The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-06

they still believe firmly in pele 4.
Goddess OF Fire, who lives i'm -.
crater OF kilauea- Not long -.
he says. q native girl dreamed a.
unless human sacrifices were ma.
to Pele. the goddess would inA,s
some great catastrophe upon n.
island. Thereupon party Of :.
tives was organized and set ON. q.
the crater to throw one OF ~.
number into the great cauldnr !,
boiling lava. The police heard =
the expedition and Pele was rohAss
Of her victim. DR.. Sherzer ~
that he himself has seen the -.
tives come and make minor s,cri
fees to the goddess of eternal A..
Hawaii has suffered very I'M.
from its volcanoes. copsiderin,
that it is a small island and con'
tains Mauna Loa. which is the lar,
lest active volcano in the wors
Mauna Loa erupts every seven !,
eight years, the eruption usualh
taking the form of a stream !,
molten lava which breaks ow
through the sides of the mountain
As the region is thinly populatsa
and the lava moves slowly. Their
is usually plenty of time for eyery.
body to get oubof the way. In ISL
there was small flow of Law,
which entered the sea. Far fror
fleeing this eruption. the popul,.
ton of the island dashed to N.
spot in automobiles to see the sisb,
of river of molten rock flown,
into the ocean.
A Volcano Won a War.
Mauna Loa has been known N
erupt explosively,. throwing in,o
! the air quantities Of ash. scoria q,
cinders, and great blocks Of coli
lava. The last eruption of this ma.
ture took place in 1925 and is r..
membered chiefly for the fact that
Admiral Byron>of the British nav
the brother Of Lord Byron. the poet
was on the island at the time. Tia
eruption was very small one.
The last serious explosive erup.
ton was in 1889 or 1890, the eyt,t
date being uncertain. At the Tina
two native princes were warning Tor
domination of the island, and one
of the armies was encamped on the
slope OF Mauna Loa. This army
was wiped out by the eruption, the
only survivor being a pig, and the
victory was thus given to the 9th.
| r side. The natives all consider.
ed that the gods had intervened n
their affairs.
| Hawaii had earthquakes almost
every day, but they are so slight
for the most part that they are not
felt by humans, but merely record.
ed through instruments. There
have been no serious earthquake
| since 1868, at which time destruc
tive landslide was caused by ona
| Whether the Hawaiian VOLCANOES
are piped and made to turn dynt-
NOES or not, they will always sefw
the great purpose of making mn
feel the precarlousness Of his q.
istence. The awestruck nativa
made them the homes of dangercui
gods and goddesses, and threw ":
ing sacrifices into them. Modem
science rejects all of this as supsF
stition, but it shows that man 4
living on this skin of rock and
earth about a great core OF Qoltn
! mineral. The shell is thinner ID
proportion than the shell OF an
. egg, and almost as brittle, It oftsa
i trembles and occasionally cracs
, from the writing and bubbling q
the great mass of molten rock viii.
in it. Here and there the shell y
worn thin and the liquid fire coma
squirting out. Man is a microe
crawling on the soutside OF tM
! thin and tremulous vessel. 4