\7fey
Sxkior?
Ha. J. A. Cox, of AW
Ana, V/. Va., writoK
"Mr daughter . . . nsW
tend terrier. Sho could
no* taro In bed ... fix
doctor* gore her op. and
»• brought ber home to
dto. S’.te bad outfaced wo
onebat. . .time. Mar
lag beard of Cardid, wo
tot It for ber."
CARDUI
BO
Wi
Why Ttto Moult
tii. Thacher s Liver & Blood Syrri
will do *11 that calomel will do anu
without the "after effect*.'’
Years age, when people were billows,
when the Hrer got lUjr and failed to do
its work or the stomach was out of
Addition, ealomel was tho standby.
3y and by the us rs of ealomci found
lhat the "after efffecu1' of takiag tha
drag were at bad and more often warm
than the ailment far which it waa
taken.
Dr. Thacher, la seeking a medicine
to take the place of calomel—one that
would do all the good that ealomel
wiAild do, and yet ten re none of its evil
cflbots perfected Dr.Thachogl lives*
Blood byrwp. This was in Hit, and
each year si nee has added to the eon*.
di_*aa of thorn who have need li.
Mias Basie Brewer, of Chattanooga,
Tran., tried calomel. Bhe woe suflsc
la* with a vary serioaa cold and grippe
end had no appetite whatever. After
tha oalomci failed she tried Dr. Thaeb
er s Liver * Blood Syrup. Bhe Mt
bettor after taking three doors and she
eoen got soUrely well. “I think Dr.
. sasaauKWRUmi
tap vary thankful I tiled 1C."
For nearly threeqoaiters of a ecntnry
this sterling preparation baa bean aa
“old stand-by” In thousands of homes
In treating rheumatism, dyspepsia, in
dlg—tlon and other stomach and liver
complaints. It Isa powerful tooio and
blood partner and can be used with
the utmost aanfldanoa.
Girm Quick ReUef fyr
COLDS and -
LaGftIPPE
Price 28c ud 60c per hottfe
NOTICE OP AfiMNlSTEATlON.
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AO.VIU CUSTOMS OF THfc FAST
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The following interesting article by
Cel. Fred Old* appeared in The Or
phan* Krlend, Oxford, N. C.;
A hundred year* ago and more the
lima; the place North Carolina, and
riding In a stick gig to the country
bemeo cornea a man leading a spare
home with a pack on each side, evi
dently bent upon business. He is
mot at the Sous* by the good wo
man herself, who give* him a Mails
and the usual friendly Invitation of
the time, “Alight and come in.”
The man era* a noccaslty to North
Carolina, in those day* for ho was
the pewter**, and the goodsrif* was
Ivory right la giving him a welcome.
| He loat no time la getting down to
business, for he had made his rounds
in that neighborhood before and
knew exactly what families had
m Hilda, tor making articles out of
pewter and those who had none, the
Latter reading him goner ally though
the farmer required hie service usual
ly in making platters, dishea and
mugs groat and small, which were
a part of every household’s equip
ment.
| The pewterer found that a down
[spoon*, a platter, two bowl* and half
* down plates wort needed, look all
tha bettered and broken pewter at
the household, weighed K with ears
mada hi* tea, get out hi* moulds and
adding to the old pewter a sufficient
amount of the new material to gtve
it “life" poured the white end shiny
material from his melting-pot Into the
different moulds. The good woman,
told him eh* needed some buttons too,
and he got out the button moulds, ia
which six were cast at a time. Bom*
of these would he simply polished and
then fastened te the goedwoman's
Sunday ooat, called them e^ shadbelly
la the country, while ia the towns It
was spoken of as s spike-tail, but
would now be called a drees coat.
The pewtarer eras well entertained
in the house, the beet at the table waa
non* too food for Mm, and the feath
er bed In the guest room eras at his
disposal; sometime* If the weather
was cold there being two feather beds,
one to lie on and the other for cover,
and between the** tha poop! of that
day stowd themselves like ruts in a
rest.
Mr. Pewtcrsr could do other thing*!
than make article* oat of pewter, for
he w*e * tinner end • Jsck-of-all
tTadee; what the English call • handy
man, end He made it a point to in
|quire whether anything needed mend
ling er making. Vary often the can
dle-moulds would be broken or mlae
tng and he could (apply either de
ficiency, for .from hi* sheet* of tin,
which Work hotld to those days sad
not i mere coating over iron u they
are today, he made the mould* which
turned out tallow caddie* a docco at
a time, sight or six and tome times
even four, and dig went sixes ef can
dles. The wicks wore set. Hanging
down in the moulds, and attached to
bite of sticks aa thay would hang tnsa
to the center, and than the tallow
was poured and later the , mould*
would bo hold near the fir* as to
enable the candle maker to pull the
(tick upward, bringing the candles
swinging from it.
In the House If the weather were
Cool, or outdoors mad under a brush
arbor In tbs Soauasr Urns, there aat
a woman, bogy throwing the shuttle
and “pulling" tbs loom making doth,
while the dull music of a whirring
spinning wheel was another feature
of the plans. Cottee cards bung
Msrky and a flax wheel was to view,
with a flag hackle hanging ea tbs
walls. He sharp aad numerous Iron
•pike* Sticking out from a pleat «f
wood ehapod like a short aad luas
what thin paddle, the rotted Max be
ing h added on this after a long stay
to the water had mailed its fibers
lo I* eepaiated from tlicit rover.
In oon of the room* wae a pOs a.
flaoeos of atiri ,*. to ho spun tote scoot
•a yarn for tbe making of the Win
ter clothing, fast aa tha eottoa aad
the flag would be apua Into threau
and made into cloth Icr lighter wee
•*» well aa 'far shoe-* for any famii;
of importance prided Itself ea Us bed
Mmo. There sms very sore to be a.i
old-time garden at tbe house, la
which various herbs wan grown not
only for ana to the kitchen hut la
•owe eaeee Mr medical yarpmee. aad
from am woods and fields bundles
ef medicinal herbs had been gath
ered sekleh gave a distinct eder aa If
of an aysthsmry shop to that part of
the bauee.
too had knowledge of tho pro port! so
of thoea torts, bat not Man eta
plota thus that whfah fa aow held by
many children la oar high mountain
aaaatry la North Ca reties, who la
farts, whfah htaght by email bay*
Mists greater oaoo and an thaw so
•typed to (ho maaufaetaring hoaeaa
fat tho North, fto la tho tinfast eteaa
tain hantloto osm gate those days tho
odor of alh aorta of drying or fried
plaata, a faaadnd yoars after tho
general knowledge of their values and
their rfartoae here passed away from
practically all ef ether North Can
\
lina, for the Charlotte nr the KaU
eigh boy or girt of today would be
bard pot to it to toil the value of ao
much as one of theaep tan La which
■ature has provided, come contend aU
for a useful purpose, and of which
the Indians knew aoasethlng.
A hundred yearn ago! How time
fllaa. There wae a spasmodic return
to those primary condition* of liv
ing to a remarkable degree during
at least two yaan of the War be
tween the State#, when tha street or
the timea waa felt to heavily by the
people in general., Where now are the
loome, tha spinning wheel*, the flax
wheel* and hackle*, the distilling
plant tn which tha goodwtfe worked
ap the various plants whoa* sa
feness ah* needed; Urn Mg hominy
mortar* and their wooden pestlm.
where Uie com wae beaten up; the
hand mill*, with an upper and a
nether millstone, the upper turned
aroond by mean* of a wooden peg
stuck in K, the "milt" being In n hol
low gum log. Where are the lye
lye stands, la which the wood ashes
aeed to bo thrown, water poured a pen
them to leach out the lye I1W1 the
aabei, the strong and better lye tnek
Hng rfom the bottom of this stand
which waa fouraided, flaring widely
outward and which would hold Sev
eral bushel* of ashes. With thl* lye
eoap was mads, all the grease being
carefully saved while now U la thrown
away, and with this lye the outer
part, the cortlde, of grain* of com
was eaten away leaving tha snowy
white grains laaida, ready to be cook
ed and become ‘hi* hominy."
and there ia high North Caro
lina and in very remote sactkms in
the interior eomo of thorn thln*s,
Umoo household customs, which mod
to bo in everybody's horns, even yet
Co on. bet to moot people they ere
not even a memory, for only the other
day three ladieo, each of whom could
truly confess to be!nr on the wrooe
nkW of M years, Mid they had never
seen a candle-mould or a flax hackle
before, while spoon moulds and those
•ort of things and pewter utanails
wore quite beyond them. New-u-dsys
wo buy; we-do not make Yot some
body hns to make. Whore ia our
North Carolina flax; how few, bow
lamentably faw, are our ahaap, so
scarce that thair very presence ia re
marked by somethin c odd. If by
chance cm railway or highway out
■see in these days oven the aaullest
flock of them.
Aod tear* ware the ropo-welka,
her* and there, where ropes of vari
ous alias were made for tha neigh
bor*, and sometime* where the mak
ere wrae even more enterprising, to
bo sold further afield. Tha writer
know* today of only two xopa-waUu
to aU North Otrettna, both- *tgr'C&
coart. Tha burinrw la gone out, oev
rr to return until some supreme emer
gency occur*, some war or urea*
which compel» home manufacture.
There was the rope-walk, with Ha
thread* spread out at oaa and and
brought together at the other to1 a
wheal, and the gm between the
point*, ray 60 feet or aaom, being
worn infinitely smooth by the feet of
the workers passing up end down
along the fine*, gutting thu thread*
glared, the wheel doing the twisting
and making on* think of the frame
now eean in a modem cotton mill.
Those wore the days of handicrafts,
100 years ago, and the children wen
taught to be what eras knewn as
■mart from their very saiHast day*.
They would he thought very old-fash
famed sow by a lot of people end yet
handicrafts art coming tack by
mana of tea thing in tbs pahlm
school*. Tot years Durham ha* had
meh teaching end new Charlotte 1*
going to he** H.
DKKD*. NOT WORDS.
Uwhtari PmpI* |m UuRli
Prow W DmS at Hast.
“I Nntohr Imp* that orory ou
who boa houpht libarty Bondi will
try to hoop thorn for tho ported of tho
w«r at lout. * • • If oaoh mod
«««ty parehorer koopo Wo Uborty
Bond ha holpo to protoet tho credit
of too Gorornmont by mnteUtaIo« the
MotMt for too bond* at par. which
to a »«rjr Mpfal totop to war tin*,
and ho alre rendore a more ooooatlal
aorrtoo U oar toUtars aad reilore to
tha Hold by prectieiap toooo ocono
mlre and rertapa which retoau ma
terial* and labor nawarery to too
aapport. if not too very llfo, of our
Army and Nary."—Boorotary lie*
AIM.
NEW 1
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Make Patriotism Pay
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Where Do You Stand?
Some have given an ear.
Some a hand, arm, foot or leg,
Many have given an eye.
Thousands—both eyes.
And the list of American boys who give EVERY
THING—who die for you—is rapidly increasing.
• * • •« ' .".‘/I
THINK CITIZENS! THINK!
You are not asked to Give anything—-but to * loan"
your money to the Government—to our boys. Are
you doing this ? If not, God pity you.
War-Savings Stamps
On sale at Post-offices, and Stores
BUY TODAY
This space contributed by
W. p. McLAURIN C. E. MUSE
G. D. McCORMICK
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