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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. VOL. X. - IY, I ill Will Be the Next m TMsi m? it mntu> AID BEAD WATSON’S BIG' DOUGLAS STORE Will Be Headquarters for the Best| Cheapest BIG FUN AND CASH MONEY The Prettiest Lady, a Silk Dress The Fastest Running Manor Boy, 2 *>o Ine Fastest Running Horse - - 500 Greasy Pole Climbing, - - 2SO And Pretty Baby Show, Fine Hat." A Five Dollar Cake Walk And a Greasy Pig Catching. iLet Everybody Come and (Have Fun! ♦ Special Dry Coeds Bargains $ ■ FOR THAT DAY! Mice Cord Dress Lawns, 10 yds 25c All 10 and. 15 Bemnamts Sc. Fine yd. wide Percales, 5© Everything in Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Slippers, Shoes, Hats reduced in Price for that Day, SWSj'TiTDAs Y, A l Ci. 18th. Tc(t enough infor fends to Meet Yount WATSON’S ,St the most (. -he kMn^oTSi a^| 1 Jr jjr*i • vj . ' Big Douglas Store. 2)rp6oods, fm tsjrHtMsig, jfoniturc* DOUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1899. Trade Day In Douglas. The merchants of Douglas have selected Al GUST 18TII for a TRADE DAY, and a day of fun. and the people are coining from all over the country to be here. The merchants will sell Goods at Reduced Prices on That Day, and the prizes will bring the people : For the preittiest lady—married or single, a line silk dress. For the first man or boy who climbs the greasy pole, $2 50 For the fastest -runner in a foot race, - - 2 3° For fastest running horse, 500 For the prettiest baby, two years old and under, Fine Trimmed Ilat. For Colored People. Douglas merchants know that the colored people trade, and that Coffee county colored people like fun, so thse prizes are for them : For the most stylish dressed pair in the Cake Walk, - - .SSOO For the fiirst one catching the greasy pig 2 50 The War in the I'hilipines. The following is an extract from one of Bill Arp’s letters and is true every word of it except that the Filipinos are not all negroes. Many of them are civilized and cultured people. This is the extract: Now, the population of the Phil ipines is said to be i0.000.000. That would give them i .000.000 soldiers who are at home. At home defending their native land and even if our boys should kill or capt ure Aguinaldo, another one would ri.->e up and lead the people. Spain is chuckling over the $30,000,000 we paid for islands she was tired of, and it looks to me like we have bought an elephant. For the life of me I can’t arouse much interest in this far off war with 10,000,000 negroes, I don’t cure anything about it. As Spain treated the na tive Cubans, so is our government treating the Filipinos. 1 can’t see any difference. 1 wish there was a difference. I wish there was something to provoke my pride whenever we obtain a victory, hut really this does not seem like our war. It is an administration war —a Republi can war, a war that will within a few years cost millions and entail another pension outrage. There was no necessity for it and no ex cuse for it, and peace might have been made soon after Dewey’s victory over the Spaniards. Ag uinaldo repeatedly proposed for it. Yes, begged for it, but our officials wouldn’t even treat with him or recognize him, and so thousands of our soldiers have gone to their death and more are called for. Organs and Pianos. We have one hundred parlorand church organs and fifty pianos for sale, cheap. They are all brand new, now in the factory, and will I be sold for cash or on installment (to responsible parties) plan. Come to our office and see cat alogue or write us about them. Pianos best grades. Competition defied. All latest styles, most im proved, mouse proof, silver-toned, first-class in every respect. One hundred and fifty (150) of these new instruments, Mason & Hamlin and Sterling Organs and Pianos ready to ship, because we have just been appointed agent, and the managers want every man, woman and child in the county to he hang ing away knocking daylight out and music into every dark corner of the land. Write or see us at once. J. M. Freeman & Daughters. Waycross and Douglas. Mr. J. L. Wilcox, of this county, has sent to the Waycross Journal, samples of his open cotton, as early as July 20. A Negro's View of Lynching. Sparks. Ga. July 30. —S. M. & G.R. R. Fireman to the Macon Telegraph.—Gentleman 1 want this publish to let the world no what kind of a negro I am, 1 am sorry to' my heart I am a negro and got to bee look at with the rest of the grand Rascal that is going around imposing on White ladies. I was born in \\ ilkinson co. My father died the year of IS7B, August 7, 21 years ago, and 1 have work ever since and have not bin out of a job 10 day at the time since. I Say to the white mens of Ga. if you will stop so many young negroes from seting a round on the streats pick ing Bangos and gittars and make them go to Work like 1 have all Ways done then you will see yours ladies Can go Where they Please. 1 hope your Law-makers •will Pass a law if any man loaf around 5 or 10 day call him in. As soon as a Negro stop work he begin to get in develment at once, So take the dogs up and make them go to work for the States and you all will soon quilt finding them hanging to limbs, it is getting So it is dangers for ladies to go by them self. lam 33 years old and never Played card in my life, never made a dollar on ly from the muscle and that is the way for a man to get it. But all I can Say to my Race is to look up and bee a race, not dogs. Join good orders like odd Fellers, let me call your mind to one thing. We have lost sum odd Fellers for steal ing and sum for murder, but you. Never hear talk of one insult ing a White Lady, in the lodge Room they is teach better Sence. So let ever body go to work and be sum body. lam working, or at least, Firing, on the S. M. & (, R.R. for s3l a mont with E. 11. Whitehead, Engineer; O. P. Me- Clary, conductor. So all 1 can say to the white People, if they Unites insult yours Ladies Kill them, Kill them. But it will never bcc my Fate^ F. J. Butler, a Negro. —Macon Telegraph. The Georgia Populists, Col. W. L. Peek, of Rockdale county issued a call last week for a meeting of the populists of the vStafe to convene in Atlanta the early part of the present week. When asked what this conference meant a well known Populist said to-day : “We are going to reorganize the party for next year’s campaign in Georgia. It is generally under stood that there will he 110 fusion of Populists in this or any other state and we propose to start the fight early and keep it up vigorous ly-” lo the initiated it appears that Col. Peek is taking the reins in his own hands and that lie intends to to be to the party in the future what Watson has been to it in the past. This view is borne out by the fact that tin's conference to be held Tuesday is called by Peek and not by S. J. McKnight, the chairman of the Populist state executive com mittee, who lives in Dalton. Royal Arch Masons There will he a convocation of Royal Arch Mason at Willacoo chee, this county, on the 23rd of August. The Grand High Priest of the State will be present and all Royal Arch Masons are requested to be present. Master Masons who desire further advancement caij he accommodated. Before closing : a special lodge will convene to con -1 fer suitable degrees upon all lady J applicants. A full attendance is : desired. B. B. Gray, 11. P. Broxton Brass Band. J. A. McNear, Leader; Louis Harris, Pre>. ; I). W. Wright, Secretary; D. McFadding, Treas urer; George Jenning, E. D. Cam hell. W. J. Huntley, C. Mcßae, Dorgau Wright. Will furnish mu sic (or all occasions. NUMBER 13 The Air Line Excursion. The excursion last Monday over the Air Line and B. & W. Rys. to Brunswick and St. Simon’s island was a success, like'every thing else the former road undertakes. The train over the Air Line, consisting ot four well filled coaches arrived at Waycross on advertised schedule time in charge of conductor Smith and engineer Morton, two of the best railroad men in Georgia, and was hitched on the B. & W. through train from Albany to Brunswick, arriving in the hitter place at 9.30. Conductor Fleming had telegraphed ahead and the Steamer Pope Catlin and the editor of the Times with his estimable family were waiting to greet ps and convey the whole crowd to St. Simon’s island, where we arrived at 11 :00, without acci dent, and a hungrier, sleepier look ing lot of people would be hard to find, still, as sleepy as it was it made out after many struggles to eat up two wagon loads of water melons and drink up all the milk shakes and soda water to be found on the island. Some of the party went in bath ing, but the tide being out it was not much sport, until about 4:00 o’clock. The return home was made without accident arriving at Douglas about 1 o’clock, tired and worn out, having been nearly twenty-four hours on the round trip. EXCURSION NOTES. Lonnie Lott and his friend Rob erts bursted the waves in grand style. Brother Arthur Lott and his fam ily acted as a kind of ballance wheel to keep the crowd straight. Quite a number were left in the morning, who wanted to go from Douglas. The hour was an un usually early one. And you ought to have seen Dr. Sibbett rolling in the surf. As soon he made his appearance the whales withdrew to the other side. About 12 o’clock biscuit ad vanced to 15 cts. a piece with none to be had. The glory of St. Simon’s has de parted as far as excursions are con cerned. No accommodations or attractions and we had as soon vis it an old broom sedge field for a day’s outing as to go there. The steamboat company gave us a rate lo the island of only 25 cents round trip—the lowest ever known. They must have known we were all bankrupts. The ex cursionists in a special meeting passed resolutions of thanks to the steamboat company, with an invi tation to come and see us, bring their boats and stay all night a day or two. The Air Line won fresh laurels for the prompt manner in which the excursion train was handled. This was the first one and they have shown their efficiency in the premises. Lost Pocket Book. Last Tuesday, August Bth, in Douglas, a folding black morocco pocket book, with four or five pockets. It contained a $5.00 note, some change, several organ re ceipts, one or two cancelled notes ! and several other papers, all with : the name of the undersigned. Last seen was at Sibbett’s drug store or ,B. Peterson’s store. Suitable re i ward will be paid finder if left at Breeze office, or returned to B. W. Douglass. SEND US YOUR NAME and address, together with the names and addresses of a number of your friends who are interested in any sort of poultry, for a FREE sample copy of The Georgia ! Poultry lleraho, anew, up-to date and interesting monthly poul try paper. Send to Tiik Georgia Poultry Herald, Blakely, Ga. Mr. Elisha Jowers, who lives near town, brought us in a fine watermelon last Saturday, of the big. fat variety which weighed 60 pounds. We carried it home, , to \\ aycross, and ate melon all day |Sunday.