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AWLTON JOURNA J » SUBSCRIPTION $ 1.00 A YEAR. J. L. Dennis, . • * . Proprietor. =5= 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. m* 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 •Si THIS PAPER mar P. Rowell be found & Co cn '4 f Newspaj: !e at Ck <og Advertising Bureau be (10 made Spruce for St it A in where NEW ad vert contracts may YOR