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. v v 7 - i VanBBngBaBkJgaw' ;i i n g 5 Ixax, :i;Hjli3:T:; TC O P Y R I Ti" l 9 0 3 byw: cott" prove; RANT O N, p E N N J :-. : ' 2: ,wtsssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it -rr ",i j J J it - ,;..t s ' - From- the- 8aa Prandsco " Callr--1' LTHOUQH The Ballad of Read- .lncOaof was written subse , quently- to Oscar Wllde'i re lease from prison, a manu script actually composed within his cell haa been placed in the hands of a Ixn I don publisher by his literary executor. IQ. Pv-futnam'a Sons, have Just secured I tha American rights to the 'work, - which ; they will publish with it he title "De V , Profundi."--"' -A-- - -- 1 .i.- 1 ' ' r.. t--,y - As might naturally be . supposed, in - iew.of the character ef Wilde ia.man, tout no less, on account of Ms character aa a man of letters, she manuscript has passed through the--bands of. Judges In 1 matters of litnrainre who have been able .to dissociate' the author' from the mart. . They nave unanimously -ad vised Its pub- , : Ilcatlon. :v -.rij I. . r.,4 --1 j-- -" . : -. - J... The theme, that the authorfreed beautiful hooka, 'and whit Joy can takes Is somewtiat paradoxical and- dsr- J . JtomanUc. This is developed in such a ' , manner as to Impress the reader with the Idea, that a human document,, Is -be-' fore-one Intended as a confession of re ,: pent nee and of belief after slniaml ... tribulation. " Those who cannot for cer ' tain reiwina, accept the sincerity of th ' writer will 'hardly, - deny-- the literary quality of Ttei Profundis" 'and tha suc- reaa bf 'the Illusion produced. To them . h proseur' -. will be apparent with ' tongue in cheek and irony in eye. All tnay recognise' the philosophy of his an . , as well aa the rry of his solitude. . The manuscript which came to the au thore literary executor directly from the Bands of the governor of Reading Oaot. begins somewhat abruptly . with, an at tempt to" reveal how at prisoner's fee . Jngs become more ' composed under the . ,. Influence of -narrow, confined life. WI1de4 atoes 00 to show ' how, having ' railed - against the Idea of the Christian Ood as a Ood of lore, on account of the . .1. . suffering and 'wrong which hi saw In the world.- he has 'Coins to understsnd the " Tntrlnelo truthfulnesg af tha Ood-of-liove ' ideal aad the need of sufferings oven punishment, for, the' completion of -the ''indHvldual ego,i in each man. And,-he ; - writes: ...''..:. .. ; . ' "Now that I 'realise -that It Is In me. , what. In fact, I must do. ' And when I tins such a phraser as that, I need not say that I s alluding to any external sanc tion or sommsnd. I sdmlt- none, t am far more of an individualist than-1 ever was, ? Nothing seems to me of the smsjl ..V est valuo except when arte. arts out of one's self. My nature '1s7 seeking a f reeh mode of self-reallsatton.- That !a 'all X am concerned with. . '.i... v --"And the first thing that I have got - - to-do ts, to free myself from any nossl bis btttemess ef feeling sgalnst the world. I am completely penniless and absolutely -homeless. Yet there are worse things. In the world then that. !1 am salts candtd When 1 say thnt rtthef than go out from thla prlsoa with tttternes in say heart a sal net the world I weald gladly and roadUy beg my bread r! . "v it f ''XX " . n N th Kev miison with the right hand. Next play the middle section In the same -way then i the lower sectiQn and then return to the top section. . 'The small black letter'D with a dash above i it whicK gives the'ehart position rnust not be played." - . i''7" '-''.fX--!-C After a brief, practice these chords can be memorized and you can play without the Use of the chart ; But with the chart a per son wnb nevertrockja noe on the piano before may In a fewminutes playthe harmbnioqs chords correctly,' and then accompany his -ok her 'bwn songs or the songs of .friends.---? Li Proficiency requires a li practice, ut no previous knowledge of music. " . . ; .'.'( '" " ' ". '.'.r'- r - : j ' If you desire to delve deeply into the nysteries of music tne charts give you - sical education. ; AXnowledge of thakeys and their cfiords underlies all th triumphs of theaccomplished fnuslciah':V.-.'vfc:. it r 1 j j -tmmm "n: from door to door. It I get nothing from th hotnw of th rich I would get aom- thlng mtf tha hou of 4h poor. Tho wna mucn ire onw-frMoy.. idqk who hv UttU always ahar. I would not a bit mind sleeping In the cool: (rax in summer, and when ' winter came on sheltering mrself bjr the warm close thatched aicKi-or-.Bndef-thepenthouse of a great barn, provided I bad love to my heart-' - , , - - The external things of life seem i me now of no 'Importance-at ail. Tou en see to what Intensity, of Indlrlduallsm I have arrived, or am inrtng-Tether, for the Journey ls longr.and 'where I walk there .are-thorns. ' - v. I believe I am to. have enough to live on for about ll months at any rate, o that If I may not, writ beautiful -books I mav at least be greater T After that. I hope to be able to recreate my creative faculty. "But were things different, had I notla friend left in the world, were there not! a single house open . to me even In pity; had I to accept the wallet and ragged cloak of sheer penury, as long as I am free from all resentment, hardness and scorn. I would be able to face life with much more calm i and confidence, (nan I would "were my . body In purple and One linen, and tbe.soul within sick with hat.i. And I really shall have aoydifflculty. "When you really want lyve you will find It 'waiting for rou..', I need not say, that my task does. not end there. - It would, be comparatively easy if It did., There, is much more before me. I have hills far. steeper to climb,. valleys much darker to pass through." , .1 Later be argues on the duty of rwf us ing tor be1 "broken." when on must learn to face life again:- ,. rTThen I must learn how to oe. happy. Once I knew It or thought I knew it, by, Instinct. It WXsalwaya springtime once In ray heart. My temperament was akin td Joy.- I filled, m life to the-very brim-with pleasure, aa one might flit a cup to the very brim with ,wlne. Now 1 am approaching life-f Km complete IV hw standpoint, and even to conceive happiness Is often .extremely . difficult for me.. . i bf florin to flrstefm at Oxford reading Pater's ' 'Renal saanca' that book that bad such a Strang In fluenco over my life how Dante places low in th' Inferno those 'who willfully live In sadness andV'going to the college library and turning to. the passsgs In the Divine' Comedy, where beneath the dreary 'marsh lie those who were 'sullen In the sweet air.' -"My mother who knew life' as s whole, sed of ten to quote me Goethe's lines:. -Who never ate his bread in sorrow, ". , Who never spent th midnight hours i Weeping end waiting for ths morrow . He knows ytnl not, ye . Tiejtvenly . powers.' . . . r 't absolutely declined to admit tb enormous truth hidden In them. "During the sst few months I- have, after terrible difficulties and struggles. 1 THE i. OREGON SUNDAY;' JOURNAL, 1 PORTLAND. SUNDAY ggBg .1 II ffBWBBSMMPigBtg. -Jl II III! i;-.v:.., I ; - ""' '' 3) 3 I 1 MUSIG of E flat three of the note are that key are shown in the lower chart. - The upper chart has the chords of the Key of Cmmor, the relative of the Key of E flat majprl The top, middle and lower sections of each chart give theAhree xihords of each key, and no further instructipn Is nec essary to enable anyone to accorrtpany a soloist., vocal or instrumental, in any musical selections wntfen in thoeo keys. , . .The black tetters are to be played With the left hand, - - Havlnc: placed the chart on the piano play the il - ":;r:;: - : 7t. Q3tnxi rrroruiiais . I ''-v-:,., been ble to comprehend some of th lesson (hidden In the . heart , of' pain. Clergymen and-people who us phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suf fering aa a mystery." It Is. really a rveuUon. f , . "What one had, felt dimly through 'in stinct about art la Intellectually and emotionally realised with perfect clear ness of vision and absolute-intensity of apprehension. , ----' " ; ' " - j ' . "I . now see s that sorrow, ' being 'tn supreme- emotion, of which man ' is capable, la at once the. type and test of all great rv What the artist la al-) 9 "e" .mericans George Barton. In Chicago Tribune. MERICAX f brains and aggres siveness, having accomplished : avsrythlng possible at home, are now being utilised In the government of a doxen or more of the kingdoms and monarchies of th. old world.', ' i ': i - '':,"- ' Edward H. Strobel, now 'the "right hand man of th etnperor of Slam,- was formerly .assistant' secretary - of - state, and after that became professor of .law at .Harvard university. . A few yeargo he was tendered, tha position of leral ad viser to the emperor of 81am and accept ed the offer.. In th International com plications that have been arising from tlm to time In th iild world during th Inst few- years U .will be noticed-that 81am. of. all th other countries,, has been singularly .peticefur and tranquil. How muqli of this Is due to the quiet, plodding steady-going American adviser of the emperor Is not difficult to guess. .Another - -interesting character, - aulte the opposite of Mr. Strobel, is Captain Ransford D. Bucknam, the American ad viser of th sultan of Turkey. - Th man ner in which he came to-ocoupjr thia unique position la mors fascinating than a dims novel. Captain Bucknam -for tlon with th Cramp Shipbuilding com pany In Philadelphia. . That concern con structed the Cruiser Medjidl for ths sul tan's govarnment, and Captain Bucknam was selected a- th proper person to de liver it formally Into ths custody of the much-talkfd-about potentate who resides within- ths musical sound of the Bospho rue. ., . . '..,.-,. , The-Vessel was. Inspected and accepted iando was captain -Bucknam; Th sultan wag so impressed with his per sonality and with his ability aa a navl-' gster that he Immediately made him part of the Imperial household.' HI position probably corresponded to that of a vlce ndmlrsl In th Turkish navy.' Just what the actusl titla'was and I will' prob ably never be . known. A halo of mys tery ha always surrounded Captain Bucknam' work la Turkey a it does - : '-A "-.7i7 ';; r ," '. " ' '' '.': " ' t ' '.- ". I SIMPLIFIER flats, and In this lesson the chords the red letters with .fhe 'right' hajidHV'S' A;-z-fx iji; v bfadk letter on the top section with the left hand, and. then the three red , letters in v,'- -.T : I 7-' Z!I"7 - .1 : - ' - -V waya. looking for: is that mode of sj istence In which soul and body are on and Indivisible. - ? ..Behind Joy nd laughter there may. be a temperament- But behind sorrow there Is al wags sorrow. - It ib no echo -that la, truth In art Is no echo It la the unity of a thing , with itaett -.For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. ---- Th secret of llts Is aufferlng"' " 1 ,"."'"'..'"-'' Wilde one Hold certain lady that the least palri -'completely marred th whole face of creation." Of which r- mark he aay ...... :. . - v ; alt of thoae who hold responnlble posi tions around' uie throne of the, dagger dreading, much-bedevlled sultan, - ..r : Those who are well posted on th situ ation aay tha real purpose" of Captain Bucknam In Turkey is to Improve and 4ulld up th Turkish navy, which has been allowed to fall far Mhlnd those of other, small . European powers. Hereto fore everything ha been sacrificed for th army, -but now (hi is to be changed and the navy placed in Its proper posi tion. Ths sultan' naval program la to cost In-tha. neighborhood of $2,000,00d. - Durham WhHe Stevens, only a few months) ago. was mads th legal adviser of yie emperor rif Korea."' He has hosts of friend . lnWsshlngtow- and' other American oitlea, and they rat him as a man of remarkable ability. - Hit selec tion la credited (o th sagacity of the mikado of Japan, - who, aeelng and un derstanding th embarrassing 'position of th emperor of Korea during th pres ent great war, suggested that rah' edu cated and experienced American b ap pointed as the International law adviser of the monarch of that much-troubled land. ' :V, -;-. - ThereTa-no question that Mr. 8tvn will have great power at the Korean SyTSrtowruTT(?dnth position of counselor to the Japanese le gation In Washington,' and It was his work ther which wss of a high order which led the Japanese government to Interest Itself in th movement to send him to Korea. . - Gen. Horace Capron. many year ago, at th earnest eellcltatlon of th mikado, accepter th position of .commlsaloner and adviser, of the -kaltakunhl. or agri cultural department of Japan. -Ths work of opening up and developing the Uland of Tesao was intrusted to his care, and so wall and wlssly waa it done that it Is pointed out to this day a a model of advanced - agricultural work. When General Capron began his mission he carefully examined the Influence of the climate and the. capabilities of the oil.. Incidental to thla he Instituted a' system ST transportation by' means ef MORNING. ; JANUARY 3. I. Hill,, III ,111 ,1,1" 11 1 " 1 J- Ul-J. J 3 "V " I- . I i J I TENTH LESSON i which are necessary to play accompaniments in 1 7? -7i 'rT. fii entirely wrong; -. She told m so, but I could not believe her." - New it seems to m that love of aom kind la tha only poslble explanation of the extraordinary amountt of suffering that - there is " In the - world. ' If the worlds have. Indeed, a I have said, -been built 'of sorrow,, ! has been built by, th hands of love, because In no other way oould th soul of man. for whom th worlds are mad, reach th full stature of Its perfection. (- "When I say -that I am convinced ' of these things, I speak with too much pride, . Fsr off . - 33 Improved ' roads. , Ths natives wer taught how to make farming profitable. Example In the rearing and breeding Of foreign stock .Were presented to them. Besides ithls General Capron made a splendid collection ' of foreign fruit seeds, grains snd vegetables and capped It all off by .introducing labor-saving marninery on tn island. About 1170. when Henry Denlson, at one tlm an officer in the department of th commissioner of customs In -Washington, accepted a proposition 'to reor ganise "the customs service rn Japan. He 'Was so uccessf ul "he wag decorated by th mikado, and Is now one of th titled men of th Flowery Kingdom. . Many year later H. F. . Merrill, an American who had served acceptably-in th Chines ssrvlee. became inspector? general oi customs in Korea. . Ah American,-John Pet hick, waa secre tary for L.1 Hung Chang. Later he be-1 enme offlclnl transistor-of, -tha foreign office in Chin, and gradually assumed a position of Importance in connection with Chines dlpiomscy. (. .. .... , .... ,4 I'.Henry Terryv an welt' known tn university life In the United States, or ganlsed a general ayatetn of education 1 in ift Jaoaneea unltseaUs Matthew Scott, of) San Ffanclscd. ner- formed some notable service in th Jap anese iflnsnc -department. He' died at Kobe 1n 1880, and It Is intereetlng to note that hi work; was valued so highly th government erected a. monument over th spot where he died in-that conn try. The emperor. In making official an nouncement of this incident, said "it was done -in token of the high esteem In which. th deceased ws held by the Jap sness government and Its appreciation of th valuable services rendered by, him." - :: f -; - ' -. ' , "- . -'" sTai"T-TW. ,'-,!,"...-' . r "" .From'th Philadelphia Press. . Miss Nonsey You .didn't know I was Interested in business now. did you? - Mss Belting Why. yes; I supposed you were, 'si usual; hut I didn't know who,. 1 U.- - . IP 1 .1 M , J I. a-T-T i;. -1 T ffe i "r :.7 V' , f!tf si? S3) can see the City of God. It Is so won derful that It Seems ss If a ehild could resch It tn a summer's day., And so a child could. ... One (a, -"grown man). cn realise a thing In a single moment., but on loaen it In the long hours which follow. ' , It Is ' ao difficult to keep 1)ights that the aout to competent to gain. -Ws think, it eternity, . but -we move . slowly , through time" - -'- j ;-, V. ', .-v..-... He tall howi at 0xford.Nh had aald to a friend thgt h would go out Into the world wli th intention of ex periencing ' very thing. He ehos - th pleasant and feared .. th"-Tvr. -Tffv'.v' ."Fallur. disgrace v. y - remorse all these things wer thing of which 1 1 was afraid. And, as I had de termined to know nothing of them I waa forced to taata each on of them in) turn -K - f to ha vr for-- season, no other food at alL" , ....... -.Then he denies that he regret havjng lived for pleasure, but "had to pas on." " He - peaks of how . his writing foreshadowed this truth, .and of what.. Pater tried t do in , "Marius the Epi curean": .-',-. -. ., . . t ,. -. ; . "But Marius Is little more tha,n a speo ttor fof ,Iif),f , I e. -far more Intimate snd Immedlat connection between the life of Christ and th true Ufa of th artist. J I rmember aylng ; In Pari 7 . :" Uiat while meUphyslcs had bat littlo Inter est for tn and morality absolutely nojie, there wss -nothing that either Plato- or Christ had aitd that could not be trans ferred'lmmedlatdy.into the sphere of art. and ther find Its complete fulfill ment. . . :. 1 ., .v . ".'., f . C "Nor Is It merely that we can dis cern in Christ that close 'union of per sonality with perfection which ' forms the real distinction between th classical land romantic-art and mskes Chr1t"tha true - precursor i of tnr romantic move ment la Ufa. buuthe.very baal of his nature was the sams as' that of tho nature-of th artist sn InteViee and flame-Ilk Imagination.' H realised In th entire sphere of human relations liiiKRHiftllre- gi!llwmftwT1W"tiirtfirr sphere of art Is th sole secret of crea tlon. He understood th leprosy of th leper . th Strang poverty of th rich. - -1 - - '' - ',-.' -- - . - "Christ's place, indeed. I with th poets. His whole conception of human ity snrang right out of the -Imagination. and can only be realised by It. What God was to the Pantheist, man was to Him. II wa the first to iconcelv th divided .'race is A unity.-. Before Km time there had been Gods and man. and. feeling' through the mysticism of His sympathy that - In i Himself ach Mad been Incarnster h call Himself th son of th tmt or the son of th other, ac cording to hi mood . . More than any one els in "history, he wsksa In u thai temper of wonder to which romance al waya appeal. - ' , i V 1 ., " i' I i Pi i t1: S u n 'diary TJ.".'" ri most Incredible ,1a . th Idea- of a young Galilean peasant Imagining that '1 he could bear on. his' own' shoulders the -burden of th entire worht; "all that hsd been don and suffered.rand all that was yet to be don and; suffered;, th gins of Nero; f 1'',jtfU sufferings ofj those whose names- are . legion - and .- whoae dwelling 1. among th tomb,', oppressed nationalists, ; fsctory, children, ' thieves, people in orison, outcasts, those who i jdIIL . m ., I r .- . are dumb under'. oppressisn snd-whon. iivw- te nesru vniy vrvo, lira nui merely Imagining thla but (actually achieving eo that at present an who com in contact witn mis personality, ven .though they may neither how to. ... Hla-altar nor "kneel before HI priest, ' yet-somehow- find that- th -ugliness ot"T" their sins is taken away and the beauty) . of their. -sorrow revested" t . tljem.l ,f His entire life la the most wondsrfur f poem and. shows howwrenir Aristotle wss when he aaidl . In bis treatise thai It would beilmpossi- . ble to, bear tha spectacle of one blame less In pain. .i ' land dsrfalnly. If Hi place Is among the poets. He I th leader of sll th lovers.: He saw that lore was the first secret' of the world r tot which the wis men -ad -been look-' Ink. and that It wit only through lov--" thst one could approach either the heart t of the leper or the fet of God. Hu-' mltity, ; Ilk th artl'stlo acceptanc of all 'experience '1 merely mode of '- manifestation. It 1 a man soul that Cbrlet la al ' . war looking for. i He calls 'it ths au ' Ihorlty of God , snd flnds-ia it vry -I m on. : ' - 'l7'--" ' -'This 1 th main theme of th book i.-whlck- -continues in- th i same atraln; - ! ... but with feeling of growing feverish- ness and with keener- Idea- of self -ex-amlnatioa in view of external result. - Here Is chsracteritlo.paasage "t have aald to you that to speak th , truth is a painful thing. To be forced to- tell ile -la -much - wore. I remem ber aa I was sitting In th dock . listening to Lockwood's appalling denun ciation of m. .'. Suddenly It oc- mrvred to me. How splendid It Would he f "1" waa aayTng" air thla about myself.' I saw then at one that what la-aald of " a man la nothing. Th p.lnt la. -who - - aay It. A msn's very highest moment . Is, I havs no doflbt at all.' when ha kneel '.. In th duat and beats hi breast and tell - all th ln of hi IlfC '.-,- . .' ,Th last paragraph id th book Is: . 4 ;. . "Society, si w have constituted It, will hsvs no plao for me, haa non t offer; but nature, whose:' sweet rain falls on unjust and Just alike. Will have cleft 7 1 ' 1 In . th rock where -1 may - hid, 'and ' secret valley Ib who 'alleno I may '' Weep undisturbed. , She will bang th night with stsrs so that I way walk abroad In th darkness without Hum- bltng. and send the wind Over my foot- prints so that none may track ms to tnv t -r hurt: ah .wllt cleanse me In great wa- 1 tar, and with bitter herb msk m t whol,- V - f- ' i i XAl'i "Ther 1 stmv something , t M- :' " . " :;7 " ... . '.'-'.'v -l . . - , '.'., , ... - - .- - 1 - - ' " - L - - - , ' , t i i- x In.
