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<;,\u25a0\u25a0;\u25a0 JHONOLUI^. January. "23." :
ft | i"AK.I,Y: all; Hiib- was." awakened
l\ : |-.- : on.---.the" night", of January ?by
\ \l a ; vjj'.onuio .'outbreak.- at tlie sum
ruiir of -llaiina l^oa. . It was first
*<*« «t : abbu'j. .njijnighit. Before then
•thrfe va» no si{fn of fire rislbie-'Sud-'
•ficnly a klqw bpjfan if}; appear" and In
&\u25a0•\u25a0'. very •isHort tlhse- there cwas:" : a : vast,
illumination ©f the heavens. . \: ' \u25a0 ".
: iAs srea; f rbm ; jlilo," ,the : appeaj-atice
that, of a lurid column o-f; vapor
or smoke.'; evidently Ht up by- an " Im
mense. area of molten"..- lava, probably
.lh ; the -great crater of : Mokuaw.eowcb."
Therred ascended-. .until; It merged' with
cibqds, above;, and the clouds " were
«vpjy; .colored "with" 'the glare.."- The
width. .of .the cblumri Indicated ; a .bjg
area of; fire below, ;and the amount of
cTbud Uiurnlnatibn led : many pebples to
\u2666fftlmate that, the iigh.t- must be visible;
mitay miles, away. ''\u25a0 \u0084.": ;. • ;\.- \u25a0 ; *','" :
: J*or about; two .incurs: the' glow-main
jtaitiedtts : fu.ll extent. "The oldest resi
dents say: that It eqaaied and possibly
ereee'de/' Any they had :*ee.n! : At about
2. 1 In t'uw morning it : . began to Vabata,;
and by 4; Jt had almbst disappeared.
There have, been triahy slight .earth
tremors in the vplcanib district, of. the
Island . of : Hawaii, but none, of "them,
'•erious..' .' : s '••;. ; :: : '\u25a0\u25a0 ; \u25a0 •' ;
; The flow of lava from the mountain
side extended s> .distance cf ..thirty
pie "Farthest North" Elopement
(Continued from Front Pacre.)
her paddle Just as vigorously as before
ber-ttstus had; been changed.- \u25a0 ~ \u25a0\u25a0
v'Wivp'jtbtyw later th« Ice- pack -moved
o? ihore and the Thetis followed it up.
( carchlhg: : for a lead that would : vikp
fc.er.to jpbint Barrowl, .Behind her came
thia Bteainer liarold Dollar .with sup
piles for the whalers.; ] The,Th : ctls, had
otders. to v.cojavOr tfils vessel to its..de&
tlnatlon, ;for- on her rnlght depend the
ltve» of "hundreds of \u25a0' men, ' \u25a0;• .- .
• . : That, ajcternoon the ' -Thetis dropped
anchor; ofjf the village" of Oticiawlk; on
Potat Barrow. : &n& ajl : the inhabftants
exowded Ion het decks.; Among" them
camt'Ajjjik., . Hei^was" a tall, thin, sad
ieqkin^r'.Esfcimo; :'\u25a0 W' s skin clotbi.iigr was
torn, -with the i hair-rubbed off. In large
spots a"li.over y his parka. • His boots
•were nearly "wprji- through, arid the ma
terial .«£. -bis. 'trousers had originally
be.ea a tai;k Jor holding. potatoes.. Even
ei- flour b*g wai too .valuable for the
Trear -of .suth "as he. .* ". . •' "
Anu^.- Slave fprLctve '
j '. For Anuk was i a elkve. No, not held .
In' -Involuntary, servitude, but a slave
by his own free will." One thing- Anuk
wanted-^a wife. :At his home- In a
1 distant settlement there was but one
' marriageable girl, and she had been
contracted for", by fi. Siberian Eskimo,
rich In relndpen .So,' three .years ago,
\u25a0Anuk had begged a whaling captain to
, take -him along the Alaskan shore in
. search of. a- wife. Away he sailed Into
• the far northern ocean and was lost to
{all who knew him. lost as much as If
*he had sailed straight off that clear
horizon Hne and left the earth alto
gether.
A year later, when the revenue cutter
Bear, then , commanded by Captain
• Hamlet, \ dropped Into the harbor of
Anuk*s village, an old woman threw,
herself at the captain's feet, clasped his
knees and wl.th sobs ; and Jmplorlnsr
eyes entreated him . volubly," but, in the
Innuit "language. In despair, he asked
*-m.n Interpreter, "What does this woman
want?" and the interpreter answered
that her son. Anuk, had gone away into
the Arctic, and she besought the umallk
•to bring him back to her, lf he we're yet'
-ciive or to. tell' her jif. he" were dead.
But no new* came that year and y the.
nrrritiTT — m *m nnr«i«i mt \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0!\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0<!\u25a0\u25a0 if
mile?, till it reached the sea on the
night, of January 12. In its course It
crossed and destroyed a part of the
Government road ou the Kona side
of the flow of ISB7. Telephone poles
were .swept down by the lava and traf
fic, was stopped, considerable forest
area being tilso burned, and some pas
ture .lands suffering on tho Kahuku
raflch. The lava flowed In' three streams
toward Hhe tea, at. the rate of seven
milffe an hour.- The sight is grand and
magnificent*
The flow, of ISS7 occurred on January,
li of that. year, almost twents* years i
ago to a day; Then It was accompa-'r
nied by" frequent '"and)' severe v earth-;
quakes,,' whereas there are ]now only
occasional slight tremors.' It occUrfed
well tip on the Bouthw'cstctn slope of
the^moun-taln.at a point known as Po
hfLkuohanklcl, and ran through Ka
huku to the sea. Thegra'nd sight In*
duced .several- excursion parties, spe
cial trips of steamers being required
.for. the accommodation. of the Excur
sionists. .But on -January 31 it ceased
as . ruddtnly fie "'lt hid begun. Tho
crater of Kilauea was reported »lug
gish and Inactive during the floxV from
the summit crater, but It steadily in
creased In activity and resumed the
vigor it "had prior to .thY suspension
of activity that occurred On March 6,
ISSe. The flow in ISB7 occurred at
poor oia .mother continued to mourn.
. Moanwhlle, Anuk. unsuccessful both
ln".Siberlaand on the Alaska Bide of tho
Arctic Ocean, had finally reached Point
Barrow. By this time the .few furs
with'which'he had hoped to tempt some
beautiful girl- were gone, lost either
by unsuccessful trading, gambling or
by gifts to possible conquests who ac
cepted rits gifts and then laughed at
his pretensions. . For "the colonel's
lady and Bridget OGrady are sisters
under their skins." : v-i
-Reaching the Point Barrow settle
ment he found at last a girl that he
could got. 'She was bcautiful~and so*
nice- and fat that he just couldn't help
loving her. .But he had no whalebone,
no walrus tusks, no furs, no flour. And
ft is necessary to have wealth where
with to buy an. Arctic bride. But he
had health and strength and he ; sold
them both to gain his heart's desire. ..'[
The girl's parents, the only ones'that
she knew, agreed to give her to Anuk
If he would .work for them for two ;
years without wages other than what
food was necessary to keep him In rood
working trim.
For a long; dreary, winter worked
Anuk. He tramped for miles over the
Bnow-covered, frozen tundra, tending:
his master's traps. He crawled over
the Ice to kill seal and walrus f or^ hi* J
master. In the early summer he risked
his life on the Ice floes gettlng^whalo-';
bone for his master* while
men in the village were' setting: it.for:
themselves. When the -supply' vessels
came , In August and" September he
lugged coal and flour, up the pebbly,
beach for his master, or, for wages v paid^
to' his master. When, the big' schooner.
was caught by the ice, late in Reptem- .
ber.'and; crushed- into; a- mangled mass '•
of, driftwood. Anuk .helped- tear the
wreck to pieces. an ,i 'always for the ;
profit of his master. • -
He grew .'shabbier and shabbier' , But',
what did he care? Was ho not going
to ; have this lovely, fat girl for' hU
very ownT In one year more ?7, She ' had \
been kind to him, tocv at first;* although
she did not seem to be so "fond of hi m
now. But; rerhaps • htr- wsi : : deceiving
himself, and »he really did love 1 him as
much as he loved her. v \u25a0•"'; ? 5 -"'•"'*''
r Poor Anukl :He knew/nothingef the
l*ohakuohanalei, the identical pdlnt;at,
which the present '.outbreak : "occurred.
Dr. A. B. Clark, who has v return«d
here from Hllo, says: "I had a magnlfl- ;
.dent view— the glow above Mauna Loa
was so bright ftfld \so clearly
the light covering the extreme, limit
of the crater In two, distinct columns,
that 1 could distinguish a'. complete oiit
llne of the mountain. Occasionally the;
Blow would grow brighter. 1 but at no'
time could: I_; see fountains playing;
That would be . '.impossible '"'while ,the
crater ls'so.deep'flndrsp far backjfromi
: the ; Hilo i ftide o*M.he plat^aurat' theUop";
!Of i Mauna/ Loa. . V It" was. one /of ;^ the'
grandest* sights I ever "wltnessed.^but*
; It -did : 'riot ''continue^ longr." ; :. \u25a0" ; • \^? '*-?\u25a0?
The. eruption on Mauna -Loa ; was
plainly seen by- Captain Kaopala of th«
Llkellkß' nt a.dlslahce^bf"near
ly fifty miles from the scfene'of the dis
turbance. " The ' first . evldo'nce } was a
column' of fire and smoke rising into
the air and then the entire outline of
tho' mountain waft visible to those on
tho vessel. In speaking of the scene
Captain Nftbpala said:
"The flret outbreak was at 11:46 ar4ii
was a wonderful and ibefcutlfui'ilght
A column, of fire and smoko .rose t\id«
dehly Anrf iUumlnated the whole eky.
It could bo I seen . plainly, from Maul
and also, from Mblokai. The extentlof
the eruption can be judged : from the
world, less of women. His mother, was
not there to tell him anything" and tto
body in the settlement took any Inter-,
eat In him whatever." lie cOUldnot ; see
that his promised brldft could not love
a man who was no': more .than a drudge,
who was at everybody's beck and cah ;
and whose clothing, even, was decay
ing- - . ;f ; \u25a0.:::•\u25a0.•-
She could not* appreciate the devo
tion of the man.'. She did hot dreahv
that here was a man ; wh6 was cheers'
fully giving his very life for. her. She
saw only the slave of hor father and
began- to dread the. approach, of : tlie
..time when she must' leave her father's
hut and go to live with this scarecrow.
So he plunged Into, the second'win-
ter. And the' terrible cold penetrated
the rents * In : his ' tattered clothing/ He
was notso strong as ho had been dur
ing th c nrs t w inter. - Several -: times he
fell ...sicks ana:.two \u25a0 or rthree'Hlmes ;he
failed,, thro ugiisweakness; L \toPdbShis^
allotted work. -.The .first time' his mas
ter; made; a^ mo vo~ to s strike; him.' * But
the;: sudden glared in;, the J slave's^: eye
made ttho^master , change ;: his ' mind.
•Blows ,v*re not nominated In- thVi bond.
/During Ithe. -twilight "of: March, r. just'
before^ the break ; of f ,day, '}: one :.": of the
young.-men, of the began; visit-/
ing " his : niaster's > house : and prom*'
ised brldftV appeared to" \u25a0"\u25a0enjoy/ -these :
.ylslts./V But 'Anuky was not at all
alarmed.' }He\was;falthful|y~llvin«iup;
to .his part y of jthe'.agreoment.Yandr-hls:
faith in^-hisj f ellowj? man T,was Jio * great \u25a0
. that \u25a0he \u25a0 knew hthe •? oth era - wouldo uld ft be
equally; squarelwith;him;v /;. -» , " ."•, : \u25a0\u25a0
. He*. could ;not-; ; understandj.why/ his,
younK<mlstresssscnt f. him S continually
on ; long.^erramlg.;' sometimes \u25a0•\u25a0;t'oti<i or^
.. twelve v miles J-'away.-'rATheaeYrrranilsl- at*
ways : seemed ; foolish I or. '',iin necessary^
But it ;w«s' licr;-;Wish,"And2tliat ;.was^
!- enough. It jdld < not \u25a0 >yen ; orrur.j to . him
as , a . stranKelcolncldence? that] the > other
young imaniwa9(eltherlinnhe>huC : with i
Anuk's: betrothed; on ?b is rttui-n^orJ that :
he met j ;hlmjjustfeowina : |away. . : -
\u25a0\u25a0 :,Then;came;the;whalJne ieasonr'Anuk 1
lived outlonithe Uce'andisaw slittle'of
.his. betrothed.^- But? he?, was £ working I
- f or; hcr)andiwas ! content:S ; The* Bear ) or *
.; the --.Thetis Iwould &aoonsbfeak£through ;
,thej ire.;^ His i term ? of | servitude v.wouldt
th en be , ; ended •; and I tli c > umali k?o f Uhe I
; cutter; would 1 , take ; him! and i his /charm-?
i ing,; fat ? bride i ; away ? to "'\u25a0, his I
'home.v- "^[ \u25a0;\u25a0 w-:/.: \u25a0\u25a0--_\u25a0\u25a0 f.C:-'-',-^'.?--:':*'- -:^: ;
Tommjr^lloyak^toid^us
fresh^from the lips of Anuk-'tOf course."
,the "glrltwas iTereedlokJ^^And -;Tommy!
. continued,^'H«^ iay.f ? captain,, maybe *
you take : him;to »Walnvright;lnlet *s Hef
been" tellc there:,' is i'aV* nice, " f girl E ,f dowhi
tliere."
fact that the outline of thef- mountain
could be seen »d ; plainly.^ -;;;' \u25a0 '
-'."We were at'tbejtlme about twenty
How Came This
Ancient Grecian
Vase in Manchuria?
*"; ;C"; C" BRONZE vase of Greek or Ro
/ \' : man origin coming out of:Man
f^~\ chufia 'A and brought to > iSan
> , l r rahcJ«co .with- a cdliectlflxl ; of
drlehtftlcurlos-ls a thing to provoke |
((peculation, but when It i« 'rttted : with \
a p]ate of bfonsfe';bWtin*:>rChiil«e' '
"Inscription so old '"thatjnoriS of.* ddzen ....
Chinas*" scholars' ln^hV cHy;cln.r«ftd it,
then' Indeed It become* an object of in^
torest not ...only tOschOlArs but to\th«x
casual observer.'' '.-'_•'"'.-" "% : j»
Such 'a vase ; was brought
witTi a collection; of objects; ttoxn] Man- \u25a0
churla to. a local dealer, ;-Mr.rOttmp ( -
It 'ls of very fine, ; heavy bron** , r •In
most black In ccolorr r and
tinged with green. The thape is very.
ipecullaK : iThero are, in f act, ; two vases, y
on'e^wlde/and low, \u25a0 the ':, other.UaU^*nfl \'
'. sienderAbothTrestlng on the same base. r.
The boar's connect* 4 th* >
; two t points; to ajßoman^orlglnV':aß^the i ;
boar's \ head.? though i used! occasionally,*!
\u25a0by,the;Oreeks, wasimuch" more common .-
I in ; Roman ; art, .which ; Is -but ; aridevelop-" '
ment'^ahdS to some ! extent -; 'tt'i corruption^
of -I the 'Greek. i?TheiioriarlhalJcover;of Jj
the wider; and| ; lower;yaseli*>lost.'%and' : :
Instead -\u25a0there ;is "a 'Coyer.-; In ? Chinese X
-workmanship car l vedslh;t«ajk.':#iTher«;itl;
\u25a0 also i a base ;\u25a0 of * the 1 8airie^rhater|al?ac-;\v ;
;curately.'- fltt*dst6" s ' .the '\u25a0> bottom^ of ith« -:\u25a0
; orlglnal.^Under:.theifoot^of ithe>vas©^:
a' plater of: a. different rklnd ot bronxe \u25a0'".
• Is : ;put v ; lnland on'.thts isj the fChinese ;
• ; : - •'" •';'\u25a0\u25a0?:•\u25a0: \u25a0>\u25a0.: v-CN '-•-\u25a0^v''-.-'.':.-. i -..-,"
>4JMr.^Quinp .atl-once reallxed- that^he.
ihadia^rare'treasure.from'an'archeolog-X 1
:icallp6int'of\view.^SThinkirigfthat!the> ;
iihscrlptlonfmightTirlv^.sotnejcluettoJlti^
e :Orlgihv;and;Jhi««tbry.f he?tbokcth«lvas* &
:< to * a"'' number.; of 4<ihinese 'scholars, i but V;
>. t h ry, . all a pronounced j» thel acrlp V ; to 'f be £
;^so;'old!?thatftheyj could? notiUß««r«taad^
% i t.-.-^. Final ly^ a>Jipanes» k auth«Hty Jon
Oriental \u25ba languages % was" able t» make
i out t the v- meaning tf of ?\u25a0 th» | latt get j»h«r. %
v It: is^''Otftf from the : *re*t | cmMrer,"^
£ or^^Treasurel 1 ' of 1 the s »r«at i>mpwror.*! >
writing \u25a0is told ~ Ch»B«W.K^ ~y:-i'-r'
; used X as * a % toilet t "a«eo«Bory, I th« H wld#S
; : and ]Id wiyeisel !. fof J oltitltt*ntr> th« I tall*r^
: and ; narrower "on«l f br,| tollet\watef .'itha i
Chinese ; bwners,^ however ,1 hav«l evident- V'
I ly^converted^ it { lntbiani lnfien«e ? burtterr.';
iwhlch Us | shown l^ byi the 1 openw ork ! teak i-.
cover in :the; styled of ;the\; ordinary'
brass Incense burner.- . , ~\
:^How aw;it cdm% ftwa^BoaMtnlita^fl
toilet table, to the utt«rm6it ends of the-.
\ continent ? : -.£* \u25a0/> l : B|^^^^S^
"JsWe 4 kribw^that^Aiaxander i' of * Mace-/:
; donia. carried %th« ! Gree)t i Influence % faf V-)
anto^Ajsla|three-Shundred|ytar«3beforef
five miles off Kawiilhae and must have
been fifty,. mllea from the eruption
itself. : At^l2:ls the light 'grew even
the Christian -era," and that the Romans
ruled .by the i strong arm * over ill of
the southeastern part of the continent.
Thla region waj,r of .-, course, flooded
with household roods of Great and
Roman origin. SUll-lt. 1* » far cry to
Manchuria. Th* jaaatMt explanatlo n
Is that th* r«UO SH bwmtfTt by trad
MAGNIFICENT
ERUPTION OF
MAUNA LOA
THE
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO
stronger and continued all night. It
seemed from" where we were as if the
eruption must be between Mauna Loa
ers with caravans,- which were at that
time the regular means of communica
tion- between the East and the "West.
As early as before the Christian era'
there were regular 'routes established
between the. cities of -Asia Minor and
points In China, Once in China there
are a thousand ways by.which the vase
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and Mauna&ea, though just where. lt
would be hard to say as we wer« so
far away." . ' . .
might have been brought into Man
churia. The vase has been sent on to Sir
Purdon Clarke, curator of the Metropol
itan Museum in New York. He Is con
sidered one of the greatest of th<»
world's authorities on- archeology, and;
his explanation will no doubt ' soOn
be forthcoming and of great lnt^resu
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