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wiling to accept without questioning
a much as he is able to disclose to
them, in weird but beautiful terms OF
the dreamland in which he lives and
the shadowy,: haunting forms of the
men and women whe dwell in that realm
Of spirits"
One of these strange. pictures by Mat
thew Maris is called The Dreamer" and
a representation of it is given by one OF
the book plates: At first glance II looks
but as a blur Then 1t seems as some
thing that once might have been a pic
turei bur now fading away into almost
complete 'obiiterstion. Looked at longer,
1t brings the idea that if there were such
a thing as a nebuIa of a picture this
might be 1.-THE vague beginnings, just
emerging out OF chaos. Again it looks
something like the imagination-a assisted
pictures one sometimes sees in clouds or
in the fire when deeply musing. But
above all if studied attentively, 1t ap-
pears as some dim image of, dreamland,
Just, no doubt, as the artist intended. 1t
is the vaguely outlined or shadow sug-
gested image of man sitting asleep upon
q bench. To gaze at it for q minute is TO
receive an impression somewhat as II you
were having q day-dream that you were
asleep and dreaming of some dim figure
Of a human being in the semi-darkness
'tw1Xt night and dawn, whose form ana
face. you were vainly endeavoring to sep
arate clearly from the chaos with which
it was bewilderingTy mixed.
The picture selected for reproduction on
this page is OF a masterpiece by the mod
ern Dutch artist ]. H. Weissenbruch. 1t
is the work of a man who only came to
his full artistic powers after; a lifetime
Of effort. A Dutch critic, speaking Of
this painting, thus expressed his opinion
Of the perfection of the work and of the
toilsome preparation it required to attain
the mastery necessary for its execution:
ut took Weissenbrueh sixty years to
learn how 10 paint that picture of the
Storm on the Coast of iceland" In -e-
gard TO this picture, and the other fine
work of the Dutch artists in landscape,
the author says:
LAS they grew older they find the tech
nical perfection they sought at first is
only the language they have to use. and
that the all-impOrtant matter is 20 use
the language they have learned, to render
in a proper manner the big things in
nature and in art as they appear in the
sympathetic imagination of the artist. =
The Dutch painter, James Maris, said:
''If a picture Is to give lasting pleasure
it has to satisfy more than the eye" To
close 1 give you two bits of verse THAI
are Quoted IN this book of almost ardent
appreciation of the power of modern
Dutch landscape artists to actually realize
in their pictures the ideals held aloft by
the poets in their words.
SUFFICIENTLY IN ART
t. in the Work. must needs stand manifest
The Person, be his features. therein shown,
Like a mans thought in a gods words ex-
His own, and somewhat greater than his own
w. Watson.
Back OF the canvas that throbs the painter is
hinted and hidcen,
Into the statue that breathes the soul Of the
sculptor is biduen.
Anonymous.
CBaker q Taylor Company, New York;
81 net)
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HOLLAND DESCRIBED
BY GREAT WRITERS

Were it not for the Dutch, Holland
would not exist" OF no other land or
people could a similar expression be
used. Other nations, however diligent-
Iy industrious and greatly creative
build from the ground up, but the
Dutch build the very ground On which
they build. There are many other pc
culiar things said about this singular
people and their country that they have
saved from the sea- A new book called
Holland: As Seen and Described by
Great Writer'S" gives a very fascinat-
ing account of these famous Neither
lands. It consists of thirty-seven pa
pers by various able writer's. collected
and edited by Esther Singleton, who is
a .well-knoWn success at that kind of
book-making. Her works are getting
to be quite a long list now.
To recall some of her past perform
ances is to feel that you are guaran-
teed TO get a good thing in each new
volume she sends cut for the publics
instruction and delight. Let these few
from the list be remembered in order to
favorably recall her workmanship:
Great Pictures Described by Great
Writers" Romantic Castles and Pal
aces" Love in Literature and Art"
''rurrets, Towers and Temples" Great
Portraits Described by Great Writer'S"
and Famous Women"
This new volume is specially design
cd as descriptive matter for the intend
ing tourist, or for the returned traveller
who wishes TO refresh his memory or
to keep by him a beautiful memento of
a delightful visit. 1t is profusely IL
lustrated with full-page presentations
of choice views characteristic Of
that land which is so often spoken of
as quaint" The general divisions of
the work are: The Country and the
Race" History" Descriptions of Va
rIous Cities and Places, Manners and
Customs" Painting" and Statistics"
Besides these uses the book will be
valuable for those many who have no
time nor money for touring, but are
curious to know. about that almost odd
est of all lands. the native place of the
Dutch. IT is a strangely interesting
glimpse we get from the text and the
illustrations of these pages. Odd sur
prising and beautiful is the multi
canaled and sea saturated country of
the Dutch Holland is said to be as wet
as raft awash. When men prepare to
build a house and dig down three feet
for a foundation the excavation is at
the water level. Yet they fear not
rheumatism nor miasm. Strictly speak
ing. the Dutchman has no terra firma"
beneath his feet The foundations of
his substantial buildings must be upon
piles brought from Norway or other
far-away places.
Speaking of the peculiar things that
can be said of Holland recalls the one
that the Dutchmen spent immense in
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attain a marvellous degree of perfection.
Those who have seen them aver that no
description can give an adequate idea. OF
the graceful bends and curves, the count
less soft and most becoming attitudes
they display in their swallow or butter
fly-like fight, or how completely their
placid beauty is metamorphosed and en-
livened by the exercise which the intri-
cate maneuvers they perform Involve.
Another selected quotation about the
ladies will perhaps be the most pleasing
contamination of review of this appre-
ciative book about the Dutch:
"A widely spread taste. especially
among the women. is that for flowers, Tor
here home life is a poem, and all means
are sought to idealize 1T. We have al
ready noticed that in Flanders moral
habits were trained with the love of fow-
ers; in the Netherlands it is an inclina-
ton which is becoming general. A rose
expanding behind clean and thoroughly
transparent Dutch window resembles the
perfumed soul of the house. These do
mestic gardens are sometimes perfect
Conservatives, so rich and varied does
the flora appear.
(Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. s1.60.)
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[ To illustrate the tendency of the author
| to deal very indulgently with masculine
immortality, we may consider few items
from the life of Jack Bexley, the hano-
some hero. of the tale. His nrst woman
serape is with his fathers gamekeeper
daughter. His father Good-naturedly for
gives him, without even harsh WORD,
and pays the gamekeeper to Keep quiet
by allowing him ten shillings a week for
! fourteen years which is just double What
the English law fixes as the price to be
paid Tor the privilege of having an lie
gitimate child. The way this incident Is
described reads very much ike making
light of the offense against morality. Inc
gamekeeper and his daughter are too
coarsely common to. arose much SYM
pathy but when We pass from that plepe-
ian coarSeness to the patricfan mouse
where the gentleman father and son made
it an easy matter of .ten bob week,
and NUNS the word, as a picture of Eng-
| lish Hfe it is apt TO excite some passing
disgust.
After that Jack goes to London, and
sins with the married Renee. The in
| dulgent father coIdones that also. and
there are only words of sympathy. "A
part CT the reason of the parents easy
indulgence is that he had been a gay
youth himself when he was Jacks age.
The authors condoning of Jack by paint
lIlS. MIN WlIl SUCH Ill QlpQL1oLCQ 40tC 10
made much more emphatic later on by
having the fine woman of the book, Ce-
ella Clarendon, not only forgive JACK, but
marry him. Her father who adored her,
had sworn his faith that she would not
marry Bedford when she knew the facts,
but she took him without demur.
All the literary skill of the writer is
exerted to picturing this young woman as
very wise one, and her particular act
in not declaring the engagement on be-
cause of the two eScapadeS of the hero
as a signal proof of her wisdom. 1t would
be interesting literary statistics to get
the number of readers who will feel dis
gust at such pardon and SUCH mar
riage and the number of those who
think, as the author betrays between
the lines that he does, that the young
woman was wise. We all know that
Cecilia's act is SO largely true to
life that it is natural to set it down
so in a novel. 1t would also be in
teresting literary as well as sociological
statistics If we could get figures TO show
IL the much larger proportion of immoral
ity In men as compared with women is in
some corresponding ratio to the. count of
the number of men who insist on the abb
solute purity of the women they make
their wives as compared with the number
of women who are equally particular as
to the men they marry.
II we had such statistics we might find
that the true explanation of the socio-
logical problem of the double standard lies
in the simple fact that there are so many
Cecilia Clarendons in the world; that
in eternal justice, each sex has got what
1t persistently demanded through the long
centuries that have made heredity tell
its tale. The men have demanded abso-
lutte purity in their wives, and they got
it. The women have not demanded IT in
men. and they haven't received it. BE
hold alll'' might say the social philos-
opher.
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UOLUyNES RECEIUED
FROM PUBLLgHERJ

JUDITH-By Grace Alexander. Bobbs-
Merrill Company, Indianapolis; SL50
LANDSCAPE PAINTING AND MOD
'ERN DUTCH ARTISTEBy E G. Green
shields Baker & Taylor Company, New
York: 81 net.
ARGONAUT STORIES Selected from
the Argonaut by Jerome Hart. edftor)-
Payot. Upham s. Co, San Francisco.
Call; paper 50 cents.
FOLLY-By Edith Rickert. Baker &
Taylor Company, New York; $3.50
HAZEL OF HEATHERLAND-By Ma
bel Barnes-Grundy. Baker & Taylor
Company; New York; &1.50-
HOLLAND (as seen and described by
famous writers)-By Esther Singleton.
.Dodd, Mead q Co., New York; 81
THE PATRIOTS (the story of Lee and
the last hope)-By Cyrus Townsend
Brady. Dodd. Mead 8 Co.. New York;
$50.
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NOTES OF BOOKS
IND THE. AUTHORS

The attractions of Holland will in
July, this year, be appreciably en-
hanced by the fetes and festivities that
are being arranged in Leyden and Am
sterdam-more particularly in the lat
ter town-to celebrate the tricenten-
airy of Rembrandt's birth. Much un-
certainty exists with regard to the ex-
act date, but most authorities are
agreed in fixing it as on July, Is, 1906.
The Leyden fete will take place on Sat
urday, July II, and that at Amsterdam
on the two following days, July 15
and 16.
AS at present arranged the national
fete will take the shape of an artistic
soiree at the principal theater in the
town. In the evening the Rijks Mu-
scum, the home of Hollands greatest
artistic treasures will be Illuminated
by the means of projectors, and proba-
bly, other parts of the town, too. A
commemoration medal will be. struck
The date of the fete will also coincide
with the opening of the new salon in
which the celebrated picture. best
known as .:The Night Watch" already
mentioned, will henceforth be placed
In the same annex of the Rijks Mu-
scum, in a somewhat smaller room, will
be lodged The Syndics of the Drap-
ers.''-Cook's American Travellers Ga
zette.
Six thousand students have come for
longer or shorter time under the in
fiuence of the institution during the
twenty-five years of its existence. So
far as l have been able to ascertain,
says Booker T. Washington in the
April Worlds Work. not one of the
graduates has been convicted of crime
and less than 10 per cent are failures
in the occupations which they have
adopted. There is an Increasing de-
mand all over the South for their SER
vices. One great reason why so many
of the students who enter fail to finish
their course is that their earning ca
pacity is increased to such an extent
, on an average, 500 per cent at the end
isof the full course-by few months or
years at study, that they yield to the
temptation to go to work at the in
creased salary and do not return to
complete their course at the school
The author of "The Long Day''-an-
other edition of which is IN press-is
lecturing before drawing-room audi
ences, clubs and conventions on her
personal knowledge of the conditions
among working women in the large
cities. Her revelations and practical
suggestions have been important fac
tors in the several schemes now active
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A public spirited lady has just or
dered from the Lothrop. Lee & Shepard
Company thirty copies Of Henry Weed $
standard work, 1.-The Political Economy OF
Humanism," which are 20 be present
ed to the thirty. labor members recent
ly returned to the new English Par
lament.
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CLERKS
ARE WORRIED
HEAR THAT A BILL INIMICAL TO
THEIR INCOMES is TO BE IN
TRODUCED IN LEGISLATURE.

The clerks of the circuit courts are
considerably interested i'm the likelihood
of a bill that may be introduced into
the legislature cutting off a consider
able part of their income. The bill,
as it is now underderstood will not al
low the circuit court clerks to act as
masters and commissioners in settle
ment of estates and matters of similar
character. Upon what grounds the
clerks vii be deprived of this outside
work, cannot be stated but it is claim
ed that the bill proposed is in the in
terest Of some Of the lesser lights of
the law.
Such a bill was presented at the last
legislature but was killed off. The
clerks are already at work now, trying
to secure influence to kill the threat
ened measlre. The fees earned by the
clerks from these appointments from
the courts, run from S4OO to $500 a
year. nasmuch as the regular salary
of the clerks is but 500 a month, the
enactment of the proposed bill is caus-
ing them not a little worry.
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PASSENGERS.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.

Per o. & O. S. S. Doric, December
20, from the Orient: For Honolulu: A.
F. Judd, Miss V. Pounds, j. c. Phillips,
Miss NJ. Pounds, Goo Chong, Mrs. Goo
Chong. Through A. H. Silverstone
A. II. CULVER, Charles E. Cullen, Miss
E. G. Tietje, Mrs. A. E. Carpenter, L.
d. Cummings, Lee Ting Leung, Rev.
E. NJ. Harris, w. r. Lee, Toy Con, w.
Domnich, P. e. Mack, Mrs. c. o. Jen-
nings, ]. e. Parker, Chief Paymaster
o. Reddart, l. G. N; Mrs L. d. Cum
mings, DIR. Bodzenhardt, Mrs. E. NJ.
Harris and two children, w. NJ. Pont.
Departed.
Per s. S. Mauna Loa, for Hawaii
and Maui ports, December 21-J. r.
Paris, G. w. Carr, j. Aea, H. P.
Beckley, William Espinda, Master Co
nant Miss ]. G. Macdonald, j. D. Neal
Miss Maud NJ. Wight, c. Clapp, Mrs.
Mana Kaipo Aea, Miss Richard, ]. N
Conant, Miss Rathbury, ]. V. Aimoku
Per S. S. Claudine, for Maui and Ha-
waii pors, Decembe PIN. S. Grinbaum
Mrs. Penhallow, H. NJ. Alexander, and
wife, T. Edwin, M. S. Anjo, Miss May
Alana, Miss NJ. Morris, c. G. White, w.
A. Baldwin, Mrs. A. Chalmers and
daughter, Miss NJ. Kaluna, Miss Daisy
Kalei, Miss Sophie Peplowiski, Mrs.
Gibson, Hrs. Deacon, D. A. Hanah and
Wife, NJ. j. Keelen, Alfred Hansen, A..
r. Askew, A. E. Askew, S. K. Hawai-
hoa, S. e. Kaiue, Master Kahookele, j.
K. Kahookele, Joe Whiteford, George
Cockett, Mrs. George Cockett and in
FAINT, Marion Muir, Aalona Kanae, J..
Aruda, r. T. Engle
Per o. & o, IS. S. Doric, for San
Francisco, December 21.-S. Yakishita,
c. Karl Springfield.
Per p. NJ. s. S. China, for the Orient
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shipping INIELNGENEGE.
TIDES, SUN AND MOON.

tFor nddltlonai and later shipping see
pages 4, or S.
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THE 0, R, & |, CO,
AND THE RATE LAW
THE LAW APPLIES BUT OLD CON-
TRACTS FOR SPECIAL RATES
ARE STILL GOOD.

WASHINGTON, December 1O-The
Interstate Commerce Commission has
recently defined the status of railroads
in the Hawaiian Islands as regards
their relation to the railroad rate law
The commission has decided that the
Oahu Railroad and Land Company
may properly charge different rates for
the same service, under certain condi-
lions, providing the tariff schedules
are filed with the commission. This
railroad feared that in making these
different rates it might be violating the
Elllins law and brought the question
itself before the Interstate Commerce
Commission for decision.
Tt seems that the road has contracts
with several plantations in Hawaii by
which sugar is shipped to Honolulu at
specified rate. Many of these con-
tracts were made before the anneXa-
ton of the islands for a long term of
years. A certain rate was fixed for
the first ten years and lower rate for
the next ten years, and so on. These
rates were explained to the commits.
sion by Sidney Ballou, attorney for the
road, and L. A. Thurston and F. NJ.
Hatch, who came on from Hawaii for a
hearing in the case last week.
The contract rates represent about IS
per cent of the business of the road
and are lower than the rate charged to
other shippers for similar service. but
it was shown that the difference was
small and that the contract freight
was handled by the plantations Wher
the contract with the Eva plantation
recently expired the railroad made the
same rate to all shippers to that sta
ton.
After looking into the whole ques-
ton the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decided that there were no pro-
visions in the Elkins law which would
endanger the road in fixing these rates,
and that any apparent determinations
which the road makes in its rates were
warranted by conditions. The commits
sion reserves the right to pass upon the
dual tariffs at any time in case any
shipper makes complaint that he is
charged an unjust or unrea sonable
rate. While the determinations are
approved, the commission warned the
road that it must stand ready to de-
fend them whenever complaint against
them is made.
Mr.. Ballou, before returning to Ha-
wall, will confer with the counsel of
the Pacific Cable Company at New
York regarding its libel of 100000
against the steamship Manchuria for
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ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT.

The children Of Central Union Sab
bath school viii have their Christmas
entertainment this evening II will be
unusual i'm its extent and better I'm
every way than previously given. A
TART of the popular Toy Shop program
viii be rendered under the supervi-
sion of Miss Martin and there will
be some excellent singing. As the chill
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December 2i.--Miss l.. Homcara. w
w L. Boreham, H. Mccarthy
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TIME TABLE
EoR SAN FRANCISCO.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

uas nns Passenger Steamers OF this line will a
n woreunder:
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Times Of the tide ARE taken from the
u. s. Coast and Geodetic Survey ia
bles. The tides at Kahulld and Hno
occur about one hour earlier than at
Honolulu, Hawaiian sta dard time is
10 hours 80 minutes slower than Green
wich time, being that Of the meridian
Of 1877 degrees 30 mlnLte The time
whistle blows at 1889 p. m, which is
the same as Greenwich, hours, 0 min
utes. The Sun and Moon are for local
time foI the whole group.
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.RICAN HAWAIIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

DIRECT MONTHLY SERVICE BETWEEN NEW
YORK AND HONOLULU VIA PACIFIC COAST.
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u. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL.
TURE-WEATHER RUREAII

u. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
TURE-WEATHER BUREAU.
The following data, covering q period
of 81 years, have been compiled from
the Weather Bureau and McKibbin
records at Honolulu, T. H. They are
issued to show the conditions that
have prevailed, during the month in
question, for the above period of years
but must not be construed as a fore
cast of the weather conditions for the
coming month.
Month, December, for 81 years.
TEMPERATURE. (1S9O-19O5)
Mean or normal temperature, 72o.
The warmest month was that 1891,
with an average of TAO.
The coolest month was that of 1902,
with an average of 10.
The highest temperature was $40 on
Dec. 2, 1890.
The lowest temperature was $50 on
Dec. 30, 1900.
PRECIPITATION Grain 1S77-1S9S, and
19O4-19O5).
Average for the month, 3.53 inches.
Average number of days with .O1 of
an inch or more, Is.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was $3.50 inches in 1879.
The least monthly precipitation was
III inches in 1885,
The greatest amount of precipitation
recorded in any "a consecutive hours
was 4.30 inches on Dec %, 1879.
RELATIVE HUMIDITY"
Average, Q a. m, 7O.5 per cent; a.
m, 1870 per cent; average 9 p. m, rs
per cent QS93-19O9); p. m. TO per
cent Q9O4-19O5).
CLOUDS AND WEATHER. (1S90-1905)
Average number of clear days, -;
partly cloudy days, Is; cloudy days, A.
WIND.
The prevailing winds have been from
the northeast (1S75-1S94), 1904 and 81.
The average hourly velocity of the
wind is So miles Q9O4 and 81.
The highest velocity of the wind in
1904 and 1905 was SO miles from the
northeast on the Goth, 1904
Station: Honolulu, T. H.
Date of issue: November 20, 1906.
g o'clock average from records of
Territorial Meteorologist; o'clock av-
erages from Weather Bureau records.
Section Director, Weather Bureau.
WM. B. STOCKMAN,
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DEPARTING.


Thursday, December 20.
S. S. Mikahala, Gregory, for Kauai
ports, p. m.
Am. schr. Aloha, Forbes, for San
Francisco p. m.
Friday, December q.
S. S. Claudine, Parker, for Maui and
Hawaii ports, p. m.
S. 5. Mauna Loa, Simerson, for Ha-
wall and Maui ports, u m.
O. & o. S. S. Doric, Smith, for San
Francisco, II a. m.
P. NJ. s. S. China, Friele, for the
Orient, a. m.
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Frequent, or periodical headaches,
weaken the brain, and very often extin-
guish the light Of reason. DR.. Miles
Anti-Pein Pills will cure headache
uiclsly, by soothing the Initiated nerves
of the brain. They also prevent pain II
taken when first symptoms Of headache
appear. 25 doses, CSC. Never sold in
bulk. ""Ns-.
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drcn will boz the first to be assigned
seats it behoovcs the pubic to be on
hand carly iu order to secure places.
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services Of the Restorer in rescuing
the liner some weeks ago.
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ARRIVING.

Thursday, December 20.
o. & 5. S. Doric, Smith, from the
Orient, $40 p. m.
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desires 10 have Il understood that this
is a mistaken idea ln The opinion Of
the department 81 win be impossible
for The farmer or for even an associ-
alton of small farmers, TO engage
probably ia the manufa ture OF DE-
natored alcohol In the first place Il
is abrolftely obligatory for the mnle
ers OF the produe, to own not alone
distinery machinery. which is costly
II the product is to be made on q
ifge scale. but Il is necessary. under
the law or the manufacture of deua-
tired alcohol TO have one bonded
warehouse upon the premises for the
storage Of Datmral spirits az they are
first distill d and anotSer bonded
warehouse adjoining the first FOR the
enltaring or poisoning of the tax
free alcohol The changing Of nat
nral SPIRITS into denatured spirits is
to be watched by the government just
as iealously as the production Of the
original alcohol or the manufacture
OF whisky by the re- -tifers.