Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-05
MONK PAINTS GREAT PICTURE
Last Supper is the Subject and WOr'
Wins Praise.
HEROIC DEATH OF A MISSIONARY
Andrew Carnegie Notifies the RE-
cipients of One of His Libraries
that lie Doesn't ThinlS Well
of His bargain.

LONDON, Nov. "A press view has
been given OF the heroic size Last
supper" painted by Father Ephrem
Hickey. a monk of The Friary. Forest
Gate. The picture, which has been
finished after eighteen months work,
measures 5l5 feet by Il feet, and is des-
tined for the refectory Of the Franciscan
Monastery at Chilworth, near Guilford
In the general composition, Father
Hickey has followed the lines of a Last
Supper" by Domenico Ghirlandajo In the
church of Ogni Santi belonging to the
Franciscan order in Florence, but all of
the various figures in the painting were
posed for by residents in the nelghbor-
hood Of the Friary. among whom were a
number of well known Londoners.
Father Hickey is not unknown to the
art world, having had a picture accepted
by the Academy in 1907. His Last
supper is an exercise in darlngly bright
yet perfectly harmonious color. and is
admirably adapted to the purpose OF
decorating a large room and to suffer
the effects of time without becoming
gloomy.
Missionary Dies HerOlcalIy.
Davis, an American seventh-Day Ad-
ventist missionary, reported to have been
poisoned by the natives on the Brazilian
frontier, have been received here, and,
according to them, the missionary died
q natural death after heroic struggle
against fever.
The truth of the fate of the missionary
was learned by an expedition dispatched
for that purpose by G. Diuklago gold
prospector. The party reports that
Elder Davis was stricken with fever
during the course of a difficult journey
which he had undertaken through the
hlnterland. The party brought back the
deceased's belongings. including a diary
which he had kept until he was too weak
to hold the pen any longer. The diary
tells thrilling and pathetic story. Ac
cording TO the diary, his missionary tour
began afnder the most favorable auspices,
the Indians receiving him with such cor
diality that he soon succeeded in found
ing three mission settlements.
In the midst OF his success, he was
stricken with fever The last entry in
the diary was dated June %, and the
died July 8. Evidently realizing that the
end was approaching. Mr.. Davis on June
%, dictated to a companion words to the
effect that his death was due to fever
and that there was no shadow or trace OF
''kenatma" or 'paiman" work during his
whole journey, thus clearing the natives
of all suspicion of having brought on his
death.
Laird of Sl1ibo Dissatisfied.
Judging from letter which Miss
hurry, the librarian @of the new Car
~,
received from his secretary, the donor of
the building Is not Satisfied that he has
gotten $4,000 worth OF satisfaction from
his gift.
The letter sent from SlSbo Castle reads
as follows: yours of July 10 received
with fotografs' of the library, for which
Mr.. Carnegie is obliged VIII you kindly
send plans showing the accommodation?
The 'bllding.' as it appears from the TO
tografs,' does not appear much Of a re-
turn for $S5,OOO."
Immediately on receipt of the letter. a
meeting of the library committee was
held. and 1t was decided to forward to
Mr.. Carnegie a detailed statement show
ing how the money was spent. In sup
plying the committee with this, L. p.
Hodge, who supervised the building oper-
atoms on behalf of the government
stated that the building was the cheapest
two-story fireproof affair of any struc-
tural pretensions in Georgetown.
The building is not very imposing eS-
teTforally but It is we'll built and ade-
quately equipped. The institution is
serving the purpose for which 1t was
established and is being generously pat
ronized by tho people of Georgetown.
That the age of man is no less than
fa aa 3HaN L
w. Allen Surge, NJ. V. O., who is presi-
dent of the Prehistoric Society of East
Anglia, concludes from studies based
largely on the Neolithic flint instru-
ments found in North West Suffolk. He
says: "Neolithic man goes back to some
period between 100000 and 100000 years,
and it would seem that we have not even
then reached the beginning OF the period.
Drift man was flourishing from 1000 900
years to about 100000 years ago. Neither
figure is a limit; the later figure is prob
ably nearer a limit than the earlier Be-
tween the end of the Drift and the begin
ming of the Neolthic we have the great
Cave periods, which would thus seem
TO have occupied anything from 10000 to
100000 years, Behind Drift man are vast
ages of which we are only beginning to
get the first glmpses. But it now seems
evident that man was already on earth
in early Pliocene times, and we must not
be surprised II proofs are. ultimately
brought forward that genus homo goes
bar' even further than that. 1t has be-
.ie almost a shibboeth that man first
appeared in Pleisocene times, but I at
firm that 1t is no more than shlbboleth.'
DR. Sturges has found flint instruments
which he. contends. were scratched by
glacial action. That glacial period has
occurred since human instruments OF
Neolithic types were made is against all
views OF glacial geology. Since Neolithic
man came to Britain, the doctor holds,
there has been an fee age, not continuous.
but divided into suBperiods of glaciation.