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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. .. i-- ■ ■ -i ■ - or ali