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T tb -Arat-Maaioii 6f the fiftj..
MVnth ronsresii tha followliiK-
concurrent Taolutltltti"f af ;
'That thera toa prlntf and bound bjr
photographlo proeefts within lntroduo
" t Ion of not to exjoeed'28 pnrea. to ba pra
pared by Xr-!yru"Aller;"in)rarli of
" tha Smtthaonlan Inatltutlon; for the uo
of congTM 8,000 copiea w of ' Thomaa
. JaSeraon'a 'Morals of jeaua of Nasarcth'
i- aa Uia aama appeam In tha national mu
. euro; S.OOO roplea for the u of the
lawnata and 1,009 copies for tha uaeof the
'Souse." .. .' : '
. Tha bonk thus ordered by a special act
jf jonarress has rcfPttfl?JUPIdjndJs
attracting much attention. .- President
Jefferson, though bitterly Assailed ' for
- -hts-reJtg-ious viawa, :- aa.irdent stu
dent of the BlbU and a sincere admirer
"of Jesus of Nasareth. ;When enUrinc
upoa - his duttea : aa a," statesman. ' he
ld: shall need the favor -of that
Being In whose hand a wa ' are".' who led
ir fathers aa Israel of old from their
native land and planted them In a coun
try nowing wun an me neCTrssariwa aim
. comforts of life." When, his daughter.
i Maria, died lu J 80C -he sought comfort
In his grief by turning to tha Bible. - "i
found him," wrote his eldest daughter,
Martha, "with his Bible in his hands.
He who baa been so often and so Itajahly
accuaed of .unbelief, he in his hour of In,
: tense affliction sought and found, conso
, Jatlon In tha sabred, ivolu roe." On a car
tain occasion a gentleman expreased his
disbelief in Jhe teachrnga of tha- Bible
. Then,, sir." said JeftVnwn. "you have
studied It to little "purpose." .Daniel
Webster once wrote a letter in "which ha
" gave an account -of an Interview with
Jefferson. "I am considered by many.
Mr. Webster." ha said, "to hava little re
llglon. but now la not the time to cor
v'""ract aryora of "thla sort. . I hava al-
- ways said and always will say, that the
atudioua perusal of tha aacred -volume
will make better cltlnena, better hus-
..'JDnaa ana netitr letncra. , . v . - .
Bo Impreased did he become with the
surpassing beauty of tha - teachings of
Jesus that he determined to Compile a
", book that should contain tha story of
the life and philosophy of Jesus In the
exsct words or the New Testament, con1
aequently he secured four copies of tha
gospel In Greek. Latin. French and Eng
lish. Texts were put out of -these books
.y.ana, pwad ;.tn Ttt-boofc-jf-
This waa handsomely bound in' red mo
rocco, on tha back of which in gtit let
.; ters were stamped te. words, "The Mor
: als of Jesus.' In regard to the first col-
-- lection of texts out of -which- grew the
one., entitled 'The ' Morale of Jesus.
Jefferson afterwards wroto these slgnltl
. cant words, "J too have made a wee Jit-f
V ;i seventh congress the f ollowtnK- 1 1 F' I 11 C - 1 - ,.-,. ' ,.;..'-.';
-concurrent xesolutlon.-riwai-: I 1 1 I - J ,,- . ; 'V .".V '.'. .." ' .
' iTla book from the same materials, which
I call tha "Philosophy of Jesus.' It
is a paradlgtna of his doctrines, -made
by cutting the texts out of 'the book and
... arranging them on the .pages of a blank
" book in a certain ordef of time or suu
' ' ject. A more beautiful or precious mor
sel of ethics I hava never seen; it is u
document in proof that I am a rear
Chrlstlan.that Is to sar dWc1pTeor
, . ' the doctrines of Jesus.' .
- It is Interesting to note that Jefferson
, ' did not select for his compilation all the
. words of Jesus. , In fact he etudlously
avoided certain passages the acceptance
of which would have Compelled. Mr,
.. . Jefferson -to Jtake a view of Jesus which
.' he refused to consider..- lie explained
-this strange proceeding thus: "We
must reduce our volume to the simple
vaogeils ts. select .veu Jcom t hem -the,
'Very words only of Jesus, paring off Abe
amphlbollglems." - The ; last In a-long
ymort wtilch llkschai lly. fuvt-retlra-nnrt-t
tltude of sins. .Let ua see. Jefferson
; Includes In hie book the sermon on the
, mount. That Is good, but why omit
hie Interview with Ktcodemua In which
the great truth ' of-the new birth Is
' taught, and In which is found that mag
nlflcent " passage which Luther called
. r'A- Uttle BlbleT' "For Uod ao loved
:' tha world that He gave ills only begot-
ten Boa that whosoever belle veth In
Him .should -not perish but have ever
' lasting life." This must be an ampbi
. boligiam. ; w .. -..
Jefferson-. Included In . his book -the
...tender story of tha woman taken in,
adultery, which ' la now generally re
garded as an Interpolation. - But he
omitted all reference to the lofty teach
ing of Jesus at the well-aide of Sychar,
and to that ' sublime utterance before
) tha tomb of Lazarus, ' "I am tha resur
rection and tha life, he that . belleveth
"' , in ma though be were dead, yet a ball
he live'."- ThtRrUtooj must bo one of
; those strange creaturVa Jefferson would
label "amphlbollglsm." The exposure of
. . the rharlsees,- the story of Zaccheoue,
the parable of tha ten virgins are all
- ralthfully reported In the exact language
" of the Bible. But why omit the match
' - less fourteenth chapter of ISL, Jolm and
-tha fifteenth and the- Sixteenth and
J severJethT Why carry the story no
"farther along than the wofuyfThe.ra
laid they Jesus, and"rolled -a great stone
to the door.ofthe sepulchre and de
parted" ' And why omit such words as
' these: 'In my Fiuher'a house are many
mannlona; I go to prepare a place for
you" Is this also an "amphlloglum"?
And ara all the words of Jcmis spoken
at Emmaus knd by theLake oC Galilee,
' "amphlbologlhisL;iiimpty - because i to
give them plare would be-to ackno l
- edra that something happened after that
" stone was rolled before the Sepulchre
. In Joseph's garden? How significant It
Is to find that this admirer of Jenua was
so witling to accept all the teachings -of
Jesus In i' regard to ethics, as the very
, werd of God. and yet insisted In calling
verrthlna an amphlbologlsm that re-
-f erred to-hla AUjr his aacrtflrlal daathl
. or his resurrection t
.i.llere It jeemi.wa hava another -.
ample of the statement made by that
eplendld Darwinian scholar. Profesror
nomanes. who-, after floundering for.
m while In the bog of evolutionary agnos
tlrlmn. regained a foothold pn 4he rock
ef C'hrlat Jesus and vald' eonrernlng
such a system of religion' aa Jefferson
l.;i; 'It la only wbca it takea tha
: v f - r THE
ilffi7n7l
4-
t -n; -r
k. .....
New Testament, tears out a few of Rs
leaves relating to tfie divinity of Christ
and.gpproprlates all the rest that its
system becomes In any degree possible
aa a basis for personal religion,"- ;
.. EDGAR Pi HILL. '
w - ..l '
On June 14, 1890, Senator , Evarts
arose from his seat In the United States
senate and offered a report of the com
mittee on library,' InajKhlch It was rec
ommended -that the government pur
chase jhe manuscript papers and .corre
spondence" if .Thomas Jefferson. The
senate did ' not sea fit at that Ifme to
purchase these writings. - But the reso
lution ' offered by ' Senator Evarts b6re
fruit. j
The action of the"senRtn fflot acting;
optm-tha-advice of th committee on
library alled forth a storm of protest
from every section of the nation,' Jeffer-
son. one -of the greatest figures in the
history of thn new World, wrote many
things tha,h la 4ou nt ryman-of t-wcentury.
after his Jay wish - to know. - At last
the 'will Of tha nubile warn carried nut
anatha Jefferson library purchasedBut
in this collection-of tomes was one vol
ume that was missing, and this one book
waa valued more highly than all the
others the so-called "Jefferson Bible."
Readers of , American history had long
known' of this work of tha great Demo
crat, but only .very few had aver seen
It- -Some, even regarded tha atory as a
myth. lit only to be connected with tha
fabd tale of how. Jefferson rode alone
Into Washington on the morning of his
Inauguration, hitched his horse at a cor
ner post., and strode unattended into tha
capltol and took the oath of the presi
dent, of the United- fHatea dressed In
riding suit and -boots.. -. " r :'.
But this was not the case, as careful
students of American history kept.-Still,
there waa keen disappointment when the
much wanted Bible, was not foiind In tha
collection of books purohaeed from tha
Montlccllo library. ' The hub-bub stirred
up over this - disappointment soon
brought the1 owner of Ora Bible to light
It waa owned by XDfts Randolph, a mem
ber of the famous Virginia family. Tfia
book waa purchased from her. the price
.paid is said to have been 1400.
After the book waa purchased, people
began to wonder what sort of a work
it was. ' They knew that It was some
thing out of the ordinary run of Bibles,
printed by the million, and sold at any
prlcef rom. a penny to a pound, but Just
what thxt difference waa they did not
know.-True, -the newspapers had told
them that It.'. was a collection of clip
pings from the holy book, said collection
containing verses tn four languages.
Greek. Latin. French and English. Bible
students the.d wished to know ust what
parts of tha holy writ tha great states
men hud seen HCiolfp; students of
history wished .to. aea the clippings1 tn
order that they ml-rht learn just, what
sections of the Bible Jefferson thought
worthy oC-a statesman's, notice. ' j'or
the beneflt'of these folk, Ainaworth ,It
Spofford. then librarian of congreas,
wrote the following brief description: .
- '.The Morals, and - Life of Jesus of
Naaar-th.'j.e-ftractcd 'textpally from the
rtospeia In .tirce
ijittn, rrencn and
English. Title, nn
his own hand. Texts were cats by him
out of printed copies of Oreek, . Latin.
French "" and Erigltsh testament and
pasted In this book of blank pages,
which waa handsomely bound In red
morocco, ornamented In gtit. and titled
on the berk In gilt letters. The Morels
of Jeans.' lit original Idea wss tojfjye
the lira and teachings of th Bavror, Mi
- OREGON SUNDAY jbuRNAIr PORTLAND, SUNDAfr
Tattr
t .. . v , I
In similar. . excerpts prepared . for the
Indians, thinks this simple form would
suit them beat- But,, abandoning this,
the formal execution of hla plan; took
the shape above described, which waa
for his individual use. , He used the four
languages that lie might have, the texts
In" them'' aide by side, convenient, for
comparison. In tha book he raated a
map of the ancient 'world and iha' Holy
Land, with which ha atudied .the ,!w
Teatamont." -V1- ' "'''
' But -this description of Mr. Ppofford's
did npt mitt-lhe JHerary tastes of tha
senators who wished to have tha Jeffer
son Bible printed. They wanted a, mora
complete story of the work. They slso
wanted a fuller description of the book
Itself. . So. one of the first clsuaea of
the .resolution was that an Introduction,
"not to exceed ti pages"." be written by
Dr. Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smith
sonian- Institution,1 for-the-new- publtca
tlon. ' Dr. Adler' wrote tha introduction,
and used exactly one half of hla allotted
number of pages. . His description of the
book la complete. It la: -
" "Tha so-called Jefferson' Bible, more
accurately The Life arid Morals of
Jesus of Naxareth,'. Is now the property
of the United States National museum
at Washington, having been obtained by
purchase in 1896.... Tha following la a
description of the. volume: -
'Measurements: Height, S4 inches;
width, ' 4 16-11 Inches; thickness at
back. 1U inches; Inmlddje, IS inches;
at edge points, Inch. '
Binding: . 'Foil red leather' with gilt
tooling. The back divided in five panels;
In second psnel from top title in gold:
'Morals of Jesus.' - .
"The margin of the covers of all four
aides onr.the outside, " and on the. three
outer ones on the Inside,- aa well aa on
the edges, are tooled In gold.' Inside of
the upper cover is on the -left side -top -a
label containing the words:, 'Bound by
Fred A, Mayo, Richmond,, Va.'" - '
'Tha cover Inilde as well as tha fly
leaves are covered with gray paper in
marble dealgna.' t .
"Order: Upper cover; two manu
script leaves In the handwriting of Jef
ferson, containing on tha first two and a
half -pages thy table -texts;.! the rest Is
blank)- fly-leaf three blank leaves; title
pages in manuscript- In - Jefferson's
handwriting, reading: i- ' .-.
- i . THff.-W-
- LIFB kND MORALS t r'- - '
, .. '--.op - .
JESt'8 OK NAZARETH
- EXTRACTKD TEXTITALLY FROM
1 THE OOHPEt.S IN .
OstEEK LATIN, FRENCH AND
;i - f -ENOLrSH;-'
folded printed . mapa. of . Pnlestlna and
.Asia Minor, taken out from a book; that
of Palestine has on top In print, "page
1.' and that of Asia Minor, .'page .414';
blank page excepting Tor a black line
tn Its middle, running from top to bot
tom. Then come, on numbered leaves,
beginning, on the left aide of -the first
(the reverse of the page lust described).
m-
veryull .Index "TfltaTid tlushig un the light side of the last,
extracts arranged In two columns, sep
arated by a black line, on each page. In
the-fotltiwlng order: . -
"On tha left-hand page Greek and
Latin, on the right.. French and Engltstvf
Tha so-trccs are Indicated in .the margin
In .Jefferson's handwriting.-,' The . num
bers of tha leaves, which rtii from 1 te
tt, ara on tha left side top of. tha lett
7 A Sjmmm mmm-,
iN-M Jill - ;ip
I hand 1 pageg, Leaf. JS-Juta extracts on
tha right-hand page, the left-hand, page
hag only tha black line; It Is. followed
by three other blank ' leaves, tha'flrst
of which , has the black Una On both
sides; then -coma' tha Oy-leaf and the
cover." Between aaehT of tha leava,-w!tti
tha exception of - tha blank one, there
are alternately one and two narrow
strips of pper,bound In."' -f .
That Jefferson had In mind tha prep
aration -of auch a book, and -that- ha ac
tually prepared it. - has been known $0
students of his letters and writings, and
especial attention Was drawn to tha fact
In The Life and Times of Thomaa Jef
ferson,' by Henry 8. Randall, published
In three volumes. New York, 1861."
John- - Adams and Thomas JeffetSgTC
who were at one time bitter enemies,
afterward became warm friends, and the
TompilaOoivJSfJeff erson'abtbla "became
the oubject .Of considerable correspon
dence between them.
On January St. 1804, In a letter writ
ten at Washington to Dr. . Priestley, Jef
ferson aald: j " . '' '
- -"I rejoice- that 'ybtrliava 'tihdertaken
thataak of enmpartpg -tha; moral ..doer
trlnes of Jesus with those of the an
cient philosophers. . I thlpk'you cannot
avoid giving,- as a preliminary to toe
comparison, a digest of hla moral doc
trine, extracted in his oaui-words from
tha evangelists and- leaving out every
thing relative - to hla - personal history
and character. It would be ahort and
From, the Chicago -Tribune. -
F
EW people since Rousseau have be-
vealed more about the secrets of
their soul than Count Lyof Tol-
'' atol. and yet few figures have -re
mained .. snore - essentially enigmatic.
Like: Rousseau again, Sktlstol speaks hot
to mis eouatry or tnai, dui in inn wurm,
and I tkrok that he is listened; to. for
oreclsery tha. same reason. H It wss -a
difficult f thing for -.the ex-valef. to . win
-tha.-frenchtao-of Europe -et -a- time- when
ita -Intelligence .was embodied in . voi-taire.-.
It .la a dif fleult .thing f or Count
Lyof Tolstoi. the - aristocrat in -.the
mujlk. blouse, to repeat t to., a-generation
Inoculated - with tha theories of . Darwin
tha old. lesson of the-sermon on th
mount. ,Mere sincerity in neither .case
would . have , availed - anything. Mere
fanaticism In either - case , would " have
been found ' only tedious. , Tolstoi, ho
less than Rousseau, conquered because
he had power to Interest the human
heart. - r , ' ..- '.... .'.i
One - would ' naturally Ima glna , that
under a -despotism such aa the Russian,
a despotism which holda out unique ad-vantagea-for
Individual .. energy., pro
vided, tha neceasary,. formulas ara ac
cented, such a form of self-development
would be- almost - Inevitable. , Count
Lyof Tolstoi s life . Is an utter contra
diction to thia thesis. He waa born
with thht rare gift, -the power, to -see
men and thinks In -perspective and-'nt
first hand for one's self.' As a child he
seems. - to, hava been . singularly clear
eyed with that hard, "jjagaa vision that
his enemr Mereshkovsky.-attrlbutea-- to
him ag. yioj essence of his character. He
could see his tafher lust as ha-was, and
oould record the changes of-Inflection
In his-voice-as he argued with tha old,
steward, over . the acubus. He, noticed
every little mimlclng affectation about
his sister's French governesavs -.Years
afterwarTTie: was aBleo, roproduce by.
a few ' touches the- picture of -the old
servant, . In whom hla- tutor . used ao
snxlously-to confide I do tidt think that
there Is In any other writer of narrative
quite the same grip of the actual that
Tolstoi gives ua. ..You will find It In the
recollections of the nursery; It will crop
up again 1n the defense of Sevastopol.
You. will meet with it In the-fetid at
mosphere of a mujlk's hornf and you
will find It smid the hostoric traditions
of palaces. . : ' ' - '-.,'.'..
Let ma take one little example of this
merciless gift, this pagan hardness,
which allows no film to arise between
the eye and the object. You remember
that - Incomparable little sketch of
Aipbonse Daudet, "The Last Lesson,"
In -.which -the'" French school meat er
Ijtha right-hand page, the loft-tpi pat r:T iiri-W-;:V- r. lA-LL?PJIJ.- A.'.i.i.-..V'!-VA!
'.'":.-i,fr77T7'::. : : - '. . - r1? : a
writes upon the hlarkhnard fnr-tha-laatiprferttaton.Jie waa JgaDlyto the
time In the loved language of hla coun
try "Vive la France."' It seemato ma
that lit thia little story there. Is pre
served, like some forgotten fragrance,
all 'the tenderneas and -charm of early
associations that have been completely
severed. Now. -rn tha recollections of
his childhood, with no attempt at
pathos, without tha magnetism of ap
MOSNING, - -FEBRUARY '.: 12.
precloua With a view to do thia for
my own satis f sot Ion I had sent to Pnll
adelphia to get two testaments Greek
of the aama edition and two- English,
with a design to cut tha doctrines of
morality and paata them on the leaves
of a book In the manner you describe in
framing- your harmony. - But I ehall now
get tha thing dona by better hands."
In-a. letter to Mr. Adams. August 11,
1818. Jefferson aava that ha had ore-
paired 4v eyllabTis of the ChriattaA Teach-
lnis Or Dr. Priestly and Dr. Rush, and
that Dr. Rush's family hr.d returned It
after the death Of that gentlemun,- .0
Mr. Jefferson's great delight, for he
found ahat' It" would Involve him In a
religious controversy. .
In Jefferson's compilation ofthe gos-
peia.he omitted everything of a miracu
lous nature and confined bis clippings to
the.iteachlnga...of J etuaiHaaeUsped 1
from , all the gonpela, using -tha verses
which make tha cleareat statement
where : tha texta ara . practically tha
-same. .- , t -v '
In the concluding verse of tha work he
Ukea John xix:41 and Matthew xxvll:60
and combines them, clipping out all but
tha plain atatamant of tha burial. Tha
peal which lies In a national disaster,
Tolstoi produces an Illusion similar to
that of the great French novelist. , Jt la
tha Illusion of life. ..The children ara to
be taken to Moacow, and their tutor; 91ft
,KarI -Ivanovtch, has to go away. That
la absolutely all. Can any situation be
more trite and . commonplace t There
had-been no extraordinary .devotion to
their Instructor on tha part of the. chil
dren.- He Is jdo at. all. Tom Finch,
cast off after years. of devoted aarvica.
There la no appeal . whatever - tor senti
mentality.- and yet -forever-yoti'-will-'re
member him aa he alta there, . tha poor
faded old man. saying. --with a futile
sweep, of his arm, that the lady of the
house. is devoted to .him. .but that aha
haa no-power. -no power. .Ha must go
out-, into -the cold. Once more Ufa had
caught him up and torn him away from
a quiet .anchorage. Da Maupaasant
might have given, us much, tha aama
picture,, but he would hava ended -with
a sneer,, just ilka Dickens, -after .achiev
ing a, much, more - amplified portrait,
would have ended with a -sob,. .Tolstoi,
the pagan artist, makes no comment." --
All through .his after life he pra
served Uhls directness of vision. -His
life Itself waa a romance because he
could gee clearly. .-- The university days,
his entry Into society, tha Inevitable re
lapses Into 'dissipation these thlnga fie
puts 'before. us as though no. one had
written oi!vueh' topics before. - Per
haps, Indeed" no one had,; for "these
things. ara written ... with something
other than Ink. But there was -another
slde-of Tolstoi, The man who eould aee
clearly soon ceased to take' everything
for (granted.- He-began to- question;
above all, he began. to question- hla own
heart. ' - . .-. . - . .
- With these two things, tha power to
face 'reality with .unflinching eyea and
the habit of self-questioning. Tolstoi Is
fully equipped for the work of a novel
ist; is, tn fnct. a novelist before ha has
written' a single book.- They coma out
st once in the "Recollections of Sevas
topol," ; and. with them an Incomparable
honesty. Tolstoi Is mot merely honest
to . the outside world,- he la honest to
himself. In the. retreat ftom Bevaato
pol how did tha common .soldier really
feel First of all, a aenie of loss at
tha abandonment .of familiar places;
secondly, the fear of pursuit. . That ,1s
In the rough. , . .. -.
I-ater on. lnWr and .Peace." he
was to get at tha thought that vibrates
through great messes of men, and. at
ths. same time, to disclose the secret
tortures vof the Individual. ' Above all,
he waa to avoid the formula, the banal
adjective, the prearranged method, of
Held of battle tha asms Inqulsltlv
scrutiny thst- ha hsd applied to tha
nursery In-his old home.. But, as I have
aid before, almost from tha beginning,
he o,uestloned. Just ss yon will find the
germ of "Wer and Pesce' in the little
sketch of "Sevsstopol," so you will And
the -germ of ''Anna Hsrenlna." tn that
wonderful open air atory, "Tha , Coa-
1CC3.
... :. .
result Is as follows: : .
John '.xlx:"S "There laid they-Jesus.
.- '. .J. ;' ; - r: - .,
MattheW gxvllSu- e . e ,nd
?a a. .rolled a great atone tdi$he door
of the sepulchre" and departed.''T'.--i-:.
Thus he followed out to thfMhfs
general plan and omitted all that 'could
not.be explained to tha satisfaction of a
practical lawyer, leaving Christ burled
forever and giving no evidence of belief
hnTCaTerorrlctlon.
Jefferson himself wrote many prov
erbs quite as -many as Solomon and.
saya one of hla biographers, 'was quite
as 'careless In observing them." . - How
aver that may be. hla own code of morale
which ha thought ahould be observed Is
found In what ha called - "A Catalogue
of Canons for Observation In Practical
Life, which waa written In hla youth.
ThisTliaslJerapreaeTvd Topostsr ity,
and in view of the Interest recently re
vived in Jwffereon. andhla doings and
writings by -the action of congress, 1s
lnteretlng. This Is Jefferson's code:-
X1feverp.it off until tomorrow what
you can do today. ' "'
2. Never- trouble another -for what
you can do yourself. "'.? L- "
t Mriu.' .WHIrrthtwr-pagiii. TlalODL. oMrtsri
that drank in ao greedily 'the endless
varieties, of the real- world,-it-was, Im
possible that - introspection' should - ever
completely master him. 1 He is too near
to tha elemental forces of nature, too
much in sympathy with, the good- black
earth, and tlte men who till It, ever to
become, morbid, and detached -from the
common life. . -'. . -. . , 1
: Far from, coileentratlng hla strength
opon goal-of parsonahamMUoiw-Tolstal
searched in every. direction for what was
beat in life t A soldier and a sportsman,
he .turned hungrily to art, to literature,
to philosophy, to science. He dissipated
hla 'Immense energies,' but' his question
remained eternally . HQaoswered.r In
Pierre and Levin,' tha two central figures
of .the. great works, "War and- Peace'?
and '."Anna Karenlna." .we find Tolstoi
searching . with steadfast eyes for the
answer to the enigma of life. One
must recollect always that. It, waa jno'
hermit , who - waa '.brooding .over this
ancient question,, but a' man who had
the entree Into the. most .exclusive' so
ciety, a man who had been, atceped to
satiety In the - best ." or . the; worst . of
what life had to 'offer.. Both, these em
bodiments of Count Tolstoi, or at least
of Count Tolstoi's gospel, of. life, Pierre
and Levin, practically give up the search
for new wisdom and fall back Upon the
old simplicity. , Each of them la con-4
tent to learn from tUo.humWe pfas'ant
who, because , he haa never been be
wildered by a futllo search, can see the
eternal, varieties with undimmed eyes.
It is said JJiat there are. two. Tolstois
Tolstoi the-artlst and Tolstoi the relig
ious fanatlo. - I do. not think that any
candid reader - of '"Resurrection," ' for
example, would draw any such academic
line of demarcation... No. no 1 there . hna
Pbeon only one Tolstoi, and It Is after all
the Tolstoi: whowaiched old Karl Ivan-
ovltch so closely, years and years aao.-. J
in nia particularly -interesting .dook,
"The Downfall of Russia." Hugo Oans,
the well ' known Vienna correspondent,
tells ua of a recent Visit to Tolstois He
approached .' thts enlgmatlo figure who
has renounced so many Ideals, and 'has
narrowed hla life down to such Spartan
simplicity., with a. fear of approaching
dlalllusloti.' ' WoMld the mah ring true
beneath the 'phraseology of the prone.-'
gnpdlst? Wss Tolstoi a vast make-be-Uc.
-who evaded ' analysis merely by
adroitness? Thin Is the picture that'he
draws of the old man of '71 aa he 4s
today: '.' r .
; ."Thick, "bushy gray ayebrowa' shsde
(fie.' deepest eyes' and shsrply define An
annular, self-willed forehead. The nose
Is strong, ' slender 'above, broad ' and
finely modeled In the nostrils. The long
gray musiacrra completely covers the
mobile mouth. A waving white beard,
partelln;the. middle. rlowe : from, the
hoary cheeka'to the ahoulders. The
head la ' not .. bfoad It' misTit - be called
narrow wholly unidavorTWsnd is well
poised. . The broad, strongly built' shoul
dera have a military erectness, A har
row foot la hidden In tha high Russian
r
a. up - a k v I .
Never spend" your money before)
you--have It.. . a
; 4. Never buy what you don't want be
cause it is chesp; It will be dear to you.,
t. - Prldo costs us mora- tbaR.hungar, .
thirst or cold. '. ....-.-
aVi We never; repent of having eaten
toojjttler- "yy'-" -"'"- -
' 1.. Nothing ia troublesome that wa do
willingly. ' -' ....-'.-. -
I. How' much pain have cost ua thai
evils which. have never happened! ' . - '
T7t. Take -thing always by -the smooth J
handle.. -- '. , ; - j
10. , When angry, count 10 before you
apeak: It very angry, then a hundred.
Thomaa Jfferaon the United Stataa .
first - secretary of state, second vice- '
president -and third president waa born
in Virginia In 1741; he died in his native .
commonwealth, July 4, 12. Just a few ,
hours before John Adams naaaed awaw.
'Jef fevaowFwaa.. bold-horseman.-ahHl
ful hunter, an elegant, penman, a fine
violinist, a brilliant conversationalist, a
master in tha art of letter-writing, an
archltect of no mean ability, and a su- :
perlor" classical-acholar.-" Ha -waa tha -most
popular American to represent tha
new nation In tha court of France, with
the possible exception of Ben Franklin.' L
boor." arid move elastlcally. .Tha step
and carriage are youthful. An Irony of
fate will liavo it that the blttereet foe
of militarism Wtrays In' his whole ap ; V
pea ranee the former' officer.- The ma i
In the pesaant's drcslls ln every mova-
ment the grand seigneur." -
There was no disillusion. The master -of
Yasnaya Poiysns was lpdeed th re
ality, whose, genius had arrested tha -attention
of a Europe languidly akeptt- :
cal as to nearly.aH other-voioear-Tha':
man wJiose. hnnd I had Just grasped,'"
writes Mr.- Oai;x, "embodies the moral
consciousness' of , our. century."
Nobody need, ask what Tolstoi sUnds
for when .one. .glances . at tha varloua
forces that Interpret modern 'thought. -He
-hss, discardod-'as ;vnrn.snd lllusiva
shadowa everything except the whisper '
of the Inner consciousness' which saya,:
This Is right and that, la wrong." Ha
who -all hla life has been able to appre
clata. so- well the pagan: gladness of Ufa
wiJ.iibrtntJonedforevur.the pagan gospel -of
Teauty. ' lie who absorbed, as per
haps no other novelist has absorbed, tha ; .-,'
passion .and romance of war -haa sur- -vrved
to maintain the duty - of - non
reslatancaHe who for years haa been
a -diligent student-of philosophy and .
sclenoe hss accepted humbly the mujlk's .
blouse ss the symbol of hla faith.. Alona
he survive. unequivocal, unsentimental. . ...
dofng the thing that -be beltevea to be -HgnX-rand
contemptuously Indifferent .
to the terrors of the machine that has
done ao much- to bring his country to
final ruin. "They, know where to find
me," The' said' tinna- tn superb defiance"'
of the authorities who hava been power
less to suppress this one voice. Tyranny
dares much In. that land of immense si-
lnce, but tyranny Is Itself abashed be- .
fore the Isolated nobility of Count Lyof ,
Tolstai.-:. . ' e. .,,..? . ,
COiTLDtrV MTM WaTT BOSS XAVaOS
' From the Chics go Tribune.
Yes. the foreman admitted they were
rather shortr haodorti-They could do with
another men, but he wasn't aura tha ap
plicant would suit.- --.it '
"You're rather old," he salcr." X ' '
?"F1fty, sir:" was the reply.
-PH'm! I funcy yp wouldn't be able
to' stand the. strain. You sea. It'a hard
and monotonous work." '
"What la it, alrf A n ....
''The man I engage will have to carry
water all day long from the tank to the
workmen there.' You don't think yon
could manage - a couple nf bucketa of
w4tr for hours at a stretch, do yon 1"
What?" elaruleted the applicant.' de
lightedly. "Why. It's the thing! A cou-
ytigcketr o water lustrtry tm
! Why, I've dona It for yeara!"
Then you've been In thia line before?"-
afked the foreman. "When was that!"
When I wua a milkman!" cam tha
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nocent teply. , t
The applicant got tha post, though be
cfiuldn't ace for the life of him srhtt tha
remad waa laughing at.
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