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NO HIGH RATES
PAID BY SWAYNE
ACCORDING TO EVIDENCE
OP HOTEL KEEPERS WITH WHOM
THE JLDGE STOPPED.
One Hotel Man Snlii a Day Was
the .IndKe'M Rate. While Mm. Man
sell of Texan Said He Had Paid
Her $1.2.1 a Day—lt Had Been
Shown That the Judge ('harmed
lp #lrt a Day to Hln Expense Ac
count—l Tie llonklnn Cane Attala.
Washington, Nov. 26.—P. W. Chase,
a hotel manager of Tyler. Tex., tes
tified in the Swayne inquiry to-day
that Judge Swayne was at his hotel
for twenty-six days, and was charged
$2.50 per day.
W. H. Hoskins was recalled to tes
tify as to the loss of business, while
his property was seized in bankruptcy
proceedings. Hoskins said that dur
ing the time his property was held
he was ready to pay all his debts, but
was not allowed to do so.
W. H. H. Miller, Attorney General
during the administration of President
Harrison, when Swayne was appoint
ed. was called and denied the testi
mony of John Wurts. who had said
that Miller had assured him (Wurts)
that he would be appointed judge of
the Florida district. Wurts also had
said that Miller told him that the ad
ministration had determined to prose
cute the election frauds, and that they
■wanted a man who would secure the
conviction of those who were to be
indicted. Mr. Miller denied that he
had ever made such a suggestion to
Wurts. He spoke of the careful man
ner in which the selection of Judge
was made, and said he would no more
have made an intimation of that kind
than he would have requested money
for securing the appointment.
Mr. Miller said he could not remem
ber Wurts and had no recollection of
the conversation which Wurts had de
tailed. He did remember that a man
named Wurts was a candidate for
Judge at that time.
E. P. Axtelle of Florida was called
and denied testimony of John Wurts
relative to the election cases before
Judge Swavne. Axtelle was counsel
for Receiver Durkee of Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railroad. He
said that Durkee’s -private car was
sent but once to Delaware for Judge
Swayne. The car also was sent to the
Pacific Coast with Judge Swayne.
$1.25 a Day at That limine.
Mrs. Annie E. Russell of Tyler.
Tex., testified that Judge Swayne
stopped at her house some time in
January, 1903, for four or six weeks.
He was charged 11.25 a day for his
board and lodging.
Robert J. Boone was recalled and
declared that a certain letter signed
by a rubber stamp with his signature
was a forgery. This letter was put in
evidence in Florida and stated that,
"If we can get young Hoskins at
tached for contempt we can break
the old man down.” This related to
the bankruptcy proceedings against
W. H. Hoskins.
An attempt to introduce tax returns
showing that Hoskins was not worth
the amount he claims to be, provoked
a controversy. Part of the evidence
was admitted. It was shown by
Boone that Hoskins' settlement
with Boone’s clients was for 50 cents
on the dollar.
Mr. Higgins offered at various times
papers to show that Hoskins was a
bankrupt. During the progress of
the examination of Boone on these
points, Mr. Palmer of the Committee,
remarked that it had been shown in
previous testimony that a conspiracy
existed against Hoskins between
Boone and Calhoun to declare Hoskins
a bankrupt.
“I>, ami go Are Yon,” Said Boone.
When Attorney I.iddon began the
cross-examination of Boone, he asked
if he was under indictment for fel
ony.
“Yes,” answered the witness, "and so
are you."
The committee ordered the latter
part of the answer stricken out. Jn
answer to another question, Boone said
he was charged with embezzlement.
Boone was then examined regarding
the letter signed by a rubber stamp
with Boone’s name and also a tele
gram in relation to the same. Boone
denied all knowledge of the letter and
could not recollect anything about the
telegram.
Boone was shown a number of tele
grams relating to the Hoskins bank
ruptcy proceedings, but could not re
member whether he sent them. He
also was shown a number of letters
from his office signed with a rubber
stamp, some of which he acknowledged
as written by him or by his clerk.
These all related to the bankruptcy
proceedings against Hoskins.
Without completing the cross-exam
ination of Boone, the committee ad
journed until Monday.
SHIP OWNERS WANT AID.
Not Satisfied With n Simple Free
Ship 1 .11 iv.
Washington, Nov. 26.—The Merchant
Marine Commission was in session
again to-day. engaged in preparing its
Teport and recommendations to Con
gress. Regarding the work of the com
mission, Senator Gallinger, its chair
man. to-day issued a statement, which
concludes:
“Without exception the American
•hip owners consulted by the commis
•lon declared that the passage of a
•♦mple free ship law, without some
further encouragement to American
shipping, would do nothing whatever
to increase the American Merchant
Marine.”
To Original Obligations.
New York. Nov. -26.—Rev. Dr. Fran
cis Brown of the Union Theological
Bemtnary. said to-dny that the board
of directors of the seminary had re
cently decided to fall back upon the
original charier obligations of the
seminary in reference to the qualifica
tions of directors and professors. The
original charter did not require a subl
scrlptlon to the Westminster confes
sion of faith.
Fool ■■■ St. Loslt.
Bt. Louis. Nov. 26.—Alfredo DeOro
of New York, pool champion of the
world, to-night successfully defended
his title against the challenge of Thus.
Hueston of St Louis by defeating him
Ip the third and final block of 600
point*, by a scors of 18ft to 151. The
total score was: DeOro. 600; Hues
ton, 470.
Hr port To! (oufli-ined.
New York. Nov. 16. -No conflrnin
tloti of the reported purchase of ths
Great Western Idiflway by Union I'a
interests ass obtainable to-day.
I* Wall street, || |* generally believed
•St there has been mi accumulation
2"; of s deal will sin
■ tnsas.
“77”
Cares Grip and
COLDS
Ker-Choo! Ahem!
The epidemic of Influenza, or the
Grip, or Cold, or Pleurisy, or whatever
one wants to call it, is due to the or
dinary change of climate at this sea
son and to carelessness in taking off
or putting on flannels, overcoats or
other impediments of winter wearing
apparel.
The prompt use of Dr. Humphreys’
“Seventy-seven” will check a Cold in
the beginning, and its persistent use
will break up a serious Cold that
hangs on—Grip.
At druggists, 25 cents, or mailed.
Humphreys’ Medicine Cos., cor. Wil
liam and John streets, New York.
WORK OF THE ZEMSTVO
May Vet Mean a Constitutional Gov
ernment for Russia.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 26. —The result
of the conference of the Zemstvoists
still remains a matter of speculation.
Bureaucratic circles generally are of
the opinion that the conference was a
farce, and that it will lead to nothing;
but a vast majority of the intelligent
class is convinced that it has placed
upon record the desire of the country
for a change in the present form of
government. The conviction prevail
ing in many quarters, however. is
that no change will come immediately.
With a view to clearing up the sit
uation the Associated Press corre
spondent to-day interviewed M. Sou
vorin, the veteran editor of The No
voe Vremva. He said:
“I certainly think the conference was
highly significant. It shows the neces
sity for a departure from the present
system. I think some form of nation
al representation is bound to come.
"Our greatest need is freedom to
work, think, speak and write. That
freedom seems unattainable under the
present bureaucratic regime, which
compresses the activity of the whole
nation and raises countless obstacles
In the way of personal initiative and
enterprise.
"There is not the slightest ground to
believe in the success of a revolution
ary movement in Russia. Indeed, since
the advent of Interior Minister Prince
Sviatopolk-Mirsky and his appeal for
mutual confidence the tendency among
Influential and sober-minded members
of the community is all the other way.
"Whatever the future may have in
store, 1 am convinced that a reversion
to the P'ehve system is impossible.
Public opinion has developed such
strength under stress of our present
adversities that stern repression is no
longer appreciable.”
GOMPERS RE-ELECTED.
Federation of taibor Will Meet Next
Year in Pittsburg.
San Francisco. Nov. 26.—Samuel
Gompers was practically unanimously
re-elected president of the Federation
of Labor to-day. One delegate, Vic
tor Berger of Milwaukee, a leader of
the Socialist Democratic party, voted
in the negative, and asked that his
vote be so recorded.
Mr. Gompers was given a great ova
tion when he retook the gavel. Sec
retary Frank Morrison and Treasurer
John B. Lennon were unanimously
chosen to serve another tern>.
The majority and minority reports of
the Committees on Resolutions on the
fight between longshoremen and sea
men was voted down, and the matter
now stands in the position it did before
the convention met.
The federation will meet next year
in Pittsburg.
KILLEdIn ACCiDENT
TO A TROLLEY CAR.
New York, Nov. 26.—One person was
killed and about forty injured in a
trolley car accident at Roselle, N. J.,
to-night. Several of *he injured, it
is feared, will die.
A car of the PlainfleL. and Elizabeth
line of the public Service Corporation
w‘as rounding a curve at the bottom
of a steep grade on First avenue, when
the body of the car toppled over leav
ing the truck on the track.
obituary!
George T. ((unntock.
Mr. George T. Quantock died at his
home. No. 118 Taylor street, west, yes
terday morning, after an Illness of sev
eral months. About three months ago
he retired from business on account of
declining health. At that time he was
in the employ of the Ocean Steamship
Company.
Mr. Quantock was a native of Sa
vannah, and was one of the oldest and
best known citizens. For a number of
years he was engiiged in the station
ery and book business, on Broughton
street.
At the outbreak of the Civil War
he enlisted in the Oglethorpes, which
was then Company H of the First Vol
unteer Regiment of Georgia, and serv
ed through the entire war with this
company, afterwards becoming one of
the charter members of the Confed
erate Veterans’ Association.
In 1868 Mr. Quantock was married
to Miss Elizabeth Rahan of Effing
ham county, who, with his two chil
dren, Mr. George A. Quantock and
Miss Maggie Quantock, survive him.
The funeral service will be held at
the residence on Taylor street this aft
ernoon at 4 o’clock. Rev. Dr. W. C.
Schaeffer will conduct the services and
the Interment will be in Laurel Grove
Cemetery. The Oglethorpe Light In
fantry and Confederate Veterans will
attend the funeral.
The following gentlemen will be the
pallbearers: Messrs. W. S. King F.
W. Clarke, M. L. Kxley, D. Vari
Wagenen, A. R. Ruhn und W 8
Rockwell.
Mias Mamie E. Long.
Miss Mamie E. Long died yesterday
afternoon at 12:45 o’clock at her home.
No. 355 East Broad street. She had
been 111 about two weeks with pneu
monia.
She was a native of Savannah and
was 34 years of age. She Is survived
by her mother, stepfather. Mr. Wil
liam Attaill; one brother. Mr. James
Ing, and two sisters. Misses Katie
Long and Emily Attwlll The funeral
will take place from the residence at
4 o 4 dock this afternoon.
A, S. Dupont, Delaware.
Wilmington, Del., Nov. 26.—Alexia
K Dupont, a member of ic. |. |> u .
pont De Nejnours Company, died to
day at bis home near this city.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1904.
ATLANTA’S COMING
I ADMINISTRATION
ATLANTIANS ARE GUESSING
WHAT MAYOR-ELECT WOOD
WARD’S POLICY WILL, BE.
At Oats With the Chief of Police and
Recorder a Stir-l'p it Expected In
the Capitol Police Department.
The “Sports” Feel a Little Easier
Than They Have Been Feeling
Thonah Nobody is Looking for a
“Wide Open Town.”
Atlanta, Nov. 26. —There is much
anxious speculation Indulged In as to
the policy of the approaching admin
istration of Mayor-elect James G.
Woodward toward the city officials and
departments. Mayor Woodward goes
into office the first of January, and
becomes ex-officio, a member of the
police board. He also has the power
of appointing a member of this board
from Council in the person of the
chairman of the Police Committee.
“Agin” the Police.
The Mayor-elect is said to be per
sonally antagonistic not only to Re
corder Nash Broyles, but to Chief of
Police John W. Ball. The Anti-Ball
element will be in the majority on the
police board In any event, and though
Ball has made an able and an efficient
chief, there are many who believe he
will have to go. Woodward’s dielike
for Ball, it Is said, dates back to his
last term, as Mayor, when the chief,
then a captain of police, accorded him
the same treatment given to the pris
oners under similar circumstances.
Whether a strong public opinion will
operate to save Chief Ball, remains
to be seen.
The Woodward administration, it is
said, will support Malvern Hill, a law
yer and an.ex-member of Council, for
the office of Recorder. The opposition
to Broyles grows out of the charge that
he runs the Recorder’s Court not as a
court of justice, but as a revenue pro
ducing institution, treating as fish all
that fall into the police net.
To Superannuate Old Policemen.
Another feature of the policy of the
Woodward administration, it is said,
will be to superannuate, the old mem
bers of the police force, either pension
ing them or putting them in the city
parks, where their duties will be light.
It, is proposed to appropriate $5,000 the
first year as a police pension fund, if
the consent of Council can be secured.
Fortunately the administration of the
fire department is so tied up by law
that it cannot be tampered with. The
heads of city departments, who owe
their election to the people or to Coun
cil, are in for two years more, and
little can be done to them, but there
are one or two minor employes around
the city hall, whose scalps are in loud
demand, and the indications are they
will have to go.
A Mnn of Independent Action.
New boards will be appointed which
will carry out the Woodward policy as
far as possible, for there is one thing
certain, the M'ayor-elect has a policy
of his own as has been shown by his
positive and independent course as a
member of the aldermanic board.
Mayor Woodward has already chos
en as his private secretary. Press Hud
dleston, a well known printer, who
is in good favor with all who know
him.
“Sports” Feel Easier.
Nobody looks for anything alarming
ly radical under the new Mayor, but
the “sports” feel that things will be a
little easier for them for the next two
years. There have been some sugges
tions of a “wide open town,” but no
one believes it will go to anything like
that extent. As an alderman. Wood
ward strongly advocated granting a
two weeks racing privilege with pool
selling at Piedmont Park, but Council
acceded to the demands of the minis
ters and voted down the petition. Al
together no alarming fears are express
ed except perhaps in those departments
which are likely to be directly affected.
ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR
REPORTED PROGRESSING.
Generals Led Charges Into the Run.
slnn Forts.
Tokio, Nov. 27, 11 a. m.—The general
attack on Port Arthur is progressing,
but the results are unknown.
Gens. Nakamura and Salto, leading
specially trained bodies of swordsmen,
charged into the Russian forts and
engaged the Russians in a hand-to
hand and bloody encounter.
The result of the charges has not
been learned.
Selrnre Wns Legal.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 26.—The su
preme prize court to-day confirmed the
legality of the seizure of the British
steamer Cheltenham and her cargo Cap
tured by the Russians, and taken to
Vladivostok early in July.
FOOLISH CRY OF “FIRE”
•CAUSED THEATER PANIC.
New York, Nov. 26.—C00l headed
management on the part of the theater
officials, actors and others in the Har
lem Opera House, this afternoon dur
ing a performance of “Letty,” checked
an incipient panic in which nearly all
the persons in the audience left their
seats and many could not be restrained
from leaving the theater.
Asa fire engine was passing, a wom
an in the balcony cried, "Fire.” At
once there was *a rush for the aisles
and stairways. While employes of the
theater ran to different parts of the
house shouting that there was no dan
ger, the asbestos curtain was run down
and the fire exits were opened.
No Yellow Fever in Cuba.
Havana. Nov. 26.—President Palma
to-day summoned Dr. Carlos Finlay
chief of the Department of Health and
Sanitation. and on Dr. Finlay’s per
sonal statement that yellow fever was
non-exlstant in the Island. President
Palma notified ministers and consuls
accredited to Cuba and denied the re
ports from the United States that there
was yellow fever In Cuba.
FACT
Easily proved
that
POSTUM
will rebuild a broken
down, coffee-ruined sys
tem.
Gsl the little book. The Hood le Wall
eille. insarli pk
BGREED8 GREED ON THIS SUBJECT!
BODY WAS FOUND.
Mrs. Brigham Had Been Murdered
By Some One Unknown.
Leicester, Mass., Nov. 26.—Bruised
and battered by fierce blows, her face
pounded into an unrecognizable mass,
skull fractured and six ribs broken,
the body of Mrs. Emma Richards
Brigham, reported missing last night,
was found to-day in the Alder swamp
in the rear of her home.
A tramp who stopped at the Brigham
house two nights in September is sus
pected of being the murderer. The
description given by the aged mother
of the murdered woman tallies with
that of the tramp seen in Leicester
yesterday and to-day. He left Lei
cester in September with a blue shirt
and gold pen stolen from Mrs. Brig
ham's house. Three tramps are held
at Spencer as suspects.
No motive for the crime is known.
The weapon with which the crime was
committed has not been found.
SAYS THAT EUROPE
IS AIDING RUSSIA.
London, Nov. 26.—Baron Suyematsu,
son-in-law of Marquis Ito, president
of the Japanese privy council, whose
comment was fully indorsed by Baron
Hayashl, the Japanese minister here,
discussing the irritation of Japan at
the continued supply of British coal
to vessels of the Russian Second Pa
cific squadron, said to-day:
“We feel strongly that Europe in
general is assisting Russia in a way
we never contemplated. Even in Eng
land individuals are rendering much
indirect assistance. Without English
coal the Russian squadron could not
have gone far, and It is my belief that
when contraband trade is being car
ried on in such a wholesale and open
fashion, the government concerned
should take steps to prevent a contin
uance of action prejudicial to another
nation, especially when that nation
happens to be an ally.”
Discarded the Confession.
Pittsburg, Nov. 26.—Rev. Dr. David
Schley Schaff, professor of church his
tory at the Western Theological Sem
inary. Alleghany City, to-day con
firmed the report that the Union Theo
logical Seminary of New York had
discarded the Westminster confession
of faith.
Spain mid Denmark Heady.
Washington, Nov. 26.—1 t was an
nounced at the State Department to
day that Spain and Denmark have
accepted in principle the President’s
invitation for another peace conference
at The Hague.
UI Hit ALTAIC* TWO
HUNDRED YEARS.
Taken by It nuke In 1704 As An Af
tertbought, Novr Britain's Pride.
From the Nineteenth Century and
After.
On Aug. 4, 1704 (new style), the Rock
of Gibraltar was captured by Great
Britain, and it has remained In her
possession from that day to this.
Among the many possesinons scattered
all over the globe that are comprised
In the British empire to-day there Is
none that the nation holds with greeter
tenecity for I*ooollo both of oentiment I
and of material Interest, and none that
it would lose wit It more poignant
shame and sorrow, than the redoubt- '
able atronghold we look from Spain
at the beginning of the reign of Queen
Anne.
Tlie fact 1 hat throughout the eigh
teenth century, when on many con-1
queats In both hemispheres changed!
hands be* kward and forward in sue. j
teed ve wars and under stecusadv# wen
ties, Gibraltar remained permanently
in the keeping of England might seem
to prove that British sentiment with
regard to it was from the first the
same as it is to-day. But this is far
from having been the cause. For, al
though at the end of 200 years of our
possession of the fortress, at a time
when the imperial instinct of English
men has become more consciously de
veloped and more deeply ingrained
than ever before, and at the same time
more intelligently appreciative of the
true meaning of sea power and alive to
the strategical requirements of its
maintenance, the retention of the key
of the Mediterranean has become an
essential article of oiy political creed,
it was a considerable time before the
immense value of the acquisition w r as
fully realized by British statesmen.
It seems strange enough to us to
remember that King George I and his
ministers were ready to give up Gi
braltar merely to secure Spain’s acqui
escence in the arrangement by which
the quadruple alliance was anxious to
make some pettifogging modifications
in the shuffle of territories affected by
the Treaty of Utrecht, but it is still
more extraordinary that so clear sight
ed, patriotic and high spirited an em
pire builder as Lord Chatham himself
should have made a similar offer as an
inducement to Spain to help us to re
cover Minorca—and this, moreover, at
a time when the fortress had been in
our hands for more than half a cen
tury and its vital Importance to our
growing maritime supremacy had al
ready been abundantly proved in the
naval wars of the period. Happily the
Spaniards were as blind as ourselves
to the supreme importance of the po
sition, commanding the road from the
Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
The truth is, as readers of Mahan
do not need to be reminded, that the
importance of sea power and the na
ture of the foundations on which it
is based were very Imperfectly grasped
even by England in the seventeenth
and the first half of the eighteenth
century, and scarcely at all by any
other European power. Occasionally
at intervals some statesmen like Col
bert, In France, or Alberoni, in Spain,
had more than an inkling of the truth,
but no nation except England made
deliberate and sustained efforts with
a view to maritime development. Even
England did so rather by instinct than
by insight.
Of the blindness to the true princi
ples of maritime policy the taking of
Gibraltar and Its history during the
following three-quarters of a century
afford a striking Illustration. Just as
the vast importance of Its acquisition
was at the time underrated both by
England and Spain, so its actual cap
ture by the former was an after
thought and (It may also be said) an
accident. It became a British posses
sion In the first instance because at
a time when we happened to be at
war with one of the rival claimants
to Spanish throne our admiral In
the Mediterranean happened to have
no particular olijestlve in view, and,
having failed in his only enterprise
of that year, was unwilling to return
home with a fine fleet that had done
nothing for the honor of the flag. So
he thought he m'ght as well make an
attack on Gibraltar as do anything
else. Nevertheless, his action has to
be reckoned among the notable "deeds
that won the empire.” and one that on
Its bl-centenary deserves to be had In
remembrance.
NEW THRILLS WANTED.
Fan-Makintt Novelties Are Wanted
fur Amusement Farka.
From the Philadelphia Record.
If Inventory*ant anew problem for
•hair Ingeunity to tackle there Isa very
profitable one open In (he development
of Interesting amusement resort* feat
ures. A good authority declares that,
while a grunt number of people work
on this problem, there le an absolute
dearth of awcegaful novelties. As
■f Bet vf fat 4 kvvntif is uvl rii
as the merry-go-round, which has
been known for thirty years, is as good
a paying device as ever. The modern
examples, how’ever, are much more
elaborate than those of yore, one built
during the past season costing $150,000.
Despite their last cost, most amuse
ment devices, where run under one
management in a park, are very re
munerative, the earnings often running
up to 80 and 100 per cent, per annum.
A modern scenic railway costs about
SIB,OOO, and always has a following
when properly located and safely built.
A shoot the chutes is a short-lived de
vice, although costing from $15,000 to
$20,000. The profits, however, are enor
mous, often running up to S9OO on
crowded days. The old mill that made
its appearance three years ago costs
anywhere from $14,000 to $16,000, and
may easily earn SI,OOO a day, with 10-
cent fares. The coal mine is a varia
tion of the old mill, tracks taking the
place of the canals and papier-mache
tunnels and stopes and banks and
oaves of the old mill. Anew devise
that has made its ‘appearance during
the past season, and already men
tioned in these columns. Is a circle
swing. This is a variation of the mer
ry-go-round, in which the centrifugal
force of the cars carries them upward
and outward In their horizontal revolu
tions. When taking on passengers the
cars almost touch the ground at the
base of a tower, which may be sixty
feet high. 'Their suspension is such
that as the speed increases they swing
outward until they attain a hight of
approximately sixteen feet above the
ground and a corresponding distance
from the pole.
The device is entirely safe and de
pends largely on the element of speed
for its fascination. The down-and-out
device, which is nothing but a patented
fire-escape, whose inventor has been
very successful in Introducing it Into
schools and hospitals, proved a money
maker during its first season. The
modification that always comes with
each successful device is known this
season as the Chilkoot Pass, and this
possesses the desirable feature of al
lowing others to enjoy the amusement,
the result being a good-natured, high
ly-amused crowd, which means a
crowd ready to spend money liberally.
The Chilkoot Pass has an incline of
about 50 degrees. It is made of ma
ple, set with the grain running toward
the bottom to prevent slivers, and
about thirty feet wide and fifty feet
in length. The incline trip is made
Interesting by the presence of hugs
bumps or humps of highly polished
maple, the effect of which, these being
set at irregular intervals, Is to change
the direction of descent, landing the
slider on a pad at the bottom, and in
“a more or less reckless and excited
condition" What will the Inventor pro
vide for next season?
THE MAMMOTH.
When Hie GlKantle Mammal Floor-
Inked.
From the Church Standard.
In the Stone Age, thousands of years
ago, the island of Britain, now the
tranquil home of Industry, was cov
ered wllh woods that were the haunts
of wild beasts such as'are now found
In tropical regions. The lion and the
cave tiger, more terrible than that
of Bengal, preyed on the herds of
elk and reindeer, and the huge mam
moth browsed on the young shoots of
the lofty trees.
This gigantic creature, though, like
the modern elephant, an herbivorous
animal, must, from Its formidable as
pect. have carried terror to the hearts
of the feeble human beings who crouch
ed for shelter In caverns and holed
in the rocks, as It came crashing
through the pine forests, making the
earth tremble beneath Its ponderous
tread; perhaps seising In Its trunk and
bending to the ground the vety tree
in which some trembling fugitive had
taken refuge. For the mammoth eg
ceeded In else the largest elephant of
the present day, being from sixteen
t*> eMfbtsaa feel in MagUn Mt 4 mas
covered with wool and long hair, waa
armed with immense semicircular tusks
and its mighty neck bristled with a
thick mane.
These animals appear to have exist
ed In great numbers throughout Eu
rope and Northern Asia. Indeed, there
i“ an island off Siberia entirely com
posed of mammoth bones, Efend and ice,
and the trade in mammoth ivory has
been carried on by the Siberians for
centuries. From finding the tusks and
bones in the ground, the natives con
cluded they belonged to a huge an
imal that lived underground, and so
called it the mammoth, which is s’aid
to mean, in the Siberian language,
“earth beast.” It is to the circum
stance of the mammoth being an in
habitant of cold climes that we owe
our knowledge of its appeatiance, for
while the bones only are found of other
extinct animals, entire carcasses of the
mammoth, with the skin and hair on,
have been discovered in the frozen soil
of Siberia.
In 1799 the melting of ice at the
mouth of the river Lena partially ex
posed a shapeless mass, which, as the
ice that enveloped it disappeared, prov
ed to be the frozen body of a mam
moth. It lay there for several years,
during which time it was much muti
lated by the Yakuts cutting off the
flesh to feed their dogs with, and by
being eaten by the polar bears. At
length the skeleton and what remained
of the skin, which was so heavy that
it required ten men to carry it, were
removed to the Museum of the Aca
demy of St. Petersburg. The skin was
clothed with reddish wool, portions of
which are now in the Museum of the
College of Surgeons in London.
The discovery in the cavern of La
Madeleine, in France, of a portion of
mammoth tusk, on which a drawing
of the animal itself was rudely scratch
ed, proves that it existed when men
were on the earth. From its thick
wooly covering it could endure the
rigors of an arctic winter.
The mammoth whose body was found
In Siberia was probably overwhelmed
in a sudden snowstorm, and thus pre
served through long ages, till the melt
ing of the ice In which it was embed
dea revealed to wondering eyes the
perfect figure of one of the hugest
creatures of the antediluvian world.
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