The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-22

anu tic sCd sweeps lhtu 'iCu WIN uIohSy-
booming music. Many journey taken is
but continuous series of descents and
ascents, across these "gulches."
Thus on the road between Hiio and Lau-
pahaehae no fewer than sixty-fve streams
must be crossed in distance of thirty
miles Having ridden for few hundred
yards along lofty upland the brink Of
stupendous precipice is suddenly reached,
murmur of water ascends from the depths
below, and in front is the equally perpen-
dicular precipice on the other side of the
tiny valley. \ bird would skim across in
few seconds; poor wingless man has to
trust to the unshod, footed beast under
him, to scramble up and down the narrow,
scarcely winding tracks cut out on the faces
of the mountains. On slippery descents
the creature will gather all his legs under
him and slide On the more rugged paths
he frequently has to leap over masses of
rock, some three feet high. produced by
breakage, and this on path where false
step means death. Dense vegetation often
blinds one to the risk incurred, but many
of the pals are utterly undraped.
Hawaii is chiefly famous for its volca-
noes Kilauea, the largest active volcano
in the world, lies on the side of the noun
tain Mauna Loa, at an elevation of 1000
feet We usually think of a volcano as a
cone, but Kilauea is rather a great sunken
pit, in the midst of vast desolate plain,
which slopes up gently to the summit of
the mountain. 1t is pit of no less than
nine miles in circumference, and the area
of its lowest level is six square miles. The
level varies; but it is at present 600 feet
below the surrounding country, and is
reached by Il steep descent down the sheer
face of Il precipice, which extends right
round the crater, and, as it were, walls it
in. Within the crater, towards its south
ern end, is an inner crater, with one or
more lakes of fire, called Halemaumau, or
House of Everlasting Burnings, which
constitute the true chimney of the volcano.
Here Kilauea exhibits its eeaseless ac-
tivity.
In the outer crater occasional grand
eruptions occur, but signs of the slumber-
ing forces below are ever present in the
form of blowing cones and steam cracks,
varying in size from narrow cleft to great
assures, from which issue puffs and clouds
of steam, fumes of hot, poisonous gases,
and from some liquid lava. The general
bed is made up of countless lava flows, OF
variety of forms and contortions difficult
TO describe in the words Of everyday life.
1t has been likened to ripping sea sud
denly fossilized. There are streams, rivers,
lakes. cliffs, terraces, waterfalls and CON
gealed raindrops of petrifed lava. Some
of it appears like huge coils of rope. The
ever working inner crater is of course
liable to almost daily change. At times it
is surrounded by circle of crags, thrown
up from the lake in molten state, and
solidifed as they rose; they tower above
the level of the outer basin to the height
of 400 to 600 feet.
From the top one gazes downwards into
sea of liquid fire. Soon the crags, under
mined by the forces below, may topple over
into the lake, only to be melted afresh and
once more upheaved. When this takes
place fire is often cboked, and dense vol
umes of smoke and steam and Pickering
flames issue from the vast pit The terri
bic eruptions which from time to time have
threatened Hilo with annihilation have
almost invariably occurred, not in connec-
ton with Kilauea-which usually confines
its ebullitions within its own encircling
wall but with Mokuaweowco, op the very
summit of Mauna Loa When this shows
signs of life danger is to be apprehended.
! L ne l0l0ellSe ntl8Iib db WHICH IL 10 eiludtCNa
lends a fearful impetus to lava flow.
On the island of Maui is Haleakala
House of the Sum, the largest known ex-
tinct volcano in the world, its giant crater
pit, resembling the yawning craters in the
moon, being "a miles in circumference and
2000 feet deep. Sixteen subsidiary cones
rise from its bed, some solitary, others in
clusters. The base of the mountain itself
has circumference of 80 miles. On the
island of Molokai is Kalamao, fertile val
lev of about 10000 acres, walled in by
precipices 5000 feet high. Here is the
home of the lepers. All who contract the
disease are exiled there by order of the
Government, with the view of extirIating,
if possible, the dire disease from among the
people 1t was here that the Rev. Father
Damien sacrificed his life, and that others,
equally heroic, still labor at his work.
'sNousense !" remarked Synnek, ''it isn't
love that makes people marry. It's fiat
terry, rank fattery. The man is pleased
because the woman took a fancy to so in
ferior being as he knows himself to be
and the woman's vanity is tickled for pre-
cisely similar reasons. In a word, each
loves the other for showing poor taste in
choosing a mate Boston Transcript.