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WHERE COSTLIEST PERFUME IS MADE Bulgaria, Home of Attar of Roses, j Is Suffering From Short age of Crop. Washington,? -ltoKeu are nut doing so wfell iu JluUuriu tlU* yt*ur. This I* not the cusual statement that It limy appear. It amounts to u groat deal mure than u statement, fur exam- j pie, that California's l?opi?ivj* are *uf- ; ferine, that the b.iue-bomtet <rop Is not up to (he standard In Texas, or that I t the dalsiesln Mt^ryland are scarcer thun usual. a bulletin by the National Geographic Buddy's headquarter* here tells why. "Iloaos are not merely things of beauty In Bulgaria," says the bulletin. "They constitute a real crop, and mean ?a much to some parts of the country ** cotton means in Georgia, or j?ota t<HNl I'1 Maine. It Is literally true that j the rose means bty>nd and butter to thousands of Bulgarian country folk. Great fields. of roses are grown that the petals may be made to yield each ! its intinlteslmal share of attar of roses, the last word - and the most fjCpenAlvd ?-In perfumery. ''It Is In the valleys on the southern slopes of the Balkans that roses have been grown for generations for tho perfumery Industry, for there the cli mate, soil and drainage are just right In normal seasons for this most exact ing flower. Before the World war there were probably between 25,000 and 50, 000 acres of rose gardens lu the Bul garian 'rose belt,' and the annual yield of the attar was about 150,000 ounces. But perfume was not greatly In de mand In the German and Turkish World to which Bulgaria's exports were confined during war time, and rosea gave way to the tobacco plant, whose particular fragrance was more appre ciated by the millions of men under arms. Since the war rose-growing has recovered, but in no postwar year has th? acreage climbed above 15.000. Moat Concentrated Product. "Attar of roses is one of the most concentrated 'agricultural products,' If It may be so called, produced anywhere In the world. The countless rose petals grown on nn acre yield only a few ta blespoonfuls of the fragrant oil. The attar In In effect the materialized vud captured fragrance of the rose, and probably 50,000 or more flowers must contribute their share In making each ounce of the completed product. "The roses are largely gathered be fore sunrise, or at least before the dew has dried ; for tho Miniature helps to preserve the fragrance. The peasants seem to enjoy their aesthetic Job. Troops of gaily dressed girls and young men go through the gardens stripping the buds from the plants. They are dumped in piles before older women who sort them In readiness for their trip to the nearby factories. The buds are placed in retorts with about twice their weight of water and the liquid is then distilled. The resulting liquor Is allowed to stand overnight in pans. By morning a thin film of a solid ,?il has ripen to the top. This, the attar, is carefully skimmed off, and the re maining rose water Is in most cases thfbwn away. "The genuine attar of roses Is ho strong that its odor Is not very pleas ant. \yhen combined with other mate rials and so properly diluted, however, the fragrance is delightful. One drop Is sufficient to givfl h pleasing rose odor to a gaMon of cologne. H ?? Reached $100 an Ounce. "In liMO the United States imported over a thousand pounds of attar of roses from Bulgaria. Its cost there was only about ?150 n pound. The price of the attar is much greater, of course, by the time it reaches the con Ruroer. The best grades have sold at times for $100 or more an ounce. "Though Bulgaria is perhaps the best known source of attar of roues, It hns no monopjy of the production of this most highly prized of perfumes. In the celebrated Vale of Kashmir, In aome parts of China, In some of the oases of Persia, in Egypt, and In Asia tic Turkey the flowers from many acres of roses are concentrated In much the same way. The industry has even invaded the west and is carried on near I>elpxlg, Germany, and around the faimms 'Olty of Perfumes,* Grasse, In southern France." Orphans Go to Farmi. Athens, ? One hundred refugr-e or- I phan boys, comprising the first of five such groups, departed for farms in France, where the French government \ has agreed to place them hh-I train j tliem with the object of eventually ; making French citizens of them. Make* Speed Record. Philadelphia. ? A speed of 173 miles an hour, a half inlle short of the , world's record for seaplanes, was at- ! tAlned by I. lent. A. W. Gorton at the , nsvy yard here. Chase Thieves From Store by Pie Shower First a Juloj plekle, then a barrage of p!e* and ripe fruit? 'twas a warm reception for two thieve* wlio demands! that Gas pero LuCehesI of Washington, D. &? Uiem the money In the cash drawer in hi* store. Oaapero threw thick and fast; pit* ailed the air. Then lha robbwa fl?w. $100,000 STATUE BRINGS $50 Italian Pi- *er Who Found Marbla Torso yvf a Venu? Firat Sold It for The history of totne piece* of linarbla which were found hurled In a field at SluneHsa, near Naples. In ancient duya the site of a Greek colony, has formed the subject of a long-drawn-out law case in which the government ban at length secured an Important verdict* The fragment* were apparently of no particular value and the farmer *?id thera for $$, 'i in".* were on their way to the new purchaser when the govern* ment director of a ntiqultlea, 1'rofessor Hpiftassola, ordered him to return them to Naples for examination. The profes rjiiwp, )iu\ing looked at them, exercised his powers of compulsory purchase and bought the 'fragment* for $50, Under his direction they were cleaned i and put together, when they appeared an tho torso of a beautiful Venus, un doubtedly by the hand of I'raxlteiea (the greatest of the Attic sculptors of tho Fourth century 11. C.) and worth ill.. Mit $lQp,000. The farmer sued the government for half the value of the And, and after gaining a verdict in two courts loat bis case when the government took it to the court of appeals^ The statue is now ; one of the most precious possessions of j tho Naples National museum. BIRO ENTOMBED BY MARTINS Sparrow That Had Grabbed Martin's Nest Is Made the Victim of Dire Revenge. An English ornithologist, G. Garrett, makes a specialty of observing the manners and methods followed by birds. He recently recalled the, story of a sparrow which, finding a newly built martin's nest, took "possession" in the absence of the owner. The martin, seeing the usurper, called for help, and soon a thousand martins came, at "full speed," to attack the sparrow; but the latter was Invul nerable. After a quarter of ab hour's conflict al^ the martins disappeared. The sparrow thought he had got the better, and the spectators judged that the martins had abandoned their un dertaking. Not in the least 1 They Immediately returned to the charge, and, each of them having procured a little of the tempered earth with which they make their nests,* they all at once fell upon the sparrow and Inclosed him In the nest to perish there, although they could not drive him out. The Split Infinitive. One thinks of that solemn warning against the enormity of the split Infini tive which has done so much to aggra vate tho Pharisaism of the bad writers who scrupulously avoid it. lids su perstition seems to have had Its origin In a false analogy with Latin, in which the infinitive is never split, for the good reason that It Is Impossible to split. In the greater freedom of English it Is possible and has been done for at least the Inst five hundred years by tho greatest masters of English ; only tho good writer never uses this form help lessly and Involuntarily but with a defi nite object, and thnt Is the only rule to observe. An absolute prohibition in this matter la the mark of those who are too Ignorant, or else too unin telligent, to recognize a usage which Is of the essence of English speech. ? Ilavelock Ellis, In the London Mercury. Odd Way of Drawing Water. I took notes while we were at F3pa, New Guinea, of a rather curious meth od of drawing water from. the com inunnl spring, half a tulle from the vll >age, writes Reginald I'ound In the Wide World Magazine. Twice a day the women went down In chattering groups to the spring, carrying bamboo pipes 12 feet long. These pipes were made by forcing out the pith at the Joints, and held about Ave gallons of water apiece. When full, the drinking end was plugged with leaves, the pipe J being stood in a shady spot near iti owner's house and used when needed. IncldentHlly, drinking from these weird receptacles wa? a rather hazardoui business, cnre being necessary lest a too copious supply should giish out whfcn the pipe was held to the mouth. Blueberries an Inc/i Thick. A blueberry an Inch !n diameter U not a dream but a possibility. At the government testing plantation at ; Whltesbog. N. J., about 2T>,000 hybrids j have been fruited. Ilerries three fourths of an Inch In diameter have j been produced on many of them, an<! one of them this year reached almost seven-eighths of nn inch. The Depart ment of Agriculture will continue the ejperlmer.ts until berrlrs an Inch Lb ; diameter are obtained. Needed Awakening. A Tankee tourist was being shown over an old church wherein hundreds of people were burled. "A great many people sleep between these walls," said the guide. Indicating the inscription-covered floor with a sweep <ft his hand. j "So?" said the American. "Same way oveT In our country. Why don't you get a more interesting preacher?" She Would Hold the Ladder. A very loving couple had Just re turned from their honeymoon. "Hilda, dearest." said George, "I se* there la wome asparagus ready for cooking. Shall we go and pluck It together, fcrrer To which Hilda replied, coolngly : "George, dearest, it will be heavenly I You ahkil pluck It, and 1 will hold th? la Ider." HEAVY BA1TERING fT.MS ON BRITISH AIRCRAFT To Be Hurled From Grea* Heists at Hostile Planes. London.? Heavily .armored, ateel powdwjl battering ram*, for use la <he leviathan airehlpM now being de* signed, are being constructed secretly by Hrltlsh aircraft experts. sa,ys the (>ally >r Chronicle's aeronautical cor* respondent. These new Jterrora of the air will be launched at an immense height from the mot lier,alr*hlps and will ruah down, molded by ? aolltary man sitting protected within their hullji, ready to strike hostile airahlp or bombing plane*. "Without gun* or any weapon save a knifelike cutting bow/' says the writer, "the pilot of the 'ram' will seek as his quarry the big, slow-flylrig troop plauea or transports, or he will swerve Ija deadly attack toward a hos tile battleship of the air. #efore he striken his blow he Will have the power, J>y operating interior mechan ism, of drawing In his telescopic, metal wings. "Then, with a fearful final plunge, like a great projectile, he will steer, not at the hull of the craft he seeks to cripple, but at vulnerable wings or control surfaces. "Through these he will cut and rip his way, aiyl the great craft *he has rammed, stricken and put out of con trol, will reel earthward to destruc tion. M The writer then says the "air ram** will extend Its wings again and Check its pell-mell descent. The pilot will be able, after starting a powerful in terior engine, to bring into action pre viously shielded air-screws, and by aid of these he wilb steal upward, re gaining his mother airship and then prepare for another devastating dive. Ditcover New Cure for Whooping Cough The pump room at the South Sub urban -ga a work*. Lower Sydenham, Kent, England, has Just been fitted as a clinic for whooping cough suf ferer 8. There is a pilgrimage of mothers wrth their ailing children to the novel clinic, where the youngsters breathe in the fumes from the crude liquor beneath the pump room. These fumes have been found to be excel lent as a cur* for whooping cough. Pirates Take Murder Toll in Arctic Trading Anchorage, Alaska. ? Mystery ships plying the Siberian Arctic laden with whiskey, which Is bartered to the natives for fur, still take their toll of murder In the piratical traffic, ac cording to Oapt. ? Andrew Predersen here, who stys he was recently an in nocent member of such an expedition. The limit was actual murder, he says, when the Siberian government attempted to stop the traffic. CapL Predersen'a story follows: 1 "We sailed out of Nome for what I was told would be a trading voy age to Siberia. I win not tell the names of the owner or skipper of the trader, for reasons best known to my self. "At one port the boat took on a large quantity of furs, after getting the na tives drunk on moonshine whiskey. An official of the Siberian govern ment came aboard to collect a tax and force payment for the Airs. He was thrown overboard and shot. J "The last I saw of him he was cling ing to * piece i,f ice. I do not know whether he died or was rescued. On the cruise back I heard talk of mur dering me because I knew too much. For nights I didn't sleep, and while I rested In the bunk, I kept a revolver in my hand ready for action." 70 Tons of Soot Cover London. London. ? Ixmdon's atmosphere is paid by experts to be the smokiest and most polluted in the world. At ten o'clock one day recently 70 tons of soot were floating about the capital. Twenty tons Is an average amount for any day In June. Tries 8ulclde; Saved by Her Leg. Toronto. ? fHorrnr* Smttti Itr^mpted sniclde by throwing herself from a bridge in Rosedale. But her let caught in the girders and she hung; bead &>wa. M feet above the reed, until ptmnb; 4rt||sd her te safety. -? -r \t ' Forty-seven women members of the Ladies, of the Invisible Empire took part in a Ku Klux demonstration and initiation at Point Pleasant, N'. J. CITATION. The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. ? By W, L, McDowell, Esqv*irt\ Probate Judge. Wh( \ l U- n p. Murchison made <uit to me to grant him letters of ad ministration of the estate of and ef fects of Charles W. Hendrix. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said Charles W, Hendrix. they be ami appear before mc in the Probate Court to be held at Cumden, South Carolina, on Wednesday, September 19th, next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand this, 5th day of Si-ptembi-r 1 923. w. l. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 7th and 14th days of September 1923, in the Camden Chronicle, and ^posted at the Court 1 House door for the" time prescribed by law. ' NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Whereas a petition signed by one-^ third of the resident qualified electors and one-third of the resident free holders of the age of 21 years, Savan nah School District No. 32, County and State aforementioned, have peti tioned the County Board of Education to order an election to determine whether or not an additional levy of 7 mills for school purposes, we hereby order said election to be held* by the trustees in said Savannah School Dis trict No. 32, on Saturday 22nd of September, 1928, at Savannah School House. The polls to open at $ a. m. and close at 4 p. m. Those who pro sent their tax receipts and registra tion certificates will be entitled to vOte. The election will be conducted as a general election Avith the Trus tees as managers. B. F. ROBERTS, Chairman. F. B. OGBURN, Clerk. S. M. CARNES. Members Board of Trustees School District No. 32, Kershaw County, South Carolina. AN ORDINANCE Declaring the Result of an Election on the Question of a Bond Issue of' i the City of Camden, South Carolina, for the Purpose of Extending the Sewerage of the City of Camden, South Carolina. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, City Council of Camden. Be it ordained by the City Council of Camden, South Carolina, and by the authority of the same, that the election held in the City of Camden, South Carolina, on Tuesday, the 14th day of . August, 1923, on th.e question Of issuing coupon bonds of the City of Camden, South Carolina , to the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), bearing interest at the rate not exceeding, five per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, in any legal tender of the United States forty (40) years after date, with the privilege of redemption twenty (20) years after date, for the purpose of extending the sewerage of the City of Camden, South Carolina, was duly held with the result that said bond is sue was carried. The majority of electors at said election voting for the said issue of bonds, there being ninety votes for said bond issue, and seven votes against said bond issue. Ratified in Council assembled this 16th day of August, 1923. H. G. CARRISON, JR., Mayor Attest H. C. Singleton, Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Declaring the Result of an Election on the Question of a Bond Issue of the City of Camden, South Carolina, for the Purpose of Paving Streets and Sidewalks of the City of Cam den, South Carolina. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, City Council of Camden. Be it ordained by the City Council of Camden, South Carolina, and by the authority of the same, that the election held in the City of Camden, South Carolina, on Tuesday, the 14th day of August, 1023, on the question of issuing coupon bonds of the City of ] Camden, South Carolina . to the j amount of Eighty-five Thousand Dol- i lars ($85,000.00), bearing interest at the rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, in any legal tender of the United States j forty (40) years after date, with the1 privilege of redemption twenty (20) years after date, for the purpose of paving streets and sidewalks of the City of Camden, South Carolina, was duly held with the result that said bond issue was carried. The majority of electors at said election voting for the of bonds. there being seventy-eight votes for said bond is sue, and twenty-one votes against said bond issue. Ratified in Council assembled this 1 fit h dav of August. l$+23. H. G. CARRISON, JR., Mayor Attest H. C. Singleton, Clerk. CITATION. The State of South Carolina. County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esquire. Probato Judge. Whereas, Mrs. Alice Cornelia Dixon made suit to me to grant her letters of administration of the estate of and effects tit G. "LTDtEStC These are therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said G. L. Dixon, dec? sed that tbey be and appear be fore dm in tbe Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina, on Saturday, September 15th, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to .snow cause, if any they have, why the said Administra tion should not be granted. Given Under my Hand this 1st day of September Anno Domini 1923, w. i . Mcdowell, Judge of Probate, Kershaw 'County. Published on the 7th and }4th days of September, 1U23, in the .Camden Chronicle and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. CITATION. The State of South CaroliilA. County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, John T. Nettles made suit to mo to grant him letters of admin istration of the estate of and effects of Laura B. Nettles. These are therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Laura B. Nettles, deceased, that they be and ap !>ear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be hold at Camden, South Carolina, on September 7th next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administra tion should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 24th day of August Anno Domini 1923. W. L. McDOWELL, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 31st day of August and the 7th day of September, 1923, in the Camden Chronicle, and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, September 17th, 1923* I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as guardian of the estate of my daughter, Mrs. Leila Rideoutte, (formerly Blackwell), and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge from my trust as said guardian. MRS. LOLA DAVIS, (Formerly Mrs. Blackwell) Camden, S. C., Agust 14, 1923. Notice of Final Discharge Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, September 10th, 1923, I will make to the Probate . Court of Kershaw County my final return as Adminis trator ojf the estate of Dr. L. W. Net tles, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a, final discharge as said Administra tor. W. F. NETTLES. Camden, S. C., August 6, 1923. Notice of Dissolution of Partnership. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. * Notice is herby given that the part nership heretofore existing between us at Camden, S. C., under the firm name and style of McLeod & Rush, has been by mutual consent dissolved as of this date. The undersigned W. L. -Rush receiving all of the assets of the firm and assuming all of it's lia bilities. J. H. McLEOD, \V. L. RUSH. Jan. 5th, 11)23. '<? ? ? FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, the 17th day of September, 1923, I will make to the Probate Court of Ker shaw County my final return as Ad ministratrix of the estate of Marga ret R. Whitaker, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administratrix. SUSIE N. WHITAKER, Administratrix, i Camden, S. C., August 13, 1923. j Misa Gertrude lUrtile has bwj, pointed director of the Memory Gallery at the University p? ter. gi4iei6iv?6W>j u\j iwj ittiim THIS chart dem onstrates that you get more quality for leas money when you buy Goodyear Tires. Goodycarssell today for 37% lets than in 1920; 30% less than in 1914. 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