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THE IIUSTLtfi-COSMtRCIA EHUSTLEROFROME Established. 1890. — — ~HE ROME COMMERCIAL Established. 1895. »i«d every evening, except Saturday. Sunday aud weekly. PHIL G. BYRD, EDITOR aND MANAGER L. -X .ma .'in. 1 ■ t 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. J- JI s 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! LI : D._ _ 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, -J I '-■•'■Ji..' l l l 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 nies - e f "J 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 -J 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. ■ ww- aw » Wl** • EIPE ? - - ----- i THE SUMMER HAS , PASSED AND GONE ■ IMPROVE THE NEXT PRETY DAI ■ AND HAVE YOUR NEGATIVE MADI ; —. i | YOU iKnOW | Til ECLJISS OF $ T URKOUT . ' RmH - - S'*. YOU ARE IMUUT INVITED k y 3 ♦» 0 IJ. W. kandeaster, |