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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
VOL. XI.
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1 Match Box 25
2 Knife, one blade, good stee'. * 25
3 Scissors, inches 25
4 Child’s Set, Knife, Fork and Spoon 25
5 Salt and Pepper Set. ore each, quad
ruple plate on white metal 50
6 French Briar ‘Wood Pipe 23
7 Razor, hollow ground, fine English
steel.. 50
8 Butter Knife, triple plate, best quality o<>
9 Sugar Shell, triple plate, besst quality 60
10 Stamp Box, sterling sliver 7U
11 Knife, “ Keen Rutter,” two blades ... 75
12 Butcher Knife, *• Keen Kniter,” 8-in
blade 75
13 Shears, “Keen Kutter,”B-inch 75
14 Nut Set, Cracker anu 6 Picks, silver
plated to
15 Base Ball, “ AssiMdation,” best quality.loo
16 Alarm Clock, nickel 150
17 Six Genuine Rogers 5 Teaspoons, lust
plated poods 150
18 watch, nickel, arena wind nnd s t <'•
19 Carvers, g ood steel, buck hrin hund*e 200
20 Six Genuine Ropers’ Table Spoons,
best plat ed goods 2CO
21 Six each, Knives and Forks, buckhorji
handles. 250
THE ABOVE DrFER EXPIRES NGVSMBER 30th. 1900.
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22 Six ruch, Genuine Regers’ Knives and
For/s. best plated goods 500
23 Clock, S-day. Calendar, Thermometer,
Barometer 500
21 Gun cns'\ leather, no better made— 500
;5 Revolver. automatic, double action 32
or 3S caliber GOO
SG Tool Set. nor playthings, but real tools 650
27 Toilet set, decorated porcelain, very
handsome 860
23 Remington Ullle No. 4,22 or 32 caliber 800
20 Watch, sterling silver, full jeweled. .1000
30 Ureas Suit Case, leather, handsome
and durable 1000
31 Sewing Machine, first clues, with all
attachments 1500
82 Revolver, Colt's, 33-caliber, blued
steel 1500
33 Hide. Colt’s, b'.-ehor,, O. .1500
31 Guitar ( Washburn), rosewood, lnlaul.2ooo
35 Maiuhd'n. very handesome 2000
30 Winchester Repeating Shot Gun, 12
gauge. 2000
37 Remington, donble-b.irrel, hammer
i-h'.tGun, 10 ru 12 gauge 2000
33 Bicycle, standard make, ladles or
gent-' 2500
29 Shot Gun. Remington, double-barrel,
hammerless BfTO8 f T0 :
40 Regina Music Box, 15inch 5OOO ,
DOUGLAS, GA., SATURDAY, AUG. 18th, 1900.
THE WAYCROSS RIFLES
Go into Camp and the People
Of Coffee County Cap
ture th e Wlio 1 e
Busin e s s.
The Ruski.i Band One of The Best in
Georgia Furnished the Music.
The Waycross Rifles, accompa
! r.iecl by tlie Ruskin Band, readied
Douglas lasi Friday, August loth,
as previously announced in these
columns, and went out to the en
campment grounds at Gaskin’s
J Spring at once, not even stopping
|at Williford’s to get a drink of
j something cool, or on the street to
i stick a single j ig! The Captain
j had his head and chin elevated at
an angle ot 40 degrees, and the
j first Lieutenant stepped briskly at
| the head of the band, with eves
(straight ahead as if to spy out
1 danger ahead and lead the hoys to
■ the Spring.
Some ot the citizens on the line
lof march were disappointed at the
'company’s not stopping long
i enough for cool water and a chat
1 at a certain house on Gaskin avenue,
(hut as they were informed that the
hoys were alraid some of the h *>gs
! in town would bite them they were
j excused until night.
Promptly as the clock in the
steeple struck eight the wagons
I and buggies bringing the R ifles and
Band hack to town rolled in and on
to Buck's Hotel, where George
I Wooten, the cook and bottle-wash
er, with several citizens awaited
them. Lights were furnished and
seats arranged on the piazza for
the Band and the music began to
roll out on the quiet night air.
causing the average citizen to
quicken his gait, while the girls
slapped an additional covering of
powder on her pretty lace and
smacked her red lips as she thought
of coining flirtatious conquests
with the hoys in uniform, llun
dreds of citizens with their wives
and daughters and sweethearts
were there, and as the music con
tinued the people kept coining.
About ten o’clock the Hand and
Kifles were marched into the spa
cious dining room, and from the
noise heard we imagine full justice
was done to ice-cream, cake, etc.,
that had been prepared for them.
In a speech of welcome delivered
by the editor of the Breeze the
Hand was informed that it was a
| first-class musical organization—
the editor spoke from his musical
experience as he was a musician—
. having been an expert on the “Jews’
harp” for a number of years. The
| Rifles were also complimented, and
the whole business was told that
j the town belonged to them, lock,
j stock and barrel, and that all that
| was necessary was for each man
; that had no wife was to [lick out
1 one, see the parson, select such a
residence as he preferred, move the
incumbent out and move in him
| self. About >■! o’clock the visitors
returned to camp and Douglas
rolled over on her other side, stuck
: her foot from under the cover so
'that the mosquitoes could puncture
| her big toe and went to sleep.
Saturday morning the people be
j gan to pour into camps from every
direction. Some rode mules, some
I came in buggies, carts, wagons and
jon foot, and one old gentleman
' loaded four grown married daugh
ters, each one with two children,
j into a two-wheel cart, tucked his
j wife in behind, hitched up “old
j Buck,” an oxen, and commenced
j the journey from across country
! from the lower end of the county,
|on the night (Friday) before.
When they crossed the river bridge,
: which is the sorriest in the State,
! the yoke broke oil and there they
! were in the road a th m-upd miles
from anywhere. The old man was
a genius however, and boreing a
hole in the front end of the cart
body, pulled “old Buck’s” tail
through, tied a knot in it and crack
ed his whip. lie rolled into camp
just in time to take breakfast with
Jake Elmar, Fully five hundred
people were in camps by to o’clock,
and a hundred and fifty hoys and
; girls that we don’t count w :e
skirmishing around the Spring, on
the bridges, etc., trying to get a
chance to capture one of tire soldier
boys or one of “them horn men.”
The crowd swelled until one o’-
clock w lint} “Douglas ' spruced up
a little, put some more powder on
her face, - washed the snuff out of
her month and wentmut to conquer
or cheer the boys until she turned
| black in the face and ‘-drapped in
her tracks.” Bv this time one
thousand souls were on the grounds,
the outside pickets had been driven
in and the Bund was playing “Bo
naparte’s Retreat,” while Capt.
Farr and Lieut. Lliner were beg
uig the hoys to stand firm and not
retreat into the swamp as it was
full of wild varmints and fighting
hogs. In the afternoon, don’t
know what hour exactly, (as the
town clock v 1- ' >t running—Capt.
Farr having requested that it he
stopped, because everythin* it struck
an hour Sheldon would alarm the
camp with a cry of tire, tire,) the
skirmish drill and sham light came
off in fine style, the ground being
well adapted for the exercise. One
detachment whipped the other, as
had as we did old Sherman up at
Atlanta, and drove the whole busi
ness into Seventeen mile creek
swamp. One old gentleman who
kept a tally-sheet of the casualities
reports that 1000,000,000 were
killed and that some 500,000,000
were wounded or gone a-fishing.
It was a glorious victory, hut won
at a fearful cost, and as the wound
ed were brought up and Dr. Mont
gomery, and his medical staff
sewed their heads, legs and arms
on again, and pumped some air
into their bullet riddled bodies,
howls of excruciating pain caused
“Douglas” to drop her head on u
pine stump, take a fresh chew ol
gum, call for her bicycle and glide
for the city, singing as she went,
“When this cruel war is over we
shall meet again.”
Saturday evening a party of
young people returned to the pa
vilion and the moonlight beautie*
were discussed and cussed until
time to go to bed, they returned to
the city, the sentinels resumed
their vigils, and the last word Sergt.
Fenton said as lie rolled over be
hind a cypress log and went to
sleep was,
“All quiet on Seventeen to-night,
Except now and then a picket is shot.”
Sunday was a day of social ming
ling of the people, people from all
over the counties of Irwin, Berrien,
Telfair and Clinch were there, and
the sermons they heard from Rev.
Mr. Smith were grand. The sa
cred music from the Band was en
trancing, and many who were
present, in future days will look
back on the occasion as a bright
oasis in life’s dream that will never
r ‘it -k *
b 1 effaced.
The Rifles and Band left for
Waycross at 6 o’clock Monday
morning, and as the train carried
the visitors from sight “Douglas”
sat down on the side of the road
and bowed her head in grief. Con
vulsive shudders shook her form,
while great briny tears rolled down
her cheeks, making furrows in the
paint and powder like a scooter
plow 011 the soft front yard. Nich
oils, Broxton, Rearson and other
girls gathered around the weeping
beauty, trying by affectionate, en
dearing terms, gentle taps and
sympathetic, reassuring words to
console her, hut all to no purpose.
Oh, it was an hour of grief—strong
men stood around and wept, little
children stopped in their chatter,
and whispering to each other cast
inquiring glances toward the
drooping, weeping figure!
“Is there no relief, dear • Douglas’
I .
for you.” Broxton softly asked.
Don’t weep so, swcec one, we know
you love those hoys, bgt they will
come again."
“When?" asked “Douglas,” as
she raised her p etty head and the
tears on her cheek glistened like
diamonds in the light.
“Next year, dear,” was the reply.
“And must I wait until next year,
before the captain with 11 is mustache
will take a sly glance tit: me again ?”
asked the sobbing girl,
“Oh no, sister," said Rearson as
she walked up and smoothed out
the disarranged hair on the girl’s
temple, “You can see the soldiers
at the State Fair at Valdosta, and
at the Ware County Fair in Way
cross, all this fall.”
“Thank Heaven! and then next
year I will bo larger and stronger
and prettier, and when the
and Band come again they
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THE BANNER COUNTY.
Coffee County Shows an In
crease in Taxable Values
of $395,500 for the
Year 1900.
Which isAluadaf Any Report we have
Seen so far This Year.
The Breeze is ns proud this week
as a hoy with red calico pants and
a yellow waist of the same mate
rial. and it has a right to he proud.
The Breeze has been run by the
present management just a little
>ver a year and see the wonderful
increase in values of the county’s
property. Three hundred and
ninety-five thousand and five
hundred dollars ! Well, we told
you so! We said if you’d stick to
is, we’ll bring you oaten the kinks,
iidn’t we, and are going to do it!
See what we’ve done in one year!
Now, stick to us some more, and
we’ll double it again. There’s no
McKinley administration prosper
ity intliis, for the Breeze did the
whole business, and we’re going
to claim the honor. Now’s the
.iine to subscribe.
Chairman Roberts, of the county
•ommissioners has been helping
and looking after getting the tax
digest of the county in shape to
send to Atlanta, and that ever
faithful, efficient tax collector, W.
B. Courson Inis labored and plead
with the people as we have never
known a collector to do before,
o get them to make their returns
full, complete and righteously and
he Inis succeeded, lie would have
had his digest in Atlanta more
than a week ago if he hail not been
detained by the Southern Bine
Lumber Cos., in giving in their
taxes. This Company gave in
their taxable property at $90,000.-
>O, but Mr. Courson considered
that amount too small, and in try
ing to arrange the matter lost much
valuable time, hence t he digest was
not ready sooner. But it is all
right now, and it shows a wonder
ful increase in taxable properly.
Three hundred and ninety-five
thousand and five hundred dol
lars increase over lust year.
1 font that make you feel proud?
Well, did you ever think what that
means? It means money to pay
for court house, money to pay for
jails, and other improvements for
the county. It means better
roads, better bridges, better farms,
better churches and schools.
Some of our readers have been
growling about being taxed to
death to pay for court house and
jails, but the prospect seems to
be that your state tax will be low
ered to between five and eight dol
lars on the thousand—some where
between those figures,'and we do
not believe your county tax will he
any more than in 1899. You are
surprised, are you not? But our
statement is correct.
“You must he wrong,” you say,
“For the expenses of the county
have been enormous. Just look
at that court house and jail—both
of them will go to nearly $25.-
000, everything complete."
You are correct; but this court
house and jail are advantages to
the county —a beautiful up-to-date
court house lends dignity and prom
inence to the character and energy
of your people and showe the
world that Coffee county is up and
abreast with the general tide of
prosperity and improvement that
seems to be sweeping over the slate.
All the counties around you have
new court houses, good roads, etc.,
and they are no better than Coffee
county.
i'iie jail saves the county from
the expense of hoarding prisoners
jll other counties, and from the ex
pense of transportation to and tro,
which if you will figure up is 110
small sum.
Then, again, there is an item
that has been over looked and (mat
is this; There are many peome in
the county that have been Jiving
year in and year out that havfe paid
no taxes on their property/ until
the present year, and now their
|^^ition to the tax fund has help
|Mfi'l! Fi’ # They would
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paid ii those whose bus-
to look after this mat
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of the increase in taxable property :
these improvements are causing
property to he worth more. Ten
years ago you would sell wild land
at one dollar per acre, but you
want ten now. Why? Railroads,
country opening up and land and
timber in demand. People are
coming in, hut people are not com
ing into ji community where there
are no schools, churches, court
houses or jails. Why? Because
these things tell the character of
the people, and people who live
without them are. not progressive,
not moral, and are ignorant and
criminal.
And there is another way of
raising funds to meet these county
expenses that was adopted this
year that has much to do with this
increase, and that was the schedule
of taxation for land, sheep, hogs,
cows, etc., that was published in
the spring and which the collector
uihered to in his work. Land had
been given in too low. and so were
the other items mentioned. Much
lower than their real value, and
many peiqffe who did so knew it.
Thousands of dollars were due
the county for taxes at the begin
ning of the year, and much is still
due, but the tax collector, tax re
ceiver and sheriff and county com
missioners have collected a great
deal ol it, and there is more to col
lect.
Nearly all the counties in the
state have been selling land for
taxes—people wouldn’t pay the tax
—and all these counties save five
or six show an increase.
Some show a tailing off, and in
these counties no attempt has been
made to collect from delinquent
lax payers, many times be
cause the officers would make no
levies on account of politics—afraid
il they levied they would not re
ceive the vote of the delinquent.
Well, we are proud. Our adopt
ed county is ahead of the hounds
and is the banner county of Georgia.
Letter From Secretary W. W. Sharpe.
Waycross, Ga., 8-6-19C0.
Etnroii Bukkzk:
I am more than glad to see an
effort made in Grand Old Coffee
for a united County Exhibit at the
State Fair. Let me commend you
for it. It’s the thing to do, and
that which ought to have been done
every year since the organization
of the Wavcross Fair.
Let Coffee turn herself loose in
earnest for a grand county exhibit,
at Valdosta, and ship the exhibit
down to Waycross Fair the follow
ing Valdosta, and here capture the
county display premium,
II Coffee will do this, and make
announcement early, i* ‘may pos
sibly inspire Appling, Pierce,
Wayne, Clinch and Ware counties
to enter the contest, and thereby
give us at Waycross the greatest
agricultural contest in the history
of South-east Georgia. Suppose
you try to get it up.
W. \V. Siiaiu’K, Sicc’v.,
Waycross Fair.
Steady! now we want harmony
all along the line! We want har
mony and united action.
The populists of Wayne county
have nominated a full county tic 1-
et, and there are some good 111*11
on it. too .
The atrocities reported from
China almost stag 'cr belief, and are
mare barbarous than those of the
North American Indian.
The most reliable mail system
the piney-woods enjoy now is tha
of the mule-back variety, and it is
almost as last as the best.
The increase in the taxable prop
erty of the State, as shown by re
turns from counties thus far, will
probably cause state tax to lie re
duced. Wonder if the republicans
will claim that this prosperity is
-brought about by McKinley’s al
, ministration?
| Messrs John Charles, Parish
liryun, uml \V. J. Alderman, citi
zens of Colquitt county, who were
sent to the penitentiary some time
ago for beating a chinaman have
been pardoned by the Governor’s
recoimnendation. lie did right;
it is a sin to punish a man for beat
ing a chinaman.
A subscriber tells us that he is
prepared to prove that tin? post
master in an office in the remote
rural regions receives the Breeze
package late Saturday eveninjr.
and often loans them out to friends
near the office to be returned early
i Monday morning.
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