The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-06

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and lungs, except when an occasional
drift putIs a choking breath your way
and you gasp for little air and turn
your eyes to the stars, so very feeble
in contrast to the blaze YOU have been
looking on, just to get healing
touch of sweet, wholesome atmos-
phere.
Far below, clear, barren, threatening
walls oertowering, there is spread a
pulsing plain of gold and russell and
mystic variety, deluding the vision, for
you cannot be sure if it is level, heap
ed, undulating or centrally raised or
depressed. Shaped like a peanut shell,
appears this molten miracle, Irregular
ly sectioned off by bands of live color,
the dead dizziness of the coat beautiful
ly relieved by these eccentric streams
of angry fiame-not leaping flame, but
sleepy flame lurid CLEAN of Pele's
warm bosom through the filigree of
her peekaboo shirt. The glow gives
way to sudden illumination and the
careless concrete of the pits precipi-
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while boiling suds comfort in a whirl-
pool near the cone in the eastern cen
ter of the pyrotechnic pond. 1t seems
to excite ITSELF grows in violence,
draws into it's curly frewaves more
and more of the hell-ice which is
ground to nothing in the twirl Then
this most active center takes a rest,
dies down and throughout the lake
there are signs of distress, for demon
prisoners who had been depending on
! the main exit which would now appear
/ to be choking, are struggling to push
upward to a free expression through
/ the least resistance.
One time the central fountain plays
again just as new gushings would be
forced to birth, the main vent opening
in time to save the skin. Another time
| the big boiler is too late, gets choked
and new fountains spring, some for a
moment and some to live for hours.
A dozen fountains played at one time
during the morning of Sunday, the
star performer just mentioned, three
sister fire dancers at the eastern ex-
tremity, and others, scattered north,
west and south.
Out of it all, like indistinct mutter-
ings from the broad mouthed horn of a
fearful phonograph such as could be
conjured only by fancy or Pele her
self, come sounds as of the breaking
OF waves and a hundred other noises
And 1t is, for one, the sound of the
pounding of the surf, only this is fire
fluid combing, Cavorting, curling and
crashing on itself
"Gorgifurous!" said one he thought
too quick to say it was both gorgeous
and furious
Sputter-spray was tossed fifty feet;
red rocket riffs flew upward, famed
outward and fell in splendid flashes;
shoots of flame, fire flowers BLOOMING
FOR the nonce, jumped angry from the
DuDDllng burning; sunbursts. moon.
CLOVIS, starry STARTERS, crazy crescents
crooked crowns, dancing diadems and
diamond eyes flashed in the picture t.
disappear as quickly as they came.
In every phaze of the tossing nitcF
tnere was new beauty, fresh inspira
tion' novelty. And its jacket changed
cnameleonlike continuously, and no
only IN coloring but in texture, appar
emily, the fire fabric now seemin,
tlght-drawn in places, Wrinkled, muss
ed or crumpled in others, like a badE
hitting garment.
AS dawn approached Pele stirre
herself still more, as If to do her bes
In the face of her lord, her god tn
sun, that huge Halemaumau of tn
p heavens
And the fingers of the morninj
reached out and touched the big, broa,
bowl; touched the bordering borde
and bent to the bottom with a sooth
: ing touch, so that the lights of tn
fires were dimmed as daylight grew
But the morning came with new color
for the crater pit; violet hazes for tn
: sulphur clouds and puppies for tn
smoke; early-day pale pink and blue
for the rocks, chasing away the vel
3 lows, chromes, siennas and the greeny
lgrays.
l ; And day revealed the outer stipend
ity, so that those who waited, unwear
t led, and watched most willingly, turn
3 led their long concentrated minds fror
, the marvel of molten magic to tn
, marginal magniflcence of the burnin
, mountain.
? Then could be seen that dreary
t blackened crater waste over whic
4 they had walked in the darkness; the
could be seen the frequent smoking
l steaming, heatwaVing assures aboV
3 and beyond the nit; and then coul
! be seen the tumbled towers of the pit
:. architecture, how that great section
: had fallen in and how that the ways {
5 Pele are most wonderful.