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PHIL G. BYRD,
E*ITOR AND MANAGER.
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Cough drops are in demand.
No, Jane, dear, songs with
out words are not written in
blank verse.
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Kaiser Bill beheld Spain’s
open arms, but curtly replisd:
••No, thanky I”
The First Georgia boys are
bow at home, and all but the of
ficers are right glad of it.
There has been nine hold-ups
in Birmingham in nine days.
Think of that my countrymen I
The middle-of-the-roaders got
atuck in the mud—all but Bar
ton Wharker and he is a ridia’.
Dry goods merchants of Rome
may not be superstitious, but
many of them believe in “at
cost" signs.
The truth hurts—some people,
while others go right along and
•at three meals a day, and still
relish free lunch.
Over fifteen hundred applica
tion* for pensions have already
been filed, from volunteers in
the late Spanish war.
Nort Alabama is said to haye
more killing hogs in her pigger
ita this year than she has had
•ince the winter of 1861.
In this talk of Anglo-Saxon
alliance it would seem that the
♦•Blarsted Britishers’’ have for
gotten the Venezuelan incident.
As Americans understand it,
Old Man Li’s Yellow River
Commission is equivalent to a
voyage up Salt river.—Nash
ville American.
Abcut the only food for re
jection that some women get,is
from the looking glass—and
they are most intemperate in
their indulgence.
Spain has no pawn ticket on
the Philippines, and yet Uncle
Bam is letting the Spaniard
work his gold brick racket on
the United States.
If Li Hung Chang succeeds
in damming the Yellow river,
be can make an engagement
with Rome for the purpose of
damming our own tawny Eto
wah.
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The chrysanthemum should
be adopted by the expansionists
aa their national flower. There’s
as much scents in it as there is
sense in their blooming fool
ideas.
Lieut. Hobson is writing a
book. If Dick survives this “rash
folly" his claims to heroship
will have circled the sphere of
Hazard and been safely dry
docked in the harbor of Fame.
“Truely there is warmth in
poetic fire,” soliloquized the
editor, as he fed the wavering
blaze in the office stove with a
consignment of spring poetry.
The poet had already been fired.
The British lion has been
itahiog his tail around quite
lively lately, but up Io the hour
»es sjoing to press none of the
European nations was shewing
•oy iiclination to tie a knot init
A Handbill circulated by an
amateur dramatic society , of
I San Jaun del Porto Rico, con
tains the following astonishing
announcement
To the public: Again comes
‘•Gira Artistica Juvenil,” to
proportion the greatest watch
fulness to the gallant public of
this capital being pleased by the
good reception of the inferior
times, gladly to offer new spec
tacles lyricals dramaticala.
The “scholar” who indicted
the above must have been the
language artist who interpreted
Uncle Sam’s protocol—hence
these rumors of war.
The three most advanced na
tions of the world, not includ
ing the United States, spend $4
on military preparations to ev
ery $1 spent for educational
purposes. And here is the Geor
gia legislature representing
about 2,000,000, peopele and
a billion dollars worth of proper
ty (counting the stuff the tax
dodger has tied out) and want
ing to vote a million dollars to
public schools and not even a
few paltry thousands to re-es
tablishing the state militia,
which one “Brigadier. Bill” has
nearly destroyed and totally
disgusted.
As the situation in Cuba
grows clearer to official eyes the
gorgeous overestimate of three
Federal army corps for garrison
duty on the island becomes glar
ingly apparent. One army corps
will probably be sufficient for
all purposes of Federal military
occupation in Cuba after Span
ish evacuation shall have been
completed, and not a single
American volunteer should be
sent there in excess of the low
est possible limit of the force
required for garrison duty.
The Hustler Commercial is
not a State University man,that
is to say, not nearer than Dah
lonega; but we are eternally op
posed to clouded-brained politi
cians, posing as statesmen and
crippling that noble institution.
Let the University be fostered as
one of Georgia’s most precious
assets.
Rudyard Kipling is said to
have refused twice within one
year, an offer from a newspa
per of SI,OOO for 1,000 words.
The regular price received by
him for long stories is now about
$l5O per thousand words, while
his short stories are paid for at
the rate of from $2,000 to $5,000
South Georgia will raise the
hog and hominy and the sweet
ening and will swap with North
Georgia for flour.—Waycross
Herald.
Os course the flour of the state
will come from the garden-spot.
You never hear of North Geor
gia workingj'agin the grain.”
Penning the chaff, it takes the
North Georgian to beard the
wheat when it stalks forth and
heads his way ; and, while it
may be as shocking as binding,
its the straw that indicates the
direction es the winds of pros
perity.
Emperor William is said to
be having a handsome cane
made for the Sultan of Turkey.
1 his is perhaps meant to remind
the sultan that Bill proposes to
raise cain later—when clubs are
trumps.
Rome’s water supply has.bee
reasonably clear for several
months, though the river has
been muddy most of the time.
Gentlemen of the ccmmission
we congratulate you on your
secret.
While some of the election
p phots are without honor—
anywhere—some of their fool
followers are without money
ditto.
Cubans say they do not want
auy negroes from the United
States or any where else, as
they are already long on
“coons” and short on fowls.
The abbreviation fiends will pro
bably write the year after next ’OO.
\Ve have noticed that the people
who abbreviate the most, have
more spare tune than anybody.
It is charged by the prohibi
tionists in Macou that ail the
available living material being
exhausted, the liquor men have
registered negroes under the
names of dead men, • and men
who never were..
Vice President Hobart is
doubtless feeling less secure
theae days than he has felt since
he was elected. Quite a number
of mature gentlemen who desire
committee chairmanships in the
•enate are assuring him by mail
of their most distinguished con
sideration.
The news that a Kansas cler
gyman is organizing a negro
colony for Cuba has created a
resentful foiling among the Cu
bans, the negroes of the island
being even more bitter than the
whites in denunciation of the
movement. The Cuban “coon”
says that he loves a Spanisher
better than a blue-black-Yankee*
pig-coo a. Let the race war and
the heathen rage
Gov. Johnson, of Alabama,
in an autograph letter to the
New York Herald, published in
facimile, declares that “any at
tempt to subject Southern peo
pie to negro domination wi'l
eni in revolution.” Let the gov
ernor remember that “a stitch
in t'me saves nine,” and prompt
ly kill off the infamous white
men, who for selfish ends, lead
the negroes into trouble.
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If. Spain should fall to pieces
France would be a legitimate
picker-up of the fragments. The
Iberian peninsular is geograph
ically a French attachment,
though there is but little at
trehment between the fickle
French and the treacherous
Spaniard. As to Portugal, that
wee remnant of an ancient pow
er would continue as “the reM
thing,” as the only country lit
erally located “between the dev
il and the deep blue sea.”
«A Tandem.
hat woman in
he wide world
d not be glad
ea tandem for
hnppy, healthy,
ling babies ?
>Vhen Nature
hispers the
reet assurance
n a woman’s
:ar that soon a
little stranger
will come to
caress with
baby fingers
Iter cheek and neck, she makes the fondest
preparations for its arrival. Everything
that a woman’s dainty taste can imagine
is provided for the new-comer's wardrobe.
Nothing is overlooked save one thing, and
that one thing is the most important. Too
many mothers forget that bany’s strength
and health, its ability to withstand the
usual ailments of childhood, and its vigor
and welfare, as a man or woman, are de
pendent upon her own health and physical
condition during the period of prospective
maternity. If, during that critical time,
she is weak, sickly, nervous and despond
ent, because of troubles peculiar to her
sea, these conditions are bound to have
their influence upon her baby’s health.
Neglect of these conditions invariably
means that baby will be weak, puny and
peevish Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
Is an unfailing cure for all troubles of this
nature, and it will reinforce a woman's
bodily and nerve strength so that she can
safely undergo the trials of maternity. It
gives health, strength, vigor, elasticity and
endurance to the organs specially con
cerned in motherhood. It gives bodily
•nd nervous hardihood to the child.
"After using fifteen bottles of your Favorite
Frescriptiou ’ anil a few vials of your ' Pleasant
Pellets,’ I ani entirely cured of uterine trouble.
I had suffered for nearly three years,” writes
Mrs. V. W, Fogel, of 373 Highland Ave,, Newark,
N. J. “I had such terrible bearing down pains
that I could hardly walk. My back and head
Sched, had tgrrible t lamp* in my lug*, was very
nervous at times, and felt ■iGergble With my
first child I had to be chloroformed and the
Child was delivered with I took
the * Favorite Prescription • with my second
child, and instead of suffering for two day*. I
was in labor only an hour and a beautifiil ebild
was born I was able to lenve n»y bed the fifth
day. I commenced yotlr medicine about four
months before confinement My baby Is three
months old now and ia a fine, tag, fat baby I
am in very good health ; have no more pains or
•Ches. I would be pleased to advise any woman
who sutlers as I did to use your medicine.”
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Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum.
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
ROYAL SAKINS KOWOSR 00., NEW YORK.
SENSIBLE ADVICE.
“The white people,” says the
Charlitte Observer, “having re
gained the state, will treat the
black people with perfect jus
tice ; and the Democratic party
having profited Tuesday by the
help of many Populists and Re
publicans, will, if it is wise, be
bo conservative and conciliatory
that these voters can never get
away from it.
“They ought to be made to
feel entirely at home and under
stand that they are on the same
basis with all those with whom
they’ voted this week. It is a
time for amnesty for all except
a few who can be numbered on
the fingers of one hand.”
WHY THIS THUSNESS?
The dispatches of a day show :
Lst. A criminal assault made
by a negro brute upon a white
girl in the suburbs of Madison
ville, Ohio, an aristocratic su
burb of Cincinnati.
2nd. The protest of negroes in
New York.
3rd. A clash between union
miners and negro laborers at
Pana, I 1., in which several
hundred >lk»!,s were fired.
4tii. 1 hi-g o crument likely to
interfere in the Tolbert case in
South Carolina.
If a negro forgets his place
and gets into trouble in the
south the president and half of
northerndom promptly goes into
duck-fits, spasms and canip
tions • while in the north the
negro is cuffed about, not per
mitted to labor by the side of
white men, and is shot under
the direction of the governors of
states.
Again we ask, why this thus
ness?
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COST OF THE WAR.
_
The treasury statements cov
ering the mouth of October sup
ply the basis for an estimate of
the cost of the war with Spain.
Up to date this amounts $l5O,
000,000, and expert opinion
fixes the expense for the remain
ing eight months of the fiscal
year at $80,000,000, thus making
the outlay $240,000,000.
To meet this the government
has the $200,000,000 derived
from tne sale of bonds and the
proceeds of the extra war taxes,
which for the fiscal year to the
end of next June are estimated
at $125,000,000, making a total
war fund $325,000,000. Unless
these taxas are modified by con
gress there will therefore ba on
the Ist of July a surplus of $85,-
000,000 above the amount aotu-1
ally expended in the coaduct of
the war.—N. Y. Herald.
I
J". 1 JU.I! j
Patrick 8. White, the unsuc
cessful democratic candidate for
a New York state senatorship
says in his statement of cam
paign expenses that out of the
$l2B which he spent, S6O went
in renewing old' acquaintances
and S2O in making new cues,
while the remaining S4B went for
hotel bills, wagon hire and pott
age.
It is SDDouncfd that hereafter’
the Greeks intend to exclude all
bachelors from their parliament,
Th* idea seems to be that the
bachelor hrs no st ike m the com
monwealth, and no right to sit m
the parliament as a legislator, for
hhnm dce« he represent exc pt
h i ni self?
If Mr. McKinley wants to
undo all ho has done toward
wiping out sectional lines, he
has only tn espouse the cause of
the offensive •>< gro *s and scala
wags who have been fired out
of the Carolinas.—Memphis
Sc mitar.
Lydia Pinkham, who for a
generation has appeared in the
public prints as a comely dowa
| ger of some 45 or 50 years, now
comes out in low ueck and be
| trained gown looking to be only
about 25. Lydia seems
to have prescribed for Time and
j been rewarded by’ a renewal of
| her youth.
The daily editors of the state
failed to look with favor on that
eight column interview “Briga
dier Bill’’had his typewriter
take down, the proof-sheets of
which were sent out by the At
i lanta Journal.“ Brigadier Bill’s”
political prospects have gone
! like Ward’s dux.
We see no reason why self
respecting white men of the
South should go into duck-fits
over a visit from McKinley,
Hanna’s agent in the White
House. True, he has given the
South a few negro officials—oh,
well, you fellows who are fond
of such, just dive in, you are
welcome to your share.
The special .taxation bill of
Gov. Smith of Vermont, has
passed the lower house of th
Vermont legislature. It empowe
ers a Boaid of Tax Examiners
to make, with non-residents who
; will rule the state and live there,
an agreement as to t ixes for a
period of not to exceed thirty
years The measure is designed
to induce men of wealth to go
to \ ermont under an assurance
that their taxes will not exceed
a specified amount during a spe
[cified time
The private soldiers and non
commissioned officers and nurs
es who have been asked t > testi
j fy before tlue War Investigating
Commission in regard to affairs
at Camp Wikoff present in de
tail the facts of official neglect,
incapacity and stupidity with
which the country has become
familiar through the newspaper
reports from Mon tank Point.
1 heir stories are widely differ
ent from those of high army’ of
ficials which were given to the
Commission at the outset of its
inquiries, in the belief,no doubt,
that the record of malfeasance
could be suppressed But there
was too much of it to be disoos
ed of in this way, and the Com
mission now seems a& clearly
inclined to welcome the truth as
it was anxious at one time for
its suppression. The election is
over.
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Hood’s Pills are prompt and
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1 hanl.sgiving delicacies in
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Also fat Turkeys, fancy bleach
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tilings appropriate to the occa
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,©.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken
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the blood and mucous surfaces
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PfiOfESSUNIL UM!
ATTORNEYS.
J. BRANHAM,
Uw Office 200, East First rc«t;Bt,
CHAS W. UNDERWOOD
Artornay at Law, Koma*
Crcporaion T.aw Onlyr
•W. J. NEBIJJ
Attorney at law. Will practice in all ocuru.
Special attention given ,to commercial lair
and the examination es laud titled.
office In King buildtug. Rome, Ga.
WALTER HARRIS
Attorney at law and J. P. Office over F. J.
Kane & Co. *B.
LIPSCOMB <Sr .WILLI NOH AM
Commercial Lawyers.
Office in Armstrong hotel building, Rome, Os
M E BUBANKB,
Atterney at law. OfficeKing Building.
Rome, ba.
W H. ENNIS,
Attorney at Law. .Will Practice in all conns
Office, Masonic Temple, Rome, Ga.
J. SANTA CRWF D < i
Attorney at law, Rome. Ga. Collections »
specialty. f
Masonic Temple. Rome, Go.
MOSES V RIGHT. HARPERHAMILTON
WRIGHT & HAMILTON
Attorneys at Law.
Office:No. 14 Postoffice Building
CHARLES E. DAVIS
—ATTORNEY aT LAW-
Ccllectiou a special-y. W ill practice is all
oouits. ,
Masot'ic Temple A u,,#x . Bi me, Ga
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ENTIBT-
Office, 306 1-3 Broad street. Over Hanks Fur
niture Co.
PHYSiOANS.
O. HAMILTO W. M D-
Physician and Surgeon Offics, Meffii* ll
Buildlug Rome, Ga. On ce ’phone No.
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lu. B. HAMMOND. I£> O’
Physician and Surgeon, Office tn Mediea
building. Residence, No. 403 West First st
cel'phoNo. 8
TONSORAL PARLORS;
LEWIS BARRETT,
The ‘Old Reliable," operating the Cenß
hotel Barber Shop, Invites you to give
trial, aud promises to do the rest. Only akiile*
men employed ou the cbaire.
HOWELL C. TAYLOR,
Himself a skilled barber, employs only
very best artists in his tonsoral studio,
Curry Building, opposite the Armstrang.
you are made comfortable while your work
being doi.e.
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