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THFIIUSTLER-COIIERCIA
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Established. ISW.
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Established. IM!
sued every evening. Satuiduy.
Sunday and week,-.
PHIL G. BYRD.
EDITOR and manager
Go vote for Maddox on tomor
row.
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Go out tomorrow and vote for
John W. Maddox.
Albany will celebrate its hay
day on November 17'h.
You can’t keep a Spannh war
ship < fl the ground H >or.
Marchand will now take
French leave from Fashoda.
“Col. J. P. McConnell, of
Floyd”—sounds well, don’t it?
The prohibitionists of Macon
say they are full of goofl spirits
Money talks —even hush money
pleads in all the eloquence ol
silence,
Gov. Candler’s military
is shy on numbers but long on
manhood..
With tan tickets in the field
in Colorado, the floating voter
is in the swim.
The cloth out of which cam
paign lies are cut, is generally
woven of yarn.
It’s all over but the shouting.
Let the democrats stave in and
get ready to whoop ’em up.
The Maria Teresa undertook
to play on the three mile limit
during her last sinking spell.
Platt and Quay are the P’s and
Q’s of the republican party of
New Yoik and Pennsylvania.
Gen. lied Tago should be
tried by drumhea'd[courtmartial
and dismissed army.
With Cuba and Porto Pico
taken in, Uncle Sam will have
“expanded” an ample suflicien
cy.
Hobson s expense account in
raising the Maria Teresa will
mow be charged to the £ sinking
fund.
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Behold the reforms recom
mended by Will Yates—and re
member that the noble Atkinson
The flag under which all women f
should march is the banner of good
health. A woman owes it - "iTwaSv
to herself, her husband , t V-\
and children to enlist 13 f
under this flag. If she '4 * *'*'bvC,
does not do so she will U
Live a life of wretchedness V-/ JL
herself, and unless her
husband is an exception
ally good man, he will be- rs&b • bral
come indifferent to her,
her home will be unhappy Je/fl /|
and her children will be Ci // ' L\ :
Juny and sickly, ( lIV
111-health in a womanly 1 I W
vay may almost invari- / ,> 1
bly be traced to weak- / i \ V
.ess and disease of the ('• ! i ,\\
emine organs that are the J I\ 7 “
vestibule of human life. 'S I y
Jfio woman can enjoy good, S >
,eneral health who is dragged X -gjr
lown by continual pain and
ocal weakness. Troubles of this descrip
tion utterly unfit her for wifehood and
motherhood. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription gives health, strength, elasticity
and vigor to the special organs concerned.
It makes a woman strong and healthy in a
—omanly way. It gives the nerves a rest
m pain and an opportunity to build up.
lakes motherhood safe and compaia-
• easy. It transforms weak, sickly,
ident women into happy, healthv
nd mothers.
’’ell. Esq., of Ocheltree. Johnson Co
>. Box 6i), writes: ”Mv wife was
h prolapsus, or ' female weakness,'
•ears. She was not able to do her
' such bearing down pains and pain
.Her periods were irregular, vary
from two to six wet k- At those
’d have fainting spells so bad that
Icould not live. Sne was attended
jftors in the country They did
j ( l she grew worse all the time I
-Id try your medicines ISv the
I.ken four bottles of the ' Favorite
and two of the ‘Golden Medical
id two of the • Pleasant Pellets ’ she
sly cured.”
ay, a dose. Once you start, you
kg - 8 1 t 1 °R^ e,u - .That is the way with
called remedies for constipation.
'dj''
,-ind two a mild cathartic,
sell them. Nothing else is
ust as good.’’
* s a d ru lriri»t’s business to give you.
to tell you, what you want.
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum*
Altim baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
H«V*l BAKWO POWDER Cq, MEW YORK.
is entrenching himself behind
these “-ecommend:. fi uds’ ' —o'
i course be ca: es nothing about
■the reforms —all he is after is
being able at any time m the
future to quqte from a message
in which he ‘ recommended” the
particular reform that may be
in agitation before the people at
that very moment. Bill has rec
| oinmended each and everyone,
but has insisted on none. He
will “insist” later on—when it
suits him better.
————
Maj. II; trgroves introduced
Col. Wilkinson at the court
house last night to an audience
consisting of negroes. Will
somebody now please introduce
Ma j. II argroves?—Waycross
Herald.
Romans will be inte”ested to
learn that this is the same Maj.
I Hargrove who for a score of
i years made Rome a good post
-1 master, even if he did have a
■ weakness for the colored broth
| ers—vote.
The St* Louis Republic says
in his thanksgiving proclama
' tion President McKinley is emi
nently fair in acknowledging
I that his ad mini it cation was
I “compelled to take up the sword
in the cause of humanity.” It
• was the Democratic party which
compelled the McKinley admin
istration.
Mr. Rowe Price, an old Macon
boy, has been appointed secreta
ry to Secretary of Slate Phil
Cook, to succeed Editor John
W. Cain. Mr. Cain,however, will
retain the position until the first
of the year.
According to Shakespeare “a
tanner will last you nine year.”
The Boston Transcript observes,
however, that one year is more
than enough for the Tanner
they have out in Hlinois.
The majority of the people of
| this nation want our govert-
I inent io have nothing to do with
the Philippines, while Spain is
of the same mind. Let the re
publicans remember this.
It will take the “peanut”
politician a longtime to discov
er that he is not “it it” any
more in Georgia. Sooner or la
ter, however, he will dis over it.
—Darien Gazette .
Having wt hsto d the Ameri
cus Times-liecorder, “Hand
some Bob” will doubtless bi
lieve himself an immune against
the plague in Cuba.
The Georgia legislature will
do well to steer clear of the
’possum. The last legislature
should be permitted to wear the
belt for freak-bills.
Os all the bands in this world,
just give an old maid or a grrss
widow a bus—band. Its the kind
of b ind they would like to treat,
beat a retreat.
If any one tells you that that
Atlanta Peace Jubilee is not
going to he a b : g thing, don’t
jubileevlt.
About the only work the Cu-
bans are doing is Io lab- r under
the impression that th-j shculd
all hold office.
The Maria Teresa found a
good deep place tin. last time,
and is now three miles out ol'
sight.
The mrn-of war .walks the
wave, the woman-of-war only
rilles her husband’s pockets for
the sinews.
Quay shook the Pennsylvania
ptimb tree,but he is not pumber
enough to have a lead pipe cinch
on the Quaker state.
Between the mule drivers and
other M. D’s. the patients in
the volunteer hospitals had
sore trims and sorry times.
Over $250,000 have been re
ceived in Savannah to pay off
the soldiers of the Seventh army
corps now in camp there.
Ladies go shopping and
gentlemen bucket shopping. The
common people only buy what
they have to and pay the same
way-
Sam Jones is expected in Ma
con this week to take a hand in
the prohibition fight in progress
there and the fun will then be
gin earnest.
The Third Georgia will go to
Cuba. What a dash Handsome
Bob will cut among the hand
some dark eyed ‘ senoritas. —
Americus Herald.
Gideon Marsh, of Penny si va
nia, discovers himself after seven
years. He robbed a bank and
went out like a fox—now Marsh
comes in like a lamb.
All the democratic newspapers
want to see mors vim ami vigor
I ut into the dealings with Spam.
The democratic press wants things
pushed in that direction. A dem
ocratic house would by no means
tolerate any diHy-daliy policy.
Nobody understands this any bel
ter than Sagasta dee*, —Chatta-
nooga Times.
The sad death of brilliant
Tom Cobb will cause general
sorrow throughout the state. No
young man in Georgia possessed
more natural ability, and there
were few whoso future seemed
so bright. Young Cobb fell a
victim to that dread disease,
Consumption, and thus the state
has been robbed of a citizen who
in years to come would, un
doubtedly, have added lustre to
his state and to the honored
name he bore. Macon News.
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TES SXCELLW GF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
tc the care and skill with which it is
uasßufftekared by scientific processeP
known to the California Fig Sriit*
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all ths Importance of purchasing the
kin and original remedy-. As th*
genuine alyrnp of Fig.s is manufactured
•y the California Fig Syrup C*.
only, a knowledge of tbxit fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig. Syrup Co. with the medi
aal 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
in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acta on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing thesn, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beueficiaJ
effects, please remember the name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
PAN I RAN CISCO, Cat.
I ULISVILLK. ’ '>K«V YORK. Jt. Y
Go Vote tomorrow .
Tomorrow in election day all
ever lliis ..ation.
The pensive/girl d«ea not al
ways make an ex-pensive wife.
VVutch th? returns from North
Coroliua a 1 id b>h r >’d a state re
deemed.
No, Jan dear, going on picket
duty doe® n»t teach
how to fence.
—
David Bmnett Hill will enter on.
his seco l d lift —it; New York—af
ter tomorrow.
Every Georgia exhibit at Omaha
received a medal. Georgians also
have a governor these days.
Uncle Alien’s rabbit foot and
Dewey’s raobit foot seem to have
been amputated from the same
hare.
If Spain can get $30,000,000 for
Bometbing she hasn’t got, she
ought to grab it and ask no ques
tions.
Gieat Bri ain’s warlike prepar
ations seem to be of a na'ure to
make Adamzad, the Bear, fairly
get up on his hind legs and howl.
If Spain gives up much more
territory to the United States,
Pretender Don Carlos may have
to go out of the pretending busi
ness for there will be nothieg to
pretend for
French be nor was much more
easily satisfied than Spanish Lon
er. The safest way for France
beret. ‘er is tc settle her interna
tional controversies with the
worj i s of diplomacy. This is
ch- ni» r ’han war and as immune
st blood-letting as a French
duel.
It is stated that “the stone of
the coronation chair in Westmins
ter Abbey is claimed to be the
same which Jacob, the son of Isaac,
thi sou of Abraham, used as a pil
low when he lay down to sleep on
the starlit plains us Judah.” The
chair is the most precieus relic in
all England.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In Daniel Shaw, of Kingsbury,
who is 85 years old, and looks
but 60, the people of Indiana
claim to have the oldest justice
of the peace in the United States.
American singers are not
without honor in England. For
the recent Gloucester festival a
local wagon company built a
special btate carriage for Mme.
Albani.
There are now over 250,000
words in the English language,
acknowledged by the best au
thorities, or about 70,000 more
than in the German, French,
Spanish and Italian combined.
Frozen milk is no longer a
iiovelty in Europe. Milk is ta
ken when fresh and frezen in
bricks of different sizes and sold
by size. The milk is said to be
more hygienic than liquid milk.
An eating house proprietor in
Tacoma, arrested for selling
game out of season, escaped on
evidence, satisfactory Jo the ju
ry, that his wife could prepare
mutton to make it taste like
venson,
The next foreign celebrity
who will visit our shores is Je
han Riclus, of Faris, known
among iiis friends and admirers
as the Poet of ihe Submerged
Tenth. He wears very long hair
and is said to dislike notoriety.
Within the past five years
several millions of Pacific coast
salmon have been placed in
Lake Superior. They are now
frequently caught weighing from
ten u- fifteen pounds, and of ex
celled: flavor, a little milder
than that of the salt-water sal
mon,
MARRIES A POOR LAWYER.
Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane,
one of the great neiresses to the
combination of the Sloane and
i Vanderbilt millions surprised the
I world of fashion late last week by
a nnounci ng tl at she had ch; sen a
husband outside or that circum
scribed group called the “4G0.”
The man upon whom she has be
stowed her heart, her hand ami her
heritage is a poor young New York
lawyer.
Her cousin, the Duchess of
Marlborough, united her millions
to a great title and a vast estate.
A I William H. Vanderbilt's
other granddaughters have uni • <1
their great fortunes to other great
fortunes.
M-iss Sloane is the first of all her
cousins to pick out for her husband
an obscure young lawyer.
Miss Sloane will become Mr?,
John H. Hammond early next
year. Her prospective fortune is
estimated at $5,000,000.
Mr. Hammond is a graduate of
Phillips Academy at Exeter and
of the Yale class of 92 and Co
uinbia Law College. He is a mem
ber of the law firm of Shepard &
Ogden, of Broadway. Mr. Ham
mond is thirty-one years of age.—
New York telegram to the Chicago
Tribune. *
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Emperor William called the sul
tan “the great reformer,’* bu’
Gladstone called him “the grsat
assassin.”—lowa State Register.
So far England and France have
firGl one yellow and two bln>-
books at each other without fatal
effect.—Richmond Times.
By continuing to regard Schley
as a hero the people are causing
much worry in th- navy depart
ment at Wash'ngton.—Nashville
American.
Dr. Swallow is running for gov
of Pennsylvania on the platfoim
of -“thou shalt not steal .” He has
no chance to win, L>uisv He Dis
patch.
POINTED PA RA R aF IIS.
\V hen a girl is in love she doesn’t
carry his letters in her pocket.
The man who pa>s as he goes
seldom goes fast enough to over
heat himself.
When marriage is a failure the
man tries to put iUlall in his wife’t
name.
It is e. sier to take medicine
tha». it is to make up your mind
to take it.
Raw recruits are pr< bably bo
called because they are not accus
t y)rd to file.
It’s far more important that a
man should know when 'o he fun
ny than when to know how.
When money talks one loldom
troubles himself to in instigate the
ruth of its remarks.
Labor is a good cure for melan
choly. We seldom h- ar of a la
borer traveling, the • suicide route,
After a man gets a go'd fat of
fice he begins to advise his friends
to have nothing to do with poli
tics.
It’s unwise to boast of your gen
ealogy. Even if >ou succeed in
tracing it back to Adam and Eve
you haven't anv the b -at of others
Efforts *o save Mrs. Maybrick
from the English prison are still
being made. Mrs. Maybrick was
declared to be in r dying condition
a number of years ago.
Members of the Grade Teach
ers’ Federation of Chicago are
about to undertake an experi
ment in co-operative farming. It
is proposed to purchase for $20,-
000 a 400 acre farm in the Green
Lake region of Wisconsin, and
to form a stock company for the
cultivation of the same. Six
hundred teachers will be the
shareho’ders, and each is to pay
her assessment in monthly in
stallmen ts of sl.
You can get what you
cooked as you want it at. the
Gomez ca r e. i
HOW’S Til IS?
We offer One Hundred Dol
lars Reward for any case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cn e;ey & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the 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. I’rice 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Hail’s Family Pills are the
est b
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Coke cheaper than
Coal- Can be used in
stoves for heating and
cooking purposes. No
smoke or soot. Clean
and economical. For
further particulars
see ROME GAS CO
PROFESSION!. CARDS
ATTORNEYS.
J, BRANHAM,
Law Office 200, E.st First reet.St,
CHAS W. UNDERWOOD
Attorney at Law, Berne*
Crcporaion Law Onlyr
"W. <T NEEL,
Attorney at law. Will practice In all f carte.
Special attention given to commercial la"w
and the examination of laud titles.
office in King building, Rome, Ga.
WALTER HARRIS.
Attorney at law and J. P. Otfice over F.
Kane & Co.’s.'
LIPSCOMB t WILLI MOII AM
Commercial Lawyer’.
Office in Armstrong hotel buildi :g, Rome, Ga
MS EUBAN XS,
Atterney at law. Office King Building,
Rome, <>a.
W. M. ENNIS,
Attorney at Law. .Will Practice in all courts
Office, Masonic Temple, Rome, Ga,
J SANTA CRWF O < .
Attorney’ at law, Rome, Ga. Collection.’ a
specialty.
Masonic Temple. Rome, Go.
MOS S W RIGHT. HaRI’EH HAMILTON
WRIGHT & HAMILTON
Attorneys at Law.
Otlice:No. 14 Postoffice Building
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Dc.N i IS 1 S.
J. A. WILLS, D. D. 5.,
Office 24C- 1-3 Broad. X Over cai trell & Ower
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J. L PENNIMTON. D D S..M D.
ENTIST’
Office, 305 1-2 Broad street. Over Hanks Fur
uiture Co.
physicians.
o Hamilton, m id.
Physician and Surgeon Office, Medical I
Building Rome, Ga. Ou ce ’phone No. 62.
lu- F. HAMMOND, M. E)., ,
Physician and Surgeon, Office In Medlca g
building. Residence, No. 403 West First st I
ce”ptmN >. 6
TONSORAL PARLORsjj
—_
LEWIS BARRETT,
The 'Old Reliable,” operating the Centr
hotel Barber Shop, Invites yoiu togive biau
trial, and promises to do the rest. Only skilled
men employed on the chairs.
HOWELL C. TAYLOR,
H mself a skilled bail er, employs oi iy tber
very best artists in his tonsoral studio, in the
vurry Building, opposite the Armstrang. Hera i
'on aie made comfortable while your work la,
being done.
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PASTEUR FILTERM
The cnlr Gera®
Pre of Filter in the
Makes water
pare ' and fc*
sale by The Han sou
Supply Co
——
Successful Physicians.
W« heartily recommend Dr. Hathaway A Co.
at 8 Broad St., Atlanta, Cm., as being per
fectly reliable and remarkably euccearfo] 1» 1h»
hteatment of chronic dißoasssof men and «•««.
Tiny cure when others fail. Oa» reusdars if in.
need of medical half <iould certainly writ®
eminent doctors and you will re«<iivo a trap
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