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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
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By JOE H. REESII
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AHD EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OR CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA.
TERNS: 1.00 Per Year.
VOL. V.
CLEVELAND, WHITE CO., GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1896.
NO. 36.
THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
News Notes from the Empire State
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Dr. M. A. Jeffotds. a youug Gentian of
Waycross passed away last week. He
located ia Waycross about two years
ago. He had just married when he
earns here. They had been here only a
few months when attacked by consump
tion. He and his wife went to his father’s
home ia the country. Dr. Jeffords was
a member of one of the best families in
Ware county.
The city oouncil recently authorized
Mayor Knight to borrow from the bank
of Waycross any necessary sum, not to
exceed $4,000, for city expenses. It is
hardly probable that such a large sum
will be found necessary. The operating
expenses of the municipal government,
outside of improvements in public works
and the maintenance of the same, amount
to less than any town in Georgia of the
the same magnitude.—Waycross corres
pondence of the Morning News.
Washington reports that Mies Bertha
Smith and Mr. Marshal Pinkston, two of
Wilkes county’s most prominent young
people, were married last week at the
residence of the bride’s father, H. Smith.
After the seremony there was a genuine
old-fashioned supper under the spread
ing oaks in front of the house. There
was quite a large crowd present, many
of whom were elderly people, who spoke
of the occasion as a happy reminder of
the good old ante-bellum times.
Tifton shipped 24 solid cars of peaches
this season thus far, notwithstanding
there was only half a crop. Many hun
dreds of packages were shipped by ex
press, besides, in lots of from 10 to 100
packages. The fact is that there will be
more fruit shipped from the Tifton dis
trict this season with half a crop than
last season with a full one, owing to the
fact that the trees are more mature, and
nsw orchards came into bearing. Very
satisfactory prices have been realized.
Insurance companies are investigat
ing the death of Dr. J. P. Poore of
Monroe. He was insured for $45,000
and died suddenly. The insurance com
pany knew when he was increasing his
policies that he was a man of very
modest means. Now they are not satis
fied wtih the proofs of death. The pol
icies were for $20,000 in the Mutual
Reserve Fund Association, $10,000 in
the Fidelity, $10,000 in the Washington
Mutual and $5,000 in the Atlanta Mutual.
The Vernon River Rifle Club held its
annual picnic and contest recently. Danc
ing began soon after the arrival of the
morning train and was continued
all day. The ladies' shooting con
test began at noon. The following ladies
won: Mrs. Fred. Schnaars, first prize,
gold thimble; Mrs. C. II. Love, second
prize, combination silver wai9t set; Mrs.
H. Kolehorn, third prize, silver thimble.
Miss Paff, booby, a toy gun.
Waynesboro received her first bale of
cotton July 30. It was classed as good
middling, and was sold to Messrs. Wil
kins & Jones for eighty cents, and wub
shipped by them to Pope A Fleming of
Augusta. The hale weighed 500 pound.
Lawtonville also received a bale of new
cotton which weighed over 500 pounds.
This bale was shipped to Messrs. Dwells
A Daniel of Savannah, it was raised by
Mr. J. E. Lambert of Lawtonville, and
was shipped direct by himsell. These
two bales are at least three or lour
weeks ahead of any cotton ever sold in
Burke county before.
From present indications, the crop of
sea island cotton will equal that of the
season just ending. The acreage planted
was not as large as that of the past sea
son, but it is estimated that the increased
amount of fertilizers used this year will
increase the yield. While the conditions
of the growing crop have been exceed
ingly favorable during the past three
months, recent complaints have been
received from different sections, and the
planters are somewhat disappointed. A
letter received yesterday from Baker
county, Florida, states that the crop in
that section will be oni-third short. The
cause given for this opinion is that the
The school board of Guyton elected
Prof. L. G. Fowler, of Litbonia, Ga.,
principal oi the High school. Prof.
Fowler is a graduate of Emory college.
He has the indorsement of some of the
best educators in the state, and is highly
recommended by the patrons where he
has taught. He has four years experi
ence in teaching, and now has charge of
a summer school at Lithonia. He will
be In (juyton the first of September, and
will open school on the 7th. He has ac
cepted the school on its merits, and will
employ an assistant, subject to the ap
proval of the board, There was an av
erage attendance last term of 00 pupils.
The enrollment will be much larger dur
ing the fall and winter. The tuition
charges are in reach of every one, and
for this reason the school will be full.
The monitor Passaic assigned by the
navy department to the state for use by
the naval militia with head quarters at
Brunswick, and under charge of the
Brunswick Reserves, arrived off the bar
at 4 o’clock and lay-to six miles north of
the sea buoy. The officers and men of
the Columbia, who manned the Passaic
on the trip down will then be transferred
to their vessel, and the Passaic under a
full head of steam will be brought into
port by the naval militia members of the
company, performing all the duties of
navigators, firemen, engineers and sea
men. As the monitor proceeds up the
bay to the city the large guns on board
will be fired by gunners’ crews from the
reserves and all the tow-boats, steamers,
etc,, will send a welcoming series of
whistles back, while the entire population
will turn out en masse to welcome the
first and only warship belonging to Geor
gia since the foundation of the state.
Rooting Rose Guttings.
I have had so much success with them,
that I thought I would tell you how I
root rose outttngs. It is not a new
method and I daresay many of your
readers are acquainted with it; but It Is
a very good one and possibly It may be
new to some of them,
1 take cuttings about six Inches long
from good, strong shoots and push them
obliquely Into a box of poor white sand,
the whiter it is the better; taking good
care to leave not quite one-half of the
stem above ground. I generally put
them in a southeastern situation (a little
shaded) so that they will gel a little of
the morning and afternoon sun but net
too muohof either; and If the sand is
kept very moist they will start to grow
In a very short time. I have never been
troubled by the damping off complained
of by so many,when I used this method.
I have for some time been anxious to
obtain outtings of a deep red rose, com
mon here. There is a specimen not far
from here, that 1 have never seen with
out flowers, summer or winter. Last
December I obtained outtings from It,
and treated them as described, and in a
very short time they were all growing
finely.
On New Year’s day 1 went out to ex
amine them, and behold' not a vestage
of a leaf to be seen. The chickens had
found them and eaten them up, and my
feelings may be better imagined than
described. I had no doubt but that they
would all die. However, I carefully
watered and tended them fer some
time, in the hope that a few would re
cover. But one by one, they withered
up and died, till only one was left to
“tell the tale,’’ and that began to die
back, and } noticed that there were no
leaf buds above the ground, so I pulled
it up to make room for a tuberose bulb.
I was sorry the next moment for I found
It was rooted and had started to grow
just below the surface. 1 do not believe
in pulling up slips If one wants them to
grow, but as there was no help for It, I
put it back, leaving the leaf buds above
the ground. Imagine my surprise when
It started to grow, and it hasn’t stopped
sinoe. And now (July) it is a nice little
plant. Has tried to bloom several times
but I pinched the buds OIL On the
whole I can hardly oall those cuttings a
success, but It was but one failure
among many successes, and I think that
if others will try this way they will have
no trouble in rooting roses.
Texas' Big Hog,
Texaa is not only the biggest state in
the Union, but lays claim to the biggeBt
hog ever raised In the United States.
The hog weighs 1,430 pounds, and is
eight feet three inches long. He meas
ures six feet around the neck, eight feet
around the body, and stands four feet
one Inch high. His feet are as high as
those ot a common ox and the leg bones
larger than that of the biggest steer.
He is Poland China and Red Jersey.
He eats corn like an ox, takes the whole
ear in his mouth at once and eats the
cob as well as the corn, eating from forty
to fifty ears at a time. There seems to
be no surplus flesh on him, and physi
cians who have examined the hog say he
can easily be made to reach 2,200 pounds.
The present owner, T. Ratigan, paid
$350 for the hog, and has been offered
$1,500 for him. He has a fire policy on
the animal for $5,000. No other hog, it
is said, ever reached such tremendous
proportions. We expect to learn soon
that he hss been burned.—Monticello
Press.
Gladstone has written such a vast:
amount of letters during his life that his
autographs bring only sixpence in the
English market.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
For Our Housekeepers and Lady
Headers.
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onS Hlat* for ■oomwItm and Oth*r*.
Vrou Kltflhii to Parlor.
What Shall We Learn?
Our girls may find the following advice
helpful In choosing a means of livelihood.
It ii in answer to a question asked bv a
young woman, as to which she shall take
up, typesetting or type writing and stenog
raphy. The advisor says;
There Isn’t muoh difference in the money
wbich she would earn by either choice.
Good compositors under favorable condi
tions may earn from $9 to $12 a week. The
work Is done by the piece and the
swiftest one makes the most money. The
sum wbich may be earned te, however, re
duced by various conditions. In a printing
office there is often more help than le neces
sary to be prepared for emergencies. The
compositor who might earn $12 by working
busily and making long days, may fre-
quenly be able to earn but $8. There is
some monotony about typesetting though
one Is always setting something new, and it
isn't as cleanly an employment ne some
others, but aprons and cuft'i and soap and
water will help over that difficulty. The
multiplicity of typesetting machinery is
rendering the supply more than the de
mand. Home object to the business because
having gained the limit of one’s speed, there
is no lurttier ambition to be realized.
Oil the other hand typewriters have mul
tiplied so that the competition Is intense.
The pay varies from $0 to $12 with rare ex
ceptions of $15 or above. The average Is
about $9 or $10.
Those who get more are valued for the
knowledge wbich they have acquired of
something else which renders them valua
ble tn tbelr position . The lawyer's stenog
rapher learns something of legal phrases
and terms; she becomes worth more after
awhile because she has this acquirement
than for her mere mechanical knowledge of
shorthand or of the typewriter keys; the
business man often values hie stenographer
for her knowledge of his affairs, ff the cor
respondent can learn typesetting in some
local newspaper office, she can probably
seoure and hold a place there and will find
it a less wearing occupation than almost
anything she could choose. I have known
two tired out school teachers who took up
typesetting and found it a pleasant way of
earning a living. They went into the office
ot a newspaper in a country town where
living expenses were not as large as in the
city. •
if one tn in need of ready money, type
setting will bring returns sooner as, after a
few weeks of time, wages are received in
proportion to the speed In composition.
To learn stenography requires a year’s time
and tuition the same as at any business
college. The practice must be kept up as
in piano playing, and the wear and tear
on the nervous system is more than
in typesetting although not so great as in
teaching, nor as wearing physically as many
other occupations.
New Method of Preparing Bordeaux Mixture
At a recent meeting of the Association
of Agricultural Scientists, Mr. Swingle
of the department of agriculture de
scribed a new method of preparing Bor
deaux. Prof. B. T. Galloway gives the
following summary of the facts given:
When Bordeaux mixture Is used on
an extensive scale It pays to prepare
what may be called stock solutions of
both copper sulphate and the lime.
The stock solution of copper sulphate is
prepared by dissolving In a barrel hold
ing fifty gallons of water, 100 pounds of
bluestone. The latter is more easily
dissolved by suspending it in a sack just
beneath the susfaoe of the liquid. The
usual plan is to pul into the barrel fifty
gallons of water and then mark the
point where the liquid stands; about
one-third of the water is then poured
out, and the fifty pounds of copper sul
phate whioh has been previously tied in
coarse gunny Baok, are suspended over
the edge of the barrel and allowed to
reaohjuBt beneath the surface of the
liquid. When all the copper sulphate Is
dissolved, the empty bag is taken out
and a sufficient quantity of pure water
added to bring the solution in the
barrel up to the fifty-gallou mark again.
It will be seen that every gallon of the
liquid contains about two pounds of
copper sulphate In solution. This solu
tion Is set away in a shed or some con
venient place, and when wanted is
drawn from the barrel through a wooden
spiggot at the bottom.
The atook lime preparation is made In
much the same way. Fifty pounds of
lime are placed in a barrel and then
slaked in the usual fashion. When
slaked, sufficient water is added to
bring the whole mass up to a previously
determined fifty-gallon mark. In this
case, also, each gallon of the prepara
tion oontains, practically, two pounds of
lime. The stock lime is also stored in
some convenient place, but it is best to
arrange to remove what is wanted from
the top of the barrel, rather than at
tempt to draw it off through a spigot.
In order to prepare Bordeaux mixture
it is only necessary to take a certain
number of gallons of the copper sul
phate solution, and a certain number of
the lime solution, and mix them iu
some suitable vessel. Here, however,
Is the point where Mr. Swingle brings
out some Interesting developments. He
finds that the more oonoentrated the
two preparations (oopper sulphate so
lution and lime milk) are when poured
together, the less satisfactory wtll be
the resulting mixture, Bordeaux mix
ture, when made from suoh concen
trated preparations, Is likely to be (laky
and granular, and will very soon settle.
He recommends, therefore, that in mak
ing the mixture both the lime and oop
per sulphate solution should be greatly
diluted before bringing them together.
Mr. Swingle would prepare what we or
dinarily 'oall the fifty-gallon Bordeaux
mixture as follows:
Dilute three gallons of the slock so-
utlon of oopper sulphate with water to
twenty or twenty-five gallons. In an
other vessel, pour two gallons ot the
stock lime ^preparation, and dilute this
with about fifteen gallons of water.
Pour the oopper Biiiphate solution and
the lime preparation slowly| together,
and then stir thoroughly for two or
three minutes with a long-handled,
broad-bladed wooden paddle. It will
be seen that this mixture contains six
pounds of oopper sulphate and four
pounds of lime. Mr. Swingle is
of the opinion that tho method
of'testing Bordeaux mixture with
the potassium ferrooyanlde, is not
reliable. He suggests two simple meth
ods, whioh, if used when the first barrel
of Bordeaux mixture Is made up, would
answer until the stock oopper sulphate
solution and the stock lime are exhausted.
Of course when a dow supply of the
stock preparations is made dp, it will be
neoessary again to test tho first barrel of
the mixture. All that is required to
make the test is an ordinary pen-knife
and a piece of emery paper. The knife
blade Is Inserted for a couple of minutes
in the' mixture, and If there is any free
oopper present it will show as a thin
flint on the steel blade of the knife. If
there Is no free copper present the blade
wil^notbe tarnished. If the knife blade
shjjjws the presence of coppoT It Is only
necessary to add a small quantity of
lime. The emery paper Is used simply
to remove the oopper film from the
knife blade. Half a minute’s polishing
with the paper will put the blade In con
dition for another test. For the second
test, whioh Is somewhat more dlflloult,
it Is only neoessary to have aD ordinary
sauoer or plate. The Bordeaux mixture
Is poured into the saucer or plate and
while held In the hands olosetothe face,
Is gently breathed upon for about one
minute. If the mixture has been prop
erly made, a thin film forma on the sur
face, which can be easily seen by hold
ing the plate between the eyes and the
light.
Mr. Swingle Illustrated his talk be
fore the assoolation by preparing the
mixture In the several ways described.
Some of the mixtures as made by the
ordinary formulas, settled very rapidly,
while those made by the new method
remained without any peroeptible set
tling throughout the entire discussion,
whioh'lasted nearly an hour.—Rural New
Yorker.
The Mortgage.
A mortgage makes a man rustle and It
keeps him poor. It is a strong incentive
to action, and a wholesome reminder of
the fleeting months and years. It is
fully as symbolical iu its meanings as
the hour-glass and soytlie that mean
death. A mortgage represents Industry,
because it is never Idle day or night.
It Is like a bosom trlend, because the
greater the adversity the oloser it slloks
to a fellow. It is like a brave soldier,
for it never hesitates at oharges nor fears
to olose in on the enemy. It is like the
sandbag of the thug—Bilent in applica
tion but deadly in effect. It 1s like the
hand of Providence—it spreads over all
creation, and its influence is everywhere
visible. It is like the grasp of the devil
fish—the longer It holds the greater its
strength. It will exernise feeble energies
and lend activity to a sluggish brain,
but no matter how hard debtors work
the mortgage works harder still. A mort
gage is a good thing to have In a family
—provided always it is in somebody else’s
family.—Truth.
The word whoa 1—used in calling on a
horse to stop—is merely a variant and
emphatic form of bo ! formerly used in
the name sense. This is easily proved ;
for Chaucer has ho in the sense of “bait,”
(“L'ant. Tales,” B 3,957). When King
Edward IV. had to use this exclamation,
he actually turned it into whoo! “Then
the kyng perceyvyng the cruell aesaile,
[onset;] cast his staff, and with high
voice cried whoo!’’ (“Excerpata His
tories,” p. 211). Which stopped the
tournament; aud no wonder.
WITH THE WITS.
Thing's to Laugh at During the Hot
Days,
Floating Fun Cunningly UhroDloUO to
Make the 8lny-nt-Homn» Hmlli.
Ftalm of Life.
At 20, when a man is young,he thinks
he knows it all; he likes to wag his
active tongue and exercise his gall; he
Btruts around in noble rage; the world
is all his own; he laugba to scorn the
world of age, and listB to self alone. He
wears a window in his eye to see his
whiskers grow; be thinks the ladies pine
and die because they love bim so. At
40, as you may suppose, he’s knuckled
down to biz; ’tis not till GO that he
knows how big a chump he is.—Cameron
Sun.
The rooster carries bia own comb and
has a brush with the first rooster he
meets.
“They say he was clay in the potter’s
hand.” “Not a bit of it. He had too
much sand.”
“I think Nell’s uew photographs must
look exactly like her.” "Why?” “She
hasn’t shown them to a living soul.”
We still talk about laying up some
thing for u rainy day, und yet it is the
pleasant days that, take the most money
out of us.
Manager—“Are you going to take a
stand on the money question?” Candi
date—“No.” Manager — “Then you
might as well lie down.”
It was the little four-year-old's first
view of a dog with a muzzle on. “Oh,
auutie,” she said, “isn’t he a cute little
doggie? He’s going to play baseball.”
“You have an immense quautity of
hay,” observed the visitor at the Clover
Meadow Farm. “Ya-as,” said farmer
Redneck, “but there ain’t a thiuk t.’ feed
it to but bicycles.”
“Why did Mrs, Hawkins discharge her
French maid?” “Incivility.” “What?
Why, she struck mo as the acme of civil
ity.” “Mo too, hut I believe she
couldn’t understand Mrs. Hawkins’
French.”
Algernon — “Mamma, let me carry the
bnby?”
Mamma — “No, darling, you're too little,
you might let it fall.”
Algernon — “Well, may I have it when it'*
worn out?”
I u Cuba.—“The insurgents,” said the
scout, “have raided the neighboring
plantations and carried off large quanti
ties of tobacco.” “Good!” Baid Gen.
Weyler. “Good! Their forces may. in
time, be exterminated by smoking cigar
ettes.”
A young bopetut sat in the window a
long time the other night during a thun
derstorm, and contemplated the scene
with a wise look on his face. Then he
turned to his mother and said:
“Mamma, the angels are scratching
matches on the sky.”
Pendeunis—“It I had knowu that you
were going to drop in on us so unexpect
edly, we should have had a more elabor
ate dinner.” Warrington (wrestling
with a tough piece of steak)—“Don’t
mention it, old man; bnt next time I’ll
be sure to let you know,”
I have before me a letter from a Pari
sian friend, a gentleman ot some literary
note in his own country, who informs me
that he is learning English by the aid of
a small text-hook and a dictionary, with:
out aDy other instructor; and he adds
“In small time I can learn so many En
glish as I think I will come to the Amer
ica and go on the scaffold to lecture.”—
Herald and Presbyter.
Frostproof expects to market an im
mense crop of pineapples.
“Before proceeding any further with
this duel,” said one of the principals,
"I desire that the right arm of my op
ponent and myself be measured.” This
was done, and it was found that the
other man’s arm was two inches longer.
“Then,” said the objector, decisively,
“you will all see how manifestly unfair It
isforua to fight with swords, unless I
Btand two inches nearer to him than he
stands to me.”—Harper’s Bazar.
Proprietor — “Where is the book
keeper?” Office Boy—“He isn’t in. His
wife sent him word that the baby was
asleep, and he’s gone home to see what
it looks like.”—Louisville Truth.
“Did you call thegentlemauin No. 73?
He wants his bieakfast at seven
o’clock.” Bell Boy—“No, he don’t.”
“Did he say so?” Bell Boy—“No, but
he blew out the gas last night.”—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“Why did the butcher put up tbat
large mirror near the door?” “To pre
vent the servant girls from watching
the scales.”—Tit-Bits.
Tom—“Yes, Molly and i were out
pretty late last night; bnt the tide was
so strong it was hard to come back very
last.” Alice—“Yes; I remember in
Physics it says the length of the spark
is proportional to the strength of the
current.”—Life.
Majorie was standing at the window
wbon she saw two little dogs frisking
about in I he street, and manifestly hav
ing Buch a good time together that she
said to her father: “Papa,* don’t you
wish you was two little dogs, so you
could have a good time enjoying your
self together?”
There was a young lady of Crewe
Who wanted to catch the 2.02;
Said the porter: “Don’t hurry
Or scurry or Hurry;
It’s a minute or 2 2 2 2 I”
Violinist (proudly)—“The instrument
I shall use at your house to-morrow
evening, Mein Herr,is over two hundred
yeare old. Parvenu—“Oh, never mind
that! It is good enough. No one will
know the difference.”
“Look here Bawl Barings, I’ve a pro
position to make.” “What is it?’’ “You
aton talking about your bicycle, and I’ll
not say another word about my smart
baby.”—Truth.
“I wish 1 knew of a summer boarding
place where there are no cows, I would
engage board there to-morrow.” “Try
our milkman ; he’s going to take board
ers.”—Detroit Free Press.
Literary young man (at a party)—
“Miss Jones, have you seen Crabbe’s
‘Tales’?” Young lady (scornfully)—“I
was not aware that crabs had tails.”
Literary young man (covered with con
fusion)—“I beg your pardon. I should
have said read Crabbe’s ’Tales’?”
Young lady (angrily scornful)—“And I
was not aware that red craba had tails,
either, young man!”
Butter in Plaster of Paris.
There seems to be no limit to the In
genuity bestowed upon the devising of
meanB for accomplishing the transport
of the perishable produoe of distant
climes to the English market. A new
method, described in the Australasian,
is that of packing butter in a box made
of six sheets of ordinary glass, all the
edges being covered over with gummed
paper, The glass box is enveloped in a
layer of plaster of Paris, a quarter of an
inch thick, and this is covered with
speolally prepared paper. The plaster
being a bad conductor of heat, the tem
perature inside the hermetically sealed
receptacle remains oontaot, being unaf-
feoted by external changes. The oost
of packing is about Id per pound. But
ter packed in the way described at Mel-
bourn has been sent across the sea to
south Africa, and when the oase was
opened at Kimberly, 700 miles from
Cape Town, the butter was found to be
as sound as when it left the faotory in
Victoria. Oases are now made to hold
as muoh as 2owt. of butter, and forty
hands, mostly boyB and girls, are occu
pied in making the glass receptacles and
covering them with plaster. The top,
or lid, however Is put on by a simple
■meohanioal arrangement, and is re
moved by the purchaser equally easily.
A saving of twenty-five per cent, on
freight and packing Is olaimed in com
parison with the cost of frozen butter
carried in the usual way.
Canadian—American Craw Won.
The Canadiau-American four won the
four-oared international race at the sum
mer carnival at Halifax, N. 8. Time,
18:35. The English crew was second,
18:45, The Halifax crew was third,
19:20. The St. John crew was beaten
by about half a mile.