Nevada County picayune., 1886-10-06

about to recaive.o Neither 0ftheSe would suit his case, and it was for, tunate that he was not at this crit ical moment embarrassed with the necessity Of religion, on the top of OtLer very active exercises.
 On, on, oa went the hurricane colt, and where the ground was hard and uuobstructed his rapidity was such that lis legs looked like so uanN hnitti' z needles
 Tom stuck closer than postage stamp or q p0rJus plaster, and the only danger was that collision would occur or the hide ot the colt would slip. So, after what seemed to he about fifty years, Tom heard the friendly whinny of the mare and proceedings were amicably ad- iusted bN the "whoasn of the work men at the lanyard. Tom never af- terwards wanted to join the cav airy; for on that occasion his father mustered him out of ser. vice with q mustard that burned.
 From Saiem. Judge Swift moved to Perry, HouStoH couuty, GeoI- gia, where he yet resides. Tom went to school here five years to Jim DmIham and two yyars to Prof. J. E. Croslin.
 There is but little of interest to the readers in those years of study, when the mind WAS awakened to the great duties of life and all it's energies silently enlisted in pre- parng for the important future. To tue student, that period is full of excitement, with it's struggles, it's triamphs and it's disappoint- ments; to the observer, 1t is full 0t m0notoUS.
 Thomas was now storing his mind with useful Knowledge and laying the foundation of d. remark able and most successful career.
 During this time he grew to be stout, healthy boy.
 Had Capt. Swift lived iu ob- scurily, had his fate been to pass through the Horn Gate, instead of the Ivory, he would stil! have been a man to command attention, q man to be looked at and listened to, man to attract, to move, to impress.
 His father was in easy circum- stances, but y0uag swift was am bilious, and whilst yet d boy com mcnced to battle for himself For awhile inc clerked for Messrs. Cranberry x Rawson of Americus, afterwards fol Mir. Joel Mann of Perry and at the breaking out of the war he was with Messrs. Nor then & Shivers in Sparta. In all these engagements he made rep utation as youth uf judgement, practical sense, a talent for draw ing trade, an Hptuess in learning the details of business and an. un taltering devJtion to the interest of his employers.
 In 1861 MT. Swift enlisted as a private in thr First Georgia Vol uu}eers under Col, Rumsey Of Co lumbus. and ycmaiaed in ranks un- iii the regiment was mustered out of service in 1862. He then join. ed the Montgomery Battalion (Ar- tillery( where he served to the end of the war with the rank of Cap tan.
 After the surrender Capt. s. re- turned to Perry and began d small grocery business on cap ital of .200. In the back room of this store, in d common wash pot during i6G5, he first began his manufacture of the $. $. <. The reader will probably think 1 ought to go back and relate everything connected with the origin and an- teccdent of the medicine. Read CT, let me remind you that am not nov advertising S. x. $. l am but writing biographical sketch of Capt. S., the man who has brought and still brings that great Elixir before the public. The $. $. $. with its wonderful, wonderful his tory will be commented on, not be. cause tIs for sale, but because it is interwoNeu with the sketch. l ann writing "iuterWoven' with so close a texture that. like the image of MaduSa on the shield of Phidi- as, tu erase the one wCuld be to ruin the other. The grocery proved to be a success. Trade increased, business became brisk and every indication pointed to The necessity of more housc room. Bat the med irine outgreW the store. Drum mers from every quarter of the country tasted it, tested it and went aWay 10 spread abroad the story olls virtues, X ucGr0 pre- sided oNer the wash pot ahd +o OO pcl quart was ti.e pijce, and yet tae demand WAS inmeasurauly 'ohcad of the possibility of supply. Under these circumstances the store wa4 abandoned and Capt. swift moved ont eight miles from p1ly, procured syrup kettle and GcA u;cd Ai@ whole timc to the manufacture of x <. S. But peo- nj, would ad,crt Sc the medicine
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