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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-27
WHERE TROOPS ARE GOING

Orders have been received by Major
Van Vliet designating the different
posts to which the troops will be as
signed in Alaska. The Major himself
will be stationed at Fort Liscom, but
number of the other officers will be
sent further north. Fort Davis will
receive one company. Another viii
go to st. Michaels.
The Crook, which has been assigned
to take the troops north, will arrive
here about June %. She will put III
at Seattle on her way north for the
purpose of taking on supplies.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-27

In the assumpsit matter of w. w
Bruner VS.. Wong Kwai and H. p Mac
farlane, Judge Lindsay last Saturday
gave judgment by default for the plain
tiff in the sum asked for, $24S,l9, with
interest costs etc
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

typA" Poor Posh must have been
rather bewildered by all this worship
from his eccentric patron. A story is
told of how FITZGERALD took him once
to see THE Merchant of Venice" and
Posh slept soundly through the entire
performance Even this. however, did
not shake FitzGeraId's affection. Posh
by now is an old man and has fallen
into bad circumstances. Some one has
discovered his plight, and the members
of the Omar Khayyam Club are going
to help him. Probably no memorial
would have been more pleasing to the
translator of Khayyam's famous verses
than this help Of his old friend. Apro.
pos of FitzGerald, 1t is always a fresh
source of astonishment to recollect
how the Omar Khayyam verses were
first received; how ehe little edition OF
$50 copies hung about unsold until
Rossetti and two OF his friends found
them for sale at a penny each on a
bookstall, bought some copies, were
delighted with them and returned for
more next day, and how. inside of a
week or two, the few remaining copies
fetched a guinea each.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Ferdinand Brunetiere Was, in
His Youth, a Claquer

II is not generally known that NJ.
Ferdinand Brunetiere. editor OF the Re-
vue des Deux Mondes, who died the
other day with the well-merited repu-
tation OF being one of the most cru
dite and accomplished of French writ
ers and critics, was at one time a
claquer.' That, according to the
Washington Star, was in the early days
of the struggles against poverty, when
no one dreamed that he would become
one of the most influential of the I'M
mortals. He loved the drama, but he
could not afford to pay the price of a
good seat At the Theatre Francois he
made friends of the chef de claque,"
the influential functionary whose busi-
ness 1t is to lead the artificial applause.
He used to let M. Brunetiere seat in
the pit for one franc for which he
would have had TO pay two and half
francs at the box ofhce- But there is
little doubt that his contributions to
the applause were inspired by genuine
enthusiasm, for the plays which he at
tended were by his favorite seventeenth
century authors and were rendered by
an admirable cast
NJ Brunetiere was shining example
OF the valuelessness Of pedagogic ex-
aminations as a test Of genuine intel
lectual ability. Born at Toulon in 1S4s,
the son Of a poor naval ofiicer. he went
to Paris when IS TO prepare for ad-
mission to the Ecole Normale, the great
training school for French professors
and schoolmasters. But he failed two
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
A Little Magazine With a Very
Large Mission

"A Little Magazine"-so little that it
is almost passed by-has just appeared
out of the ruins. On the title page its
purpose is plainly stated: TT is the
purpose of Philopolis to consider the
ethical and artistic aspects of the
rebuilding of San Francisco. We want
good art, good architecture, and, as
necessity to gain the end. good civic
administration. This is important, as
the name implies, Philopolis is a friend
of the city" The editors and associ-
ates are VIII Sparks, Arthur +. Math-
ews. F. w. Dohrmann and John ZeiIe.
The first number contains an article
by Arthur F. Mathews about the school
children and school buildings. the key
note Of which, as of every other article,
on the betterment OF San Francisco is,
now is the time" Philopolis is print
ed and illustrated with sufficient art to
make it fitting medium for it's mes
sage Even If one may not prophesy
for it a large success it merits many
good wishes therefor.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
HE55l1lzp

spines. John Gabriel Borkman strug-
giles through snow to the plateau, from
which he sees the fJord below and his
imaginary kingdom of mountain chains
above, and there the ice-cold hand grips
his heart. Professor Rubek and Irene
reach an altitude from which unaided
descent is impossible for them.
AS we look back upon the series of
Ibsen's works, to which the word
'Finis has now been appended. wa
feel that we, too. while our interest,"
in them was still quick, were eager
climbers, were perpetually on the
strain, and never quite reached the
point at which we could repose and
enjoy in quietude a sure attainment.
There are liberal fields of art in which
the eye finds rest in horizontal lines,
and this is no dull rest, for the lines
may stretch away to the illimitable. In
many great artists there is even a good
bovine quality, which strangely may
alternate with a winged joy and which
learns through tranquility some of the
deepest secrets of our Mother Earth.
With Ibsen the lines are all precipi-
tous and abrupt; we are forever
sealing to the Viddes or above them;
we hang over desperate assures; we
cling to Jagged edges; we are inclosed
in forlorn and shadowy chasms. or en-
counter some sudden spear-like shaft
of light: we learn none of the deep
lessons of tranquility" '
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Howells on the Socialism of
Iohn Oliver Hobbies

William Dean Howel1s. IN the North
. American Review, has a paper on The
Fiction Of John oliver Hobbes.'' His
vein is always kindly, but he does not
hesitate to apply the hot iron to the
tender spot. When Mrs. Craigie, IN her
critics opinion, misconceives the spirit
and content OF socialism, he thus takes
her to task:
I'm "A Serious Wooing,' for instance,
there is a group OF brothers, sisters,
mothers. uncles and aunts about the
heroine whose reality, or whose simple,
undramatic depravity and seldshness
are so nicely, so amusingly studied that
the reader Is almost consoled for the
heroine's alterations from the normal
family egoism- She goes of from two
successive husbands with a rich, bril-
liant devoted Socialist and lives with
him IN free union which Is apparently
without regrets or penalties OF any
kind. sharing his activity in the move
ment upon terms unknown to Social
Ism outside OF novelists or the fmag-
ination of capitalists. He Is, IN fact
so very unlike the Socialists who vote
for candidates and seek to 1egfslate
their reforms, after the manner of 9TH
er political partisans, as to be at the
iron bidding Of a secret authority
which sends him hither and thither
upon errands violently disruptive OF
the status, quite as II he were a dyna-
mite bearing anarchist"
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
The Old-Fashioned Almanac Is
Brought Up to Date

A real oId-fashioned and, II one may
SO put IT, up-to-date almanac, is Just
out, compiled by Claude II. Miller
This is the real thing for farmers
In the first place Il contains all the
information found IN the well-loved
patent medicine advertising almanacs,
but this information is carefully accu
rate, which the other was not, and
so well written that it cannot OF
the taste OF the most exacting.
brief history Of aImanacs in GO
eral and Poor Richard" in particular
is given, telling how Benjamin Frank
lin founded IL in 1892 and OF his con-
troversy with Titan Leeds, the pub
Usher OF another famous almanac
Then follow some OF the sayings from
Poor Richard" which have almost the
dignity of proverbs.
In explanation OF his inclusion Of the
familiar zodiacal Illustration and in
formation. the compiler says:
In recent years almanac makers
have become more hardened to the
publication of the moons man and
no modern almanac would be complete
without it. Therefore we, too. publish
II with no other apology than that IL
is a concession to custom"
Doubleday, Page & Co.. New York
Price 25 cents.)
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Rich Mems Children Figure II
Another Novel

The novel with a purpose does not
usually appeal 20 the majority Of
resders. David Graham Phillips plain
lv has a purpose in this latest OF his
rapid IRE Of productions. The Second
Generation" That other piece OF fc-
fion OF recent date comes TO mind.
Miss Bonner's "Rich Mems Children
Her book was simply q tale OF the
dogeneracy-this IN its gentler sense
or the children OF the hard working
pioneers OF California This story is
q tale. also, but II suggests several
treatments and q few cures for that
condition
Several families enter into this tale
and. d.play IN Il more or less important
par<n the different ways IN which
woaffh and the loss Of II or lack Of
II arects them make~the story. Hiram
Ranger and Charles Whitney are young
men together and form business as
sociation-four-and become grossly
rich; each has two children, son and
8 daughter. II falls out naturally FOR
the families to plan the intermarriage
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

book on metaphysical lines is Through
Silence TO Realization; or, The Human
Awakening" by Floyd B. Wilson, who
has already contributed to the iitera-
ture OF that cult, his Paths to Power
and Man Limitless" having already
gained a certain vogue among those
interested in writings of this class. A
few Of the chapter headings will serve
10 show the drift Of this work: What
Is Thought?" "The Dawning of
Light" Mental Images" The Domi-
nant Ego" etc. A chapter on Shakes
peare's Puck, Considered Metaphysical
ly, IS almost amusing. Having i'm
parted the information that Shakes
peare was very young when he wrote
Midsummer Nights Dream and a
youthful tone pervades the entire play"
the author continues: The teaching
of the practical metaphysics Of today is
that the soul is the receptacle of wis
dom, and the subconscious, which has
its homo in the soul and is Of 1t, is
passing vibrations of soul wisdom to
objective consciousness as and when
connections are made" All of which
may be perfectly clear to the initiated,
but hard work for those outside the
pale.
Continuing with Shakespeare he says:
"Oberon's first request of or command
to Puck was that he find and fetch
certain flower upon which the bolt of
Cupid FELL giving TO 1t strange magic
IL its Juice were dropped into eyes
while one is asleep. Here may be
hint OF suggestion, either with or with
out hypnotism. but that did not con-
cern Puck. The task was great and
speed as swift as thought biddea; and
then. IN full confidence Of his ability
TO perform the errand. Puck prophetic
ally replies;
sI'l1 put E. eirdle roundabout the earth
in forty minutes"
There may be IN all this something
worth the seeking, but If so 1t is well
hidden.
CR. F. Fenno & Co., New York. Price
SD
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Amazing Growth of Industry
of Translation

The industry of translating foreign
authors into English has grown
amazingly in the last fifteen years.
Before that time there was COM
paratively a small demand by Aneri-
can readers for the writings of foreign
authors, except, OF course, the famous
writer's.
Commercialism had little to do with
the early translations, most of which
were accomplished as a labor of love
on the part of certain English literary
men. Now, says the New York Sun,
the situation is changed. At the pres
ent time nearly every novel OF promi-
nence published abroad is printed also
IN English. Every one that makes a
hit is snapped up Immediately and
thrown upon the American market. AS
the quantity of translation from for
eign authors increased the quality de-
clined. At first the work was done by
men of ability, who had thorough
knowledge of the language they were
dealing with. Now this branch OF lit
erature has become mere drudgery and
is confined to writer's who work with
open dictionary.
From SIS to 800 is paid nowadays
for the translation of q foreign book.
Some of these contain from 800 to 500
pages, and an energetic translator can
accomplish his task in a few weeks.
Keeping in mind the payment he is to
receive he hustles through the work
as rapidly as possible, with the natural
result. AS soon as an author makes
a hit abroad his works are thrown into
type here one after another as quickly
as they can be turned into English.
The translator and printer alone read
them, and in many cases there Is no
criticism passed upon the execution of
the work. One woman in New York
hos bean IxUown TO translate at the rate
of eighty typewritten pages a day. and
during one week she succeeded in filing
a contract calling for the translation
of two 3O0-page books in French.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
High Peaks and Deep Chasms oi
Ibsen's Works

In an article on Ibsen in the Contem-
porary Review. DR.. Edward Dowden
has this to say OF the mountain climb
ing OF the great dramatist:
Several OF Ibsen's men and women
are possessed with a highly reprehensi-
BILE passion for exposing their lives to
danger on perilous eminences. Hal
verd Solness, the master builder, with
trembling zeal achieves the impos-
sible. ascends his ladders and waves
his hat for one triumphant mo-
ment from the top OF his tower. It is
among the high mountains and In the
great waste places that little Eyolrs
father discovers his mission which is
no mission and hears the call which is
no call. Brand, bearing the banner
with a strange device-not Excel
sior," but "All or Nothing-perishes
where the ice church impales the blue,
among the white wreaths and glacier
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

Of the four children and thus cement
the friendship and business interests OF
SO many years.
a fine picture is given in the OPEN
lag chapter OF Hiram Ranger, the -four
king, self-made. free from vanity or
anectation, strong, capable and still
a worker IN his own business beliey-
ing that only by personal supervision
IS @ really successful business con-
Quoted In this scene appears his sen,
home from Harvard on q vacation,
and is obliged TO confess that he has
failed to pass his examinations. On
inquiry, the son is honest; the father
learns the attitude toward life Of
these idle sons Of the rich, and what
he considers the absolute useIessness
OF their existence.
The father adores his son; he had
cheer1ully paid all his expenses. no
matter how extravagant they seemed
10 him, knowing that the world had
changed since his time and wishit
TO give hts boy all he had been oblig-
TO do without. Suddenly he realiz
that he is making a human blunder
and. remembering a maxim Of his
father, Don't waste no time gettin' of
the wrong road once you're sure it's
wrong" he cuts off his sons allow
ance and tells him he must go to
work in the mill the next day, for he
needs must know the business IN or
der 10 take charge when the father
dies.
The son has q perfectly natural re-
sentiment; he thinks his father is most
unreasonable, the condition he is
plunged into being all the harder be-
cause he has enjoyed so many years OF
luxury. The fathers love for his son,
his desire TO make man OF him. his
lonely reasonings and doubts and fears
II he has done right are wonderfully
done and show that Ar. Phillips has a
keen insight into character. The suf-
fering and strain OF this situation
finally kill the old man and a break
ing heart is written into every pa
thetic line OF that sad scene. The tale
carries the boy on. step by step, to
the shaping OF his own character and
the carving out OF own career-au in
a strong, convincing narrative. The
other characters are treated quite as
carefully and the minor love stories
are excellently sustained
Cd. Appleton & Co., New York. Price
SL5oD
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Big Problems Simply Solved by
Local Thinker

". 7. T. Smith, N. D., Of San Fran
cisco has settled the capital and labor
and trust problems all at once Why.
it's all the simplest thing IN the
world; read his book, The Trust
Trusted" and believe. The author
says IN a foreword: After reading this
book-this object lesson for the COM
mon people-if you are stfll in doubt,
take UP my textbook OF ten short
lectures to the ten different industrial
classes. These are bound in one vol
ume"
The book takes partly the form OF
an allegory. Liberty, daughter Of the
American people, falls IN love with
Combine; in other words, the corpora
ton act She has hard time making
her parents see the good IN Combine,
but finally wins their consent. It's
all very plain-to the author. Witness
his reasoning:
Shareholders n a corporation are
not refornS~s. but business associa-
ton organized 70 help. not to hinder
one another, being logically the exact
antithesis OF competition. ["
Moneyless men had made a dreadful
mistake themselves IN supposing that
they were not wanted or could not
enter corporation IN America Cor
porations, he said. had always been
made up OF a few kindred minds-busi-
ACES men VINO COulO see mutual
business interest and aim at II, some
times only few men, at other times
thousands OF men-and there was
nothing In the world to hinder all
Americans from entering one and the
same corporation except their own
blindness
ANY proposition that in the least
degree endangers or compromises
mans individuality as does proposed
government ownership. public owner
ship, socialism. communism. etc.--that
is. II you please, considering people as
a nock or herd, is not only a going in
the wrong direction. but fundamentally
wrong in itself II two men
can act as one. i've can merge and act
as one-if SO, then 5000 men. aye. all
Americans. can merge and act as one"
There is, TO be sure, sense IN the
book. as well as a purpose. but IL
is husked thickly in poor English and
reasonless argument
(Primo Press. San Francisco.)
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Christian Scientific Essays by
Carol Morton

An addition to the literature Of
Christian Science is offered by Carol
Norton in Studies in Character" made
up of twenty essays, all good to read
whether one be convert to the science
or not. The essays are not sinsistently
Christian Scientific, but filled with we'll
phrased Interpretation of Scripture
The author writes on such subjects
as Love-" Purity" Compassion, {"
Friendship" "Selfishness," Freedom" {"
Liberty" and many others. The au-
thor was related TO Longfellow, the
poet. and had not little of his genius
for melody in words, as we'll as his
serene religious faith.
(Dana Estes & Co., Boston.)
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Posh, the Odd Friend of a Most
Eccentric Poet

Every one who has read the letters
of Edward FITZGERALD, writes a Lon
don correspondent, will be interested
in the present fate of his friend Posh.
The eccentric poet who used to tie his
top hat with a handkerchief and go
about barefoot with his boots slung
over a stick probably never did a more
peculiar thing than to establish a
friendship. as he did. with Posh. a
common sailorman, whom he met at
woodbridge in 1864 and pronounced to
be altogether the greatest man" he
had ever known. FITZGERALD found vir-
tues in Posh that he had not seen IN
Tennyson or Thackeray, and felt he
was "a gentleman of natures grandest
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Gossip of Books and People
Who Make Them

After Or. Douglas Hyde, the Celtic
scholar, had lunched with Mr.. Roose-
welt at the White House he expressed
his surprise on finding that his host
had found. time to make himself ac-
quainted with the modern literature
OF the subject.
Did you try him with Irish" Dr.
Hyde was asked. II did not; 1t
would not have been respectful" he
replied. but II I had I should not
have been surprised to find that he
talked it fuently."
Mrs Parsons trial marriage scheme
is only modification OF a custom
which existed for ages in Scotland.
says the Baltimore American. It was
known as "hand-fasting' or "hand-in-
hand" The contracting parties met
at the annual fairs in their several
districts. There young men chose the
maids who best pleased them. They
joined hands and by that act became
man and wife until the corresponding
day of the following year. II the love
and fortunes of the pairs had pros
pered during the year on the anniver-
sary OF their meeting they were legal
" married by the priest; II all had not
been well then they parted.
Jerome X. Jerome has gone back to
England with not very favorable inn
preston of the literary outlook. He
thinks that the American people seem
to be more and more given over to
the reading of magazines and third
rate novels Such books as THE Viper
of Milan" and The House of a Thou
sand Candles" he finds crowding the
window of a single store to the ex-
clusion Of everything else.
Little NDorrit." or rather her orig
inal. MRS. Mary Ann Cooper. is stiII
alive The old lady. who is still able
to go about opening bazaars, Is the
daughter Of a Sunbury- on Thames
farmer and was born. in Hatton Gar
den in 1913 Her brother went to
school with Dickens
In an article about the forthcoming
biography of Herman Melville by his
daughter, Elizabeth Melville. he Is
spoken of as the best of the South Sea
romancers." What about Stevenson.
Pierre Lott and our own Charles War
rem stoddard?
The Boston Herald tells the follow
ing story: "A well-known member OF
the English Parliament relates that
a popular author recently received an
offer from q printing firm OF repute TO
print and bind a $3.50 book for IS
cents a copy. He adds: 1t is known
that the reduction of price from $50
to half dollar has yielded American
authors a tenfold increase Of profit "
II this can be verified the various
publishers who have aired their griev-
ances in print the last few years are
not to be pitied as much as was sup
posed. If their sales have increased in
proportion to the reduction OF price
they are at least still making COM
have any philanthropic notions at all.
let them consider the greater number
OF people who are now able to read
at the reduced price
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
Booklet Aimed at the Wicked
Yivisectionists

'The House OF the Hundred Doors" {"
by VIII NJ. Clemens, is called a story,
but is not Rather is 1t a tract for the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals to distribute as BLACK Beau
ty'' is put into the hands by some phil
anthropic individuals and associations.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

This booklet consists Of six stories OF
pet dogs, each intended to rouse sym
pathy for dumb animals and against
the vivisecttoners. The dog In each
case disappears mysteriously at the
end OF the story. Finally they are all
brought together again at the end IN
the House of Hundred Doors" other
wise "The Palace Of Pain" very realis-
tically and horribly described in the
terms that would ft an Institute of
Vivisection II there were such a place.
Hawthorne Fress, New York;
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27
An Industrious Writer on the
Human Mysteries

II one be interested IN metaphysics
he has only TO put out his hand
nowadays and find a new book on the
subject ready to his hand. The newest
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

years later to pass the entrance exam
ination which many other young men
of mediocre ability passed with ease.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

Primo Press, San Francisco.) }
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

In an article about the forthcoming
biography of Herman Melville by his
daughter, Elizabeth Melville. he Is
spoken of as the best Of the South Sea
romancers." What about Stevenson,
Pierre Lott and our own Charles War
rem Stoddard2
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

Little eOorrit." or rather her orig
inal, Mrs. Mary Ann Cooper, is stiu
alive. The old lady. who is still able
to go about opening bazaars, IS the
daughter of Sunbury- on Thames
farmer and was born. in Hatton Gar
den in 1913. Her brother went to
school with Dickens