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f J f ,. I, ' ( , COLUMBIA Tift TrT TT (C? TUT1T3 Hi 1 H MAGAZINE SECTION. 1IOULTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 19A ?GES 1 TO 4 SUCCESSFUL SCULPTRESS. Ula$ Evelyn Longman of Chicago Awarded Fifteen Thousand Dollar Vrlxe. To Carva Drortzt Door tt Anaapoll Naval Acdray Mas Attained Farm Through Her Flgur of Victory" ' at St. Louts Fair. When the new bronxa entrance doors of the Annapolis Naval Academy are completed and hung la place there will xlit another monument to the aklll of American women. Colonel Robert M. Tbompton, who presented these doora to the academy aa a memorial of the claaa of '68, stipulated In making the offer Jhat the design selected for the doora should be awarded by compe. tltlon, the winner to receive a prize of $15,000. There were thirty-three com petitors for this prize, an unusually large number, and the designs submit ted are said to have Wen of a high degree of excellenrti. The voles of all five Jurors were cast for the model pre sented by Miss Evelyn H. Ixingman, of ( lllt SK. Taft, She ts rather proud of the fact that she ha never studied abroad, and also that she has beeu able to met all the exp'niie of her artistic edu cation herself. SAH FRAKC1SCAH BOHROR. Terrible Destruction of the City by Violent Earthquake and Flame, Sculptress la Already Famous. The best known work of Miss Long man la the bronze figure of "Victory," which was carved for the Festival Hall at the St. Louis World's Fair. For pirs Results la AH Part of Metrop- thla she was awarded a silver medal. Aii-n-fti-i,.i c-lnti.ta Sav No At the close of the fair the original waa brought to the Chicago Art Insti tute. A bronze reproduction haa been purchased by the Union League Club and will adorn the entrance to the club- rooms, . Connection Between Quake ana VesuvUa Eruption. It wai during tho reposo of early morning; the Bprlng-time sun was I . . 11 ..naa (k. QIaotp Annihne .n rf Va T-nn rain'l CSSUng IIS guiacn rmjm ur. - works which haa won commendation Is Nevadas and striking d own i into we a bronze figure o( "Death." which she peaceful, slumbering valley of tM recently completed, and which Is to Sacramento. All the estern Ueml- Huddenlr there came an awful growl- log and crashing beneath the very cen In the already hardened shell that sur rounds the inner mass. That shell must give way at some point Aside from the contractions of the earth's suiface, another cause is given that might affect the changing of the sur face of a given part of the world. This cause is the accumulation of a vast weight of sedimentary deposit brought down by rivers. For example, the Mia- issippl River Is entirely made op ol the deposits of the streams washing down from higher lands. The weight of that deposit would be difficult to calculate, and resting upon a portion of the earth's shell, might occasion its sinking. This theory Is held by some scientists in connection with the Cali fornia disaster, for the Sacramento River Is the depositor of vast weights of sediment In the Pacific water near San Francliico. be placed on the Htory monument in I the cemetery at uoweii, Mass. WOMAN CIVIL ENGINEER. F f , 1 , s VIA i T ICQ P M vi i f&m - , J v . tre of Ban Francisco, and In a tenth of tha apace of time required to describe ikA ....I fninr wall and fire com- Qraoddanghter of Mra. SUntoo Haa blned ,ork on the metropolis of the Offer to to uiina. I purine the most appalling natural ca- Mis. Nora Stanton Dlatch, grand? . i . - UIIULIUCUL BIUVV ,MV BaaM aa) ' daugh'tr of Mrs. fciixabem caay btan- . Th de.trBctioa that has been ton. 1 now a member or me American - nll.hi.l .im0st incalculable- Society of Civil Ena-lneers. Bh? Is the f flftmei whlch bur8t forth !Xl ,T?.ra.a.n..," Ifi "'i??, .Sit .imultaneously in various part, of the eillii. v an asii, tu'- i i HISS LONGMAN'S STATUE OK " VICTORY " AT THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Miss Longman's design has two pan els representing "Peace" and "War." On the peace panel la a figure symbolizing aclence, an old man In aa attitude of fleep thought, explaining a difficult problem to two students of the acad- emy. On the war panel patriotism la represented by a female figure, sym bolical also of the homo, the protection of which Is assumed to be the reason for the existence of the navy. Under her draperies la a coat of armor, and with one hand on a cannon she points with the other to the distance, where masts of ships show the destination of the marching figures in the back ground. In the upper panels of the door are festoons supported by shells of oak leaves over the war panel and olive over that of peace. In the lower panels wreaths of the same leaves Inclose te names of naval heroes. In the transom Is the dedication to the class of 'ti8, and above the transom Is a group rep resenting Fame two laurel-crowned figures on either side of an altar-like pedestal, with an Inscription to John Paul Jones, whose bones are to rest in the crypt of the chapel. The pedes tal Is surmounted by a tripod, from which Issue flames, symbolizing enuur ing fame. citr was rendered still more terrible by the repeated quaking or me eann, by which the rescuers were In mo mentary danger of being burled with the dead beneath the falling structures The very earth itself our own mother earth proved as treacherous as a deadly snake, and the usual ccean breeze lr a at ranee perversion of na ture, hauli il around to a point where it tanned the flames to intf".slty and became a deadly agent of destruction. The general dismay of tho populace was augmented by the constant roar of dynamite explosions, made In a Tain effort to check the progress or me flames. The vast pall of smoke tnat blotted out the sky did not tend to alle viate the general anxiety. Yet, la sucn surroundings, calculated to Inspire uut versal panic and madness, there were performed numberless feats of heroism tbat will remain on tne scron oi time as ilhiRtrlous proofs of the nobility which Is hidden beneath the surface of ordinary life. Cool henda and brave hands, with stout hearts beuina mem, oerformed their work of rescue In the very face of death, and even the inde scribable horror of tho earthquake was overcome. San Francisco, a rich and proud city, has been swept hy fires before and has. Dhoenlx like, arisen from her ashes. Moreover, she has more than onco experienced earthquake tremors which were, to say the least, injurious and menacing. Dut America la cemented nation. The disasters of one section bring together in one grand sympathetic bond the inhabitants of tho others, all anxious and Insistent upon holding out the helping hand and voicing words of sympathy to the af flicted sister. States, cities and towns throughout tho entire Union have of fered unstinted assistance in the way of money, food, clothing and medical attendance, with which to relieve the want, not only of San Francisco, but aiso tne otner caiuornia cuieB and towns which have suffered with the metropolis of the State. No Connection With Vesuvius. Coming as this disaster did, practi cally coincident with the Vesuvlan ca lamity in Italy, many persons suppose that there was a direct relation be tween the two. This Idea, however, lng opinion offered when she was pro- 13 logically contradicted by Director posed for membership. tunaries u. waicou, or me ueoiogicai Miss Dlatch- waa the first woman to Survey. Mr. Walcott holds that there act a deereo of Dachelor of Science In la no possibility of a connection bo- clvll engineering at Cornell University, tween tho earthquake and the Italian She took a four years course, finish- volcano, ror tnese two are entirely ail ing among the first five of the class, terent scientific phenomena respon Slnco her graduation she haa been Bible for such earthquakes and vol- draughtsman in a- big bridge concern, canio aisturoances. She is now considering an offer from Qreat earthquakes, eays Mr. walcott, Award to Woman Unprecedented. The award of this prize to a woman is Bald to be an unprecedented event in the artistic history of the country, and a bright future la predicted for the young sculptress. ! "I corridor Mlaa Longman to be one ' ' of the most promising of our younger Bcubtora," said Mr. Daniel C. French, whoso assistant she has been for the last frur years. Mts Longman was born in Win cheater, Ohio, her father, Edwin H Longman, being a musician and an ar tlst. Drawing was one of her childiBh amusements, and she began modeling without instruction in the art dopart ment of Olivet College, Her work there attracted the attention of Lorado Tart, who invited her to enter the Chicago Art Institute as his pupil. She did bo, and during the first year paid her ex penses by doing library work. Then in the school, and a year or two later she came to New York, where she Ca& a&er became aa assistant to Mr. Greateat Natural Dlaaatera of History. Pompeii and Herculaneum de stroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius A. D. 79; more than 20.000 lives lost. Earthquake la Constantinople, thou sands killed: year 557. Catania, Sicily. 15,000 persons killed by earthquake; year 1137. Syria. 20,000 killed by earthqnafce; year 1158. Clllcla, 20,000 killed by earthquake; year 12C8. Palermo, earthquake, 6,000 lost; year 172G. Canton, China. 1,000,000 lost by earthauake: November 30, 1731. Kuchan, North Persia, 40,000 lost; earthquake; year 1755. Lisbon, city ruined by earthquake. 25.000 killed: November. 1755. Aleppo, destroyed by earthquake, thousands killed: year 1822. Canton, earthquake, 6,000 lost; May 27. 1830. Calabria, earthquake, 10,000 lost; year 1857. Island of Krakatoa. volcanic erup tion. 36,380 lives lost: May 27, 1883. Eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, it killed; year 1880. iKle of Ischla, earthquake, 2,000 lost; year 1883. Charleston, S. C, earthquake, 41 lives lost ; August 31, 1886. Randalsan, volcanic eruption 1,000 killed. July, 1888. Island of Hondo, Japan, earthquake. lO.noo killed; October. 1831. Venezuela, earthquake. 3,000 killed; April 24, 1891 Gautemaia. earthquake, great loss of life; April. 1202. St, Pierre. Martinique. Mont Pelee. May. 1902; loss of life, 40.000. Vesuvlan towns destroyea by erup tion of volcano, April, 1906; 400 o more killed. San Francisco, April 18, 1306. earth quake, followed by fire. LAIISG C08HERST03E. Impressive Ceremony Incident to Construction of New Capi tol Buildings. President Roosevelt asd fpeaker Cannon, Both Masons, Are Princi pal Actor $10,000,000 for Sen ate and House. tirien PrMent T?nr9vMt on Anrtl 14th, laid the cornerstone ol the new office building for the House of Repre sentatives, it marked the beginning of Improvements on Capitol Hill which will make that section of V asblngton comparable with the ancient hills of Rome and Greece crowned with mag nificent buildings in which met the scions of ages past. This new building occupies a square and is about a hundred yards distant j from the effect of the Capitol itstlf. The eiterlor design for the bulldinjs Is classic, suggesting in Its general ill vlsioa of parts the Garde Meuble in the Place de la Concorde. Paris, while the pavilions are modeled on those of tfie Colonnade de Louvre. Architecturally the front Is divided into two parts th lower corresponding to the nrst story of the bul!ding constituting a "rusti cated" base, on which, extending through the second and third stories, is the colonnade surmounted Dy its entablature and balustrade. It is be lieved that the effect of the two tank ing buildings will be to give unity to the whole scheme and to emphasize architecturally the great beauty of the Capitol, ail of the lines leading up to and centering in Us dome. x Work Progresslnj RapLfly. Although the digging of the trenches for the House office building waa be gun less than a year ago, tne structure is now op to the first floor line. To hasten the work Elliott woods, super intendent of the Capitol, directed that construction begin before all the speci fications and contracts were complete. This was done through letting out the stone contract first, by authority of the House Building Commission. It is cal culated that both buildings will be ready for the Sixtieth Congress. In accordance with Masonic tradi tions, the ceremony was conducted in the open air, ia a simple, unostenta tious manner. In every detail It corre sponded as nearly as practicable with the historic ceremony In which Presi dent Washington participated. Tha articles placed in the cornerstone were largely identical In character with those deposited in the original Capi tol stone by Federal Lodge, and. as both President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon are members of the Masonic order, the occasion la every way har monized with the spirit of the cere mony directed by the Virginia Jurisdic tion in laying the cornerstone of the ' CapltoL TUE SURGERY OF THE AN CIENTS. What is known to modern dentists as bridge work was familiar to the Etruscans, as extant specimens attest, according to an interesting article in the British Medical Journal. Plaster ears, noses and Hps were common among the Indians, where the cutting off of these features was a punishment much In use, and Greek and Roman veterans who had lost a leg or an arm In war tried to make good the de ficiency by artificial substitutes. It is stated further: "What is said to be the oldest artift clal leg in existence is now in the mu seum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It was found in a tomb at Capua. Pliny speaks of a Roman warrior who, a century and a half be fore the birth of Christ wore an arti manipulate a sword. In the Middle Ages - artificial limbs sometimes re paired the disablements of war. The 'Iron hand' of Goets von Berlichingen was an ingenious piece of mechanism made for that famous knight in 1504, A century later an artificial hand was PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. from the south wing of the Capitol, with which it is to be connected by an underground passageway, through which members of Congress may pass back and forth from the legislative hall to their offices. There are 410 office rooms, providing a room for each Representative In Congress and .Dele gate, and leaving vacant nineteen rooms for a future growth in tho mem bership of the House through a reap portionment of districts or tho admis. slon of new States. The House annex and the Senate office building, also under construction at the opposite end of the plaza, are being put up to pro vide for the members of the National Legislature, quarters absolutely needed for the efficient transaction of puDiic business. The great growth In size of both branches of Congress has caused the Capitol building to be en larged, but this was only sufficient to prorlde the necessary space for the assembly halls of House and Senate and the committee rooms, the latter in many cases being Bmall and badly ventilated. Under present conditions individual members (unless they hap pen to be chairmen of committees) have no offices and a badly congested condition exists. Realizing the need of one great legislative centre where Senators and Representatives may concentrate their activities and be comfortably quartered. Congress three years ago authorized the construction r if - I 7 V ; njvlil I f ' f t t I l I li ; ! THE-CAPITOL PLAZA AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN NEW BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETED. China of a place in one of the corps of engineers organized by that country for tho development of its railroad system. The offer came, too, from a young uninaman wno was taking a graduate course at Cornell while she was there. The graduate student was sent hero, it is said, not only to in crease his technical knowledge of en gineering, but to obtain for his coun try the best engineers to be had. He watched Miss Blatch's work closely and offered hor a place. An ostrich egg weighs about three and a half pounds. It is less delicate in flavor than a hen's egg, although perfectly eatable. It is a curious fact tuat ooiilcu eg 88 will keep irebU tor two or three months. The flesh of the ostrich Itself is edible, feeing sot unlike veal in flavor. are never caused by volcanoes, but by faulting plains. This is particularly true of both seaboards 'of the United States. Mr. Walcott and other scien tists of the Geological and Geodetic Surveys agree that scientifically the recent disturbances were caused by conditions identical with those pertain ing during the earthquake which de molished Charleston, S. C, on August 31, 1886. Volcanoes occasionally cause shaking of the earth's crust, but the disturbances occasioned 'by pent-up gasos socking to escape aro felt only locally. , The cause generally attributed to earthquakes is the gradual cooling of the earth, which is known to still bo a UiuKeu tuttus iusido. Wiion any object cools It contracts, and so will the earth as it grows colder. This contraction would unavoidably cause a disturbance, worn by Christian, Duke of Brunswick. ! Ambrose Pare dovised artificial limbs with movable Joints,, which were made for him by artificers, of whom Lor raine, a locksmith, was the most famous. Pare devotes a special chap ter to the mean of repairing or sup plying natural or accidental defects in the human body. He describes ar tificial eyes and noses, an artificial tongue and an artificial palate. At a later period Father Sebastian, Car melite monk, made movable arms and hands, la the earlier part of the sev onteenth century Peter Lowe, In his 'Discourses on the Whole Art of Chlrurgery,' gives representations of artificial legs. About the middle of the same century Faicineill, a Floren tine surgeon, mentions the use of ar tificial eyes of silver, gold and crystal painted In various colors. of the House and Senate office buildings. Senate Ceremony Next Fall. The House annex was started first and is in a more advanced stage of construction than the Senate building, though the cornerstone of the latter may be ready to put In place next Fail It is estimated that the two buildings together will Involve n outlay of about ten million dollars. In size and design they are Identical; they occupy positions balanced in their relation to the Capitol and are planned to fit into a general architectural Bcheme. The height of the buildings has been re stricted that they may not overpower the.capltoi, and they have neen Kept simple la design, wunout pediments domes or other accentuated points to prevent their detracting in any way let this "1900" Gravity Washing Machine do your Washing Free. A mmm enww,!caUed Gravity, helps run thtt fthtnt machine. By brnwwlng thla POWtt, W mak tt work tot powvr takM bold tod doe tLbanlat pvt. UM II maXM uua macuuM wra ubw mm mmj m ftwlt WQMl dOM. TWitT. ion know. Is what maksa itPM rou down hllL . . . ...... Tbi mxesin dm inn own mrvnieu ana wv cau tttha "lSu" GraTiiyWaher. . 1 Dra ar aiaia on we in.iae oonon oi m too, ThitataactaaDadrilea. to awtna lha water In tht aune direction you reTolre the tub. You turow uie aouea ctotoee into tne mo nm. Then yoa tbroweuoufh watec over tU clotbee (a float them. . . 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