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THET.STLER-COMMERCIAL THEH'J STLER OF ROME Established, 1890. THE ROME COMMERCIAL Established. 1895. Issued every evening, except Saturday. Sunday and weekly. PHIL G. BYRD. EDITOR AND MANAGER. uidcj, Willurs >n Block, Third Avenue _ LIST OF SUBSCRIPTION >ally and Su nay,per year #5 0 lundar, pt r year #l.o< itoekly (The HomeCourikb) pet year 50 BY CARRIER IN CITY AND BUBUI.BB Ue v ai.'l Sunday, lUcents per weej. Remit by hunk draft, expfsjj. money order or registered letißT Add-ess THE HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL, ROME, JJA. Entered at the Postofflce at Rome, Ga., a.- necouii claes mutter. Ai'vertising rates and sample co, les tor th .asking, BUSINESS OFFICE P HONE 85 “ THE STATE TICKET. For Governcr, ALLEN I). €AI of Hall. For Secretary ’of State, PHIL COOK, jt Lee. For, omptroller-General,” W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. For Attorney-General. JOSEPH M. TERRELI , of Merriwether. For Treasurer, W. M. SPEER, of Fulton, For Commis- doner of Agriculture, O ,B. STEPHENS, of Terrell. For School Commissioner, G. R. GLENN, of Bibb. Foi Prison Commissioner JOSEPH S. TURNER, of putman. The Hustler-Commercial is the only afternoon paper in Northwest Georgia, It has th combined circulation of the old evening Hustler of Rome and the Rome Daily Comniei'iial and is THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF The City of Rome The City M arshal The Sheriff of Floyd County The Ordinary of Floyd Co, Th E H USTLER-COMMERCIAL has the confidence of the classes and the masses—because it mer its ami tieserves the confidence of all its readers. Now is the time to tell your neighbor to quit borrowing and enlist his name as a subscriber. HATS OFF FOR HOBSON. Georgia greets Alabama thi« morning on the glorious news of the splendid achievement of one of Alabama’s distinguished sons. The entire south feels proud of Lieutenant Hobson today, and we doubt not that the north and the west will be as quick to join in praise of this sterling young Ameri can hero. It is by such heroic acts as that at Santiago that our country, once divided, is being again securely welded together. Dewey and his heroes at Manila sec all the United States to talking of American » courage heroism and the south vi ed with the east in offering its tributes of love and admiration for the valiaht commodore from Vermont. I.at°r, when Bagley, the dashing boy Irom North Caro* lina,gave up his precious life in lhe hot battle at Cardenas, the the north mingled its tears with those of the south in sorrow for his untimely taking off. Ai d now ano'her hero. Lieute nant Hobson of Alabama. Hats off for Hobson! America stands uncovered in his honor today.— Enquirer-Sun. James Carlin, now in command <f >lw Monterry, was a liru'enant n the o d \ andalia wrecked in W t e Samoan di "?t< r. MEANING OF SANTIAGO Santiago is of interest just now. The name means St. Jago or St. Janies. This James is said to be the son of Zededee, broth er <>f John. The annals of Galli cia say that he was beheaded, and c: ug.it 'us head in his hands as it fell. The Jews Were asti n islu d. When they touched ths body they found it so cold that , their h inds and arms were par alyzed. * In “Espino S igraly” it h stated that v. hen Santiago went , to Spain in his marble ship , he hid no head on his body. The I'h ' passage of the ship took seven days, and the vessel wa* steered by the presiding hand of provideifce. This is another story which asserts that Santia go had two heads, one ot which < is buried at Braga while the oth er is buried at Compostella. In , the Annals of Gallicia it is as serted that S intiago .leads tin armies of Spain, and thirty-eight instances of the interference ol the saint in behalf of the Span ish ariuy are gravely s°t down •as facts. On one occasion Santiago ren dered signal service to a Chris tian King of Spain against the Moors, and the Spa liards in to ken of their gratitude adopted his name as their war cry. The Spaniards call it “SeLt-yah-go,” accent on the second syllable.lo one of Onida’s books there i* chronicled a legend of Santiago, is follows: “St. Jago got a bladder filled with wind and put it in tin theart of a fox and the fangs of a wolf, and whilst it puffed and swelled like the frog that called itself a bull it was dispatched to the world as a Spaniard.’’— News. POINTED PARAGRAPHS •' Saratoga chips are not used in poker games. A pound of self-reliance i worth a ton of expectation. Burglary as a profession is apt to prove rather confining. It keeps the world busy turn down the cranks that turn up. A man is the rtfost important piece of furniture in a woman’s air castle. The spring poet has declared war and is now firing blank verse at the editor. The bonds of matrimony k would be more popular if they , paid cash dividends. > Life is mostly made up oi ’ prayers for rain and wishes for ' it to clear up again. It is far better to have one hand on a postoflice than both b *• eyes on a foreign mission. I Some men go to war because they can’t get married and some because they can’t get a divorce. i The Spaniards may yet learn that it often takes longer to get > into a scrape than it does to get blown out of it.—Chicago News i The fortune left by signor Nic olini, the husband of Patti, is estimated at over $200,000. Jt will be remembered that Patti refugee tn accept the legacy of sloo,oo< ‘ left her bv the signor. Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield , whose stories of Cuban life Wei nnblisbed under th > title “Whet I the Trade Winds Blow,*’ is th wife of Captain Crowninshield. T II S. N , who at one time command* , Jed the Maine. THE DYNAMITER VESUVIUS When the Vesuvius with her ' three dynamite guns sailed to' the South, it was the opinion that she went ns a mine dt str y-1 er and it was said by some of those in authority that in a sin gle night -lie could destroy the > übmarine defenses of Havana harbor so that our warships could sail > ver the mine fields without danger. Her plan of doing this was to I throw chart's of dynamite a certain di lance apart in the harbor, th- explosion of which it was said would explode the torpedoes and cut the cables of die mines connected with bat teries on shore. The Vesuvius is now at Santi ago, but nothing has been heard of any ati mpt to make her use ful, The o. minute vessel is an exqie.rime . the Vesuvius being the only i ein existence. This w: -> will give our navy an excelh .it opportunity to see whether she is practical or wheth r she is 1 useless product of some nav theorize! - ' In fact it woulu appear that Santiago is an excell >f place t > ut the Ve suvius to a test. If she can do what is claimed, she will open up the wa for the en nance of our 11 et as nothing else will. It. will ho very gratifying to all who have heard so much of the famous dynamiter to know win I her th -re is any truth in the claims in. de for her or whether she L a kind of bug-a boo which the Unite Slates has construct ed with which to “fright the souls of f< arful adversaries.” ♦ SCHLEY AND HIS VICTIM. Cervera is not the first man who has gone up against the bottle one too often. —Augusta Chronicle. Santiago is an important point but it is not the “solar plexus” ot the Spanish power in Cuba. — New York World. After Schley gets through with it the Spanish fleet will be much harder to locate, than at any time in die last few weeks.— Record. That man Schley is a sociable chap. He sent word to Sampson at Key West inviting the admir al to run down to Santiago and help him open a bottle. —Chica- ga Times Herald. There are still one or two ports in the Spanish Wdst Indies available for the bottling up of Admiral Camara, with h's Cadiz fleet, if he will hurry across.— Savannah News. Commodore Schley was un able in the first round to reach Cervera’s solar plexus, but he managed to deal his adversary a powerful blow on the Cristobal Colon. —SI Louis Globe-Demo crat. —— Admiral Uervera, commanding die Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba, was a naval attache of the riish L ati >u in Washington about fifte- ii years ago, where he w = a closs student of naval affairs «nd ?:??ogii z“d as a capable man, IT h>s a personal acquaiutanc o w 1 some I the men of the fleet which is now trying to capture him. Firs Lieutenant Brumby, Ad miral i) -w- y’s chief ot staff, is an ' offer of li -• sci«nt ific at tail inert md th ' n>writer of the Brumby anchor H-is aGe r g jan. I-.i an ora ori-al c n'est at the Idaho Univ rMty for the Watkins med ii. J- oie Hughes, the only colored ctudeut iii the in -titnlion, was tut wi7Tn°r. SI > Al7 GIIT EI <IN Q iifflfrmßTffiST, We need money and we are compelled to raise- BIG AMOUNT OF CASH out of our stock in the next few days, hi order to raise the money we have decided to throw our entire stock on the market at from 25 to 50 per cent reduction. This reduction applies to every article in our store, contract goods excepted. It is unusual to find a stock of men’s boys and children’s clothing, furnishing goods and hats so weft suited to the demands of thef rade as ours. Our entire stock has been renewed in the last ninety days. Ev ery garment is new, fresh and desirable; made with careful attention tofit and finish and these prices should have your most careful consideration. MEN’S FINE SUITS. All $22.50 and $25 suits go at sl6 50. All sls and SIS suits go at $1 1.50. All 10 and 12.50 suits at 7.50. All Gand 7.50 suits at 5 00. All 5 suits go at 3.50. Children’s Knee Pants Suits Hi JTIS'I 1 • ©1? Wn ■xklS 1 ’ insts. ta 'M nr-go-Ti-ama ■«»». ’cu'n j $6 Os) suits go at $3.00. $5.00 suits go at $2 50- 4.50 suits go at 2.25. 400 suits go at 2 ()() 3.50 suits go at 1.75 fc 3.00 suits go at 1 75. 2.50 suits go at 1 25. 100 suits go at 1 00 MENS FINE PANTS 331-3 OFF. $6. 00 pants go at SI.OO $5.00 pants go at $3 35. 4.50 pants go at 3 00. 400 pants go at 2 65. 3.50 pants go at 2,34. 300 p ints go at 2 00. 250 pants go at 1.67. 200 pants go at 1 50. 1.50 pants go atsl.oo. FINE STRAW HATS □□AT HALF PRICE. $2. 50 hats go at $ 1 25. | $2 00 hats g > at $1 .00. 1 50 hats go at 75j. | 1 00 ha sgo n 50j. 75c hats go at 40 1. | 50c hats go at 25c. 25 per cent off on all Furnishing goods, Underwear, Shirts, Hosiery,Handker chiefs, Soft and Stiff Hats. , I 3 1 1>114(2W Ot\\ <2 ctl] C F Stuff in Sarges. Alpaca, Line i. S an anl liok. AH g) in tie d s count sale. A Tills Will Bs Our Miiistj-Ralslua 5® ssa.ncfl YDLJR MONEY BAVINS. This is no trick of the tr id • nor ie it a g >ing out of business a Ivertising scheme t° ( I< l people. We always do exactly wh it we advertise and we ar i sura the people of Rem* imu ' ,ll ' r " 1 country are aware of this fact. We coins to you now with the honest, frank statem n l ( , ( - needir.g money and in order to rai-« the needed amount we off ir y>u the cleanest, best b clothing furnishing-g'ods and bus 111 Rotneat faorn 25 to 50 per ce it red notion. U. IM! 111