Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-06-20
visit to a Lake ofFIre.

"! tnOu VINO prayest at THIS shrineP'
visit to Lake Of Fire.
A correspondent of the Indianap-
oils Journal describes visit to the
crater of Kilanea, in Hilo, in the
Hawaiian islands, the largest active
volcano in the World. She says:
We stood on a high bank of an
irregular lake of liquid fire. which
was seething and rolling two and fro
glowing with exceeding great heat. r
and sending up vast volumes of
smoke. The cascade of fire was play-
ing in the center of the lake. scat
teriug its fiery spray all around it.
Then for few moments it subsided,
and the lake cooled over on top, a
thin crust of gray and black, but it
sooned heaved up slowly in the cen
ter and spouted up a fiery geyser,
thirty or forty feet high, Ainging
out showers and clots of lava, and
flashing up red pillows against the
cliffs with sound resembling surf
on rocky shore, only that It had
something indescredibly hellish and
diabolical in it that filed me with
an awful shudder. That swashing.
self-conscious sound, nov faint, now
loud, was to me the most impress
sive part. I think / should 90 mad
if had to listen to it long, and re-
alize that it was caused by the rest
less surging sea of fire that seemed
the very lake of perdition. This
lake is constantly changing. At the
time of our visit, it was three or four
acles in extent, and the surface was
100 feet below the top of the cliff,
Huge masses of rock are constantly
tumbling in, and there is always
danger to visitors who stand close to
the edge. Only fews days before,
a party had a very narrow escape;
they were standing on a ledge of
rock when they heard a swashing
sound beneath them, and had Just
time to step backward when the en-
tire shelf was precipitated into the
boiling lava below. We stayed about
three hours watching the lake glow
and brighten and change. Then
gathering a lot of specimens, we
toiled back over the Jagged 'laYa
that cut our shoes and blistered our
feet, visiting on the way the old
north lake now inactive. The view
at night from the western PGIi, or
cliff overlooking the crater, is grand
beyond description.
ADDRESS OF Mr.. CoLAx.-A friend
has handed in the following address
of the Ex- Vice President, deliYed on
Decoration day at the gathering of
the G. A. R. and the citizens of
South Bend, Ind. with request to
give It place.
Though the flowers strewn to-day
on the graves OF these dead soldiers
of the Union shall wither, and the
marble of their head-stones shah
crumble into dust, their patriotic
deeds will live while the nation sur
wives, and their self sacrifice viii be
a perpetual inspiration to all who
come after them. What is the les
son of Decoration day, its meaning
and its inspiration? II is net merely
respect for the dead, 1t is not mere
ly a tribute of affection to friends
who have passed away. The eeme-
tery is crowed with the graves Of
mothers who bore us, of wives who
filed our houses with happiness, Of
the children of our love, of our
nearest and dearest friends. Much
as we cherish their memories, our
community do not come hIther N
procession, on some fixed day as we
do to-day, to cover their grave with
floral tributes. But Decoration day
honoFs these especially who died for
their eountry's preservation, and is
intended to show to the rising Ssn-
Grafton and co all that iftBe DARK
days come again to our land, those
who follow in the footsteps of these
dead heroes VIII, like them, be hon
ored gratefully by the Nation Ter
whose salvation they gave so much.
And therefore while he believed
that, at the grave, we should bury
and antagonisms, he
could not concur with those who in
sisted that on this day, we should
decorate the graves of those who fell
fighting against their country, equal
ly with those who gave their lives
for its preservation. He was viii
ling to forget and forgive, and to
acknowledge that they fought brave
ly and sincerely, and with a devo
ton worthy of a better cause. And
so far from feeling bitterly, he had
as a Representative Invariably vo-
ted for Amnesty to every one of the
tens of thousands who had asked
Congress for it. But Decoration
Day was established as eommemo-
ration of patriotism, and as sn annu-
al and public manifestation 81 ga
sional gratitude TO those VINO nSo
lsid down their own lives for the
National life And, when 1t should
he enlarged as prosPosed, so as to
Iose tb;s significance, we should, to
~ - oons;stent with it, honor the ban
- 80 Of the Rebellion as we do those
nf the Union in our war Department,
And we should place in the Rotun-
: of our Capitol, by the side of the
& atiGnal picture of the signers of the
1eclaEstion, who inaugurated the
Revolution, the picture of the sign
rs Of the secession ordinance which
uaugurated the Rebellion. And that
Law. he trust ed, for the Nations
AXE. was far distant.
"Goin' thro' the rye" is suggested
,s n song for the female temperance
crusaders.
It is true that one swallow doesn't
o1vs,aa ann