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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
jTmL FREEMAN * DAUGHTERS, Proprietor!
J. M. FREEMAN, Editor.
AGNES F. FREEMAN, AsiitUat Editor.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Mutter.
SATUKDAyTaUG. sm, 1899.
Official Organ of County.
Ktf We have no authorized amenta, but
every one ia asked to forward subscriptions
and money to thiaoffice. and receipt! will
ae returned by mail. *^(S|
Brunswick Circuit.
Appling Huperior Court Firm and second
Moiuiaya in March; Third and fourth
Monday! in Heptetnber.
Camden Huperior 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 Hiiperior Court Tuesday after
the tirat 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
Monday! in April; Find and second
Monday! in November.
Fierce 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 flint Monday in December; to
continue for aucli time aa the buaineaH
may require.
The populists are in favor of
stamping out trusts, and we are
with them on that question,
Receipts at the three Phillipine
ports for the first five months, of
present year, Manilla, lloillo, and
Cebu, were $2,047,556.
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The Breeze lias had a good deal
to say about the mormons, and it
does so, purely to remind the peoplo
that these proselyters' won’t do te
depend on.
The neatest little paper that
comes to this • office is the Blakely
Reporter, and that’s no joke. if
Rowell can’t Jack up a good paper
he won’t have^aiyc
If you fail to go <>n the ex
cursion to Brunswick on the 7th,
for $2,00 routed trip, you have lost
$6.50. It cos/s $8.50 any other
time. See advertisement, for
leaving time.
A New Yonkf man has had
his wife arrested for assault. In
stead of being proud of such a wife,
he has her arrested, alleging that
she laid him across her knees and
spanked him with a slipper.
Ocillm Dispatch: “Eldar Jack
Vickers, a prominent diving, at
tended yearly meeting at Brushy
Creek Saturday. Elder Jack Vick
ers has thousand? of friends in
Irwin.”
So he hat, wherever he is known.
Yes, we let him come over that
wily once in while.
Oeilla Dispatch! “A couple of
Mormon elder* have been preach
ing in Coffee county, and our
young friend, Jim Freenum, is as
mad as a hornet. Let ’em mlone,
Jim, like the nigger Wanted his
master to do the pole-cat, and may
be they’ll stink themselves to
death.”
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Oeilla Dispatch : “John Wana
maker spent year for
advertising, and, and he has in
creased his appropriation for the
present year.”
But there’s a man in this town
who says advertising don’t pay:
John mug be a fool,
Editor Beasly, down at Thomas
ville, soliloquizes thus: “It seems
from the tenor of the press that the
yaller dog and the Mormon must
go. We much prater the former
to the latter, hence if we can’t rid
ourselves of let us hold on to
the less of the twu evils.”
Here is Senator Ben Tillman’s
latest “get off:” President Mc-
Kinley worked up the Philipine
war so as to have an excuse to in
crease the regular army to ux>-
000 men, and these are to be used
in defending the trust* against ex
pected onslaughts from the people.
A maiden from the city tripped
lightly midst the trees, sniffed
the pungent odor that floated on
the Breeze. “Oh, tell me macient
farmer with arms so brown- and
bare, what is that wondrous flower
that scents 'the morning air?”
Loud laughed the ancient farmer,
till the tears rolled down his cheek.
“Why. bless you, that’s a polecat.
I’ve smelled it for a week.”
Fitigerald Leader: “Douglas.
Ga., is suffering from too much
tnormonism just at present. They
have been trying to convert Editor
Freemam.”
That’s right, any other part of
the country that i* visited by these
wandering proselyters will’ suffer
from too much tnormonism. Their
oily tongues will deceive those not
posted.
There Is a Future for Douglas.
With all the draw backs that be
set our little town, glimmering in
the distance is a radiant future.
Seated on a hill—like a queen on
her throne—that gives an unbroken
view for a good distance, high
enough for easy drainage, surround
ed on all sides by fertile fields of
grain and pastures of cattle, the 1
little town begins to attract the eye
of the home hunter. But this fact
should not distract the brain of
those who own land to put up the
figures enormously, but to aid every
improvement, public and private,
enhancing the real value of homes.
See that educational and religious
matters are in the lead of all others,
make the healthfulness of the town
the duty and pleasure of all,
by cleanliness and stringent sani
tary laws. To regulate themselves
to the rules and government of a
municipal corporation for some
people is like making a hog observe
the Sabbath, but as the first lias
sense and reason and the latter has
none, these things will regulate
themselves, and people who do not
live in town will come for the ben
efit of schools, churches, artesian
water, skilled physicians and to
raise their families in good society.
The Breeze is delighted to note
the tone of the people of Douglas
in the matter of artesian wells, wa
ter works and sanitary measures.
These improvements will double,
the importance of the town within
two years, raising the population
fast enough, with the enhancement
of property to carry the additional
expense with more ease than she
carries the burdens of the pres
ent day.
The Rape Fiend In Washington City.
A dispatch from Washington
city last Monday, has this to say:
“During the past week the Cap
itol has been shocked by a crime
which hardly has its equal in the
south. A respectable white woman
on her way home from a circus was
waylaid by ten negroes. Her com
panion was robbed and told that he
would be drowned if lie did not at
once leave. The woman was drag
ged a little distance from the glare
of the city’s lamps while the ten
brutes struck down the woman and
each assaulted her. The fact that
she, in her shame and anguish, kept
the matter cpiiet for several days
before revealing the whole truth
possibly saved the men from the
mob. They have all been arrested
and have confessed and now their
trials are continuing with the dig
nity which surrounds the district
courts.”
And of course, will be acquitted
with a light fine, and told to “go
and sin no more,” until they have
a better chance. If the victim is
without prominence her character
will be’ blackened beyond redemp
tion by the negroes’ lawyers and
witnesses will be hired to swear
she was a common prostitute, and
the negroes elated by their predom
inance will seek more victims. We
deplore the commission of such
crimes anywhere, but if it must go
we are pleased to know “like chick
ens the curse is coming home” to
the Republicans.
Gov. Candler says “our women
must be protected,” and that's just
what judge lynch says.
The Commissioner of agriculture
says corn crop is almost a failure,
lie urges the farmers to make cot
ton a surplus, and raise their own
provisions.
Gov. Candler says the country’s
fair name must be sustained, and
lynching must stop. Judge lynch
says lynching will continue until
raping is stopped.
Out Friends, the Mormons, are
not having an easy time in upper
Georgia. If they must have a field
to work in we suggest that they
are needed in the Philipine islands.
The Cordele cotton factory is
being moved to another town.
When factories begin to leave a
town there is always a downward
tendency to its growtli and im
portance.
Gov. Candler says one of the
causes of so much lawlessness
among the blacks is the familiarity
of office hunters with them. Fon
dling, feasting and petting them
for votes. The Breeze said the same
thing sometime ago, and we are
glad to see that the governor is
catching on to the truth.
Within the last week two license
have been issued for white and col
ored mkrriages, in Washington j
city. I
THE SAN JOSE SCALE
RAVAGES OF THIS AWFUL i*est
IN GEORGIA AND HOW IT
MAY BE CHECKED.
ANSWERS TO MANY INQUIRIES
Department of Agriculture Supplies
Information ou Subjects of
Interest to Farmers.
Question. —Ib the San Jose scale more
dangerous in the south than at the
north?
Answer. —This pest is much more de
structive in the south than at the north,
owing to the longer breeding and feed
ing season afforded it by the southern
climate. In Georgia, the scale lies dor
mant only about two months —from
Dec. 15 to Feb. 15—leaving it ten
months in the year in which to multiply
at a very rapid rate, and prosecute its
destructive work of sapping the life of
the tree. Even during the dormant pe
riod there come days warm enough to
revive the insects and set them to breed
ing again.
In January, 1808, infested peach twigs
were received from Danville, Oa., on
which living young were crawling pro
fusely. Ou Feb. 14, 1809, specimens
were received at this office from Cairo,
Go., and upon examination they were
found to be breeding. On March 8, 1898,
I inspected an orchard in Houth Georgia
and found the scale breeding freely on
pluru trees. From this almost incessant
breeding and feeding it can be readily
understood that the Sau Jose scale is
more dangerous in southern climates
than at the north, where the period of
its destructive work is cut short by the
cold of winter.
Again, the peach trees being more
susceptible to injuries of auy kind than
almost any other orchard tree, and since
the peach is the principal fruit grown
in this state, we suffer more from the
ravages of the scale than other states
that grow apples and other fruits that
are more resistant.
With us peach trees are entirely killed
in two seasons after they are first at
tacked. On April 30, 1898, I inspected
an orchard of 1,000 8-year peach trees
at Pine City, Ga., and after careful
search found ouly six trees iufested
with the San Jose scale. No treatment
was applied to this orchard, and on
Nov. 10 of the same year I visited it
again, and found one-third of the trees
entirely crusted over with the scale and
in a dying coudition.
In view of these facts, with other
similar cases, wo must conclude that
the San Jose scale is much more de
structive in the southern states than at
the north.—State Entomologist.
Hunter, Pearce & Battey,
Savannah, Ga.
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FOR SALR ~~
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CITY OF DOUGLAS LOTS, Cheap, Easy Payments.
Call to see us. It we havn’t what you want we will get it for
v„ u WARD & HILLIARD.
Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance, Abstracting. All
kinds of Legal Blanks for sale.
Man Tailored.
UP T 0 DATE fashionable clothing
v ISV\ Pfir I ailipQ n tile very latest seasonable
fojjx dQUIOu modes and styles handsomely
designed and made. Ferfect fitting
Y 4* Suits - Skirts - Waists. *
Muslin Underwear, Corset Covers, Underwear. Hosiery. Etc.
Agents for the celebrated KABO CORSETS, all colors and styles
t Boy's aii elites’ ’
Clothing and Furnishings, Hats, Hosiery
Fine Neckwear, Underwear. Negligee
Shirts. etc. Stiff. Soft and Straw Hats.
P n ll Shipments with privilege of ex-
U.UiJJ umining before paying for them.
Goods Rigit or Money Back
B. H. LEVY & BRO.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
FARM WORK DELAYED
little accomplished as yet
BECAUSE OK THE RECENT
STORMY WEATHER.
STEVENS GIVES HIS OPINIONS
Agricultural Commissioner Writes of
Conditions In Georgia at Pres
ent and the Outlook.
Atlanta, March 1, 1899.
Since my last letter we have had most
unfavorable weather for farm work.
Hence but little has been accom
plished upon the farms during the
mouth of February.
The passing of the old year has car
ried with it a sad experience for many
of us, In our farming operations and
business transactions generally. The
new year was ushered in with the usual
good resolutions by our farmers; in fact,
the majority of us are trying to do bet
ter in the future by correcting the mis
takes of the past. It is to be hoped that
the present year will mark the begin
ning of what may be regarded as anew
era; that the smouldering embers of for
eign war and internal dissensions will
be amicably adjusted, and our nation
will settle down to business once more,
with a future so bright that the average
mind will but partially comprehend the
magnitude of its results and possibilities.
The new year is remarkable in more
than one respect. It brings us not only
face to face with new' and strange polit
ical questions, but the long hoped-for
prosperity promised ns by the present
j federal administration upon the settle-
i incut of these questions. During the
: past five years we have traveled wearily
j through a most trying period of depres
: sion. Met on all sides by discouraging
j conditions, we have bad many hard
j ships aud set-backs, but much of it has
been our own fault. We have the rem
edy in our own hands for many of our
troubles. Will we apply it, and apply
it now? As I see it, the remedy ließ,
first, in the farmer raising hts own sup
plies at home, ample and sufficient; then
raise as much cotton as you can. When
your barns are full, your mules will do
a good day’s work. Your cows give
milk, and your butter is sweet, rich and
of a golden hue. Your hens lay every
day, and your hogs are healthy and
prolific. But when your barns are
empty, your mules have the lampers or
Hind staggers, your cows have hollow
horn, the feathers on your hens are
turned the wrong way, aud your hogs
got lousey aud have the nnvuge.
L. S. GUTHKIE & CO.,
(XZ\ ifcf DOTJGLAS > GA -,
WF resi ) Reliable
GOODS.
Prices are
V s ' ■ Down.
Note these prices and come and examine the goods at once :
Clothing that has been selling for $12.00 per suit now 7.00.
Common, every clay suits of clothing, all sizes, $4 00 a suit.
Gentlemen’s Ties, a nice assortment, from 5 to 25c. Ladies’ Dress
Goods, from 3 to 20c per yard. Gent’s Negligee Shirts,; 30c to $1 00;
Finest Assortment of Ribons in town,
Any kind of Hat at almost any price.
Jl hi te Homespun, 30 nurds for 0. \ Is DOLLAR.
Laces and Embroideries at Your Own Prices, in Profusion.
Lap Robes that were $i oo now 50c. Umbrellas, cheap as dirt.
GROCERIES.
In Family Groceries'and supplies we lead on prices.
Good Green Coffee, 11 pounds, $r 00. (food Rice 5c P er pound.
Sugar, per pound SJ. Bacon, 7 b Country Lard 8c per pound.
We have the best Lamps for the least money in town. We challenge
the world. Tin Ware at your own price, or anything else in our line.
D. J. CRAWLEY,
DEALER IN 9
Brick, Lime, Cement,
Plaster, Hair, Sand,
LATHS, SHINGLES, &C.
WAYCRO S S.- GA.
The Douglas Abstract Company.
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Makes Abstracts of Title to ail Lands in Coffee coj/nty.
Buys and Sells Real Estate on Commission, Lends
Honey, &c. Legal Blanks of all kinds for Sale. •
Headquarters for anything connected with Deeds, Mortgaged,
Land Titles, &c. Come to see us
L. C. HILLIARD, Manager.
* Spring#-
Near Douglas, Georgia .
Unequalled as a health resort. Rates of BoarjT tOW.
Fishing and Hunting excellent. Good Recreation.
Address JOEL GASKIN, Douglas, Ga.
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