Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-11-27
ON BRINK OF KILAUEA
TELLS OF A VISIT TO
FAMOUS VOLCANO.
Finds It Is Not Just Back OF City HAIL.
as he Had Supposed, out 10
Forced to Admit It Was
Worth Seelns.\

had always thought that kiiauea'
the largest active volcano IN lhe
world, was just back OF the city Hall
in Honolulu, but when got to HOMO
lulu | found that a person has 10 get
on a BOAT and ride all day and night
to the island where the volcano mas
secreted itself, say a writer IN Les
lies Weekly. Instead OF having 10
climb a towering cone Win II u
those alpenstocks they have IN the
chocolate advertisements, all we had
to do was to sit still and be Whlrled
clear to the crater. The only cone IN
sight was one with ice cream inside
it. On the way to the crater trleo
to give sharp, penetrating glances at
the rock formations so that When peo-
pie asked me what kind OF trees
shrubs, and flowers grow along the
way, and how many eruptions there
had been, l could tell them, but for the
life of me l couldn't look outside. l
couldn't keep my eyes off the newly
married couple and the man from Ber-
lin, who kept his camera open with
the bulb dangling ready any
" Sldp SOLlelAlAS AAS 49,
Abroad" The newly married couple
cared nothing for flowers or how many
disturbances there had been. He was
more interested in knowing If h was
happy, and she in throes of keeping
his tie straight.
"Kilauea crater!" called the chauf-
feur, as If announcing d station, While
I marveled at the luxury of going to
see a volcano. All around was a deep,
rich-looking, black mud all tumbled up
as if an unseen hand as big as a state
had squeezed it out between its fin
gers in rich, black streams. then gone
on to a new toy. 1t looked as II we
were going to step into 40 acres OF
gumbo, but instead of being rich, first
bottom mud a few steps out showed
it. hard volcanic rock.
Watching until the wind lifted we
would edge in to the crater rim and
peer over, Town into the heaving
DEPTHS. We could see nothing, when
suddenly the smoke would rise, and
down in the blackness Of a million
nights would come a glimmering light.
wavering and feeling, like a man with
q lantern COMING dIOulu lAO SoiASA'
beams reaching out n lingering the
way. With numbers lending courage
the lanes of light would gather and
spring up in a fare, would come tum-
bling and rolling up the sides as II
the lava were seeking freedom while
the guarding smoke nodded.
The light would shoot and reach
blindly for a moment, to be suddenly
cut off, as If massive firemen were
coaling the world, shutting their doors
behind every shovelful. Behind all,
under all, came a swapping and a
snarling. not like the complaint or
waves, but like the charging OF a
Gagged lioness; a frenzied, trapped an
| imal defiance. JUST as silence was be-
ginning to burden and ones heart
ached for the ~lioness, light for a thou
sand temples would leap and a growl-
ing would come as If the creature
were climbing the very sides. :
Standing on the brink and peering
down into the boiling bottom, n
trembIes and fear lays hold of him
lest he go crashing, but when n
stands long with only a few inches
for shelter a wild desire m to
leap over. Only does the shout Of a
companion bring one to a realization,
and then one turns guiltily away.