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EHUSTLER OFR D A i
KittabliHhed, UWO.
*HE ROME COMMERCIAL
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•ued every evening, except Saturday
Saudav aud weekly.
PHIL G. BYRD,
EI ITOR AND MANAGER.
Oflce Wilurwu. ,Block. Third A rente
Montauk Point don’t seem tv
be such a health resort after all.
In his absence, oh,hero kissing
woman, just oscul ite the grast
—it’s Dewey.
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Thonsanda of bushels of peacbts
were lost in Georgia, this year, fcr
want of canneries.
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Col. Ray b cable frank must
have fallen overboard before he
reached Santiago.
In Cuba, the pr pulalion is de r > c e.
in Porto Rico it is numerous. The
same only different.
•
Sigsbee and the St. Paul and
Wainwright and the Glouches
ter were not in the New York
.Naval parade.
Hay-day in Albany is far more
indicative of good times a con -
ing than is the Hay-Day in tl e
McKinley cabinet.
The chief business of the Han
na Misinformation Bureau thi
fall will be to snppn ss and ex
plain away the War department
BcandaL.
While the president is show
ering pror'ntions on the com
missioned officers, th "privates
who did the fighting, are starv
ing to death.
The Porto Rican milk mi n
milks Uis cows right in front of
bis customers’ house. What a
field that island offers to the
men who sell pumas.
We have three ex Presidents
on our hands dow without
counting Dole. Harrison is one
and Cleveland is the other two.
—St. Louis Republic.
Speaking of the Cubans as
being worthless and shiftless,
can the United States afford to
annex an island that will so
largely increase the Populist
vote? Asks a Kansas Democrat.
Alger was guilty of base in
gratitude in sending that ex
planatory letter to Doctor Dep
ew. He ought to have given it'
to the Chicago Inter Ocean and
aided a faithful friend to score a
scoop.
Spain is showing a disposition
■ to haggle, and hopes to unload
the bulk of the Cuban debt up
on Cuba. She will claim com
pensation for public works in
• Cuba, and will fight hard for
any
MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY.
It is certainly gratifying to
the public to know of one con
cern in the iaud who are not
afraid to be generous to the
needy ami 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 a trial bottle free.
Regular size 50c and sl. Every 1
bottle guaranteed or money re
funded.
Th. la tba *••>••• P"*'
hT Actual taata aha* H aaa-
tarUar Um aar atbar treat
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BBSS!
ROYAL RAKIHQ POWDER CO., RfW YORK.
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While the minds of the people
have been fixed on the war, the
Chautaugua movement has been
1 spreading worse than a Russian
‘ rJiistle. One of these days the
sensible people will awaken to
their peril and will promptly
arrest every woman caught
starting off on the train with a
gasoline stove and an estay on
the “Holy Grail” in her baggage.
’ —Atchison Globe.
The New York World calls
attention to the manner in
which Capt. C. E. Clark, of the
Oregon, has been rewarded for
his services to this country. Too
ill to retain command, he “goes
over the side” of his ship and
$llOO of his pay per year *is
docked. Too ill to remain on
waiting or ler he goes home
on “sick leave” and is docked
another S7OO.
The Twenty-third Kansas
regiment now at Topeka is to
be sent to Santiago to aid in the
“preservation nf peace and good
will.” The war department ev
idently doesn’t read the Topeka
papers ! The Topeka police offi
cers have had their task doubled
in preserving “peace and good
will” since camp Leedy was re
opened.—Atchison Globe.
Hear what Tom Hoyt says :
“Sine© kissing public men has
become a fad, we have decided
to emerge from private life, join
the immunes in Cuba, sink a
bateau, kill a Spaniard, whip a
delinquent subscriber and come
back home and loudly demand
a place among the elite kissed
with the Hobson-Wheeler initia
tion ceremony.”
Capt. Young, commander of
the Utah Light Art., who dis
tinguished himsetf in the land
battle at Manila, is a grandson
of Brigham Young, the famous
Mormon. He is a graduate of
West Point, but of late years
has been practicing law at Salt
Lake City. Capt. Young has
many relatives in Utah.
Up in Albany whistling on
.the streets is prohibited. Guess
the boys got to using these ar
tificial terrifiers.—Ocilla Dis
patch.
We assure our contemporary
that there was nothing artificial
about it. It was the real thing.
Ask our police commission.—
Albany Herald.
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The Saratogo conference of
self-constituted advisers to the
national government resolved
that*our new accessions shall be
the wards of the nation instead
of its colonists. Lo, the poor In
dian, has been that for about 100
years and look at him now. He’s
not so many or so impressive.—
St. Louis Republic. <
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Elevators have now been render
ed safe in case of a tall by means
of air cushions. It’s rather bard to
believe, but they say that in a test
made in New York recently, in
which an elevators was allowed to
( drop twenty stories, the fall of BJO
i feet did not break eggs lying on a
marble slab in tha middle of the
car nor spill water fiom a glass.
TERRIBLE DENUNCIATION.
«
Hundreds of volunteers have al*
nsady died of diseases contracted
in unsanitary camps and thousands
more will die from the same exuee.
The health of many other thou
sands has beep xorioiuly injured
'or rhs remainder of theirdays. At
least 150 000 out of tin* 210,000
vo'nntiers will return to their
homos digusted in not I eing able
to do more than play soldier aud
because of disagrees b]e experiences
in the camps of concentration.
They know that this sickness
and death has caused mainly by
the criminal ignorance and can
lessuess of officers high in rank.
They know that the incompetence
and brutal indifference to the
health and manhood rights of the
■oldiers was caused by making a
political machine out of the war
department instead of looking
strictly to efficiency and fidelity
in official appointments.
The hundreds of thousands of
disgruntled soldiers that are going
home, and the relatives and friends
of the sick and dead men consti
tute a very substantial part of
-very community of importance
in the United States. The storm
they will raise is calculated to
make the war department and its
culpable officers quake in their
boots.
The s'orm is already beginning
to be heard. The injured e’ements
are beginning to speaK through the
press. The great metropolitan
papers are publishing colu nn
after column showing the shame*
ful neglect of sanitary precautions
in the various camps of the com -
try and the general cussedness of
the whole system, or rather want
of system, in the management of
he vo’unteer army. Ere long the
whole press of the nation will join
the indignant chorus and the
thunder of their denunciation will
shake the country from center to
circumference.
The political effect is something
which the party in power may well
fear. It is likely<o neutralize al)
the capita! that it has made out
of the victory Spain. —Macon
News. i {
For once, tho Spaniards have
been right in ttieir contention. If
words mean anything, the surrens
der of Manila did not involve the
who eof the Philippines. If they
are retained, it must be on some
other ground than that of conquest
and occupation.—Sparta Ishma
el ite.
While the hospital horrors of
this war are being investigated
suppose we have a subcommittee
to look into the purchase of
ships made by Alger’s Michigan
partner—There’s “pay dirt”
along this lead.
There is one good feature
about the war just ending : The
volunteers will not grumble at
the food their mothers and wives
prepare for them when they get
home by complaining that “it
Isn’t as nice as what Uncle Sipn
cooKed ”
The Duchess of Aosta, daugh
ter of the late Prince Jerome Na
poleon, is making daily balloon
ascents at Arco, in the Austrian
Tyrol, and is such an enthusiast
in the sport that she pronounces
it “the most suitable for high
society.”
Dr. C. Q, Colten, a famous
American dentist who died in
Rotterdam the other day, had
pulled more than a million teeth.
He was a writer of some note
and was wealthy. « He w?s the
first dentist to use “laughing
gas’’ in practice.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
The rolling wheel gathers the
punctures.
Some men resemble dice —easily
rattled, but hard to shake.
There are times when the brave
deserve immunity from the fair.
Nothing curdles the milk of
human kindness like indifference.
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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYBUP OF FlfiS
ia 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
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and 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 svoiding 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 oilier laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In oi der to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
L«UUVILLF.. ’ V F.W YORK. N. Y.
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The men in love !os j s self
possesion in trying to g”t posses
sion of another.
The patriotism of some men is
limited to red, white and blue pok*
er chips
The wife who chases her husband
with a poker ruths him with a rod
of iron.
Seine men have a delicate
of humor, and the humor of others
is senseless
Prac icp makes perfect. The older
a woman >s th a better she should
carry her age.
Darwin’s theory may he ar. fault,
lots of men make monkeys of
themselveslnevertheless.
a woman has been married
two or three months she goes
around with an express : on on her
face that looks .susp’ciously like
wisdom —Chicago News,
Britian’s new naval program
provides for the building of foqr
additional battleships, four
cruisers and twelve torpedo boat
destroyers, bringing the total
expenditure for new' ships up to
$60,000,000.
When Blanco reached the
bitter end he thought it was the
jumping off place and tried to
leap. His government, however,
determined to save the most ex
pert Spanish typewriter outside
of that bourne which is paved
with good intentions, and grab
bed him by the coat tails and
yanked him back again.
“When a mai) blames more
than he praises he is billions,”
says the New Orleans Picayune.
Then that was not billiousness
that had Joe Wheeler down
when he was in Cuba. Fighting
Joe is a billions immune.
The Chicainauga hospital
horrors will forever
the Andersonville sufferings.
At Chicamauga the volunteer
patients were grossly neglected,
and, though feverridden, were
forced to sleep on the* damp
g"ound while a mighty nation’*
bounty was wasted while they
starved. At Andersonville it was
different. A blockade was on
and the prisoners were in a coun
try they and their comrades had
been devastating for years. A t
Andersonville, the surgeons and
nurses did all they could do. At
Chicamauga the hospital offi
cials neglected every duty. By
all means let an investigation
be ordered and the guilty scoun
drels run down and hung.
The administration economists
should secure the assistance of
those Santiago fevers in cutting
down.—Detroit Free Press.
“Brdget, you’ve broken as
much china this month as your
wages amount co. Now how can
we prevent this occurring
again?” “I don’t know, mum, I
unless yez raise me wages.”—
Chicago Daily News.
A Daily Reminder.— “Yos,-i
love, 1 was leminded of you ,
every blessed day.” “You dear!
boy I” “Yes, all the hardtack
was so much like your biscuits.”
Mamma —“It is very naughty
to tell lies, Evu. People who do
so don’t go to heaven.”- -Eva—
“Did you ever tell a lie, mam
ma?” Mamma—“No, dear,
never.” Eva—“ Won’t you be
fearful lonely in heaven, mamma
with only George Washington?”
Jswego Dailv Palladium.
There ie more Catarrh in this 1
section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and I
until tbe last few years was sup
posed to he incureble. For a great
many years doctors pronounced
it a local diaeas, and prescibed 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, ai d there
foie requires constiiuticnal treat
meat. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manu
factured by F. J, Cheney & Co.
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*
rectly 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 <fc Co.. Toledo. O,
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
H dl’ F.imlv Pills i-n' the best,
Riggs—Who is that soldier
with the great crowd around
him?
Higgs—That is Corporal
Goosetalk of the volunteers. He
is telling the crowd how hesgved
the regulaxs at Santiago and
prevented Shafter from making
a fatal mistake. He has a brother
in the Naval Reserve who was
only prevented from advising
Dewey how to take Manila by
not being there.—Boston i'r ui
script. •
First Young Lady (indignant
ly)—Little boy, don’t you know
it is wrong for you to steal those
dear little bluebird eggs? Don’t
you know that ewich of those
dear little eggs would be a dear
little bluebird?
Second Young Lady (more
indignantly)—Yes! And don’t
you know that stuffed bluebirds
are 25 cents apiece now, and
getting scarcer and scarcer every
year,you miserable little wretch?
—Puck.
The Escape.
SWhen a man has a chance
to escape from prison he
doesn’t atop to argue about
it; he breaks out as quickly
as ever he can. He knows
that every moment’s delay
may lessen his chances of es
cape; but when a man is sick
he too often postpones bis
opportunity of getting well
?'■- an “ says: "O. perhaps I’ll
T better next week” or
•t: “next month.”
' Vweeks and months go
WBjQ on and every day his chance
°f escaping from the dungeon
W ( °f disease grows smal) A -
The "Golden Medical D*
BMiSTr IsS covery ” originated by Dr.
» v / erce > of Buffalo, N.V.,
SMmZ Jr—"A “ certain means of res-
- j cue to ever y man and woman
SJ’lk YyW who is suffering from any
wflk form of weakness or disease
.■ ’’’ ‘ ' due to imperfect nutrition
I marvelous “Discovery”
creat < a good appetite, good
I ' dig< tion, good blood, good
?-health. It gives
solid flesh, mns
cul a r strength,
I
tl nerves
an( ’ keen
i w ' lß •
jifrvßS % b e 'P s Y ou
to th in k
, - clearly
and work
auccess
-- —- fully.
Mr. Frank, A Starti. of Fayetteville, Fayette
Co.. Texas, writes in reletterrto.Dr. Pierce: "It
affords me pleasure to testify to the remarkable
curative pov -r of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery 1 was severely afflicted with trouble
in my lungs—spitting up blood, and was so
weak I was unable to continue my work I
tried several remedies which gave me no relief,
and I had commenced to thhik there was no
hope for me. Dr. Mierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery was recommended to me so I tried it and
began to improve at once, and was soon able to
resume work. I consider it a wonderful medi
cine."
Every man who wants to save doctor’s
bills should send si one-cent stamps, the
cost of mailing only, to Dr. R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y., for a copy of his 1000-page
illustrated book," Common Sense Medical
Adviser,” in paper covers; or ji stamps ’
for cloth-bound copy.
THE MODERN BEAUTY
Thrives oi> good food
sunshine, with plenty of ex« cine
in the ipen air. Her form glows
and her face glows with
eauty. If her system neeffg the
cleansing action of a laxative
remedy she uses the gentle and
pleasant Syrup of fig ß , mauufac
tured by the California Fig
Syrup Co., only
YOUNG LADY GRADUATES
Ot the Rome Business College
are thoroughly prepared for
stenographic and office wor^ .
they are found capable when
they go into /
tice; they re- ”
ceive high f
e n a- '
f o i>
their employ
ers as being
capable*and exp<s leneed.
Rome business College enjoya
the largest enrollment of pupils
it has had in its history. There
will be thousands of vancancier.
this fall to fill. Young men and
ladies will do well to enter here
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
L ima Back »n I Weak Kidneys,
Malaria <>r nervous troubles.We
mean h c n cu"i himself ri<»ht
away by g kmg Electric Bitters.
This medicine tones up the whole
system, acts as a stimulant to
Liver and Kidneys, is a blood
purifier and uerve tonic. It cures
Constipation, Headache, Faint
ing 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 are a miracle
worker. Every bottle guaranteed
Only 50c a bottle at Curry Ar
rington drug alore.
“-LL 1! '! '.g. ■_ ■_
SANCTUM SILHOUETTd
Before the case reaches the
acute stage it nrrght be wail for
England and Russia to call in Dr.
Cainbon. —Pitt*burg Post.
There being no oihor caune for
condemning him Admiral Dewey
must be censured fur not being an
Ohio maug—Detroit Journal.
Within a month 100,000 volun
teers will become civilians again,
and exchange their arms for
knives and forks with which to
attack square meals —Boston
Globe.
That Su ro estate in San Fran
cisco having dwindled to in >dest
pr portions, probably a comp my
or two of Sutro widows will a«k to
he mistered out. Galv eton
News.
If the administration c >uld get
on the Peace Commission the in m
who struck Billy Patterson it
might hope to yet eolvn th-' Philip
pine question.—Louisville Courior-
Jouinal.
Unless history has lint th” art
of repea'ing itself Eugl tn l and
Rus ia are only h owit g‘ their
'eeth as an excuse f>r eaeh to
snatch another slice off opposite
ends of China.—Chicago R.cord.
The Manila cable .is working
again, but the war is over, leaving
’he strategy board with several
reams cf plans and specifications
on hand, which are now ao much
dßad stock. —Chicago Chronicle.
Jinks—What’s a post graduate
course anyhow?
Filkins—Oh, it’s where a fel
low takes a tumble to himself,
before it’s everlastingly too late
•nd goes and gets posted even if
he has graduated.—Pm k.
House tq Rent.—ln Fast
Rome, near depot. Good water.
Apply to L. A. Lloyd.