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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
Entered at the Postoffice at Douglas
Ga. as second-class mail matter.
ALBERT C. SWEAT, Editor.
E. S, Sapp, Associate Editor.
SWEAT & HAIM* I’nliliHliers.
Official Organ of Coffee County
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 180(1.
THE GREATEST I*l.l KALITY.
Major McKinley received both the
greatest vote and the greatest popular
plurality ever given a candidate Kir
president, says the Atlanta Journal.
The total of the majorities in the
states which went for McKinley was
1,571,000, while the total of Mr. Bry
an’s majorities was 550,000, a differ
ence in favor of McKinley of 1,021,000.
The highest previous plurality was
702,091 for Grant in 1872 over Greedy.
The p'uralities of the popular vote
for the various successful candidates
for president since 1850 are shown in
the following table:
1896 — McKinley over Bryan 1,021,000.
1892 —Clevland over Harrison, 383,950
1888 —Cleveland over Harrison 98,017
1881— Cleveland over Blaine . . 02 083
jßßo—Garfield over Hancoc k . 7,018
1870—Tilden over Hayes 250,935
IS72 —Grcnt over Greeley . . . 762.991
1808—Grant over Seymore .. 305,450
1 SOl—Lincoln over McClellan 400,812
1800—Lincoln over Douglas . 491,295
1856—Buchanan over Fremont46o,Bos
While Major McKinley’s popular
vote and popular majority have never
heeu equalled, several candidates for
president have received a larger ma
jority in the electoral college than will
be given to him. In 1892 Mr. Cleve
land received 277 electoral votes, and
Mr. HaVrison 145. This year McKin
ley gets 272 and Bryan 1 < •*.
And now they say it was Flora du-
Bigiron's line Italian hand that did
the' work. If that be so it was a sound
money victory.
Why There arc no Many Smiths.
At the time of the adoption of sur
name* every artisan whose work re
quired the striking of blows on metal
was known as a smiter or smith, and
the community, therefore, had its
blacksmiths, whitesmiths, goldsmiths,
silversmiths, arrowsmiths and several
others of the same character. The
number of Smiths of the present day
may. therefore, he readily accounted
fsr, when we remember that each of
the different kinds of smiths was as
much entitled to the use of his trade
name for a cognomen as any other
artisan. John, the blacksmith, and
John, the coppersmith, were both
known as John, the smith, an appella
tion which naturally resolved itself
into the name of John Smith.—Ci.ik
i oHi) Howard in November Ladies’
Home Journal.
The Way cross Herald says Hr. Jell'
Wilcox is not representing the wishes
of his constituents by voting for E. I\
HoweH for United States senator, and
the Breeze believes the Herald is
right.
LITERARY NOTES.
That clever literary reconteur,
“Droch,” who in private life is Robert
Bridges, has joined the writers who
are flocking in such numbers to The
Ladies’ Home Journal. “Droch” com
mences in the December issue of that
magazine a series of “Droeh’s Literary
Talks.” which will hereafter he a reg
ular editorial feature of the Journal.
Mr. Bridges will aim his work more
directly at girls, and gossip about
hooks rather than review them. They
will be, in short, “literary talks.”
Mr. Clay received the vote of every
sound money man in the legislature,
with hut two exceptions.
There was but little interest taken
in the senatorial scramble. The pea
nut politicians held sway.
The Atlanta Journal insists that it
was not a republican victory but a
victory for sound money.
The colored republicans of Way
cross have held a mass meeting and
endorsed one of their race for post
master.
GEORGIA'S OFFICIAL VOTE.
The majorities for democratic con
! gressmen and vote for other candi
; dates as shown by a compilation made
j in the office of secretary of state, arc
| as follows :
First District—lt. k. Lester, deni.,
8,780 ; .1. F. Doyle, rep., 1,710; G. 41.
Miller, pop., 2,072. Democratic plu
rality—Lester over Doyle, 4,070.
Second district —.1. M. Griggs, dem ,
j 7,451; .1. E. Peterson, rep., 3,808 ; Jno,
A. Sibley, pop., 3,035. Democratic
I plurality, Griggs over Peterson, 3,580.
Third District —E. B. Lewis, dem.,
7,459; Scab Montgomery, pop., 3,090;
scattering, 41. Democratic- majority,
Lewis over all, 4,322.
Fourth District —W. C. Adamson,
dem., 8,519; A. H. Freeman, rep., 4,
304 ; scattering, 15. Democratic ma
jority—Adamson over all, 4,200.
Fifth District —L. F. Livingston,
<l< m., 9,258 ; J. C. Hendrix, rep., 0,725.
Livingston’s majority, 2,543.
Sixth district—Charles L. Bartlett,
dem., 8,230; A. A. Murphy, p0p.,4,090.
Bartlett’s majority, 3,540.
Seventh District —John W. Maddox,
dem., 10,7 lb 1 ; J. VV. MeGarrity, pop.,
1256; W. L. Massey, rep., 5,087.
Democratic plurality—Maddox over
Massey, 5,632.
Eighth District—W M. Howard,
dem., 9,088; G. L. Anderson, pop.,
2,962; W. P. Henry, rep., 2,701; scat
tering, 8. Democratic majority over
all, 3,425 ; democratic plurality, How
ard over Anderson, 0,126.
Ninth District —F. C. Tate, deni.,
11,037; H. P. Farrow, rep., 5,421;
T. E. Winn, pop , 3,920 ; W. E. Sim
mons, 1. Tate’s plurality over Far
row, 5,010; majority over all, 1,090.
Tenth District —W. 11. Fleming,
dem., 18,119; J. F. West, pop., 7,103.
Fleming’s majority, 3,014.
Eleventh District—W. G. Brantley,
dem., 9,141; Benjamin Milikin, pop.,
0,019; J. F. West, 28. Brantley’s ma
jority over all, 3,094.
The democratic vote of Georgia in
the presidential election was exactly
94,29.1 ; the republican vote was 60,195.
The vote for Joshua Levering, pro
hibition candidate for President, was
5,613.
The national demo'erats cast a vote
of 2,818.
The populist electors, after being
withdrawn by the committe, received
107 votes.
Bryans plurality over McKinley
was 34,01)0.
The work of compiling the returns
w*s done by H. W. Thomas in the
office of secretary of state. .Mr.
Thomas has had to put down in ta
bles the vote for each of tlfb 05 elec
tors in 137 counties, besides scattering
votes for electors who had been
changed. This required about fl.OOt
different numbers to he copied, tabu
lated and consolidated. The work
was done with great care and acumlcy.
.Clay’s name is not mud. He is a
brick.
Howell will neycr risk himself be
fore the people again.
Flem dußignon was the Mark Han
na of Clay’s campaign.
In an address to the public Marion
Butler claims that he did his duty to
Bryan and Watson.
Business revivals are reported all
over the country, as a result of the
victory of the gold standard.
Out-dpor life aliS Scott's
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with
Hypophosphites have cured
thousands of cases of consump
tion in the early stages They
cure old, advanced cases too?
but not so many, nor so prompt
ly. When a case is so far ad
vanced that a ure cannot be
made, even then SCOTT'S
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night sweats, and makes the
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Don't experiment with cures
that destroy the digestion. Pin
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SCOT-T & BOW RE, New York.
SECRETS OF THE'PATENT OFFICE.
"The Great American Crank Pen” Humors
ami Oddities.
With all its other peculiarities and
attainments, the patent office is
known as the great American crank
pan, and it is this feature of it that
presents the numerous aspect. The
groat number of utterly impractica
ble and almost ridiculous devices
for which patents are asked is a
source of amusement and wonder to
those who get an insight into the
matter. “Wheels in the head”
seems to bo an apt designation of
the mania which possesses hundreds
of men who are busying themselves
in the field of invention, and a glance
through tho recent files at iiny timo
will reveal some now insanity in
mechanism upon which a patent is
asked. Years ago, in tho days of
Indian depredations, when tho fron
tier covered a good deal more ground
than it does now, some rural genius
invonted a common plow that was
to have its beam filled with grape
and canister ready for uso in caso of
a surprise by the redskins. Anoth
er western chap designed a cyclone
house, which was to bo anchored at
tho four corners as a protection
against cyclones. Among tho other
oddities noted are a tapeworm trap,
to be inserted through the mouth
to catch tho unwary tapeworm when
ho ventures too far off his reserva
tion, and an illuminated metal cat,
with oyes of fire, designed to ho a
holy terror to rats and mice.
A later device of the funny sort,
but one with somo possible utility,
■is a hen’s nest, in which the egg
drops through a trapdoor as soon as
deposited by tho hon, tho object bo
ing to make tho ben believe sho has
not succeeded in laying an egg. Still
later than this is an invention by a
man named Batter, which consists
of a shoe with a heating apparatus
in tho solo to keep the foet warm;
also a steering contrivance for limit
ing dogs, consisting of a fan attach
ment to the tail of tho dog, to assist
him in turning sharp corners. In
recent years many of the crank de
vices are of tho electrical sort. One
of the most ingeniously impractica
ble of these is a “pickpocket and
coat thief detector” invented by a
Chicago man. It consists of an elec
trio battery concealed about tho per
son, connected with a hell worn un
der tho vest, which rings when a
hand is inserted in flie protected
pocket.
Another Illinois man patented an
electric contrivance to assist iho be
fuddled clubman in finding the key
hole when returning home late on a
dark night. A small metal cylinder
containing a powerful littlo incan
descent is to be countersunk in tho
door jamb near tho koyhole, just
over which is a push button. No
matter how dark the night or how
uncertain the gentleman’s frame of
mind, ho has only to rub his hand
down the sido of the door over the
button and tho keyhole is disclosed
to viow.—Washington Star.
liiril* Which Are Scavengers.
Tho sea gull is doubly the benefac
tor of man. It nut only follows tho
plow on farms near tho seaooast
in ordor to oat tho froshly turned
grubs, hut it scours tliu surface of
tho soa near tho shore and frequonts
harbors to seizo on floating garbage,
dead flsh or other putrefying mor
sels.
Tho services of these birds have
saved many a seaport; town and vil
lage, round which they hover, from
plague and pestilence.
Yet every year they aro massa
cred by thousands for idlo and cow
ardly sport or for the sako of their
wings to bo used in millinery.
Their eggs are plundered whole
sale for museums and to fill the shop
windows of naturalists. One man
boasted a year ago that he had kill
ed -1,000 kittiwake gulls in a singlo
season with liis own gun, and an
order was given and executed from
one London house for 10,000 pairs of
wings. At this rate gulls must soon
disappear altogether.
Tho carrion crow, the raven and
others which follow their example
more or less confer an immense
boon on mankind.
Sparrows clear tho gutters and
places which they inhabit from a
vast quantity of scattered frag
ments. Though too small to bo seen,
those unsavory morsels would soon
become dangerous to human life and
health.—London Tit-Bits,
Tise Labor of Mountain Climbing.
Below is a curious calculation on
tho amount of energy expended by
a person weighing ICS pounds in
climbing a mountain peak 7,000 feet
high, tho time allowed for the as
cent being fivo hours: By careful
calculation it is found that the total
amount of labor performed is equal
to raising 1,380,000 pounds to a
height of one foot or that of
raising one pound to a height of
1,380,000 feet. Of this enormous
amount of work 1,176,000 foot
pounds is expended hv the muscles
of tho legs in raising or lifting the
body, 12,000 by the heart in circu
lating the blood, 30,000 by the chest
in breathing and 34,000 in the vari
ous exertions of balancing the body,
overcoming friction of the ground,
etc. —St. Louis Republic.
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MASSEY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE, Columbus, Georgia.
Which will tie given to any boy or girl that will send us THIRTY
cash subscribers to the Breeze.
I nv industrious bov or girl can get :i Business Course with but
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Mail orders receive nor special attetion.
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Flour. Uncoil
Provisions.
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300 Gloucester and 201 Grant Streets.
BRUNSwItK. - GEORGIA.
G. N. Fielding*,
JEWELER
Watches. Clocks. Guns. Pistols and
Sewing Machines Promptly
Repaired.
Picture Frames of all Kinds & Sizes.
State of Georgia Coffee county:
Whereas, W. P. Prescott, Adminis
trator of Wiley Cowart, deceased, rep
resents to the court in his petition, duly
filed and entered on record, that be has
j duly administered on the estate of said
! Riley Cowart, deceased: This is there
fore "to cite all persons concerned, kin
dred and creditors, to show cause, if any
they can, wry said Administrator
should not he discharged from his ad
ministration. and receive letters of dis
mission on the Ist Monday in .Septem
ber, 1800. Jno. Vickers, Ord,
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lions. Miideiv.-' railroad fare paidaifd *
credit siwn for half of tuition until
1 lu*y are phi cod in s.umtims. Bonrtl
iThe M. s>ey Colleges receive i
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graduates than any dozen schools in
I the South. ld s udents placed in situ*
unous' in six moo.hs. Send at once t
for circular- Address nearest school. *
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President, j
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following: I
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MOKTQOMery, A t.a., July 5, 1895. • j
R. IT. M in*y, Pics ir*it:
I Dear Sin —five vents aero I was work
ing on a f.inn, get tins SIOO.OU per year. /
i a coU’> *in IY: grnpby y,*ur !
* arxlyut e. jeradu - -w. \. a for
me a situaih*:! a> u -rajiher and sia i
li.Hi . - i.t on the Ala. Liit. Si. h. R. I
i Freni that day to this my sue -ss has
r Uoii onward and upward. Today I
flin train dis- richer ala ‘aiary 'of
si_U‘.oo per year. * J. E. Cui.e.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
P. Lx. SMITH,
LACjQYER,
Eouglas, : : •' • Georgia.
Will practice in all the courts of Coileo
al ui Appling cJ>untio=. and elsewhere by
special contract- All business promptly
attended to,
GEOi k. BRIGGST
—ATTORNEY AT LAW —
DOUGLAS, - - -f - GA.
Strict attention given to all business
J Lee Crawley
Attorney-lit-Law
■\ AYCROSS, :::::::: GEORGIA
Will attend the monthly ana quar
terly term of the City Court o
Coffee
Xj . J\ TIPPIIsT,
ATTO It N E i AT LA W
Hazlejiurst, : : : : : : : Ga
Will attend terms of City and
Superior Courts of Coffee county All
Legal matters attended to piomptly.
W M. Toomer
A TTOItXEY-AT-LA if ,
WAYCROSS, : : : : : GEORGIA
Will attend all terms of City and
Superior court of Coffee county. All
legal matters attended to prompt] v
C. A. WARD Ji;. F. W. DART
AYARD & PA RT.
L I U YEIiS,
Douglas, ; : Ga.
L L ?. lv - ct;ce together in all the court,
ot Coffee county, except City cour
and elsewhere _ by special contracts
r lompt attention given to all le
matters. °
mt. IV, IV. TEIiItELL,
I'hysician and. Surgeon.
lor 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.
TV. F. SIBBETT.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
DOUGLAS,
Calls promptly answered day
or night.
TIL M. Carter
V iYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
* • •• ; Georgia,
. , Ali calls promptly attended day or
night. J
JNO.M. HALL,
r’lnjsician and Suvtjeon —
Douglas, - - - Georgia.
All calls promptly answered night
or day. Charges reasonable.
C. C. THOMAS,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
M ayerdss, - - Georgia.
Special attention given to practice in
the City and Superior Courts of
Collee County.
BUSL, BRACK,
Notary public and
Ex-Officio J. P. Douglas Disfc. (748) G. M.
Douglas, : : Ga 9
Prompt attention given to all business.
Collections a Specialty.
Ip
Optlmlmlc Optician.
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
J-j os fitted with the latest improved
lenses ol'the tinest quality,
Special Treatment Given
t ,J Weak or Diseased Eyes
Examination Free.
Schedule on Douglas & McDonald B.R.
v *.'• A
J ' .v_—,ii. .s § .. :,^m‘.'.Jl-"
Leave McDonald 12 :00
“ Sweatstill 12:15
“ Lowthers 12 -35-
“ Moores 1^:52
. “ Downing 1 : ?o.
Arrive Douglas IGO.
EE TURNING;
Leave Douglas 3 ; 20.
“ Downing 3 40-
. “ Moores 4:15*
“ Lowthers 4 : 30
“ .'w.-at.- Still 4:45.
Arfe McDonald 5 :CO
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Proprietors.
COLUMBUS WASHINGTON,
The Dandy Barber.