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DOUGLAS BREEZE.
JNO. AV. GREEK, Kdltor.
E. H, SAl*l’, Associate Editor.
GREER At SAl’l* Publishers.
Official Organ of Coffee County
Adrcrlhiiiif Kates Reasonable.
I’D ULISHED WEEKLY.
Entered at (lie Postotiice at Douglas
Qs. ns see tul-class mail matter.
FRIDAY, MARCH IR, 1800.
Lllllilt TV.
“The name of liberty,” says Raynol,
“is so alluring, that all who fight for
it are sure of obtaining our secret
wishes in their favour: their cause is
that of the whole human race, and be
comes our own.” In contemplation
of the struggle that is being carried on
by the Cuban patriots for liberty, we
are stongly reminded of the history
that relates the heroic struggles of our
fathers for the same cause. Liberty
touches a responsive chord in the harts
of all Americans, and incites us to ac
tivity that often astonishes the world
and blinds with amazment the conserv
ative monarchies of Europe, and they
fail utterly to understand the spirit
whicii prompts our countrymen toad
with such vigor when this question
is involved.
Behold the dullards of the East as
they stand upon their shores and
look with consummate wonder across
the Atlantic at the hold transgressions
of international law, instigated by the
heart-felt sympathy for a nation of
down-trodden surfs. What should
Amo*-:;,,, (:ar( . for international law
when the children at her very feet are
Buffering under the oppression and
tyranny of a heartless government?
V'hat lias a man or a nation to do
with consequences when a fellow-man
or nation is breaking down under the
lash of bold injustice? When there is
nothing more than questions of gain
involved, it is well enough to listen to
the voice of IVudenco who sees all
things wearing a disastrous mien;
hut when Liberty is at stake and the
fagots arc being lighted by the in
famous torches of despotism, it is time
for the strong arm of Jupiter to strike
with lightening and set free the injured
goddess who is the emblem of our glo
rious freedom.
But “liberty will not descend to a peo
ple, a people must raise themselves to
it. Liberty must be earned before it
can be enjoyed.” This very principle is
why Americans are so enthusiastic in
matters pertaining to liberty and ap
preciative of its benefits. Our forefa
thers laid down their livos for the free
dom we enjoy and all our privileges arc
stamped with the blood of a hundred
battle-fields. Like every worthy cause,
it must be attained at the highest price,
and the solicitude that sinks a people
to the lowest depths of desperation in
its persuit v'i| juiso them to the high
est pinnacle of freedom.
We glory in the cause of Cuba, and
it should be the spirit of every Amer
ican to sympathize with a people that
have been oppressed with infinitely
more vehemence by Spain than ever
were the people of the colonies by
England. We respect the conserva
tive forces that are assidous to ward
off a conflict with Spain, and we have
no patience with that fool hardy spirit
that would run riot over the Spanish
government simply because we may lie
sufficiently powerful to do so : but this
is no time to bicker over technicalities
and withhold a needed encouragement
which granted now, may bridge the
Cubans over imperative ditllculties
and insure their freedom, but which,
if’withheld till later, may come too
late to save them from falling back
under the Spanish yoke of bondage.
If Spain is wrong in her treatment of
Cuba.—and intuitive justice proclaims
that she is—there is no right in the
universe that will sustain her, and no
foreign power can afford to espouse
her cause as long as she maintains
this attitude. Should they do so it
is merely a question of time when they
will be compelled to recede from such
a stand; for liberty is an attribute of
God, and is just as inevitable as the
other laws of nature. No one nation
or all the nations, can suppress it.
"Liberty is the cause of the whole hu
man race.” and the government that
opposes it will not be sustained bv its
own constituents. England's premier
was arbitrary in his rulings on a ques
tion common fairness—a lesser right
than that of liberty—and his people
refused to uphold him, and now he is
diplomatizing for arbitration.
\V e need not feat to do the right in
anything, whether or not it he in bar
mouy even with as great a function
as established international law. IS
law is not in harmony with right then
it must be made so and not right
made to conform to law.
The sense of the American people is
that Cuba is right in her struggle for
liberty, and this sense has been instill
ed into Americans bythe tenets of their
government, and we believe that they
should follow that sense as far as jus
tice will allow.
Gov. Atkinson of Georgia and his
staff went on a little junket the other
day to the town of Waycross, in the
Southern part of the state. On their
return the governor preserved a dig
nified silence when asked if lie had a
good time. A prominent member of
the staff, however, was not so reticent.
“Talk about your dry towns!” he ex
claimed. “Waycross is the dryest on
earth. They don’t oven allow carpen
ters down there to carry spirit levels.”
—Detroit Free Press. Hurrah for
Waycross! may God give her strength
to continue in this reputation as long
as she is a town.
Brunswick is begining to assume a
tone of cheerfulness that is the har
binger of better spirits in the trade of
the town. —Brunswick T. A.
This is truly gratifying, for Bruns
wick lias had more than her share of
misfortune. Shelias the facilities, and
energy and pluck will make her a
great town yet.
Paying a Compliment.
Wo have hoard cf a lady of rare
beauty who said, upon a cortain oc
casion, that tho only roal, disinter
ested compliment he over rooeivuu
was from a coal lioavor, who nsked
permission to light his pipe in tho
gleaming of her oyos.
Another compliment, truo and
gonuino, was paid by a sailor who
was sont by a captain to carry a let
ter to the lady of his lovo.
Tho sailor, having delivered his
missive, Btood gazing in silent ad
miration upon tho face of tho lady,
for sho was very beautiful.
"Well, my good man,” said she,
“for what do you wait? There is no
answer?”
“Lady,” tho sailor roturnod with
bumble deference, “I would like to
know your namo.”
“Did you not seo it on tliolottor?”
“Pardon, lady, I never learned to
road. Mine has been a hard, rough
life.”
“And for what reason, my good
man, would you know my namo?”
“Because," answered tho old tar,
looking lionostly up, "in a storm at
sea, with danger of death afore me,
1 would like to recall tho name of
tho brightest thing I’d ovor soon in
life. Tliero’d ho sunshine in it, ovon
in tho thick darkness.”—Now York
Dispatch.
Truth.
Bojournor Truth, who afterward
roso to fame by her unlettered gen
ius, whilo a slavo in Now Jersey,
long years ago, saw a favorite child
sold away from her. Sho prayod
for a curse upon her master for do
ing it. Next day his oldest son was
thrown from a oarriago and killed.
“O Lawd, ” sobbed tho tender
hearted nogress when sho heard of
it, “you dono tuk mo up too quiok!
I didn’t re’lly moan it!”
A Nook In tho Wood*.
While still not far in tho woods,
wo came to a dear, hospitable nook
under a protecting hank, where a
tinkling spring, descending to meet
a quiet stream, kept the mosses
green, though it was so near frosty
Deoombor. As wo listened to tho
gontle music of the spring—“tinkle,
tinkle”—-the same notes camo re
peated from a distance to us. Wo
had to think twioo before we de
cided that what we heard was tho
sound of shoop hells in a pasture
some fields away. Then wo said that
for those who listen well tho vari
ous voices in nature—both living
and unconscious voices—have much
that is in oommon, and my sweet
child comrade told me how she had
once heard a sparrow singing like a
running brook ns he perched on a
willow branch close by!—Edith M.
Thomas in St. Nicholas.
The Greatest Mercy.
There •was a good deal of sound
human nature in the unexpected re
ply of tho dying old woman to bar
minister's leading question, “Hero
at tho end of a long life, which of
the Lord's mercies are you most
thankful for?” Her eyes brightened
as she answered, ‘‘My victuals.”
The !>ear Girls.
Miss Oldun (playfully)—l'm old
er than you think I am.
Miss Caustique I doubt it.—■
Strand Magazine.
Th. Ilurglar Humor lit.
‘‘Takingone thing with another,”
mused the burglar, adding the
sleeper's watch and jewelry to the
stock of miscellaneous plunder al
ready in his capacious pocket, "busi
ness in my line is pretty good to
night. Chioago Tribune,
MRS. APHRA BEHN.
A Handsome Woman Wan the First Eng
lish Female Novelist.
An important figure in the begin
nings of the English novel is Mrs.
Apbra Behn (1640-1689), whose per
sonal history is quite as interesting
as any of her stories. Her futhor, a
Mr. Johnson, had influence enough
to get himself appointed lieutenant
general of Surinam, and he set sail
for the new world, taking his wife
and children with him. Mr. John
son did not live to see the regions he
had been sent to rule, but his wife
and children spent some years in
the beautiful and romantic scenery
of Surinam, and there Aphra found
the materials of her best novel,
j “Oroonoko. ” The time had not yet
come when description of nature
was a recognized featuro in a story,
! hut “Oroonoko” contains one or
I two passages where an attempt is
made to reveal to the people of Eng
land the boautios of Surinam. Those
passages haveboen praised for their
! “careless and picturesque power,”
| hut possibly the second epithet is
less deserved than the first. More
over, one Is bound to say that Mrs.
Bohn’s imagination is apt to enter
into the record of her experiences.
When, after her return to Eng
land, she had the honor of telling
her adventures to Charles 11, she
included among the fauna of South
America snakes of terrific dimen
sions, but a certain license has al
ways been accorded to the retailors
of snake stories. Her most extraor
dinary traveler’s tale is her account
of what she saw on her voyage from
Antwerp to England. How many
among those that go down to the
sea in ships havo seen floating on
tho waves “a four square floor of
various oolored marble, from which
ascended rows of fluted and twisted
pillars, embossed round with climb
ing vines and flowers, and waving
streamers, that received an easy mo
tion in tho air, upon the pillars 100
little Cupids clambering with flut
tering wings!” Little wonder sure
ly that, following the disappearance
of this strango pageant, came a vio
lent storm and Aphra and her com
panions suffered shipwreck. There
is room for doubting whether Mrs.
Bohn put into any of her stories as
much imagination as adorns the an
nals of her adventures. For her pe
culiar claim to attention is that at a
time when the heroio romance was
in fashion she wont for her charac
ters and inoidents to real life. W’hon
she appeared in London after her so
journ in Surinam, her good looks,
her ready wit and her lively con
versation carried society by storm.
Sho is described as “a handsome,
dark girl, with a clear forehead, fine
eyes, a full and merry mouth, an
animated though voluptuous counte
nance and a quick and ready
tongue. ” —Cornhill Magazine.
Krtltimo Rains.
By far the most interesting ruins
on the coast were those we found
near tho ontranco to Naohvack bay.
It was evident from their appear
ance that they had never been vis
ited by dosocrating strangers, and
even tho natives disclaimed all
knowledge of thorn.
Upon a narrow strip of beach, at
tho foot of a precipitous ravino, out
ting tho orest of the mountainous
cliffs which overhang the sea, half
buried in shingle and weighted
w’itli a heavy oovoring of turf and
moss, are tho well preserved remains
of what was once tho residence of a
populous tribo.
The main ontranco had been form
ed by setting upon end the lower
jawbones of a whale. This led into
a broad passageway, from which
smaller ones branched at irregular
intervals, and which terminated at
the various family apartments or
habitations. Whales’ bones entered
largely into the construction of the
whole, no other material having
been used for supports. Naohvack
is far beyond the northern treo lim
it of tho coast, and these were
doubtless the best substitute for
timbers which could be procured.
Tho vertebrae of whales had been
used as stools and for various other
purposes; the framework of kayaks
and komatiks, skin boats and sledg
es, wore of bone and horn; the weap
ons and implements were of stone,
bone, horn and ivory. Enough of
those were present to have filled a
ship, but not a scrap of iron or oth
er metal could be found.—Outing.
Told For a True Story.
Tho other day an elderly lady
with an umbrella stood on the side
walk cn Washington street, vainly
trying to stop a south bound car. A
white ear came along, and tho wom
an brandished her umbrella aud call
ed out:
‘ Hero! Stop! Yon stop 1”
The motormau slowed up a little
aud called out:
“Wo can’t carry you—this is a
mail car.”
“Well,” screamed the old lady
from tho pavement, “can’t a female
ride on it?”—Boston Transcript
Common Affliction*
Thorne—Miss Hummerly got a
stage fright the other night.
Bramble—So did the audience,—
Boston Courier. .
One
of F!ourw^p|P|
is sufficient to make pastry for one pie\. ''v (yl j||l
The pastry will look better, taste
be better, when the flour is Igleheart’sX ” /I J|
Swans Down. Every kind of food made\
of flour—pastry, cake, bread—will be ligbterX
whiter, more nutritious, if made of \ [J
IGLEHEART’S SWANS DOWN\ ;J/Hk
Flour. The king of patent flours, made from
choicest winter wheat; prepared with the greatest
care by the best milling process known to man.
fcee that the brand on the next flour you buy is “ Igleheart Bros. Swans Down.”
IGLEHEART BROS., Evansville, Indiana.
R. V. DOUGLAS*
agents
mmm mmwm® go.
and Retail Dealer in BEER, WINES, LIQUORS,
Cigars and Tobacco. iaH
JUG TRADE A Specialty.
Brunswick)
J. J. LOTT,
Wholesale; |i GROCER.
tobacco, cigars, and liquors.
Also Flour, Meal, Grits, Grain, Hay and Bran.
214 BAY ST BUST.
B RUJSTSWICK, GrA.-
W c keep constantly on hand a full
and Assorted Lino of Stationery
AND ARE PREPARED TO PRINT
BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, STATEMENTS; ENVEL
OPES, HAND BILLS, ETC.,
At prices that defy competition. BREEZE JOB OFFICE.
My son, deal with men who adver ;
tise. You will never lose by it.—Benj.
Franklin.
J. J. PARKER & C. N. FIELDING
J" IE W BLBE-S.
Watches, Clocks, Guns, Pistols and
Sewing Machines Promptly
Repaired.
Picture Frames of all Kinds & Sizes.
COFFINS
and
casheis
Order of
Wm. P-VR-KScl. W i70r033
CAUTION
If yon want to keep yonr good'
don’t adYertise tliem in the
POPULAR
|| PRICES
goxr 1896
$1 00 per day—Single meals. 25c.
Harnett House,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA.
Why not be your
own Middle-man?
Pay but one profit between maker and
user and that a small just one.
Our Big 7CO Page Catalogue and Buyers
Guide proves that It's possible. Weighs
2‘i pounds, 12,000 Illustrations, describes
and tel is the one-profit price of over 40,000
articles, everything you use. We send it
for lueeuts; that's not for the book, but
to pay part of the postage or expressage,
and keep off Idlers. You can’t get it too
quick.
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.,
The Store of All the People
lll*ii6 Michigan Ave., Chicago.
ills
Money to Loan.
Tlio Inter-Stale Building and
Loan Association, of A'llanta, Ga.,
loans money to its members at a
cheap rate of interest, and on easy
terms. It is now ready for doing
business in Douglas. For further
particulars apply to J. A. Daught
ry, local secretary and treasurer, or
O. W. Infinger, local agent.
S Massey’s
CHAIN OF
Business
—' Colleges
Columbus, Ga.,
Montgomery, Ala.,
Jacksonville, Fla.
Hie Great Schools of the South.
Cheapest and best. Endorsed by Ex*
Speaker Crisp, Governors, .State Super
intendents of Education, Boards of
Trade, and thousands of former stu
dents who are holding luera ive situa
tions. students' railroad fare paid and
credit given for half of tuition until
:hey a*e pinced in situation*. JBoortl
( heap The M s*ey Colleges receive
more calls from business firms for their
graduates than any dozen schools in
the South. lfl *• udents placed in situ
ation? in six months. Send at once
for circulars. Address nearest school.
R. W. MASSEY,
President.
Ca? 7QL. $30.f00 00.
We have hundreds of letters like the
fallowing:
J Montgomery, Ala.. July 5,1895. /
V R. W. President: \
M Pear ?ip.—l ive years ago I was work- 1
f ing on a farm, getting SIOO.OO per year. /
t I course in Telegraphy t your \
\ Cos ”e on b-'jrrcnied money.' Imniedi- 1
S ately unon gradna • ng. you secured, for J
/ me a situation at telegrapher and sta i
1 tion Rgrut oa the Ala. Urt So. R. R. 1
1 From that day to this my success has ]
§ been onwprd ar.d upward. To day I J
/ am train dispatcher at a tal&ry of #
Y $1.00.J0 per year. J. E. Cuj.e. 1
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
GEO. iTTnUGGsT
—ATTORNEY AT LAW—
DOUGLAS, - - - - GA.
Strict attention given to all business
J Lee Crawley
Attorney-al-Law
•VAYCIiOSS, :::::::: GEORGIA
Will attend tlic mouthly ana quar
terly term of the City Court of
Coffee
R. G. DICKERSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Ilomerville, : ; Georgia.
Will attend Superior Court in Cof
fee county.
Xj. 0\ TIiPTTBrT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Hazlehurst, : : : : ; : : Ga
Will attend terms of City and
Superior Courts of Coffee county All
Legal matters attended to promptly.
W M . Toomr
A TTOItNEY-AT-LA If %
WAYCROSS, : : : : : GEORGIA.
Will attend all terms of County and
Superior court of Coffee county. All
legal matters attended to promptly.
C. A. WARD Jr. F. W. DART
WARD & DART.
ii n'i'EJtSt
Douglas, : : :::::::: Ga.
Will practice together in all the court
of Coffee county, except City court,
and olsewhere by special contract.
Prompt attention given to all legal
matters.
UK TV, IV. TERRELL,
Fhysician and Surgeon.
For seven years has made a special
study of diseases peculiar to women
and children, both in private and hos
pital practice. Douglas, Ga. 6-25-95.
w. E. SIBBETT
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
DOUGLAS,
Culls promptly answered day
or ni lit.
Dr, W. A, Moore
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
WILLACOOOIIEE, : : : GEORGIA
All calls attended to, day or night.
W. M. Carter
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Pickren, : : : Georgia,
All calls promptly attended day or
night.
lh\ J. A. Pugh
Dentist.
Headquarters Pearson, Ga. Branch
offices, Douglas and Willacooehee. Per
sons wishing work at other points write
me. I am fully prepared to do any
kind of work pertaining to tho art.
Crown and Bridge work a specialty.
I will be at the following places on the
following dates: Douglas, Ist to 6th
Broxton, Oth to 12th, McDonald’s Mill,
12th to 18th, Pearson, 18th to 2±th, VVil
lacoochee, 24th to 30th.
JNO. M. HALL,
IJ/njsicianl J /njsician and Surgeon —
Wilcox, - - - Georgia.
All calls promptly answered night
or day. Charges reasonable.
KF, GOODYE’K
Blacksmith and Wheelwright,
DOUGLAS, - - - - GEORGIA
I am fully prepared to do all kinds
of work in my line.
Such as making aud repairing bug*
gies, wagons, road carts, timber carts,
GtC. 6to.
SHOEING a special
ty-
I would be pleased to have the pat
ronage of the pub’ic. Respectfully,
2-23-93-tf N. F. GOODYEAR,
C. C. THOMAS,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Waycross, - - Georgia.
Special attention given to practice in
the City and Superior Court3 of
Coilee County.
GUS L. BRACK,
City Auctioneer. Douglas, Ga.
Consignments Solicited.
Full & prompt remittances guaranteed.
cMule on Doughs & MoDonald R.R.
Leave McDonalds 11:30
“ Sweats Still 11:45.
“ Lowthers 12:05.
“ Moores 12:23
“ Downing 1:05.
Arrive Douglas 1 :"25.
RETURNING;
Leave Douglas 2 :20.
“ Downing 2 40,
“ Moores 3:17.
Lowthers 3:35.
“ ’weats Still 3:55.
Arrive McDonalds 4:15.
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