The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-03-17
FsARl Of THE PACIFIC.
THE WORLDS oeANDes1 VOLCANO
How the Lava Made tiawaii-wild Lie
Th~reaboats.

have no spite against the reader O
l'is crticiD shall therefore not adj
me 10 the 2U0 ani odd descriptions O
ki'arc.i NON exts.t. As the raw attor
ne, who b, ,;in his maiden speech by tell
ing wnat the common law is was direct
ed by the judge ITO assume that thi
cunrr knows something and not be- so ar
!, sanity Instructive" SO shall assam,
that the reader has read the Old Fiji
header and the usual Sunday schoo
h.iDla,, and at ..st one general work Of
ira H. ard taat be takes ut least ON,
good wec6ly PAPER. IN which case be
must have seen half "a dozen descriptions
! vii only :. la. Of the many have
reAi slnct leaving the islands that a
..ae .N.aln stems to the the best. ard
tAun 10 un 10 mention few points
Sn4a -iou-.le,l me and are not geuer.
Ai.r rit4.i0a,-.i IN the accounts
iie inst n RE course OF the lava.
2aN a,l ld" ia.i II dashed down the
atl.n silt ma mad torrent" but
IL doesn't At any rate it never does I'M
les.s wi4. Ia the quantity is enormous and
while it is skill SO hot as To maintain
great fiaidity Almost always--always
IN small streans-it maintainsa sluggish
TOW. like warm tar or thin mush, and
as 10 flows the surface is rapidly cooling
and FORMING a sort Of case The molten
interior bursts up through this. and the
outflow cOOls again. and this Is repeated
80 otter that moderate stream Of lava
utteu iilrS tho appearance OF a great
ctAE- slowly creeping down Even
= aWn rr.i,-.Ge seems comparatively
ia. tie inN &, ietily m enormous
luna. l0Wu ta. iattfiur Of winch the hot
a.I4 p.e l.lsl q slowly forcing its way
a, tgs D, The reason few or no lives
ere lost II al ordinary eruption One
can walk up 10 the advanced end Of the
stream gather 4 little Of il on an iron
fee Tt b alpa mold OF any desired
-Aap# aii N.l N out danger. and this
lNnh-l tn cylinder or tube may be 10
fa,i tAlf.. he second tact that aston
iahRf noe vas TIE location of the crater.
hAun- ifs.l fe Mp.ntain and Kilauea
is it l~' .A hl.uea is not really
or '.-sa L4- ta 4. not on top Of it.
u ft Npt onr-thrd as high. and,
80 iara- fea icvei Is concerned. no higher
Il "a salt Lake City Il is. so to speak,
boil on the flank Of Mluna Loa. and
yet the crater itself docs not overflow.
When the lava pressure becomes too
greaf 30 t'Tf ra.ae.. Il breaks out some
vlsre ~ down the uountain side.
BY ALL w me roe. sharps" say, it will
burst OFT away oft shore. and then we
shall have an addition TO Hawaii.
Another fact and very surprising
fact indeed 10 me. was that the nearer
one gets 20 the volcano the more heath
enisn the natives are This little fact
-ssuuans ms philosophy" as they say at
Harvard, but il certainly is fact. In
the islands u Kauai. Oahu and Maui /
did not ste a sign in the common life of
the people shat there had ever been idol
airy there. bnI with every miles travel
toward CHE volcano saw more signs
Ill. ~ N tiaslEe,l from the forest on the
rocE a.t near the hotel. our native at
iendar'- ssuwed themselves regular Pele
fanatics. Even "Old Antony the guide.
recommended TO rs especially for his
Chris.iisn character. "backslid" when he
p W tie smoke and limited that it might
be IS well To gather some berries to offer
as a sacrifice This comical retrogres-
sipn IN faith equally with progression in
altlt lde reminded me Of the formula in
use n Texas when was there in 1857.
There IL no Sunday west Of the Trinity.
no law west of the Drazos and no God
west Of the Colorado
The. say that the Topography Il the
cause Of this local backslding. Maybe
So but II is almost impossible to de-
scribe the Topography In truth, very
large part Of Hawaii consists of high
'ableland ircloSci in sort Of Triangle
between the three great mountain peaks
D. Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Mauna
Hualalai. ard this plateau is dreadful
wilderness Of tropical vines and giant
trees, growing among and hiding i'm
mense rocks and crevices. with here and
there bare field Of splintered lava or
loose ashy stuff. and more rarely fertile
little valley In this region the cattle
introduced by early voyagers have left a
progeny as wild as any buffalo Of the
olden time and much more dangerous.
But along the borders Of the island, the
North especially. are some wonderfully