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Jf gMOil THE 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