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FRAZER & DOZQER, n aolesale and Retail
EHIAItW WARIEL Columbus, Cia
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SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 J,
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1J AMII/I ON, GEORGIA,
Of TOliKK 2 1 1887 .
For 1 lie Hamilton Jouunai .
DILIGENCE MORE THAN TAL¬
ENT.
In the beautiful little town of B.-~
there lived a young lawyer whom we
will call Tom Wallace. Tom was a
man of good mind, well educated
and of indomitable perseverance, had
married the girl of his choice and set
out determined to make a living and
as necessary thereto must work and
work hard. The bar at B----was
;<S> 1 e but lacked diligence and
ttentiou. 'Torn was net slow in
seem ; this, and determined what he
lacked in talent to make up in chli
pence. He did not loaf on the streets
but could always 1 e found in his of
fice or in the court house. His dili
pence was soon observed and busi
ncss came to him. A claim case was
involving seveial , tnousanu . ,
pe ndmg
dollars. A had sold to B a plantation
anc 1 negroes for a ]ar;;e amount, part
ol which paid in cash and a note ta-
1 en due 1 2 months after date. At
maturity ot the note 13 r laded ,
ti e
pay .suit was brought and judgment Vi
rendered at the Anril term. fa
was issued and levied upon the prop
citv sold and C claimed the property
and thus the case was made. Tom
was employed for the plain lift in ii fa,
assoi dated with an old and
ed lawyer.
The case came on for trial and
1 daiman! introduced a deed from
conveying the proparty to him
porting to have been made in
iy preceding die judgment in \pril
and both subscribing witnesses
fimi Tnat they witnessed the deed
C ami saw the money paid. Mr.
Grimsley said that he hail never
so much money in all Ins life, and
be ci •rtain it was there, he counted
The old lawyer questioned and
none .I. but the case was against
ptalntil iff and the jury found for
claimant, in that day ther
was an a) peal to a special jury
a , .he grand jury list. The
lawyer insisted 11 that it was useless
appea \ the verdict would be
’ appeal,
same Tom insisted on the
dying ,T„ there was fraud in the
fh (1 we ought .0 ferret it
&c and quite a sparring got up be
,
tween them, and the plaintiff called
to decide. After some hesitation the
appeal was entered.
Between that and the next term
1 cm put all his wits to work and de
termined to see Mr. .jiimsley at
home, the witness who counted the
money and question him closely in a
conversational way. Having some
business in that neighborhood he
went by cautiously, saw the old man
ploughing in a field near the road, so
he guaged his horse to meet him as
he came out. The old man had
never been a witness before
and on meeting Tom brought up the
case and after some conversation
Tom asked as if casually:
“Mr. Grimsley, what were you do
ing that morning before you witness
e( ] that deed?”
“Squire, I was cutting oats in this
very field and hung the cradle on
that ’simmon tree,” the old man
promptly replied,
Tom had got all he wanted, as
did . T
people not cut oats m anuary,
turned the conversation and passed
on At the next term the old lawyer
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said very gruitlv to lom: it .
y 0ur appeal and you can manage it,
and he was glad enough to do so
1 he Claimant made the same pioot
as before and turned over the witness
to lom.
“Mr. Grimsley,” says Tom, “what
were you jo doing that morning " before
you witnessed this deed ?”
The witness promptly replied:
“1 was cutting oats.”
The lawyer for the claimant jump
ed up and said hastily :
“You mean that you were sowing
oats ?
“No,” the witness replied, “I mean
that 1 was cutting oats, I showed
the Squire the ’simrnon tree where 1
hung my cradle.”
'idle other witness testified that k, it
was warm weather.” It was so evi
dent that the deed was antidated that
Tom gained his case and the
got his money,
Diligence.
For the Hamilton Jovrnal.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Why J are we so much more rejoic
ed at finding a dime than at
a dollar?
Man is a curious enigma and
sents unnumbered phases of
tion and character. It one was ask
ed to point out the most stnktng
tore of the age m which we hve,
answer would he readily forthcoming,
the disposition and desire to get a
living without work. To this end
all sorts of devices are resorted to,
ahd in some instances more effort is
made to keep from doing athingthan
would be necessary to do it. Wild
speculation marks the period and the
public mind is lar above the plain of
honest labor. There is imminent
danger in this whirl of modern pro¬
gress of losing that importact feature
of any real success “individuality.”
V,e': every man be himself with men
tal characteristic peculiarly his own.
Feeble imitations are worse than
failures. Do your own thinking and
express matured opinions. There is
nothing good or great in this world
to be obtained without honest labor
and the man who hunts an easy
place is a sad failure. He may ex¬
pect his ship-load of money, but it
never comes—often he loses a dollar
while hunting for a dime.
Lex.
A Nautical Clock.
A new clock that is attracting consider
able attention represents the after deck of
a steam yacht. Coils of rope are laid
about the deck and two small boats are
suspended from the davits. The dial of
the clock is set in the front of the wheel
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the wheel; a sailor lias his hands on it
and is represented as steering the yacht.
The wheel moves backward and forward
and the sailor moves with it. Sailors
holding ropes ane standing in various
attitudes about the deck. -Jewelers’
Weekly.
Cattle of tlie Kivghese.
Some of the Kirghese are said to pos
sess hundieds of eameL, thousands of
horses, and tens of thousands of sheep
and goats, as will readily e undei stood
when it is added that without reckoning
the provinces of Akniollinsk and Semi
palatmsk, there were in the remaining
parts of Russian: central Asia, m the
early part of the Russian occupation no
less than TrO.OOO came s. LHLTOO
horses, 1,160,(DO cattle, and 11,000,000
sheep, the total value of he whole being
estimated at about £10,000,000.—Henry
Lansdell, D. D., in Harper’s Magazine.
Virtues of the I’lngllsh Bun.
The English bun, a compromise be¬
tween cake and bread, has attracted an
American traveler, w ho says that it is
very filling, and you can get a big one
for a penny, and one exposing a lovely
plum or two on its surface for two pence.
Fortunes have been made out of buns,
such is their popularity with the masses,
and four generations of the same family
died rich from the profits of the Chelsea
bun house, which, on Good Fridays, had
to be closed on account of riots raised by
disappointed customers when the stock
was sold out.—Chicago Times.
j Positive Proof.
j ‘•Fait why do you t hi: t \ o;::: ; CaLuW
uo prido or self respect
“Great Scot* , mu t *!
est Anglomania*-;? I x
A Mechanical Blow Pipe.
Ireland is famous for its stout and its
whisky, and it also p -emi&s to become so for
its bottles. An Irishman, Mr. Francis Hai:
Ictfc, has invented, and an Irish company
have brought out, & mechanical apparatus
for blowing glass by the mouth. Hitherto it
has been considered impossible to improve
upon the human lungs, and so the glass blovv
ersof the world have gone on puffing them¬
selves away at 42 years of age, which is the
low average of life among the handicrafts
men. The new invention dispenses entirely
with the human lungs, and injects the air
into the molten glass by an air pump not un¬
like an ordinary syringe in shape and action.
This is fastened to the ordinary blow pipe and
makes little difference to the workman in
handling. Manifestly the invention is of ad¬
vantage to the workman, and as to the em .
plover, it will enable him to produce bottles I
at two and a half times greater speed.—Chi- 1
or\srCi 'times. I
Cooking by Electi’icity. I
Resistance coils of platinum or German I
silver wire have been used for experi- I
mental cooking. The currents used have I
been of constant direction, and the coils
traversed by the currents must needs be
in or in close proximity to the substance
to be cooked. Further, the surface ex
posed by a coil taking up considerable
room is small, and the amount of heat
radiated and conducted from the wire if
not nearly red hot will not be large.
Cooking by electricity lies not come into
use as yet; the use of alternating cur
rents offers a solution to the problem. A
large electro magnet of great self indue
tion is constantly in circuit. The loss of
current through this coil as long as metal
is not brought near it is too small to be
measured. It being desired to cook
flapjacks, an iron spider is placed over
the poles of the electro magnet. The
rapid reversals of current in the coil in
duce currents in the iron spider, which is
thereby heated. For heating liquids, a
copper vessel is preferable where it can
be used on account of its greater conduc
tivity. The metal in which or on which
the cooking is done need not touch the
magnet. Indeed, a lessened heating ef
feet is obtained by separating the dish
from the electro magnet.—Electrical Re
view.
, A Nest G f steel shaving*.
A natural curiosity has been discovered
a t Solotlmrn. Switzerland, the center of a
| arge *f watch manufacturing district It
j lg 10 nest of a wagtailj bui ] t wliolly of
j 0 spiral * steel shavings, without the
of vegetabie or animal liber
^ £ its construction. The steel shav
ingg are h . df a ammeter thick an
about twelve centimeters long. The
bas been pveser^.ed in the Museuu^
Natural History.-The J Argonaut,
An Arctic Suninier. A
jne of the peculiarities of an arciRc
summer consists in the utter absence'of
darkness, and the natives do not appear
to utilize any considerable portion of
time in sleep. At St. Michaels and Port
Clarence we saw them talking and play
ing at all hours, and as I write, at 2 a.
the decks of th.e ship are almost as fiR
occupied as if it were high noon.
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Hector’s Pansies.
Rector—How cute these pansies are;
they look like so many monkeys’ faces.
Bessie (his daughter)—Yes, papa, each
one looks like a chimpanzee.—The Epoch.
The German authorities in Alsace-Lor¬
raine have stopped the granting of all
hunting licenses to the French resident!
in the annexed provinces.
