THE YOUNGATHLETE'S START

Why Not? Just Look at the Violinistsand Pianists with Shaggy Manes.

The newest scheme for making hairgrow on bald heads is treatment bymusic.

So far as any definite conclusionshave been reached it appears thatstring music, including the piano, isfavorable to the growth of the hair,while wind instruments, especiallythe wood wind, are destructive to it.

Look at Paderewski, says the advo-cate of the remedy. Hasn't he somehair? And what about Isaye andKubelik? Go back to Paganini andRublnstein and Liszt. Did you eversee a violinist or a piano virtuosowho hadn't hair enough to stock awigmaker?

On the other hand, look over anyorchestra or brass band if you cancatch it with its hats off. Did oneever see a flute player or a cornetistor a trombone operator who wasn'teither bald or getting there?

An attempt to 'xplaln the allegeddifference is made by assuming thatthe powerful vibrations of the windinstruments drive the blood out ofthe scalp, while the strings awaken a

I sympathetic quiver in the skin andhair which has an effect like vibra-tory massage. Sonme of the barbersin London, Paris and Ilerlin are talk-ing of adding violin soloists or evenstring quarters to their staff to play,for a consideration, over the heads oftheir patients.

Cultivation of Gossip.A visionary man has undertaken to

cultivate gossip. Gossip of the pastand present, he believes, has been toowild, rank and careless, and he is anx-ious that it be pruned and trimmed.Cultivated gossip will certainly not beas entertaining, spicy and palatableas the loose and untamed kind, but itis believed that it will do less harm tothe neighbors.

There are those persons who feelthat cultivated gossip will be stale,fiat and unprofitable. Gossip, to begood gossip, must have a bite, a tip-gle and a tang to it. Gossip to bemost interesting must be injurious tosomebody. The most popular gossipmust have plenty of scandal in it. Ifscandal should be censored out of gos.sip there would be no gossip, and thiswould ho an inconcelvabla condition.

KILLS BIG PANTHERIN FIERCE BATTLE

BRAVE TEXAS WIDOW VAN.

QUISHES MONSTER BRUTE

IN DEADLY STRUGGLE.

GIRL RUNS SWORD INTO BEAST

Animal Discovered in Home on TheirReturn from Visit-Daughter Uses

Dead Father's Weapon toGood Advantage.

Marble Falls. Tex.--One of the mostremarkable batrtlcs with a wild animalthat ever occurr(el in tlhe wilds ofwestern 'Texas tlook pilace a few ni:htsgo'Z, in th, hIOts,, of Mrs. ('alone,, twilow who lives in the IDvil river('onittrV not tar I" i'iL ,no. 'lbhexvidow anI hler tl!ree children--two little fellows and a dalIlhtr albout zrowti-had been Spentiin g smt (days \vivi-ing a relative, and 'whenl they returneldto their house. which consisted of asingle room with a small shed roomused for a kilchon, they tottiWed thata window had bee- bLroken. Two panllsof glass and a li'.Ece of the windowframe had, been smashed and the Ibroken pieces of glass were scatteredabout the floor and on the ground ouit-side.

Mother and daughter were consider-ably puzzled, but accustomed to dan-gers and strange happenings on thefrontier they did not worry as to thecause and set about preparing sup-per.

Suddenly from a closet there camea scream that stopped every heartstill and chilled the blood of thewoman and children. They huddledtogether and were juist ready to makea run for the door when the closetdoor flew wide open and there withglaring eyes of fire stood a monsterpanther bristling and gnashing hiswhite fangs.

They were cut off from the door, forthey knew that the infuriated beastwould spring upon them the momentthey startedl across the room. Mrs. Ca-lone looked about for a weapon, butthere \ s nothing within reach butthe andirons in the fireplace. Fannysaw something better. Hangingagainst the wall close enough to be

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She Plunged the Blade Into His Body.

grasped at a single step was her deadfather's sword. He had been an officerin the ranger service of the Lone Starrepublic.

"That was a horrible situation fora few moments," says Mrs. Calone.

The agonizing suspense did not lastlong. The mad brute began to wag hislong tall and lick his red chops. TheSpartan mother realized that the bat-tle was on, andi as site seized t.he dog-iron she shouted to her children:"Run under the bed:"

The panther with a wild shriekvaunted toward the group. The littlechildren were scrambling away, andthe two women stepl,led al~ait. Themad monster passed between themand he landed right into the fire.Clawing the bttrning coals antd howl-ing with rage the tortured beast wasdoubtless partially blinded. Mrs. Ca-lone struck him a hard blow on thehead which staggered him; but whenhe leaped front the firtep!ace he mad,'straight for the mother, who wasaiming to reach the door for the pur-pose of throwing it open.

"Showers of sparks cracking and fly-ing from his fur and his red mouthwide open he looked! hideouts einuohto have paralyzed a braver womanthan I," says Mrs. Calone. Fannv hadgrasped the sword, and as the horriblebeast sprang upon her mother she ranforward and plunged the blade intohis .body. He was not easy to kill.The brave girl had to strike againand slash the monster almost intotwo pieces before he relaxed his jawsand rolled quivering and harmlessupon the bloody floor."I am not much hurt, daughter," ex.

claimed the mother, splringing to herfeet. Fortunately her shoulder wasnot much •more than scratched.

"Thank heaven it is all over," saidFanny, sinking dow>. on the hearth,"but it will be many a long day beforeI get over the scare." After the car-cass of the big panther had beendragged out into the yard and theblood washed away the children re-turned to the hearth and the littlefamily finished their supper.

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MUSIC CURE FOR BALDNESS

NEURALGIA

The real mer, f the ord ,ralgia is nerxve, .11I a Hon: l.has suff,.retl awn, n: e Ila w hobe so anxihus ' of it, netas to hear (cf l' e , naturescarcely ':t. Though e oand l Ipeoil eh ai : heaprf . ,' u•ow one of m ao, it

flO ( t i " i le ! , tllon and Pain.fil ailment• :, aellict humanitAs now .'Ir, y e" ""r t.'.r od the Borasignifies :ii .f , i ., of the nervoosystcmnl, \tw; i !,'. : he course of thoeprincilal !i ,

The two :t "t'l' , of "euralgIare, lnpv •. , the loo" iand >I) .. :, ,Force; andthe tr'eatlie : I : t s0 obscureas hnny Wu I', i,, Sllp)ose. Thefirst thin is \ the Pain,which i l d :: . and sati.iacwt:it bi- r.. Ul: than bySany othr rA~: : ; the secol_

objec.t is to : .'. cause, whi.chis au'com liVl:, :l . "" .' abunidant useof nr'ishi• " ',, f a :atulre tostreni.thn 'al :!o to both theinuwcular and in : . Sis.

Class Favirit;sm."The I.ili'.n :,'. ,: n hill putsan en, to tIl •' . . of the five

tribes. I noti (,.' :.::'i k d eeder,looking 11p fl il : 1.i '

Sllllump'" '~ ;nnru!pll. whosewife's cousin i, ::ii.:t a protract.(d visit, at his I .,. " ish wewere Indians."--Kan: as ( 'it Times.

We Reiterate.That for Ir tl:e: ti;:te.n years

ilunt's Cure Ihas 1: wriing on theafflicted. Its llis::i,, is I o cure skintroubles, patricuiilti y lth~ se of anitch.in character. Its .rc.. ss is not onaccount of oal'VerlisitI., Ibut hoealuse itsurely (does 1 the wrk. One box isguaranteed to cur, .;ly u e.

Doing True Work.It is not by regrettiun what is ir-

reparable that true work is to be done,but by making the best of what weare. It is not by compllaining that wehave not the right tools, but by usingwell the tools we have.-Ruskin.

Importanrt to Mothers.Examine carefully every bottle of

CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy forinfants and children, and see that it'

Bears theSignature of

in Use For Over 30 Years.The Kind You Have Always Bou'ght

This is undoubtedly a dirty-lookingold world to the man who is too lazyto clean his spectacles.

Pettit's Eye Salve First Sold in 1807100 years ago, sales increatse yearly, wonder-ful remned; cured million' wenlk eves. Alldruggists or Howard Brs.. lhiutialo, N. Y.

An easy-going man is apt to mateit hard going for his wife.

There is need for Garfield Tea when theskin is sallow, the tongue coated, andwhen headaches are frequent.

TEhe harder a man works the harderit is to work him.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 8yrup.

For children teething, softens the gumrs, reduce bOammation, allays pain, cures wind collic. 2ca bottl,

Of course you never took advantag9of any one.

peat four times the first morning notstopping to rest between times. A''erthat increase the number of "rises"by one each morning till you can riseand sink back 20 times. If you findyou cannot stand this ratio of increasewithout undue fatigue increase by oneevery other morning instead of everym'ornIIfg.

()(d!- lime gymnasts were taught toris. enti :'ily to a sitting posture inthis ,ex,.rclse. This, however, is harm-tir. For ftt'" youl are about three-qua rt( rs of ti'e way 'up the strain be-gilns to f•ll onl thte spine, which itwca i's withou;t strengthening.

Thli: "rising and sinking" exercise iss;'l 'ncl ndi f ior ntrn:theniII all the mus-

I s of ii:,' lck a;nl a td ldun!ln, and is

;I-f('I tn!!ic ia. lof thie eg miruscles.In f i a; w l as in all the other" ex-

i i t, I n1,' liaf. .\t the sramie trllrri(i( linIt I.i,'Ve j,':kily. Eviry mvlliVenient

r!: l!d 11 r- I ilanr uld quick, but not

I'nr in e;i'rc r, wh-ei starii!.e begin

, oii< to t 1nt too•'. t , thr'',, foullr. A tthe werui I \w I'-hti U !ti I~ '"ip;" atli!' w,\ I f''o r .vi sh..t )ihl III' o( youriI

:i(k a;i-ain' strllt iiL T( rii:s again attI, nt'xt c.oulint of '"o,'r." A second-;huld ealrpse bhet wecn each twociiiotnts.

A.\fter a tienie tihis exercise will cormeeasier. \\'hetn it does try this v'aria-tion on it:

Instcad of f(olding the arms across

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"Rising" and "Sinking" Exercise.

the chest, lie holding them straightabove the head, and at every second"rise" bring them down to the sides.This is of benefit to the chest as wellas to the upper arm muscles.

A "Suppling" Movement.After you have gone through this

first exercise the required number oftimes, stand up, heels together, chestout, arms hanging loosely.

Now stoop forward, without movingthe feet, keeping the whole body be-low the waist perfectly rigid. Bendforward until your finger tips touchthe floor in front of you.

You may be unable to touch thefloor in this fashion the first time youtry. But by practicing constantly yourmuscles will soon "limber up" suffl-ciently to enable you to do so. Re-member to keep the legs rigid, theknees unbent, while doing this.

Having touched the floor, rise to anupright posture and try the same mo-lion over again. When counting inIhis exercise, take three seconds totouirch the floor and three more to riseagain.

I)o this four times the first morn-ing and incrcase it by one each morn-ing, until you get it up to 20.

Now, standing as before, Ieeplrgthe heels together, bend as far backas you can, without losing your bal-ance; and recover your upright pos-ture once more. This backward mo-tion should be done slowly and easily,with no wrench or jerkiness in the re-covery. Do not lean back so far thatit will be any strain on back or abdo-men to recover your former position.Practice will enable you to go fartherbackward as time goes on.

Try this, too, four times the firstmorning, increasing by one, until youreach 20,

Then try the forward motion again,until the fingers touch the floor; and,on recovery, do not stop at the upIrightposture, but continue moving theuliper half of the body backward, thuscombining the two motions, andt, re-covering, move forward until the fin-gers again touch the floor. Try thedaily increase of on' on this motion,too. These forward and backward mo-tions are excellent for both abdomenand back, especially for the latter, andare also good for the legs.

ALBERT PAYSON TERIHIUNE.

For instance: Your school hours areprobably from 9 to 3. You dv'`::oe agood part of the evening to study..That leaves you The best part (of the1afternoon and an hour in the no1 or!in

for athletic s. It is really 11111(i1 I ''

tuime thlin you need.Now, befire I lay (lit any cenl1s of

lit of e : , t ihat atpli,'s - ' !(i!l. v ,th,. b y it d;etl the b()- if It it

N, ",(r x ler,' .n 0,' ::h ' " n:, .

S. ' , 'ii y o .f 1 t.X !! \ ' ' ll,.ll' ,II\lml:. ", , ii . le• 1 r ,.i'

tlit, worklin of bioth * body i al l, 'i 'ld.(i intek or thllr u.h Ir , 'd ln •~c 1 utItls-n('ji s a n t I or bn y 'ta ! 111, t l is 1 I st.

Stomach Must Be Right.ti O it i ito :"( oni' , a i ll ciye II itio n.i:tiltl tI,(' ( '(Hi.(sI

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l'hi~ ; is lfot I1the ttl for a o;I. It ictIe sthe in st sIlt (if it ais nt ancss a 'to it ons hayri learned Whoif hl:.u r 'inlnctod to otaill that Cfoo nll it. ()u thou

('iist, non of the sonls, 'he c rl,,,(s hatthel w'oikning (If hotl h bu(ly andl mind.A weak or dis'n'turhe st•eaet h ~teenlyit fis a mthin or boylik die his hostwork. ch, in r intr, to bco(le an ath-let, first build up the stobuck'h. et-ting it into strong, healthy ('Olndition.'hat is half theare not good for attiyou.in. Leav. t us g alone I, too;e tand

stfor ach you first iend. glancey, it ishllost as isy to life.make it thy do not.ge'rOlls enl'emly.

In Theye firscut out only the i not thingcessaryto dinot eat rigidly as if you are tired outingRest a cofew llegminute fooball gain such ame but ybe-oumust, 1i10, th e ile hiss, be careful whatyfore eating. Take noot eviolent ts between

eals; don'least halt f an hour after eating.lessit is something like lice o. tipioca

Dont smokleave. Thasty alone. It istoo mach, iand nerves, to exnoect anboy wholly to give up buckwheatcakes; but they are not good for you.If you must eat them dro so in modera-tion. Leave sausage lquorne, too; andother highly spicethat wa foods. Neither tea

o)r coffee should be drunk by anygrowilege g boy; least of all by an ath-lete- Fried foods of all sorts are badfor ot Now, at first hours' sglance you mayfancy these restrictions cut out thebest things of life. But they do not.They cut out only the worst things.

Do not eat when you are tired out.Rest a few minutes in such a case be-fore eating. Take no violent exercisefur at least half an hour after eating.

Smoking Not AlIowali'e.Don't smoke. That is bad for both

stomach and nerves, and no-normalboy gets any real pleasuccre from doingit. Leave beer and liquor to olderpeople who are foolish enough tospend money that way for the priv.ilege of wrecking their constitutions.

Get at least nine hours' sleep everynight.

The foregoing nstructions must betorigorously followed by every boy whodesires to be an athlete, whether he bein primary school or In college. Foron stomach and nerves hang all anathlete's chances of success. And theperfect condition of nerves and stom-ach depends on the strict observanceof these rules.

The course of exercises to follow isintended for boys under 14. dres to

ol the arof 14 no boy should take powserise touslard any of thoes mostre strenuout

ping orts. moving thare apt to injure frames

nThe exercises I preosture, ut only are

abould-be athle-quartes, either oldf the distance.uthen sink back againe inteo your former

pwition hisand rscope.at the rocss of rs-Hering. e is a good daily rothine togs rigidstart

and unor movd while doing tho is. Rise

and uitnnoved while (doin~g this. Ire-

ANY BOY MAY BECOME STRONG

IF HE WILL CAREFULLY FOL-LOW DIRECTIONS.

RULES FOR THE BEGINNER

"First Gain Consent of Your Stomach"-"Rising and Sinking" and Oth-

er Exercises That AreGood.

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE.[Athletic i:•. rt ,f N. Yrk ! :.:.

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There is no t'. i , roIl to atil' ipower aniy turc' tlan tlic.'i is a rty,tlroad to l' arnirig.You can't .o to h•',, ',no;;lra t aIn'

wake the ne xt ina: tirln with a (oll'-'•.education: nior (;ir , 1 l';:r I\' a 1"*"a

w0e ks of ov, ,ti'.. 1I ,ilt hat ta';i a I• i I-nial I,i" yeatis to ;t( II:uiri'.It is ith ll s:n e with v ii th•l , ties. A1,st

botys, sooi•i r or llt ir, htv I, ::ings tobe sTirnt. 1t :t of thit "rake out"this amhiiii-n in .re, Ill;r;lanil : a f,-..

more do 1 i ; !'t ;it ill t in much11,h ath-letic work i " a t, .,-k tor so arci thengramlualty ca• i do.itlg anty at all. Yetthey wontder that thiy Tiotie nio h-ne-fit fron c w!hat little, thl y' ha e d oe.

Persistent Effort Required.Now, atiletic r-ot'u ss is ilike an edu-

cation. It (cain t1, hi llastere oi excep(t.by steady and I on; work. If you lookon this s)ork as t hoere ari fail to con-centrate your mind on It yonu nit y aswell give up) all hopes of hecoming anathlete. tN. is only the Ivly whosi, in-terest in exercise is st or• enough tokeep him at it consistently who c(anaspire to athletic hi on s. To such aboy there is nothing imri(ossible. Ilk,will surcetdl in athletics as 1•e will suc-ceed in later life,; lierhats :' will owohlich of the Ia:ter success to the for-mer.Now the by who h:,. not the

strength of lnTrln.ise to k,-, p up th-athletic careert he has once begaunwill gain nothing by readi g these les-sons. They are written for the boywho wants to be a a thlete, and whowill stick to the exercise unercise til he be-comes one. I know how hard it is toremember to go through all your ex-ercises every day and how easy it isto get in the habit of postponing themuntil some more convenient season,and to end by omitting them alto-gether.

But the same applies to school work.If you can set aside a portion of eachday for school you can set aside a farsmaller portion of the day for ath-letics.

Let mre suggest that you get threeor four other boys to form with you asort of informal athletic club and thatyou exercise together. In this wayyou caqnot only point out each other'smistakes and have a (,hance to com-pare your improvements with that ofothers, but the -presence of otherswill help you resist the temptation ofgiving up the work.

Delicate Boys Made Strong.If you will promise to adhere faith.

fully to the rules I shall lay out Ipromise to make you an athlete. Itdoes not matter whether you are

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"Suppling" Exercise.

fragile and tire easily or if you are on-of those boys who seemn to be cut outof-a hlckorn knot. In either case youcan become an athlete if you keep atit long enough.

sid.nt Rooseveit-long before he-was Iesldent-told rle that as a hoyhe was sickly and delicate. lly ath.letic work and outdoor exercise he ac-quired a physique and a brain thathave given the word "strenruous" anew meaning. The present emlperoro( Germany was another fragile childwhem early athletics rendered stronga;id vigorous. James J. Corhett, thebexer, Is a third of mnany such exam-ple. that might be cited.It is not the boy or man with the

enormous, cast-Iron muscles who isthe ideal athlete. The true athlete ish1 w-ho has every muscle trained andsupple, who has every inch of his bodyunder-perfect and immediate control;whose brain and body are in perfectaieord. The ox Jas twice the size,muscle and pulling power of the tiger,yt the tiger Ia by far the more for-ul4ble. Go thetrained athlete isealy the master of the longshoremanor etreet tough.

Many boys 111 object that they aretdb. busy at school to go in for ath-l 'Cs. This is a mistake.

le you are in school or studying,blrsh every thought of athletics fromvpt3 mind and think of nothing buttimbook before you. But you will findyou have ample time, outside of study.e'Irm to become sa athlete.

AN INTERESTINGCHEMICAL EXPERIMENT

Any Child Can Do It-The Result IsAlmost Like Magic-Useful, Too.

Anything in the nature of a chem-ical experiment is always interestingand usually educative. Here is a sim-ple experiment which any child canperform and which is instructive in avery practical way: Get a bit of WhiteLead about the size of a pea, a pieceof charcoal, a common candle in acandlestick, and a blow-pipe. Scoopout a little hollow in the charcoal tohold the White Load, then light thecandle, take the charcoal and lead inone hand and the blow-plpe in theother, with the large end of the blow-pipe between the lips; blow the ltameof the candle steadily against the bit

Wt \White Lead on the charcoal and ifth. White I.ead is pure it will pres-etltly resolve itself into little shiningglolbules of nwetallic lead, ulnder theinteInse' heat of the blow-pipe, leavingno residue.

If, however, the White Lead is adul-terated in the slightest degree, it willnot wholly change into bIald. So, itwill be seen, that this experiment, isnot only an entertaining chemical(ldemonst iatitn, but also of practicaluse in the home. White Lead is thenlmo.t iimporltant iniro(lient of paint.It should be bought pure and unadul-t. rattd and mixed with pure linseedoil. That is the best paint. Theabove easy experiment enables any.tne to know whether the paint is thekind which will wear or not.

The National Lead Company guar-antee that white lead taken from apackage bearing their "Dutch BoyPainter" trade-mark will prove abso-lutely pure under the blow-pipe test;and to encourage people to make thetest and prove the purity of paint be-fore using it, they will send free ablow-pipe and a valuable booklet onpaint to anyone writing them askingfor Test Equipment. Address Na-tional Lead Company, WoodbridgeBuilding, New York City.

BUT WAS IT THE SAME MELON?

Paper Carried by Darky AmountedAlmost to Perpetual Permit.

"A negro just loves a watermelon,"said Representative Johnson of SouthCarolina. "Strange, too, that when apoliceman sees a negro with a melonat an unreasonable hour he has itright down that the darky has stolenthat watermelon. I heard a story abouta policeman who met a negro in theearly hours of the morning, and hehad a big melon on his shoulder.

"'I Fee you have a melon there?'"'Yes, sah,' answered the darky.

'I'se got er melon; but I'se fixed feryou, sah,' and pulling out a paper hehanded it to the officer, who read:'This bearer of this is 0. K. He paidme ten cents for the melon, and heis a pillar in the church. JamesElder.' '

"'You are fixed,' said the officer."'Dat's what I 'lowed,' answered the

negro, and he moved on."-Washing,ton Herald.

How Her Life Was Saved When Bit-ten By a Large Snake.

How few people there are who arenot afraid of snakes. Not long ago aharmless little garter snake sell onI the wheel of an automobile which wasbeing driven by a woman. The womanpromptly fainted and the car, left toits own resources, ran into a stonewall and caused a serious accident.

The bite of a poisonous snake needsprompt attention. Mrs. K. M. Fishel,

I Route No. 1, Box 40, Dillsburg, Pa.,tells how she saved her life when bit-ten by a large snake.

"On August 29, 1906, I was bittenon the hand twice by a large copper-head snake. Being a distance fromany medical aid, as a last resort Iused Sloan's Liniment, and to my as-tonishment found it killed all pain andwas the means of saving my life. Iam the mother of four children andam never without your Liniment."

A Popular Game."Where hav yez been this evenin'?"

asked O'Riley of O'Toole."Sure, I hav been playing 'Bridget

whist,'" said O'Toole."Bridget whist? an' how do yez play

thot?""I sit in the kitchen wid Bridget, an'

ate pie an' cake an' chicken, an'whin, Bridget hears the missus comin'she says 'whist.'"

Deafness Cannot Be Cure4by local applications, as they cannot reach the die,eased portion of the ear. There Is only one way tocure deafners, and that is by constitutional remedles.Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of themucous lining of the Eustachtan Tube. When thistube Is Infladmed you bare a rumbling sound or tmn-perfect bearing, and when It is entirely closed. Deaf-ness Is the result,and uliless the inflammation can betaken out and this tube restored to its normal condi-tion, hearing wtll be destroyed forever; nine casesout of ten are caused by Catarrh, whlcleis nothligbUt an inflamed conditionlm of the mucoul sur.faces.

We will give One Hundred Dollary for any case ofDeafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be curedby Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circnlars. free.

F. J. CHENEY a CO., Toledo, ,Bold by Druggiasts, 75c.Take Hall's Family Pills for coanstlpation.

Promoting German Sculpture.Emperor William has rebelved Prof.

Schott, the well-known sculptor, whowith Prof. Rheinhold Begas, also asculptor, is actively engaged in pro-moting an exhibition of German sculp-ture in New Yprk. The emperor gavehis approval of the exhibit, for whichstatuary worth $750,000 has alreadybeen pledged.

Actual Facts.For upwards of fifteen years Hunt's

Cure has been sold under a strict guar.antee to cure any form of itching skintroubles known. No matter the name-less than one per cent. of the pur-chasers have requested their moneyback. Why? It simply does thework.

How many times have you won outwhen invited to go up against anoth.er man'B game?