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PHIL G. BYRD.
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
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August is half gone.
And so tiie war is really over.
Camara now heaves a sigh of
relief.
Peace on earth, good will to
men—and to Spaniards.
Winter drawe th nigh and yet,
Romans have no filter.
Cervera is being lionized by
the bean-eaters of Boston.
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Prince Bismarck’s estate is
valued at about $5,000,000.
The McCoy-Corbett affair will
now secure additional space.
Now, all together, a long pull
and a strong pull, all for Rome.
Anchors es hope and Hobson
smacks are synonomous—com
rades.
Now watch the trouble open
up on account of the Philip
pines.
The immune now has his in
ning. Let us hope it will not be
his ending.
T-TVJUL
Let all the “Round Robin”
commanders be promptly retired
from the army.
“Ah, beautiful peach,” ex
claims the Augusta Cliionisle,
“get thee to a cannery.”
The time is near at hand
when the bald heads will go the
front.—Atlanta Commercial.
Porto Rico is working the
“glad hand” business full time
and to the “limit of her capaci
ty-”
Americus is said to be book’-d
for u new depot. Atlanta should I
not be overlooked by the depot
builders.
The “first bale” man of many
of the Georgia counties has re
ported and “got his name m the
paper.”
Shafter’s victory was a dearly
bought one when the half-mil
lion dollars of excursion money
is considered.
The war being over, you caa
now afford at least a ten cent
diversion. Take the Mobley park
car at 8 p. m.
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Will the Florida camps be
moved North for the winter?
There’s no telling what a crank
like Alger will do.
The war is ended. Now watch
the newspapers fall back on pol
tics for material to fill space and
breed excitement.
With the Russian bear growl
ing the English lion naturally
looks to the American eagle for
moral support, it not for an alli
ance.
The early rains have fallen,
now will the winter rains de
scend upon the Oostauaula wa
ter-shed and find the Rome wa
ter works without a filter.
A protocol is a commendable
diplomatic effort to call a spade
a spade, reserving the right to
prove and promulgate the fact
afterwards—St. Louis Republic.
Speaking of the army, the
' President siys: “All have It Ip-
Jed in the great ciuse, whether
•in camp or battle, and when
peace comes all will be alike en
titled to the nation’s gratitude.
Thia doubtles, means an addi
tion of some half a million
names to the pension rolls.
Soldiers whose services are
not needed in the army should
be promptly mustered out. A
winter in camp will undermine
the health of many and unnec
essarily add thousands of names
to the pension rolls.
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We agree with the Sparta Ish
maelite in this : “The ‘hero’
business has been decidedly
overworked since the war began.
‘Heroes’ have been as common
as republicans in Vermont.” —
Albany Herald.
“Lord Beresferd” seems to
be in the push in Mexico City,
having worked the dons for
some $20,000. But the “unique
lord” seems to be living very
comfortbly on the interest of
what he owes.
The genealogists think Samp
son the son of Sam, Watson the
heir of Watt and Hobson the
son of Hobbs. The Spaniards
agree that every one of them is
a son of a gun.—St. Louis Re
public.
Col. Allen D. Candler will
make Georgia a governor whom
Detnocra a, Populists and Re
publicans will delight to h mor.
He is a grand and good man.—
Darien Gazette.
If the Nicaragua canal were
constructed Porto Rico and Ha
waii would be in easy reach of
each other. They are now 12,-
000 miles apart.
With Joseph H. Choat and
Eliliu Root on the peace com
mission, the Spaniards may well
dread being hogged by the
•‘Yankee pigs.”
SANCTUM SILHOUETTS.
The absence of lemonade from
the Porto Rico picnic does not
appear to detract from its pleas
ure.—Pittsburg Post.
And in that famous answer
there ia not a word about Yan
kee pigs and little boasting of
Spanish honor.—Omaha Bee.
The trouble about Porto Rico
seems to be that it is not big
enough to hold all the troops
that want to gs on that picnic
—Louisvill Courier Journal.
Kissing that St. Louis girl in
public makes it absolutely cer
tain that Lieutenant Hobson is
not engaged to young a woman
of spirit.—Chicago Record.
Should a popular election be
held in Cuba to decide the form
of government suppose the in
surgents were called on to sup
port a meal ticket.—Philadephia
Times.
Since a St. Louis bslle saluted
Lieut. Hobson with a kiss there
are thousands of young men who
are bewailing their hard luck
because they were not on board
the Merrimac.—Detroit Free
Press.
I
\\ eyler, it is said, is the only
Spaniard opposed to peace
Nothing would please Ara o ricans
better than to continue the war
longer if Weyler will undertake
to do some of the fi<ditin<».—
Nashville American
Privato John Alien’s regiment
of congressmen and Washington
officials will not go to the front.
What firing is done by congress
men will be kept up through
the Congressional Record. St.
i Louis Dipatch.
I Will the money power permit
I Spain to sid lie an enormous
I debt on Cuba? It all depends on
where Mark Hanna’s interests
are “at.”
Allen I). Candler has begun
to shell the woods and already
the middle-of-the-roaders are
making for tall timber and
swamp islands.
The only Georgia, volunteers
who have had an opportunity of
smelling powder tire the heroes
of the second who quelled that
negro riot in Florida.
Now that pea -e has been de
clared let every soldier who is
not to be retained in the service
be mustered out promptly. Let
the expenses be curtailed.
It makes us tired when we
hear a 2x4-would-be-statesman
jabbering about" Puerto Ricner”
Why not use plain U nited States
language and call it Porto
Rico?
The full name of the young
king of Spain has twenty-one
syllables in it- Shall we not re
tain one or more of these for
coaling stations?—z\ m ericus
Herald.
As the days roll by Flein du
Bignon, of the county of Chat
ham, grows more and more pop
ular among the sturdy yoeman
ry and wool-hat boys of North
Georgia.
When the first elections are
ordered for Cuba it will be a safe
bet to “put your stuff” on the
election of the meal ticket.' Cu
bans are too well bread to go
back on a bill so fair.
'■.
In 189'5 the populists of Ala
bama carried 22 counties. In
the recent election they carried
only six Let the Georgia Pop
ta’-e warning ami hasten
to the Democratic fold.
A man named Satan was over
come by heat in New Jersey the
other day. That old gag about
Jersey being hotter than h—l
may now be expected to go the
rounds. —Constitution.
Spain clauns she has $ 10,000,-
000 with which to pay off her
soldiers in Havana. Let the pay
ship run the blockade. Havana
needs the money and it will save
Uncle Sam many a dollar.
The war is about over and n<>
Georgian has distinguished him
self. But, then, Texas, Tennes
see, Florida, L misiana, Missis
sippi and possibly other South
ern States are aboard the same
transport.
The moon gets full twice this
month, the. first time such a
thing has happened since 1883
Luna is evidently celebrating
l the victorious windup of our
I trouble with the Dons.—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.
Rome has done her full share
in sending nearly three hundr d
volunteers to the front—ami
Rome has not been hankering
after a military encampment,
either—as much as her enter
prising citizens love money.
The list of postoffices in the
United Scales now includes Hob
son (Va ,) Sigsbee (Ark..)
Dewey (N. C,) Sampson (Fla.,)
and Manila (Ky.) The list will
not be complete until we have a
Schley (Ga.,) and a Foxey
(Kan.)
The Adjutant General at
Washington wired Gen. Lee that
the peace protocol had been
signed and that the war was
over. Gen. Lae promptly wired
back: “Thank you. I will at
once order the Seventh corps to
cease fiiimr”
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