Trace Birds by
Use of Anklets
Habits of Our Feathered Friends
Discovered by American
Banding Society.
20,000 ALREADY ARE MARKED
Incredible Wing Mileage Is Revealed
in Some of the Reports—New Facts
About Domestic Relations of
Jenny Wren and Husband.
New York.—The habits of birds, the
age they attain, the dispersal or dis
tribution of their young, their mating
customs, the strength of the homing
Instinct, the consistency with which
migrant birds return to given areas
In their winter range, routes followed
by individual birds, and even polygamy
—these and countless otiier problems
the American Bird Banding associa
tion seeks to solve by methods that
leave no oppotunity for questioning the
accuracy of the date.
The several hundred members of the
association have for 12 years been
conducting their research on a large
scale In the western hemisphere, and
European societies whose alms are
identical with those of the American
workers have been operating since
1898.
These bodies of investigators
pursue their experiments by the use
of rings, bands of tags, each bearing
an Inscription or return address and
a serial number. The bands are usu
ally made of aluminum and are man
ufactured in about a dozen different
sizes to fit the legs of all birds, from
the smallest warbler to the clumsy
pelican and the mighty eagle.
Fifty-eight thousand of these bands
have so far been made for the Amer
ican Bird Banding association, and
approximately 20,(XM) have been placed
by members on the legs of native wild
birds. Each ring Is stamped with the
words, “Notify Am. Museum, N. Y.,”
and following this, or on reverse side
of the band, Is a serial number. At
the time the band Is placed on the
bird the bander records on a stan
dard file card all Information relating
to the operation. These data include
the number of the band, the name of
the bird. Its age (whether nestling,
fledgling or adult), locality, date, name
of bander and remarks.
The bird,
having been thoroughly “catalogued,”
Is sent on Its way.
Long Migrations Recorded.
Workers for the association have
carried bands Into the remotest re
gions. As members of scientific and
exploring parties they have placed the
tags on birds in Alaska, Greenland,
Labrador, and even in the antarctic a
thousand miles from Cape Horn. A
young robin, banded in its nest on the
lonely shores of Great Slave lake. In
the Northwest territory of Canada,
has been reported from Louisiana,
more than 2,000 miles away; a Mas-
sachusetts tern, or sea swallow, has
been recovered n similar distance
from Its birthplace, In the waters off
the Venezuelan coast, and a chimney
swift, a bird less than six Inches long,
has been recorded at Its New Hamp
shire summer home after three sea
sonal Journeys to South America, In
volving almost Incredible wing mile
age, the minimum distance covered
having been 18,000 miles.
Aside from the birds which are sys
tematically trapped, wild birds, either
dead or alive, fall Into human hands
In a variety of ways.
The longest period record thus fur
turned In his been produced by a com
mon crow, which was banded In the
nest ut Berwyn, Pa., May 17, 1914, and
shot while stealing chickens on the
sixth anniversary of the date of band
ing, May 17, 1920, at Phoenixville, Pa.,
only eight miles from the site of its
birth. 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 of bird life
brought out by bunding has to do with
the domestic relations of 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
of 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 might never have |
been suspected had it not been for
the numbered rings used on all of the
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 from
time to time.
PHYSICAL PERFECTION
I Here’s Another Peril
in “Hitting Bottle” :
Winchester, —
Va.—The art of I I ' ,
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drinking from a bottle is being
lost in this vicinity. E. Ciar-
enee Smith of Berkeley county
entertained a party of men
friends at an old-time “pitch”
party, at which bottled pop was
served. One of Smith's guests
had not gurgled anything for so
many years that when he went
about it in the old-time way the
suction fastened the mouth of
the bottle tightly to his lips and
it could not be removed.
Finally one of the guests pro-
cured a feather and tickled his
friend under the nose, provok-
Ing a laugh, which broke the con-
nectlon.
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Mass., the civil service examiners be
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physically. This former heavyweight
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chine, making a strength test record
I of 100 per cent.
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Burlington, Kan.—W. W. Richards
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ing 220 years old. It was printed In
Welsh by Thomas Jones.
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DOCTORS WATCH EXPERIMENT
After Two Years' Research Mualclan
Claims Remarkable Results From
Music In Arousing Patients
From Mental Stupor.
Chicago, March 19.—The Italian
woman sut huddled In the corner, her
thin shoulders shaking. The color
came to her bleached skin. She worked
her fingers over her face, over the
walls; she tore frantically at her
fingers with her teeth. The Intermez
zo of “Cavalleria Rusticana” ended.
The woman kneeling in the corner,
Adeline M., sagged down. A nurse
leaned over her and remarked:
“She says: ‘Oh, my baby 1 Baby
needs a mother. When am I going
home?
Say, you know, that’s the
first time she’s spoken since they
brought her here.
Site refused to
nurse her baby.”
Moissaye Boguslawski, Russian pian-
1st, who is now living in Chicago, fin-
gered through the "Miserere” from
"Il Trovatore.” Shudders crept over
the Italian woman In the corner and
she wept. The tears sped down her
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A general view of the three-acre site at Aldwych-fn-t lie-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.
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TEXAS RANCHMAN
DOWNS “CON MEN”
Norfleet Spends $18,000 Trail
ing Them, but Feels That
It-Is Worth It.
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;
the other is under a ten-year sen
tence.
Besides losing the $45,000, Norfleet
spent $18,000 trailing the swindlers
over the country. His chase after
Furey was full of thrills.
“Determined to bring to Justice the
man who had swindled me,” he said,
“I began a hunt that took me through
18 states and Old Mexico. I took my
son, Pete, out of the West Texas Nor
mal at Canyon to assist me In the
hunt, and it was he who located the
man at Jacksonville.
Upon arriving
there we separated and registered at
different hotels to watch for Furey.
Pete had never seen the man, but
had studied a picture of him, and a
few minutes after registering at his
hotel Furey emerged from an elevator.
The boy telephoned me and I came to
him. We followed our man Into a
restaurant, and there I placed him un
der arrest, following a desperate strug
gle.
Norfleet exhibited bls finger, show
ing where Furey bit him during the
struggle. He also showed other minor
injuries, scratches and bruises.
“At the police station Furey denied
that he bad ever seen me,” Norfleet
continued. “The officers asked me
what authority I had and how did I
know he was the right man. I told
them I was a Texas officer and I had
a warrant for Furey’s arrest; that I
had Furey’s police picture — and,
above all, I knew he was the man
who had taken my money.
I told
them that he was my man and that
I was going to take him.
“They asked me by what further
right I expected to take him. I pulled
out the requisition papers already
honored by the governor of Florida.
The officers looked at the papers. 'We
can't do anything for you, Furey,’
they said ; ‘you are a prisoner bound
for Texas.’
it Took Four Policemen.
"Believe me, those words sure
tickled me.
I wanted to rush him
away.
I was afraid that attempts
might be made to have him released
or to detain him through a writ of
habeas corpus.
I decided to take
Furey 13 miles from Jacksonville
and get on a train. He fought. It
took four big policemen to finally lock
the handcuffs on him. Pete and I put
Furey In the automobile and started
to go the 13 miles. As we neared the lit
tle station the train was almost ready
to leave. Furey again started to fight.
His hands were In the cuffs, but he
picked and scratched so much that
the train pulled out before we got him
In. We put him back In the car and
drove back to Jacksonville.
"We heard Furey’s lawyers were
getting busy. We knew they might
get him out on some technicality.
Therefore we dodged ’em. We took
Furey to a private home. We chained
him In bed. We waited there until
train time.
Insane May Be
Cured by Music
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Pianist Boguslawski Evokes First
Response From Many Stu
porous Patients.
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; Negro Kept Hog “Farm”
in Parlor of Her Home
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Belle White, negro, was taken
? into police court at Dallas, Tex.,
I on the charge of violating the
t local sanitary law by raising
! hogs in the front room of her
I did not use my pistol. Furey ‘had
? flat in the heart of the business
kicked and hurt me all he could. He
- district. The discovery that she
was a madman.
I had converted her flat into a
“After we had put him on the train f hog farm was made by her land-
leaving Jacksonville he tried to grow j lord.
friendly. Standing by the window In ♦
The woman admitted that she
the drawing room he made a leap I had raised five fat porkers in
through the window. The train was ? the room and that four of them
moving about 30 miles an hour. He I were slaughtered there and the
darted through the window like a : meat sold. The remaining hog
prairie dog darts into Its hole. We i was about ready for market. No
stopped the train as quickly as we
fine was assessed, but she was
could. Furey had been picked up by
warned to change her location
a train crew. He offered the mem ? if she wanted to continue the
bers of the crew $2,000 to hide him. I hog-raislng business.
They put him on a switch engine and t
started back to Jacksonville with him.
He was still handicapped by bls hand
cuffs. He claimed he could not walk last winter. I spent several months
for the injury he received In Jumping In Florida then trying to locate him.
from the train.
I heard of another fake stock scheme
“Another switch engine took Pete being worked there. I played like I
and myself back to Jacksonville, and would be the victim. The man oper
we again took charge of our prisoner. ating the scheme took me to a house.
Furey said he could not stand the pain They were working on me similar to
from his leg and did not want to be the way I was worked on In Fort
put on the train again. I told him Worth. I thought I might find Furey
that I had ridden the plains horseback there. After I reached the place
with my leg in as bad condition as where I was to give up my money I
that. I told him we were going to knew I would have to stall.
take him.”
Saved by His Automatic.
Dodged Habeas Corpus.
"None of the men I wanted were
Upon arriving in New Orleans, Nor there, and so I began to scheme to
fleet said, he still realized the possi get out. I said: ‘Why, gentlemen, this
bility of being served with legal pa is Sunday. I cannot place money on
pers which might cause Furey to be Sunday. That started trouble. One
released on bond or which might de of them grabbed me. I think it had
lay the trip back to Texas.
been planned to kill me should any
"I was careful where I went. We thing happen.
had to spend part of Sunday In New
"My wife, before I left home, had
Orleans. The papers would have to told me not to let them get at my
be served on me, because I had se back. She believed that I could take
cured the requisition papers. I went care of them If I could keep them In
to church. I knew the officers would front of me. She thinks I am a good
not go there to find me. And I heard shot. She has seen me shoot hawks
two of the finest sermons I ever did on the fly and kill wolves while they
hear. I left my son at the police sta were (running.
So when the man
tion to help watch Furey.
grabbed me I threw him in front of
Norfleet said that he and his son me. I grabbed my automatic. Then I
were joined by special officers from got out my .45. I told them Just
Fort Worth before leaving New Or to start something and I would fin
leans with their prisoner. Furey was ish. And that is how I got out of
brought to Fort Worth and Jailed that.”
According to Norfleet, when Furey
there to await trial on the charges on
an indictment found against him by was abusing him 1 n New Orleans
Fury exclaimed: “You have ruined the
the Tarrant county grand Jury.
“Before we reached New Orleans,” best deal I had ever started." The
Norfleet said, “Furey told me he was deal to which Furey referred was to
sorry he had not had me killed as he have taken place at Jacksonville,
once planned to do. I think that was where he was arrested.
face. She weaved her head from
side to side.
"Yes, yes,” she moaned, “I have a
heart-—everybody is happy—baby—
father—oh, don’t forget me.” And
she vibrated to the rush of the music,
while her mouth twisted into a gro
tesque smile.
Tries Music as Aid to Insane.
It was at the state hospital for the
insane in Dunning. Surrounded by
the “stuporous,” or depressed types of
insane patients, Mr. Boguslawski sat
at a piano running through the emo
tional gamut of music. A small audi
ence of alienists watched the experi
ment.
Can Insanity be cured through
music? After two years of research,
Mr. Boguslawski claimed remarkable
results from music on such cases. He
has been performing experiments at
the Dunning Institution, it is said, for
the last month. He has been hold
ing weekly “musical clinics.”
Psychiatrists and health department
officials, as well as Chicago physi
cians, are watching the experiments at
Dunning. At each “music therapeut
ics” test, as Mr. Boguslawski has
named his psychiatric process, Dr. D.
B. Rotman of the hospital staff has
collected data for presentation to the
American medical profession for dis
cussion.
“These experiments are the first of
their kind ever conducted in the Uni
ted States,” said Dr. Rotman. “They
are highly interesting. There is a
universal potency to music; ft ap
peals to the subtler elements of the
mind. Patients long considered dull
are aroused by this music to the ex
pression of emotional display. The
effect on that Italian woman, for in
stance, was overwhelming. Now we
have found a response, she may be
curable.“
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A Revelation, Says Official.
“This is a revelation to me,” ex
claimed Dr. E. A. Foley, assistant
superintendent of the institution,
watching the pianist endeavor to
arouse the patients from their mental
torpor with many varieties of mel-
ody.
“I have studied this for two years;
I know it will work,” replied Mr.
| Boguslawski. “I don’t claim to be able
i to cure insanity, but I can relieve
much mental distress.
Probably «
third of the 190,000 insane in the Uni-
| ted States can be greatly improved
; by ’music therapeutics.' ”
One of the cases studied was Mary
K.. an Armenian refugee. She was
made insane by war horrors. She saw
her mother, father and brother slain
before her eyes. The Chopin funeral
march today brought her to her knees
In mumbled prayer. Tragic memories
apparently were revived. She fell on
the floor, sobbing.
“Nostalgia,” explained Boguslawski.
“An Intelligent approach. A relief
through the caress of sympathetic
Furey Jumps From Train.
Four destroyers of the Atlantic fleet
music for pent-up desires, suppres-
We were nearing the end of a long, locks of the Panama canal, after taking part
slons, imagined fears. Music Is the
scalpel which help open the wound. long trail. I had faith In our chance fleet off the west coast of South America.
, After that it's a case for physicians, to return him to Texas. So far there enormous size of the locks. Electric power,
had been no bloodshed. That is why Lake, moves all the lock machinery called
I not musicians.
U. S. Destroyers in Panama Canal
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passing through the Miraffores
In the maneuvers with the Pacifie
This picture gives a bint of the
generated by the fall from Gatun
into operation.