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m TW mimfi A. Johnson of Burnet* Tex, One of the Figures #* -><T\ * *•Civil War- £ • • • - ' ( _____ IS STILL HARD AT •f't At Eighty-Eight Ha Looks Back Over Practically All of the History of Texas --Loet Eyes ifc " Battle in Kentucky. Austin, Tex.--Blindness is a serious impediment to most men, but it V did not prevent Gen. A. R. Johnson of Burnet, Tex., from accomplishing whatever purpose he had in mind-- and he has had many purposes. After he had lost the sight of both eyes the general built the city of Marble Falls, made several trips East to interest capital and succeeded; buili a water power plant, a school^, house, a shoe •'.factory, a cotton mill, secured a ratl- . road for his town, fought Indians and' rnised and educated six children he never bad seen. He also has taken a prominent part in Texas politics and civic work since losing his sight The ^general is now eighty-three yearS*old and is as enterprising as ever. Brilliant War Record. Johnson's record in the war between the states was as brilliant as his work after the conflict had closed. It was along In 1864 that he lost his sight from explosion of a shot. Johnson is one of the few remaining generals of the Confederacy and has been a resident of Texas for more than sixty years. When Johnson came to Texas before the Civil war, Kentucky being his native state, he had charge of a section of the Qperland Mail Tioute, one of the links in the Butterfield Mail Route between New York and San Francisco. The Comanche- Indians Often attcked and killed the station •gents, and in the fights with them Johnson always took a -hand. When the war came he hurried to Kentucky and Joined General Forrest. sentiments were^milar and so he obtained valuable information for Forrest. It was at this time that Johnaon earned the sobriquet "Stovepipe Johnson." Learning that there were 500 stands of guns at Newberg, Ind.. he took but 30 men across the Ohio river, found some broken down wagons and joints of stovepipe. Mounting the pipe on the wagon wheels, he was able to deceive the people at Newberg into thinking that ly had several powerful cannon trained upon their town and when he demanded of the Federal officers that they surrender their supplies they did so promptly. The general lost his sight during a KMMa, Ken* and wts left for dead upou the battlefield. His obituary was published all over the South, but the Federals picked him up with other wounded and sent him to Boston harbor prison. Later he was exchanged, and spent the remainder of the war period filling cartridges. After Lee surrendered Johnson and his wife returned to Texas, where he still found his old enemy, the Comanches, on the wsr path, and he accompanied several expeditions against them. Then he began his plans to build Marble Falls, liking the location because df the falls In the Colorado river at that point and the natural dam. Thus the "Blind Man's Town," with Its fine water,i*ower plant and factories, became a reality. • * The general, though living at "Burnet, a short distance from Marble Falls, takes great interest in the welfare of rhe projects begun by him, and is still planning new enterprises. m Hmt KmrUc life Woaaa W« Took Lydia E. fUf WiVcntaUeC The delegates to the conference on limitation of arm.imer.ts, while ^tending sessions In the Pan-American building, will be able to look out on this beautiful sunken garden, which contains some of the rarest specimens of plant life in America. The water Illy shown in this photograph is the ^Victoria Regla, discovered in Bolivia in 1801. Wo^lTt^ lhfhience Slowly Approximating That of British . and American Wom&i. DISCARD SANDALS FOR SHOES City Population of Japan Increasing ' Thirteen Timet as Fast as That of Country--Million Men Engaged in Factory Work. Honolulu, T. H.--A unique feature of the gradual rise of women's influence in Japan, until their position Is now slowly approximating that of American and British women, is that they are giving up smoking, just at the time when great comment has arisen over the increase of smoking among their sisters in America and England. The subject was discussed by Dr. T. H. Haden, dean of the theological departments of Kwamei Gakuin, a mission college in Japan, who attended Johnson had two brothers in the fed- j sessions here of the Pan-American edn- •ral army and having been absent In cational conference as one of the emy'exas so long It was supposed his ; plre's representatives Four Sons of Emperor of Japan -ip ». i One of the most interesting photographs received from Japan Is this ex- ^ *mlV\°ne slJow!ng for tlie flrst time the four sons of the mikado of Japan. ^SAside from the interesting fact that it is the flrst photograph showing the r.5 y p y £our Princes together, it is the flrst time the Crown Prince Hlrohito <left) has f£ •? been 86611 ,n Jafan wearing European clothes. The picture has the official f£« felease of the department of the Imperial household of the Imperial court of ' ^roky°- From left to right: Crown Prince Hlrohito, Prince Suml-no-miya, --tWace Takamateau-no-mlya, and Prince Atao-no-miya. "Formerly all classes ef women in Japan spioked In public as well as in their homes," Doctor Haden said, "The Influence of the West has almost Stopped this custom, although it is to the interest of the government to fos« ter it, as tobacco is a government monopoly." New Word for "Home" Coined. Doctor Haden said that a new word for home--"katei"--has been coined Iq Japan to express the meaning and Idea of home life in Western civilization as la being learned by the Japanese. "The changing conditions of Japanese women is only begun, but It is proceeding with a rapidity and intensity which are very significant and hopeful," he said. "The Japanese language has n word expressing house and household, but they had no conception of home life In the Occident, where women are on an equal footing with men. This is now expressed by 'katel,' with the new appreciation of home as a thing to be shared by husband and wiJPe and the gradual rise of the Japanese women to the position of their American and British sisters." Doctor Haden said that the city population of Japan is increasing 13 timea as fast as that of the country, due to the change of industry from agriculture to manufacturing. More than .1,- 000,000 are engaged In factory wojrk and more than one-half of these are under twenty years of age, he said. Women Discard Sandals for Shoes. "A significant and interesting Indication of the change in progress In Japan now," said Doctor Haden, "is the fact that, while the Japanese women retain the kimono as their chief attire, they have discarded the obi--the folded square of cloth worn on the hack--and over their kimonos many of the women now. wear a full, divided skirt, which ties aronnd the waist with a wide sash hanging at the side. Many of them also wear shoes instead of their sandals. "Divorce laws also have been revised in accord with other transitions. Formerly a man could sen j hia wife back to her parents without excuse or explanation. This act constituted Hegal freedom for him. Now he can only divorce her for infidelity or by agreement with her. The woman as yet has no recourse against the infidelity of her husband, not ev^n though he bring a concubine into the home, as frequently has been done. "The example of Americans, their homes and schools In Japan, gradually has altered the hearts and feelings of the Japanese until now they have beat induced to effect these changes." Artificial Tumors Produced White Rats by Infesting Them With Pacpites. in X-RAY MACHINE IS IMPROVED Denver operates the city limits. • parks outside HAS BOUT WITH AN EIJ^HANT $ig Game Hunter Has Exciting J* j / # Experience in Africa. J. Marawood Dowsett Is Surprised When Big Beast Turns and Runs Away After Downing and Trying to Trample Him. t London.--A good elephant yarn Is I?# IfoW by J. Morewood Dowsett, a well- ; , Jknown big game hunter, who has Just Returned from a hunting trip in South Africa. ' He was hunting elephants in Uganda when Information was brought him Vv %t the whereabouts <?f a large herd. W|th 6 native chief and a house boyj •e started to find them. The party came upon the herd In the forest. Mr. Dowsett got several photographs . l^ithln 20 yards of the beasts when chief warned him that they had *een "scented" and that the animals up VM«L 11IC U11IIU %era coming for them. Snatching his rifle Mr. Dowsett shot and killed the leader, a big bull. While some surrounded their leader many of the beasts stampeded, and, running the wrong way, Mr. Dowsett was cut off from the party. Reloading his gun, the hunter dashed off for safety and ran Into a big bull elephant which crashed through the bush six yardls in front of him. Trunk aloft, ears extended and trumpeting wildly, the beast rushed at Mr. Dowsett and swept him to the ground with his trunk and turned rapidly in Its own length ready to trample him. The hunter took a flying dive under the monster's belly, realizing he would then be dn the right side of the wind, but the beast turned rapidly round and again tried to tr&mple him. Instead the animal rolled him over and over with its legs and the hunter saw above him the two great tusks as the beast tried to maneuver his body Into position and pick him up. Mr. Dowsett 300 Years Total Ages of 4 Women Diners Mlddletown, N. T.--Four wornen whose combined ages aggregate 300 years have just enjoyed a guinea hen dinner at Bloomingburg, Sullivan county, talking over old times, people and places. They are: Mrs. Salter, seventy- one ; Mrs. Evans, eighty; Mrs. France, seventy, and Mrs. Mills of Hawthorne, N. J„ seventynine. The dinner was cooked by Mrs. France, the menu consisting of guinea hen. spinach, boiled onions, cabbage, salad, apple pie, cheese and tea. managed to roll behind the animal and get to his feet and make a rush for coyer. To the hunter's relief and surprise the furious beast ?et off In the opposite direction and disappeared. Philadelphia Honors Her Soldier Dead' S.Zf. 1 •H1 ^ V' • r t-k« The most impressive demonstrati 'IWith soldiers of the regular amy* Vallors^niirt hi,a<|t>lPh,a marked that city's final tribute to its soldier dead. efcu'ar army, sailors and marines and former service men in line, the flag-dtaped coffins of six anto. active doty along the Rays of Unusual Power Developed by Recently Perfected Apparatua Will Greatly Aid In Curst'n - Is Notable Advance. . New Tork.--What is called "a most important and far-reaching contribution to cancer research" is made known by Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of the Columbia University Institute of Cancer Research, endowed by George Crocker, in a report to President Nicholas Murray Butler. Doctor Wood states that two of the workers In the Columbia laboratories, Dr. Frederick D. Bullock and Miss M. R. Curtis, Ph. D., both ranking as'associate in cancer research, have discovered a means of producing cai er artificially in rats, large numbers of which are constantly used In Columbia's work of cancer research. "After five years of hard work," says Doctor Wood, "Doctors Bullock and Curtis have finally shown that If white rats be infested with the eggs of a certain parasite and kept for a period of not less than eight months, tumors will develop about the areas In which the parasites are present, and that these tumors are virulent cancers which rapidly kill the animals In which they start and can easily be transplanted to others. "This is not the first time that cancer has been produced artificially. It is Just 146 years since the London surgeon Pott showed that certain types of cancer 1 follow certain occupations In which Irritating substances come In contact with the body. The best known of these types of cancer Is the chlinney- sweeps* cancer, which developed to such an extent In England that laws were passed regulating the conditions under which chimney sweeping could be done. Names Forms of Caneera* "Other forms of irritation cancer are the well-known Kangri basket cancer of the Kashmir native, the betel-nut cancer on the inner surface of the cheek among Malays and Filipinos, and the cancers following chronic Xray dermatitis. It has also been known that It is possible to obtain a considerable number of cancers In animals by Inbreeding cancerous strains, but some years are required to get enough stock, the number of tumors so obtained Is not always large, and the time of their appearance cannot be determined, so that experiments requiring nutny tu. mors cannot be planned. "Another means of inducing cancer has been by painting the skin of an animal with tar. This experiment is based upon the observation that workers In briquette factories, where the skin of the hands is constantly in contact with tar, not Infrequently develop cancer. Professor Fiblger of Copenhagen has shown also that cancers can be produced In. the stomachs of rats by feeding the animals on a certain parasite, but here also the'actual percentage of production Is small. "In the method devised in this laboratory, however, the yield Is very considerable, over half the animals of a certain strain developing cancer. Doctor Wood quotes Dr. J. A. Murray, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, a noted investigator of cancer, as saying recently that "one of the great disadvantages which retards progress in the study of cancer Is the absence of a means of producing the diseases at will in experimental animals." "With the discovery made in this laboratory," Doctor Wood adds, "this disadvantage no longer exists." Seek Hljih-Power X-Raya. Doctor Wood reports the construction of a new machine through which, during the coming winter, will be added "new and important facts to the very vital question of the treatment of cancer by X-ray." tioh for some time," he continues, discussing experimental work, "the erection of an apparatus for the production of a direct current at high voltages In order to produce X-rays of unusual power, as the limitations of the commercial machine In certain modes of treatment are obvious. "The matter had been discussed in an Informal way during the last two or three years with a number of experts, among them Professor Duane and Professor Davis, and at the last annual meeting of the Crocker board It was proposed that the accrued income of the Bondy fund ba devoted to the construction of a more powerful constant current X-ray apparatus than had yet been attempted, with the necessary equipment to permit of accurate determinations in physical units of the exact quantity of radiation given off by the X-ray tubes. "Many unforeseen difficulties in'the obtaining of equipment and materials have, of course, arisen, as is usual in the construction of research apparatus; but the machine has already been run for considerable periods, delivering a continuous current at high voltages, ond gives promise that it will shortly be capable of furnishing not less than 200,000 volts with considerable amperage, and do this for such long periods of hours or even days as may b# necessary in tfaft experimental worfcw Toomaborp, Ga.r "I suffered with backache and headache all the time, was so weak and nervous I didn't know what to do, and could not do my work. My Iwnble was deficient and irregular periods. I read !n the Wipers what Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to give it a trial. I got good * results from its use 5® I am now able to do my wort. ifSfW61!? ^ ye&etable Compound Jo ray friends who have troubles similar -nice --J -- ^ tesi Toomsboro, Ga. SEEKS IDEAL WOMAN to mice and you may use these facto M a testimonial. C.F. ^oomsboro, Weak, nervous women make «mh<asDv homes, their conation irritates both Eiuaband and children. It has been sa:d that nine-tenths of the nervous Erostxtttjor. nervous despondency, "the Ices, irritability and backache arise from aome displacement or deranaement of a woman's syatem. Mrs. Phil, hps letter clearly shews that no other remedy is so successful in overcoming this condition as Lydia E. Pukham£ Vegetable Compound. is it True? An airplane capable of landing without the need of a large aviation field, able to rise without a long ran beforehand, able to travel more than 800 miles an hour, and, if necessary, to meander along at but a few miles an hour, is announced as the invention of an Italian engineer, Epaminanda Berrucci of Rome. The Inventor claims that he already tried out the machine on a small scale and regarded his flrst experiments as indicative of the success of the invention. The new machine is primarily intended for aerial war chasing and is to be .armed M a machine gun. It is a monoplane. DYED HER DRAPERIES, SKIRT AND A SWEATER _ Rch package of "Diamond Dyes" contains directions so simple that any woman can dye or tint faded, shabby skirt^ dresses, waists, coats, sweaters, stocknigs, hangings, draperies, everything like J1®*' Buy "Diamond foyea"--no other kind--then perfect home dyeing is guaraaiteed, even if you have never dyed Defce. Tell your druggist whether the materia) you wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never streak, spot, fade, or can. fio easy to uae.--advertise mailt* 1 ' ~flr 8ure Cure. -•< Mr. Tearwed--Pshaw! Breakfast ' has been late every morning this wefek. Can't you do something to get Bridget up on time? '. -• -r' Mrs. Yearwe<*-£r«d alarm clock. V s. Mr. Yearwed--Yes, I know, but alarm clocks don't always go off. Why not lend her the baby? "I've tj funjicii over 12,000 miles to see If there's one solitary woman left who TJoesirtr try to do poor, little old Adam out of his own little job." Such is the story of Cart C. Countryman of Chicago, executive secretary of the League of Young Americans, who was seen In London recently wearing a khaki suit and a bright smile. "I've been looking for the sweet, gentlemannered Englishwoman we used to fall in love with in the states," said Mr Countryman. "Trying Just to catch a glimpse of her, I've added 400 miles to my record in a walk from Glasgow to London--and I'm still walking." GOOD REMEDY FOR THE NERVES Concentration Is Recommended by Eminent Music Directffp Cultivate an Interest' In Work, an Interact That Becomes Absorbing-- H|ls Absorption Prevents Attention From Wandering London.--What are we to do about our "nerves"? It is the question which bothers half the world today. Everybody who has to work under the eye of a critic, from the orator who wonders how his speech is going to the shop girl who is aware of the shopwalker's eye while she is selling a yard of ribbon, is liable to an attack of what we call "nerves." To all such sufferers, says the Dally Mall, Sir Hugh Allen spoke when, as director of the Royal College of Music, be addressed the students of the college at the opening of the new term. He was speaking mainly to those who are or will become public performers of music--but hia words apply to everybody. "It Is not much to say," he declared, "that nerves are the most needed " Ingredient In the performer's outfit, and that nervousness has brought distress if not disaster to countless musicians. 'Nerve' and /nervous' are words which have the most diverse meaning in our language. We speak of nerve as of something strong, vigorous, as courage and boldness and assurance, and of nerves as a disordered state of the nervous system. "By "nerves' we mean that miserable state which attacks us at all turns of the road, when we have to play or sing, when we don't know our work, when we are late, when we have to do things In front of others. Personally I know of no greater discomfort. "I have known a man called upon to speak suddenly among friends to be alsolutely dumb, and another to have uttered a string of unintelligible nonsense. I have known conductors who confessed to a feeling of complete blankness at the beginning of a concert. "Now the paradox of the whole affair is that you cannot be a really; good performer or conductor unless you are nervous (In a sense and In the right degree), and you cannot be if you are nervous! The case is really this: It Is only those who have aervoup susceptibility and a delicately balanced and well controlled nervous system who will ever make an appeal by their performance." Beyond the need for obtaining their full knowledge of the matter In hand Sir Hugh advises this nervous "to cultivate an interest in work, an interest which becomes absorbing, which means that our minds are taken up with what we are doing--not with why we are doing it. This absorption prevents our attention from wandering. The power of attention which enables us to concentrate upon what we are doing, and to become unsusceptible to outside Influences, but it is also the beet mr to build up character." Correct Physics. Teacher'--Johnny, what is stewet? -U Johnny--Water crazy with the het&. ---American Legion Weekly. f A person of spirit hates to be anybody's idol. It Involves too much poaln*. ov,- Itty the Pate. Th# fcwrt of a I burn or a cut st0p# *fee» Cole's Carbolisalve is applied. It heal* quickly without scars. 30c and 60c by all druggists or send 30c to The J. W. Col* Co., Rockford, lit--Advertisement. Pnlllng a sound tooth strains thai acoustics of the dental chamber. ' C01D5 "24H0 MAN'S MORE KIDS NOW GO TO SCHOOL Census Bureau Statistics Show Increased Attention. Utah 8hows Largest School Attendance In 6-20 Age Group, and lieiana Smallest--Grow^ .1 Par Cent in 10 Year|fcV'-\. Washington.--The /department of commerce, through fhe bureau of the census, issued a preliminary statement giving statistics of school attendance, by geographic divisions and states, compiled from the returns of the fourteenth decennial census, taken as of January 1, 1920. The total population, 5 to 20 years of age, Inclusive, enumerated In continental United States, numbered 83,- 250,870. Of this number, 21,373,970 attended school at souk time between September 1, 191S, and January 1 1920. 3 *' population 7 to If yeaiu of age, 15,300.793 Included 13,969.010 children attending school. The percentage attending school among the population 5 to 20 years of age increased from 59.2 for 1910 to 64.3 for 1920; and the corresponding percentage for children 7 to 13 years of age Increased from 86.1 for the earlier to 90.6 for the later year. Among the Individual states the largest proportion attending school In the 5-20 age group, 73 per cent is shown for Utah, and the smallest. 53 per cent for Louisiana. In six states --Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Oregon--the proportion of school attendance for this age group was more than 70 per ceat. For the 7-13 age group "the largest proportion of school attendance, 96.1 per cent, Is "that for Massachusetts, and the smallest, 75.9 per cent for Louisiana. In seven states--Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Iowa, Delaware, Idaho and Utah--the proportion was 86 per cent or mora, In Illinois the 5-20 age group Is given numbering 1.886.01& Of these 1,226,601, or 65 per cent, attended school, an Increase of 4.8 per cent over the 1910 figures. The 7-13 age group's population totaled 860,832, of u hom fil 5,080, or 94.7 per cent, attended school. This percentage was higher than that of 1910. Snakes Milk Cows Ohio, It's Said O.--A heated argument as to whether It is possible for snakes to milk cows has Involved Wayne county and other Interested farmers. The contra* versy started when a farmer reported that several of his cows had been milked by large snakes. A local doctor said such a thing was Impossible. Now every other farmer in the county Is recalling Instances where snakes have been known to milk cows. A y«nn is as old as his organs; fa* can be as vigorous and healthy at 70 as at 35 if he aids his organs ia performing their functions. 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