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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. VOL. X. The Douglas Abstract Company. Makes Abstracts of Title to all Lands in Coffee county. Buys and Sells Real Estate on Commission, Lends Honey, &c. Legal Blanks of all kinds for Sale. Headquarters for anything connected with Deeds, Mortgages, Land Titles, &c. Come to see us L. C. MILLIARD, Manager. - Springs Near Douglas , Georgia . Unequalled as a health resort. Rates of Board low. Fishing and Hunting excellent. Gootl Recreation. Address JOHL GASKIN, Douglas, Ga. THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA Is the Leading Insurance Company of the United States. Its Policy Contracts are brief, comprehensive and unsurpassed by those of any other company. RECORD OF 1898. Total Assets, over ..... . $28,880,10(1,42 Income iver ... . $17,480,000,000 New Insurance written, over - - - $104,000,000,00 Paid Policy Holders, to Date Over ... $80,450,000,00 Number ol’Polfoies in Force Nearly $;>,000,000. Some of the Advantages of The Prudential Company. Premiums Low, Occupation not Restricted. Investment Excellent , Extended In surance Long Periods. Security Absolute, Residence arid Truvei I'nrestrcted Cash Loans Liberal. Cash Surrenders <(arranteed. Policieies Incon testable after two years. Paid up Policies Large. Policies non-forfeitable after three years. Full particulars regarding various forms of policies adapted to your own age can be secured by addressing the General Agents, stating Name, Address, Occupation and Date of Birth. GOOD AGENTS can secure desirable contracts for unoccupied territory by addressing the General Agents, HOPKINS A- HINES, Savannah, Ga. The editor of the Breeze strongly commends the Prudential Insurance Company. REPORT OF THE Union BanKina Company, Of Douglas Ga., At Close of Business, June 27th, 1899. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $9,692 90 Banking house $ 7,007 83 Furniture and fixtures... . 1,677 35 8,685 18 Due from banks and bankers in the State 11,338 00 “ “ “ “ not in this State 1,539 63 CASH : Currency $6,633 00 Gold 65 00 Silver, nickles and pennies 682 18 Uncollected checks and cash items.... 3,922 99 11,303 17 Current expenses 1,271 85 Taxes paid „ 70 83 Total $43,901 56 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 18,400 00 Undivided profits not carried to surplus Exchange $ 302 05 Interest 798 97 Rents 366 83 Profits and loss 50 , 1,468 35 Individual deposits, viz— Subject to check.. 22,521 30 Cashier's checks.. 28 91 22,550 21 Bills payable, including time certifi cates, representing borrowed money ... 1,483 00 Total $ 43,901 56 State ot Georgia, Gottee Gountu. Before me came J. J. Lewis, President of the Union Banking Company, who being duly sworn says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank, as showtl by the books of file in said bank. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this sth day of July, 1899. C. E. BAKER, N. P., C. C., Ga. THE ULMEfI-WAGON AND BUGGY WORKS, ,j, p s ulmer, m&m. BLACKSHITH,WHEELWRIGHT and HORSESHOER fainting f and * Crimming / keep the Ulmer wagon on hand at all times at $26.00 , guarhnteedi 1 have first-class workmen employed, therefore 1 guarantee satisfaction in all my work. Send me your old buggy to make over. UNDERTAKER. I keep a first-class line of Coffins and Caskets and Funeral Supplies and will attend funerals and look after same. • J. P. ULMER. POND STREET, Near Jail. TELEPHONE 12S. Order Through Responsible Parties. DOUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, JULY 8 1899. THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. J. M. FREEMAN & DAUGHTERS, Proprietors J. M. FREEMAN, Editor. AGNES E. FREEMAN, Assistant Editor. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter. SATURDAY, JULY 8 , 1899. Official Organ of County. f&F~ We have no authorized agents, but every one is asked to forward subscript ions and money to this office, and receipts will be returned by mail. \ Brunswick Circuit. Appling Superior Court: —First and second Mondays in March; Third and fourth Mondays in September. Camden Superior Court: —Tuesday after the third Monday in March; Tuesday af ter the first Monday in October. Coffee Superior Court:—Fourth Monday in March; Second Monday in October. Charlton Superior Court: —Tuesday after the lirst Monday in April; Tuesday after the fourth Monday in October. Clinch Superior Court: —Second Monday in April; Third Monday in October. Ware Superior Court:—Third and fourth Mondays in April; First and second Mondays in November. Pierce Superior Court:—First Monday in May; third Monday in November. Wayne Superior Court:—Second Mon day in May; Fourth Monday in Novem ber. Glynn Superior Court: —Third Monday in May, and Hirst Monday in December; to continue for such time as the business may require. Arrival and Departure of Mails to and From Douglas Ga. From Waycross and all parts of the world.daily except Sunday, 11:30. De parts 1:30 p. in. From Shepherd, Garrant, Denton Davis, Fickren, II inson, Wilcox, (.nit BroOker. Hazlelnirst, Maddox, McDew: and Bingham, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 0 p. in. Departs same day (i a. m. From Broxton, Feron’a Fawn, Ev ergreen, Pekin, line and Jacksonville, daily except Sunday 6 p. m. Departs 6 a. m. From Philips’ Mill and Holt, Tues day, Thursday and Saturday 0 p. m. Departs (i a. ng From Downing, daily except Sunday, 12 :10 Departs la -30 p. m. Office hours are all hours to serve the general public to the best of our ability. SUNDAY MAIL SCHEDULE. Leaves Douglas 8 o’clock, a. in. A: rives at Douglas 0:30 p. m A.B. Finley. Postmaster Only a Legal Sheet. It is a custom withal! weekly papers to observe the 4th of July as a legal holidoy. and in accord ance with this rule we present you only a legal sheet to-day—just a sheet to carry out the legal adver tising of the county. Next week, however, you will receive the Breeze in a full sheet of canvass, loaded with the best in the market and containing in condensed shape two brief summary of this week’s news, Citizens Meeting Next Monday Night. At a called coudcil with a full hoard, the following resolutions were adopted : We the mayor and aldermen of the city of Doug las earnestly recommend that the citizens of Douglas meet at the court house at 8 o’clock P. M. on the 10th day of July 1899 take such steps necessary looking to im proving the present condition ol the literary schools of said city Adopted July 4th 1899. O. Rudolph, J. J. Walker Clerk. Mayor. Meeting adjourned to meet at 5 o’clock p. m, Thusday July 6th 1899. $ C. A. Ward Jr. Aldermen i l rCSCnt - $ P. Sellers. / T. J. Davis. NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned not to purchase or otherwise trade fora certain promisory note, sign ed by us and made payable to W. T. Hendricks and endorsed on back by W. T. Hendricks and J. E. Howell note dated at l'eronia Ga., Nov. 26th 1897 as we will not pav the same. C. 11. Smith, A. I*. Smith. Lax, Ga. MORMORISM. The United States of America is a great country. Possibly we are the Stone Kingdom of proph ecy, Who knows? An author of ability, and “a citizen of no mean city” has figured it out with all the accuracy of a mathematical demon stration, that this kingdom, “which was never to be destroyed,” was born on th 4th of July A. I). 1776, the birth day of American inde pendence. Be it so ! Nothing of its kind could possibly please us better. But what are we doing with Mormonism in this country? We are utilizing the best medical skill of the nation to detect the microbes of yellow fever, and to stamp out the seeds of other contagious dis eases. But the black pestilence in Utah which is diffusing itself like a consuming cancer through the body social, and the body politic, and sapping the foundations of so ciety—what are we going to do with that? Pooh! pooh! it out of existence. That lias been tried for over forty years, but the deadly upas lias been nearly three quarters of a century, and it is bigger now than ever. And by a hit of sharp practice, which an average school boy might have easily understood from the beginning, it has got the grin and grip on the country broadly and defiantly. The Congress in 1882 got 11 p a sort of tempest in a tea pot, and passed the Edmund’s bill to stamp polygamy out of Utah. The “Lat ter day saints,” as burlesque has dubbed them, got together and agreed to go dead on the main is sue for a night. The lie was incu bated by the leading ecclesiastics and he hatched out; the ruse took and they waked up next morning no longer polygamist, but full fledged democrats and Republicans. That was al) the big political par ties specially cared for, and a con vention was called, and under the most solemn pledges, this political and polygamous hybrid was grant ed statehood. But what did they care for pledges, when all they were after from the start was to get rid of national authority, secure State’s rights, and go right on in full, free, and unmolested practice of their adulterous and polygamous orgies. And that is what is going on now. And they can laugh the powers that be to scorn, snap their tinges in the face of general govern met while they are wallowing in filth, and drinking down sin as an ox drinketh water. It is like peeling sacred monu ments, or desecrating the sanctities of heaven to call such an institution a church. And Joe Smith and Sid Rigden were playing the role of sly, snakey, Jesuitical schemers and scandal-monger 1o perfection, when they conceived the idea of lugging Clod into their lewd and lecherous creed, and linking with this moral pest-house the name which Christ and Ids apostles have sanctified and glorified, , But let 11s see what is the latest news from tills so-called church. It comes to us by the way of t lie New York World. A distinguish ed Presbyterian divine, living in Utah, confirms the correctness of the World’s statement that the Mormon saints (?) are living their religion in all parts of the state. The meaning is, that the highest officials of the so-called church, as well as the lowest of the outlying classes and communities, are noto rious polygamist, living in open and shameless adultry. Teasdale, an apostle of flic faith seventy years old, with four wives, not a great while ago, led his fifth— a girl bride, to the altar of sacrifice John W. Taylor, also an apostle ot the faith, recently introduced his his third, fourth, or fifth wife to Utah society—she having just be come a mother. He was known to have several other wive: in Salt Lake City. And Angus Cannon, the most consequential ecclesiastic in the tribe, recently decided to shelve some of his cast-off maidens, and to take Dr. Mattie Hughes, the State Senator of the Common wealth to wife, in the face of I*l d mund's Saw, when it is well known that she “could only claim a sixth interest” in the muchly married man. But as “she is the youngest and most attractive of his spouses.” she gets the lion s share ol his at tention, as a matter of course. These are some of the facts which come to us, by living witnesses Rom the very centers of Utah intel ligence, and that too in the face of the well known fact that their ly ing missionaries are telling it every where, that polygamy is dead and therefore, no longer a part of the creed or practice of tlie saints (?) in Utah. Cannon served a term in the pen itentiary for his first violation of the law, and his three young wives disappeared for a time to screen him, no doubt, and to give birth to their adulterous progeny. But what of law, and courts, and penitentiaries now? We don’t hear of them. The Mormon church has got her hands on the establish ment. One man is at the head of it. lie has two lieutenants, and an army of subordinates, bound by a solemn oath, and the penalty of eternal damnation to obey his word. And claiming to be God. or a part of God, lie hectors it, at will, over the sonscicnces of the ignorant and has everything pretty much his own way. As soon as the United States gave them statehood, they elected a Mormon legislature, a Mormon governor, secretary of state*, treas urer, auditor,and superintendant of public instruction. And at the last election, though in the minority, they elected all but two of the city officers ill Salt Lake City, out of more than twen ty offices to be filled. And they now have the mayor, council, treasurer, auditor, recorder and three county commissioners, two senators in congress, one rep resentative in the Lower House, with Roberts Haunting Itis lecher ous record, and the banner of his polygamous and polluted state in the face of Washington society, and demanding admittance into our great national Legislature, while Edmund, who figured most con spicuously at the political aceouch ment, where this statal brat was horn, seems to have weakened and retired from the arena, and Con gress halts and hesitates, and so far has turned a deal ear to the thun derous protests and petitions of millions of the pure, good women of the land, and the best citizens of the country, when they ought to say No! to the demands of this polygamous aspirant, with an em phasis, that would shake the dome of the capitol. The audacity of the priest lias no parallel except it he in the credul ity of his victim. Absurdity lias reached its climax, when you tell an intelligent man, that Christ was the natural son of Adam and Mary, when Adam was dead thousands of years before Mary was horn. And to affirm, that the Lord Je sus Christ was himself a plygamist, married to Mary and Martha, and another women, who followed him to the cross, that every male po lygamist is a god, and that men be come gods by becoming polygamist, marrying many wives, and raising up a numerous progeny of illegiti mates to call him lord, is simply monstrous. It almost battles belief that such depravity could find a lodgment in a human heart. But sir, it comes to us straight, that be sides having almost unlimited pow er in Utah, this heresy has the bal lance of power in Idaho, and Wy oming, and is now busily at work on a colonizing scheme in Arizona. New Mexico, and Nevada, prepar ing the way for six more senators as soon as the territories shall be come (States. And by the highest civil authority known in such cases, one of their elders is now a chap lain in tlie United States Army, and Judge King, their representa tive in Congress is known to have left his seat in Washington, that he might join the lecherous propagandists in Brooklyn, and tell the public, that Mormonism has come to make the whole world one nation, one people, one faith ” And what are they after? Seek ing to christianize the nations? How? Trying to make happy homes and good citizens? No! They are trying to convert the peo ple to Mormonism. They are struggling for the ballot-box to es! tablisli and perpetuate MormonismJ Like the Mohammedans, they are looking wholly and solely to a sen sual paradise. And with the lewd and low, tnis can only he realized by the indiscriminate commerce of the sexes. So that, to sum it all up in few words, Mormonism, means polygamy, and polygamy mean. - , licentiousness, and animal ism, self indulgence and free-love is what the so called Mormon ‘church stands for yesterday, and NUMBER i to day, and forever. And yet, while we are standing still, and doing nothing, this Lat ter Day heresy has an army of mis sionaries, radiating and ramifying the highways and byways, each with a Bible in his hands, as a mask to cover up the swindle, they are practicing upon the innocent and the unsuspecting. They are knocking at your doors, or they will be sponging upon your hos pitality, claiming to be humble missionaries of the cross, sent out without scrip or staff, like the first disciples of our Lord. And they come at night to save hotel hills, and get the best oppor tunity to gain your ear, then they teed you. ()u the bread of life. Nav, but upon the poison of death. On the sincere milk of God’s pure word? Nay, but on tlie sincere (te nsion of a clever, captivating heresy to disarm your prejudice, gain your confidence, and , make you triends and converts of Mor monisnv. And the Sunday School, the private school, the public school, the press, the pulpit whenever and wherever they can get the use of it —all are utilized with the mission ary, and vigorously plied and pressed into service to make it go— My brethren beware! Gfcye mons no quarter. Raise Hag on the main •hr-o lewd and 1\ ing \er\ wide l.n I li. "Be. lli in lion e - neilli, I iijl DM. v jf'jj lot lie l\.l hid.J^L I- 1 1 a I 1,1 ke 1 111 - I? fiy. Ur I \ .11, (f ' . J I-.* In a ’*■ I 9 11 m. i 1 til' :m --has had a great with, and in consequence is some what torn up, from a religious standpoint. Mr. Davis, of Texas, in the first place, has been ham mering away, scripturally, and let us all down in deep water, where we can’t even touch bottom with our toes. Secondly, Mr. Pulliam, in his tent on the hill, has been smashing things around lively and declares that Christ will save a man, if the mail believes, trusts, and wants Salvation, Then, again, two mormon elders, skilled in scripture, courteous and gentleman ly have been busy distributing tracts, discussing scriptural points, and urging the belief of the latter day saints. And still more, Judge C. A. Ward, Jr. and his able as sistants, up at the court house, were talking about justice, wisdom and pay the county out of debt. Over in another room, the Ordi nary, (bashful Tom Young) was looking ofter tlie support for the widows and children. Down on the street Sheriff Tanner Was flying around arresting every fellow he could level on, while Sheriff Smith was offering his services to a young lady friend to interview the Ordi nary about the license whenever a certain young fellow got in the no tion, leap year or no leap year. John Greer was up stairs at the Peterson House learning a fourth of July oration and reciting, as he stood in front of a big mirror, ges turing wildly as his eyes stood out like heads on the side of his head, his hair standing like “quills on the hack of a fretful porcupine,” as he shouted: Gentlemen and ladies: This is the ga-lorious foutli of July, the day on which George Wash ington met Lord Cornwallis at the battle of Waterloo and shelled ev ery grain off’ll has cob, Jhd the great American eagle flopped her wings, lit on the Rocky mountains, screamed, and like an arrow sped across the big mill pond and snatched a handful of hair out’ll the British lion’s hack.” About this time the editor of the Breeze decided that “he who listens and runs away, will live to listen some other day,” skipped to Waycross. WARD & CRAWLEY, ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW, Douglas, Ga. Prompt Attention Given to all Buslnesa Placed la our Care. Ofikt Overllaka Bank,