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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
J. M. FRKEMAN & DAUGHTERS, Proprietors
JAMES M. FREEMAN, AGNES F. FREEMAN
Editors and Publishers.
CALVIN A. WARD, JR.. Associate.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Saturday, sept. >. 1900*
Official Organ of County.
Authorized AeeH for the Breeze.'
Mr. James McCarty is author
ifc*i to solicit and tnakd contracts
for advertising, job printing and
subscriptions, at Nichols or else
where, for the Breeze.
Ten cents cotton is in sight, and
the plotter feels better.
( murder cases have
been passed until October. The
accused are under bond.
What excuse will the republicans
press of the*north give for the riot
ing last week in Ohio, McKinley’s
home ?
Dr. A. B. McWhorter, for many
years a prominent druggist of W ay
cross, died recently after a linger
gering illness of many months.
The postmaster general has issued
an order against political assess
ments on all postmasters. Mr.
Hanna must get his money from
the trusts.
Niel, the cotton crop prognosti
cator, must have been slain by the
boxers. It is about time he was
getting off a big one about over
production.
The Courier Journal says : “The
Anti-llorsethief Association meets
at Wichita, Kansas, soon. Are
we to have still another presiden
tial ticket ?
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The complaint is ctynjrnon all
over the state that the negro Jabor
is on railroXfrut mills and;,turpen
tine farms,plantations reduc
ing neglected.
If McKinley is re-elected and in
augurated on the 4th of March next
every national bank in the south
will be closed four months from
that date. Now watch and see!
Spain will down the nations of
world yet, She pto poses after
famntry i, 1900, tocount the hours
from 1 o’clock to _•.( o’clock, in
stead ot repeating twelve twice.
An exchange says the dry winds
have “swunk” the corn crop of
Kansas from 250,000,000 bushels
to 75,000,000. For steady crops
and never a failure, come to old
(Tntgia. ’ ' ,
McKinley and Bryan were both
invited to attend the meeting of
Grand Army of the Republic at
Chicago, but McKinley declined.
Is he afraid to meet Bryan in a
public debate?
The Macon News insinuates that
the recent pugilistic encounter be
tween Fitzsimmons and Sharkey
was a farce, and that the purse
was divided between them. They
are all farces, uncivilized and
brutish.
The populists have accepted
Stevenson as their vice-presidential
cannidate. This brings the pop
ulists and democrats together on
national affairs, and Mr. McKin
ley's chances for re-election are not
so good as they were.
The people of Spencer county,
Indiana, will not permit a negro
to live within its borders. Some
negroes assaulted a girl and the
white residents arose in their wrath
and ran the black brothers out of
the county.—Savannah Press.
Fitzsimmons says he will fight
no more. That’s what he said when
he whipped Corbett a few years
ago, and that’s what most drunk
ards say when they get through
with each spree. He’ll fight again
when lie has a good chance of
v inning.
Nearly even paper in the union
i busy giving the administration
points on “how to s 'tie *he Chi
nese trouble. ’ It is a wonder that
an army of those editors have not
gone over there and stabbed the
enjpres* to death with a paste-brush, j
■cut the emperors head off withal
riors iron, away back yonder!-—on
paper. j
Down at Nitfiols.
Last Sunday the editorial force
of this “thunder-bolt of freedom”
went down to Nichols with Rev.
A. B. Finley to hear him preach
and see the people, drink soda wa
ter and pass a pleasant day, and
we were successful in every point,
sqda water particularly.
Mr. Johnson, the soda water
man, heard that we were coining,
and dreading to meet us skipped
the town by the ltght of the stars
the night before, so we didn’t have
the pleasure of gazing on his hand
some face as we listened to the dul
cet notes of his flute-like voice, but
lie forgot his wife in his haste and
we sat up close and chatted to her
till her head grew dizzy and she
complained of tooth-ach. Seer She
was flirting with us!
Miss Bertie, the seventeen year
old daughter of the Nichols Bot
tling WorMh however, was at
home, met us at the depot with a
carriage and six horses, more or less,
and taking Misses Agnes and
Maud aboard told us tocount cross
ties down to the house. We count
,l. Arriving at the house, a nice
little home, where the late lament
ed G. W. Bennett once lived, the
hours were passed pleasantly.
Over at the academy at ten o’clock
we met Messrs Bryan and Wilkins,
and a lot of hoys and girls at Sun
day school, and at eleven o’clock
Bro. Finley preached as fine a ser
mon as we ever heard—and we
have heard a lot of fine ones in the
past forty years —full of truth and
light, supported by scripture. At
the close of service his congrega
tion arose, shook his hand, and
with wet eyes and beaming faces
asked for a regular appointment
for the future. Bro. Brinson, —the
little man with a big heart, —his
Christian wife and a beautiful chil
dren, spirited Bro. Finley and
Maud away after the benediction,
and we saw nothing more of them
untiT train time, while we returned
to our stopping place, to worry
Bertie and Mrs. Johnson.
In the afternoon we went over
the Baptist church to Sunday
school, saw Bros. Bud and Hiram
Meeks, several other old time
friends and a nice lot of bright and
interesting boys and girls, some of
which we had met at the academy
in the morning, with Bros. Bryan
and Wilkins, showing that Chris
tian fellowship and harmony pre
vailed. Bros. Bud and Hiram Meeks
and their assistants, as well as the
two faithful ones we met at the
academy are doing all they can to
teach the children their duty in life,
and should have the support of the
people of Nichols.
Our visit was a pleasant one,
and we shall not forget it soon,
and as we were socourtesly invited
to return, shall do so, when, per
haps, we may catch Tom Hilliard
and Soda Water Johnson at home.
Only One State Fair.
There will be only one State Fair in
Georgia this year, and that will be
held in Valdosta, notwithstanding
the efforts of North Georgia papers
to attract the people’s attention in
that direction, and make them be
lieve tlie fair will be held in Atlan
ta. The lair to be held in Atlanta
is only of local prominence, and
will be held for the purpose of mak
ing money for the stock holders
and advertising that city. There
is, however, another purpose in
view, that is well-known, and that
is the old game of pulling against
any enterprise that attracts inter
est from that part of the state, kill
ing anything that is for the good
of Georgia which is not hatched
and reared in Atlanta. The capi
tol city of the State should not pos-,
ess such a disposition, but the mis
taken enterprise which is nothing
less than hogishness on tha part of
her people, portrays the fact that
Atlanta imagines herself to be the
State of Georgia.
The State Fair will be held in
Valdosta and every South Geor
gia man or county should lend sup
port to its success. A failure to do
so creates in the minds of the peo
ple of other sections the impress
ion that nothing can be carried to
success in our midst, and that the
people are indifferent to the idea
of advertising and showing the
natural and artificial resources of
this country.
“Coming This Way."
Supt. Bonnevnian is over at
Fitzgerald coming this way with a
gang of contractors and hands.
We are informed that he gives any
one a job on the new track that
wants work. Some are grading
by the yard, some by the day and
the whole business is on a rush to
meet the gang under Supervisor
McCormick building from this way.
it will be only a short time now be
-1 lore the iron hore will go snorting
i through from Wavcross to Fitz*
to tins office for any
I kind of Job Printing.
C. A. WARD
Has* Word for the People of Coffee
County Just Now.
Douglas, Ga., Aug. 30. 1900.
Editors Breeze :
Having received at the hands of
the Democratic party of Coffee
county the nomination for Repre
sentative, I desire through the col
umns of the Breeze to set myself
square before the voters of the
county upon certain local issues
which seem to be agitating the
minds of the people at this time.
There appears to be among the
people a strong sentiment against
the Board of County Commission
ers, and the same sentiment ap
nears, at least to some extent, to
exist in regard to the City Court,
as well as the law commonly known
as the Dog Tax law. Let this
sentiment be real or imaginary, I
desire to say to the voters of Coffee
county if they are in dead earnest
about the abolition of these local
institutions, if they will so express
themselves by petition or othewise
if I am elected their Representa
tive I pledge myself to use every
honorable means in my power to
abolish botli the Board of Connty
Commissioners and the City Court,
and to do all in my power to abol
ish or repeal the Dog Tax law.
I have no criticism to offer for
anyone, but if the people believe
the local institutions mentioned are
detrimental to the interests of the
county, they being the judges, then
I would be untrue to my constitu
ents if I did not use every honora
ble means to carry out their wish
es in this matter.
In conclusion, I desire lurther to
say that if I am elected I will faith
fully and fearlessly, to the best of
my ability, carry out the wishes of
the people of my county, and when
I have done this I shall feel that I
have discharged only my duty.
Yours,
C. A. WARD, Jr.
The Democratic Meeting.
The democrats appointed by
vote from each district met at the
court house last Tuesday, and after
selecting Messrs Hendricks and
Lott as chairman and secretary,
respectively, endorsed Capt. L.
Johnson, of Ware, as senator from
this district, and nominated the
following ticket for county officers :
Representative, C. A. Ward.
Ordinary,
Clerk sup court, Fisher Gaskin.
Sheriff, W. W. Southerland.
Tax Collector, Thomas Daniel.
Tax Receiver, Micajah Baulk.
Treasurer, Win. Vickers, Sr.
Surveyor, James C. Gillis.
Coroner, Dr. Win. Carter.
It will be noticed that no name
appears for Ordinary, and the
Breeze is of the opinion that the
present incumbent will be our next
Ordinary. Scour the county from
end to end with a drag-net and a
better man cannot be found. He
is a populist, a true one, but that
makes no difference, and we be
lieve this was the sentiment of the
democratic party when it refused
to nominate a man for that office.
He fills the office with satisfaction
to all, is polite and ' obliging, and
administers to all alike, looks after
the widows and orphans, and par
ticularly the widows, and is very
popular, if he is the hardest look
ing man in the county.
The nominees are well known
men, and if elected will fill their
respective offices with ability.
Calvin A. Ward will make the
best representative the county can
send, because he is as well known
abroad as he is at home, and will
have friends among other members
who will help him in his under
takings; and then, again he has
a disposition to make friends, lor
a man without friends in the legis
lature can accomplish nothing.
Mr. Arbuckle, the coffee man,
wanted an extra million dollars
last week for a bridal present to
his favorite niece, so he touched a
button and and up went the price
on every cup of coffee about one
mill. lust to spite him we shall
order a car-load of sassafras and
will drink tea. Guess that’ll make
him stop and think !
Mr. Powers, who was convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life for complicity in the mur
der cases, shot off his mouth too
soon. He has been refused anew
trial, and in making the refusal the
court announced that Powers’ pub
lished statement in which he char
acterized his trialas a judicial farce
wos contempt of court, that his
trial was fair, motion
new MttL
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DAIRYING IN GEORGIA
AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCT*
IVE TALK ON THE NEW
INDUSTRY.
ENCOURAGING PROGRESS,
Although Comparatively a New Fea*
ture In the State the Results
Are Most Gratifying.
Dairying is comparatively anew indus
try in Georgia. In the antebellum days
cotton was king and brought wealth into
the coffers of our people. There was so
much profit in cotton and corn that it
was useless to talk to our planters about
diversified farming. But after the wai
everything was changed. Our land
owners suffered not only from the loss
of their labor, but from the depreciation
of ,every other species of property.
Northern speculate, fixed the price ol
our cotton, which \yent from bad to
worse, until we were compelled to make
a change of some sort. Some of our far
mers began to ask if Georgia, with its
mild climate, was not better suited to
dairying and the rearing of cattle than
the states of the bleak north and west,
where these industries had proved so
profitable. This thought took root m
the minds of enterprising men and
brought forth fruit. Within the last
decade encouraging progress has been
made, and quite a number of dairy
farms and creameries have been estab
lished. Many who went into this busi
ness were without experience, and hence
suffered some discouraging failures, but
with that perseverance which conquers
all things they pressed forward until
their efforts were crowned with de
served success. The report of the sixth
annual meeting of the Georgia Dairy
man's association, held at Grantville,
October 12 and 18, 1899, shows a mem
bership of more than one hundred and
seventy. If success has crowned the
efforts of the inexperienced, who reach
ed the wisued-for goal under the most
trying conuitions, how much more can
be accomplished by the skilled dairy
men of the North and West. To them
we extend a hearty invitation to come
with their skill and capital, with the
assurance that they will mi prove theii
own condition and at the same time
help to make Georgia in dairying, what
she has long been in other things, the
Empire State of the South. Of course
our Northern friends must be convinced
that success awaits their elfcrts here.
We propose to give them the proofs.
First of all the climate is a most import
ant factor in our favor. The dairyman
does not need to go to the expense oi
housing his cattle for mouths, but re
quires only such a simple shelter as will
afford protection to them for a few
weeks. His cattle will find excellent
pasturage from eight to ten months ol
the year supplied by the best of all
grasses, our Georgia Bermuda, equal to
the Timothy of the Northwest, which
grows luxuiiautly and when cured
makes a most excellent hay for our short
winter.
Thero is no better food for our cattl.:
than the peavine hay, one of the easiest
crops grown on our laud and very rich
in value as a milk producer. We regard
it as the salvation of our lands and the
delight of the milch cow. Our lands
produce also rescue or arctic grass, and
crab grass, affording pastures new and
ample, the various clovers, barley, rye,
oats, sugar cane, sotghum and corn for
age. Our cotton seed, after the oil has
been pressed out, also furnish the cakes,
considered among (he best food for cat
tle, as well as the cheapest. “A penny
saved is a penny earned,” and one cent
a pound saved by cheapening food is as
good as one cent a pound for buttei
and cheese By using cotton seed meal
cakes, cotton seed hulls and a little
wheat bran, a cow can be fed at a cost oi
seven cents a day. Corn ensilage is
claimed by some t<p be the cheapest oi
all foods for cattle. Its succulent and
beneficial effects make it doubly valu
able. The experience of Mr. T. R. Saw
tell of Atlanta, will give some idea oi
the low price at which cattle can be fed.
In a letter to Ex-C-favernor W. J. Nor
then he said:
“Below you havej the results of my
experiment with tlhp thirteen months
calf that I fed, exclusively, on cotton
seed meal and cottom seed hulls. 1
bought the calf from Mir. M. A. Butlei
of Noah, Tenn., Decemjber 16th, 1899.
He was thirteen months lold and weigh
ed 899 pounds. I paid; 3>*' cents pel
pound, making the cost |31.15. I took
him to my packing hous* and fed him
until June 16th on cetton seed hulls and
meal. When slaughter* id he weighed
1,330 pounds. He was s* ild at 034 cents
per pound.
Bought 899 pounds at "J* cents
per pound ~|3l 15
Fed 180 days at 6 cents. /. 10 80—#-11 93
Sold 1,320 pounds at sUicts... . 72 66
Net 1 |3O
While this is a caie of buying and
feeding *- *• th*y r market, it never
of the cheapness
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T. GOTTLIEB’S
NEW YORK BARGAIN STORE
Keeps customers moving onward and goods
moving outward by moving prices downward.
This is our first summer in Douglas, Ga. We
are here to stay and compete for trade. When you
examine our FALL and WINTER DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, DOMES
TICS, HATS, CAPS and NOTIONS at such astonish
ing low prices, you will be less inclined to believe
vour own eyes.
Our Mr- Gottlieb buys direct from the firs
hands for spot cash. There is
NO MIDDLE MAN OR DRUMMER
expenses to put on our goods. The customer receives the
benefit.
We are closing out our SUMMER DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, SHOES and DRESS GOODS at
25 PER CENT LESS
To maKe room tor our Fall and Winter stocK
daily coming in.
You can return every article purchased at this
store that fails to be as represented and your money
refunded.
- It is useless to quote prices. Come and ex
amine for yourself.
Yours to Serve,
N. E. ORY, Mgr. T. GOTTLIEB, Pro.
nrucn oettfcr price than can be obtained
North and West. Labor, too, is about
one-balf cheaper in Georgia than in the
North and West.
Water is abundent and pure, supplied
by clear streamlets, rippling down from
our wooded hills, or bold springs, afford
ing refreshing draughts for man and
beast.
Healthfulness is the most desirable
consideration in the choioe of a home.
In this respect Georgia compares favor
ably with any State of the Union.
Our markets are abundant and excel
lent, Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Colum
bus, Savannah, Brunswick, our large
cities, as well as a great number of large
and flourishing towns, all thriving and
steadily growing in population and
wealth, are heavy importers of butter
and cheese, most of which they obtain
from the States of the North and west
and even from Canada. Gladly would
they use the product of our own farmi
instead.
Railroad Facilities are of the best.
One needs only to look upon a good map
of Georgia to be assured of this. Like a
vast net work they thread every section
of our State. The railroad managers
are accomodating, and knowing where
their interest lies, are ever ready to help
and encourage the farmers. There is
ample room in Georgia for a great num
ber of dairy farms within one or two
hour's ride of the best markets for but
ter, cheese and milk.
Water transportation is furnished too
by our navigable streams, and what is
to prevent the product of our dairies
from competing through our seaports,
Savannah and Brunswick, with the pro
ducts of the North in the markets oi
Cuba and Porto Rico?
To all dairymen who seek a good field
in which to invest their capital and la
bor, we extend a hearty Georgia wel
come. Georgia Agricultural Depart
liont. ____________ __
Where one is located near a cannery
an acre of tomatoes can be made to
bring in about SSO.
One hundred years ago the value of
this country’s exports was only $5 per
capita; now it is $lB.
July rains make long ears of corn
even if it does bother a little about
taking care of the grain.
A man should not go into the cattle
business and put a sire at the bead of
his herd worth less then SIOO.
Successful county fairs without the
accessories of a gang of fakiis and
gamblers are becoming quite common.
A roast sucking pig is a long way
ahead of a roast goose as a u and
toothsome morsel, yet not o ' f -rson
la 60 ever tasted one. ___
Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine.
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Rotary Motion and
Bali Bearings.
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Atlanta, Georgia.
For Sale by B. PETERSON.
Douglas, Georgia
Gardeners and Truck Growers W/tX SAV ££"gylfy f £uYlNa
Grunin* Brrmuda Oniom Bei> amd Srtr, Vai.rktinr ahd Rrrnerr Bias*,
M AT.tHI.KrtM AMD MOMKV-M A * KR TOMATO, ICTC., KTC.
everything for the summer ano fall garden.
ONLY HIGH GRADE TESTED SEED OFFERED.
£jr~LarfMt Combiaed S*d and Nuraery Hwih In tl ■ South.
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