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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 EMULSION checks the rapid ity of the disease, relieves the pains in the chest, reduces the night sweats, and makes the cough easier. In these cases it comforts and prolongs life. Don't experiment with cures that destroy the digestion. Pin your faith to the one remedy which has bscn THE STAN dard for Over 20 Years. Book about it free for the asking. For sale by all druggists at 50c- and SI.OO. 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. Bug § feJr H 111 * FHMIR , P 1 IGW3HEART BROS., 5 DranCl. Evansville, Infl. R, V. DOUGLAS, -&mm c®. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in BEER, WINES, LIQUORS, I*rViK are and Tobacco. JtH JUG TRADE A Specialty. REBX'Uin.S'TOri.GIX.s ■f Y W ifl ip V a a tuJ [Mi alia tjj Wholesale SI GROCER. TOI3ACO, CIGARS, AND LIQUORS. Also Flour, Meal, Grits, 1 lay, Grain and Bran. 214: IBA.'Y' STREET. BRTTJSrSWIOE. Gr_A_ A BUSINESS EDUCATION FREE! ANY BOY OIL GIRL. LBp-V GAN GET IT The Publishers of the Breeze holds a scholarship to 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 little effort. Sample copies and further particulars for the asking. Call on or Address Sweat it Sapp, Douglas, Ga, POPULAR I 11 PRICES! -<3 for IBS© SIOO per day—Single meals. 25c. Harnett Moose, SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA. J H.M. MilleriSon The Cheapest FURNI FI RE and HARNESS House in Georgia. We Carry a complete line of FURNITURE. WATTING CLOCKS, - BABY CARRIAGES, TRUNKS IRUGS HARNESS AND SADDLES We will sell at Rock Bottom Prices. Mail orders receive nor special attetion. H. M. MILLER & SON, 114 Newcastle St., Brunswick, Ga. I (OBsnnucir' T <- ■ ■ 1 iMi-mra m im i ri"tp J. J„ Xiissner WHOLESALE Groceries, "S* O to SB. C3? C 5O 9 Flour. Uncoil Provisions. GRAIN. HAY AND BBAN A SPECIALTY. 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, El Massey’s 1 CHAIN CF J i Business "" Colleges j Columbus, Ga., / Montgomery, Ala., Jacksonville, Fla. Ills Groat Sciisois cl ths Scath. ' Cheapest aivl best. Endorsed by Ex- j .Speaker ’’risj*, Governors, State Super- [ iiuendt-nts of Educalion. Boards of Trade, and thousands of former stu dt-nts who ure holding lucrative situa- i 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 more ca’ls iroiu bud ness firms for their \ 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. * R. \V. MASSEY, President, j CSP'TCt. S'O.rcn 00. We have hundreds of letters like the , following: I 4 vr'y O' .to / • x\;- ; / f T j ’ fite f ;-Q c 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 --BAHBEIi SHOP.-, PARK. Kit A F HR DING Proprietors. COLUMBUS WASHINGTON, The Dandy Barber.