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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
VOL. XI.
S Hunter, Pearce & Battej,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
COTTON FACTORS
Money Loaned to Cotton Shippers on
Approved Security .
Experienced and Expert Handlers of
Sea Island Cotton.
Maijiifactarers of Higl ) Grade Fertilizer.
EMBALMER * AND 4 UNDERTAKER,
J. P. ULMER, WAYCROSS, GA.
Anything in the Burial Line Furnished, From a Fine Cofiin
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.
WAGON, ONE HORSE, $28.00
J. P. ULMER, WAYCROSS, GA.
SAVE CTADTIN
YOURO I Mn 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 bo assorted. Every man,
woman and child can find something on the list that they would
like to have, and can have
FREE!
Taos.
1 Match Box 25
S Knife, one blade, good steel 25
9 Bcliton,
4 Child’s Bet, Knife, Fork and Bpoon 25
5 Salt and Fepper Bet, one each, quad*
ruple plate on white metal 50
6 French Briar Wood Pipe 25
7 Razor, hollow ground, fine English
steel 50
8 Batter Knife, triple plate, beat quality 60
9 Sugar Shell, triple plate, beat quality 60
10 Stamp Box, sterling silver 70
It Knife, “Keen Kutter,” two blades 75
12 Butcher Knife, “ Keen Kutter,” 8-ln
blade 75
13 Shears, ” Keen Kutter,” 8-Inch 75
14 Nut Set, Cracker and 6 Picks, silver
plated 80
15 Base Ball, ” Association,” best quallty.UX)
16 Alarm Clock, nickel 150
17 Six Genuine Rogers' Teaspoons, best
plated goods 150
18 watch, nickel, stem wind and set ifcO
19 Carvers, good steel, buckborn handles.2oo
20 Six Genuine Rogers' Table Spoons,
best plated goods 250
SI Six each, Knives and Forks, buckhorn
handles 25U
THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30th, 1900.
OTBEAJI IN MIND that a dime’s worth of
STAR PLUG TOBACCO
will loot looser and afl'ord more pleasure than a dime’s worth of any
other brand.
IsdLAJCE TKE TEST!
Send ttflS to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO CO., St. Louis, Mo.
LarcestandMostCompleteßucgylactory on Earth Write^fqr
Our Price the lowest )
Parry MFG.(£- |nd ' ana p°' is w
tags.
22 Six each, Genuine Roger* l Knives and
Forks, best plated goods 500
23 Clock, 8-day, Calendar, Thermometer,
Barometer 500
24 Guu case, leather, no better made.... 500
25 Revolver, automatic, double action 32
or 38 caliber 600
26 Tool Set. not playthings, but real tools 650
27 Toilet Set, decorated porcelain, very
handsome 800
23 Remington Rifle No. 4,22 or 32 caliber 800
29 Watch, sterling silver, full jeweled. ,1000
30 Dress Suit Case, leather, handsome
and durable 1000
31 Sewing Machine, first class, with all
attachments 1500
32 Revolver, Colt’s, 38-callber, blued
steel 1500
S3 Rifle, Colt’s. 16-shot, 22-callber 1500
34 Guitar (Washburn), rosewood. Inlaid.2ooo
35 Mandolin, very handesome 2000
SG Winchester Repeating Shot Gun, 12
gauge 2000
37 Remington, donble-barrel, hammer
Shot Gun, 10 or 12 gauge 2000
S3 Bicycle, standard make, ladles or
gents 2500
29 Shot Gun. Remington, double-barrel,
haramerlesa 30T0
40 Regina Music Box, 15}$ inch Disc 5000
DOUGLAS, GA., SATURDAY, SEPT. Bth, 1900.
AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
Interesting Items Gleaned From Our
State Papers.
Hiram Sharpe, the wife murder
er, was hanged ut Decatur last
week.
Atlanta’s labor day celebration
this week was the largest ever
known.
Fitzgerald is busy with cotton
factory and her end of the Air Line
Railroad.
The Commercial Hotel, in Quit
man recently destroyed by tire, is
to be rebuiltr
Atlanta’s drunken mayor has
promised never to do so no more,
s’ hep (hie) me.
Gov. Candler made the first speech
of the state campaign in Chatta
hoochee county last week.
Several lumber mills up around
Cochran have shut down on ac
count of cancellation of orders
The October term of the Supeme
court promises to be interesting.
More than 400 cases on the docket.
The populists of Tatnail county
met last week and nominated a full
ticket with the exception of rep
resentative.
Lightning did considerable dam
age in the state last week. Ten or
twelve people were killed and sev
eral houses destroyed.
A gentleman living near Manor
in Ware county lost several head of
cattle and sheep, last week by be
ing struck by lightning.
The rumor that Self Reliance,
of Waycross, would suspend is not
true. Glad of it; the Reliance is
the newsiest paper of the city.
Baggage master Goldwire shot
and killed a negro porter on the
B. W. train near Tifton last week.
Negro was cursing him on account
of a previous difficulty.
The populists in Baldwin coun
ty will not put out a candidate this
year, but have asked for a “white
primary,” two years hence, not a
“democratic” or populist, but a
white primary.
Ten dollars reward is offered for
the recovery of a ladies gold watch,
stem wind and stem setter, stolen
from Miss Viola V. Furdge, Luke,
Ga. The case is engraved, with
letter “F” inside.
Fitzgerald Enterprise: “Coffee
claims the banner on the question
of increase in taxable values in the
past year. Coffee is fast coming
to the front and is already one of
best counties in the state.
Work is well under, way on th*
big cotton mills at Tifton. The
walls are nearly complete, and the
foundations for the machinery are
laid. The total cost will be $125.
000, and John Herrin is happy.
Thomas B. Seals for’ a long time
watchman at the Satilla bridge of
the B. W. R. R., near Lulaton,
killed John Williams, who was ap
pointed to succeed him, last Satur
day, with a club. There was talk
of lynching Seals.
The negrb who assaulted Mrs.
Inez in Cobb county was hanged
last week in the lady’s presence,
lie said he was going to heaven,
and as this was a good route, we are
in favor of all of his class going
that way.
Some of our exchanges are keep
ing tally-sheets as to how many
former McKinley men ans flocking
to Bryan, and are almost ready to
declare him elected, hut we have
seen no record of the democrats
that will vote for McKinley. Ah !
there’s the rub!
R. J. Rouse, of Sylvania, was
arrested in Savannah last Saturday
night for an assault ort a white girl
seventeen years of ajje, who had
been decoyed to a house of ill fame
in that city by a negro woman.
He is rich and the girT is poor, his
money will save him the girl’s
character and prospeetjs for life are
blighted, but if her father is alive
and don’t make a ’hob gun tell tile
news he should be lynched.
We can t help it, sir\if you do
live in the country, and Kbere is no
money order depart n nt, can
send jocts., in postage 6tai "*nd
we will send the Br eze.
writing names on credit.
THE GRAVE OF EVE.
Where is thy quiet grave to-day,
And where is thy sleeping dust ?
Blown in the winds that sweep the sands,
The desert’s barren crust?
Hast thou a grave of peace beside
The Asian four.ts of old?
Do lillies bloom and cedars spring
Above tli.v turf anti mold?
The rose ot Sharon droops her head
Beneath the Persian skies,
And wise ones say, niavliap 'tis there,
Thou hadst thy Paradise;
But distant o’er the lonely plain
Thy camp-tires flickered far,
Thou wert a homeless wanderer
Beneath the even'n j star.
When flung across t.ie stormy night
The witch-fire danced the vale,
Above thy children didst thou bend,
Thy cheek grown wan an pale;
For thou mightst deem the fierv spark
The watchful of Him
Who set against thy Paradise
The sword aud cherubim!
Was life e’er kind and sweet to thee,
Or had the woman’s part
To bear reproach and taunt and pain
Flung from that other heart ?
Or did thy love and beauty grow
So gracious, sad and wise
That even in exile, Adam found
Once more his paradise?
Eve, mother in that fair, far land,
Where sleeps thy dust to-day?
Those rounded limbs God's lingers drew
111 perfect, pulseless way.
Tombs have the great of earth, but thine
Unknown beneath the ekit-s ;
But xn diviner, calmer life,
Thou hast thy Paradise !
MARIE T. LANIER MAGRUDER.
Woodville, Ky .
Mr- Tbos L. Paulk Declines.
Mr. Thos L. Paulk, our efficient
tax collector, who was nominated
for Representative by the populist
party last Saturday, requests us to
announce that he must decline the
honor his friends have bestowed
upon him by the nomination for
such an important office, but be
cannot make the race for one office
while holding another, legally,
therefore he will not be in the race
for representative in the coming
compaign. This is as near his own
words, he told \is to print, as we
can write them.
New Hope Church Services.
The funeral of Mrs. Eli Jowers
will be preached on the fifth Sun
day in this month.
The Union Singing will he held
on Sunday and Saturday before
the fifth Sunday, and everybody is
invited to go and carry his wife or,
sister, or some other fellow’s sister.
Mr. Brinkley of Irwin county
will address the people that day,
Saturday, on the subject of vocal
music. After Mr. Brinkley is
through telling the people what he
knows about vocal music, Freeman,
of the Breeze will tell everybody
what ha “don’t” know about
music.
Bringing them to Douglas.
Waycross Evening Herald : “Col.
W. W. McDonald of Douglas, was
'in Waycross yesterday with a par
ty of twelve young men from
North Georgia, who will try their
fortune in Douglas, the metropolis
of Coffee county.”
Yes, sir, that’s the way he does.
He came here himself a young man,
and concluded that this was a nice
place to “grow up” with the coun
try, so, he went off and brought
Mrs. McDonald, and his success in
every respect has been all that
could he desired. His popularity
is growing, his law practice is
growing, his bunk account is grow
ing, his family is growing, and now
he is growing the population with
twelve young men. Verily, the
mayor is on the growing order.
He Never Fails.
The Waycross correspondent of
the Savannah Morning News, so
far as tbe above implies, is a alretch
ing, guessing, well developed
fraud. The latest instance is in
his report of the lightning’s work
in this placq, last Saturday, when
he said the “only son” of Mr. Gas
kin was killed and his residence
torn “into splinters.” The fact
is the house was slightly damaged,
while, thank heaven, our friend
has still left him two sons, but this
wonderful W T aycross correspondent
is compelled to do a good deal of
guessing, and grape-vine wiring to
cover the territory from Darien toj
Jesup, from Doctortown to Thom- ]
asville and from Waycross to Doug- (
las. Then, again, if you are really
seeking the “news” of the territory
mentioned, you can read this cor-
respondents letters in the News, or
glimpse their shadowy reproduc
tion in the columns of the Way
cross Journal.
Forty-four cotton mills at Fall
River, Mass., employin' X 7.500
shut do’ * Vhat
A DUTIFUL DAUFHTER.
She Lives In Coffee County and Writes
A Youne Man That She Loves
Her Parents More than
Life. A Noble
Girl.
The editor of the Breeze was at
camp-meeting last Sunday, and if
he was any judge several others
were out there. After dinner he
started home, but just after cross
ing Seventeen a shower of rain
came up and he took refuge in the
pavilion between the two creeks,
where others had also been driven,
and where some, of both sexes, had
been all day. Sitting off to him
self, as he always does when he
can’t do otherwise, his thoughts
running loose on the sermon he
had heard and other matters that
force themselves along in a train of
thoughts, his eye fell on a soiled,
crumpled letter or note, just under
one of the seats. It was directed
to a man in plain feminine hand,
regular Spencerian. It was none
of the editor’s business, he had lost
no letter, to read it, but as it un
folded in his hand, bis eye caught
the writers’ name at the bottom,
whom he kuew, and curiosity did
the rest. Knowing that the lead
er’s curiosity is also on the ram
page, the contents of the little per
tained death-knell are before you,
with names and places omitted :
“ -Aug., 30.
Mr. .
Your letter addressed to me,
and dated August 25, has been re
ceived, and tlie contents thought
fully perused. I cannot do as you ask
and hope you will never ask myself
or any other girl, in future, Jo
disregard the wishes of her parents
by leaving home without their con
sent for marriage. 1 would die
first, for I love my mother and
father more than 1 do my life, more
than I can ever learn to love anoth
er. This letter will be handed
you—it needs no reply.
Only your friend,
____________________________ J>
•
And Solomon says : “Who can
find a virtuous woman? for her
price is far above rubies,” and here
we have found one in Coll'ee coun
ty, and there are millions of them
scattered all over this beautiful
southland. Noble girl, true girl!
Oh. how many homes are there to
day where misery and sorrow
dwells because of some thoughtless
boy or girl who looked forward to
an eternal run of bliss when they
had a chance to leave the old
homestead.
* * * *
The marriage is over—it is near
the hour for daughter to leave
home, and as she runs Lack into
the house to kiss mother farewell,
she can’t find her. Over the house
she runs calling “mama, mama—
where are you?” and then she hears
a smothered sob from the closet.
Stopping to listen she hears “Oh,
God, take care of my poor child;
thou art all-wise and can shape her
course, and lead her feet in paths
that are straight.” Mother is pray
ing. Those are the words—the
prayers that follow a girl, like the
one who wrote the above letter
hut had she gone away from home
as the young man suggests because
of parental objection, perhaps,
would she have deserved them?
No, but the mother would have
given them all the same, even from
a bleeding heart.
When the editor finished reading
the above letter, lie next tried, by
hard work to locate the parties, but
never found the young lady who
wrote it. lie found a sad-faced,
fidgety, nervous young man who
he imagined lilted the description
of one who would advise a girl to
throw aside parental love and ad
vise. Base scoundrel! perfidious
hyena! treucherous robber, that
would steal from a home such a
priceless jewel!
Her secret is safe. The remains
of her “little perfumed death knell”
to blasted hopes was torn in pieces
not larger than your thumb nail
• and thrown into Twenty Mile
'creek, as the finder wended his
' way homeward, thanking God
that there were true women being
raised up in Coffee cuunty.
Our soldiers in the Philippines
put at least s2s.<xx>.ooo of good
I American money in circulation in
I those islands each year. This mon
ey i withdrawn from circulation
among our people at home. How
do you expect us to get along at
\that?
v
News Nusrjrets from Nichols,
Miss Abbie Meeks, so popular
and well known in this section, has
closed her school, four miles from
here, and has gone to your town to
attend the Normal Institute.
Mr. John 11. Williams has done
pretty much as Miss Meeks has.
Both schools were taught efficiently
and the departure of the teachers
are regretted by their pupils and
commended by the older ones who
know the two young teachers are
striving for better accomplishments
at (he Normal Institute.
Nichols now is a town of impor
tance. It is connected with Doug
las and Waycross by the Air Line,
and with Offerman and Hazlehtirst
by the Offerman & Western Rail
road. Besides this, it has numerous
business enterprises that carry on
a good local and country trade, and
now since the crops are “laid by,”
the public might want to know who
and what kind ot businesses are
carried on here : Douglas He Mims,
dealers in dry goods and groceries,
do a good business, and Quart
Douglas will sell dry goods by the
quart, pint, or pound.
11. Meeks & Cos., is a firm of long
standing, and deals in dry goods,
groceries, notions, medicines and
the general necessaries of life, while
there are few more polite' and atten
tive clerks to wait on you than Mr.
Anderson.
Meeks & Thompson, dealers in
dry goods and groceries, come next,
and you will go a long way before
you find cheaper or better men to
.leal with than these gentlemen.
hey will also take your picture
when you bring your girl to town
next time.
Smith & Walker, carry groceries
lor the family alone, and they have
fresh goods too that are not bought
to keep but to sell. They have a
good trade and deserve all they
receive J
Wilkins & Son have family gro
ceries too, and when you go to see
them Mr. Wilkins will treat you
right. Clever and polite they are
doing well.
Cook Brothers carry a mi\ed
stock, dry goods and groceries and
do a good business. When you
trade with them you get dollar for
dollar in fresh goods. •
James OlifF carries family gro
ceries, and when you need meal
briny your corn to him and he will
make you some fresh meal while
Mrs. Oliff will sell you bacon, lard,
sugar and coffee to go with the
bread.
W. J. Smith carries dry goo-'s
and groceries also, and does a fair
trade. Mr. Smith is a fair man to
trade with and his clerk, Mr. Cally.
is clever and accommodating, and
will he glad to see you when yo.i
come. J
Ibis winds up the mercantile
affairs of the town, except the
Nichols Bottling Works, where all
kinds of soda water is manufactur
ed, and the extensive commissary
of the Southern Pine Lumbtr Cos.
In some future issue, when wo
have more time, it shall be our
pleasure to tell you of some of our
people, among who are someef thi
best families in Georgia,
Prof. Ashurys school, opened
two weeks ago, is in full blast, with,
a fine list ol pupils, at the Academy.
Prof. Asbury is liked by all who
he meets, and he has proven that
young people entrusted to his care
will receive proper instruction.
Misses Bertie Johnson, Cora and
Agnes Parker and others, with
young men dancing attendance,
went across country lrst .Sunday to
Gaskin’s spring arid spent the day
at camp-meeting.
Since yourself and daughter, and
Rev. Mr. !• inley and daughter were
here, on the 4th Sunday, last month,
we have heard several express the
wish that you return again at do
distant day, and that wider pub
licity he given your aj pointments,
as some of those living in the coun
try, say they would 1101 havemisse l
meeting had they knt wnof the last
appointment.
One dozen copies of last issue of
Breeze came duly to hand and werj
handed out to t' e people. As
matters now stand the Nichols list
will soon reach one hundred if all
keep there promises. Find enclos
ures for tour new names to go on
the “honor roll,” which is a very
good sign that tn< re will follow
soon.
Nichols,
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