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ONE THOUSAND Readers Weekly, Guaranteed. 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. <♦) *s» 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 -1 , * t* 1 . ' l i . 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 «•- ■ * H fr-‘' . ■* sever; i " | :v. ... ■ o’. f,s;au !’ b -... i. L* ■ ; - one*! :>i ' ■ j .:* . - .■ • . v> lie.l i - p: s hi I c. i : . Legal Organ • • • of . • • 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. <S> <e> Dr. James Spence will be a can didate for nomination for represen tative, in Ware. <s><*> <B> Mr. J. A. Jones, an old friend of i the Breeze, was elected mayor of Waycross, last week. ❖ <s> The white primary will be adopt ed ; n all South Georgia counties next year, in county’ affairs. «><?><& 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 « <& <& *2> The Soarks Enterprise says it ex pects to *•?!" I : g" Tanner in that imvn almost any hour. Guess she must be at home. <*/ 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. fZy f*> <*»> A nuwsn: , ..'dill rv ho was ,||;;r J! •*.;. . (pat! ' sf-fice . ■..•'?! d bv the fol •. ra- ■l. ‘ * ■ t !o»»r* voi-re from : 7 'ci' *. ' • --.a Iye ■ if ■ . j ; !• F • ; übcon . • they