After Adair's death, Mrs. Adair employed Richard Walsh to help in management and he was associated with her until ten years ago, when he went to Rhodesia, 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, succeeded him, but he retired in 1914 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 hands, and the public and invested largely in Liberty bonds during the war.

MACHINE GUN BACK IN 1775? Rejected by Young Louis XVI of France as Too Murderous, According to Story. Paris.—A controversy as to who first invented machine-guns is one of the war's aftermaths in France. Lyon puts forth the claim of a M. Perron, who, in 1775, is said to have submitted to the young King Louis XVI a military "orgue," which worked on a crank system and could fire 24 bullets "almost simultaneously, and consequently could annihilate a whole regiment in a few minutes," according to a contemporary record. The new weapon appeared to be so murderous that  The king and his ministers rejected it, and its inventor was held up as an enemy of humanity. 