The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
ron COUNTY NEWS.
VOLCANOES.
4 Young Lady Who Has
, ived Long In Hawaii.

o,o spcnt on a table land looked
oon nv the three great noun
" hawaii, Mauna Loa, Mauna
ND Hualalal, in height 1860,
and s,275 feet. l wonder If there
.oIDer place in the world more
,,,rl than those great ranch lands
one gets view of rose-col'
Sos. somber and ghostly Loa,
so lower crags Of Hualalai Per
wauua Loa, from the Volcano
an the brink of the crater of
is better. One does not real
Kilauet that one is ON the side
',nno Loa. is 1000 feet above sea
,or the summit Is miles away,
,.smIngly. miles up in the clouds.
mo hostelry Mauna Loa looks
and Chostly; unless touched by
M light of the sun, when 1t be-
mountain Of fire.
!. news tells us it Is now n ver
mountain Of fire; that a noise
ot the Volcano House, twenty
F away, announced n terrific eX.
,D had occurred, and that the
/ a the fountains of fire can be
Il far forty miles around. We wait
!, news with much interest and
4 anxiety; three great lava streams
,Inr in different directions, down
.des OF that huge mountain, sure
m work havoc to some of the smil-
Nuntry that lies on its sides, as
as cover the ruined land that
the old flows. When one thiuks
fine growth of young coffee
Of the wide ranch lands, where
wild cattle and sheep; of the
leful tropic forests jungled with
chua and pandanus trees; when
hnks of friends that live on
coffee and ranch lands, one
e there was Il cable to bring
news from old Mokuaweoweo,
Ivmmlt orator Of Mauna Loa.
the Olden time whenever an erup-
took place it was the custom to
4 the ohelo berries, which grow
3 bat quantities near the volcano,
Throw them into the crater as an
. boz to Pele Hogs and other prop
we're often thrown into the
Inns Of lava. 1t is rumored that
I'm mOnarchs tried this latter
d Of appeasing the wrath OF
and, strange coincidence, the
after one of such ceremony the
flow ceased to advance. A ma
girl, with wide-distended eyes
in hushed voice, told me of
recent appearings; how the old
tell Of seeing her flying about
Suntry at night, sometimes hay
BE form Of very ancient woman,
Rtlmes very young and beautiful.
Id not decide whether the girl,
lived In a primitive part of Ha-
believed the stories or not; the
allan Of today, while ashamed
knowledge faith in the old super
ns, Of course, has not wholly de-
I from the beliefs of his fathers.
zander in his "Brief History of
hawaiian People," tells how one
Ntltlon was broken down by Kap-
mot the dowager Queen, who
about seventy-hve years ago. In
youth she was incorporate and
ule but later in life became an
pie of virtue to her country-wo'
Up to her time it had been tab
Tor any woman to ascend the
Ialn to the volcano, or to pick
leO berries, sacred to Pele, dread
sS Of the place. After her conver
70 Christian beliefs, Kapiolan
mined to break the spell of be.
y Pele, and teach the superstl
natives to worship the true God
lade a journey of $50 miles, most
IOot' On approaching the vO!
Sne met the priestess of Pele
warned her not to go near the
and predicted her death If she
'ed the taboos of the goddess
are your demanded Kapiolanl
III whom the goddess dwells,
ue reply. In answer to a pretend
uer OF Pele's, Kapiolani quotct
s@ from the Scriptures, setting
ue character and power of thu
uOu' until the priestess was 81
and confessed that Keakua
guy mad left her. Kapiolani an(
Vmpany of eighty persons descen
P'er nye hundred feet to thu
ledge There, in full view o
'anu and terrific action of til,
VIater, she ate the berries cou
WI 10 Pele, and threw stones in
burning lake, saying, "Jehoval
God, He rules all and
W rele. If perish by her anger
,Ou may fear Pele; but If | trus
wan and he preserve me whel
S ner taboos, then you mus
ruu serve him alone" This ha
a'leu one of the greatest acts o
VOurage ever performed. Mis-
wen described the scene in {
.aled AN Hawaiian Chief
HI'er Tennyson's death amonl
pe's was found n poem in homo
r% 1aile heroine. 1t was publishe,
Illustrated London News an,
'"u In a late edition of Tenny
poems. He wrote:
"V saxon who hurled at hi
UuS o weapon in olden England
Omen, e'"''
heroine Kaplolanl,
rrleS, "u nuns VI
on' vu the goddess, and freed tn
% Op'e OF Hawaii.
-n"l'ne Pope In st. Loul