Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1892 — HOREIBLE SUFFERINGS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOREIBLE SUFFERINGS.

Lepers Devoured by Bears la the Forests of Siberia. The world does not contain in its broau area scene of more desolation and suffering than may be met wilt in the forests of Siberia. Last yeai the region extending from Yakoutsb to Vil lewis k was visited by Miss Kate Marsden. a member of the Kings Daughters, an American association. She rode for over 3,(MK miles through the woods and visited several small leper colonies. The inhabitants of the Province of Ville wisk are chiefly Yakouts, writes Miss Marsden. They live in little com munes, republics in themselves. They compel all who are lepers, or who have come in contact with lepers, to live in the forest in small huts far apart from human habitation. Sometimes they live for years . at other times they die speedihrof privation, or are devoured by the bears with which the forest abounds. In this region there are four months of summer and eight months of winter, and the lepers suffer incredibly. Miss Marsden frequently came upon solitary lepers living in the rudest of huts. The food in many cases

was decayed fish and the bark ol trees. The object of Miss Marsden’s visit was to establish a leper settlement, where the hapless victims of th? dread disease would be properly cared for, and she is now raising funds for that purpose.

That deadly manhole—The electipn of our ticket, sir, is bound to gi ve business

A great .boom,

As I was saying when you left me just now, the election, etc.

“I wonder where the fellow that designed that piece of furniture ever not his idea,”—Life.

A LEPER HUT IN SIBERIA.