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De Bothezat’* Machine Excells
Any Produced in Germany,
France, England or Austria.
(Copyright. 1921. by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
In view of the hitch which hae
arisen In carrying forward develop
ment of the Deßothezat helicopter
by the army air service, following
successful specification flights and
tests for the machine which flics
without recourse to planes, an au
thoritative survey made today of
other nations’ efforts to solve the
helicopter riddle is of interest.
Failure is the chief word that can
be written, according to aviation
authorities on the efforts of Eng
land, France and Austria to invent
a helicopter. A successful helicop
ter la recognized as being of a dis
tinct military advantage to the na
tion which produces one first.
England has been working on the
Idea for seven years, but without
luck. Brennan, inventor of the
monorail, who has friends in the
British air ministry, was given the
assignment in 1916 at 2,000 pounds
a year to develop ajt Farnborough
a helicopter. The performances of
this Brennan helicopter never
amounted to anything worth men
tioning. Brennan had a gyroscope
In the machine to give stability, but
since the machine never flew this
precaution was superfluous.
Austria's Attempts.
Austria’s attempt to build a heli
copter came during the war, when
an officer, who did not wish to go
to the front, got the Austro-Hun
garian war office interested in
backing his idea for a helicopter. A
large staff was assembled, a factory
obtained and some 915,000,000 was
spent. The mehod of starting
about this experiment was to de
termine, by committee, what ap
pliances and equipment should be
needed by two men who would fly
the proposed machine, which was
to be used to make observations
upon nemy lines. The load deter
mined, the committee next set about
determining how much power an
engine should have to lift such a
load a given height.
The ertgine was produced. Then
elaborate tests were made on pro
pellers to .determine their lift. Hun
dreds of propellers were built. Two
were finally fixed over the engine,
horizontally, one about the other,
and above the propellers; an iron
barrel, quarters for two operators
of the machine, was placed. Final
ly assembled, the machine was
found to have no stability, and
could move in only one direction,
upward.
So guy-ropes were attached,
•cores of men holding on to them,
>nd the machine—more accurately
ailed a captive helicopter—was
-feady for business. It was able to
go up 400 feet The two men in
the iron barrel eventually were
dumped over and killed. This
was called the
Karman Helicopter, these being che
names of three men out of the regi
ment of people who monkeyed with
this machine.
Berliner’s Try.
It is to Berliner that goes the
honor of the first attempt to build
a helicopter in America. Berliner
has been trying to build helicopters
for the past ten or fifteen years
and has produced a good dozen of
different types of helicopters. Only
the last of this collection of heli
copters was able to perform a few
hop-offs of very small duration and
very low altitude. This helicopter
was said to get badly damaged at
almost every landing and the ma
chine did not appear to have any
•tability whatsoever. Berliner him
self has abandoned this type of ma
chine and is now building a new
type.
France has had somewhat better
luck, although she has not pro-
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ARTHUR PETER
Europe Is Meat And
Fat Hungry,- Say
U. S. Packers
- CHICAGO, July 3. —Europe
is meat and* fat hungry, and in
spite of the fluctuations in for
eign exchange Chicago packers'
export shipments are showing a
great increase over last year. *
A rush order from England
for a record shipment of pro
visions and lard had resulted
in the booking of the entire
cargo space allotted Chicago on
the giant steamship Leviathan
when she sails from New York
July 4 on her maiden voyage
under the American flag.
The fcpace was taken by Wil
son & Co.
duced as yet, after the test of a
big collection of helicopters, a real
helicopter.
Oelmichen built a machine, under
the financial assistance Os the au
tomobile concern, Peugeot, and the
French government. The first Oel
michen helicopter could lift only
with the assistance of a gas bag.
The second Oelmichen machine,
which - has made a few flights
carrying its pilot, is probably the
best effort made in France. The
Oelmichen helicopter has some
manoeuverability, although it is
said to be insufficient, but it has
no stability whatsoever, and the
gryoscope, with which 'it is equip
ped, does little good to the machine.
Pescara Machine Fly a.
Pescara has built, at the ex
pense of the French government,
three helicopters. It is only the
third Pescara machine that was
able to make a few short flights
that amounted to anything, al
though aviation experts* sdy the Oel
michen flights are of more im
portance than the Pescara flights.
The Pescara helicopter has some
manoeuverabigty, but it has no
stability whatsoever. The perform
ances of all these machines are far
from approaching the performance
of the De Bothezat helicopter built
in America.
Oermany has not been able to
produce a helicopter.
Thus the United States, which
gave the world the airplane twenty
years ago, today appears to be on
the threshold through the de Bothe
zat machine, of creating the first
helicopter which has stability;
manoeuverability and can hover.
But whether this country produces
such a machine depends largely on
whether the stalemate betweeen the
air service and Dr. de Bothezat
is h-oned out.
NEAR EAST RELIEF HAS
ARMENIAN STOCK FARM
DJELAL, OGHL/I, Armenia, July
3.—The Near East Relief has
started a modern American stock
farm on the former ranch of the
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia at
Kara Kala. fifteen miles from here.
The ranch will supply food for
the 26,000 children In Armenian
orphanages and is being used as an
agricultural school.
PARROT IS KILLED FOR
TALKING TO STRANGERS
CHICAGO, July 3.—Ferdinand
Kutz had never seen a parrot.
When a. large green bird spoke to
hm from a tree he galloped into
his house, got a shotgun and killed
Polly.
Mrs. Bertha Flugge, the owner,
caused a fine of $5 and costs to
be imposed on Mr. Kutz.
CHINAMAN IS GIVEN 8
YEARS TO PAY FINE
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 3.
Sing Foo, local Chinaman, fined SSOO
and costs here for violating prohibi
tion laws, has been granted a period
of eight years in which to pay. Un
able to pay the fine Foo was com
mitted to the county jail.
At 60 cents a day, allowed by
law, it would take Foo more than
two and one-half years to serve out
the fine, so the county commission
ers decided it would be cheaper to
turn him loose and take a chance
on his paying $6 monthly toward
the fine.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
cm is duided
OVER CLHIM
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Foster Parents In Fort Worth
Determined to Resist Action
to Take Oirl From Them.
FORT WORTH, July 3.—A ques
tion that would baffle a Solomon
has been raised In Forth Worth
in connection with the case of little.
Dido Martex, six years old, whose
natural mother, Mrs. Singleton. Is
attempting to reclaim the child
from her foster-parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. Z. Schooler.
According to the story. Dido
Martex, who was then called Mary
Louise, was given into the care of
a children’s aid and home society in
a western State when she was one
month old. The mother had been
deserted by the father before the
birth of the child and she had no
way of taking care of it.
Mrs. Singleton, the mother, claims
that the society promised not to let
the child out for adoption.
However, little Dido Martex was
taken and legally adopted by Mr.
and Mrs. Schooler.
After six years the natural
mother is trying to get the baby
back.
Fight Is Predicted.
The foster-parents have an
nounced that they will fight her
claim to the highest court in the
State.
The question of who has the bet
ter right to the child. is agitating
the city from end to end, and varied
are the opinions expressed on the
matter.
A letter received Friday and
signed "A Mother Who Knows” is
of the opinion that it would be a
great wrong not to return the child
to her natural mother. The letter
says in part:
‘‘How can anyone be so un
natural as to want to keep a child
from its real mother. Surely no
mother could be in favor of so
unjust a decision.
‘‘People who have never had a
baby of their own have no under
standing of the feeling that a
mother has for her own flesh and
blood.
‘‘She goes down into the valley,
of the shadow to bring it into the
world and nothing that she can do
later can void her claim upon it.
“God sends a child to its mother.
He wants her to have it. If
through misfortune she is compelled
to give it up for a time, that is
punishment enough for her.
Belongs to Mother.
“Little Mary Louise, or Dido
Martex, as she is now called, be
longs to her natural mother by
divine right, and no law in the
world has the right to deny the
child to her.”
On the other hand, there are
many who consider that once a
mother abandons her child and
does not care for it in its in
fancy that she has forfeited all
claim to it. .
Mrs. I. Zi T. Morris, of the the
Texas Children's Home and Aid
Society is of this mind.
"It was reported that Mrs.
Singleton left her child with this
society, but a search of our own
records proved this to be untrue.
We never promised to hold a child
and betrayed that trust,” said Mrs.
Mon^s.
DEMPSEY'S DOG ATTACKS
GIRL; DAD ASKS $20,000
GREAT FALLS, Mont., July 3.
Jack Dempsey’s worries were in
creased when a suit was filed by
Alex P. Geranlous. of Great Falls,
who asks $20,000 damages for in
juries alleged to have been received
when his seven-year-old daughter
was bitten by a dog at Dempsey’s
training camp June 10.
Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s manager,
also was made a defendant in the
suit.
• • Thm National Daily • • TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1928.
mil stub
IS TRYING TO
DIEM
Philanthropist Believes in Mak
ing Large Bequests While
He Is Living.
By VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE,
Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK, July 3.—Nathan
Straus, one of America’s greatest
merchants and philanthropists, at
the age bf seventy-five is doing the
best he can to give his fortune
away.
For this man who interested him
self In charity when still quite
young and before he had made his 1
great wealth has a code which does
not believe In large bequests after
death to charitable institutions.
“Why wait that long?’’ the mer
chant prince asked. “Giving is ono
of the joys of life which never palls
and never lessens but grows by
feeding on what it does.
“It is only a matter of time be
fore it will be considered a disgrace
for a man to die very wealthy. In
stead of an honor roll for those
who have helped their fellQW men,
'I advocate a dishonor roll for those
who have failed in their duty.
"If the rich people of the world—
I mean those who have more than
they can use—did their duty, half
the misery of the whole world* would
be relieved.
"There is a Hebrew proverb which
says,' ‘What you give in health is
gold; what you give in sickness is
silver; what you give after death
is lead.’
“People have to be educated to
do good- They find they enjoy it,
and gradually It becomes a habit.
The farther they travel along the
path of good deeds, the more theV
enjoy the traveling. .*
Admires Rockefellers.
“Men like the Rockefellers, father
and son, are the most Inspiring ex
amples of the good use to which
great wealth may be put. They
are among the greatest men on
earth. I admire them particularly
because they art doing their good
work during their lifetime. Getting
the ablest bacteriologists and scien
tists in the world to combat dis
ease I consider even more impor
tant than establishing hospitals to
cure it.”
In' a long career devoted to giv
ing and to arousing in others a
sense of their obligations, Mr.
Straus has had peculiar opportuni
ties for arriving at conclusions in
regard to givers. He said:
“People of the middle classes are
the easiest to approach on matters
of charity or public welfare. Poor
people haven’t the means. And
rich people have an elaborate sys
tem of defense.
“Most rich people have their ex
cuses alphabetically card indexed
so as to be readily available in case
of an emergency attack. You sel
doqj catch them so completely off
their guard that they haven’t at
least one tried and trusty excuse
where It is most accessible.
“All people who don’t like to give
use the same conversational tactics.
»After the first three minutes I can
only gauge my chances of interest
ing them but can even guess how
they will evade them, down to
the very words they will use.
Women Best Givers.
are easier to interest
than men. If the matter has any
thing to do with children, the re
sponse among women is about 100
per cent.
“Anything pertaining to the pub
lic health secures the immediate
co-operation of women. I was able
to accomplish the most wherever
I had women working with me.
And when they undertake a thing,
they stick to it."
Mr. Straus began so interest him
self in charity when he was young
and still poor. At that time he
said, “I can wait to make more
money. I cannot wait to give. The
opportunity to make money will al
ways be herp. This particular op
portunity to do good will be gone
forever if I let it pass.”
“There would be very little chari
table work in the world if people
were afraid to leave their money
after death, for fear that their
motives might be misunderstood.
“Most of the hospitals in the
country were endowed by rich rpen 5
and women who left the money in
their wills.
If you cannot bear to part with
your money during your lifetime,
that seems a better way to dispose
of it, than leaving it for lawyers
to fatten on through litigation
"Why should there be people, in
this civilized age, suffering for lack
while a trustee receives
SIOO,OOO to administer a will?
There is no excuse for hunger'
or privation in America. The coun-’
try never was so prosperous. Half,
the gold in the world is over here. |
One case of starvation or illness 1
unattended is a blot on our national'
honor.
The only way to wipe out these!
blots is through education and ex
<inipl6. Education of the rich* Ex*
ample of the rich.”
HARRIET W. MOORE LEFT
AN ESTATE OF $34,582
j Harriet W. Moore, by her will,
dated May 14, 1923, filed for probate
today, leaves to the Children’s Hos
pital and the Associated Charities
The esta te is estimated
at $34,582 and the National Savings
and Trust Company and Richard E.
Claughton are named as executors
and trustees.
SP£J« C bequests include: Etsey
W. Wilcox and Eva A. Stover, $1,500
each; SI,OOO each to Harriet A
5r #V Wh? e,e ?r B fi S Nelson,"Harriet
Kathr y ne M. Mawson,
Vona C. Green;
t s o Fred w R ; T( l Wler ’ SBOO each
W. B<itf?fl f rank C* pnfpq
and Walter Wilcox. B
The trustees are directed to hold
S3S~t at .« 1 t 5 Sev * nt «*nth street
northwest, in trust to p uv the net
fon°en e W ’ and M.lo V
SLeh 11 h 7 ° r ,h * eurvlvor
reach the age of twenty-f| VP rears
when they shall take title to the
property. 1
The remaining estate l„ devised to
Thlre. ’ Bon ‘ a - “> •«<**•
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Pans Do Not Bother
.Miss Hazel Nutt
Or Her Sisters
SEATTLE, July 3.—Such a
witty world they find it, the
three members of the Nutt fam
ily registered from Urbana, 111.,
at the Hotel Frye.
Miss Lilly Nutt, Miss Harriet
Nutt, Miss Hazel Nutt, are
three sisters called. Especially
hard-shelled toward the, jests
of the public is Miss Hazel
Nutt, the leader, or, as you
might say, the colonel of the
Nutts. .
“We positively don't mind
any pun whatsoever,” says
Hazel Nutt. “Our name seems
to make people happy, wins us
many acquaintances, is a real
social asset:”
The sisters are on a trans
continental automobile trip.
FLTOTFfi
AMUSING
‘ PUBIS
Tlney Performer* Wear Dree*
Costumes—One Dances
on a Tight Rope.
By AI!ICE IANGELIER.
International New* Berrios.
PARIS, July 3.—A little troupe
of trained fleas is drawing large
crowds to the Fete de Neuiljy, on
the edge of Paris.
As early as the seventeenth cen
tury Paris had its little flea thea
ter, which attracted visitors from
all parts of the world. Fleas,
garbed in military uniforms, exe
cuted maneuvers on a miniature
battlefield and dragged about little
cannon and other armaments with
the greatest skill.
Today the spectacle Is given in
a little wooded shed. The spec
tators sit about a table covered
with a white cloth. The trainer
brings forth her little troupe and
puts them through their amazing
exercises. Some of the tiny in
sects are dressed in crinolines and
hoop - skirts and figure in a cos
tume ball. • Another is a tight rope
walker of no mean ability. A fevr
do some military tactics with can
non and guns. But the most re
markable is certainly the little
juggler, who rolls an elderberry
about on her feet, tossing it up in
the air at the command of the
trainer and releasing it when she
says “stop.”
“She is my best artist,’' said
Mademoiselle Ambros, she trainer
and to reward her she lifted her
sleeve and let the little creature
feast a minute op her arm. The
meal takes place in this manner
for each insect. It lasts about fif
teen or twenty minutes every day
Thus nourished and protected from
the cold, they live, on an average,
about nine years.
“At the beginning ,of their train
ing,” the trainer continued, “I
must attach nty little fleas to a
fine string or silk hair before their
performances. Once having learned
the futility of their efforts to es
cape they change their habitual
hops into regular movements.
Then my task is much easier. The
little creatures possess astonisihng
strength, but needless to say, their
education demands untold patience.”
LUCRATIVE positions
OFFERED IN U. S. SERVICE
The Civil Service Commission to
day announced open competitive
examinations for several Govern
ment jobs that pay up to $6,000 a
year. The vacancies that are to be
filled are electrical design drafts
-1 man, $6.80 to SB.BO a day; library
specialist, office of the commandant,
Navy Yard. $5,000; real estate ex
pert, Q. M. C., $2,160 a year to sl2 a
day; apprentice fish culturlst, S6OO
to S9OO a £fear; special writer in the
office of director. Government
Savings System, $4,500; observer and
computer in gas analyses, at Pitts
burgh, $1,620 to $1,620 a year; as
sistant map printer, Geological Sur
vey, $2 a day.
In addition to the basic pay there
ie a bonus of S2O a month for those
salaries which do not exceed $2,500.
Full Information and application
blanks may be obtained at the of
fice of the Civil Service Commission,
1724 F street northwest.
ROW OVER PENNY LEADS
TO SUIT FOR SIO,OOO
CHICAGO, July 3.—Because of a
dispute over a penny Frank C.
Hill and the South Chicago Street
Car Company will spend several
hundred dollars in the courts. Ho
asserts he has been humiliattd to
the extent of SIO,OOO and brought
Buit for that amount.
It came about when a conductor,
in making change for Mr. Hill’,
dropped a penny on the floor. Hill
dcK>osited six cents and walked for
ward in the car, full fare being
seven cents. The conductor picked
up the penny and asked Hill to
drop it in the box as the rules did
not permit him to do so. Hill re
fused and says the conductor then
flung the penny at his feet, told
him to pick it up and put it in the
box or get off the car. Hill
ulighied.
6 MORE DRY AGENTS FACE
CHARGES IN CHICAGO CASE
CHICAGO, July 3.—lndictments
last week by the Federal grand jury
of Roscoe C. Andrews, former act
ing prohibition director for Illinois;
John E. Earley, his chief field agent,
and nine others in connection with
the distribution among stockholders
of the $200,000 liquor stocks of
Grommes & Ullrich when the liquor
firm dissolved, will be followed by
perjury charges against a half
dozen agents of the prohibition de
partment, assistant United States
District Attorneys announced today.
AFTER~YEAR WIFE NO. 2
HAS MARRIAGE ANNULED
DETROIT, July B^—Because he
has another wife living in Minne
apolis, the marriage of Ernest A.
and Edith L. Mitchell was annulled
by Judge Dlngeman on petition of
the second wife, Edith,
HOME FOR AGEDI
UPSET BY
CUPID
Chatterbox of 102 Said to
Have Vamped Widower \
of 105.
NEW YORK, July sT—'T*o hun
dred aged men and women in the
Sons and Daughters of Israel Home
yesterday discussed a romance some
of them “say involves two popular
centenarians, inmates of the institu
tion. The women, most of them
long past eighty, gathered in group*,
their white-capped heads close to
gether. There was a regular old
time gossip-fest lasting nearly all
day.
• Chaim Weiss, “Sage of Wyassy”
they call him, a landscape gardener
of 105 years,, who came from Bucha
rest sixty years ago, and Etta
Trooper, 102, widow, fifty years
in America, emerged from the
synagogue yesterday holding hands.
Etta is a vivacious blue-eyed little
chatterbox from Galicia, many years
resident in the Tenth street home.
She Nursed Him.
Weiss is recovering from an oper
ation. During his convalescence,
the gossips says,. widow Trooper at
tended him assiduously; After
luncheon yesterday she drew a
chair near his and kept him cool
with a palm leaf fan. Meanwhile
scores of shawled, white-bonneted
and aproned old ladies—like so
many Rembrandts stepped straight
out of the frames —whispered they
had known it all along.
Miss Frances Linder, secretary of
the home, smilingly declined to con
firm gossip anent the Weiss-Troop
er romance, but consented to facili
tate the questioning of both prin
cipals. When Weiss was asked
whether he contemplated matrimony
in his second century he grunted
contemptuously, puffing vigorously
at- a cigarette. Then ,he referred
his caller to widow Trooper, whom
'he characterised as “a mighty
smart girl," adding, apropos those
“everlasting gossips in the women's
dormitory,” that shs would “put a
flea in their ears.”
Han Had Three Wives.
“I've hqd three wives.” he chuck
led. “Three times is out. I know
when I’ve had enough.”
"Oh, what I know about you,”
joked Miss Linder as she sat by
widow Trooper and patted the old
woman’s hands. “Do you know
what they say? That you’re in
love with Papa Weiss. Whq, it’s
gll over the place. What have you
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Concert
By the Army Band at Meridian
Hill Park, Sixteenth and Bnelld
streets northwest, today at 7:*u
p. m., W. J. Stannard, band
leader.
March, “Lincoln Centennial”
Sanford
Overture, “Isabella” Suppe
Selection “Echoes from the
Metropolitan Opera House”
Tobanl ,
Excerpts from “H. M. S. Pina*
fora” Sullivan
Americana Fantasia, “Oems of
Stephen Foster” ... .Laurendean
a “Menuet In Q” Beethoven
b "Song of Love" from “Blos
som Time” Romberg
Oems from “The Fortune Teller”
Herbert
March, “The Saracen Guard”
White
“The Star-Spangled Banner.*?
AVIATORS SEEK
WOMAN LOST
IN DESERT
Fear Mother of Twelve Chil
dren Has Already Perished
of Thirst and Hunger.
NORFOLK, Va., July 3.--Search
ing parties today reported that they
nad discovered no trace of Mre. W.
T. Russell, fifty-two, mother of
twelve children, who, becoming de
mented after a serious illness, wan
dered away into the Cape Henry
desert on June 21.
Mrs. Russell, a resident of the
Brambleton section of this city,
had spent the early.years of her life
in the sand dune region, and on a
previous occasion had left her home
and later had been found there.
Planes from Langley Field and the
naval base will fly over the section
today in an effort to locate'her. Fear
is expressed that the woman has
perished of thirst and hunger and
the, terrific heat that has prevailed
for the last ten days.
The Cape Henry desert is a wild,
desolate section of Princess Anne
county, and ig rarely visited by hu
man beings, even smugglers and
moonshiners giving it a wide berth,
and hunters never go there as it is
barren of game. The aviators have
been instructed to fly low In their
search for Mrs. Russell as the
sameness of the surface makes it
difficult to distinguish objects from
any distance.
to say for yourself, you dear, old
vamp?”
The widow Trooper, with eyes
downcast like a girl of seventeen
questioned about her first love af
fair, fidgeted a moment with her
apron hem. Then with a wise old
smile she remarked: ,
"My Lord! Aren’t old men the
scandal mongers, dearie?”
PUTTING ETHER
INTO BEER BY
NEEDLE
Beauty Doctors Now Dolling
Up Poison Liquors to Maks
Them Seem Did.
# By ROLAND KREBS.
Intrust!—l Hews Bwilm.
CHICAGO, July S.—Bootlegging
has caused a wholly new class of
beauty doctors to corns into exist
ence. it was revealed here recently
by the Industrial Research Labora
tories.
Their work is to beautify poison
liquor In just the opposite manner
in which aging women are prettied
up. Where the facial rubber mas
sages the marks of age away with
cold cream and various kinds of
day, the bootleg beauty doctor in
stills an appearance of age Into
liquor with chemicals certain to
eat away one’s interior.
The laboratories announced that
their research had shown bootleg
ging to he closely allied with the
beauty business in yet another way.
Most of the alcohol, it was found,
used in the making of synthetic
gin originally was Intended for the
manufacture of toilet articles.
When the average drinker Is of
fered “the real stuff,” laboratory
experts said, the chances are ten
to one that it’s dangerous drink.
“Needle beer” was compared with
a drug addict in the report. It
said *that ordinary near-beer first
was placed in kegs and corked,
after which ether was "shot” into
it with a syringe thrust through
the cork in much the fashion that
a slave to narcotic drugs puts dope,
under his skin with a hypodermic
needle. >
Most bootleg liquors examined in
the laboratories were found to be
excellent for pouring into sewers
and drain pipes. Because of their
chemical ingredients, it was said,
they flush the pipes very effec
tively. ,
FRENCH WIDOW SEEKS
TO EMULATE DIOGENES
PARIS, July 3.—Madame Tran
zal, sixty, played the role of Dio
genes when she presented herself
before the bar at Remirement car
rying in her hand a candle and a
box of matches.
“I wish to give light to the jury
for my case,” she declared, and the
judge had no little difficulty in try
ing to prevent her from lighting a
candle and sticking it in his pocket,
much to the amusement of all citi
zens present. The poor widow was
fined sixty francs.