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FERTILIZERS
. . . For 40 Years
The Southern Cotton Oil Company htt& been lurnislhiing
the farmers of the South with the famous
SCO-CO Fertilizers. JVe are dependent upon the farmers
for gining and cotton seed for our mills, therefort*
we have made it a point t,o see that you get the
very best in Fertilizers. Poor Fertilizers will cripple
our business.
Any Fertilizer Agent can furnish you with our
Fertilizers and do not accept a substitute.
We will carry at all times a large stock of all i
grades of mixed Fertilizer, as well as Cottonseed Meal,
Nitrate of Soda, Kainit, Manure Salts, Muriate of Potash,
Sulphate of Ammonia and Lime.
We Can Make Prompt Delivery. You Will
Like Our Service
Tell Your Agent That You Want the Famous
i Fertilizers Manufactured By
THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO.
Phone No. 54 Camden, S. C.
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.
Will sell for one third cash balance
in two years. If interested
see W. B. Threatt of Jones & Jones,
Attorneys, Kershaw, S. C. <6-1 pd j
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| Broad Street Phone 30
CITY DRUG COMPANY I
| DelCalb Street Phone 130
CIRCUS II
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Amusing!!! I
GYMKHANA
Clowns Wild Animals I
Pony Rides Side Shows I
Balloon Ascension Shooting Gallery
Tuesday, March 23 j
2 TO 10 P. M.
MISS OLIVE WHITTREDGE'S ]
KIRKWOOD LANE |
ADMISSION (including Gymkhana)
ADULTS, 60c CHILDREN, 25c J
SUPPER 5 TO 7 HOT DOGS ALL DAY V