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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. - . 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. CCialt ®apsr. Do you expect to do any pa) . ring? We will ml von kkrk .• large selection of sain oil s from ’V per roll up, all now colorings ’n,\ iwv . sties up jo ipso We pay freight. We went an agent in every town to sell ou commission from large ample books; no capital required. For samples or parueu ia: s, address s. WOt.F. 7-iT-Too Ninth Avc. N. V City i\MO from firoxton* 0. $. Cliett, Editor. DIRECTORY. cm:KCHEB. 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 . All calls answered day or night. 1). J. Masbburn & Son, BROXTON, GA. HARNESS AND SADDLE MAKERS, (). 13. CLIETT Agent for The Douglas Breeze. 1 am authorized to receive and re ceipt for Subscriptions, Job Printing and Advertising, Gbc ttreeft 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 es, lowa. For sale by W. F. tsibbelt'. 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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. If you contemplate purchasing household furniture, by all means send for the catalogue of the Quaker Valley Manufacturing Cos., 319 and 321 South Canal Street, Chicago. BucUlcn’s Arnica Salve. 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Confident that he has discovered an abslute cure for consumption and nil pul monarv complaints and to make its great merits known he will send free three bottles of medcinc to any reader of the Douglas Breeze who Is suffering from chest bron hiol throat and lung troubles or consttmp tion Already this ’’new scientific course of medcinc has permanently cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it his religions duty—a duty which he owes to humanity— to donate his infallible cure. Offered freely is enough to commend it and more so is the perfect confidence of the great chemist making the proposition, lie has proved the dreaded consumption to !>•} a euri able disease beyond any doubt. There will be no mistake in sending— the mistake will be in overlooking the gen erous invitition. He has on tile in his American and Euroepan labortories testi monials of experience from those cured in all parts of the world. Don’t delay until it is too late. Address T. A. 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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. ms -QAL~~£ .x>. 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 Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THe CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 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.