Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-06-25

melted suddenly as feather disappears in
| furnace seven-fold heated. Our ears
| were strained to catch the weird sounds
! till I'VE seemed to hold the breath of our
soul to hear" We had been in peril by sea
and by land and travelled thousands of
miles to behold this wonder of the world
| From volcano Hut" to the crater, dis
! tance of six miles. and over a thin crust
of hardened lava with a measureless ocean
,, of fire below, we had cautiously picked
our slow and dangerous way with apen-
/ stock in hand to test the strength of every
step before US. Here at last we stood be-
fore the House of Fire" and the dream
, of months was crystallized into living
fact. We were repaid million fold for
all our toll and danger and would bring
back pictures in memory's gallery that
| time alone could not wipe out.
In the gray dawn of the Polynesian
morning. and when near volcano Hut"
we sat down to rest. Wonder was writ
ten on every thoughtful face. We could
still see the mephitic vapors ascending to
paint the duh clouds. Here for the first
time we noted the absence of one of our
number No one knew when he went nor
where. He might have fallen into the pit
of everlasting fire and no one would have
known of it. He had simply disappeared
while we, like votaries. were worshiping
at the shrine of Pele Arriving at the
Hut" we found our fellow Traveller a
phlegmatic Engljshman, who was doing"
the whole world, contentedly sitting at an
early breakfast. Hello" exclaimed
lady tourist who was drst to enter, where
In the world have you been, Mr.. W: We
have been quite anxious about you. How
could you leave the spell of Ilalemaumau?"
20, drawlcd W, as he tipped back in
hi> chair as If to rest, "I got tired Of the
harsted noise dontcher know, and the
bloody light put my eyes out"
few days after this, between Iiilo aud
Honolulu, We passed the Thousand Wa
tcrlalls;" twenty miles of solid beauty
and unsurpassed grandeur Many Of these
waterfalls are more than two thousand
feet high. The wild river torrents are fed
BY SHOWS on the distant mountains and
come plnnging down lengthwisc the ter
raced heights, Il, along a ridge pole, TIL
reaching the perpendicular face OF the
mountain that abu,s on the ocean they
spring out into space and are beaten 10
foam and impalpable mists, and in clouds
OF spray fall on forests of palm and al
geroba. two thousand feet below Every
traveller. with the steamers crew that pass
that way every few weeks, was on deck to
witness the marvellous exhibition; every
soul On board save one aud he was our
phlegmatic English acquaintance, W
found him in his quarters stretched a. fun
length on n tourist chair and reading a
French novel. How did ii come" | -4id
to him, that You We're not with Us 10 see
the splendid sight we have just Witnessed
Waterfalls" hr languIly replied. 'au,
waterfalls are 10 me such a dcuced bore,
dontcher know, that they make me tired"
But you saw Niagara when you came
through America" yentured. Niagara.
said he, nav, didn't see Niagara Was
at dinner you know. Couldn't think Of
losing my dinner to see the bloody water
tumble over rock doutcher know :" and
he resumed hi, novel where the villain
still pursued her" Now, why does such
person wish to travel? But, my friend,
the phlegmatic Englishman, saw to about
good purpose among the Pacific Is
lands as did Prof. Wright among the gey-
sers of Yellowstone Park. OF such as
they it may well be said ''that having eyes
they see not, and having ears they hear
not"
have climbed the Heights Of Abraham.
and the dullest cloud that cast a shadow
on that historic ground was t. me ar in
spiration. All the dead who fell on that
field came back 10 talk to me | saw the
daring Wolfe climbing the tortuous heights
and heard the tread of his valiant armv
l locked into his white face as the peace
of death settled in the strong features of a
brave soldier. saw a group of hurrying
men bearing off the limp form Of Mont
calm. l heard HIM family murmur, 1T is
well; then | shall not We To see the sur
render Of Quebec" l saw and heard more
but time viii not permit me TO tell Of them
once spent few hours ia the quaint
library Of the gifted and gentle Whittier
and all the splendid things he had written
when his young blood was hot from the
iniquity of slavery were transfgured in
letters Of light on everything in the room,
stood before the tomb of the mighty
Webster at Marshfeld and the ashes in the
silent house materialized being that awed
senates and held nation IN the spell Of
his genius.
| climbed the hills and wandered among
he graves of Old Plymouth burial ground,
and the dead, but now in all the freshness
of life, came forth and told the story of
what it cost to anchor civilization on
this western continent.
| drank from Pilgrims spring and looked
across the bay to the monument of Miles
Standlsh. l heard the ring of the old
/ sWOIu tHdl Udu seen service III + lhUtltrS as
| the redoubtable little warrior strobe i'm
patiently across the floor while listening to
| the tale of John Alden. And Priscilla, the
| gentle Priscilla, stood before me in her
neat home-spun gown, and | caught the
music of her spinning wheel. Floating
down through the gallery of the years the
harsh sound was lost and heard only the
plaintive wall as of an 9olian harp among
the tree-tops.
l stood in the National Park beside the
falls of Yellowstone whose roar is less
only than Niagara's before which l have
spent whole days. There were the widely
sundered banks of a great channel over
whose floor plunged torrent of mad vel
low water that had plowed mighty fur
low through mountains of chalk and clay,
and all the scenery round about is full of
widest grandeur and marvellous subllmity.
Geysers are everywhere spouting with
wonderful activity. Silica held in solu-
tion goes up in the columns of water and
falling back to earth rears colonnades, and
pyramids, and grotesque figures and shapes
that would tire the imaginations of men TO
fancy their duplicates. There is "Old