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DOUGLAS ISKEKZE.
JXO. W. CiIIKKK, Kditor.
I'.. S.SAI’I*, \Ksm-ittU* Ifflitor.
GKKI.It A SAIT I*til)Hhor.
Official Organ of Coffee County
V irorl> iirr UitiM Reasonable.
gt'B IKIPTIOS $1 A YEAR, IX ADVANCE
i’UHUSHED WEEKLY.
Entered at 11 jo Postoffice at Douglas
Cm. as see ltd-class mail matter.
Flu in Y MARCH 27. 1890.
Slur Dags Sl l 'tit Thou lAibor.
Everbody belie "es (and we grant it
to bo true) that for the past three or
four years this country has been pan
ing through a dreadful siege of finan
cial depression. When it first began
many people said it was caused by
Republican misrule, Probally so. La
ter on when the Democrats assumed
the sovereignty of flic nation’s affairs
the trouble was claimed to he in a pro
tective tariff We did not attempt to dis
putc it. When the tariff was reformed
and matters did not improve, hut grew
worse day by day, it was finally discov
ered that the financial maceration was
not to he charged to Republicn misrule
and a high larill, hut gr< at bain of
our national and individual discomfort
was because our monetary systi in was
on a gold basis. Without a doubt, this
may be true. It the money stringency
shall continue through another
change in the government or till some
time after a financial legislation have
been effected (if that is n' t too vague
an hypothesis) we doubt not that a
new ailment w ill be found to bear the
iniquity of all the rest.
We shall not presume to deny that
all these accusations have a semblance
of reason and that each one of the
causes enumerated may have had a
part in Creating our financial distress
Rut a limited study of each complaint
as it lias been protruded on the pub
lic and a constant observance of our
financial conditou throughout the
mange* leads us to conclude that" itJT
is the sole cause of <>y£j[
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of ill; n: ..hi,.in lie . 1
wilm bread. A lunduim ntal principh
of the Decalogue is too often trans
gressed, in that so many people work
but a few days out of every week and
expect a liberal income from the same,
whereas the Father of all mercies has
commanded that wo shall work six
days in the week and only promises us
“daily bread” for that.
In all our observation, we have nev
er seen a man who worked six days in
the week want for his daily oread
and most of ouracquaiutanejs wlm do
tliit* are becoming wealthy. And the
men who complain .nost (outside of
the loquatious icwspapers and politi
cians) about ‘nurd times” and "gold
standard” Jd ‘‘contracted currency”
are work from two to four
and spend the
mr
PMHEIEn an absolute gold
ard is best money policy for our
government and we are almost certain
that our currency : s too much contract
ed for easy exchange in commercial
adairs. we even venture to assert that
there are radical errors throughout our
entire social system (There mhst be,
for people say so); and we’do not of
fer this remedy as a panacea of all the
the errors in our social system ; hut
we will he responsible in a moderate
sense and charge the balance to Script
ure, that a strict adherence to the
Mosaic law on labor will hush the
croakers, put anew coat on the loafer,
and make him that complaineth. to
sing anew song on finance and hard
times.
“Six di|W thou labor.” The
law is a 1 -Hit an option
ary duty ’e.i; and .' H > who
would his God and do himsylf
full fustiy mus l labor six days nu.l
ffSt Otic j'
Col. Lee Crawlov solicitors of the
county court of Ware, has ll >llg ht a
mdm! field and will devote hi\
raising Georgia s fav-.irinl
1,10 >Uo.‘es>fulJgy. ang
; u.
The recent mob known as the Ken
tucky legislature his dispersed. At
lanta Journal.
And now the Populists demand the
free coinage of both gold and silver
It is a pity they left out greenbacks.
Congress lias ordered the adminis
tration to h ive built four new battle
-hips and fifteen improved torpedo
boats.
The Bible tells the sluggard to go to
the ant, but in these days most of
them go to their fatlr r-in-’aw.—Bill
ville Banner.
Mr. C. W. Wilson, day clerk of the
Southern hotel at Waycross, is a cour
teous gentleman and makes you feel
it home while you are in his care.
Rev. A. G. P. Dodge an Episcopal
minister of St Simons Island lias taken
into his home eight or ten orphan chil
dren and cares for them as ho does
his own fail ily.
“That the arm clutch is a custom
relegated by the shoddy aristocracy of
the North to the South and the South
ought to be ashamed of myself for
adopting it.”
While iu Waycross this week
we dropped into Lanier Son & Co’s
large jewelery establishment and the
sights! the sights! you must go and
see for yourself,
Secretary Carlisle is formally an
nounced as a candidate for president.
We do not think of a more suitable
man ii? the nation outside of the
present incumbent.
The cold last Friday night killed
three fourths of the fruit crop in this
section. Our heart bleeds to record
it; for we already had our mouths fix
ed for those luscious yellow peaches.
A man sent this answer to a hoqlf
wellcr who sent in his account‘/or rt
Hook some tiuitc hjJiipre dirfiverfed v “1
never or<>Y*.'itSSW AiooiL'lt I '<s(,>
did not solid it.lf you 8 mat It, I never
got it. If f sgot if, 1 paid for it. If I
didn’t I wont —Ex.
Tin Herald knows full well that
from the standpoint of a great and true
statesman, 11, G. turner was right in
his vote on the Cuban question but be
bunged if we don,t want to see the
Spanish wiped from the face of the
earth'—V nysross Herald.
The following is clipped from ilie
borne Georgian whose editor is a
woman. Notice the consummate tact
with which slio Writes a local: “Mr.
Abel Loyd is always on the lookout
Ho caught us purloining several fine,
large, freshly parched goobers, and to
save us from kleptomania, perhaps
made us a present of a whole heap.
They are lovely. You ought to buy
some.”
An instance before me is the pert
description of a first kiss given by a
vivacious Geargiu girl. She says it
made her feel "as though something
ran down her nerves on foot of dia
monds, escorted by several Cupids in
drawn by angels shaded
and the whole
melted rainbow" An Au
gusta editor says Unit a girl who can
talk like that is worth kissing.— Ex.
Judge Peiham of the Waycross
Herald came up to see us last Tues
day, and the old War Horse seemed so
well pleased with Douglas and Coffee
county that we felt like offering him
a house and lot to stay with us.
NN t" never met the Judge before bis
visit to Douglas but our heart is unan
| inunis in granting him the full hom
! age due liis honorable reputation. He
is a typical Southern gentleman.
The address of Col, B. \V. Wronn,
passenger traffic manager of the Plant
System, before the convention of pas
senger and ticket agents at Richmond i
was one of notable worth. His sub
ject was Our Fellow Citizen, the Lo
motive, and bis splendid treatment of
the theme fairly made the locomotive
a living, thinking creature, burdened
wi h the interest of nations and their
material and intellectual progress
Parts of Col. Wrenn’s speech were
ms of aestheticism, and the whole
; was interwoven with a strong and
| elouucut sentiment of progress and;
patriot i .in.
A STUDY OF FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Dignity, Euphemisms, Avocations and
Hopes of Up to I>ato Undertakers.
Although tlio word ‘‘undertaker”
is a manifest euphemism meant to
iiido the nature of the trade for
which it stands, tho undertakers
long ago sought further to disguise
their profession by elegant phrase
ology. Nobody but a pauper is now
buried in a coffin by an undertaker.
The wealthier dead are laid away in
burial caskets by funeral directors.
The undertakers of this town as a
class aro an interesting, if somewhat
grisly, subject of study. Nobody
who has really known an undertaker
can doubt tho truth and realism of
the gravediggers’ talk in “Hamlet.”
The modern funeral director of this
town is not a gravedigger, hut ho is
a man of small reticence touching
subjects that most men prefer to
avoid. Ho has become calloused by
uso of such things, and ho has an
unpleasant way of dwelling upon
certain details of his profession, as
had Shakespeare’s gravediggers.
Outwardly tho Now York under
taker is an almost offensively ro
spootablo person. There is a tradi
tion of the trado that imposes neat
ness upon tho premises. Undertak
ers aro divided as to the exact pro
prieties of decoration. Most affect
ebony trimmings to their offices, hut
a few substitute white paint for
black with startling effect. Under
takers in Now York commonly join
with their main business one or more
of throe or four avocations. Many
keop livory stables, so that the coach
that carries a sablo company to a
comctory by day whisks off a bride
in white silk and orange blossoms
by night. Some undertakers are also
manufacturers of funeral offerings,
wreaths and omLlematio devices.
Some show little signs which road,
“Pinking Done Here.” Somo deal in
out flowers. A fow aro in tho real
estate business, and tho announce
ment “Lodgings For Single Gentle
men” beside a gaping coffin serves
to recall Lamb’s pleasantry on this
subject in one of liis droll lottors to
Manning in the far east.
Undertakers in Now York are of
all nations, and it is usual for a for
eign family to employ in the caso of
death an undertaker of their own
race. There are a few negro under-
“Entrepreneur ties pompes
4ußel>rcs” is the occasional an
'noctneemunt in tlip .French qti.fiTtui'3,
atjd each nation 'has its. oVii .eu
phemism f.p - recycled
with some popular .prdjodiao.
Tho Nr>w York undertakers, al
though nearly all anxious to sur
round thoir business with pomp and
dignity, differ greatly in their meth
ods. A fow rise quito above the dis
play of caskets and content them
selves with a modest announcement
of thoir trado. Many bavo tho privi
lege of placing advertisements on
tho fronts of churches. In such case
tho undertaker acts as sexton at
rather less than current rates, the
advertisement of tho sign on tho
church front being an equivalent
for part of the pay. It is a great card
for tho ordinary undertaker to have
tho victim of an accident or a mur
dered person or a suicide sent to his
shop. This brings tho coroner, an
official investigation, and a free ad
vertisement in tlio newspapers. Such
undertakers like to uso tlio word
“morgue” as an equivalent for their
places of business, and all aro eager
to seo thoir names and addresses in
tho newspaper report of tho coro
ner’s inquest. Tho truly swell un
dertaker is anxious to avoid this sort
of notoriety. It would ho almost
fatal to his fame to have a “sloven
ly, unhandsome corpse” brought in
to his place of business after a mur
der or an accident. Ho is a grave
aiul respectable, semiolorieal person,
learned in tho etiquette of grief,
skilled in all tho decencies of his
trade, and unparalleled in making
plausible by a nice itemizing the
lump sum of a large bill. To have
tho hope of burial at his hands is al
most a temptation to suicido. Ho
does not rise early to read tho death
announcements in tho morning
newspapers and get his card to the
homes of tho afflicted ahead of his
rivals. On tho contrary, he can
count with certainty upon his
clients. He regards certain respect
able families as his natural prey and
never sees any one of half a dozen
feeble millionaires roll by in a car
riage without a vision of a hearse in
which that same millionaire must
soon take his last riue.—New York
Sun.
Pen Slittiug.
Tho center slit in the pen is cut by
a machine which seems almost too
thick. It consists of two chisels,
which barely pass each other when
the slit is made, and the exact way
in which tho pen is poised so as to
place the chisels iu tho proper posi
tion for cutting is one of the marvels
of penmaking.
The Burglar Humorist,
“Takingone thing with another,”
mused the burglar, adding the
sleeper's watch and jewelry to
stock of miscellaneous plunder al\
ready in his capacious pocket, “busiJ
ness in my line is pretty good t cm
night.”—Chicago Tribuna §
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IGLEHEART BROS., EVANSVILLE, INILjT
XL. V. DOUGLAS,
mmm go,
gfiT*\Vholesale and Retail Dealer in BEER, WINES, LIQUORS,
fjF Cigars and Tobacco,
JUG TRADE A Specialty.
:E58r , 0.23J5 ,, ©7 , 5.C51x., O-a.
J. J. L Off,
Wholesale H GROCER.
tobacco, cigars, and liquors.
Also Flour, Meal, Grits, Grain, Ilay and Bran.
214 B.A.'y STREET.
BRUNSWICK, GrVW
W c keep cmistamtly on hand a full
and Assorted ILine of Stationery
AND'ARE PREPARED TO PRINT
BU'UvHP:a'i>B ; LETTER HEADS, STATEMENT#.
.irw-'. "• e.tt v * x •;
" - ' OFU'S, IIAN u miiLo, LIC., c- IQV
At pftefs that defy competition. BREEZE JOIUOFFICE.
fv - A*
My son, deal with men who adver ,
tiso. You will never lose by it.—Bonj. j
Franklin.
J. J. PARKER ct C. N. FIELDING
JBWBLEBS.
Watches, Clocks, Guns, Pistols and
Sewing Machinss Promptly
Repaired.
Picture Frames of all Kinds & Sizes.
Order of
Win. PAI7KER. W ay cress
CAUTION
If yon want to keep you gootl
don’t advertise tliem in the
POPULAR
II PRICES
•- -* •
jffor ISSO
$1 00 per day—Singl-' meals. 25c.
Harnett Moose,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA.
Why not be your
own Middie-man?
Pay but ono profit between makor and
user and t hat a small just one.
Our Big 700 Page Catalogue and Buyers
Ouide proves that it’s possible. Weighs
24 pounds, 12,000 illustrations, describes
aud tel Istheone-profit prieeof oyer 40,000
articles, everything you use. We send it
for 15cents; 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
111 - 116 Michigan Ave., Chicago.
Wojm
See that
this brand
is on
every barrel
or sack
of flour
you buy*
Money to jLoan.
The Inter-Stale . Building and
Loan Association, of Atlanta, G.w,
loans money to its members at a
cheap rate of interest, and on ea&Y
terms. It is now ready for doing
business in Douglas. For further
particulars apply to .T. A. Daught
ry, local secretary and treasurer, or
G. W. Infinger, local agent.
ss= Massey’s ’
i CHAIN CF |
W Business j
Colleges i
Columbus, Ga., I
Montgomery, Ala., ,
Jacksonville, Fla. ’
Tha Great Schools of the South. *
Cheapest and hist. Endorsed by Ex- I
Speaker Crisp, Governors, State Super- x
infendents of Education, Boards of
Trade, aud thousands of former stu- j
dents who are holding lucrative situa- k
lions railroad hire paid and \
credit given for half of Tuition until
they aie placed in situations. Hoard ,
The M -ssey Colleges receive
in r e calls from business firms for their \
graduates than any dozen schools in
the South. Dll si udents placed in situ- ,
ations in six months. Send at once L
for circulars. Address nearest school. \
R. VV. MASSEY,
President. |
capiat. $30.00000.
We have hundreds of letters like the i
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Montgomery. Ala , July 5,1395.
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Peak 'lk-I iv.- y.... * asrs I
'ii2 on a Lvm. -.Mi oc SIOO on feryear.
lu*k a enu s• i.i lu* u-'itphy t your
t o e.e on hu.-av. Irnmedi
au ly u ' <ni g.adna’*ng. usi cured for
ui a siiu-iiiou as te.eerr-idler and sta
li-.o : g ! t on the Ala. C:t. - ■ R. R.
i'rotn day to this my sueo has
iv on onwrd ami upward. Today I
fto. ?rl*i dtcheT at a a.ary* of
$, lk.is.’ per year. J. E. Cole*
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
GEO. li. BRIGGS.
—ATTORNEY AT LAW —
DOUGLAS, - - GA.
Strict attention given to all business
J Lee Crawley
Attorney-at- Law
•VAYCKOSS, GEORGIA
Will attend the monthly and quar
terly term of the City Court of
Coffee
~r7g7 DICKERSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Ilomerville, : : Georgia.
Will attend Superior Court iu Cof
fee county.
Xj_ CT."TTi3FI3Nr,
ATTORNEY— AT LAW
Hazlehurst, : : : : : : : Ga
Will attend terms of City and
Superior Courts of Coffee county All
Legal matters attended to promptly.
W 1/. Loomer
A TTOIIXEY-AI-LA If,
VVAYGROSte, • : : : : GEORGIA.
V ill attend all terms of County and
Superior court of Coffee county. All
legal matters attended to promptly.
C. A. WARD Jr. F. W. DART
WAHL) & DART.
L i WI EHS,
Douglas, :
Will practice together in all the
Coffee county, except Git;
and elsewhere by special
Prone, t attention given to all R-H
matters.
nil. TF, tv. tjjjijieel ]
Physician and Surgeon. *i
For seven j ears lias made a ; peci al
study of diseases peculiar to women
and children, both in private arc! hos
pital practice. Douglas, Ga. (i-25-05.
w. E. SIBBETT.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
DOUGLAS,
Calls promptly answered, day
- _ or night.
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/Wii.cox, - - - Georgia.
All calls promptly answered night
or day. Charges reasonable.
N. F. G OODYE’Ii
Blacksmith and Wheelwright,
DOUGLAS, - - - - GEORGIA
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I am fully prepared to do all kinds
of work in my line. I
Such as making and repairing bug!
gies, wagons, road carts, timber carta
etc. etc. B
fpSTHORSE SHOEING a specif
ty- I
I would be pleased to have tlie pfl
ronage of the pub’ic. Respectfully,®
2-23-93-tr N. F. GOOD YE Auß
C. C. THOMAS, B
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. B
Waycrose, Gcorgi^H
I ■! pr.ietic^Bj
tb" City and Superior Court; <flS|
Codec County.
til's L. BRACK, I ]
City Au.-tiom Ii m.'la®
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Leave McDonald
“ Sweats till
“ Lowtliers
“ Moores
“ Downing
Arrive Douglas
RETURNING;
Leave Douglas
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