T1IK CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1010. A NEW YEAR'S BARGAIN Grandmother nnd Grandfather Smith eat In their cozy living room, grand mother knitting nnd grandfather look ing steadily Into tin fire which burned so brightly In the grate. At length grandfather sighed and spoke. "Mother," ho said, "I was just recall ing our past Now Years so many of them that 1 hnvo lost count. And I was thinking how nice It was when our son Tom and our girl Stella were nt home, for then wo had some young life In the house, some one to plan for nnd to make merry over." "Yes," said grandmother, her voice low; "yes, father, It Is very sweet to have children about." "Yes, wc are nn aged household, mother," said the old gentleman. 'But there goes the bell. I'd better go to the door, mother." "No, don't trouble to put down your pipe, father I am nlrei. Jy up and shall see who Is ringing. Oh. It's our "A PERFECTLY FAIR BARGAIN." morning paper, I guess. I see a boy's cap over the lower part of the door Bash." And Grandmother Smith open ed the big hall door. As she did so a young, happy face looked into hers. A boy perhaps ten years old stood there, holding a roll of papero under his arm. As grandmother looked down Into his eyes the boy smiled brightly, saying, "Are you Mrs. Smith, mum?" Grandmother returned the smile and replied: "Yes, I am Mrs. Smith, little man. What Is wanting?" "Why, I'm your paper boy, mum, an' I've got yonr paper here." And the lad held up a paper to grandmother. 'VAn' since you are Mrs Smith I want to be given every candidate in THE CITIZENS Great Tour of Bermuda and Prize Contest for ev ery club of Ten Yearly Subscriptions to THE CITIZEN before Monday, January 2nd at 9 p. m. This offer includes both old and new subscribers whether same is paid for in advance or for back subscriptions. This is an opportunity for New Entries. NOMINATE A CANDIDATE Nomination Blank Good for 1,000 Votes The CITIZEN'S Tour of Bermuda and Prize Contest I NOMINATE ADDRESS DISTRICT NO SIGNED '. ADDRESS , Only the First Nomination Blank Cast for Each Candidate will Count as 1,000 Votes FIVE YOUNG WOMEN WILL TOUR BERMUDACITIZEN PAYS THE BILLS. Visit the Lands of Love9 Lore and Romance Contest now open. 'Phone or call for particulars. to thank you for your patronage during the pnst year. An' I want to wish you nnd Mr. Smltli n most prosperous nn' hnppy New Year, mum." After delivering himself of his speech the little paper vender was nbout to depart when grandmother suddenly thought of something. "Walt a min ute, little man. Won't you come In and hnvc a cup of hot chocolate and n slice of cake?" The lad hesitated, then looked down at his poorly shod feet. "I'd bate to soil your tloor, mum," be said. "My clothes nln't lit, you see." "Come right In, child," snld grand mother. "Never mind nbout your clothes. It Is you we want." The boy took off his ragged cap and followed grandmother Into the cheer ful living room. Thoro he was greet ed pleasantly by grandfather, to whom he was Introduced. "Now sit there till I tlx the chocolate," said grandmother, designating comfortable chair be side the glowing grate. Within n few minutes grandfather, grandmother nnd Dick, for be bad told them his name, were chnttlng pleas antly. And to their many questions Dick told the fdory of his young life. He was nn orphan, without a living relative In the world that bo knew about. He lived nt the Newsboys' home, over by the viaduct. He man aged to get enough to pay his $12 a week at the homo and went to night school three nights of each week. Grandmother looked at grandfather. Then she nroe nnd beckoned the old man to follow her Into another room, telling Dick to excuse them a minute. In the dining room the old folks had a whispered consultation. Then, with beaming faces, they returned to the living room. And they explained to Dick n new plan they had conceived. And the plan was for Dick Sunshine (for that was what the dear old grand mother cnlled him) to take up his resi dence with them make their homo his home and to give up selling newspa pers and go to day school. Dick's face was radiant for a mo ment. Then he hung his head. "I can't do It, mum and sir," he said. "I'd be glttln' everything and glvln' you nothin' for It. It wouldn't be n fair bargain." "A perfectly fair bargain," declared both grandmother nnd grandfather. "You'll be giving us whnt we most need a child In the house, sunshine, gaiety, the love of n grateful and con federate boy. Oh, please come!" So It happened that Dick Sunshine ftecame one of Grandfather Smith's family and In course of time was law fully adopted as their son. And he fully repaid them for nil they gave him, for he brought back to them the days of youth, the days when their own children were growing up nbout them, and their home once more rang with the laughter and shouts of a hap py child. Bagdad Using Typewriters. A number of American typewriters hnve made their appearance In Gug-3nd. DREADNOUGHT OF AIR FOR BRITAIN Biggest Dirigible Planned to Sail 100 Miles an Hour. COST OF BUILDING $225,000, Inventor Figures That 3,000 Horso power Motors Would Send It 11.00C Miles at Twenty Mile Gait Carryin; Quick Firing Guns, Wireless Outfit and Searchlight. Plans for a dirigible which wll travel nt n hundred mllcH nn hour nnc carry quick llrlng guns, searchlights long range wireless equipment, tele photographic npparatus nnd other u to date accessories for use In war lmv been made by 10. Ncalc, n young Kng llsh aviator, who Is nbout to uppea for the sum of S'J'J.I.OOO to build tin airship. Mr. Neale has made a few good aero plane lllghts In England, but lie is no In the front rank of (lying men. Wants an Air Fleet. Ills ambition is to have a licet o these aerial cruisers, as he calls them so as to give Great Britain cnmmnm of the air and "place her In the fore front of nerlal navigation Instead o. tamely following the lead of nation? who now sell to England what thej do not themselves require." In this caustic comment, of course he referred to the purchase of tin French l.ebaudy nnd Clement-Hayarc airships. The dirigible he contemplates woulc exceed In size and equipment nnythini that lias yet been built. It woulc weigh 74.2S0 pounds, of which 3G.00( pounds would bo taken up with thi petrol required. The motors woulc develop 3,000 horsepower, nnd then would be eleven eighteen-foot propel lers. The gns would be warmed bj passing cooling water through radla tors Inside the envelope. Wide Travel Range. At the maximum speed of 100 miles' an hour the dirigible would have a travel range of 2,000 miles nnd at a cruising speed of twenty miles nn houi 10,!M0 miles. He lias carried out a number of sci entific experiments, nnd he is prepared to submit his design and data to a committee of experts. He Is likely however, to wait a long time before tic gets the necessary amount to build even one such dirigible. The Rrltlsh wnr olilcu is oxteudlnc the balloon establishment nt En rubor ough, near Aldershot. with a view to a big development In aviation matters SECOND PRIZE.S:FOL'It DIAMOND RINGS. THIRD PRIZES: FOUR GOLD WATCHES. Ambition, Energy and Popularity required to win Address all communications and subscriptions to The Bermuda Tour Departments THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. HONESDALE, PA. snips and neroplano construction will be llxed. It Is believed Hint the fu tun?, so far ns the dirigible Is con corned, lies with nn airship In which high and sustained speed Is combined with n sinnll surface. Vessels of great bull; would bo too conspicuous targcti for artillery. Speedy Scout the Ideal. A fast aerial scout which can carry a machine gun nnd hnve a lifting ca pacity of nbout two tons Is regardei. ns the Ideal vessel for wnr purposes To test this view a comparison will be made within the next few months of the small dirigibles Delta, Ileta and Gnnima with the two Krcnr-h airship? recently acquired by '.he British wat olllce. Purchases are being made of sam ples of most types of aeroplanes by the British government In order to facilitate the experimental work which has been started at Dnrrlngton. Olll cers of the army, no matter to which branch they belong, are being Invited to Join the nlr corps which Is to form tho nucleus of the aeroplane Instruc tional staff. The factory will make all 'the aero planes required once n British army type has been evolved. POWDER GOOD IN PLOWING. New Mexicans Experiment With Breaking Tough Adobe Soil. It doosn't take long to tear an acre to pieces with the powder system now being used in adobe lands. A demon stration n few days ngo on the New ' Aluvlpi fvillnfo ftirm liftivfw1 Iwm-! thoroughly the ground was broken up. Whether tlvp process Is to bo success ful Is still to be proved, E. U. August has charge of the work now being done. In ground to be used for an orchard Mr. Angast had holes bored lfl( to tho ncre fifteen feet apart. The charges put Into these were connected with wires. Three rows, about twelve or fifteen charges, were tired nt one time. The tough adobe was cracked from hol- to hole. Largo pieces rose twenty-live or thirty feet Into the nlr. The ground was In fairly good condition to plow, but It will be even better lifter frost has laid Its softening ln lluence upon It. It costs nbout $15 an acre for the powder and possibly $2.."0 or $2.75 for the labor. CHINAMEN HAD OPIUM. $5,000 Worth Is Taken In Raids In Buf falo. Buffalo, Dec. 22. Eight Chinamen, who were arrested here In a series of opium raids by special agents of tho United States internal revenue depart ment, were arraigned before United States Commissioner Keating. They nil pleaded not guilty and were admitted to ball in the sum of $1,500 each, furnished by Americans. About $5,000 worth of opium was obtained In the raids. NO WINE FOR SACRAMENT. Prohibition In Minnesota Imposes Hardship In Churches. St. Paul, Minn,, Dec. 22.- Enforce ment of federal liquor laws In north ern Minnesota Is Interfering with re ligious rites In churches. To remedy conditions, which have prevented some Catholic churches In northern Minne sota from procuring wine for sacra mental purposes, Bishop McGolrlck of Dulnth conferred In St. Paul with Archbishop Ireland. Bishop McGolrlck says the railroads have refused shipments of wine for church purposes under consignment to towns In the Indian Territory. Arch bishop Ireland and Bishop McGolrlck will take actliu looking toward hav ing the prohibitive order modified formally that wine for church pur poses may lie shipped by railroad with out fear nt violation of the federal ruling. HIS THIRD TRIAL IN 3 YEARS. Protests He's Not tho Mitchell That Committed Murder 24 Years Ago. Uusk. Tex., Dec. 22. For a third time within ns ninny years William Mitchell Is being tried for the murder of .Tames Trultt, which he Is alleged to have committed twenty-four years ago. On the two previous trials there were hung juries. Trultt was the husband of .Mrs. .lulln Trultt Bishop, a southern writer of short stories. Mitchell escaped, and no trace of him was obtained until three years ngo, when the man who Is now alleged to be he was arrested In New Mexico. The names of the two men are the same, but the one who Is now being tried says It Is a case of mistaken Identity; that he never was acquainted with Trultt nnd was not In Texas at the time the crime was committed. CHEAPER BERTHS FEB. 1. Upper From Chicago to New York Will Be Reduced From $5 to $4. Wnshington, Dec. 22. An upper Pull man berth between New York nnd Chicago, which now costs $5. can bo obtained for ?4 after Feb, 1. The In terstate commerce commission lias handed down Its formnl order requir ing the Pullman company to differen tiate In Its charges between an upper and n lower berth. The price of lower berths also Is to be lower In many Instances. For ex nmplc, the r-ite from New York to Jacksonville, Fin., Is now $(i.50. After Feb. 1 it will be $(!. Gaston Will Not Run. Boston. Dec. 22. William A. Gaston has announced his withdrawal as a Democratic candidate for the United States somite. Auto Service In Mesopotamia. Tho question of establishing an ail lomoblle service between Bagdad and Aleppo, In Mesopotamia, Is again be ing considered by the government CUT THE CITIZEN'S Trip To Bermuda Contest 25 VOTES CANDIDATE Address District No This Coupon, when neatlv trimmed out, name, address, prop erly tilled in and broiiRht or sent to tho TOUU DRPAHTMKNT OK TilE CIT1HEN, will count as 23 votes in THE CITIZEN'S TUI1 TO BERMUDA CONTEST. Tho first one of these Coupons received for any young lady will place her in nomination and will count for 1,000 votes. CUT Contest closes Jan. 303 at 9 p. m. Irf-nmlng Honesty. In a llttlo town a fow years nco there was a shiftless negro boy nar.icd Hnnsom Blake, who, after hc Icr caught In n number nt petty del n fluencies, was at last sentenced to a short term In tho penitentiary, where ho was sent to lenm a Undo. On tho day of his return home ho met n friendly whlto acqualnincc, who naked: "Well, what did they put yon tt In the prison, Itanse?" "Dey started In to make an honest ho out'n me, sah." "Thnt'B good, Ranso, and I hope thoy succeeded." "Doy did. snh." "And how did they teach you to be honest?" "Dey done put me In the nhoa Ebon, rnh, nallln' pastnboird outer eh cos fo' soles, sah." Youth's Companion. First Dining Cnr. "Just forty yearn ago." said T. 0. Newton, a Chicaro railroad man, "the Chicago & Alton Railroad t '-it on the first dining car ever operated on any railway train In tho world. This was on tho run between Ch. ca ge and St. Louis. If that car con d bo exhibited now It would create uni versal merriment. It hnd oilcloth table covers, tho seats were sere ti to the floor, and Its Illumination de pended on candles. Think of l ho contrast between that primitive af fair of 1868 and the modern dln'.rg cm finished In solid mahogany, with coigeeus furniture, and n menu as elaborate and cooking as dainty cj thcl supplied by any of the forerao't hotels of America. Verily, we have been 'going some' In tho four decai. J tha have gone by slncn the Alton'3 nrt crude experiment." Baltlmnro American. Paris Tnxes. Everything which enters the c'ty of Paris is taxed. All of the mark t women bringing In fruit and tho truck gardeners bringing In their load3 of vegetables have to pay the city tax. Immense Siberia. Siberia contains one-ninth of all thf land on the globe. Great Brit ain and all Europe except' Ruwia, to;u'her with tho whole of the Un t ec States, could be Inclosed within Its boundaries. Fourteen Feet of the Sen. Every year a layer of the cntlro ,e- 14 feet thick, is taken up into i !: clouds, the winds bear their bur den into the land and the water comes uown In rain upon the fields, to (low back throsgh rivers. Trees Retain Salt. An Austrian engineer hai, discov ered that trunks of trees retain re salt of sea water that Las &t through In the direction of the PI THIS OUT THIS OUT
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