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THE IIUSTLER-COMNERCIA
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Ratabllshed, 1890.
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PHIL O. BYRD.
EDITOR AND MANAGER
Office Wilkerson Block, Third Avenue
The dispensary in South Caro
lina was saved by a scratch.
The Georgia boys in the First
and Second regiments will soon
be at home.
Good morning, how do you
like the Hustler-Commercial
this morning.
Let every democrat who is
registered turn out and vote at
the October election.
Maine may not have gone
Hades-bent this election, but the
majority went downward.
J ust as Johnny comes march
ing home, Johnny is marched
off to school.-—Philadelphia
Ledger.
The world is waiting anxious
ly to see what officer first con
verts his gift swort into a steel
pin.—Washington Post.
A great revival is on at the
Sam Jones tabernacle in Car
tersville. Excursions will be run
to Cartersville from all direc
tions today.
Floyd was the Banner Candler
county during the democratic
primary Let every Floyd coun
ty democrat do his duty and
help old Floyd sustain her repu
tation.
H Col. Candler is winning voters
among the populists. He is an
old fashioned democrat, and
many populists are going to
come back into the party and
vote for him.—Augusta Chron
icle.
The Boston Herald is respon
sible for this happy hit: “Secre
tary Bliss thinks all this criti
cism of Alger is outrageous.
This seems to be a case where
ignorance is secretary of the
interior.”
The populists are not making
a serious contest in the state
•ampaign. They know that Can
dler and his state house officers
will win hands down, and their
fight for Hogan is simply per
functory.
Col. Candler will be elected,
and Georgia will have a good
governor for the next four years,
now let us see that good repre
sentatives and senators are
elected to help the governor.—
Americus Times Recorder.
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HOW’S THIS?
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internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent
freo. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills are the,
best.
The report of Secretary Hes
ter, of the New Orleans Cotton
exchange, furnishes some very
interesting facts regarding last
season’s cotton movement. The
yield was the largest ever re
corded. The “commercial crop”
was 11,199,994 bales, and the
“actual growth” 11,485,000
bales, being 2,442,030 bales in
excess of the largest previous
crop, that of 1894-95. The high
est price paid during the cotton
year was 7 1-16 cents, and the
lowest 53 16 cents, a variation
of only 1 7-Bcenta. The average
commercial value of the crop
was only $28.62 per bale, against
$37.76 in the preceding year
and S3O in 1894-95, and yet so
heavily did the yield increase
that the total value of the crop
was $220,552,606, and only
$1,372,000 smaller than the pre
ceding year and more than $13,-
000,000 larger than in 1894-95.
The ho r se is a natural soldier.
The horses of a cavalry regiment
were tumbled overboard from a
transport at Siboney. In the
water they were confused, some
swimming round and round and
some out to sea—in all directions
but the right one. At last the
trumpeter on the shore thought
of his trumpet and sounded the
call “stable,” whereupon every
one of the swimming horses
pointed his nose toward the
shore and all went safe on land.
Gen* Wheeler says that the
undertakers and lifesavers at
Montauk Point told him the
young man had evidently lost
his lite in trying to save that of
his companion, Lieut. Kirkpat
rick, whoso arms were locked
around young Wheeler’s body
in a death grip, while the latter’s
face was covered with scratches,
seemingly fr» m the other’s
finger nails.
The Grover Cleveland repub
lican who is running against
Brantley in the 11th district
clairaedto be too good a democrat
to vote for Bryan on the Chicago
platform. The devil must have
stood sponsor at the birth of all
such hypocrites. But he suits
the populists down in the low
ground of po’itical sorrow.
Sparta Ishmaelite.
The cbaingaing of Bartow
county will be abolished. This
action was taken at the meeting
of the county commissioners and
the order will go into effect cn
Dec. 15th of the present year.
This will redown to the benefit
of the solicitor general, but will
prove disastrous to Bartow’s
progress.
Anarchy is but another name
for murder, and it would be a
wise act on the part of the na
tions of the earth to imprison
all believers in this doctrine of
fiends on some far away island
of the sea. Or better still, have
them boiled in oil, tarred and
feathered and then set afire.
With one daughter Vicereine
of India, another chosen to
christen the new battleship Il
linois, and a son who stands
well with the American farmer,
Mr. Leiter ought to be happy,
even though he is out a few
paltry millions.—Chicago News.
The controversy that is going
on between some papers as to
the meaning of Col. Candler’s
remarks at Milledgeville that
free silver is not a cardinal prin
ciple of democracy is out of or
der. It will settle nothing, and
will injure the democratic cause
in the approaching election.
There is no reason why demo
crats should pull their razors
and fight each other when the
enemy is advancing.—Dawsen
News.
THE IRONY OF FATE-
Each day’s developments
seem to add to the perplexity of
the situation in France. The
Czar’s unexpected recript, the
disgraceful disclosure in the
Dreyfus case, and now the op
portune clash of English and
French interests in Egypt have
brought about an ominous cri
sis in the affairs of the unqniet
Republic.
France had built high hopes
upon her alliance with Russia.
She has nourished the vision of
regaining Alsace Lorraine. And
the compact lost half its mean
ing when Czar Nicolas proposed
universal disarmament. She
fears utter abandonment if a
revision of the Dreyfus case
should expose the utter rotten
ness of her army and so precipi
tate another internal upheaval.
And yet a revision is inevitable.
Public opinion is clamorous ;the
ministry, with one exception, is
favorable ; and President Faure
himself, though anxious to
evade it, knows that in dcing
so he must put aside justice in
the vague hope of retrenching
the failing prestige ot military
France.
Faure believes in the inno
cence of Dreyfus, but admits
that he would resign rather
than further jeopardize the for
tunes of France for the sake of
justice for a mere Jew.
Zurlinden, the vacillating
Minister of War, knows that
the dishonor of the army has
been cloaked in a fabric of lies
and injustice which he refuses
to cast off before the unfriendly
gaze of England and Germany.
Now more than at any time
for the past twenty-five years
France needs the confidence of
her people in government and
army.
The press is voicing the angry
sentiments of the people at the
advance of Kitchener upon
Fashoda ; the final opportunity
for France to maintain her in
terests in Egypt is disappearing
before the irresistible advance
of the British army up the valley
of the Nile. The public howls for
a revision of the Dreyfus case,
unmindful of the fact that the
friendship of Russia, peace with
the Kaiser, the cohesion of the
ministry and the honor of the
French army will be either
menaced or destroyd at the very
time when each is essential to
the national welfare.
Events s eem to conspire in
hanging the destiny of France
upon the same slender thread
which made the punishment of
Dreyfus necessary for the vindi
cation of the army. It is the
irony of fate.
WHAT THE GREAT POWERS
OWN.
The United States of America
ranks fifth among the world’s
great powers in point of terri
tory. This observation is perti
nent at this time, when our flag
is waving over remote islands
which are destined soon to be
included within the domain of
the republic.
With Hawaii added, the ter
ritory of the United States em
braces 3,609,630 square miles.
Os the four powers which rank
ahead of the United States
Great Britain comes next with
11,371,291 square miles, Russia
next with 8,660,394 square miles,
China next with 8,660,394
square miles and France next
with 4,821,419 square miles.
Immediately after the United
States come Brazil with 3,209,-
878 square miles, Argentina
with 1,778,195 square miles,
Turkey 1,576,700 square miles.
Even with Porto Rico and the
Philippines included the terri
tory of the United States will’
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fall short of that of Franco and
consequently the annexation of
the islands will not affect the
order in which the United States
comes in the list of the great
powars. In conjunction, the
great powers which we have
named own three fourths of the
territory of the globe.—Consti
tution .
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The man who didn’t enlist
now appreciated the feeling of.
being ignored.—Philadelphia
North American.
The Spanish seem to have
developed a few Jerry Simpsons
and James Hamilton Lewises.
—Philadelphia Times.
The war reminiscence wil
crowd the campai n argument
very closely in popular interest
this fall.—Washington Star.
Admiral Cervera wanted to
blow up his ships instead of
making a run from Santiago.
We saved him the trouble. —
New York Tribune.
Doubtless the Czar’s univer
sal peace scheme will just suit
Spain. She is in condition now
to enjoy peace, and lots ot it.—
New York Mail and Express.
This is the time of year when
the prudent man is a little cau
tious about changing too ab
ruptly from the gin rickey to
the Manhattan cocktail. —New
York World.
SHAFTS OF SATIRE.
The British have also successful
ly “remembered a certain event
this year. ” —Chicago News.
Gen. Miles seems to make it clear
that the war is just beginning.—
Philadelphia North American.
Mr. Sherman’s abcence from
the cabinet will not prevent him
from addins some to his stock of
reminiscences.—Washington Star.
In France they talk of reopening
the Dreyfus case, but from this
side it looks as if it had nev-r
been closed.—Chicago Record.
If it’s true that the administra
tion is behind Alger its position
gives great facilities for properly
locating a kick —Philadelphia
Times.
It is understood that Tom Wat
son’s opinion of the middle-of-the
road convention is withheld for
expurgation.—Philadelphia Led
ger.
The Populist party njver will
become a populor party until it
cuts loose from the “initiative
and the referendum.” The preju
dice against polysyllabic politic*
is insurperable. New York
World,
Since there’s trouble in selecting
a material with which to name the
battleship Illinois, how would it
do to compromise between water
and wine, and grease the yessel
with lard at its launching?—New
York Tribune.
“Suppose,” remarked Farmer
Corntossel, “that when Christo
pher Columbus landed in this
hemisphere one of the first things
he did was to plant the Spanish
stag.”
“I should say that ’ud seem the
reg’lar thing to do.”
“Well speakin’ perfessiona'.ly, I
should say that be managed to
raise one of the poorest crops ever
known,” —Washington Star.
An editor who died of starva
tion was being escorted to heaven
by a angel. “May I look at the
other place before I ascend?”
asked the editor. “You may
take a cursory view,” replied
the angel; so they went below. I
The angel lost track of the editor, 1
but finally spied him sitting be
side a big furnace, fanning him
self and gazing with rapture
upon a lot of people in the fire.
There wss a sign on the furnace;
it read, “Delinquent subscrib
ers.” “You go on,” said the
editor ; “I am not coming ; this
is heaven enough for me.”
THE MERRY JESTER.
As the doomed ship burned
fiercely the baseball person
swam feebly about.
“Little did I think,” said he
to the attending sharks, “that I
would thus be caught on a hos
liner. ”
Then he went to his long
home plate.—lndianapolis Jour
nal.
Uncle Reuben—Silas don’t
talk so much ’bout politics asjhe
used to. A couple of years ago
he was the best posted feller on
national financios I ever saw.
Uncle Joshua—He was; but
since then he’s raised some rat
tlin’ good crops.—Judge.
“Have you a soul for music?”
she asked as she turned from
the piano.
“For music, yes,” he replied,
and then he hasrily changed
the subject and neglected to ask
her to sing again.
But she knew. You can’t al
ways fool a girl, even if she
does think she has a voice.—
Chicago Post.
I suppose you greatly enjoy
having George at home again?
Yes, but he’s very exacting
about his diet.
In what way?
He’s got so accustomed to
hospital fare that he insists on
having quinine, champagne and
milk three times a day.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
A number of children were
leaking a good deal of noise,
and their mother, after rebuk
ing them several times, at last
said: “If I have to speak to you
again I shill punish some of
you.”
At this the youngest child
rolled off the sofa, and, after
gravely reflecting a while, re
marked: “Then,, mamma, I’d
advise you not to speak.”—
Pittsburg Bulletin.
DON’T.
Don’t judge the contents of a
man’s head by the size of his
hat.
Don’t think am in looks the
right way every time his huad is
turned.
Don’t impair your happiness
by borrowing trouble or lend
ing money.
Don’t refuse to let your wife
have her own way ; she’ll have
it anyway.
Don’t blame the upright pi
ano if it’s a downright nuisance;
blame the player.
Don’t go without things you
need in order to get things you
don’t want.
Don’t ask a woman questions.
Give her time and she’ll tell you
all you want to know.
Don’t marry a girl who isn’t
afraid of a mouse, or you’ll be
kept busy reg-etting it.
Don’t think because a girl
loves you from the bottom of
her heart that there isn’t plenty
of room at the top..—Chicago
News.
The glut of money in the
United States treasury is not
healthy for general business#.
As the Pittsburg Post says, it
was secured by the heavy in
crease of taxation and the issue
of $200,000,000 war bonds. It
represented not good adminis
tration, but the piling of unnec
essary burdens on the people in
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the way of taxes anl loans,
The war in Porto Rico has re
solved itself into a button-cutting
contest, a sort of “button, but
ton ; whose got the button 9 ”
game. Spanish soldiers with
drawn knives fall upon Ameri
can soldiers and cut off ‘he but
tons from their uniforms for
souvenirs, and Americans are
adepts at the same game.
Editor John Triplet, the bach
elor mainstay of the Thomas
ville Times, laments the fact
that poor Eve missed one pre
rogative of woman, in that she
neyer ransacked Adam’s pock
ets. Upon this fact, at least,
Brother Triplet and Father
Adam can “shake, ’ suggests
Mrs. My rick.
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Col. William Jenn’.ngs Bryan
will participate in Chicago's
peace jubilee. Col. Bryan’s pop
ularity, having grown from the
fertile soil of worth and being
watered by the etei nal dues of
merit, is of a permanent growth.
Peace or war, he is the idol of
the common people.
The Albany Herald very sage
ly suggests that the war depart
ment will do well to keep as
many of the volunteers as may
possibly be needed in case of
emergency, for when those now
in service are turned loose it
will be no easy matter to get
others.
The editor of the Douglas
Leader, the negro populist fu
sion organ of Coflee, claims, that
he never went to school but
eleven days. The columns of his
paper indicate that he made
poor use of the time. —Biuns
wick Advertiser.
DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS.
Povertj—A disease that a P oor
phykician is unable to cure.
Betting—A fool’s argument
j that is convincing on ly "hen you
win.
Eloquence—A kind of liquid
wind that some orators mix wit >
weak arguments,
Contestant —A person with »
will of his own who tries to brea
the will of another-
Satisfaction —Something a mai
doesn’t get when he kisses a p re
ty girl through a veiL
Gas meter—A devics that regis
ters the amount of gas y° n
for, regardless ot the amount y
burn.
Judgment Something
average man uses to a better a
vantage in selecting a cigar I
in selecting a wife— "Chicago