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Show "Nut to the natives, as they are ac customed to it. but it makes real estate miehty uncertain. Nobody can tell w here the mountain will burst and wht.se ranch will be buiied under fifty feet of l iva and cinders. From ind.cati oris it is believed that there will be an eruption erupt-ion next spring or summer. A peculiar ity ol the volcano is that it never over Hows at the top. but always through a break in the side. The great molten interior keeps rising and rising uutil the wall gives away somewhere. I know one man wh' Se entire ranch was lost, but the seething river parted into two branches and passed around his house and garden. The crater ol the volcano is three miles in circumferance, and is indeed a veritable hell. In the early days it is said that the natives sometimes threw human sacrifices into the boiling lake to appease the anger of the Gods." King kahkau is a strong favorite among the natives, and much ol his lost power has been restored. Dr. Carter states that there are two parties in the country the missionary and the national nation-al reform. The native, are aim. st solidly solid-ly arrayed against ihe missionary influence, influ-ence, and the doctor believes that the natives are more than half right in their claims The Hawaiians. More Lies about (he Mormon Mor-mon in Utah, Dr. Carter Tells Some Interesting Inter-esting Things Concerning the Little Island Kimlom. 'twas ever thus. Denver News, Dr. Albert R. Carter ol Honolulu, Sand wich islands, is regis'ered ai the Windsor Wind-sor hotel, in company with Mrs. Cailer. The doctor is a New Yorker, but sue n a'ter lalcing up his t evidence on the island f ji r eaisajo. hemet hs present wile, who is a high caste native. One thject ol Dr. Carter's visit to this country was to inquire into the condition of Hawaiian proselyies to the MorniMi church. A' o t 0 of these people h.id been in duced in follow the Mormon elders to Utah, and rumors highly damaging to the Latlet-Dav Sainis were wafied back to Honolulu.The doctor made a thorough investigation of the charges, ana beiore leaving Salt Like Citv filed his report to the island government He found that twenty lannhes haJ become dissatisfied 10 such an extent tsith Ihe practices ol of Mormondom that they enounced their allegiance to the church and ueie regarded re-garded as outcasts. "I found many ol them on the verge ol starvation " said the doctor, ''with no opportunity of getting employment and with prospects ol freezing to death when the cold weather sets in." The Mormons weie so much incensed against the recent members ol their Hock that all avenues of securinga livelihood weresliutagaiust them. A bill appropriating l5,ooo to pay the passage of the deluJel creatures back so their old homes was pending before the legislative assembly when Dr. Catier lefi Honolulu, fne people are living in a valley seventytive miles from Salt Lake city and look forward with the most anxious solicitude to any escape Irom their terrible position. The doctor states that those ol the natives who still remain faithlul to the church are assisted assist-ed by the .Mormons and appear satisfied to remain in this country, M'KINLEV KNOCKED THEM OUT, In speaking ot the Sandwich islands, the visitor said last night: "The McKinley bill has proved a terrible terri-ble blow to the sugar trade and may involve in-volve serious consequences to the government gov-ernment and the people. There are perhaps $50,000,000 invested in sugar plantation's in the islands, Heretofore sugar Irom the Sandwich islands was admitted ad-mitted free to this country.while ail other foreign sugar paid a duty of a cents a pound, "T he McKinley bill cuts off the duty 011 lit s;;ir and the Sandwich islands inus lose 3 cents a pound, As this was about all the profit that, could be made out of it by many uf the plantations they will be obliged to shut down unless con tiact labor at a low price can be introduced intro-duced Irom China. Whether this horde of heathens can be shipped back to their country when the time of the contract expires is a question which has been worrying the law makers, If the Chinese secuie a permanent foothold the country is destined to go pow-wows sure enough," "What about the lepers?" was aked, "It would take a great deal of tim: to answer that question satisfactorily, To be brief I will say that there are about 1 5 jo lepeis sequestered on the island of Molokai. The ..tsease cannot be said to be spread ng and is about as pervaleiit as consumption is in this country but not so destructive to life, There are thirty or forty whiles at .Molokai who caught the leprosy fiom others, as it is purely an infectious disease. I have treated a number ofcisesaud persons thus taken may be gteatly relieved by medical attention, at-tention, but no permiuent cure has ever yet been 'ound," . A TFRRIBI.E BANISMENT. Speaking of the mtiu d ol singling t ut the lepeis lor transportation totlieir dis-m dis-m d ab ide the doctoi said that when the suei IT of any district learns of a case in li s jut isd.ction lie leporis to the piopei officers, and the unhappy individual in-dividual is bunted up and sent to a receiving re-ceiving station, where a thourougti examination ex-amination is . ade by a committee of three prominent physicians appointed by ihe king If Mere is the least d ubtasto the geuumMiess ofjthe disease the patient paroled Irom month to month until all doubt is removed Once at Mof kai ai'd there is n 1 renirn. The disease is conveyed largely by the pratice f the natives in eating with iht-ir liugt rs out of the same calabash, and also by the In-di.iti In-di.iti habit ol passing the pipe from mouth to mouth. The d ctor says that he never saw a native who could not read and write in his own language. He claims that the; average education is much higner than in this country. Referring to Father Damien the doctor doc-tor said tnat the lamented priest very unnecessarily exposed himself to the contagion of hprosv and fell a victim through rashness. H s cook and house servants were all afflicted with the dreadtul diseise. Concerning the scan -d I which has been published widely 11 which the names of Sister Rose Gei-tunic Gei-tunic and Ur Luiz are connected, the I doctoi arfii ins that both arties are en-inrly en-inrly innocent. He propi.se 10 write .ip a lull lust ay and denial of the cuar-ges cuar-ges befoie leaving tins couutry. The g ivernmei't absolutely reluses to permit anv m ne sell sacrificing nuns to take up tlieir abode among tne lepers. More ilian enough volunteer native uurses can be secuiud. REAL ESTATE UNCERTAIN. "Is the volcano giving any causa of apprehension?" |