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Ruggles wss evidently on the poor eld.? of the waiting crowd; the hand? ful of rtffrmff around him with Us stench of dirt and gin. A better look Uf set collected opposite and there Vise the gleam of white shirt fronts. "Now, there she cornea," the father SSW her first "Sing out. Cissy." The door opened and a figure quick? ly floated from it. like a white rose bl??wn out Into the foggy darkness. It Heated down the few steps to the street between the double row of spec? ie ore. A white cloak entirely cov erod the actress. Her head was hid? den by s white scarf, and she almost ran the abort gantlet eg her motor, be? tween the cries of "Ood bless you!"? ?"Three cheers for Letty Lane"?"God bless you. lady!" She didn't speak or hood, however, or turn her head, but held ber scarf against her face, and the man who slowly lounged behind bei to the car. and put her in and got la ifter her, was not the man Joshua RtiKgles bad waited there to see. He antg about until tho footman had spring up and the car moved softly awiy, the stage entrance door shut, then he followed along with the ero'vd. with the few faithful who had walled an hour In the cold mist to cry out their applause, not to a singer la "llandalay," but to a woman's sssat-t CHAPTER VIII. Dsn's Simplicity. The Duchess of Breakwater was not sure how close Dsn Blalr'a thoughts wen* to marriage, but the boy from Montana was the esalest prey tbst had come acroaa the beautiful and aascrupulous womsn's range. He bad told her that he stayed on up In Lon? don to see a men from home, snd when after four days be still lingered ta town, she found bis absence un *Qs*hl When I Saw Her There on thi Stage, Why-P asjarab e. snd sent blm a sire sc worded tbst If he bad a spark of In tar est In her he must Immediately re tarn to the Park. She had never beec store k'Yely than when Dan found her waiting for him. She had ordered tea in her sitting room. She told him that he lookec frightfully seedy, asked him what h< bad been doing and why he hac stopped so long away, and Blair tolc her that old Ktiggles. his father'i friend, tad run over to aee blm wltt a lot of papers 'or Dan to read auc saga snd closed with a smile, telling ssr that he guessed she "didn't knoa ssuch about business." **I only know the horrid things of business?debts, and loans, and bills and fussing." "Those things are not business,' Dan answered wisely; "they are Jus common or garden carelessness " She aaked him why he had no* brought Ruggles out to tHd?t,e. an< ass told her he couldn't have done a stroke of work with the old boy gcjwl hers st the Park Stirring his tea, be appreciated th< duchess. The sgreeable picture shi saade Impressed him mightily. "Do you know." he ssked suddenly "what you make me think of?" And aim responded softly: "No "A hoi of candy This room wltl Its stuff*d walls, and you In It an good enough "To ea f she laughed aloud. "Oh you perfectly killing creature, whs sa Idea!' And an Im met her eyes with hit clear ones, with a simplicity ah? could never hope to reach, he put hli teacup down: and as ho did eg the duchess oi ?trOUg hi their vigor, well kept ard mu < but not the dandified lands of the man who gjgSjg Bjf|SJg to 'he manicure. "If It hadn r Imm u tor one thli toe. boy went SSJ "I wwg] | h \ | thought of nothing ggfg hut you. tVSjfy aalaute I'm been away." "Mr Ruggles?" suggested the duch "No. the Ualety girl. U*Cy Lane Tew know I told you In the box that r-wid us you.* Job work. ?he was Irom Oll town." The young man, who had down back to Osdene Park In answer to a telegram, began to take his compan? ion into his confidence. "I knew that girl," Dan said, "when she wasn't more than fourteen. She sold me sodawater over the drug store counter. I always thought she was bully, bright as a button and pret? ty as a peach. Once, I rememher, I took six chocolate sodas in one day Just to go in and &ee her. I had an twful time. I most died of that Jag, and yet" he said meditatively, "I don't think I ever spoke three words to her, just said 'sarsaparilla' or chocolate' or whatever it might hap "Hello, Youl What Ar? You Hanging Around Hare For?" pen to be. Ever since that day, ever j ilnce that Jag," he said with feeling. ' "I couldn't aee a stick of chocolate j and keep my head up! Well," went I on the boy, "Sarah Towney sang in our church for a missionary meeting, and I was there. I can remember the aong she sans." He spoke with un? conscious ardor. He didn't refer to the hymn, however, but went on with his narrative. "She disappeared from Blalrtown. I never had a peep at her again until the other night. Gosh!" he said fervently, "when I saw her there on the stage, why, I felt as though cold water was running up and down my spine. The duchess, as a rule, was amused by his slang. It seemed vulgar to her ! itt>w. "Heaven*." aha drawled, "you are raally too dreadful!" He didn't seem to hear her. "She's turned out a perfect wonder, hasn't she? A world beater! Why, everybody tells mo there isn't another like her in her specialty. Of course I have heard of Letty Lane, but I j haven't been out to things since 1 went in mourning, and I've never run up against her." , "Really," drawled the duchess again, "now that you have Tun up against her' what are you going to do with her? Marry her?" His honest stare was the greatest rellef she had ever experienced, lie repeated bluntly: "Marry her? Why the dickens should I?" ? "You seem absorbed in her." He agreed with her. "I am. 1 think she's great, don't you?" "Hardly." But the cold voice of the duchess did not chill him. "Simply great." he continued, "and I'm sorry for her down to the ground. That is what is the matter. Didn't you notice her when she came Into the Carlton that night?" "What of it. silly? I thought sho looked as thin as a shad In that black dress, and tho way Ponlotowaky goei about with her proves what an ass ho is" "Well, I hate Mm," Blair simply stated; "I would wring Ids neck for twenty cents. But she's very 111; that la what is the matter with her." "They all look llko that off tho stage," the dm l ess assured indiffer? ently. 'They are nothing but fOOt< light beauties; they look ghastly off th?* hoards. I dare say that lat'y Lane is ill. though; the pace she goes would kill anybody, Have some more tea?" Hi held ?Mit his cup ami agreed with her. "she works too hard?this playing almost every ilght, tinging and (lanc? ing twice at the mntlness, I should think she would be deed " "Oh. i don't moan her nroft itlonal engagements." murmured the duchai I A revolt such as had stung him when the) criticized her at the Carl ton rose In him n "It Is hard tO believe." he said, "when you gear her sin*.' ttt.it doVS song Md that cradle song." Put his eompanlon'i laugh ?topped his championship short. "You dear hov. don't be a Hilly, Dan She doesn't need sour pity or your Give ua your Job work. pood opinion. She is perfectly satis fled. She has pot a fortune In Ponio fcWiky, and she really Is 'a perfect 3rro?\' you know.'" Affected slightly by her cold dis BlMftl of Iiis subject, he paused for a moment Hut bll own point of view rfjti too strong to bo shaken by this Oman's llftht words. "I suppose ?f she wasn't ii" m my town? ' At bia wordi the vision ol Letty Lane with the coral strandi her drg&a, came before his eyei, and he said bonaitly: "But I do take r4?i intf'icst in bar just the same, and she's going to ))iecos, that's clear. Something ought to be done." The Ducheii of Breakwater waa very much annoyed. "Are you going to talk about hi t all the time?" she asked with Sharp ?Weetneaa. "You are not very flat tering, Dan." And he returned peacefully, "Why, 1 thought you might be able to hell) hei in some way or another.** "Me!" She laughed aloud. "lie help Letty Lane? Really?" "Why, you might get her to sing out here," he suggested. "That would sort of get hold of her; women know how to do those things." His preposterous simplicity over whelmed her. She stirred her tea, and said, controlling herself, "Why, what on earth would you have me tc say to Letty Lane?" "Oh, just bo nice to her." he sug gested. "Tell her to take care of her? self and to brace up. Get some nice woman to?" The duchess helped him. "To re form her?" "Do her good." the boy sa'd gently "You're too silly for words If you were not such a hopeleai child I would be furious with you. Why, my dea: boy, she would laugh in your facr? ami in njjnc." As the duchess left the jtea-tabli she repeated: "Is this what you came up from London to talk to nm about?' . And at the touch of her dre; s as she passed him?at the look she gave him from her eyes, Dan flushed and said honestly: "Why. I told you that she was the only thing that kept me frort thinking about you all the time." CHAPTER IX. Disappointment. Dan Blair had not been back of the scenes at the Gaiety since his flrsl call on the singer. Indeed, though he had told the duchess he pitied Miss Lane, he had not been able to ap? proach her very closely, even in hie own thoughts. When she first ap peared on his horizon his mind was full of the Duchess of Breakwater, and the sing?, r had only hovered round his more profound feelings for another woman. But Letty Lane was an at? mosphere In Dan's mind which he was not yet able to understand. There was eo little left that was connected with his old home, certainly nothing in the British Isles, excepting Ruggles, and to the young man everything from America had its value. Decidedly the nice girl of whom he had spoken to Gordon Galorey, the prlnt-frocked, bonneted type, the ideal girl that Dan would like to marry and to spoil, had not crossed his path. The Duchess o! Breakwater did not suggest her, nor did any of the London beauties. Dan's first ideal was beginning to fade. He left Osdene Park on protest and returned the same night to London, and all the way back to town tried to register in his mind, unused to analy? sis, his experience with the Duchess Df Breakwater on this last visit. He had experienced his first dis? appointment in the sex, and this dis? appointment had been of an unusual kind. It was not that he had been turned down or given the mitten, but he had seen one woman turn another down. A woman had been mean, so he put it, and the fact that the Duch? ess of Breakwater had refused to lend a moral hand to tiie singer 4it the Gaiety hurt Dan's feelings. Then, as soon as his enthusiasm had calmed, tie saw what a stupid ass he had been. A duchess couldn't mix up with a comic opera singer, of course. Still, he mused, "she might have been a lit? tle nicer about it." The education his father had given him about them was put to the test now; tho girl he had dreamed of, "the nice girl," well, she would have had a tenderer way with her In a case j such as this! Back of Dan's hurt feel? ings, there was a great deal on tho Ducheei of Breakwater's side. She 1 had not done for herself yet. She hadn't fetched him nearly up to tho altar for nothing, and back of his dis approval, there was a long list of ad? mirations and looks, memories of many tete-a-tetei and of more fervent kisses which scored g good deal in tho favor of Dan's first woman. The Duch? < ss of Breakwater had gone boldly on with Dan's unfinished education, and ho really thought ho loved her, and that he was in honor bound to see the thing through. (TO BE CONTINUED) The Barnett ntore is the third name mi ?. . ionoi roll of propert) ownera \ '.. !.:t\.- commenced work Installing In sub-vurf drain pip'- to ihm off \. toi Crom the roof. The llshermen are enjoying them Helves Immensely these days. The tish uro rcporh d t ? bo biting ii"1' und numeroui fishermen are seen g?" int,' out ever) day to enjoy the fan 1,1 tish 1 ng. Yo a til look :i k.I a hllo before you And 11 bettor medicine for coughs und < ..Ms than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, it ??"' onlj gives relief?It eure? Tin t when you have :? cough or ceid. and you are certain to bs pleased with the prompt cure which it will effect. For sale by all Dealers, "IS TOM FELDER COMING?" DISPENSARY PROBKKH WIIjIj I.IVK 111M CHANCE 1<> "SPF.I ii v.' Resumption Today of [itvcstlga tlon Into State's Liquor Affair*; Causes Speculation as to Present Attitude of Atlanta \ttornoy, who Promised t<> Make Sensational Rev? elations ? Blease Commission Ex 1toil |.? Testify. Columbia, April -.?"Is Tom Polder a mlng " This Is the question that Is being a&ked In connection with the Investi? gation of the charges made by Oov ernor Blease against ihe mem I is of tiic Ansel dispensary wlnding-up com mission, which Investigation, bt ing conducted by a committee of six members of tin- General Assembly, Will be resumed tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock In the state library. Felder will be asked to appear be? fore the committee and tell what he knows in connection with the affairs of the late state dispensary and the charges of graft and the like that have developed from its affairs, if Col. Felder doei appear before the committee, and he will certainly be given a chance to tell what he knows if he desire.--, so to do, he will llkeley give testimony thai will be of the greatest possible interest and will ' ? ar In s itrong manner on the graft el arg >j that have I.n circulated against various State officials and In dl Iduala connected with the manage? ment of the State dispensary. Felder has said that he has volumes of dam? aging evldenc ?. thai if Known by a grand jury in South Crroltna would lend to Indictment, and hti appearance at the present Investigation would at? tract the keenest Interest from all quarters, Among the wltnessi l v ho it is ex? pected will appear b< fore the In? vestigators this week are the mem bers of the late Blease wlndlng-up commission, it is understood that these men have been summoned and than] they will he asked to tell what they know of th^> affairs connected with toe dispensary and its manage? ment. The hoard is now ,i thing of ths past, having been abolished by an Act of the General Assembly at Its recent session, which act went Into effect on the -7th of March, the af? fairs of the dispensary in the future to be handled by the Attorney Gen? eral. The members of the late com? mission would appear only BS private citizens, but it is believed their testi? mony WOUld be Of great import, either In throwing light on the Governor's Charges or In refuting them. The members of this commission w*erc Messrs. Wade Stackhouse, chairman; J. v. Wallace, T. F. Brantiey, F. H. Dominlck and B. M. Thompson. The Investigating committee did not hold a session last week, in order to await the filing of the report of the Blease commission, the Act abolishing that commission requiring that the report be (lied within thirty daya after the law took effect. The report has not yet been made olllcially to the Governor, though a copy of It is in his office. It will be filed officially In a short time. Besides the Blease bo nd there is one witneas who. it is understood, has been announced and who will doubt? less appear. This is Mr. H. D, Randt kin, of Clinton, formerly Of RldgS way, and form >r editor of the Fair Held tfews, published In Rtdgeway. in this paper the statement appeared that Jamea B. Farnum had paid $45,000 In addition to his tine of $5,000 for the final settlement of the case against him. The former editor Will be asked to give the source of information which led him to make this statement. At the last hearing of the Investi? gating committee Mr. g. P, Edmunds, at one time editor of the Falrfteld News, was a w itness and he was ask? ed, to tell the source of tho Informa? tion contained in the published state? ment a*9 to Farnum'a paying the $45, 000 In aettlement <>f bis case. Mr. Edmunds testified that he had been one time editor of the Rldgeway News, but tbat it was not during his connection with the paper that the statement was published. He said he thought it was during the editor? ship ? f Mr. Randtkln, and the com mlttec took the name and address i t Mi Randtkln and he was later aub poenaed. The Investigating committee was created b) the General Assembly in lt?11 for the put ?ose of ascertaining the truth of th. charges made by Governor Mease against the Ansel commission. Ho far every witness thai haa testified as to the charges lias said that he I 0OW no facts on which thoy ???nid have been based, and every witness has spoken In high terms of the character of the mem? bers of the Ansel board. So far the Investigation has proven auccessful, though it is n<a yet at an end, The committee, In order to make the prob- thorough and tO get at :i!l possible sides of the case, will ask that all persons who have knowledge (iOVKRXMKXT JOIXK is VPPEAL TO s;rpilfCMH < OUR f. l'ar-n-.u'hiiig Kffeci Of liCCCtll l>e ?i Ion Grunting "Monopoly" i?> Owners of Patents Moi Oefrulnl Parties to Appeal for Rehearing I Befon ". Bench ?- tiovommmt I Conn i I " >vcr Po* iblc I?fif?. ; uu Ant2?Trust Cases \? w Pending, Washington, Apr;; L?The defeated parties to the patenj monopoly case, recently decided, I to 3, by the Su? preme Court of the t"nit***! States to-j ? lay. asked ths Court to rehear the issu?* before a full bench. The Uni? ted States Government joined in thej appeal with a request for permission I to intervene, because the ease is re garded <>f the greatest public im-J portance and Involves the enforce- | ment of the Sherman anti-trust law. The Government's application, signed by Attorney General Wicker ?ham and Solicitor General Lehmann, vigorously declares the Court's de? cision sustaining the right of a pat? entee to attach to the sale of an in? vention restrictions stipulating that t the purchaser must use In connection With the patented article only such supplies Which are not patented, as arc bought from ths patentee of the I invention, seriously concern! the j United States In b number <?f civil and criminal rases now pending under the Sherman law. Ths decision, the Government tub* j mlts, "extends the power of property | held under letters patent i?yond the warrant of ths Constitution and ths Ipatent laws, and puts it above the au j thorlty of Congress to regulate com? merce among ths several states and above the universal limitation ex? pressed In the maxim 'so use your own as not to injure another's,**w "The distinctive right conferred by the letters patent cannot be made by the Act of the patented t" attach any? thing in which some quality of his in? vention does not exist," the petition continues. "it springs from the Invention and is limited to the Invention; and. while it is exclusive, it is not absolute; and so a contract, although it is related to the invention, if its purpose and ef? fect Is to secure control or monopoly Of something else than the invention. Is not saved, even as a contract by anything In the patent laws, but <>f fends the public policy of the United States and is void as being in restraint of trade." The Importance Of the question, the Government declares, cannot he over? estimated because the entire produc? tion and commerce "f the country may he greatly burdened and even completely monopolised if the exhaus? tive rights of Inventors may be extend? ed beyond their inventions. The mo? nopoly now being attempted in some branches of manufacture and commerce, through the expansion of patent rights, it is added, "is not the monopoly awarded to inventive in? genuity by the patent laws, but is a monopoly divided and secured by commercial cunning In violation of the ant!-trust laws." Why He Was Late. "What made you so late?" "I met Smtthson." "Well, that is no reason why you should be an hour late getting home for supper." "I know, but I asked him how he was feiding. and he insisted on telling me about his stomach trouble." "!>id you tell him to take Chamber? lain's Tablets'.''' "Sure, that Is what he needs. Sold by all dealers. A Chicago girl has sued a fellow for $5,000 for stealing a hiss. Ac? cording to that valuation in Chicago, some chap who would get gay with a North Carolina girl he would lay himself liable for $1,005,000. This is no joke.?Wilmington Star. For rheumatism you will And noth? ing better than Chamberlain's Lini? ment. Try it and see how quickly it gives relief. For sale hy all Dealers. connected with the charges appear before it and testify. Senator II. B. Carlisle, chairman of the committee, stated recently that the committee ! would advertise in (he dally papers for information heating on the mat ter before the committee, asking thai I any person hav ing knowledge of any matters as charged by the Governor or knowing of any person who had I such knowledge, or having an intima? tion that would lead to the develop? ing of evidence appear and give such cv idence to the ? ommllt? e, The committee has sent word to I Governor Blease asking him to ap? pear and substantiate the charges pr< ferred by him, but thin he has re? fused to do, At tie last si?nng of the committee resolutions vv re adopt? ed expressing tli.' committee's attitude towards the Governor's stund and making it known that it desired to make the Investigation as thorough and non-partisan as possible, and to this end to hear ill possible testi? mony hearing on the matter In hand, I ?THEM ?aOTECTtON^ PHI MH '.ST SMYTH K \lUUM >>l ? inn n >n mix mi \. X? *tarj Llssnges ? I totlew Tan ft 'A im|d I <.!!< u I lummull Ill\i'^l4 :.ation. topi IV.-id? lit of YlliQltjH Iamm ntton at siitpeMh A .mial Convention ? ?.lad Tai'4 Vetoes] n tton mil ai Lest Session. Washington, April 2.?Oppestl sj Io any radical or sudden change in the cotton schedules of tin- tariff law eras roleed by Blllson a. Sm>the. of Greenville. R. <\. prastdsnt < t the Vmerlcan Cotton Manufacturers* as> ?ociatlon, in his annual address at tlx opening session here today < f the Association's Sixteenth annual Con? vention. "I do not pretend.' hi* said, "that the tariff should not he changed in tome respects, I at i do claim that it should be changed only after thor? ough Investigation. The majority of the cotton maaufactur m of this country were gratified when Presi? dent Taft Vetoed the crudely pre? pare 1 cotton goods tariff hill which had pssssd the last session of Con? gress. "Southern manufacturers have been Instrumental in securing invest n ents of millions of dollars in South < rn cotton mills, under existing con? ditions and present oost?. which In? vestments would be sadly jeopardized ? ml impaired by radical and sudd n ? hanges in the tariff." President Smyths recommended the appointment Of a committee on rules for cotton buying, seeking some uniformity if action with manufactur? ers. North and South, and establish? ing rules that will be uniform, gen? erally observed and alike fnir to buy? er and seller and providing for the settlement of disputes without re? course to the courts. Dom' he surprised if you have an attack of rheumatism this spring. Jua* rub the affected parts freely wit"h Chamberlain's Liniment and it will soon disappear. Sold by all Deal? ers. Mr. H. C. Brcarley. of St. Charles, one of the graduates of the Sumter high sc hool in the class of 1911, has been elected one of the associate edi? tors of the "Gamecock," a wnehlj publication issued by the University of South Carolina, from the Eu phradlan Literary Society. "My little s..n had a Very severe oold? I was recommended to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and before a small bottle was finished be was as weil as ever." writes Mrs. H. Silks, If Dowllng Street, Sydney. Aus? tralia. This remedy is for sale by all Dealers, Accidents Will Happen And when they do? they hurt HUNTS LIGHTNING OIL is the one InatSniSneons relief sod cure for all wound*, bruise*, sore*, cuts, sprains and abrasions of the skin. It forms an artificial skin COeeehsg. excludes the air instant? ly, slops pain at onee. There an* msn> oils, but none like HUNT'S The action i*. different, and the effect as well. . HUNT'S . ? Q LIGHTNING Always have it in the hOSSPf. Take il with you when you travel? yon ne\or ran toll when III'NT'S LIGHTNING OIL may l>e most needed. gSctS and BfketS bottle*. I'or Sale by Sibert's Drug Store. A. B, Kiebards Medicine Co. Sherman. Texas. Many a Man Is a critic because he likes to lie contrary. You cm go contrary to the w :slu s of y 0 U r friends an?! neighbors and some l imc s get the best ol l h? in : but go cwntrary to the dictates of nature and you al ways get the worst of it. W hy, Spectacles it must be. Nature won't ac? te] d i u s L Spectacles though; they must be right Spectacles. We can give tin kind nature demands, and our prices .ue right, too. Graduate optician in charge. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler end optician.