The Cleveland progress. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1892-1896, May 20, 1892, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Progress. By W. B. WOODW BD. DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. TERMS . One Dollnr Per Year. VOL. I. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1892. NUMBER 20. “We hare on our list valnnble Mineral, Timber and Farming lande, fur Sale or Ex change. If You Want To Buy, Sell or Exchange Property of the above description, communicate with us. Title- papers examin ed and reported upon. Abstracts Furnished Free to Actual Purchasers. We are centinlly located in the lichcst Mineral section in Georgia. (jStB; [KSdESaiH; £fS In Abundutce. Delightful Climate, Peculiar to the Noted Piedmont Section. Finest Tobacco Lands in the South. Correspondence Solicited. F. B. SUTTON, Manager. A. H. HENDERSON, Dealer in THE “GARZA”LAND. AMERICAN IN POSSESSION, BUT INHABITED BY MEXICANS. The Deaolnto Region Where the Mexican Revolutionist. Easily Htct From Uncle Sam's Sol- (Iters—A Fruitless Chase, R ICHARD HARDING DAVIS describe!' in Harper's Weekly the region of Texas to which Garza, the Mexican revolution, with his followers. Says Mr. GENERAL MERCHANDISE. My line of general merchandise c-mnot be excelled in Cleveland, wherebv 1 give you good goods and at tho very lowest prices Dry Goods ! Dry Goods ! In the line ot diy goods, consisting of all kinds of nice prints, ginghatn, flannel, etc., etc., f will not he undersold. §HOES ^ JrjATS. When you want .anything in shoes or hats it will be to your advantage to tiade with me. Ir. theaa goods I have a complete stock. GROCERIES! GROCERIES! I have plenty of grocerh s. Meal, sugar, flour and coffee a specialty. Come and aee me and I will quote you prices that will aurprise you I also handle a full line ol Patent Medicines, which 1 will Sell at the very lowest price. Cleveland Hotel. In onnection with my general mercantile business I run a first-clisi hotel the year round, with tho table supplied with the bust the market affords. It is situated on the south side of the Blue Ridge mountains, where the air is pure and the water good a splendid Mineral Spring near by. Rates of board reasonable. Respectfully. A. H. HENDERSON. HENDERSON & UNDERWOOD, CLEVELAND, GA. W ILL buy and sell Mineral, Timber and Agricultural lands in White and ad joining counties, guaranteeing the title thereto. Will n egothte 8< les for reasonable Commissions. L PROPERTIES Entrusted to us for sale will receive a liberal advertieeme&t. Having- Real Estate For Sale Will Do Well By Calling On or Writing Us. HENDERSON & UNDERWOOD. ,y. II. HENDERSON, Manager, J. W. H. UNDERWOOD, Att’y & Abstractor. 1st, fled Davis This particular country is the vacant lot of the world. It is to the rest of the West what the ash-covered lots near High Bridge arc to New York. It is the strip of country over which we actually went to war with Mexico, and which gave General Sherman the opportunity of making the epigram, which no one who has not seen the utter desolatcnoss of th, land can justly value, that we should go to war with Mexico again and force hei to take it back. It isacountry where there are no roses, hut where everything that grows has a thorn. Where the rattle die of starva tion, and whore the troops had to hold up the snlitnry train that passes over it once a day, in true rood-agent, lashion, to tnko the water from its boilers that their horses might not drop for lack of it. It is a country where the sun blinds and Bcorcbes at noon, and where tho dew falls like a cold rain at night, and where one shivers in an overcoat at breakfast, and rides without, coat or waistcoat and panting with tho heat the same afternoon. Where there are no trees, nor running streams, nor rock nor hills, but just an ocean of gray chaparral end white chalky canons or red dusty trails, if you leave this trail for fifty yards, yoii eau wander for twenty miles before you may come to water or a ranch or another trail, and by that time tho chaparral and cactus will have robbed you of your clothing, and left in its place a covering of ‘needles, which break when one attempts to draw them out, and remain in the flesh to fester and swell tho skin, and leave It raw and tender for a week. This country, It is almost, a pleasure to say, is AraoricaU only in its possession. No whito men, or so few thnt (hey arc not as common as century-plants, live in it. It is Mexican in its people, its language, and its mode of life. The few who inhabit its wilder-, ness are ranch owners and their shepherds and cowboys) and a ranch, which means a stole and six or seven thatched abobef houses around it., is at the nearest three' miles from tho next ranch, and on an average fweuty miles. An a rule, Huy move further away the longer you ride towards them. Into this foreign country of BOO square miles the eight United States cavalry troops of forty men each anrl two com panies of infantry were sent to find Garza end his followers. The only means by which n mau or horses or cows can be tracked in tliis desert is by the foot or hoof prints which they may leave in the sandy soil as they follow the trails al ready made or make fresh ones. To fol low these trails it is necessary to have a» a guide a man born in the brush, who has trailed cattlo for a livelihood. Th« Mexican Government supplied the troop* with some oi their own people, who,did not know the particular country inte which they were sent, but who could* follow a trail in any country. One ol t wo of these, sometimes none, went with each troop, What our Government should have done was to have supplied each troop commander with five or six of thesi men, who could have gone out in searcl of trails, and reported at the camp when ever ha had found a fresh one. By thl means the troops could have been saved hundreds of miles of unnecessary march Ing wd counter-marching on “falsi alarms,” end the Goveroment mucl' money, ea the campaign in that oven! would have been brought much mort rapidly to a conclusion. But the troo| to imander had no such aids. They hat to i.de forth whenever so ordered to dl by the authority at headquarters, soml 200 miles from the scene of the action, who had in turn received their informa, lion from the Mexican general on the other side of the Rio Grande, This is what made doing their duty, as reprei eented by obeying orders, such a diffi cult thing to the troops in tho Garza territory. They knew before they sad dled their horses that they were going on a wild-goose chase, to wear out tbeir horses and their own patience and to ac complish nothing beyond furnishing Garza’s followers with certain satisfac tion in seeing a large body of men riding solemnly through a dense underbrush in a blinding sun to find a trail which a Mexican general had told an American general would be sure to lead them to Garza, and news of which had reached them a week after whoever had made tby ‘rail had passed over it. They could imagine, as they trotted in a long dusty line through the cactus, as conspicious marks on the plain as a prairie wagon. ‘.Hat Gnrzn or his men were watching .hem irom under a clump of cactus on seme elevation in the desert, and how ha would say. “Ah! the troops are out again, I see. Who is it to-day—Hardie, Chase, or Hunter? Lend me your field glass. Ah ! it is Hardie. He is a good rider. I hope he will not got a sunstoko." And then they would picture how the revolutionists would contiuue the smok ing of their cornstalk cigarettes and the drinking of tho smuggled muscal. This is not an exaggerated picture. A man could lie hidden ir. this brush and watch the country on every side of him, and sec each of the" fgw living objects which might pass over? it lu n day, as easily as ho could notepft# approach of a throe masted schooner at sea. And “veu though troups damn directly to ward him, he had bSb to He flat in tho brush within twenty feet of them, and they would not know it. It would be as easy to. catch Jack tho Ripper with a Lord Mayor's procession as Garza with a (netnenmem. or cavalry, unless they jituinbled upon him by luck, or unless ,1m had with him so many men that thnt ■their trail could be followed at a gallop. As a matter of fact and history, the Garza movement was broken up in tho first three weeks of its incoption by the cavalry and the Texas Rangers and the deputy sheriffs, who rode after tho largo hodirs of men and scattered tnem. After that it was merely , a chase after little bands of from three to a dozon men, ■who traveled by night and slept by day }n their race toward the river, or, when f act, there by the Mexican soldiers, in heir raco hack again. Tho fact that fcvery inhabitant of the ranches and every Mexican the troops mot was a so brat sympathizer wlth Garza was anothor pud most important difficulty in the way I if his pursuors. And it was trying ‘to new thnt, the barking of the dogs of n ranch was not yet out of ear shot before a vaquoro was scuttling off through tho i haparral to tell the hiding revolution ists that the troops were on tholr way end which way they were coming. How Rivera Are made. The soil of the ', Northwest, m which sun bakes the Unless the rains seldom ate fail to soften deeply into uneven, moet Into the stri that region, intqpse heat H^reoier, of healed la moistufK"* off-flaw all littlewatc woftded But ltii suiscorcl Most of ps^bus i voyyffmavV, the streams uwelatis The epoi fdi es DINING IN JAPAN. STRANGE DISHES AND CURIOUS CEREMONIES. A Forma! Banquet at. Which tho (iiieatn Hat Upon Their lleela —Eating With Chopsticks —Drinking Sftkl. N opportunity has been given u» lately, says a correspondent of the Providence Journal, to nt- tend a Japanese banquet, one of tho most unique entertainments that can bo imagined. The invitations read, Admiral Enomotto and Admiral Rails - ynma request the pleasure of your com pany on Saturday, February 6th, at a Japanese dinner at 6 o’clock, Sans ccrcmonio." Tho dinner was givun at the Maple Club in Tokio, a structure built in tho stylo of a Japanese tou house, with one largo room and a few small onos, and long passages on cither side opening into tho rooms by tho pretty sliding doors found In every Japanese house. It was rattier a distinguished party—tho United States Admiral of this station nnd his wife, other naval officers, members of tho Diplomatic Corps, and other JapanoBO nobility making up the party, which numbered thirty-four. , We worn met at, the ontranco by a ,number of attendants who, with vory low and gracious bows, took off our bootB, replacing them by woolen slip pers. Wo wore then conducted through a long corridor of polished floor to a small dressing room, where wo removod our bonnets and where wo found Humor ous pretty maids to assist us in our finishing touches made before a mirror belonging to a superb lacquer toilet tablo, richly ornamented. lu a few moments wo wore ushecl into another small room covered with beauti ful matting and whose furniture con sisted of a fow cushions lying on tho floor. After the presentations wo seated ourselves upon these low cushions and wore immediately served with tea, the inevitable preliminary to every form of entertainment in Japan. As soon as the gueBts were all assembled tho sliding doors were drawn and the largo dining room disclosed to viow, brilliantly lighted by olootric lights. On either side of tho room wore placod fiflcon little square tables, perhaps eighteen inches apart, and at the head four tables reserved for tho American Admiral and his wife and tho the Mississippi hits its sources,is largely clayey loam. When it is unprotected by the.shade of trees,, the heal of a summot into a hard crust protracted, and they months, they utfe*«nd penetrate l . , . , , , xyhtfer flows quickly h'o away from :e.is level, the id evaporating. Ion of a large body the air and creates greedily abserb quence of tho rapid ration, comparatively idin the soil of an un it} by forests are not ound remains friahla. absorbed into the the showers are mediate flow into the iy Btnall. ■l do not engender hot winds, blit those which come from the trees ward off the ir leafy shields, and ;pisture from tho foli- pratuf'e of .tho wood- oouditlons tend to ■om the soil. A large dity of forest-clad the air by transpire- mils, even after they intemperance of tho r quantity of moii- ahadeloss and soil- a; and this water, through the earth, and maintains the Ids • to counteract log forests. The tiie shade lellow. and the the earth, in vflth woods, ,ter and tran- ost luxuriant of hot d, while SI also occupies the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Tho little tables were about a foot high, and it was with no little difficulty that wo droppod down on our knees and thonco into the Japanese posture of sitting on our heels. On each table were placed throo dishes, each filled with poculiar-looking food. A small glass flutod plate contained thin slices of pink raw fish and little round balls of white fish; on auothor plate wore melon-shaped pieces of pressed fish, orna mented with a border of deep pink sweet meringue, Bomo slicos of what appeared like sausage, and pieces of peanut candy very much llko ours. A cup of sauce and a pair of chopsticks oomploted the array. We watched the Japanese dig nitaries on our right and left, and saw Them adroitly attack the soup, which was the first courso, making it disappear most skillfully with tho chopsticks; wo suc ceeded in capturing a couplo of floating peas, and after taking a surreptitious drink laid down the bowl discouraged. And now, after vainly attempting to enjoy tho not tempting array spread be fore us, which some of our party found quite palatable, thore followod a succes sion of dishes, composed chiefly ot tlsli in various forms, first raw, then cooked. Almost everything was served in tho Japanese bowl with a covor, and on this occasion they were all of exquisito porce lain. Wo took off one of these covers to find a preparation of eels in a custard- like sauce. Tho raw oysters, sorved with a large swoot Japanese lomou, were not unpalatable. Thore was a kind of moat, put up in small round balls, so as to bo easily managed by the chopsticks, and that tasted rather like duck. The fruits were oranges ami dried persimmons, the latter not unlike figs, and the repast ended as it had begun, with anothor bowl of soup. There was no removal of r the dishes, so before tho meal was over Wo found ourselves quite hedged in by a quantity of little bowls, with their hnlf- tasted contents, for much liberality was shown in the serving. Besides each for eigner was a plate on which was a slica of roast beef, bread, sandwiches, and salad, with a comfortablo looking knife and fork. Tho drink— servod most gen erously— was saki, tho liquor of tho country, served hot, nnd we think our respective neighbors must have drank fifty each of the little cups. It is not polite to drink out of large glasses or cups. Claret and champagne wore also given to tho guests. During tho dinner thore were five in tervals, during which a number of fa mous dancing girls, or “gishas," danced for us. They wore dressed in most elaborate “kimonos,” and their move ments were graceful, but not In tho least like dancing In our senso of tho word. Tho motions of their feet wore wonder ful. Wo sat down at. 0;30, nnd at, 8:30 tho last, course was served, and each guost, was completely hemmed In by plates. And now for an hour the cere mony of drinking sakl was performed. There was no coffee nnd no smoking. The Count Enomotto left his place, pros trated himself belorc our Admiral, reached his linud for the Admiral's naki cup, which was handed to him with a low obeisance, and receiving which he touched it to his forehead, nnd then gnvc it to the attendant to fill, Then it was drained, dipped In a howl of water, and returned to its owner, who went, through tho same elaborate ceremony nnd waited for the next visitor, when the scene was repeated. l’rinccs and potoniates prostrate thoresolvcs before you, but before evory member of the party has visited you, tho saki and tho low bowing which accompanies it be come uot a little tiresome. ■ Sakis is like a light sherry, nnd la jdistilled from rice, but Is more potent [than it scorns. Toasts were proposed to •Japan by our Admiral, and were re sponded to by toasts to America. Tho Japnnoso ladies rose to a toast to them, and tho American ladies responded by .rising in their turn. Throo cheora were given for Japan and the United Sta*ci ]nnd their friendly relations, and the sig nal wna made for our departure in the midst of good natured cheer and great [good will, and we made our adieux with '.regret-. How the Drum-Fieh Drumi. At a mooting of the Borlin Physiolo gical Society Professor Moebius described a most peculiar specimen of the flimsy tribe—the drum fish. They are found only in tho waters of tho Harbor of Mauri tius, nnd when caught and held in the hand they emit a most “striking" noise —a sound resembling that produced by tappiug the heed of a tenor drum. A careful examination of this strange crea ture fails to reveal any movement of the mouth, the only motion observable being just behind the gill slit, where a continu ous vibration of tho skin may be seen. Tho portion of the skin which vibrates stretches from tho clavicle to 'the bron chial arch. This is ! provided with four largo bony plates and lies just over tho air or “swim bladder.” Behind tho clavicle is a curiously shaped long bone, which is attached by the middle of the olavic muscle in such a manner ns to form lever with two arms. Tho long arm of this horny lever is embedded in the ventral trunk muscles, and .is capable of easy movement to nnd fro. The short arm slides, during this movement, over the rough innor side of tho clavicle, which gives rise to a cracking noise which can ho plainly heard at a distance of twenty foot. Naturalists are of theopln ion that tho grating noise is intensified by tho near proximity of the air bladder, tho latter acting as a resonator. Be this as it may, the “drum-fish” is a natural curiosity of the most curious kind. Especially doos this striko home when wo consider the maxim of the older naturalists; “All fishes are mute.”—St. Louis Republic. A Famous Powder-Horn. O. 1). Ruse, a resident of Lincoln Heights, is tho possessor of an ancient and interesting relic that has a most remarkable history. It is no loss than a powder-horn 134 years old. The horn is yellow with age, and contains tho fol lowing inscription; “Daniel Brooks, his horn, made at Lake George, October the 9th, 1758.” Although male from a common stem’s horn, this interesting relic lias boon tho property of General George Washington, Goneral Wolfe, tho hero of Quebec, and Old Hickory Jack- sou. Mr. Rose has a piece of old parch ment which contains a history of tho horn. The paper statos that tho horn was taken from tho dead body of General Wolfe at the battle of Quebec by Goneral Murray. In 1763 it bceamo the property of Major Gladwin, and in 1776 it fell into tho bauds of Governor Sir Henry Moore, of New York. Governor Moore gave it to the famous General Warren, the hero of Bunker Ilill. After tho great battle when General Warren was killed, Private W. M. 8 nith took possession of tho horn and afterward gave It to Gen eral George Washington., who carried it through tho remainder of the Revo lutionary War and kopt it until Ills death. After tho death of the father of his country, the horn becamo the prop erty of Lieutenant Richmond Somers, who carried it through the war with Tripoli. The horn was afterward given t> General Jackson, who carried It through the War of 1812. Oa June 12, 1818, it became the property of W. M. II. Rose, who, in turn, gave it to H. V. Ruse, August 19, 1831. The latter gave it to his son, O. D. Rose, tho ptosont owner, July 1, x-?60. At the battlo of Bunker Hill the bottom was shot out and was replaced by a piece of brass.—■ Nebraska State Journal. 0URI0U8 FACTS. The lobster moults, drawing off hi) claws as men do boots. Cromwell is the ideal, the true lion hearted hero of England. Ton men can be arranged to march in single file 3,628,000 ways. The inhabitants ot the Cook Penin sula, in Australia, are passionate smok ers. All tho trees of the tropics except those imported from older climes are evergreens. One of the pupils in a country school at Grayson, Ky., has attained the rip* age of forty-four years. He also holds the position of Justice of the Peace. Alter the recent heavy snowstorm in ,thc mountain districts of Northwestern Donegal, Ireland, sheep wore rescued who had been burio 1 under heavy drifts for sixteen days. An Illinois mau traveled over 1000 miles recently to recover an old fnraily horse thnt had been stolen from him two years ago. He recovered the animal filially in Georgia. The new clock being made for St. Paul’s Cathedral In London, England, will hnvo a face thirty feet in diameter. Tho hammer which strikes the bell weighs 680 pounds. Professor A. C Reese, of Carrollton, ,(4a., has been teaching school for lifty- six years. He says ho has taught nearly 5000 pupils and never has had but two to die in school time. A turtle farm flourishes at Lisbon, 111. One of the turtles is quite intelli gent, and is known as Dick. It in' amusing to see him, when summoned to his food, crawl towards his owner on hearing his name called* , In Sweden special gymnasiums are con structed for the treatment of tho sick- In these passive motion is first given by attendants with the use of medical appli ances. Later, the pntient begins to ex ercise himsojf with assistance. , Chicago skaters are to have a skating rink with real ice to glide over, all the year round. The ice is to be made arti- cially, and the surface renewed every [night. The temperature of the roajn will be abogjt forty decrees, winter arfdj, summer.*, . yg David Linsay, the explorer, while it? .an Australian desert awhile ago found 1 that tho inhabitants got their water sup- , ply by draioing the roots of the mallee [tree, which yield quantities of water, supposed to be absorbod from the air by the leaves and twigs of that tree. 1 Tho Netherlands, or low countries in .the west of Europe, formerly comprised 'Belgium as well as the present Kingdom 1 ,of Holland. In 1830 the severance of 'the Belgian provinces from Holland oc curred, and since that time the name 'Netherlands has been politically rt- ’strictod to Holland, At one time the number of swans in England must have been enormous. | 'Paulus Jovius, writing three nnd a half I centuries ago, declared that he never |nnw a river so thickly covered with swans ns the Thames; and in 1625, when John Taylor, the water poet, rowed from London to Christchurch, and then went up the Avon to Salisbury, he was amazed at the swarm of birds ou that stream. American Band Instruments. The manufacture of lirasi wind-instru ments In Amorica was begun about 1835, but the few bands then in the country constituted the market to he reliod upon. American bands, and the spread of the cornet and other brass instruments among private parties which increased after the ;war period, helped to maintain a few smell manufactories dovoted to the icheaper variety, until about the great ■Centennial Exhibition yoar, when Henry .Distin, son of John Distill, removed |from England and began to manufacture ■tho justly celebrated “Distin” instr'i- im nts in the United States. The Distins •had been previously in business in Lon- 'don for a great many yoars, and had won a leading place in that sphere. Henry Distin’s arrival here practically estab lished that industry in this country. A notable sign of the progress going forward in this art and industral chan nel is the town of Elkhart, Indiana, the mainstay of which is a manufactory founded by C. G. Conn, devoted to mil tary band instruments of a high order, which are fast winning a leading place. Mr. Conn established himself in business in 1883 upon an enlarged scale after ba ling burned out; hs had been only a few years'in the field at the time. The Dis tin factory is situated in Williamsport, Penn. Several other smaller makers of tho cheaper class of musical instruments are scattered throughout the country.— Popular Science Monthly. Says the Washington Star: The Cherokee Indians are thrifty and sound, physically and morally. Thoy are among the few prepossessing specimens cf the genuine, authentic American citizens that are to be found.

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The Cleveland progress. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1892-1896, May 20, 1892, Image 1