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Show YOUTH WITH BROKEN BACK SMS II Marion Wascuk Leaves St. Paul With Nurse to Visit Mother in Russian Poland. ST. PAUL, Miun., Sept. 13. Lying on the cushion in a hammock swung in a compartment, Marion Wascuk, aged 19, tonight is spending on the ilrst lap of his long journey, which eventually ho hopes will place him in tins arms of his agod mother noar Warsaw, Poland. Accompanying him on the .-journoy is Miss Lydia Ivellcr, superintendent of a local hospital, whero for many months the lad has boon bed-bound, paralyzed bolow the neck becauso of a broken back. Thirteen months ago a pile of lumber slid upon tho boy as no was working in the yards of a local transfer company. He was an ignorant, lad at that time, knowing practically nothing of the English Eng-lish language After a hard battle physicians phy-sicians nrought him as near back to health as they say ho can ever attain, and the lad began his education under the tutelage of Miss Keller. Now he knows English and has a fair geueral education. His nttor.uevs fiuallv obtained an award of damages of $13,000. Wascuk expressed tho desire thatt he return to hi& mother in Polish Russia. By order of the president of tho road on which the lad started the trip, the fast train to Chlcugo was stopped in Morriam park, a suburb inwhich is the hospital. Miss Keller carries with hor a letter from Governor A. O. Eborhart, asking railwav, steamship and foreign officials to do all in their power to mako tho trip possible for the boy. |