Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16

teachers come from the mainland. 1t Will
probably be somewhat difficult to supply
the place of the outgoing superintendent
with one of adequate experience and ca
pacity.
As to Leprosy.
The friction between the legislature and
the board of health appears to relate MAIN
ly to affairs Of the lepers. The legislature
is disposed to exercise the right of inquiry
whether persons charged with lepresy are
fairly adjudged to be so. They propose to
send physicians of their own appointed to
the receiving station at Kalihi to make ex-
animation. This the board resist having
carefully systematized that work and their
ence in diagnosis. especially in microscopic
distinguishing OF the micrObe of leprosy,
which is the chief test. Possibly more tact
and moderation on the part of the board
might have led to less friction. But new
cause of criticism has arisen out of visit
of the whole body of the legislature few
days ago to the Ieper settlement In COM
pany with the president of the board I'm
come crowded by friends of the Iepers who
ought not to have gone. Some two or three
hundred of these persons. landed and, con-
trary to all rules. Immediately mingled with
their leprous friends in the closest fondling
in Hawaiian fashion.
1t Is almost inevitable that not less than
fourth Of these visitors will prove to
have become infected with the fatal dis
ease, for kissing is the surest means of
leprous contagion. The blame of this UNI
toward event Is laid at The door of Presi-
dent Paulham, from neglect on whose part
1t will be difficult to exonerate him al
though he was doubtless overcome by the
urgency of the legislators and other Wis
hors. but does not appear to have been
equal to the occasion, either at embarkation
or landing.
An especially interesting object of dis
play In Honolulu is the fine little aquarium
at Waikiki Beach BY one Of the highest
finest exhibit of variegated fishes in the
world, and far superior in that respect even
to the famous aquarium of Naples. This
one contains about fifty tanks, with be-
tween two and three hundred species of
fishes. mostly small majority are won
derfully ornamented with spots and stripes,
as well as pleasing fins. Much of their
adornment is grotesque and much richly
beautiful. 1t is comparable only to the
characterization of flowers; no other animal
life, not even insect life, Is so richly and
strangely yarfegated. Highly cOIered stripes
traverse the bodies of the fishes In all d.
rections- longitudfnal, transverse, diagonal
and curved. They often impress the mind
as having proceeded from a whimsical
source, as II the creative artist had been
some sprite left to paint them after a
maynard fancy. And who knows but that
the Great Creator may have delegated
some such work to inferior agents? Why
may He not have left some baby angels to
indulge their fancies In coloring fishes and
presses one as being product Of no me-
chanical evolution, but as expressing mind.
and often whimsical mind. The same
may be said of many curfousiy variegated
shells in tropical seas
Mrs. Stanford's Death
Honolulu has lately suffered a curiously
tragical experience in the sudden death of
the eminent Mrs. Jane L. Stanford. But
what painfully impresses many of US here
is the singular facility with which the
theory finds acceptance on the mainland
that Mrs. Stanford died from natural
causes and not from strychnine poisoning
It is true that the distinguished president
OF Stanford University, DIR. Starr Jordan
who visited Honolulu. sent out the dictum
that there was no evidence Of poisoning He
was ably and unanswerably refuted by
the four medical men who were employed
in the sufferers case. and now permit me
to assert that the following facts are es-
tablished beyond any possibility of doubt:
l. That Mrs. Stanford died In the violent
agony of a tetanic spasm. having all the
characteristics of acute strychnine poison
ing. This rests upon the fullest aftestatfOn
Of two physicians, the secretary and the
maid, who were present. and q third ply
stefan. who saw the body i've minutes later
with It's muscles and limbs distorted.
3 That the death was preceded By in-s
jectiHg small teaepo0nful OF hECarb0nAtei
Of soda from bottle contaiu1ng that nul-
stance with e. mixture Of strychn3no n nuk-
3cient quantity 70 have eauoo4 aelEfh zh1Ds