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DOUGLAS WEEKLY BREEZE. James M. Freeman & Daughter, Proprietors J. M* Freeman, Editor Entered .is Second-Class Mail Matter. SATURDAY, OCT. 3rd, 1903. Official Organ of County. NOTICE TO LEGAL ADVERTISERS. No advertisements will lie published in this paper, after this <iate unless accom panied by the lesrnl fees, which the law says must lie paid in advance, at the rate of *3.00 for less than 100 words; $6.00 for over 100 words and under 200 words, for ;i0 days. We are not able to pay hands, buy paper and material and advertise on credit, then wait on claim cases, courts, etc , and we do not expect to do so. Mr. H. T. Rodgers, a prominent citizen of Moultrie, died last week of paralysis. <§> <§> <B> The Cordele Daily News says the scent of the blind tiger is on the air in that town. Lawless repro bates ! <S> <§> John Temple Graves wants a state set aside for the negro. The papers are all suggesting Massachusetts. — Sav’h Press. <$- <s> Georgia farmers used 625,000 tons of commercial fertilizer this year, an increase of 172,000 tons over lust year. <S> <§> $> The State Fair, at Macon, this year, will be one of the best. Several counties of Southern Geor gia will have exhibits. <§> <S> <s> The Dublin Courier-Dispatch thinks the word “obey,” in the marriage ceremony should be trans ferred to the other person. <$ • <s> <?> A Columbus man predicts 15-cent cotton before another crop is made, and says that prices will not go lower than 10 cents this winter. <s><§><s> The Moultrie (Jbserver observes : “If Georgia had more men raising tobacco and fewer chewing it the state would be better off.” <S> <s> <S> A New York boy of 20 years has two wives. Early to wed means early to part, but to accommodate girls he’s made a good start.-Dublin Times. <s> <?> <s> The police judge of Macon says ladies must not wear low neck dresses in that city, and recently fined one arrested in that costume *25 .00. llorrid old thing! <s> <s> The Adel News claims that there is now a woman in Berrien county who lias never seen a train, although living within seven miles of the Georgia Southern railroad ever since it was built. Mr. T. Z. Dent, of Pulaski coun ty suicided last week by using morphine. He hail his life insured a few days before lie did so, how ever. He is said to have been a clever man, but a hard drinker. vi> <J> Mr . \V. \Y. Timmons, of Tifton, and G. \V. McWhite, of Moultrie, both prominent naval store manu factures, recentiy closed a deal in Calhoun Gcfclity, Fla., for 50.000 acres. The sum paid was s7s*°°°. It is supposed the opposition to the dispensary measure, m Irwin county, have mislaid or destroyed the registration list of two of the strongest dispensary districts. An effort is being made to establish them, however. lion. Thos. B. Young, of Irwin county, has sold his big plan ation containing more than 1000 acres of land, to Mr. Thos. Fletcher, also of Irwin. The price paid, cash, was $15.000. Arnold Bryant, white, was con victed of enticing turpentine hands from work, in Berrien county, to go to Florida and Alabama, last week, before Judge Peeples, and was fined SIOOO.OO, or twelve months on the gang. <?> 3> Six white men are charged with dragging and assaulting, criminal ly, a white girl, and one negro has been arrested for attempting to assault a white woman, all in At lanta, last week. Such doings as this will get up a reputation for the Capital Spalding county farmers claim to have liada good, heavy frost last week. <S> <B> \ ellow fever is on the increase in Texas. At Laredo twelve new cases were reported last Sunday. 't' Bibb county will lose $6,750,00 from the school fund because she takes forty-five convicts to use on the public roads. <S> <s> <*> The eighty-eighth annual session of the Piedmont Baptist Associa tion will meet in the Baptist church at Jesup October 8. <$- <s> <s> Among the counties that will take felony convicts for road work ing, is Coffee county, which gets fifteen convicts and loses $2,250.00 school fund. <& <s> <e> The cotton crop of Texas is said to have fallen off one half within the past six weeks. Six million bales were expected and 3,900.000 are now counted on. <S> Terrell county takes seventeen felony convicts and loses $2,550.00 of the school fund. But then Ter rell county don’t*care, as ver dis pensary pays her county tax. <s■ $ Col. Harvey Jordan, the Georgia farmer, has been elected president of the National Farmers’ Congress. This is indeed a compliment to Georgia, but not more than she de serves. <S> <s> <£> A negro was found tied to a tree, full of bullets, down in Thomas county, last Saturday. He had outraged a seven year old white girl, but no one was able to tell how he got hurt. ❖ <s■ We learn by telephone, that Fitz gerald ships a good deal of “red eye” over to Ocilla. This is a slam on Jim Hanlon, and a dispen sary there too; we thought he’d patronize home enterprises. “Dowie,” the crazy gump, who pretends to be Elijah the prophet, announces that it is perfectly right for black and white people to mar ry, because, lie asserts that Moses had a negro wife. If Dowie conies South with such chat some of the boys will put a running-noose around his neck and he’ll be danc ing on the air. <§><s><s> The Vagrant law has caused trouble over in Irwin. Some weeks ago the Fitzgerald Enterprise, through mistaken information made a note that Mr. Tom Luke’s name was among others arrested for vagrancy. Mr. Luke demanded a retraction and received an explana tion exonerating him from such a charge, through the paper, but, it seems, he was not satisfied, and last Thursday in a personal interview with Col. Mercer, of the Enterprise, made some threats. Col. Mercer went at once for his rifle and hunted Mr. Luke up, the dispatch tells us, and ns the latter retreated, fired on him. Mr. Luke returned the fire, but happily both were unhurt. The State Fair at Macon. Twelve counties have already applied for space for county exhibits which guarantee the greatest dis-J play of agricultural product ever assembled in the history of the state. The stock and poultry exhibits and the display of farm machinery aud implements will be immense in their proportion. The amusements of the fair will 1 equal the other features. “The Grand Arcade” will be a magnifi- 1 cent revelation, outclassing any- j thing ever attempted at any previous State Fair in variety and j perfection. The park is to be wired for hundreds of electric lights, so that at night it will present an entranc ing scene, while above the sky will be lit by the glow of fireworks, and Conterno’s band will ravish the ear with its incomparable melodies. The railroads have authorized a rate of one fare for the round trip. One cent and a half a mile each way. The Sta*e Fair will be held at a season when all the people can spare tlie time to come to Macon and enjoy a holiday. It will be an opportunity to renew old acquain tances and make new ones. It will oiler a chance to learn something more of the state than was known before. The State Fair will be a course iu liberal educMioa. | A TRiCK WITH CARDS. One of the Curious* Combination!! That May Be? Effected. Of the many curious things which may be done with a pack of fifty-two cards perhaps the most interesting is the “spelling out” of an entire suit. To do this take the thirteen cards of any suit, place them o. ice up and ar range them in this manner'; Nine, G, 3, Jack, 10, 5,7, 2, king, 8,1, 4, queen. When they are thus placed, they are face up, with the 9 on top and the queen on the bottom. Now turn them over so that they are face down with the queen on top. Take the top card and place it underneath the pack and say “O.” Place the next card underneath the pack in the same way and say “N,” and the next card turn face up on the table, saying “E”— one. Leaving “E” face up, place the next top card underneath the pack, saying “T;” the next the same way, saying “W,” and the next lay face up on the table, saying “O”—two—and so 011 through the suit. Remember, when you come to the last letter of a card to lay that card face up on the table, leaving it there. When you have laid out the 10 spot, you continue by spelling out j-a-c-k and q-u-e-e-n. Of course, after you have laid the Jack out you have only two cards left, but continue as before and the queen will come out, leaving only the king In your hand, which, of course, you lay an the others, compelling the suit. Could Not Walt. Some years back there was an old Justice of the peace in Lancaster county whose thirsty temperament caused him {0 have little patience with the lengthy trials at which he occasionally presid ed. One day there was a suit brought before him in which two young lawyers hut lately admitted to the bar were pit ted against each other. The latter, mindful of the prestige which a victory for either side would mean, were ex amining the witnesses at great length and consuming, it is true, a great deal of unnecessary time. Finally the testi mony of the last witness was conclud ed, and the one attorney began to argue his side of the case. Just as he was warming up the squire finished the cal culation he had been making on a small piece of paper and, getting up from the bench, said coolly; “Young men, you can go right on with your arguments. I’ll be back pret ty soon. The judgment is sso.”—Phila delphia Ledger. Origin of “Hndisef.” It is difficult to realize that the term “budget,” now so often in every one’s mouth, is a term less than 200 years old, the earliest mention of the word dating no further back than 1733. We borrowed it from the old French lan guage— bougette, meaning a small bag, iu which in former times it was the custom to put the estimates of receipts and expenditures when presented to parliament; hence the chancellor of the exchequer, in making his annual state ment. was formerly said to open his budget. In time the term passed from the receptacle to the contents, and, curiously, this new signification was returned from this country to France, where it was first used iu an official manner In the early part of the nine teenth century.—London Chronicle. Seeds nnd Skins of Small Fruits. There are many people who cannot oat small fruits ou account of the seeds and skins, because they prove so irritating to the stomach. In ail such eases the fruit should be thoroughly ripe; then press it through a small wire sieve or strain through a thin cloth; then you get all there is of use— the liquid. Blue and other berries with tough skins may be cooked a little to start, the juice, *then strain and get rid of seeds nnd skips. Never put waste into a delicate -stomach whVn possible to avoid it. Cherry stones and grape seeds are a menace to health, and chil dren should be taught how to neatly reject them.—Physical Culture. Throwing; tho Dart. Throwing the dart is a picturesque custom which is observed in Cork, Ire land. Every third year the chief mag istrate proceeds to the mouth of Cork harbor in full state. Following im memorial custom, he throws a dart in to the sea—a dart with a bead of gold and a shaft of mahogany—saying, “I cast this Javelin into the sea and de clare that as far around as it falls ex tend the right and dominion of the corporation of Cork to and over the harbor as well as the rivers, creeks and bays within the same.” The Only One. An American tourist who called on Robert Burns’ widow. Jean Armour, a few years after bis death had the au dacity to ask her. “Can you show ipe any relics of the poet?” “Sir,” an swered the old lady, with majestic dig nity, “I am the only relict of Robert Burns 1" Plain Talk. The Miserly Traveler—Be careful with that trunk, you vagabond! I wouldn't have it fall for 10 shillings. The Porter—l doubt not, but a shil ling in time might: save nine.—London — —*— Insurance. I beg to imorm the good people of Coffee couhty that lam in the insurance business at Douglas. My Agency represents some of the best Fire, Life, Accident and Surety companies in the world. I live in Coffee county, vote a pray taxes here, and I am thoroughly indentilied with the best interests of her people ;so why give your business to traveling agents, or send your money away from home? Your valuable patronage is solicit ed and will be very highly appre ciated. I will be pleased to confer with you at any time. My office is in the Overstreet building oppo site the court house. Respectfully. Mark A. Candler. Douglas, Ga., Last Sunday afternoon the South ern fast mail, from Washington to Atlanta, leaped from a trestle, sev enty-five Lcet high, near Charlotte, N. C., completely demolishing the train, and killing nine out of six teen of its crew. A DOUGLAS LODGE NO. 386, F. & A. M. Meets every third Friday evening 6 o’clock. Visiting brethren cordially invited to meet with us. S. W. JOHNSON, W. M. S. FALES, Secretary. M. 11. TURRENTINE, Dentist, Vickers Building, Douglas, Ga. All Work Guaranteed. Office hour?; 8 to 12, a. m. 2 to 5 :3c) p. m. J. C. LUKE, M. D. Ocilla, Ga. Spec inlist, EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT. Also Chronic Diseases in either sex. Hours : 7 to 10 a. m. 7 to 8 p. m. To Cure A Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E- W. Grove’s signa ture is on each box. 25c. ... W 001... Ship direct to the Manufacturer, and save dealers’ profits. They Pay the Highest Market Price always. ISigMi UyaaEj? If you have wool to sell for cash, exchange for goods, or be manufactured, ship it to the Chatham Manufacturing Co., Elkin, N. C., and you will not regret it. /sm/ CHRONIC INVALIDS. \jl|& /jjpWy When the liver is torpid, bile enters £§§? ( k' as a virulent P°i son * Liver ills follow f M®hus I ,4 AND Tonic Pellets are the only Treatment ulP&Vthat gives the liver just the right touch and/Jp®/ Nature’s work in the right mannei^^lp/ Complete Treatment 2 5 cts. Bicycles Repaired. lam prepared to repair your bicycle, mend the punctured tire and put your wheel in first class order, All kind of material on hand. Shop south of Tanner Hotel. Lee Hughes. 9-26-1. m. Douglas Ga. Get The Best For The Asking. When you order a sack of patent Hour from your grocer, do not tell him to send you “a sack of good flour”, but tell him to send you a sack of “Clfton”, because “Clifton” is the best patent. Every sack is sold with this guarantee, and if it does not prove as repre sented, your money will be refund ed. “Chifton” is an all-round flour, and is as good for cake and pastry as light rolls and biscuit. Markey Trading Co. Has Cured Thousands, Will Cure You. If you are troubled with Kidney or Bladder troubles, such as Dropsey, Bright’s Disease, Catarrh, Gravel of the Bladder Albumen in Urine and unhealthy deposits, or too frequent discharge of the urine, pain in the back and bladder, dropsical swelling of the feet and legs, etc., etc., we guar antee that by using Smith’s Sure Kid ney Cure, a complete cure will be effected. Price 50c and sl. for sale by DEEN’S DRUG STORE. Excursion Rates via- Atlantic and Birmingham to Atlanta. Ga- Southern Inter State Fair. Round trip rate from Douglas s7>3°- Tickets to be sold October 6th to 23rd, inclusive, with exception no tickets will be sold for trains arriving in Atlanta on Sundays, with final limit October 26th, 1903. B. F. Holzendorf. Agent, Douglas, Ga., They Pay Freght on the Wool, and Guarantee Satisfaction,