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REFUGE AND CARE IN A

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In one of the lonellest parts of the country is England's only settlement of lepera.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1926.

FAMOUS BANDIT.

A MODERN ROBIN HOOD..

All the legendary romance of the Corsican banditti la recalled by the news that Nonce Romanett! has been ambushed and shot by gendarmes near Ajaccio." ~

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Travellers on these remote roads pass by a collection of smali houses set in the heart of fields. There are cows, and poultry, and

dog that barks fiercely looks like a pleasant smallholding, But the inhabitants of the houses

Woll-known people visiting are lepers. They are British; men, women and children who have Corsica were often received by lived abroad, and who, once in him in some secret place; and they perfect, health, have contracted ate and drank of the best at his leprosy. Happily, in their own country they have found a retreat He was interviewed; and his where members of an Anglican features were known to some by sisterhood give them the most sight and to many from published

photographs.

18 years Romanetti, the coloured diamonds are michaels” is easily operated. most notorious bandit of modern Old stagare on the foldy would avoided capture, aver the rare fed diamonds, re- It times, had

although he had often mingled in eently discovered në Kimberley, to public life during that time:

be a ruby-Mongrel or hybrid. gem "cross-bred" between à din mond and, a ruby,

tender care.

I visited the settlement recently. Its existence as a leper colony is unknown to many who have lived in the county for, years. The driver of the 'car who brought me to the colony from the nearest station-six miles awny knew nothing of the purpose of the little bungalows of the desolate country aide.

But there are those who know the work of compassion which goes on quietly, day after day, year after year. The little sister who came to the door looked young and fragile in her grey hubit.

She is one of the noble women who have given up their lives to the service of these British lepers. And though the work is so little known to the great world outside, the settlement has its friends.

Patients' Pledge..

The little sister who received me at the white house asked me not to give even the name of the county in which the lepers are living.

table.

By the name of the gentleman bandit," he was the hero of many 4 worthy narrative.

Rot fat

This strange ide from the truth. The white or pure diamond, although scintillat- ing rainbow lilas, is à colourless transparent crystal with, no talib of other funeral. But ib la very rarely found. The vast majority of diamonds are smeared of

When a postal aeroplane be-smoked, is diggers pliteit, with tween the South of France and yellow, brown, or grey; these Ajaccio fell near Alata in 1921, stones and all the fare red, blue, green and citron diamonds derive Romanetti was the first to help their colours from Impurities lock-

ed up halde the crystal. the passengers and to inform the authorities.

Greeting French President. Periodically he appeared in the largest hotels in Corsica, and dined and druck nobly, and even joined in dancing.

It is even stated that during

aro

They rubles; first cousins to emeralds, amethysts and topaz which derive their characteristic colours from similar mineral and organic pigments diffused through them.

A dull yellow, brown or grey

the visit to the island of M. Miltint. detracts from a diamond'a. lerand, when the latter was Presi-value, but when, the impurities Anite red, giden of aquamarine dent of the Republic, Romanetti imprisoned in it impart to it a de- was among the mayors and pro minent people who welcomed him. "glow" then the impure diamond. is more valuable than a puze gem His Horace ran in several local many times its size. races. It has been said that on such occasions the judges were told beforehand which horse was expected to win!

Romanetti was filmed in one of "I know," she said, a little his safest retreats. This locality wistfully, "that we have not been not been able to keep our secret altogether. But in some instances the fact that our patients are

cpers is unknown relatives."

to

their

I was told by the wife of the

Some time ago the patients of Greenways were informed that ahortly a new inmate would arrive who did not know that he had contracted leprosy.

rould, at need, be surrounded by his own bodyguard, who, when anger threatened, kept guard over him, guns in hand, day and night.

Romanetti began work as vicar of the parish of one butcher. A, shortage of meat at poignant touching incident. n local fete (so they tell the tale) led to his first crime. Apparent by the young butcher stole a bul-. lock, intending to pay for it later; but the owner laid a trap to be tray the eattle raider to the police Gave Stolen Wealth to the Poor, Romanetti escaped, but said to a friend. "Tall the farmer he will not hear the bullet that kills him."

So the farmer died, Romanetti took to the marshes.

"Do not let him know that this is a leper colony," the, patients were instructed. "Let him settle down first."

The new

red

Kimberley diamond, for instance, is expected to weigh only six carats when cut, yet to be worth £900, or £ito n carat, But less than £22 A carat { was the price fetched by a large "white", stone weighing 149% carats found at Vaal River a few weeks ago. It sold for £3,160.

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་ ན ་ Hyderabad more than 200 years the Nila Hulla mountains of ago. It once formed part of the Russian. Crown jewels and was valued at over £20,000, although a small stone.

and

Diamond diggers look with much Once he killed another bandit suspicion on "blue mongrels," who had not "played the game" asserting that they "pinch the. twice he shot gendarmes who tried

Very loyally the patients obey- ed. It was not until some time after, when he was in a better con- dition to be told the truth, that the Mother Superior broke it gently to the new inmate that he had come to a leper settlement. to capture him.

Child Sufferer.

One of the patients is a child of nine who was sent to England from Brazil to be educated. His family had no idea that the little boy had become a victim of the most distressing of all diseases,

Romanetti was a rich man; and gave bountifully to necessitous people in the island.

It appears that he was killed near a famous house, which he occupied, and which was built on a narrow rock promontory on the for it was not until some time north coast of the island. after his arrival in England that the trouble developed. The child Apparently, he had recently sus-

is now receiving all that modern medical science and affectionate care can provide...

pected some of his followers.

Anibushed

The gendarmes knew that every There is only one woman in the colony, and her story is tragic morning he went to survey the and herole. She is the widow of work of building a huge cellar for a leper. She nursed her husband the wine from the vineyard which devotedly during his illness, he had created near this spot. although she must have realised One Sunday morning he was the possible danger. She con- riding along the deserted rocky tracted leprosy herself, and now road leading to the vineyard. His lives in a little bungalow in the faithful dog, preceding the horse- settlement.

man, began to bark. I should explain that the word

Romanetti had hardly time to leper is never used in the colony. Greenways is simply known by the adopt a defensive attitude before name of the house. But the he was surrounded by gendarmes, people who live in the neighbour who appeared from a rocky ing village know the object of the colony.

I was told that, when the home was first established there were many protesta in the district, but the farmers and the villagers have now accepted it, and some of them, with kindly feeling, refer to

ambush.

Romanetti fired among them; and they fired in return, bring- ing him from his horse. He swept a circle around him with shot from gun and bullets from a revolver. before he died.

People of Corsica have (for Greenways simply as "the colony." their peace of mind and body)

Chaplain and Doctor.

bean told that he was "killed by

Some of the patients drive their some friends."

own motor-cars. The most severe

cases are bed-ridden, but others

normal life.

pipe," or, in other words, indicate

that the seemingly rich "pipe," or bed of diamondiferous clay; will yield no. more valuable stones after. the discovery of a "blue."

The biggest known green dia- mond weighs 48 carats, is rather paler than an emerald, and is now. in the Dresden Museum, while splendid citron diamonds were Crown Amongst the Austrian jewels.

But, valuable as they are, all. diamond-diggers bear a grudge against these mongrel' diamonde. Every digger 'daily, discards ad. worthless many, bits of coloured quartz, and when a genuine mongrel" is discovered the lucky Ander becomes victim to the pain- ful thought that he may have thrown away a score of others. like it!

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id wasted on a poor appetite. There's no need to waste yours, are able to enjoy the large grounds to keep from their friends the for if you eat poorly, feel bilious, lverish, headachy, "blue," Pinket of the house, and to indulge in knowledge of their sufferinga.'

tes, the dainty little laxatives and the ordinary amusements of s The home was founded only liver regulators, are just perfec

aevon, years ago. It has already tion to set matters right.. The community has its own become a happy haven for those. Try Pinkettes, to-night, you'll chapel and chaplain, and a physl-who otherwise, would feel. cop feel better in the morning. They clan from a town some miles away strained to hide themselves away also purify the breath, clear the pays daily visits.

in the loneliness of their own skin, rolleve Piles, by keeping the There is a little, guest house Topma, and the knowledge that one system clean and wholesome they where relatives may stay who wish of our princesses likes to come keep you well. Of chemista, or to visit the colony, but in the and take tea with the patients post free, 60 cents the vial, from is an added ray of Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60 course of its life the home has had occasionally, many patients who have been able light In these shadowed lives. Klangse Road, Shanghai,

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