Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-13

We hear so much about the strenu-
Gus life even here, the necessity of
constant action; we are so wrought
up to a pitch; we turn and twist and
whirl and whisk about our little AT.
fairs to such a degree that II Is pleas.
ant to read what Dr. Hobart Clark
says in Martha and Mary" C"Chris-
tian Register" Sept. -. We cannp.
copy all he says, but here and there
are few words:
What most people need today IL
not the will to do nor the energy to do
their share OF the worlds work. They
need rather the will and the energy
to stop sometimes, and to think what
they are doing and why they are do
ing it. Many good people, many OF
the best and most useful people, com.
plain, and not without reason, OF q
life of drudgery. But what Is drudg.
cry? 1t is simply work without
thought; labor without inspiration. II
was, believe, the editor of the Lon.
don Times who once approved the
common habit Of settling things first
and understanding them afterward.'
We have become so accustomed to the
feverish rush and tear and hurry of
modern life that many people have
come to think the only way of getting
things done. either In public or prl.
vate life, Is to act first and think aft
erward. No doubt most people
have to submit to a great deal of hard
disagreeable, necessary drudgery. But
in addition to that many do submit to
a great deal that Is absolutely unnec-
essary just because they allow them.
selves to be rushed and driven, and
SO do not put thought aud sentiment
into their work; or, In other words,
because they believe things to be so
much more important than thoughts,
because, like Martha, they magnify
the externals. of life so much as to lose
all sense of Its finer possibilities and
its deeper realities"
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We are in receipt OF "a Little Gar.
rison," by Lieutenant Bilsc, which we
have referred to in previous issue OF
The Bulletin. We shall review the
work In few days. The book Is call.
ed "A Realistic Novel Of the German
Army Life Of Today" The author
works under two names, 1t. Bllse and
Fritz Won Der Kyrburg. and his trans.
lator is Wolf Won Schierbrand. the
well known author OF Germany: The
Welding of World Power"
The publishers, The Frederick A.
Stokes Co., says: "The novel that up.
set the German Army and caused an
international sensation. That the
story of German army life, which Is
told in the form OF a realistic novel,
went home to the soul of the German
people is proved by the fact that with.
In couple OF weeks after its publica
ton More Than 100000 Copies Had
Been Sold! 1t. Bilse's book has caus.
ed his Imprisonment and has formed
Reichtafg, and the Kaiser himself
was forced to take notice of II. That
the book Is an epoch-maklng one can
not be denied Columns and In some,
cases pages about the book have been
published in the New York World,
Times and Herald and other leading
papers throughout the country"
The New York Times says of the
book: 1t. Bilse is famous. Germany
Is quiverng with Indignation; all the
world is reading the book now"
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Mr.. Charles Wagner, author of THE
Simple Life" is to lecture In the
United States during the coming win. |
ter under the ], B. Pond Lecture Blu.
reau.
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Some children wrote to Mr.. Jacob
Riis and asked him II there was real
Santa Claus. Mr.. Riis appreciated the
implied trust in his truthfulness and
has answered the question by a new
book called rs There Santa Claus?"