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ttflQs W™ mt >MED 1888 |A/| \ I” I itverv Saturday by f fX PUBLISH,N(i COMPANY » fRICR, Editor . pCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE! W . ONE YEAR SI.OO SIX MONTHS 50 THREE MONTHS .25 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COFFEE COUNTY AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. SEASON FOR SQUIRRELS. This is the open season for cat squirrels. It is against the law to shoot fox squirrels at any time of the year previous to 1918. In order that you may be posted on the game law, cut this out and keep it. Then you won’t have to ask somebody when the season opens or closes: Section 18 of the Georgia game laws pro vides that “any person who shall hunt without first obtaining a license, except on his own land or in his own mititia district, or who lends or transfers his license to another, or who shall hunt upon the lands of another without first having obtained his consent to do so, except persons following hounds in pursuit of foxes or deer or any other animals not mentioned in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” 0 Germany is said to be fighting on short rations. Rut she does not appear to be doing any short shooting. 0 Rumors of war on one side and the snarling, snapping Mexicans on the other puts the Unit ed States between two cross fires. 0 Wonder if the code tinkerers will be allowed to get in any of their work if there should be an extra session of the legislature? 0 The old time darky used to count one pound of ginned cotton good for a pound of bacon. Now it takes two pounds to buy the bacon. 0 The war news from the east is just the same as yesterday. Both sides giving the oth er thunder, and the German submarines very busy. 0 The Cobb county coroner's jury in the Ank case says: “Deceased came to his death V. B>arties unknown.” And the verdict is ac- Hpßd as true. 0 («Bic Columbus Inquirer-Sun man says the girl in Georgia lives in that town. another one of his slanders; she lives 1 ' and we all know her at sight. lip 1 V 0 HHHwus found, on examination, that people |f§S|lW>b county knew no more about the Frank |U||®ng. which occurred there, than any other the state. Some of them, in fact. surprised to hear about the sad affair. o Bfhe Hazlehurst News has bought out the IHrazlehurst Enterprise, which began publication Pi few months ago, by Col. and Mrs. Grant. This is another instance in which it is proven that two papers cannot exist in a one-paper town. 0 The Albany Herald says here is a mean fling from the New York Evening post, but it can not be denied that there is some basis for it: “Georgia is competent to manage her own affairs except when she wants the Federal Gov ernment to sell her cotton for her.” km . i. —o V It is rurrfored that Germany wants to buy Mhe southern cotton crop, store it and use it jßfter the war is over. The cash talks, and if will give ten cents per pound she can the whole business, and we’ll all sing 88wir der Kiser, und long time may he lit!” V o V Now and then some fire-eater rises to re- Inark that if this country and Germany should rget into a war he would enlist at once if not 'sooner. It will be remembered that some said something like that in 1861, and when the pinch of time came they were living in the Okefenokee Swamp. 0 Macon has been trying for a long time to make herself a seaport town, through connec tion by the Ocmulgee river with Brunswick. An improved steel barge with gasoline engines of the latest model has been equipped and made a successful trial trip to Brunswick, but with Mjeavy load and the unusual stage of low water |H»e river, the return has been difficult. THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GA„ AUGUST 281 H.. ISIS. OUTSIDE MEDDLING PHARISEES. Georgians who are temporarily in the North, some of our Yankee acquaintances, and still others whom we do not know, are sending us numerous marked copies of Northern publica tions in which Georgia and Georgians are de nounced and reviled in the severest terms over the lynching of Leo M. Frank, says the Albany Herald. It is pretty tough the way some of the Northern newspapers denounce us as savages. In two different papers that come from Mas sarhusetts the suggestion is made that some of the money and missionaries whihh the “Chris tian people” of the holy North are sending to heathens in foreign lands far away be diverted to Georgia! We are sorely tempted here and now to say something that might make the Puritans and Pharisees “Up North” raise their hands and sepulchral voices in holy horror, but, great as the strain is, there is still grace sufficient to sustain a forbearance that is closely allied with the sort of fortitude that is acquired in the school of old-time religion. It is useless to try to reason with such people, and to rail at them would be to make oneself ridiculous. Outside protests and outside meddling have done more than anything else to stir up the bad blood that has finally asserted itself in the lynching of Frank. The irritation and bad feeling which followed the commutation of the death sentence were largely due to the cam paign which outsiders had made to set aside the verdict of the courts. Our Northern critics who are now hurling such epithets as “murderers,” “savages,” etc., indiscriminately at Georgia overlook the fact that with only two or three exceptions the news papers of Georgia have not only denounced the lynching of Frank in the severest terms, but have demanded that the duly constituted au thorities of the state exercise every diligence in apprehending the members of the mob and bring them to a just punishment. This latter, with the Governor of the state taking the ini tiative, is being undertaken, and the more med dling and aggravating criticism there is from outside sources, more particularly from the sectional press of the North, the greater the difficulty in handling the situation. THE TAX RATE IN GEORGIA. The magnificent increases shown in the di gest of Chatham and Floyd counties—consider ably above what has been hoped for—has pulled down the prospective decrease in the aggregate state tax values. It appears now that the net decrease n valuations will not be more than two and a quarter millions, whereas it looked for a time that the decrease would be more than six millions, with a chance that it might run to ten, says the Augusta Chronicle. The tax rate for 1915 would have already been fixed, but for the fact that Governor Har ris is detained at home on account of illness. Calculations have been made, though, and, while it has not been announced what the rate will be, it is safe to assume that it will not be more than 4.70, or not quite a quarter of a mill in crease over last year. The footings, with only Dawson and Pickens counties now missing shows, in round numbers, $800,330,000 as against $803,390,196, or a de crease in the property valuations of about $3,- 060,000. An offset of this is the increase of $1,100,000 in corporation valuations which, with other small increases in the other sources of tax revenues, will put the net decrease against last year at about a million and a quarter. The Chatham digest, just in, showed an in crease of $2,085,000 and the Floyd digest show ed an increase of $1,600,000. These two lead the state, and were enough to boost the aggre gate footings to the magnificent showing they are going to make, despite the fear that the drop-off would be enormous. The state’s net revenue from all other sourc es than taxable properties is $1,500,000 and the calculations will show that a levy of 4.70 will about raise the amount of money necessary for the 1915 expenses. The decrease in the valuations is found to be practically all in the value of stocks of goods carried in mercantile establishments, and the amount of livestock on farms. In the latter connection it is cited that the European war is felt more in this way in Georgia than in any other way. People who could not realize the needed money on their agricultural products did realize on livestock, and many of the horses and mules have been sold and exported for ar my uses. A case in kind is that in Coweta county, where, it is said, from the town of New nan alone, four carloads of horses and mules were shipped away in one week for army use. That being true of Coweta county, it is said to be equally true of a good many other counties in the state. 0 A Boston corporation declines to take or ders from Atlanta for caulking material until the state of Georgia sets herself right on the Frank case. Atlanta and all other Georgia cities should let the Bdbton firm caulk itself up for good. There must be other dealers in the same jnateriaL - . INFORM ATOM BULLETIN NO. 11 The Union Pharmacy Douglas, Georgia Phone 45 Every Saturday is Candy day Only 39 cents you know A good many Georgians are out in Texas and other sections of the over-flown country, who would like to be “back home” just now. We certainly hope no harm mill befall them. 0 From the published reports of available money for the cotton producer, one would think he w'ould soon have money to burn. The farm er has a long head, however, and he thinks there is a string to these inviting loans. 0 Georgia sympathizes with Indiana because of the terrible crime in a suburb of Gary. The pastor of a Lutheran church, whose utterances were not in accord with the sentiments of some of his neighbors, was choked and shot. His body was found in a vacant lot adjoining his home. Georgia does not believe this crime means that the people of Indiana are uncivil ized.—Savannah Press. THE COTTON CROP IS 25 PER CENT. SHORT A. P. Coles, vice president of the Central Bank and Trust Corporation of Atlanta, has made a statement compiled from estimates received from correspondents of the bank throughort Georgia, to the effect that the Georgia cotton crop his year will be approximately 2,030,000 bales. The statement says the acreage is 18 j per cent, off from last year; the stand ■ is 13 per cent, off, and cultivation is 8 per cent. off. The general condi j tion of the crop, it is stated, is 27 per j cent, less than at this time last year. Attention is called to the fact that i for the last seven years estimaes made by Mr. Coles have been within ! two per cent, of actual conditions. WANTED—-TO BUY IN BULK Cross Tie Timber, Cypress or Pine fer spot cash. Address Curling Tie Company, Lankford Building, Doug las, Ga. SORE HEAD REMEDY. We have a guaranteed remedy for Sore Head on chickens. A 50c bottle j will cure a hundred birds. [SCHOOL TIME ALMOST HERE The child with glasses is more likely to be the adult without glasses than is the weak-eyed lit tle fellow whose eyes are not giv en the proper attention —protect your child's eyes while in school. —Wilson.- Manning-Bowman Percolator Free with 300 Certificates It’s a genuine Manning-Bowman Percolator, made of extra heavy pure aluminum with ebonized wood handle. The glass top has a patented metal tip iir^TjTrfLi protector which pre vents it from breaking while in use. Makes y\ M 8 cups of coffee. Stove VV M plate for gas stove use with the perco- lator. You can easily save 300 of our “divi dend checks” and get this useful article free. COTTAGE FOR RENT—My cottage on West Ward Street for $9.00 a month, which is in a good neigh borhood and a bargain. For further information write Esther Melton, care General Delivery, Hot Springs. Arkansas. It is admitted that we are having pretty tight times, but imaginations in many case make the situation worse. The farmers have good crops, and in many cases the smoke houses have enough bacon, lard, etc., to carry them over to another season. o Some of the girls in northern colleges say they would not marry a man if he didn’t make oved S2OOO per year. Oh, dear, isn’t that fear ful. But then, there are men in Georgia who would not marry one of these girls for S2OOO per annum, and would be cheated at that price. 0 A number of counties have turned in their reports to the Comptroller General, and he an nounces a shortage. The returns from Coffee, published today shows a gain over 1914 of $71,295. Another proof that this Is a section of God’s countrv. IONEHO IN e are in the field for loans on farmlands from SIOOO. to SSOOO. here titles are good we can place the money in your hands in from one to four weeks after the application is submitted. TERMS —5 years at 7% J, MONROE WILCOX & BRO. MUCUS GEORGIA LOST—In Post Office Tuesday morn ing Ladies’ Purse containing Dia mond Ring, an order for 5 cases of Chero-Cola. Finder may keep ring, but deliver order to Tanner’s Phar macy.