The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

M w?: * -.**, WlWfwWn «p*i :Vfe<sV *Jf. P&UKDIAIAB, illlifliPiiiiftli Some Interesting Facts in Connection With ^ Recent Aviation Feat^; 'f SSf;'£'! OF LITTLE SClEMimC VALUE -* «Attempt# to Qe Higher Than Mao- RMdy1! Record-Breaking Flight ilf-A.' • Would Not B« Productive tf . , Worthwhile Results. Tf' •'Washington.--The "top of the world** waits tft be reached. Lieutenant ; MarReady'8 record-breaking fly to a of nearly eight miles left the "re!ling of the earth" stili at leas;. _ v, iforty miles away. m How near the aviator may come to §> ,> «, .what is practically the upper limit of 4, the atmospheric layer surrounding the r'.v'.we roay not know In This genera* P* $»ttaon. But tlie meteorologist and the K&i" astronomer tell us that both Major -- - /Schroeder after his flight of 38,180 >i£eet and Lieutenant MacReady after $>: ; > ^'ls 40,800 were speaking only figura- <tve'y when they spoke of having &(• C.l'ffi *talned the "top of the earth." /• Layer Fifty Miles Thick. 8 y%*\ i Th® layer of atmosphere, mahy say, « at least fifty miles thick. J1, /Aviators now have the means of aklng sufficient oxygen along with em for their engines and for themlves, and the heat that keeps their es from freezing. They lack only enser air to fly upon at great heights "ut' this, of course^ they will never ve. Tet there la another solution: The aster plane capable of rising still ilgher on an ever-thinning ocean of It will be a problem forever Increasingly difficult. The higher man rises, Jthe thinner will he find the air upon ;<whlch he must depend for buoyancy, i Indeed the air gets thinner even In iter proportion than the increased sight of the flight. For though Macidy had risen through but one-sixth jof the air cushion that cloaks the dearth, he had left behind him fouiv jfifths of the air. * From the surface of the earth, ^where the total pressure upon his body Was fifteen tons, he had risen to a §%- aheight where the pressure was but three tons. And had he gone three times as high he would have reduced the pressure to 80 pounda. ^ a ; No Interest at S Any higher airplane flights^ than those that have been taken by these two men will have little scientific value. Their observations will give scarcely more Information than that to be had from a balloon sent up with various pieces of recording apparatus. But neither did the poles of the earth hava great scientific Intern*. ?t men sought and .tuAaf And so long as the astronomer and the meteorologist make known the existence of an ocean of air beyond any sailed thus for, there will be,a struggle to fathom Its depth. . But for the present that fathoming will be done only from observation and deduction to be made upon terra flrma. Among the best of the methods that are used to determine the upper limit of the blanket of air about the earth la called the "twilight method." It has been determined that twilight lasts until the sun Is about eighteen degrees below the horizon, and with this as a known value and the radius of the earth given as 4,000 miles, it Is not .difficult to solve, by the methods of trigonometry, a right triangle that gives 48 «nlles as the height of the air still dense enough to reflect the twilight raj»s of the sun after It Stewart's Speedometer Man Really Was ^Terence O'Brien, One-Time Clipper of Horses* - ALSO WAS MIS1HG PROSPECTOR Litigation Over $5,257,343 Estate Left •by Manufacturer Leads to Bar. . Ing Of "Family Skeleton"!-- KooentHe About Mon&i Chicago.---Litigation over the $5,- 257,343 estate left by the late John K. Stewart, founder and president of the Stewart Manufacturing company and the Stewart-Warner Speedometer company, bared a "family skeleton." Search of records of the Surrogate court in Riverhead, L. L, in which one of the two wills made by the Chicago millionaire was filed, revealed that his name was really Terence O'Brien. Under this name he had been a mining prospector in the West, always without much success. From prospecting O'Brien turned his hand to clipping horses, following county fairs. In Seattle he met Arthur end Michael Oonlon. Together they invented a horse clipping machine. This Popocatepetl Is Becoming Dangerous First airplane photograph of Popocatapetl, Mexico's famous volcano, !>fch Is Just now becoming so vigorously active that the Inhabitants of the {villages at Its base have left their homes. The mountain, composed chiefly porphyritlc obsidian, rises in a cone 17,720 feet above sea level, about ten kniles southwest of Mexico City. JwM 'Ivllli J of p Bared contained a flexible shaft, which served as the basis of future automobile accessory appliances. -/./v. Soon Brings In Big Profits. This shaft was patented for O'ftrleh by a lawyer named Stewart and soon It began to pay large profits. It was placed on the market as the John K. Stewart speedometer, the mim of the lawyer furnishing part of the title and that of a race horse, "John K," furnishing the remainder. O'Brien later decided to adopt as his own the name of the device he had placed on the market, and from that time on was known as John K. Stewart. With the acquisition of his fair fortune O'Brien, now known as Stewart, left the West and moved to Chicago, Introduced the speedometer and soon his wealth grew to great proportions. He purchased a residence at 3217 Sheridan road and bought a mansion at Center Point, L. L, to which be later moved with his wife and two daughters, Marion and Jean, He was In his early forties when he died, leaving an estate of five to seven millions. Both Stewart and his widow, who died nine months after him were eccentric in handling money. First a clerk In the office of the Speedometer company discovered some deposit slips on Chicago banks calling for $1,800,- 000 which it was not known that Mr. Stewart possessed. This money was found In six banks and turned Into the estate. Shortly afterwards Leanred H. La Chance, now chairman of the board of directors of the Stewart- Warner Speedometer company, and trustee of the Stewart estate, received a bill for $7.50 for the rent of a safety deposit vault of which he knew nothing. * Daughter* Get Estate. In the safety deposit vault $280,000 more was discovered. At another time a suitcase which Mrs. Stewart, who died in Aiken. S. C„ had left in a hotel there was opened and $690,- 000 In currency, in $5,000 and $10,- 000 gold certificates rolled out. This suitcase also contained $296,000 in certified checks. The suitcase had been carried around the country without more than the usual care. The fortune left by Stewart was originally divided between his two daughters, but Jean died October 10 last, while still a child. Marion married Robert B. Honeyman Jr., of New York City, and inherited the entire estate. It was her action In filing, through her father-in-law Robert B. Honey' man, a New York lawyer, a suit charging incompetence and general mismanagement of the estate, that led to the discovery of the romance of her father's career. ; ar*,;' Virginia Boy* 7 Years Old, Arrested as Horse Thief Boanoke, Va.--Russell 8mlth, seven years old, was arrested recently on a charge of stealing a horse. The boy was turned over to L E. Watson, probation officer. This is the youngest offender of the law. who has been arrested here In 20 years, it was said. Gems Kicked About Street Pittsburgh, Pa.--Diamond rings lurorth $5,000, tied in a linen handkerchief, were kicked about the streets id trampled by residents of Tarenim two days before Joseph DeNanze of Tarentum picked up the bundle In enter street. The dlamo^ls were lost jy Mrs. Joseph Klein of Tarentum one londay morning, when she was shopping. The Jewelry was turned over to fho owner by DeNanze. Mrs. Klein $um1' offered $800 reward. y"> ' WILL STUDY SLEEPING SICKNESS First Organized Investigation of Disease to Be Made. Expedition Conducted by Fow Physicians and Two Veterinary Scientists Will Study 8lcknese In Trdplcal Africa. --An expedition formed by the Tropical Diseases Prevention association soon will leave to make the first organized attempt to investigate on the spot the treatment of sleeping sickness, as distinct from the question of the mere transmission of the disease. The expedition will be conducted by four physicians and two veterinary scientists, and It Is expected the work will occupy two and a half years. It is sought to carry out the work in different centers with the sanction and support of the governments Interested. and It Is hoped that It will result In a general system of vaccination whereby all Individuals arriving in a danger zone will be inoculated and so gradually rendered immune. The expedition will first wotfc In Uganda. It will probably proceed later to the Belgian Cor^go, and It is hoped to extend the work to Rhodesia and the S^idan, where there la a big epidemic of the disease The sleeping sickness has been prevalent among the natives of West Africa for 100 yea re. it is generally attributed to a parasite carried by a species of the tsetse fly which Infects cattle. The disease has caused heavy mortality among the natives of the Congo and Ugand^ for many years, and is greatly dreaded by Europeans in the parts of Africa where It exists. Its origin has been the of much medical research. Sulphite turpentine gas given off when wood Is boiled In papyr piqUpg Is used in making TNT. Coffee Wagon of Cincinnati Fire Department Mrs. Harding Plants International Avenue Tree BEFORE • 1 Wffliams Tells Lydia E. Pinkham'aV egrtihit ^ ^Compound Kept Her in Health f#-"- Overpeck, O reoetable Con m Mra Warreh G. Harding planting the first df the Lincoln memorial, Washington American elm, at the of JiuernafUnml nve»«e^ en the ground! Volcano Emits • Monster Rocks #- Phenomenon Recalls Primitive Days of the Formation of the Earth. » NEWSPAPBtMAN TELLS OFIT Veloano on Kamchatka Hurls Rocks Larger Than Ships Through the Air--Has 65 Volcanoes, 20 of Whloh Are Active, Tokyo.--Showers of rocks larger than ships were hurled from a raging volcano on Kamchatka, where a terrible and magnificent .volcanic phenomenon occurred some weeks ago, recalling the primitive days of the formation of the earth. After having been wrecked and washed away on the shore of Kan* chatka, Frederick McCormlck, a wellknown newspaper correspondent, wife* nessed the extraordinary eruption. Writes of Spectacle, fit * report to the Japan Advertiser, Mr. McConnlck says: "On arriving at Hakodate, In northern Japan, I heard from a fisherman of an earthquake above Hokkaido, and the disappearance in the sea, September 5, of a part of the Island of the Kurile group. The earthquake extended from Hokkaido to the Aleutians, and was but a prolongation of the seismatlc phenomena occurring In Kamchatka, where I was wrecked on the Kronotsky peninsula. *%n day* later, sixty sea miles to the south, I found myself at Senilschlk. From there I saw the magnificent eruption of ! Win ftUflaWMMIIIIMI expulsion of showers of rocks, many of which must have been larger than ships, as they flew through the sky In giant parabolas. Only the flowery crest of the eruption was visible to us as It played against the sky. The smoke column, tilted southward by the wind, reached upwards thousands of feet, and In two days the smoke cloud extended 100 miles down#the coast and out to sea. « Sprinkled With Dust ' "Then the wind shifted to the west and the ship was sprinkled with volcanic dust. There was a great roar like the sound of an artillery battle, and It was reported that the water of Kronotsky bay had risen in temperature 5% degrees, while uiagnetic disturbances rendered the ship's compass unworkable. Fearing a subterranean sea-wave we put out forty-flve miles off the shore, and on September 5, recorded a violent earthquake which shook the ship. The same was experienced at the Commandorsky lalands and Ust Kamchatka. "There are few places where the direct and positive force of nature can be realized so Intensely as In this faraway land. - "There are about sixty-five volcanoes In Kamchatka, of which twenty are •ctSve. There Is no historian to record their great doings, except an astonished fisherman. 1,000 to 1,200 miles away. A geographical expedition from Sweden intends to announce next year the results of its scientific work in Kamchatka." ' * • *********** »»>»#»»»###»#»#»####•• Negress, 112 Years Old, Oies in San Antonio -San Antonio, Tex.--Mary Williams, said to be the oldest negress In Texas, died here, aged one hundred and twelve years. She had lived In Texas 40 years, coming here from Louisiana, where for years she was a slave. She had worked for many promi^ nent families in San Antonio and New Orleans. impound helped me before and afte* nqr baby *as bfcrn. I , suffered with ache, headache, generally run and weak. I Lydia E. Pin Vegetable pound advertissd m the newspapers and decided to . try it. J Now { feel fins, take car? of my two bap: : *j aad do my owa wots.. ^ 'ne to infB--. who is ailing, You may publish my testis '•:$ monia! if you think it will help others."-- >' ^ ^ Mrs. Carrie Willxams, Overpeck, Ohio* '} For more than forty years Lydia S/t |- Pinkham's Vegetable Compound haift, .45 ^ been restoring women to health W&SP 'h suffered from irregularities, disptees^ ments, backaches, headaches, bearing-, , \ down pains, nervousness or ' the bhiea. •" 4 Today there is hardly a town or hamlet ; in the United States wherein woman does not reside who has made well by it. That is why Lydia EL* Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is now recognized as the standard remedy for such ailments. Further Training. i ^ "I understand you have a new re-' * porter on the Chiggersville Clarion.* ' fi "Yes," said the editor. "How is his work?" ""a "Pretty fair for a beginner. Bi writes a snappy birth notice, hut Is ii trifle weak on deaths and funerals^ & Fm thinking of sending him out tsi the cemetery to improve his style b reading the epitaphs on tombstones.^ 5 --Birmingham Age-Herald. * ^ SEE HIGH PRICES FOR ALL FURS Season Offers Wonderful Opportunities to the Trapper. United States Becomes the Greatest Fur Producing Country in the World--Stocks Worked Off and Market Now Bass. New York.--JThe United States in the past few years has become the greatest fur producing country In the world, doing a business In furs running from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year and far outstripping northern Canada, Alaska and Siberia, long considered supreme as fur producing centers. Fur bearing animals abound in the great farming districts of this country and thousands are captured each year by trappers. While skunk and muskvolcano Karimskaya. Above a moun-1^ are the ^ lmportant and moBt tain ridge which lay between we could see, without the aid of glasses, the numerous of these animals found, there are plenty of mink, raccoons and other small members of the furry tribe which the wily trapper may take in the open season at a good profit This season promises to be the best in many years in point of the number of animals taken and the prices paid for raw furs. Very little trapping was done last season. Tlie drop In values which came during the previous summer hit the fur market hard, leaving an immense collection of high priced furs In the hands of the buyers. In order to save the market from complete ruin, this great accumulation had to be disposed of before a large new supply reached the market, so buyers urged trappers to lay off for a season until the market became stabilized. Trappers generally heeded the request and the fact that furs were not wanted and values very low did much to further the inactivity. The result has been a genuine scarcity of furs. The great accumulation has been worked off and the market is in a receptive condition for large amounts of raw furs. Interviews with leading buyers reveal that the coming quotations on raw furs will be very high--In fact the highest ever offered compared with contemporary values In other commodities. In the years preceding the World war, trappers received from twenty cents to fifty cents each for muskrat pelts and from one dollar to three dollars for skunk pelts. Living costs then were 40 per cent lower than they are today and wages show about the same difference. By comparing these conditions with prices prevailing today It is shown that muskrats are worth three times as much as they were then, while other furs are proportionately higher. ^ \ The high prices of today and the abundance of fur-bearing animals offer an opportunity to the trapper which has seldom been equalled, while residents of smaller towns and even the farm boy and schoolboy will find a chance for a profitable occupation dur> lng spare hoars. American Legion Convention in Kansas City Rtn tk« ne hart of a our® or a cut Cole's Oarbolisalve is quickly without all Co., It ckly scan. Meaad Mo W druggists or send SOo to The J. W. Co)a , Boekford, I1L-A4vwrdaeewrt. A Sounded Different. "lir. S*n exclaimed Jones |y, "you are no gentleman P "What makes you think that!** "My wife called at your houss y®^4-, . ^ terday, didn't she?" Sir "Yes, and was very welcome.1* ' , ^ "And as she drove away she bsarS; ' you say to your wife that she had n mouth like a horse collar." * ^ s|| "Why, man, all I said was that siMt v bad a horse of a mouse color." * '• «| j--M Sure Relief FOR MMSCSnOM 6 BCLLAHS 1 Hot water 1 SmeRdtetJ ELL-ANS 2St «r>d 754 Package, SQUEEZED TO DEATH 1 When the body begins to stiffen ^ and movement becomes painful k Is usually an Indication that ths ^ ) kidneys are oat of order. Keep "m, these orgsns healthy by taking GOLD MEDAL . The world's standard moody for kidnvy|, Hver, bladdar and uric add trouble#. Famous since 1696. Tik« regularly and 1 k««p in good health. In three sins, all > ^ druggists. Guaranteed as represantsd. Ink for tlM uat Gold Madal on mwmrj ha«^ . - and tcctpt m» Iwihri-- No Soap Better --For Your Skin Than Cuticura Saap 25c, Otatecat 25 aad SSc, Talon 2Sc. V' MZ* I iPAfekfeR-s-- HAIR BALSAM •MBOTHDtmnt-HtnfaBiirhUlN Ritarw Color aad Bwrty f» Gray mmd Fadad •oe. mmd (LMkC Dr^critta. •» > Scene during the third national convention of the American Legion in Convention hall, Kansas City. TESTING THE NEW DEATH ENGINE New Flying Torpedo Would Hold Cities at Its Mercy. A "coffee aagoit" Jias just been added to the Cincinnati fire department, it consists or a coffee urn mounted the rear of a light truck, where steaming hot coffee can be prepared for firemen, right on the Job. Remarkable Aircraft Is Mechanically Controlled and la Said to Be Most Aerial Weapon Ever Constructed. ' J; New Tork.--A successful mechanically controlled flying torpedo, destined, It Is believed, to revolutionize land and sea warfare, has been developed for the United States army and navy air services. In a secret test the remarkable aircraft, said to be the most important aerial weapon ever Constructed, flew over New York city and two Eastern states. The flying torpedo could easily have wrought great destruction to lower Manhattan had it been loaded at the time, a« cording to war ofiQdals at Washington. Experiments with this machine have been carried on for several months In Chesapeake bay. In New Jersey, and Ohio, but under the strictest secrecy, jiot more than 100 persons In the entire country having knowledge of It. The aerial torpedo has already made upward of 100 flights, approximately 5,000 miles in the air. Its development, according to the experts, means that coastal fortifications are made obsolete. Attacking In large numbers, machines of this type will be able to annihilate cities with Incendiary explosives and poison gases, without loss of single life to the attacking forces, experts declare. In actual warfare, the flying torpedoes will be guided through the air to their targets without a soul on board. In its flight over New ^ork city a few weeks ago. the experimental flying torpedo made nn unexpected landing near u small town in eastern Pennsylvania. This landing attracted Utile attention at the time. The test flight on that occasion was begun from a landing ground near New York city. After the engine was started, the machine ran a short distance across the field, took the air successfully. and climbed to the predetermined altitude. It then set Its course due jiwt, straight late a cftf Juad wis*. Five Sets of Twins, Weston, la.--Mrs. Rose McComba, wife of a' farmer living near here, la the mother of the fifth pair of twins in eight years. Ail the ten children are well. A sister of Mrs. McCombs, Mrs. Annie Forbes of Sioux City, re* cently became the mother of her second set of triplets. Another sister of Mrs. McCombs. who lives In Sacramento, Cal., has two pair of twlna. Mine Accident^ Kill 3,000 In Year. Washington.--Three thousand persons were killed in mine, quarry and metal plant accidents during 1920. accenting to a statement by the buueeaa of mines. More than 200,000 ware., injured la similar accidental rl«N. DMaE, aRtaaCa O»'i RpaNia, S«a »m«a mboM* ~»• .L»b* ,k mamnk--m wIaOlkaltmurl onlu Wr aItka .bMy Bita)l|l« wl> aa* Dt nr IbJTCH? Moaijr back witheat wKlw \ if HUNTS GUAKANTBKD . SKIN DISBASB rfflMIII't (Hanfa Sahr«a*4 Soap), fell la the treatment of Itch, lanu, RtaCwonn.T«ttar or afhar ftcbinf itda diaaaaaa.Try tlditrrat- •nt at our risk Sold by all rcSabi* dnanist*. A. B. Richards M«StcIa* Co_ Sherman. T*zae W. N. U., CHICAGO, NO. 50-1821. Hence the Name? He was to take her for a trip ta his new yacht the next. day. and she was questioning him about it. "How awfully nlc« of to name the boat after me!" she giggled -What Is she liker "Well--er," he answered, "she's not much to look at. you know, hat sMi very fast."--Houston Post. A Surmise. "Why Isn't there more bulldtngl" -Looks to me like the capitalists sre on a strike." m Morning; yff .eepYbur Eyes •an - Ci««r H«althV