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SUBSCRIPTION $ 1.00 A YEAR.
J. L. Dennis, . • * . Proprietor.
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HAMILTON, GEORGIA,
September 30,.................. l887 ’
HOW IT PAYS.
It pays to read your home paper.
Name twenty of the best citizens of
Harris county, and you will name at
the least fifteen patrons of the Jour
nal— in estimating the worth of men
you are always liable to miss one in
four. Hut the best men pay for and
read their county paper bicause it
pays to do so. They get the worth
of their money every time, even if
tiieir’s is the poorest county paper in
the state.
It pays in more ways than one to
read your county paper. The Jour¬
nal's readers have a higher estimate
of themselves and their neighbors
than those who do not read it can
have. Its constant eiiort is to build
up the material interests of the coun¬
ty, and the effect of its efforts is to
be seen in the high character of its
readers. They read it because they
are good citizens; they are better
citizens because they do read it.
But great as the profit is viewed
from this ethical standpoint, it pays
in a pecuniary way to read your
county paper. The man who has as
much as ten dollars to spend, will
save the value of a year’s subscrip¬
tion if lie will scan closely our ad¬
vertising columns before making his
purchases.
Not only can he buy to better ad¬
vantage if he reads his home paper,
but if he has anything to sell—as is
not apt to be often the case unless
he does read it—he can sell to better
advantage. Only yesterday morning
we noted a striking illustration of
this point. On a back street we met
two farmers who don’t take the Jour¬
nal. One sit upon a wagon loaded
with two bales of cotton, while the
ether drove a cart loaded with one
bale, and they were bound for Col
urn bus. The trip will require two
days lime, for which they will receive
in return not a nickel Last week
we stated that Hamilton and Chipley
were paying Columbin prices for
cotton and showed, why they could
afford to do so. Had these two
neighbors only read their county pa
per they might have sold their cotton
here and boarded the train for Col
umbus, made their purchases and re
turned home the same day, saving a
day’s work for themselves and two
days fur their teams. Knowledge is
profitable, and the sort you get out
your home paper is the most profit
able sort.
For the Hamilton Journal.
JOE ODOM’S COURTSHIP.
Joe was a man of fine sense, was
joLllZ
unpolished diamond, was always
ready to do or to talk, had many
original ideas and was no way back
ward in uttering them. Some of the
lawyers said to him one day:
“Joe, some of these fellows about
here say , hat your wife courte d you
an( j no t y 0 u her.”
j 0 e, i n his stentorian voice, much
CX cited, exclaimed,
“It’s a slander, and I’ll have them
before the grand jury. I tell you I
had to court hard and often to get
get her and I won’t be wronged in
this way. I’ll have justice if I am an
officer of court.”
“Joe, don’t get excited,” say the
lawyers, we are your friends and will
see you through long or short, thick
or thin, so Joe, you just tell us how
you courted and we will be ready to
take your case.”
“Well,” says Joe, “I don’t mind
telling you, seeing I got her. I did,
but I tell you I worked hard for it.
You see Mary lived 5 miles away and
had a number of beaux,but I knowed
that when I stuck my axe into the
tree it had to come. Mary’s mother
was a widow, had some land to clear
and give a “tree-cutting party” and a
“quilling.” There was lots of boys
there and girls too. The girls done
the quilting and the boys done the
clearing, and I beat them all cutting
down trees. Oh, I worked, for I just
kept in mind that pretty girl at the
house and may be she might be look
ing out that way. Late they called
us to dinner, and such a dinner,good
enough for a prince and a host of
boys and girls and as merry as could
be. Oh how they did talk, and see.
ing as how I was an officer I had to
regulate them, so I matched them off
and got them all to eating and talking
and you couldn’t hear your ears, so
unbeknowing I slipped out and
watehed them through the door. Oh,
didn’t my heart jump when Mary
brought'a big plate of good things
and says, ‘Joe, I’m afraid you are
sick. Won’t you eat just a little for
my sake.’ ‘Oh, Mary, I would do
anything for your sake. I’ll eat all
the vittles and swallow the plate if
you say so.’ ‘Oh, Joe, you are jok
ing. No I aint; I mean all I say and
a heap more, ‘Well,’ she says, ‘say
all you mean.’ ‘But it will take a
life time to say it, so Mary suppose
we O tret married? Oh how she blush
ed, then l knowed I had her. I said
‘Mary, l love you, will you have me?’
She blushed and nodded her head,
and the thing was fixed. Now don’t
j veu see I courted hard and she is a
good one ?’ ”
By the time Joe got through with
his courting experience he was much
softened and the lawyers easily per
suaded him that if she had done the
courting it would only show what a
great man he was in the county.
On another occasion Joe went fish¬
ing and brought a fine string of fish
The boys asked Joe if the mosquitos
were bad. “Now, gentlemen, I did
not count them, but I think there
was 4,444,444 to the square inch.
VlDI.
For the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The papers still kerald forth rail
road enterprises and railroad work,
and the day is not distant when ev
ery man is to have a railroad at his
own door. Some danger looms up
in the distance that railroad building
will be overdone, but not now. As
at present advised railroads are pay
ing well—satisfactory to those inter
ested. Our own little railroad (the
Columbus & Rome) makes for the
fiscal year a very good
showing. It would do vastly better
if it had any through connections,
Those in authority will wake some
day and find that the valuable busi
n ess of the C. & R. has been absorb
ed by through compe*ing lines. The
Georgia Midland is doing this effec
tnally and now is the time to stop
the leak before it gets large and be
y 0n d control
* * *
The Atlanta & Hawkinsville rail¬
r0 ad is passing under review in sev
eral papers and the disclosures are
anything but creditable,
* * *
The extension of the North Geor
gi a & Marietta rail road to Atlanta
has been settled. The legislature
wisely and rightly refused the charter,
The power of the press is well illus
trated in the information furnished in
relation to the Piedmont Exposition
at Atlanta and the State Fair at Ma
con. Much enthusiasm has been ex
cited and both will be a marked suc
cess, and Georgia will be well illus
trated. Go to one or both if you
can and receive both pleasure and
profit.
* * *
The liquor men propose to test
prohibition in Atlanta by an election
to be held on Nov. 25th and we are
assured by the best authority that
prohibition will prevail by a iaigely
increased majority. It is a gratifying
fact that when liquor is once voted
out, it has not and cannot get baci.
* * *
Col Walker, attorney for Tom
Wooi(olk, claims to have discovered
some negroes as the murderers of the
Wool folk family. This is a lame
subterfuge and the ends of justice
will not be frustrated.
* * *
The celebration of the Constitute
Centennial at Philadelphia was
grand affair and was attended by ov
1,500,000 people. President Clev
land’s speech was worthy of the o
casion, and Mrs. Cleveland rebuke
to Foraker was well deserved.
Reader.
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MOTHER SHIPTON’S PROPH
CY.
Mr. Editor :—The following ve
curious and very ancient prediction
is said to have been published 3^
years ago and if true marks wonder
ful progress in the world’s history:
Carriages without horses shall go.
And accidents fill the world with woe
Around the earth thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
The world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at the root of a ti ee.
Through hills men shall ride,
And no horse be at his side.
Under water men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk,
In the air men shall be seen,
In black, in white, in green
Iron in water shall float
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and show
In a land that’s not now known.
The curious will ask, how t
ed ? and how communicated
intelligent public? As the lnd i Cl.
said about the ground squirrel be
rowing upwards, that is your qnesti
but it does suggest that this is
of progress ami development
derful has been the improvement r
every department of human lain
The introduction of labor-saving nr
chinery, new industries, new mod
of transportation, the application
the power of steam, the telegraj
and telephone, electric lights ai
electricity as a motor, all are won ie
grand in conception a»d amazir
in execution. And after all that mi
be said of this wonderful progres
the improvement in the printii
and the magnificent display
talent and knowledge in the model
is more wonderful tin
all. While all honor is due the
inventions and improv
ments, yet the newspaper has be< n
master-builder in these wonder! 1!
The first paper pub
in the United States was in
1 733—a small sheet, badly printed, a
copy of which may be seen in ti e
Patent office in Washington. Sucl a
thing as a daily paper was then un¬
known. From this small beginni
marvellous developments have be
made and now a good paper is pe
lished in every county - a marvel
beauty, information, news of ev< >
kind and variety, covering about ev
ery subject about which one would
like to know, and no sensible man
ought to negiect to take and pay for
his county paper. Observer
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