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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
EQUALITY A DEAD FAILURE.
Negro Has Shown Himself Unnt for
the Suffrage.

the Suffrage.
London, Aug. 29.-Apparcntly in
spired by the native problem, which
is looming large in South Africa, the
Daily Telegraph this morning publish
es a significant editorial article on
the negro question, which it insists is
for the Anglo Saxon race a more Sc
rious and urgent problem than the
yellow danger"
The paper confesses that the ideals
which underlaid the emancipation
movement have quite failed of reali-
cation, that it has been proved
throughout the world that the negro
is incapable of working out his own
salvation. and that the theory of cleo
toral equality is a delusion mischiev-
Gus to both negroes and whites.
1.-The negro franchise in the South
ern states of America" says the pa
per, rs already farce. and its sup
preston in all but exceptional cases,
cannot, in all probability, be perma-
nently deferred"
In conclusion the article says:
What is to be the ultimate destiny
of the vast and multiplying black pop
ulation of South Africa? That is the
problem which looms behind every
other"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29

old we'll at Cardiff, by previous ar
rangement, the figure was subjected
to long and careful rubbing with sand
and water which produced the water
worn appearance so often cited as in
controvertible evidence of extreme an
tiquity The pores of the skin were
carefully initiated by picking the en-
tire surface with leaden hammers
faced with needles, giving the peculiar
goose flesh which puzzled so many.
As there still remained an appearance
of freshness the figure was given
sulphuric acid bath to give it the de-
sired appearance of age.
"A year afterward," the same pub
hcation says. ut was accidentally I'M
earthed by well dlggers. the arch en-
gineer of the hoax being given as Mr..
Hull, a Binghamton tobacconist. IL
had been carefully arranged and there
were many neighbors around to spread
abroad the news Of the extraordinary
f1nd of fossil remains. The crowd soon
swelled to thousands from all parts of
the neighboring country and on the
Following day four medical men of the
neighborhood, with scientific preten-
sions, investigated the giant and ac-
cepted the hoax without the least hest
fancy. Later 1t was examined by a
DIR. Boynton of Syracuse, a man pos
sessed OF some antiquarian knowledge,
and he came to the conclusion that IL
was a statue made some 300 years ago
by the Jesuit fathers. He at once Of
fered $4,000 for it,"
BY way of an advertisement invita-
lions were sent to Prof. Agassiz, Prof.
Hull, state geologist; S. B. Woolworth,
secretry of the New York State Uni
Versity, and a large delegation of sci
entific men from different parts of the
state. The state geologist pronounced
the ngure to be a statue of great an
tlquity. Prof. Ward, who filled the
chair OF natural science in Rochester
University, said although not going
pack to the stone age, 1t is neverthe-
less deserving of the attention of
archaeologists." A prominent clergy
man wrote: This is not thing con-
trived by man, but 1T is the face of
one who lived like all the earth; the
very image and child of God" MANY
scientific societies took the matter up
and expressed their gullibility more
or less strongly in resolutions
The man to first puncture the hoax
was Prof. March-O. c. Marsh of Yale
who made point by asserting that
gypsum was soluble in 400 parts of
water, yet the face of the giant was
smooth and little dissolved. though
surrounded by wet earth, proving that
the burial must have been of very re-
cent date.
1t is estimated that $1,000 900 was
made out of the hoax before Barnum
introduced the petrified man to his cir
Gus. While the figure was being ex-
hibited In Boston Mr. Sala says that
to his own knowledge the drawings
amounted to about $4,000 a night for
a considerable time. Notwithstanding
Prof. Marsh's findings and other hard
blows the hoax received from other
quarters IL survived for nearly two
decades, when 1t may be said to have
died natural death, or. to use popu-
lar language. to have been played
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
HIS ENDURANCE GAVE WAY.
Witness Stern Grew Weary of Legal
Badgering.

Witness Stern Grew Weary of Legal
Badgering.
New York, Aug 2S.-Hearing in the
suit of Peter Power to prevent the
turning over of Northern Pacific stock
TO the Northern Securities Company
was continued to-day before Special
Examiner Mabey. Capt. Stern, when
on the stand, turned to Mr.. Lamb and
said:
I'm tired of all this; there's a limit
to some things. When you turn loose
like mad dog. and bite people. there's
a way of dealing with mad dogs; some
people shoot them"
Mr.. Guthrie called Parker G. Chanler,
Boston attorney, who Mr.. Lamb said
was one of those DESTROYS of getting
Peter Power out of the country. Mr..
Chanler testified that he gave Mr..
Lamb $3.50 on or about July % for
Weidenfeld. This money, he said, he
understood was paid in a. land trans
action over some Worcester property,
not for the purpose of getting Power
out of the way, as Mr.. Lamb said.
Chanler then presented a sworn
statement made by himself to the effect
mat so far as he knew or had reason
TO believe, the $3.50 paid to Mr.. Lamb
was in connection with the Worcester
land case, and that he did not know
the money was to be used to get Pow
er out of the country.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
MORGAN SAYS EXTEND 1T.
Recommends Continuation of South
ern's Voting Trust

ern's Voting Trust.
New York. Aug. ga circular to
the stockholders of the Southern Rail-
way Company was issued to-day by
). PierDont Morgan. Charles Lanier
and George F. Baker, the voting trus-
tees, recommending a continuation of
the voting trust for FIVE years, or I'M
til Oct. 10, 1907. The company postpon-
ed dividend declaration recently in
order that the shareholders might
nave an opportunity to record their
wishes as to an extension of the vot-
ing trust. The circular contains the
following:
The events of the past eighteen
months in connection with railroad
properties have revealed the danger
10 which corporate properties are ex-
posed, of the control of their stock
being bought up in the market by
purchasers not identified with the
property. or permanently interested in
Its development and Improvement.
Therefore, we do not hesitate to
state that it is, in our opinion, decid-
eddy for the interests of the stockhold-
ers of the Southern Railway to pro-
tect their property by an extension of
the voting trust until negotiations
now pending for the further Develop
ment and strengthening of it's lines
snail be settled beyond any risk of be-
ing overturned, and until the compile
ton of other negotiations now pending
IN relation to transportation interests
in the Southern states which have i'm
portant bearing upon the interests of
the southern Railway Company"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
MADE THE CARDIFF GIANT.
Artist Who Perpetrated the Fraud
Tells How 1t Was Done.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
San Francisco. Cal.-An artist is
now in this city who claims TO have
been the sculptor of the famous Cardiff
giant that created such a furore in the
scientific world more than score OF
years ago. His name is G.. Fabricio
Sala, and he is endeavoring to dispose
OF the statue OF Faith" that has been
lying in the mechanics pavilion at the
exposition grounds ever since the close
of the great fair held here seven years
since. He claims that p. T. Barnum,
the Snowman, made a million dollars
by exhibiting his Cardiff giant, which
was long accepted as the genuine petri-
fled remains of race of gigantic hui
man beings who once inhabited this
country.
The figure. to the many people who
visited Barnum's show in those days,
was supposed to represent the petrified
form of prehistoric man. It was 10
feet long. feet broad and weighed
three and half tons. 1t was supposed
to have been dug out of the earth at
Cardiff, N. Y. This, to a certain extent,
was true. but the fact that 1t was carv-
ed out of gypsum and inferred less
than year before by the clever ones
was kept profound secret. That 1t was
one of the cleverest hoaxas ever per-
petrated was proven by the number of
scluptors, archaeologists. antiquarians,
clergymen and others OF the learned
professions who were taken in" by
the figure and gave more or less pro-
found explanations of it's origin.
Mr.. Sala is an elderly man who has
made his reputation over the world as
a sculptor OF considerable merit. II
was only with reluctance that he was
induced a day or two ago to talk Of
his connection with the chiseling out
Of the giant. He said he simply under
took the work in a professional way,
having been employed by Mr.. Tay-
lor, who was at that time, 1868, sort
OF silent partner with Barnum.
Yes. 1t was who carved the Cardiff
giant" said Mr.. Saia, land Mr.. Taylor
paid me the handsome sum of si5, 1000
for the work; subsequently he often
gave me $500 whenever his receipts
were exceptionally good. He was an
excellent payer and a gentleman.
carved the giant in barn near Quincy
Ill. The slab Of gypsum was obtained
in the vicinity. There Is plenty OF
gypsum as we'll as onyx near there.
or course, had nothing to do with
the statue after II left Quincy, but
know that from there II was shipped
70 Chicago. then by water 10 Buffalo,
and finally by canal boat and team
20 Cardiff. N. T.. where Il was buried.
The nature OF the package was, OF
course, kept a secret.
A plumber of the Popular Science
Monthly published IN 1878 bears out
Mr.. Sala's statement IN some details,
but mentions Edward Sale, Ger
man, ns one Of the scuiptOrs, and the
other as Mr.. Markham, an Aperi-
can. Mr., ssla claims that the Sale
Tefererred 20 can be 20 other than
himself and the use n the name n
q mistake on the part ~ the writer
Before the burial "a the giant Ia The
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
LOVE OF HOME, SWEET HOME.
Grover Cleveland Speaks to CeIe-
brnnts of Old Home Week.

Grover Cleveland Speaks to CeIe-
brnnts of Old Home Week.
Sandwich, Mass, Aug. 2S.-This little
town, which may almost be said to
guard the entrance to Cape Cod, is OBJ
serving Old Home week to-day. Among
the speakers at the town dinner this
afternoon were Joseph Jefferson and
ex-President Cleveland, both summer
residents. Mr.. Jefferson told stories,
while Mr.. Cleveland talked in more
serious vein. Among other things Mr..
Cleveland said:
THE stimulation of pride in the well
fare of the life of the place from
whence we came is the most important
adjunct in the makeup of American
ism, and it is a sacred sentiment,
"In this industrial age, in this time
of hurry and scurry in this time when
the chase of wealth presents the great
est activity. it is of the utmost i'm
portance that the feeling which such
an occasion as this engenders should
be stimulated. / believe that our safe
ty as a nation. our happiness as a
people, depend upon keeping alive
forever at the foundation of all other
effort and all other endeavor this kind
ly sentiment, that heart to heart at
tachment, that love for the old home
which is here exemplified."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29

Palma without a Cuban Supporter
of the Havana Press.

COOah
of the Havana Press.
Havana, Aug. 2S.-President Palma
finds himself to-day without the sup
port of single newspaper controlled
by Cubans. The editorials published in
the Cuban press are, considered collec-
lively, remarkable for their bitterness
and outspoken opposition to the chief
executive. The only paper which sup
ports the President is the Diario de la
Marina, formerly the organ of the
Spanish government and at present
representing the Spanish colony in
Cuba.
One of the principal causes of the
opposition to President Palma seems
to arise from the fact that he granted
the Castaneda concession for the es-
Enlistment of an electric light plant
at Havana. This concession has been
a subject of bitter discussion in the
House of Representatives and some
members of the House are demanding
Senior Palma's impeachment unless the
concession is rescinded.
The impeachment matter has been
upon the table for the past week. Both
houses of Congress have become bad
ly disorganized over this question, and
the result has been a strong anti
Palma feeling.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
From the Hilltop.

That the largest serpent ever meas
ured was an anaconda, 81 feet long.
That only "a doctors out of 100 reach
the age of 70. while 40 farmers and AZ
ministers do.
That long, vigorous breath at fire.
quent intervals is claimed by Prof.
Heinz of Erlingen as a sure preven-
tive or cure for seasickness.
That China exports 100000 worth of
human hair annually.
That an eel has two separate hearts.
one beating 90 and the other 100 times
minute.
That one man in every 213 in Ger
many goes to a university; in Scot
land, one in 500; in the United States.
one In 1000; In England, one in 5000.
That electricity has increased the
power OF seacoast lights to that Of g.
100000 candles. The mineral oil lamp
OF the "Doty system" which was in al
most universal use previous to the in
PRODUCTION of electricity did not ex-
coed $4,000 candles in the strength Of
its Illumination
That England owns 1880 out of the
1907 steamers belonging to the twelve
leading nations of Europe and Amer
lea.
That sugar exists not only in the
cane, beet root and maple, but In the
sap of 1S7 other plants.
That Hull (England) municipal
trans made a profit Of $4,000 last
year. OF this amount 10000 has been
devoted to the relief of the taxation.
That in Spandau, near Berlin. a
great military center, a tax has been
put on automatic orchestrions, which
are becoming an intolerable nuisance.
as nearly every restaurant has one. n
is hoped that the tax will reduce the
plague.
That the nut-cracking industry of st.
Louis gives employment to over /, 500
people. The nut crackers are driven
by electricity, each nut being fed In
dividually into the cTusher. After the
shells are cracked the nuts are Win
moved by an air blast and the meat
is picked from the crushed shells by
hand
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
FOUND KELLAR BABY.
Mother Was Hiding 1T From Agent
of Cruel Law.


of Cruel Law.
Keokuk, Iowa, Aug. 2S.-A police
man accidentally found the now cele-
brated Kellar baby to-day in the south
ern part of the city. 1t was developed
to-day that when the mother was
made a special constable and given
charge of her infant, eleven months
old, under arrest for vagrancy, in or
der to give her possession, despite of
the operation of the new sociological
law, she took it to her sisters house
This Is some distance from her own
home, and the baby was carefully
guarded. The mothers brother had
instructions from her attorney to use
necessary force to prevent anybody
taking the baby, except with court
warrant.
After finding the baby the attorney
for Secretary Park advised him not to
use the authority given him by the
construction of the law to take the
child from the mother, who was found
competent by the trial court to keep
it. Nothing was done in the matter in
the courts to-day.
Excitement here over the discovery
OF the effect of the new law, which
allows babies to be kept from acquit-
ted mothers pending long delayed APP
peals to the Supreme Court has given
way to more sober. but intense and
nearly unanimous indignation at the
law passed by the last Legislature.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
READY FOR MANEUvERS.
Final Preparations of Army and
Navy Concluded.

Newport, r. l., Aug. 2S-After
months of preparation the final war
maneuvers by an army of defense
against an enemy made up Of large
number of the ships of the navy, will
begin at midnight on Sunday. The
preliminary work practically ends at
midnight on Friday, and two days will
be allowed the attacking fleet and the
army of defense to get into position.
In order to decide which side wins,
the imaginary contest which they will
go through next week, a large number
of umpires and observers have been
assigned to the different forts and to
the different vessels Of the fleet, which
will be commanded by Admiral Hig-
ginson. Each vessel of the fleet will
have navy umpire and army observ-
err, while each fort will have an army
umpire and navy observer.
The army to-day established a sig
nal and a searchlight station near the
Brenton Cove life saving station. This
is the only searchlight station the
army will have outside of Newport
harbor on the east side of Narragan-
Sett Bay.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
BIG PRAISE FOR WILSON.
commissioners Say He Has Done
Much for the South.


Much for the South.
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 2S.-The Con-
+on States Association of Commits
sioners of Agriculture completed its
programme tonight and adjourned to
meet next year in Montgomery, Ala,
tbe date of the convention being left
70 the Executive COMMITTEE.
The convention of the Cotton States
commissioners of Agriculture to-day
adopted the following resolution:
'The Cotton States Commissioners
If Agriculture express their acknowl-
edgement and appreciation of the able
management of the national Depart
r1ent of Agriculture by Hon. James
Wilson.
"Resolved, That Secretary Wilson
has given more attention and assist
ance to the agricultural interests of
the South than all of his predecessors;
that the experts that he is sending
irto the field are active and compe-
tent, and are doing valuable work
Resolved, That our senators and
representatives in Congress are earn
estly urged to secure larger appropria-
tons by Congress to the national De-
partment of Agriculture"
In the course of a paper on cotton
culture, ]. F. Digger, of Alabama
said that cotton would undoubtedly
hold it's position during this genera
ton, because it is easily
sold, requires less capital and can be
grown on poor soil that will not raise
other products. A too close cultivation
impoverishes the soil, but there should
be gradual and rational changes.
Judge W. H. Tayloe, of Alabama,
read a paper on the Torrens system Of
land registration and it's effect on the
value of country property. The speak
er declared he would like to see the as
ISOLATION start a crusade against
everything but free-simple titles. En-
failing life estates and bowers should
be abolished and the time to begin was
now. With the question of titles once
settled it would be easy to settle the
question of land values.
Malcolm Mcneil of Atlanta present
ed a proposition to establish in Chicago
a free permanent exposition of all the
products of the Southern states. 1t
is also proposed to establish a South
ern bureau of information and a club
for the Improvement of commercial re-
lations.
A resolution endorsing the project
was introduced and referred to- a
special committee.
At the night session a paper by j.
G. Lee Of Louisiana, the newly elected
president, on Relations of Depart
ments of Agriculture and Experiment
Stations" was read by w. r. Dodson.
The committee having in charge the
annual address of President Patterson
reported, emphasizing the recommen-
dations made as follows:
Uniform fertilizer inspection, pure
food laws, test farms, more stringent
laws on crop pests and disease, the
teaching of the elements of agriculture
in public schools, larger appropriations
for farmers institutes and a system
for collection of crop statistics.
Extension of Improvement in old
lines of work of the department in my
state, and the addition of new ones
during the past year." was a subject
which all the commissioners joined in
debating, after which the association
adjourned sine die.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29

the sides and on the seats. and in the
first few minutes was on some woman's
lap or head quite as often as on the
floor or seats. Cess was laughing
heartily.
The cabin was in a panic. There
were shrieks of women and children
and yells OF men. Another woman
tainted and fell on the floor. Some
women tried to rush out, with children
holding them by the hand or skirt,
and some stood on the seats. Some
ran UP and down the cabin, humping
into one another, and some sat still
and uttered shrek after shrek. The
basket was open, and crabs came out
to investigate, and the Shiny things
crawled hero and there. few being
stepped on.
wild leaps of distance and hight only
possible by cat made wild by dozen
crabs. The way the crabs stuck to the
cats ears, legs and tail was astonish-
Ing. None were shaken Off, even in
the wild turmoil and the innumerable
leaps the cat made. 1t made the cir
cult of the cabin a score of time. Now
1t was on the head of some woman.
whose hat 1t clawed to pieces. and
again 1t was flying through the air into
the pier glas sat the end of the cabin.
happened to be in the way.
Doctors were trying to get at the
fainting women. the deckhands were
trying to get at the cat. and the peo-
pie were yelling and wildly running
this way and that, and no one knew
how II was going to end. The boat
was almost into the Manhattan slip by
this time. Ceiss was doubled up in
mirth.
Then the cat escaped from the cabin,
with the crabs still clingiag to It. It
was chased by men, who sought to re-
lieve II. but the cat did not know that,
and kept out of their way, till man
cornered 1t and seized 1t by the neck.
A crab did the same thing for the man,
getting a finger. and the man dropped
the cat.
Another man cornered the cat again
and put his foot on It. Then he tried
TO loosen the crabs, but the cat howled
like mad and the crabs held on. A
doctor, who with another physical
aboard had been reviying the fainting
women, got some OF the crabs loose
but In pulling them away some Of the
cats flesh came with the crab and the
cat mewed pitifully. IT was weak
from the fright and pala and bled a.
good deal The crabs were all detach-
ed after time.
Ceiss was denounced for his conduct,
and women cried out that he ought to
be arrested. He wondered why; it was
only a joke. The excitement was
growing again, and as the gates were
opened Ceiss and his friends tried to
escape. Women rushed to Policeman
Braun, of the East Twenty-second
street station. They pointed out Cess
as the man who had caused the panic.
Braun arrested him on a charge of
cruelty to animals and disorderly con-
duct The Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals took charge of
cat and crabs.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-29
OBITUARY.
Miss Eliza Grigg.

Miss Eliza Johnson Grigg, wen
known and highly esteemed lady of
Savannah, died at Mt. Airy yesterday
morning. Miss Grigg had been in fail
ing health for some time, and about
two months ago went to Mt Airy,
where it was hoped that the braclng
climate would restore her health.
A telegram to Mr.. H. III. Bruen. a
nephew of the deceased, which was
received yesterday, bore the sad intel
ligence of Miss Grigg's death. Mr..
Bruen left at once for Mt. Airy Cor
the purpose of bringing back the re-
mains for interment in Savannah.
Miss Grigg was for years identified
with various charities in this city. She
was a member of Christ Church and
one of the board of managers of the
Episcopal Orphans Home. The hour
at which the funeral will take place
has not yet been decided upon, but
will be announced tomorrow morning.