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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
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A,C. SWEAT, Kdi(or and Publisher,
Kntered at Douglas J'. O. May 29, 1890 as
second class mail matter.
SATURDAY SEPT. 24, 1898.
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
REV. JOHN VICKERS.
Mr. Vickers whs the unanimous
rhiiicc of the democrats, and a large
number of populists will vote for him,
thus making his election sure.
lie is a good man and a Christian.
And you will never see him pouring
mean whiskey down a man to get his
vote.
Mr. Vickers is a member of one of
the largest families in the county, and
is a man of ripe experience, which
makes him a good man for the place.
J. A. DAUGHTREY.
This gentleman was brought out by
the people for Sheriff. He is well
known in the county, and will make
a vigilant and thoroughly competent
officer.
Mr. i laugh trey served the county as
jailor once, and it can he said to his
credit that not a single prisoner escap
ed during his term of office.
MELVIN TANNER.
This young man is peculiarly fitted
for the duties of the Clerk’s ollice. He
is competent, perfectly reliable, sober
and industrious. He is one of the
foremost school teachers of the county
and will perform the duties of the
office to the entire satisfaction of the
people.
ALLEN CARVER.
This gentleman is our nominee for
Tax Collector, lie is veiy generally
known throughout the county. There
is not a better man in the country;
he is competent, faithful and deserv
ing, and the people will make no niis
taKo in electing him to the office of
Tax Collector.
HENRY C. GIRTMAN.
One of the host things the nominat
ing convention did was to put Henry
Girtmnn on the tieKet. He is the
nominee for Tax Receiver, and it is
wife to say he will he elected by a hit;
majority. He is from the good old
precinct of PicKron, and is now one of
the most activo members of the Board
of Education.
JAMES GILLIS.
He is the nominee for Surveyor.
He is a good old farmer and has had
experience in the office of Surveyor,
having served Coffee and Ware in this
capacity several years ago.
GEO. M. KICKKTSON.
This young man is a practicing
physician of Bro.xfon and will mane a
good Coroner. lie is a son of Mr.
Bryant RicKetsou, ono of the pioneer
citizens of Coffee.
The pops of Coweta county held a
convention last week and decided not
to put out a county ticket.
The populists chairman in Telfair
county announces that he will not
support tin Wilkiuson-Milikin mix-up.
Miss Winnie Davis’ death, which
occurred at Narragnusett Pier, New
York, last Sunday, lias cast a gloom
over the South. Miss Winnie was the
pet aud idol of the Confederate states.
Capt. Ben Milikin has a way of
proving what be says by reading from
bis newspaper the Jesup Sentinel.
This is all very cute, but how can a
political speaker expect people to be
lieve liis statements when he can find
no higher source of proof than him
self? Ah, Bon, what yer givin’ us?
A Missouri paper tells this good
one ou the Republican and Populist
usiouists in Kansas. A female horse,
in the latter State, who was the moth
er of a mule colt watched over her
offspring with care and solicitude,
hoping‘that it would develop into the
likeness of her family; but one day
when the colt was getting well grown,
it turned loose a loud brav, wlicrupon
the mother exclaimed sadly: "Alas!
this is the result of fusion. 1 thought
1 could raise you for a horse, hill
whenever you open tour mouth you
speak like an ues.”
FUSION IN THE KM3VKNTH.
From The Atlanta Cmttitution.
It cannot be denied that, if there is
to be a negro coalition in the eleventh
district, those who favor it have select
ed the right man on whom to confer
the unenviable honor ol leadership,
tn-wit: Mr. J. M. Wilkinson, of Val
dosta, a sometime democrat, more re
cently a ranting McKinieyite, arid, at
present, a representative and leader in
the populist and negro coalition,
which lias been formed for tiro pur
pose of defeating the re-election of
Congressman Brantley.
On August 4, 1897, Mr. WilKinson
wrote a letter to The Macon Telegraph
in which he broke the ice, so far as
negro coalition is concerned. He an
nounced himself as a McKinieyite,
and had a good deal to say in praise
of the negro office holders, announc
ing that he would rather see them in
office tha to see Coxey, Debs and W.
H. Harvey holding similar positions.
Now, Coxey is a populist pure and
simple. Debs is a labor agitator and
Mr. Harvey is a free coinage democrat.
In tins letter, which was printed in
The Macon Telegraph ou the 4th cf
August, 1897, Mr. Wilkinson resent
ed with some heat democratic criti
cisms of Mr. McKinley for appointing
negroes to office in the south. “These
colored men,” he aid, “helped to de
feat Bryan and worked for the elec
tion of McKinley and are entitled to
the rewards of good citizenship.”
It is clear that we have in this let
ter the first hint of negro coalition in
the eleventh district. The tone of it
shows that the writer thereof hud re
ceived a hint in regard to the mailer.
He knew that the white voters would
resent any direct proposition to com
bine with the negroes and divide offi
ces with them ; but lie knew also that
by a little skillful manipulation it
would be possible to secure the coali
tion of a certain element in the popu
list party with the negro element.
At any (rate, it could do no harm to
feel around, and this letter was the
feeler, lie still called himself ademo
crat, but avowed himself to be a Mc-
Kinleyite, advocate of Dingleyism
and an indorser of negro office-hold
ing-
in his eagerness to curry favor with
the negroes, he omitted to mention
the fact that the southern people were
criticizing McKinley not so much for
appointing negroes to office, as for
refusing to appoint them to office in
the northern and western states,
where the colored voters hold the
balance of power. The democrats
knew that if a republican president
wete elected the result would be the
appointment of negroes to office : that
much was assured; what they object
ed to was that they should be appoint
ed in communities where the event
was sure to revive resentment and
race prejudice on both sides of the
color line.
But this is immaterial. What is
most important is the fact that Mr.
Wilkinson is now engaged in an effort
to rope the white farmers of the elev
enth district into a negro coalition
which is sure to bring the same dis
graceful and degrading results in that
district that it has brought about in
North Carolina. The white voters ol
that district should see to it that they
and their families are not made the
victims of such an infamous alliance
This is a matter that goes deeper than
politics, and those who suffer them
selves to be led into such a trap wil
repent it in sackcloth and ashes. And
the white voters who arc fools enough
to allow their prejudices against deni
ocrats to carry them into such ;
scheme deserve to be made the vie
tuns. We shall sympathize with then
wives and daughters, hut not with the
men who sacrifice their interests.
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DIRECTORY.
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Broxtou, Ist Sunday, at 11 a. in. and
7:80 p. m.
Oak Grove, 2nd Sunday and Saturday
before at 11. a. m.
Lone Ilill and Midway,Brd Sunday at
11 a, m.
Williams Chapel, Bird Sunday, 7:30 pm.
J P. Dickinson, P. C
SI '.CHET SOCIETIES.
Broxtou Lodge No. 147, F. & A. M.,
meets first Friday m each month at 10
o’clock a. m.
Broxton Lodge No. 02, K. of P. meets
first and third Tuesday nights. J. N.
Hartley, C. C ; W. 1). Little, K. of R.
and S,
BO ITT LOTT.
*• Traveling Public cared for.
Also stock taken care of.
George M. Ricketson.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Braxton-, Georgia .
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Is The Official Organ of
The County Commissioners,
The Board of Education
And the Town of Douglas.
A CRITICAL TIME
DURING THE BATTLE OF SAN
TIAGO.
Sick or Well, a Rush Night and Day.
The Packers at the Battle of Santiago
de Cuba were all Heroes. Their Hero
ic Efforts in Getting Ammunition and
Rations to the Front Saved the Day.
P. E. Butler, of pack-train No. 3,
writing from Santiago, De Cuba, on
July 23rd, says: “We all had diar
rhoea in more or less violent form, and
when we landed we had no time to see
a doctor, for it was a case of rush and
rush night and day to keep the troops
supplied with ammunition aud rations
but thanks to Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, we
were able to keep at work and keep
our health ; in fact, I sincerely believe
that at one critical time this medicine
was the indirect saviour of our army,
for if the packers had been unable to
work there would have been no way
of getting supplies to the front. There
were no roads rhat a wagon train could
use. My comrade and myself had the
good fortune to lay in a supply of this
medicine for our pack train before we
left Tampa, and I know in four cases
it absolutely saved life.”
The above letter was written to the
manufacturers of this medicine, the
Chamberlain Medicine Cos., Des Moin
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
A Wonderful Discovery.
The last quarter of a century records
many wonderful discoveries in medicine,
but none that have accomplished more for
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contain the very elements of good health,
and neither man, woman or child can take
if without deriving the greatest benefit,
browns’ Iron Bitten is sold by all dealer*.
What Is Life?
”Wh..t is life?” .
Eer big brown even seek his * '
Ah if to read what she would know
Within their sympathetic glow. JL, '
“What’b life? home tay it is
But strife.” .
“What is life?”
Hia eyes seek hers in turn.
“Some any it is a lengthened span
Incomprehensible in plan.
A lesson hard to learn
Is life.” •
“What is life?”
Their eyes seek truth from each.
Hors droop. The story sweet ia told.
The great life mysteries unfold.
•This,” he breathes in tender speech,
“Is life.”
—Burlington Haw key e.
In Oblivion.
Come, friend, there’s going to boa merry
meeting
After the play. Our masks we’ll throw aside,
And aftor chaff and chat and friendly greeting
Our glasses fill, and all, like cronies tried,
Drink drafts whose richness was so devil cheat
ing
The ancients drank until their casks were
dried,
Then lost the art of making more such wine,
And we’ll on long forgotten viands dine.
“Who will be there?” you ask. Why, you and I
And all the good fellows who were never
great.
No warrior there will roll commanding eye,
No statesman weary with affairs of weight;
No prosy sage to proselyte will try;
No bard v/rll drone; no orator will prate.
To pine in pompous glory they have gone,
But we’ll be merry in oblivion.
The watchword of that banquot hall’s ' ‘For
gotten!”
And if forgotten, why, we will forget
Our foolish dreams, the mocking goals we
sought in
The days when hope could lure and failure
fret,
The weary days when all our souls were caught
in
The snare of life that, like a tangling knot,
Holds us in agony and durarjee till
Tho spoiler fctretched forth his hand to kill.
Mqthinksthat there, my friend, both you andl
Can fleet away eternity content.
No curious fool into our lives can pry
And moralize on how our days were spent.
And soon—how soon!—the names that llure on
high
Will wano and with the closing night b
blent,
For while we revel in oblivion
Tho great themselves must join us one by one.
The Mill That Didn’t Stop,
H got angry one day
And threatened to quit;
Didn't fancy tlio way
Things were going a bit,
And so, in a huff,
He resigned. It was meant for a bluff,
, For the boy in his mind
Fondly fancied that they
Would beg him to stay,
But they stunned him and filled him with woe
When they failed to rebel against letting him
go.
Keenly bereft,
With a heart that was sore
And a weight on his mind
i Such as never before
The day ho resigned
Had come to oppress him, he loft.,
But the greatest and saddest of shocks was to
come,
For when ho stole round on the following day
He was stricken dumb
To see that the mill was still grinding away,
Merrily humming its wonted song
As if nothing at all had over gone wrong.
—L. Kiser in Cleveland Leader.
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183 Pearl street New York City.
Confident that he has discovered an
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The Doctor considers it his religions
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Offered freely is enough to commend it
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There will be no mistake in sending—
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Don’t delay until it is too late. Address
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York and when writing the Deleter please
give express and postoffice address and
mention reading this article in the Doug
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strength, soothe your nerve’s, make your
blood rieh and mi. Do you more good
than an expensive special course of medicine.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by ail dealers.
m, OPEN LETTER
■ To MOTHERS.
are ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
|pE EXCLUSIVE USE OF TIIE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
ITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that
has borne and does now bear on every
the fac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA” which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought ’ on ie
and has the signature of wrap
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company , of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
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Do Not Be Deceived
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
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South Georgia normal Institute.
Douglas , Georgia.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Fall term begins August 23, 1898, under very favorable conditions, har
ing a well planned and well equipped building and a competent corps of trackers.
BOARD.
Good board and comfortable rooms in private families and hotels at the very
low rate of !g(> to §lO per month.
For the accommodation of male pupils, with limited means, who may with
to board themselves cheaply, the principal has arranged comfortable dormitories
to be furnished to pupils free of rent. This arrangement places an education
within the reach of the poorest boy.
NORMAL DEPARTMENT.
This department is established for the benefit of those who are preparing to
teach. Discussion on the latest and best methods of school room work is a feature
of this department.
COMMERCIAL COURSE.
The commercial course comprises commercial law, book-keeping commission,
brokerage, business correspondence, typewriting and shorthand. This depart
ment is in charge of a competent and experienced teacher.
MUSIC.
Instrumental and vocal music will be given privately or in classes, according
to the latest methods of the loading conservatories of the country.
TUITION.
Kindergarten and Primary, SI.OO per mouth
First Intermediate 1-00
Second Inteimediate 2.00
Senior 3.00
Music, in classes 2.50
Commercial 4.50
For further information address the Principal,
-Jno. R. Overman.
Stanly’s Business Colg.
AXD SCHOOL OF SIIORTHAXD,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
llomo Endorsement of Bankers, Business and Pro
fessional Men,
A school that stands well at home is said to be a go: and school.
Thomasviixe, Ga., January Ist, 1895.
To The IYnue: We take pleasure in recommending Stanley's Business College
Its r >urse of instruction is thorough, praoth al and comp.ete. moetin,ir all demands of
any business of to-day. We are personally acquainted with 1 rut. Manley its presi
dent, and ca* most earnestly recommend feint as l*oin? a man ot hijfhmoral standing
honest, sober, upright, and sincerely interested in the welfaie of each student.
J. T. Culpepper, mayor; A. 11, Hansel*, judge superior court: J. W, Reed,
vice-president Citizens Rank; S. R- Hays, president 1.2%. bank, B, M.
Smith, president Rank of Thomasville; and many others.
G. W. H- STANLEY.