Aurora observer., April 21, 1921, Image 2

Mirds b y
f A n klets
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1 MARKED
|s Revealed
lew Facts
tions of
husband.
births The inscription on the alumi­
num band worn by this bird is as
legible today as it was when received
from the maker, notwithstanding the
six years of rough treatment under
all weather conditions.
One of the
most astounding details o f bird life
brought out by banding has to do with
the domestic relations o f Jenny Wren
and her songful husband.
Wren Is Fickle.
Wrens habitually raise two large
families in rapid sequence each sea­
son, and in these circumstances . it
would naturally be thought the head
o f the establishment would give his
uninterrupted attention to his house­
hold. Not so, however, with an Ohio
house wren, who, the moment his first
hatch of offspring was on the wing,
ruthlessly abandoned his little brown
wife and, moving off less than a hun­
dred yards, reared h’ s second family
with a newly found mate. This abom­
inable fickleness ,'giight never have
been suspected Ijk c fit not been for
o f birds, the
fersal or dis-
their mating
the homing
with which
fcn’ to given areas
R ou tes followed
even polygamy
poth er problems
landing associa-
E>y methods that
Jr questioning the
*&■
¿mem bers o f the
Here's Another Peril
*#,12 years been
|ch on a large
/
-in "Hitting Bottle”
erii Tmisphere, and
[uise aims are
‘ties
* Winchester, Va.—The art of
the American
.h thc&e
drinking from a bottle is being
üveíìibeen operating since
lost in this vicinity. E. .Clar­
,iese; bodidf'of investigators
ence Smith o f Berkeley county
je ir ' cxperBents by the use
entertaified a party o f men
, tfands of c $ , each bearing
friends, at an old-time “pitch”
■:ription. or* rjlirn address and
party; at Which bottled pop was
,al number. rm bands are usu-
served. One o f Smith’s guests
,-iia.de o f alummm and are man-
had not gurgled anything for so
¿ ¿ r e d in abou® dozen different
many years that when he went
.33 to' fit the le'gmf all birds, from
about it in the old-time way the
Je smallest w a rfr to the clumsy
suction fastened the mouth of
eagle.
the bottle tightly to his lips and
and t h e H |hty
B
it could not be removed.
^ ^ ig h t &o^fnd of these bands
Finally one o f the guests pro­
^ M feiriar beet (iade for the Amer-
associatlon, and
cured a feather and tickled his
_ Ì " ^ x d Banc
friend under the nose, provok­
.tely 2Ú have been placed
ing a laugh, which broke the con­
1 legs o f native wild
nection.
v
tamped with the
.Museum, N. Y.,”
on reverse side
jeSyg, “d u m b e r. At
-Vj^V^Ptaced on the
.. . ;
on a stan-
information relating
These data include
the band, the name of
^
bp- its age (whether nestling,
¿»¿^fledgling or adult), locality, date, name
of bander and remarks.
The bird,
^ h a v i n g been thoroughly “ catalogued,”
: / ’-'.gent on its way.
i Pianist Boguslawski Evokes First
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the numbered rings used on all of
characters involved.
Another house wren with a history
is the “ little old woman who lived in
a shoe.” She and her husband and
their 13 children (reared in two in­
stallments) were all banded. No word
has ever been heard from the children
since they left home, but a year later
a wren was seen at the old “ shoe bun­
galow” with a bracelet on his leg. but
no mate was near. The observer ' is
left wondering if perhaps-there is not
a wren Reno somewhere in the South.
Of the total of 20,000 birds banded
approximately 400, or 2 per cent, have
so far been heard from, and additional
recoveries are being received ^rbm
time to time.
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London to Have Another Great Skyscraper
PHYSICAL PERFECTION
A general view o f the three-acre site at Aldwych-in-t he-Strand, London, on which the great Bush International
Sales building will be built. Steel construction has already been started on the structure, which when completed
will represent an investment of $10,000,000. It is said to be the largest single building enterprise undertaken in
London in 20 years. The picture was taken at the Aldwych end of the site, looking toward the Strand, and shows
the famous church of St. Mary le Strand, to the architecture of which the new Bush building will conform.
In John J. Walkins of Dorchester,
Mass., the civil service examiners be­
lieve they have found a perfect man,
physically. This former heavyweight
boxing champion of the U. S. S. Mt.
Vernon romped from machine to ma­
chine, making a strength test record
o f 100 per cent.
Old Almanac.
Burlington, Kan.—W. W. Richards
o f Lebo believes he is the possessor
of the oldest almanac in Kansas. His
almanac was printed in 1701, thus be­
ing 220 years old. It was printed in
Welsh by Thomas Jones.
TEXAS RANCHMAN
DOWNS “CON MEN”
Norfleet Spends $18,000 Trail­
ing Them, but Feels That
It Is Worth I t
ONE LIVES UP TO HIS NAME
Furey Puts Up Stiff Fight, but the
Ranchman Proves to Be Something
of a Fighter Himself— Saved
by His Automatic.
Fort Worth, Tex.—Frank Norfleet,
a ranchman of West Texas, delivered
Joe Furey into the hands of the local
police here, the third of a trio of con­
fidence men to be run down by Nor­
fleet, who mthey fleeced out of $45,000
on a bogus oil stock deal about a year
ago. One of the other two commit­
ted suicide in jail in Washington;
-farce. She weaved her head from the other is under a- ten-year sen­
tence.
side to side.
Besides losing the $45,000, Norfleet
“ Yes, yes,? she moaned, J w f c y f a,
spe^t $18,000 n-alliiig ^ the swindlers
heart-—everybody
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I did not use my pistol. Furey had
kicked and hurt me all he could. He
was a madman.
“After we had put him on the train
leaving Jacksonville he tried to grow
friendly. Standing by the window in
the drawing room he made a leap
through the window. The train was
moving about 30 miles an hour. He
darted through the window like a
prairie dog darts into its hole. We
stopped the train as quickly as we
could. Furey had been picked up by
a train crew.
He offered the mem­
bers of the crew $ 2,000 to hide him.
They put him on a switch engine and
started back to Jacksonville with him.
He was still handicapped by his hand­
cuffs. He claimed he could not walk
for the injury he received in jumping
from the. train.
“ Another switch engine took Pete
and myself back to Jacksonville, and
we again took charge of our prisoner.
Furey said he could not stand the pain
from his leg and did not want to be
put on the train again.
I told him
that I had ridden the plains horseback
with»- to y leg In as bat condition as
tnat.
I tola Him we were going td
take him.”
Dodged Habeas Corpus.
Upon arriving in New Orleans, Nor­
fleet said, he still realized the possi­
bility of being served with legal pa­
pers which might cause Furey to be
released on bond or which might de­
lay the trip back to Texas.
“ I was careful where I went. We
had to spend part of Sunday in New
Orleans. The papers would have to
be served on me, because I had se­
cured the requisition papers. I went
to church. I knew the officers would
not go there to find me. And I heard
two o f the finest sermons I ever did
hear. I left my son at the police sta­
tion to help Watch Furey.
Norfleet said that he and his son
were joined b y , special officers from
Fort Worth before leaving New Or­
leans with their prisoner. Furey was
brought to Fort Worth and jailed
there to await trial on the charges on
'an indictment found against him by
the Tarrant county grand Jury.
“Before we reached New Orleans,”
Norfleet said, “ Furey told me he was
sorry he had not had me killed as he
once planned to do. I think that was
Negro Kept Hog “ Farm”
in Parlor of Her Home
Belle White, negro, was taken
into police court at Dallas, Tex.,
on the charge o f violating the
local sanitary law by raising
hogs in the front room of her
flat in the heart of the business
district. The discovery that she
had converted her flat into a
hog farm was made by her land­
lord.
The woman admitted that she
had raised five fat porkers in
the room and that four of them
were slaughtered there and the
meat sold. The remaining hog
was about ready for market.. No
fine was assessed, but she was
warned to change her location
if she wanted to continue the
hog-raising business.
last winter. I spent several months
in Florida then trying to locate him.
I heard of another fake stock scheme
being worked there. I played like I
would be the victim. The man oper­
ating the scheme took me to a house.
They were working on me similar to
the way I was worked on in Fort
Worth. I thought I might find Furey
* here. . Aften I reached the place
/here I was$*to give up my money I
knew I would have to stall.
Saved by His Automatic.
“ None of the men I wanted were
there, and so I began to scheme to
get out. I said: ‘Why, gentlemen, this
is Sunday. I cannot place money on
Sunday. That started trouble. One
of them grabbed me. I think it had
been planned to kill me should any­
thing happen.
“ My wife, before I left home, had
told me not to let them get at my
back. She believed that I could take
care of them if I could keep them in
front of me. She thinks I am a good
shot. She has seen me shoot hawks
on the fly and kill wolves while they
were (running.
So when the man
grabbed me I threw him in front of
me. I grabbed my automatic. Then I
got out my .45. I told them just
to start something and I would fin­
ish. And that is how I got out of
that.”
According to Norfleet, when Furey
was abusing him i n New Orleans
Fury exclaimed: “ You have ruined the
best deal I had ever started.” The
deal to which Furey referred was to
have taken place at Jacksonville,
where he was arrested.
i
sfievibfàted to the rush of thé muSle, Furey was full of thrills.
“ Determined to bring to justice the
while her mouth twisted into a gro­
Greenland,
man who had swindled me,” he said,
tesque smile.
tWMiuur.-ana even in* the antarctic a
“ I began a hunt that took me through
thousand .m il» from Ca^e Horn. A
Tries Music as Aid to Insane.
18 states and Old Mexico. I took my
young robin,¿©anded in Its pest on the After Two Years* Research Musician
It was at the state hospital for the
son, Pete, out o f the West Texas Nor­
lonely shores of Great Slave lake, -in
Claims Remarkable Results From
Insane in Dunning. Surrounded by
mal at .Canyon to assist me in the
the Northwest territory o f Canada,
the “stuporous,” or depressed types of
Music In Arousing Patients
hunt, and it was he who located the
has been reported from Louisiana,
insane patients, Mr. Boguslawski sat
From Mental Stupor.
man at Jacksonville.
Upon arriving
more than 2,000 miles away; a Mas­
at a piano running through the emo­
there we separated and registered at
sachusetts tern, or sea swallow, has
Chicago, March 19.—The Italian tional gamut o f music. A small audi­ different hotels to watch for Furey.
been recovered a similar distance woman sat huddled in the cprner, her ence o f alienists watched the experi­
Pete had never seen the man, but
from Its birthplace, in the waters off thin shoulders shaking. The color ment.
had studied a picture of him, and a
the Venezuelan coast, and a chimney came to her bleached skin. She worked
Can insanity be cured through
swift, a bird less than six inches long, her fingers over her face, over the music? After two years of research, few minutes after registering at his
has been recorded at its New Hamp­ walls ; she tore frantically at her Mr. Boguslawski claimed remarkable hotel Furey emerged from an elevator.
shire summer home after three sea­ fingers with her . teeth. The intermez­ results from music on such cases. He The boy telephoned me and I came to
We followed our man into a
sonal journeys to South America, in­ zo o f “ Cavalleria Rusticana” ended. has been performing experiments at him.
volving almost incredible wing mile­ The woman kneeling in the corner, the Dunning institution, it is said, for restaurant, and there I placed him un­
age, the minimum distance covered Adeline M., sagged down. A nurse the last month. He has been hold­ der arrest, following a desperate strug­
gle.
having been 18,000 miles.
ing weekly “ musical clinics.”
leaned over her and remarked:
Norfleet exhibited his finger, show­
Aside from the birds which are sys­
Psychiatrists and health department
“ She says.: ‘Oh, my baby l Baby
ing where Furey bit him during the
tematically trapped, wild birds, either needs a mother. When am I going officials, as well as Chicago physi­
struggle. He also showed other minor
dead or alive, fall into human hands home?’
Say, you know,_ that’s the cians, are watching the experiments at
injuries, scratches and bruises.
in a variety o f ways.
first time she’s spoken since they Dunning. At each “music therapeut­
“ At the police station Furey denied
ics"
test,
as
Mr.
Boguslawski
has
The longest period record thus far brought her here.- She refused to
that
he had ever seen me,” Norfleet
named his psychiatric process, Dr. D.
turned in his been produced by a com­ nurse her baby.”
continued.
“ The officers asked me
Moissaye Boguslawski, Russian pian­ B. Rotman o f the hospital staff has
mon crow, which was banded in the
what authority I had and how did I
nest at Berwyn, Pa., May 17, 1914, and ist, who is now living In Chicago, fin­ collected data for presentation to the know he was the right man. I told
shot while stealing chickens on the gered through the “ Miserere” from American medical profession for dis­ them I was a Texas officer and I had
sixth anniversary of the date of band­ “Il Trovatore.” Shudders crept over cussion.
a warrant for Furey’s arrest; that I
“ These experiments are the first of
ing, May 17, 1920, at Phoenixville, Pa., the Italian woman in the corner and
had Furey’s police picture — and,
their
kind
ever
conducted
in
the
Uni­
only eight miles from the site o f its she wept. The tears sped down her
ted States,” said Dr. Rotman. “ They above all, I knew he was the man
I told
are highly Interesting. There is a who had taken my money.
universal potency to music ; it ap­ them that he was my man and that
peals to the subtler elements o f the I was going to take him.
“ They asked me by what further
mind. Patients long considered dull
are aroused by this music to the ex­ right I expected to take him. I pulled
pression of emotional display. The out the requisition papers already
effect on that Italian woman, for in­ honored by the governor of Florida.
The officers looked at the papers. ‘We
stance, was overwhelming. Now wè
can’t do anything for you, Furey,’
have found a response, she may be
they said; ‘you are a prisoner bound
curable.”
for Texas.’
A Revelation, Says Official.
It Took Four Policemen.
“ This is a revelation to me,” ex­
“Believe me, those words sure
claimed Dr. E .. A. Foley, assistant
tickled me.
I wanted to rush him
superintendent o f the Institution,
away.
I was afraid that attempts
watching the pianist endeavor to
might be made to have him released
arouse the patients from their mental
or to detain him through a writ of
torpor with many varieties of mel­
habeas corpus.
I decided to take
ody.
Furey 13 miles from Jacksonville
“I have studied this for two years;
and get on a train. He fought. It
I know It will work,” replied Mr.
took four big policemen to finally lock
I Boguslawski. “ I don’t claim to be able I
tthe handcuffs on him. Pete and I put
i to cure Insanity, but I can relieve j
Furey in the automobile and started
j much mental distress. Probably n
to go the 13 miles. As we neared the lit­
j third of the 190,000 insane in the Uni-
tle station the train was almost ready
| ted States can be greatly improved
to leave. Furey again started to fight.
j by ‘music therapeutics.’ ”
His hands were in the cuffs, but he
j One of the cases studied was Mary
picked and scratched so much that I
K., an Armenian refugee. She was
the train pulled out before we got him
made insane by war horrors. She saw
in. We put him back in the car and
her mother, father and brother slain
drove back to Jacksonville.
before her eyes. The Chopin funeral
"We heard Furey’s lawyers were
march today brought her to her knees
getting busy. We knew they might
in mumbled prayer. Tragic memories
get him out on some technicality.
apparently were revived. She fell on
Therefore we dodged ’em. We took
the floor, sobbing.
Furey to a private home. W e chained
“ Nostalgia,” explained Boguslawski.
hiin in bed. We waited there until
“ An intelligent- approach.
A relief
train time.
through the caress o f sympathetic
Furey Jumps From Train.
Four destroyers of the Atlantic fleet passing through the Miraflores
music for pent-up desires, suppres­
We were nearing the end of a long, locks of the Panama canal, after taking part in the maneuvers with the Pacific
sions, Imagined fears. Music is the
scalpel which help open the wound. Tong trail. I had faith in our chance fleet off the west coast of South America. This picture gives a hint of the
to return him to Texas. So far there enormous size of the locks. Electric power, generated by the fall from Gatun
Inez Plummer, New York actress, placed a barrel outside the theater and After that it’s a case for physicians,
had been no bloodshed. That is why Lake, moves all the lock machinery called into operation.
not
musicians.”
stood there collecting old shoes from passers-by for the poor o f the city.
DOCTORS WATCH EXPERIMENT
Actress Collects Shoes for Poor
U. S. Destroyers in Panama Canal