Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1919-12-04
KEEP eye ON HENS
Hawaiian Owners Of Chickens
Are Sleeping Lightly.
Fearful That Nine. PeIe, the Goddess
Who Lives In kllauea Crater, IL
Eager for More Poultry to
Furnish Her Dinner.

Owners OF c0al-black game cocks In
Hawaii are keeping out an eye to see
that the chicken house Is locked Sc
curely every night.
And that's all because the volcano
Of Kilauea il now the most active 1t
has been for SO years.
Six months ago Kllauea was sput-
tering away In Its mile-wide bowl Of
burning, molten rock. with the level OF
the flaming crimson sea of boiling
lava 900 feet from the top of the era
ter.
The night that Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels and his party paid Kilauea a
visit--the latter part Of Augnst-the
level Of the seething lava lake was
about so feet below the crater's top.
Several oyerfows already have oc-
Cured. cone which once jutted 500
feet above the crater's top has melted
away into the sea OF fire. Two hears
after the secretary and his party left
the main crater and q second smaller
one. caved in, joining the cFaters
And KiIauea still Is going strong
AS to the connection OF all this With
coal-black game cocksi Oh, that's very
simple.
Many years ago, when the islands
first were becoming white mans
land, Kilauea became angry. II roared
and Kissed and sputtered and the
ground shook. Then the lava over
flowed and moved slowly down the
mountain side toward Hilo.
The native HRwailans had been
Christians but comparatively short
time. Their fright knew no bounds,
for the island legends are full OF the
tales Of what Kilauea did when Nine.
Pele, the goddess who lived IN
Kllauea's crater. became angry.
SO the Hawaiians prayed that the
flow might stop but It didn't.
Then they danced but that was In
effective.
Finally, forgetting their Christianity
for time, they sent a party by canoe
to Honolulu to consult few remain
ing priests OF the days when they all
worshlped the strange South sea
deities.
Throw black rooster Into the lava
flow" was the advice they brought
back.
The sleekest shiniest cock on the
island Of Hawaii was picked for the
sacrifice, and while the maidens
danced, the warriors cast the squawk-
ing bird into the base Of the lava fiow.
In an hour the flow had stopped.
Mime. Pele. the most.feared goddess
of the island. evidently had been sat
istied with chicken dinner.
American residents Of the island be-
lieve that II there is ever another big
lava flow, coal-black BOOSTERS win come
lntG demand once more L
A mo" That Made q Friend.
A business man went to two bank
ers. He wished 10 borrow 5000 from
one and $1,000 from the other. Ly-
man Arson tells the story in the oc-
tober issue OF System. the Magazine
CT Business: The first banker Ioaaed
him $1,000, but was so unpleasant
and condescending about II that the
business man went back 20 his once
with the thought, I'm never have any
more dealings with that bank as ieng
as ] live" The second banker refused
the loan OF $1,000. but he did II 40
graciously and with 80 clear an ex-
position Of HIS reasons. that the busl-
ness man left as booster for the
bank, and said to himself, 'I'm going
to put my affairs in such shape that
there will be no earthly reason why
this man should not loan TO me.
want to do business with him" The
second banker had learned the art OF
saying mo" II Is real art. You have
to practice II every day.