Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — (To be continued.) [ARTICLE]

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NATURE A CLEVER SCULPTOR. Stone Found In Oregon Which Bore a Beautiful Face of a Jewish Cast. A perfect face of a delicate Jewish cast was discovered in a small stone about as large around as a 10-cent piece, found lying on the railroad grade near Junction City, Ore. Not only are the brow, hair, beard and beautiful aquiline nose perfectly shaped and distinct on the stone, but the neck and shoulders are vignetted off into the delicate agate-like tracery of the background, as it would have been done by an artist. Not only is the face as delicately beautiful in line as one stamped upon a Greek coin of the reign of Alexander, but in this stone are reproduced the colors of life. The face is white, with a blending of flesh tones, growing deeper In the shadows of the neck and shoulders. The hair in the dark shadow at the back is a rich auburn, just the color associated most often with the ascetic Jewish type, to which the whole face belongs. It is, perhaps, the strangest part of this extraordinary coincidence of forms that each feature, from the cavernous eye and delicate hollowed cheek, to the high, narrow brow and wavy auburn hair, is in accord with a familiar type of the Christ. In this respect the Oregon stone is infinitely superior as a work of nature’s art to the “Stone Man of Sorrows.” This head, in a stone a little larger than the recent discovery, was picked np at Oberammergau as a mere casual memento of the spot, because of its association with the passion play, and eight years afterward, being held in a certain position, was seen to reveal the face that was somewhat sentimentally supposed to resemble the face of Christ.—Boston Transcript.