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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
PARACHUTE FOR AEROPLANES
Device Is Tested on Machine Dropped
From EiffeI Tower,

An ingenious automatic parachute
for aeroplanes was demonstrated from
the Eiffel tower. The contrivance,
which consists Of a vast umbrella forty
feet in diameter, is spread by a system
of springs operating instantaneously
and automatically directly the fall be-
gins.
The parachute was dropped from the
first platform Of the tower with sand
bag to represent an aviator. The appa-
ratus opened fully before 1t had fallen
sixty feet 1t landed gently, taking six
teen seconds to drop 100 feet.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
SPENDS 100000 ON FUN.
Woman Who Has Lucky" Baldwn's
Mopav PnoUaa nroHi1aI Gpapdar

Money Proves prodigaI spender.
After having spent S1,000,000 within
six months Mrs. Clara Baldwin Stock
er, who has already received $1,500,000
from the Lucky" Baldwin estate and
will soon get $4,000, 10000 more, has ar
rived in Los Angeles from Chicago In
her private car, for which she paid
$4,000.
She carried with her the first install
ment Of her purchases, including $780,
900 worth Of diamonds in q variety Of
settings and $4,000 worth Of gold and
silver ware. She also has a wardrobe
which cost her about 100000
Following by express are priced arti-
cles of furniture, unique lamps and
other treasures. Another item in her
expenditures is a 100000 yacht. Her
new automobiles cost $4,000.
81 am going to have the very best
sort of good time" she said. "What
is money for if 1t is not to give one ac-
cess to real enjoyment of life? l have
already started to have my good time.
I'm having it, and I'm going to have
still more Of it. I'm going to have all
the good time that money will buy.
Lavish in my purchases? OF course
But lavish as it seems I'm going to be
still more so, for I'm going to have a
really good time"
Her car, which was built to her order,
was delivered to her Sunday, and Mon
day she left Chicago for Los Angeles,
Cal, accompanied by her husband, Har-
ry Randolph Stocker, and Mr.. and Mrs.
L. Wilson Of Chicago, intimate friends
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
NUTE IN OWES"
OF THE NEWS
RIGHT OFF THE REEL.

There is fire company of women in
Poughkeepsie.
Gold heels for women's shoes is the
latest Paris fad.
A suffragette made a voiceless speech
IN Fifth avenue.
Grounds For Divorce. - Pittsburgh
preacher wouldn't let his wife take a
bath on account Of the ense.
So realistic was the m ng picture
of dog at the Grotto thearer in Reds
vile, N. c., the other night that Post
master Joyce's thoroughbred hound
Jumped up on the stage and ran round
barking after the picture dog. Before
he could be restrained he had demolish-
I'd the screen.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
Survives Ten Story Fall,

A fall through the elevator shaft
from the tenth floor to the basement
at 106 Seventh avenue, New York city,
failed to kill Max Hoffman of 54S West
One Hundred and Eigthy-fourth street,
Of L. Hammel & Co., leather goods,
but physicians in St. Vincent's hos
pital, where he was taken unconscious,
say he cannot recover.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
HANGS HERSELF IN A CELL.
Woman Held on Theft Charge Cannot
Bear Disgrace.


Mrs. Lillian Scott, awaiting trial in
New York on charge Of grand lar
ceny, committed suicide by hanging
herself In her cell. She had used a
bed sheet tied to water pipe near the
ceiling Of the cell.
Mrs. Scott had been accused by Mrs.
Olive Searles of Brooklyn Of stealing
a fur coat valued at $1,S00, seal muff
worth 5000 and a diamond brooch
while in charge of Mrs. Searle's house
during the latter's absence in Europe.
Her examination had been set in the
Harlem court.
Mrs. Searles, on learning of the trag-
edy, was prostrated She said she
would gladly have sacrificed the stolen
goods rather than have the woman kill
herself
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
WORSE THAN
ALONG THE kONCO
Another Expedition Brings
Back Fifty Pre-InCan
Skulls and Bones.

men and women and setting them
afire was a pastime. Many were burn
ed at the stake.
Professor Hiram Bingham, who had
been on an exploring expedition for six
months in Peru, searching for pre-Inca
remains in the region Of the Andes, re-
turned, accompanied by Professor Her
bert I. Gregory and DR.. George r.
Eaton, both also of Yale The expedi-
ton originally had eleven members,
and all but two have now returned.
Professor Bingham. who looked as
pale as yellow fever immune, said
that the interior of southern Peru was
being desolated by q succession Of
plaques, including smallpox and ty-
phus fever, and that the government
was taking few steps to check the
ravages of the scourges. DIR. Eaton
was Ill with camp fever, and Profes-
sor Gregory was also incapacitated
from work for several weeks.
Professor Bingham brought back
with him fifty human skulls of pre-
Incan period and many skeletons, as
well as thirty cases Of curiously
wrought bronze tablets and pieces Of
pottery, and DIR. Eaton collected fifty
the fossilized skeleton Of a prehistoric
horse Professor Bingham nearly lost
his life on one occasion when his mules
stampeded and the Indians forsook
him. He was for two days and nights
roaming about on the slopes of the
snow clad mountain, Palcoi, with bare
ly any food and the chance of being
devoured by wild animals If he lay
down and went to sleep.
Was Third Expedition.
This was Professor Bingham's third
expedition to Peru, and its object, he
said, was to intensity the work that
had been left incomplete. This time
he was able to devote considerable
time to the examination Of the remains
Of the $50 one story stone dwellings,
temples and city walls of the ancient
city of the Peruvian tribesmen, known
as Machu Picchu, constructed of carved
white stone, and $1,000 was expended
in excavating parts Of the ruins of the
city which had become covered with
heavy underground.
At Machu Picchu were found the fos-
silized bones of prehistoric man, skulls
and skeletons worn down to dust and
hardly distinguishable from the gravel
in which they were found. Professor
Bingham has brought back with him
several bronze tablets to see whether
the quality and shape of them and the
characters on them may lead to more
being learned about the original in
habitants Of this continent.
Opposition by the government of
Peru was so continuous and so severe
and uncalled for, Professor Bingham
said, that it was improbable that the
scientific work they had begun would
be continued.
1--WE had great difficulty" the pro-
fessor said, Sin getting our cases of
specimens out of the country and were
delayed seven weeks by the tedious OBJ
jections of the Peruvian government.
At first the officials would not allow
us to take anything at all; then they
said that we could take half of what
we had; then they permitted us to
take what they did not want. At last
they were persuaded to let us take all
the bones and fossils which we had
collected, but the decree Of the gov
ernment was as insulting as 1t possibly
could be-"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-10
Flying to India.

The English aviator Cody is making
plans to take part in the flight from
london to India. This event has lately
been organized and is likely to be of
great interest on account Of the unusu-
al length of the trip. Several impor-
tant prizes are to be awarded for the
fights. However, the organizers are
likely to postpone the event for some
time owing to the fact that the original
path lies across the Balkans.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-24
stamps are sold to big business

viding eight-hour day Tor women
workers.
Logansport, Ind. = Unidenti-
fed man robbed and murdered
west of here. Throat slit.
New York.-Wm. E. Corey,
former president of steel trust
and husband of Maybelle Gilman,
testified steel trust did fix prices
at Gary dinners in government
inquiry.
Springfield, Ill. = Deadlock.
And more deadlock. And still
more deadlock.
Mckinney, Tex.-Eight killed,
IS hurt, when walls of building
collapsed into department store.
Fire in ruins. Death list may
grow.
New York.-James B. Forgan,
Chicago banker, told credit mems
association how to avoid a panic.
Trenton, N. ]. Several Days
Ago).-''If any man or body of
men try to start a panic 1 shall see
to it that they are hanged on a.
gibbet as high as. Humans. =
President-elect Wilson.
EDITORS Note.-We do not
think Forgan should bother
teaching people how to avoid pan
les. Gov. Wilson appears to be
able to look after that himself.)
Boise, Idaho.-U. S. Senator
Borah, Idaho, told legislature
here he favored recall of Secre-
tary of Interior Fisher.
London.-Unknown man ruin
ed four valuable paintings in Ma
tional gallery. Arrested, Re
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-24

Washington.-Several nuts in
congress want, to. wave bloody
shirt over movement to, erect S.
100000 temple to memory of Abb
raham Lincoln.
Columbus, O.-2O high school
boys demanded. course in domes-
tice science because when women
got the vote men would need to
do the housework.
MISUNDERSTANDING S. G.
Messmer has closed church and
school of St. Adalbert's Polish
congregation because members
rioted when rules and regulations
were read from pulpit in English.
Brunswick, GAVIN. Rookie
Teller is on Jekyl Island, 20 miles
off the coast. He looks sick-like
Kelly does.
London.-August Van Biene,
famous violinist and actor, died
on stage in midst of performance,
Ill for some time.
Washington.-Big new wire
less tower at Arlington has been
in communication with Eiffe1
tower, Paris, $500 miles away,
for several days.
Trenton, N. delegation
from Asheyille, N. c., asked Gov.
Wilson to make that place his
summer capital. Said he'd need
to talk about it to the boss-Mrs.
Wilson.
New York.-Antonio Scott,
baritone, after being turned down
by Charlotte Ives, actress, report
ed IN have made I'm with Gerald
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-26
PROLOGUE {.

Leaving the convent. Eleanora Fen
wick, n motherless girl. is plunged into
the gay social life of San Francisco
shortly after the civil war. The
wonders Of the constantly changing
city mystify her. and its strange peo-
pie excite her curiosity, especially n
stately Spanish woman. Ellie becomes
the only witness to the tragic death Of
later reluctantly Identifying Johnny
Montgomery. man about town. as the
person she saw with II smoking pistol.
Circumstantial evidence is not strong
enough to convict the prisoner. who is
being aided by the powerful. infuen-
tlal Carlotta Valencia. the Spanish wo-
man. Ellie learns she must take the
stand as the states chief witness.
Ellie being urgently requested by the
Spanish woman goes TO the latter's
house. Here the Valencia woman tries
to prevail upon her not to testify
against Montgomery. After a trying
experience Ellie escapes from the house
into n convent next door. Ellie's testi-
mony brings a verdict OF guilty in the
second degree. While the prisoner Is
led from the court 10 his cell he and his
keepers are surrounded by Mexican
horsemen. In the excitement Montgom-
cry escapes. Ellie ut a ball overhears
criticism of her part in Montgomery's
conviction. Her tortured mind hastens
her departure. She ices Montgomery
in Mexican disguise and calls him into
her coach. He says he is leaving the
country. but is innocent. Ellie, barring
her feeling toward him. declares depar-
ture would he cowardly.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
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20 have disappeared out of the passage
ways and doors, every turn and nex
pected opening and winding of which
| remembered through sheer terror.
At the door of the private sala there
was no pause. The maid did not
knock. No need, was there, at the
door of an empty rooms? She led me
straight across the anteroom. and
there in front Of the curtain stood the
impressive major domo, the man who
had led me there the first time. He
was as still as a bronze. He did not
even seem to see me, but stretching
out his hand gathered up the velvet
folds and drew the curtain a little to
one side.
There breathed upon me across the
threshold, wonderfully fresh and liv-
ing, like a human presence, that strong
perfume Of the Spanish woman's flow
err. l stood fixed In establishment.
There at the far end Of the room she
was, the Spanish woman herself.
She was seated, yet not as she had
been the first time l had seen her. in
her low combing chair, but full facing
me on a great high backed seat like a
throne, her feet ON a footstool, a table
at her right on which her hand rested
over some white thing. like a folded
paper. Her gown, too dull for gold,
too shining for anything else. streamed
down on each side to the floor. Her
whole look was as If she had dressed
and seated herself and made ready for
some great thing. Her head was flung
back, resting against the cushion, and
she was looking straight at me. She
did not speak. | felt she was waiting
and that | must begin.
walked slowly across the room, not
knowing what to say to her, but when
| had covered half the distance some
shaft of sunrise slanting into the room
lighted her face with its pale reflec-
ton and I saw her eyes. They were
half closed, and behind her thick, long
lashes they cleaned mistily like silver.
My knees doubled up under me, and !
went down on them in sheer weakness,
for | knew that she was dead.
Ito be concluded
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I shook my head. | felt that | had
made him do something terrible. as he
said. | did not know how terrible. 1
did not even look when the carriage
stopped. when | heard him getting out.
l;ut even from where | sat could
hear the beat Of the brass knocker. a
moment passed. with fear thick ut my
heart: then he vas back again. He
gave the direction TO the driver before
lie got in. aud the cab turned and was
rafting down the street with a speed
that suggested that the hackman was
at last stirred to excitement by the
name of our final destination. We two
looked into each others face.
"You would better drop me at Mont
gomery." Johnny said.
NO" ! answered: II am going to
take YOU all the way" He frowned. /
thought he was going to object. let
me stay with you as long as I can," I
begged. 1T will make it easier for
me-"
Still with his eyes ON me his lips
moved with some word. Not a sound
came through. but | thought he had
said my name. And all the while
through the cold. graz twilight we
were driving downward through the
city. The farther we went the more Il
strange and calm feeling settled upon
me and the more | forgot everything
in the world but him. 1t seemed as IL
forever we would continue to drive ON
together with this wonderful quiet
ness between us.
But the carriage was drawing up. l
looked at him anxiously. What is
the matter? Why are we s%topping?"
His face was strange. Don't you
know? 1t is the prison"
He half rose, his hand was on the
door. he had turned his back on me. A
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TT OW that made nm vince.
That's not quite the fact,
that's too ugly" lie said quick
ly. Il cant let you think
that: il isn't all my weakness. II is
partly that / " it to her. | am
bound to do this, just rs you were
bound to speak the truth in court. You
won't understand IL, | know, for To YOU
the world Is black aud white. and cach
incident stands by itself. But as a
man lives these incidents are interwo-
ven like the Inks of a chain. each one
depending on he Others, 50 that some
times what appears To he Il bad tbins
is really the only decent thing If n
knows the circumstances"
But 1t is because you are only look
ing at a little string of wrong things
that the last II of them looks right,
because it's like the Others ! said. III
you go back TO the big wrong that
started them all aud s~traiGhten 1t out
you will see that everything that FOL
lows will straighten itself
lie threw back his head, looking
ubNu at ult W I'M an tNlitNNiph . 'Nh'N
not make out. astonishcd. ~increduious
and half ashamed. "Out of the mouths
of babes | thought that was what
he said very softly. Then. And this
great wrong. Miss FenwickF"
| was conscious that somehow | had
gained an advantage. and ! kept my
eyes upon him as IL In such a fashion
| could hold 1t tight. you must tell
them how Martin Rood really died.
"Ah. never" The word rang with
such unexpected finality that all my
hope went tumbling at the sound.
'Oh. he loves her. he loves her" |
thought, and my pleading became the
pleading of despair. Yes, YES. you
will 20 back, IL not for my sake then
for your own, and tell them what you
have told me and the rest of IL. and |
know everything will come out light.
lie still kept gazing at me with that
puzzling expression, only now there
seemed To be more of tenderness than
of incredulity In it. you seem To have
great faith In things coming out right. "
'Oh. but it's true" | urged. They
will If only you will 20 back and face
the thing"
Slowly lie shook his head. Yes. il
may be true. II may even be work
able In some eases. but | have got too
Tar away from what is right ever to get
back. III | should try ! would only
succeed in doing some II else still
greater wrong that even YOU.
with all your awful sense of justice
could not ask me Ia do"
He turned from me and sat for a lit
tie while gazing straight before him,
n ] looked Mt his stern profile set
against the window glass. saw the shift
or expression upon 1t and knew that
he was thinking. At last. turning to
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planned. going before. and l followed
up the stair.
| thought | could have told without
previous knowledge that the house
had been deserted by its mistress. The
rooms which had been warm as with
the hea. of life were now deathly cold,
as If they had been closed for a long
time. The sweet, thick perfume which
had ~pervaded them had failed. leaving
only a dank smell of old weighty hang
ings: the very mysteriousness seemed
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sudden anguish went through me. keen
as physical pain. Something that was
not my mind at all seemed to be acting
for me. | caught hold of his arm with
| don't know what impulse to pull, him
back.
He turned. looking at me with smil-
ing eyes, gently ~unclasped my fingers,
his lips. Don't spoil it," he said,
''and remember your word"
| watched him walking down the
half block TO the prison door, Il figure
tall and solitary and. in spite of his
gay Mexican trappings, with an air of
somber resolution. So | saw him pass
the lone. gray house fronts and be
swallowed up in the great entrance of
the prison.
As he disappeared the desire to run
after him, to cry out to him. To cry out
to all the ears of the court the story
he had told me. rushed over me-. an in
sane impulse. What would that do
but make everything worse, even
harder for him to bear? Haven't |
made things hard enough for him al
ready?" /. who had said ! loved him,
that believed III his innocence. had
yet %virtuously urged him to 90 back
and give himself up-to what? Why,
my poor little coward mind was even
afraid to name what that thing was.
The Spanish oma had not been
afraid-no. not of anything. She had
risked everything that she had to save
him in the best way that she knew,
Was l.. as she had so bitterly told me,
only Il creature of words with no deeds
TO make them good? 1t was all very
well to say things would turn u right,
but now | saw that they would not un-
less | made them. And how was that
to be managed If he wouldn't speak and
| was in his confidence and couldn't?
| puzzled il over as my carriage rat
tied slowly back up Montgomery ave
nue.. Suddenly from what had been alb
solutely sterile cositation there spr;ng
IN the full flower of an idea. All That
he had said that evening had carried
the same perpleXing undercurrent of II
Inll0 lHll IL Nbhih NV Fltah VI III
always il seemed to point to the Span
ish 'She knows" thought
triumphantly. And if she knows. why,
she must not 20 away until she has
told me- The whole thing opened be-
fore me complete. unexpected. n deliv-
erance.
| looked out of the window, Faint
pst. earliest dawn was already begin
nine. There was hut one thing to do.
Johnny had told me that the Spanish
woman was going aboard the lugger at
dawn. | directed the driver To drive
to the BLACK Point wharf.
He peered mt me as If he thought me
crazy. THAT Teller gave me a gold
niece. We know" he said. "or | wouldn't
have taken We as far as this
.Go on" | said. and. queerly enough,
| didn't feel at all afraid OF the man.
eco on. and my father. Mr.. Fenwick.
will give you more when you take me
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
Turned Back.

TT OW that made him vince.
= That's not quite the fact,
that's too ugly" he said quick
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05
The True Patriot
By wait Mason.

How blessed is. the man who asks no
Office, low or high, who rustles at his
useful tasks, nor yearns to bleed and
diet No spoiled ambitions make him
sore or cause him to repine; and every
day, at every door, he gets the "Wel-
come sign. He is no politicians pup,
to follow him through town; no whip
persnapper higher up can ever call him
down. He does not need to whine and
sob in some cheap statesman's ears, that
he may hold his dinky job another term
of years. 1t isn't needful to pretend he
loves the unwashed ja,-; he needn't call
his bosom friend each rube who comes
his way. He cares not for the smiles or
frOwns of people in high place, but, in
his old blue hand-me-dOwns, he tolls
with skill and grace. From all official
letters free, he herds his lowing kline,
and prunes the spreading pumpkin tree,
and trains the cabbage vine. Admins
tratiOns oft may change, and patriots
may weep; such things do not his plans
derange, OF make him lose his sleep.
Let others break their hearts to nab
those prizes dear to them; all quietly he
keepeth tab upon his setting hen. How
blessed Is the man who'd take no Office
small Or big, Who'd rather stay at home
and make boudoir 4or his pig!