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HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL ERUSTLEFICFR CME Established, IHVD. ROME COMMERCIAL Established, 1835. •c«d evsry evening, except Satmday. Sunday and weekly. —w ■<■ —J*-—**— ■ ■ ‘ '*■ ——*—- PHIL G. BYRD, E*ITOR AND MANAGER. ■WBWT!?.! • . 1 -J... ' - Cough drops are in demand. No, Jane, dear, songs with out words are not written in blank verse. j . . 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. I 3SI ... '. 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. 1 I l 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.” Baking Powder 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? ■■ ■■ ■_ 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. 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Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting d|rectly U pe a the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent freo. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall’s Family Pills are the est.b '■—■ 1— ■ _ Coke ohepper than Coal- Can be used in stoves for heating and cooking purposes. No smoke or soot. Clean and economical. For further particulars see NOME G»AS CO 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. 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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. « PASTEUR FILTERS The cnl> Germ Proof Filter in tk® TV orld. Makes "water pure and clear so sale by The Hanson Supply Co