The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-12


to many of our citizens. The article
or whatever it was-so safely o,
, sconced in the many swaddling eiotbe,
l could only admire that. Indeed tb
ring is worth all that trouble. tbouoh
l later, when / knew why.
Wen, what do you see on tina
stoneY1 A face do I sees" I say
Yes, it's a face, profile of beauti
ful girl or woman, most exauisitel,
formed, too. Here the beautiful fore
head, there the rich, flowing hair-sim
! ply all that graces a beautiful face o.
a young woman" With these words
looked up away from the stone. but 70,
an instantaneous moment. and Wei
what happened to the picture? Wber,
is the lady7 How can she have meta
morphosed into a man in the full rim.
years of his age? Why, there is most
undoubtedly a beard, gracefully flow
| ing from the chin, and surely-the
mustache is not wanting! Well. that is
wonderful enough! This certainly is a
curiosity, the best one I have ever
seen, for it seems natural, yes, it is ma
turai, 1T cannot be but natural, as it is
impossible for it to have been arti-
ficlally made on such miniature scale.
still greater surprise awaited me.
For, all at once, like a flash of light
ming, L recognized in the second face
that of Christ, just exactly as he is
generally represented by the artists
Clearing striking resemblance to
Holman s picture "Christ in Gethse-
name y, and soon, seeing again in the
stone the first face, that of a young
lady, | as readily recognized in it the
face of Mary, His Blessed Mother, Just
as she is generally represented in pro-
file, where some joyful mystery is to be
expressed.
But where in the world did you get
that stone? For there is no doubt that
that picture representing two distinct
faces and being so me and almost mi
croscopically perfect, and of such
small compass, could not have been
made artifcially. It's no cameo. and
it is not intaglio, that is quite evident;
the stone simply seems to have been
polished fiat to bring out the picture.
The stone was found in the rough
several years ago by Mr.. Grain, of
junction City, Ore, on frosty morn
ing as he was taking his accustomed
stroll. A beautifully colored pebble
caught his trained eye; being well
versed in mineralogy and an intense
lover of nature, he picked the gem up
and, upon holding it to the light, there |
what seemed to him to be the |
outline of head and face He carried |
his new-found treasure home, and some
lime later sent it to lapidary to have
t polished. When it was returned to
Tim with its rough surface removed,
he features described herein were
'osite-a miracle of design wrought by
nature.
The present owner having once seen,
coveted the stone and was assiduous in
is efforts to gain possession of it.
after some three years he succeeded,
nd now holds it as his most valued
ossession, an heirloom to be handed
own from one generation to another.
While travelling through the eastern
Iates, Mr. Moffett showed the stone to
lr. George f. Kunz, the great gem ex-
ert of Tiffany & Co., who, after a
ritical examination, pronounced it a
larvelous stone. In Washington, d.
:, the stone was shown TO Mr.. Richard
athbun, Assistant Secretary, and Writ
ASSN, curator, of the Smithsonian In .
tuition, and they agreed that it was ;
lie of the most remarkable stones of
5 kind in the world s history.
The chalcedony is Biblical stone, to
hich is ascribed wonderful virtues
mong the ancients it was held in par n
.ular veneration, and, when worn, &
as said to protect the person against .
olence and to be a cure for melan- :
oily. 1t is really very remarkable
one For, how such a picture bear
g such a likeness of such person as
rist can, or rather could, have nat I
ally existed within little pebble
at was found on Oregon Is soil, and
w such a picture can at the same
ne, by merely turning the eyes away
I'M it for an instant, be rechanged | -
to that other picture, so essentially
all its features the very opposite of
the one of an ideal manliness, the
her of transcendent beauty, both so
rikingly similar to the universallyl
proved types OF Christ and Mary
at s what | cannot understand. Is it
mere accidenta Is it mere play of
ture2 Does Nature ever play at all? -
there somebody else behind the
ng we call Nature? Is NatHke blind
her workings, or is there a master
nd behind herr Is there real acct
at, play, a humor, freak, within
be found in Nature, that once in I'M
d ages capriciously produced an ar
tic handiwork of man, without
N 70 int1rfaro,1ao9
This picture is not the product of the
Usher, for the latter did nothing +
re but simply remove the stony ven U
It hid the picture, by grinding off
superfuous part of the stone. This
apostle picture was developed in it
urally untold ages ago, when the =
ca precipitated from its solution in
aline waters.
n any case, it is marvellous, com -
lite miniature in stone.
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