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THE Cl .F.VET AND PROGRESS. By JOE II. REESi: DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL A HD EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. TERMS: 1.00 Per Year. VOL. V. CLEVELAND, WHITE CO., OA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1896. NO. 35. THE STATE OF GEORGIA. News Notes from the Empire State of the South. ImproT.ment*. SmlopDintt tad f ro,- r.n, It.ma About Tklip Transpiring In War Own SiMl Itnto, rrn> Kxchnngcs and otbor Source.. McRae claims a larger cotton acreage than for many years. Col. R. I.. Armstrong, projector of the Armstrong hotel of Rome, is still in a very critical condition with small hopes of recovery. From a robust man weigh ing upward of 200 pounds he has been reduced to a skeleton and would weigh less than 100 now. The Grand Army of ttie Republic build ing, located at Fitzgerald, is nearing com pletion. The company hne received an offer of $300 per month to rent the opera house alone, and there will be a Grand Army of the Republic hall, otlices and stores, besides the opera holt. Mr. David Michael one of Athens’ prominent citizens has passed away. He was in his 72nd year, and for nearly thirty-five years had been a resident of Athens. He leaves a wife and threo children—Simon Micheai and Moses G. Micheal, dry goods merchants, and Mrs. Myer Stern. Mrs. Sarah Walters died recently, at her home four miles from Amerlcus, from injuries received in n fall from the veranda. She ha1 lived more than eighty-three years. More than lifty years of her life were spent, in this country. She was the mother of sixteen children. T. G., 8. A., d. W., Thomas and (Joseph Walters, all well known citizens of this county, are her sons She leaves also several daughters, be sides many grand-children [and several great-grandchildren. Four mortgages have been Hied for record by the M. M. Mauck Company of Atlanta, for $11,226 02 on the stock of goods, fixtures and horso and wagon. Mr. Mays, tho president of ttie company, says that these mortgages cover the entire indebtedness and wpro given to satisfy the creditors, so that the appli cation for receiver could be dismissed. Mr. Mays and J. B. Stewart own all the stick of the company, and they say they will soon reorganize it. and do bus iness on a cash basis. Brunswick shipping masters are com plaining about ohs’ructions in the river and bay which make steamboat naviga tion costly. Tne obstructions are heads of piling and plank which builders of wharves along the waterway throw into the stream. Complaint has been made by Capt. Winn of the Hope Catlin, who states that so much damage has been done his side wheels by these obstruc tions that it has been necessary to al most rebuild tho wheels twice. In the daytime they can be avoided, but at night, masters of vessels cannot see them. In the case of Tom Edwards of Sum ner for a villainous crime, the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. The trial consumed two days. Attorneys Ferry and Forehand of this place and Judge Guerry of Dawson appeared for the de fense. Judge Pope and.Solicitor Warten of Albany appeared for the plaintiff. The court house and yard were tilled with at tentive hearers, most of whom remained until a verdict was reached, about 10 o’clock last night, when Edwards, with his relatives and friends, returned to his home at Sumner. Edwards showed no excitement, as he soys justice was all he wanted, and he felt sure that he was be ing tried before and intelligent jury that would give him justice. Some time ago the stockholders of the Chattahoochee Bank of Columbus, now defunct, were assessed 01 per cent of the par valne of their holdings, the object being to cancel all indebtedness of the institution not paid off by money raised from other sources. All of this assess ment was not asked for immediately, but the first payment, which is 11 percent, has been due several weeks. About half of the stockholders have paid this first assessment of 21, per cent. The other half have failed to respond to the call, pleading inability to do so. An other payment on the assessment is due in August. The bank was capitalized at $100,000. A most horrible tragedy has been brought to light in Madison county. David Berrimau, a prominent farmer and of considerable means, is the accused murderer. Berriman had a wife and four children, but drink led to his ruin. Last year he was separated from his wife and they lived apart for several months. Last Christmus, however, they agreed to live together again and all appeared o be going along smoothly until yester day. Berriman went to his home and with pistol in hand made his hense scene of blood. He shojt his wife, then shot each of his four childreu, and, after he had completed his deadly work, turned the pistol on himself and put a bullet through his brain. Every bullet went to its mark, and six dead bodies meas ured their length upon the floor of that country home. No immediate cause for the terrible deed is assigned. It is thought, however, that it was due to in- sauity caused by the excessive use of liquor. The record for quick dispatch in load ing vessels with railroad crosstios line been broken at Savannah. The schooner Arthur McArdlo arrivod here one day about noon, consigned to Dixon, Mitchell & Wells. T.oading was at once begun, and at noou Wednesday, or just forty- eight hours from the time she commenc ed loading, the vessel .was cleared for New York with 18,346 tics, measuring 066,500 superficial feet. Capt. Megee was a proud man as his vessel was be ing towed to sea. Just before sailing he remarked that his long, tedious trip down the coast, which took twenty- three days, was n black-eye to his fust sailing vessel, but tho unusual dispatch he had received and with the wind still from the south, he expected to be back in New York before some of the large fleet of vessels,now beating around Hatteras, arrivod in Savannah. In reference to the shooting of (!. L. Harris at Dale’s mills, he says ho was on friendly terms with hiB nephew, and was only passing tho place of John Har ris, and asked him to go with him to his buggy. He had some nice cider and wanted him to drink somo with him. In fact, about two weeks ago, the house keeper of 8. G. Harris went over to John Harris, and, as he didn’t care to have her at his place, asked her to leave his premises, and C. L. Harris asked John why he ran her off. Was he mad with him” Porhaps some one had given him some incorrect nows concerning him (('. L. Harris) '/ At this John said if it was trouble he was after he would give him all he wanted, and began shooting him. The first ball passed through his left arm, entering his chest near his heart. He (C L. Harris) fell to the ground and beggod John not to shoot him any more, that he was already killed, but John Harris fired three more shots, all taking eflect, and from tho way tho balls ranged shows that he was down and John Har ris was shooting at his bead. The state ment that C. L. Harris shot at him twice before John shot in untrue. Sev eral parties soarched C. L. Harris’ per son and all round where he was shot, and found no pistol. C. L. Harris gave his dying statement, under oath, that he had no pistol, a^ul had not carried one a day at any time in his life. Tho parties whereon good terms and had even been so up to theshootiug Dr. A, A. Morrison, a leading physi cian of the Sayannah hospital, is one of the applicants for a position as city physician, there being at present two of these positions to be filled by council at its next meeting. After completing his literary education Dr. Morrison was in the drug business for some years in Charleston, 8. C. Ho then entered the South Carolina Medical College, and after three years of hard study, grad uated with honors, in March, 1894. In April of the same year he was appointed house physician at the .Savannah hospi tal, which position he still holds. Since leaving college he has visited all of the important hospitals in the north and in Canada. In leaving tho Savannah Iiob- pital he feels that he is giving up a valuable position, but considers it in the line of promotion. It is his dosire to get out into private practice. James M. Smith of Smithsonia, who is the most extensive farmer in the state, has one of the largest of the state convicts and works camp No. 3 on his farm. He claims to be losing money on them, estimating the expense per an num for each convict at $175 a year. He does not want to renew his lease, and thinks that the other lessees will be of the same mind, and the state will have to adopt some new system for its pen itentiary. They will in the future, he says, cost Georgia $150,000 a year, and this item of expense, he thinks, will surpise the people. Harry Hill, sent up for forgery, Is at work for him, and Mr. Smith says he makes a model prisoner. Hill is learning to be a fine woodwork- man and blacksmith and when he gets out of the pen will be master of a useful and well paid trade. He was transferred from Gress camp at Bramer to Mr. Smith’s farm, and has worked so faith fully and behaved so well that Mr. Smith thinks be deserves a pardon. His sentence will be out in eighteen months. The Difference. “Now,” said the Sunday-school teacher who had given the hoys a treat, and wished also to point a moral,“would these strawberries have taBted oh well if you had stolen them out of my garden?” “No sir,” said one demure lad serenely, “we shouldn’t ha’ had cream and sugar on them,” THE HOUSEHOLD. For Our Housekeepers and Lady Readers. Hatter. Pertaining to the Home—Help, and Hint, for Hounewlvei and Others. From Kitchen to Parlor. It is an easy matter to keep our surround ings clean when we havo plenty of water at our command but in many cases we fail to give the poorer classes of people any credit whatever for their attempts toward cleauli- nesa. As long as our lank is full of water and we can step to the corner of ttie porch or to ttie sink in the kitchen and draw pail after pail of water we take It as a thankless ottering anil proceed withourwork of scour ing and cleaning without nr.y further un easiness. »** On the other hand—if wo step to tiie fau cet. (urn it—and a sizzling noise greets us, involuntarily n grunt of utter dissatiBfnelion is ejected and we pick up our pail and trot offto the well, thinking perhaps, for the first time, ot our poor, unfortunate neigh bor who tins to carry all her water. • • It is very often a lack of such conven iences as a tank, amt pipes leading to the house to carry our water to us, that bring about a certain amount, of indolence among women. So long as water is at close range it is on easy matter to appropriate it but loud are the praises for the woman who under trying circumstances faces the Inevit able and keeps tier premises in perfect order without a tank and its accessories. She it is who rises tip ami blesses those ahout her. «** In our state wtiere water can he had with little trouble it seems that the owners of houses should make it a point to attend to such conveniences for the home maker. It will add greatly to the inmates of (lie home. Do not neglect haying a bathroom when you are making these additions to the home. They are lasting benefits. «** “What ia the remedy for discontented ness?" asks a young married friend. One ollered tier was “to become a part of her life’s work and do not dwell too muoh In ideals." Exercise patience— t mother should be patience personified—tu its high est degree. Ttdnk yours is God-sent ami send It God-ward. Do not keep groceries in the naper hags in which they arc sent from (lie store. Have a neat wooden box or Jar for each article, witli a strong cover. Much strength will he lost if groceries are kept carelessly, besides making very untidy shelves when the bags break and tear, causing the contents to spill and waste. To Wash Chamois Skins, In washing chamois Bkins (or any gar ment made of that material), make a warm suds of mild soap, or simply pill a little am monia in the water They must not lie wrung out like other clothes, but pin them on a piece ot cloth and hang them before (lie tire, rubbing Hie articles every few min utes witli the hands to prevent stiffening. Rub them as much in shape as possible.— Exchange. Home Making, Considerable thought is being brought to bear on Hits ttie most important feature In the life of two persons who take upon them selves the undertaking of homemaking, as man and wife. Do we not see wrecks, daily, of fruitless attempts? Surely it is nn op portune moment to devote some careful thought to this subject. Good Housekeep ing says: To ttie true man or womun there can he nothing more agreeable on earth than the. business of home-making. Whoever makes a home In the best sense of the word , is a real benefactor to the race; for every true home is the abode of joy, peace, happiness ami security to those that share in it, and exerts an influence that is incalculable for the amelioration of the whole human family. Many a prodigal bps been lyd by the thought of home, and the makers of his own particular home, «p»nt of bis sins and to change his course of life; and many an unfortunate one has been saved in the evil hour from suicide, or worse, by the tender recollections of home, a fond mother’s prayers, an Indulgent tattler’s counsels, or a sister’s or a brother’s tenderness. Yes, whoever helps to make a true home confers a benefit on mankind tnat no man can fully estimate. Indeed, the influence of the true home for good is absolutely in calculable, and reaches many even ttiat never enter its inner circle. Simply to get a glimpse of it is to receive an impulse toward better things, to obtain a more exalted view of life, and to feel an access of faitti in God and the immortality of the human soul. It is like a vision of the glories of the New Jerusalem and the everlasting habitations, and no one can be'"Wholly had who lias seen such things. In most cases a man or Woman is what his or her home influences have made him or her, and the homeless child Is always at a disadvantage as compared with one wtio has a good home. We too often are blind to this fact in our lives. The homeless child is indeed to be pitied, being deprived of so much of life's sweetness and brightness, and knowing nothing by actual experience of a mother’s gentle sympathy and a fatliei’s loving care, or ot the innocent pleasures which kind parents know how to provide tn the homo circle, and which, far beyond anything elsr, make childhood the happiest period of life. Ttie individual who starts out in life Irom a well-ordered home is quite sure to prove a useful member of society, for pleasant home associations inspire that confidence in a person which insures hint success in any honorable undertaking. There are many ihlnga to he considered In genuine home-making, lint the great essential, Hint without which everything else amounts to nothing, is unselfish allec- tlou in the home-makers. Selfishness and unklndness are the chief home-destroyers, and must lie sleeplessly guarded against by those who wisli to make and keep happy homes; for where either holds sway, true home life is an Impossibility. Rove and kindness constitute the tie that joins the members of tho home circle in a joyous ami harmonious union of souls, and these all true home-makers will diligently cultivate. It is warm-heartedness, first, last and all tlie time, that the successful home-maker needs. Among ttie material requisites to home- making lire an attractive ahidiDg place and proper environment, which latter must include good air and light. Of course, there are many minor points of dillerence between a city home and a country home, while in all the more important particulars all true homes are alike. City homes, as a rule, do notMn c tier as good opportunities as those the country for exterior or lawn decoration. That, however, is ot no consequence, as the rule applies to all homes , regardless of loca tion, that they should he made as beautiful ns circumstances will permit, after all reas onable considerations of light and air tiave been met. A beautiful home is a never- failing source of satisfaction both to the indwellcr and the wayfarer that may pnss by. People of means and good taste may make their homes perfect dreams of beauty, but they cannot well make them too beauti ful , as long ns Hie comfort and happiness of the inmates are’ sought and promoted. Surely money cannot he expended to better purpose than in making and adorning a home (or one’s self nnd loved ones and fur nishing it witli all that is best calculated to foster in the inhabitants thereof u love of home, as well ns a love of the true, the beautiful and the good; and even poor people will best, secure their own happiness by toiling and saving to ocqnire and embel lish .homes for themselves. There is a pleasure connected with home-making that is rare, rapturous and absorbing, and love of IiooRiIh as noble nnd ennobling a feeling as oafftsUr Hie human soul. We look lor good I nit;pi In a person in whom an ardent love of home has been developed, and hope for little from one who speaks Indifferently or slight ingly of his home. We do well for our children when we mako happy homes for them, which they wilt naturally learn to love. But, after all is said about rare tressures ot art and nature that may lend attraction to a home and its surroundings, it remains that Hie fairest home ornaments are bright, joyous faces; amt where these are wanting, all else goes for little. Bright and joyous faces always accompany warm and loving hearts, which all true home-makers must possess. Hence all who intend making homes should look carefully into their own hearts; for only when these are right can they expect their home-making to prove satisfactory. Warm hearts make bright and cheerful hearths, but the warmest hearth cannot tha v the icy heart. Love ia the great home maker, that makes even the drudgery of housekeeping a pleasure, nnd home life a foretaste of 1 lie bliss of heaven. One cannot get too much love into one's home-making hut easily too little. Fob The Hourkhomi Uepaiitment. Picture Drapes, For those who asked for Inexpensive fancy-work, I will describe some very pretty picture scarfs or drapes, as they are some times called. The materials req fired are three ynrdsof Hirer-inch ribbon (satin rib bon was used for the one in question but cheaper libhon may tie used) ana Clark’s crochet cotton, shaded from the color of the ribbon to white. The cotton was crocheted in kuotstit li, making strips tree inches wide and ihfrty- two inches long. These strips are sewed alternately wiHi ihe ribon which linrl pre vionsty been cm in three pieces and a two- inch fringe rav.-iel at eacli end. A fringe of til? cotton was tied into the ends of the crochet strips. A ring two inchc-s in diam eter was covered with crochet stitches of Vo tori a crochet silk matching the color of the ribbon. A row of shells was crocheted iir mid ■ ‘m ring making It much prettier than I lie pluin crochet rings so long used; The ring was slipped over one end of the scarf to the midd'e where it held the tall ness in place. Blue ritbon with blue amt white crochet cotton and a bine crochet ring makes a pretty scarf, also orange and white or pink and white. Clark's shaded crochet cotton comes in sucli a VJriety ot colors and combinations that there is practically no end to the pretty things that may be made with it. The numbers are .10 amt 50 and the cost is only five cents for a ball of t’00 yards. I! the pocketbook will allow a much richer scarf may be made by using white Victoria crochet silk for the crochet stripes. The knot stitch is very pretty in silk and holds its shape well. Combine with pea green satin rlbin fringed at the ends and decorated with sprays of lily of Ihe valley near each end of the slrips. Embroider ihe sprays witli Asiatic fllo. Make Hie crochet ring witli pea green Victoria siik. Other combinatloi s witli suitable designs are iqually pretty. R. E. Mzkryma.n. WITH THE WITS. Tilings to Laugh at During tho Hot Days, Floating Fun Cunningly Chronicled to Make tho M ay-at-Homes Smile. f l ho impecunious young man who mar ries a girl with a substantial check at tached may very properly be said to have been checkmated. Mercy, Bridget, what’s tho matter with these cakes?” “I dun no, mum.” “ 1 hey tasto of soap." “Yes, mum. I couldn’t find the soapstone griddle, ah’ T soaped the iron one.” Ernest was four years old when he saw his first monkey, which was on the street witli a haiid-orgar. man. He ru.-lied into the house,saying: “Mamma, mamma! Hint looks like a man, hut him am a kitty! Youth's Companion. In the midst, of a. battle the general saw a man running from n very doss situation. "Whataroyou running for?” demanded tlie disgusted general, in a stern voice. “General,” said tho fleoing man, “Dm running because I can’t fly.” —Selected. "Bop,” said Willie, “what’s a gold- bug?” “That, my son, is what they call the men who want gold money?” “And I suppose a silver-bug is a man who wants silver money?” “That’s it exactly.” “Well, Hay, pop—I’m only a little feller, and I’m satisfied with being a nickel-bug. Gimme one, will you?” “A child,” Bttid the oracular young person, "can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.” “There’s one satisfaction,” said the man of family, “he can't ask many without getting sent to bed.” Johnny—-‘’Mamma, I can count all the way up to twelvo.” Mamma—“And what comes after twelve, Johnny?” Johnny—“Iiocess.”—Ilerald and Pres byter. Cntor 'Vail, (CATERWAUL) Just as you dense. “Doctor, 1 have sent for you,certainly. Still, I must confess that I have not the slightest laith in modern medical science.” “O, that doesn’t matter in the least. You seo, a mule has no faith in the veterinary surgeon, and yet he cures him all Die same.” Tnglicbe Rundschau. “Why did you break off your engage ment witli Miss Bertha?” “Because her parrot waB always say ing: ‘Stop that, George.’ ” “But what difference did that moke? Your engagement was not a secret,” “But my name is not George.” The New Photography. They pressed forward and closely ex amined the Roentgen photograph. “Ilis liver." they said, “is the image of his father’s, but he gets his lnngs from his mother’s folk.” The Rev. Samuel E. Pearson, of Port land, Me., was a witness in a divorce case the other day. "Mr. Pearson,” asked the judge, “were you on this bench in my place, urid acquainted with all the circum stances of this case, would you grant this divorce?” “Most certainly, your honor,” replied the minister. “But how do you reconcile this state ment with the injunction, ‘What God hath joined together let no man put as under?’ ” “Your honor. I am satisfied that the Lord never joined this couple,” replied the clergyman.—Argonoul. Flowers That Fool Buzzards. We wonder how those who “love the delicate fragrance of the rose or the sweet perfume of the carnations would like to have a plant ot the Aristolochia gigas In bloom In their parlor. We re produce the following from the bulletin of the Royal Botanioal Gardens of Trlnl dad so that our readers o&n form some idea of its fragrance (?). "Residents in Trinidad are well ac quainted with the ubiquitous “Cor- beau or John Crow” Vulture, Cathar- tus atratus, for these birds are common both In town and country and aot as scavengers by feeding upon all kinds of oarrlon. Their sense of sight and smell Is very keen, and has often been the Bub jeot of discussion and sometimes of dispute between naturalists. “Gosse" who wrote on the Natural History of Jamaloa many years ago, records some interesting faots in relation to this mat ter, showing that the sense of smell as well as of sight can be employed at will. My objeot In writing Is to put on record a circumstance which occurred reoently in the Royal Botanic Gardens, in which it was dear that the sense of smell only was employed. In a part of the Gardena a plant of Aristolochia gigas var. Stur- tevantii was in flower. This plant on opening, gives off an offensive odor resembling that arising from oarrion. During the morning hours this is more than usually pronounced, and vultures thatdeteot it, at once alight on trees close by, their movements being similar to those they use when in sight of prey. The birds are however disappointed of their meal as it is simply the odor from the (lower which brings them to the spot, their sense ot smell In this case failing to Bupply them with a suitable meal. They were In faot ‘Oorbeaux in Error.” Are Health Resorts Dangerous? The Journal of Hygiene, in a recent num ber, says: “Forty years ago, Mentone was a happy village in France, where lived peasantry happv In tlielr supurb physical state, conditioned by the climate. It was discovered that the region was a most heal ing one for consumptives, and it became the Mecca for the unfortunates of Europe so stricken. The inhabitants abandoned their farms to wait on the stringing. The strong healthy women forsook their dairies and became the washerwomen of the con sumptives’ clothes. No precautions were taken ; the disease was not then understood as now, the theory of tubercle bacillus not having been discovered. The place today ia hacllluc-ridileu ,a pest hole, death itself. The hitherto Btrong inhabitants are ema ciated, a coughing, bleeding people, filled with the germeof consumption. The sett and air are both contaminated with the tubercle bacilli. Ills no longer a health re sort.” The same fate, it is believed, awaits many other similar localities unless active meas ures are taken to destroy all germs. This will be a most difficult task, because con sumptives, as a rule, are not thoughtful of the danger they spread, or of the rights of others. They should bear in mind that if all the others iiad been careful, they, too, might have escaped—Scientific American. Gear of a Wheel. One important feature of a bicycle is not understood by many riders. The “gear” of a machine makes a great dif ference in questions of speed and ease of propulsion. The higher the gear the further you travel with each revolution of the pedal, and the greater is Ihe mus cular force requ ; red to drive the pedal around. Beginners, especially women, should use a low gear. The terms now used to express the gear of a bicycle are an inheritance from the time of the old- lushioned high wheel—now sometimes called the “ordinary,” although in fact its rare appearance in public places now adays makes it something extraordinary —when the size of the wheel depended on the length of the rider’s legs. In those times a 54- inch wheel was a com mon thing—that ia, a wheel 54 inches in diameter. When the safeties came into use, they were geared by the wheels 07er which the chain runs so as to corres pond with the old idea of the diameter of a large wheel. Thus a gear of 70 is the same as to the distance covered by each revolution of the pedals as if a wheel 70 inches in diameter was ridden —something that would be possible only for a giant. A bicycle with this gear advances somewhat over three times 70 inches at each revolution ot the pedals, or about 19 feet. The gear of a wheel is determined by the number of teeth on the large and small sprocket-wheels. To ascertain what the gear is, divide the number of teeth on the large wheel by tl,e number on the small one, and multi ply by the number of inches in the di ameter of the rear wheel. Thus, on a 28-inch wheel, if there are twenty teeth on the front sprocket and 8 on the rear one, the gear will be 70. In the Welsh University, for the first time, women are placed on an absolute equality with men, both as to degrees and as to the governing body (