oneida com- unicy. V More than half a century ago the sway man’s hope of could dispense with ncipal employ l1 sorts of fun 3f the finest sari 3311 not be rep] other fruits are ms for the Oneida .0 do so. Ann came? 1'] he hazing; to all t of Heaven and ith his recruiting A: Honolulu the idea. has gained ground that Sen Frmcisco is a most desirable place icr lepsrs. The rigid and scmewhat cruel tr akment to which patients are subjected in the Molokai settlement has driven the lcpers to seek other fields. and the eeee with which they are permitted to land on our shores has been heralded at home._ Hence hes followed somewhat of a stampede by the army of leper-s to cime hitherwarj by each steamer. A gentleman who recently wit- nessed the departure of a vessel from Hon- olulu for Molokai informed me that the scene was the most terrible one he had ever witnessed. There wrra about sixty cases bound for M-ilokai. Some of them were simply masses of rottenoess and filth. The steamer was a smell one and the patients were crowded int) 3. narrow space. The farewells of the relatives who had come to bid a. last adieu to their stricken kinsmen was a pitiful sight for it was known to & etrsainty that not one of the lepers would ever leave Molokzi alive. The medical fraternity of Honolulu have so fan- made but little progress in their at~ tempts to ward 06 the disease. Some of them assert that the distme is simply a. stage of syphilis. Others do not share in this be- lief. it is oeuzeded that then is quite a re- aemblance m leprosy and tertiary syphilis. The leprosy of Hawaii and that of Asia. are pronounced to be totally unlike. - On Feb 13 thsre were thirzeen cases of leproav in the hospital here, and at the pre- s<nc time there are sweaty-three. Its tur- tber spread clap-ands upon the vigilance of the authorities. and. they doubsless will take such action as may be required in deal- ing with this tarrible scourge. It is now proposed to join the Bay of B's- oay with the Mediterranean 8:3 by means of a great nhip canal, which will have the voyage swung the Spanish paninsuh. This would he a work seem: in importance only to the Caez Canal it“: , for all the vessels from England and Nnnhern Europe would be forced to use this new means of commun- ieatiou. It would be a gigantic work. but it would Certainly pay in time. In the mean- time the Panama canal is being vigorously pnseouted by M. (19 Lesseps. This is a, mighty work, for it: suns to join the Atlan- tic oceans by a great ship canal cut through Central America. A vast amount of work has been done, and the most gigantic efforts are being made to finish thi extraordinary channel by the close of 1886. But it seems that only I 60 o? the dredging, l 50 of rock cutting, and 1,15 (2 967,000 metres .of the earth of eXCaVatmn had beeflpleted on the first of Much last. 6 impor- tant supplementary work, ths Chagres Dam, is not yet begun. ’I‘nere is rersou to fear the cum) will not be finished before 1900. Of the 600 000000 francs subscribed for, 300,000,000 hme been apact in preliminaries and plant, and 100,000,000 in purchasing and improving the railwraiy. It is supposed In this city the probabilities of is spread of leprosy are undoubtedly greater than in any other city in the world. Among the later arrivals from Hawaii is a young lad who is now confined at the Twenty-sin slreet haspital. Her case in a peculiar one, and her recovery is considered doubtful. Molokai, one of the Smdwich islands, is a regular settlement for Iepers, and it was proposed to send this young woman there for treatment. She escaped however, eluded pursuit, and determined to make her way to this city. No one suspected her true condition. Her fe’loW-passengers on the stamer to San Francisco did not detect the slightest traces of her disease. She mingled freely with those on board and was consid- ered the belle of the ship, When the ship nearerl San Francisco someone recognized the girl and notified the authorities, who made an (ffth to prevent her landing which was accvxnplished after quite a struggle. She is now in the hospital and will probably not survive many days: A At one hospital more are new twenty two Asiatic lepem and one {no u Hawaii. Forty eight cases have been shippfl to Coins. Of the large number of cases already here, the majo.‘ity are engaged in just such work as will aid in spresding tbs disease. such as the manufacture of cigars, the manufacture of shirts, and as cooks for Coucuians. These afflicted people are aware of the danger that may fl How the spread of their disease, and are using all kinds of devises to conceal their condit‘ou from the authorities. Sometimes they succeed for a. while in eluding detection by the lynx-eyed inspectors but finally they are tracked. If they concaal the filthy and piinful sores and scuba which always ac- company the disesae from View they are safe. The whit; is, strange to say. give themselves but little concern. but those of their own race are in most dread of the dis- ease. The alfl'cled Chinaman is shunned to a. degree t mt partakes almost of the charac- ter of inhumanity. so far as his countrymen are concerned' When reduced to a. condi- tion of almost utter hslplessness, the idea of removing the victim by means of poison is then entertained by his fellow countrymen who have escaped the evil. Some of the cases of leprosy to be seen in this city are of such a disgusting character as to cause a. shudder even 10 those who have passed over a. battlefield or are familiar with hospital work. How these poor beings are shunned by those of their own blood, how they are put out of sight and allowed to 10‘: to death ssait were, are facts not to be denied. Rs- duced to this condition, the leper thus for- saken by all the world, is not infrequently carried to some out of-the-wsy place where he occasionally is gladdened and revived by a draught of water from the hand of some compassionate member of his family, but in the majority of instances even this boon is denied him an] be is allowed to die by inches, hls life being tel-(ninst by poison. that 5[ quired that t} The place man occupiesin this world takes the hue of his character. Alleszncl Incl-emu: or ($9 Disease on tfl Pacific Coastâ€"a Situation of Affairs Which is Appalling in Stan Frag» 5W ‘ltli plant, and. 100,000,000 1 Improving the railway. I 500,000,000 more of fran ed KO complete the work. prdventin; i paidaufli The Great Canal LE PRO SY‘ u? undre‘. here a cisco‘ mite the Easeé igatiun shows city may be will '59