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THOUSAND
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FOR OUR COUNTRY AND ITER PEOPLE, FIRST AND ALL THE TIME!
VOL 14, No. 30
STRONu PULL LOR NEXT YEAR
To the Public, anil Patrons of the
Breeze.
Vast improvi ments will take
place in the course and management
of the Breeze for 1904. It wiil be
printed in different form from what
it is now, and if properly encourag
ed, which it is believed is assured,
will appear twUe each week, Wed
nesday and Saturday. A faster
press, folder and mailing machine
will be installed as soon as the new
quarters are ready, and arrange
ments made at once, to give the
people their paper fresh and crisp
within two hours from the time the
forms are closed and the engine
started.
The improvements in the Job
Department will be greater than in
the Newspaper. Most of the new
faces of type and rules, borders and
ornaments just cut will be added to
our already band'ome selection, and
anything from a liny visiting card
to a full shee. poster, wiil be print
ed with artistic skill and attractive
beauty.
In addition to our stock of com
mercial stationary we shall handle,
pens, pen holders, fountain pens,
irusilage, tablets, blotters, irk,
wedding and ball stationery, pro
grams, tapestries, time and day
books, twines and paper bags,
articles strictly in the line oi pue
lisher’s and paper furni' 1 dngs, to
supply the schools, the offices and
the stores.
The old engineer of the Breeze
who has engineered several papers
to success in his lifetime will be in
charge, but the Breeze and its out
fit wi 1 be the property of several
Coffee County Citizens who expect
to push it to success in every respect.
The names of these gentlemen will
be given later, and then, there will
be no speculation as to the promises
outlined in this article.
A Merry Christmas.
The Breeze goes out to-day to its
thousands of readers with a hearty,
sincere Merry Christmas to all. To
friend and foe, if : t has any, alike,
no exception.
It is confident that it has many
friends, good, staunch, big hearted
friends, who have stood, and are
now standing reaoy to assist its
management to a better and broader
field of usefulness to the people and
the country. And the Breeze may
have enemies, enemies to its success
and prosper!;', but if it has that
enemy, whoever they are, are assur
ed by these lines, and its future
course that the Pr;eze«i- the frimd
of every man, woman and child in
this broad land. It may have made
mistakes, but h was not intentional.
It was the fault of the brain, not
the heart, tor u has tried to serve
you faithfuffi . and it believes it has
done so impartially.
“Here’s ? smb; for those whs Jove me,
And a sig'h toe those who hate,
What ever clouds a dove me,
Here’s a heart for every fa;o.”
So, let vour mistake* those
of the Bretz- e hurled brother,*it
will not ser\ e** to any . ood cause
to harbor th’fbi hi your bosom, ar.d
let this be a .'-on of jov, rent's:
happiness, l *t- ; .-ce on earth'Amo
good wu.t. to r.:A. mus',” a merry
Christmas an t n ey retuvas of ttie
same.
Coun% r. 1 : > ! ' is b*ve been
discovered ii c- ileutli. For feat
that we hav c; ’ 'or with one,
in fee king • * 'diors. wc
shall look o> >■ >r V ! °° hr is
once.
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All the /a ■ ■•t.-ov
their usual • »i«.-o ».-u
rates, go- d • 1 ' ■
Bth. Thi- ;<- 1 j ■ '- ;
to do so i ■ f* ’too
homes dun 1 •
County u ’.pnTij
attract :P !
There yre
ments for
ordinary a-.*. h. < '
Ipoitglas
UNCLE WASH AGAIN.
He Writes About Good Roads for Coffee
County-Some Interesting
Suggestions-
We are delighted to note the pro
gressive spirit that pervodes Doug
las and Coffee County—the best
town in the very best county in the
State of Georgia. We crossed the
old sand ridge six miles south of
here since it was clayed, and was
most agreeable surprised at the great
difference made in the travel. Cof
fee county is progressive. Why
cannot her Commissioners begin a
systematic road building? Say,
begin at Douglas, and make good
clayed roads out four or six miles
each way, and extend them as fa c t
as possible to the county lines.
Some roads that are fairly good
now, will soon become sandy. A
little clay properly applied will
make them good permanently —and
this can be done much cheaper now,
than in a few years from now. A
good clayed road to a man’s farm
will enhance it fifty to one hundred
per cent. Liberal contributions by
our citizens, both in town and
county, will be returned many fold
in a very shprt time. Our farmers
are going to raising an immense
amount of all kinds of produce for
the market, during coming years.
Thousands of pounds of fine Coffee
countv meat and lard, thousands of
bushels of corn, vast quantities of
sugar cane, and sweet potatoes will
be raised, and they will need good
firm roads to get them to market,
and must have them.
Uncle Wash is pleased to live
among such people as are found in
Coffee county. Christmas is upon
us. It is the holiest part of our
year, and should not be desecrated
by drinking, rowdy and disorderly
conduct. It is a time for happiness
aiul good cheer. Every one both
old and young should be happy, and
have a merry time in commemora
tion of our loving Savior, but de
bauchery drunkenness and some
crimes that usually attend this most
sacred season should not occur.
There will be many promises made,
stme of which will be broken.
Many vows made —some of which
will not be kept, many good
thoughts and intentions that will
not live ten days after New Year,
but with the flattering prospects
that are opening up before us, we
should determine to do our parts
thoroughly to make this one of the
bust sections religiously, morally
and every other way that is good
aud will add credit and honer to
the county and its people. No man
can draw an idea as to what Doug
las and Coffee county will be in ten
years, but let each one of us resolve
to do our parts so faithfully that it
will be no trouble to recognize in
the advances the results of the work
of -tel: one. Merry Xmas and
happy New Year to the Breeze and
its rmy readers, and to all the
p.::or. !e. Very Truly Yours,
Uncle Wash.
V liitnmn M an Editor.
Whitman wrote on anything and ev
erything, after the fashion of editors,
sometimes with earnestness, sometimes
with undisguised indifference. Here is
n sample of an occasional sort: “To
cure the toothache plunge your feet in
cold water. Strange, but true.” For
“but” most people would read “if.”
The smn who must supply a column
at a give ; hour every day cannot make
the qr. dry uniform. Whitman dis
cusses and personal questions,
asks i it 1- right to dance and answers
In ms* * th a * it is if one goes to b“d in
decern s a *,.);;, rates the ferry company
for cdov. ing men to smoke and spit on
toe decks and while the United States
7 : - righting in Mexico h« turns out
a re. fu. * r <1 entitled "Some After
c on boss. •'* unvoted to a rainfall and
the dm -at* . ns of Ice cream makers
ea •Ti t ot ,;ie cool weather. Some
• . 'ways drew a lecture from
id; ' lie < ■ :!d not abide harshness,
•ui'v.hr.p*-* • army or cruelty. Not an
or.' . • . ~e death sentence occar
r .i .. ( i the Union that ho did
.a;' • • . .InStcapital pUnlshm-'-nt.
f . : • -lities of law seemed to
; • t .«* than the severities cf
t o Charles M. Skinner in
Douglas, Ga., December 19, 1903.
DOING THE WILL OF GOD
Do Daily What Best Develops Your
Character and Helps Add To The Sum
Of Morality In The World.
“Doing the will of God” 1 un
derstand to be doing daily what
best develops character and helps
to add to the enui of unselfishness
and morality in the world.
Besides this, “doing the will of
God” calls for philosophical resig
nation in meeting the inevit ble
sorrows and troubles which all hu
man beings encounter along life’s
path, and in finding the lesson
contained in each experience.
It means doing the duty which
lies nearest first.
It means being hopeful under all
discouragements and showing hu
manity a cheeful face in the midst
of anxieties and in believing in
the ultimate good of all things and
experiences.
It does not mean that you should
leave your debts unpaid and your
aging parents to battle with pov
erty and loneliness, while you go
to foreign lands to convert the
heathern.
It does not mean that you should
render yourself a bore by endeav
oring to make all your fellow men
believe your especial creed. It
does not mean that you should uc
cept poverty and ill he Ith and
misfortune as your lot in life and
exert no effort to change such con
di ions, believing them “the will
of God”.
Our position in life is first the
result of Karma (which is the ef
fect of our actions in former
lives), and secondly the result of
the conduct of our ancestors, and
thirdly the result of governmental
conditions surrounding us.
All these things it is “the will
of God” that we overcome. The
dentists assure us that strong teeth
must be created by use, and that
biting hard food develops good teeth
in children. It is precisely so
with the character of a human be
ing. Unless he has something to
overcome and something to call
out bis energies, he is like the
teeth which are used only on
liquids. His noblest powers crum
ble away and his moral n t ure
decays. Bite into the hard prob
lem of industrial conditions and
exert yourself to better them.
Read and think and study people i
and make some effort to help
others to think, and remember al
ways that the first step toward a !
better government is to be a better
individual yourself—oettei today
than yesterday, better tomorrow
thdn you are today.
Bite into the problem of pay,- 1
erty and make up your mind that
in spite of all obstacles you will
rise out of your situ ition and
achieve something worth while as
thousands of others have done be
fore you.
Resolve to bui ! d a. healthful VAy
for yourself, no mau -r now 1 ebie
you are born or what you think is
your inheritance. Remember you,
the real you, the iode-, nictibie ■
you — is older than ail \ou. <■, rt!i-
Ily ancestors —older than time—
; one v, ith God. j hi have lilt:
j right to he llh and prosperity and
success and happiness.
It is doing the wtil of God to
claim your rightful inheitaruv and
to live in the thought ’dial it is
yours. —Eli. a Wheeler Wilcx.
The Quitman IV Pres, says
Santa Claus will fi*.• t i•stocking
“hanging on <a hotse-ra*. k u *»<»••.=
of t: -> office door A- the j M-. <;
editress v, hi prot ’>♦> :*'« i ■-*■ t* e
siockP’o. there a*e doubt V many
vAun<r editorial bo .•*•••'• i - G,->
„ n
who would be git to pl y!• *■
Claus on that parti* ular ■•Ctuit-i
(•> <*)
The new-oaoers »f Buri. o cotin
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ty, part :cti* a :y * • *•• •
•_t r- • 11 • .* o • ’ 1 ' b'<
r; :j <_,? I'll f. d V. i V •• i - *:
a- ioA.uior; cl thill ‘ i *■ t-O' A *’l.
county
THE FATE OF LEE CRIBB-
His Lawyers Have Done all that Men
Could do for a Client. The End-
The Commission of physicans ap
pointed last week to determine the
condition of Lee Cribb has report
ed that he was sane, just what was
thought they would and should do.
Unless some other movement is
made the murderer of two people
has, before this reaches the reader,
been hanged, in compliance with
the law’s demand.
That he has met what lie deserv
ed is known to all. The murder
ot Emmet White and Marshall
Holton was cold blooded, without
an excuse, and we are supprised
that his execution has so long been
delayed.
That his relatives desired to shield
him as long as possible is natural,
and that the lawyers in the case
have done everything in their power
to save his life as long as hope last
ed, is no more than every man in a
place like the one Cribb and bis
relatives occupied would expect.
While justice has been evaded for
a long time in this man’s ;ase the
tax payers f the county have grin
ned and groaned under the heavy
burden imposed upon them, and
from the lights before them the com
plaints along that lines have been
just.
II id there been any doubts as
to the guilt of this man every man
in Coffee county would have gladly
endured his part ot the tax-burdeu
that justice migut have been met
ed out, but in a plain case of ag
gravated murder, where there was
no lack of proof, no cause for the
deed, it did not ad pear that more
than a fair trial and its expences
should have been heaped upon the
people.
The Breeze does not believe
that Gov. Terrell or Cribbs attor-
neys have been influenced or guid
ed in this matter by any tiling ex
cept the law. a- it stands, and not
by political trickery.
Friday Morning.
Sheriff Sou'harlan t, Deputy
fir--- un and a.her guards with
Cv'uib arrived in Douglas at 2 ]
o'clock t. ui . b iviug come around !
'rr the wav of Tut m, Cordele and
Fitzgerald, mu were detained by
a wreck on *h<: A. & B. all day
Tbysday Ti . nt ire party were
worn out fot p and rest, but
Citub was t 1 .. -t cheerful man
in < |>e crowo VVhen his breakfast
was carried to b m at 7 o’clock
Friday rnuiimg be was sleeping
soundly. il.- ,lb and child call
ed >.O see him is. 20, and was ad
mitted to '-’scell to remain with
him to the last moment.
In answei to-an inquiry from the
Breeze a-to : y statement he de
sire 1 to n 1 1 - i condemned m- .1
- 4id he wenbi *.• u-.e a statemet. b- -
fore his ext . c -ti to be taker? to
* t hand w* * ■•'* could be used,
lie cedi mi A. John McLean u>
b' - preset!' v- •;■* *t was inau<-. vV •
c> d l no I i ;*.• tie state no » •
but have A-n t he substance he
ever bein' ;
Jr. Ci'bo m ■ b; a statement Frb
dav morning :n * iiicb he exuooer
ates every :»*. • "*f htmse’i. i! •
id v *;i .v • *-• >al -soc’ i ’ i
ih- ■ hr.**••: ! n * ■ '*• his doon.. ■
tc-.i'k -:i '■ • 1 <as of the j •■■
: :b: ■ r kiiico .■ • him dun
■ j d i.e:.:; (i* .1 iftd noi'iii.p*
h . ~ , lot o-.c -el, who •.» ■
>(.;{ !•» -a <e his Ibe.
, he <i«.*o •; ■- man aseei - -
i I-cait'old .It t v . <mf at I -3» 'be «•- ■
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Legal Organ
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Coffee County.
SI.OO per Annum
Soathern Normal Institute-
Miss Eula Newbkrn, Reporter.
Mrs. C. C. Baker visited tho
school last Saturday.
Miss Mattie Lott, of Shepherd,
Ga., visited the school last Friday.
Thpre will be school Monday,
in order to make up the time which
we will occupy Christmas.
We feel quite sure that the jjro
grame will be successfully rendered
and trust that we will have a large
number of visitors.
School will be dismissed on
Wednesday, December 23rd, for
Christmas Holiday, and will be
gin again on the following Tues
day.
Misses Grace Johnson and Lula
Bowden, both members of the
faculty will, conduct the morning
exercises at the hull next Wednes
day morning. The school is look
ing forward for the time to arrive.
Saturday, December, 19th, will
be the last time the “Dixie Debat
ing Club” will convene in the old
year, and we have arranged inter
esting programe. We have omit
ted the Debate in order to devote
time for talks from visitors.
Death of Peter Vickers.
l’eter Vickers, one of the most
prominent and wealthy negroes of
Coffee county, died at his home,
near Douglas, of pneumonia, last
Wednesday night. Peter must
have been some where between
sixty and seventy years of age, and
leaves a large family of relatives,
besides a wife and two children.
He had accumulated a good deal of
property, was worth between
$25,000 and S4O. (XX), but with all
this there was not a more consistent
ly polite, decorous colored man in
Georgia. He never failed to tip
his bat to a white acquaintance,
never failed to move out of the way
for a lady to pass, never failed to
remember that he was a colored
man, and not boss of the country.
He was an honest man, too, and
met his obligations fairly and
squarely. It would be a great
blessing to his race i 1 a history of
his life was written, that they might
follow his foot prints. Peace to
his ashes, and may his memory be
embalmed in the hearts of his coun
trymen.
Mr Bryan is over among the
crown heads of Europe.
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Dr. James Spence will be a can
didate for nomination for represen
tative, in Ware.
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Mr. J. A. Jones, an old friend of
i the Breeze, was elected mayor of
Waycross, last week.
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The white primary will be adopt
ed ; n all South Georgia counties
next year, in county’ affairs.
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Judge Parker, of New York, Mr.
Hanna civs, will be the next demo
cratic nominee foe president.
The Republicans of the State
s mi to be preparing to have some*
t dig to do with politics next ye» r «
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The Soarks Enterprise says it ex
pects to *•?!" I : g" Tanner in that
imvn almost any hour. Guess she
must be at home.
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R.im H,*ys ip. a black blind tiger
o Tifh.n, it*- been * ned $250.00
f selling Apior without license.
' tii- i' r*i. v'-.'v to handle law
la ankers.
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