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PHIL G. BYRD,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
>mon, WiUiraan Hlook, Third Avenue
Miles should have cut the ca
bles.
Spain will have lots of fun
paying off those Cuban debts.
The shares that Cubans now
need are plow shares—and mules
to pull ’em.
Has the protocol come to
stay? If it has, we want one for
Alger and Teddy.
“Santiago” for centuries was
Spain’s war cry —and we have
captured even that.
It looks now as if Gen. Mer
ritt has the best claims for that
lieutenant generalship.
A few more days and the “gay
and festy” oyster will be shelling
the republic and its colonies.
The best thing that the Cuban
can do now is to turn that ma- i
chete of his into a plowshare. !
The orange production of the
Pacific coast this season has been
the greatest in California’s his
torp.
The better the heart of the
melon the more does its best
friend rejoice when it is lacerated
with the machete.
Porto Rico has a population
of 806,708, of which number
480,267 are whites, 77,151 ne
groes, and 248,690 mulattoes.
Not a clause, paragraph,
phrase or section of that proto
col even alluded to Blanco’s’
typewriter or to Weyler’s brag.
Blanco didn’t have time to
bid Gen. Lee goodbye. lie will
have plenty of leisure to bid the
old hero “Howdydy” when Gov
ernor General Lee returns to
Havana.
While Gen. Weyler is under
stood not to be wholly reconciled
we believe that he has concluded
to abandon that project of water
ing his horse in Lake Michigan,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Some of the Spanish papers
mournfully admit that the Uni
ted States have reduced Spain
to a second rate Power. That
being the case we seem to have
performed the feat of kicking
Spain upstairs, as before the
war she was hardly better than
a fourth rate Power.
MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY.
It is certainly gratifying to
the public to know of one con
cern in the land who are not
afraid to be generous to the
needy and suffering. The pro
prietors of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, have given away
over ten million trial bottles of
this great medicine ; and have
the satisfaction of knowing it
has absolutely cured thousands
of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bron
chitis, Hoarseness and all dis
eases of the Throat Chest and
Lungs are surely cured by it.
Call on Curry Arrington, drug
gist, and get a trial bottle free.
Regular size 50c and sl. Every
bottle guaranteed or money re
funded.
1h« Royal is the highest grade baking powd.r
known. Actual tests show it goes one
third further than any other broad.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDf R CO., NFW YORK.
The New York Press describes
the thrilling experience of Lieu
tenant Wise, who led his com
pany and used a camera at the
same time, up El Caney hill at
Santiago. The Press says : “He
charged up the hill at the head
of his company in the face of
Mauser bullets thick as hail, and
with shrapnel shells bursting
all around him, and curried in
his right hand his sword and in
his left a rapid firing camera of
; his own device. He took twelve
| views on the film plates white
he was running, and when he
and the standing remnant of his
company were in possession of
the top of the hill and the Span
i lards were flying down the other,
I Lieut. Wise turned to a sergeant
and said : “I think I’ve got some
pretty lively pictures this time
If there was only some ice in
this sunburned country I'd de
velop them right now.”
” jar:---
“The American ' business
men,” says the Philadelphia
Ledger, “are rushing to Porto
Rico as fast as they can find
Vessels to carry them. Many of
them, doubtless, are on specula
tive errands, looking for*oppor
tunities to benefit themselves,
without regard to the welfare of
the island, but there mu tbe
many othets who are looking
for that permanent prosperity
which can only be bad by devel
oping interprises that must re
dound to the good of the people
as well as the investor.”
The Xenia (Ohio) Herald in
speaking of the troubles of that
locality says: “The time has
come for action. The streets are
in a horrible condition. The
police fund is exhausted, and
our militia has gone to the war.
‘Ed’ Schmidt b owns the Council
and the city is in darkness.
Burglars are at large, and the
Methodist Conference will be
here in a few days. Johnny, get
your gun I”
Honolulu advices tell a shame
ful story of overcrowding aboard
the transports Peru and City of
Puebla, which lately reached
that port en route to Manila.
Imagine men being stowed below
decks in such a climate with an
air allowance of only 70 cubic
feet, whereas the garrison allow
ance is from 800 to 1000 feet!
Paul Watkins was arraigned
in the Coney Island police court
Sunday for being drunk and for
disturbing the peace of Coney
Island’s Bowery, but the police
magistrate declared the charge
absurd, as it was impossible to
disturb that which did not exist.
Watkins was accordingly only
lined for drunkenness.
Al thou h the Vaccine Insti
tute in Cairo distributed lymph
for 330,000 vaccinations in
Egypt last year, the supply was
not equal to the demand, and
no less than 2057 cases of small
pox were treated in the govern
ment hospitals.
Well, well ! A Honolulu pa
per shouts: “Porto Rico must
be ours I” No leprosy on that
scribe’s gall.
PRECOCIOUS
This Tira Year old Maiden
Visits President
IN BEHALF OF BROTHER.
Asks That The Piesident Send
Him Home.
Washington, D.C., Aug. 19.
—A bright and interesting little
gi 1 walked into the white house
this afternoon and walking up
to one of the officers, said :
“I want to see the president
to ask him to let Ralph come
home; Ralph is my brother and
he is a soldier, and I want him
to come home, he has been away
so lung.”
“What is your name?” gently
asked the officer.
“My name is Blanche Rich
ardson,” she answered, “and
Ralph is a soldier in Company
F. First Connecticut. I want to
see the president and ask him
to let him come home.”
Just at this time Adjutant
General C< rbin was descending
the stairs, having just left the
president in his office, and, over
hearing the little girl’s remarks,
stopped and requested her to
tell him what she wanted.
“1 want to see the president
to ask him to let Ralph come
home,” repeated the child.
“And whois Ralph?” asked
the general.
•‘He is my brother and he is
a soldier.” the little one replied
with tears running down her
cheeks.
Gen. Corbin, being interested,
asked what regiment her brother
was in. After Blanche had told
him he informed her that the
president was busv, but he
would see to it that her brother
was soon at home. The little one
thanked him and ran out to
where the mother and sister
were waiting.
Ralph Richardson, Blanche’s
brother, was a member of the
“91” graduating class of Har
vard University and when the
president issued his first call for
troops enlisted in Company F,
First Connecticut Volunteers,
as a private, and is now station
ed at Camp Alger. Blanche is
only three years old.
Edward B. Drew, who negoti
ated the Chinese loan and draft
ed the regulations opening Chi
na’s rivers to foreign commerce,
is a native of Massachusetts.
For the services rendered China
Mr. Draw has been raised to the
dignity of mandarin of the sec
ond class, civil rand, and is now
enti led to wear a red button.
Cuba needs the light of knowl
edge. There can be no stable
government founded upon the
corner stone of ignorance. Uncle
Sam should call for a few vol
unteer brigades of school teach
ers—and bar Kansans—as no
freaks should be eligible.
A feature of the population
statistics ot Western Australia
is the large proportion es males
to females. Tlie disparity is
maintained in the arrivals by
sea. At present there are 45 fe
males to every 100 males. The
women of Western Australia
have no time to agitate “Wom
an’s rights.”
“Spain lost thirty five armed
ship* during the war, the U nited
States none. No such n ival
record was made i i any previous
conflict between two nations.”
—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
O'#
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FKiS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
inunufaatured by scientific processes
known t» the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and wc wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing’ the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the CALI
FORNIA Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs hat
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all otjier laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the Dane of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.
LOUISVILLF. ’ YORK. N. T.
Although justice is blind, the
Buffalo factions are trying to
teach her the difference between
a genuine prize fight and a box
ing match.
Americans are not fools. We
do not forget how violent both
France and Germany were
against us at the beginning of
the war, and we know how to
value the gushing friendship
they now offer us since our bril
liant success and their suffering
pocket books.
POISON OR A BULLET
The Choice Os Deaths A Chica
go Minister Offered His Wife.
Chicago, Aug 19 The alternative
of poison or a revolver with wlrch
to end her life was offered by
R -v, Flavius J. Brobst. the preach
er and lecturer to his wife, Mrs.
Julia E Brobs*, according to a
bill for divorce filed in the Super
ior Court bv Mrs, Brobst.
The wife alleges in her bill that
she chose laudanum as the mians
with which to commit suicide and
that her life was only save! after
she had swallowed the drug by the
ciicumstancer of her having con
sumed a q lantity of milk, which
ameliorated its effects.
During the time Mrs. Brobst
was unconscious from the effect of
the drug a period of about twenty
one hours as stated in the bill (
Mrs. Brobst alleges that her hus*
band according to what he later
told her, preached two sermons.
She als > charges her husband
w ith tquandering her property.
There has been trouble between
Brobst and his wife for a long
time and he has threatened to be
gin divorce proceedings against
his wife.
There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and
until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great
many yeavg doctors ’pronounced
it a local diseas, and preseibed lo
cal remedier, and by constantly
failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable
Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, at d there
foie requires con stir utic nal treat
ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manu
factured by F. J. Cheney <Y Cc.
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu
tional cure on the market. It is
taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts di>
r ectly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case i
fails to cure, send for circulart
and tesiimonials. Address,
F. J Cheney & Co,. Toledo, O,
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best-
House to Rent. —ln East
Rome, near depot. Good water. '
Apply to L. A. Lloyd.
OF I
What has become of the old
| fashioned woman who said when
. her son had a sty on his eye that
I he ate too much butter? —Atchison
Globe.
o o o
Bes. re attempting to capture
that Michigan Senatorship Gen
eral Alger is warned that it : n pro
tented by Fort Pingree, and Fort
Pingr< e is well watered, provision
ed wi h tiibeis and defended hy
rapid fi-e guns shotted with facts
' furnished by the records of the
Santiago campaign,
o o o
Professor Enrico Bottim, a fa*-
moiiß Italian surgeon, has given
up his practice, for lhe reason, as
he explained in a public card, that
he was “oppressed by the weight
of the income tax imposed, and
no longer able to meet it.”
o o o
“John,” said a Topeka wife to
her husband, “I will quit drinking
tea and save the war tax if you
will do the same with beer ”
“Woman,’’lusponded John, with
cold severity, “do you think it is
the part of patriotism to abandon
your country in its time of peril?”
-Kansas City Journal
o o o
“Did you say the man was shot
in the woods, doctor?” “No, I
didn’t. I said he was shot in the
lumbar region. ” —Yonkers States
man.
o o o
Lord Charles Beresford, the
noted sailor, charges a half-crown
for each ot his autographs. He
does not pocket the money thus
made, although in a year it
amounts to a very considerable
sum, but devotes it a'l to the
various naval charities in which he
takes so lively an interest.
o o o
Jack —Does he put much feel
ling in his singing?
Tom—You bet! When he sang
his“Di.nking S mg” last night
the whole audience got delirium
tremens. —N. Y. Journal.
i
o o o
Magistrate “The assault you
have committed on your poor wite
is a most brutal one. D j you know
of any reason why I should not
send you to prison?” Prisoner—
“lf you doyour honor, it will break
up our honey-moo n.”—Truth
“My husband is plain-spoken;
he calls a spade a spade.”
“So does mine, but I must de
cline to repeat what he cal's the
lawn-mower. ” —Chicago Rtcord.
o o o
A writer in eastern periodocal,
after recounting Gen. Brooke’s ex
periences as a soldier—and manv
ot them were thrilling—says. “The
general has been »wice married. It
will thus b * seen that his war re
cord is a distinguished one ”
o o o
Husband That man you’ve
invited her* used to kiss you before
we were married.
Wife—So did vou.
Husband —But I’ve gotten over
it and he hasn’t—Lite.
The Thirteen Club of New
York has congratulated Presi
dent McKinley upon his defi
ance of superstition in having
signed the protocol on a Friday
and in having promulgated
peace on the thirteenth of the
month. Asa in tter of fact,
peace was promulgated on the
12th ; and the Thirteeners have
been obliged to twist the truth
a tri lie. The club might have
recalled the fact that it was on al
Friday (in August, 1492). that
Christopher Columbus set sail
from Palos on his voyage of dis
covery of the New World. That
was a lucky Friday for the Uni
ted States; but it was unlucky
for the Spain of Alfonso the
Thirteenth and for Columbus
himself, who only found a brok
en hearted death in his “Nuevo
Mundo.”
THE MODERN BEAUTY*
Thrives on good food a ,.
auusbiue, with plenty of CJ *
in the >pen air. Her form gl Ow **
and her face glows with j u
eauty. If her system needs tlq
cleansing action of a laxatiy',
remedy she uses the gentls
plessant Syrup of figs, niauuf tc .
tured by the California Fj
Syrup Co., only *
YOUNG LADY GRADUATES
Os the Rome Business Coll eg ,
are thoroughly prepared f or
1 stenographic nnd Work
they are found canahte w |, ’
they go into
tice ; they re- ju
ceive high
comm e n d a-
Iron JSRk
their employ-
ers as being '
capable and experienced.
Rmne business College enjoy,
the largest enrollment of pupil,
it has had in its history. Ther,
will be thousands of vancancie,
this fall to fill. Young men and
ladies will do well to enter h«r,
and prepare for thorough com
mercial work.
H. S. Shockley,
_______ -Principal.
FIRST WIFE BOBBED UP
Declined To Be Considered Dead,
Bigamy Charge.
Trenton N. J. Aug 18.—Willi,
Morgan’s pecu'iar idea of tbs
meaning of the word death bn
placed him it, the comity jail ou
the charge of b g-unv.
Twelve years ago Emma Snyder,
a pretty sehool teacher in Hamil.
ton Square, married Morgan, whn
was employed in a Trenton rubber
mill In a year or so friction ernne
and they separated. About ten
days ago Morgan married Laura
May Groom, nearly SOyesrs bit
junior.
He to’d the Justice of the Peao*
that he bad been married, but Lil
wife was death
Hearing of her huxba- d’s Meat
alliance. ,’ r , Mgm cm.a*l
|ms arrest, and bi is now uiuitr
Islo9o bail .
I !
HUNG IMPALED 04 FENCE.
Boy Dropped Fk >m A Tree O <to
Sharp Ir n Spik
Chester, Pa , Aug 19 —Harry
B. Smith, of Brooklyn, while on i
visit here to his grindmother. Mn.
K . 0. Taylor, to-day tell 15 fe-t
from a tree and war impaled on an
iron fence. He hung there scream
ing wi'h pain until released, by
neighbors. Fortunately the sharp
iron spike missed his hily, bin
passed through his right srm,
which was terrihiv m ingled.
A CLEVER TRICK.
It certainly looks like it, but
there is really no trick about it,
Anybody can try it who has
Lame Back and Weak Kidii ’ys.
Malaria or nervous troubles.We
mean he can cure himself right
away by taking Electric Bittei’fi.
This medicine tones up the whole
system, acts as a stimulant t'
Liver and Kidneys, is a bloo 1
purifier and nerve tonic. It cures
Constipation, Headache, Faint
ing Spells, Sleeplessness an I
Melancholy. It is purely vegeta
ble, a mild laxative, ami restarts
the system to its natural vigor-
Try Electric Bitters and be con
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