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oman tin* Adair, "Range Empress, One of Southwesi's Striking Personalities. , '•'/f • & MS 500,ODD ACRES W UNO , filer Nephew, Senator James A. Wadeworth of New York, Once Man- . aged Her Vast Cattle Intereste-- Pioneer in Southwest. ifVl ' .3 l«ort Worth.--With the death of 11*. Cornelia Adair In London re- %»ntly America lost one of its most Striking feminine personalities. She ^txit only owned one of the largest , Wnches In the world but through ac- |ve management and business fore- Ight made her ranch the best paying •v |» the United States. A pioneer of the Southwest, used to ' *0te hardships and rough frontier life, Mrs. Adair spent, much of her ' nme in close association with the 'swhility of England, anct frequently JV,*iitertalned nobility at the "J. A." ' ranch In Donley county, comprising " 81)0.000 acres and more tuan 100,000 &ead of cattle. Only a few months ago Mrs. Adnir was host to a party of " English nobility at the "J. A." ranch, and returned with them to England, Intending to return to Texas early In 1622. Dosecd Big Property. She was eighty-Are years old; and Since 1885, when her husband died. She personally superintended the Immense property. She was in truth an empress of the ranges, had been $1- **rt with the lasso, rode with her s cowboys, put through big deals In live atock and Improved the "J. A." herd antll It has become known as the best . fa Texas. At aH big stock shows cattle have won first prizes. Mrs. Adair was a native of New York, the daughter of MaJ. Gen. James 8. Wadsworth of Oeneseo. She married John Adatr, an Irishman, in the early 70s and went with him to Colorado. Mm. Adair, her husband. Mrs. Mary Qoodnigbt, wife of her husband's partner, and a score of cowboys made the Journey from Pueblo, Colo., to the Texns ranch overland, driving a herd of cattle through a country menaced both by Indians and wild antinals and where water holes were few. When within a short distance of their destination It was a gamble whether the entire party and animals would die from thirst. The horses the men and women rode shambled along exhausted and the cattle were dropping out almost every minute. A small stream was found In the nick of time, members,of the party reaching It one by one and almost gone., They reached the site of the "J. A." ranth next day, then a barren tract of land. Two shanties were built In which Mrs. Adafr and Mrs. Goodnight lived for several years. The ranch at first totaled 1,000.000 acres and about a year after arriving there Adair bongbt oat Goodnight's interest. Wadsworth Once Manager. After Adnlr's death Mrs. Adair employed lUehacd >Va,^h to help. In manand he was associated wltfe. berUfn ten years ago, when he went to iWkXJesia, Africa, and assumed management of a 6,000.000 acre ranch. Walsh died In Africa recently. When Walsh left, James A. Wadsworth of New York, her nephew, sue- (•OMjAfj for* * Ka pnfjjvul lv* lOl A when elected United States Senator from New York. J. H. Holden Is now managing the ranch. It Is expected that the Wadsworth family will continue to own and operate the property. Mrs. Adair despite her busy life, took deep Interest In art, literature and music, devoting much time to study when alone on her" ranch in the seventies. She made liberal contributions to charity, helped build the Y. M. C. A. at Clarendon, built a hospital at Clarendon for her ranch hande and the public and Invested largely in Liberty bonds during the war. Most Gold From Alaska. Dawson, Alaska.--Alaska yielded the greatest amount of gold In the Yukon valley this year. Statistics made public recently by Superintendent Richard of the northern com* mercial posts In Alaska, showed that of the valley's total yield of $4,000,- 000 Alaska's output was $2,675.09(X Yukon was $1,250,000, and Atlin, Can., $75,000. .... ';i>: . M?i I'll Tf, i Famous United. States Partial Census Returns Indicate That There Are 6,000,000 or 7*000,000 Uneducated. SOUTHERN STATES IN LEAD Group «f Nine Commonwealths Has More Than 2,000,000 Illiterates, One-Third of Them Native Whites. ^The Unltsd Statta is still one of the most Illiterate of the civilized nations of the world, census figures for 1920 now available in some detail for 28 states reveal. The figures First Electric Coast Guard Cutter i -w n •; • -• ' 4 The world's first electirc coast guard cutter, the Tampa, has Just been given her official sea trials off the Pacific coast. She exceeded her speed requirements, making 16.28 knots per hour, and completed*her tesls without the 4'ightest trouble with any of her electrical equiptnenW)r other apparatus. The $amp& Is the first of four cutters with the electric live being built for the government show more than 2,000.000 Illiterates In a group of nine Southern states, onethird of them native whites. Indications are that the army of illiterates In the United States will not fall far short of 6.000,000 or 7,000,000. There has been progress, however, and notably In the Southern states. Georgia. for example, has 328,838 illiterates, but the percentage of illiteracy is 15.8, as compared with 20.7 in 11)10. South Educating Its People. Alabama has reduced its illiteracy from 22.9 per cent in 1910 to 16.1 per cent in 1920; Louisiana from 29 per cent to 21.9 per cent; Mississippi from 22.4 per cent to 17.1 per cent; South Carolina from 25.7 per cent to 18.1 per cent, and North Carolina from 18.6 per cent to 13.1 per cent. At this rate, even without the proposed help of the federal government, the South should be virtually free from illiteracy In 30 years. In the meantime the states that have a large foreign-born population are faced with even greater problems than the South. The New York school authorities last year had copied from the census lists the names of adults reported as Illiterate and have used this list as the beginning for a systematic drive da illiteracy. Country Reducing Figure. One of the striking revelations of the war was the large amount of native white illiteracy, and the 1920 figures tell very much the same story. While In states like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina the problem is still mainly one of the negro, In Kentucky and Tennessee the native white illiterates aetually outnumber the colored. The 1910 census gave the United States an Illiteracy record of 7 7-10 per cent. Indications are that the 1920 figure, unless the Immigrant states of the East show up too badly, will run around 5H and 6 per cent-- still considerably above the illiteracy figure for England. France. Germany, and some of the smaller nations of Europe. For the most part Illiteracy In the rural districts continues to he much worse than in the centers of imputation. In Alabama rural Illiteracy is 20.4 per cent and Illiteracy In the towns and cities only 6.5 per cent. Sends Parson Dollar for Each Married Year Rev. B. N. McKalg of Minneapolis, Minn.. recently received a letter and $20' from a man whom be had married 20 years before. Be had forgotten all about ttie couple until be received the letter. The letter said, that after 20 years of cruising on the sea of matrimony, the writer found that his wife Is more wonderful than he ever dreamed she could be. For this the writer was thankful and therefore he sent the preacher one dollar for each year of hta happily wedded life. THIS DOCTOR QUITS AT AGE OF 145 New Jersey Physician Thinks He's Old Enough to Retire Limited Rule. "Believe yourself happy and you are happy," says a writer. Unfortunately this rule doesn't work when a mail thinks he is wise, for then he Is otherwise.--Boston Transcript.. Father Advises Him Not Is Smoke, but Says He Thinks Hs Has Reached His Full S t a t u r * - f ; by This Time. Philadelphia.--Dr. Charles Smith of Egg Harbor, N. J., who says he cele- ] brated his one hundred and forty-fifth birthday the other day. has decided to retire and take a rest. "When a man has worked as bard as I have and is getting on in years," said Dr. Smith, "it's about time for htm to quit working and begin to en- Joy himself." Dwtor Smith's assertion regarding his age is supported by old residents of Egg Harbor, some of whom are over ninety. Even the most skeptical townsfolk admit be is well over one hundred. When he became a resident of Egg Harbor 25 years ago he asserted he was one hundred and twenty. Doctor Smith was keenly Interested In the world's series, for he lived in New York for many years. He recently took up smoking. "My father always told me that It was an Injurious practice and stunts the growth," he said. "I guess I have reached my full stature by this time, so 1 don't suppose a couple of cigars a day will hurt me." Doctor Smith says he was born on 'September 26. 1776. so he Is about ten weeks younger than the United StatM. His grandfather, he says, lived to be one hundred and twenty-four, and his father was killed when he was quite a young man, comparatively speaking, at the age of seventy, by tjie falling of a tree. The Pawnee scouts after the Civil war became showmen for "Buffalo Bill." w LANDLADY WELCOMES 'EM ALL tables. Dogs and Cats All Provided For in Apartment House in Mew Ysrfc. SEEKING MORE THRILLS fair 30 Jfew Tork.---All the conveniences for drives, children, cats, dogs or other household pets are In the construction of an apartment house to be erected by Mrs. Edgar Saltus, wife of the late well-known novelist, Edgar ffaltos, at Giles place, here. The accommodations for the cats jnnd dogs will include drinking fountain* and ample spaces for basking in the sunlight. The plans, as drawn up and filed with the city building de partment, do not specify whether speclai areas and fountains will be design ' mated for canines and felines, respectively, to avert strife. » Ample spaces within the patio also ^ are set off as open air playrooms for the children of the neighborhood. Conveniences foj» the yives who occupy ; the apartments will include a pergola :"«n the roof. 15 " ' W& Only a few months ugo Mrs. William V. Alford, teacher in Ohio, returned from a honeymoon trip through Peru, In the course of which she crossed the Andes on mule back and penetrated to the headwaters of the Amazon. Now she has gone to China,.in search of further thrills during trips of exploration in the northern provinces and in Manchuria and Tibet. With ber husband, an engineer employed by the Chinese government, she sailed from Seattle and expects to remain in the Orient three years, while Mr. Alford replaces with steel bridges the aniienf ferries on tbe more Important canals and rivers in China. The Grands Magashis du Prlntemps, great Parisian store which contained the most exteustoe and valuable array of costumes ly completely destroyttdty fire, wlilta property damage estimated at nearly $12,000,000. z-^4 4-- . ' • . mm Dean of Nankin University Tells of Need of Reforestation In Exhaustive Report* PROVINCE IS DEVASTATED Area Affected Is Twice Size of Massachusetts, Containing 5,500,000 - * Persona--Many Rail Con-^Snections Are "Cut • _ * . -jaw*-'- Washington.--China's great Hood disaster In Anhwel province--her third of the current year--should be a lesson to the United States, showing what may follow Indiscriminate deforestation. says Dean Relsner of the College of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Nankin, In a detailed report to the American Forestry association. "China, with her floods, Is an example to the world of the need of reforestation," he says. "A conservative expenditure for various fofrestry enterprises, mainly nursery work and forest planting, Is from $200,000 to a quarter million dollars, the production of 100,000.000 trees in dVer 1,000 nurseries, and the planting of 25*000,000 to 30,000,000 trees on 100,000 acres of land. This may seem small when compared with some other countries, but large when one considers the background and the fact that £hina's Interest In forestry is only a few years old." "The magnitude of tbe devastation In the Anhwel province," says Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the association, in giving out the report of Dean Relsner, "muy be seen when we consider that the flooded area Is twice the area of Massachusetts^, or about 15,000 square miles. Many Rail Connections Cu$t j "The population of the Bay state is around 4,000,000 people, which Is 1,- 600,000 less than the sufferers in the flooded areas. The crowded conditions will at once be seen. Kail connections between Shanghai and Tientsin and Pekin were soon cut by the Anhwel Roods caused when the Hungtse lake and Its tributaries overflowed about sixty miles to the north of Nankin. The deforested condition of China is the cause not only of the floods but of most of ,ber famines in thst country." Dua Yang Lin, a gtadu&te the Yale forestry scfio61, Is one of the leaders in the forestry work in China. He got into Tientsin lifter one of the floods. "The newest provincial development," says Dean Relsner's report, "has been In Shantung province, which has come Into world prominence through the Shantung aftard, of the Paris peace conference. This work was organized by Mr. Lin. "A provincial forest service has been established, with a chief forester and eleven assistants. Work was prosecuted so vigorously that the first planting season saw the organization of three forestry stations, the establishment of three nurseries with plans for two more for the following season, over 550,000 trees planted* Ttiree government railways are engaged In reforestation work looking forward to supplying their own ties and other timbers used In railroad maintenance. Several other railways are contemplating similar developments. The budgets are voted by the various railway administrations interested. Harvard Man Aids Work. "The Tientsin-Pukow railway forestry work is in charge of a graduate of Harvard forestry school. About 850,000 trees have been planted. The Pekin-Hankow railway's forestry work Is under the direction of Ngan Hun, a graduate of the forestry department of Michigan State university. "The outstanding forestry development continues to be that of the Klangsu provincial forestry station, started In 1016. located near the famous Ming tombs In Nankin, at the head of which Is Somg Sing-Moo, • graduate of tbe Philippine school of forestry. "Anhwel province Is now teaching forestry In four of her five agricultural schools. Chekiang province has a secondary forestry school with a large enrollment. Arbor day Jn China Is a national holiday now and It Is observed In schools and by high of* fieial#.' ARE SEEKING THE SIGNERS' WILLS Society Plani Collection of Historic Old TestamentCfe Descendants of the 8!gners of the Declaration of Independence Need *eur More Documents to Q9*n<- plete Collection. " Phlladelphia.--The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence is endeavoring to collect copies of the wills of the 56 signers. According to a report made to John Calvert, secretary and registrar of the society, the wills of Samuel Chase, Maryland; George Wythe. Virginia; William Hooper, North Carolina; William Lynch. Jr., South Carolina, and George Walton. Georgia, are still missing from the society's collection. Wills In possession of the descendants Include those of Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire; John Adams. Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Massachusetts; Stephen Hopkins and William Ejlery, Rhode Island; William Williams, Samuel Huntington. Oliver Wolcott and R<»ger Sherman, Connecticut ; Francis Lewis. William Floyd, Lewis Morris and Philip Livingston, New York* Abraham Clark. John Hart, John Wltherspoon, Francis Hopkinson and Richard Stockton, New Jersey; Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton. .Tames Smith, George Taylor and George Ross, Pennsylvania; Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean, Delaware; Charles Carroll and Thomas Stone, Maryland; Thomas (Jefferson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee and Benjamin Harrison, Virginia; Joseph Hevves and John Penn, North Carolina; Edward Rutiedge, S^uth Carolina ; Button Gwinnett. Georgi; The following signers died intestate^ according to the report: William Whipple and Matthew Thornton, New Hampshire; Elhridge Gerry and John Hancock, Massachusetts; George Clymer and James Wilson, Pennsylvania; George Read, Delaware; William Paca, Maryland; Arthur Middleton, South Carolina. The recprds of Thomas Nelson, Jr„ Virginia, were destroyed by Are In 1865, and those of Carter Braxton. Virginia. during the Civil war. The records of Thomas Heyward, South Carolina, were also destroyed during the iClvll war, and those of Lyman Hall. Georgia, were lost In a fire in 1850. SOLVES PROBLEM OF THE IDLE Italian Government Puts Unemployed Men to Work. Development of Nstural Resources of the Country Under Comprehenslvs Plan Gives Work to Many Hundreds of Idle. Borne.--The Italian government Is meeting Its* problem qf unemployment by setting the Idle men to work to develop to the utmost the natural resources of the country. The sum of 700.000.000 lire, equivalent to about $28,000,000, has been devoted to public works and about another 100.000.000 lire ($4,000,000). has been assigned to land reclamation. Funds for these enterprises are obtained from banks. Another 150,000,000 lire, about $6,- 000.000, will be spent on Improving the telegraph and telephone systems, and In addition, the government has authorized the laying of a submarine cable so as to obtain direct communication with Spain. Greece. Briftll, Uruguay and Argentlua, thus rendering Italy Independent of foreign cable companies. .Tlie development of Italy's waterpower is proceeding rapidly. Before the war she obtained about 935.000 horsepower from that source. Since then the total horse-power has been Increased to 1.750.000. To make this possible, fifty-nine reservoirs and artificial lakes have been constructed. Another Important Industrial project is the reclamation of the Pontine marshes, which cover about 150.000 acres between Rome and Naples. This land heretofore has been submerged for five months each year by torrents which poured down from the neighboring ipountains and, stagnating on the land, converted that area Into a dangerous fever trap. The company organised with a capital of 50.000.000 lire to reclaim Mule Lived on Water > in Well Four Weeks f*$r rteeks ago, O. T. Stewart of PelserAS. C., placed a mule in a pasture. The mule disappeared. An advertisement was placed In the papers, after a vain search had been made, but to no avail. A few days ago the mule was found In an old well In the pas^ ture where he had been four weeks and four days. A block and tackle was brought Into play and the mule was brought to the surface, still alive but a little thin on Its diet of water. this section has been In operation about one year and has reclaimed about 7.750 acres and made them Into fertile wheat lands or farms for growing tomatoes. . •.? p Paris Women Outnumber Men. - Paris.--Parisian women greatly outnumber tbe men. There are 65,947 women in one arrondisement alone, where the men number only 47,418. This preponderance t* e*p^clally manifest among persons between twenty and thirty-nine years of age, where the war made such gups in the ranks^of the men. school There are more than TiVUXHriibdpei* sonsin America. .•fry.' ' "Stung" by $50 Fine for ; "Harboring Vicious Bee" , 'l^nsas City, Mo.--The Missouri Supreme court will be called upon to decide a citizen's right to keep bees, if plans of the National Apiary association are carried out in tbe case of Lee Cooley, who was fined $50 in the municipal court here on complaint of neighbors that he harbored "a vicious bee." HE IS A RIOT OF COLOR Bandits Picked on Wrong Man. Toledo.--Four amateur highwaymen attempted to bold up Sergeant Rumsey, of Toledo, a member of the New York Central railroad police. They were too slow on the draw and Rumsey held* them at the point of his revolver until officers came and took them to jail. Tlw first Y. w. CL A:' room was Wcoed at Boston in 18M*> ^ /' - Here Is a rare bird brought to tbe Selig zoo at Los Angeles, by a tramp steamer. Tbe King Vulture, which conies^ from South America, Is a "riot of color," brilliant purple, orange, crimson, creamy white and glossy biscK. - i} IrfmeH, Mass.--"I had anemia tnMths tune I was sixteen years old m2 *** v«T irregular. If I did any Sousecleaning or washing I would faiinntt ana have to be pot to bed, my husband thinking every mir»» nts was my last, after reading your text-book for womej» I took Lydia E. Pmkham's Vegetn* ble Compound sod used the Sanative1 W«ah, ndJiave never felt better tha» I have the laat two years. I can work, W, sleep, feel as strong as dm be. Doctors told me I could never havw *2° w**k~ b«t after taking Vegetable Compound it strength* ened me so l gave t»rth to an erafe Sound boy. I was well all the turn, dUT all my work up to the last clay, aad had ft natural birth. Everybody who taww me was surprised, and when they ask nae> what made roe stronr I tell themwitfc great pleasure, * 1 took Lydia E. Pink* ham's Vegetable Compound and neve* felt bett«j- ,n my life.' Use this tastU mouiftl at anytime."--Mn>, Elizabbt* SMART, U2 W. Sixth St., I/>we!l, This experience of Mrs. Smart is surely a strong recommendation for Lydia R Pmkham's Vegetable Compound. It ii only one of a great many similar casea. TOO Death only a matter of short tima. . Dont wait until pains and ache* become incurable diaeasea. Avoid"/' na4r»fnl rnTIIICinilWICffa bv taHpg GOLD MEDAL I COCKNEY ACCENT DEFENDED Author Says It Shows Speaker ffe. longs to Great and Good. Humored Town. London.--**I like the Cockney aecent," declares William Pett Ridge, author. "Kept within bounds it is a s.vipbol that the owner belongs to a great and good-humored town." Cheerfully approving it, Mr. Ridge discussed the London accent recently before a sympathetic a'udlenee of London head teachers. "Many people regard the Cockney i accent with genuine despair," said Mr. Iiidge. "Even those who become emotional when they prophesy the disappearance Gj old couniry uialects long to see Londoners educated out of their distinctive accents. But London has a right to an accent of its own, although we all know tha| Its most prosperous speak with a Scottish accent and I have heard Utut ambitious young politicians cultivate a Welsh inm if*. ,-•?!T I-'" •••II inn. gy •vT, . The wod(TS standard remedy for Iddney. liver, bladder and Oric add troubles--th*-.'- National Remedy of Holland abacs 1696* Three sizes, all druggists. Look lie the aaae Gold M*4al mm mn heal _ acMpt bo HnHrtiri ' " j %ITCH! Bfiey back without quMtioa HUNTS GUARANTEED^ |SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES^ ' (Hunt** Skive and Soap), fail to «•' ' the treatment of Itch, Bcsema, Ring WIIIII,Tetter cr otheriteb- ^ # in* •Mndieeaaee.Trythietreat- •lent «t our riak Sold by aU reliable dracsiata. A. B. 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To seal; in the flavoiv--- onight Tomorrow Alright W. N. U„ CHICAGO, NOt 44-1981.