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FINNEY OF THE FORCE (WOMAN PROSPECTOR FIGHTS FOR RICHES One of Mott Romantic Figures in North. ) Toronto.—Kathleen Rice, who threw iaside the hood of a college graduate to wrest wealth from the North, Irf preparing to fight to the last ditch in the Manitoba mining courts for her hopes of fortune, as the reward of •two decades of pioneering In the coun try of The Pas. Behind the issuance of a writ and the scheduled hearing of a case at Dauphin, Man., is a story of how mil lions have elustvely crossed the path of this most famous of Canadian wom an prospectors, who, however, today faces the future confident that 20 years* endeavor on her nickel and copper claims will some day bear abundant fruit. C E. Herman, one of her later as sociates In the development of claims at one time valued at 15.000.000. situ ated on Rice island. Herb lake, more than 100 miles from The Pas. has started legal action at Dauphin seeklns specific oerformonce of an agreement said to have existed between himself and Miss Rice and others. Some of the most romantic figures In Canadian mining history enter Into tb« story of the action; of these none la more colorful than that of Mias nice herself, who was graduated from the University of Toronto. In 1900. plunged Into a then unorthodox fem inine career, taking to trousers quite as naturally as she did to bobbed hair. Descended from i man who came over on the Mayflower, she decided to blase trails herself, starting by teaching school in the West, and then with her brother, Lincoln, flinging her self into the prospecting game near The Pas. It was In 1922. by staking her now famous claims on Rice Island, that the seeds were sown for the approach ing legal battle. Average Citizen Can Add Five Years to Life Chicago.—Americas average dtlien can Increase his life span at least five years—without cost to himself. That was the thought that MuJ.- Gen. M W. Ireland, surgeon general of the United States army, and pres ident of the American College of Sur geons. brought with him to Chicago for the organisation's nineteenth an nual convention. "We believe we’ve given army of ficers at least that much longer lease on life." he said. "And there's no rea son why the system wouldn’t work for civilians." It was simply this—an annual he.ilth Inventory once a year, on the aver age citizen’s birthday anniversary, for Instance. The added life expectancy can he obtained without cost. There are Insurance companies willing, anx ious even, to pay for these annual health Inventories, it saves them mil lions of dollars. Family of 18 Sleeps in Shifts in 3 Room House Breltung, Mich.—By sleeping In shifts the family of 18 of Albert Cunningham here lives comfortably In a house of but three rooms. Cunningham and his wife have 10 children ranging In age from two months to twenty-one years. They live In the $7 per month house with out difficulty by sleeping In groups thus keeping the beds almost eon- Unuously occupied. It was explained that when "shift sleeping” was impractical it was pos sible to accommodate the entire fum- ;tly by putting part in the small base- ( ment mi. ,; 'i contained, in the most palatable form, such an amount of iodine as to pre vent the development of this disease. On the other hand, the experts report ed that something like 70 per cent, of the people of the Great Lakes re gion of America are peculiarly sub ject to goiter, there being no iodine content in the vegetables of that re gion. v Markets Expanding Rapidly* “All of these findings have now been subjected to the most rigid scru tiny by doctors and chemists and dietitians of the nation. The findings of the experts have been laid before the greater medical associations and after full investigation have been ac corded the approval of hundreds of leading physicians. Already South Carolina vegetables are in such de mand in many of the groat American centers that I am told that dealers report that housewives have to do BROWN OF BARNWELL ENUES OF PROSPERITY OPEN IN PALMETTO STATE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) The little post office at Meggetts does a business rivaling that of some of the large cities. The superior value of the Carolina cabbage is due not only to its delightful flavor but to the fact that the persons who could eat no other cabbage can eat South Car olina cabbage with no ill effects. Preparing for Canneries. “Every one who has ever followed the trucking industry lenows, however, that its chief hazard is that it is m- possible to calculate exactly when the crop will be ready for market » n< l the same vegetables may come in from two or more trucking belts at the same time, flooding the green mar kets. South Carolina is now organ izing to prevent this in future so far as South Carolina vegetables are con cerned. At itf last session the State Legislature created what is known a* the South Carolina Natural Resources Commission and in the past eight their marketing early in order to get ^ mon ths this commission has set up as their vegetables. The demand has in-1 complete an organization of its kind creased even more rapidly than the supply. “But the opportunities for produc tion in South Carolina are as great as in any part of the United States. Soil and climate combine to bring this a- bout. For more than twenty years many of the South Carolina vegeta bles have commanded a premium in the markets of New York, Philadel phia, Pittsburgh and other great cit- jes. This hss been true as to lettuce, spinach, asparagus, cabbage and po tatoes. No cabbage grown anywhere has acquired the reputation of the South Carolina cabbage. For yearn year round, over superb bridges. The bridge across the Santee River, for instance, is approximately five miles in length, built of concrete, and a splendid structure. The bridge across the Ashley River at Charleston is one of th« handsomest bridges in America and forms the link in the coastal high way. There are • numerous other bridges, for the rivers along this route are many end some of them are bold and beautiful streams. "Highway construction in South Carolina, however, ha s lagged in one important respect. Some of the most important highways in the State have had unfinished gaps and these gaps, naturally, have impaired the value of the system. Although the unpaved road s aie of superior type the travel ing public in this day and time ia not satisfieJ with anything short of a wil1 be on * of the lar <? est mo * t paved highway on a through route. $40,000jPOO in IS Months. “In all, it i» proposed to tell during the next fifteen months approximately $40,000,000 of State Highway bonds and to push the construction program with the utmoat vigor. Quite natur ally, the prospect of so much activity has awakened a new and larger spirit of confidence on the part of the citi zenship throughout the State and it i« expected that the progress of the highway program will be accompan ied by many incidental activities. South Carolina's resources in hydro electric power, for example, are being greatly expanded. The Murray dam at Columbia, which is the largest earthen dam in the world, impounding an immense volume of water on Sa luda River, just above the capital cjty, is almost completed, the water having already been turned into the basin. The International Paper and Power Company has acquired in the lower part of the State what » known as the Santee Canal development. This more cabbage plants have as could be imagined. SJvery county in the State has been organized, with a county chairman and a board of di rectors; and these county organiza tions, functioning in co-operation wi(h the State organization, have been mil itant! y at work. The plm is to ad vertise the exceptional advantages of the South Carolina vegetables in ev ery market, to assist the growers in determining the vegetable crops to be planted and to create a system of canning factories to take care of the surplus products. Obviously, any one who can secure the green vegetables will prefer them to canned vegetables markets. But along with |his supply of green vegetables it is believed that canning factories operate# in con junction with national organizations, possessing the facilities for distribu tion, will be able to do a flourishing business. As I have already men tioned, Barnwell County is preparing now to go ahead with a quarter-mil lion dollar factory of this kind. We have found the keenest interest on the part of the distributors in what we are attempting and the utmost readi ness to cooperate. Textile Industry Hcnlthy. “When it is added that South Caro lina, with considerable building going on throughout pretty much the whole State, and specially in the great in dust tial Piedmont, is poosibly as f£ of industrial unrest as any pi America, it is not necessary to ar| that the whole outlook for the State is improving and that the people are happy and contented. “South Carolina mills are operating at the present time a greater num ber of spindle hours than any other State. The understanding that exists between the mill owners and the mill eperatives continues to be aa close and as cordial as it has always been and the only ripples of trouble which the industry hag had have been in some of the newer establishments and they were of short duration. The tex tile industry, according to everything that I have been able to ses and hear, is in a very healthy condition and go ing ahead.” ship- j and there s not a month in the year in ped out of South Carolina from Meg- j which South Carohoa is not able to gets than from any other place in the bring a generous supply of green veg- world—millions and millions of them.; etables of one kind or another to the The many friends of Judson H. Black will be glad to know that he ia convalescing after undergoing an op eration at the Baptist Hospital in Co lumbia. ‘Musician Keeps Fiddling Despite Wife’s Fortune Cincinnati, Ohio.—Otto Brnsch, viola 1 player In the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra, la going to keep on playing Ms viola, although hit wife has In- jhqrited an estate of $350,000. "I’m go- «1ag right on with my fiddling," Breach {told emphatically. Branch has been .connected with the orchestra since 2012, and be sees no reason for quit ting now. The Broaches, however, bought a big car and Intend to wM g few oilier material comforts to AMr home rtt. * W 3 Realizing this, the State Highway Commission, headed by its indomitable chairman, C. E. Jones, and with the full cooperation of its entire member ship and of a large proportion of the public men of the State, backed by most of the influential newspapers, bankers and business men, sponsored a program which calks' for the expend iture of $65,000,000 over a four-year period for completing all links in the present system and paving all the main arteries of travel. “.4fter a very thorough- agitation of the situation, the Legislature at its last session passed the highway meas- uie by an overwhelming majority; and the supreme court of the State, with all the circuit judges sitting en banc, ha s recenly ratified the consti tutionality of the act. Last week the State Highway Commission, in coop eration with Gov. John G. Richards, who was a vigorous supporter of the program and to whom much credit for its success is due, worked out with New York bond attorney* arrange ments for iasuing the first k>t of bonds, $10,000,000. These bonds are advertised for sale on December 17th and the plans are already completed, on the instant, for going forward with the program aa soon aa this mono* i* in hand. (Ed. jlflote.—Ch.ef last weak signed a writ of error in the read bead matter, which will hold up unique power developments in Amer ica, South Carolina Vegetables. “But to come back to the interest of South Carolinians in the recent discovery that the vegetables of the Palmetto State are richer than those of any other vegetables known in what is called iodine content is now accepted by the people of South Caro lina as opening up to the State per haps its greatest opportunity. Sev eral years age, when tir. William Weston, of Columbia, and Dr. A. B. Patterson, of Barnwell, first began to agitate the possibility of capitalizing on the value of South Carolina vege tables in this direction, thete was something of a disposition to regard them as visionariee. Fortunately, however, the State Legislature was induced to provide a fund for a thor ough survey of the matter.' Experts were employed and these experts reported that the South Carolina veg etables more than justified every claim which Dr. Weston and Dr. Pat terson had made for them.- They re ported further that there wars an al most limitless market for such vege tables if their extraordinary proper ties once became known to the world. It was found that the people of South Carolina were singularly free from It Was found further by the tier* «a> *v»ry - the reaoon goiter i O Cold motor and a cold morning . . . but quicl^ as ^ ■' ———■—■—— T ' ■ —■>—r—“ - " -- ■ ‘ m lightning new-processed “Standard”* starts the engine . -V / . * * ... / • # , . • . ! throbbing. 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