The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-03-27
ON BRINK OF KILAUEA
TOURIST TELLS OF A VISIT TO
FAMOUS VOLCANO.
Finds Il 10 Not Just Back Of City Hall,
~ He Had Supposed, but 10
Forced to Admit Il Was
Worth Seeing.

! had always thought that kilauea
the largest active volcano in the
world. was just back Of the city hall
in Honolulu, but when I got to Homo
lulu found that a person has to get
on a boat and ride all day and night
to the island where the volcano has
secreted itself. says a writer In Les
lies Weekly. Instead Of having to
climb towering cone with one Of
those alpenstocks they have in the
chocolate advertisements. all we had
to do was to sit still and be whirled
clear to the crater. The only cone in
sight was one with ice cream inside
It. On the way to the crater l tried
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 couldn't look outside.
couldn't keep my eyes of the newly
married couple and the man from Ber-
lin. who kept his camera open with
the bulb dangling ready any moment
to snap something for his my Trip
Abroad" The newly married couple
cared nothing for flowers or how many
there had been. He was
more Interested In knowing II she was
happy, and she in throes of keeping
his tie straight.
Kilauea crater!" called the chauf- |
[eur, as II announcing station, while |
marveled at the luxury of going to |
see volcano. All around was a deep,
rich-looking. black mud all tumbled up
as II an unseen hand as big as a state
lad squeezed it out between its fin
gers tn rich, black streams, then gone
IN to new toy. 1t looked as If we
we're going to step into 40 acres Of
Jumbo. but instead of being rich. first
'ottom mud few steps out showed
hard volcanic rock.
Watching until the wind lifted we
you'd edge In to the crater rim and
eer over, down into the heaving
epths. We could see nothing, when
uddenly the smoke would rise, and
own TN the blackness of a million
lights would come glimmering light,
'avering and feeling, like man with ,
lantern coming around the corner,
cams reaching out and lingering the ,
'ay. With numbers lending courage ,
le lanes OF light would gather and
pring up In flare, would come tum-
ling and rolling up the sides as II I
le lava were seeking freedom while {
le guarding smoke nodded.
The light would shoot and reach
indy for moment, to be suddenly t
It OF. as II massive fremen were .
'aling the world. shutting their doors r
hind every shovelful. Behind all,
lder all, came swapping and
larling, not like the complaint of
ayes. but like the charging of q
ged lioness; q frenzied, trapped an
lai defiance. Just az silence was be-
inning to burden and ones heart
he'd for the 4ioness, light for thou
nd temples would leap and growl-
8 would come az II the creature
sre climbing the very sides. j,
Standing on the brink and peering
wn into the boiling bottom, one
smbles and fear lays hold Of him
It he go crashing. but when one
lnds long with only few inches
; shelter a wild desire comes to
Ip over. Only does the shout Of a
npanion bring one to a realization
then one turns guilty away.