The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-04-15

| The traveller who comes TO the Ha.
waiian Islands and doesn't 90 to see
Kilauca, tho oldest aud the tamest aud
most steadily active volcano on this
planet, is like the girl who was born
without a mouth. She WASH 7 ten years
older before she remembered that she
had forgotten something.
Hawaii Territory is much indebted to
volcanic action for all its joys and sor-
rows. The islands, for all their won.
drously soft, soothing atmosphere, YER
table balm for tired nerves and fretted
feelings, were born in stormy times of
boisterous parents. At one time there
were fifteen frst.class six-cylinder vol
canoes playing an all-star combination
in this group, the whole company, with
the full strength of the entire ballet,
being on the stage at the same time,
and even the understudies and supes
doing brilliant work. There would have
been numerous recalls ony the audience
didn't arrive until hundred thousand
years after the grand ballet was over,
habit of coming late which was trans.
mitted to subsequent generations and
is characteristic of civilized audiences
unto this day. As it was, the play
had run of somewhere less than sew
eral thousand years, without n change
in the cast, the curtain being up con-
tinuously. The first intermission oc.
Cured when the property man, who was
working overtime down in the stoke
hole, ran out of sulphurous acid, hydro
gen, chlorine, carbonic acid, hydrochlo.
ric acid and hydrous sodium sulphate
"a Hawaiian speciality. These things
being essential for the "make up'' of
the artists in the first row, the islands
climbed up to the proscenium arch to
! red fire and slow curtain. The Fuma.
roles and Solfataras, which play in
J smokehole and sulphur spring parts
came on for the supper hour, which has
lasted until this time. The scoriaceous
and vascular lava came along with its
justly celebrated imitation of furnace
Stag, and the pahoehoe, another Hawai-.
ian speciality, began laying the satin.
finish, wrinkled stage carpet, so particu'
larly noticeable in the great crater OF
Kilauea, and the play was over.
Dear old Mother Nature, the goo(
Lords wardrobe woman, sighed lit
tie as she looked at the rent and tat
tered costumes, and the property maj
groaned in sympathy with her, as HI
gazed upon the awful condition of tn,
battered stage and wrecked scenery
But they were used to this sort Of de
struction. They called in the seen,
painter and stage carpenter and got to
lgether to do the Creators work, which
is that of creation, restoration, renova
ton and general repair work. An:
all the fiery forces of destruction ant
devastation can never permanently in
jure the good work which His servant
do in His name, whether or not the,
tuse the religious formula of the estab
lished church. The formula is nothing
The work is everything. I've seer
| men far worse "broken up" than eve
was the worst volcanic island in an,
ocean, transformed by Gods grace an;
I human love into His own children
There was a man named Saul-bow
I ever, that was before my time. But
did know Jerry McCauley, whose con
4 version was quite as remarkable a
4 Saul IS.
You can see at Kilauea now wh,
} these islands were when the propert
man and the wardrobe woman, tn
} scene painter and the stage carpente
took hold of them. Lava, black as th
pit and red as glowing cinders, tossp
here and there in all the chaotic con
, fusion of the cooling-oif time-that
when you feel the rockiest," mar
when the fires and the steam, eth
tumnlt and the shouting dies tn
songs have frazzled aud fzzled off int
silence, the lights have gone out, tn
stars have paled, and the ghost-gray o
j the early morning after" is testin
the fast qualities of an honest cor
u plexion under a scoria of bear
twenty-four hours old.
d Heyf
Huh!
a Well, it looked like an army contrac
u after the war A practical rain spra
for thousand years disintegrated til
D lava, the very soul of life burned on
L of it, into soil. Millions of tiny fern
thrust into crack and crevice foun
s enough life in the air to transfuse lif
l. into the lifeless volcanic rocks; climl
ing vines found enough foothold her
D and there to garland and festoon til
black walls of old craters and to cove
D the horrid raggedness and bleak naket
81 ness of the mountains. The winds ra
d line of grain ships laden with seed
a million years before the first balloon
ell list claimed to be the original invento
The waves brought cargOes of materii
d from over seas for cocoanut groves,
and by the birds established an @,
N press line for the safe and speedy ca
q riage of seed supplies, forests of ko
7, mango and sandalwood crowned ii
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