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*4 W ^ *' / V *"?rt^%7 -'-V* V*"5.: „ '#« i-< i'i ->-*> . j>. j^j. •>iv - 11 . « a^V ^v3 ?-->*• -i-^; -1 * 1 - "1 % «' " 'f<$:C 7 ' V " * ~ - i I ?"i"" ->VaiC-;'i,-ai: - .*.!«-i& mr. ^ec \ . ';.tl w;--"^•.••iVi • - fc* t* . .'- \V* 'VvV <Vw>* * '-'y -"-; ;' , -k V ' *V. A TiMELY WARNING. £#CM wmiiv aiKamrmw * «.w«r ucM/twr^to ^ JP€>JBUeLr-St£J?MU, Co. SYNOrSiS. JSk ft piivate view of the Chatworth pereona.i estate, to be sold at auction, the Chatworth ring, known as the Crew Idol, •Uroteriously disappears. Harry Cressy, who was present, describes the ring to bis fiancee, Flora Gilsey, and her chap- proti, Mrs. Clara Britton, as being like a Heathen god, with a beautiful sapphire Mt In the head. Flora meets Mr. K.err, u JSnglishman, at the club. In dis­ missing the disappearance of the ring, the exploits of an English thief, Farreil W&nd, are reca lied. Flora has a fancy that Harry and Kerr know something •bout the mystery. Kerr tells Flora that Ik* has met Harry somewhere, but eannot gdace him. |20,(KM) reward is offered for the return of the ring. Harry admits to Flora that he dislikes Kerr. Harry takes Flora to a Chinese poldsmith's to buy an Basagement ring. An exquisite sapphire Mt in a hoop of brass, is selected. Harry tjrgres her not to wear !t smtil it is reset. Tti* possession of the ring seems to cast * spell over Flora. She becomes uneasy wd apprehensive. Flora meets Karr at ft bo* parry. She is startled by the effect on bin. *hf>Ti hf STPf" ;; glictpse Of the sapphire. The possibility that the stone ts part at th« Crew Idol causes Flora much anxiety. CHAPTER X.--Continued. "Then Isn't It for. us to show them that we are more than usually civi- Ized? I can't run away from him like a frightened little native." "Of course; but that is where I come in; it's what I'm for--to get rid of such things for you." Clara bad risen, and stood consid­ ering a moment with that same arrest. Impersonal eye which Flora found it hardest to comprehend. "What I mean," she explicitly stated, "is that if he should undertake to carry out' his preposterous sugges­ tion, and call this afternoon, I am quite ready, if you wish, to take him off your hands." This last took Flora's breath away. It had not occurred to her that Clara had overheard It shocked her, fright­ ened her; and yet Clara's way of stating the fact, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, made Flora feel that she herself was in the wrong to feel this. "You're T«ry kind," she managed to get out; and that seemed to leave her eonsssitted to hand Kerr over, tied hand and foot, when she wasn't sure at all she wanted to. "Then shall I tell Mrs. Herrick that jrtm will consider the house?" said Clara, already in the act of departure. "She la to oall to-day to go into it with me more thoroughly. Thus far we've only played about the edges." Her eyes strayed toward the dress- lag table as she passed it, and as she reached the door she glanced over the chiffonier. It was on the tip of Flora's tongue to ask if she had mislaid some­ thing, when Clara turned and smiled her small, tight-curled smile, as if she were offering it as a symbol of mutual understanding. Curiodsly enough, it checked Flora's query about the stray- teg glances, and made her wonder that this was the first time In their relation that she had thought Clara sweet. But there was another quality in Clara she did not lose sight of, and she waited for the closing of a door further down the hall before she drew the sapphire from under her pillow. With the knocking at the door her first act had been to thrust it there. The feeling that it was going to be hard to hide was still her strongest in­ stinct about it; but the morning had dissipated the element of the super­ natural and the horrid that it had ahown her the night before. It seemed to hare a clearer and a simpler beau­ ty; and the hope revived in her that Its beauty, after all, was the only re­ markable thing about It Her conviction of the night before had sunk to a shadowy hypothesis. She knew nothing--nothing that would Justify her In taking any step; and her only chance of knowing more lay tai what she would get out of Kerr; for that he knew more about her ring than she, she was convinced. She was afraid of htm, yet, in spite of her fear, she had no intention of handing him over to Clara. For on reflection she knew that Clara's offer must have a deeper motive than mere kindness, and she had a most unreasonable feel­ ing that it would not be safe. Tet Clara would do a kindness if It did not inconvenience her, and surely this morning she had been kind. Still Flora felt she didn'^ want to reveal anything until she was a little surer of her own position. When she knew better where she stood she would know what she could confide to Clara. Meanwhile, If there was any one to whom she could turn now it would surely be Harry. Tet, if she did, what a lot of awk­ ward explanations! She could not re­ turn the sapphire without giving a reason, and what a tMng to explain-- that she had not only worn It, but, in a freak, shown it to the one of all people he most objected to. Nevertheless the most sensible thing clearly was to go through with it and confess to Harry. Then she must oommunicate with him at once. No- she would wait until after breakfast There was plenty of time. Kerr would not come until the afternoon. But after breakfast she wondered if it wouldn't be as well to ring him up at luncheon time? Then she would be sure of finding him at the club. Meanwhile she dared not let the sapphire out of her grasp; and yet •he eould not wear it on hef hand. She had thought of the pear-shaped pouch of gold which" it was her cus­ tom to wear; but the slender length of chain that linked it to her neck was too frail for such a precious weight At last she had fastened it around her neck on the strongest chain she owned, and thus she carried it all the Morning under her bodice with a quieter mind than had been hers on the first day she had worn it when there had been nothing to explain her •Heaviness. She was alone at luncheon, and in a dream. She glanced now and then at the clock. She rose only ten min­ utes before the hour that Harry was J in the habit of leaving the club. She went upstairs slowly and stopped in front of the telephone. She touched the receiver, dxew her hand back and turned away. She shut the door of her own rooms smartly after her. But when at last Kerr's card was handed in to her it gave her a shock, as if something "u!chcouldn'tu»PP®«. and yet which she had all along ex­ pected, bad come to pass. In her instant of indecision Marrika bad got away from her, but she called the girl back from the door and told her to say to Mrs. Brittqii that Mr. Kerr had called, but that Miss Gilsey would see him herself. She started with a rush. Half-way down the stairs she stopped, horri­ fied to find what her fingers were do­ ing. They were closed around the lit­ tle lump that the ring made in the bosom of her gown, and she had not known it What if she had rushed in to Kerr with this extraordinary mani­ festation? What if, while she was talking to him, her hand should con­ tinue to creep up again and yet again to that -place, and close around the jewel, and make it evident, even in its hiding-place? The time had come when ahe miat even hide it from her­ self. And yet, to creep back up the stair when she made sure Kerr must have heard her tumultuous downward rush! It would never do to soundless­ ly retreat. She must go back boldly, as if she had forgotten nothing more considerable than a pocket handker­ chief. Yet before she reached the top again she found herself going tiptoe, as if phe were oa an expedition so secret that her own ears should not hear her footsteps. But she went direct and unhesitating. It had come to her all in a flash where she would put the sapphire. The little buttoned pocket of her bath-robe. There it hung in the bathroom on one unvarying peg, the most immovable of all her gar­ ments, safe from the excursions of Marrika's needle or bruShns, not to be disturbed for hours to coma. • She passed through h«r bedroom, through her dressing-room into the bathroom. The robe was hanging be­ hind the door. It took her a moment to draw out the ring and disentangle its chain, and while she was doing this she became aware of movings to and fro is her bedroom. She drew the door half, open, the bolter to con­ ceal herself behind it, and at the same time, through the widened crack of the Jamb, to keep an eye on the dressing room, and hurried lest Mar­ rika should surprise her. But never­ theless she had barely slipped the ring into the little pocket and re- fastened the flap, when Clara opened the bedroom* door and stood looking into the dressing-room. Her lifted veil mad* a fine mist above the luster of her eyes. She was perfect to the tips of her im­ maculate white gloves, and ahe wore the simple, sober look of a person who thinks himself alone. I^ian it wasn't Flora, Clara was looking for! She was looking all around--over the surface of every object In the room Presently she went up to the dress­ ing-table. She laid her gloved hands upon it and looked at the small ob­ jects strewn over its top. She took a step backward and opened the top drawer. She reached Into it and deli cately explored. Flora could see th« white gloves going to and fro among her white handkerchiefs, could see them find, open and examine the content* of her jewel-box. And the only thing that kept her from shrieking out was the feeling that this abominable thing which was being enacted before her eyes couldn't be a fact at all. Clara took out an old pocket-book, shiny with years, shook from it a shower of receipts, newspaper clip­ pings, verses. She let them lie. She took out a long violet box with a per­ fumer's seal upon it It held a bunch of dried violets. She took out a bonbonniere of gold filigree. It was empty. A powder box, a glove box, a froth of lace, a handful of Jewelers' boxes, a jewel flung loose into the drawer. This she pounced upon. It was a brooch! She let It fall--turned to the chiffonier; upended the two vases of Venetian glass, lifted the lids cf jars and boxes, finally came to the drawers. One by one she took them out, turned the contents of each rap­ idly over, and loft them standing, gaping white ruffles and lace upon the floor. Her eye fell upon the waste basket She turned It upside down, and stooped over the litter. She gathered it up in her white glovea and dropped it back. Then, for the first time, she glanced at the bathroom door; stood looking at it, as if it had occurred to her to look in the soap dish. Then she turned again to the room, to the dressing-table. She put back the pasteboard jewelers' boxes, the Jew­ eled pin, the laces, which she shook out and folded daintily, the glove and powder boxes, the gold bonbonniere, the long violet box, the leather pocket- book--each deftly and unhesitatingly in the place from which she had taken it and all the heaps of white hand­ kerchiefs. One by one she laid back in the chiffonier drawers the garments, prop­ erly and neatly folded, that she had so hastily snatched out of them. She slid back the last drawer into the chif­ fonier, and rose from hef knees, lightly dusting off the front of her gown; went to the closet door and closed it She stood before It a mo­ ment with a face perplexed and thoughtful, then turned alertly toward the outer door. Flora stood as If die were afraid to move, while Clara crossed her bed­ room, stopped, went on and closed the outer door behind her. And even after that soft little concussion she stood still, burning, choking, strug­ gling with the overwhelming force of an affront whose import she did not yet realise. Why, she had thought that stiefc things couldn't happen! She had thought that people's private belong lngs, like their persons, were lnvlol- afele. In the siuuae of It aha co«li mo more have faced Clara than If she had surprised Clara naked. She snatched the ring out of the pocket of her gown and clutched it in her hand. Was there no place in the world where she could be sure of safety for this? With trembling fingers she fastened It &£ain to the chain about her neck. She thought of Kerr duwostairs wait­ ing for her. Well, she would rather keep it with her. Then, at least, she would know when it was taken from her. Still in the fury of her outraged faith, she passed through her violated rooms, and slowly along the hall and down the stairs. CHAPTER XI. The Mystery Takes Human Form. He turned from the window where he had presented a long, drooping, patient back, and his warm, ironie mirth--the same that had played with her the first night--flashed ont at sight of her. But after a moment an­ other expression mixed with it sharpened it and fastened upon her with an incredulous iutentness. She stood on the threshold, pale, and brilliant still in her blaze of an­ ger, equal, at last, to anything. Kerr, as he signaled to her with every line­ ament of his enlivened face, his inter­ est, his defiance, his uncontrollability, was not the man of her imaginary ennversatlons. He was not here to be UBed and disposed of; but, as he came toward her, the new admiration in his face was bringing her reassurance that neither was she. The thought that her moment of bitter incredulity had made her formidable gave her courage even to smile, though she grew hot at the first words he spoke. "You should not be brave and then run away, you know." She thought of her rush up the Stairs again. "1 had to go back to man; lajr.it to my being a crack* brained enthusiast a confounded beauty worshiper, a vicious curio deal­ er, an ill-mannered ass! But"--and he flashed aroifnd at her with a snap of his nervous fingers--"where did you get it?" ) For the life of her she couldn't help her wave of color, but through It all she clung tQ her festal smile. Sheer nervousness made it easy. "Well, suppose It was begged, bor­ rowed, or--given to me? Suppose it came from here or far away yonder? What's that to do with its beauty?" She g$ve him question for question. "Did you ever see it before?" He never left off looking at her, looking at her with a hard inquiry, as if she were some simple puzzle that he unaccountably failed to solve. "That's rather neat the way you dodge me," he said, dodging in his turn. "But I fcon't see it now. You're not wearing it?" She played indifference with what a beating heart! "Oh, I only w«ar it off and on." "Off and on!" His voice suddenly rang at her. "Off and on! Why, my good woman, it's Just two days you could have worn it at all!" She stood up--stood facing him. For a moment she knew nothing except that her horrible idea was a fact. She had the eye of* the Crew Idol, and this man knew it! Yet the fact declared gave her courage. She watched him with increasing doubt After saying so much, was be going to say nothing more? She had a feeling that she bad not heard the worst yet S2d lie iuiueii UBtk to her from the other end of the room there was something so haggard, so harassed, so fairly guilty about him that if she had ever thought of tell­ ing him the truth of how she came by the ring she put it away from hei now. i IWW1 minmm m iMpi HI "You Can't Get It Away from Ma, and I Shan't Give it to You." see Mrs. Britton." (Oh, how she had seen her!) "Ah, I thought you only ran back to hide in your doll's house." She laughed. Such a picture of her! "Well, at any rate, now I've come out what have you to say to me?" "Now you've come out" repeat­ ed, and looked at her this time with full gravity, as if he realized finally how far she'd come. She had taken the chair in the light of the eastern windows. She lay back in the cushions, her head a little bent, her hands Interlaced with a perfect imitation of quietude. He looked down upon her from his height "You know what I've come for," he aald, "but now I'm here, now that I see you, I wonder if there's something I haven't reckoned on." He looked at her earnestly. "If you think I've taken advantage of you--if you say so--I'll go away, and give you a chance to think it over." It would have been so easy to have nodded him out but instead she half put out her hand toward him. "No; stay." He gave her a quick look--surprise and approbation at her courage. He dropped into a chair. "Then tell me about it" Flora's heart went quick and little. She held herself very still, afraid in her tense consciousness lest her slightest movement might betray her. She only moved her eyes to look up at him questioningly, suspending ac­ knowledgment of what h« meant until he should further commit himself. "I mean the sapphire," he said. He waited. "Yes," she answered coolly. "I saw that it Interested you last night but I couldn't think especially why. It's a beautiful stone." He laughed without a sound--shook nolselassly for a minute. "Meaning that a gentleman shouldn't pounce upon any beautiful stone he may hap­ pen to see?" He got up and moved about /eetlesaiy in the little space between their two chairs, "Quit* so; la? It •• waj Mag more than a gentle- But beneath his distress she recog­ nised a desperate earnestness. There was something he wanted at any cost but he was going to be gentle with her. She had felt before the poten­ tiality of his gentleness, and she doubted her power to resist it She fanned up all the flame of anger that had swept her into the room. She re­ minded herself tjjat the greatest gen­ tleness might Only be a' blind; that there waa nothing stronger than want­ ing something very much, and that the protection of the Jewel was very thin. But when he stood beside her she realized he held a stronger weapon against ber than his gentle­ ness, something apart from his inten­ tion. He was speaking, almost coaxingly. aa if to a child. "I understand," he was saying. "I know all about it It's a ,mistake. But surely you don't ex­ pect t6 keep it now. It will only be an annoyance to you." She turned on him. "What could it be to you?" Kerr, planted before her, with bis head dropped, looked, looked, looked, as if he gave silence leave to answer for him what it would. It answered with a hundred echoes ringing up to her from long corridors of conjecture, half-articulated words breathing of how extraordinary the answer must be that he did not dare to make. "What will you take for it?" he said at last She was silent With a sick dis­ trust It came to her that it was the very worst thing he could have said after that speaking silence. She stepped away from him. "This thing is not for sale." He stared at her with amazement; then threw back his head and laughed as If something had amused htm above all tragedy. "You are an extraordinary crea­ ture," ha said, "but really I muat have it I can't explain the why of it; only give the sapphire to me, and you'll never be sorry for having done that tor me. Whatever happens, you may be sure I won't talk. Kven If the thing waM out you shan't he mixed up in it" He had come near her again, and the point of Us long forefinger rested on her arm. She j was motionless, overwhelmed with pure terror, with despair. "Why not give it to me now," he urged, "since, of course, you can't keep it? 1 could have It now in spite of yon " Everything in her sprang up in antagonism to meet him. "I know what you are," she cried, "but you shan't have it You have no more right to it than I. You can't get it away from me, and 1 shan't give it to you." He had grown suddenly paler; his eyes were dancing, fastened upon her breast. His "long hands closed and opened. She looked down, arrested at the sight of her band clenched just •where her breath was shortest, over the sapphire's hiding-place. He smiled. How easily she had be­ trayed herself! But she abated not a jot of her defiance, challenging him. now he knew its bidding-place, to take the sapphire if he could. But he did not move. An<! it came to her then that she had been ridiculous to think for an instant that this man would take anything from her by force. What she had to fear was his will at work upon hers, his persuasion, his Ingenuity. She thought of the pur­ ple irises, and how he had drawn them toward him in the crook of his cane--and her dread was lest he meant to overcome her with some subtlety she couid not combat The click of a moving latch brought his eves from bore to deer. "Some one is coming in," he said In a guarded voice. It warned her that her face showed too much, but she could not hope to recover her com­ posure. She hardly wanted to. She was in a state to fancy that a secret could be kept by main force; and she turned without abatement of her reck­ less mood and took her hand from where she had held it clenched upon her breast and stretched it out to Mrs. Herrick. The lady had stood in the doorway a moment--a long-featured, whitish, modeled face, draped in a dull green veil, a tall figure whose flowing skirts of black uueiiea away into the back­ ground of the hall--before she came forward and met her hostess' band with a clasp firm and ready. "I'm so glad to find you here," she said. She looked directly Into Flora's eyes. Into the very center of her agi­ tation. She held her tremulous hand as if neither of these manifestations surprised her; as if a young woman and a young man in colloquy might often be found in such a state of mind Flora's first emotion was a guilty relief that after all, her face had not betrayed Kerr. But she had no sooner murmured his name to Mrs. Herrick, no sooner had that lady's gray eyes light­ ed upon him, than they altered their clear confidence. The situation as reflected in Flora looked naive enough, but there was nothing naive about Kerr. The very perfection of his coolness, there in the face of her burning agitation, was appalling. Mrs. Herrick's face was taking on an expression no less than wary. What he was, Mrs. Herrick could not dream. She could not even suspect what Flora believed. But in the light of her terrible discovery Flora dared not have him suspected at all. Now, if she had ever in her life, she talked over the top of her feel­ ings; and though at first to her ears her voice rang out horribly alfcne, presently Mrs. Herrick was helping her, adding words to words. It was the house they spoke of, the San Ma­ teo house, the subject about which Flora knew Mrs. Herrick had come to talk; but to Flora it was no longer a subject. It was a barrier, a shield. In this emergency it was the only subject large enough to fill the gap, and much as Flora had liked the idea of it she had never built the house so large, so vivid, so wonderfully tow­ ering to please her fancy as she was doing now to cover Kerr. With ques­ tions she led Mrs. Herrick on to spin out the sublet, to play it over with lights and shades, to beat all around it. And all the while she knew that Kerr was watching her. The lady's clear gray eyes traveled between Flora's face and his. Under their steady light there was a strange alertness, as if she sat there ready enough to avert whatever threatened, but anxious to draw her skirts aside from it, distrusting the quality, hating to have come in upon snythlng so du­ bious. When the hall door opened and closed she listened as if for a de­ liverer; and when Clara appeared be­ tween the portieres she turned to her and met ber with a flash cf relief, as if here at last was a safe quantity. Clara was still wearing her hat with the veil pushed up in a little mist above her eyes, and still had her white gloves on. The sight of Mrs. Herrick's hand soliciting the clasp of those gave Flora a curious sensation She looked from one face to an other, and last at Kerr's. She shul her eyes an instant Here was a thlel He was standing In her drawlng-rooa now. She had been talking with him She opened her eyes. The fact ac Rnowiedged had not altered ^ne COIOI of daylight. It was strange thai things--furniture and walls and land scape--should remain so stolidly th» same when such a thing had happene/ to her! ,^For she had not only spokei with a thief, but she had shielde< him. Backache, headache*, dizsy spells and distressing urinary troubles warn you of dropsy, diabetes and fatal Bright'* disease. Act in time by curing the kidneys with Doan's Kidney Pills. They have cured ^ thousands and will cure you. Mrs. Frances Col* Hns, nurse, Box 30, Boonville, Mo., says: "For 30 years I suf­ fered from kidney trouble. I had baci* pains and was both­ ered by dizziness. I became tired easily and was very nervous^ The kidney secretions also proved an­ noying. Doan's Kidney Pills benefited" me promptly. They have my highest endorsement." Remember the name--Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 csnts 4 box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. OUT OF THE QUESTION. CHAPTER XII. Disenchantment. Then this was the end of all ro mance? She must turn her back o* the charm, the power, the spell tha# had been wrought around her, and horror-struck, pry into her own min# to discover what lawless thing coull be in her to have drawn her to sucl a person, and to keep her, even nou that she knew the worst, unwilling t« relinquish the thought of him. Hit depravity loomed to her enormous] but vas that all there was to be saM of him? Did his delicacy, his insight his tempered fineness, count for noth ing beside it? Sh« couldn't believe that this on< spot could make him rotten through out. Her mind ran back Into the past She could not recall a word, an ao tlon, or a glance of his that ha4 shown the color of decay. He had no(|. even been insincere with her. He ha# come out with his convictions so flat ly that when she thought of it hit nonchalance appalled her. He haq been the same then that he was nom But the thing that was natural fot him was impossible for her, and shi had found it out--that was all. Yet the mere consideration of hln,i and his obsession as one thing wai intolerable. She curiously separate^ his act from himself. She thought o4 it, not as a part of him, but as som» thing that had invaded him--a di» case--something inimical to himself and others, that mixed the thought oi him with terrors, and filled her waj with difficulties. Now it was no long er a question of how to meet him, but of how she was not to. It was not hit strength she feared, but her owq weakness where he was concerned Her tendency to shield him--she tuusf guard against that--and that disturb ing influence he exercised over hec too evidently without intention. Bui he would be hard to avoid. This wa] and that she looked for a way out o ber danger, yet all the while she wai conscious that there was but one plali way of escape open to her. Sh< could give the sapphire back to Harr] within the 24 hours. (TO BE CONTINUED.) jfTea--i near George and his never quarrel now. Maud--No, you see they're one now, and it takes two to make a quarraL Woman Lawyer Nothing New Old Records Tell of Case Where One Pleaded Before Court In An­ cient Babylonia. Among the most Interesting treas­ ures of the British museum are the clay tablets of ancient Babylonia. These tablets, resembling unglased tiles, throw quaint lights and shadows on the manners and customs of long ago. Usually tha records are frag­ mentary, but are occasionally fairly complete, as Is that of legal proceed­ ing instituted by a "woman of Bor- sippa," which action is of particular interest as showing that a married woman's property law waa in force as early as 650 B. C. The proceedings to which tha "doc­ uments" refer were taken by a wom­ an against her brotheiMn-law to re­ gain possession of property left by her husband. The evidence showed that a man of Babylon had married the woman from Borslppa, and with the money of her dowry he had bought an estate. After a few years, having no children of their own^ they adopted a son, and shortly afterward the husband mortgaged the estate. Later he died, leaving the estate mort­ gaged, and his brother attempted to claim the property. The widow took the matter before the court at Borsippa; but it was be­ yond the jurisdiction of this court and was referred to the high court at Babylon. Here the case was duly heard, and the Judges rendered a de­ cision to the effect that as the proper­ ty had been the a uuband's, the widow eould have It upon paying off the martsafs, and tiWkt tha brother had no claim. Eventually, the estat< would be the property of the adopted son. It Is expressly stated, as thougb a matter of Borne interest that the woman pleaded her own case In th< high court of Babylon without assist ance.--The Sunday Magasine. Hopeful Sign. That the war on tubereuloels payi Immediate dividends in human lift is proved by a report of Dr. Boatay, health commissioner of Baltimore. Ii the monthly health bulletin for Jul] it is shown that the number of death! from tuberculosis occurring in the cit) was 92, as compared with 1S3 for the same month last year. Dr. Boaley sayt that he attributes the decrease la th# number of deaths to the edueationak campaign that those Interested in tha fight against the "white plague" an making. 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Cuticura Reme** dies are sold throughout the worlds,: Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole pro* prletors, Boston, Mass. Send to there­ for th© latest Cuticura Book, an ao* thority on the best care of the skii%> scalp, hair and hands. It la mallei free on request ^ She Took Ne Chancea. A happily wedded matron to tfcif principal of an odd incident, which one of her "dear" friends relates. Before the matron's engagement to her present husband was announced*^ she met her "dear" friend on th^y street The new matron was hurryin^ft toward one of the large jewelry storerfv' of the city. "John gave me an engagement ring,** t she explained, without a shadow of embarrassment, "and I am going down* to see how much it cost You see, £ got the jeweler's name off tha box,-" and she hurried on. The same friend said that another* bit of Information the matron got waa . the commercial standing of the pro*** pectlve husband, which she secured; by paying for a special report front: • a commercial agency. ^ r* Beware the Dog! » A family moved from the city to a*^ suburban locality and were told that ' they should get a watchdog to guard ^ the premises at night So they bought | ̂ the largest dog that was for sale in the kennels of a neighboring dog fan-« cler, who was a German. Shortly - • afterward the house was entered by^ burglars, who made a good haul, while the big dog slept The man went to the dog fancier and told him about it "Veil, vat you need now," said tha dog merchant "is a leedle dog to vake • up the big dog.'V--Everybodj'a. •M ; : ll ;S3S" m The Boy's Ignoranoe. Son--Pa. I don't want to wear old pants of yours; they're too big the kids give me the laugh. Father--Nlver mind th' klda. YeH grow into thlm pants. Son--But why can't. I wear my old ones till I do grow into yours? Father--Is that th* lxtint lw y*r iddy cation! How kin ye Ixpect t' grow Ints mine without wearin' thlm?--Ulaatsa* ad Sunday Magaslaa. PUZZLED Hard Warfc, Sometime* Children. * t Children's taste is ofttimes more ao- < curate, in selecting the right kind of food to fit the body, than that of adults. Nature works more fteenmta- ly through the children. < i A Brooklyn lady says: "OttT littla £ boy had long been troubled with , .,*1 weak digestion. We could never peiv. suade him to take more than one taste• . . | of any kind of cereal food. He waa v : a weak little chap and we were pu»- ^ sled to know what to feed him cm. '-',1 "One lucky day we tried Grape- - * Nuts. Well, you never saw a child eat with such a relish, and It did ma good to see him. From that day on: It seemed as though we could almost v see him grow. He would eat Grape* >^1 N u t s f o r b r e a k f a s t a n d s u p p e r , a n d I ; A : ; ; think he would have liked tha food for dinner. „• "The difference In hia appearance , k something wonderful. 4* "My husband had never faaafed da»p--1'-- A real foods of any kind, but he be- ; . / came very fond of Grape-Nuts and haa^^ "J"® been much Improved In health stuce^;. ,1J using it "We are now a healthy family,-andp'- ^"4 naturally believe In Grape-Nuts. ,s ^ 4" "A friend has two children who were £ formerly afflicted with rickets. I was V' satisfied that the disease was caused : ^ by lack of proper nourishment They y;--; showed it So I urged her ts uss Grape-Nuts as an experiment and tha result was almost magical. "They continued the food and today both children are well and strong aa any children in this city, and. 0# course, my friend is a firm believer in j Grape-Nuts for she has the avWenca ^ before her eyes every day." Bead "The Road to Wellville," found In pkgs. 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