The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-01

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n,opYd and made a farewell address
lin, -, ,,, ,,.,r1. UAl,l,o -
cod hess Won u,, brotbars ~ 6nnJro5s
of tbe naoria ond a ,,Ioe clrb accom-.
p,,iod b;,, othab bn,t o,d tho, r,,,t
tbe mir with Io,,eutatinns os The 1oot
s,ypnp off from its r,oorip,s un tool.
n BihIe and some Igwbooi7. wifi bim
into his dreadful ovile and tbn nraver,
of churches were ofTersd th.t ina nigbt
have cournpe and peoce in the remoin.
inc davs of his earthly torrving Opee,
Fmma's cousip. Hon Mr. Kaco was also
sent to Mololoi. and there was no now.
er in his royal connection IN kann him
outside of that island. Mrs. Napela.
of high social circle, had her cottage of
enforced exile on that island of sepul-
chers. A legislator Of the Hawaiian Is
lands is there closing his life He was
probably good legislator in the day
of his health, but 1 cannot help think
ing what "A good thing it would 10 if all
the leprous Legislators of the earth could
be put in some island by themselves.
Such banishment would be a mighty
thinning out at Albany, Harrisburg aud
Washington legislatures, state and ma
tional
The United States government could
afford to provide such a Molokai, and
the moral lopers sent there could have
their legislature and congress and board
of aldermen and army and navy all of
the same blotch. But while the Hawai-.
ian legislator could be found out and
sent to the so called isle Of precipices'
the moral lopor is not so easily desig.
mated, because he has the blotch not so
much on his forehead as on his heart.
What every state and nation now needs
is a Molokai, or isle of lcpers.
Lcprosy Diagnosed.
Corvere,tior ob,u+ Ior,os,, ,,-;+b ,
former member Of the hoard of hcoIth
for the Uawoiior IsIondg revealed to me
tbe followino facts.
Onestion-Tn what mart Of tho svstor,
doos lorros, bo,,i,, H. tra,l.9
Answorr-Tt ott,cl,stbo no,yo cartors
OF tbouo,ht il was &, disease nf tf,o.
bloodg
A-No II bocins with tha ns,v,s
ord inst sc ~, ,,irIIi,g ~ tI,a tr,,,,r. cf
a tre,, first shows lis witberiny reyulfs
in the tin end Of tbp l,,.p I,Tan,b Of the
tree 80 leprusy is first apt 10 show itself
in the paralysis or doubling up of the
little fugor, or in the toe. ol in the lobe
Of the ear. Sometimes there appears up.
on the body a shining surface. and il is
unimprossiblc. Prick it with n pin, ana
there is no sting All the rest of the
patients body may he in pcrspiratiGn,
but that spot remains dry. Eomcumgs
all the signs Of physical disorder disup.
pear, and the disease seems gone Then
there will come u loprous fever, and that
will throw ont blush or eElorosceuc,
that more emphatically announces the
progress of the disease. Then all signs
Of skin disturbance disappear, but attcr
the following leprous fever the case i.
worse than before. So each retreat of
thO disease Is followed by more de-
ldcu advance
Q'-ls II painfuF
A.-No. That - one of the mcrcies.
from the first assault of the plague to
the hour OF death there is an absence Of
physical suffering,
Q,-But is there no mental depres-
aiont
A.-Oh, yes! At the first acquaint-
ance of the fact that the disease is on
him horrid gloom settles upon the
patient, but after awhile slight hope
of recovery is born, and the incipiont
leper tries all forms of cure, and no
form is so absurd that viii not recon-
mend itself as worthy of experiment.
And then all the time the patient thinks
it is something besides loprosy
Q.-When victim of the disease is
first charged with having the plague, !
should think he would resent it?
A.-Yes, and the English law makes
it a libeious case for the courts if man
is unjustly charged with being leper.
Boards of health have to be very care
full in the work Of segregation.
No Cure Now Known For the Plague.
O-Are there any cases of cureg
A.-The only cases recall are tboso
mentioned in the Bible-Naamau the
syrian hero, and the 10 cases that Christ