The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-20

FAINTER and his gu1de-tne former
making sketches of the canyon.
Here we rested a while and then up
| for half an hour longer to clumr
of trees near the summit Of noun
tain $500 feet high, where we remain
ed for an hour or more. eating the
lunch we had brought with us and en-
Toying the magnificent view. The air
here was cool and delightful.
The view resembles the Grand Can
yon of Arizona. 1t is of course not
SO large. The Grand Canyon Is mile
deep; this one is about half a mile
down from the rim where we stood
The Grand Canyon is Is miles across
this one is only about three miles
broad and it has not the white STRAIT
UNI of limestone above the red rocks
end the still blacker ones below. But
there are the same distinct horizontal
strata, the same formations of pyra'
mids and cliffs with mountain
stream below and there is one feature
in which it is far superior to the Ari-
IONA Canyon and that is the rich,
green tropical foliage and verdure OF
many shades that creep out every.
where and gives strange mystical
beauty to the scene.
Moresoever, the air, laden with
moisture. gives it an opalescent char
acter. tinge of what the poet Aldr:ch
would call "vapory amethyst" which
battles it In q rich golden light.
There are number of tributary
h~r sv Apsu hVo nh n
cut from the main one. and as ! lay
fiat on my stomach at the edge Of the
cliff aud looked down on one Of these,
with the shadows of the passing
clouds drifting across it, with its
rocky walls and terraces and palm
trees and African jungles, it seemed
to me as if had glimpse OF some
new Eden, as if were looking
through the gates of Paradise itself.
Talks With Simple Youth.
"My Hawaiian guide was simple
minded youth who had never been out
side the islands. He pointed out to me
the wild turkeys, the wild pigs and
other game and then asked me II we
did not hunt wild pigs in San Francis
co, when I told him no he said, But
you have wild beasts there OF some
kind" When l told him that wild
beasts did not come to San Francisco
he exclaimed, What! Not lions, nor
tigers, nor bears!"
explained that lions and tigers did
not live in America but that we had
some bears in the mountains. He
asked how dangerous they we're.
told that occasionally man was kill.
ed by bear but that this seldom oc.
Cured. He asked if we did not train
them and said a man had come
to Kauai with trained bear and ask.
ed furthermore II we did not keep
them In our houses!
1t is hard for an islander like this to
know what the rest Of the great world
is like. But it is equally hard for US
to understand things out OF our own
sphere. For example, an American at
Kilawea asked our guide If he didnt
suppose that after Is or 20 years that
volcano would cool off and dry up:
And I suspect that il we try to pic
ture in fancy what life is upon anoth-
er planet we would 60 even further
astray and still more 50 when we try
to imagine what life may be like be-
yond the grave.
Way Proves Very Difficult.
The way down to Wainea was far
harder and more tedious than the way
up. The path was in bad state from
the recent rains. l became stiff and
sore and longed beyond expression for
the end Of the three hours and q half
of toilsome descent and for a good
comfortable bed at the inn. ! came at