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THE IIUSTLtfi-COSMtRCIA
EHUSTLEROFROME
Established. 1890.
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~HE ROME COMMERCIAL
Established. 1895.
»i«d every evening, except Saturday.
Sunday aud weekly.
PHIL G. BYRD,
EDITOR aND MANAGER
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The Bostons have won the
1898 pennant.
Turkey will obey the mandate
of the Towers.
The; woman of striking beauty
finds it easy to make a hit.
Jack Frost is on tap and the
‘yellowoid” germ is passing.
There are links and links ; in
the north its golf, in the south
sausage.
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The Mohegan adds another
chapter to the volumn of ocean
horrors.
This week is expected to be
the record one of the year in
wheat exports.
What right has that upstart
lunatic, Kaiser William, to be
dedicating churches?
No, Jane, dear, cas les in the
Spanish air won’t make light
houses for the Cuban coast.
The canal frauds subject is to
be the chief argument of the
Democrats in the New York
campaign.
Jehu D. Rockefeller has se
cured control of 6,000,000 acres
of coal and oil lands in the In
dian Territory.
The Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette says: “We are satisfied
to rest the whole matter with
Wheeler and Lee.”
The United States have gain
ed further concessions in the
way of increased room at the
Paris exposition.
T ./o son? of New York multi
millionaires have recently mar
ried actresses. No wonder so
many young women are crazy
to go upon the stage, when
there are possibilities of millions
in it!
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_ The Dons insist that the
Americans ought to pay the
debt incurred by Spain in de
populating the island. Those
who contended that the Cubans
were not worth saving and who
now want to annex the islands
will doubtless support this view’.
The historic house in City
road, London, in which the
founder of Methodism lived and
died is to be formally opened
early next month as a museum
of Wesley relics. For the greater
part of the present year this
house has been undergoing re
pairs.
Educated women in England
find great difficulty in obtaining
suitable employment, as is
shown by the enormous number
of candidates who present them
selves for clerkships at the Lon
non general postoffice. At a re
cent examination held for worn
en clerks there were 1530 can
didates for thirty positions.
Senator Hanna is warning his
party against the-danger of over
confidence, “Over-confidence”
in the lexicon of the Buckeye
leader is a synonym for “under
subscription. The corporations
are not putting up their money
this year. There is danger of an
verdict.
I A brother newspaper man
gets off the following, and we
' reproduce it as it fits our case,
too: “A prospective subscriber
wants to know if we will take
thickens on subscriptions? Yes
—and w’ood and meal and meat
and coonsand ’possums and fish
and tomatoes and billy gouts
and sheep and pigs and horses
and mules and corn aud calves
and hogs and rabbits and wheat
and turnips and spuds scripsts
script and—just any old thing
you’ve got. We have, on rare
occasions, taken money on sub
scriptions.—Marion Free Press.
A HERO AT EL CANEY
Close in front of me a slight
and boyish lieutenant compelled
my attention by his persistent
and reckless gallantry. When
ever a man was hit he would
dart to his assistance regardless
of the tire that this exposure
inevitably drew.
Suddenly he sprang to his
feet, gazing intently into the
village, but what he saw we
never knew, for he was instant
ly shot through the heart and
fell over backward, clutching at
the air.
I followed the men who car
ried him to the road and asked
them his name. “Second Lieu
tenent Wansboro, sir, of the
Seventh Infantry, anr you will
never see his better. He fought
like a little liger.”
A few convulsive gasps and
the poor boy was dead, and as
we laid him in a shady spot by
the side of the road, the ser
geant diew a handkerchief over
his face and said : “Good-by,
Lieutenant, you were a brave
little officer, and you died like a
true soldier.” Who would wish
abetter end? —Captain A. 11.
Lee, R. A. British Military At
tache, in the October Scribner’s,
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Nearly 23,000 soldiers of
Spain were shipped from Santi
ago on fifteen transports within
a period of just thirty
nine days—from August b 9 to
September 17 last. But as Un
cle Sam was paying the freight
they naturally got there on a
better schedule than they will
when old Spain has to foot the
bills with the transport compa
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GEORGIA EDITORS.
One of our exchanges sug
gests that the foundation of the
coffin trust is running things
into the ground.—Columbus
Enquirer Sun.
The pops had as many “lin
gers in the pie” as anybody else
and saw it well done and the
usual jery of “fraud” is shut off.
—Fort Gaines Sentinel.
Any married woman can be
fully revenged in a quarrel with
her husband by repeating the
fool things he sr : .d to her when
be was courting her.— West
Point News.
A Coweta county farmer re
cently went to town with a bale
of cotton and a pointer dog. He
sold the bale of cotton for $22.50
and the dog for $33. There is
evidently more money in dogs
than cott>n —Fort Gaines Sen
tinel.
'1 he New York Journal says
the republican candidates in
that state stand for “canal
steals, the Raines law, the force
bill, Plattism, Algerisro and the
domination of politics by trusts
and corporations.”—M aeon
News.
The farmer who raises his
meat and bread at home does
not need much money to carry
him along, and it is not at all
affected by the low price of cot
ton. He is the happy independ
ent farmer we read about, but
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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP Os FIGS
is duo not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but als*
to the care and skill with which it ia
manufactured by scientific procesMl
known to the California Fig
Co. only, and we wish to imprests upoa
all the importance of purchasing th*
true and original remedy. As th*
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Stbuf Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthies
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 Figa 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 other laxative*,
as it act® 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
I* CIS VILLI’- ’ 'CH' YORK. N. Y.
J seldom sea.
A week ago the betting in
New York was going at odds of
to 2to lon Roosevelt. The last
quotations published place the
odds at 10 to 8 on Roosevelt.
The Rough Rider’s f-iends seem
to be losing confidence in his
ability to gallop over the course
an easy winner.—Savannah
News.
The man who introduces yel
low fever in a community may
get reduced rates from the local
physicians, but he pays dearly
to his neighbors.
W ' M.'*
Many of the “uprisen” Pil
lagers are now lying low. They
passed in Indian file in the foot
steps of their ancestors, and are
now good Indians.
It is now’ rumored, says the
Augusta Chronicle, that Col.
Oscar Brown of the Second
Georgia regiment, may succeed
Col. Candler of the Third Geor
gia.
Gov. Candler intends that
there shall be no great disylay
when be is inducted into office.
He will go into the capital, take
the oath of office in the presence
of the legislature, deliver his
inau ural and then go to work.
—Sparta Ishmaelite.
Attention is called to the fact
that though cotton is cheaper
than ever before, the Fall River
cotton mills are making less
money than ever before. Presi
dent Hickman, of the Granite
ville mill, has always said that
his business is better on 10 cent
cotton than on cotton at c cents
a pound.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Thankful words written by
Mrs. Ada E. Hart, Groton S. D.
“Was taken with a bad cold
which settled on my lungs;
cough set in and finally termi
nated in Consumption. Four
doctors gave me up, saying I
could not live but a short time.
I gave myself up to my Savior,
determined if I could not stay
with iny friends on earth, I
would meet my absent ones
above. My husband was advis
ad to get Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Conwumption,Coughs
and Colds. I gave it a trial, took
in all eight bottles. It has cured
me, and thank God I am saved
and now a well and healthy
woman.” Trial bottles free at
Curry-Arrington’s. Regular size
50 cents and SI.OO, guaranteed
or price refunded.
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