UNCOVER NEW SORT
OF OCEAN SWINDLE
Many Englishmen Taken in
| by Clever Trick.
New York.—Old-timers in the de-
ctive division who had insisted there
was nothing new in crime, recently
admitted, after the lineup at police
eadquarters, that a new wrinkle in
indling was revealed in the grand
arceny case against two brothers,
enry Benjamin, twenty years old
@mnd Joseph, eighteen.
. Headquarters was so impressed with
he originality of their alleged opera-
on and with the information that the
air had mulcted many Englishmen
at a cable was sent tc Scotland Yard
sking whether that agency had anv
ta on the brothers.
Their method centered on the flash-
g of letters of credit and a hurried
: loan from strangers
Thus, the police said,
hey succeeded in obtaining $150 from
aj. Cuthbert Johnsomn of London
When he left on the Homeric. They
were arrested on the Olympic, just
fore it was to sail, their capture re-
lting from a radioed complaint and
{description given by Major Johnson
Letter of Credit.
Henry, the police said, boarded the
‘Homeric during the sailing hour and
struck up an acquaintance with Major
‘Johnson. Inasmuch as the brothers
have a decided English accent, Major
‘Johnson was impressad with the likeli
‘hood of a companion from the home
land for the voyage. In the course of
their conversation on the Homeric
‘deck, Henry took occasion to draw
forth, somewhat casually, a $12,000
letter of credit in Lloyd's bank, Lon.
don, professing ignorance of its use
and asking how it was to be cashed
While the major was engaged In the
‘friendly gesture of explanation, Jo-
seph rushed up, out of breath, and
asked Henry if he were Mr. Benjamin.
The reply being affirmative, Joseph an-
nounced there was a package for Mr.
Benjamin on the pier for which $150
cash payment was necessary. Flus-
tered by his shortage of cash, Henry.
according to the police narrative, ex-
pressed vexation that his $12,000 letter
of credit was of no avail at the mo:
ment, and with a convincing show of
embarrassment, induced Major John
son to advar.ce him $150. The broth
ers hastened from the liner, Henry
calling back he would return with the
package in a few moments.
A Clever Swindle.
But the Homeric sailed without
Henry. And, after a bit of thought.
“Major Johnson decided he had fallen
“for a clever swindle. He notified the
purser, learned “Mr. Benjamin” was
not booked and radioed the police.
Detectives, since then, had been watch-
ing departing steamships.
A short time later the brothers were
seen talking to an Englishman on a
“deck of the Olympic. They were ar-
rested. Their “chance” acquaintance
"gave information that convinced the
detectives the Major Johnson episode
was about to have been duplicated.
On Henry was found a letter o1
eredit made out to Stanley Car-
"ter, Esy., purporting tc establish that
- $12,000 had been paid into the Coru
‘Exchange bank to be drawn from
. Lloyd's. Joseph's pocket disclosed a
“letter of credit for $10,000, made out
to James Kingston, Esq., by the Bank
‘ of Montreal in Toronto and to be paid
by the Bank of England.
‘Malaria Is of Help in
Treatment of Paralysis
London.—Induced malaria as a suc-
cessful treatment of paralysis is re
vealed in a recent report of Surgeon
Rear Admiral E. T. Meagher cover-
~ing experiments on a number of cases
in English and Welsh hospitals.
“The treatment of general paral
-ysis,” his report stutes, “by induced
;malaria offers more promise of suc
.cess than any other form of treat
ament that has been given extended
trial.”
- ~The treatment, which included
either artificial malaria inoculation
_or exposure to malarially infected
mosquitoes, has been found, says Doc-
tor Meagher, to increase the length
ot life, to render existence more nat-
ural, and to produce improvements in
‘the physical condition and mental
State.
“The response in individual cases,”
ne states, “varies from a negative re-
sult to apparent complete recovery.”
Over a period of tive years 1,59
_ sases have been treuted in this man-
ner. Of this number 3.9 per cent died,
40.8 per cent are still in hospitals,
and 25.83 were discharged. Five out
of six of the discharged cases still
retain life and liberty.
Relics of the Old Days
of Forty-Niners Found
San Irancisco.—Workmea excaval.
tng for a new building brought to the
surface several relics of gold rush
days. Among them were a hand pump
still capable of pullin; water, a stove,
tools made nearly 100 yeurs ugo, a
smoking pipe of the kind favored by
forty-niners and a 14-foot slab of
Aberdeen granite. Masons said such
stone has not been brought to the
West coast since it was shipped
around the Horn in windjammers.
Million Lepers in China
Shaunghai.—China now contains more
than a million lepers, according to es-
timate of Dr. C. T. Wu, general sec.
retary of the Chinese Mission to
Lepers.
Poetic Similarity of
River and Human Life
Without sermonizing too grossly, we
may say that a river is like a human
life, Prof. William Lyon Phelps writes,
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The
source is often obscure and humble,
then a tiny stream, then growing big-
ger and more important (the widening
of Influence), then flowing tranquilly
(prosperous, happy days), now getting
into sand flats, hardly moving (seri-
ous illness), now roaring tempestuous-
-ly In rapids: (times of excitement and
adventure), yet going on, somehow
and somewhere.
Furthermore, they always arrive ul-
timately at the same destination—the
mysterious, open sea, leaving narrow
circumstances for a deeper and great-
er existence,
And even those streams that seem
to perish without fulfilling their des-
tiny, are in their subsequent influence
like the lives of obscurely good men.
Travelers in a desert sometimes
come to a bit of green meadow.
where a river once has been.
Camel Teams Utilized
in Parts of Australia
Many camels are used in Australia
as beasts of burden. For instance,
from Wyndham, in northwestern Aus-
tralia, the cattle stations are served
by camel trains which carry supplies
for hundreds of miles into the interior.
“The camels are driven by Afghans,”
says the Nat'onal Geographic society.
“Camel teams are familiar sights in
the street of the little township, haul-
ing in the great wagonloads of fire-
wood from the outlying district.
“The first camels were brought to
Australia for the use of the early ex-
plorers. Later a fine type of drom-
edary was imported for breeding pur-
poses and it s this type of animal
that is bred in central Australia. It
is considered by leading authorities
to be the largest and strongest drom-
edary found in the world. It proves
invaluable for pack work in waterless
regions.”
Writers Who Worked Fast
There are many instances of works
that come full-grown from their crea-
tors’ brains. Robert Louis Stevenson
wrote “The Stranga Case of Dr.
Jekyl and Mr. Hyde” on waking from
a troubled sleep, while desperately ill;
and he wrote the whole amazing work
at literally fever heat, then rewrote it
from start to finish, and all within six
days. Longfellow's “Psalm of Life”
was built up from notes he jotted
down on a bit of blank paper, or card,
in his pocket; but of “The Wreck of
the Hesperus,” he said: “I feel pleased
with the ballad. It hardly cost me an
effort. It did not come to my mind
by lines, but by stanzas.”
Smart Six-Year-Old
When almost six years of age Ben
jamin Blythe, who afterward became
4 noted Scottish engineer, was walk-
ing with his father when the child
asked “Papa, at what hour was i
born?’ He wus told 4 a. m., and he
then asked “What o'clock is it now?”
He was told 7:50 a. m. The boy
walked on a few hundred yards, then
turned to his father and stated the
number of seconds he had lived—which
upon calculation turned out correct,
even allowing for two leap years.—
Grit,
Served His Purpose
An artist, painting in the open air,
was startled to see a red-fuced, per-
spiring motorist at his side. “Don’t
put another stroke to it!” urged the
newcomer. “I'll give you five pounds
for it as it stands.”
“Jt—it is very kind of you,” thc
artist stammered, “but it’s not quite
tinished.”
“Doesn’t matter one jot,” said the
motorist, as he got his money out, “I
only want the canvas to mend a burst
tire.” —Weekly Scotsman.
The Word “Anecdote”
Today we know that the word
“anecdote” simply refers to a pithy
account of any incident, usually a
short entertaining narrative.
Originally, however, an anecdote
wus a secret history, a sort of a sub-
rosa story of unpublished events, this
significance being indicated by its root
Suulrce.
It is in this sense that it is used,
tor instance, by Procopius in his por-
trayal of the private life of Justinian
and Theodora.—Kansas City Star,
Tit for Tat
She could keep her secret no longer.
“Dearest,” she exclaimed to her
husband, “1 can’t wait until your
birthday to tell you what I've bought
you for a present . . I've .get
you a new rug to put in front of my
dressing table and a bronze statuette
for the drawing-room mantelpiece!”
And then she added: “Now, what are
you going to get me?”
“Well,” he replied, contemplatively
“l think I shall get you a new razor
and some ties.”
“Simple Life” in Burma
The Turkestan women have no win
dows to wash, their furniture being
limited to a few benches and tables
A vauuum cleaner in Burma would be
a drug on the market. Their houses
are built about eight feet above the
ground. The dust that blows into
the Burman house sifts right through
the bamboo cane floor. Meals are
cooked and eaten outdoors as long as
the weather permits.
LIGHTS * Sixon
of NEW YORK
Human Dynamos :
In discussing the head of a big New
York bank, a man, who is himself
important in the financial world, crit-
icized him as follows:
“He's a guy who exercises every
morning.”
I don’t know whether this can be
called a complete characterizer - in
view of the large amount of propa-
ganda that there is now for matutinal
exercising, but it certainly fitted the
subject under discussion. What the
author of the statement meant to say
was that the bank president had ac-
complished the success he had made
in life through brute strength and en-
ergy rather than through superior
thinking and unusual mental adroit-
ness. He is the type of executive who
is always driving and pushing, and,
when one stops to consider it, a great
deal can be accomplished by applica-
tion and brute strength without an
unusual quantity of talent,
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Luncheons Get Complicated
A yorng society woman gave a
luncheon for twenty junior leaguers
the other day, and her menu looked
like one of these buffets. Her friends
were on the eighteen day diet, and
she had telephoned each of them to ask
what day of the diet she was on. Prop-
er meals were served at all times.
and the hostess was obliged to pro
vide twelve of the eighteen “days”
on the diet.
* * *
The Resourceful Dramatist
Louls Weitzenkorn, editor of a New
York paper, has written a play which
has been accepted for production. One
of the scenes is at a Long Island house
party, and it shows the week-end
guests who are complaining bitterly
about the service and the dull time
they are having. The owner is trying
to think of a name for this country
place, and he has heard his guests
crabbing. Instantly he has ar inspira
tion, and he calls it BELLYACRES.
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Carbon Copies
Irvin Cobb was talking about the
son of a great man the other day.
To prove his point that the sons of
great men do not usually measure up
to the standards of their fathers, the
name of this man is not necessary for
the ancedote, and therefore will be
omitted. Cobb's comment on the son
was that he was a faint carbon copy
of his father about eight times re
moved from the original made on pur
ple carbon paper.
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it’s the Upkeep
I am informed that a banker has
moved into the most expensive apart-
ment in the city. [t is on Park ave
nue, and occupies three floors. The
living room is three stori2s high. The
apartment was built to the banker's
order, and cost $400,000, The cost of
maintaining co-operative apartments
is at least 10 per cent, so the bank
er's “rent,” on top of the purchase
price, is $40,000 a year. And that
doesn’t include the interest he might
be getting from a $400,000 investment
(© by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Church With 3 Members
Opens Once Each Year
Middletown, N. Y.,—Although the
congregation numbers only three mem-
bers, the Old School Baptist church at
Slate hill, near here, is opened oxce a
year for the annual meeting.
The church, which was founded Ib
1783, once was a flourishing religious
community, but for a score of years
has been used for only one purpose, the
annual meeting.
Mrs. Charles Stickney of Sussex,
N. J., clerk of the church, is the sole
officer of the congregation. She and
Mrs. Charles Wood of Slate Hill were
the only ones at the meeting, which
took place recently, the third member
of the congregation, Mrs. Francis
Stickney of Middletown, being ill
“Enplane” Gets Into Dictionary
New York.—Have you enplaned anda
deplaned yet? The next edition of the
New Standard Dictionary is to recog-
nize the words to be as legitimate as
entrain and detrain.
Find Bull Lost in
Heart of Huge Stack
Frankfort, I[nd.—The prize
bull story of the year if not of
all time came from Postmaster
Bdward Spray.
For eight days a prize bull
was missing on the Spray farm
near Simpson Stop, south of
'.1ere.
Jess Lucas, tenan. on the
farm, notified
search for the
“ruitless.
Spray had about given up
nope of finding the animal.
On the eighth day Lucas no
riced ¢ new tunnel in a large
straw stack that was approxi
mately 40 by fi feet.
He investigated and round
the bull clear in the center of
the straw stack, slowly eating
nis way through to the other
Spray that all
bull had proved
side!
The bull appeared to be in
fairly good physical shape ex:
'ept that he was thirsty, mot
naving had a drop to drink for
eight days.
‘Scions of Ancient Race
of Mayas Still Exist
Representatives of the ancient Maya
race still live at Cozumel, nine miles
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oft the coast of Yucatan, Mexico. They |
are direct descendants of that half
fabulous and mighty race which built
the ruined wonder cities of Yucatan;
which offered human hearts to Kukul-
kan, the feathered serpent god, at
Uxmal; which flung sacrificial maid-
ens, decked with jade and gold and
flowers, into the deep subterranean
pool at Chichen-ltza. Having seen
those mystery cities, those sacrificial
altars and that pool it gives you a
start—as if you had miraculously
pulled aside the curtain of time—to
behold Maya faces in the living flesh,
faces that we so often call Aztec.
Yet there on Cozumel those faces still
exist by the hundreds. A short and
stocky race, almost beardless and with
coarse black hair, they remind you
of the Japanese. Though all memory
of their former imperial glory has ut-
terly departed, they still speak the
ancient Maya tongue, for thou-
sands of years even before the Span-
ish conquest. This tongue, by the way,
is on2 of the very few aboriginal lan-
guages that have ever stood off a white |
man’s speech, Even today, Spanish
controls only the cities of Yucatan.
The country at large still conducts
its business—especially the chicle
business—in Maya, and on Cozumel
you hear it everywhere.
Wise Parent Will Stay
Young With Children
Whatever else parents do, let them
hold fast to imagination.
shut the fairy pcople out now.
them not make growing up like travel-
ing along a level road where every-
thing must eventually disappear be-
hind the .iorizon, but let them make
it like the ascent of a steep hill, where
the view constantly widens as one
goes higher and nothing once scen is
ever again shut jut. Then they will
never say to their children, “You're
too young to understand,” and what
is quite as important, their children
will never need to say of them,
“They're too old to understand.” What
is even more important, they will
never reach the deadly dull state of
beinz completely grown up, because
they will realize that if we have
wings we can never reach the place
where we cannot go higher.—Parents’
Magazine,
Odd Scottsh Structure
John O'Gicat’s house was located
on a spot on Duncansby road, the
northeast extremity of the mainland
“of Scotland, marking one of the limits
of that couniry. It is also the terminus
of autvumobile and cycling record rides
from Land's end, Cornwall, which is
the southwest extremity of England,
a distance of 994 miles. According to
tradition, in order to settle a family
dispute as to precedence an eight-sid-
ed house with a door and window in
each side, which contained an eight-
sided table, gave each of the eight
brothers of the Groat family the pow-
er to enter his own house and eat at
his own table in company with his
brothers.
Short Canal-Boat History
The first canal boats were for freight
only and provided quarters merely for
the captain and crew. But the de-
mand for passenger accommodations
brought canal boats with two cabins,
one at the bow and one at the stern,
with cargo hatches amidships, the
forward cabin for women and the aft-
er cabin for men. Within a few years
passenger trafic became so heavy
freight was carried entirely on freight
or cargo boats, while fast expresses
were operated for “passengers alone.
The boats were drawn by two or three
horses, which followed a towpath
along the hank. The express boats
averaged about 4 miles an hour.
Goldsmith Couldn’t Dictate
Dictation is nc new thing, though
commoner ioday than of old. A friend
of Oliver Goldsmith once suggested
to hin that he use the services of an
amanuensis. to avoid the physical la-
bor of writing. He tried it. It did not
work, He paced up and down the
room while the amanuensis sat and
waited for the words to be set down.
At last Goldsmith turned to him, put
the agreed-on fee into his hands, and
dismissed hin with these words. “It
won't do, my friend. [ find that my
head and my hand must work to-
gether.”
Coueism Among Finns
The ancient Finns, when. troubled
by the hiccoughs, sought relief by ad-
dressing the hiecoughs as follows:
“Go hiccough. to a clump of limes;
I'll come to strip the bark; go, hie-
cough, to a clump of birch; I'll come
to strip the bark.” This was repeated
over and over again—or was supposed
to be repeated—until the hiccoughs
became discouraged and took their de-
parture. Gout, when making an at-
tack, was greeted in this wise—*“Good
gout, thou. lovely gout, depart, turn
back elsewhere.”—Gas Logic.
Naturally Interested
A parson delivered a sermon based
on an extract from the book of Mac-
cabees.
At luncheon that day a rich new
parishioner thought fit to compliment
him on Lis address.
“It was particularly interesting to
me,” she gushed. “You see, I've got a
delightful »ld Maccabean sideboard at
home.”—London Tit-Bits.
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