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Established. 18W).
"HE ROME COMMERCIAL
Exlablishol. 1895.
Mitd every evening, except Saturday.
Sandav and weekly.
PHIL G BYRD,
EDITOR AND MANAGER
I Office Wilk arson Block. Third n venue
Aetna hasn’t‘shown a spark
of interest in the eruption busi
ness so far. It seems inclined to
let Vesuvius do all the spouting.
»With only half as strong a
fleet as the English, the trench
hare 1,341 lieutenants and sub
lieutenants, while England has
only 1,246.
In fifteen years Russia has
sent 24,000 persons to Siberia,
fully 100,000 relatives of prison
ers having accompanied the ex
iles of their own free will.
Gen. Schofield’s estimate of
• Secretary/Mger leaves one in
doubt whether the head of the
war department is an intellec
tual cripple or a plain liar.
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The hearing organ of animals
is not always located in the
head. In some grasshoppers it
is in the fore legs, and appears
on the wings of many insects.
Chili and Argentina have de
cided not to go to war over their
boundary line. Il is cheaper for
each of them to stay at home
and settle their dispute over the
telephone.
A cure for lockjaw, it is claim
cd has been discovered in New
York. No w r ay has yet been dis
covered for giving the lockjaw
to the professional politician,
the narrator of hard luck stories,
or the book agent.
The ingrain carpet manufac
turers of Philadelphia have
agreed to shut down, giving
overproduction as the cause.
This v. ill throw out of employ
ment hundreds of workingmen.
So much for Dingleyism.
No sooner had the Chinese
Emperor manifested a desire to
inaugurate a thorough system of
modern progress than his
mamma took his clothes off and
put him to bed. The way of the
reformer is rocky, even in China.
HOBSON’S TRIUMPH.
Lieutenant Hobson has shown
that he has constructive, or con
servative as well as destructive
ability by the recovery of tin
Infanta Maria Teresa, one ol
the Spanish cruisers run ashore
by our fleet in the attempt to
escape from Santiago.
How valuable she may be as
an addition to the navy, it is
hard to tell now, but at least
she will be a pleasing trophy of
the victory of July 3, and the
success with which she has been
floated and taken into harbor ir
itself a gratifying achievement.
The Maria Teres i is one of
the six modern first-class crui
sers with which Spain started in
the late war, the Vizcaya and
Almirante Oquendo b dug of the
same model.
She is of 7,000 tons and 13,-
000 nominal horse power, and
20 knots nominal speed, and is
protected by a 12 inch steel belt,
with 8-inch steel armoring on
the heavy gun emplacements.
Though these ships went
down quickly under the guns of
Schley’s fleet, there is no doubt
that the Maria Teresa can be
reconstructed into a formidable
man-of-war.
Hu Rov«' I* highest grade baking
kaown. Actual testa show it goes om-
Utird further tbaa any oilier brand.
row
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKIKS POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
THE REAL WAR SCXNDAL
Mr. McKinley’s personal de
meanor during the war was
creditable. His fault was that he
permitted himself to be used by
the same schemers who managed
his nomination For instance, he
appointed over two hundred
civilians to the general army
staff without any regard for their
ability, experience or motives.
The only essential qualification
was a pull with some Washing
ton official whom the adminis
tration was anxious or willing
to please.
These 200 appointments from
civil life took effect in the adju
tant general’s department, and
in the commissary and quarter
master’s departments, the very
centers about which revolved
the efficiency, comfoit and safety
of the army. Most of these up,
pointees knew nothing of such
large operations as the feeding,
transportation and equipping of
troops, and they did not worry
about mastering such knowledge
because they knew’ that their
preferment was not due to any
thing but a political pull.
Nor did the polities of the ad
ministration end there. Hun
dreds of surgeons, paymasters,
inspectors and petty officers
were appointed for no better
reason than that they had friends
who con’d get the ear of the
president, or the secretary of
war, or this senator and that
congressman.
Everybody knows the result
of the methods which placed
such incompetents in charge of
our armies. Ten men died of
disease where one was killed in
battle. The plain soldiers were
made to pay political debts and
pander to the administration
barnacles with their lives or
their health. They slept on the
wet ground, ate rancid pork,
groveled in filthy ships and died
of fever and neglect so that the
noncombatant pet or syndicate
politicians might realize on their
Vi 11 * s the primary duty
\A ' / ever y woman to wear
17s V VOA ln her face the lilies
and roses of health. Jt
JK * s one of woman’s nat
r- ural missions to please,
and one of the first at
tributes of a pleasing
. VjFlifV woman is a complexion
that shows the bloom
An.Wr .fH Os health
II No matter how beau
\-YiSgS w VI tiful a woman may be
yiMMB W \tt at the outset, if she
'■ilL suffers from weakness
. ■■ I and disease of that
j»ff ■ 1/ ( delicate and important
that is the
I , threshold of human
V - life, she will soon show
traces of suffering in
her face, and very shortly become haggar.d
and homely. She will lose her animation
of manner, the sparkle will fade from her
eyes and the roses from her cheeks, her
form will lose its roundness and her step its
sprightliness. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription imparts strength, health, vigor
and virility to the feminine organism. It
allays inflammation, heals ulceration and
tones the nerves. It makes weak women
strong in a womanly way and able to bear
the burdens of maternity. It banishes the
suffering of the period of gestation, and
makes baby’s advent easy and almost pain
less. It restores the lost complexion and
imparts strength, vitality and health to
the entire system.
" I am very thankful for what Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription bus done for me," writes
Mrs Etta E. Smith, of Grenola. Elk Co., Kans.
"About a month before 1 was confined I had
such pains that I could stand up only a little
while at a time. I could not rest at night or at
any other time. I could scarcely eat anything
I began taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip
tion and alter the second dose I felt better,
From then until I was confined I carried all the
water that was used up a long hill and worked
in the garden every dav. besides my other work
and did not feel at all bad. When the baby was
born I had a very easy time. The women said I
had an easier time than any <Jne they ever saw
for the first time. The baby is very healthy. I
got up when she was five days old' After two
days I began my own work and felt stout and
healthy."
For a free, paper-covered copy of Doctor
Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
send 2i one-cent stamps, to cover mailing
only. * Cloth • bound y stamps. Address
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, A medical
library in one tooß page volume.
pull with the powers that be.
The mismanagement of the
war did not begin with the suf
fering and wanton neglect of
the soldiers. It began with the
unwarranted and criminal dis
tribution of the patronage
among incompetent and selfish
favorites. This beginning made
inevitable the corruptions, fail
ures and neglect which shocked
the country.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Illinois has $5,000,000 invest
ed in nurseries.
Chinese steamers require three
days from Hong Kong to Shang
hai.
The toll on an ordinary ship
passing through the Suez canal
averages about $4,000.
A Tacoma flour mill recently
received a single order from
China for 100,000 barrels of
flour.
Virginia has an institute con
ductor, whose duty it is to hold
teachers’ institutes in the- sever
al counties.
There were sixteen vessels en
gaged last year in the lapanese
fur sealing industry. The catch
was valued at $66,390.
Mrs. Jane W. Blood, whose
death w r as reported last week,
was one of the first English con
verts to the Mormon faith who
left Southampton for Salt Lake
in 1854.
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EDITORIAL HASH.
The agricultural department’s
connection with the war will not
assert itself until the swords
nave been turned into plow
shares . Washington Star.
The announcement that Mr.
Hearst will be a candidate for
governor is doubtless the work
of-somo vindicative person w’ho
has it in for Mr. Pulitzer.—
Washington Post.
There never was and never
will be a hair restorer. Even the
wigmaker can do nothing but
supply a bald man with hair he
never had before.—New Orleans
Picayune,
If any power choose to inter
fere with our disposition of the
Philippines, it will run up
against a reinforced naval squad
ron and a land force on the
ground 20,000 strong.—Man
chester Union.
“It is true/’ says the Medical
Record, “that Zola has orbicu
lar contraction, cardiac spasms,
thoracic cramp, false angina,
pectoric, sensory hyperaesthesia
and impulsive ideas.’’ This is
what comes from not boiling the
water. —Chicago News.
It is estimated that Sampson
will receive SIOO,OOO prize
money ; Dewey, SO,OOO, and
Schley. $5,000. There are plenty
of other reasons for the abolish
ment of the prize money system,
but is it necessary to advance
any other?—Louisville Courier
Journal.
Ihe Rough Riders’ horses
were sold the other day at an
average of sl6 each. They cost
the government $65 apiece. If
they had gone to Cuba like their
masters and made a record they
might have commanded a bigger
price from the butchers, who
could have made them into San
tiago sausages.
Small Boy (looking up from
history)—“Papa, the union sol
diers were paid sl3 a month.
Seems to me that’s awful small
when a congressman is paid sl3
a day. Why ain’t soldiers paid
as much as a congressman?”
Papa—“ Soldiers, my son, do
not fix their own salaries.”—
New York Weekly.
DANGER IN SODA.
Serious Results Sometimes
Follow Its ExcEssivE Use
Common soda is all right in
its place and indispensable in
the kitchen for cooking and
washing purposes, but it was
never intended for a medicine,
and people who use it as such
will some day regret it.
We refer to the common use
of soda to relieve heartburn or
sour stomach, a habit which
thousands of people practice al
most daily, and one which is
fraught with danger; moreover
the soda only gives temporary
relief and in the end the stom
ach trouble gets worse and
worse.
The soda acts as a mechanical
irritant to the walls of the stom
ach an.l bowels and cases are
on record wheie it accumulated
in the intestines, causing death
by infl imation or peritontis.
Dr. Harlandson recommends
as the safest and surest cure for
sour stomach (acid dyspepsia)
an excellant preparation sold by
druggists under the name of
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets.
These tablets are large 20 grain
lozengers, very pleasant to taste
and contain the natural acids,
peptones and digestive elements
essential to good digestion, and
when taken after meals they di
gest the food perfectly and
promptly before it has had time
to ferment, sour and poison the
blood and nervous system.
Dr. W north states that he in
variably uses Stuart’s Dyspep
sia Tablets in all cases ot stom
( 'rouble, but by promtly di
gr ting the fool they create a
healthy app tite, increase flesh
and strengthen the action of the
heart and liver. They are not a
oithartic, but intended only for
stomach diseases and weakness
and will be found reliable in
any stomach trouble except can
cer of the stomach.
All druggists sell Stuart’s
Dyspepsia Tablets at 50c pey
package.
A little book describing all
forms of stomach weakness and
their cure mailed free by ad
dressing the Stuart Co., of Mar
shall, Mich.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Russian railroad trains have
smoking cars for ladies.
It is estimated that there are
3,120,000 cyclists in Germany,
each one ot whom had to pay a
tax of 50 cents to have his name
entered and to receive a number
for his machine, together with a
book, which he mustearry about
him, as it contains a description
of his person.
In three years the expense of
running an Atlantic steamer ex
ceels the cost of construction.
Nine men constitute a jury in
Mexico, a id a majority gives the
verdict. If the jury is unani
mous there is no appeal.
In Havana there is a device
for protecting passengers from
the extortion of cabmen which
might probadly be imitated in
other countries. The lamp pests
are painted in various colors—
red for the central district, blue
for the second circle, green for
the third, etc. —and thus the
“fare” knows immediately when
he has passed the legal bounda
ry, and pays accordingly.
The Queen of Holland recent
ly receivedjby parcel post a her
ring from one of her Joyal sub
jects. A note explained that it
was the first herring of the sea
son’s catch, and was the gift of
some {Dutch fisherman. Her
majesty promptly had it cooked
and'ate’it. ‘
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are about 350 female
blacksmiths in Great Britain.
The output of the coal mines
of Wyoming is double this year
what it was last.
The Congregationalists have
one minister to every 114 mem
bers of their churches.
The longest span of telegraph
wire in the world is in India,
over the river Kiscna. It isover
6,000 feet m length.
Col Robert G. Ingersol is said
to receive more invitations to
deliver funeral orations than
any clergyman in the country.
Li Hung Chang has appoint
ed two Chinese women to be
delegates to the international
congress of women n xt year in
London.
/I rose bush bearing bks soins
of five different colors wr.s one
of the principal attractions at
Belfast, Me., flower garden this
summer.
Annual Seleo 0ver6,000,030 Boxes
t’OR BILIOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS
sueh as Wind and Pain in the Stomach,
Giddiness, Fulness after meals, Head
iche. Dizziness. Drowsiness. Flushing*
of Ho.it, Lwss of Appetite, Costiveness.
Blotches on the Skin, Cold Chilis, Dis
turbed Sleep. Frightful Dreams and all
Nervous and Trembling Sensations.
THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEI
IN TWENTY MINUTES. Every suffem
Will acknowledge them to be
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE.
BEECHAM'S PILLS, taken as direct
ed, will quickly restore Females to com
plete health. They promptly remove
obstructions or irregularities of the sys
tem anil cure sick Headache. For a
Weak Stomach
Impaired Digestion
Disordered Liver
IN MEN, WOMEN OR CHILDREN
Beecham’s Pills are
Without a Rival,
And have tbs
LARGEST SALE
l>f any Patent Medicine in the World,
25 c. at all Drug Stores.
YOUNG LADY GR kDUATES
Oi the Rome Business College
are thoroughly prepared for
stenographic and office work;
they are found capable when
they go into
business prac
tice ; they re
ceive hi g h
com mend a-;
cions fro m u
their employ-’
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 here
and prepare lor thorough com
mercial work.
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t 11. S. Shockley,
i Princpial.
SPa IN ’S s G RE ATES T N E El).
Mr. 11, P. Olivia, of Carcelon
ia, S. C. Weak nerves had caus
ed severe pains in the back of
> his head, On using Electric Bit
ters, America's greatest blood
and nerve remedy, al! pain soon
left him. He says this grand
■ medicine is what his country
needs. All America knows that
it cures liver and kidney trou
ble, purifies th blood, loiies up
; the stomach, .strengthens the
nerves, puts vim, vigor and new
life into every muscle, nerve
and organ of the body. If weak,
tired or ailing you need it. Ev
ery bottle guaranteed, onlv 50
cents. Sold by Curry Arring
on, druggists.
TAX NOTICE.
The last half of tax for 1898 is
now due the city of Home. All
persons owing taxes are hereby
notified so call at the Clerk’s of
fice at the city hall and settle.
iSSpt. 16th 1898.
Halsted Smith, Clerk Council.
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HOW’S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dol
lars Reward for any case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney it Co., Toledo, O.
We, tb.e undersigned, have
known F. J. Cheney for the last
15 years, and believe him to be
financially able to carry out any
obligation made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent
freo. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Dru ggists.
Hall’s Family Pills are the
best.
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Beware of Imitations
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ST. LOUIS. MO. AND RETURN
Ou account of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows (colored,)
St Louis, Mn,, October 4-10, 181)8
the Southern railway will s?!l
round trip tickets at the very low
rate of $16.85, lickets on sale
October 2, 8 and 4th with final
limit returning October 18th*
1898.
See that your ticket reades vis,
the Southern railway. Finest trains,
quickest time.
. J. N. Harrisow, C. T A.,
The Indianapolis News wants
tT make a match between Hob
son and Miss Helen Gould.
PROFESSIONAL URDS
ATTORNEYS.
J. BRANHAM,
Law Office 200, east First reet Sr,
' CHAS W. UNDERWOOD
A rtornay at Law, Ro a‘
depot aion.Law Oulyr
AAZ J. NSEL
Attorney at law. Will practice in allocvrts.
Special attention given to commercial law
and the examination cJ land titles.
office In King building. Rome, Ga.
AATZkLuTIIHR, HARRIS
Attorney at law and J. P. Office ovwF. J-
Kane & Co. ’s.
LIPSCOMB de ;WILLINGHAM
Commercial Lawyers.
Office in Armstrong hotel building, Rome, G*
MB BUB ANNS,
Atterney at law. OfflceKing Building..
Rome, ua.
w h. ennis,
Attorney at Law. Will Practice in .all courts
Office, Masonic Temple, Rome, Ga.
J SA.KTTJK CR.'WS T B
Attorney at law, Rome, Ga. Collections a
specialty.
Masonic Temple. Rome, Go.
MOSES M RIGHT. HARPER HAMII/VOX
W HIGHT & HAMILTON
Attorneys at Law.
Office: No. 11 Postoffice Building
DENTISTS.
J. A. 'WILLS, D. D. 5.,
Office 240 1-3 Broad. > Over Cantrell & Owen
J. L. PENNINGTON. D.D S..M D.
. ENTISt'i
Office, 305 1-2 Hroad street. Over Hanks Far
future Co. ,
PHYSICIANS.
O. HAMILTON. M D-
Physician and Surgeon Office, Medb a-
Bulldlng Rome, Ga. Oil ce ’phone No. 62.
Li- F HAMMOND. M- D”
Physician and Surgeon, In Medlca
building. Residence, No. 403 West Firs* -i
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