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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-30
MADNESS Comes

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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-30
SPRING
/ Medicine

,,ood in Spring is almost certain to
w Of impurities-the accumula-
u't tho winter months. Bad ven
y, If sleeping rooms, impure air
'nOu limos factories and shops, over
heavy improper foods, failure
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a utmost importance that you
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-04-30

''What do you think of this previous
existence theory? [ know it to be sup
ported by facts. For instance, | know ;
woman only y years old who Otter
thoughtlessly tells about things that hap
pened thirty-fve years ago '-Tid-Bits
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-15

the wear and tear of Thousand years,
and 1t com bines in its entire makeup
the best results of scientific engineering
the latest mechanical apparatus. time
saving conveniences, special devices, in
genious inventions and superb appoint
ments.
A marble inscription above the princi-
pal arch in the entrance hall tells the
structural history of the building in this
sentence:
Erected under the acts of Congress
OF April 10, 1885. October 2, 1883, and
March 2, 1889,
By Brigadier Gen. Thomas Lincoln
Casey,
Chief of Engineers, y. s. A.
Bernard K. Green, superintendent and
Engineer
John L. Smithmsyer, Architect
Paul ]. Pelz Architect.
Edward Pearce Casey, Architect.
In the mind of the public at large this
roll of honor should be supplemented
by another, bearing the names of the
American artists who have enriched the
interior thus.
Painters-Edwin Il. Blashfield, New
York; George ". Maynard, Now York
Charles Spragus Pearse, Auvers-sur-O Disc,
France; Elihu Veider, Rome; Kenyon
Cox, New York; William L. Dodge,
Paris; Robert L. Dodge, New York
Frederick Deiman, New York; Walter
McEwen, Paris; Carl Guther, Paris
Carl Me ichers, Paris; Walter Shirlaw,
New York; &. C. Benson; Boston; W. B.
Van Ineen. New York; John W. Alex.
ander, Paris; Edward Simmons, New
York; a. g. Walker, Now York; j. W.
Barse, Now York; Robert Reed, New
York; F. c. Martin, New York; William
A. Mackay, New York. and Elmer r.
Garnsey, New York.
Soulptors-Frederick MaoMonnies,
Paris; Augustus st. Gaudens, New York
Louis St. Gaudens, New York; Daniel
c. French, New York; Bella L. Pratt.
Boston; Philip Martwiny. New York
Paul W. Bartlett, Paris; c. e. Dallin,
Boston; John J. Boyle, Philadelphia; b.
W. Rukstunl, New York; Theodore
Baur, New York; George Bissel, POUCH
ksepsie. n. Y DIN T.. Warner, New
York; Charles H. Niebaus, New York
John Donoghue, Paris; John Flanag an,
Paris; Herbert Adams, Brooklyn; George
Barnard, New York; J. Scott Hartley
New York; r. Hinton Perry, New York;
]. O. A. Ward, New York; Henry j.
Ellicott Washington; William Il. Boyd,
Washington; Edward G. Potter, Enfield,
Mass, and Albert Weinert, New York.
ORIGINAL DIFFICULTIES SUR
MOUNTED.
Originally it did not seem possible to
carry out any elaborate scheme OF decor
alton, the question, of expense and OF
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-15
THE GRAND STAIR HALL.

But the supreme architectural and ar
t'stfo features Of The interior in form and
color are the grand stair hall and the
rotunda. Upon them the artists have
expended their greatest labors, and in
them gained their greatest triumpha
The original notion of the stair hall is
derived from the type of grand stair
cases in the old Genoese palaces, embody-
ing the best thought and study Gen.
oess architscts during the most opulent
period of their city's civilization. 1t Is
three-story hall with arch piled upon
arch. and white italian marble columns
rising above marble piers. The ceiling
Ia seventy-two feet high, covered with
stained glass, and the ceiling of the en-
trance hall leading into the grand stair
hall is pure white, infinitely indented
with golfers or panels treated in gold.
In the grand stair hall the spandrels are
adorned with intricate stuoco work treat
ed in harmony with the marble beneath,
and the richly gilded medallions on the
brackets or consoles. On the brackets
supporting the beams occur sculptured
figures, and between the figures appear
affairs in low relief, topped with clusters
of electric lamps. The doubis marble
stafrcases are ornamsnted with twenty
six small figures of oupids, by Martiny,
carved in relief, symbolizing the various
arts aud sciences. The newly posts are
embossed with festoons of leaves and
flowers and carry two bronze lamp-b bear
ers, also by Martiny. On either side the
entrance Is a semi circular niche sur
mounted by shell and by carved infant
figures representing "The Races of
Mon, Z" with globe intervening. The
vault covering the second-story corridor
Is richly decorated in nbesque and COL
or, and above the columns Of the SEQ
ond STORY gallery are marble tab lets in
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(Slxteen to One)
What is meant by "sixteen to oneoP
Answer-That Congress shall declare
sixteen ounces of silver to be equal in
money value to one ounce OF gold.
Are sixteen ounces of silver worth as
much as one ounce of gold?
Answer-No: it takes about thirty -one
ounces of silver to equal in value one
| ounce Of gold.
| Can Congress alter this relative value
by Legislative fat? ..---a
| Answer-It cannot; the relative worth
| Of gold and silver is determined primar-
lily by the relative production of these
| two metals.
What is commercial ratio?
AnsWer-Commercial ratio is tho ratio
OF actual value, the rate at which gold
and silver can be exchanged.
Why has the price of silver fallen of
heavily since 1873?
Answer-Chiefy because Of It's in
alone this increased from 27,651. 600
ounces in 1873 to 66, 300, 600 ounces in
1892.
What is free silver coinage at 16 to l.?
4 Answer-The coinage by the mints,
without limit or restriction. of all the
silver offered for that purpose into dollars
containing sixteen times as many grains
OF silver as thsfs are grams of golu In
gold dollar
Would these be "honest dollars?
Answer-They would not Each dol
lar would contain only 90 cents worth Of
silver and would be stamped with a lie
on 1t face.
1 Why do silver dollar now in existence,
which contains IS cents worth OF silver.
pass on parity with gold?
Answer-Beoause the United States, by
pledging Itself to keep all its currency at
hnu h1il l~Ita
each paper dollar, ultimately exchanged
BILE for gold dollar.
Why would this not be the cease under
free coinage?
Answer-Because the enormous ip-
crease in the number Of silver dollars
would speedily make their REDEMPTION
in gold possible
Is it true that the suspension of free
coinage in 1878 has contracted the cur
rency and made money soarcerf
Answer-No; this statement is not
true. In 1878 the amount of money in
circulation per capita was $18 o.. In 81
the amount in circulation per capita \ as
$95 u.
What are leading gold standard ooun
tries?
Anwer-The United Sat IRA
Germany, Great Britain, liza Ar,
Hungary and Spain. Russia Jua.
paring'to so on gold basis.
Is any great, fully civilized o)unta
| a permanent silver basis.
| Answer-No; Mexico, Peru, Chin n
Japan are the leading silver standard
nations, and Japan, like Russia, is get
ting ready to adopt the gold standard
the universal monetary standard OF civil
ization.
Have wages generally depreciated IN
der the gold standard?
Answer-No; in the United States the
wages of workingmen were never SO high
in purchasing power as they were in
1892.
What has cheapened the price of farm
products.
| Answer-The same thing that has
cheapened manufactured produots-im-
proved facilities of production and tran
sportation and greatly enlarged output.
New York Advertiser.
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trance is of white italian marble; ita
communicating corridor is of Vermont
marble, a notified blue. The north cor
ridor is of pink Tennessee; the east corri-
dor Of Georgia, richly yeined black and
whits, and the south corridor of red and
white Champlain marble.
FIFTY DECORATED ROOMS.
Each Of the fifty separate rooms and
chambers, exclusive of the book reoepta-
clos, is decorated distipctiyely, In con-
fornlity with the purpose 1t is intended
to subserve. Each one merits detailed
description, but space here permits ref
erence only to the four most striking
One of these, "The Pavilion of the Seals''
at the northeast corner, ia a patriotic
conception, brilliantly presented. Here
Garnsey has had a long desired opportu-
nifty TO develop and display the artistic
possibilities OF the American flag, the
official seals of the United States and
certain other characteristic emblems OF
the government and country. In four
lunettes, painted by Van Ingen, are sug-
gested the eight executive Department.
State, War, Navy, Treasury, Justice. In
terror, Post Office and Agrioulture-by
mature female figures clothed in sump-
tuous robes, attended and supported by
youthful figures. Each Of the larger
figures holds a shield, wherein Ia in
scribed the seal of the departments repre-
sented, and the insign mia and allegorioal
attributes pertaining to that department.
The center of each lunette ia occupied
by circle bearing appropriate inscrip-
tions quoted from the uttsranoes of
American statesmen and patriots, from
Washington to Grant. On the ceiling, in
circle II feet in diameter, Garnsey has
exhibited the great seal Of the United
States, surrounded by circle of forty
eight stars, emblematical Of the States
and Territories of the Union togeth
with garlands of fruit, suggesting the
different climatic sections of the country
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there are at least 300 throughout the fifty
rooms, aud of formal pieces of sculpture
and statuary an equal number, while the
stuoco wo ks and other architectural
ornaments are seemingly innumerablo.
And remarkable thing about it all,
considering it is a government building,
Is that everyone Of these 300 sculptures
everyone of these 300 pictures and every
one of these countless bits of architeo-
tural elaboration are consistent parts of
a single plan, all harmonizing with their
Surroundings and each other. and togeth-
or forming a homogeneous whole, adj
mirably adapted in every particular to
the distinctive architecture Of the build.
ing and to it's peculiar uses.
To accomplish this end the wide world
has been searched over and ransacked
for suggestions and suitable sub jects, sus.
ceptible of original treatment and inter-
probation for American eyes, and no less
than forty-seven of the most celebrated
American artists-exclusively Americans
-spulptors, painters, designers and dec
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-15

Religion, by Baur. Sixteen bronze por-
trait-statues of heroic size, ranged around
the gallery balustrade, delineate two REQ
ognizsd masters or expounders Of each of
the subjects represented by the CORE
spending ideal figures. Thus a statue of
Michael Angelo. by Bartlett, and a
STATUE OF Beethoven by Baur. represent
Art, embracing painting. sculpture and
music. Herodotus, by French, and Glib
bon, by Niehaus, represent History;
similarly, Plato and Bacon, by Boyle,
stand for Philosophy; Homer, by Louis
st. daudens, and Shakespeare, by Mac
Monnies, for Poetry; Scion, by Ruok-
stuhl, and Kent, by Bissell, for Law
Columbus, by BARTLETT, and Fulton, by
Potter, for Commerce.; and Moses, by
Niehaus, and St Paul, by Donoghue,
for Religion.
The chief plastic figures in the entab-
lature of the rotunda were modelled by
Martiny. The stucoo sculptures of the
whole interior of the dome and elsewhere
were modelled by Weinert, as chief model
or. In the rotunda also Flanagan Is
working upon large olock-piece eight
feet square, in dark marble and bronze;
composition comprising q clock-dial,
a figure of Father Time" and other
winged images, with oak foliage behind,
and the signs Of the zodiac on mosaic
background. The crown of the dome
and the crown of the lantern overhead
have been illuminated with large allegor-
ioal paintings by Blashfield, symholizing
The Human Understanding and Contri-
buttons to knowledge by Nations and
Ages.
Elsewhere in the building, besides all
the foregoing, an enormous amount of
general decoration in color as well as in
conventional and other designs has been
done by Garnsey, as chief decorator.
Bas-relisfs and largo medallions in stuo-
co, representing the Seasons, have been
executed by Pratt. Many other i'm port
ant decorative features in stucoo, ara
besque and mosaics OH floors ami vault
ing have been done from designs by Ed
ward p. Casey, different in each cham
ber or hall. And even the wide oorri-
doris on the basement floor are highly
finished, being enriched with finely
colored marbles. Thus the ground en-
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Paintings.
Che great Pantheon of American art,
as the new National Library in Washing
ton deserves to be called, is now rapidly
neaIing completion, says the Washington
Star, after seven years of uninterrupted
construction and decoration The keys
will be handed over to the librarian
Congress in February next, and the
wonderful structure will then become the
enduring repository of the 70O, 900 books
forming the pu blio collection of the
American people. But today, for all
practical purposes, its perfect character
already stands revealed in all It's beauty.
lacking only the last touches and ulti-
mate finish.
II it be true that the chief glory of q
nation is Its literature. and that one Of
the most precious heritages of people ia
q vast national library wherein j to litsra-
ture can find an adequate and permanent
home, then indeed, are the American
people fortunate, for in this building
they have not only a palace whose rooms
and spaces are devoted to the preservation
of the nations treasures, hut a temple
WHOSE very halls are dedicated to the
three allied fine arts of architecture,
sculpture and painting-an art gallery
that amply supplies. for the time, the
absence Of such an institution as sepa-
rate conventional establi shment.
IT HAS NO PARALLEL.
There is nothing comparable to it as an
artistic ediioe in ali this country, and
as a public library there is nothing in
Europe that approaches it. 1t outranks
in splendor and maenifcence, asDswell as
in size, all other structures of 1t kind on
the globe, although it's final cost will
fall within the aggregate appropriation
$6, $50, 600. And this pre-eminent dis
tinction is due not SO much to it's ex-
traordinary beauty of architecture as to
It's wealth of interior decoration.
Inside it is yeritable fairy land of
highest art--its halls aud chambers lit
orally filled, but not crowded., with
masterpieces of painting, sculpture, ar
chitectural ornament and mosaic and
stucco enrichment. OF set paintings
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the four winds, typified by masks; dol.
phins symbolizing our fisheries; Tyres,
tine me arts; torches, typical of
knowledge; the whole surrounded by a
scroll Inscription, containing the last
clause OF Abraham Linooln's peroration
at gettysburg battlefield The painted
figures In the lunettes range in color
from the deepest, richest red, Tyrian
purple, suffused rose, vivid NOISY green
and tawny yellow to lustrous white.
The prevailing color of the room is a
deep coppery gold, combined with ivory.
THE PoMPEIIAN ROOM.
Another striking creation by Garnsey
is The Pompeiian Room" in the north
west pavilion. Its general scheme closely
follows the decorative style affected by
the ancient Romans and brought to per-
lection In Pompeii until recently buried
under ashes from Vesuvius. While there
few years ago, Garnsey made careful
study OF the principles and examples of
that peculiar style, taking sketches,
measurements and analyses Of the prin-
ciples that governed those painters of
1000 years back and here he has en-
deavored to record and register the re-
suits OF his researches. The Pompeiian
red, which has become a concrete term,
Is NOS essentially one red. since many
different reds we're used in the decoration
OF Pompeiian palaces. But the red used
In this room, rich magenta, is proba-
bly, the most characteristic red found in
Pompeii. Upon this ground of Pompei-
ian red Garnsey has displayed brilliant
array of arabesque panels, pathological
and grotesque, chiefly in warm
white" color. The little dancing figures
in several instances are copies of figures
that may be seen today on the walls of
the Royal Museum at Naples, whittier
they were brought from Pompeii and
rescued from further deterioration by
weather and ioonoclasts. The oJher
figures are similarly designed and agree
with the original Pompeiian figures. In
the six arohed windows that light the
room appear the signs Of the zodiac de-
signed by Thompson, In the conventional
manner. while the many classical allu-
sions and motives serve still further to
enrich it's wall color and architectural
lines and spaces
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-15
A Mystery Explained.

Teddy Vanderchump came down toths
club the other night with great problem
weighing on his MIND. Coming up to the
boys he said:
"If stand on my head, the blood all
rushes to my head, doesn't itP''
No one Fentured to contradict him
"Now," he continued triumphant1y,
''when stand on my feet why don't the
blood all rush to my feets"
Because, replied Hostetter McGinnis,
"your feet are not empty"
The boys all laughed, but Vanderchump
said he didn't see any joke.-Texas Sitter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-15

band around the opening of the crowp.
IL this collar Blashfleld has painted his
series of symbolical pictures in finn
colors, and above them his kindred COM
airy, pellucid tints suggestive of the sky.
This illusion Of lightness in the dome
and this involuntary conduct of the eye
from the base to the zenith are both con-
summarized perfectly, although a like feaU
was probably never undertaken before.
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The Royal Worcester Corset Company is
distributing the following circular:
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orators, have been one or two years con-
oentrating their powers upon this work.
They have here achieved to degree tina.
the country as yet little appreciates In
new and modern forms and under fresh
inspiration, an astonishing triumph OF
strictly American art, expanding upon
liberalization their very best efforts,
with zeal and enthusiasm worthy alike
of their profession and their patriotism.
OF the result not only they but all their
fe How citizens. have reason to be i'm
measurably proud.
A PANTHEON OF CULTURE.
AS national place for books it is a
credit to the whole country, and espeo-
tally to its promoters, It's designers, Its
builders. it's decorators and to Congress,
which authorized it and supplied the
flu nds for 1t. AS pantheon of culture
1t il calculated to serve as a lasting object
lesson In art and will undou btedly exert
a strong educational influence in that
direction by elevating the standard OF
popular waste. 1T is built to withstand
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-15
AIlERICA'S PANTHEON.
The Congressional Library Building
Without a Modern Parallel.
FINEST TALENT OF THE NATION
SUMMONED TO THE WORK.

Magnificent Decorations and Scores of
y
Paintings
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"soMETHING TO THINK ABOUT"

A Catechism Which People Should
Learn.
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IN THE ROTUNDA

In the rotunda are eight gigantic fe-
male figures in stuoeo. One, IMPLYING
Art, Is by Augustus ST, Gaudens; anoth-
er History. il by French; still another,
Philosophy. is by Pratt; Poetry, ty
Adams; Science, by Donoghue; Law, by
Bartlett; Commeros, by Flanagan; and
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
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FIFTY CENTS.

The DAILY PKESS Is sent to anY
address by mail for so CENTS A
MONTH. 1t is delivered by carriers
in Portland and vicinity atthe same
rate
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dent1Ves, Oy reason or Its Isolation and
peculiar coloring, Is made to exercise a
positive influence on the eye and brain,
and supplies rest from previous color
Impressions and q new incentive to
further excursions into the closely WOW
en- harmony of which it Is a part.
CARRYING THE EYE UPWARD.
Then the eye, tracing it's way up still
higher, is carried unconsciously to the
great entablature whereon the dom 9
rests. A band of eagles bearing gar
lands, app caring against golden back
ground, fixes the attention; and
from this entablaturs the great dome
springs up into space, divided into eight
compartments or section by huge ribs
extending from the entablature to the
collar at the zenith. These spaces in
turn arc each divided Into eight rows of
five Golfers or panels each. making forty
panels in each division, or 1920 panels in
the whole vault, painted in various light
tones of ethereal blue and green, gradu-
ally diminishing in strength as they ap-
proaoh the zenith. Each panel. more
over, bears a large golden rosette in its
center, and each is bounded and aocen-
tuatsd by lines of harmonious and dis
tinotive color. By this means the blue
sky Is recalled in the vault of tho dome,
and thus the color as well as the line
carries the eye insensibly and irlasistibly
onward and upward to the point where
the figure decoration expands in great
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-12-10
Rhode opera House.

Manager Rhodes efforts to please the
theatre going public of Kenosha are
we'll worthy Of favorable comment,
which can only be repaid by the self
same public in giving his selected
plays the proper, generous patronage.
This is all he asks. That the gentle
man understands the wants of his pat
rons one is assured by the satisfied
countenances of them as they leave the
theatre. For next week he has secured
high standard organization known as
Harris Comedy Co., who will give a
repertoire of new and popular plays,
opening with the great English COM
edy, " The Lost Race" This clever
company has splendid repertory OF
plays and will present their best and
strongest ones on this occasion. What
is still the most worthy of note is the
fact that Manager Rhode has reduced
the prices to 10, 20 and SOC.
Ladies admitted free Monday night
with one paid Soc. ticket.