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THK liK in* : NnsKPHlsfc, COVINGTON, UA. FRIDAY. MARCH 20 1903.
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Endoubtedly we have brought bao z from I
New York the choicest line of goods ever
shown in Covington. Every ladv should i inaKe 1
our store their headquarters, We have a
special counter of 10 cent French G-inghams
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Chambreys and Madras, che very kind for
Wash Shirt waist suits. The regular price of
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 these Bargains as long as they last.
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pon ToiaS Poa'i ESece'pts of Cotton from September 1st, 1902, to
fi/Say 1st, 1933, Both Endhasaire,
IG'TEST OPENED JAPUJ1RY 23ih, 1303. CLOSES APRIL 20th, 1303.
thc cash b=>p5B2se:s.
r tho oxact (or nearest to tho exact) estimate of the receipts of cotton at at! United V
Statos Ports from Sopteinbar 1st, 1 002, to May 1st, 1903, both inclusivo .............. $2,500.00 j. 9
r tho next noaract o i to 1,000,00 I
r tho next nearest ostimato........................... GOO.OO E
rtho 0 next nearest estimates $ ICO.CO each 500.00 |
x tho 10 next noarset estimates $50,00 each <r. goo.oo
rthe i 0 next nearest estimates $20,00 each 200.00 1
the 30 next nearest ostimates $10,00 oaa h 300. CO X
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x tho 100 naxt nearest estimates $5.00 each GOO.CO 1
CONSOLATION OFTCR. $G,COO.CO
ORAiMO
t distribution among those estimates (not tak.ng anv of the above 153 prizes) coming within
l,tOo bales either way of tha exact figure................................................................. 1 , 500.00
Oonditional Pc-lzo for Sarly Cxact Estimato.
lonid the exact figure be jg.ven durin x the conte-t we wLl add to the £2,500.00, if the exact es
tnuae be received on or boiore February 2>th, 19 d3.................................................. 2 , 500.00
Grand Total S 10 . 000.00
Additional Conditional Offors for Early Exocii Cctimato.
lould the exact estimate not tie named on <>r before Feb. 20th, but be made on or before
March loth, 19015, we will add to the $2,500.09 lir^t prize ......................................8 1.500.00 2
lou'.d the exact estimate not lie named on or before March 19th. but should itcome after
March 10th, aud on or be.ore April lOtii, 190,5, we will add to the $2,500x0 first prize...... 1,000.00 ;
Conditions of Sending Estimates in This Port Receipts Contest.
1. Send $1.00 for The Weekly Constitution one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. ft)
2. Send 50e for The Sunny South one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest.
t>. Send $1.25 for The Weekly Constitution and Sunny South both one year and send TWO ESIIMATES In
,e contest—that is, one estimate for The Constitution and another for The Sunny South.
4. Send 5l)c for ONE ESTIMATE aione in the contest IF YOU DO NOT W ANT A StjBSCRII __ TION. such
remittance merely nays for the privilege of sending the estimate. If 3 ’ou wish to make a number of estimates
i this basis, you may send TOREK ESTIMATES FOR EVERY $1.00 forwarded at the same time estimates are
nt If as many as ten estimates are received at the same time without subscriptions, the sender may forward
iem with only $d.uo—this splendid discount being offered for ten estimates in one order. A postal card receipt
ill b<- sent for ALE ESTIMATES RECEIVED WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS. Where subscriptions are or
!! 'ed THE ARRIVAL OF THE PAPER ITSELF IS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE
IAS BEEN RECEIVED AND 13 CAREFULLY RECORDED,
o- The money an,) the subscription and the estimate must come in the same envelope every time. The es
na T’ 6. Agents money and the Subscription pro together. THIS RULE' subscription, IS POSITIVE. doubled on Sunny Sou.h comnina
>n orders, allowed an estimate in this contest on each yearly estimates himself he may secure for his
An agent sending estimates only may file as many for as
stomer. Send at once for agents’ outfit.
‘ In case of a tie upon any prize estimate the money will be equally divided.
FS!© Your Fstimntes Earlv. The advantage of an early estimate is shown in the extra
zes raii|fiug from $2,500 if an exact estimate be received on or before February 20th, 1903, to $1,000 it re
yed •ed to ou the or before 52,500 April First 10th, 1903. each The extra sum offered conditionally for an exact estimate w ill be
prize i:i case.
CSF~ F=>>W2EST F" I YE A RS :
'* e 1 ’ >»low Statistics cover in- t':c*n tact perio 1 of Oils contest compied by Secretary Henry G. Hester, of fh" New Orleant Cotton Ei
■■ ■ 111680 i tho exact section «l the< otton vear.tlmt
- tei cover from Sente mh'r late eh veu.tnrou;. Me 1 st of iao Mlowia? ye ir, coverin ; each cotton This is.«ivou only
L " * ino-u.M-fs. We also pivc m anotlif r column the total i umber of bales in whole crop lor season.
it, ant * no on ’ is l i thin x that the present <• covers thb lottil cotton crop. It covers only the tot.il receipts of Cotton at all
( ules 1‘orts, for tho Gates mentioned in this contest.
t) SECRETARY HESTER’S FIGURES COVER3HC THE PERIOD OF THE CONTEST.
TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS BALES IN TOTAL CROP
OTTCN season From 1 «t Sept. l:» i st of May, For five years, for inlormation
inclusive, of fnl.owint! your onl> .
1897- 98 .........8.333.852..... ... I 1.199,994
....... I 1.274.840
1898- 99 ............... .........7.993,451....... ...
1899- 00 ........... 6.345.312 ... 9.436.413
1900- ...... 10.383.422
01' .............. ........6,843.134 ...... 10,680,680
1901- 02 ................. ........7,218.179 ...... •
Secretary Henry (t. Hester, of New Orleans Cotton Exchange, will furnish the official figures to de
e this contest. Mr. Hester is legarded as the official statistician throughout the cotton world.
for Constitution and Sunny South with Two Estimates. Conditions of the Contest.
* hereby subscribe to The Weekly Constitution and Sunny
> south both
one year and enclose $1.25 in payment. The condition precedent to sending: estimates on the
Dyou wish ONLY The WEEKLY Constitution send $ 1.00 Total Port both Receipts inclusive, of Cotton is that ist each Sept., and 1902, every to entry May
■nd only one estimate in the contest. If only the Bumay 1st, repp accompanied by year's sub¬
|°uth of estimates must be a
send 50c aud ONE estimate. scription to The Weekly Constitution or The Sunny
Name............ South or the remittance They provided for estimates in idenfi- with¬
out subscriptions, must be sent the
Postoffice.......................................................... cal envelope that brings the money that pays for the
estimates or the subscription. You cannot subscribe
State.. nowand send in your estimates afterwards.
My two ..................................................... In sending your estimate by an agent ot The Con¬
estimated for Port Receipts contest, 114 per your cur- stitution you make him your agent and not ours, in
•ut offers, are: forwarding your estimates, both as to the correctness
of the figures as you intended them and the certainty
V Total Port of the forwarding cf them.
Re- 1st In making your answer just state simply: "I esti¬
:ipts September 1, mate the total port receipts --bales.” ist of September, Make 1902,
P° 2 . to May ], 1903 through May ist. We 1901. will - record them received your
fioth inclusive. , 2d figures n'on. as WILL every
dav EXACTLY AS THEY LOOK AND AL¬
LOW NO CHANGE WHATEVER. If you want to
make estimates later, or if you want to repeat the es¬
TWO ESTIMATES FOB THIS CONTEST. timate you have made, send other subscriptions.
Address all orders lo THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. *
! LIVE NEWS FRESH FROM
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BY ENTERPRISE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. >
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Georgia News and Views.
Senator lillman has been invited
f to of deliver a lecture for the benefit
! the Augusta T. P. A.’s.
Augusta is getting ready for her
j municipal election. so far only
two candidates for mayor have an
nounced.
The '1 imes Recorder wants the
Ocean Steam-hip Company to
name one of its new vessels for the
city of Atnericus.
A great deal of lumber is being
shipped from Rochelle, and the
loading of it on cars gives employ¬
ment to a good force of hands.
During the week there was ship
pel) from the port of Darien, coast¬
wise a: k 1 foreign, 2 645.232 fiet of
,
timber and lumber valued at $ 37 ,-
400 .
The election to fill the unexpired
term of Sheriff Gibbs of Wilcox
county will he held on Wednesday,
April 8 . Only one candidate has
announced so far.
Comparatively few negroes are
seen about Irwinton now, and
those who depend on day laborers
to cultivate their gardens and
patches are put to a lot of trouble.
Early county fanners aie com
municating with Hon. Hurvie
Jordan, and a meeting will likely
be called in the near iuture to take
steps to secure a farmer’ institute
for Blakely.
Clinch County News: We have
not noticed that the president has
nominated any negro youths to
Annapolis or West Point. Is he
willing to close these “doors of
Lop ;” to the colored race?
Hon. Dudley M. Hughes will
address the citizens of Twiggs
county Wednesday, April 8 t!i, in
Jeffersonville on matters of vital
importance to the farmers, not
only of Twiggs county, but the
entire state.
Darien Gazette: The pear trees
are all i ut in snowy white and
make a beautiful appearance—but
that’s Ml, as the blight lias long
igo gotten in its work—and, ns
usual iliere will be no pears this
SOUS* II.
Speaking of the sugar cane con
v?n i uni, to be held in Macon, the
Sparta I-hmaelite says: It is a
g ,od movement and deserves cn
couiagemeut. Georgia should <n
gage heirtilv in it. Sugar and
syrup for export should be pro¬
duced in this state. A greater and
sweeter Georgia lies in that direc¬
tion ■
Pelham Journal: If the hogs of
this see ion displayed any intelli¬
gent foresight they would give one
long aud united grunt of approval
over the large amount of pinders
that are being planted in this coun¬
try this season. Something like
12,000 pounds of pinders have
been received at the depot at Pel
hom within the last two or three
weeks alone, This all means hog
raising and as the hog must die
anyway it would seem that he
would look forward with much
gratification to such a feast as
must be in store for him this fall.
One hundred families in Greer
county, Texas have formed a col¬
ony and will move to Mexico.
They have bought 200,000 acres of
land 125 miles west of Tampico
and will engage in raising cattle,
hogs, ('ranges, lemons, bananas
and ether tropical fruits. So
they don’t seem contented in
Texas.
A story is told of a Kansas man
who thought to prepare himself
tor ins wedding ceremony by
learning the marriage service “by
heart.”—When the critical time
cimeand the Minister ask ad if
anyone knew u reason why this
man and woman should not be
j fined together, the young man
cheerfully responded, “L renounce
the divil and all his works. > >
“Are you a fool?” tartly inquir¬
ed the parson, 7 7 t l All Ibis I
steadfastly believe,” confidently
replied the groom. He bad mere¬
ly made the mistake of learning
the baptismal eonvenant.—Kx.
Washington, March 16 , 1903 .—
The democrats in the Senate have
i been seriously misrepresented with
regard to their attitude toward the
Panama canal,” said Senator Ar¬
thur P. Gorman, the democratic
leader, when asked to make a
statement by your correspondent,
“The democrats,” he continued
< t hold the view that an
treaty of this character should not
! be treated as a party measure it
I should be considered and perfected
according to the best judgment of
the Senate. A majority in Con
' without regard to party,
gress,
vors the construction of. an isth
inian canal as is demonstrated by
the fact that the act authorizing
such a canal received almost unan¬
imous support from members ot
both parties. The minority be¬
lieves that the treaty negotiated by
Secre'ary Hay requires several
amendments in order to bring it
into harmony Vfith the act of Con
gress under which it was nego¬
tiated and to safe-guard the inter¬
ests of the United States. Article
23 is an obvious violation of that
provision of the Spooner act which
provides that the United States
shall acquire the right to police,
protect and govern the strip
through which the canal shall pass
in a way that obviously implies
sovereignty. These facts have
been presented to the republican
leaders and some of them appre
ciate the force of the democratic
contentions. What their course
will be I am not prepared to pre¬
dict. > I
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Just alter Mr. Gorman made the
above statement, the republican
steering committee held a meeting
to consider the program for the re¬
mainder of the special session and
determined to ratify, if possible,
the Panama canal treaty as it
stands. They iurllier decided to
accept the amendment offered <
Senator Bacon in the committee on
Foreign Relations, and adopted by
that committee, which provides
that tiie Cuban treaty shall not go
into effect until it has been “up
proved by the Congress. 7 y An
agreement has been reached be -1
tween the leaders of both parties to
read the canal treaty today for
amendment, all speeches being
limited to fifteen minutes duration
and to permit two hours debate,
followed by a vote tomorrow. The
Cuban treaty will then be taken
up in earnest, and, as amended,
will lie ratified and adjournment
taken immediately afterwards,
is deemed probable that the special
session will adjourn the latter part
of this week, although no definite
decision has been reached.
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The President does not hesitate
to say tkat he regrets the adoption
of the Bacon amendment to the
Cuban treaty and he has threaten¬
ed to call both houses of Congress
in special session to pass the legis
laiion necessary to put the terms
of the treaty into effect. Such a
course would meet with no oppo¬
sition from the majority of the
democrats whose only object in se¬
curing the adoption of the amend¬
ment was to avoid a violation of
th * constitution, but the republi
■
: can leaders, many ot whom are se
! cretly .;pp<>sed io any form of
ciprocity because they lear it
means the beginning of the end of
W. B. SHEPHERD
Is carrying a lull line of FANCY AND FAMILY GROCcR
iES. TOBACCO AND A FINE LINE OF CIGARS.
In connection we haae a MEAT MARKET. Give as a
trial order. Goods delivered promptly.
W B. SHEPHERD,
IN SHEPHERD BUILDING.
the protective system, ex ..res*
themselves as^emphaticaily ■ r P" s
ed to an extra session before elec¬
tion and it is probable that Mr.
Roosevelt will give heed to their
wishes, aud if he calls an • xtra
session at all, refrain from so d,.mg
until next November. He asserts
now that he will certaiuly do: Ml
then if not before,
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Senator Aldrich is believed t < »
|, e preparing to urge his finan ial
bill, with possibly some moditi ;a
tions, next winter. He lots •>!>
the consent of the S mnio
to call his committee 111 ses-uo 1
during die recess and, as 11 is
known that lie does not content*
plate any tariff revision, i< u
believed his purpose is t«> triune
some sort of currency leginlutiou.
It is generally conceded that
the Fowler currency bill, even if
j ; t p aS8H8 the House, will be r. je 0( -
ed by the Senate. The upper
chamber, at least in so far as the
majority is concerned, is unalter¬
ably opposed t<> any form of llat
currency, which is what the F i I W -
ler hills provide for. An exten¬
sion of tile banking system of
currency along lines agn e Hue t«>
j p| )f , na i i () ^ a j | )rt |,kar may be ex
peeled from the A Id rich commit -
tee ttn( i doubt less a serious eft 1 rt.
j to accomplish such enactment
,, ext se 88 i OM wl n t, e
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The President now contemplates
starting on his limiting tour • >o
April loth. No dales linv I 1 be.-,*
postively made as it lias heeu im¬
possible to do so without knowing
when Congress would adjourn,
with one exception, The i'l. si¬
dent has promised to be pres >nr.
at the dedicatory exercis.sof ihe
St. Louis exposition. Mr. R 1 *
velt savs that he is not goimr to
Colorado with any set purpose of
limiting, but will of course, t ike
his guns. He will visit the Yel¬
lowstone National Park and tli-re
hopes to find relief from the st re li¬
tmus life and the crowds a Inch
will meet him at all munis i
farther east.
The “lady-imigraiit inspectors 1 J
appointed by Secretary Shaw at
Li request, of the \V oniatis Cin ts
* ian Temperance Union, have not
successful. They will be re
tfined for tlie ninety days for
which they were appointed but it
i 3 11<nv deemed prooable that will
ciid their tenure of office. Thus
Lir they have not detected a sin
gle instance of a young woman
brought t o this country' f< >r
improper purposes and they have
met with many rebuffs, as the
young women who travel first and
second cabin seriously object to
being singled out for a special in¬
spection based, apparently upon
the belief that their moral charac¬
ter is deficient. There is no fault
found with t lie “lady inspectors J >
themselves, who have performed,
their difficult work to the best of
their ability, but it is not bu'ieved
that the system is practicable.
The advocates of this system of
inspection are urged to make pro¬
vision for lepresentatives of ! lieir
organizations on the docks where,
it is claimed, they can do more
effective work than ou board ship.
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