The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-06
FOURTH
Of JULY
Continued l,om Page One.J

stood divinely nude, a revelation of in
spring and most potent beauty
1T beats all hell" says Jack Lucas,
and so does the road getting here
1t should be fixed!"
There! There!" cries one, pointing,
eagerly leaning forward. Look at
that whirlpool of liyid liquid"
"Shes breaking over yonder. See!
She's bursting in a dozen fountains
from one fresh formed center of acti-
vity!" calls another.
And so they talk. mostly in voices
subdued, as if in man-made, hand
made holy place instead of on natures
own holy ground.
| Many remain silent. their thoughts
! as deep as the furnace away down,
, down.
Many remained through the dark
hours to behold the sun rise. to see
the lips of platonic dawn gently kiss
| Queen Peles impassiOned mouth.
And as they stood. as if on a pin
nacle of paradise, looking into hell, the
slightest of trembles now and again
| reminded them of the furious neither
force. They were standing over q
little of the old earth's molten core.
| A sound as of the sad soughing of q
south wind long travelled and aweary;
murmurous rushing noise; a sound
as of strong streams played on the
walls of burning building; a woefully
weird wailing effect; SUFFERING spit
ting, scattering; cracking, cracking
creepy crying; kissing, phizzing, psf
psf and 'pht-pht" sounding, swapping
tapping, tapping; roaring, surging
dashing, crashing, slapping, sucking
choking, puking, smacking, swelling
coughing; this moment moaning as il
in horrid pain, the next witchingly-
yes, witchingly laughing a strange in
distinct gutteral between a gurgle anC
a giant giggle.
In this monster flame-sheeted mirror
men and women found their minds re
Elected. SeTious-souled ones saw the
furnace of evolution; listened to the
heart thrOb of world and imagined
the ticking of an eternity of universes
Less deep individuals likened the
spectacle to tabled regions of unrea
retribution, and some inevitably jokeC
after that manner, saying that reall!
they must behave.
No wonder Pele b!ushed at sucl
blasphemy
Soon after midnight of independence
Day therefore yesterday morning, T.;
cone in the eastern center of Hale
maumau was the main point of ac
tivity
In and out of a cavern under thi
hardened lump, a boiling mass playet
revolving upon itself and ever fed b,
breakings from surrounding crusts o
frOzen-fire or hell-ice. These are term
inspired by similarity, for on the sur
face of the fire lake there is Away
forming, through the action of tn
cooling ether, crust of several inche
thickness which is broken throug
| whenever the mott gets angry, thi
: crust having a remarkable correspond
ence to the ice formation of water
And when the liquid fire upheaves,
! lightning streak appears on the skim
or a crack, like a flash, comes in tn
/ coating, creating effects most beautiful
Here there snapped on the field
p ribbon of clearest emerald, the opalin
) fire winking through the sometime
: chocolate, sometimes toast and some
: times molasses-colored Counterpart
| In less time than it takes for tn
f reader to jump from one line to tn
= next of this text the greenish tint ha
been succeeded by white heat fire an
then, presto!-a warmer glow,
blush, a crimson flush, a scarle
thread! Then the soul went out Of tn
scarlet and burnt sienna was the hut
. followed by chocolate, blue-browI
brown, black, purple black, indigo anC
finally for that series, an indescribabl
dull, baked complexion to the film tha
choked out what was a moment ago
kaleidoscope cleaning.
, Imagine, you who have not yet see
Halemaumau, that you are perrin
wide-eyed into a cauldron big enoug
l. to swallow the Kapiolani race tract
a merciful breeze watts the stingin
sulphur fumes away from your eye