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The Douglas Weekly Breeze. FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, F 1 Li ST AND ALL THE TIME VOL 15, No. 21 Vote for the McMichael Amendment. Of the several amendments to be ■voted upon at the state and county election in October, there is one that should appeal to every patri otic citizen of Georgia. This is the McMichael local tax amendment which proposes to modify the pres ent cpnstitution of the states as to make it possible for any county or •sub-school district, by a two-third majority of the votes cast, to levy an advalorem tax,- not exceeding two and a half mills, on all taxable property in'such county or district Tor school purposes. Let it be understood that the ratification of this amendment does not mean that th<*tax will beassess ed until the matter is again, sub mitted to a vote of the people. In other words, should the amend ment be adopted, local taxation for •educational purposes will be placed upon a local option basis. If at any subsequent election held for the purpose, two-third 6 of those voting favor local taxation, a tax may be levied on the property in the county or district, as the case may be, the money arising from such taxation to be aided to the amount received from the state school fund for the support maintainance of the public schools. Under the local tax plan, the following advantages to the educa tional cause would accrue: The school term could be increas ed so as to cover at least six months, Tution would be free t j all pu pils of public school age. Teachers could be paid better •salaries and could be paid’promptly. Well trained and efficient teach ers could be secured. New and improved sc\hool build ings with modern equipments could be added from year to year. We desire to urge upon the citi zens of Coffee county the import ance of ratifying this amendment so as to make it possible to improve our educational facilities to such an extent that the means for liber al training and preparation for useful citizenship may be carried to the young in the most remote locality. Go to the election on October sth, and vote for the McMichael amendment. Yours for progressjin education. Melvin Tanner, Co. S. Com. ludden & Bates' Southern Music House. Ludden & Bates are always thought of when an organ or piano are mentioned, because they are well-known and popular, this long established Savannah Music House becoming a house-hold word in Georgia. If you need an instru ment, piano or organ, buy from them, and then make a guess how many instruments will be sold du ring the year, and your instrument will cost you nothing. See their advertisement oh the eighth page. Well Pleased With the Breeze- The Valdosta Buggy Co sent us a check last Monday for a half page advertisement in the Breeze for four insertions, and in the letter accompanying said “We think our advertisement in the Breeze did us good, and that makes us want to try you again sometime in the future.” Just such encourage ment as that will keep the Breeze moving, and as it moves it will grow better. The Truck Growers Association. The first nueting of The South east Georgia Truck Growers Asso ciation will convene at the Court House in Waycross at ten o’clock, Saturday morning, October 6th. At that meeting plans for the next Spring crop will be laid, and all necessary arrangements will be perfected for the work of the Asso ciation which it is the purpose to carry on. The question of fertilizers will be discussed and it is expected that arrangements will be made to buy chemicals in large amounts where by farmers may mix their own fer tilizers and save nearly half the price they are now paying. As soon as it is prepared, the Association will distribute to its member! all information concern ing the planting of truck, the bny ing of seed, the cultivation and the marketing of to the best advantage. Every farmer in the Counties of Appling, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Pierce, Ware and Wayne are invi ted to become a member. The Annual dues are one dollar a year. Send your name to E. J. Berry, Secretary and Treasurer, Waycross and join in this effort to raise the farmers of this section from simply a meat and bread cor ner to something better. A handsome Auburn Wagon has been offered to the member of the Association who raises the best yield of Irish Potatoes on one acre of land in the next spring crop. Other prizes are to be offered at the Annual meeting, Octob r Bth, for other crops. The Governors forjCoffee county are T. B. Marshall.’'Seward Lott, W. L. Kirkland, Jesse Lott, and Dan Newburn. “In Summertime Down by the Sea.” Very few people have any idea of the vast amount of money there is to be made and lost in the Music Publishing Business. At times j from SIO,OOO to $20,000 will be lost ] by a single Publisher in trying to j make a “Winner.” Then again a lucky publisher will make a fortune i on his first effort. The biggest “Song Hit,” and the best money maker in this Country at the pres ent time is a song called—“lN SUMMERTIME, DOWN BY THE SEA” written by Harry B. Lester and Al. J. Doyle. This song is now being sung nightly with great success, in all the prin cipal theatres from Maine to Cali fornia. There were nearly 100,00© copies of this song sold in less than thirty da*ys from the date of issue, and present predictions are that over one million copies will be sold ■nside of one year. It has been calculated by good judges that the publishers will make a net profit of over $30,000 on this one song above all expenses. CHORUS In Summertime, Down by the sea, The only real place boys for me, Take.a ride on a trolley, get there be fore dark, Take your sweetheart to Dreamland or to Luna (Park, In Summertime, Down by the Sea, The place where we all like to be; Where the breeze softly blows, And where every one goes, In Summertime, Down by the Sea. Price 50 cents per copy. Readers of our paper, by sending 25 cents in post age stamps to the THEATRICAL MUSIC SUPPLY CO., 44 West 28th Street, New York, will receive a copy.' mailed to them post paid. \ Douglas, Ga., September 24th, 1904. COFFEE COUNTY’S RESOURCES Sensible Letter' from a sensible Man on a Sensible Subject- Douglas, Ga., Sept 20th-Mr. Editor: We are just entering the fall of the year, when our crops are beginning to be gathered into the store houses for future use. Corn and fodder all stacked and housed ready to be fed to the stock. The corn, cotton and cane, as well as potatoes, will soon be ready to take their places as money crops. Now, I want to draw the attention of many that will read your paper to a few facts that are not gen erally known, or perhaps forgotten by those who knew, that the South is rapidly coming to the front as an agricultural country and it is but right that those seeking new fields of enterprise should know and understand the advantages of Southern Georgia. Let us go down to the sea and be gin there and when we land at Sa vannah or Brunswick, we find them like all seaport towns, only a few feet above sea level, but as we leave them we begin an eleva tion so gentle that we hardly re alize that we are getting higher and higher as we get into the mid dle of the state, and when we are told that Jesup is over a hundred feet higher than Savannah or Brun swick and that Waycross is still higher, being nearly two hundred feet, and that Douglas, Coffee county, is up something like three hundred feet we are sutprised but this is true. Now. this important fact teaches ! us that we have the finest drainage or our lands to be had in any state in the Union. Our creeks, rivers, and branches go flowing at a gen tle speed down to the sea ; no tor rents and floods that tear up lands, roads, bridges and sweeps away the farmers crops to be lost in the raging waters. No, none of that in South Georgia. And the wise men who c’aim to know say we are not in the path of cyclones and blizzards, while we have a temper ature as even as any man could wish for. In summer the thermom eter rarely goes up to 100 degrees, mostly about 93, while in winter it drops down to freezing only two or three times a year, and many winters it never gets to freezing, and our garden flowers are bloom ing at Christmas and New Years’ time. You can get green peas, turnips and cabbage all the year ’round generally. These facts should convince home-seekers and others that South Georgia is the place to live in. As for health, the writer has lived in Europe, Canada and about twenty different states in this union and he can truthfully say that we have as healthy a country as can be found in the world. Take the death rate of the cities of the world and compare them with South Georgia cities and see the result: London is 22 in the thousand, Paris 24, New York 26, Bruns wick, Ga., 10, and it stood 9 for many years. Savannah and Jack sonville will compare with similar cities in the world. Why should we not be proud of such a combi nation of circumstances. Again as to our soil. We have quite a variety of soils along the coast lines. The soil is a dark alu vial, and as we recede from the the coast we get a sandy loam with clay sub soil, all through South Georgia. Up in Coffee, Appling, Telfair, and Irwin counties we have what is called pimply land. It is a strong soil, full of fine pim ples or iron ore, of a perio oxide character. Clay soil is abundant and it makes splendid brick. Of course, afl good brick-clay is found in pockets or patches. Now what will South Georgia produce agricultrially ? \Ve will begin with long-cotton, sugar-cane, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, cab bage, beans, rice, oats, hay, corn, velvet beans and all good money crops, while for fruits there is no better soil, grapes almost growing wild here. Among the delicious wild fruits are the black berries, straw berries, huckleberries, &c., which are big money crops. Peach es, yes peaches that weigh 16 ounces each, sweet and juicy. Oh, my! I have raised them myself and know. Plums, all kinds, some of them growing wild in the old fields and lanes. Sour and Japa nese oranges will do well here, as well as the pear, but the tree is sub ject to blight. But th e coming money crop of this section is the sugar cane and Georgia syrup. There are certain counties that are taking the lead in this line, but South Georgia can produce sugar cane of the finest quality in the world. The people are awakening to their privileges in this line for we have the whole world for a market for Georgia Sugar Cane Table Syrup, which cannot be beaten when properly made and properly put up in pack ages that will enable the producer to ship it to the ends of the world. There are vast fortunes to be made in this line and it will be done at no distant day. Cairo, in Thomas county ships more syrup than anv other town in Georgia, and this is mainly owing to the push and perseverance of some of.its enter prising citizens. The Atlantic Coast Line shipped on all its lines in 1902, 16,618 barrels of syrup, and of that quanlity Cairo shipped 10 ’777* See what push and ener gy accomplished. If Cairo, in Thomas county can do that why cannot any other county with as good soil and advantages do as well or better? This amount, 16, 618 barrels of syrup seetns to be a big lot of syrup, but it is only a drop in the bucket comparatively. That amount could be multiplied bv ten and then only one out of ten would get one spoonful of svrup each, not taking into consid eration what other counties would buy from us. It has been shown time and time again that SIOO.OO per acre can be made on a cane crop. Don’t that pay better than cotton? Why, of course it docs, but the great drawback to the in dustry has been, as a general rule that the syrup has not been made of a uniform grade and has not been put up in proper packages, hence the sale of cane syrup has been limited, and therefore, no market for such syrup. But as soon as our syrup is properly made and handled then a market will be found so that our farmers will be taxed to their utmost to supply the demand. We give here an estimate of the cost of pi.inting and cultivating one acre of sugar cane : Seed cane sl^.oo Fertilizers 12.00 Cultivation and grinding 15.00 $42.1x1 This estimate may be varied and it is generally conceded that syrup can be made ready to pack for ten cents per gallon by adopting the most modern methods and we are satisfied it can. How dare any man say that Coffee county cannot do as well as Thomas or Brooks coun ties, arid why not Douglas be as great a shipper as Cairo or (Quit man or any other town in South Georgia. Farmers and others around Doug las should take this matter up and push it along. We have no reason able excuse. Our railroads now give us inlets and outlets to the world’s markets, at as low rates as any other town in South Georgia. The timber is fast disappearing and our lands will soon be ready for the plow, and the Lord knows the lands are cheap enough. In five years from to-day land cannot be bought for five times its price to-day. There is no reason in the world why Coffee county, the big gest county in the State cannot do SI.OO per Annum as Thomas county does, and Doug las could ship syrup by the thous ands of barrels. We have seen syrup made within a few miles of this place that if put up in proper shape would seli in any part of the world for SI.OO per gallon. This Georgia Table Syrup is the coming money crop of Southern Georgia, av.d we say once more get together, talk this matter over, and make a beginning. Other people in other States of the Union are watching us. They are tired of eating the chemical syrup and are crying out for genuine Georgia cane syrup. They have the money to pay for it and we certainly can make it fit for the king to eat. We are now looking for a party of capitalists from Ohio to study the Sugar cane syrup industry, with a view of helping us develop our wealth in growing cane in quantities and to put up steam plants on a large scale to manu facture and put in proper shipping packages Georgia cane syrup. Let us encourage all such people to come among us. The people of 'lie world are looking south to-day for new fields of industry and new homes. Let us all say welcome, thrice welcome and extend the hand of fellowship to all who seek our company with a view to help ing us build up the coming land of promise. J* M. Jardink. Excursion Rates via Atlantic and Birin in attain. St. Louis, Mo., account Louisi ana Purchase Exposition, May i No vein be 1 30, 1904. Season excursion tickets will be sold daily, beginning April 25th, and continuing during the period of the Exposition, with final limit December 15, 1904. Round ttrip rate from Douglas $37.60. Sixty-day excursion tickets will be sold daily, beginning’April 25, and continuing during the period of the Exposition, with fin d date to leave St. Louis, returning, sixty (60) days in addition to date of sale. Final date in no case to ex ceed December 13, 1904. Round trip rate from Douglas $31.40. Fifteen-day excursion tickets will be sold April 25th and con tinuing during period of Exposi tion, with final date to leave St. Louis returning fifteen (15) days from date of sale. Round trip rate from Douglas $25.60. Coach excursion tickets will be sold May 16th and 31st. with final date to leave St. Louis returning ten (10) days from and including date ol sale. Round trip rate from Douglas $18.90. For schedules and full informa tion apply to B. F. Holzendorf, Agent, Douglas, Ga. Superior Court Notice. Superior court convenes on first Monday in October and will em brace Ist, and 2nd, Monday’s. Ist, week Civil business will be disposed of. 2nd, week Criminal business. All parties and witnesses inter ested in civil business will be on hand Ist. Monday Those interest ed in criminal business will appear 2nd, week in October. Witnesses subpoened before the grand Jury will come on Ist Monday. D. W. Gaskin C. S. C. No Trouble at Nicholls. A gentleman from Nicholls, last Monday, when asked as to the cor rectness of the report that a coffin containing rifles, previously buried by negroes, had been exhumed there some ten days ago, declared that the report was without found ation. Nicholls is a quiet- place, comparatively, he says, and the law-abiding citizens hope to kee'* it so.