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IK>KS MAX'S WOKK. Manages Thirteen Acre "Ranch" and I Bosses Men Readily. Los Angeles. June 1.? While wearing a man's clothing and doing a*, man's work on her thirteen-acre L "ranch" at .Manhattan Beach. .Mrs.] Clara A. Auchmoody, .">0 years old, j 1 has issued a challenge to any man in , , the world to excel her at what once; , was considered exclusively the labor! , of men. I , ".Men have no monopoly on being , farmers," declares Mrs. Auchmoody. L " '.Male and female created He them.'J , I quote from the Bible without sacri- j lege. | "I believe that any person who wears a man's clothes ought to be ? able to do a man's work. 1 wearj man's clothes while 1 am working on j , my ranch, and I do a man's work, , too. I'd like to see the man who can ! , excel me! t "I have 13 acres, a good house, a , barn, a cowshed, other outbuildings, , two horses, a cow, a calf. 150 chick- , ens and?a hired man. I "That last was a kind of rub, in , the beginning. The men thought ] they knew more about farming than I did. Maybe they did?then. But , they don't?now. A man who works j for me must do what I tell him to do. , If he has a suggestion to ma?\e i am glad to listen, if it is good I may j adopt it. If I don't like it he does j thfngs my way." , Mrs. Auchmoody stopped her work , of spading about one lemon tree to , begin treating another which was af- , flic-ted with a fungus growth. She!, looked over her ranch, surrounded L by a windbreak of cypress trees j , which she planted herself and dot- . ted with citrus and deciduous trees of various kinds, with many rows of t different vegetables between, and , satisfaction was expressed upon her j face. i i "This means happiness and health to me," she said. "Before I came here I was subjected to one surgical , operation after another. Now I have j perfect health and no mental trou- , bles. No person who has a good, ? strong body, as I have have, can have , bad mental health. The two don't go together. 1 "I eat so much that it surprises . my visitors. I get up in the morn- , ing at 5:15 o'clock. I let my hired j man sleep until 6 o'clock. We both , get to work before 7 o'clock. We t quit work at night when we get . through. Just now we are busy pre- ( paring to plant potatoes so mai 1 ] shall have them on the market early j in the spring. New potatoes bring j me in considerable money. We are , also planting winter peppers, spray- ( ing trees and building fences out of , eucalyptus. ( "Intensive farming is the plan I ( favor and follow. And no small ( farmer should try to get along with- < out a cow and chickens. They provide a fertilizer which otherwise i would cost considerable money." t "Find All the Kiddies, Boy." 2 " Naturally there has been much * speculation as to the manner in * which Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt con- ? ducted himself when the Lusitania 1 went down. A young man of enor- 1 mous fortune who had lived some- f what spectacularly, the fact that he c perished was of unusual interest in ? Itself. The first fragmentary details * as to his fate left much to conjecture, although it was evident that he faced c the inevitable like a gentleman. But f he did more than that. The story is * related by Mrs. Lines, a Canadian. * and printed in a London cablegram to the Philadelphia Press. She says: "People will not talk of Vanderbilt. in the future as a millionaire sportsman and man-of-pleasure. He 1 will be remembered as the children's 1 hero, and men and women will sa- * lute his name. When death was c nearing him he showed gallantry which no words of mine can ade- * quately describe. He stood outside ? the palm saloon on the starboard c side with Ronald Denver (his valet) ^ by his side. He looked around on the scene of horror and despair with pitying eyes. "Find all the kiddies you can. boy." he said to the valet. "The man rushed off immediately, collecting children, and as he brought them to Vanderbilt the millionaire dashed to the boats with two little 1 ones in his arms at a time. When he could no longer find any more * children he went to assistance of the women and placed as many as. he 1 could in safety. In all his work he was gallantly assisted by Denver and the two continued their efforts un- { til the very end." That was not an entirely futile 1 way in which to close one's career. Greater love hath no man! And over in New York there are three "kid- * dies"?William H.. aged 5; Alfred Gwynne. Jr.. aged 3, and George, not yet eight months?who if they live, 1 will have a heritage descended from their father which all their millions could not nave brought and no cir- 1 cumstance can fritter away.?New ( York Tribune. Glendale Spring water on sale at I Murdaugh's Grocery Store.?adv. y water by bears. Hardly any ot tne 111 fish had been mutilated except the marks of the bear's claws on their 9( backs. All that was eaten was the si1 "cheek" of the salmon, the bear, ac- Pi tording to Commissioner Jones, be- cc ing very fastidious and preferring cr :hat part to any other. P* As the bears in Alaska are the a* largest in the world and are noted 111 for their ravenous appetites, it is ar ;asy to realize how much damage ti1 :hey can do. On Kodiak Island, where the full-grown bear weighs w< :hree-quarters of a ton. the deputy lu commissioner learned from a native ni :hat one of these giants could eat a sn :hird of his own weight in salmon in i single day. sp "As in other parts of the terri- 0f ory." .Mr. Jones remarks, "this bear ni tlso throws considerable numbers of \ : Ish out of the water, many of which (jc t may never care to touch for food." f0 Destruction by Gulls. al While wolves and even eagles are tlso doing much harm, .Mr. Jones ^ 'ound that still greater destruction co vas caused by gulls and terns. De- ac tcrihine his visit to Sierra creek on t1, i rainy day at low tide he says: "My attention was first attracted pc }y a movement of birds in the water md along the banks. As I drew ^ learer I saw thousands of salmon . nj lghting their way up the shallow stream, and among these fish were :he gulls, picking out first one eye j ta md then the other. I flushed this I ra mormous horde of gulls, which I be- Je ieve numbered at least 10,000. Gong closer to the stream, I found a mmpback salmon flopping everywhere. with their eyes gone and Jtherwise mutilated from the pick- th ng and clawing of these birds. I ari estimated that in this creek alone ^ here were within sight 5.000 fish ?ither dead or dying that had never e^: spawned." 0E To remedy this condition Mr. ^ Tones makes several novel sugges- en ions. The ease with wnich the bears md gulls prey upon salmon, he says ea s due in large measure to the num)er of obstructions in streams which hey frequent in the spawning sea- 1? son. Besides the falls and other nat- th tral barriers, some of the rivers have nv tot been kept clear of timber and ca >ther obstructions, and are conse[uently providing ideal fishing co rrounds for the natural enemies of te he salmon. Whole schools are halt- an 'd on their way upstream by these so >bstructions, with the result that the tu ish fall back exhausted into shal- to ow water only to be preyed upon by >ears and gulls. 00 nil Who's Who in the War. ha no Now that Italy has joined her for- tri unes with those of the allies, it is nteresting to recall who all are in an he war and what their relations are is, >ne to another. sa There are on the one side England, ta "ranee, Russia. Italy, Japan, Bel- ho ;ium, Servia and Montenegro, and fr< >n the other Germany, Austria and Pi( "urkey. Total 11. The Germans hate the English. Pu The English fear the Germans. su The Germans fear the Russians. SP The Russians hate the Germans. th The Austrians hate the Italians. til The Italians hate the Austrians. ed The French have it in for the Gernans. 10 The Germans feel that they have Pe o keep the French down. TI The Belgians sympathize with the s? French. ac The Servians hate the Au6tcians. ed The Japanese have no feeling in 'a: he matter. ta The Germans would like to punish he Italians. b.v Nobody hates the French. to Everybody but Germany svmpa 6? hizes with the Belgians. ai1 Nobody trusts the Japanese. di Everybody is a little afraid of the of Russians. (It Nobody likes the Turks. And to think the war must go on to intil all those matters are straight-J D< ?ned out!?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 111 m m Glendale Springs water on sale at pr ierndon's Grocery Store. Phone us co our order. ac BKAKS FISH HOK SALMON. Furry Sportsman lie Lu\e Can Fat | yA .">00 Founds at One .Meal. Bears that fish in shallow water tnd gulls that pluck out the eyes of j :heir prey are destroying millions of a i Alaskan salmon, according to E. Lester Jones, deputy commissioner of ^ [he bureau o fisheries, who was sent , , , . ar to Alaska last summer to investi- ~ T i iate the causes of the waning salmon VI supply. The bears, he says, are the se worst offenders because they haunt the shores of the streams during the . spawning season, and. besides killing large quantities of salmon for , be food, slay many tnousanns 01 uiueis just for rhe pure joy of the sport, says a New York dispatch. in The commissioner in his report \ tells of how at Black Bear creek in the Cleveland peninsula he found the se shores for 1">0 feet on both sides littered with hundreds upon hundreds t)f humpback, silver and chum sal- 111 mon that had been tossed out of the Sl .MK.XICAX PLANT WIZARD. r \ Merino Hoininguez i> in <'Ia? Witli jl Lutlier Iturbunk. Banished from .Mexico, his native nd. and separated from his wife id children since last March. Ze.fino Dominguez. the "Burbank of exico." has gone to Washington | id New York, says a San Antonio.! ?xas letter. He gave ont an inter-j ew here on the value of carefully, lected seed corn and on world P ade conditions that is of interest to anters and farmers generally. Mr. Dominguez. upon whom has I ;en conferred the title of "Corn I ing" by many agricultural colleges ^ the United States, has spent twen-five years and nearly ?.">00,000 of s personal fortune in the study of ed corn. The average corn crop of .Mexico is >,000,000 bushels a year under noral political conditions. Mr. Dominlez said. This is 100,000,000 less n an is needed to feed the 15,000,>0 inhabitants of the country, since 0 > per cent, of the nation's diet consts of corn. Mr. Dominguez ex- g ained the use of the term "political >nditions" in relation to the corn t( op. He said Mexico in turbulent ri riods, such as revolts have brought >out. lessens the corn crop, since so B any farthers are in the various nties the soil is not thoroughly culrated. Vl Y "If I had evil news to spread it s< ould travel like wildfire, as you say re in the United States," Mr. Do- _. inguez said. 'jTruth travels at a 6( (in a pave. "It appears incredible that I u; ould be able to grow *240 bushels P corn on an acre of ground when n v neighbor grows only from 7 to !. .Many of them 1 have taught to S1 ) the same as I. Others have not ^ llowed my advice and are going ong in the same old rut. "Some American farmers would ? ink I was crazy if I told them they y< >uld raise 240 bushels of corn to the 0] re on their farms. They told me XI e same thing in .Mexico, but since _ re accomplished the seemingly im- P issible they simply say I've got heels in my head all right, but that ey appear to be running on #the ght track. "Yet it can be done. They can ke a piece of land on which they _ ised thirty bushels of corn last a* ar and raise sixty on it next year, r id it does not matter whether it is dry year or not. "This yield can be increased so at within five or six years, through e proper preparation of the ground id the judicious selection of seed. A ey can raise as much corn as I can. "Iowa produces 300,000,000 bush5 of corn each year, and it is about te-half the size of the State ot ichoacan. Mexico. I could raise ough corn in Michoacan to feed the . exican nation if there was not an w r of corn raised anywhere else in e country. ^ "The United States and Mexico are _ w sing billions of dollars annually ^ rough their failure to produce as . tn uch corn, cotton and wheat as they n on the same acreage." m Cotton and wheat are occupying ^ nsiderable of Mr. Dominguez's at- ^ ntion now. Again, seed selection j j d the proper preparation of the ^ il and the conservation of moisre are the secrets of his success, q i says. He raises two and a half bales of g. tton to the acre, while his country- a en "worry along" with a third of a jjr le to the acre, and say Mexico is it a cotton country. The same is tr< ae of his wheat crops. Ci "Take the testing of wheat seed as ? example and see how simple it all su " said Mr. Dominguez. "I take a sc ck of good wheat seed. From it I l* ke three handfuls. one from the m ttom. one from ttie middle ana one Ad Dm the top. These I mix well and Tr, ;k out at random 1 00 seeds. _ "1 place them in a damp napkin. ^ t them on a plate and give them fficient moisture to make them rout. Those that sprout cling to e cloth and those that are not fer- w e fall out when the cloth is turn- at upside down. & "Suppose thirty seeds out of the ^ 0 fall out. This shows me that 30 ? r cent, of that seed will not grow. ie difficulty is solved readily by wing 30 per cent, more seed to the re than would appear to be requir, and my crop will be 30 per cent, rger than the man's who does not ke this little pains. "The same is true of corn. I know future tests, that every ear and ~~ irnel of seed corn that I plant is ling to grow. And I know the size id quality of the ear it will proice. 1 know with an equal degree certainty that each stalk will proice, two. three or more ears." The mistake of a boy who drove a ~~ rd of goats into a field which Mr. |L Dminguez had prepared for experi-jll ental purposes led, he says, to the Pi ethod of dry farming, which he has fo acticed in the dryest parts of Mexi- Jv with a sixty-five bushel to the re re yield. Ci Rest material and workmanship, light running, requires little power: simple, easy to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catolog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. LOMBARD IRON WORKS & SUPPLY CO. NO DIFFERENCE he Proof is Here the Same as Everywhere. For those who seek relief rrom kidey backache, weak kidneys, bladclei is, Doan s Kidney i'iJls oner nope of jlief and the proof is here in Bam erg, the same as everywhere?barnerg peopie have used Doan's and amberg people recommend Doan's. le kidney remedy used in America >r fifty years. Why suffer? Why an the risk of dangerous kidney ills -fatal Bright's disease. 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General Practice IUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE fter Four Tears of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bollock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter Dm this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock rites as follows: "I suffered for four j tars, with womanly troubles, and during i is time, 1 could only sit up for a little i hile, and could not walk anywhere at I A* ft'tnae I ivAitM hotra CAtfArO nointt I" U ni U1UW) A nvtuw 1H4 * V 0WTVIW i my left side. The doctor was called in, and his treatent relieved me for a while, but I was *on confined to my bed again. After at, nothing seemed to do me any good* lad gotten so weak I could not stand, id I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of irdui, the woman's tonic, and I com- j enced taking it From the very first; >se, I could tell it was helping me. I n now walk two miles without its ing me, and am doing my work." If you are all run down from womanly jubles, don't give up in despair. 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C. lalaria or Chills & Fever escription No. 666 is prepared especially r MALARIA or CHILLS &. FEVER, ive or six doses will break any case, and taken then as a tonic the Fever will not turn. It acts on the liver better than ilomel and does cot gripe or sicken. 25c i Removal Notice.... ( This week we will move our market and stock of groceries to the Delk building, below the stables of G. Frank Bamberg. Our patrons and friends are cor- . dially invited to call on us at our A new stand. We will continue to j serve our patrons, as in the past, ', with the best groceries obtainable at reasonable prices. Meats of all kinds on hand. % < Delk's Market Same 'Phone, No. 2 Bamberg, S. C. 1 I m Wsf 'PRUDENT MAN" A I /a t&fz A Mnw? rtw*\ mM*\. m rr"ir mw> ! ru 'o n/o nunc, r imu n V OUR BANK, SOME DAY nyw HE WILL HAVE GOOD M/Mc^SE FORIT. The man with money in the bank is looked up to, qecause he can do things. And there is just one sure way to have money in t the bank?PUT it there. 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