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t x ' . <4< ECZEMA'S ITCH IS TORTURE. Eczema is caused by an acid humor in the blood coming in contact with the skin and producing great redness and in flammation ; little pustular eruptions form and discharge a thin, sticky fluid, which dries and scales off; sometimes the skin is hard, dry and Assured. Ec/.ema in any form is a tormenting, stubborn disease, and the itching and burning at times are almost unbearable; the acid burning humor seems to ooze out and set the skin on tire. Salves, washes nor other exter nal applications do any real good, for as long as the poison remains in the blood it will keep the skin irritated. BAO FORM OF TETTER. “For tliri-e years I had Teller on lay hands, which c-iused them to swell to twice their natural size. Part of the time the disease was in the form <fi na iling sores, very pains ful, and canning me much discomfort. Pour doctors said the Tetter hud prog re-, td too far to be cured, and they '' VURCGMHKlD'h could d> nothing for •. me. I tiok only three bottles of S. S. S. and was completely cured. This was fifteen years ago, and I have never since seen any sign of my old trouble." — Mrs. t,. h. Jackso.v, 1414 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. S. S. S. neutralizes this acid poison, cools the blood and restores it to a healthy, natural stale, and the rough, unhealthy skip becomes soft, smooth and clear. cures Tetter, Ery- elas, Psoriasis, Salt heum and all skin | diseases due to a pois oned condition of the blood. Send for our book and write us about your case. Our physicians have made these diseases a life study, and can help you by their advice; we make no charge for this service. All correspondence is conducted in strictest confidence. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Ip' sipel Rhei Notice to Telephone Subscribers. AH ntiMiiplute subscribing for ’phones.'lKitli old and new subscribers, will please give t heir applications AT ONCE to F. tJ. Stacy, so we can prompt ly arrange to run their wires, thus saving time and delay in getting ’phones. 8-(i-:;t Gakpney Telephone Co. JTor-** Ituthling and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster llalr. Plaster Paris, UosouUale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 5?. For the Building Season. L. BAKER Has just received a large stock of Sash, Doors, Mantelpieces and all kinds of Trimming, Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Box ing, Molding, Brackets, etc. No. 1 Heart Pine Shingles and a good stock John \V. Masury & Sons (fuaranteed Paints and Varnish, all at the lowest rea sonable prices. Call and see him when you want anything in his lino. No charge for making estimates. - 3 w Ninety Per Cent. of nil chronic headaches arc due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Cherokee Drug Co’s, and have the de fect in vision corrected and thus Im Quickly and Permanently Cured. Glasses fitted with scionlllle accuracy and all diseases of the Kye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. Beware of Traveling Frauds ! I )R. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, raffney, - - - S. C. ifflee over J. Ti. Tolleson’s new store In oflice from l«t to 26th of each 3011 th: '• THE MYSTERY OF AGATHA WEBB. By Anna Katharine Green, Author 0/ "7/ic Lcatenivotih Cate," "Lmt Man'* Lane," “Hand and Ring," Etc., Etc. copy right, 1900, UY ANNA KATHARINE GREW. CHAPTER VII. A CHOICE BETWEEN WEDLOCK AND THE GALLOWS. “Wait a moment. I must speak to you.” It was Amabel who was bolding Frederick back. She had caught him by the arm as he was about leaving the room with his father, and be felt himself obliged to stop and listen. “I start for Springfield today,” she announced. *’F have another relative there living at the house. When shall l have the pleasure of seeing yon in my new home?” “Never.” It was said regretfully and yet with a certain brnsqueness occa sioned perhaps by overexcited feeling. “Hard as it Is for me to say It, Ama bel, It is but just for me to tell you that after our parting here today we will meet only ns strangers. Friendship between us would be mockery, and any closer relationship has become impos sible.” It bad cost him an Immense effort to say these words, and be expected, fond ly expected, 1 must admit, to see her color change and her head droop. But Instead of this she looked at him stead ily for a moment, then slipped her hand down bis arm till she reached his palm, which she pressed with sudden warmth, drawing him Into the room as she did so and shutting the door behind them. He was speechless, for she nev er had looked so handsome or so glow ing. Instead of showing depression or humiliation even she confronted him with a smile more dangerous than any display of grief could have been, for It contained what It had hitherto lacked, positive and Irresistible admiration. Her words were equally dangerous. 1 kiss your band, ns tbe Spaniards say.” And she almost did so. with a bend of her bend which just allowed him to catch a glimpse of two startling dimples. He was astounded. He thought he knew this woman well, but at this mo ment she was ns incomprehensible to him as If he had never made a study of her caprices and ever shifting expres sions. “I am sensible of tbe honor,” said he, “but hardly understand how I have earned It.” Still that Incomprehensible look of admiration continued to illumine her face. “I did not know I could ever think no well of you,” she declared. “If you do not take care, I shall end by loving you some day.” “Ah,” he ejaculated, his face con tracting with sudden pain, “your love. then, is but a potentiality! Very well, Amabel, keep It so and you will be spared much misery. As for me, who have not been us wise as you”— “Frederick!" She had come so near lie did not have the strength to finish. Her face, with Its indefinable charm, was raised to his, as she dropped these words one by one from her lips In lin gering cadence, "Frederick—do you love me. then, so very much?” He was angry; possibly because be felt bis resolution falling him. “You know!” he hotly began, stepping back. Then with a sudden burst of feeling that was almost like prayer he re sumed: “Do not tempt me, Amabel. 1 have trouble enough without lament ing the failure of my first steadfast purpose.” “Ah,” she said, stopping where she was, but drawing him toward her by every witchery of which her mobile features were capable, “your geuerous impulse has strengthened Into a pur pose, has It? Well, I’m not worth It, Frederick.” More and more astounded, under standing her less than ever, but charm ed by looks that would have moved an anchorite, be turned his bead away In a vain attempt to escape an Influence that was so rapidly undermining his determination. She saw tbe movement, recognized the weakness It bespoke, and in the triumph of her heart allowed A low laugh to escape her. Her voice, as I have before aa unmusical though effectlv laugh was deliciously sw when It was restrained pie, as now. Ill come to rpuTe and akin p> ide to In not know or.” T!e bnH lifi nin inbiTju met her eyes with ROfliethlt' alarm. "What, do yon al, speaking of last night? 1 di there was anything said by u» ,M our talk together”— “I do not allude to our talk." “Or—or in the one dance we h “Frederick, a dance Is Innoce! The word seemed to strike |i! the force of a blow. Innocent," he repeated, “Innocenl jeeomlng paler still as the full wel of her meaning bro! t gradually u him. "I followed }’ou Into town,” she w pered, coming closer and breathing tiCS words into his ear. “But what I you do there will not keep me froitn obeying you If you say: ‘Follow tde wherever 1 go, Amabel. HenceforflV our lives are one.’ ” “My God!” It was all he said, but It seemed to create a gulf between them. In the Si lence that followed the evil spirit in tent beneath her beauty began to make Itself evident even In tbe smile which no longer called into view the dimples which belong to guileless mirth, while upon his face after the first paralyzing effect of her words had passed there appeared an expression of manly re sistance that betrayed a virtue which as yet bad never appeared in bis selfish and altogether reckless life. That this was more than a passing Impulse he presently made evident by lifting his band and pushing her slow ly back. “I do not know what you saw me do.” said he, “but whatever It was It can make no difference in our rela tions." Her whisper, which bad been but a breath before, became scarcely audi ble. “I did uot pause at the gate you en tered," she said. “1 went In after you.” A gasp of Irresistible feeling escaped him, but be did not take bis eyes from her face. “It was a long time before you came out,” she went on, “but before that time the shade of a certain window was thrust aside aud”— “Hush!” lie commanded, In uncon trollable passion, pressing Ids hand w! T Impulsive energy against her, mouth. “Not another word that or I shall forget you are a woman or that I have ever loved you.” Her eyes, which were all she had re maining to plead with, took on a pecul iar look of quiet satisfaction and pow er. Seeing It, he let his hand fall and for the first time began to regard her with anything but a lover’s eyes. .“I was the only person in sight at that time,” she continued. "You have nothing to fear from the world at large.” “Fear?” The word made Its own echo. She bad no need to emphasize it even by a smile. But she watched him as It sunk Into bis consciousness with an Intentuess It took all his strength to sustain. Suddenly her bearing and ex pression changed. • The few remains of sweetness in her face vanished, and even the allurement which often lasts when the sweetness Is gone disappear ed In the energy which now look pos session of her whole threatening an Inflexible personality. "Marry me.” sbe cried, “0 proclaim you to be Agatha Webb!” She had see his eyes. Frederick finer mental perhaps had first few momcnia lowing the astoi which hal been gi^ out with the last se| expected to hear. “What do you h<l with me that to nt thus sacrifice everj She met him on til “What do I hoped glowed with the force sire. "Can you ask a pooj born In u tenement hot tastes and nhihlticus such ly only given to those w| them? I want to erland’s daughter* acknowledged cuter any hot With a anj 1 . ■: ..fS; 'mSeLz ■ of her heuiity."When shTrspodte, B 'was ♦o say: "If you wish to Join me in Si>rlngfleld before the time I have set, *-ell and good. I am willing that the time of our separation should be shortened, but II must uot be lengthened by so much as a day. Now, If you will excuse me, I will go and pack my trunks.” He shuddered. Her voice seemed to cut through him like a knife. • Drawing herself ud, she looked down on him with a strange mixture of pas sion and elation. “You need fear no Indiscretion on my part so long as our armistice lasts,” said she. “No one can drag the truth flora me while any hope remains of your doing yoi^ duty by me In tbe way 1 have suggested.” And still he did not move. '‘Frederick.” s It her voice that was jhus mur- muring^bis name? Can tbe tiger snarl one momi’St aud coo the next? “Frederick. I have a final word to say, a last forewell. Up to this hour I have endured your attentions, or, let us say, accepted them, for 1 always found you ha^some and agreeable, W o CRQP BULLETIN. Condition of Carollm* Cropn an ID-ported f by the Bureau. jColumbia, August 6.—The average temperature during the week ending 8 a, m., Monday, August 5ib, was about normal, with a maximum of 102 at 1 iHers Perry, aud a minimum of <>4 at Cberaw and Hpartanburg. There was nearly the normal amount of sunshine. Beneficial and quite general rains occurred over portions of the central and lower Savannah valley and ad jacent counties, and there were widely scattered showers over the remainder of the State, some of which were heavy and were accompanied by damaging hall, in narrow paths, in Fairfield, Richland, Sumter Orange burg, Florence, Kershaw and Marion counties. There were also damaging high winds at a few points. A general rain is needed, especially for young corn that in places is suffering from lack of moisture. Cotton continues to improve and looks healthy, but generally remains small, is late, and has very few grown bolls. A few localities report the plants growing too much to word and not fruiting well, although generally cotton is moderately well fruited. A littlej shedding is report ed, and some fields are infested with lice and rust. On light sandy soils growth has stopped and the plants are blooming to the top. Bea-island is doing well, but is dwarfed aud late. Corn barely held its previous week’s condition, except that in places young corn made some improve ment, and in others has deteriorated for want of moisture. A worm known as the corn stalk-borer is doing much damage over the south eastern aud central counties. Fod der is being stripped from old corn. Toby.-P putting and curing still prp’vj. ^prably, and is near- <6 a* s?.*?'^ localities. The ^ ^ ®V‘ S ^ut late tobacco .n* a e, er % > ..o "Woman, they were right^ Uhh than a not the master of jnj • tew- It love with me Is 1 slon. Do you hea\ will make life a bt man who has InspiJ have thought of thj me.” And with a loo/ ed something of^ > ness of tbe twe promised him si a kiss upon hi moment she wj Or so he thd^ an interval and attempt' place, he di^g detained lu\ ns . men who bafi bfi ; . door. “Is this M Foi i’VV <-"V» -c _£• • .£ 5/ _® .0'^ <\that worms are v-S CK‘ * -f s'»' ~y V o" <• v*\o’ ^.o' & ^ ^ i* head > x ■ C <2* a, v ^ vP .0 x ^V^5 moat *- / - ^ X - O ^ O <* £> , XX .0 - ’Ni .O <i- w v X^X ^ s; the er o'^.^s^ket. 0 ^ (V ^ X A A N>w Hn«lnnM. Mr. George G Byers, formerly of Gainesville, Ga., but who will in the future reside in Gaffney, has deter mined to open up a business of his own here. Mr."Byers has rented the building now Occupied by Mr. A. B Gaines, next, door tj the poMoffice, and will have it thoroughly renovated and fitted up in the latest stylo for his business, which will embrace dry goods, notions, gents’ furnishings shoes, etc. Mr Byar-; will leave tthbvt the 29th for New York and the sasVfQ markets to lay io his stock. Guffr^j^ welcomes the mer chant and we lie will do well In his new home. ^ , Another pleasant about Mr Byers’ coming to Gaffoi>,; 8 that b" brings with him his wife, Minnie Carroll, who will be. w> r ice welcome to hr-r former home. Theq Bulger wishes them both'much hap piness in Gaffney. ‘ . Mr*. Smith Kntertaina. Mrs. Dr. Smith was “at home” to a few of her admiring friends on last Wednesday evening. Tho occa sion was given In honor of Mrs. Smith, of Chester. Delightful re freshments were severed in courses, “Champague flowed like water’’ and the hearts and minds of all present gcre happy and gay. Mrs. Smith is a charming hostess, and Wednesday evening will long be remembered. To He Operated on for AppendlcD:*. Mr. and Mrs- Chas. Elam are in Philadelphia where Mr. Elam went for the purpose of having ah opera tion for appendicitis performed. We trust the operation will be success ful and that Mr. Elam may soon be at his post of duty at the Limestone Mills. A Curo for Gliolrnt liifHiitnn). “Last May,” says Mrs. Curtis Bnkor, of Bookwalter, Ohio, ‘‘an in- A Pale Face js a prominent symptom of vitiated r lmplat, the t's nature's sympi blood. If covered with evidence ts,complete, way of warning youofyourcouditloiL Johnston’s Sarsaparilla fiever falli to rectify al) dlaordera ot i «\.£ l00d ' sukbt or severe, of Iook or recent origin. Its thirty . e S° rd Koarantees iu efficacy. quart ^tlii« he 4 e ’ Prlce ,10 ° e €r hill MiCMm* - Pre P* r ed only by MICM104NOOMFAMT, ■ H,< *- For r:ilo I)J (V>mpHb>. KtOffiN if.-* Go (fafftoe ifThbv Mfa To Make Lifelike'PII x ^ b ' <r C/ O o Y W «l *v> • X ^ A^Od, 4 ,41and * a S’ ^/streets. V.^/Hllllard *£/ yesterday trip to At- funt child of our neighbor’s was suf fering from cholera infantum. Tho doctor had given up all hopes of re covery. I took a bottle of Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to tho house, telling them I felt sure it would do good if used ac cording to directions.. In two d time the child had fully recove and is now (nearly a year since vigorous, healthy girl. T have recdtti- mended this Remedy frequently ancE ^ cjiave never known it to fail In any ^oV^Vnglo instance.” For sale by Chero- * v Drug Company. O/ } —V ;,A man is always more truthful i ‘s opinion of his second baby than of his first. Women' call it more brutal. » The Kent PreiM-riptlou Tor Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless fort No cure—no pay. Price 50c. is the object of every pood pho- tournpher. You’ll like our baby, pictures. They are * a credit to us and to you. % Best Cabinets, $'3.r>0 per doz. JOHN GHEJKN, O aT f FRESH This Week! Potted Ham, Turkey, Chicken, am Loaf, ickemLoaf, Chipped Beef, Sliced Star Beef, “ “ Ham, “ “ Bacon, * it a L ^»na Sausage, ing. "Yes, I Page,” she uess. ‘Tj -IspmeJ heon Sausag tc., Etc., Etc. ler & Leimd ilstratoi’s Sala.J the highest bidder fo| , on Wednesday, Aagi | the Court House ; Ibo’clook a. m. L \ A. L. Lotspeu (PS? .IPSCOMB, Dentist, (Office over R. A. |one, ft Co '• Star*. Can b« fo ,n4llt ofl,ce H,z days In the week — 4—— G. W. SPEER, ATTrollN RY-A'T-L.A W. CAfFNEY. S. C. er J. \| T Office ovii Tolleson’i Store. WALUCE & ons, lWYERS. upstis, between It. A. Jones and l)!ivenporv Phone 8.. WEBSTER, bust. ‘ProoatO'Judge s office |y City, 8. C. ill the ooarti. Oolleo- ty she avowt so as to leave th< open. “AmabeU” His v< husky, and the Ini and shutting of his hi emotion under which he^ “Do you love me? You edged It now and then, bul If you did not mean It Nc knowledge that you may aome^ this time as If you did mean It Is tbe truth? Tell me without ry or tjissembllng, for I am In deat nest, and"— He paused, cbokedl turned toward the window, whei a few minutes before be bad ti that solemn oath. The remembi. of It seemed to come back with movement Flushing with a new tation, he wheeled upon her sharp!} “No, no,” he prayed; "say nothing, you swore you did not love me, l 1 should not believe It, and If you swot* that you did I should only find It hard er to repeats bat must again be said, that a uni|^^j|w|en us can never take solemn prom ise pi stop? Af words m