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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23
c. Brewer & Co.. Ltd.
Queen Street, Honolulu, T. n.
a gents For

Agents For
Hawaiian Aglicultural Co.. ookaln
Sugar Plant. Co.. onomea Sugar Co.
Honomu Sugar Co. Waikiki Sugar Co,
Pepeekeo Sugar Co.. The Planters
Line OF San Francisco Packets. Chas,
Brewer & Co.'S line Of Boston Packets
List Of office.s:
c. NJ. Cooke, President; George
Robertson, Vice President and Mana
ger; e. r. Bishop, Treasurer and Sec.
Rotary; r. W. Macfarlane, Auditor; p.
c. Jones, C. NJ. Cooke and J. r. Gait
Directors.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23
WORLD NEWS BY CABLE
ASSOCIATED Press Cable.t
ONE MILLION STARVING.

New York, March 22.-Adylces from
Japan state that sixteen millions OF
dollars will be required to relieve the
famine sufferers. One million people
ere starving.
CHEMIST DoREMus DEAD.
New York. March 22.-Robert o
Doremus, the chemist, is dead.
SNoWSliDE KILLS MINERS.
Granite. Colorado, March.-SiX min
ers have been killed in a snowslide.
oHIo's GOVERNOR ILL.
Cincinnati, March %. - Governor
Pattison is seriously III.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.
Paramount, West Virginia March %
Ten miners are dead, twenty-five In
jured and fifty missing as result of al
explosion in coal mine.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23

Blank books Of all sorts. Iedgers,
etc.. manufactured by the Bulletin Pub
lishing Company.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23
Castle { Cooke, Ltd.
HONOLULU.
CommISSio.l Merchants
:: Sugar Factor,

AGENTS FOR
The Eva Plantation Co.
The waiaIua Agricultural Co.
The kohsla Sugar Co.
The walmea Sugar Mil Co.
The Fulton Iron Works, st. Louis, Ne
Tho Standard OIL Co.
The Geo. r. Blake Steam Pumps.
Weston's centrifupaIs.
The New England Life Insurance CO.
Of Boston.
This Aetna Fire lns. Co. Of Hartford
Conn.
The Alliance Assurance Co. Of London
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23
Claus spreekels. VIM. a. Irwin
Claus SpreckeIs { Co.
B ANk e r 8.
HONOLULU. 7. n.


San Francisco Agents - The Ne
vada National Bank Of San Francisco
Draw Exchange on the Nevada Ma
uonal Bank OF San Francisco.
London-The Union Of London and
Smiths Bank, Ltd.
New York-American Exchange Ma
uonal Bank.
Chicago = Corn Exchange Nations,
Bank.
Parls-Credit Lyonnais.
Honskons and Yokohama - Hong
kong. Shanghai Banking Corporation.
New Zealand and Australia - Banh
Of New Zealand and Bank Of Austria
lasia.
Victoria and Vancouver - Bank Of
British North America.
Deposits received. Loans made on
approved security. Commercial and
Travellers Credits issued. Bills Of T.
change bought and sold.
Collection sPromptIy Accounted For
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23
SUGAR FACTORS
and

SUGAR FACTORS
and
COMMISSION AGENTS.
Agents for
Oceanic Steamship Co., San Franchise
Cal.
Western Sugar RennIns Co., San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Baldwin Loeotomotive Works, Phila
deiphis, Pa.
NewalI Universal Mil Co. (Msnufac-
turers Of National Cane shredder),
New York. N. v.
Pacific OIL Transportation Co., San
Francisco, Cal.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd,
ESTABLISHED 1880.

HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.
BRANCH AGENCIES Bombay,
Hongkong. Honolulu. Kobe. London,
Lyons, Nagasaki, Newchwang, New
York, Picking. San Francisco. Shans
hal, Tientsin. Toxic, Osaka
The bank buys and receives for col
lection Bills Of Exchange. issues
Drafts and Letters OF Credit and trans
acts a general banking business.
HONOLULU BRANCH, 81 KING ct.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-23

Several prominent German citizens
had banquet at Wayerley hall last
night.
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The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
People of Western Asia
Treated in Fiction.

The House of Islam," by Marmaduka
Picktha1l, deals with the adventures of
a band of Circassians who come In
touch with the changed conditions In
western Asia brought about by Eu-
ropean influences. The well-loved
Sheykh, Shems-ud- din, who has cast
his lot with an isolated settlement Of
Circassians. Journeys to the city to Sc
cure the services of a European physi-
clan to save the life of his daughter.
who Is afflicted with disease unknown
to the desert dwel1ers. With him go a
body guard of Circassians, whose we'll
intended efforts In his behalf lead to
his being hailed before the Cadi and
condemned to death, he and his follow
ers, for insurrection In which he had
no part. His son and his brother, pow
erful men in the politics of the land.
secure his release and that of the mem
bers of his company. The story pre-
sents a clever picture of conditions in
a land where two civilizations are be-
ginning to overlap with little advant-
age, from a moral standpoint. to either.
CThe House of Islam. d. Appleton &s
CO., New York. Price S150)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Treats of Music Quackery
and a Rural Maiden.

. 'HThe Charlatans." by Bert Lesion
Taylor, IS a love story containing an
amusing expose of the methods of mu-
sic quacks. Hope Winston, a farmers
daughter. richly endowed with the
music instinct and yearning for power
to express it, goes to the big city of
her dreams and meets many interest
ing characters in its bohemian life
some Of them sincere, the great ma
jority Of them shams, all cleverly
drawn. She enters a conservatory"
and encounters most of the traps that
are set for the student who has pc
cuniary means and undeveloped talent.
She has rare personal beauty besides,
TO give zest to her experiences. but
she displays rare practical wisdom for
an eighteen-year- ruralist whose
life has been filled with romantic day
dreams. OF course she escapes the pit
falls and is happy and apparently Sc
cure when the tale ends.
Music is the dominant theme of the
story. and the author is rather pedan-
tic in his treatment of It. But Ii is with
keen enjoyment that we sit with the
girl through her first symphony con-
cert. take part in her lessons and laugh
with her at the absurd poses and false
pretenses of her tutors. BY every one
except the unfortunate few who do not
relish music and a music atmosphere
the book will be appreciated as a guide
to what is real and what is false in
that realm, and while the young reader
is deriving enjoyment from the love
phases she incidentally gains instruc-
tion IN one of the finest of arts.
(The Charlatans. Published by the
Bobbs-Merrill Company, indianapolis.
Price s1-50)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
American Wild Flowers
GarIanded in Story.

"The Wild Flower Book for Young
People, by Alice Lounsbury, deals
with American wild flowers as seen
through the eyes of little girl who
goes from the city to reside in the
country. Although her experiences are
ell on a farm in a Northeastern State,
nevertheless she finds many varieties
that are found the nation over, and in
this regard New England fields are not
unlike California fields after all.
The book is not only an entertaining
story, but contains series of charm
ingly presented lessons In botany, deal
ing with the wild lowers that grow
all about us. 1t does, too, what no
work on botany, however simply pre-
sented, could dot makes the child
love the flowers for their own sake,
creates genuine interest in them and
encourages the forming OF original i'm
pressions. The volume is beautifully
illustrated with pictures of many well
known American flowers.
(The Wild Flower Book for Young
People. Published by Frederick A.
Stokes Company. Price s1.50)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
New Fairy Story Equals
"The Water Babies"

Not since Water Babies" has more
graceful fairy tale been told than that
of THE Pond in the Marshy Meadow %
by Anne Helena Woodruff. AS In the
story OF Water Babies" The Pond in
the Marshy Meadow deals with the
thousand and one little creations of the
water, the earth and the air. A boy
and girl. made to understand the Ian
guage of bird and fish and flower. by
the kiss of kind fairy, spend their
summer by the pond side, learning the
secrets of the myriads of creatures
that make up that little world. sharing
in their experiences and learning their
ways. The book, aside from it's inter-
est as fairy story. is a good first book
in natural history; better than most
first books. for it Is well calculated to
awaken In the child reader q sym
pathy with the humble life of field and
stream which will help the young
reader make of the little creatures
which the average child passes care
lessly companions and playfellows.
(The Pond in the Marshy Meadow.
Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron,
Ohio. Price $1.50.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Simple Story Is Spoiled
in the Telling.

Deacon Babbitt' is the story of a
young Dutchman. who. separated from
his family when the floods swept Am
sterdam, wanders in search of his rela-
tives to America. There he meets Dea-
con Babbitt, who becomes interested in
him, educates him and assists him in
his search The boy finally finds his
father at the end of a trial at which
the lad is acquitted of false charge
of embezzlement.
The story is told without enthusi-
asm The effort. painfully apparent.
to make Deacon Babbitt sort of sec
ond David Harum. fails miserab1y.
recitals of commonplace
adventures of a decidedly ordinary
young man might be made interesting
by their homeliness. but even in this
the writer of Deacon Babbitt" fails.
A very simple story, lacking the es-
sentials of attractive simplicity, nec-
essarily brings up against the literary
rocks of stupidity, and there Deacon
Babbitt" is wrecked.
deacon Babbitt. Published by the
John c. winston Company. Philadel-
phia. Price $1.50.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11

hce, discovers that a prominent French
jurist, who has deceived young
woman by a mock marriage, has been
murdered by her at the moment that
she became aware of the deception. To
shield the jurist's family the attending
physician prevails upon the sub-prefect
to assist him in concealing the crime.
This he finally consents to do. In after
years he discovers the young woman.
who, after telling him of her crime.
has married a French nobleman. The
death of the doctor leaves but three
persons in possession of her secret,
her husband, the sub-prefect and a
French adventures to whom the girl
had fed after striking the fatal blow.
To guard her against this adventures
Levignet devotes his life The story
deals with the play of wit and skill
between the adventures and Levignet.
The intentions of the adventures are
finally defeated, but Levignet pays the
score with his life. But, as has been
suggested, a resurrection in such cases
is not impossible, and readers of good
detective stories will hope that it will
not long be delayed.
(Marcel Levignet. Published by Def
field Co, New York. Price sI.5O.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Comet Utilized as Means of
Reforming Society.

II all littleness. all darkness, all evil
passions were obliterated in single
night, and il, instead. perfect spiritual,
mental and physical sanity ruled the
world, what would be the effect upon
the love and life of a middle-class En-
glish girl and her lovers. one a man
OF her own class, a hot blooded mall
content; the other a gentleman?
That is the framework of II. G. Wells
story, I'm the Days of the Comet" The
girl elopes with the gentleman" just
at the time that a great comet, swiftly
approaching the earth, lights the sky
at night like a MONDAY sun. The pop
ulace I'LL the streets in silent awe The
young man. thinking only of revenge.
encounters his rival and the girl and he
shoots the former just at the moment
that the comet, with a binding glare,
grazes the earth. All living things are
suddenly asphyxiated by it's gases, and
when the world awakes it is a new
world with new atmosphere. The
young man has lost his enmity for
his rival, the warning of the classes
has ceased, the real brotherhood OF
Man" has dawned.
The development OF the love story
from this point on is most exhilaratfng:
in fact, the book is one of the most
remarkable love stories ever written.
and at the same time a powerful ar
raignment of present-day social and
economic conditions.
(In the Days OF the Comet. Pub-
lished by the Century Company. New
York. Price $1.5o.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
ChestertOn Writes Smart
Book About Dickens.

Charles Dickens" by Gilbert K.
Chesterton, contains many capital
things about the great story writer.
even II II reveals no secret touching
his genius Indeed, the books seems
20 have been written more with intent
70 display its authors mastery of
smart paradox than 20 reveal anything
new concerning its illustrious subject.
For example, we all know beforehand
that Dickens was an optimist and that
he tried TO save people because he be-
lteved them to be worth saving, but
we learn from Mr.. Chesterton that the
key Of the great characters Of Dickens
Is that they are all great fools; also
that life produces the rhinoceros and
art 1lr. Bunsby." But we are given
the definite statement that whatever
the word great means, Dickens was
what II means"
While the new book was evidently
builded on the idea that at this moment
Dickens needs q champion, Mr.. Chester
ton Inadvertently admits that Dickens
IS widely read and greatly liked He
says;
Mr.. Rudyard Kipling is called, and
called justly, q popular author; that is
10 say, he is widely read, greatly en-
5oyed and highly remunerated; he has
achieved the paradox Of at once max
ing poetry and making money. But
let any one who wishes to see the diff
ference try the experiment Of assum-
ing the Kipling characters to be COM
mon property like the Dickens char
acters. Let any one go into an aver
age parlor and allude 70 Strickland as
lie would allude 70 Mr.. Bundle the
BesdIe- Let any one say that some
body is perfect Learoyd' as he
would say a perfect Pecksniff' Let
any one write a comic paragraph for
2 halfpenny paper and allude 10 Mrs
TIswksbee instead Of TO Mrs. Camp. He
viii soon discover that the modern
world has forgotten its own hercest
hOoms more completely than it has for
gotten this formless tradition from its
fathers. The mere dregs Of IL come to
more than any contemporary excite
ment: the cleaning OF the grapes of
Pickwick' IS more than the whole
Vintage OF Soldiers Three There is
one instance, and ! think only one, OF
en- exception to this generalization;
there is one figure IN our popular lit
erature which would really, be recog-
nized by the popuIace. Ordinary men
would understand you II you referred
currently 10 Sherlock Holmes Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle would no doubt be
justified IN rearing his head TO the
Stars. remembering that Sherlock
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Children viii Find Rare
Charm in This Book.

Legends That Every Child Should
Know" is collection selected from the
juvenile lore of all times, edited by
Hamilton Wright Mabie, includes .Hia-
watha," as told by Ellen Emerson In
Indian Myths: -Reowulf"; "Childe
HAROLD; Sir Galabad''; The Seven
Sleepers of Ephesus'; Chevy Chase;
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and
THE Passing OF Arthur" as told bv
Tennyson in "Idylls of the King" In
addition to these. there are a number
of others that will prove entertaining
reading for young people.
("Legends That Every Child Should
Know" Published by Doubleday, Page
g. Co.. New York. Price 80 ccnts.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Four Characters and Not
One of Them Lovely.

If you desire to read tale of grim
ness and brutality. without a good
character in 1t. Max Fargus," by Owen
Johnson. is the book to buy. Sordid
vice. stripped of all human graces.
stalks through its pages from cover
to cover. 1t reminds you of the French
realistic tragedies, but you seek In
vain for evidence of deliberate pla-
giarism. The characters-there are
only four of thenl-are modern Ameri-
cans, drawn with a power that is al
most diabolical in its intensity. The
situations are true to the environment
and the psychology is convincing.
It is a story of deception. Stella
Vaughn, a young woman, and Alonzo
Bofinger, a shyster lawyer. combine to
fleece Max Fargus, an old man, who
was born in a garret and CLEANED a
fortune from the slime of New Yorks S
slums. Over all the book is the sha-
dow of another man, still stranger than
Max Fargus and more deeply enmesh-
ed in the vices of the city. His name
is Hyman Groll. and he. too, is police
court lawyer. Early in the story Far
gus employs Boffnger to investigate"
the woman whom he desires to marry.
Bofinger finds that she is an adven-
turess, and comes 10 an understand
ing with her by which he is to get
half Of the money Fargus has accu-
mulated. She marries Fargus. who
fatuously imagines she loves him. Dis
illusionment comes, and he conceives a
plan Of revenge most horrible. All
four persons who figure in the plot
are part and parcel in the denouement,
which is aimed TO overwhelm the main
offenders only.
Unpleasant as the story is, IT con-
tains great power Of description and
INSTALLATION.
(Max Fargus. Published by the Ba-
ker s. Taylor Company, New York.
Price s15e.)