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Cleveland Progress
By W. B. WOOD W BD.
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORG!A
TERMS:—One Dollar Per Year.
VOL. I.
CLEVELAND. WHITE COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1892.
NUMBER 25
Clmlal 111 Estate in.
We have rn our list valuable Minetal, Timber and Farming land*, for Sale or Ex
change.
If You Want To Buy, Sell or Exchange
Property of the above dev.ription, communicate with us. Title papers examin
ed and reported upon.
Abstracts Furnished Free to Actual Purchasers.
We are r »ntin!1y located in the richest Mineral section in G'orgta.
(jolB; JrBn.
In Abundance Delightful Climate, Peculiar to tbs Noted
Piedmont Section.
Finest Tobacco Lands in the South.
Pf^'Corrcspnndence Solicited.
F. B. SUTTON, Manager,
A, H. HENDERSON,
Dealer in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
My line of general merchandise cann<-t be excelled in Cleveland, wherebv I caa
give you good goods an 1 at th" very lowest prices.
Dry Goods ! Dry Goods !
In the line of dry goods, tonsisling o( Ml kinds of nice prints, gingham, flannel
etc., etc., I will not he undersold.
S H °ES & H A I S -
When you want anything in shoes or hats it will be to your advantage to tiade
with me. In tlr-sn goods I have a complete stock.
GROCERIES!
GROCERIES!
I have plenty of groceries. Meal, augur, flour and coffee a specialty. Come and
aee me and I will quote you prices that will surprise you
^ I also handle a full line of Patent Medicines,
which 1 will Sell at the very lowest price.
Cleveland Hotel.
In connection with my general mercantile business I run a first-class hotel
the year round, with the table supplied with the beet the mgyket affords. It is
situated on the south side of the Blue Itidge mountain., whtre the ^ir is pure and
the water good—a splendid Mineral Spring njar 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 theTetA. WilUfliSJflMUte Seles for
reeionable Commissions
ALL ZPOiOIPEIlFUrXES
Eatmsted to u* for sale wiU re eive a liberal advertisement.
FOREVER.
Boftly the waves creep up the shore*
Idly the seagulls dip And soar,
The sunset light grows d!m.
“What care tve if it fade or shine"
Come to a realm all mine and thine/'
So must I follow him.
Side by side as the years go by,
Under a bright or a cloudy sky
Close to his heart alway,
Ever as sunlit hills grow brown.
Still, as the golden sun goes down
Out of the dying day.
Feet, that fell on your weary way.
Pass! I follow through night and day
To one blank mystery grown;
Clouds liaug low and the stars are dim,
Into the dark T follow him,
Into the far unknown
—Mary R, Corley, in Boston Transcript.
MONTIE HOLLISTER,
Havinsr Real Estate For Sale Will Do
A Well By Calling On or Writing Us.
HENDERSON & UNDERWOOD.
i l " " 4t>X. M-iO*.ser.
i \y. If T "NO El! WOOD, AU’y St \ lif I••ijc-*->r
I. MILLARD.
OR a fact, jou bever
saw a fresher, cleaner
cowboy tbau Montie
Hollister. Monlie was
from Maine, where
they make the boys
wash the dishes aud
knit the socks if there
happen to be no girls
sent into the family.
He had no sisters anil so lie was pul through
the housework, which troubled him not
at all. He rather liked it, in fact. Ho
brought some of his dishwashing notions
with him to the range and many other
tenderfoot, ideas. Among these latter
was the horror of seeing anybody killed.
He was so neat with his kit, washed
and shaved so much, and woro sur.h
fleckless jumpers and Blurts that the boys
sometimes called him Girly Hollister.
We were a bad lot at Lucin's. Home
body was always getting killed and.
buried. Wheu Pete Orr got three of Bill
Somers’s bullets lu him and died before
the clock in old Ashby's groggery could
give, a dozen ticks, it made some of the
boyB laugh to see how ridl< ulously the
man squirmed on the floor and with what
a flop his head fell back against the pieee
of line by the little stove. But Montie
did not laugh. He just turned away his
head and went out and looked over the
sagebrush in a very Rolemn way. 1 fol
lowed and saw him bend over and wipe
his eyes with his white handkerchief.
It affected me more to see him that way
than it did to sec Peet’s mouth open
when his head fell back. But a cowboy
with a clean, white linen handkerchief—
just think of thatl Pete wasn't anything
to Montie—not even a half-way sort of a
friend. The fact wax he hail led the
.laugli on him many a time when the boy
had done something to show his girlish*
ness. But Montie couldn't help weep
ing when he died.
Now, you are mistaken about the boy
[if you thiuk there wasn't any sand in
him. You ought to have seen him ride
that bucket up at Mesilla Springs. The
beast had never had a saddle touch his
Ihide before, and he threw off every one
(of the six men who tried to ride him.
You know there is the back of a regular
bronco that comes up like the thing the
jPhilietines or some other fellows used to
[throw big stones with when they besieged
the high walls of .Jerusalem. But this
[bronco had a double spring. Just when
[you thought you were comiDg down all
■right into the saddle after the first spring
[he met you half way with the other, and
that laid you out cold. But he didn’t
'throw Montie. That boy kept oil as (irm
*as the ssddlehorn and rode the beast six
'times arouud the corral and up to the
ranch bouse. The boss said he was
a nailer, but the buckcr had spattered
Montie's chaparejos with mud, and so he
[wasn t happy. The boys need to say
(that Girly Hollister combed out his chapa-
rejos every night before he got into his
[blanket, which may or may not have
I been true.
Now about that affair of the Mormon
girl. You couldn’t get me to tell the
[story for a whole band of long horns if
it wasn't for two things. It has gone
ia out that Montie turned Mormon him
seif and went through the Endowment
(Hoire. But it isn't so. They’ve got
the wrong brand on him. I want to
take the twists out of that story; also to
tell about that affair of Big Dorkin. The
credit for that business has been given to
the wrong man long enough.
You see the girl was the daughter of a
[man who had been a Bishop and had a
front seat in the Tabernacle, but he moved
away from Salt Lake and died. She be
longed, to the tenth wife, I think—or
was it the eleventh? Anyway it was a
long way from the first. The Bishop
had all kinds of sons and daughters—
red-beaded, black-headed, white-headed
and brown. She was one of the dark
ones, and if there was a prettier among
[the whole twenty-three girls I never saw
her. Most of them were as ugly as sin.
Her mother, a quiet little woman from
Louisiana, had settled in a valley by her
self, about ten miles from Lucin'9. She
h8d quite a ranch that the old man had
'left her and about three hundred head,
lifers was the XU brand, with a saw
tooth slit in the left ear. She had
Chinamen at work ou the rAfinlj—fi
strange thing foi a Mormon. But there
was s white man in charge of things for
her, He was the hulkingest, big Mor
mon that ever I saw. Not bad looking
was Ephraim Dorkin. Splendid shoul
ders. big heavy neck (.a, head like Goliah
and hoofs on him ljjfc any Missourian.
He was proud, and he wore twelves
when he should bfttre worn fourteen!,
and the boys used to say that his boots
were full of feet. Yes, he was proud,
aud he had reason 4o.be when you put
hmru^ugsWe of the" rest of the male
MotnwjJ^hereAbnilU They were ugly
Y m could see at once tjiat, Big Dorkin
though lie owned Jess .Beamster, .less
did not wear the poke bonnets of the
rest of tbs women of Motmoudom, nor
(hat ugly gown that you see oil them that
bangs straight down on three sides, is
short in front and trails hi a pointed
pennant behind. No, she harnessed as
she pleased, and she always looked trim
and interested you. Her mother didn’t
care, lu fact, she leaned a bit toward
the reformed Latter-Day Sands and the
revised Book of Mormon, and she didn t
believe that the Lord would strike her
daughter dead If she came out looking
rather smart uow and then.
When Montie first saw that girl she
had on n pink soiuethingand a little flat,
red hat with beads on it and a dotted
veil that came down to her lips. The
combination struck him right between
the eyes. He was more babyish than
evei after that, aud when Hhort.y Spence
laid out Frank Van Zilc, lie wet his hand
kerchief so dial you could have wrung
out enough tears from it to have watered
s sheep.
I remonstrated with Montie.
"You can't go in for Mormons,
greeny,'' said I, in my off hand way.
"Why don't you marry a greaser girl,
and bo done with it? She’d make it
lively for you the greaser would—but
she wouldn't he bothering about ‘the or
dinances,’ ‘the Paraclete,’ 'the imposition
of hands,’ 'the endowments' and the
seven bulls of Bashan.”
"I ain’t goin’ to let her do anything of
that sorl if I mar. v her," said Montie,
with his Maine twang
"Yes, you will. And 'Jae tribe will
curse you for a Gentile and all the peo
pie will say 'amen.' You can't get
around it, You’ll have to enter Into
Zion yourself and become a saint with
the rest of them, if you do this unholy
thing.”
Montie reflect* 1 while he drove a steer
info the corral. But what did the sap-
headed young bull-puncher do but go
over to Beamsler's place that very night.
Now, I knew Big Dorkin wouldn’t
stand much of that sort of thing, and 1
wns glad when Montie told me next day
that he had had a big row with the large
man, and that lie had been ordered off
the ranch.
"The coyotes will be eating you in
about a week, Girly," I said, "unless
you k:ep away from there. Dorkia is a
dead shot."
Montie whipped out his six-shooter
and, without gtaucing at the sight,
plumped a nailhead in the door of the
flugout fifty feet away. It was the only
nailhead you could see from where we
stood, aud it was a rattling good shot.
"1 kin shoot, too," he said, vory
quietly.
The baby wes gettiag its teeth.
I don’t know how lie got on with Jess
after that, but he seemed to be light
hearted enough, and I take it that she
liked his down East ways, hii twang and
his fresh, dean look, for he got her pic
ture and sent to Eureka for a brooch.
I wondered wheu Dorkin would trill
him. The time would not he far away.
I felt sure. The big fellow came up to
Lucin’s every Saturday night, and I no
ticed he looked sourer and sourer each
time. All of us made sure there would
be a dead Maine man in camp before
long, and we were sorry that it wrs go
ing to be Montie, for he wassucli a quiet
little fellow, and so dean.
The shooting took place just before
dusk in the second week of August.
Montie had been down to the Beamsters’
and was coming hack to camp. I was
loitering along the trail waiting for him
to come up. Ho was about half a mile
away from me when I first, saw him com
ing along in the queer little hop-trot
that his buckskin had. When 1 looked
over there the second time l saw some
one on horseback swooping down ou
Montie from behind. The hoy didn't
notice the newcomer at first, but ho
turned his head wheu ho hoard the clat
ter of the hoofs ou the ground, and when
he turned I.saw he had his six-shooter
in his hand. So tire fellow co ning on
was Big Dorkin, of course, and I was
goiug to see some fire fly. Mind you
now, it was their own tight, Why
should I have taken ahaud in it? A two
to-one combination is a low-down thing
for a man to go into, even though you
do feel like helping out a friend. So 1
kept out of range and the groasewood
sort of hid me, but they didn't notice me
anyway any more than as if I’d lieen a
jack rabbit or a coyote.
jt was the prettiest shooting I ever raw
for the distance. Thsy didn’t get close
together. You see Dorkin thought that
would be an advantage to him, but he
didn't know how much practicing Montie
had done at longe range. Every shot
fired hit something. One took Montie
In the left arm. I knew that, for I saw
the arm fall, limp-like, when Dorkin
pulled, and then there wore two shots
almost together. 1 think Montie’s
punched a hole in Dorkin’s neck, and I
know that tho other struck the boy’s
mustang, for he gave an awful plunge.
Well, they had it bask and forth; Moufie,
like a fool, tiring fast, while Dorkin took
It slow. But the big fellow seemed to
be getting lightheaded, for he reeled and
nodded in his saddle and there wa- blood
running from his head and from ills hand.
But Montie was pretty well pinked. 1
could see that, though he sal up steadily
enough.
Eleven shots fired aud Dorkin had the
twelfth
Montie cou'dn'I. slip in another cart
ridge very easily because his left hand
was no good, and so In- sat there and
waited for that last, shot.
Dorkin didn't seem to he in any hurry
to file it. He had it all his own way
now. He tooled and bowed a minute
and then he steadied up an 1 walked his
horse toward Montie with a grin that
spread all over his big face. It wasu't
the kind of grin thnl makes a man sleep
well after lie lias seen it—a ghastly,
nasty grin.
I wanted to yell to Montie to give his
mustang the pin wheel, but. somehow I
louldnt’ do it. Maybe his cloan, sloady,
nerve, as tie sat there waiting for Dorkin
rime up, took my breath nivav. 1
know this, that it made my face tingle
I my fingers to clench to see him
thore.
Was that big brute never golnj> to
stop? It lookc I a= though lie were go
ing to ride the boy down. It was time
that 1 look a hand. Way hadn’t I done
it as soon as the boy’s last shot was
one?
1 jabbed the spurs into Nance and she
gayo a bound forward, putting me al
most in range, but in that second Dor
kin raised his pistol witii an aim that,
was as firm as an iron tail and gave an
other ghastly grin. He was within fen
feet of the boy, who sat there with a
smile on his face. Just as 1 was oxped
ing t» hear the pop and see the Hash
down fell Dorkin’s right, hand. Hie left,
clutched his side, his head flopped dowi
over his horse's neck and tho ball from
his pistol nearly took the shoe off from
Montie's buckskin.
One of Mont.ie’s bullets had done its
work, just on the scratch, as you might
say.
Montie and I shook hands without a
word. No, he didn’t cry that time. 1
|saw he needed a doctor, bill there wax
something else to be done just then,
i “Do you really want to marry that
Beamsler girl?" I asked. The young
saphead grinned as he said, "Yes."
"Well, you’ll never do it in the world
till this thing's fixed up all right.”
I pointed to Dorkin’s well peifornled
body.
"What do you menn?"
"Can’t you see? She won’t dream of
having you if she knew that you plunked
the life out of that. man. He’s linen
something to her some time, if lie isn’t
now. And then, remember, he was a
Mormon.”
“It does look ugly,sure,” said Montie,
"Of course it does. What’s to be
done? Let me think. Why, 1 killed
him.”
"You?”
"Yes.” And before he could say
another word I had peeled off my jumper
and put a bullet, through one sleeve and
another through the loose part of tile
back. Then I fired another through the
top of my bat.
Mottle looked on in a dated sort of
way.
"You see, it was about that old TQ
brand quart el of ours. You remember
that trouble, Dorkin and 1 had last yeai f
Well, that was it.”
"But how about me?" He glance 1 at
his arm as lie spoke.
"You—why you've got to go to Eu
reka in China Jim’s wagon on til-: den I
quiet. When you come back in three
weeks from now you've had a fight with
a man who tried to hold you up, or
something.”
Montio's eyes were moist with grati
tude, but I hastenei him away to the
lone cabin of China Jim, whom wo
bought, body and soul, for two gold
twenties.
After that when I walked into old !
Ashby’s groggery the boys showed me ■
the utmost respect.
“That’s tlie fellow who laid out big |
Dorkin,” they would say to a stranger in j
low toms as I passed along. "He's a
bad mail.”
And to save my life I couldn't help
swaggering a little as I wore the giant a
robe.
No; I wasn’t at the wedding. To tell
the truth, nobody was invited. Tne
Beamsters kept it still for fear the ehicr.i
would make ft Juw about Jim marrying
a Gentile. They were welded by that
Baptist preacher over from Tewks’, which
was the more reason for keeping it quiet.
—Ban Francisco Examiner.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
We live at a distance of only twenty
trillion miles from the nearest so-called
"fixed” stars.
A street letter box charged with elec-
tricily from crossed wires gave a severe
shork fo a Pittsburg (Penn.) letter car
rier recently.
Africa is the moBt remarkable of all
the countries as respects its animal dis
tribution. Out of a total of 523 known
species, 47? of them are to be found in
no other country.
It is now generally held by electricians
that the principle of the aurora borealis
is the same a« that shown by the Getssler
tube, in which electricity is discharged
through rarifled air.
, In a discussion lately carried on as to
the distance at which large objects on
the earth’s surface are visible, it was
stilted that the Himalaya Mountains have
appeared fo view from the great, distance
of 224 miles.
A new method of quickly rendering
glass transparent during the process of
manufacture cousists in forciug into the
melted materials a stroRin of oxygen gas,
the enot moils heat generated oxidizing
all deleterious materials.
A new form of saddlo is being served
out to the gnrda du corps experimentally
by ordor of the German Emperor. There
has been Home falk ill military circles
lately of a new saddle, all the metal
parts of which are made of aluminium.
At a meeting of tho Royal Society of
Berlin, Germany, Dr. A. Bruce called
attention to a curious case of cyclopia, or
single eye, which had come under his
uoficc. There was hut a single socket
for the eye, that exactly in the centre at
the base of the forehead.
A powerful lamp, which distinctly
Illuminates objects over ahalf a mile dis
tant, by means of a great reflector, is to
be adopted in the French Army. It is
carried on a light wagon behind the
soldiers, and they will urfTft obscurity,
while the enemy and all objects in front
will bo made conspicuous.
The flora of Europe ombracos about
10,000 speries. India has upward of
15,000. Natal and Cape Colony region
have 15,000 species, the largest number
known on auy spot of equal size in the
world. In the whole of the British pos
sessions, which are as large as all Europe,
there are less than 5000 species.
Atrophy, or muse’e wasting, is a pro
cess or morbid diminution of the wholg
body, or part of it, caused by this
early decline. Its process is slow but
decided—fibre by fibre, bundle by
bundle, and then muscle by muscle—and
as this atrophy goes on, fatty degenera
tion ft. complete, and electro-muscular
contractability is gone.
According to Professor Mer starch is
very abundant, through the bark and
woody structure of trees about the fall of
tho leaf. It is gradually reduced in
quantity until the buds begin to swell in
spring, when it is rapidly formed again.
By the end of April in France there was
as much as in tho previous September.
These results, from apparently very care
fully conducted experiments, completely
reverses what has hitherto been regarded
as the "solid truths of science.”
Papular Working Men's CJuh,
A "Tes Te-Tum" Is a now name fof
an old Idea In London. It is simply a
laboring man’s club house, tho name
having no significance whatever, aud be
ing only chosen because it, is striking
and likely to attract attention There
are now eight tee to tums in London,
and they all pay a handsome dividend
on tho investment. The ground floor of
a tee-to-tum is a restaurant, and is as
brilliant and attractive as a continental
cafe. Tea, coffee, cocoa, soups of all
kinds, meats, vegetables, puddings aud
cakes are served at all hours at bottom
prices. Aloug one side of the room, is
a counter where ten is Bold in packages,
and some weeks the sales aggregate
7000 pounds. Upstairs are the rooms
for the club, a very popular feature.
The Shoreditch tee-to-tum, for instance,
has a club membership of SOO. There
are smoking rooms, reading rooms, chess
rooms, class rooms for students, bath
rooms, and a private dining room for
members of the club only. There is also
a hall capable of seating 500 or BOO
persons, whore entertainments, lecture",
etc., are held. The clubs are somewhat
sensationally advertised, as will be seen
from the following advertisement of the
Whitechapel Club.
TEE-TO-TUM
PBOPLE’B REFRESHMENT ROOMS
AND RECREATION CLUB.
The Working Man's Want and the Wife's
Wonder.
Easa, Elegance, Economy.
Breakfast at the Tee-To-Tum from 5 a. m,
Dine at the Tee-ToTum from 13-2.
Tea aud supper at the Tee To-Tum.
Visit the Tee-To Tum.
Takeyour wife to the Tee-To I'u-il. 1
Popular prloss at the-Tee-To Turn,
Comfort at the Tee-To-Turn.
The idea underlying the tee to tum fa
by no means s novelty in this city. Such
institutions as St. George’s Memorial
House, and St. Bartholomew's Parish
House are already doing a magnificent
'work in the same lines. But the idea is
capable of still further extension, alto
gather apart from the churches. There
is every reason to believe that the work
ing men's club like the tee to tunis, es
tahlishod ,on "a. purely secular basis,
would be not t only popular, but would
'pay their own way. The name given to
the Loudon clubs might be considered
too fantastic by American working men,
jbut some name equally striking coiilj
easily be found.—New York Tribune.
Cultivating Ceoea Trees.
Cocoa trees are cultivated generally
throughout the West Indies, Central
America and Northern South America.
The trees are planted about ton feet
apart. It takes them about eight years
to reach full productive age, and they
remain productive from thirty to forty
years thereafter. When young the trees
are delicate. It is customary to plant
plainlains between tho rows of cocoa
trees to attract the insects that would
otherwise injure the latter. As they
grow < filer the cocoa trees become very
hardy. Tho cocoa beans, from which
chocolato is manufactured, come in
pods, about forty to the pod. There are
two crops a year, and a tree in good con
dition will bear perhaps three pounds of
beans per crop.—New York Sun.
Unsightly Streams Made Fish-ponds.
Brooks or small streams left in their
wild state are often ills,agreeable ob jects,
but given a little attention,cleaning out,
deepening, planting the borders witii
suitable shrubs, making dams occasion
ally over which the water may tumble,
with now and then n fishpond or some
thing of that kind, would render them
attractive features.—Green’s Frtiil
Grower.
To prevent pie juice from running out
in the oven, nmkea little opening in the
upper crust and .nsert a little roll of
brown paper perpendicularly. The steam
will escape from it as from a chimney,
and all tne juice will be retained in the
Die.
The Future ef the Blue-Grass Region. '*
What, then, is to be the future of the
blue-grass region? When population in
the United States becomes much denser
aud the pressure is felt in every neigh
borhood, who will posess it? One seems
to see in certain tendencies of American
life the probable answer to this question.
The small farmer will be bought out,and
will disappear. The whole land will pass
[into the hands of the rj:h, being too
Iprecious for the poor to own. Already
here and thore one notes the disposition
to create vast domains by the slow swal
lowing up of contiguous small ones.
Consider, then, in this connection the
taste already showD by the rich Ameri
can in certain parts of the United States
to found a country place in the style of
an English lord. Consider, too, that, the
landscape is much like the loveliest of
rural England, that tho treos, the grass,
the sculpture of the scenery are such as
make the perfect beauty of a park; that
the fox, the bobwhitc,the thoroughbred,
and the deer are indigonous. Apparently,
therefore, one can foresee the yet distant,
time whoa this will become the region of
splendid homes and ostales that will
nourish a taste for outdoor sport3 and
offer an escape from the to.) woaiyiug
cities. On the other hand, a powerful
and ever-growing interest is that of th*
horse, xacer or trotter. Mo brings into
the State his increasing capital,his types
of men. Year after year he buys farms,
and lays out tracks, and builds Rtables,
and edits journals, and turns agriculture
into grazing. In time the blue-grass
region may become the Yorkshire of
America. —Centurv
A Wenderful Thing Is an Egg!
How many people who are fond of
eggs and eat thorn daily, ever stop to
think what a wonderful thing an eg g is,
It is one of the greatest wonders of na
ture. What part of egg is the animal!
The clear white part? No. The yolk!
No, that is merely food. Break a raw
egg, and beside the yolk nnd the white
what do you find? On the membrane
which covers, the yolk you will see a
little whitish circle. That is the animal.
When nature brings the young animat at
an early period into the outer air or
water, it provides it witii means to live
A young alligator, no larger than a tiny
lizard, takes to tho water the moment it
creeps out of the shell,and begins to de
vour what it can. ft uee is no protec
tion.—Now Orleans Picayune.
The largest German sailing vessel Is
four masted bark, built at Geestemunde
Site measures, 27dU tons net, and has a
cari j iug capacity of 4-120 tons.