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( •A. it s |4 It i MAKE ACCORDING TO DIRECTIONS. MIX IT AT HOME BY SHAKING INGREDIENTS IN BOTTLE. Hundreds 0 f People in Vieinlty Here V III welcome This Advice, Says Local Druflfliot. What will appear very interesting vo many people here is the article taken from a New York daily paper, giving a simple prescription, as for mulated by a noted authority, who claims that he has found a positive remedy to cure almost any case of backache or kidney or bladder de rangement, in the following simple prescription, if taken oeiure (hostage of Bright’s disease: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses alter each meal and again at bedtime. A well-known druggist here at home, when asked regarding this pre scription, stated that the ingredients are all harmless, and can be obtained at a small cost from any good pre scription pharmacy, or the mixture would be put up if asked to do so. He further stated that while this pre scription is often prescribed *n rheu matic afflictions with splendid re sults, he could see no reason why it would not be a splendid remedy for kidney and urinary troubles and back ache, as it has a peculiar action up on the kidney structure, cleansing these most important organs and helping them to sift and filter from the blood the foul acids and waste matter which cause sickness and suf fering. Those of our readers who suffer can make no mistake in giving it a trial. HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON A TALE OF THE TORY ASCENDENCY BY JOHN P. KENNEDY] A Village’s “Hourly Nurse.” The village of Leicester, Mass., estab lished an hourly iu:r>e in February. 1907. At a recent meeting of interest ed citizens the report of the work and the financial statement wfere so en couraging that the vote was unanimous to continue the services of the nurse another year. Her duties are to give skilled as sistance to all classes throughout the village, lu emergency she does night work, which otherwise is not expected Massage, care of surgical cases, ob stetrics. daily attention to the sick and feeble who do not recpiire the constant care of a nurse, are the directions in which her work chiefly lies. Contagious cases she does not attend. The nurse g os from house to house, spending an hour more with her pa tients as the case needs, and each one pays from 10 to oi» cents an hour, ac cording to ability, although the care is not denied to those unable to pay. A salary is assured the nurse, the money she ie •elves from patients going to swell the funds of the association.— Boston Transcript A Beautiful woman. Her surroundings should be in har mony, and can best be made so by a well kept home. The L. & M. Pure Paint makes the home beautiful. It preserves it and prevents decay. The cost per gallon ready for use in only $1.20. It wears for ten years and longer. Thirty-three years of con tinuous use is evidence. Smith Hard ware Co. L. & M. Paint Agents. The Great Dressmaker. M. Paquin, the famous modlst. started in life as a bank clerk, it was his marriage fo a saleswoman in one of the big dressmaking houses of Par is which led him to leave the bank and. with a very meager capital, open a small costumier's shop known as the Malson Malanne. That shop has loug ceased to exist, but from it sprang the huge business house of Paquin, which in 1890 the founder sold to a company with a capital of about $2,500,000. Shortly afterward he was decorated with the Legion of Honor. M. Paquin was only forty-five years old when he died, and his huge business was built up in twenty years. While other fa mous French costumiers let the Eug- ilshwomeu come to them, M. Paquin opened an establishment lu Hanover square, with a stage on which is reg ularly enacted a most entertaining per formance. Society ladles sit round sip ping tea and gossiping, while across the stage glide M. Paquln’s assistants robed in enthralling creations of the dressmaker’s art.—London Tit-Bits. CHAPTER Lll. Signs of a Gathering Storm—Muster of the Backwoodsmen. In arms the huts and hamlets rise, From winding glen, from upland brown. They poured each hardy tenant down. —Lady of the Lake. In gathering up the ends of our story, as we draw towards a conclus ion, we are forced, after the fashion of a stirring drama, to a frequent change of scene. Accordingly, leav ing Mildred and her friends to pursue their own way until we shall find leisure to look after their fpotsteps, we must introduce our reader to some new acquaintances, whose motions, it will be seen, are destined greatly to influence the interests of this history. The time was about the second of October, when a considerable body of troops were seen marching through that district which is situated between the Allegany mountain and the head waters of Catawba, in North Carolina. This force might have numbered per haps something over one thousand men. Its organization and general aspect were sufficiently striking to entitle it a particular description. It consisted almost entirely of cavalry; and a spectator might have seen in the rude, weather-beaten faces, and muscular forms of the soldiers, as in the simplicity of their equipments, a hastily-levied band of mountains, whose ordinary pursuits had been fa miliar with the arduous toils of Indian warfare and the active labors of the chase. They were, almost without exception, arrayed in the hunting shirt—a dress so dear to the recol lections of the revolution, and which, it is much to he regretted, the fop pery of modern times has been allow ed to displace. Their weapons in but few instances were other than the long rifle and its accompanying hunt ing-knife. It was to be observed that this lit tle army consisted of various corps, which were in general designated either by the color of the hunting- shirt. or by that of the fringe with which this cheap and simple uniform was somewhat ostentatiously gar nished. Some few were clad in the plain, homespun working-dress of the time; and here and there, an officer might be recognized in the blue and buff cloth of the regular Continental army. The buck-tail, also, was an al most indispensable ornament of the cap. or usual round hat of the sol diers; and where this was wantipg, its place was not unfrequently sup plied by springs of green pine or hol ly, o r other specimens of the common foliage of the country. The men were mounted on lean, shaggy, and travel-worn horses of every variety of size, shape, and color: and their baggage consisted of nothing more cumbersome than a light wallet • attached to the rear of their saddles, or of a meagrely sup plied pair of saddle-bags. The small party on foot were in no wise to be distinguished from the mounted men, except in the absence of horses, and in the mode of carrying their bag gage, which wag contained in knap sacks of deerskin strapped to their shoulders. These moved over the ground with, perhaps, even more fa cility than the cavalry, and appeared In no degree to regret the toil of the march, which was so far the hgnter to them, as they were exempt from the solicitude which their companions suffered of providing forage for their beasts. The officers in command of this party were young men, in whose gen eral demeanor and hearing was to be seen that bold, enterprising, and har dy character, which at that period, even more than at present, distin guished the frontier population. The frequent expeditions against the savages, of which the times had ren dered familiar to them, as well as the service of the common war, In which they had all partaken, had impressed upon their exteriors the rugged lines of thoughtful soldershlp. The troops now assosiated, consist ed of distinct bodies of volunteers, who had each assembled under their own leaders, without the requisition of the government, entirely independ ent of each other, and more resemb ling the promiscuous meeting of hunt ers than a regularly-organized mili tary corps. They hafl convened, about a week before the period at which I have pre sented them to my reader, at Wat- , tauga, on the border of Tennessee, In ! pursuance of an invitation from She- 14 I _javm Curb or Splint 1 Slo aov’s I/iivinveivt is unsurpassed Itptnetrato.and relieves pain quidily • needs very little rubbinq does not leave a scar or blemis f An antiseptic remedy for thr fistula and any abscess. PRICE 25*.SO£ 6*1.0 SlooifcTreohje on Horses. Cottle. Hoes Sent Free Address Dr Corl S. Sloon, Boston. M by, who wag now one of the principal officers in command. He had himself embodied a force of between two and three hundred men, In his own dis trict of the mountains; and Colonel Campbell, now also present, had re paired to the rendezvous with four hundred soldiers from the adjoining county in Virginia. These two had soon afterwards formed a junction with Colonels M’Dowell and Sevier, of North Carolina, who had thus augmented the joint force to the number which I have already men tioned as constituting the whole ar ray. They had marched slowly and wearily from the mountains into the district of country which lay between the forks of Catawba, somewhere near to the present village of Morganton— and might now be said to be rather hovering in the neighborhood of Fer guson, then advancing directly towards him. The force of the British par tisan was, as yet, too formidable for the attack of these allies, and he was still in a position to make his way in safety to the main army under Corn wallis—at this time stationed at Charlotte, some seventy or eighty miles distant. It was both to gain in crease of force, from certain auxiliar ies who were yet expected to join them, as also, without exciting sus picion of their purpose, to attain a position from whichc Ferguson might more certainly be cut off from Corn wallis. that the mountain leaders lingered with such wily delay upon their march. Ferguson was all intent upon Clarke—little suspecting the power which could summon up, with such incredible alacrity, an army from the woods fit to dispute his passage through any path of the country; ana, profiting by this confidence of the enemy, Shelby and his associates were preparing, by secret movements, to put themselves in readiness to spring upon their quarry at the most auspicious moment. In accordance with this plan, Colonel Williams, who yet preserved his encampment on the Fair Forest, was on the alert to act against the British leader, who still marched further south—at every step lengthening the distance between himself and his commander-in-chief, and so far favoring the views of his enemy. Shelby and his comrades on ly tarried until their numbers should lie complete, designing as speedily as possible after that to form a Junc tion with Williams, and' at once en ter upon an open and hot pursuit of their adversary. Their uncertainty in regard to the present condition of Clarke added greatly to their desire to strike, as early as possible, their meditated blow. This officer had, a few weeks before, commenced his retreat from Augusta through Ninety-Six, with some five hundred men, closely fol lowed by Brown and Cruger, and threatened by the Indian tribes who Inhabited the wilderness through which he jorneyed. The perils and hardships of his retreat arose not on- ly fQtBi the necessity Clarke was un der IpP plunge into the inhospitable and almost unexplored wilderness of the Allegany, by a path which would effectually baffle his pursuers as well as escape the toils of Ferguon; but they were pianfully enhanced by the incumbrance of a troop of women and children, who, having already felt the vengeance of the savages, anfi fearing its further cruelties, and the scarcely less ruthless hatred of the Tories, preferred to attempt the rig ors of the mountain rather than re main in their own dwellings. It Is said that these terrified and helpless fugitives amounted to somewhat above three hundred Individuals. There were no Incidents of the war of independence that more strikingly illustrated the heroism whichc grap pled with the difficulties of that struggle at its gloomiest moment, than the patient and preserving gal lantry of these brave wanderers and their confederates, whom we have seen lately assembled in arms. His tory has not yet conferred upon Clarke and his companions their mer ited tribute of renown. Some future chronicler will find in their exploits a captivating theme for his pen, when he tells the tale of their constancy, even in the midst of the nation’s des pair; until fortune, at length success fully wooed, rewarded their vigilance, bravery, ami skill, by enabling them to subdue and destroy the Troy As cendency in the south. The enemy, swarming in all the strong places, elate with recent vic-j tory. well provided with the muni ments of war. high in hope and proud of heart, hunted these scattered, des titute. and slender bands, with a keenness of scent, swiftness^of foot, and exasperutlor of temper/that can only be compared to the/avidity of the bloodhound. Tiys_q<fgeiness of pursuit sgMgHKM^kent, 'In' i' > v e waylay- plete- Fergu- t the ur- of Ur* Uest verdure, and a natural grove of huge forest trees covered the whole level space of the valley. The sea son was the most pleasant of the year, being at the period when, in the southern highlands, the hoar froet is first seen to sparkle on the spray at early dawn. The noon-tide sun, though not oppressively warm, was still sufficiently fervid to render the shade of the grove, and the cool countatn brook In the deep ravine, no unpleasant objects to wearied travelers. Here the whole of our lit tle army were scattered through the wood; some intent upon refreshing their steeds in the running water, many seated beneath the trees dis cussing their own slender means, and not a few carelessly and Idly loitering about the grounds In the enjoyment of the mere exemption from the con straint of discipline. The march of the troops on this day had not ex ceeded ten or twelve miles:—they might have been In motion ever since the dawn of day; and as they measur ed the ground with their slow but ceaseless footfall, there was a silent disquiet and an eagerness of expecta tion, that were scarcely less fatigu ing than more rapid and laborious operations. “Cleveland will certainly join us?” said Shelby, as in, the vacancy of the hour, he had fallen into company with his brother officers, who were now assembled on the margin of the brook. “It is time he were here. I am sick of this slow work. If we do not make our leap within the nexe two or three days, the game is lost.” “Keep your temper, Isaac,” replied Campbell, who, being somewhat older than his comrade, assumed the free dom indicated in this reply, and now laughed as he admonished the fretful soldier. “Keep your temper! Wil liams is below, and on the look-out; and most usefully employed in en ticing Ferguson as far out of reach off my lord Buzzard, there at Char lotte, as we could wish him. Ben Cleveland will be with us all in good time; take my word for that. You forgot that he had to muster his lads from Wilkes and Surry both.” “And Brandon and/Lacy are yet to join us,’’ said M’Dowell. “Damn it, they should be here, man!” interrupted Shelby again; “I hate this creaking of my boots upon the soft grass, as if we had come to fish for gudgeons, i am for greasing our horses’ heels and putting them to service.” “You were always a hot-headed de vil,’’ interrupted Campbell, again, “and have wasted' more shoe-leather than discretion in this world, by at least ten to one. You are hunter enough to know, Isaac, that it is some times well to steal round the game to get the wind of them. Your headlong haste would only do us harm.” “You!” rejoined Shelby, with a laugh, excited by Campbell’s face of good humor. “Verily, you are a pat tern of sobriety and moderation your self, to be preaching caution to us youngsters! All wisdom, forecast, and discretion, I suppose, have taken up their quarters In your wiry-haired noddle; How in the devil it came to pass William, that yonder green and grey shirts should have trusted them selves with such a piece of prudence at their head, is more than I can guess.’’ At this moment a soldier pressed forward into the circle of officers: “A letter for Colonel Shelby,” he said, “brought by a trooper from Cleveland.” “Ah, ha! This looks well,” ex claimed Shelby, as he ran his eyes over the lines. "Cleveland is but ten miles behind, and desires us to wait his coming.” “With how many men?” asked one of the party. "The rogue has forgotten to tell. I’ll warrant, with all he could find.” "With a good party, no doubt,” in terrupted Sevier. “I know the Whigs of Wfilkes and Surry will not be back ward.” “From this despatch, gentlemen, I suppose we shall rest here for the night—what say you?” was the inter rogatory proposed to the group of Shelby. The proposition was agreed to, and the several officers repaired to their commands. As soon as this order was communicated to the troops, every thing assumed the bustle Incident to the preparation of a temporary camp. Fires were kindled, the horses tqlher- ed, guards detailed, and shelters erect ed of green wood cut from the sur rounding forest. In addition to this, a few cattle had been slaughtered from a small herd that had been driven in the rear of the march; and long before night came on, the scene presented a tolerably comfortable bivouac of light-hearted, laughing woodsmen, whose familiar habits at home had seasoned them to this for-1 est-life, and gave to their present en-: terprise something of the zest of a! pastime. In the first intervals of leisure, | parties were seen setting out Into the neighboring hills in pursuit of game; and when the hour of the evening meal arrived, good store of fat ducks and wild turkeys were not wanting to flavor a repast, to which a sauce better than the wit of man ever in vented, was brought by every lusty feeder of the camp. At sun-down, a long line of wood land cavalry, In all respects armed and equipped in the same fashion with those who already occupied the val ley, were seen winding down the rug ged road which led from the high grounds to the camp. At the first In timation of the approach of thisbod^ the troops below were ordered out on parade, and the new-comers were received with all the military demon strations of respect and joy usual at the meeting of friendly bodies of sol diers. Some dozen horns of the harsh est tones, and with the most ear- piercing discord, kept up an Incessant braying, until the alarmed echoes were startled from a thousand points amongst the hills. In spite of the commands of officers, strugling shots of salutation were fired, and loud greetings of individual acquaintances were exchanged from either ranks, as the approaching body filed across the whole front of the drawn-up line. When this ceremony was over, Colo nel Cleveland rodo up to the little group of officers who awaited his re port, and. after a long and hearty welcome, announced his command to consist of three hundred and fifty ■tout hearts, ready and tried friends to the Issues of the war. The force of the Confederate, by YOUNG MAN HAS NEW THEORY Human Life Seems Centered In Stomach* All Else Is Secondary. The Immense success which has fol lowed L. T. Cooper during the past year with his new preparation has ex ceeded anything of the kind ever be fore witnessed in most of the leading cities where the young man has intro duced the medicine. Cooper has a novel theory. He believes that the hu man stomach is directly responsible for most disease. To quote his own words from an interview upon his ar rival In an eastern city: “The average man or woman cannot be sick if the stomach is working properly. To be sure, there are diseases of a virulent nature, such as cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, etc., which are organic, and are not traceable to the stomach, but even fevers can. In nine cases out of ten, be traced to something taken Into the stomach. All of this half-sick, nervous exhaustion that is now so common, is caused by the stomachic conditions, and it is because my rem edy will and does regulate the stom ach that 1 am meeting with such suc cess. "To sum the matter UD'—a sound di< this accession, now amountind to about fourteen hundred men. It be came necessary, at this juncture, to give to these separate bands a more compact character, and with that view it was indispensable that tne command of the whole should be com mitted to one of the present leaders. In the difficulty and delicacy of se lecting an individual for this duty, the common opinion inclined to the propriety of submitting the appoint ment to General Gates. A messenger was accordingly despatched on that night, to repair to the American head quarters at Hillsborough, to present this subject to the attention of the W^ieral. In the menatirae. Shelby, whose claim, perhaps, to the honor of leading the expedition was most worthy of consideration, with that pa triotic and noble postponement of self which occurs so frequently in the history of the men of the Revolution, himself suggested the expediency of conferring the command upon his friend Campbell, until the pleasure of Gates should be known. The sug gestion was heartily adopted, and Colonel William Campbell was as- cordingly. from this moment, the chosen leader of our gallant and effi cient little army. On the following day the troops were in motion at an early hour—de signing to advance, with a steady pace, towards Gilbertown, and thence on the track of the enemy across the border into South Carolina. In the course of the forenoon, the vanguard were met by a small body of horse men, whose travel-worn plight and haggard aspects showed that they had lately been engaged in severe service. They were now in quest of the very party whom they had thus fortunately encountered upon the march; and it was with a lively de monstration of joy that they now rode with the officer of the guard in to the presence of Campbell and his staff. Their report announced them to be Major Chandler and Captain Johnson, of Clarke’s party, who, with thirty followers, had been despatched from the western side of the Alle gany, to announce to the Confederat ed troops the complete success of that officer’s endeavor to reach the settlements on the Nolachuckle and Wattauga rivers. Their tidings' were immediately communited to the army; and the deep and earnest Interest which officers and men took in this intelligence, was evinced in a sponta neous acclumation and cheering from one extremity of the column to the other. The messengers proceeded to narrate the particulars of their late hazardous expedition, and fully con firmed the most painful anticipations which the listeners had previously entertained of the difficulties, toils, and sufferings Incident to the enter prise. Clarke’s soldiers, they further reported, were too much disabled to be in condition immediately to re- cross the mountain and unite In the present movement against Ferguson; gestive apparatus that Is doing its full duty, getting every particle of vitality: out of all food by transferring it to thei bowels in a perfectly digested state— this above all else brings health.” Mr. A. C. Brock, chef of the Broclc Restaurant, Market District, Boston. Mass., who is a staunch believer in Mr. Cooper’s theory and medicine, has this to say: "I had chronic indigestion for over three years. I suffered terribly* and lost about thirty pounds. I was a physical wreck when I started this Cooper medicine, a month or so agOb. Today I am as well as I ever was in. my life. I am no longer nervous, my food does not distress me in the least^ and I have a splendid appetite. I am gaining flesh very rapidly—in fact, aft the rate of a pound a day. I would not believe any medicine on earth could have done for me what this has done. It is a remarkable preparation and &r. Cooper deserves all his suo» cess.” We recommend the Cooper preparac tlons as being remarkable medicines. --Gaffney Drug Co. | but that, as soon as they should find I themselves recruited by needful rest, | they would lose no time in repairing ’ to the scene of action. Towards sunset of the succeeding clay, our sturdy adventurers entered ! Gilbertown. This post had been aban- . doned by Ferguson, and was now in i the occupation of the two staunch ! Whig leaders. Brandon and Lacy, at the head of about three hundred men, who had repaired thither from the adjacent mountains of Rutherford, to await the arrival of Campbell and his friends. It was manifest that affairs were rapidly tending towards a crisis. Ferguson had hitherto appeared in- i different to the dangers that threat- : ened him, and his movements indicat ed either a fatal contempt for his ad versary, or an ignorance of the extent of his embarrassments—each equally discreditable to the high renown which has been attributed to him for careful and bold soldiership. ECZEMA NOW CURABLE. All itching Skin Diseases Which are Not Heredita rv instantly Reliev ed by O'l Of wintergreen. Can Eczema t>e cured? Some physicians say “Yes.” Some say ’ No.” The real question is, “What is meant by Eczema?” If you meun those scaly eruptions, those diseases which make their first appearance, not at birth, but year afterward, and perhaps not until middle age—then there can no longer be any question that these forms of Eczema are curable. Simple vegetable oil of winter- green, mixed with other vegetable in gredients, will kill the germs that in fest the skin. Apply this prescription to the skin, and instantly that awful itch is gone. The very moment the liquid is applied, that agonizing, tan talizing Itch disappears, and continu ed applications of this external re medy soon cure the disease. We carry in stock this oil of winter- green properly compounded into D. D. D. Prescription. While we are not sure that It will cure all those case* of skin trouble which are inherited, we positively know that this D. D. D. Prescription, whenever rightly used, will cure every last case of genuine Eczema or other skin trouble, which did not exist at birth. We know this. Anyway you, your self, will know that D. D. D. Pre scription instantlv takes away the itch the moment It is applied to the skin. Gaffney Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C. Stop that itch today—instantly. Just call at our store and try this re freshing and soothing liquid; also ask about D. D. D. Soap. —It gives me pleasure to state that of all the Grip and Cold medicines that i have ever taken, the Gaffney Drug Co.’s "Grip Tablets” are the best. They are a certain cure. Dray ton M. Clary. I Panic Prices On Mules! I We have the nicest lot of Mules in this county. The mule you want for any purpose at all. Weights from eight to thirteen hundred pounds. Good teams of matched mare Mules. We sell or exchange and make prices and terms right. Give' us a chance at your business. Feb. 7, 4t Wilkins, Brown & Irwin, C<n>'W’jDorx*!4, &. &.