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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 fl 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. NO 16.