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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[ ‘ ; ‘ 1 ■ * ■ ll ’ Hr i • • i 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 § p|jg 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 f dlowirg: \ r ’ V' 't aV 'if 4 ' V " Montgomery. Ala , July 5,1395. n. IT. M .tv y, p ( - 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. .M .... : .^RES i* . -.1 ’. \ . : if Jj|| fm |p d£ me. I kind' of m m m Jh fl i‘h(jsfcion on<l n&tgeon— /Wii.cox, - - - Georgia. All calls promptly answered night or day. Charges reasonable. N. F. G OODYE’Ii Blacksmith and Wheelwright, DOUGLAS, - - - - GEORGIA > <- > '< 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® 1. m " .’.:B^4 Leave McDonald “ Sweats till “ Lowtliers “ Moores “ Downing Arrive Douglas RETURNING; Leave Douglas “ Downing ' ‘ M cores * Lowtliers “ wests Still l ■ • w- - - *- -0. H