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VOLUME XI.
DALLAS, GEOBOIA, FRIDAY, DEOMBER 30, 1892.
WASHIHGTOH & RUSSOM,
Dealers in
Groceries, Hardware, Staple Notions, and
Fancy Goods,
WE BUYEFOR CASH
WE SELL FOR CASH,
WE BUY CHEAP, WE SELL CHEAP.
Th<*y are Good Goods,] Thoy are Cheap
Gocds.
They were bought at Headquarters. You ere cordially invited to
come and see for yourself, and know that wo have the cheapest
line of goods ever offered in Dallas.
But they won't tumble to the Racket unless the cash is paid on the spot
So don’t forget your Pocket Book. For no one can get credit hero
Wo are after the Hard Cash. If you have Jgot it we will give you
Lots of goods for it.
G. W. LINDSEY,
DEALER IN —
General Merchandise;
SHOES A SPECIALITY
I have added 20 feet to my
Store House, and have by far the
Largest Stock of Geods ever
brohght to Braswell.
I buy as low as the lowest and
sell cheap.
CHILDREN’S, MISSES’, LADIES
AND MEN S SHOES.
Guaranteed to Give ISatisfaction,
BRASWELL, - GEORGIA
CttfCKfNTPb
IPOWDER;
CIRCULARS
a« PRICES.
'POk
U
In A Row!
HUMBERS AND ROVERS
Have taken 44 First Awards at International Exhibits,'
Including Grand Prize at Paris Exposition. 34 years on th.
market, and by far the largest cycle makers in the worn.
Buy bicycles wKh a reputation to ■ „ \
''’send for latest art catalogue.
Agencies In all the principal cities
of the world, and In 4 00 American
towns. 400 more agents wanted.
Write for proposition.
THE HUMBER-ROYER
CYCLE CO,
286 Wabash Ava..’CHICA60.
WI KU. MRECT WHERE THERE IS NO ABENT, fOR CASH OR ON
WI10 are WEAK; NKRV
OUS, DEBILITATED
rhu In folly and ignorane
a e trifled away 1
got of BODY, HIND an
MANHOOD, enusing terrlblo,'drains upou
U10 wells of life, Hendnohe, IUcksclie,
Dreadful Dre.mis.JWeakurss of Memory,
l’ihinlos upon the face, and all tho effect,
leading to enily decay, Consumption o
Insanity, Rond for BOOK OK LIFE
(sealed) froo with particulars of a homo
cure. N Cure No Pay. DR, PARK
ER, 340 N. Cherry, Nashville, Tenn.
Peter,
ItT EDITH MARY NORRIS,
WOMEN who have Head
aches, Mackachcs, Neural*
gins, Scanty. Profuse, and
Palu'ul Menstruations DIs-
ders, and IHsplacementa
of tho Womb and Sccual Organs, Bar
renness, f.eucorrha,a, otc., should send
(or WOMAN’S KOOK OF LIKE,(sealed)
r ce with particulars for home cure. N«
Cure No Pay. Seiontlflc Qualifications
Unlimited JExporlonoe. Careful Blagnn-
sls and Holiest Representations Jars th.
socrotsof our success. Address,
C. W. PAKKKU M. D., 810 N. Chnrry
NasliviUe. Tenn.
DEFORMITIES
Cross Kyes llatr Lip, Curvature of th
pino, Club Feet, Hip Joint Disease, and
I deformities of the Hands, Arms
Legs, and Feet radically cured.
DISFIGUREMENTS.
Superfluous Ilalr,{Wine Marks, Moles,
otc., painlessly and perfeotly removed
Send for valuable troatlso on th. abov
Address, C . W PARKER *
Cherry, Nashville Tenn,
BROKE".
frnm nil. t.irm nl
DOWN men and
women suffarin
from aiQ term of CHRONIC DIF
EASE, can secure a valuable work, 00
their affliction (sealed) free, and learn
how they can be cured at horn., by writ
mgDR. PARKER * Co. 340 North Cher-
y Street NaohvlUe. Tc.nn. Better writ,
o day, delays are dangerous. Pleas,
tat* j o r tr in' l - lo .ig.ninted
WANTED
LIVE AGENTS
la avory town In aach state
to Mil our Sol 14 Columbia*
•liver Tab I a Knives aa4
Forks ( thesa foods art not
platsd foods but qolld, and
will held their color equal te
sterling allvsr foods and will
coat only about ono-quarte?
tho prices of solid stsrliof
silver. Tho goods ore aold by
agents only and wa warrant
them to atand ths tsst of
yaars or refund ths money, t
S usrantso will go with ouch
osen and backed up by an
old reliable company which
baa th* reputat.on of making
th# best goodson tho market.
Samples sent on rscisptofss
cents, for which wo will for
ward you our pricoa and dis
count to agents. A rente
make from so to 11 deHart per
tfty.
T>i Upson & Hart Co.
UnloBilIle, Conn..
THE STEAM product, k, tts BTMMS.I eMMs,
I cannot iiccm, I) stiorM M the Wild* Is M
router, end acts ai a Panina, th.ra la na wap-
oration, no dryln, up or Purnln, banco M
or Iota of woluht, and aH th, larar aad ssWHIass
qualities otthaVod ars ralalsed. Taefi mule are
made londtr. and any artlota raeatad ar kttad *IH Pa
•waater, haalthlar and mara dlpatlMe. Putthataes
I n tha roaattr. place tha roaalar la a we* heated e*en|
Iha roaater wifi do the eeptlnj. If rwglrea no at.
tentlon. Can amy lie b#u,ht hws Mara, th* Mi
■uppllad Py:
MATTHAly INGRAM & CO,
190 H»|IOt'' a *£.. laL’IMOMr Mt
•4 (1th. * "••JJiW VOMb
1 horn was no light Hu the room
in whioh Peter sat nvo tha? which
flickered through the crook un lor
the door of the oldfathioned woods
stove, Typ ieal of Peter,s life wa
this room: dark, with now and then
* faint thread of light, that only
served to tnaKe blacker the sur
rounding darkness. Typical of his
mind, too: for Peter waa n great
overgrown child—the body of a
man witha child's mind wich would
never grow older. Peter was called
an idiot. I say callsd, because
idiot is too h trsh a term to descaibe
this poor creature, at ouce so help
less and so forlorn. In Ireland h„
would have been called “dark;„uy,
that waa his state, and his fitful
Hashes of intallignce were sliorlivad
and wandering like the light which
he watched’ as he now sat on hi.
uncomfortably low stool. In Scot
land such as ha ara called “inno
cents. „ Yea, Peter, the ugly liunclr
back, the poor*farm drudge, the
meek recipient of the kicks and
curses that fall to his sbars far
more freely than the barest noces -
sariea of lift, waa an innocent!
To sit in the sun, or nnder ths
trees, to wander in woods whore
the wind sings to Peter, „he would
say Vhon he heard it—was for
Peter to be happy—-expuidtcly,
purely happy. Sometimes in the
ecstacy of his enjoyment ho would
throw out bis great arms, dispro-
tioned to the rest of his body, as
the arms of a hunchback so of.'on
an,an J murmur the. word “God.”
Who shall say that tho smile
with which he bent his car over
brooK, and listened to its murmur
ing, was silly? Nature wa; father)
mother, God to him, and all of life
or hope that hs could know whore
bound in its great sacred book, tho
saves of which he road daily with
new d.hght. Who shall say how
this soul was being led? Whe
shall say by what means it was b#
ing tuned for the harmonics of a
new sphere?
Peter cowered beneath tho look
of one who was harsh to him; in
an atmoiphcre of love he became
radiant. There were two who
loved him, and their smilts made
his light in darkness. One of these
was an old pauper who had outliv
ed the bitterest sorrows that a wo
man might Know, and was waiting
to be called home; the < ther was,
strange to say, the only child of
his bitterest enemy—the master of
the peor farm.
The old woman's love was the
outcome of a compassion she would
have given—remembering her own
sufferings—to any desolate crea
ture; the love of the child was the
outpluring of a holy, instinctive
affection—the innocen'. undc.steo I
the ii nocen*. j
Though wospok3 only of die
presence of Peter in tho room,
others were thero, among them,the
old woman, almost lost in tho
depth of an unwisely rocKcr.
As a loud, heavy footstep was
hea:d in the bare passageway; Pe
ter started and begun to tremble
[u a moment the d tor was opens I
and'n rough voice exclaimed: —
“Why arc you sitting here it
the dark?”
‘ You said they weren't to have
a lamp, fir,” said a woman wlr
enteied with him.
litone that was ready ou tb. j , ta»
ble: discovering tho owner of the
voieo to be a big, course looking
man, with a horse whip in his hand
a nd un evil, oruel look upon his
face.
“Where’s that idiot;” lie demand
ed. “Hero Peter. I've a word to
say to you; come hero.”
I’etor rose and came forward
.vhrinkingly. Alas, I10 had too much
cause for fear.
“Now I wann to know," lie said,
“why you didn’t doth, work 1 sent
you to do properly,—twioe you've
been shown how to do it; now, I'm
going to show you for tho tliitd
time - "
He took th. trembling cripple
by tho collnr and twisted him a-
boiit as he spoke, that ho might
have him more completely at liis
mercy.
“Peter will work, master," quid
the | our oronturo. “Peter will
try.l’
“I’ll learn you to do tnnro than
try,” and the whip came down with
a cruel swish on the poor deformed
back.
The old woman wo lmvo spoken
of rushed forward with a cry and
clung to the man’s arm, “Don.t
whip sucu a feeble croaturo!,, site
cried, in anguish. “ Loo!; at bis
poor tortured body; and have pity.
The brute pushed her so violent
ly away that she staggered’ and
again he brought down his whip
upon the quivering boy.
Again she staod his arm.
“You shall not do it,,, she said!
“let the poor creature ge!„
“Lock this old fool in a room'
and give her bread and water to
morrow,,. lie said; and two of hip
myrmidonrs led her away. Alus
for Peter! her kindly interference
had lent fuel to the flamo of tho
furious man,h passion, and lie II >0.
gjd the poor follow till I10
weary, and then fiulig him from
him with un oath.
TI10 wretched boy lay in n heap
upon the llooor, so still that bis com -
rades in misery almost feared that
he was dead, They dared not stir
til! the footsteps of tho tyrant had
ccaiedto sound’ and then they min
istered to his victim. Th j woman
who bad lit the lamp carao into the
room.
‘T,ve brought some water,.’ she
said; “I wislt I could lmvo preven
ted this.,’
“I doubt he,s past drinking water
said tin old cro 10 who had brought
a dirty cushion for o's bead to iob
n; on.
“1,11 get a little brandy,,, said
the woman, “if you,11 promise not
to tell 1 iin., Sh; hurried away,
and in a few moments returned
with some in a tumbler. Kneel
ing beside Peter, she raised bis
head and forced a few drop; be
tween his white lip;, and in a few
moments consciousness returned.
“Come,” she said, “try to get up;
and 1,11 h Ip you to b„'d.„ Find
ing him still unable to rise, min
gled some wa'er with the brandy
in th. tumbler and mad • him drink
it.
“ c imo, try, Peter; he will be
back, you know; and then 1 can t
help you!”
Peril ip this i lea did more to
rouse poor I’etor thin the brandy
for lie shuddered, and with dflicully
rose and, helped by Sue, woiit to
his bed.
The night was far spent when a
cry of lire rang out upon the star
tled ai. Hells rang, the engine
' rattled overt lia roads, and windows
/he dark s ! were thrown up by tlioe who had
tho chitr.or.
I liousti i; on fire!”
Great tongues of flame issued
fro n the 1 ft win 3 of th 1 unsightly
building, and roared and crackled
ns they wound themselves around
tho windows and crept under tho
eaves,
The inmates had been rouse d>
and it was supposod that all were
safe; but us they stood in a group
upon the lawn, it was discovered
that one wn» missing old Mrs,
Bent, Peter’s friend. She hail been
locked in, the reader will remem'
bnr, for lior interference in his b>
half. As a groat cry went np, slio
appealed in the window. Tho tiro
had not yet reached that part of
the building; but as tho whole
structure was inevitably doomed 1
there was no time to bo !o;t.‘]
•Thero was a cry for the poor
master; for the key. Peter did not
wait for either; with his powerful
arms ho climbed a huge water
spout and flung himself from that
to tho window.
A» ho hung for a moment on the
sill and thou drew himself up, a
mighty rear rose from tho thous-
p. - 'd throats.
UreaK tho door, lad, and come
down tho stairs!” Bofor. they
knew it, Mrs. Bent and Peter were
with them, and (ho spectators
pressed forward to clasp the hunch-
bacK’s hand.
Then a child’s voice was heard,
“Papa! mamma! oh, take me
downl”
“My God!" said a bystander,
there’s a child in thero yet!”
As lie spoke, tongue of flame
darted out and for a moment lieu-
od tho frame of the window above
the child, A groan went up, as
they saw more plainly the little
wliito figure. J
“Are there no ladders? tho stairs
caso in that end is burned away.”
“None long enough to reach!”
W,tS cried tho agonized father. Oh,
my child, iny child!”
She might be let down with a
(•ope, if one could bo got to her.”
In a moment the “idiot” was all
alive..
“Give Peter a rope,” he cried;
“Peter will save Dotty,”
In a moment they had t ed a
8 tout rope about liia body, and he
was ascending. The I ro had
spread along the roof at the point,
and was working downward. From
part to point ho climbed, securing
each ground of avantage, Nowon
the porch roof, now hanging on to
a window or corn ce, till at length
he stood beside tha child. Then
again tlut roar wer.t up. oarfully
1’eter fastened the repo around
her slcndoi body—first wrapping
his coat about her—with a knot
which an old sailor inmate of his
droary homo had taught him to
make. Wlui/ were the thoughts of
the tyrant, as lie saw the noble boy
take the little girl in bis arms that
he might lower her down; us she,
heedless of the flames that singed
them as thoy stood, put her tiny
arms round his neck and kissed
him? WliaS were liis thoughts
as h ! saw her seized by eager hands
as she neared the ground—safe,
while a loud rumbling noise smote
the air’ and the front wall and roof
dived inward, and the hungry
(lames, with a terrific roar, shot
above the place where hunchback
bal stood?
,'I should iiiv
plenty good enough fo-| a iperg /o ! been awakened by
leaf i . I’eto'i one 11 nv. Iliougli, I
vnnl one f »• whn* I've gnr t 1
. lie woman sL'.o:k a ir.utu.i i.iui
When is
it!,, tip
ss.'.l I.-.
aiked
NOTICE,
FOR SALE OR RENT,
One hundred and seventy-five
acres of good land, good pastures
and well watered. Tho dwelling
now, storehouse, best s/and in the
ountrv, aboid one hundred acres
i.i cultivation. For i f'""inti