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THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1903.
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Endoubtedly we have brought back from
New York the choicest line of goods ever
shown in Covington. Every ladv should mal IQ
our store their headquarters, We have a
special counter of 10 cent French Ginghams,
Chambreys and Madras, the very kind for t I
Wash Shirt waist suits. The regular price oi
these goods is 15 and 18 cents. Our Embroid¬
ery sale is still the talk of the town, and we
shall continue to give our patrons the bene¬
fit of Ulese Bargains as long as they last.
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fi/Bsy ‘Est, "3903, Enckssive.
'"TEST OPENED JANUARY 20th. 1803, CLOSES APRIL 20t!l, 1903.
TS-5E=: SE=>!_ EPOSES O-tBuCSM P»;aSES.
[r tho exact (or nearest to tho exact) estimate of the receipts of cotton at at! United
States Ports from September » 3 t, 1902, to Winy 1st, 1003, both inclusive............$2,500.00
ir tho next nearest estimate................................................................................ 1,000,00
!r the next nearest estimate................................................................................. DOO.OO
jr |i tho the 5 I o next nearest estimates estimates 0100.00 350,00 each....................................................... each...................................................... ' 500.00 500.00
next nearest v
ir vho i O next nearest estimates 520,00 each...................................................... 200.00
[■’ the 30 next nearest estimates % i 0,00 eae !i...................................................... 300.00
»r tho IOO next nearest ostimatos 33.00 each....................................................... 500.CO
CONSOt-ATSOM 05 ="J="E:F 3 SQ,000,00
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r distribution among those estimates (not tak «g an/ of the above 133 prizes; coming within
1,' 0j bales either way of the exact figure................ ................................................ . 1,500.00
Condl^ionc^l ^xtrr> Prlso for tzorl;/ Eacact Estimate,
ould the exact figure be given during the conta-t wa will add to the J2.o00.00, if the exact cs
tuua.e be received o:i or belore February gath, 19b3.................................................. 2,500.00
Crand Total 310,000.00
Additional Oonditlonoi OI^oi-ia for Early —Gti rrscsto.
lould the exact estimate not lie named on or before Feb. 20tli, but be made on or before
March loth, we wi.l add to ihe $2,500.00 first prize ..................................... SI. 500.00
iou’d (lie exact estimate not be named on or before -March 10th. but should it come after
March 10th, amiuu or belore April 10th, lbflfi, we will add to the $2,500.10 first prize.... 1 , 000=00
Conditions of Sending Estimates in This Port Receipts Contest.
1. Send $1.00 for Tho Weekly Constitution o-ne year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. -Oi*
2. Send ode for The Sunny South one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest.
3. Send both and send filO ES LI MAT in ,
$1.20 for The Weekly Constitution and Sunny South cno year
contest—that is. one estimate for The Constitution and another for The Sunny South.
f- Send 00c for ONE ESTIMATE alone in the contest IF YOU OO NOT WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, Such
[remittance n this basis, merely pays 'send' for the privilege "Lis' of sending the estimate. If you forwarded wish to at make the a number time estimates of estimates are
you may TFiKEE Tl AIATES FOR EVERY $1.00 subscriptions, the same seiylcr forward
h*'m' (ut if as many as ten estimates are received at the same time without order, ’ A postal may card receipt
with ..... oniy $3.00— this splendid discount being offered for ten estimates in . one “
nil be sent for ABE ESTIMATES RECEIVED WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS, Where subscriptions are or
ered THE ARF.IVAE OF THE B \PER ITSELF IS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE
HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND IS CAREFULLY RECORDED.
5. The money and the subs, ription .and the estimate must come in the same envelope every time. The es
Imate, the money and the Subscription go together. THIS RULE IS POSITIVE.
“• Agents allowed an estimate in thi3 contest on each yearly subscription, doubled on Sunny Sou.h combina
on orders. ..n agent sending estimates only may tile as many estimates for hirnsel! as he may secure for his
tstomcr. Send at once for agents' outlit.
■ • In case of a tie upon any prize estimate the money will be equally divided.
File Your Estimates Early. The advantage of an early estimate is shown in the extra
iz°n ranging from $2,500 if an exact estimate be received on or before February 20th, 100”. to $1,000 i f re
)yed ce l to on the or before §2,500 A pril 10t h. ] The extra sum offered conditionally lor an exact estimate will be
First prize in each case.
STAT1DT3CD Os ST FtVC VEAKd:
II c • 1 11 io'.v 4lf I ;st;cH covering t Me cro -1 perio I ot ’His content compiled by Socrvtury Tlonry G. lies, er, of 1 V‘ X rv Orlean i Cotton J x
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t tiesc i over from SoptertiD t 1h« o- ch retr, throu^ i M at ist of Mie 17 llovvin j ye it. covorinij the exact suction “I otton year that
' < ni nte-st ' ur '‘‘ on inc.uas, und \Ve niso *-jvo n» thrr column the total number ot cotton halts hi whole It crpp covers tor only e-yh tue cotton tot.il season. ^.ccyipts Tnia of is Gotton riven at only all
. Sbta.o* no on** is t» ibinK that ihe present v. intcat covers the total crop.
oi Ports, fur the dates mootioncil in thi) coutcsl.
SECRETARY HESTER S (FiCUESS COVERING THE PERIOD OF THE CONTEST.
TOTAL POTT RECEIPTS BALES IW TOTAL CROP
CCTJON SEASON 'rout I -t Sep*, tf, »t of M il j, For live years, for information
inclusive, of foi.uwiiitc yenr. only.
1897- 95 8.333.862............ ..................;.....;...................... ....... I 1.199,994
...... ...... Il.274.8-r0
1898- 99 ......... ...... 7.993.451............... ............................................ 9.436.413
1839 00 ............ 6.346.3 I 2 ............ ............................ 10.333,422
1900- 01 ............. .......6.843.134 .............. 10.630.680
1901- 02 ................. ........7,218,179 ..........»••• ..............................................
Secretary Henry G. Hester, of New Orleans Cotton xi hange, will furnish tlie ofiicia! figures to de
'lv tliis contest. Mr. Hester is regarded as the official s-tat istieian throughout the cotton world.
I fur Giastitation and Sunny South with Two Estimates. CotKiiiions of the Contest.
I 1 hereby subscribe to The Weekly Constitution and Sunny
■ outh both one year and enclose $1.23 in payment. The condition precedent to sending estimates on the [gj
sfyou wish ONLY The WEEKLY Constitution semi $1.03 Total Port both Receipts inclusive, of Cotton is that ist each Sept., and rpc>2, every to entry May f3j fjl
ami omy ONE estimate in the contest. If only the Sunny ist, root, be accompanied, by R3
I ‘"' ou -th send of estimates must a year's 'The sub-
30c and ONE estimate. scription to The Weekly Constitution or Sunny Kj
Name.......................................... South or the remittance They provided for estimates with
out subscripti ms. must be sent in the identi- §1
. . ...... that brings the that for the 9
Postofiiee cal envelope subscription. money You pays
estinutes or the cannot subscribe m
Slate....................................................... now and send In your estimates afterwards. Ijfl px
My two In sending your estimate b.v an agent of The Con
rent offers estimat es for Port Iteccipts contest, per your cur- fa-warding shtuti m you your make estimates, him your both agent as to and the not correctness ours, in fl pa
’ ) are: of the figures as you intended them and the certainty H
°n Total Port Ite- of In the making forwarding your cf answer them. just state simply: "I esti- g S
ceipt-i September J, 1st mate the total port receipts ist of September, *902.
1Jo ,, to May I, 1903, through Miy ist. iqot,---h.Vea.” Make your
p* both 2d figures plain. VVe wii! record them as received every
inclusive.. dav, EXACTLY AS THEY LOOT AND WILL AL¬
LOW NO CHANGE WHATEVER. If you want to
make estimates later, or if vou want to repeat the es¬
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CP Address ai! orders to THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. «•
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BURROUGHS AROUSED
Famous Naturalist’s Criticism
of Thompson Seton’s Stories.
E 1310 XE 3 CAUGHT 1 H A TIIE TEAT
Aefonnt* of Rej-nnrd’a Tricks Itldl
colod l*r lie Aced Author of Aat*
urul History— He Say» There Are
Xo Schools For Wild AiUmnl*—Ao
Mathematical Crows,
Joha Burroughs, our representative
prose poet, says the New York Auier
;ean. whose exotic reminiscences are
of wild thyme odors, mingled with the
brier rose scent of the Hudson valley
and the Catskills, has fallen across the
path of Ernest Thompson Seton (Seton
Thompsou that was), the author, who
has blended the love of Action with the
love of nature in his animal novel,
"Wild Appeals I Have Known.”
In the current Atlantic Monthly Mr.
Burroughs says that Mr. Setou’s book
justifies the phrase. '“Sham Natural
History”—that is, Mr. Burroughs play¬
fully pulls Mr. Seton over very hot
coals by saying that the line between
fact and fiction is deliberately crossed
and that the reader is thrown Into such
a spell that he does not know he has
crossed into the land of make believe.
Mr. Burroughs is a naturalist him¬
self, and a thoroughgoing countryman,
a tiller of the soil rather than ft slave
of the pen, and when he has things to
say docs so wholly untrammeled and
unhurried and very interestingly. Prob¬
ably be would never have written bis
paper, "Beal and Sham Natural His¬
tory,” if Mr. Seton had not with em¬
phatic assertion protested that his
stories were true. It is this which has
riled Mr. Burroughs, and which, he
writes, "makes the judicious grieve. *«
No expert student, wrijes Mr. Bur¬
roughs. has anything to report that
comes within gunshot of what appears
to have boon Mr. Seton's daily experi¬
ence, and no other person in the world
has ever seen such dogs, wolves, foxes,
rabbits, mustangs or crows.
Mr. Burroughs writes that Mr. So¬
lon's stories are pleasing, but lie insists
that it is not the way to write books on
natural history. "Why did he not say
that their groundwork was fact mid
their finish fiction?” asks the old farm¬
er and companion of wild life. "Why
does ho constantly aim to convey the
idea that wild creatures drill and in¬
struct their young, even punishing them
at times for disobedience of orders?
There is not a shadow of truth in it.”
About Mr. Seton’s well known fox
story Mr. Burroughs writes; “Every
hunter knows that the fox when pur¬
sued by hounds will often resort to
devices that look like cunning tricks to
confuse and mislead the dog. Thus a
fox. hotly pushed, will run through a
(lock of sheep. Mr. Seton goes several
better and makes his fox jump upon
the back of a sheep and ride several
hundred yards. Of course no fox ever
did that.
“Again, the fox will sometimes take
to the railroad track and walk upon
the rail, doubtless witli tin? vague no¬
tion nf eluding his pursuers. Mr. Seton
makes liis fox so very foxy that lie de¬
liberate i lures tly? houu upon the
long trestle, where lie knows they will
be just in time to meet and be killed
by a passing train, as they are. The
presumption is that the fox had a
watch and a time tabic about his per
son—but such is the way of romance.
"in all of the animal stories of Mr.
Seton flint I have read,” continues Mr.
Burroughs, “the same liberties are tak¬
en with facts. In his story of tiie rab¬
bit Ilnggyhig he says: ‘Those who do
not know the animals may well think
I have humanized them, but those who
have lived so near them as to know
something of their ways and their
minds will not think so.’ This is the
old trick of the romancer—he swears
his tale is true because he knows his
readers want this assurance; it makes
the thing taste better. But those who
, know the .. animals , are just . . the ones
Mr. Thompson Seton cannot fool.”
In regard to Mr. Seton’s story of the
crow Silver Spot, Mr. Burroughs differs
radically from Mr. Seton. "Crows do
not dart into a bush when pursued by
a kingbird or a purple martin,” says
afraid of a hawk; they cannot count
six” (Silver Spot could count thirty);
“they do not caw when you stand un
dor them in winter to turn their course;
they do not drill their young; they do
not flock together in June; they cannot
worry a fox into giving up half ins din
nor: they do not, as far as we know.
have perpetual sentries; they have no
caiis that we can be sure answer to
our words •mount,’ ‘descend,’ ‘form
line,’ ‘forage,’ etc. It is simply Mr. Ne
ton's strokes of fancy. The crows do
not train their young. They have no
fortress or schools or colleges or exam
king bird or diplomas or medals of
honor or hospitals or churches or tele
phones or postal deliveries or anything
of that sort. Indeed, the poorest back
woods hamlet has more of the appur
tenances of civilization than the best
of organized crows or other wild ani
mal communities in the land.
“Why should any one palm off such
stuff on an unsuspecting public as ver¬
itable ‘natural history?’ When a man,
writing or speaking of his own experi¬
ence, says without qualifications that
he lias seen a thing, we are expected
to take him at his word.” And then
Mr. Burroughs suggests that the “nat¬
ural history” of Mr. Seton is quite as
correct as that of Baron Munchausen,
Latest Design In Women's Hosiery.
Here is a new design in the em¬
broidery to be seen on hosiery for wo¬
men. A single rose is worked on tbe
instep, the blossom uppermost and the
stem running down on to the foot.
They come in different colors, the
stems
i Washington, D. C., March 9.
1903. The Fifty-seventh Con
greSS, af ter expending $1,554,198,-
514, In** expired. The Senate of
the Fifty-eighth Congress, pur
! suaut to the call of the President,
! has convened in special session,
| but no business session of the new
| Se|mte ha9 been held, aside from
the one on the fifth when only the
j organization was perfected, bin
1 the bod J wiU meet at nu(H , today
There was the most sincere regret
expressed on both sides of the
chamber at the retirement of Sen
a ter Vest who has served with
brilliancy domociats at the return
of Arthur Pue Gorman of Mary
land. Soon after the reorganiza
tion of the Senate the democrats
held u caucus and elected Senator
Gorman chairman, thus restoring
him to his old place as leader of
the party in the senate. No pul
icy lias ns yet been adopted with
regard to the pending treaties,
that remaing for the deterniinu
tion uf the democratic steering
committee.
The republican steering com¬
mittee has held a meeting at which
it was determined to press the
Panama canal treaty first.
source is adopted with the hope of
tiring out Senator Morgan who
persists in his opposition to the
treaty as negotiated. Senator
German has been credited with
opposition to both treaties by
certain newspapers but when seen
by your correspondent Mr. Gur
uian said, “There fa no ground for
the statements that, have been
published with regard to my atti¬
tude Inwards the treahes. J liaVi
never seen the Columbian treaty
and certainly would not firm m:
opinion regarding it until I had
studied its provisions. It Senator
Morgan’s claims are correct o!
course 1 would oppose it, but 1
must study it for myself before i
cun puss judgment. When I
in the Senate before, i did favo;
tile Nicaraugan rutile and 1 pie
sumo on that fact is 1 ased the as
sumption that I will do so befoie
I exprtss an opinion in regard to
its provisions although 1 am will¬
ing to admit that f'lom a superlb
cial view 1 am inclined to favor
it. 1 *
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Senator Vest, when seen bv your
correspondent after adjournment
said, . impossible . , predict
^.t is to
the future with accuracy but
j tlus uulch , ■ b „ gaid . if tbe
| present prosperity continues there
will be no possibility of deinoei'at
• the ., next , presiden- • .
ic success, ’ in 1
tial election. The republicans
vv j[j attribute tile prosperity to
pt; ld . at , ollc .. w,th . .
“ P P y r c
gard to the Dingley tariff and the
, )eo{) j 0 w jjj take them at their
"old. If, on the o.liei hand hard
times should come*before the fall
ol jQQd the people will sav they
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ti:e due f° ti lists or to tile ,
tariff and will demand a change,
The „ has beeu nu legislation at
tbe past session of Congress winch
enraged the trusts, no legislation
wh|<jh wil] proVP seriously harm
I’ll then ends and mnbituns. .
to
j it h !lS been largely a play to the
,- al | eries . However, with such
legislation on the statutes, tile
,
trusts would infinitely prefer that
\ lhf . ir . uiniln i str ation should be in
i trusted to the republicans rather
timn to llie democrats, 11
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It generally anticipated that 1
is,
the leadership of Mr. Gorman will
prove more aggressive and pro¬
gressive than tiiat of Senator
.Touts who has just retired. Mr.
Jones position has, in the main,
been one of passive resistance and
no brilliant policies have been
conceived or executed under his
' ‘ uithuice. Senator Gorman is
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counting on considerable assist
a nee from Suiator Stone, of
souri, who also favors a vigorous
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policy. While Senator Carma-*k
was elected secretary of the cau¬
: cus, it is epeeted that Mr Sion**
j will he the real ••oadjutator <*i the
Senator from Maryland wh**i ne
tive operations in the Seu.it * are
begun.
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There is genuine anxiety on
both sides cf the Senate with re¬
tard tii Senator Morgan’s opjjosi
non to the Panama canal treaty.
It is feared that the old gentl email
—he is 79 years old—will permit
his mental vigor to overstrtrin ms
physical strength in his effort t<»
defeat the purpose of the Senate,
Night sessions will not be in-id
immediately, it being the present
purpose of the republicans jo tiro
out the venerable Alabamian with
a continued ser.es of four or the
hour sessions, at which, unles.**
his colleagues come to his res ■ •in-.
he will be compelled to speak con¬
tinuously. If the democrats' de¬
termine to help Mr. Morgan both
treaties can lie defeated as it will
be impussible for the republicans
no maintain a quorum iuf a pro¬
tracted session.
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An instance of tlie careless
met hods of legislation pursued by
q ongress is furnished by two dis¬
coveries just made in the i’.ng a
tion bill. Entirely unwittingly
this law has been made to a; ; lv
to till of the insular pnsessio of
the United States, whereas it was
intended to apply only t U i ill?
United States proper. It wil
thus interfere with the ivar de¬
partment, the Philippine commis¬
sion, etc. Another error, wlr.cu
may not have been made so un¬
wittingly, is the failure t in in'.i- i
Vide any penalty for the violation
against the infraction of the j r .
vision prohibiting the sale of
liquor in the national capit‘4.
Thy law went into effect on the
3rd of March but no order h,.s
been issued to the capitol rest a li¬
ra uteur to stop the sale of liquor.
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Several provisions in the appro¬
priation lulls of the last sessn a
augur material prosperity for the
city of Washington during the
next few years. Nearly $20,000,
000 is to be expended here for
public buildings alone. The new
union depot will cost $5,000,000,
the municipal building will $1,-
50 1,000 and an ollice building for
the use ot members of the House
will cost upwards of $8,000,000,
and a new building for the De¬
part meat o f Ag ncuiture is to cost
$1,500,000. A hull of Records to
cost $2,000,000, a new* Natiomrl
Museum to cost $8,500,00, and a
number of minor buildings com¬
plete the list. While the appro¬
priation for the Department of
Agriculture is only $1,500,000,
Secretary Wilson expects to se¬
cure additional appropriations
from the next Congress amount¬
ing to at le as $2,000,000 more.
Miss Roosevelt and Miss Hoot,
who went to New Orleans for the
carnival and visited other south¬
ern cities, have returned to Wash¬
ington enthusiastic over southern
hospitality. They also speak with
the highest praise of the courtsy
of tho newspapers cf the south
which treated them with the ut¬
most consideration.
cp.ta.iEnx'oirs.rr-A..
Bears the Tiia Kind You Hava Always Eaugjit
Signature
ri K /-< Ute¬
Farmers cf Newton.
I will be able to sell you cotton
seed hulls and meal at the lowest
cash price, during tho entire year.
M ould be glad to have you see me
when you need hulls or meal. See
me or J. S. Gardner.
S. I.. ALMAND.—tf.
The Kx-nim- for the news.