The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 24, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
JOKKS ON THK PlIiLir.
Some of the .'lever Hoaves Amen- }
cans Have Fallen For.
About a year ago there died in Kel- i
vin. Ark., a traveling salesman. Jo-; ''
^ MnlViottan n-hn fOnfpiVPfl a i '
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hoax and fooled many editors, arous- j '
ed the negroes of the North and South (
and amused a nation, says the New ; 1
York Press. .Mulhattan originated!
the story that monkeys were to sup-i 1
plant the negro cotton packers. 1
.Mulhattan told the story so often *
that his earnestness made some newspaper
men who printed the story J
think that it was possible. He figur- a
ed it out on paper as a paying invest- 1
ment. The monkeys, of course, would a
receive no wages, so that on the face 1
of it much would be saved in the 1
cost of picking the crop. Then. too. 1
the monkeys would increase rapidly. ^
For a time the story that monkeys ^
would supplant negroes in picking s
cotton was believed, particularly as 1
the experiment "was being tried on
a Louisiana plantation." The address t]
of the plantation, however, was so 8
vague no one was able to locate it. s
Barnum loved to fool the people. *
A rival showman obtained a white 1
*
elephant. Barnum by telegraph tried 1
to obtain it and offered a huge sum. c
The owner of the real white elephant
/. used Barnum's telegram as a news- c
paper advertisement and poster, ^
ri
- . which made Barnum the more eager
to get the animal. Failing in getting s
the white elephant, he cabled all over 0
# the world to get one. Then he re- a
sorted to subterfuge. He bleach?.a h
an ordinary elephant, and did it so
well that he not only fooled the peo- s
pie who came to see it, but also a *
learned body of scientists, who gave ?
him a testimonial to the effect that 0
it was a genuine albino elephant.
Another Barnum hoax was the t:
giant of Cardiff, which was really a
a hoax of hoax. Barnum failed in getting
the real giant of Cardiff, but ^
that did not deter him from showing
the "original."
George Hull, of Binghampton, X.
Y., and the Rev. Mr. Turk, of Ackley, p
Ohio, got into a dispute about giants.
Probably it came about through a
discussion of a giant that Hull had
in front of his tobacco shop. It may j,
have come through an interpretation a
of the text, "And there were giants in
those days." No one is alive who ^
5
recollects the original dispute, so that e
One 6tory is as good as another as to q
how the hoax began.'
Hull spent two years in the study
of fossil remains and archaeology. r
Finally he got a slab of stone 12 feet j(
long, 4 feet broad, 22 inches thick a
and had it carved according to speci- w
fications. t]
Mr. Hull very cleverly had the w
giant carved so that there might be p
a question, or a difference of opin- =
ion, as to whether it was a fossil or a e
prehistoric sculture. The "giant" f
was rubbed, scrubbed, bathed, washed e
and pricked with pores, an acid was t
used that would take off the look of 1<
Chicago and modernity. v <;
Finally it was shipped, buried on a t!
farm of a relative of Hull and "dis- g
covered" by men digging a well. The b
digging of the well was plausible h
enough. Delegations came from all b
over the country, including both a
learned men and curiosity seekers. T
So great was the procession that it e
Decame quue promauic, <auu uuou< n
it attracted Barnum's attention. He o
had failed to get the Cardiff giant,
but it did not take him two years to a
have a replica of it in his museum, o
Newspapers have not been above n
- , hoaxing the public. n
One newspaper in New York be- F
lieved the old managerie cages in b
Central park were not sufficiently s
strong. It conceived a tale of the
lions, tigers, leopards and other ani- t<
mals breaking out and killing and in- p
juring people, and printed pages b
about it. e
No story of hoaxes is complete un- g
less New York's well known joker is r
mentioned. He is Brian G. Hughes, k
and he has perpetrated more than a ti
dozen jokes that have made the me- g
tropolis chuckle. To perpetrate v
these hoaxes has cost him much v
r>A nnQ 1.
JUUIIfY , UUt lil cii i VI iii? uaac uv uuv i(
has ever suffered particularly.
Probably his best known exploit, t
because it was so successful, was the t
career of his torn cat Nicodemus, a t
tenement house cat he purchased for s
10 cents, and which he advertised as v
the $2,000 cat, "not for sale." In its u
class. Nicodemus carried off first prize s
at the show in Madison Square Gar- ii
den. t
When Hughes decided to enter his
cat, which he termed his "Dublin h
brindle cat Nicodemus," which he ii
"valued at $2,000," he inquired "if p
mere wouia De any oojecuon, oe- u
cause of its value, to having it cared a
for during the show, by its regular h
attendant." There was no objection,
and when the show opened a negro, g
probably Sam Smith, who had taken ii
part in a number of his hoaxes, ap- a
peared in a gorgeous livery. During t(
the time that there was a crowd in p
front of Xicodemus. Smith looked out i a
carefully for the smallest comfort of n
the animal. Y
A well known florist sent flowers +
't ,.
TAl*?HT MANY FAMOUS MKX.
?ch??oIiiia*ain Has Trained the Youth;
for Half Century.
Sarah E. Hall, of .Main street. Kal
unazoo, doesn't claim the honor o;
jeing the oldest school teacher in tht
state. Mrs. Hall is remarkably fret
jf personal claims, being a niosi
nodest and retiring little old lady.
She is interesting because there is
jrobably not a better known or beter
loved schoolma'am in the United
States.
More than thirty-five years ago ?
oung scion of the Smiley family, unible
to master a word of two syllajles,
shortened "Sarah" to "Salt.'
md "Sah" she has been ever sinct
o all her intimate friends and relaives.
"Sah" began teaching school
n the provincial little red school
louse among the hills of New. York
Itate nearly a half century ago, and
he has taught, with but one short
utermission, continuously ever since.
For years "Sah" has been an enlusiastic
bicyclist, riding to and from
chool in all kinds of weather and
easons. Last fall the citizens of
Zalamazoo were startled to observe
his sedate little old lady guiding a
UI1 grown automooue mrougn me
rowded main street with all the condence
and skill of a grown young
hauffeur. "Sail" owns a summer
ome on the shores of Gull Lake,
here 6he spends her vacations when
he is not visiting relatives. She
wns considerable real estate in Kalmazoo,
which she has paid for from
er savings.
Among her pupils are numbered
ome of the most prominent men in
lichigan and the country. James
heridan, noted Chicago lawyer, is
ne. Frank A Stuart, dyspepsia remdy
manufacturer; Ned Wayburn,
heatrical producer of New York city,
nd Eugene Van Dusen,. for many
ears manager of the Academy of
Iusic in New York city, are others.
-Detroit News.
PALATE MADE FROM XOSE.
Remarkable Operation Performed on
Child of Eleven.
Born eleven years ago with what
s known as a ^left palate, without
roof to his mouth, and which afscted
his speech, Robt. Simpson was
iven relief by an operation performd
in the Frances Willard hospital,
Chicago.
Surgeons formed a palate by cuting
out tissues from behind the nose,
einforced by a temporary plate of
;ad. It is believed that new tissues
nd membrane will form at points
:here the transfer was made, and
bat the patienf will be able to talk
ithout impediment.?Columbus Disatch.
very day; a celebrated caterer
urnished the meals, at least the boxs
and baskets so indicated. Spectaors
6pent many minutes reading the
5ng pedigree of Nicodemus. When
he judges looked over the flowers,
he manicure set, the impressive nero
and the pedigree, Nicodemus
linked at a blue ribbon attached to
'? aoo-o A n A thon cnmo.
id " V, u^t-. AUU V UVU wwuiv
ody whispered it to the newspapers,
nd Hughes and New York chuckled,
'he flowers came from a much cheapr
place than the box indicated; the
ood was the scraps from the lunches
f his employes.
During the holiday time, to tell
nother of Mr. Hughes's hoaxes, at
ne of Broadway's most crowded corers,
he had driven down Fifth aveue
to where the avenue intersected
(roadway, in a well appointed
rougham. At a leading jewelry
tore the driver stopped.
A handsomely dressed woman enered
the jewelry house and reapeared
a little later. She carried a
U.\. Iieguv iu aiuai 1.1j ? c? * iv/nv?
d immediately behind her. The nero
was Sam Smith. Suddenly a man
ushing madly along the sidewalk
nocked the box from her hands and
ipped a tray Sam Smith carried. The
irl screamed and jumped into the
ehicle. the negro leaped for a seat
.*ith the driver and the horses were
ashed into a mad gallop.
The inference was that she was
he woman member of a gang of
hieves. the negro was a stall and
he man rushing down the street
poiled the game. But whether they
.'ere thieves or not, it had its effect
pon the scruples of the crowd. Bytanders
dashed here and there, pickig
up the gems and thetfolice had
o turn in a riot call.
When the sergeant in charge forced
is way into the jewelry store he was
iformed that the young woman had
urchased nothing, and the store deectives
were sure that she had not
ppropriated anything. The negro
ad remainep at the doorway.
Coming out of tlie shop the sereant
saw Hughes, nonchantlv smokig
a cigar. He caught the hoax in
moment and gave orders to his men
o* "clear the street." The jewels
icked up hy the crowd were glass
nd paste, mounted on brass. The
ewspapers next morning told how
lughes had put "another one over."
-Exchange.
EFFECTS OF FOISO.V GASKS. I I
? Gen. Stuart-Wortley Tolls of Victims' j
Agony.
J In a letter recently received in this1
f! city. Major General the Hon. Edward!
? Stuart-Wortley, commanding a Britj
| ish army corps in'France, describes
t' the horrors of death from the asphyxiating
gases used by the German
5 'troops. The strong expressions em.
ployed in the letter gain additional
I point from the fact that General
Stuart-Wortley was formerly on
l -terms of considerable intimacy with
. the kaiser, and when, a few sum.
mers ago, Emperor William was or*
dered by his physicians to spend sev?
eral weeks at the seashore in the
. South of England, the general placed
at his disposal .his country seat on
the hemisphere coast. General
Stuart-Wortley's letter follows:
"You will of course have read of
the fighting that has been going on
round Ypres ju6t lately, and of the
magnificent behavior of the Canadian
division. * * * In their attacks on
the Ypres salient the Germans made
use of asphyxiating gas. This gas is
disseminated both in shells and
Domos ana aisu lrum uyimucis, wmvu
are buried in the trenches with their
nozzles pushed through the parapets.
The taps of the cylinders are then
turned on, and the gas. which is, as
far as we know, chlorine, is pumped
out. The gas, which is heavier than
air, and which is blown by the wind
across our lines, sinks into our
trenches, and kills or incapacitates
any men who happen to be in them.
The effect of the gas can also be felt
as far back as five* or six miles and
produces headache and smarting of
the eyes.
"The German papers, as well as
falsely accusing us of making use of
poisonous fumes, apparently defend
their conduct by stating that the dissemination
of this gas results in a
swift and painless death for those
with whom it comes in contact, and
consequently is less barbarous than
subjecting men to an inferno of shellfiro
from which great physical and
mental torture must necessarily be
endured.
"I am sure the public cannot have
as yet the slightest idea of this last
damnable effort on the part of the
Germans to disregard all laws of humanity
and civilization.
"I have seen our men in hospitals
after having been brought back from
the trenches. There is no need to ask I
for the ward in which they are, as I
their groaning is quite sufficient a di- I
rection of itself. In one ward there I
are 18 cases. They are all sitting (
bolt upright, or swaying backward and
forward, gasping for breath: |
their faces, hands, and necks a shiny I
gray-black color, their eyes glazed,
and unable absolutely to speak or
eat.
"It takes two days for these men
to die. During these two days they
are in the most acute agony, and if
by the slightest chance they recover A
from the poison, they will in all C
probability be rendered useless for
life, as the effect of the gas is to
turn all the tissues of the lung into
liquid. The doctors and nurses are _
working day and night in the at- *
tempt to give some relief. Burt there I
is nothing to be done. It is the most
hopeless, helpless, sickening sight ^
imaginable. Our chief medical of- ficer,
who has had a very large ex- )
perience of the habits of Africans *
and Asiatic natives, tells us that in __
all his life he has never had to deal
with such an example of scientific
torture.
"At first I was inclined to disbe
I Iieve the accounts of the ill-treatment I
! of our prisoners at the hands of the
enernv and to put them down to the
inevitable exaggerations of warfare.
| hut now that I have come face to
face with German methods in the
field, my opinions have undergone a ?
gradual hut permanent change."? I
New York World.
Fish Were Drowned, Not Poisoned.
The following remarkable story g
contained in a New York special, will
be of inteiest to our readers: O"
As chemist and bacteriologist of ^
the water department, Thos. W. Melia
has decided officially that the recent
deaths of about 200 carp and
a few perch in Kissena Lake. Flushing,
L. I., were caused by drowning.
When the fish were found floating
on the lake there were sensational
reports that they had been poisoned.
Then a subtle humorist suggested
they had committed suicide.
But upon a thorough investigation
Mr. Melia discovered no foreign ele- ]
meni mai wouia nave causea me
deaths. He learned that in a lake
in New Jersey in 1906 there prevailed
conditions like those that confront
the Queens park department, p
The fish in the New Jersey lake died Si
from no apparent cause. Experiments
were conducted and it was
found that the annual changes in
the water, known as "the lake
bloom.' caused by sudden changes in T
the temperature, absorbed all the T
| oxygen in the water and the fish w
I were actually drowned. q
j Mr. Melia found that a similar T
j condition existed in Kissena lake.
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