Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — H/ WAIIAN ISLANDS GIVE U. S. ROYALTY, VOLCANO [ARTICLE]

H/ WAIIAN ISLANDS GIVE U. S. ROYALTY, VOLCANO

Contribute the Largest Active and Up- to-date Fiery Peak. in World. When the Hawaiian island! decided to become a part of the United States, we acquired, besides our first royal family and our most beautiful and exotic tropic garden spot the largest active and up-to-date volcano in the world. Kilauea has not boon advertised like Vesuvius and Pelee, by virtue of recent destructive eruptions, nor like Popocatepetl, by a jewel of a name that would have made the fortune of anybody perspicacious to apply it to a new brand of chewing gum. Retiring by disposition, o£recent years at least; and attending to BSat ness in a good natured way with only a few minor eruptions to. show that he is still on the job, Kilauea needs advertising. His advantages as a volcano are many. He does not perch up at the top of an inaccessible cone, like less considerate volcanoes. He can be reached by nervous ladies in an automobile with ease and safety. He Met in a country that revels In the luxuriant vegetation of half a dozen Italian gardens. He is the ideal tourists’ volcano —and his crater is nine miles across, the greatest on earth. It lies before you, a flat lifeless plain, in great smooth sweeps of lava run out and melted in long, graceful lines that are a delight to the eye. Here and there a fissure smokes reflectively, just to remind you that beneath the crust are depths unthinkable and temperatures unimaginable_ The wary tourist creeps to the edge of such a fissure and toasts bits of paper on the end of a stick by the heat of the fires of hades. It is a characteristic sight Where the crust breaks off in a pit and shows the living fire beneath, the United States government has erected a station for the study of volcanoes. Scientists peer into the giant lipless throat and make observations and take temperature*

The rain tree of Colombia measures about fifty feet high when at maturity, and about three feet in diameter at the base. It absorbs -an immense quantity of moisture, from the atmosphere, which R concentrates, and subsequently sends forth from its leaves and branches in a shower, in some ln,stances so abundantly that the ground ")n Its vicinity is converted tote aquasmire. It possesses this carious prop erty Ln its greatest degree to the summer, precisely When th* rivtks are at their lowest and water most scarce.