Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-07-08

ducing light vibrations. Seeming
danger Mr. Fish stiffened his fin and
SO far as color goes, altered his APP
pearance to that of hideous Chinese
dragon. Dark purple spots alternated
with fiery yellow. Blood red TANKS
and gills, made the effort of the little
fish to look bad, quite as comical as Q
clever four year old assuming the gait
Of Bowery tough.
Now see how he acts when afraid"
said the artist. and he plunged a pine
stick into water, tapping the little
beauty on the nose. See, he has quit
his bluff and Is turncoat." The pur-
pie changed to sand hue, the red be-
came mother Of pearl and the yellow
dimmed into dirty silver. "Since he
failed to bluff his enemy, he seeks to
elude him by becoming invisible"
And the lusterless fish, to bear out the
veracity of his portrait painter, tried
to bury himself in the two inches Of
sand upon the bottom Of his prison.
That explains the psychological side
purely physiological. The color ma
terial is deposited in glands which are
contracted or expanded as the fish may
choose. When he thinks he can blur
an enemy, he squeezes the little sacks
that mold his bluffing colors, sending
the green, red and yellow spraying
through his cuticle. When the bluff
fails he withdraws the pyrotechnic
hues to his color bags and as near
like corpse as possible he plunges to
temporary grave in the sand.
Mr.. Hudson finds 1t very difficult to
keep sensitive fish in one mood long
enough to transfer its especial mood
TO the canvas. He finishes about one
week. He says there is not creature
in nature that gives such astonishing
combinations Of color as the bottom
fishes Of the tropics. Nearly all bottom
sea fishes have the power of changing
color at will. They furnish colors
which often taxes an artists color ma
terials to reproduce. The pure blue,
the perfect yellow and the vermillion
shades are the most difficult to at
tain.
The pictures painted by Mr.. Hudson
will belong to the United States Fish
Commission and will be printed in
colors in the published report Of the
Hawaiian expedition. A preliminary
report of the expedition will be made
TO Congress early In the coming ses-
sion, with the hope Of arousing interest
to a degree that will secure a large ap-
preparation for prosecuting the study
of Hawaiian fishes on much larger
scale. The work of the expedition, so
far has resulted in the discovery OF
about thirty new varieties, many OF
which are good for food.
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people would find them today, engaged
in almost every kind Of pursuit to
which the moneyed contingent have
fallen heir in this country. Thus 1t Is
that a little matter of the transfer OF
q paltry $235 900 from the owners de-
posts, to the salaries and pay roll Of
the jealous patriots who watch over
OF legal perplexities and keep them
suitably colored, brings on reminis-
cent mood and starts one to thinking
as to the sort of a cat and dog timo
we would now be having In this Para.
disc Of the Pacific, II the Spanish Am
erican war had not ma.erialized to give
us the glorious though by no means
coveted full protection OF the Stars
and Stripes.
The money MAY be used. But tho
jaded wretch that discovered the fact
raised one more stencil in the nos
trils of decent men that forebodes an
early and "Doleful' dissolution of the
cabal that has held this country chain
ed to class privileges at any cost 10
the
"CoMMoNER."