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Irl (lc>t\oa cit\ A ikeNcnV Plan* de Farrarl, Genoa. K IS a wise or fortunate trav ? ? Her, or both, who, first ad venturing forth to enjoyment of the bcuutlos and rtchoe of Italy, approaches her from the sea, and strides ashore from his ship at Genoa. That 1m butter than stealing through Swiss mountains hy night, or working round lu a train hy the French Hlvlera and crossing a frontier line at Ventlmlgllu, flan Science Monitor. It is difficult in the latter circum stance to feel that pne has changed from France to Italy; the Depression grows slowly and is graduated, which is always had for an impression. ('?tine suddenly upon Genoa from the sea (kIv111k a thought as your jTaft steams in to the famous lighthouse at the entrance to theharbor?It Is ?KM) years old. and of a style suitable to Italy), and Genoa strikes you as a tine, strong representative pieue of, Italy. Genoa, with her glorious past. is steeling lierself sternly now to modern materialistic demands. There is no other city in Italy which combines so many features ot the country's life, appearance, history, traditions and sensations as doep Genoa. It I* a place of measureless variety and enormous contrasts. There may he Utile oT Home about it. as you might ."ay, nor scarcely anythftig of the delicacy, the elegance, the aesthetic refinement of Florence. Foremost ItaPlan Seaport. Hut Genoa, this first seaport of Italy, is a busy, commercial place, of ?enor mous' achievement both tiefnre~ and during the war, and which up to the beginning of hostilities was doing a trade of over two hundred million American dollars' a year. It Is a city of vast aspirations, coupled with a practical way of working them out. lu busy Genoa you get occasional reminders of- Hologna, of \ erona, and of the veritable Venice. And. again, you have here some of the stern modernity <>r Milan?plain, manufac turing metropolis of the north, bent coldly to the needs of commerce and trade. Genoa couples In herself some on the romance of the Queen ??f the Adri atic with the4 modern commercial hurdheadedness of Milan. Milan in Italy is what Manchester is to Kng land; and- even in the magnificent opera house, the Scala, where so many of the world's brst singers hare been nursed, there i* the feeling al ways thai here commerce Is patroniz ing It lordly o'er the arts. Flavor of Old Italy. You may poke about the myriad lit tle pinnacles on the roof *>f the cathe dral. and gaze afar to the wUte-capped Al| >s overlooking the lakes of won drolls blue, bill cmmticrce seems to tinge almost every contemplation. And t!n- i> t"".l tor Italy, for Italy cannot lue on nri-rrmi 11 aditirrrr-nhme; Hut <.? 11->ii. next in i otnmurce and hrst tn t he -niirks?irf Italian ports, while ?*!??? 11tr it- commerce on the grand stale ha- t!ie art and ? olor ami flavor of old It :? I> ns well. (!o down by the h?trhur. and. not withstanding the bu-v hi.-tie and the certain evidence <>t" the modern world, one would hardly I e :<-?oi i-hed to see two gentlemen ot "l<! ' i e 111 >ji , hj t i in brlghilv ? oior?'d ??ilk-. \nhIi swords at sides, emerge from one of the fif teenth-cent ;.i y ,I,mhs* ins w hi< h abound in that i|11it11?-r. Kveryw I ere there is this strong contrast. A purt of Genoa i? a veritable maze of old. d;?rk -.reds in which ?n> per-' son w th1 *nt the instinct for getting his whereabouts may speedily become lost Kare old streets they are. too. In the middle of the city there Is one which I- most wonderful, the Via l.uccoli a thin -lit not more than nine feet wide ami hundreds of feet high. a<> that Jii"t the thinne-i -trip of Ital ian sky chti be seen by the stroller as he lifts his eyta-s from the show of excellent and varied wares In the shops on either side of the Via I.uiVoll. This is Italy; but not far away you may pace down the Via Yenti Het tembre and observe a strong moder nity about the thoroughfare, something of the American style about If, and yet no! without its share of Italian elegance. Here are good restaurants, modern in all their appointments, su perior ehops a genet-* I air of business ?ad bustle, and? yes. indeed?a place With ycf,? fountain* fM the cooling of Oenoeae tongue* on a gammer's day. So again In the Via Uouia; ami the traveler will find that the business men who flit about possess a sharp ness . of tuanoer and of countenance that arc not common in the land. The Monument# of Genoa. In Genoa we' have some flne new building*. There Ih the bourse, and the jK)Ht office?full of accomodation and convenience. There are splendid places like the lMnzzn de Ferrari, and yet everywhere there Is Italian feel ing for making the best of beauty's possibilities Where in the world was ever monument more effectively placed than that of Mar//.lni In this elty, high above the ie^el with a backgrouiul of a green hill and a tumbling waterfall beyond 7 ? Again, what an admirable and 1m partial sense of fituosx did (Jenoa dis play when she?linked as closely as she Is now with the New World, with the big American steamships coming up tci her harbor again an they did TH?prewar days -raised "a marble monument In her*<ity to Christopher Columbus., who d'scovered America, even though he were a Spaniard and no Italian. ^ In (Jenoa there t\s? Innumerable old and splendid palaves. Often they have courtyards In which orange' trees flourish. There are fascinating old churches, with strange legends at tached to some of their relics. Kve'rywhere there Is something writ ten 4in the-wall* lor it i* well said that (Jenoa Is a "city of Inscriptions." There are records of sea victories of thr thirteenth century on the facade of the church of San Mat too; and in many public places the characters of persona of old were thus advertised untlatforlngly by their enemies, the opinions thus expressed remaining. .The "gnllerles." or covered shopping arcades, a stroi g feature of most Italian cities, are especially good In Genoa, it is it r;?re place, of most absorbing Interest. Seven and eight centuries ?go It was a powerful mari time state.- And now, when the world is once more beginning afresh, and when, as It appears, one of the fea tures of the new economics Is to be keen competition among the Kuropean ports, (Jenoa .braces herself for that success to which she was advancing before the war. TAKE THEIR HOUSES ALONG Miner*, MovinQ to Location of New "Boom," Find Process Mutfh Cheaper Than Building. Many it mining camp sits rather uneasily on the sands of the desert, as If a west wind, a little stronger than usual, might blow it away like a t umhlewet'tl. If the mini's of one place give out. it ml new ones are found not far away, some of the better houses, nitty be innvi'd on rollers- to the new townsite. I let ween Ooldfleld, Nevada, find the new camp of Divide, for instance, it has been common to see on the road a whole house, perched on a wagon, drawn by four or six or eight horses, and making very good time over the alkali road from the older place to the new loca tion. With the coming of spring, doubtless many more houses that are still sturdy will he moved In this way to the localities of new booms, par ticularly If the cost of building ina terlal remains high. From the dis til nee. an onrushlng house with Its cloud of dust tits In very well among the strange shapes, colors, and silence of the \n Ide desert In tho inountalnr. The Lordly Steamer. Steamship f)rices have apparently gone the way of all other quotations. A British shipping paper has charted the course of prices * new cargo steamer of 7,500 tons, ready to start to sea for the new owner, would bring at different times, and indicates $1.1(10,000 hs the figure at the end of 101i?. In 1914 It would have l>een $2ir.,000, and In 19US, when shipping touched its low point. It would have been $1SO,(X*). Couldn't Blame Her. Ifub- If seem* to trie tHut you come to the office h good deal more than there Is any occasion for. Wife- I cannot help It, dear. Your manners In the office are so much nicer thrvii they are at home that 1 really enjoy ih? contrast,?Boston Transcript. 4.ov? i mm lit llanir*s Distributed ? 4opimblu. May fi Twenty thousand doHars worth of harness Is being <11h trfhuted uuuxiij t III* counties of Si Midi. Carolina ut pitaeti<nUy no cost. try t|i? Slate Mitfhwa.v i N<|Ntrtmeul. Tin* do* part incut Saturday IrtHflVwl a ship iiu'iil fo double *et* of wagon bar lies* (the equivalent of 14H) double set*) from the federal ^>vei nmnI, shlpin-d from Jefferson vllle., Ind., harness that w,iv purHitisod for army fide*. The haMess Ik vu-llied at $S0 a double nipt, tin* total \alue Ix-Iiik ?L'O.NOO. The first .-??! to he <l?? Un ?*i ?*<I to tt <ounlv ua.-> turned over to flh-hlaml C?Ht(t authorities Saturday. Kvory county In <l>e State is to ls? given wome of tin* sett*, at a .eotft of $5 per set, this to eowr t raiiHiH?rt?itJon co#ta. From jo to ',[() pCP <rnt of tin* wo men employe*) by Hrltl*h banking In sttlitloiis during tin- war have l>een retained In their |MKsitlons. CITATION. Stntr'*>f South Carolina County of Kerxhtiw H.V NV. 1|, McDowell, Koquire, Probate ? IlKlv.r. Whereas, C, H. Yates made.tfiiitto me to want Mtn Letter* of AdmlnlatratLoai of the Estate of and effects of Mrs. Katie I>. Zerap. These are, therefore, to cite ami ad monish all and Hlngulnr the Jnudivd and creditor* of the said Mrs. Katie D. Zcmp deceased, thai they he end a^jpeer Istfoivine, in tlie (\>urt of Probate, to bo held at Camden. S. CM on May 17th next after pubLtcation thereof, at 11 o'ulock in the forenoon, to ?how cause, If any they have, why tihe said Ad min ium tion should not be granted. (Civen under ray hand, this Jtrd day of May A. J>. li>10. W.'L. -MV l)OWh>JJ,v .Indue of Probate for Kershaw County. t'nblixhed on the 7th and 14th days of May in t he Camden Chronicle and pitted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. *V- *,y. ? 3 '* . i~*v.\ ? ? v'r** ? 88p i V * ? ' ? k I TIRES 1 ? 'HE only tires built to an ad * vertised Ideal ? an Ideal that definitely indicates the policy and aim of the makers of Fisk Tires. The Fisk Ideal: "To be the best concern in the world to work for, and the' iquareit concern in existence to do business with." Next timm?BUY FISK W. O. HAY, Camden, S. C. an A a ? M ^lai M (HANDLER SIX Famous For Its Marvelous Motor See How Chandler ChecRs With High-Priced Cars THE Chandler Six throughout its seven years of production has been distin guished for dts many distinctively superior features of design and equipment which are used also on the highest priced American cars, and not used in any considerable degree by cars now priced hundreds of dollars higher than the Chandler. See, then, how the Chandler checks with ten of the best-known high priced cars in these features selected as being characteristic of high-grade design and most efficient service. Superior Chandler Features and the HigH-Priced Cars that use Them ONE PIECE ALUMINUM MOTOR BASK, which ties the frame of the car together _at_four?poin4*,-thun providing-a- stiffe'r? frame as well as a more rigid motor mounting. Also used by Packard, Loco mobile (Bronze), Mercer, Winton, Fiat, Brewster, Stutz, Pierce-Arrow. SILENT CHAIN DRIVE for Motor Shafts. Also used by Winton, Packard, Cadillac, Brewster. Fiat, Mercer. TORQUE ARM OR TUBE. Also used by Pierce-Arrow, Locomobile, Brewster, ANNULAR BALL-BEARING TRANS MISSION. Also used by Winton, Stutz, Pierce-Arrow, Brewster, Cadillac, Fiat, Locomobile, Packard, Marmon. ANNULAR BALL- BEARING DIFFER ENTIAL. Also used by Marmon, Stutz, Pierce-Arrow, Flat, Brewster, Packard, Locomobile. ANNULAR BALL-BEARING REAR WHEELS. Also used by Packard, StutZt Locomobile, Marraon, Pierce-Arrow, Flat, Mercer. HIGH TENSION MAGNETO IGNITION. Also used by Locomobile, Mercer, Flat* Brewster, Wlnton. THEN, see How these seven cars?sixes which max be considered competitive to the Chandler?do NOT checK One car, listing at $2975, checks with Chandler-in only one feature Oneca*, listing at $2195, checks wfthChandler in only two feature# One car, lis ting a t |2b85, checks with Chandler in only three features One car, listing at $2045, checks with Chandler inonly t^o feature* One car, listing at $2400, checks with Chandler in only one feature One car, listing at $1945, checks with Chandler'In only one feature One car, listing at $2250, does not check with Chandler in any feature Not a single one of the seven makes of medium-priced Sixes referred to offers you High Tension Magneto Ignition. The Chandler offers you Bosch, recognized the world over as the best ignition system. Only one of them'oflere you m the hilent chain drive, although another one of them in its higher-priced model ($?450), incorporates this feature. These Statements are Fnets and they Oive Yoti a Few of the Reasons for Chandler Leadership The * pacification data quoted la aubatantlated. In every Instance. by the manufacturer* of the care referred to. SIX BEAUTIFUL STYLES OF BODY Set-en-Passenger Taurine Car, $1995 Four-Passenger Dispatch Car, $2075 Four Passenger Roadster, $199$ Set-en- Passenger Sedan, $2995 Four-Passenger Coupe, $2895 Limousine, $3495 (All Pricei /. o. 6. Cleveland. Ohio) # Camden Motor Car Company, Camden, S. C. CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, CLEVELAND,O.