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DOCCLAS WEEKLY BREEZE. James M. Freeman & Daughter, Proprietors J. M. Freeman, Editor. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. OCT. 17th, _ 1903. Official Organ of County. NOTICE TO LEGAL ADVERTISERS. No advertisements will be published in this paper, after this date unless accom panied ny the leeal fees, which the law says must be pain in advance, at the rate of *3.00 for less than 100 words; $6.00 for over 100 words and under 200 words, for 30 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. Reading matter on every page. <s> <v Only two pieces of property were advertised at sheriff’s sale in Thomas county, and they were withdrawn before the hour of sale, last week. <s> <s> <s* Only 125 persons of the 2,700 subject to road tax in Terrell county have defaulted. The sum amounts to between $7,000 and SB,OOO annually. <s><s><s• Rome Tribune: We hope that Mr. G aston, Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts, will not prove to be a political llappy Hooligan. <s• <» <s> The passenger and freight busi ness on Ihe recently opened exten sion of the Brunswick and Birming ham is all that was expected by the officials. The Fiddler’s convention is in session in Rome, Ga., this week. We’ll try to off set it here by swapping horses. <s><s><» The Times-Recorder says Ainer icus people now live upon Caro lina cabbage, Tennessee turnips, Boston beans and Chicago bacon while raising mortgages at home. <3> <3> Mrs. S. E. Ulmer, mother of George Kempton, of Live Oak, Fla., and J. P. Ulmer, of Arcadia, Fla., died and was buried last week ai Waycross. She was a Christian woman and has many friends in this section who will regret to hear of her death. ■s> <s> <S> A. S. Avarett is the champion potato grower of Brooks county. This year he has sold over $25 worth from less than a quarter of an acre. The only objection any one could have to Mr. Avarett’s potatoes is that they are too large, says the Quitman Advertiser. 4> <s> $> A. F. Hodges of Sumter county gathered from nine acres 558 bus. of oats, and estimates that at least five bushels are left scattered about the field, which would make the average yield of 62J bushels per acre for the nine acre field. <§> •$> <§> . Three negroes were in a buggy to which a mule was hitched last Saturday, and as the animal didn’t travel fast enough, one of them reached over and twisted the mule’s tail. Two of the negroes were buried Sunday afternoon. <$ <a> W. G. Lamb, of Fitzgerald, was shot and seriously wounded, last Friday night, by Frank Wilcox, whose son, it is said, was in the former’s potato patch. Mr. Lamb approached the boy for the purpose of remonstrating with him, because he wanted the potatoes, as they were his own, when, the gun was fired by some one hidden, and Wilcox, is thought to have been the man. He is in jail. Waycross’ Sugar Mill. Arthur Given of the bureau of chemistry, department of agricul ture. who will have charge of the sugar experiment station of the national government at Waycross has arrived. Mr. Given, who was in charge of Captain D. G. Purse of the Board of Trade, is of the opinion that the work of the government at the Way cross station will be of great advantage to the cane growers of a., 'oath Georgia. The latest and most improved sugar nakiug machinery has been sent there and everything in connection with the plant will be operated on the most economically scientific nl*u. banners in ew.rv section of the state are invited to visit the plant. Attending Court this Week. There may be a number of vis itors in the city this week who have not been here before in some time, and then there may be those present who are now on their first visit to Douglas. The Breeze is glad to see you, and hopes your visit may he pleasant and profit able, and it will be if you will walk or ride around and see the beautiful new stores and houses that have been recently erected, and talk with our clever, hospit able people. Do not, for a mo ment, imagine that Douglas people will tire of answering interroga tions as to the prices of lands, in town or county, for they are here for that business and are looking for just such people as want to know why this happens to be the ‘•garden spot of the State.” All these brick houses and most of the handsome wooden residences have been built since 1898. This hand some court house, one of the hand somest in the State, and the jail near by, one of the safest in the land, have both been built since 1898, and in building, although many remarks have been made by visitors as to their elegant and sub stantial construction, our Commis sioners had the work done at a less cost to the county than some which will bear them no compar ison. It might also interest our visiting friends to know that these buildings are paid for, the county is out of debt and has enough change in her pocket to jingle a little. Judge E. D. Evans, of Washing ton county, judge of the Superior Court of the Middle Georgia Circuit is presiding this week, and while he is comparatively a stranger, not having been here since 1885, he is making friends fast. Ilis charge to the Grand Jury, as you doubtless heard, was one of the most full and complete, clear and logical, we have ever heard. lie is holding the reputation here that he has built up at home, as a judge, fair, square and fearless. Of course, we all like Judge Parker, but we accept the gentleman sent us to preside over this term’s court, on the ground that it was a fair exchange. Sher : if Southerland is now serv ing his second term, has one more year of grace, and may be elected again. lie is a fine specimen of manhood and ha* made a good of ficer. lie has worked up some difficult cases and landed his men when it was thought he had !e‘ them get away, and, again, he has made some wild goose chases after law-breakers that were not success ful. This, however, cannot be chargeable to him, as many times people resemble each other and when taken up by ofScers who do not know t litem must be identified, brought to Justice or turned loose on the public. Sheriff Souther land is a Sou h Georgia boy, has been a resident of Coffee county about twenty years, :w>d the fact that he was not born' in Coffee county is no fault of his own. He is very accommodating., and if you need a friend in time of troubte-he will furnish you a nice iron bound room, bed and boarde, at the ceun ty’s expense. Having put the visitor on his guard as to these two important functionaries of the Court, Judge and Sheriff, something about Douglas future, which may be kept in sight by perusing the col umns of the Breeze, may not be out ot place. In fact, within the near future we expect to have: Eiectric lights and water works. A direct railroad to Savannah. A direct railroad to the Gulf. Street railroad to Gaskin’s Spring. Wagon and buggy factory. Cot ton seed oil mill and guano fac tory. Railroad to the Ocmulgee and a boat line to Darien and New York. Wholesale dry goods and family! grocery house. The Douglas Daily Breeze. Syrup and Sugar refinery, with! many other enterprises that we have not time to speak of just now, and if you want to keep up with these things there is only one wav : Subscribe for the Brf; :• and pay cash up as we write your name down, cash down as the re ceipt is handed up. Another thing, we ire having ‘be beautiful homes of the peeph photographed, trom which cm *n v tv% > vx .... 4 . . . i p'-int an illustrative pamphlet tel . eg all about this country a-.it people, which will be circulated all over the whole country, and will cause a stream of people to come this way. W<* give you this hint in order that you may get a home now, and avoid the rush. It is coming. There is an air of contentment and prosperity in the faces of the people you see at the court-house, today, and the reason for this, is, that good crops have been made and they are all able to pay their debts and have the necessaries of life for another year. Mr. D. W. Gaskin, Clerk of the Superior court, is one of the best men and most efficient clerks in South Georgia. His records and papers are the very acme of per fection, and it will be noticed that when a case is called the papers are always ready, if in his posses sion. He has been elected and re elected until the people have ceas ed to keep record of the number of terms he has served, and it is generally conceded that he is about the strongest man in tbe county in an election, therefore tbe office is his as long as he wants it. Deeds and mortgages are recorded by an improved typewriter,, skillfully manipulated by Mrs. M. A. Co mas, one of the most efficient as sistants procurable, and' the public generally finds in her am accommo dating encumbent when visiting the Clerk’s office. Mr.- George Ward, thepolite and accomplished son of Cos, W. P. Ward, is Mr. Gaskin’s assistant up-stairs during Court week. The Breeze has been undter obliga tions to him for many fauorsin the past, but has some for him this week. That old veteran, scholar, gen tleman and lawyer. Judge Briggs, is in the Clerk’s office, down stairs. He is a good man any where you put him. If you are not a subscriber to the Breeze you should be one. Much of your unhappiness may be on ac count of neglect in this direction. Remember, the Breeze will be sent from date to January 1, 1905, for one dollar. CLAIMS REWARD FOFT3OM. Tom Caruthers Sentenced to Hang, Given Up by Parents Rochelle, Ga.. Oct. 13.— The ffcther of Tom Caruthers, who is under sentence to hang for the murder of Henry Byrd, has made application for (Stas' reward offered for the captue of the youth. The- negro was sentenced' to hatng on Oct. 16. He escaped. But was af terwards arrested at HawßiireviTEe*.. A reward of $l5O had been offere'd. tor him Irr the meantime. Now the- negTwOs father 13 applying for the reward: The sheriff of Pulaski county thfinlte the father Is entitled to ft, as the eld' man gave the officers the information' that led to the arrest of the youth. The idea the old negro had 1 was that the boy was a fugitive ftom justice, and was about to starve to death, and it would B® better for him to be put to trial even if he had to hang. The old negro thought hanging could nafc.be' as bad as starving. WAWT U. S. TO CO-OPERATE.. Macedonian Revolutionary Committee Sends Delegate. New York, Oct. 13. —Another dele gate, sent by the Macedonian revolu tionary committee in aid.of that coun try in its struggle with Turkey, hajs arrived here. He is Constantine Ste phanove and is a Yale graduate, hav ing been & member of the class of 18SS. “We want this government to co op ate with the other powers,” he said, “and we want all the powers to demand the appointment of a Chris tian governor, who shall be responsi ble ro the powers and not to Turkey. “The Russo-Aus mi an reforms are not sufficient and will not correct the ptc-ant terrible conditions.” TRIAL OF TILLMAN. Arguments In Celebrated :Case Are Continued. Lexington, S. €.. Get. 13.—E. S. As bill. of counsel for the prosecution, who began his argument before the jury in the trial of J. H. Tillman. J just teferev court adjourned > estwday, j resumed today. Replying :o counsel for the detente he contended hat Mr. 1 '*r/ ties’ mind was clear when lie. auuie his last statements. to Nelson, one of *"ic attorneys : t *.6 <]*c v cHustnlo liOW’iju. txt ju’bfc spoke i ' ;be law in the < *u.- '.adin-g. '.he requests for insmietiors re do By : Ui ?;en?e. places on what venstl ui •: sei'.-defsnse. -.0 '..'i.i i\as ashed t :• r.vet the i" ,s o■ IV; '. y .»> suy ’A*.. w L.'-u ga uiti-uiU j’ ? GagS iwc i h ;vo acied as M. r. ;fi, jj man, _d id BLOCK SIGNIA-L- SYSTEM' BAILED. Accident Occurred Wear the Foot of Lookout Mountain- —Neerty AH on Board the Two Care Were Mere- or Less Seriously Injured, Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 13.—At 1 o’clock this morning two oars on the Chattanooga Rapid Transit, St. Elmo line, ran together owing to the failure of the block signal system to woric. Six persons were seriously and some perhaps fatally injured, while the two cars were wrecked. The accident occurred oa a trestle near the foot of Lookout mountain. The following wore injured:'. j Motorman Green, arm broken and in jured internally. Conductor Hatfield, badly bruised. Motorman Williams, injured inter nally. Conductor Sutton, head and body cut and bruised.. Emil Andre, 14 years old, head cut, leg broken, back wrenched and.lnjured Internally. Prank P. Slwlck, passenger, several rib§ broken and cheat crushed. ‘Several unknown ladles sustained broken bones and severe bruise*. SPEAKS OF MOB LAW. Address Made: by Justice Bischoff, of New York. New York, Get. 13. —In an address before the Phi Delta Phi fraternity In this city Justice Blschoff, of the New York supreme court, has pointed. out the fact that tile spirit which under lies mob law confronted the patri archs of old in the Mosaic law, and: la to be found underlying the develop ment of the entire system of crimi nal jurisprudence, representing the; re bellion of passion against an aocuaod person. The causes of lynching* and other outbursts, he said, may be epit omized in the words "The law's delay,” “It is true,” he- continued, “that there is more or lees delay in the admin istration of the liw which appears to procrastinate, so*that the time elaps ing between a crime and Its punish ment seems at times needlessly pro* togged, but this is not the fault of the law or its administration, so rauoh as it is the result of condition* which sur round the gradual evolution of cm l great judicial system. “The demand® upon the courts are too groat for a system planned ♦ sac commodate scarcely half the business now presented and making no elastic provision for enlarged requirements. “But it does net follow, because of this defect, the delay of Justice that the system is wrong or that mob rr 4e had better supplant it or that there la justification at any time tor as sassination in the- name of punishment of crime It te bu: a voice that should be heeded by our legislature in pro viding an elastic, flexible system for the Administration of law which wiH meet every emergency, the measure of speedy, exact and; unerring justice In every case.” Justice BischofT'dererlbed the ccae dftion of the negroes at the close of the cfvil war. their lfscfr o? knowledge of nineteenth civilization, their beimgv loft on an impoverished land wihQirfc government aad or support ana their struggles against the-antipathies of the white race. The north, he sard, undertook to sdUcate- the colored pa t o-- pfe of whose conditions and limitations they were ignorant, with the result of bitterness. ‘•And today;” he mfeied. “it is beifcg realized that tire best friend of the ne gro is the sons!), wii® can best, too, solve the great' question involved, in ; this discussion.” TALE OF RAIN AND FLOOD. England Has. Unprecedented Down pour—Rivers Break Banka. New York, Oct. T3;—England's talfe of rain and flood, although trifling in comparison with- reports that come from New York, show the outlook be coming hourly more serious, ?avs a Herald dispatch from London. There was some abatement in the dr -.-npour in lonian Monday, but the tctcl rain fall is rapidly approaching a.- point equal to the highest noted since the meteorological office was established in 1366. Rivoi’s are high everywhere and ! in many places have broken their bounds. Railway traffic has been iiterfered ■with and gp.-at inconvenience has been cause. in several towns by inunda.- tiorrs. Acres of grain are under' wat- : in Yorkshire, and '•eports of gen-, ersl fie'ds are coming from the north. e»* England. , Cormriselrner Vadfe Judge. Montgomery, AS., Oct. 13. —R. R. Poole, commissioner of agriculture of i Si a: a t exetion of Commissioners 1 er -.’ici; f't ’ . has 'seen selected us ci'.e j ‘ ?t>- of the state fair to be ; : - ' . -'" *- - ; rva 1 r- ... ... . , ... - . ..... .. I , ' -- -i | Son 1 W iter, Ginger ale, etc., go bllfi OF BROKEN HEART. Man rail* Dead at Ble* of His Dead Brother. NewTbrk, Oct. 13.—Johnson Chase Hull, the 1 oldest letter carrier in New York, and possibly in the country, has fsgen dead while standing beside the coffin containing the body of his broth er William) a* the latter’s home in Brooklyn. The* doctors say he died from a broken- heart. William Hull was 82 years old- and » retired merchant. His brother John son was two years younger and the Swo had been inseparable during, their tbag span of lie-. The death of his brother was a herd blow and he griev ed! deeply over hit loss. At the close 1 of the funeral services he arose from his chair beside the coffin, and speak ing: in a low bade farewell" Ms hl« brother. “You were the first to go,” he said, “my-summons cannot come too soon.” TSe old man’s voice broke, he threw bis hands up and sank to the floor,. deadL TELEGRAPHERS’ TOURNAMENT . Lightning Stingers To Have Contest of Skill at Philadelphia. New York, Oct. 13. —Plans have been perfected for a tournament between telegraphers at ’Philadelphia on the af ternoon and evenings of Oct. 30 and SI. Last May telegrapher* of Philadel phia OjWI New York, comprising thq American Telegraphers- Tournament association, elected committees, whioh have worked unceasiniy tc bring to gether the greatest possible array of talent far the competition. Entries have been received from Dallas, Win nipeg, Louis; Atlanta, 'Memphis, New Organs, Boston, Birmingham, Philadelphia, and many: other cities. The caah prizes aggregate $3,000, while tha medals to be offered in the various clauses will be quite valuable. The object of chief interest will be the Andrew Carnegie gold medal, which carries with it a cash award of S3OO for the most skillful sender and receiver j( Morse. RIOTS IN BUENOST AYRE&. Demonstration Over Politic* In South American City "’New fork, Oct. 13. —A targe dem onotratloa against the convention has been me*, eaye a Herald dispatch, from Buowja Ayres, for the nomination of for president and vice which will meet Tuesday (today). The convention, is compos ed of Dotftftte men of tba-republic and As opponents are of the general Mobs (ii; the street iadiuiged in at tacks on- the government and £enor Quintana/. the official 'candidate. Hie protests wBI oontinue while the con vention assembled, although it is possible tti«t public feeling may be heeded and' the convention abandoned*. The agitation is increasing: daily, and there are indications oft more violent Opposition against Quintana. Ih a collision between the mobs and the po lice, sevewal persons were' injured. Excursion Rates via- Atlantic and Binniagtiam to Atlanta. Ga- Southern Inter State Fair. Round trip rate from Douglas s7>3°- Tickets-S© be sold QfcfcO'ber 6th to 23rd, inclusive, witiii exception no tickets-will be sold: for trains arriving: in Atlanta' on Sundays, with final limit October26th, 1903. B. F. liOtZENDORF. Agenfo. Douglas, Ga. s G%sfcThe Best FsrTfee Asking. When you order a sack of patent;? flour from your grocer, do not telii him to. send you “a sack of goocL flour’% but tell him to send you a* sack, of “C-lfton”, “Clifton” is the best patent. Every sac’s is sold with this guarantee,, and if it does not prove as repre sented, your money will be refund ed.. “Chiffon;” is an all-round flour, and is for cake asad pastry as light* rolls and biscuit. Market Trading Co* Good Farm Tor Sale. I have a goo-f farm for sale, containing 15? acres. 111013 or less, with 125 acres in a high state of cultivation, leaving ?2 acres or’ good land . all of which can be jleared and used, eaeept a small branch. Terms, *1.500 —*800 aasn. baltance one and two years time * ith S per cent interest. Ad dress. B. F. SIT M M T.dRLI N, WiLlaeoovhee, G a la Cure A Coki in One Day . j Take Laxative Bromo Ouinin Tah ! lets. \!1 druggists refund the money if 1:. .ins to cu: c ~ft . vj-i ove s si^na.— ture is ou each box. ?. r c. t p r» J . V-a . --w Ah. , IH, JLJ , Oeilirt, Gn. Speclaimt, I pyr \ x -'•’<!*' n 'ipo at* j * “ 1 V? "* ■ , 1 Also Chronic Diseases in either sex. Hoprs, 7 to to a. m. 7 to S p. m.