Arizona republican., 1909-07-08

] painting by Henry Ahl. Tn the shadow of the Cross," has puzzled all who have seen it on exhibition in the Swedish building at the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition.
 That there is no phosphorus or other radiating substance on the pie ture is attested by the foremost chemists of the country, who have analysed the paint.
 And yet it's light is wonderfully bright. That it might deceive the eye is possible, but it is impossible | that it could practice that deception on a photographic plate. A picture the most remarkable feat l that has ever been known to pho- tography, was taken of this radiatine wonder by it's own light at the eX- | position recently. The camera was placed with the picture in a room absolutely black with darkness. After eleven hours of this exposure to the rays from the painting, a perfect pho | tograph was obtained.
 A peculiar and unexplainable part of this experiment is that the features of the picture, which do not appear | to the eye when viewed in the dark are plainly seen in the photograph, while the shadow of a cross which does appear to the spectator, cannot be seen in the plate.
 Photographers agree that this is the most wonderful picture ever taken by a camera.
 The painting is owned by q Wash 1 ington. D. C., physician, who pur- | chased it from the artist for four hun dred dollars. It has been exhibited before over 4O0O.OOO people. It was given a gold medal at the St. Louis l exposition, which is a guarantee of it's genuineness.
 The artist in September, 1896, was returning to his studio late at night and noticed that the picture radiated light. Believing that the moOnbeams must be penetrating some crevice he examined further and discovered that the light came from the picture itself. The light from this painting of the divinity came from all parts of the painting except that a shadow of a cross was observed to be cast diag- onally across the shoulders The | artist refused to finish the painting. which was then three -fourths com pleted and it remains unchanged
 The light from the picture has never lost it's power in the fourteen years it has been on exhibition, and it is today as bright as the day the artist first noticed the peculiar phe- nomenOn.
 Prominent among the exhibits in the main government building at the ;. perfect working model of the steel floating dry dock Dewey" in the navy section. It is worked in con- junction with a model of the L. s. s. Illinois in a large tank filled with water.
 A demOnstratOr gives an excellent description of the method of docking and unlocking ships and of how the dock itself is repaired by being placed in certain of its own sections. The principal topics of interest con- corning the long trip of more than half the distance around the world to its present place of operations at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, are touched upon in an interesting man. ner.
 At the beginning of the demonstra- ton the Illinois is seen floating near the entrance of the dock. Then all of the operations are gone through with and explained, the entire dem onstration requiring from fifteen to twenty minutes.
 This exhibition affords an oppOr- tunity of observing the docking and unlocking of a ship where every oper- ation may be seen and every feature explained. It is proving of popular interest to both coast and inland resi- dents of the United States, and the visitor leaves well informed on one of the most important subjects per in proper condition to go into ser vice at any time.
 A reproduction in natural colored sugar of the state house at Honolulu, Hawaii. standing twenty-five feet high is to be seen in the Hawaiian building at the Seattle worlds fair.
 A chunk of coal weighing 2,7OO pounds is an exhibit in the mines building at the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition. It is from Washington state mine.
 So comprehensive is the exhibit of the fisheries department of the ma tiOnal government at the Seattle worlds fair, that the only thing left in the sea and not shown is McGinty in Davey Jones Locker
 "One pleasing feature about your exposition" said an Atlanta, Georgia, newspaper men in speaking of the Seattle worlds fair, ''is that there is no eXtortiOn permitted. There are prices to meet everyone's pocketbOOk."
 A complete history of our country may be gathered in short space of time from the papers and curios on exhibit in the state department at the Seattle worlds fair.
 Seven different car lines, a steam boat line and automobiles are em- ployed in carrying the crowds to and from the Seattle worlds fair.
 The spiritual and intellectual de- velopment of the great northwest is as fully exploited by the Alaska-Yu kon-Pacific exposition as is the com mercial and industrial growth.
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