The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-03-26

mosphere was so light that altho our
horses went on walk they painted as
If they had been running, and often
we were compelled to halt and let
them rest. Ny hat blew off once and
l dismounted to get it. The exertion
almost exhausted me.
Our guide showed evidences of be-
wllderment, and though he uttered
not word we knew he was lost.
Mountain gorge after mountain gorge
was crossed. Sometimes we threaded
our way along narrow shelf of rock
on the mountain side, with chasm
i've hundred feet deep on one side
and cliff fully as high on the other.
My horses foot struck stone and
sent it rolling to the awful depths
below.
AT last the morning star arose. It
looked double the size of star. The
purity of the atmosphere in this region
would certainly make tia desirable
place for astronomical observations.
We halted to allow our horses to rest,
and talked almost in whispers. A
white object appeared among the
rocks and coarse shrubbery. 1t was
wild bull. Wild cattle, wild deer, and
wild goats are common in the noun
tains of the Hawaiian Islands. At
sight of us this one gave a snort and
fled.
We pressed on and soon reached the
summit, tired, chilled, and benumbed,
before the first tints of rosy morn be-
gan to appear. Our horses were
turned over to our guide and I went in
to the stone house to build fire, when
one of my companions cried:
ut is coming. Let the fire 20, and
hurry up"
Day had begun to dawn, and we
ran, painting and stumbling, to the
highest point of the peak which over
looks the vast crater, five miles in d.
ameter. Right on the verge of that
awful abyss we paused. I seized a
stone weighing perhaps twenty pounds
and threw it over into the dark crater.
We wanted to hear it strike the rocky
bottom. No sound ever came back.
1t was lost in the fall of thousands of
feet.
The eastern horizon all spread out
at our feet, was now wonder of
beauty. No pen can describe it, and
no painters brush do it justice. All
the prismatic hues of the rainbow in
everchanging panorama we're spread
for thousands of miles below us. The
orange glow here, the apple green
there, the yellow gold and vermillion
borders, while thousands of feet below
we're what seemed blue pillows
These we're clouds. AS day dawned
they were ever changing, kaleido-
scopic, and chameleon in beauty. One
moment the clouds beneath were like
blue pillows, the next cold snowbanks
with ships sailing in them; next they
had taken an orange tint with flying
angels among them, then animals
until the sun arose, and behold they
were clouds.
AS the sun mounted up into the
heavens the clouds vanished, and the
ideal beauty gave way to the real
Such gorgeous scene was worth the
night ride. It was worth more-it
was worth crossing the ocean to behold
Five islands were in sight, and all the
great island of Maui could be seen
The ships in the harbors looked like
specks, the villages mere dots, the
railroads mere threads, and those vast
cane fields were only green spots the
size of ones hand.
Haleakala is properly named the
House of the Sum- Space, however
will not permit description of that
wonderful crater in which the fires
died perhaps thousand years ago.
Schmahl & Co. desire us to publish
the following extract from letter Of
Chas. M. Gutfeld of Reedley, Fresno
county, CAL, as they handle the
remedy referred to and want Their
customers to know what a splendid
medicine it is:
"It is with pleasure | tell that by
one days use of Chamberlain cough
remedy l was relieved of a very severe
cold. My head was completely stop
ped up and / could not sleep at night
I can recommend this remedy"
A cold nearly always starts in the
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