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He Douglas Weekly Bree^ FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, FIRST AND ALL THE TIME VOL 15, No. 18 Great Sweep Sale! . . At The Leader Department Store . . Closing days of the Big' sale at Tshe Leader Depart. I ,’ ' ment Store. Vli During the last days of this sale we will make still further reductions on all lines, regardless of their valu* until every piece of summer goods is sold. If you have not already availed yourself of the Grep——~**gains sold during the last three weeks, THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY, as it will be i?npos u He ?/to duplicat them after the present stock is sold. t .* ** Some of our fall goods are arriving every day and prices on them are very, very low. Dress Goods Bargains. Thousands of yards of Wash Goods, bolts, half pieces and remnants go on bargain counters Monday at cost and less. ioc yarcfiwide percale 6^ Assorted tpor sbambry Assorted ct ibr gingham 6^ Yard wide leeching, best 7A Fine mercev r ed ginghams sells 25c, nis sale 10 All assortments of mercerise 1 whPe good sor the latest de signs, \vortjblsc 09 We cordially invite you to come and we guarantee to save you money on the great special sale that goes on now. Yours for great Bargains, THE LEADER DEPARTMENT STORE. * Douglas, Ga, THE YEAR FOR DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. For All the News of the Campaign Read The Journal. The Atlanta Journal will not only strive to be right, but it will be bright and large, national in its news and views. Everyone who is interested in this vital Presidential contest will need it every day. The Journal’s facilities for getting the news “while it is news” are better than any other paper published in the South. The rates are very low, being only $7.00 per year for the Daily and Sunday by mail, $3.50 for six months Daily only $5.00 per year, $2.50 six months, or delivered by our carriers in the different towns and cities at 12c per week. SPECIAL CAMPAIGN OFFER. The Daily and Sunday Journal for the next six months, $3.00. Agents are wanted to take subscriptions and a very liberal commission will be al lowed on all new subscribers. Address Atlanta Journal, Circulation Department, Journal Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Terms, subscription blanks, sample copies, printed matter, etc., will be sent by return mail: If you want all the News all the time read The Journal and the Breeze. The Semi-Weekly Journal and the Breeze, 12 mos. $1.50. Sheriff Sale. GEORGIA —Coffee county. Will be sold before the court-house door, in Douglas, said couuty, between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in October next, the follow ing property to wit: 32.13 (thirty-two and one-third) acres of land, of lot No. 387, in the first district of said county, and known as the Charlie Frier place, the place on which he now lives, and bounded as follows: On the west by lands of Griffin McGassen, north by lands of J. M. Crawford, south by lands of Morgan Cleveland, east by lands of Jennie Wells. Said property levied on and to be sold to satisfy a Justice court fifa in favor of E. L. Tanner, vs. Han nah Frier and Charlie Frier. Levy made and returned to me by W. j. Douglas, constable, cn August 24th, 1904. This September 3rd, 1904. W. W. SOUTHERLAND. Sheriff Better quality white mercer ised waistings makes up durable and neat 15 All kind flowered Silks regu lar 50c grade 19 Finest grade Peau de Soie Silk usually sells for 1.00 59 Ladies 5c handkerchiefs 01 Great Cut Prices in Millinery. $2 $3 and $4 hats will ga for 95 Little priced hats for little people CONDENSED STORIES.” Henry Clay’* Surprise at the Generos ity of His Friends. George Wood was in Pittsburg some months ago, w r hen he was ask ed to stop in a bank and pay his respects to the president, who was ninety-four years old. “Mr. Wood, you are from Louis ville?” said the venerable gentle man. “I" was in Louisville only once, and that was many years ago. I called at the Bank of Kentucky “DID EVER A MAX HAVE SCCH FRIENDS?’’ and met its president, Mr. Virgil McKnight, a man known and re spected by bankers everywhere. “While in Mr. McKnight’s office Mr. Henry Clay was announced. “‘Tell.Mr. Clay .to come in at Douglas, Ga., September 3rd, 1904. once/ said Mr. McKnight, rising. “1 saw enter a tall man of digni fied and graceful bearing. “Mr. Clay did not delay a mo ment, but came nt once to the pur pose of his call. “ ‘Mr. McKnight/ said lie, ‘I have indorsed a note which is due in this bank in the next few days. It is for $5,000. My friend is unable to meet the note, and I shall have it to pay. I have come to ask if the bank will carry that paper for me until I can arrange to settle the debt/ “ ‘Mr. Clay/ said Mr. McKnight, ‘you are mistaken. You are not on any paper in this bank/ “Mr. Clay was greatly surprised and said he certainly could not he mistaken. “Mr. McKnight then said: ‘This bank held that paper, but it was paid in full some days ago by friends who desire to be unknown/ “ ‘Did ever a man have such friends as I?’ said Mr. Clay, with emotion. ‘I have come from a sim ilar visit to the Bank of Louisville, and have been told by the officers that all the paper on which I am indorser lias been paid/ ”—Louis ville Evening Post. Whisky Wisdom. “Some years ago,” says “Private” John Allen, “there came to .Mont gomery, Ala., a company of actors who put on that play so intensely disliked of southerners, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin/ “At tiie end of the first act a man who gave evidence of having imbibed rather freely arose from his seat and unsteadily made his way out of the theater. “In a short time he returned and was about to re-enter the playhouse when he was stopped by the door keeper, who said: “ ‘You can’t come in/ “ ‘Why not ?’ sullenly demanded ; the gentleman who had been irnlulg- j ing_ too freely. ‘Here’s m’ return! 75c child hat for 35 35c child bat for 19 Baby Caps 14 50c Boys Caps 25 Ready made skirts will go at half the usual price Hen’s Clothing. Fine 10.00 all wool suits 4.47 ~ 7.50 all wool suits 3.45 Big line single coats worth 3.00 and 4.00, this 5a1e.,... 1.95 Big line pants, worth $2.00 $3.00, to clean ’em up I 2 # cnecic.' ‘ ‘Check or no check/ responded the doorkeeper, ‘you can’t come in; you’re drunk!’ “ ‘Of course I’m drunk/ rejoined the other feelingly. ‘D’ye s’pose I’d wanter come hack to this show if I wasn’t?’”—New York Herald. Known by Different Name*. The late Dean Everett of the Harvard Divinity school missed a train at a country stution and had to spend a long, dreary day in the town “hotel.” Finally, in despera tion, 110 asked the proprietor to bring him a checkerboard. To the aged dean’s consternation the man returned with a bottle of whisky and two glasses. “Why, what’s this? I asked for a checkerboard,” said the dean. “Oh, I knew what, you wanted ail right!” was the reply. “We call it by lots of different names down here.” —Pittsburg Dispatch. The King Won the Race. After the battle of the Boym King James escaped to Dublin am informed Lady Tyrconnel that he fellow countrymen had run away “If they have, sire,” she replied “your majesty seems to have woi the race.” Cfianee Fop a Fortune. A would be grateful public Is waiting to reward the man who will Invent a car window that can always be opened easily in summer, but enn only be opened by consent of the majority la winter.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Eronomlral. Husband—You are not economical. Wife—Well, if you don’t call a woman economical who saves her wedding dress for a possible second marriage I’d like to know what you think econo my Is like.—Glasgow Times. A Brunlted Party. With Cleveland and Bryan voting the ticket the Democracy Is reunited.— New York World. SI.OO pfer Boys’ suits are cut to half gfe price. SUSPENDERS worth 25 at aV Best 20c suspenders now at.. Shoes, Shoes. For men, women and chil- _ (Iron, all styles low quarter . will and must go. $1.50 and 1.50 shoes fS $3 and $4 men’s shoes for 2,7 Brogan shoes worth 1.25 M | Men’s Hats. A Fine men’s lints goat half p.iiee. A Naugh 4-ff^ Johnny pat ampler Grandpa** Sunutitf ,trousers lm Jf: •’W* Surely grandpa*jhMs no wlngs-j. > Johnny doe* aucti jftttmy thlngatY'OL with fbu jHw'L of wnior. Writejagy ■; -U g<Ai ••upbh I u ritmg will he inviiibie, 1 warming befflwtfA- • - J letters will appear. If tfte^PpKagl« is allowed to get cold "aga disappear* but feappefer wht uj