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FRAZER & DOZQER, n aolesale and Retail EHIAItW WARIEL Columbus, Cia n AMI j 11 UN JOURNA j • SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 J, {.I.. 1 )KN xi s,... . . . . pHOIMUKTOIt 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 * „ {£T • 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 ^TS S 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.