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Especial Correspondence.)

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sional crooks, who have succeeded In
getting into this cou9try, despite the
unceasing vigilance of the immigra-
tion officials, is TO be vigorously pushed
as the result of recent conference be-
tween Colonel George b. Billings, com
missioner OF immigration at this port,
and Superintendent Pierce and Chief
Watts of police headquarters.
Two alleged murderers, two alleged
postohice~thieves and an alleged pick
pocket. all aliens, have been rounded
up by the police and immigration Of
fcials during the past month.
A high school teacher out in New
ton discovered the other day that 30
in one class never heard Of Faneuil
hall until she called their attention TO
its existence. Shocked al such ignor-
ance. she would be even more panied
by a canvass of adults 10 see how
many have ever visited Bunker Hill
monument or seen the inside OF the
Old South church. The historic inter
est of patriotic shrines is apt to be
overlooked by those born and bred
near by.
Ii is more than rarity for city
man TO stand in his backyard and have
"A chance 10 shoot at a bird that meas
ures five feet from tip to tip OF wings,
and il is a still greater rarity for a
city man 10 hit the bird when he does
shoot at 1t. Nevertheless that Is just
what happened to A. w. Lucas of New
ton Upper Falls, few days ago He
stepped out in his back yard, and no.
ticing a hawk that had been lowering
about the neighborhood for several
days, he rushed indoors and seiZing
his shotgun fired one barrel The
hawk dropped 1t measured five feet
and one inch from the tip of one wing
10 the tip of the other.
With specialists of this country,
Italy, Germany England and Honolulu
conducting a rigid investigation of her
case, a young Russian girl is now at
the Massachusetts general hospital
awaiting a definite diagnosis, the re-
suit OF which may mean a sojOurn for
life at Penikese island, near New Bed
ford.
II is thought that the girl is afflicted
with leprosy, but although both clini-
cal and bacterial diagnoses have been
made it has not been definitely decid-
ed
The local board Of health has reach
cd the conclusion that it is leprosy, but
as DR. Joshua +. Lewis Of Maiden,
superintendent of the state adult poor,
has not been advised as yet by the
experts he cannot accept the charge.
o Massachusetts is bound to lose her
industries unless something is done for
her boys and girls" declared Charles
H. Morse, secretary of the MassaChu-
setts commission on industrial educa-
tion, in recent address in this city.
This is true" he continued, be
cause there are q. 900 children between
the ages of IA and Is engaged in ju-
venle employments in this state"
Mr.. Morse said that our American
boys were leaving school and going in
to emplOyments where they could not
advance, such as running elevators and
the like This state of affairs" he
said, has come about because the
boys are convinced that the schools are
not doing anything for them"
He said 2O7S boys applied at the
free state employment bureau in this
city between April and July and the
majority on being questioned said they
left school because they believed the
schools were not giving them an equiv
alent for the time they spent there
On being asked if they would have
stayed could they have received a tech
nical training MIR. Morse said that the
majority of these boys answered in
the affirmative
Robert l.. Mortimer the chief cleo
trician at the wireless station at the
Charlestown navy yard has recovered
speech through counter shock of cleo
tricity. He received n shock at the
station Oct. 13 and lost the power of
articulation. Or. Belknap Of the Wab-
ash and number of prominent spec
ialists conferred on his case and
scientific effort was made to restore
Mr.. Mortimer's speech but without
avail
He believed that a counter shock
would produce the desired result and
while they agreed with him they felt
that if electricity was directly ap-
piled il would be dangerous. The ply
sicians told him that the paralysis of
the vocal organs was only temporary.
and that he would eventually be cured.
He continued at work, but was forced
10 write whenever he wished 10 COM
municate with any one.
He was at work experimenting a few
days ago, when he received a shock
which threw him TO the floor When
he had fully recovered his speech had
returned. He was about the navy yal
a little later as happy a mortal ne