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DOUGLAS BIIEEZE.
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Official Organ of Coffee County
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I*' I.ISHKI) WEEKLY.
Entore*l at the Posloffiee at Douglas
(•!. as snc nd-class mail mailer.
FillD \Y, APRIL 10, lsDf). j
C'lrrrhnitl for I'resiilrnt.
Yee, Cleveland ought to lie president \
again, lie is the only real man we
have had since Lincoln, outside of
Garfield, who had not the opportunity
to prove his worth. Some people do
not agree with Cleveland in his finan
cial views; and because lie will not he
converted unto their ideas, they de
spise him slid abuse him and say all
manner of evil against him for his
financial conviction, and the truth is,
lie has just as much right to his opiu
on as any other citizen who cannot
he proved insane or dishonest.
To lie sure, some people believe him
dishonest, and one notorious senator
intimated tint ho is a madened ty
rant, hut of course nobody believed it,
only a few pretended to believe it,
who, like the senator, were agravated
because the President would not think
like them and his thoughts stood for
more than theirs. Hut th people do
not think Cleveland mad, only a few
j retold thill he is dishon st— none of
tins* can prove it—md near'y every
body has confidence in his wisdom,
justice and moderation.
The truth is. Cleveland is just e
merging from a wave of unpopularity,
lie lias pissed through throe distinct
waves of disfavor, and every time he
has come forth more popular than lie
vvos previously, lie will soon ho again
the most popular man in America,
and it is our humble opinion that the
people will want him for the next
President, lie is certainly the man
of the Democratic parly who can lead
it most surely to victory, and we
should he willing to risk our tmiporal
destiny to his guidance.
Our faith has never been shak
en in the man since he laid down
the presidency for speaking boldly
oa the tariff when he almost knew
it would defeat him. Bishop Hay
goo I wrote boldly oa the cdumtion
of the negro when ho knew it would
bring liim into disfavor with his own
people. But he wrote and he won the
victory, and lus people called him the
greatest man in his church. Clove
land will win and his people will call
him ihe greatest man of his time,
Cleveland anti Huygood are men.
Smith -Crisp Debate,
It seems that the joint debates are
worrying Judge Crisp in an unusual
degree. The arguments of Secretary
Smith so dislodged tile Ex Speaker
that he was throwiijunon the "last, re
sort in dohute"-ridicule and inuendo
on the second meeting.
It is to he deplored that Mr. Crisp
could nut have dosiste 1 from this
cheap f nan of argument when tii > oc
casion afford n d such a splendid oppor
tunity for him to convince the people
of the groat merits he claimed for free
silver.
Id olden time in the Hast, every
court had what was known as the
"kings fool,” This was a man who
apswered all questions in a humorous
vein and turned all mutters, serious or
cthenvi.se into a convolution of ridicule,
Yr. Crisp should not forget that the
middle ages have passed away, and
that this is a serious age when serious
questions are involved, and if he would
make fun for the people, he must as
sume his proper role on the surge, or
antedate himself to the middle ages
and d"u the conical cap
Oh yes the masses will laugh at
him. and his paitisans will jeer at Sec
retary Smith and jibe the sound mon
ey advocates with a wild cherry relish
hut the men who are to ha convinced
on this question, the great masses of
working people who have not had the
opportunity of for uing an opinion,
area very seriously thinking people
and they will give their verdict, not to
the fumy man who bases his popular
ity on his povivr to entertain, but to
the rerious, sober facts that are presid
ed with an earnestness that evinces
belief and conviction.
Solicitor Brantley is mentioned as a
delegate to tiie national democratic
convention from the EleveuthUistric*.
ly all means. There is not another
man in the district quite so lit.
Congress will adjourn about the fir st
of May. All right.
Out f 10,000 bills i- trodused into
; the present congress only about forty
: have been passed.
Hope for the best, get ready fur the
worst, and then take what God choos
es to send -Mathew Henry.
A citizen of Americas mls to k the
i rising of the moon for a big lire and
! .-ontided tiie alarm. —Ex. And soi n
America.. like Mac mi, will nerd a
! snake killer.
Editor Mclntosh let out a reaf in
the Albany Herald o.i the third to
give room for Griggs and Walters to
"charge.” Me. knows when and how
to strike.
A Western farm journal heads
an article "Do Hogs pay“ W r e stop
itr press long enough to say that we
have about five hundred on our sub
scription l,oi k that have ne’er paid a !
cent. —lihu kshear H ustler.
Suppose we have a few copper dol
lars. They could he used for dinner;
plates in time of peace, breast phi c in j
war and serve as an extra buggy j
wheel in case of a break down. Cop
per dollars arc what we need. —Way-
cross Herald.
It now looks as though Col John W.
Bennett will he the next solicitor
general of the Brunswick circuit. Col.
Bennett is deservin'.; of the place and
would ably and fearlessly discharge
the duties incumbent upon him. —
Tattnall Journal.
Macon has created an unique office
in electing a snake killer. The cen
tral City is now thoroughly equipped
for the State Democratic convention
and she invites the hoys to come on
and bring their bottles and mix drinks
as much as they please.
Judge C.A. Ward, of Douglas is a
candidate for State Senator from the
district composed of the counties ol
Coffee, Clinch and Ware. The Hustler
predicts that he will he the Democrat’s
nominee. Ward is the Democrat’s
tribune of the fertile old county of
.Coffee. — Blackshcnr Hustler.
If the scandals of to-day arc great,
the scandals of a hundred years ago
were infamous. Many vices of that
day are now utterly unknown, and
not one single vice or crime can be
mon’it ned that has not been so strik
ingly dei reused as to encourage the
hope of its final extermination. — Ex.
Col. John Bennett, of Josup, passed
through Mcßae Saturday en route to
Atlanta. Mr. Bennett is a candidate
for solicitor general of his circuit a
gainst Col. l oonier of /ayoross, and
from present indications, it seems that
he will win the race easily. He is a
most affable gentleman, and has t vice
represented his county in the legisla
ture. —Telfair Enterprise.
Sam Jones illustrates Sabbath break
ing in this original manner: ”T have
seven dollars in silver in my pocket. 1
go down the road and meet a beggar
uul he says, T’lca-o give me some
thing.’ I give six of the dollars and
that night he comes in where I sleep
md steals the other one. Ain’t ho
mean? God says, I have seven days,
take six, and leave the seventh, and you
take six. and go hack end steal the
eveuth one tom him. Ain’t you a
and indy?”
MrKi .ley is still sweep ng the field
tor Republican nomination, lie is
decidedly the hast man of the crowd
We believe it he is electo ! to the presi
dency that lie would treat the s >utb
uiirly even more so th in the Repuuli- i
can who now holds tie position j
•Statesboro Star. Yes the Bible tells
us i>f the man who goes so far wrong
that he finally calls white black ami
black white, letter sweet and sweet
bitter, right wrong and wrong right.
Woe be unto you, brother.
The Reviews of Reviews of tins
Month contains an illustrated attiele
en "Our Cu ban Neighbors and Their !
struggle for Liberty ny that famous
ware correspondent. Mural Halstead. |
it is full of interest and gives the best I
• onoepticn tmit we have yet had of!
the situation on the island. Ti e I
R view of Rav ews keeps fully awake
to the dr mauds of a reading public
and spares no pains to male its page,
alive with interest to the people.
We reeomme td it o our roa dors ns I
ime of the best educators of Amcri ‘
can literature.
THE AFRICAN.
Ho Ha* a Bouse of Honor and Justice aad
Is Not Cruel.
No ono is inolo convinced than I
am that the African races are infe
rior to tlio English, French, German
.and Latin races. Ido not place him
below the other colored races; pos
sibly' because I have never lived
among nor attempted to understand
tho eastern races, and possibly be
cause I have lived among and at
tempted to understand the Africans.
Certainly the so called Hamitic races
have never produced an even four
teenth rate sculpture, picture, ma
chine, tool, piece of cloth or pottery;
neither have they over risen to tho
level of picture writing, let alone a
written character, and I am person
ally acquainted, to tho point of exas
peration, with their cryptic, compli
cated ways of communicating ideas
with strings of cowries and pieces of
leaf and stick. Only tho other day I
had to steer a course with a chart
made of bits of plantain leaf of differ
ent breadths, denoting the size of the
villages I was to pass through, and
placed at intervals that denoted the
distance between the villages.
I do not say I did well with that
chart, hut I have done quite as bad
ly with the best admiralty one. But
these ingenious devices do not equal
tho rock writing of the South Amer
icans, tho pictures the red Indian
paints on a raw elk hide, and are in
finitely below those spirited sport
ing sketches of mammoth hunts,
eto., left us hv the envo men.
In mental and moral affairs the
African is by no means so striking
ly inferior as ho is in handicrafts.
He has both a sense of justice and
honor, not much worn by daily ttso,
and very easily eliminated• by a
course of Christian teaching. But it
is there, and if you know tho way,
you can rouse it and make it work.
In rhetoric lie exoels, and for good
temper and pationco ho compares
favorably with any sot of bum an
beings. The worst of his personal
sins is sloth. This chiefly arises from
his not having anything to do in a
definite up to time way, for ho is
happy and industrious when under
good white direction. No ono who
lias boon on the coast can fail to
have noticed tho Kroo boys singing
and dancing and laughing over tlioir
often heavy work. Tho cooper and
tho carpenter and their fellow coun
tryman from Accra, tho cook, are
far happier than tho Africans in tho
hush—yea, even the cook, whose
conscience should ho a burden to
him on account of tho manslaugh
ters ho has committed with his
abiding greasiness.
Of eoursti you will point out their
customs, hut I must say, in spite of
what 1 have heard and seen, that I
do not consider the west African
cruel. Ono must remember that in
their culture there are no prisons or
hospitals or workhouses, no regular
police force, eto. In tho matter of
tlioir sacrificial rites, 1 think ono
should try and understand tho un
derlying ideas before ono thinks
harshh'. Tho feeling, for example,
regarding tho importance of burial
rites is quite Greek in its intensity,
Given a duly educated native of tho
Niger delta, I am sure ho would
grasp tho truo inwardness of his Al
oestis far and away butter than any
living European can.
To provide a proper burial for a
ilead relative means to thorn provid
ing for that relative a happy after
life, and so to do is tho Surviving
negro’s greatest duty. Its only rival
in his mind is tho desire to avoid
having a funeral for himself, ntul
aven this passion goes under in tho
mind of a good negro, and ho will
! risk liis own life to carry out what
ho considers his duty to tho dead,
oven when ho is well aware that the
killing of slaves will mean hanging
for him when “them big consul”
knows of it.
Tho greatest horrors on the ocast
arise out of tho belief in witchcraft.
Toleration moans indifference with
all men, I believe, and the negro and
Bantu are not indifferent about their
subjects.—Mary Kingsley in London
Observer. .
Man as an Individual.
Theories are automatic machines
which allow for no vagaries, but hu
manity in its physical, mental and
moral nature is ever a variable and
uncertain quantity, and ho will have
greatest success either as physician,
teacher or spiritual guide who treats
the human material upon which he
works as individual units and not
as a grand whole, whose theories
ore the result of his experience, and
who recognizes tho truth that man
as a sum is made up of man as many
units, each differing in its exponent
of power.—Womankind.
Prayer and Precept.
“Dear God, ” prayed a little Church
street maiden last evening, “make
a good little girl out of me, and if
at first you don’t succeed try, try
again. ” —Bedford Banner Democrat.
A Brutal Suggestion.
It is, of course, a real mean man
who asks: "Why not let women
throw ballots if they want to?
They'll never hit tho box.”—Boston
j Transcript.
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We have hundreds of letters like the
following:
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f Montgomery, Ala., July 5, IS9i.
\ R. W. &•<?, President: \
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m ingon alarm, geitng titMH) per year, if
I I took a corns * m Telegraphy your U
S atciy^\PO < n l griulu;uii.g, ymi Mvnrevi for 1
m me a situation telegrapher and sia- g
l tion agent ou the Ala. tiit. So. B. R. %
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f been onward and upward. T. day I J
f sin train dispatcher at a fa,ary of B
l 5i.00.00 pe-r year. J. E- Cole. 4
PRO FE S SION AL C A EDS.
■' EO. Ju. BRIGGS.
—XTTOKXEY AT LAW —
DOUGLAS, - - - - GA.
Strict attention given to all business
J Lee Crau ley
Attorney-ut-Law
AYCUOSS, :::::::: GEORGIA
Win attend the monthly ana quar
terly term of the City Court of
Coffee
TTG. DICKERSON, ’'
Attorney-at-Law,
llomerrille, : : Georgia .
Ax' ill attend Superior Court in Cof
fee county.
In. Jr . Tipple "
ATTORNEY AT La W
Hazleiiurst, : : : : ; : : Ga
V> il ! attencl forms of City and
Superior Courts of Coffee county AIL
Legal matters attended to promptly.
TP if. Toomer
A TTAUXLY-AJ'-LA if,
\VA ACROSS, : : ; ; ; GEORGIA.
U ill attend all terms of County and
Superior court of Coffee county. All
F--V mat.< ,attended to uromntly.
C. A. V IRi) J .. F. W. DART
M AUD & DART.
L A h Jl IAJIS)
Douglas, : : :::::::: Ga.
W ill practice together in. ail tho court
°t Coffee county, except City court,
fy iU Ouse where by special contract.-
1 V(; atsentioa given to all legalj
2>W. Jr, IV. TERRELL^ ?I
1 'iiy&i: i an and Sif ri/eon.
U r s-vy.n years Ims mafic a special
study of dis,-a:-es peculiar to wombiMi
and children, both in private ard hos3|
pltal practice. Douglas, Ga. 0-25-93.
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n:■ ioian fu w u rue on .
DOUGLAS, - -
Calls j i'omjitly aitsweveil day
/ or right.
W. A. Moore
* VHVSIGiAN AND SURGEON,
VVi IJ.Ai.'OOCHRK, : : : GEORGIA
All calls attended to, day or niglit.
IF. M. Carter 1
V TSiCIAN AND SURGEON,
: : : Georgia,
'll cad promptly attended day aal.,.
night. lfl|
Jh\ J. A. Pugh
Dentist.
Headquarters Pearson, Ga. Bran®"
offices, Douglas and Willacoochee. Pqjy ,
sons wishing work at other points write, \
me. 1 am fully prepared to do aSHf
kind of work pertaining to the
Grown and Bridge work a specialty.
i will be at the following places on the
following dates: Douglas, Ist to (j|h
Broxton, Oth to 12th, McDonald’s Mil,
13th to 18th, Pearson, 18th to 21th, VVii
lacoochee, 24th to 30th.
JNO. M. HALF, ~
Physician and Sin-geo
Wilcox, - - - Geokgi
All calls promptly answered nig,,
or day. Charges reasonable.
N. F. G OODYE’K
BkclsmiUi and Wheelwright,
DOUGLAS, - - - - GEORGIA
> <~ > < i
I am fully prepared to do all kinds j
of work m my line.
Such ..k making and repairing hug-1
guv, -vs . ns, road carts, timber cartf, *
. etc., etc.
yiM'HORSE SHOEING a special*
t' 7 .
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rr.;. <i G ■ pub’ie. E-.vpectfully,
. ' V. fM.hPYBAE,
V. 0. THOMAS,
ATTORNEY -A I- LAW,
V/;?yc! ofs. - - Georgia.
' dp■■■ H! .-jtonlion given to practice in
! the Cl.y and Superior Courts of
■ Coffee County.
Gl T 8 L. BRACK,
(. iiy An •tioneer. Dougins, Ga.
Consignments Solicited.
| Full A prompt remittances guaranteed.
a It I;i!o on Douglas a McDonald R.R,
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iUi 11:45.
12:05.
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HE TURNING ;
Lcav Douglas 2:20.
“ Downing 2 40.
M 10- 1 3:17.
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“ • ats Still 3:55
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