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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 I ' 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 > 4 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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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. ———— ————— ———-w— ——— 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. I ■ I 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. 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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. 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