Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-02-18

goes through before it is transformed
into sugar. 1t is crushed. pressed
purified; the black, sticky fluid comes
out in pure golden tints, then 1t Is
crystalized Nothing is lost in the
making, the refuse is used to manure
the fields, and the dried crushed cane
used to feed the great furnaces
Everywhere is the buzz of the ma
chinery.
One hundred and eighty miles OF
rough sea separate Honolulu, on the
island of Oahu, from Hawaii, the
island home of the worlds greatest
volcanoes 1t is a large island, the
largest of the group, being about as
large as Connecticut. The trip,
though over a very rough sea in rather
small steamers, is full Of interest,
passing many of the islands, among
which is Molokai, that mournful spot,
where the waves sing a requiem over
the grave of Father Damien. Molokai
is the island of the lepers' sanatorium,
who occupy the village of KalaWao.
Until so years ago leprosy was I'M
known in Hawaii. It is supposed to
have been brought from Asia. The
government today spends 100000
yearly for the support and treatment
of the lepers on Molokai. The brave
men and women who spend their lives
among these pariahs of society teach
the cultivation of the soil, and various
hut ic hor tho
scourge produces lethargy and in
difference in its victims. There are
more than 1900 lepers who live on
Molokai, waiting for the angel of
death and watched and tended by the
devoted sisters of Charity.
The approach to Hilo, the capital of
Hawaii, is very beautiful from the sea.
One skirts the coast, and gazes up at
those great mountains, whose sides
hold within them seething molten
flames, and watches the countless
leaping waterfalls that tumble over
the high crags into the ocean. Hilo is
busy town, built at the end of a
contorted lava stream. Lava is visible
everywhere. Above it stately cocoa.
nut palms rise heavenward and the
poinciana regia's blossoms are all
aflame In the early morning we left
Hllo for the Volcano house, 1000 feet
up the mountain on the high plateau
above the crater of Kilauea. After
leaving the train stages and carriages
toll up through a tropic forest, where
grow the great tree ferns, as large as
those in Ceylon or Java Flowers in
wild profusion deck the wayside in
fascinating profusion; roses, mag,
nolias, hibiscus, hydrangeas, all hob
mob together at the feet of koa trees,
manSos and palms. Strange to say. in
this jungle snakes and wild beasts are
Unknown. No cobra or big game prowl
through the Hawaiian forest as in
India, where fear of snakes, reptiles.
wild cats and tiger is always with
one. From the volcano house you lift
your eyes to Mauna Kea and Mauna
Loa. The latter rises so gradually
that it is hard to realize that it is a..
200 feet above sea level. About us
from yawning cracks in the earth
steam and smoke rose up, reminder
that we were standing over subter.
ranean fires, that Vulcan was still
forging thunderbolts for Jove. The
scene is suggestive of Wagner's fire
music. and of Brunhilda's enchanted
resting place; for one stands and
waits to see the flames burst forth
any moment Right in front of the
volcano house the land drops sharply
down 500 feet. and then stretches out
in petrified sea of lava pillows,
CONCEALED into fantastic Dantesque
shapes. This crater of Kilauea is
grim and forbidding The awe
inspiring black cliffs hem it in for
nine miles around, inclosing this
heaped-up confusion of lava, which
not so many years ago as a molten,
glowing mass, the Lake of Fire. Here
In the crater of Kilauea Madam Pele
has her reception-room, and one ex.
perlences warm reception when one
climbs down into that dark cavern,
Our visit to Kilauea was full of in.
terest. The party went down into that
crater single file on horseback. the
women all astride in divided skirts
and as we crossed the black lava sea
an awe fell upon the party in the
presence of the mighty forces OF
nature. After travelling three miles
over this crumbling lava, carefully
following the path, and avoiding the