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THE HUSTLER-COIMMERCIAL
EHUSTLER OF R OME
Established, IMM).
"HE ROME COMMERCIAL
Euiablisbed, ltN5.
Issued every eveulug. except Saturday.
Sanday aud weekly.
PHIL G. BYRD,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
ca, Wilkerson |Block, Tmrdi Avenue
One by one the counties o f
Georgia aie g< ing < ry.
How many numbers will Joe
Wheeler be advanced?
Castles in Spain may yet be
garrisoned to their full capacity
This cruel war is over and I
Johnny will soon by marching
home.
Spain may as well regard the
Cuban debt as belonging to the
“kittv.”
yagJL- l* " y
Spain saved several million (
dollars by quitting the game
when she did.
Spain’s interest in having the
Cuban debt paid is only a mat
ter of principle.
Spanish soldiers can go to
Mexico and settle, even if Spain
won’t settle with them.
Dewey is the American of
the war, with Schley and Whet
ler a tie for second place.
———
Since Gen. Joe Wheeler has
spoken a good word for the Cu
bans, we can at least afford to
suspend judgement.
l'he man who is run down by
a biycle is often on the same
level as the run-down amateur
who was on the wheel.
The nation might try the <x
periment of electing Roosevelt’s
rough riders to congress in a
body.—Americus Herald. '
In the meantime the privates;
of the Third Georgia don't seem 1
any more unanimous than they j
are enthusiastic over the propo
sition to do garrison duty.
Four tenths of the adult people
in Switzerland have bank ac
counts. The Swiss are an unusu
ally thrifty people and few of
them are paupers or beggars.
“The brave Lieutenant Brum
by’’—advanced five numbers for
rearing “Old Glory” over Manila,
after that city had surrendered.
—Brumby seems to have been
Dewey’s only favorite.
In a call for volunteers to be
mustered out, Uncle Sam can
easily secure more than 100,-
000 privates —ifficers, however,
will be slow to report at the
“captain’s office” when discharg
es can be had for the asking.
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.
Tke Royal is th- hiqh-«t qrade bakiag powdar
Uo»«. Actual tests show it (000000-
thlrd further than any other bread.
PWAI
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
MANILA’S BRAVE GOVERN
OR GENERAL.
The Hight of the governor
general of tha Philippines from
Manila is not w ithout its element
'of humor, especially in view of
the courageous proclamation
which he issued several months
ago when he heard that the
Asiatic squadron was on its way
to Manila.
To refer briefly to this unique
( document it will be remembered
that Governor General Augusti
made use of the most grandilo
quent language of which
Spanish vocabulary is capable
in denouncing the alleged cow
ardice of Americans.
He urged the inhabitants of
the islands to meet the invaders
without fear declaring that prov
idence would never permit their
fair heritage to fall into the
hands of such base plebeians,
and that victory would be sure
to crown them in preserving the
graves of their ancestors from
desecration.
“The struggle will be short
and decisive,” declared this wise
(chief magistrate. “The god of
battles will give us a victory as
brilliant as the justice of our
cause demands. Spain will
emerge triumphantly from this
test humiliating and blasting the
adventures from these remote
states which, without cohesion
or principles, offer to humanity
only infamous traditions.”
With respect to the Asiatic
[squadron, he declared that it
was composed of men who were
bent upon robbing the islands of
life, honor and property, and
who were utterly without the
instincts of civilized creatures.
Such brazen audacity has seldom
found its way into print as that
. which the governor general of
the Philippines succeeded in
putting into his proclamation.
We do not wish to comment
upon the extraordinary language
which we have thus reviewed
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further than to say that its brave
sentiments have been appropri
ately exemplified In the hasty
manner of the governor general’s
* departure from Manila.—Con
stitution.
If you don’t like Rome you
5 had as well go waste your life
. trying to find a better town as
to stay here and squander your
time in slandering the fairest
city outside of Atlanta.
... -i.
} No metropolitan newspaper in
’ the country is publishing more
L interesting sketches and pen pic
tures of Cuban and Porto Rican
conditions than Robt, B. Cra
mer’s articles in the Constitution.
’ Mr. Cramer has few equals and
no superiors in the field of jour
nalism.
1
. According to Senator B icon’s
conduct towards the military,the
Third regiment of iiumunes
were going to their death in
Santiago, but the same place
would prove a health res >rt to
the Third Georgia. Senator
Bacon as a military man seams
to be long on inconsistency and
short on knowing what to do to
catch the grand stand.
CURRENT TOPICS.
“A minister of this town.” nays
th • Stockton (Kan.) News, “came
into this office one day this week
and got a drink of water. He
tnurmered much at the quality of
the water and cei t-u d the office
for using such stuff, saving he
didn’t believe the editorial staff
was sound on temperance. Alter he
had gone out it was discovered he
had been drinking of the water in
which we had washed our tvpe.
and it was a mixture of water,
concentrated lye and printer’s ink.
We always drink from the hydrant
but he had drank iroai a pail un
der the hydrant.”
California is the greatest horti
cultural State in the Union, New
York is second and I'liaois third.
Illinois has $4 777,083 invested in
nurseries.
An English Court has .just de
cided a peculiar case which must
be of as much interest to the
traveling public of America as to
the people of the mother country
where the railway-seat grabber
seems to be as much in evidence
as here. A traveler, having oc
casion to leave the car at away
station for a lew moments, left
hie umbrella on the seat until his
return. Another passei ger took
the seat and refused to vacate until
forcibly ejected. Counter suits were
brought, and the case was decided
in favor of the original occupant,
the presiding judge holding that
he had a right to eject the intru
der by the use of reasonable
force, if necessrv.
In summing up the results of
the war Editor Triplett, of
Thomasville, is glad to note that
“the German admiral kept out
of the range of Dewey’s fire.”
“What's in a name?'’ may wt.ll
be asked when we find Segundo
Cabo Don Fermin Jaudenes
Alverez surrendering to plain
George Dewey—New York Herald.
With the close of the war
should come the close of the
war’s expenses. If it costs us a
million dollars a day to go on
with the war it ought not to cost
us a million dollars a day to re
main at peace.—Americus
Times Recorder.
The stamp tax of the civil war
lasted over 20 years—but then
the war lasted four years and
the federal government had a
million men in the field at a
time. The stamp tax of this war
ought to be abolished in about
twelve months—but will it?
Capt. Clark, or the Oregon, has
the deep sympathy of the nation
Every American from president
down —to the head of 'he war de
partment, would like to see this
gallant old sea dog recover his
health and live many years to en
joy the reward his heroic spirit
and indomitable courage has
achieved.
For the finding of little Ger
ald Lapiner, the two and a half
year old Chicago child abducted
last May, the rewards offered
now aggregate $ 12,500. '1 he fa
ther, who is not wealthy, offer
ed $2,500 and has searched ev
erywhere. His friends, members
of tho Union League Club, have
now added SIO,OOO to the re
ward. So far there is absolutely
no clue to the child's wherea
bouts.
When peace has really settled
down upon the country, and our
state troops have their public
review in New York, all our
gallant heroes will be hailed
with acclamat on by the cheer
ing crowds that will throng the
way. If “Fighting Joe,’’ who
was their comrade on the field
is then our guest at the parade
and rides among the New York .!
troops he gallantly led in battle,
the cheers that will go up when
he comes riding along will show
him how wi ll tho North as well
as the South appreciates a g >od
soldier.—New York Herald.
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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes i
known to the California Fig Sybup
Co. only, ai:d we 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 has
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 ot/ier 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 name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
MUUVILLK. ’ * V.W YORK. N. V.
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EQUALS.
A youthful admirer of “the old
woman” by chance finding hiinself
at a banquet of lad’es devotedly
interested in propagating the
doctrine of sexual rights was sud
denly called upon to respond to a
toast to “The N«w Woman.” He
gal’antly extricated himself and
entangled his entertainers by re
•ponding:
“The ladies, God bless them!
Once our superiors, now our rqu
als i”
Our British cousins against whom
we have long inveighed for their
earth-hungering proclivities might
at the present time report upon us
with similarly good-humored sar
casm: “America, God bless her!
Once our exemplar now our imi
tator !” We have become the equals
of our former superior in the busi
ness of land grabbing.
Perhaps we have been in the
past a little unjust to Great Brit
ain. Excep’ in the case of Ireland
the extensi hi of her dominion has
been the means of adding to the
sum total of hum in happiness.
She profited by the less in taught
her in the loss of her American
colonies. This is shown by the
’success of her colonial manages
ment no less than by the gradua
ameliorations of her Irish legisla
tion . Facing the new and grav
responsibilities of governing mil
lions of our weaker fell >w-b ings.
the people of the Uiited States
need not regret, that they are prov
ing such veritable “chips of the
old block,” a.d that they are “to
the manner horn ”
Too ■
Much Knife!
The use of the surgeon’s knife is be
coming so general, resulting fatally
in such a large number of cases, as to
occasion general alarm.
Mr. William Walpole, of Walshtown,
South Dakota, writes; “About
three years ago, there came under
my left eye a little blotch about the
a size of a small pea.
It grew rapidly,and
shooting pains ran
in every direction.
I became alarmed
and consulted a
good doctor, who
pronounced it can
xcer, and said that it
’’must be cut out.
This I would not
consent to, having
little faith in the
indiscriminate use of the knife. Read
ing of the many cures made by S. S.
S., I determined to give that medicine
a trial, and after I had taken it a few
days, the cancer became irritated and
began to discharge. This after awhile
ceased, leaving a small scab, which
finally dropped off, and only a healthy
little scar remained to mark the place
where the destroyer had held full sway.
A Real Blood Remedy*
Cancer is in the blood and it is folly
toexpect an operation tocureit. S.S.S.
{guaranteed purely vegetable} is a real
remedy for every
disease of the blood.
Books mailed
address Swift Spe
eific Co., Atlanta,
ALL KITTING ALGER.
Unless Secretary Alger has a
very thick epidemis he must bt
having a bad quarter of an hour
The returns from a clipping
bureau just, now would not
bring him any happiness.
He is being criticised noi
simply at the South, but at the
North and by conservative Re
publican papers. Here is a
sample of many, from the Bos
ton Transcript:
“The political uses in which
the high office of head of the
war department has been pros
tituted, the inefficiency and ex
travagance ol the conduct of the
war in some of its phases,capped
by the charge, now freely made
here, that the secretary garbled
the Roosevelt letter and omitted
explanatory passages for the
sake of making a theatrical use
of it. will leave Mr Alger in a
very uncomfortable position for
fooling the public, unless he
does what, it is said, the presi
dent and at least half the cabinet
have been hoping he would, and
t ike himself out of service by
resignation.”
Just think what an appetite
for breakfast a man has left af
ter reading something like that
in his morning paper. And un
happily for Secretary Alger he
knows he deserves it.—Augusta
Chronicle.
Rome is said te be one of the
.most “lawabidin’est cities on
earth,’’ and yet, there be cham
pions who are such chronic
“pistol toaters” that the muzzle
of the weapons they carry can’t
be kept muzzled by the bosom
of their pants. Oh, Con Sistency,
though stran 'er.
Rough Riding “T e<ld y”
Roosevelt took a land welcome
on Saturday at Oyster Bay. L.
I. It will not be long, However,
before ali New York state will be
the heroic Colonel’s “oyster.”—
Philadelphia Record.
Flem dußignon has his cam
paign clothes on, and Georgia
Democracy is going to astonish
the natives and paralyze the
pops-for-office onlv this fall .
If Admiral Camara he's th*'
he has been heretofore slight* d
in the fighting de might go
ashore and try conclusions with
that land lubber Don Caalos.
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Col. John J ic. b Astor is < re -
ited with having asked that his
taxes, which are now $300,000
be raised by a higher assesss
ment of his immense holdings
of property. He also has philan
thropic schemes, and intends to
rank with Cooper and Peabody.
He will build a college and en
dow it, and proposes to establish
cheap restaur <nts throughout
the city of Ne w York on the
'plan of those of the Princess of
Wales in London.
If it is not too late, we should
| like to know how much the
Merrimac cost Uncle Sam and
why it was selected to sink in
the Santiago channel. This is
one of “them things.”
It the volunteers'are to be
“sounded” as to their wishes to
go home, the officers should not
be allowed to make nil the noise,
l'he men in the ranks should be
permitted to speak for them
selves.
Our Infant Wards —“ The Cubi.n
insurgents to be growing
more rational. ” “Yes With the
accent on the ration.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
He— ‘There ce n« to be no
question that divides public opin
ion more than annex ition. Are
you in favor of it?” She—“lt is
rather sudden, but if you’re wil
ling, I am.”—Boston C nrier.
THE MODERN BEAUTY
Thrives on good food nh( i
sunshine, with plenty ofexe ci#e
in the pen air. Her form g] OWs
and her face glows with j tß
eauty. If her system needs the
cleansing action of a laxative
remedy she uses the gentle and
pleasant Syrup of figs, manufac
tured by the California Fj„
Syrup Co., onlv
YOUNG LA! Y GRADUATES
Os the Rome Business College
are thoroughly prepared f or
stenographic and office work
they are found cinabU when
they go into
business prac
tice ; they re-,
ceive high
comm end a
tions fro m 2
their employ- 1
ers as being
&
capable and experienced.
Rome business College enjoys
the largest enrollment of pupils
it has had in its history. There
will be thousands of vancancies
this fall to fill. Young men and
ladies will do well to enter hare
and prepare for thorough com
mercial work.
H. S. Shockley,
Principal.
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 Kidneys,
Malaria or nervous troubles.We
mean he can cire himself right
away by taking Electric Bitters.
This medicine tones up the whole
system, acts as a stimulant t.)
Liver and Kidneys, is a blood
purifier and nerve tonic. Itcuree
Constipation, Headache, Faint
iifg Spells, Sleeplessness and
Melancholy. It is purely vegeta
ble, a mild laxative, and restores
the system to its natural vigor.
Try Electric Bitters and be con
vinced that they area mi -tele
worker Every Lotti- glia'anted
Onlv 50c a nolle al Curri A»-
I
rington drug alore.
EVERYTH I Not AT COST
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Makes water
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CITATION—LE \VE TO SEI L.
GEORGIA FL YD CuUNTY.
To all whom it may conc'rn D.
S. aintor, < xecutor of •!< bn in
kle, deceased, has in due forui
plied to the undersigiV'd f' i I*" VH
to sell the lands belcniiing toil"'
estate of said deceased, am' ea <1
application «il h" ’ward <>n '' *
‘irst Monday in September n>xt
This 8 h dav of /iign-t iSOB
J hx P. Davis, Ofdiuarv.
ROME BUSINESS COLLEGE
Rome, Ga., will receive young
men and ladies now at the aotual
cost to the College for carrying
them through a thorough commer
cial course, and furnish board,
booksand commercial blanks aod
accept an easy time note for ftiition
payable after a position is secuiW.
The College procured
92 POSITIONS THE PAST YEAR.
It supplies schools and collage!
with competent teachers of !’»’*
manship and principals of iw*T»Ccr*
cial departments;* *£ll*l st les
sons in Slior/ha?~u fully explained
for io cents in stamps; is strongly
endorsed by hundreds of business
and professional men who employ
its graduates at Stenography 01
Bookkeeping. Address all letter!
the Principal, H. S. Snocsur#
Rome, Gm. . _■>