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EASY TO BANISH THE "BLUES" < Undue Despondency Can Be Cured By 1 Attention to Diet and Cultivation ef Optimism. A fit of the "blues" is as much an | trtoxicatlon as a drunken spree, and 1 jfR a bad attack may disqualify a person for wise and efficient action as thor- : * oughly as alcoholic intoxication. A person subject to the "blues" 8 should In his most lucid and optimistic j 8 moments resolve to make no impor- ' * tint decision, and to set a special I guard over his conduct, while under ; tile Influence of the flood of poisons I 1 to which the condition is due. j t The real cure for the "blues" lies I 1 In preveution by removing causes. The foul breath and coated tongue ; r noted In these cases are abundant evl- vdence of the poisonous origin of the ' "blues." The adoption of a poison- ' free diet is almost invariably fol- ' lowed quickly by n change in the men- ! " tal state. It is important, then, that we eulti- I '' " a anrt fnr<->frn? the minrt Into optimistic channels of thought. This can best be accomplished by :l reading optimistic authors and talking ' with optimistic people. An excellent v ~ plan is to set oneself the task of curing some other neurasthenic sulferlng 11 from his pessimism, by deluging him 1 with optimistic Ideas and expressions. 8 Adopt a diet that will introduce pol- 0 son-free foods into the dietary and as- * slst the elimination organs in carry- ^ lag out as rapidly as possible the poi- h sons that may be formed in the nat- P oral body functions. These things are ? not miraculous, but can be adopted ^ into one's dally life with the utmost F ease. 1 & ZEALOUS OPPONENT OF DYES Objection Made by English Quaker Was That They Led to Con- 1 cealment of Dirt John Woolman, the Quaker, refused to wear any clothing that had been dyed. He carried his scruples so far t . " that he wore a hat that was of the a natural color of the fur, thereby pre- to seating, as one of his biographers re- t marks, the aspect of a sort of Robin- s son Crusoe. One of John Woolman's I objections to dyes was that they con- s ceaiea aire. iTaveimg erren in wet s weather through narrow streeta, he h was frequently distressed by various t Impurities?especially when his Jour- a neys took him to places where cloth t had been dyed, so that at sundry c times he had" to "walk over ground c where much of their dyestuffs has u drained away." This produced in his t mind a great longing "that people d might come iuto cleanness of spirit, u cleanness of person and cleanness s about their houses and garments." As h a further reason against dyes he argued that the spirit that would hide a dirt leads to the concealment of any- a thing that rnay be materially or mor- p ally disagreeable, and Is therefore i; contrary to sincerity. He contended b that If the money spent on dyeing were a devoted to the promotion of cleanliness a much*good In every way would result g c Carrier PiQeong in Warfar*. The use of carrier pigeons Is very ancient in the Orient and was brought to tha attention of Europe at the time of the First crusade, when the Saracens were found to have the birds in Q regular use for the conveyance of in- 0 formation. The Christian commanders j employed falcons to chase and Inter- ^ eept this pigeon post on several occa- 0 alons, and on others caught the tired , birds, substituted misleading messages j for those they were carrying, and sent Q them on to deceive the enemy. The q Mohammedan sovereign Nureddin used jl carrier pigeons.for welding together a Ik. kla ' A I. UAC 5UIUCICU ^Bll0 V/l UU9 At- ^ 'bough the use continued, It was not <\ ?H1 the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 jj Uat pigeons were again of consplcu- , oua pabllc^servlce. Daring the siege of Paris constant communloation waa t maintained between the besieged city j and the outside world by means of ^ the carrier birds. Subsequently the j || German, French and other European fl r governments established regular pigeon & corps and thousands of birds were ? & trained and kept for use as messen- + m ^ v gf|? * Finger Prints of Everyone. j Bji The Argentines have carried the use J B V \nger prints further than perhaps ! WT any other nation, writes Harry A. j^L Fraack la the Oentury Magazine. Even ! B school children taking formal eva'at- ) V nations must decorate their papers ? Bp with thumb print as a protection \ W against forgery. Both photograph and < icedu^" are produced by a wall- ) W 4hM public staff In well-arranged ? r public offices, in which the prints of all ' ten Angers *o! the applicant are filed * away under the number Inscribed oa tils "Lib re to" (identification papers? ? every citizen of Buenos Aires has a ' booklet of Identification), and where < courteous attendants bring him into contact with the lavatory facilities j which he requires before again die* ? playing his tfhnds to a pulchrltudlnous \ public. ? < < Thursday (Thor*? Day). People horn en Thursday will live [ \ to a good old agg, and Obtain great ? wealth. They will be successful in J marriage and business, though some what liable to accidents. Honesty, \ discretion, and piety will be theirs, ? and they will stand high in church \ ami <tate. They may marry twlee ? and then- > little doubt they will have jj uianf < .oh !.. Their health will be $ guou throughout their hie and they IU- Ka m.im. JUEER CUSTOMS OF AFGHANS 'eople Eat Only With the Right Hand ?Animal Life of Every Description Held Sacred. The average Afghan has no particoar fondness for wire or spirits. Tobacco raised in the land is of inerior quality; the better sort? are mported from Persia. Russia, India ind Egypt. Amir Habhihullah Khan ilways had a good pri\ate stock of iavana cigars. i;<>th young and old leopie take snuff. Tea, sweetened and unsweetened, is he favorite drink and is consumed In irodigious quantities. When y ?* ;o o see an Afghan, you can li ape before swallowing foui tips 01* tea; It Is. therefore, i :astronoiaic feat to pa\ sevt - I n one afternoon, tin* more s, if , ? loiite host (with a view of honoring he European guests) |l; < j|;e tea J erved in lag Russian glasses. The right hand is always used in ating and drinking, ilie left hand he-ng considered unclean. 1'ogs. tla-'gh numerous and useful, re looked upon as unclean, and pious eople never toucb them. Animals that go badly lame on the narch or camels that get snowbound a the mountuin passes are abandoned o their fate. Afghans never kill such nimals, as we might do. to put them ut of their misery. They bel-ieve that he lives of ail living things are in the lands of Allah, and that man sins if e presumes to interfere with the Sureme Will. Afghans will not even kill ieas or other vermin; they merely pick oem oir ana tnrow tnem away:? "rederlck Slmplch and "Hajl Mlrsa lursein" in the National Geographic (agazine. WAHONTAS NOT REAL NAME Jterally Mean* "Tomboy" and Waa Given to Indian Child as a Term of Ridicule. The story of John Smith and Pocalontas is known to everyone who has ftonriori anhnnl In fha TTnltori SfntM ?ut few know that the name Pocabonu was only a nickname, and meant o unpoetical a thing as "tomboy." ier real name was Ma-ta-oka. When he was about ten or eleven years old he was engaged in turning a series of landsprlngs at the door of her father's lut. He was the chief of the tribe, nd was known as Pow-ha-tan, alhough his real name wus A-buu-so-naook. Ka-bun-ta, an Indian runner, ame leapiyg through the forest with message for the chief. He turntHl he coruer of the hut Just as the little laughter of the chief made one of her iost vigorous wheels* Her dying feet truck him in the chest and knocked ilm down. Italians dearly love a rough joke, nd a great shout of laughter went up, lthough the chief was anything but leased, and called his daughter sharpy to him. ''This Is not maiden's play," ie said. "Will you never cease to be po-ca-hun-ta??" The children caught tp the name, and It clung to the ltttle lrl ever afterward. The English hanged the speHlng a bit, but the iame has come down in history almost j It was given away back in 1607. Ohang Smoked Pipe. Li Hung Ohang was the first to pay ie a visit in my capacity of minister f finance, Count Sergias Wltte late tusstan diplomat, writes In the World's Work. When we had taken or tea, I Inquired of LI Hung Chang rhether he did not want to smoke, le emitted a sound not unlike the elghlng of a horse. Immediately two Shinamen came running from the adacent room, one carrying a narghile ad the other tobacco. Then began he ceremony at smoking. LI Hung Jhang sat quietly Inhaling and' ex* allng the smoke, while his attendants rltfa great awe lighted the narghile, ield the pipe, took it from his mouth, mi put it back. It was apparent that A Hung Chang wanted to Impress me rtth all these ceremonies. On my part, made believe that I did not pay, the lightest attention to the proceedings. II III IIII I 11 I I'M COTTON I SHIPPING j; For best results | : ship your cotton to j THE JOHN FLANNERY COMPANY I 11 Will make you lib- :: ; eral advances on con-:: j signment of cotton, j j f 1 b ???? i i I The > John F1 jlnnery :: ; Co., : Savannah, Ga. ' : 5-i2-4tc ? :: inimn minimum? Subscribe for The Record. * PRAGUE CITY OF PALACES United States Minister Crane Livtc in One of Teem, Winch He, tin,.self, Purcn^wcd. Fragile, capital of Czechoslovakia, i ?s pre-eminently u city of palaces. As J ooii as one has ciossed the Moldava 1-y* tiie old Guides bridge?tlie quaintest. most picturesque fridge iu the world/ with its gales flunked with lowers and its group of beautiful statues adorning the parapet?one tiuda one's self iu a quarter of the city entirely given to palaces, where In narrow old streets, crooked and grass grown, and about tranquil, silent squares rise the splendid facades of seigneurial dwellings. When, following the signing of the peace, England, America, France aud Italy were looking for quarters for their diplomatic representatives, these palaces v -e just what was needed I lor hou: ..., the legations, Raymond I iv,-.miv w in s<-riliner's. France took over the palace belonging to the Iluquoys, a Flemish family which came to Bohemia after the battle of La Montague Blanche hud cast in their fortunes with those of the Hapsburgs. The ^United States minister, Mr, Crane, has bought with his own money the magnificent palace of the Schonborn. The chateuu is less beautiful, less elegant, perhaps, than the Buquoy palace, but the gardens are marvelous. They rise In terrace after teftrace to a hill which overlooks the entire city. At the top ate the tennis courts, where the diplomatic circle meets dally for afternoon tea. The most strikingly original feature of Prague Is the "Hradchany," an acropolis of towers, churches and palaces dominating the capital. From the time that Prague was reduced to - ~M ImnArtonpo thA H CllJ Ol SC1.0UUai J llU|JUi muvv ?? palaces of the "Hradchany" were practically abandoned. Now and then some archduke In disgrace, some prince In exile, would establish himself In one or another of them for a time. The ex-Emperor Charles, while a student at the University of Prague, an archduke with apparently no chance of ever coming to the throne, lived there. All these palaces, once abandoned, deserted, are today occupied by the president of the republic and the different ministers. President Masaryk received me in that same sumptuous drawing room wh'"h had once been the salon of the Emperor Charles. Nature's Jewel Boxes. The northwestern part of Uruguay Is a newly discovered field for the production of amethysts, which occur In "geodes." The geodes. so plentiful that they are picked up In the fields, are carried on muleback or In cartS' to the nearest railway station and shipped in barrels to Salto, whence they are transported by river boat to Mountevldeo. Naturally It will be asked, "what Is a geode?" Originally, It was a hole In a rock. Water percolating through the rock deposited silica, making a lining for the cavity. The lining grew tmcaer and thicker, and after a long time, if the rock were broken or "weathered" to pieces, a hard nodnle would drop out. The nodule la a geode; and If, ail sometimes happens, the silica has formed crystals inside of It, colored by metallic salts, the geode is a little jewel box containing amethysts. A beautiful statuette, eight inches high, of a woman dancing, has recently been placed in the Morgan Gem hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. It la carved out of a perfect block of translucent sapphlrlne, blue quarts, from Uruguay. An Odd Bull Fight President Obregon of Mexico has given his sanction to bull fighting by appearing one Sunday afternoon when Rodolfo Gaona and Ernesto Paster fought jointly. He occupied a ringside seat. When Pastor, playing the last bull, made what appeared te be a death thrust the President arose to leave, and the band immediately struck' up the national anthem. The bull, however, was not dead%and started to charge. At the sound of the anthem he stopped in his tracks, lowered his head, and with Pastor standing at rigid attention not three feet from the bull's horns, the hymn was completed. A second later the bull tumbled over dead. Veteran fighters asserted the spectacle war the strangest ever seen in the Mexico GIty arena. ?Brooklyn Eagle. Give Gray Shaft to England. ~ Two residents of Stoke Poges have purchased the monument erected by oe of the Penns to the Poet Gray, whose "Elegy" Is better Known man many a poem of greater worth. The donors are making the memorial a free gift to the public, with some land, which will prevent any building around it, and It Is believed that the national trust fund Is willing to hold the property. Such gifts are of International importance, and are heirlooms for those who, though they have never seen Stoke Poges, have watched in imagination "the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea."?Christian Science Monitor. fHe'd Been Well Advised. Irs. Benham?You can't get Willie bathe before breakfast. Benham?No; ha says he never washes his face on an empty stomach. ?Kansas City Star. Where to Draw the Lino. "A man should mind his own bus! revs.' -?id Jud Tonkins, "hut not t< the extent ttfat gets him to prof tteerin'" In a new si ! i I i i 10 for 10 cts I j i * j j (J&X Did you ever notice that a youn fellow who always has a lot of girl runnin' after him always marries th plainest lookin' one of the bunch? WHAT CAN YOU DO? ' It's not who you are or what yo know that determines your pay ched When you DO MORE you'll b .WORTH MORE. ' Draughon's Training taken eithe at home or in school teaches you t do those thing that ocunt most in Buai ness. j Promotion and salary come of thei : own accord to the man or woman tha , delivers the goods. Take the first ste ; today. Write us for information. Draughon's Business College. Phone 951. Columbia, S. C Wm. Lykes, Jr. F. W. Lykes P. S. COURTNEY Funeral Director and Embalmer MOTOR HEARSE | Phones Residence 91; Office 43 :Kingstree, South Car Apr 1, 21. iWe Mowers anc Also Eight how he likes his one. For sale a I M'" ? , -MM ^ ize package 7LUCKr\ iSTRIKE/l ^CIGARETTE^ MANY smokers prefer it. They'll find that this compact package of ten Lucky Strike Cigarettes will just suit them. Try them?dealers now carry both sizes: 10 for 10 cts; 20 for 20 cts. * A. I u s loasiea g Send us your order for school in s vitations. We have a choice line o: ie stock on hand and will execute th< the work in a finished manner. 666 cures Malarial Fever. u L NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' * MEETING TO DISSOLVE COPORATION. ir ______ o i- Notice is hereby given, that a meet' ing of the Stockholders of the Peo r pies Furniture Company, a corporait tion duly chartered under the laws oi p the State of South Carolina, will be held on Monday, the 20th day of June 1 AOl trr\ a'aIaaL- riAAM in ttk LWC1YC y C1WA 1IWU| Ail will 3. office of the The Peoples Furniture Company at Hemingway, in the Coun_ ty of Williamsburg, State of Soutl: - Carolina, for the purpose of considering the liquidation and dissolutior of the said Peoples Furniture Company, the winding up of its affairs and the surrendering of its charter. Dated at Hemingway, S. C., this 16th day of May, A. D. 1921. . S. J. DEERY, President * J. L. SITES, Secretary. 5t.-K&H. \ have 25 Thom i repairs enoug These Mow are Cheap Rakes at $40.00. A i Thomas Mower, th< it F. HELLI KINGSTREE, S. C 4 i a?... * _?_______ NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE Take notice, that I will make application to W. E. Snowden, Probate Judge of Williamsburg county, at his office at Kingstree, S. C., on the 11th 1 day of June, 1921, at 12 o'clock noon, for Letters Dismissory, discharging me as administrator, with will annexed, of the Estate of R. H. Footman, deceased. J. E. RANKIN, Administrator of the Estate of R. H. Footman, deceased. t 5-12-5t-S&ob. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned against hunting, fishing, cutting or hauling wood from, or otherwise trespassing in any manner whatsoever on the land of the undersigned situate in Mingo Township and known as the i l 1 _i_ n - l-i.* Aorams lanas. fursons violating tuns notice will be prosecuted as provided for by the laws. J. C. RELLAHAMI 5-12-4tp. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE Take notice, that I will make apJlication to W. E. Snowden, Probate udge of Wililamsburg county, at his office at Kingstree, S. C., on the 28th day of May, 1921, at 12 o'clock noon, for Letters Dismissory, discharging me as administrator of the Estate of Willie Matthews, deceased. JNO. SCOTT, Administrator of the Estate of Willie Matthews, deceased. 4-28-5t-s&ob /\n i nnr m i mrAV rAD Uf .irrnuiiiun run FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of June 1921, I will apply to W. E. Snowden, Probate Judge of Williamsburg County for Letters of Discharge as the administrator of the . estate of Paul Cunningham. LAURIE CUNNINGHAM, f 5-5-5t-wes. Administrator. 5 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR FINAL DISCHARGE <. j Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of June 1921, I will apply to " W. E. Snowden, Probate Judge of Williamsburg County, for Letters Dismissory as the Administrator of the Estate of Antrim Redd in. D. J. EPPS, Administrator. . 5-5-5t-wes. I wjv KINGSTREE j lodge; No, 46 A. F.M. ! Meets the second. Thursday night , in each month. Visiting bretheren cordially invited. B. E. Clarkson, W. ; j M., J. D. Britton, Secretary. I f " '! Quick Ice delivery, 'Phone 179 D. & B. Ice Co. i as two-speed 1 h for all; | ^ *2 $75.001 sk your neighbor J come and get 1 iK'S J