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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
VOL. XI.
Hunter, Pearce & Battey,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
COTTON FACTORS
Money Loaned to Cotton Shippers on
Approved Security.
Experienced and Expert Handlers of
Sea Island Cotton.
WatjOfacUitefs oi Hi£l) Grade Fertilizer.
EMBALMER * AS!) 4 UNDERTAKER,
J. P. ULMER, WAYCROSS, QA.
Anything in the Burial Line Furnished, From a Pine Coffin
to a Steel Casket, on Short Notice.
STATE LICENSED EMBALMER.
Will go anywhere within One Hundred miles of Way
cross, Embalm bodies for shipment or take charge of
funerals. Order through responsible parties by telegraph
or telephone.
THE ULMER WAGON, ONE HORSE, $28.00
J; P.ULMER, WAYCROSS, GA.
SAVE oT A D TIN
YOUR O \ Mn TAGS
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 and child can find something on the list that they would
like to have, and can have
FREE!
TAGS.
1 Match Box. 25
2 Knife, one blade, good steel 25
S Scissors, Inches 25
4 Child's Set, Knife, Fork and Spoon 25
5 Salt and Pepper Set, one each, quad
ruple plate on white metal 50
6 French Briar Wood Pipe 25
7 Razor, hollow ground, fine English
steel.. 50
8 Butter Knife, triple plate, best quality 60
9 Sugar Shell, triple plate, best quality 60
10 Stamp Box, sterling silver 70
11 Knife, “ Keen Kutter,” two blades 75
12 Butcher Knife, “ Keen Kutter,” 8-ln
blade 75
18 Shears, “Keen Kutter,”B-lncb 75
14 Nut Set, Cracker and 6 Picks, silver
plated 80
15 Babe Ball, " Association,” best quality. 100
16 Alarm Clock, nickel 150
17 Six Genuine Rogers’ Teaspoons, best
plated goods 150
18 Watch, nickel, stem wind and set icuO
19 Carvers, good steel, buckborn bnndles.2oo
20 Six Genuine Rogers’ Table Spoons,
best plated goods 250
21 Six each. Knives and Forks, buckhom
handles 250
THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30th, 1900.
CTBEAR IX MIX'D that a dime’s worth of
STAR PLUG TOBACCO
will laot longer and afford more pleasure than a dime’s worth of any
other brand.
TKE TEST!
Send tags to CONTINENTAL. TOBACCO COSt. Louis, Mo.
on EARTH WRITE FOR
Our Gooos Are The Best^ - *
Our Price the lowest .%*&&&*
Parry Mfc.(s- J
TAGS.
22 Six each, Genuine Rogers’ Knives and
Forks, best plated goods 500
23 Clock. 8-day. Calendar, Thermometer,
Barometer 500
24 Gun ease, leather, no better made— 500
25 Revolver, automatic, double action S2
or 38 caliber.. 600
26 Tool Set. not playthings, but real tools 650
27 Toilet Set, decorated porcelain, very
handsome 800
28 Remington Rifle No. 4,22 or 32 caliber 800
29 Watch, sterling silver, full jeweled. .1000
3J Dress Suit Case, leather, handsome
and durable 1000
31 Sewing Murhine. first class, with all
attachments 1500
32 Revolver, Colt’s, 38-caliber, blued
steel v. 1500
33 Rifle. Colt’s. 16-sbot, 22-caliber 1500
34 Guitar (Washburn), rosewood. Inlaid.2ooo
35 MaDdolln, very handesome 2000
36 Winchester Repeating Bhot Gun, 12
gauge 2000
37 Remington, donble-barrel, hammer
Shot Gun, 10 or 12 gauge 2000
38 Bicycle, standard make, ladles or
gents 25C0
29 Shot Gun. Remington, double-barrel,
40 Regina Music Box, 15& lnh JLt!bc 5000
DOUGLAS, GA„ SATURDAY, SEPT. Ist, 1900.
AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
interesting Items Gleaned From Our
State Papers.
Wayne county’s taxable increase
for 1900 is $’07,610 over last year.
The Georgia Saw-mill Associa
held its monthly meeting at Savan
nah last t Wednesday.
The commercial Hotel at (.Quit
man has been destroyed by fire, re
cently. It was the oldest hotel in
the place.
The decline in the price of lum
ber is causing a good many mills
in this part of Georgia to suspend
operations.
The Offerman & Western Rail
road has been completed from
Nichols to Hazlehurst, and daily
trains are running.
Mr. W. A. Bowden, of Colum
bus, was drowned in the surf at
Tybee last Sunday night. 11 is body
was carried out to sea.
Thomasville paid $50.00 for her
first new bale of cotton, 5001b5.,
$47.50 for her second and the mar
ket stands at 9c., $45.00 per bale.
A grocer in Savannah last Mon
day sued a customer for a bill in
which beer had been sold and
charged as potatoes. He lost his
case.
Mr. R. B. llopp, of Wayne,
is the candidate nominated by the
democrats for Senator, representing
the counties of Wayne, Pierce and
Appling.
The cholera is sweeping the hogs
in nearly every county in Southern
Georgia. In Ware county chick
ens are reported to be dying from
cholera, gapes and piping, so Blan
chard says.
Mr. E. A. Powers, of Valdosta,
drowned himself last week by ly
ing on a bed and holding his head
in a tub of water. He had been
sick, was without money and des
pondent.
Brooker T. Washington, the col
ored man with a level head, who
has been giving such good advice
to his race, will be present in Way
cross at the colored people’s camp
meeting on Sept. 7-17.
Mr. Chas. C. Tindall, a promi
nent young lawyer of Jesup, is one
of the editors of the Wayne Coun
ty News, having recently purchased
stock in that paper. AVe welcome
him to the hungry army.
" Less than one half the tax payers
in Richmond county have failed
to return their property for taxa
tion. These people must pay their
taxes and register before voting in
the coming elections, and many
will not.
The republican party is putting
their trust in tP.v* skill and general
ship <ff Mark Hijmna to pull them
through to victory, and Mark trusts
the.trusts to furbish the boodle,
and they claim th.Vt they have paid
in advance.
The Hardwick bill, for the dis
franchisement of illiterate blacks
which was voted down by the last
Legislature, will bet. presented again
at the coining session. Tne fight
in the senate will be led by Mr.
Roland Ellis of Bilbb,
The A. P. Brantley Cos., of
Blackshear, Ga., are building an
immense warehouse for the storage
of cotton, also an addition to their
guano factory that will make it one
of the largest, if not the largest in
the south.
Valdosta Times : “The people of
Berrien and Coffee counties are
preparing to make county exhibits
of their products at the State Fair
this fall and b'/th of these counties
can get up inhibits that will be
worth going n,tiles to see. '
Indepeneent candidates oppose
nearly all the) nominees in Floyd
county for coiinty offices, and what
looked like a quiet campaign one
time now prijtnises to boa general
scramble. The correct wav to kill
independentisjm is by sticking to
the rightful nominee.
The teachets institute in Way
cross last week a number of prom
inent teachers .oppose the further
practice of vertical system of writ
ing, in favor rfaf the Spencerian
style. lis we\ll, teaching this
new fangled fooilishness to a child
already learned ihe
ely
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MISS TATTLER SAYS
tTliat one of her best fel
lows is said to be a “pop”
but it’s a mistake; he has
been monkeying around her
for about two years, but has
never even “popped the
question. No he hasn’t!
That she has been told “that all
tilings good come to those that
wait,” and she has waited a long
time and a good case of matrimony
has never come near enough to
strike her, yet. bhe can prove it.
That she has been told that some
of the young men now-a-days are
wearing shirt-waists, and she also
learns that some of the ladies are
even talking and thinking about
wearing the pantaloons. Shocking!
shocking! Its true every word!
That Frank Applejack was a)
the depot Sunday night to meet
her when she got off the train, and
was as polite as a ring-master.
She thinks lie has forgotten he was
married and she expects to drop
his wife a note about his “carrying
ons.” So there!
That a saucy young man had the
audacity to ask her last Wednes
day if he could hire her to darn his
socks, and if the nasty, stinking
tiling ever does it again lie’ll have
to hire Dr. Sibbett to darn and
patch the holes she’ll make in his
ugly face. Now there !
That she heard that Oscar Ru
dolph said he expects to make 500
bushels of potatoes on an eighth of
an acre of land he has “stuck out
more vines” on, and he is building
a room 20x20 to store them in.
The grass and weeds ruined his hay
crop. Goody!
That she heard last Sunday on
the train that soda water Jim Mc-
Carty, down at Nichdls, had run
off and got married and all the
•boys down there were hunting up
their cow-bells, old tin pans, coffee
pots, etc., to give him a serenade.
Good enuff for the mean thing!
That she saw the editor of the
Breeze get on the train Sunday
morning last and she did the same,
thinking to follow him to Waycross
his usual tramping ground, and see
what he was up to, but she must
have lost him somewhere, as he
didn’t show up in that place, yet,
coming back that evening he was
on the train after it passed Nichols.
She wants to know if he was liid
somewhere to beat the conductor.
(No, Miss Smarty. he travels on
his good looks, no need to hide,
Editor.)
That she has been told that Sid
Lott told Henry Sapp that he heard
a man ut the depot tell Harry Red
dick that Dr. Montgomery Haiti
lie heard that Squire lleddrix, of
Willacoochee said he met a man
in the road coming to Douglas
who said a little boy told him that
he heard his mother say that anoth
er woman told her that Jim Dent
had offered any body a reward of
45 or 15 dollars to tell him who
Macom’ was. Now that’s straight.
Not Fair.
“One hundred thousand dollars
will hire almost any kind of testi
mony, as has been evidenced in
the Goebel case in Kentucky.”—
Waycross Journal,
Don’t measure other people by
your tape-line, brother. The wit
nesses sworn in that case may have
been honest in their testimony.
You are not all-wise by a dipper
full.
Bonnyman is Busy.
Mr. Bonnyman, superintendent
of the Waycross Air Line, has his
headquarters at Colony Headquar
ters where he and his staff are busy
making arrangements for immedi
ate work on the road coming into
this city. They will first stake it
out and have everybody at work by
Sept. 1. He wants all parties’with
I teams to report tq hint at once,
j The probabilities are that they will
I let out the work by the yard. He
says they will employ all who want
work, but we think the gentleman
does not understand the industrious
disposition and tendency of the
iyankee to turn an honest penny,
: nor the fact that this colony is full
lof just such people. We hope,
j though, that there is room f</r all.
He also
t h , vc r
Please Return the Bottles,
Mr. Johnson, of the Nichols Hot-
tling Works, requests the Breeze
to ask his customers in both Doug
las and Coffee county, to please re
turn tlie crates and bottles as soon
as possible after they have used
the soda.'With only a limited sup
ply of both, he cannot supply the
demands ftir immediate shipments
when this is not done^
Coining to Camp-Meetiug-
Quite "a number of Waycross
people are expected in town this
week, who will take rooms at the
hotels, boarding houses and at the
homes of friends to attend the camp
meeting at Gaskin’s Spring, and
there are no people on earth that
we would be more pleased to have
in our town. Some how or other
they seem to he “kin-folks.”
State Tax Reduced.
The heavy increase in* taxable
property made from all the coun
ties in Georgia during the year
1900 has caused a good decrease to
he made on state tax. Gov. Can
dler and comptroller Wright, the
authorized board, have made an
estimate, and places the tax at
$5.20 on the si.ixx>, a reduction of
16 cents, the rate for 1899 having
been $5.20. When Gov. Candler
came into office the rate was $6.20
on the SI.OOO, since tint! time, how
ever, several reductions have been
made. We vote mit Candler all
der time.
Health of Town Endangered.
The Breeze sounded a note of
warning in regard to the health of
the town last week, and it keeps
tip the lick to-day. Aside now
from the stinking carcasses of dead
hogs scattered about over the cor
porate limits, there is another dead
ly stench that tills the air on still,
hot nights, and this seems to come
from hog pens, filthy places, water
closets, etc. The town marshal
and council cannot attend to every
thing thut is obnoxious or endan
gering to the town’s health, hut
private individuals ought to see
that their premises are clean. If
typhoid fever, yellow fever or oth
er epidemical disease should strike
the town in its present condition
tlie result would be fearful.
Under Favorable Conditions.
The Southern Normal Institute
opened last Tuesday with a full
corpk of teachers and a llattoring
attendance of pupils, from both
town and county. The Breeze be
lieves that with the well-known
capabilities of the principal and the
excellence of his assistants the suc
cess of the Institute is assured, in
every sense except financially, and
in this we may be mistaken, but
we have never known a public
school to thrive without a matricu
lation or entrance fee. In Way
cross and other towns where such
schools are conducted every scholar,
from six years old up is required to
pay no less than one dollar, and
this amount must come with the
scholar at the beginning of each
quarter. This pays the incidental
expenses and leaves a surplus
which assists in paying teachers’
salaries. The remainder is raised
by taxation on property. This is
not given dictatojrially, but perhaps
it may not he amiss. ,j
Trouble Among the Butchers.
Some ten days ago two young
men by the names of Jones and
Cochran, from Albany, struck the
town, and resolving to go into the
butchering business leased the mar
ket from Mr. John 11. Moore.
After trying it a day or two Jones
concluded that it would not pay,
therefore pulled out, and a young
named Melton, also from Albany,
took his place, and in the transac
tion became, with Cochran, respon
sible for certain monies to Jones.
Cochran and Melton seemed to be
industrious young men and com
menced business with a rush,
bought and butchered cattle and
seor;ied to be getting up some bus
iness, but last Monday they skip
ped the town, leaving Jones in the
lurch, as well as in debt to parties
for beef cattle, rent, etc. Jones
and Bailiff Hammond followed the
fugitives to Pearson, whither they
halftone to take the midnight train,
and scooped them both in, but
Cochran got away before they
reached here.
Lost Note.
One note for value of foO.OO with in
tere-t at H per cent per annum. Sain note
was given ri. J. Wilcox tiy \Y,.!. Hloitui of
Coffee county. This i* (wwiti'o any
gntl al| ntrQU3 frum trgUlhg lor said note.
■ a. 4. Wilcox.
DON’T PICK A FOOL FOR A
FARMER.
If tlie man on the farm cau take one
of his three hoys and so train him that
such a hoy will become a good farmer
and be willing to take up the work on
the old farm when the time comes,
the father will do pretty well. It is
uot best to try to keep all the .boys on
the farm, even If it. could be done, and
the farmer should sort Ids boys over
and decide as best lie may which of
them is best lilted for farm work. The
others he should not hold tight down
ut farm work, with only limited op
portunities for 1111 education, until they
are of age, hut should try to give them
a chance when they are lo to work out
their own salvation on other lines, with
such aid us the father may he able
or willing to give them. Bright farm
boys are wanted as the best raw ma
terial obtainable out of which to make
good merchants, professional men and
statesmen. Now, lu sorting the hoys
over, dou’t take the dullest and stupid
est one of the lot to make a farmer
of. l’ut that fellow where he cau get a
salary aud where some one else will
have to do his thinking for him. The
brightest boy of the three Is none too
good to educate aud train for the fu
ture farmer.
AS TO BELGIAN H IRES.
The Belgian hare craze is spreading
far and wide uml it will not be long
uutll nearly every community will
have some one or more persons en
gaged in the business. So many ex
travagant and foolish, stories have,
been set alloat about this animal amfi
the profits connected with raising It
that one hardly knows what to believe.)
The truth is that the Belgian hare lsi
easily raised and cared for; that Its
pelt has but a nominal value of a few;
cents; that Its flesh Is superior to that
of the rabbit and Is uot only whole
some, but Is really a dtthcaoy; that It
Is remarkably prolltle.JK' doe produc
ing as many as 40 .vdWng In a year;:
that raising them is a more profitable,
business than Is the poultry business!
and that a set of sharpers ure working
the public with the pedigreed uud liu-,
ported stock.
CREAMERY BEGINNINGS.
When In the year 1572 John Stewart
got his neighbors to send In their milk
to 11 centnil point where It could bei
made Into butter, he originated the
creamery Idea. When the butter so
mode took the first prize at the J’hiln-t
dolphin exposition, the dairymen of
the east were given the surprise of 1
their lives. From that small beginning*
has grown the creamery interests of
the great west, represented by close to
1,000 creameries tit lowa pud severfll
hundred In each of the adjoining
states, Whitney, when he Invented the.
cotton gin. hardly did a grander work
for America.
The fertility of the soli, like goodi
health. Is always easier to mnlntaiui
when possessed than restored whet|
lost. Asa matter of fact, there is no
one thing which should be more closely!
watched by the possessor of a fertile'
farm than this of the conservation of'
its fertility. Uuder n sensible and in
telligent method of farming the land'
should never grow less fertile, but
rather better year by year. Rotation!
of crops, clover and the conversion of|
the crops raised Into either dairy or l
meat products on tlie* farm are three
agencies which will keep the fertility
of the soli Intact. Wc know that tills
is old fashioned doatrtne. but It Is likei
llie Ten Commandments as applied tc 1
moral living.
The corn fodder problem is of vastly;
more Interest Just now to the average*
farmer of the corn belt than is the Chl-I
hose question or who shall tic elected to
oliice tills fall. The corn fodder is go-'
lag to be needed this coming winter ns
never before. The season in which toi
secure It nt Its best is very short; there
may be three weeks In which to do It.,
and there may uot be more than three)
or four days. Don’t put off the Job.
till the frost conies; if you do, half the
value of the fodder is gone. When the;
ear is well in the dough, the liusksi
turning yellow and the stalk and the
leuves still green as ever, then cut the'
crop. Huy will sell for u good price]
this year. Feed the corn fodder and!
sell the liny.
! A western railway company 20 years!
ago planted larch trees along the uuoc-i
cupled portion of Its right of way with
the idea that such trees would serve toi
1 prevent the snow from tilling the cuts!
and also perhaps wifh the thought!
that some day the trees might be util-'
lred as timber for ties. We saw these
trees a few days ago. They were not|
t success In either of the lines indicat-!
ed. The sol! was sterile, and the trees'
1 had evidently been dwarfed for want|
|of sufficient moisture. Being scrubby,;
: they would never muke material for a
tie. and the snow fence placed each'
year behind them was evidence thatl
they were u failure us snow protcctors.i
At this stage of the game It is only
i 13 pounds of granulated sugar for sl,
when we might get 2d if we would
only take up the beet sugar business
as we might. When this country gets
to making its own sugar, trusts will
no more bo able to control the price of
| sugar than they can the price of cotton
er corn.
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