The San Francisco call., 1906-08-05
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4 scum to the biggest
man IN the world and
Machnow, the giant, fed in terror.
TIL give you three thousand dol
lars for your BRAIN" is the offer of DR..
Carleton Simon of New York. But
Machnow has not heard Of this latest
proposition. His wife, his physician
and his manager united in keeping the
news from him, because it would throw
the giant into an agony of terror.
The biggest man in the world, who
IS also the biggest coward in the world,
IS hiding away from the doctors be-
cause he thinks they want to kill him
and examine his brain and his skele-
ton. This unfortunate creature, feet
2 inches in height and weighing $50
pounds, is so afraid of every stranger
that he would cry and run away and
fall down helpless from fright if the
smallest and slimmest doctor in the
world should try to talk TO him.
Machnow is coward because he is
giant. It seems to be well settled
law OF nature that the bigger man is
the less energy. pluck or force there
shall be in proportion to his frame.
Giants are peculiarly lethargic and a
prey TO melancholy. just as little men
are, as a rule. full of Importance. hope.
self-confdence and shigh spirits.
Machnow is such a scared creature
that he is afraid to show his face in
the streets; afraid to go anywhere
without his friend and patron, DR.. de
Kerschimenski: frightened as a little
child II his wife is away from him
Everything new scares him into abject
terror. He is the most conservative
man in the world. The average man
who meets Machnow feels an almost
irresistible temptation to jump up and
maui him just to impress upon his
logy mind that he ought 70 be ashamed
Of his cowardice and learn to use his
limbs for defense and not for fight.
But nothing in the world can give
this big fellow self-confdence. He
covers whenever he hears that
stranger wants to talk to him. He
shuf1es away and hides if the stran-
ger approaches. It was necessary to
have nine men capture him and drag
him aboard the ship that brought him
% this country, and then il took nine
more TO drag him ashore in New York.
His cowardice is no mere press agents
device to arouse interest in him. Peo-
pie generally don't like towards. But
they really ought TO pity this one, be-
cause he is the champion coward Of
the world. DR.. Carleton Simon tells in
q scientific way just why the giant is
50 full Of fear. He can't help 1t.
Machnow was born twenty-six years
ago, on the estate Of Count de Kerschi- |
menski, in Kustoki, Central Russia. He
was normal in size until he was IL
years old. and then. in obedience to an |
abnormal impulse from the pituitary |
gland. a remarkable bit of the brain. |
which DR.. Simon describes. he suddenly |
began to grow at a tremendous rate. |
When Machnow was only years old |
he was very strong. He could garry |
with ease a sack of -four weighing 100 |
rounds When he was years old he /
could pick UP a pony weighing $50 |
pounds and toss it over his shoulder. /
But after that he soon shot up toward |
his present enormous size, and the more |
he grew the less energy he had left |
Today little Terry McGovern could |
Outwalk. outrun. outjump or outfit the /
giant. The only direction in which |
AIachnow shows any great ability to-
IN alrf rfyor g.fcp
cites.
During every moment of his life at
present Machnow is either eating,
sleeping or smoking cigarettes. He
does not drink anything alcoholic. but
he consumes many gallons of tea every
day.
when Machnow reached his goth year
and his height Of nine feet two inches,
his friends persuaded him that he could
make more money showing himself as
q freak than by sticking to his voca-
ton Of chopping wood. 1t took six years
to impress this simple idea on his dull
brain. but after long argument he
finally consented to travel on these
That his wife should go with him to
protect him from fairies, goblins,
spirits, witches. etc.
That his friend and patron, the Count
&c Kerschimenski. who is also doc
tor. should go with him to keep all
other doctors away.
Even under the protection of his wife
and his patron. poor Machnow is still
q ouaking hulk Of terror
over in London the officers of the
British Museum offered him $500 for
his skeleton. Instead of appreciating
The delicate compliment, he roared and