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Content to Gaze Ap: SYNOPSIS. Archibald Terhune. a popular and ii> dclent young bachelor of London, re ceives news that he has been made hvr to the estate of hin Aunt Georgiana, with J an income of $20,000 a year, on condition that he becomes engaged to be married "Within ten days. Falling to do so t!:e legacy will go to a third cusin in Amer ica. The story opens at Castle vTyckoff. where Lord Vincent and his wife, friends of Terhune, are discussing plans to find him a wife within the prescribed time. It seems that Lady Vincent Is ene of seven persons named Agatha, all close girlhood chums. Shi decides to Invite two of them ? tn the cajole, and have Archie there as when Terhune is called to London on business. Agatha First, on the plea of sickness, excuses herself from a motor . trip planned by the Vincents. Later they see Agatha First picking flowers with a strange man. The Vincents discuss Agatha's seeming duplicity. 1 CHAPTER VU-Continued. "Our marriage," I corrected. "Naturally." she said indulgently and laughed. "But I 've always ad mired ker," SEO went on; "she's so big and strong and has such tre mendous vital force. I'm a little sur prised, thct any one of such an o^n character could develop . into such a plotter.. It's all so frightfully under hand somehow. Why can't she come and tell me frankly arl about it. .whatever it is?" "Perhaps Mrs. Chiltern could throw 6ome light or. the subject," I sug igested. "I shouldn't: wonder at all!" ex claimed Dearest. "Agatha First istayed much longer with her than ?Agatha Sixth' did. I shall telephone ?her in the morning. What a smart little hoy it is, to be sure, to think of ?that!" And I was more than paid for my happy thought by a pair of exquisite arms about my neck. "I wonder what they'll have to say rjfdr themselves when they come In?" I said as we were going down to the jdrawin?;-room a ?ttle lajer. "O, t'?ey won't rome in together," said my wife; "that would be too fmuch of a give away." And just then i we perceived Agatha First standing at the foot of the stair-caso waiting for us. She was alone, as Dearest had prophesied she would be. "Hello!" she greeted us composed ay. "Was lt a nice pa:".y? Did you miss mo?" And although I couldn't ihelp thinking there was a new beau ty about the girl ta the unusual bril liance ci her dark eyes and tho deep er glow of her color as she stood there, I thought such cheek deserved a cropper. "Ripplfi!" I ?aid, before Dearest could answer. "But where have you been? I thought you were supposed to be on the sick Hst today." But she didn't seem ii. :>it embarrassed. "I [was," she replied. "I didn't really feel like going way over to North Jbury with you, but I thought a little outing would do my head good, so,I .went for a - stroll." "I see!" I said, and thought with Indignation of thc ;;cene in the woods even as I noticed that the young lady tiid not wear tbc pongee auto coat she had worn then. "Left it in the ?machine, probably, to prevent sus picion!" I thought to myself, while (Dearest said sweet.!}*: "That's nice, dear; I'm glad you felt like going. ?Run along now and get ready for jdinner. It's almost eight." . It was what we called between our jselves "The Incident of the Checked Coat" that really decided my wife to consult Mrs. Chiltern about Aga- j tha First's strange behavior. The morning w;is fine and we had j planned to take our guests to see some interesting ruins not quite 12 iles away*, where an automobile was o meet uii ;.t noontime with lunched. I atheticalJy Upon St. , Dearest had been delayed with making arrangements for our picnic, and the others, the inevitable Freer, Arch and the two Agathas, had start ed slowly on ahead. We could hear thoir voices in the gardens below our windows as she hurriedly got into some walking things. I had of course waited for her. "I don't know but I'll go up into Terhune's room," I said, when I had finished lacing her long boots, "and seo if I can't find that old fishing hat of mine I used to sport last summer. boxes full ol good hats 1 can't im agine!". "Nothing like being comfortable:'1 I shouted, as I ran up the broad stairs outside the door three steps at a timo. Dearest was all ready and waiting when I came down again, but I didn't need to speak to inform her ^hat something had happened. She saw it by my face. "What is it, Wilfred?" she asked. "You look as if you'd seen a ghost!" "I have!" I answered, "or some thing quite as startling! I say. Agatha, wk?.t do you think I lound in old Arch's closet?" "Your hat, just as I told you you would! What else?" But I knew she knew I didn't mean that. "Why, nothing moro nor less than a loud checked automobile coat, or duster!" I replied ' in measured tones. "Now, what do you think of that?" "Not Uko the coat you saw hang ing over the back of the machine in the woods?" expostulated Dearest, aghast. "Not that coat, Wilfred?" "The very same, or its .twin broth er," I told her. "Come, now, isn't that a go!" But my wile was out of the door and half way up to the third floor by t*>rvt time. "I've got to see!" she cried back to me, and I went up after her, al though I knew it wouldn't be any use her seeing it, since she had- not seen i the one in the automobile. "It surely is!" she exclaimed as I stood by her side. "A checked auto mobile coat! Did you evor. Freddy, did you ever!" And she held it up and looked it over from collar to coat tail as if it were enchanted and could tell us more than our own eyes could gather. ''Yes," I said, "the very tame!" "Then it must have been Terhune!" "Beyond a doubt!" I answered thoughtfully. "But isn't it tco queer! In the first place I didn't know he could handle a machine, and in the second, where did he get it from. P?: Jove!" "And why does he have to meet Agatha First in secret that way?" wondered my wife as we left the cas tle and started for the scene of the picnic by a series of short cuts the others did not know. But all our marvelling brought us no enligktrncnt, on) ? the conclusion on Dearest's part thr.t she would consult Mrs. Chiltern ou the subject as soon ac an opportunity presented itself. CHAPTER VII. We arrived at the group of ruins which formed tho goal c*f our walk In good time, although the others were there ahead of us and were just spreading a cloth and taking things out of the automobile which had met them there, as we came up. "Hurry up; slow coaches!" called Agatha First cheerily, "or we won't leave you anything to eat!" "Lend me a hand with this cloth, Vincent!" was Terhune's roquet, and I foll to with a will and hud tho thing .-iglit in a jiffy. And maybe lt wasn't good fun let ting there on a lot of jolly boulders and clumps of rock that I had col lected with great pains and arranged at intervals about the cloth, grinning at each other across its goodly array of picnic dainties. I.j> * Dearest is^a^fgjfious hand at plan ning* ?hat sort of thing. We. had camped upon~a small ris;e in the rn?oV die of u? open space where great oak trer ^ cut. us off from eight of the road on the one hand, and broad meadows and wooded slopes fell away toward Hartsmere stream on the other; the latter streaking the green of It all with silver a field or two away. Close at hand the ruined chapel or convent which we had come to see piled itself in picturesque confusion, and we had reached that point in our merry-making when we were simply content to gaze apathetically upon it and . listen uncomprehendingly to Freer recite its history with never flagging accuracy and zeal. He knows everything, that chap! And is disgustingly ready to give everybody else the benefit of his learning at all times. Agatha First was sitting near him tho' not making any attempt to dis guise her indifference to his pedantic discourse, while Arch and Agatha Sixth, I am glad to say, were carry ing on a whispered conversation to gether on the other side of the cloth. Dearest and I sat together, of course, at one end of the square, and as I said to her in a low tone so that the others could not hear I thought Arch was playing up to the part she and I had selected for him, that of Agatha Sixth's lover, a little belter than us ual. He was certainly all attention to the girl at his sido and listened to her every word with the eager inter est of the most devoted suitor. And the delicate face of Mis.s Lawrence was alive with feeling and glowed pink even without the aid of the rose colored parasol she carried. "0, what do you think!" she cried Li her soft, cultivated vci::e, "Mr. Ter hune says that the ruins z.rc haunted! Dy tho ghost of a nun that was shut -up in the wall once!" Her really won derful black eyes were bright with interest and I thought she made ? rather dazzling picture in her white frock and tho fictitious aureole of pink sunshade abcv.t her. Eat I couldn't swallow a br.re-faccd whop per like.that, for teat nun story is so old. So I had just begnn to ex plain that Arch was c.'.:::iii::g her. and tho ghost rac?-?t his OT.:I invention entirely, when I caught his expres sion and my wifo's eye. The former was embarrassed and thc latter se vere, and I stopped in thr, middle of a sentence as I fathomed tho com bined significance of cyo and look. "So that's it, is lt?" I thought to myseif. "Foor old boy! He's so much in lore ho doesn't know what he's saying. Anything will do as ?CUR as she will listen! And I'm deuced glad to see it, too!" But Freer showed loss perspicacity, thnnt-h nf COlirsO 'there':; thic t? H?? however, for all his learning Freer did not win a smilo from Agatha Sixth, who only turned to Teri . .e with more interest then ever as a result of his efforts. . It was then that Dearest ruade her remark about motoring- over to ceo ? Mrs. Chiltern en thc fellowing dsy. It was au innocent enough remark and very casually said, but it seed ed to have an electrifying effect upc:i Agatha First. She jumped up and came over to ny wife. "Don't do that!" she said, low and \ earnestly; "please don't. Agatha, dear!" Dearest was surprised, and, by Jove, so was I. or puzzled, at least! The girl seemed so awfully earnest about not wishing us to seo Mrs. Chiltern-out of all propoiUon to the importance of her request, lt seemed to me. ."But why not?" my wife couldn't help asking. "Becauso we have such a little time left to be together, you and Lord Vincent and Mr. Tern une and Agatha Sixth and myself," she said. "Mr. Terhune tells me he has tc go bael; to London In a day or two. and I think it's a shame to waste a whole day by going over to Chiltern house' Besides, you said they owed you s call!"- She had lowered her voice during this last statement, but it was not necessary. Freer had strolled off to the ruins and Archibald nd Agctna Sixth wero too absorbed in each oth er's company to notice us. Her reasor.s were speciour. arid Il logical enough, but Dearest, to' my : surprise, seemed ine'ined to accept j th-sm and I had to interfere. "The? do owe us a call," I said, i "but that wouldn't prevent us from J having a jolly time of it if we all chose to go over together! On the contrary, it would te something to do!" Then Agatha First, evidently goad ed into a corner, set her young face in a fashion that was almost desper n?. "But Agatha Fourth-Mrs. Chil tern-isn't there!" she declared. "Sae told me she was going down to Lon don for a woek or two,!" Dearest stared at her, but she did not ask her. as I wanted to do, why she hadn't said so in the rim place. ! Instead she took pity cn' Agatha First's white face, for the girl had actually turned pale, and assured her charitably that sho had entirely given I up all thought of an expedition to Chiltern house, though, as I told her afterward, obviously tho young lady was cramming her. But Dearest has the kindest heart in the world. (TO BK CONTINUED.) It Sounded Hopeful. A young man who was not particu larly entertaining was monopolizing the attention of a pretty debutante with a lot of uninteresting. conversa tion. "Now, my brother," he remarked in the course of a dissertation ou Lis famils*. "is just thc opposite of mo in every respect. Do you know wy brother?" "Xo," thc debutante replied demure ly, "but I should like to."-Kunian FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE AFTER A HARD FIGHT LED BY MR. T. B. FRASER HOUSE PASSES MEASURE. ? j FIGHT ON CHILD LABOR BILL Passed in the House-Judges' Pay Not Increased-May Adjourn Feb ruary 15-Scholarships in Wenthrop For Misses Plowdcn and Gunter.. Columbia.-After sitting unconcern ed in his seat while the House passed to third reading the Osborne bill to prohibit children under twelve years of age from working in cotton mills, Representative Josh Ashley of Ander son county, led a determined fight to have the bill recommitted. A long debate followed, but the bill was not killed. It provides that children un der twelve years of age shall not work in mills and that no person un der sixteen years shall work at night in mills. Mr. Ashley explained that some of his constituents in mill vil lages telegraphed him to fight the measure. In the Senate the bill introduced by Senator Summers to prohibit Senators and Representatives from receiving pay from corporations while serving as legislators was killed after a spirited debate. The legislature has passed a mar riage license bill. This is the out come of 25 years of effort. In the House of Representatives there was a long^debate and T. B. Fraser oppos ed the bill in a powerful argument^ but by a majority of 15 the House voted down opposition and gave fav orable action to the measure which lias already passed the Senate. Mr. Nicholson's bill was the one discussed in the House. When the motion to kill it was lost, the Senate bill was substituted therefor- and given second reading. ! To consider the advisability of tak ing over completely under State con trol the management of Clemson Col lege, is the object of a resolution, in troduced in the Senate, by Senator Earle, of Oconee. The resolution, a concurrent one, provides that the At torney General be directed to look into the matter of the advisability of taking Clemson under State control, and give his conclusion to the next General Assembly. This is in line with- the recommen dation of the education committee of the House and Senate, that a few days ago made its report to the Gen eral Assembly. The House showed a tendency to? i ward economy by killing a bill pro vidine for increaser! nov fnr *?I?MIU open and read sealed sentences. Mr. Stevenson offered an amend ment to the Senate concurrent resolu tion fixing the day for adjournment sine die. The original bill named the 10th of February- Mr. Stevenson amended to make it Wednesday, the I?th of February. This was accepted by the House and the resolution ad opted and returned to the Senate. The House, by a vote of 48^to 62, killed a bill by Kurtz Smith to in crease the pay of circuit judges from $3,000 to $3,500 a year. Mr. Lide's bill to provide for the assignment of circuit judges was kill ed. The measure provided for com pact rotation districts, so that the judges may hold every fourth term of courb?t home. Mr. Stevenson offer ed a substitute for the whole matter. On motion of Mr. Gary the bill was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 52 to 35. There will be no more bills intro duced by members. The appropria tion bills have been introduced and will have right of way over every thing else. The bill to perfect the law relative to supreme court justices will require about five days to become a law and that means no election of an nssociate justice until this week. There is a great deal of lobbying for 1 i?is position. Gives Up Cne Office. Hartwell M. Ayer has sent his res ignation to Gov. Blease as a member of the board of trustees of the South Carolina Industrial school, which is located at Florence. Mr. Ayer is a member of the lower House of the General Assembly. Several days ago Gov. Blease sent a message to the General Assembly in which he criticised legislators who are holding places on the boards of trust?es of State colleges. Col. Ayer is also editor of The Florence Daily Times. White Man Pardoned. Jacob Jeter, a white man from Union county, has been pardoned by Gov. Blease. Jeter was serving a life sentence from Union on the charge of killing Walter Nixson. He was tried in 1903 and a verdict of guilty with recommendation to the mercy cf the court was rendered. The pardon was recommended* by 1 Judge Sease, who prosecuted the 1 case. In the petition it is stated Jeter killed Nixson because the latter ' had threatened his life, because of in- i tlmacy with Jeter's daughter. Mercy Endureth Forever. John Henry Anderson, the Laurens County negro will not hang. He will , spend the remainder of his days in , the State penitentiary. Governor j Blease commuted his sentence to life i imprisonment. I Governor Blease has also commu- I ted the sentence of Ben Ayers, who ; was convicted in Cherokee county, on i tho charge of assatill ?md carrying unlawful weapons, from two years in i the penitentiary to CO days, cr to pay I fine cf SCO within 30 cays. ; There was an unfavorable report jn the bill to appropriate $10,00} tc the Charleston Medical colloge and the bill was rejected, but Dr. Sawyer it restored to the calendar to be fought out cn its merits. A favorable report on the bill to pay tko expenses of the Bovd-Br.^clc Inquiry. * Hf. Charles' joiut resolution ?>.<5-* yiding for biennial sessions of the Leg islature was recommitted. The Senate amendments to the Res cue orphan homo bill were objected to by Mr. Gary and the bill v/ent to conference committee. The House passed Mr." Kirkland's bill to regulate the method of chang ing county lines and payment of ex penses thereof. This is a general law covering all details just as in the case with the formation cf new counties. Also Mr. Chandler's bill to require the proponents of a movement to cede a portion of ono county to an other to pay all expenses incurred in such formation or annexation. There was no discussion on either: of tho above bills which are intro duced to clarify the law. Mr. Daniel of Greenville got through a bill to require sealed sentence to be served on a fugitive as soon as he is landed by the officers and brought before the clerk of court. Mr. Rembert withdrew his bill toi require electric headlights on locomo tives. Mr. Ayer, one of the most substan-; tial men of the House, led a losing, fight on his bill to require the high; school fund to be applied to needy | rural communities. It was killed by! a vote of 84 to 18. / Senator Mauldin's bill relating to; the place of trial of all civil actions of tort was summarily dispatched on1 a motion to strike out the enacting; words. This bill provided that all; cases must be tried in the county bf : origin or in the county in which thej defendant holds residence. Miss Hannah Plowden of Clarendon and Miss Katie Gunter of Aiken will; be awarded four-year scholarships at' I Winthrop College. These young wo roen are the champion girl growers of: ! corn and tomatoes, respectively. The ; resolution providing for scholarships i finally passed the Senate. President Chas. A. Smith announc-', ed the two members of the Senate to j serve on the commission to inquire into the holding of trusteeships in; ? the State institutions. Senator W. L. ? Mauldin of Greenville and Senator LeGrand Walker of Georgetown rep resenting the Senate on the com- | mission. Senator Weston's headlight bill passed with an amendment providing that a railroad .less than GO miles in i length shall not be affected by the j provisions of the bill. The bill had been agreed upon by representatives of the hailroads and the railway engi ners of the State. Senator Mauldin's concurrent res The agricultural committee of the House made favorable report on the bill appropriating $1,000 for the j South Carolina Tomato exposition, which is to be held in Aiken during j the month of July. The citizens of j Aiken will give $3,000 to the move ment. The House passed the following concurrent resolution offered by Mr. Ayer: "That a committee of three mem bers of the House and two of the ; Senate be appointed by the speaker of the House and the president of the Snate, respectively, to inquire if any special contracts for transportation on the railroads, or by the express or telegraph company, have been made or exist between the said companies and any member of the General As sembly or any department of the State government or its employes, and the nature of such contracts as may exist and report their findings before the close of this session of the General Assembly to both branches of the same." Mr. Boyd of Spartanburg offered a concurrent resolution, which was accepted, that a commission of three, one Senator and two Representatives, study the tax question in all of its phases and report to the General As sembly next year. "Heyward County" Knocked Out. Governor Blease revoked Gov ernor Ansel's order of January* 3, or dering an election February 7 on the project to form from potrlcns of Aiken and Edgefield counties a new county, to be called Heyward, with North Augusta as the county seat. Governor Blease denied the prayer of the promoters for an election and dismissed the whole project, on the ground that the constitutional re quirement as to area had not been complied with and fraud committed in the survey. Aimed at Commission Government. Mr. F. Sumter Earle, a former mayor of Columbia, appeared before the Richland delegation and stated that he had a petition signed by more than 2,000 persons in favor of the Youmans bill, introduced by request, to remove from the municipal gov ernment law any restrictions on the electorate. The effects of the bill if passed would be to so increase the electorate in Columbia as to make commission form of government a Carce. Indians Want Theirs Too. Dave Harris, chief or the tribe of Catawbaa Indians near Fort Mill, was in Columbia to look after legislation for his" people. There is a proposi tion before tho General Assembly calling for an appropriation of $60, 300 to be used in providing for the tribe which numbers over 125. The appropriation would provide perma nently fer the tribe. Every year while tho Legislature is in session a representative cf thc tribe comes to Columbia. Xot rnanj ire thoroughbreds remain. IN PALMETTO REALMS NEWS OF GREAT INTEREST TO BUSINESS MEN, FARMERS, " AND ALL CLASSES. ^ - ..? SK FOUGHT LADY TEACHE?. Irate Parent Roughly Abus?e Lady for Whipping His Son. Warrants have been issued against Pope B. Havird and his wife by the trustees of the school of the Havirds ville community, Saluda county, charging them with assault and bat tery upon Miss Carrie Mitchell, their teacher, and likewise for assault and battery on Willie Harmon, one of the pupils of the schcol. The teacher has been having trou ble with one of the Havird's boys in the schcol and it became necessary to whip him. The boy who is about 13 years old resisted and Miss Mitch ell, who is young and delicate, call ed upon the Harmon boy to hold young Havird. After school was dis missed the Havird boy ran home and told his father and mother of the whipping. Havird got in his buggy with his wife and taking his double barrel shotgun set out after the teacher who was on her v/ay home. Overtaking her, it is said, Havird tried to drive over her and cursed and abused her most outrageously. Havird's wife, it is said, struck Miss Mitchell with a stick and otherwise maltreated her. Havird likewise cuffed the Harmon moy about rather roughly. It is said that Miss Mitchell was greatly frightened and for a little while was on the verge of a complete collapse. Miss Mitchell is an orphan. She is regarded as a most excellent young lady. The community was greatly in censed when the news ci Havird's conduct was learned, but cool coun sel prevailed and it was decided to let the law take its course. Some peo ple strongly i advocated cow-hiding Havird. At a meeting of the trustees, Hav ird's son was expelled. Pope B. Havird has caused untold trouble and annoyance to the people of that community for the past ten years or more. V/ELL-DO TELL! Col. E. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture, to bc Removed? Several days ago John G. Richards, Jr., a member of tho railroad com mission, called 'at the ofilce of Gov. Blease to pay his respects, according to Gov. Blease. Just before Mr. Richards left the office Gov. Blease said that he was sorry that Mr. Richie J>~<* -. ...? tu tu KC me place of E. J. Watson. Following this incident there'were rumors that Gov. Blease intended to have a general shaking up in the de partment of agriculture and that John G. Richards, Jr., A. D. Hudson or E. H. Au!l would be appointed to succeed Commissioner Watson. Gov.-Blease was asked if he intend ed to dismiss Commissioner Watson. He said that he had not stated that he would do s6. Mr. Watson's term of office expires in 1912. He was again asked if he intended to dismiss Mr. Watson. In answer he related the above incident of his desire that Mr. Richards become the commis sioner of agriculture, commerce and Industries. The department of agriculture was built up by Commissioner Watson, who was appointed under Gov. Hey ward. The department is considered one of the most efficient in the United States. Commissioner Watson was appointed by Gov. Heyward and later reappointed by Gov. Ansel. Found a Pearl in a Creek. Mr. Stanton Lott, o: Johnston, now wears a handsome pearl, found by him a short while ago in Turkey Creek. It was not necessary to even polish the gem; it was set by the jeweler in the natural state as found. Woman Shoots Man Through Door. A young white man named Tom Bright, according to his own story, was shot and seriously wounded by a woman named Mrs. Bowlin, at her home in Gaffney. The weapon used was a Winchester rifle, and the bul let was fired through tho door. It took effect in Bright's hip, and the wound is serious. He was to meet another man at the home of Mr3. Bowlin. A short time after dark, he went to the home of the woman-and inquired if his friend was there. The woman began to curse him and fired. Negro Woman Saves Train. A dastardly attempt was made to derail a Southern Railway train on the outskirts of Barnwell a few days ago. Some person or persons had placed several large rocks on the track, just beyond the Southern Cot ton Oil Company's plant. The line at this point runs through a deep cut and makes quite a sharp curve before entering town. But for the providen tial passing of a negro woman, who discovered and removed the obstruc tion, great damage to life and prop erty would have occurred. Charleston Navy Yard Safe. The naval appropriation bill car ries items aggregating $30,000 for the Charleston Navy Yard, as follows: Grading and paving, $5,000; improve ment to plant, $20,000. The friends of the yard believe that this is a good showing, considering the fact (hut many times recently the yard has been scheduled by its enemies for en tire abandonment. This $30,000 will keep it in good running order 1er the next fiscal year, when bigger things may be looked t _ Mu'aj-on's Khenmatism Remedy relieves palus in thc lesa, crnis, back, stiff or swollen Joints. Contains no morphines opium, cocaine or drugs to deaden tba pain. It neutralizes the acid and driva? out all rheumatic poisons from toe eys tem. Write Prof. Munyon, 53d and Jeff erson Sts., Pbila., Pa., for medical aft? rice, absolutely free. PERFECT HEALTH.^* T jtt ' s Pills keep the system in perfect ord? T?ey reg?late the bowels and produce A VIGOROUS BODY. Cure sick headache, constipation and malorie. Hear lt. Ball-What ls silence? Hall-The college yell of the school of experience.-Harper's Bazar. Stiff neck! Doesn't amount to much, hut mighty disagreeable. You will be sur priiied to see how quickly Hamlins Wizard: Oil will drive that stiffness out. Ona night, that's all. A pessimist is a man who can't en joy the beauties of an apple blossom.' because he only thinks of the possible stomach ache it represents. I Tavlor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gam. and 'Mullen ia Nature's great remedy-' Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough and all throat and lung troubles. Afc druggists, 25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. When the millennium comes there will be schools to which janitors and railway porters will be sent to learn something about ventilation. Free Biood Cure. If you have pimples, offensive eruption*,, old gores, cancer, itching, scratching;. ccze.na, suppurating swellings, bone pains, ; hot skin, or if your blood is thin or int-, pure, then Botanic Blood Balm (BJLB.) ; will heal every sore, stop all itching and mako thc blof 1 pure and rich. Cures aftcrv all else fails. S1.00 per large bottle afc! drug stores. Sample free by writing Blood Balm Co.. Atlanta, Ga., Department B. A "Friendly Match." I ?peak of a "friendly match," not at i all forgetting that diction of the old; Scot to whom his opponent, breaking] some trivial rule, said: "I suppose yoo.j won't claim that in a friendly match?T': "Friendly match!" was the reply--! "There's no such thing at golf!"-' London Telegraph. > _!_ i Easy Garr.e. "What you need," said the kindly friend, "is a change of air ?-? "What was the greatest baseball play you ever saw?" asked a friend o? Governor-elect John W. Tener. "The greatest play I ever say," said he, "rook place in an amateur game on a town lot at Charleroi. The teams were playing on a wet field and an. outfielder who wore a derby hat went after ? high fly. He came to a littla poad and taking his eye off the bali made a jump to cross it. As be was. leaping; the ball struck him on tha head, went through the crown of his., hat and lodged there. The base run ner was out and the fielder had not touched th-i ball with his hands. Can you beat it?"-Washington Corre spond ::nco Pittsburg Dispatch. Careless and Cappy. We have undertaken to blend In. one tiie best of the two proverbial conditions-to be careless and happy, hairle ss and cappy. We are now hap py anil cappy, and frequently careless, .as well. A pretty figure may be con jured up-a figure in leaf-green satin veiled with ro~c and silver shot gauze.. The dark hair is covered by a sai lor's <:ap, point. and all, worn flatly over the whole head, the point falling at the back. Instead of being mada of scarlet cashmere, it is of the gauze? over silver tissue, and studded with, pink aad yellow topaz, while it is bor dered with great gray pear-shaped pearls, these, of course, hanging: around the back of the neck and over the sol't hair in front. We ?lave taken to caps! RESULTS OF FOOD. Health and Natural Conditions Come From Right Feeding. Man. physically, should he like a. perfectly regulated machine, each part working easily in its appropri ate place. A slight derangement causes undue friction and wear, and frequently ruins the entire system. A well-known educator of Boston, found ii way to keep the brain and the body in that harmonious co-opera? tion which makes a joy of living. "Twc years ago," she writes, "being, in a condition of nervous exhaustion, I resigned my position as teacher? which I had held for over 40 years. Since then the entire rest has, of course, been a benefit, but the use of Grape-Nuts has removed one great cause cf illness in the past, namely, constipation, and its attendant evils. "I generally make my entire break fast on a raw egg beaten into four spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a littla hot milk or hot water added. I Uko lt extremely, my food assimilates, and my bowels take care of themselves. I find my brain power and physical endurance much greater and I know that the use of the Grape-Nuts haa contributed largely to this result "It is with feelings of gratitude that I write this testimonial, and trust lt may be the means of aiding others ia their search for health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read thc little book, "The Road tc Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Rea son." Ever vend ihr above letter? A ne-vt ono :i]':;<!ars from time to time. Ttirj uro jennine) true, ;uid tull of lal