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THE HUSTLER OF ROME
Established. IMO.
—HE ROME COMMERCIAL
EsUblirted, IM6.
I»uei every 'evccirg. except Satuitlay.
jSundav and weekly.
V- . . .
PHIL G. BYRD.
.1 k 11. b MANZ Gs R.
A jjlt —? gw
“Hang up the baby’® stock
ing”- _ ~
The Knigktly Bryan is not
an Imperialist.
If you can’t be merry, be as
jrerry as you caw.
'j he bunting weavers owe
D nc li to Mi Ivin ley.
The pope will appoint nine
new cardinals next March.
.'■im’iii mi i— ■irtßii’"
The man who waves the bloody
shirt has retird from public lile.
_y*' —TMMF
Over one million people visit
ed the British Museum last
y oar.
A few more days and then Old
Santa Claus will i ush his stock
in-trade.
The Christmas tree like the
Santa Claus business, is branch
ing out.
A monument of Washington
in Westminster Abbey is the
latest suggestion.
Mr. McKinley is more in love
than ever with “Marching
through Georgia.”
The fellow vs ho coots his
trumpet these mornings believes
in blowing a fog horn.
Japan, the yankee of th.
Orient,.wants to join ths Anglo
alliance of the Occident.
Just now the merchant who
has been stocking upon mistle- !
toe is doing a shoe thing busi
ness.
Tifton had a hot time in the |
old town —She will rebuild her;
burned districts, however, and
at once.
'"PI 1 'i II B
The deacons of the First Bap
tist church of Macon are against
politics in the church—and they
are right.
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Nothing has yet been said by
the president about putting the
old Confeds., on the national
pension rells.
The war investigators will
have to whitewash Brother Ab
ner, also Uncle $ Mark Hanna’s
cyclone pit doer.
Oh, no, Jane, dear, the de
parted was not the chief force of
the police so much as he was
the chief of police,
Think of Uncle Sam’s little
Cubans, Small Porto Ricans and
wee Filipinos who ha* e no
stockings to hang up !
The dust of Columbus will
not be so enthusiastically wel
comed as well be the $20,000,-
000 of Uncle Saiu s dust.
The fellow who wants bis food
well done don’t waz:t his shirts
done up brown—deither does he
want them done up rare.
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In capturing tilings from the
enemv it is better to take islands
than ships—the former do not
sink.—Americus Recorder.
“Wonders will never cease. I
just saw a stone walk .” “Pooh !
That’s nothing. I have often
seen a brick building. ”—Phila
delphia Times.
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Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDFR CO., NCW YORK
THE OLD SCALI
The action •!' the Southern
Railway Company in ordering
in restoration of the old scale of
«a*er is a gratifying incident
’ of the times.
In a city so largely made up
of those who make their living
in conne tion with railroad
[work, the interest of that class
becomes an absorbing out.
i When railio; d wages are cut
d iwn the effect is felt at once
all over the city. The Constitu
tion is gratified to learn that
the Southern railway is in a
condition to order a restoration
|of wages. The effect of this is
not to be measured so much by
the amount of the raise as by
l the inspiration it will give the
men to feel that they are once
again on the ascending scale .
• ood wages to employees is one
of the strongest foundations of
a city’s prosperity. All that
they get keeps in circulation—
to the landlord, to the butcher,
to the grocer and to the cloth
ier ;so that when wages are
raised it is something the good
effect of which is by no means
confined to those who are the
beneficiaries, but goes out t®
have its influense in the general
buildiag up of better conditions.
The employees of the So., R’y
Co., in this city are an excellent
class of m»n, high toned, indui
trious and worthy, just such
men as m kc up an irrisistible
C 'i-.o nrv ; nd we rejoice in
their goal fortune. —Constitu-
tion.
T s all nations were as indiffer
ent to the growth or decline of
their shipping ia the foreign
trade as the tinted States are,
then our humiliating position
oi th i seas might ba laid to the
door of the peapie themselves—
but individual effort cannot
equal national effort.
; This talk abmt thw Federal
government caring for Confed
erate graves, sounds consoling
to the 4 eent cotton farmers of
the South who ind themselves
taxed millions of dollars annual
ly to pay Federal pensioners.
'BBBBBMHBBKHK*
The Spaniards assert that
i Americans blew up the Maine,
which proves that they handle
the truth as recklessly as they
ido human life. An assassin is
always a liar.—Dublin Courier.
Editor Stanley cowies by to
observe that: “Some folks are
continually fussing about having
to pay so much tax. FFo are ter
ribly concerned because we have
nothing worth taxing.”
Bailey, in going up agin’
Flighting Joe W heeler and pub
lic opinion, invites the fate of
the bull that disputed the right
of way of the railroad locomo
tive.
~.-ri. \ • p'lnnwirrTiTimi'
ABOUT CATARRH.
It is caused by colds or suc
cession of voids, combined with
impure blood, its symptoms are
paist in the head, diseaarj*
from the no-e, ringing anises in
the ears. It is cured by Rood’s
Sarsaparilla which purities and
enriches the blood, soothws and
rebuilds the tissues aael relieves
all the disagreeable sensations.
Heed’s Fills cure all liver ills.
Mailed for 25c. C. I. Hood A
Co., Lowell, Mass.
“Paraphrasing Lincoln’s dec
laration, I may add that this na
tion cannot endure half republic
land half colony—half free and
■half vassal. Our form of gov
ernment, our traditions, our
[present interests and our future
' welfare all forbid our entering
upon a career of conquest.”—
j Wm. J. Bevan.
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I Any sensible man who steers
clear of the line of demagogy is
(compelled to admit that, with a
large d< licit in the finances of
the state and rigid economy a
necessity, it would be perfectly
just and timely to provide that
pensions bp paid only to ‘he
needy veterans and the sch» >1
fund allowed only to give chil
dren the advantages of an ele-j
meutary education. Os course!
there is a sacred duty to perform
in dealing with these two ap
propriations, but that duty does
not call for extravagance in the
face of a deficit and with taxes
already burdensome. When leg
islators rise above demagogy
and stop playing to the grand
stand, then we may expect
some economic legislation on
the right line.—Jonesboro En
terprise.
Sir Arthur Sullivan as a choir
buy is an interesting subject in
“The Chorister’s Christmas”
published in the December issue
of “The National Magazine ”
The author, Mr. L.thee, who[
was a student at St. Mich
eal’s where Sir Arthur sang
Christmas carols, gives an inter
esting account of how choir boys
enjoyed the Christmas festival
season m years past. “The Na
tional Magazine” makes every
page in'eri sting. ___
That was all sensational
enough, the proposition of Pres
ident McKinley io have the
graves of our fallen brave cared
fcr, bur, if our dead deserve this
recognition from the federal
government, are n t our battle
scarred and maimed old heroes
entitled to pension money? Why
the distinction, Mr. President?
M. Henri Lavedan was taken
and M. Zola was left, in the
election to the vacant seat in
French Academy. This in
stitution fieems to have
fallen into the bands of small
fry, and men of genius must re
main on the outside.
FROM OFHER SANCTUMS
It must be rather embarrass
ing to a Utah politician t> have
bis wiv<.s got to do bating ovar
which of them made him the
man he is today. Washington
Post.
Mr. Carnegie manifestly bi
lievts that the country s' ou'd
stay at home and attend to its
infant industries. —lndianapo
lis News. |
Admiral von Diederieh will
never consider that the Philip
pine door is open until Dewey
gets cut of the way.—Nashville
' American.
Everyone occasionally yields
to the temptation to give more
than he can afford in order to •
I >
be known as a lovely character,'
—Atchison Globe.
i
j There is absolutely nothing'
jto restrain young Mr. Bailey*
from organizing a party com
posed of one individual.— De
troit Journal.
Candidates for the post of
minister to Spain will now be- |
gin to cumber the front perch
with their overshoes. —Pittsburg
i
! T im s.
United States senate's were
once above suspicion, but a lew
of th 3 latter day ones will be in ;
luck if they can k *ep out of the i
penitentiary. —Coiumbus En-[
[ quirer Sun.
Gm. Calixto Garcia, who
died in Washington yesterday, ■
was probably the most honest
and zealous of the Cuban insur
gent leaders.—Memphis Scimi
tar.
It is nearly time for the legis '
lators to return to their homes
and show their constituents
how they have saved the state.
—Valdosta Times.
In “The Seven Seas” Kipling
writes quatrains to many cities
of the British empire; but there
is o le which done not appear in
the American edition of the
b i k. It is as follows :
Quibec.
I F «ih 'hy gr iv ucarp I view with s ornful ey»»
Ignob » broil* of freedom'mott unfree;
I Fe»r n«ih n r. uioihjr; where the carriou lies
'I lu.c ulc eau feud mast be.
Commenting on the omission
of this quatrain from the Amer
ican edition the New York Com
mercial Advertiser remarks:
“Give Mr. Kipling his say,
good master publisher I He
can’t hurt us unless he hits us
with truth, and then he may
help to cure us.”'
- The estimate that our treasury
di fieit in tho current fiscal year
will be $112,000,000 is based on
tne condition of things as they
are now If w« are obliged to
discipline, police and otherwise
c re for a. number of new and
j savage possessions, it may well
!be a great <eal hkh?, and we,
die people oft: e United States,
must. pay it.— Philadelphia
Ledger.
If the Federal prison to be
erected tn Atlanta is built of
marble, we suggest as an appro
priate name the Living Stone.—
Dublin Courier.
FSQRBOVVED SPARKLERS.
1 ~
The sweet y»ung thing : ‘ But
. why sb uld not women enter
I politic-? ’ The savage bachelor :
“ l oo many bosses there now .”
lndianapolis Journal.
“You look dreadfully batter
ed ; how is that?” “Wife has
been pelting me wiih flowers,”
hy, that wouldn’t mark you
in that fashion ” —Loudon Judy.
Mistress (angrily) ; “See,
Bridget, 1 can writ* my name
in the dust on thi« mantel
piece.” Bridget (admiring!) ) :
“There’s nothin’ eddieation, af
terall, is there, mu-Rox
bury G< ziitte.
Mr. Hayseed (arriving at city
hotel) : “I s’pos* I kin hear the
gong when it rings for dinner,
can’t I?” CJark : “W« have no
gong, \fe have breakfast from
fi to 11, dinner from 12 to 6,
• upper from 6 to 11.” Mr. Hay
seed : “Jehosaphat! How am 1
io get time to see the city?”
New Yo k Weekly.
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NATIVE TROOPS IN THE
TROPICS.
Gen. Miles’ suggestion that
75,000 men would suffice for
the present demands upon the ‘
regular army is coupled with
the plan of auxiliary force of ’
t ?i,000 men recruited in the
;ti epical countries now subject 1
| to military occupation.
i This is a new idea in our ser> '
' vice, but the present conditions
*alsoare aew, and General Miles’
plan will strike most people as
wiser than that urged b ■ Adju
tant General Corbin, wh.*. con
templates a regular
I 100,000 without these native
auxiliaries.
Spanish experience, as well
:as our own, shows Imw d inger
©us the climate of Cuba is to
foreign soldiers and that ot the
Philippines is even more so.
Moreover we are expecting to
encourage the Cubans, if not id-;
so the Filipinos, to learn to gov
era themseives, and if we can, 1
! teach them sound military meth
ods and discipline during the
time that they are imm ‘diately
under the protection of our ar
my.
j It is possible that the organi
zation of a native armv in the :
•/
I’hilippines, officered by Ameri
cans and dominated l>y an
American fore*', would go some
way toward the tolution of a
number of d'tt’cu’t problems
there.
lu Porto Rico it would seem
that such a force might beveiy
easily organized and something
of this kind will be very neces
sary in Cuba.
For the time being, of course,
a sufficient garrison of rtgular
American troops will have to be
maintained at each of the cen
ters of population in Cuba. Gen.
Miles estimates the force requir
ed at 25,C0, while the Evacua
tion Commissioners recommend
50,000.
In either case these men can
not be kept there indefinitely,
even if the sanitary condition of
the island be improved, and the
organization of a native force
that can gradually relieve them
is one of the most important
suggestions that tbe military
committees of Congress can take
into immediate consideration.
. Think of liv,
r- <■ in " a y ear
t A'" tWl ’ after one
S? /
iF to a " P ract ’ c al in-
_ || yY ' tentr ar.d purposes,—
fgWl, / d‘ -d. with tiw auto-
Ynuf ? nu> lt of death iu
/a v// svril, ' d 0,1 blow
women live for
(S' ( a - vt ar or two
IN\ Y ? fter a!1 help '
\\ W f u Ine s s , a " d
Limiiw ini? i 11 \ " a PP ,neKS have
ArL /// \ gone out of
N* / hI / I he ir lives.
\ I 1 When a woman
becomes hope
/Wz' lessly helpless
and unhappy
she is practic
ally dead. The young woman to whom
the future is a dreary waste, the your.g
wife who is a helpless, nervous invalid,
the mother whose babes are a burden in
stead of a blessing,—all these, unless they
take the right measures to recover their
health, are better dead than living. In'! j
majority of cases these ghosts of v.-vinei,
owe their condition to weaktr and dir,
ease of the distinctly semi iiue org.c ism
Frequently they have been deceived by
the incorrect diagnosis pf some obscure
physician und do not under, land tri>->
. nature of then trouble. It only costs a
I two-cept postage stamp for a woman to
wr l ' ■ and describe her condition to Dr,
R. V. Pierce, an eminent and kilful special
Ist, for thirty y< .. f cm . lilting phys
ician t-i th In.aiid-. 1. ... sn d Surgical
Jmtilute of Bu' alo. N. V. He ui’.l answer
let era from ai.ing wome n wi-h ’.it charge.
He is the divoverer of >,r Pierce’s Fa!
vorite Prescription, the greatest of all
knov.ll med incs for women. It acts
directly on the delicate organs concerned
in maternity and makes them strong,
healthy and vigorous, Il banishes the in!
dispositions of the anxious period and
make., baby’s coming easy and almost
painless, ft cures al! disorders and dis
placements '.nd checks exhausting drains,
"Previous to motherlr. . I mv w'..ewns very
•lek." writes Dennis H Cour "y bis,., of clear
Water, \v right Co.. Minn i'w<* L'.ttles of Dr
Pierce’s 1 avorite Pre,, riplimt made he; wed
and strong,"
Dr. Pierce’s Peasant Pellets cure bib
lousness and m. One a dose.
They never gr per
UH HIS I'M A HOLIDAY EX
U lISIoN RATES VIA SO.R’Y
For Christmas holidays, the
So them railway will soli tick.
•3tr mi point-, on its lines to
points Ik st of tho Mi s-issippi
and South of tho Ohio and Poto
imo rivers at, rate of one and
one third fares for the round
trip. 'Pickets will be sold Dec
22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, al-.o I) c
30th, 31st and Jan. Ist, and 2nd
with final limit to return Jan
4th. 1899.
I his will give every one : n
excellent opportunity of spend- 1
ing Christmas holidays with
their friends and relations.
lor further L information c;11
on Railway Ticket
Agent.
—■ mi ■ .i nu
r
Successful ’’hysicians.
»T’»?. H-'.Uw v-ay « Co
‘f J-4 H Broad St., Atlanta. Ga., as heir,j uer
raeUy reliaole and remarkabb < .■<•<*»>■ iu.l in tiw
treat meni of chronic disease* of luenand women.
1 tier oure whan others fail. Our if in
of medical help should certairly write <
tne®e eminent doctor* and you will receive a free 1
and exp<,rt opinion of your case by return mail
without coat*
HOW’S Tins?
We offer One Hundred Doi
Jure Reward for any '
Caurrl. ,l.n t cannot be ?
Hall s Catarrh Cure.
F. J.CIIKVKY& co.’, Tided., 0
Jhe undersigned, have
known F. J. Cheney fortl le i ait
jL) years, and believe hi ni .
financially able to carry out a H v
obligation made by their H I rn<
West & Truax, Wholesale Dry*,
gists, Toledo, O. 5
Walding, Kinnan <t Marvii
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, ♦
Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken
[internally, acting directly up(Ml
the blood and mucous surfa*«g
of the system. Testimonials sent
freo. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Hall’s Family Pi]] s ar . tl|
est b
Coke cheaper than
Coal- Can bs used in i
stoves for heating and
cooking purposes. No
smoke or scot. Clean
and economical. For
fur ih at particulars
see ROME GAS CO
psuftssiomrS
ATTORNEYS.
J. BRANHAM,
I.aw Office 200, East Firstreet St,
CHAS W. UNDERA/OOD
Artornay at Law, Riuiu'
Crcporaion J.aw Oulyr
■W. J. NHJKL
Attorney at law. Will practice in allwurts, I
Special attention given to commercial Hw ■
arid the examieation ct land titles. I
office in King building. Hon.., Ga. |
'W'MLUTHJR. HARRIS
Attorney at law and J. P. Office overF
Kane & Co. 's. I
LIHSW.'OMB <3r 'WI Ll.i XGH AM I
Commercial Lawyers. a
Office in Armstrong hotel ’milding, Route, Gal
M. B EUBANKS,
Atterney at law. OfficeKing Building.
Home, <.a. 1
W H. ENNIS,
Attorney at Law Will Practice in all eourts]
< 'flice, Masonic ’female, Rome, Ga j
J Sjft.KJ-'I’A, CRV7F QI a I
-Attorney at law, Rome, Ga. Collertiens 11
speclelty. ■
Masonic Temple. Rome. Go. I
MOauS RIGHT. HAHFEK HAMU IOnB
wright <t Hamilton]
Attorneys at Law. I
Oflice:No. 14 Postollice bimdiiigß
CHARLES E. DAVIS
—ATTORNEY AT ’ AW - ■
('< lle.-tioil a sjicial.y. Vnl practice in alfl
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DENTISTS. ■
J. A. WILLS, b-D-S-' I
Offlec 241. 1-y Uroad. » Over Cantrell i ■
J. I. PENNINGTON. D D S,MD|
KNTieT- B
uffice. K’s 1-s uroad street. Over Hanks
mure Co.
PHYSICIANS. fl
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Physician uni Surgeon Office.
llulldlng Rome, Ga. O.: ce ’phone ' B
la F*. M
Physician and Surgeon, Office m
building. Residence, No. 4U3 rtest ' B
TON SO RAI- PARLONS!
LEWIS BARRETT. B
The Old it' liable.” operating the
hotel Barbershop, Invites you to giv*
mai, and promises to do the rest. Onb * ■
liieo employed on tbe chairs.
HOWELL C. TAYLOR, ■
Himself a skilled barber, enl| ’ 1O ' VS ?’ | ik«
very best artists in his tonsoral stu ' •
curry Building, opposite the Ar " is I tlß
you are made comfortable while your M
being done. M
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