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Show SEES HADES AND RETURNS TO OGDEN RESOLVED TO BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST I To sit and Raze straight into th I gateway of hell the old orthodox hel of fire and brimstone where the tem perature of the molten mass bencatl the fiery lake is probably throe thou I sand degrees Fahrenheit, was the fa rorlta diversion, of James V. Abbott vice president of the PingTee Natioua! bank and of the George A. Lowe com pany, who returned several days agr from a winter visit to the Sandwirli islands. Mr. Abbott today described, in con venation with a representative of the Standard, the awe-inspirinp: lake of fire and brimstono in the crater o( Kilauea, which is so vast in size the I city of Chicago could be dropped into it, as other travelers have remarked, y still leaving room for New fork and Philadelphia, for this gigantic vent in the surface of mother earth is one of the largest on the globe and extends, perhaps, like an immense planetary chimney a distance of 2.000 miles or more through the solid masses of the globe to the liquid interior Talk About Power: At this time, while the "great puns" of war are roaring, the predatory little lit-tle auimal known as man a planet a rv insect endowed with intellect, with brains and power to think, sharing to that small extent the divine attribute of the omnipotent Creator much talk 'ls heard of "the wonderful power" of the 45-centimeter and other cannon, representing the maximum of man's achievement, but the power of the volcano vol-cano of which Mi. Abbott spoke Is so stupendous that it can only be realized by reference to the authenticated fact that this volcano once hurled, like its prototype, Cotopaxi, a solid mass of j rock weighing four hundred thousand pounds a distance of nine miles, and. another sister in the vast chain, known Ins Antuco, In Chili, has hurled stones i larger than a box car a distance of jw thirty six miles. How Volcano Looks. "The volcano begcars description." aid Mr. Abbott. ' One would sum it up as the gateway of hell, for so it appears, indeed. It is a vast lake of living, molten lava. It surges forth from the hot interior to within fifty or one hundred feel of the crater's rim. As the surface cools it assumes a blu ish tint The surface has seams running run-ning around it, like the seams of a baseball, red with heat. The surface is dotted with geyser-like holes, which prow larger and larger, boiling fiercely all the time, until finally each throws a spray of fiery lava high into the air. The surface Is continually breaking out in this manner in different places "On a dark night the glare of the volcano in the sky affords a truly magnificent mag-nificent spectacle. When active, the volcano is, indeed, terrifying to the natives and awe-inspiring at all times. In olden days the superstitious natives na-tives crawled to the crater's rim and threw their cherished Jewels and other things into the cauldron to appease $fd tlit wrath of the god of fire." It makes 4 one's hair eurl to hear Mr. Abbott tell about the lauious volcano. ndwaiidri!) iir.c mormunoi Mr. Abbott said, in reply to a question, ques-tion, that the Mormon church Is rapidly rap-idly growing stronger and more popular popu-lar in the islands, and the Mormon missionaries who have done a great deal of beneficent work, are useful and well liked by everybody. "They seemed seem-ed to be the only ones," he said smilingly, smil-ingly, "who could induce the natives to do real work. The fine new Mor mon temple will be dedicated in the near future. "The Hawaiians love everybody," said Mr. Abbott, sniilingh. "Tin y ;ire delightful people always perfectly congenial, unsuspicious, always smiling, smil-ing, generous to a fault, always ready to share their last crust with the stranger. They are admirable, indeed, and despite their association with the greedy whites and their yellow imitators, imita-tors, they aren't losing these desirable racial traits. Liquor a Curse. "Liquor drinking still Is a curse of Hthe islands, but prohibition is now being be-ing seriously discussed. The legislature legisla-ture was in session when I left. The will flirt with the question for awhile, but eventually, 1 am sure, the islands will be 'dry.' "The climate is, of course, delightful, delight-ful, as Mark Twain once described - earth's incomparable paradise. Social So-cial Life is enjoyable, because the people peo-ple are truly congenial, kind and courteous. cour-teous. Business opportunities are extremely ex-tremely limited, because all important business is syndicated. "The Chinese are doing most of the work, serving in the hotels as managers, mana-gers, clerks, bookkeepers, etc. The Japanese, of whom the islands uave thousands, do not seem to excel in this line, wherein the Chinese are excellent ex-cellent servitors. The Japanese have a practical monopoly of the fishing Industry, In-dustry, however. The population includes in-cludes a large number of well educated Chinese and Japanese. Schools Excellent. "The school system Is excellent, in some respects incomparable. It wns founded by the early missionaries. Prior to the building of the transcontinental transcon-tinental railroads, many western fann lies sent their children to the islands to be educated, instead of sending ! r them around the Horn to the eastern schools. "The Hawaiian teachers are solving the difficult problems growing out of the racial differences in this great flux ing-pot, with a success most gratifying to the visiting American. The population popula-tion Includes masses of whites, Chinese, Chi-nese, Japanese, Portuguese, Filipinos. Spaniards, and negroes. There is some intermarriage between the Chinese and Hawalians, but the Japanese are preserving their racial individuality ." All Patriotic. Mr. Abbott said the population of Hawaii evinced intense patriotism and a genuine love for Old Glory; Young nien of the best familios are eagerly joining the National Guard, They delight de-light In the drill and 'parade. There are nearly 10,000 regular soldiers stationed sta-tioned at this time on the islands, in the barracks at Fort Schofield, Fort Shaffer and Fort Ruger. The latter stronghold is situated near Diamond Head, which iB a narrow promontory putting far out into the sea. It is hon- ' imbed with tunnels and mysterious I fortifications. The island? are now under constant guard, said .Mr. Abbott. Formerly it was possible for visiting Americans, with proper credentials, to visit the fori iflcalions, but no one except trusted trust-ed soldiers or sailors are now admitted. admit-ted. Ideal Policemen. 1 "Some of the Hawaiians are Joininc I the National Guard," he said, "but the principal ambition of the native Ifl to become a policeman. In this capacity, j stationed at crossings and street in-tersections, in-tersections, they excel any policemen I I have ever seen. They are extremely graceful, polite and obliging "I witnessed a gratifying Illuminated Illuminat-ed parade by the Japanese on Washington's Wash-ington's birthda There was every indication of patriotic loyalty on the part of the Japanese, many of whom are American citizens, having been born on the islands And they seem proud, indeed, of their citizenship Great dazzling stars, or transparencies, one for each state, were a feature of the parade, and one hupe and splendid star, heading the procession, reprosent-Hawaii. reprosent-Hawaii. After seeing that parade and after studying those people I do not feel alarmed by the 'Japanese peril, which is something of a bugaboo, it seems to me "The islands have two great dailv papers, the Star-Bulletin and the Chronicle, but the foreign news is rather rath-er limited." Mr. Abbott said he was not privileged privileg-ed to meet Queen Lilloukalani, who was dethronpd during the Cleveland administration. The queen, who Is world famous as the author of the piteous farewell song "Aloha Oe," still resides at the royal i ' residence and is greatly beloved by i the people Mr. Abbott was informed! that her health at present is poor and J she is no longer active In social life fin |