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snvinces Jersey Couple
He's Their Son.
Camden, N. J—A young man whose
rents separated when he was ten
thout making proper provision for
n, and who has longed ever since
» a home and the affection of a
ther and father, by quick thinking
nost won those things for himself—
nost, but not quite. The story he
stily patched up fell in a sad heap
der police questioning here recently.
The youth ls Howard R. Marks.
enty-two, 6 feet fall, good looking.
ry earnest and very lonesome. After
ifting about in no very happy man
rv until he was seventeen, he joined
p army. He has been with it ever
ice and has still a few months to
rve. Recently he obtained a furlough
d came back to the states from Pan-
1a. Seeking a chance to lay aside a
nny or two during his vacation he
mt to Bridgeton and got 8 job 8s
rry picker on a farm. es
Meets “Mother.”
Picking berries near him one day
1s Mrs, Harry Galasso of Camden,
kindly, middle-aged woman. She
ked up at the youth and told him
s eyes were just like those of her
it son. His features were very simi-
r too, she said. Her boy disappeared
n years ago, when he was seven
ale playing on a wharf in the Dela-
are river. It was supposed he was
owned, but no one saw him fall in
e water and his body never was re
vered.
She asked the youth picking berries
xt to her to tell her something about
8 life. He looked hard at her kind,
other's face. He thought fast. Then
» told her he had been kidnaped
hen he was seven, Mrs. Galasso
emed excited. She asked him more
jestions, but he made some excuse
1d broke away from her.
He sought out other berry pickers.
re. Galasso’'s story was familiar to
em all. She had told it many times.
‘e asked them for details of her
n’s disappearance, for some informa-
on about her and her husband, their
yme, their relatives and neighbors.
“Father” Convinced.
When she found him again and pur-
ted her questions he was prepared.
e told of being kidnaped and taken
y a house in Atlantic City, of escap-
ig from there and knocking about
atil he was old enough to join the
smmy. He was seventeen, he said.
rom what little he purported to be
le to remember of his early child
sod, Mrs. Galasso became convinced
1e had found her long lost son.
‘An excited telephone call brought
r. Galasso, a small truck farmer, to
ridgeton. He, too, was convinced. It
as a happy reunion. The Galasso’s
ad found their son and Howard
‘arks had found a home,
They took him back to their house.
rs. Galasso, proud and overjoyed.
yoked a fine big dinner. They took
im out and bought him new shoes.
new hat, a new suit.
Then, desiring to punish the kia:
apers who had carried off their only
ajld and caused them so much sad-
ess, they took him to the county
ourt house in Camden, It was not
mg before detectives discovered sev-
ral inconsistencies in his story of
is kidnaping and subsequent adven-
res.
Soon they had him cornered ana
‘hen they threatened to send to Fort
locum, N. Y., for his enlistment pa-
ers he admitted the hoax. He wanted
home more than anything else, he
aid, and when he saw the chance to
et one, he couldn't resist. Hg cried
little, and opposite him Mrs, Galasso
as sobbing.
“How could you be so cruel?” she
gked the youth. “I thought I had
ound my boy at last.”
Marks said he was sorry if he haa
aused harm, If they didn’t want him
e'd clear out as fast as possible—and
hat’s what he did.
Jlinic Tragedy Gives
Life to Pittsburgher
Fort Wayne, Ind.—Although the
fleveland Clinic explosion brought
eath to many, it meant life of Emil
imminger, forty-three, of Pittsburgh,
ormer resident here. Through action
f Judge George H. Leonard in Supe
for court, Simminger, declared legal
y dead two years ago, has been re-
tored to life by the law.
After reading newspaper accounts
£ the clinic blast Si er was at-
racted to the scene. While in Cleve
and he met a brother, and learned
hat he bad been declared dead by
ourt action. His relatives had not
ieard from him for 19 years. :
Legal action to declare him deaa
yas taken upon the death of his fa-
her to facilitate distribution of an
state,
With action set aside, Simminger
a8 been paid $1,800 as his part of
he estate, :
Salmon 54 Years in Tin
Is Found Still Good
Olympia, Wash.—Canned to keep for
3 century; Columbia river salmon
which was sealed and processed in an
specially made tin in 18756 was exam-
ned recently. No sign of deterigra-
Jon was detected. The tin covering
has resisted corrosion and there is rea-
sor: to believe that the contents will
ne ae good in 1970 as when freshly
packed. J. W. V. Cook, ploneer fish
merchant op the Pacific coast, packed
the salmon at his plant at Clifton,
Dre., 54 years ago.
LEE
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The swastika,” which is the cross.
been the ‘symbol of good luck for so
long back that no reliable evidence
has been preserved to Indicate Just
why this particular ideograph shoul
oe its present ean We do
know that from time out of micd it
bas had this significaure, and among
peoples in all parts of the world ex-
cepting Africa, Polynesia, Australie
and the polar reginns.
The swastika as the good-luck sym-
bol is found in Chine, Korea, Japan
and India. As far back as in ancient
Troy the swastika was used in this
sense by the Myceneeans. It is found
in relics of such widely separated peo-
ples as those who inhabited Europe
during the Bronze age, the KErruscans,
the Indians of our own Colorado and
Mexico, and among others of North
American natives who antedated Co
tumbus by at least ten centuries.
Another curiously significant fact is
that in the Indian language the word
“gwastika” means good luck; while in
ancient Sanscrit “swasti” means “hail”
or “be well.”—Kansas City Times.
J oon
Wisard of Electricity
on Starvation’s Verge
A story is told about Charles P.
Steinmetz that, true or not, illustrates
his peculiar temperament, writes
Jonathan Norton Leonard in World's
Work. A friend who had known him
at Yonkers came to see him soon aft-
er he had gone to Lynn, Mass. with
the General Electric. He found him
in a sad state. His clothes showed
frantic signals of distress, his face
looked pinched and thin. It wasn’t
easy to get at the root of the trou-
ble, but at last the friend induced
Steinmetz to talk.
By some clerical mistake Stet.
metz's name had not been entered
on the pay roll and he had received
no money at all in the four weeks
he had been at Lynn. His own mea-
ger savings had nearly run out and
he was too proud to complain. There
were men at Lynn who were work-
ing for nothing, glad of the experi:
ence which the job gave them, and
Steinmetz concluded he was in this
classification.
“Conversational” Dinner
One night at the \White House dur-
ing the Presidency of Theodore
Roosevelt there met at dinner John
Hay (then secretary of state), Sir
Martin Conway, Walter Wellman,
James Ford Rhodes, the historian,
and, of course, President Roosevelt.
Next day Hay and Rhodes met again
and the following conversation en-
sued:
Rhodes—That was a nice conversa
made by crossing two letter “2's” has
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Scientists Listen to ~~ vi
Two sclentists; of’ the Unixersity- of
Pittsburgh _ recently. perfected. ap. ap-
paratus for detecting the sounds of
Ww
A block of wood was placed upon
the diaphragm of an ordinary tele-
phone transmitter, which in turn
was connected through batteries and
amplifiers to 8 pair of earphones.
When the termites crawled over the
block of wood the transmitter was
agitated, resulting in sound vibrations
which were clearly heard by the lis
seners at the headset. fe k
When the ants became excited over
something or other their soldiers were
found to hammer their heads vigor-
ously on the wood. This action could
be clearly seen and heard at the
same time,
The investigators found that the
ants could hear sound vibrations in
the air very poorly or not at all, but
were extremely sensitive to vibrations
underground. For this reason it was
thought that the head hammering wae
a method of communication.
Because of this sensitivity to sub-
stratum vibrations ants are seldom
found to infest the ties of railroads
carrying heavy traffic, or buildings
containing machinery. The vibrations
mean danger to them just as if one
of their own number was giving the
alarm by banging his head on the
ground.
Phrase “Stone Age” Not
Literal in Application
The Stone age is a term commonly
ased to denote the earliest recognized
stage in the development of human
culture as defined by the materials
“used by man for weapons, utensils,
ete. The phrase is somewhat mislead-
ing, since it is probable that primitive
man made use of wood and other
perishable materials to a far greater
_ exient than of stone, and consequently
the stage is defined by the prevailing
material of the relics, not by that of
actual implements in common use. The
term “Stone age” represents in no
sense a chronological division of hu-
man progress, but is a loose equivalent
for a stage of cultural development
varying widely in duration in different
parts of the world. There are, e. g.,
| tribes still in the Stone age, while, on
the other hand, some groups had out-
grown it before the dawn of history.
It 1s also worth noting that some
tribes commonly classed as belonging
to the Stone age produced objects of
a superior artistic and industrial merit
to those who had advanced to the use
of metals. The evidence for the ex-
{stence of such an age in most parts
of the world is conclusive, but it Is
, from the prevalence and character of
tional dinner we had at the White
House last night.
Hay—Conversational do you call it?
How long were we at the table?
Rhodes—About two hours,
Hay—Well, Wellman talked 8 min |
ute, Sir Martin a minute and a half,
you a minute and I not more than
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that, and Theodore talked all the rest
of the time. Do you call that con-
versation ?—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Not Such a Big Success
The late Walter Kingsley, one of
once released an elephant in the
streets of New York while doing pub-
licity for “The Circus Man.” He tele-
phoned his “loss” to the police de-
partment and a squad of officers
went out. They found the elephant
all right and had they but known
it, the animal would have followed
them peacefully with the offer of a
few peanuts.
Instead, they frightened the ele-
phant, which dashed into an office
building, wedged itself in the door-
way and half the building had to be
torn down in order to release it.
Words Handed Down
In the word magic we have a remi-
niscence of the Persion “Magi,”
mighty prophets and interpreters of
dreams, of whom three were said to
have found their way to Bethlehem.
Words which come to us from the
Roman religion are cereal, genius,
fete, fortune, fury, grace, June, mint,
money, Saturday, vesta, contemplate,
sacrifice, tempie, augury and auspice.
Vampire is an unpleasant Slavonic
word brought back from the East by
travelers in the Eighteenth century.
Taboo, tattoo and kangaroo came to
3 with Captain Cook from the Pa-
e.—Hxchinge,
Destructive Locusts
When agriculture began to be es-
tablished generally in the great plains
gion of the United States lying west
of the Mississippi river and east of
the Rocky mountains, during the dec-
ade 1870-80, a migratory species of
grasshopper, commonly known as the
Rocky mountain locust, frequently
swooped down from {its breeding
grounds on the benches of the moun-
tain range in such great swarms as
to destroy practically all cultivated
crops over vast areas of country, re-
ducing thousands of families almost
to starvation.
Jobn Did Not Eat Insests
The locusts eaten by John the Bap-
tist were probably not insects, bat
the fruit of the carob tree, the dried
pods of which are the locust beans
sold as food for cattle. The caroh
tree 13 sometimes called the honey
tree, from the sweet pulp contained
in its pods whilg they are fresh.
the relics in certain parts of Europe
rather than in America that the idea
and term have come into general use.
A Mouse Farm
Have you ever heard of 8 mouse
farm? There is one at Rayleigh, in
Essex, England, where mice are
reared just as cattle and sheep are
fn ordinary farms. There are 50.000
mice, and of nearly every color. Yet.
although there are so many, Mr. Tuck,
the farmer, can put his hands on any
one of them at a moment’s notice.
_ About three hundred young ones are
the last of the old time press agents,
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of “Bells.”
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born every day, and it takes five
hours to feed them all. They are
sold to colleges and hospitals for ex-
periments.
Danger in Bells’ Tolling
it often has been observed that the
vibrations of a large bell ringing in
a tower can be felt in the masonry
near it, and serious accidents have
been caused by such vibrations, ac-
' cording to Satis N. Coleman, author
In 1810 the spire of a
church in England fell while the bells
! were being rung for morning service
! and 23 persons were killed.
In most
church towers the bells are hung in
a framework, which, as far as pos-
sible, is kept clear of the walls.—De-
troit News. :
Speed of Fastest Birds
Swallows fly at the rate of more
than 100 miles an hour and are among
the world’s fastest birds, says Popular
Mechanics Magazine. The puma {is
reputed to be one of the swiftest wild
animals and whippets hold most of
the speed records among domesticated
animals. Race horses often attain a
speed of well over 1,000 yards a min-
ute, while pigeons have been timed
at speeds of nearly 2,800 yards a minp-
ute for short spurts,
Cause of Delay
Mother had gone shopping. The
first store she entered she fell down
the stairs and the first ald doctor sent
her to the hospital where she remained
overnight.
The father, not wishing to excite the
children when asked where mother
was, said she bad gone to the bair-
esser.
Next morning Rex, age six, said:
“Hasn't mother got back yet? Gee,
she must be getting a permanent!”
Daily Thought
God 1s an infinite ocean of all goed
without any admixture of evil; an in
finite treasure-house of all riches,
without any fear of poverty; an in-
finite source of all joy, without any
apprehension of grief; an Infinite
cause of all good, comprising all, ab
salutely all good things.—Father Ap-
gelo.
Defiance of Old Saying
one-of -the’ best” geographic metaphors.
“carrying. conls to Newcastle.” Many
“coals,” in fact, to many “Newecap
tles.”
American merchants are selling all
sorts of products to countries for
which those same products are fa-
mous, says the National Geographic
society. : :
Apple blossom time in Normandy fis
po hindrance to the sale of thousands
of boxes of American apples in
France. The United States also sells
hops and sausage to Germany, home
of beer and frankfurters, and fertil-
»f natural nitrates.
Peru is the original home of quinine.
Yet quinine leads the list of Ameri-
can medicinals worth $400,000 import-
od into Peru annually from the United
trees do not grow.
impossible to Predict
Approach of Tornado
Science has devised no way of pre-
dicting when or where & tornado wilt,
strike or exactly what path i will
travel once it starts. Weather bu-
reau officials recognize certain eo@-
ditions that are favorable—sultry,
“sticky” afternoons following morn-.
ngs that are oppressive, especially in’
May and June, with an area of low
atmospheric pressure shown OD the
weather. map to the northwest—but
the weather bureau makes no predic-
tion of tornadoes. Even when con-
ditions are apparently most favorable
tornadoes may not occur at all and
when they do appear there is no cer-
tainty in regard to what locality or
even what state they will strike. Also,
no successful effort has ever been
made to warn cities of the approach
of a tornado when it is traveling in
their general direction. Wire service
is always disrupted by such a storm
and radio would be worthless on ac-
count of disablement of a sending sta-
tion in the storm path.
Two Rare Birds
Two six-plumed birds of paradise
—go rare that living specimens have
never before been seen in England—
arrived recently at the London zoo
from New Guinea. They carry on
their heads the six long, racket-tipped
spines which have earned for the spe-
cies its popular name. On the breast
fs a metallic hued shield iridescent
with green, bronze and blue. Save
for a silver cushion on the forehead
they are velvety black, making the
turquoise blue iris of the eye very
conspicuous. If they act in similar
fashion to a closely allied species, the
birds will throw out their bcdy-
plumes like a skirt, expand the breast
shield, erect their head-plumes fan-
wise, and strut about erratically. .
Columbus’ Coat of Arms
It was in “the spacious times of
good Queen Bess” when the Spaniard
was Lord of the Earth. All know the
story of his “Invincible Armada”; but
it had an unforeseen result through
one of the vessels being wrecked on
the Fair isle, off the coast of Scotland,
and some 200 of the crew being saved.
During a stay of some months there,
the Spaniards taught the women thelr
quaint patterns. One of the patterns
is a golden anchor on a blue ground.
This was the coat of arms granted to
Columbus by the Spanish sovereigns
as one of the rewards for his discovery
of the New world.—Montreal Family
Herald, ;
His Worthy Precedent
Little Lawrence was untidy. Thongh
his mother - made: every effort to en
courage him he seldom folded up his
clothes after he undressed for bed
One day his mother came into the
pedroom and saw his clothing scaf-
tered all over the floor. ’
- “1 wonder who it was that never
folded up his clothes when he went
to bed?”
Little Lawrence pulled his clothes
over his head and answered:
“Adam!”
: . Great Adventure
Four-year-old Marvin’s parents were
planning something unusual for a va-
cation, and during that period grand-
ma was expected to care for the chil-
dren. Daddy gave the little lad in-
junction to “be very good” during his
absence.
“1 will, daddy, for it is going to be
a great adventure for you.”
He could not remember a time when
dad and mother had before taken a
trip.
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Not Expected to Know
A class of small boys at Sunday
school was being queried on the les-
gon, but nope appeared to know his
lesson. : :
“Perhgps’ this new little member or
our class can tell us who it wus that
Red sen?” the teacher said.
our neighborhood last week and yom
couldn’t expect him to know,” volum-
teered one lad.
Heritage of the Mesh
Blessed ure the poor. Their eh
dren shall inhe® the earth becani®
the rich don't have any childreme—
Capper’'s Weekly. - 3
American producers have” exploded
They now make millions annually by
perfume and raisins to France, the |
home of flower farms and vineyards;
fzer to Chile, the world's chief source
States, a country in which cinchona ,
led the children of Israel across the |
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WAGES
IGH wages depend on large output.
Loafing on the job ends in unemploy-
ment. The man who does only one half
of what he is capable of doing is a poor
economist. He thinks he is cheating his
employer but he is also cheating him-
self. He never gets ahead. Wages in the
United States are higher than anywhere
else. Why? Because the output is
greater. aw
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