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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. J. M. FREF.MAN & DAUGHTERS, Proprietors JAMES M. FREEMAN, AGNES F. FREEMAN Editors and Publishers. CALVIN A. WARD. JR., Associate. Entered as Second-Class Mail Ma •r- SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1900 Official Organ of County. Authorized Aeent for the Breeze.' Mr. James McCarty is author ized to solicit and make contracts for advertising, job printing and subscriptions, at Nichols or else where, for the Breeze. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. Australian bushmen are being offer ed farms free of cost lu Rhodesia. The coast lino of the Chinese einplro exceeds 2,000 miles and the land fron tier 4,400 miles. No naturalist has ever found the time In which to discover how the frog rmikes Its living. Thirty thousand copies of tie Ix>gla have already been print**! by the r tlnn exploration fund, and the ucmuml Is still continuing. Several communities In lower Italy hnve recently petitioned the king for the abolition of compulsory education because of Its cost. Tho jsjstal system of China Is under , the supervision of the minister of war. Post cars and runners are used in tho transmission of the mails. The national government lias In structed the forest supervisor lu New Mexico to protect the cliff dwellings In that territory from vandalism. In Egypt the telephone operators are all men, and they are required to be export linguists, speaking English, French, Italian, modern Greek and Arabic. Klickitat, Kittitas, Snohomish, Sno ipunlmle, Puyallup, Toppenish and Shookutn are some of the Indian names of towns lu Washington and Oregon. St. Joseph, Mo., raises u municipal banana crop each year. In the park conservatory grows a banana tree that faithfully produces an annual bunch of bananas. There are 20 large oyster packing es tablishments In Norfolk, and It is es timated that they handle 2,500,000 bushels aiunially, representing a value of $2,000,^#). The KioWlan ling Is tho youngest. It was adopted In 1881), when the em pire was overthrown. Next comes tho ling of the Kongo Free Stute, dating from about 1885. L. A. Allen, live stock commission man, Is firmly of the opinion that tho Angora goat craze will reach the pro portions of the Belgian Imre craze be fore many mouths. Twenty-Jive thousand acres of tho Mourtie mountain*-, in County Down, Ireland, have been scheduled as an area for military maneuvers for troops In the Belfast district. After a recent tornado In Australia thousands of water snakes were found mi tilt l bench In one place, while In an other the beach was entirely washed away, leaving nothlug but bare rocks. The Rank of England destroys about 350.000 of Its notes every week to re place them with freshly printed ones. One evening In each week Is set apart for the making of this expensive bon fire. Considerable mystery has existed for set oral years ns to the Identity of the man In Denver who voted for Palmer and Bucluicr in 1800. They received one vote In that state out of a total of nearly 100, 000. Determination of the navy depart ment to establish u large coaling depot In Guam will result lu making the ves sels of the Asiatic station practically Independent of coal markets in that part of the world. ‘‘Powell, hairdresser. Easy shaving, Id. Support the namesake of the llero of Mafeklug,” Is a notice In the north bf London, and a baker in Manchester has ruined a rival by changing Ids name to Kitchener. The fecundity of microbes Is prodi gious, so much so that If 15 drops of water polluted with bacteria are allow ed to fall Into a cup of broth the germ population will have increased in 24 hours to 80,000,000. 'J in' dome of the courthouse in Chip pewa Falls, Wis., Ims been struck three times by lightning, and the peo ple of the town are discouraged in their belief In the old assertion that light ning never strikes even twice in the same place. The majority of motor cars are now driven by petroleum, but a French en gineer recommends the use of alcohol Instead of it. and motors are being al tered so as to consume it. There Is uj fear of explosion with alcohol, and it is said to be less costly than petroleum. More and more each year, says tlm New York Herald, are the houses of New York becoming covered with creeping Ivy. These coats of green arc attractive, affording a relief from the somber colors of the buildlugs and adding to the beauty and attractive ness of the city. An odd monument waf desired by an elderly maiden lady died a few weeks ago In Athlone, Weland. She left a fortune of £27,(W0 to be spent In the erection of a church, provided that her body should be converted Into ashes and used in making the mortar tot building the edifice. A young woman in Loudon has for some years carried on the business of index making. Faring tout period she res palmd in her office -ki women in dex :; sal;<. ,'S, and she has indexed such works as Nausea s “i arthest North,” “Science cl iutetnational l.aw,” 45.7 volumes of history and numerous pa pars and periodical*. Get Ready for the Election The State and county elections come off together, on the first Wed nesday iq October, which falls on October 3rd. This being true we have only about three weeks in which to get ready, therefore the chairman and candidates had bet ter begin to make arrangements for holding these elections. Man agers composed of good, honest square free-holders should be de cided upon, and their willingness ajid ability to serve, be ascertained at once, in case there should he ob stacles in the way of those selected, others might be obtained. Then, again, tickets for all the candidi dates must he printed, and some times this is left off until almost too late. You can’t hold an elec tion without tickets, and you can’t get tickets without money, let this important fact be remembered, for it will he adhered to at the Breeze office, no deviation being made in favor * I any one, as well as at. all jiin'.ing offices in the state. The democratic, populist and republi can party sometimes send out thousands of tickets, but they are all paid for before they leave the printing offices, from a campaign fund. The ticket this year is the long est election ticket we have ever seen, embracing as is docs guber natorial, state house and county officers, with solicitor general, rep resentative and senatorial candi dates, making it about as long as your arm. When a candidate starts around over the county to distribute tickets at each presinct he will have to carry along his his tickets in a dump-cart. The Populist Nomination. The populist party was called to order last .Saturday, September Ist, at the court house, and nominated the following licket for county offices: Representative, Thus. L. Paulk. Ordinary, Tlios. Young. Clerk sup. court Dan W. Gaskin. Sheriff, David Ricketson. Tax Receiver, D. P. Lott. Treasurer, Hamilton Sears. Surveyor, Berry Tanner. Coroner, ’l’. G. Harper. It will be noticed that no nomi nation was made for Tax Collector, in opposition to Mr. Daniel the democratic nominee, but it will al so be noticed that they put out a nominee for Ordinary, while the democrats did not. Consequently Mr. Daniel and Ordinary Young tire sure of election. Since the above ticket was put out Tlios. L. Paulk, now tax col lector, has declined to make the race for representative, (see his card) while be holds' his present office, leaving only the democratic nominee, as a party representative, before the people. As we sail! of tlie democratic nominees we can say of tin's one, and tluit is that all of Them are good men, no better in tlu' county, and we wish it was so all of them, on both tickets, could be elected, but it can l be and some of the boys must strike the ceiling. A Deserving Young Man. Mr. Frank Douglas, in attend ance as a student at the Institute is a deserving young man. striving for an education, and paying as he j goes, lie is agent for the Key stone Stereoscopies and also the Keystone views, which are very fine. It he calls to see you, for he is canvassing the city, give him an order and you will not regtet it. You may have a boy pulling for an education some dav. St. Johns Baptist Association. The Freeze is pleased to note I the presence of delegates from sev eral counties adjacent, to this As-j sociation, now in session in our lit-| tie city. We are glad to see our. colored friends, some of whom we I have known a long time, and hope! their meeting will be of interest, i Rev. W. C. Johnson, of Wavcross, is moderator, and his experience j renders him a capable ollicer. Chrisrmas Dinner in Fitzgerald. ■ Traffic manager llawkins, of the W’avcross Air Line railroad, was in town last Tuesday, looking after the business of the road, and dropped in to see the Breeze. lie informed us that work on the road was being pushed with all the force obtainable and that Mercer, of the Enterprise would have to furnish a turkey for our dinner at Fitzger ald on Christmas day, that he in tended to see that we were carried 1 there over the Air Line on that i day. \V. I. Bryan has been talking to ••Maryland, inv Maryland’' this week, and has made favorable im pressions. In Vermont the republicans elected a full state ticket this week To the Populists of Coffee County. Dm glas, Ga., Sept. 3, 1900 —' Having been infoimed of my nom ination for reoresentative by the populist party on Saturday, Sept. 1, I must decline to make the race, on the ground that I cannot legally do so, while holding another office, still, I am not unmindful of the honor conferred upon me itl the nomination, and am thankful for the same. TIIOS. L. PAULK. Calamitous Death of Ernest Gaskin. Last Saturday evening about 4 o’clock, a dark, threatening cloud overhung the city like a curtain of destruction, rain fell in torrents, the thunder shook the earth, while the zig-zag tongues of lightning flashed across the face of the dark, cloudy background like ribbons of fire . Being Saturday evening as stated, the hands were all gone out of the office, leaving the writer alone. When the storm was at its highest fury and just before a deafening peal of thunder followed by a blind ing sheet of electricity, we heard metalic ringing so usual in print ing offices when lightning is glanc ing from press to press, flashing through the dark corners and scampering over the steel knife of the paper cutter, and we knew then a strike had been made not far away. Going to the door of the office a iady informed us Dan nieGaskin’s house had been struck. Alas, it was too true, and the joy of that home was overwhelmed with grief. During the storm a friend of the family, Mr. James McKinnon had stopped there out of the rain, and while the children were huddled around him, at the time we have described, lightning struck • the chimney, glanced to a tin roof val ley, tearing up a few shingles and glided like a serpent through the roof and down a post near which the party were sitting on the veran da, knocking the children uncon cious and severely shocking Mr. McKinnon and other inmates. Af ter careful, earnest work, the youngest one of the children was revived but the oldest one, Ernest about 8 years of age, was beyond till human aid. He was a bright boy, with a mild gentle disposition. His remains were interred at the Douglas cemetery Sunday after noon. It would be wrong and unreason able for us to ask the fond parents of this dear little boy, not to grieve over his sudden taking away, still such will not help them, nor the child, and turning to heaven in the hour of bereavement is the best surest way for consolation. Brother D. W, Gaskin and his amiable wife are widely known, and hundreds of friends and rela tives over the county sympathise with them in their sad bereavement. Reduction of State Tax. The increase of $20,000,000 for the state of Georgia since 1899, is no small matter, and it is not an assured fact that any State in the union can reach tiiese figures. Since Gov. Candler has been in office the state rate Inis been lower- ed sl.lO upon the thousand. The state tax this year will be divided up as follows : For general purpose's 2.95 mills or $2.95 on every SI,OOO. For school purposes, 2 mills, or $2 on every SI,OOO. For the sinking fund, of a mill, making in all a total of 5.20 or $5.20 on every $1 ,oix>. The tax rate for the year has been predicated on a total proper ty value in Georgia of $435,000. 000 including railroads and every form of property. This value, compared with that of last year, indicates a gain for 1900 of prac tically $19,000,000, which is the largest from one war to another in the history of the state. It Was a Rat. Bailiff Graham brought us a nicely scaled letter last Monday, which he handled very carefully, saying it was handed him by a friend to give to the Breeze. Of course, we imagined it contained money as we never receive any, but always looking for some, when 10, and behold! the shining eyes of a mouse about a week old looked up at us out of envelope, as if ap pealing for life. We gave it to Calvin Ward, who is a candidate and wants to get up a reputation tor posessing a heart full of human ity, but if one of the girls had been in the office when that letter was received, and that rat had taken after her, brother Spivey would have had a damage suit 01 hand. Berry H. Tanner Declines. As we go to press we learn that Mr. Berry H. Tanner, nominated by the populists for surveyor, has declined to make the race. Mr. Tainicj to fill or anv oeop l The Annual Camp-meetin?. The annual camp-meeting com menced at the tabernacle last Fri day night, and from the very be ginning has been well attended and apparently a success. Owing to sickness among our office force it has been impossible for us to at tend any services except those of last Sunday, therefore, connot give a minute report. Among the workers we noticed Rev. and Mrs. Austin, of Wares boro, Revs. W hiting and Glenn, of Waycross, Bolen, of Broxton, Adams, of Douglas, and Christian, of Waycross. Several laymen workers have also been in attend ance, rendering valuable aid. An immense crowd was at the Spring Sunday, and while all did not go there to attend services, still there must have been quite a. thous and at the 11 o’clock service, under the tabernacle. The crowds have not been as large since that time, but we are told each service held afterward has been particularly in teresting. Will Not fee There. The appointment for services at Reedy Branch for September 7th and Bth will not be filled, owing to the fact that some objections exist. The disappointment, if any, that some may have, is regretted, but we never go where we are not wanted. Sorry the objections were not known before appoint ment was made. Bound to Make His Mark. Lewis Vickers, executor of bis father’s estate, the late Rev. Jno. Vickers, was in town last Monday on legal business, and received from Ordinary Young his commis sion as executor, gave the bond about SI3OOO, and now enters on the discharge of his duties. Lewis is a steady, sober, industrious young man, and is bound to make his mark in the world. If the county had more of such men the future prospects would be brighter Akron, Ohio, and the city of New York, to the negro “Git offen th’ yeartli!” Germany has asked the Ameri can army in Pekin, China, to get off their ground, she wants it her self. Germany expects to make China pay for the murder of her people, and Germany is right. She wants more room for the ad ditional forces that are expected. Waycross Steam Laundry. Parties in town or county can have Laundry sent off every Mon day and returned by Friday night, by bringing same to L. O. Paxson. I ft O j**E i a W £s r a 3 1 8 2?■§A/ Jr- t - Cos Iff) BB r” 2m £m m 3-f 1 C s* 18 8 * Zr-C3 I" f8 i | A N N C) U NCEMENT S. (For Clerk. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for office of (tlerk ot Superior Court Coffee I county, and Respectfully ask the support I of the people.'. \ JNO. I). FRIER. For T\ax Assessor. 1 hereby annlounce myself a candidate : for the office tlf Tax Receiver of Coffee! county, subject ko the action of my friends ! I 11. ELLIS, C.arrant.Ga- ! Fo r Sheriff. The many frie ml- of L. S. Guthrie here by announce hit 11 as a candidate for f her iff of Coffee county , and ask the support of the yeomanry o : tlie county. Fo|r Sheriff. Gentlemen, i/ain a free and independent candidate for Sfheriff of Coffee county, and ask the citizenfc of this county to vote for me. If eiecte.ft I will be your devoted ser vant. / ; v. h. tvii-cox. g / " Send this office for any Job Printing. T. GOTTLIEB’S 4NEW 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 he 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 GENT LESS To maKe room for 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. Sheriff’s--Tax Sale. GEORGIA —Coffee County. Will be sold before the court house in Douglas, Coffee county, Georgia, between the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in October next, three acres in the southeast portion *f Pear son, bounded on the north by street on the east and south by lands of Jeff Kirkland, and west by lands of Jeff Kirkland and Mrs. Martha McLendon, being a part of lot of land No. 32 in the 7th District, to satisfy a tax exe cution issued by T. L. Paulk, tax-col lector of said county. To be sold for taxes due thereon for the year 1899, together with interest and costs, pro vided the said taxes, interest and costs cannot be made by renting or hiring the said property. This July 2d, 1900. W. M. Tanner, Sheriff C. C “PERFECTS /MAN-TAILORED \ :/_ -a m . ... . , y Is the only word that describes our i Stilts ■ Skirts ■ Waists : Mammoth Hitch Grade Stock of \ Wrappers I Fashionable aud Correct \ -80LKACK.NTst.oa- ,/ SPRING AND SUMMER mmsis FOR " Men, Women, Girls, jjijcSren. There is no collection of finely designed Jl and constructed Clothing in Georgia equal to ours. We excel, as always, in £™Bf jfatt?, Underwear. Negligee Goods and Furnishings. I flfliOQ Wm\ monf Unriva!Bd South. Belts, Girdles, LUllluu UtPUI liiblll Buckles, Neckwear, Underwear, Etc. MAIL ORDERS a ii?r“uh privilege ot examining before paying. MEN’S \ „ .. „ __AT /FINE HATS.\ I [[f! 5 I Ut 111 LL I 1 \A Ui \J • \ SWELL AECKWEAR / ———— \ UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, M SAVANNAH, GA. CITATION. GEORGIA —Coffee County. Elijah Tanner, Sr., administrator of Henry Hargraves, colored, having made application to me in due form to be discharged from said administra tion, notice is given that said applica tion will be heard at my office on the first Monday in November, 1900. This 6th day of August 1900 THUS. YOUNG, Ordinary. TOMBSTONES Made of Italian, Vermont or Georgia marble, as good and and as cheap as any one. Apply to THIS OFFICE.