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Show '7 TEolwPyHc COULD NOT PUT THe Sleeping H?gBan'Now Beauty OlljjERSIIOES By MARTHA McC. WILLIAM3 i The 'Cardiff Giant' Took u1 f in Credulous Public Celebrated Moon Hoax' a Sensation Here and Abroad. . and Much Cash. , the dollars of the curious. P. T. HALLER JAKLON Barnum tried to buy It, hut a local gets a big kick out of conhla fellows. There syndicate already had obtained was offer and his rejected. trol, to be something This new company, one of whom dellclgus In bulling a trap Is said to have been the original and seeing someone bite. The from which the character of David Stone age and the age before It Ilarum was drawn, paid $30,000 probably had its practical Jokers, s Interest. The for a and all history Is full of Jokes and led Barexhibition of the success hoaxes, perpetrated to the delight num to have carved a similar of some and to the embarrassment figure which was likewise exhibited of others. as the Cardiff giant." The owners Sometimes the fooling Is for gain, of the original sought to obtain sometimes for fun, and often for a restraining order against the both. Individuals Indulge in It, and Barnum counterfeit, but It was reeven nations have been known to fused. Both giants, therefore, conattempt a hoax on other nations. tinued to draw the crowds. Witness the wooden horse of the Now, the assumption had always Oreeks And the tulip craze of the been that the discovery of the Sixteenth century, when all Holland set cut to make the world figure had been accidental, but crave the tulip, which, It was there were those who doubted this version. Residents of the county learned, would thrive on certain In which the well diggers worked types of Hutch soil useless for began to recall that about a year anything else. Soon all the world before the dlscovery mysterious wanted this new flower, and bulbs A Beene on tha Moon." New In York Published Connection With the 8uns e team waa observed sold for as high as $3,000 apiece. Celebrated Hoax of 1833. The Dutch growers waxed rich, drawing a wagon whlcb carried a huge d box. and then the fad waned, leaving purchasers all It was beaded In the membrane, without hair, lying anugly upon their back, from the top of their shoulders to the calvaa over the world with expensive bulbs but no direction of Cardiff. of their leg. Professor Marsh of Yale, a paleontologist, exmarket. Centuries later Americans were to fall r, The face, which was of a yellowish waa a alight Improvement upon for ginseng, alfulfa, mushrooms, and sliver foxes. amined the figure and asserted that it was clearthat of the orangutan, being more open and Intelligent In Its expresly of recent origin and a most decided humbug. Its a great game. sion, and having n much greater expanse of foreThen, a lawyer of Fort Dodge, Iowa, seeing the In most the celebrated hoax Perhaps history head. Tha mouth, however, was very prominent, was the "moon hoax," conceived by Richard Adams figure at Syracuse, wrote back home: "I believe though somewhat relieved by a thick beard upon It Is made out of the great block of gypsum those the lower Jaw, and by lips far more human than Locke, a newspnper reporter, and perpetrated by those of tha ape. , . . These creature wer fellows got at Fort Dodge a year ago and sent the New York Sun In 1833. Its success depended evidently In conversation; their gesticulations, back east upon mans Interest In astronomical phenomena, more particularly the varied action of tha hand that insatiuble curiosity to know whut lies beand arms, appeared Impassioned and emphatic. We Gradually the story came to light In the sumhence Inferred that .hey wer rational belnga, and, mer of 1808, two men arrived at Fort Dodge, yond the veil of space which surrounds the earth. although not eo high an order ai other which we and attempted to make a bargain for a block Science today Is convinced that the moon has discovered the next month on the shores of tha no life upon It, but a century ago, before the of gypsum at least 12 by 4 by 2 feet explaining Bay of Rainbows, that they are capable of producthat they wished to exhibit It In New York. They ing works of art and contrivance. . . . W day of powerful telescopes, the public knew little scientifically denominated them as veapertillo-hom- o, of the heavens beyond whut It could see with the leased some land and hired a quarryman to get or manbat; and they ar doubtless Innocant out a block of the required size. Its owners naked eye after dark. Speculation was always and happy creatures. keen as to whether or not life existed on the announced that It was to be shipped to New York, The Astronomer Get Careless moon. but freight ofllce records showed that It was Todny we wonder the same thing about the planet Mars. billed to Chicago. The next Installment, totalling 11,000 words, was printed on the three succeeding days. In It nere a German stone cutter carved the gigantic Moon Hoax Fools Two Continents was revealed the discovery of the great Temple figure from the block. Great care was taken to And so the New York Sun chose a very fertile of the Moon, built of polished sapphire, with a give It an ancient appearance. From Chicago the field in 1833, when It begun the publication of roof of some yellow metul, supported by columns finished statute was shipped by an Indirect route Lockes fantastic Imaginings with all the seriousIn to Union, N, Y. ITere the mysterious four-hors- e seventy feet high and six feet In diameter. ness of a great scientific discovery. For a time d the valley of the temple a new species of man-bteam appeared, and the giant, encased in an the credulous public of two continents, and even was discovered. Tiien one night, when the' box, began his wandering In search of a the scientists, were completely deceived. This stuastronomers finished work, they carelessly left likely grave. pendous feat brought the Sun the largest circulathe telescope facing the eastern horizon. The This Hoax Paid Big Dividenis tion In the world, and In the opinion of Edgar Alrising sun burned a hole through the reflecting lan Poe established the penny newspaper as an One of v the men was George Hull, a relative chamber, and ruined part of the telescope. When liA&tution. the damage was repaired the moon was Invisible, of William Newell, the farmer on whose property Locke could write about almost anything. Ills and tttp great moon narrative came to an end. the giant was "discovered," under the personal difund of general Information was huge, and he rection of Newell. Both men made thousands By this time New York was talking of nothcould turn out prose-o- r poetry, politics or pathos, of dollars out of their unique venture. ing except these astounding discoveries; they anecdotes or astronomy. In 1834 Locke heard were the sensation of the day. French and EngAnother hoax which goes on from generation of an astronomical expedition to South Africa. to generation Is one concerning the "original lish papers abroad translated or copied the Suns Now, during July and August, 1833, things were fabrication, and the sensation In Europe was equal log of Columbus." Despite the fact that the only a bit dull on the Ikland of Manhattan, and the to that In this country. The Sun, founded only undoubtedly authentic handwriting of Columbus, newspapers were running short of material with two years before, saw Its circulation Increased a four-pagletter, Is Id the possession of the which to entertain and attract their readers. to 10,300, exceeding by more than 2,000 the cirking and queen of Spain, the "original ColumLocke needed money, and so he laid a plan before culation of the London Times, hitherto the largbus log" turns up every few years. In 1024, It Mr. Day, the Suns editor. On August 21, the folest In the world. turned up in Mexico. Strangely enough. It was on the second page of the lowing Item appeared written entirely In German In South Africa Sir John Ilerschel , Meanwhile, .. was Sun his with The literary hoax seems to be the .most popular busy telescope entirely unaware of Celestial Dlscoverlee The Edinburgh Courant him. "discoveries" to of fooling and almost the easiest of perpecredited When form the at he sajra: We have learned from an eminent publisher last found out, he was overcome, saying that he tration. A recent one fooled the literary editor of this city Sir John Ilerechel, at the Cape of Oood never could expect to live up to the facie that of the New York Times, who conceded that while Hope, haa made aome astronomical discoveries of the moat wonderful description by mean of an had been heaped upon him. "The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion, 1704-03,- " Immense telescope of an entirely new principle. had not "any of the Importance that atOf course, many persons suspected the hoax, Then after four days the Sun published what taches to such a monumental record as was left but the detail of the story was so mluute and purported to be a reprint from a supplement to behind by Pepys" the author did throw the lavish that no one dared say anything. Many There had the Edinburgh Journnl of Science. beams of her candle here and there on the feaof the rival papers were fooled along with the been such a publication a few years before, but tures of her times." Now the New York Times The Journnl of Commerce was on the public. It was not generally known that It had ceased miss is Itself discovers that a nlneteen-year-ol- d "In of Suns the Justice story reprinting point In three columns on pnge one the publication. the author of this successful hoax. to Its readers," when Locke himself gave the Bun carried the astonishing announcement of hoax away. Some hoaxes go unchallenged until the author "recent discoveries which will build an ImperishIn the words of Edgnr Allan Toe; "From the can refrain no longer from Informing the public able monument to the age In which we live." how he has fooled it Such Is the history of the epoch of the hoax the Sun shone with unmitigated success Its established the firmly bathtub" hoax, put over several years ago by splendor. Describe the Telescope They throughout the country and peuny system Henry I Mencken, now the editor of the AmeriA technical description of the telescope followed, can Mercury. Mencken wrote a short, Informnl (through the Sun) we are Indebted to the genius and a hypothetical account told of the channels In Amerione of the most Important steps yet for Locke of account of the origin of the bath-tu- b through whlcb this remarkable news had traveled was Installed In the of human In he the taken ca. flrst tub. said, The progress." pathway ' from Cupe Town. Thus was laid the foundaHe traced the home of a wealthy Cincinnatian. tion of what was to follow. To queries as to Cardiff Giant" Hoax of 1869 declared that at and rise tubs of the popularity, Its hod obtained It where supplement to the Edinflrst physicians were violently opposed to Its use Today, with our rapid means of communication burgh Journal of Science, the Sun declared In an nod on grounds of health. Several states were said to transportation, a hoax of such gigantic proeditorial that "It was very politely furnished us could not long endure the light of such have portions passed laws against the Installation of the by a medical gentleman Immediately from ScotOn the contrary, the public seems all new sanitary equipment. publicity. land. too willing to stamp any unusual bit of newt as No great excitement had been caused so far, but Mencken Exposes Bathtub Hoax a mere newspaper yarn," that Is, If they do not the next duy the town wns Jolted by four columns to believe IL This or want Only recently Mencken exposed hts trick. No of actual description of the landscape of the is a powerful factor with the human he commented. In all the years since this one. moon. Sir Johns telescope was so powerful, If It makes ycu feel better to believe mind. bit of Imaginative history has been current, questhe story asserted, that It brought objects to tioned the facts he cited. Ills original story has something, psychologists tell us, you are likely within a few feet of the observer. This Is what It disturbs your peare of mind to If It hold to been quoted nil over the world, and Incorporated so; the astronomers In Cupe Town were reported ns true, you are likely to wave In solemn treatises. something accept to have seen: . There are It aside as foolishness or heresy. One of the most celebrated literary hoaxes was ten s of for trees minutes The period wtr of that of the Scotch school teacher Macpherson, person In America today who refuso to subons unvaried kind, and unlike any except the tersscribe to the theory that the earth Is round. They who, having learned a little old Celtic and Gaelic est class of yews In English churchyafUa, They were followed by a level green plain which must like to thJuk of It as flat, and flat It Is to them. language and literature, brought forth his Iocms have been more than half a mile In breadth.1 It aroused the world, and has been of Wlmts the difference? A column farther on, In a wonderful valley of A famous hoax of 1800 was thnt of the "Carcited ns one of the causes of the Romantic movethis wonderful moon, life at last hurst upon the ment In literature thnt swept Europe In the lute diff giant." Well diggers near Curdlff, N. Y., cone : one morning enme upon the stone figure of a mnn Eighteenth century. ton feet tall, with shoulders three feet In breadth. There Is the eloquent hoax known ns Patrick In the shnite of the woods on tha southeastern s, aide we beheld continuous herds of brown The right arm and hand lay across the body, Henrys Give me liberty or, give mo death" haying .all tha asternal characteristics of was pressed against the back dileft the while speech, thought to have been delivered by the the bison, but smaller than any specie of tha boa great orator In 1773 at St. Johns church nenr rectly opposite. The legs were slightly contracted It had on renus In our natural history. foot the left we which resting found comafterward If as feature, pnrtlally by upon pulu, Richmond, Va., btt really written by bis distinctly mon to nearly tvary lunar quadruped w hav William Wirt, years after Henry died. the right discovered ; namely, a remarkable fleshy appendage an nil of us know that beloved fake known to And the rife ran origin of the over the eyes, crossing the whole breadth of the Speculation hatchet and cherry tree story visitors were somo ns of the the to Washington forehand and united to tha eare. It Immediately ocand quick giant, curred to the acuta mind of Dr. Herscbe) that this ax an exhibit. Invented Washingtons first biographer, value Before It by entirely long recognize was a protective covering for the eyes against tha Mason Weems, Lengthy explorations "Parson" land the on wns whose found figure fnrtner the and of darkness to which all light great extreme facts th Into made surrounding both been admission. have and The orditent a our moon rhnrgiei of aids of the ar set up the Inhabitants periodthe foregoing fictions, and the Inevitable conically subjected." nary visitor were usuuliy content with the beclusions have been In agreement with those given lief that this wax a petrified human being. "NothFinJ Humana on the Moon me ever cun here. make world believe that ing In the Haiti-mor- e Th Issue of August 28 satisfied public curiosity was not once a living betng," declared a Edgar Allan Poe once announced lu a he a certain he as to the proven? of human creatures on the on would that day newspaper woman who viewed the colossus. "Why, you The astronomers were looking at the moon. make a trip from the roof of a building In Ms cau see the veins la hlx legx. new a of of the satellite: cliffs and crags part flying mnchlQ. Several factorlea One however, thought differently. Geologist, allowed their workers time off to witness the declared It to be the work of the Jesuit fathers "Hut whilst gating upon them w war thrilled with astonishment to peroelv four auoceeelv Another event, utid on the appointed day a vast crowd two or three hundred years before. flock of birds doecend with a alow, even motion swatted In front of the building for the spectacle. of the the atatue antiquity geologist emphasized front the cliff on tha western aid and alight upon or the to attention attriPoe, seated In on upper window, sent down bulcalled and corroding half About of tha flrst tha plain. party but of letins our all of under the view, surface the tha of from giving excuses for his delay. After several of tion other body had passed part view. w had a perfectly distinct and dellberat hour lie announced the flight was off because have would he declared, the solution, by required In height, were covered, They averaged four feet one of his wings had got weL" Tradition bss It a long period of year. d except on lh faoa, with abort and gloaey copper-colorebe escaped through an alley window. that continued to draw the la the n of giant meantime, had composed wings and thin hair, - MAN three-fourth- fpur-hors- Iron-boun- fldsh-colo- at Iron-boun- e 1 , e Os-dan- quad-riprd- ... blog-rapbe- lately-invente- d now whut would It be? Squire Anders asked, sitting forward toward Cynthia drawn by a magnet like an " "Remember, Im askin ye with a mean-In,trifle a went on, hitching he nearer so near that Cynthia got up hurriedly and said, looking over his head: T wish youd stay away for good and uhvaysd lie headed her off, caught her arm Oh, no! You and said masterfully: Jest think so. Why, Im all that stands twlxt you and real hard work and you aint built fer that couldnt stand it six months." I can try It and I will," Cynthia Understand I dont said steadily. mean to be rude. I know how foolish It Is to throw away the chance to be rich and lazy all the rest of my life. But I know better the price is beyond me. 1 couldnt be your wife not for all the money minted I wouldnt not to save my life nor yours. Now will you let me alone? Bob I That I wont! No, slr-eAnders hissed. "Ill have ye, whether er no." "We differ," Cynthia said Idly. Then over her shoulder, wrenching free her arm : I am leaving at ten oclock tho rent Is paid til midnight Better send in a caretaker then." "Goin? How? Where? You vou Anders began to sputter. shant She did not so much as look at him, but shot through the door and ran down the hall to the rear. Momently A huge fellow, he was murder-mad- . coarsely vital, all the uncommitted sins of his forty years rioted through his rage, turning It partly against himself. Married ere he was fully bearded, he Imd lived a pattern life, as citizen, neighbor, farmer, ruling elder. Just In everything, a husband beyond praise; this madness was a knife in the heart of his pride. Ills wife had died suddenly by help of a new car. He had been utterly faithful to her ail these years yet her passing brought blm no grief rather a sudden wild Joy of enlargement. If she had given him children Instead, he was nil alone. All alone now that the spinster-cousin- , who had been Anders tenant, had died, Cynthia was In hard case. Cousin Jane had had a sufficient annuity. As she was but forty-five- , her going was a shock. Thanks to Cousin Jane, she was fairly educated. The education, plus her clothes and fifty dollars, summed her resources. Idle now to hope for work there In Clay county Anders would block anything she might attempt. From ambush of brier tangle she saw Anders after an hour stride off toward his big house, a mile away, but In clear view of the cottage. His field glass, she well knew, would keep her under surveillance, once he was home. She darted within, huddled together scant essential belongings, made a light pack of them, and ran down the path to the highway upon the further side. But she did not follow the road Instead, struck recklessly across fields and along lanes. She thought she knew the direction of the convent. Tlte sisters would surely not grudge her the fruit r.lie craved md so sorely needed. Presently stie was under the bending trees, looking at them and choosing delicately of thtir rlrst for all her hunger. Ten minutes later In shade site lay sound asleep. Thus It happened thnt between sundown and dew-fatwo people enme upon iier a woman with the fare of un angel, and a matching soul. A cripple. she leaned heavily upon a mans arm a young man. lie cried hushedly at the sight of Cynthia: Ofi, see! The sleeping beauty! What a shame Im not the fulry prince come to wake her." Careful, Ien she may not he sleeping," the lady cautioned; "but I hope she Is! Did you ever before see so perfect a picture of weary grace?" "Never." was the answer the young fellow running on: "Oh, for light enough for a snap shot or a spell to hold her while we might mnke sketches." "No, fulr little brother. Youre Joking, I know couldnt sin so against hospitality even If It Is Involuntary." "Of course not! But I wonder why she Is here. "We will know soon," the lady said "Help me down beside her, then get out of sight we must not' frighten her." Getting down wns not easy she wns very lame. Somehow her motion awoke Cynthia, who made to spring up, hut wns stayed by a gentle hand, a gentler voice, saying: "Dont he frightened. You are with friends, If It does Imp-peyon never saw us before." 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