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Magician

In St. Paul, Robert Heger invited friends to a performance of the Hindu rope trick, most baffling of magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth.

Delighted at his success, Magician Heger proposed to go to England, collect the $25,000 prize offered by the Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing on the stage after the whole boy had reappeared. Magician Heger announced that he would not go to London.

Collision

At Dola, Ohio, Joe Ludwig stalled his automobile on a railroad track, jumped out just before the Broadway Limited, Chicago-bound from Manhattan, crashed into it. While train crew and passengers waited for another locomotive to be sent from Chicago, Joe Ludwig climbed into his automobile, started the engine, drove away.

Sendoff

In Manville, N. J., boisterous wedding guests pelted Joseph Lojka & bride with rice, knocked Joseph Lojka out with a well-aimed 5-lb. bag, revived him, sped him on his honeymoon.

Altruist

In Norwich, England, Harry Stanley Green, bank clerk, transferred $70,000 from the accounts of rich clients to those of poor clients, took no shilling for himself. Confident that he had helped to relieve the Depression, Altruist Green went to jail for a year.

Elopement

In Grand Island, Neb., frank Mrs. Sam Garrett told her husband she wanted to elope with a traveling salesman. Helpful Mr. Garrett sent the children to a neighbor's, borrowed a car, offered his services as chauffeur. Together Sam Garrett & wife & rival set out on the elopement. Explained Mr. Garrett: "I didn't want to make her mad." Struck with remorse at her husband's unselfishness, Mrs. Garrett changed her mind, called off the elopement.

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