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I HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON A TALE OF THE TORY ASCENDENCY BY JOHN P. KENNEDY was followed by a rush of the hunter un to the spot: It was Gideon Blal e. ! “Buck- or doe. It Is my shot!” cried Gideon, as he halted Immediately be- .-i V Habershaw. “May all the devils blast you, Gideon Blake!” thundered out the incensed captain. “You have sought j my life, von murdering wolf, and • our bullet has killed Beauty." "I shot at the eyes of what I | thought a de^r,” returned Blake. "You may talk as you please of your man is worth. So. give us some more | “You were a fool, Hugh Habershaw. candle and book. rum; this Is ugly work to he done In r 0 bring a dog into such a place.” And prate about virtue, with sanctl- the dark.” i “My poor dog! my brave dog! fled look; “Scratch a hole for them, lads, un-1 Beauty was worth ten thousand such ; Neither priest, book, nor candle, can ( 1 r ‘ r the bushes.” said Habershaw: bastard villains as you And to have hek you so well “put a sod blanket over them before j him kill'd! May the devil feast up- To mai i friends with the world as ' morning That’s the fortune of war, ,, V our soul this night, Gideon Blake! the Jollv Bottle.' "Chorus, my lands; out with it!” as Peppercorn calls it. How are the wounded men getting along?” “Oh bravely, captain,” replied Shad shouted the singer; and the wh >le Green, or, according to his nick- crew set up a hideous yell as they joined him name, Bed Mug: “this here physic a main thing for a scratch." “Bravely!” echoed Screech Owl. or “Sing heave and ho. an I trombelow. Tom Dubbg lhe same who ba d been The Jolly Bottle is the beet trow. r , dragoon as “kicked well bv the blacksmith;” “we are nlaster- "Then take the bottle, it is stitched of leather And better than doublet keeps out the wind and weather; Let the bottom look up to the broad arch of blue, And then catch the drippings, as good fellows do. ing up sores here with the jolly bot tle:— "Sing heave and ho. and trombelow, The Jolly Bottle is a feather. I trow.” “What’s a cracked crown so as it With heave and ho, and trombelow. ! 10 ] ( ] s a man’s brains?” continued ’Tis sinful to waste good liquor. f b o drunken carouser. whilst a laugh dieted by the ball between the eyes. ^o! and account for your wickedness Take that, snake! tiger! black-heart- whig and rebel! and be thankful that you didn’t come to your end by j he help of hemp!” and in this gust if passion he struck his knife into i he bosom of the trooper, who groan- ■d. staggered, and fell. At this moment the person bearing ^ •lr fire hearing the groan of his com rade. rushed up to the spot and seized i Tabershaw’s arm, just as the monster 1 was raising it over the fallen man to ; repeat the blow. “Damn him! see what he has ; done!” exclaim' d the captain, as he ! lifted up the dead body of the dog j as to show in the light the wound in- j you know. “The soldier, he carries his knapsack and gun. And swears at the weight as he tramps through the sun But, devil a loon, did I ever hear tell. Who swore at the weight of the Jolly Bottle. So h‘ ave and ho. and trombelow. deformed his stupid physiognomy. “How are we off for provisions, inarter-master?” inquired the cap tain of one of the gang. “Raten out of skin, from nose to *ail.” replied Black Jack. “Then the squad mt forage to night,” continued Habershaw. “We must take a buck, my sweet on°s: Get so n a e euu u», «uu are plenty along the river. Get The Jolly Bottle is a feather. I our rif)eg aml p re p are lights, and, trow.” - - - - to keep out of the way of our horses. “this poor, faithful, dumb beast was | worth a hundred such hell-hounds as j he!” “I am murdered,” said the wounded : man; “I am murder'd in cold blood.” j The noise at this place brought to- | gether the r t of the hunters, who were now returning with the buck thrown across a horse that had been led by one of the narty. Blake’s i wound was examined by them and ! some limm applied to staunch the! Here the song was interrupted by . the return of the two files who had it. lads. Black Jack, this is been sent to bring in the bodies of business. the dflad. They had found the miss- “True, captain." replied the pers don’t stop short of a mile. Be about blood. The man had fainted, hut it your FLUE CURING IMPROVES TOBACCO LIKE ROASTING IMPROVES GREEN COFFEE Flue Curing Develops the Stimulating Aroma and Taeta Found In Schnapps that Satisfies Tobacco Hunger son was not ascertained whether the stab : was mortal. Habershaw stood sul- | b nly looking on during the examina tion. and. finding that life had not in- There are three ways used by far mers for curing and preparing their tobacco for the market; namely, sun cured, air cured and flue cured. The old and cheap way is called air cured; the later discovery and improved way is called flue cured. In flue-curing the tobacco is taken from the field and suspended over intensely hot flues in houses especially built to re tain the heat, and there kept in the proper temperature until this curing process developes in the tobacco the stimulating taste and fragrant aroma found in Schnapps tobacco, just as green ‘coffee is made fragrant and stimulating by the roasting process. Only choice selections of this ripe, juicy flue cured leaf, grown in the famous Piedmont country, where the best tobacco grows, are used in Schnapps and other Reynolds’ brands of high grade, flue cured tobaccos. Hundreds of imitation brands are on sale that look like Schnapps; the outside of the imitation plugs of to bacco is flue cured, but the inside is filled with cheap, flimsy, heavily sweetened air cured tobacco; one chew of Schnapps will satisfy tobacco hunger longer than two chews of such tobacco. Expert tests prove that this flue cured tobacco, grown in the famous Piedmont region, requires and takes less sv/eetening than any other kind, and has a wholesome, stimulating, satisfying effect on chewers. If the kind of tobacco you are chewing don’t satisfy, more than the mere habit of expectorating, stop fooling yourself and chew Schnapps tobacco. Schnapps is like the tobacco chew ers formerly bought costing from 75c. to $1.00 per pound; Schnapps is sold at 50c. per pound in 5c. cuts, strictly 10 and 15 cent plugs. reveitrf and'Tn ‘ such "a ToMm “as | i'.f nitciwUne. and sheeted three or he ^d with a visible concern, “and to front'Peppercorn and the captain, four of the best marksmen, left the has got no more than he deserves, who were thus afforded a full view bivouac to look for deer. Habershaw ID- will live to he hung yet Take of the bodies of the blaze oft he fire. 1 himself, though azv and inordinately ; him to quarters “Kasv" almost whispered Haber- impressed with a sense of his own Make a hurdle for him. said one B haw now half intoxicated, to the dignity, and now confused with of the bystanders, and. accordingly, two treopers as he lifted his hands liouor, could not -'♦dst the attraction two men cut a lew branches from and motioned to them to halt: “put of this sport. He accordingly, not the neighboring wood, and twisting them down gently on the ground. Go long after the others had departed, them together soon constructed a on Peppercorn; let the dead help took a rifle, and. attended \jv his Utter upon which they were able to themselves: finish the song! That bull dog. whom he never parted from bear the body of the wounded hunter chorus again, my hoys!” And here. on anv occasion, slowly followed in to the rendezvous. The others, the last chorus was repeated in the tho direction chosen by the hunters. | scarce!v u1.1<■ nijga^ wora^ ^ tb^>’ R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. 0. highest key of merriment. Those in advance had scraceiy j marched along, followed slowly with the buck, and in half an hour the Peppercorn cast an eye at the walked along the margin of Urn riY*r; t wa ’ g onCft more asse mbled un bodies which, during the interval, a mile before they lighted their fag- d( r the chostnut had been thrown on the earth, and gots. and began to beat the reigb-; For a tjrne th( , re was a s , lllfcn and while the men who had just returned boring thickets; and their s^rch | discontented silence amongst the were helping themselves to the drink, was not protracted many minutes who]p f . rf . w that wag only bro ken by he proceeded, in an unaltered voice, with the song. “When drinkers are dry. and liquor is low, A fray that takes off a good fellow when the light of their torches was lhe Kroans of tbe wounded trooper, thrown full upon the eves of a buck. Occasionally there was a slight out- A Mint from one of the marksmen , b , ir>st of se dition from several of the told with unerring precision in the troOT , a3 a sh arpor scream, indicat- forehea,] of the animal. j j n g SO nie sudden increase of nain. The report and the light brought from Gideon Blake, assailed their Why^what does it do. hut help us to ; corpulent ea_Pta|n into the netoh- ears. Then there were low and muV bear The loss of a comrade, in drinking hD share? Then heave ;.rd ho. and trombelow. A frav and you know. borhood. He had almost walked him- tered curses pronounced by Haber- self out of breath and. as he did not shaw in a tone that showed his ap- very well preserve his pernendlcu-1 prehension of some vengeance larity. or a straight line of march, he against himself; and those impreca- feast~are * brothers! '• a ^ several times been tripped nn by tions were mingled with hints of the the roots of trees or by rocks and j disloyalty of the trooper, and charges briars in his path. Exhausted, at; of a pretended purpose to betray his “The philosophers say it’s a well-set-J length, and puzzled by the stuoefac- fellow-soldiers, evidently insinuated tied fact. tion of his own brain, as well as by by t be captain to excuse his act of That a vessel will leak whose bottom!the surrounding darkness, he sat violence. Then he aoproached the is cracked.; | down at the foot of a tree, determin- And a belly that’s drilled w : th a bul-1 ed to wait the return of the hunting let, I think, j narty. His faithful and congenial Is a very bad belly to stow away! “Beauty,” not less pursy and short- drink. winded than himself, and not more sick man and felt his pulse and ex amined his wound, and pronounced the hurt to betrifling. “It will do him good,” he said, with affected uncon cern, “and teach him to be more So heave and ho, and trombelow, savage or surly fn disposition, now true to his comrades hereafter." But The dead wi'' trow.” be dr/ tonight, I j couched upon his haunches imrne- idiatelv between his master’s legs; and here this pair of beastlv friends “There they are, captain," said one remained, silent and mutoaily sooth- of the returning troopers, after the ed their own companionship, song, to which he and his compan- During this interval the person who ions had stood listening with delight- bor e the fire, follow'd bv one °f the ed countenances, was brought to an end. “there they ar'\ We found Dick Waters lying in the road, and wh'-n we first came to him he gave a sort of groan, but we didn’t lift him until we still the fate of the man was man! fest.lv doubtful, and the rising exas peration of the became every instant more open. Alarmed and faint-hearted at these symptoms of discontent. Habershaw at last called the men into a circle and made them a speech, in which he expressed his sorrow for the act he had committed, endeavored to excuse himself by the plea of passion at the loss of his dog, and. finally, perceiving that these ex cuses did not satisfy his hearers, acknowledged his irunk'-n condition and his unconsciousness of the deed he had done until the horrible conse- ouenoes of it were before bis ev.es. marksmen, crept slowly onward to vicinity of the c Pot where the captain had seated himself. The lapse of time had proved too much for Hahershaw’s vigilance, and he had, came back from hunting Roger Bell; a t length with his head resting by that time the fellow was as dead against the trunk of the tr'-e. fallen as pickle herring. Where do you j M t 0 a drunken slumber. The short think we found Clapper Claw? Why, crac k 0 f a rifle at hand, and the yell half a mile, almost, down the stream. , f b j s dog awakened him. He started H** was washed aloug and got jam- upon his feet w*ith sudden surprise, 1 Peppercorn interposed in his med up betwixt the roots of a syca- and stepped one pace forward, stumb-! fflvor a ii„ Kln g that ) ie had examined more. Me had a long wade after lod and fell over the dead body of his 1))P woun(J aml that. j n his oplpion. Inm, and trouble enough to ue t him favorite Beauty, who lay beneath t] „ troorK , rH , if „ wag not in danger. —more, I’m thinking, than a dead him waltering in blood. Tne shot: (l , . . , “And as tne captain is sorry for its '" ... r ■, • ■ :. ■ !'•'!. '•v!;V what is to be done but let tbe fl ing dr' - '\ So. i if tb -re’s another canteen in tTie -miad. w~ will w<-t our whistles, boys, and go to sleep.” This appeal was effectual, and was follow-! to a b arty cheer. So, draining t..)** dregs of the la-t flask, .•his debauched company retired to to rest Hah' - shaw sneakin'- away from them with " heart loaded with , malice and revenge. A few men ww employed, for a to rt time, in burying the bodies Qf ; trooners who were killed in the fry; and. excepting the guard, who I busied themselves in skinnin 0, the ituek and broiling some choice slices | before the fire, and in watching the nrisoners or attending upon their irk comrade, all were sunk into silence if not repose. (CONTINUED NEXT FRIDAY.) □ INAL Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, Throat and TAR in the and Lung Troubles. Prevents Pneumonia and Consumption yrli.o’.v packaqb F«r Sale by Crtarokee Drug Co. For Sale by Cherokee Dru* Co. s-er Sale oy Cherokee Drug Co. TO' THIN THE BLOOD. RHEUMATIS CURED The Circulation Stimulated and the Muscles and Joints ,1 lubricated by using Sloeovs Li rumeivt Price 25c 50c 6 $1.00 Sold by &II Dea lers Sioaris TreaLse On The Horse” Sent Free I Address Dr. Earl S.SIoan,Boston,Mass. Sassafras Bark For Tea Is Still on the Market. Is yrxir blood hot? Do these first warm days of pring muise you to feel languid, feverish and weak? If so, you need, according to the belief of old fashioned folk, a course of treatment with a home brewed blood purifier. It is safe to say that fifty years ago every family in .Missouri cherished the idea that the* blood, overheated by the heavy eating and warm clothing of winter, must be cooled and thinned when spring comes, says the Kansas City Htur. And tbe only remedies es teemed for tin's purpose were of home manufacture, compounded from roots and herbs gathered in the fields and woods. That the idea has not entirely died out is evidenced by the brisk trade in sassafras bark now being car ried on in Kansas City by druggists and grocers. “Sassafras tea!” exclaimed an old man as lie waited in a Walnut street store while u package of the pleas ant scented bark was being wrap ped up for him. “I have consumed gal lons of It. Sometimes we children grew tired of the tea and would avoid taking it. “ ‘Now, see here,’ mother would say, ‘you drink this or I’ll change the dose to sulphur and molasses.’ That threat always worked. “In the early days In this country doctors and drug stores were not so numerous as now. Every house had its store of dried herbs, and every housewife was ready to prescribe for ordinary physical disorders. The use of the spring ‘cooler’ was of course a precautionary measure. “While sassafras was the favorite, many persons favored other herbs. Tbe root of the mandrake or May apple was one. Tamarack, or ‘hackmatack.’ v. n- another. And there were spikenard, or wild licorice; poke root, prickly ash. plantain, ginseng root burdock and sar sapnriUa. Nearly ail were taken in tbe form of a tea. brewed from the leaves. writ or bark of tin* plants.” See! How Quickly and Neatly We Can Do Job Work AH kinds of Job Work done at The Ledge) office neatly and at nrate with hiffh »rade work! Trr u». * /• .4, Fame. President Roosevelt likes to leave the White House at times and make in formal <-al!s on his friends. One night last winter lie strolled up to Attorney General Moody's hou«e and rang the f*e!l. The negro bul lor came to the d'str. He peered out suspiciously and asked. "What does you want?” “I should like to see Mr. Moody.” “Mr. Moody ain’t in to notoxly.” “Oh, I guess he will we me. Tell him the president is here.” “The president?” said the butler suspiciously. “Yes, the president”* The butler pulled the door almost shift. He looked at Mr. Roose velt's slouch hat with disdainful eye and Inquired scornfully, "President of what ?”—Argonaut The Implement Go. Have just issued a New Catalogue of Farm Implements. Com and Cotton Planters, Cultivators, Plows, B Fencing, Roofing, Engines, Threshers, p Saw Mills, etc. You will save money and get the best of Farm Implements, in buy ing from us. Implements that wear well and work well are the kind that we sell. 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