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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. VOL. XI. “ “ ~ v v v —o o —cj——xjr—x^--x_7— - Hunter, Pearce k Battey, SiiVANHIH, GEQROiA. COTTBI FJsSTIiS Momy Loaned fo Coiion Shippers on Approi'ed Security. Experienced and Expert i landlers of Sea Island Cotton. I ai)flf£clarers ol Higij Grade Fertilizer. EMBALM!-R * AN!) * UNDERTAKER, J. i\ ULMER, WAYCROSS, GA. Anything in the Burial Line burnished, Horn a Line Collin to a Steel Casket, on Short Notice. STATE LICENSED EMHALMER. Will go anywhere williin One Hundred miles of Way cross, Embalm bodies for shipment or take charge oi funerals. Order through responsible parties by telegraph or telephone. THE ULMER WAGON, ONE HORSE, $28.00 J. F>. TJ LME. R, WfiYDRCSS, 61. SAVE ora YOlißw i Mirt TAGS “Star” tin tags (showing small stars printed on under side of tag). “Horse Shoe,” “J. TANARUS.,” “Good Luck,” “Cross Bow,” and “ Drummond ” Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in secur ing presents mentioned below, and may be assorted. Every man, woman aud child can fluff something on the list that they would like to have, and can have JP ESI TAOS. \ 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. BTBEAR IN til\l) that a dime’s worth of STAR PLUC TOBACCO will last longer and ailord more pleasure than a dime’s ivoriti of any other brand. THE TEST! Send tags to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO CO-, St. Lea's, Mo, UrcestandMostCompleteßuggyLactory Earth Write tor Prices auo rrr- CATALOGUE Our Goods Are The Best— Our Price the lowest / PaßßyMfc/L w-p**w TAGS. 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 , x ■ jdk jfj | flu ’yy y'z Ay 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 1 • ' •. . t. ... t. . 1 .. paid ii those whose bus- to look after this mat si elf t mil Iv, / J Bi 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. NO 14