The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-12

tuotNrt WIN Ou6 bybs, Wtub lubo
ha DWARF stors aud tried "a lot Of
old speotscles finally selecting
pair with the glasses Of different
strength to the further ruination OF
the right. Now, when people want
their eyes attended to, they go to
the Infirmary aud get exactly what
the condition OF their eyes demands
that they shall have.
Mr. Geo. w. Smith was 10 the
right yesterday when he, at the
Board Of Health meeting, censursd
the newspapers who lose no oppor
tunity to drag lsprosy into their
columns for thu sake OF "yellow"
sensation. Neither Mr.. Smith or
The INDEPENDENT advocate tina
muzzling OF the press and we would
be in the front rank OF the kick-rs if
a press censor was appointed. But
we do not see what can be gained
by constantly advertising Hawaii as
leper ridden country aud thereby
soaring away strangers who might
wish to visit here or perhaps locate
here but who naturally will hssit ate
10 going to a country where, accord
ing to the Advertiser, Heath" is
the hack driver. W. hope the Adj
vertiser will let up en- those two
hacks now and devote its attention
to the Eclipse, he vessel which car
ried the lepers and uhich left last
evening with a number OF we'll
known citizens on board. The
ECLIPSE had not been fumigated
since she carried the lepers and we
are looking out for cartoon with
the legend attached: Death is tie
skipper" The Advertiser is not
alone in its frantic efforts to live up
to yellow journalism. Dr.. Emerson
has seen lepers bid good bye to
their relatives and friends, looked
at their faces for the last time per
haps and pressed the last kiss on
the lips of their loved ones. Dri
Emerson was 30 Mortified, 40 utterly
Disguised that he couldn't take his
bath as he was preparing to do and
he rushed up town haunted by the
terrible sight he had witnessed.
The Advertiser sympathizes with
Emerson, who being police physici-
an and grand army man, should
not be able to shudder at anything.
The Advertiser doesn't want any
more saving. good bye to those who
go to the living grave on Mo1okai,
such mawkish sentiment must be
n;pped in the bud at once. That
there perhaps among the little baud
OF lepers was man whose wife bid
him the last farewell is unuatural
according to the Advertiser and dis
gushing according to DR.. Emerson.
That the poor woman had been
married for many years to the mao,
had shared his bed and board, had
eaten from the same dish and drank
from the same glass, and born him
healthy children is still more dis.
gushing. That the woman after her
'imacy for years with her beloved
husband cannot understand why
that last kiss, that last embrace
should endanger her health and
cause her to spread the diseaee
shows simply her disgusting ignor-
ance and emphasizes the necessity
of the Advertiser doing something
in the line of yellow self-advertising
and OF Dr.. Emerson again postpon-
ing his ablntion 10 the rura
waters OF the harbor. There was a
another whose ten year old daugh-
ter was sent away. The mother was
healthy but the child had the lepro-
sy for some reasons known only to
the supreme powers, call them pro-
violence, fate or Board OF Health.
The mother gave birth to the child,
nursed it, loved il cared for her health
and was her constant companion.
The cruel blow fell aud the poor de-
luded woman went down to the
steamer believn g th>t she, in the
distorted features OF her little