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Shoes FOR The Million, We handle the finest Wo sell the best You come ami see us We do the rest. Our School Shoes for Boys and girls have no superior. MH WILL STAND THE RACKET. Thousands of pairs of lasting oeauties or the ladies, Our mens barga’ns jhave no peers in this market. Ladies Spring Heels in oil eizesand styles. FEET DECORATORS AND KORN KCMFORTEBS Cant roll & Owensiw* 240 BROAD STREET- Rome Mutual Loan Association. HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA, 325, Broad Street. A National Building and Loan Comp i Purely Mutual, safe Investment and Good Pro Made by small Month! Payments, OFFICER??. J. A. GLOvER, President. J. D. MOORE, Sec’ty a Treas. CHAS. I. GRAVES, Vice President. J. H. RHODES, Mgr’ l4>ud Dept. Hit. ATE ) SifiTH, General Council. COAL! COAL! ALL GRADES. ROME COAL CO. VA P n QOPAIIO AVD \ Lowest Price* ( Henry G. Smith, Ma’gr 1 AllU'ijubvim till., in Rome )J. H.King Weigher. O’Neil M’fg Co. £"""•> jT— i <coAl< TELEPHONE 76- |e pok-1 u' *— ' vir 1-11 ' -4-IWill M Dll 530 Market St. Chattanooga W.C. SMITH Agt, Proprietor LADIES & CENTS CLOTHING CLEANE DYED OR REPAIRED, AT LOWEST PRICES. PROMPT PROFESSIOMII WORK. ' PHOTOS* $3.00 PER DOZ. FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS I WILL MAKE CABINET PHOTO* at $3.03 Per Dozen. This is a SPECIAL Oi-FER for Cabinet Photos only. I guarantee go >d work. FOR $4.50 You can get one dozen Cabinet Photosand a two-thirds life size, I. W. I ANCASTER, Photographer. A.- L- Hooliholzer GUN & All kinds of Machinery Repaired on Short notice. Sewing Machines and Bycles repairing a S| T speciality. All kinds of machinery anujjStationary repaired witl uir-atneiß and depatch. 221 Street Rome Georcs«j. fHE HUSTLER OF ROME SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 1894 THE STORY OF TWO BRAVE BOYS. (by PAUL D. RRRSE. ) We lived in the valley and “Un cle Harvey’’ lived about half a mile on the western slope of the ridges, all the land immediately between us was under cultivation, and, as 1 have started out to relate an o’er true tale, truth to tell, there was little of it that would pay the tilling, but Rudyard Kip ling’y—da Amelia Ri'es'y speaking “that’s another story.” Time and time again had the ferocious, tiger-like courage of Jeff been retailed to Tom and myself until we had come to look upon him as a being of the order super human, and metaphorically wor shiped him as a kind of diabolical hero. JetT had one leg shorter than the other, caused by white swelling; but he could move around on that short leg at a swift pace as the se qual will show. One Sunday (now will some ob servant person tell nil why all the devilment that country lads get into occurs on the Sabbath?) “Bush,” one of Jeff’s younger brother, Tom and myself by pre concerted arrangement had assem bled at the plum orchard about midway between Mr. Washington’s and our home. I do no remember wh it was the cau-«e of the alterca- ' tion, but T know that when we had filled our pockets (likewise our lit tle bellies) fu 1 of plums that one I grew between Bush and Tom, and ' (strange Jto relate but Bush was crippled in < n hand- o .t of six boys three in that family are crip ples) Tom did violen a* b B ish by j grabbing his hands and squeezing , or wrenching it. This offended; Bush, and he told the lighting j member of the family about it.• But of this we know nothing till ; later. Now about one hundred yards from our home there is a pond I which neither winter nor summer , is ever entirely dry. This pond is . bordered by a thick fringeof bush- I es, and in the summer was used by men and boys for miles around as a “wash hole” as it was very] appropriately called. Every day ( Tom and I disposed ourselves in its limpid depths (and many fre | the thrashings I have received for , I tumbling into it when I was told I I must not, and I remember that often I have had Tom thrash my hair to dry it before I want home, but somehow they nearly always know in spite of our precautions, and the whipping would follow. One day Tom and myself had been in swimming as usual and had just dried ourselves in the sun and nearly finished dressing, wlieu Jeff suddenly appeared, leading a gray mare, called Fly “to water, before hitchi.ig h■‘ to the plow fu; the evening’s labor. This was th? opp r'.’inity Jsff had beon lookin ' ' r aid he ac costed Tom v> ilk : “Tom I want a word with you. ” “Allright; what is it?” “I want to know why as big a boy a.s you are twisted Bush’s hand? you know very weli he is lame in one hand and much smaller than ; o i are! ” What Tom said has passed out of my memory, but. Jeff said : “Neither of you are as old as I am, but if you both think you can whip me just light in. Here is my h nd, I dare you to try to twist it like you did Bush’s.” I realy had no idea a fight would spring from the word combat, and the impulse to seize his hand, was great, so great that I could hardly resist it, but luckily I did. A few more dares were given by Jett' for both of us to jump hi n, but Tom remembered in time that: “He who runsaway” etc. And wholly to my surpris”, sud denly turned and with that swift ness which fear alone can pin wings to, lied towards hom< , with Jeff clattering behind him as fast a.s his lame leg would let him. Above the j ond grew a thicket of sweetgum and silver poplars for about fifty yards, then cams the dividing fence between our estate and that of Mr. W’s. A cotton patch was between the slnugh and this wooded growth. When Tom “picked up and dilut 'd,” I was like the six hundred it Balaklava,! did not know what to do,or which way to turri. No, that's a lie I was far from being like the six hundred as will soon be made manifest. When Tom turned and tied 1 stood for a moment stupified with - amazement. But then I bo thought i myself that I would stand less show ) than ever of “lieking”the stuffing ’ out of Jeff now that 1 was left , alone. I argued that Jeff failing to ) catch Tom would come back and , drown me in the pond and I knew i the Lord never intended for me to die that way.l had no fear of Jeff’s catching up with Tom with that lane leg of his, in fact if Jeff had 1 been a monstrosity with threejlegs, I felt sure he would neverovertake | Tom at the rate he was nearing home. And there too, I happened to think that Jeff was a cripple, ■ and I knew if I waited till he come back for his horse and jump ed on him giving him a thrashing people would think it cowardly in me for whipping a cripple.So when this thought came inte my her.d and I would have you know tha t mine is not a sluggish mind—l deliberately marched up to the slough behind the trees, and I can safely say that the pace I made was not over ten miles per minute nor was it very much less. When I had gotten to the end of woods way across tne intervening cotton patch, I heard my step mother screaming at the top of her voice. “You, Paul I you better come to | j this house this minute, I am going ’ tell your papa. ” I heard her very distinctly but did u >t want to alarm Jeff, or i put him on no'ice that, I wag fry |mg to bead h'm off io keep him irom hunting lorn. I was so 'a, from miking my mavoimrs kn >wti that I wis hurrying forward half bent!over so that he might not’ob serve meters,cl the brjiliau! coup de £u r-1 h i>l prepare 1. ' By this time T m had reached ' the fence, and putting one hand; ■on the top rail, made a leap and I ■ lit a top the fence flat of his little ’ belly then rolled over on the other side, and was soon in our yard. In the meantime Susie, our cook, descried me making my de tour to cut off the enemy and said j loud enough to reveal my ad i vantageous position. “ Loo ky yonder 1 Yonder comes Paul!” ’ ' I could have choked her for her stupidity. There it was, my plans I had been formed and executed all 1 for nothing The enemy was in ■ possession of my plan of action, I and would escape before I could ■possibly reach h'm and let lim I feel the weight of my arms. So I ! ■ was disgusted and det-rmined to Igo right ( n to the house. But when II reached the gate, I grew indig ! mint at being thus foully foiled, and as the home folks begged me ■so hard not to return to the ene- I mi' s base of supplies that J decided j Io respect their wishes, and I there ■' fore sat on the yard fence and is sued this challenge: “Durn you! 1 dare you in our • yard I You come in our yard and 11’il beat the devil cut of you, you i suck-egg dog, you.!” l,.it he was afraid to come; he knew too well which side of his b.e J was buttered. I had my plans all cut and dried i i case he did accept the gauntlet I hid thrown down to him, and alter 1 he smoke of battle had clear ed away and the enemy had left the li Id utterly vanquished, I re vealed after urgent solicitation my designs t » the family. Although in issuing my chal- Luiire T not su'd so. when T 'dared him t > come into our yard I inea.i'i. ue aick yaiu, tor I ic.nem bered right where the hatchet was, null i wi's going to get it and fort by myself in the smoke-houre by locking it on the inside, and when he had battered a '’ole big enough to poke his head t rough I wa going to chop it off. But ns 1 said he was afraid to come in, and today I can laugh as heartily over it as .left'himself can, and wholly vithout malice. For sale, a First Class Grocer Bus'ness ata barga n, Centrally loca ted, good paying Busi ness, good reasons for selling; will take part money, Balance in good paoer. Address A. B, C. This office. JH'X KIX'H, PieMideat T . w. P. SIMPSON, Vice PTMideat ’ ‘ IU * PBOn, ‘- Actin C Cashi M Merchants National Bank OF ROME CA. INTEREST ALbOWEB ON TIME DEPOSITS All ac ;om n xlatio js Cjßsiateat with Saf* Banki r en dec! (Mir Customers •* BRICK KILN S LIME KILNS HAIR AND SAND We can furnish fresh Lime in large quanitie, burned from our own Kilns on short notice. IBrick. Lime, Hair and Sand always on hand Trammell Fourth Ward Brick Yards. U A_ 11 kinds of Rough Lumber sawed to or der on short aVotice, Call on or Address, JOHN C- FOSTER I _ Foster’s NLills Gra. | E. C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANOOGA TENN, I MANUFACTURERS OF 1 CIRCULAR, BAM), GAWI CROSS CUT AM) HAND 1 SAWS, ETC. I WHOLESALE 1 Machinery Mill Supplies R,pairing a Specialty 1 theromebakeeJ AND I RESTURANT. I J, T. Wilkie, Proprietor. No. 228 Broad Stree® atsa MID 111 M HUB EW »I Refe taurant supplied tvi.h lhe best the market affurd» a Special attention to wedding orders and ornamental cake® FRESH OYSTEBS RECEIVED EVERY DAW Polite waiters, Sutisfaetio guu-anteed. give me acallM ‘W- ZET-A-ZRTJ leather and Shoe Bindings! Hand made Shoes I uilt to order, ReP ct ® a sociality, 1 iKasoiiic TempleStoiej S HIN C iTT | We make them and s e W them at bottom prices® h a m & j erkins! THE LITTLE RUBY BARBER ■ TON SO RIAL PARLOR® All you want work In mv line ca 11 a gpl Frank Taylor, The