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All food taken into the stomach which fails of perfect digestion ferments and swells the stomach, pulling it up against the heart. This Interferes with the action of the heart, and in the course of time that delicate but vital organ becomes diseased Mr. D. Kaubla, of Nevada. 0 , says: I had stomach trouble and was In a bad state as I had heart trouble with It. 1 took Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for about (out months and tt cured me. Kodol Digests What You Eat and relieves the stomach of all nervous strain and the hear* of all pressure. Bottles only. $ 1.00 S!:e holding 2V4 times the trtol Size, widen sells for 50c, Prepared by E. 0. DeWlTT &CO.. OHIOAQO. For sale by Cht -okee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowcena. The Mutual Benefit *-■* v . Life Ins. Co. For 61 Years This company has stood for all that is best in American Life Insurance. It has proved that it is possible to up hold what is right and oppose what ia wrong and succeed In building up and maintaining a great business. The recent investigations show these facta. The large annual dividends, low pre mium rates and liberal policy forms make the contracts of The Mutual Benefit the most desirable to be had. We sell you more insurance for less money than any other Life Insurance Company doing a legitimate business. In justice to yourself and family see a representative of this cornmny before you buy Life Insurance. To convince you fully of these facts we ask for an interview with Jones J. Darby, GAFFNEY, S. C. FOR SAL IVi—TiWHOWCai •You was with us, major, when I’revost served ns that trick in (leer gia. last year—kept us, you remem ifc]•_ oil the look out for him t othei side of the Savannah, whilst all the time he was whisking of it down t'< I there—he so naturally forgot he was Charleston.” i prisoner. They made him stop “You cal this beginning at the be- 1 speaking, however, because they gave ginning? Faith, you have started a i out that it was perditions language; full year before your lime. Do you lar i so they dismissed us—but we let think -ourself a Polybius or a Xen-1 them have three cheers to show that ophon—who were two famous old j w« were in hart.” fellows, just in your line, mgant— "It was like Pinckney.” said But- that you set out. with a history of a i ler; "I’ll warrant him a true man, [whole war?” |Gallbraith.” “I never knew any persons in our | line—officers or men—of either of them names,” replied Robinson; “they I were nicknames, perhaps;—but I do j know, as well as another, when a j thing turns up that is worth notice, j major; and this is one of ’em;—and ! that’s the reason why I make men j tie*-» of it. What I w')- going to say was this—that it was a sign lit for j General Lincoln's consarnment. that j these here British should make a I push at Charleston on the tenth of ! May. 1779. and get. beaten, and that exactly in one year and two (Lays af terwards, they should make another j push and win the town. Now, what ! was it a sign of, lint that they and •the lories was more industrious that ’ar than we were?” “Granted,” said Butler; "now to .'■(Mir story, Mister Philosopher!” 'In what month was it you left us?” iii-mired the sergeant grave!’* | lii March," answered Butler. "General Lincoln sent you off, as j we were told, on some business with I the continental congress: to get us more m ops, if I am right. It was a pity to ibrow away a good armv on such a place—for it wa’nt worth de- I fending at last. From the time that I you set. out they begun to shut us In "I’ll thribble that warrant,” replied Gailbraith, “and afterwards make It nine. I wish you could have hearn him. I always thought a buglo horn the best music in the world till that day. But that day Colonel Charles Cotesworth Pinckney s voice was sweeter than shawns and trumpets, as the preacher says, and bugles to boot. I have hearn people tell of speeches working like a fiddle on a man’s nerves, major; but, for my part. I think they sometimes work like a battery of field pieces, or a whole regimental band on a parade day. However. I was going on to tell you, Colonel Pinckney put a stop to all this parleying with our poor fellows: and kndwing, major, that yon was likely to he coming this way, he axed me if I thought I could give the guard the slip, and make off with a letter to meet you. Well. 1 studied over the thing for a while, and then told him a neck was but a neck anyhow, and that I could try; and so. when his letter was ready, he gay-e it to me, telling me to hid^ it so that, if I was searched it comln’t be found on my person. Do you seo that foot? asked Horse Shoe, smiling; “it Isn’t so small but that I could put a letter | bet ween the inside sole and the out. every dav a little closer. First, they longways, or even crossways for closed a (k or on one side, and then the matter of that, and that w-lthout on t’other; til at last they sent a j so much as turning down a corner, sort of flash o’ lightning fellow—this j Correspondent and accordingly I here Colonel Tn-leton—up to Monk's ! stitched it in. The colonel then told corner, which. >ou know, was our m to watch my chance and make off back door, ml In- shut that tin and | to you in the .larseys, as fast as I double bolted it. by giving Huger a; could. He told me, besides, that I One nine room house and 17 acres of land just out of town limits. Place known as the Wilkins place and sit uated near J. J. Gaffney’s on public road An excellent place for dairy or produce farm. Place will be sold at public sale on first Monday in De cember if not sold before. Apply to D. C. Ross or J. J. Gaffney, Gaffney, S. C., or F. D. Hunter, Simpsonville, S. C. Oct-26-im-pd * AM Host Anything And a little of everything is now being shown in my line: All the new conceptions and fads . : : ..In The Jewelry Line.. From the cheapest worth having to the very finest specimens and grades. Re pairing done by an Ex 'ert. Thos. H. West rope. Next to Shuford & LeMastet. Kandy Kitclmn Now is the time to make Candy and also the time to sell it. I can give you any kind you want in any shape. Also Ane&t Fruit for less money. Come and see me or ’phone 167 and you will find what you want. a-*. 1*. Aug. 31 Fri. tf. most tremenjious lathering. Now, when we,were shut in. we had noth ing to do but look out. I’ll tell you an observation I made, at that time.” “Well.” “Why, when a man has got to fight, it’s a natural sort of thing enough; but when he lias got nothing to eat, it’s an onnatural state. I have hearn of men who should have said they would rather fight than eat:—if they toH the truth they would have made honest fellows for our garrison at Charleston. First, our vegetables— after that devil took up his quarters at Monk’s corner—began to give out; then our meat; and, finally we had nothing left but rice, which I consid er neither fish, flesh nor good salt herring”— “You had good spirits, though, ser geant.” “If you mean rum or brandy, ma jor, we hadn’t much of that; but if you mean jokes and laughs, it must be hard times that will ston them in camp. I’ll tell you one of them, that made a great hurrah on both side?, where we got the better of a Scotch regiment that was plaguing us from outside the town. They thought they would make themselves merry with our starvation—so, they throwed a bomb shell into our lines, that,, as it came along through the air, we saw had some devilment in it, from the streak it made in daylight; and. sure enough, when we come to look at it on the ground we found it filled with rice and molasses—just to show that these Scotchmen were laughing at us for having nothing to eat. Well, what d we do hut fill another shell with brimstone and hogs’ard. and just drop it handsomely amongst the lads from the land o’ cakes? Gad. sir. it soon got to the hearing of the Eng lish regiment, and such a shouting as they sot up from their lines against th'- 'Scotchmen! That’s what I call j giving as good as they saunt. major —ha. ha. ha!” "It wasn't a bad repartfce. Gail- braith,” said Butler, joining In the 1 laugh. “But go on with your seige.” “We got taken at last,” proceeded j Horse Shoe, “and surrendered on the j 12th of May. Do you know that they ! condescended to let us go through motions of inarching outsid- ' | lines? Still it was a sorry d- to see lour colors tied as fast to their sticks jas if a stocking had been drawn over them. After that we were majehed I te the barracks and put into close confinement.” "Yes, I have heard that; and with heavy hearts—and a dreary prospect | before you, —ceant.” “I shouldn't have minded it much, I Major Butler, It was the fortune of I war. But they insulted us as soon a- they got our arms from us. It was a blasted cowardly trick in them to endeavor to wean us from our cause, which they tried every day; it was seduction. I may say. First, they told us that Colonel Pinckney and some other officers had gone over; but that was too onprobable a niece of rascality—we didn’t believe one word on’t. So, one morning Col onel Pinckney axed that we mought be drawed up in a line in front of the j barracks; and there be made us a speech. We were as silent as so I many men on a surprise part v . The colonel said—yes. sir, and right in' I their very teeth—tb-»t it was an In famous calamy; that whenever he de- ! sarted the cause of liberty, he hoped j thev would take him, as they had done some Roman officer or other—I j think one Officious, as I understood j the co onel—you’ve hearn of him, maybe—and tie his limbs to wild horses and set them adrift, at full speed, taking aU his joints anart. so that not one traiterous limb should be eft 10 keep company with another. It was a mighty severe punishment, whoever he mought’a been. The British officers began to frown—and was to stay with you, because you was likely to have business for me to do.” “That’s true, good sargeant.” "There came on a darkish, drizzly evening and a little before roll call, at sun set. I borrowed an old forage cloak from Corporal Green—you mought have remembered him—and out I went towards the lines, and sauntered along the edge of the tow-n, till I came to one of your pine smok ing, gin-drinking Hessians, keeping sentry near the road that leads out towards Ashley ferry:—a fellpw that had no more watch In him—bless your soul!—as these Dutchmen havn’t—than a duck on a rainy day. So. said I, coming up boldy to him, ‘Hans, wie gehet es’—‘Geh zum Teu fel,’ says he, laughing—for he knowed me. That was all the Dutch I could speak, except I was able to sav it was going to rain, so 1 told him—Ss will reghen’—which he know-ed ' as well as I did. for it was raining all th" time. I had a little more palaver with Hans, and, at last, he got up on his feet and set to walking un and down. By this time the drums beat for evening quarters, ami I bid Hans good night; but, instead of going away I squatted behind the Dutch man’s sentry box;—land, presently, the rain came down by the bucket full; it. got very dark- and Hans was snug under cover. The grand rounds was coming; I could hear the tramp of feet, and as no time was to be lost I made a long step and a short story of it. by just slipping over the lines and setting out to seek my fortune.” "Well done, sergeant! You were ever good at these pranks.” “But that wasn’t all,” continued Robinson. “As the prime file leader of mischief would have ii. outside of U> lines I meets a cart with a man to drive, and two soldiers on fpot, by way of a guard. "The first I was a ware of It. was 1 hallo, and then a bagnet to my breast. I didn’t ask for countersigns, for I didn’t mean to ti n in words that night: but, just seizing hold of the muzzle of the piece, I twisted it out of the fellow’s hand and made him a present of the butt end across his mate. I didn’t want to hurt him. you see. for it wa’nt his fault that he stopped me. A back-hander brought down the other, and tne third man drove off his oart. as if lie ha-', some suspicion that his comrades wer^ on their hacks In the mud. I didn’t mean to troub e a peacalde man with my compliments, but on the contrary, as the preacher says, 1 went on my way rejoicing.” “You were very considerate, ser geant. I entirely approve of your moderation. As you are a brave man. and have a natural liking for da"^or. this was a night that doubt less. afforded you great satisfaction.” "When danger stares you in the face.” replied Horse Shoe, “the best way is not to see It. It is only In not seeing of it, that a brave man dif fers from a coward: that’s my opin ion. Well, after that I had a hard til*''’ of it. I was afraid to keep un the Neck road, upon account of the sodgers that was upon it; so I de termined to cross the Ashley and make for Orangeburg district. When 1 came to the ferry, I was a little dubious about taking one of the skiffs that was hauled up, for fear of making a noise: so I sllnned off my sho)’ that had your .etter. and put it betwixt my teeth and swum the river. I must have made some splashing in the water—although I tried to muffle my oars. too. for first I heard a challenge from the ferry house, and then the crack of a nuts h-et; but it was so dark you cou'dn’t see an egg on your own nose. There was a little flustering of lights on the shore, and a turnout of the guard, may be; but. I suppose they thought it was a sturgeon, or some such beast, and so made no more of It: and I got safe to the other bank.” “Faithfully and bravely, sorg ant!" “For the first three or four days the chances were all against me The whole country was full of lories, and it wasn’t saf to meet n mail on the mad: you con dn’t tell wheth*-* he was friend or enemy. I dursn t show my face In day time at all but. lay close In the swamps: and when it he gan to grow dark I stori out. iiko a wolt’. and travelled sierras tin* fields md along the byways." "You !i ni a good stomach to bear it. sergeint.” "A good stomach enough, but not much in it. I’ll tell you another ob nervation I made: wli n a man travels all night long on an empty stomach, he ought either to ft 1 it next morning or make it smaller.’ “And how is that to be managed, friend Horse Shoe?” “Indian fashion,” replied the ser geant. “Buckle your belt a little tighter every two or three hours. A man may shrivel his guts up to the size of a pipe stem. But I found a better way to get along than by tak in 0 - in my belt” “Now. for another stratagem!” “I commonly, about dark, crept as near to a farm house as I mougi t venture to go; and, putting on a poor mouth, told the folks I had a touch of the small-pox, and was dying for a little food. They were Christians enough to give me a dish of bread ami milk, or something of that sort, and cowards enough to keep so much out of the way, as not to get a chance to look me in the face. They laid provisions on the ground, and then walked away while I came up to get them. Though l didn't uiinb much of the fashion I was waited on, and had sometimes to quarrel with a bull dog for my supper, I didn’t believe I ever ate with a better appetite in my life. The first bread of freedom, no matter how* coarse, a man eats 'after his escape from nrison, is the sweet est morsel in nature. And I do think it is a little pleasanter when he eats it at the risk of his life.” Butler nodded his head. “Well, after this,” continued Horse Shoe, "I had like to have lost all by another mishap. My course wag for the upper country, because the ncar- e- I got to my owm home the better I was acquainted with the people. That scrummaging character, Tarle- ton. you may have hearn. scampered off. as soon as ever Charlestown was taken, after Colonel Abraham B.uford, who was on his way down to the city when the news was fotch him < f our surrender. Buford accordingly came to the right about, to pot of harm’s way as fast as he could, and Tarleton followed close on his heels. Think of that devil, major trying to catch a man a hundred miles away! It was a brazen hearted thing! con sidering. besides, that Buford had a good regiment with him. nTien no- bodv thought it anything more chan a brag, sure euaugh, he overhauls Buford yonder at the Waxhaws—on- awares, you may say—and there he tore him all to pieces. They say it was a bloody cruel sight, to see how* these English troopers did mangle the poor fellows. I doubt there wasn’t fair play. But, majot that Tarleton hides well and is a proper soldier, take him man to man. It so happened that as I was making along towards Catawba, who should I come plump upon, but Tarleton and bU lads, with their prisoners, all halting beside a little run to get water!” “Again in trouble, sergeant! Truly you have had full measure of ad ventures!” “I was pretty near nonplushed, major,” said Horse Shoe, with a broad laugh, “but I thought of a stratagem. I let fall my under jaw, and sot my eyes as wild as a mad man. and twisted my whole face out of joint—and begun to clap my hands, and hurra for the red coats, like a natural fool. So, when Tarleton and two or three of his people came to take notice of me, they put me down for a poor idiot that had been turned adrift.” “Did they hold any discourse with you?” "A good deal; and, just to try me, they flogged me with the fiats of their swords; but I laughed and made nierfv when they hurt nin worst and told .them I thanked them for their politeness. There were some of our p ople amongst the prisoners, that I knew, and I was mortally afraid mo redly than you. So, come, strad dle your tombstone again and make the bones beneath It Joi'’.” In good glee, our travellers now be took themselves once more U> the ' ’'(CONTINUED NEXT FRIDAY.) a turn to help the country. Am I not | right?” "No man ever blames another for that, sergeant, and if ever you should | 1 put on trial you will find friends 1 enough to vouch for our honesty.” “When I got away from Tarleton | it wasn’t long before I reached my j own cabin. There I mustered my horse and gun, and some decent ' clotles: and after a good sleep, and 1 Im-Hn ritl! of food. 1 started for the uort’i ns fast, as I could, with mv let ' ter. I put It into your own hands, j and you know the rest.” " i ills wib lie .1 good tale for a win- I cr night,' » sid But I r, ‘‘to be told' in i'after in a sung chimney corner. I to > uiir wit) and chi dren, when | at .k-i-. as I 1 rust it tna*. '.-ill make j von haop> in the nssi 'don of both. ; nun • ibassv has bad marvellous good 1 c'.v so far. 1 hope it may I . _ prove < happy omen for our future | hatch and went flying up in the air enterprise. Now it is my turn, Gail-| lik-e a witch on a broom-stick. . braith, to ted >011 something of our “I looked down to see the plans. Colonel IMnckney lias ap-iJane sink beneath the sea. All at prised me of the state of things in ' once something hooked me up by the the upper country. Our good friend j seat of the trousers and hoisted mo into th- air. I looked un and saw my old friend. A Boy's Trip to the Moon. (Newark (N. J.) News ) In a recent county examination in the Morris county schools one of the eighth-grade questions In grammar was. “Write an imaginary story on ‘A trip to the moon.’ ” John Duffy, twelve years, old. hand ed in the following: “Many people would think it ab- sured to take a trip to the moon. My trip was an accident. I was on the Mary Jane, going to India. We had just passed under the equator when a storm struck us. I jumped on a Clarke there meditates an attempt to regain Augusta and Ninety-six; and we have reason to believe that some levies will be made by pur con federates in Virginia and elsewhere. My business is to co-operate in this undertaking; and as it was essential I should have the guidance of some man acquainted with that country- some go»d soldier,, true and trusty— the colonel has selected you to ac company me. These red coats have already got possession of all the strongholds: and the lories., you know, swarm in the country like the locusts of Egypt. I stand in need, sergeant, of a friend with a discreet head and a strong arm. I could not have picked out of the army a better man than Sergeant Gailbraith Robin son. Besides. Horse Shoe,” he ad (led, putting his hand gently upon the sergeant’s shoulder, “old acquaint ance has bred an affection between us.” “1 am a man that can eat mv allow ance, major," said Robinson, with an awkward diffidence at hearing the econium just passed upon him, “and that’s a matter that doesn’t turn to much profit in an empty country. But I think I may make bold to promise that you are not like to suffer if a word or a blow from me would do you any good.” "Your belt may be serviceable in two ways in this expedition. Horse Shoe; it may be buckled closer in scant times, and will earrv a sword in^dangerous ones.” “May I ask, major,” inquired Hor^c Shoe, “since you have got to talking of our business, what has brought us bo high up the country, along here? It seems to me that the lower road would have been nearer.” “Suppose I say, Gailbraith.” re plied Butler with animation, “that there is a bird nestles in these woods l was fond of hearing sing, would It be unsoldier-like,, think you, to make a harder ride and a larger circuit for that gratification?” “Oh! I understand, major,” said Horse Shoe, laughing; “whether it be peace or whether it be war, these wo men keep the upper hands of us men. For my part I think it’s more natural to think of them in war than in peace. For you see. the creatures are so helpless that if a man don’t take care of them, who would? And. then, when a woman’s frightened as she must be in these times, she clings so naturally to a man! It stands to reason!” “You will keep my counsel. Gail braith.” interrupted Butler. “I have a reason which perhaps, you may know by and by, why you should not speak of anything you mav see or henr And now. as we have spent a ‘"-xid hour In refreshment, sergeant, make our horses ready. We’ll take the road again.” Robinson promised caution in ail matters that might be committed to his charge, and now himself about saddling the horses for the lourney. Whilst he was engaged in this occu pation. Butler was startled to hear the sergeant abruptly cry out—“You devil. Captain Peter Clinch! what are you about?” and, looking hastily around, saw no one but the trusty squire himself, who was now sedate ly intent upon thrusting the bit into his horse's mouth—a liberty which the animal seemed to resent by sun dry manifestations of waywardness. “To whom are you talking. Gail- Santos Dumont, going by in his air ship. The thing that had hooked me up was an anchor that he had for gotten to pull in. I called to him and he pulled me up. He was very much surprised and also glad to see me. • He asked me to go to the moon with him. and as there was nothing else to (io. I agreed. He then turned on full power aud we reached the moou in two seconds. It was very cold and the man in the moon loaned me a pair of his mittens. Thev were nearly as large as our school house. That night I slept in one of them. In the morning I hired some of the man in the moon’s servants to carry them around for me. At dinner-time he set before me a barrel of lamb chops, a large tankard of tea and a clothes- basket of bread. He was very much surprised to find that I did not eat it all at one meal. “After dinner we went to aee his mountains. He told me not to go too ne*>r C’*' edge, and then went into the house. I wanted to see how the earth looked from the moon and peeped over the edge. All at once I lost my balance, tumbled over the edge and began my downward trip to the earth at the rate of five thous and miles per second. “Suddenly I hit what I supposed to be the earth, but discovered that it was the roof of Lincoln school 'nouse. I was just in time for my examina tions.” A woman is terribly shocked when she tells a friend something that has been told her in confidence to learn that the friend knows all about ft. they would let on. but thev didn’t. I braith?” Especially, there was Seth Cuthbert, from Tryon, who had both of his hands chopped off in the frav at the Waxhaws; he was riding double be hind a trooper, and he held up the stumps lust to let me see how bar barously he was mangled. I was du bious they would see that he knowed me but he took cat" of that. Think ing that they mought take it into their noddles to carry me along with them back, I piavod tin quaresf trick that I suppose ever a man thought of: it makes me laugh now to tell it. I made a spring that fetched me right ob- ‘Only to this here contrary, stropoloug beast, major.” “What name did you call him by?” inquired Butler. “Ha. ha, ha! Was it that you was list* ning to?” said Horse Shoe. “I have christened him Captain Peter— sometimes Captain Peter Clinch. I’il tell you why. I am a little ma licious touching the name of my horse. After the surrender of Char lestown, our regiment was out in charge of a provost marshal by the name, of Captain Clinch, and his first name was Peter He was a rough, A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brines Gulden Health u nd Re.iewed Vigor. _ .......v. c-. A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, TJvet 1 th* «"wsr o' ‘■otom'l Tarle .iry-halml follow, with no lot- The Kuock-out Blow. The blow which knocked out Corbett was a revelation to the prize fighters. From the earliest days of the ring the knock-out blow was aimed for the jaw, the temple or the jugular vein. 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Dr. Pierce’s great thousand-page illus trated Common Sense Medical Adviser will lie sent free, paper-bound, for21 "de cent stamps, or cloth bound for 31 stamps. Address Dr. Pierce as above. HDI I Rocky Mountain 'ea Nuggets ton’s horse, whfch sot him to kick ing and flirting at a merry rate: and, whilst the creature was floundering as if a hornet had stung him. I took the colonel’s cap and put it upon my own head and gave him mine. And after I had varagied in this sort of wav for a little while I let th* 1 horse fling me on the ground. You would have thought the devils would have died a laughing. And the colonel himself, although at first he was very angry, couldn’t heln laughing like wise. He said that I was as strange a fool a he ever saw, and that it would be a pity to hurt me. So he threw me a shilling, and. whilst they were all In good humor I trudged away.” “It was a bold experiment, and might be practised a thousand times without success. If I did not know you. Robinson, to be a man of truth, as we!l as courage. I should scarce believe this tale. If anyone, hereaf ter, should tell your story, he will be accounted a fiction-monger.” “I do not boast. Major Butler; and. as to my story, I care very little who tells it. Every trick is good In war. I i.an change mv face and voice, both, so that my best friends should not know me: and. in these times. I am willing to change everythine but my coat, and even that if I have a witness to my heart, and it will serve ter bowels than a barrel of vinegar. He gave us all sorts of iM usage, knowing that we wan’t allowed to give him the kind of payment that such an uncomfortable fellow desarv- ed to get. If ever I had met him again, major, setters parbus—as Lieutenant Hopkins used to say— which is lingo, I take it, for a fair field, I would’a cudgelled his pate for him. to the satisfaction of all good fellows. Well, when I got home I gave his name to my beast. 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