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Baths In Tibet < Iiy John Brandon, In Everybody'* Weekly, London) After sitting in meditation for u month alone in IiIh palace in the Forbidden City of Lhasa, the Regent of Tibet haw received a vision. This vision will lead Tibetan monks to the new Dalai Ijama, the baby who will one day rule Tibet ... if he is ever allowed to grow up. For, of the last five babies shown by hoavenly signs to have been the Dalai Lama, only one reached manhood. The other four were poisoned by Jealous monks. A strange land is the one the new Dulal Lama will rule. Only a handful of living white men lmvo ever set foot In Tibet, which la still the most mysterious country in the world. One Tibetan. In four la a monk. Hut to become a monk doesn't mean that you have to be religious. It merely means that you don't like work! Few of the monks can read or write, and ordinary laws can't touch them. Near Lhasa are monasteries, like gigantic barrucks, with as many as 10,000 monks living in them. When they want a little bit of "fun," they Just break out and beat tip a whole township, killing and robbing right and left. There are no police In Tibet, and the victims know it's no use complaining. The wierdest thing about Tibetans is their food. Enormous numbers of yak cows are kept. (A yak is a kind of''buffalo). Hut a Tibetan would be horrified at the Idea of drinking milk which, together with fish, fowl and egus, are regarded as being too filthy even to b. mentioned. However, it is t olisidei'ed quite do( nt to turn this unmentionable milk I into butler And butter is everything in I ibet. it >ei ves as money. It is used instead of oil in lamps. It is dyed red and green and stamped with a pattern, and instead of putting threepenny bits into the collection plate, the good Tibetan bungs a slab of colored butter on the temple wall. As it stays there for months aud years, the smell of a Tibetan teniple can be Imagined! The older the butter the dearer It is to buy. Very rich men in Tibet will proudly put on a banquet table butter that Is forty and fifty years old, and?to?them?almost worth its weight in gold! Hut the chief use of butter in Tibet is for making tea! The average English housewife who confesses to a weakness for "a nice cup of good, strong tea" would probably find the strength of Tibetan tea a little overpowering. To begin yvith, no trees grow in. Tibet, consequently there is no wood or coal. The only fuel, used by rich and poor alike, is yak manure, which when dried in the sun is known as' argol. Sufficient argol to boil a quart of water costs about sixpence. The tea used is imported from China in the form of tea-bricks. A lump of ten-brick is thrown into tho hot water, followed by a huge lump of rum-id butter, about pound to every pint of liquid. Plenty of salt is added. and the whole horrible mass is allowed to boil for several minutes. Then It in ready to verve. (iucsts to it tea party arrive with I their own tea bowls, which are lu| vuriuhly curried Inside their shirts! The correct food to ,^wt with this j awful tea-copcoctlon 1m u handful of I barley flour, which 1m poured into each Individual's tea-bowl. The flour Is rolled between thy fingers Into dough* bulla und then swallowed! Vegetables In Tibet are quite unknown. Everyone, however, eats enormous quantities of raw meat, , which Is first allowed to go "high" in ! the sun. As to sugar and sweets, the average person in Tibet doesn't even j know that such things exist! .Most Tibetans have beautiful, stioiig, white teeth . , , not that anyj one ever cleans them. There proh j ably aren't about half a dozen tooth1 brushes in the whole country, per| baps Its Just as well their teeth ure lairly sound, us there ure no dentists in Tibet, and anyone with toothache just bus to put up with it! Few Englishmen would care to Change places with a Tibetan. For | one thing, tobacco isn't allowed into the country, and anyone discovered smoking smuggled tobacco Is thrown into prison. Then there is the matter of baths. Even the lust Dalul Lama didn't possess a bath. Few Tibetans wash their bodies during the whole of their life time. The "best people" occasionally wash their hands and faces, Just to show how superior they are. Now and again a caravan brings a few cakes of highly scented foreign soap into the country. They are eagerly snapped up. Tlbetuu beauties use the soap to smear over the covering of dirt on their bodies?In order to smell extra nice! That covering of dirt on the body Is a matter of life and death to p 'I Ibetan. No one can afford fires, except for cooking purposes, and the cold Is so Intense that the coal of dirt is needed for warmth. As often us not, If for some dire reason unyone Is forced to take a bath he or she dies of pneumonia! I he climate of Tibet Is the most amazing in the world. In Borne parts the midday temperatures in the sun is hotter than in the torrid deserts ot India. Yet the summer nights tire often thirty degrees below zero, and this terrible cold persists inside buildings and In the shade. It litis happened before now that ! n tired traveller has lain down to rest and, with his feet in the shade :il"l l''s lead in the sun. has a Wakened with sunstroj^pbnd yet his toes frostbitten! ^ 1 ibetan marriage and divorce laws make the wildest stunts of Reno look almost .tame. When the elder son n family marries, his wife automatically becomes married to all his brothers! Divorce is the easiest thing in the world.* Husband and wife agree to separate, and the wronged party receives presents in proportion to his or her social standing. Rut don't Imagine the Tibetans aren't polite. Everywhere In the streets of Lhasa people can be seen respectfully greeting each other?by solemnly opening their mouths and Bticklng out their tongues. At the same time the flats are clenched and thumbs are turned upwards. Rut, In spite of Its terrible backwardneBs, Tibet is slowly becoming modernized. Already there is a radio station nnd a telegraph office in Lhasa. A newspaper with a circulation of fifty copies is now being produced. And maybe when the new Dalai Lama is found, he will have the dubious pleasure of receiving?-as did the last Dalai Lama?a fan-mail of hundreds of letters a year from European and American admirers! Chattanooga Boy Had Large Appendix ( hattanoogu, Tenn., March 9.?A surgical oddity?an appendix thirtytwo times normal size?was reported j here Monday. Dr Edward E. Reismnn. Sr.. said the abnormal organ was removed Saturday night from Harold Alper. 17I year-old premedical student at the I twversily of Chattanooga. The surgeon said Alper is a heali thy and normal youth in every re speet" adding that a blood count" and "'her tes?.- tailed to disclose the youth's troubles. The appendix, weighing half a pound and about the size of u child's kidney, will be preserved tor a study and for a report to national modi, al journals, the doctor said. Can't Tell Rattler's Age By Rattles t alumina, March Li.? It's impossible to tell the age of a rattlesnake by its rattb s. according to J. T. Penney. associate professor of Riology at the I nlversitv of South Carolina Professor Penney points out that the snake does add a rattler every time it discards a skin?but that It ( may add two or three skins a year? | or lose the two or three in a battle. At Wise, Va., the court has denied new trial to Kdlth Maxwell, school teacher, twice convicted on a chores Kh k,U/niLifr/a\!ier' Tri8K Maxwell. She claimed to have hit her father with the heel of W ahoo. In the aeeood trial, claimed she hit ^ W no named instrument The Spanish government freighter, Mar Cautabrlco, loaded with war materials, which hurriedly Hailed from New York on January 6, wan sunk in the Hay of llinuay by gunfire from the insurgent cruiser Capurias, about ninety miles from the Spanish coast, on Monday. The crew of the sunken ship was rescued by the Insurgent ship The Mar Cantabrico was loaded with American made planea and other war supplies. The grand Jury at West Chester, I'a , has returned an indictment against Alexander Meyer, 20, a farmer, charging him with the murder of Helep Moyer, 10, high school girl, hu having run the girl down with a truck Trial is set for March 22. Wants-For Sale WANTED?To rent for one week, woman's bicycle, for whole or half days. Address "Reis," care of Mrs. John Vlllepigue, Camden, S. C., Telephone 484. ' ROSE BU8H E8?Guaranteed. two year old field grown everbloomlng varieties, four colors red, white, pink, yellow. $1.75 dozen postpaid. Tytex Rose Nurseries, Tyler, Texas, 50-1 pd. FOR RENT?Small furnished apart* I ment for couple. Is conveniently located. Apply Mrs. C. O. Stogner, 1215 ilroad street, Camden, S. C. 51 pd. BUILD NOW?A home on ono of our lots solves your housing problems. See us before prices advance. Shannon Realty Company, Phone 7, Camden, S. C. 49tf WANTED?At once trucks tq do steady hauling. Also wanted Pulpwood timber. D. J. Creed, Camden, S. C., Phone 486 46tf. BUY NOW? Wo have a home that will suit you as to location, size and type. Reasonably priced. May wo show you? Phone 7. Shannon Realty Company, Camden, S. C. 49tf WANTED?The public to know that our truck Is in Camden once a week for the purpose of collecting old mattresses to renovate. Leave your name at The Chronicle office ? in Camden and we will call. Dantzler Mattress Works, 308 Wright street, Sumter, S. C., Phone 504-L. , 37 tf. 8 AT 18 Fl ED??Are you satisfied with the rent you are receiving from your porperty? If not see us. We probably can Increase your income materially. Phone 7. Shannon Realty Company, Camden, S. C. 49tf FOR SALE?Circulator typo heater. About two feet square and four and a half feet high. Enamel finish. A bargain. Phone 7. Shannon Realty Company, Camden, S. C. 4 9 tf CARPENTER AND BUILDER?Before you decide who should do your any class of carpentry work?outwork, telephone John S. Myers, for side or Inside. All work guaranteed. specialize in cabinets nnd screening. Any kind of furniture repaired. I solicit your patronage. Telephone 268, John S. Myers, 812 Church street. Camden, S. C. 29tf. FREE ROAD SERVICE?Creed'B Filling Station Fifty-Mile Free Road Service. Call Telephone 486. Cam den. S. C. NOTICE?Of Sale of Farm. I am offering for sale one good farm known as the Charlie Joyner Place, locat-. ed In the eastern part of Kershaw county, containing 325 acres, and being about three miles from' Haley's Mill. One hundred acres of open land and one five room house. 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