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APRIL 4, 1903
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THE SUNNY SOUTH
Qualifications for Membership In
Society of the Cincinnati
Written for TTAo f'lnnr Font’S
. HE SOCIETY OF THE
CINCINNATI was organ
ized in the state of Geor
gia in September, 1783. On
May 13, 1783, continental
officers of the army met at
the Verplank house, near
Fishkill, on the Hudson
river, to organize a milt-
tary order to commemo-
rate the securing of peace
and independence to the
United States and to' form
a tie of friendship among
the brother officers, the right of mem-
Eership to descend to the eldest son.
The following institution was then adopt
ed and never changed:
“It having pleased the Supreme Gov
ernor of the Universe, in the disposition
of human affairs, to cause the separation
of the colonies of North America from
the domination of Groat Britain, and
after a bloody conflict of eight years to
establish them free, independent and sov
ereign states, connected by alliances,
founded on reciprocal advantage, with
some of the greatest princes and powers
of the earth—
“To perpetuate, therefore, as well the
remembrance of this vast event as the
mutual friendships which have been
formed under the pressure of common
danger, and. in many instances, cement
ed by the blood of the parties, the offi
cers of the American army do. hereby,
in the most solemn manner, associate,
constitute and combine themselves into
one society of friends, to endure as long
as they endure or any of their eldest male
posterity, and in failure thereof, the col
lateral branches who may be judged
worthy of becoming its supporters and
members.
“The officers of the American army,
having generally been taken front the
citizens of America, possess high venera
tion for the character of that illustrious
Roman, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, and
being resolved to follow his example by
returning to their citizenship, they think
they may. with propriety. denominate
rhemselves the Society cf the Cincin
nati."
The institution then went on to say “an
Incessant attention to preserve inviolate
those exalted rights and liberties for
which they had fought and bled—an unal
terable determination to promote and
cherish between the respective states
that union and national honor so essen
tially necessary to their happiness and
the future dignity of the American em
pire. To render permanent the cordial
affection subsisting among the officers,
this spirit will dictate brotherly kind
ness in ail things and particularly extend
to the most substantial acts of benefi
cence according to the ability of the so
ciety towards those officers and their
families who unfortunately may be under
the necessity of receiving it. All the
officers of the American army, as well
as these who have resigned with honor
after three years' service in the capacity
of officers or who have been deranged
by the resolution of congress upon the
several reforms of the army, as those
who shall have continued to the end of
the war. have the right to become par
ties to this institution, provided, that i
they subscribe one month's pay and sign I
their names to the general rules."
Where the institute speaks of the Amor- I
lean army it means the officers of the con- '
tinental army. There were thirteen state I
societies constituted in the United States |
and one in France. In 1784 the French |
1-aval officers sent General George Wash- I
ington the insignia or eagle of the order 1
Tiie Society’s Emblem
set in diamonds. This has been worn by
each of the president generals.
In 1854 the society decided to admit as
members the proper descendant of a
continental officer, who had a right to
become an original member but who did
not. upon the payment of a certain sum,
to be fixed by each state society. Thus in
Massachusetts the amount required is
$700, while in Rhode Island. New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania $500 is
charged.
The honor of membership from an orig
inal member descends to the eldest lineal
male descendant at common law of sucli
propositus. The hereditarily entitled ap
plicant must, however, apply to the
standing committee and b'c found wor
thy, otherwise he may be excluded and
the next in succession taken. Such se
lection would not. however, exclude the
proper heir subsequently born of the
eldest line on the happening of a va
cancy.
Where the direct male line of an origi
nal member is extinct and there are
descendants through intervening female
descendants, each state society claims the
right of selection. Where there are no
descendants of an original member, then
the collateral branch judged worthy is
accepted, and the general rule in such
cases is to take the eldest direct male
descendant of the eldest brother of the
original member, although this is not im
perative.
The same rules of descent apply in
cases where the applicant's ancestor was
not an original member, but was entitled
to have been one, or died in service, or
was killed or mortally wounded in ac
tion.
As the original members of the society
ir Georgia were amongst the most dis
tinguished continental officers of the rev
olutionary army, who risked their all for
their country and state, and the Georgia
society having been revived, it is hoped
those entitled to membership who have
not applied to have their names enrolled
to represent theid distinguished ancestor,
will do so. either to iVin. Walter G.
Charlton, president of the Georgia So
ciety, at Savannah, Ga., or G. Noble
Jones, Savannah. Ga., secretary, or
Thomas Savage Clay, assistant treasurer,
107 Wall street. New York. There is no
charge for admission to the descendant
of an original member of the Georgia
Society.
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There was need of something above the ordi
nary method of treatment for chronic diseases,
something more than any one specialist or any
number tof specialists acting‘independently
could do, so the State itself, under the powers
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such help as would make them well and strong,
j Ever slnco Its establishment this Institute lias
endeavored in every possible way to carry out
] the original purposes of its establishment under
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i Three years ago, the Physicians* Institute,
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Household Letters
CONTINUED FROM NINTH PAGE.
thin and careworn, and then call for
more!"
The devil has somehow got into the ma-
Four tumblers of a delicious preserve
chir.es.
They came like the good gnomes and
fairies of old. to be our willing slaves
ami make our iives easy.
Now that, by their help, one man can do
the work of a score, why have we
not plenty for all, with only enough
work to keep us happy?
Who could have foreseen all the ills of
our factory workers and of those who are.
displaced and east aside l>v factory
work?
TESTIMONY OF THE POET’S FLIR
TATION.
T have been deeply interested in trie
attacks made some time ago upon the
divine passion bv some of the brilliant
stars of the Husehold galaxy. Some
times 1 shivered at their onslaught, bui
thought and felt in silence until a brave
young knight rushed gallantly to the
rescue. His boldness transformed my
apathy into effort and I now enroll myself
under Cupid's banner and call to my
aid the testimony of the host of famous
men and women who have believed as
I believe in such:
"Love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable
and pure:
No fears to beat away; no strife to heal:
The past unsighed for. and the future
sure.’’
Lord B^con wrote: “A crowd is not
company; faces are but a gallery of
pictures and talk but a tinkling cyniboi,
where there is no love.”
The gifted Madam de Stael declared:
“Love is t’>e emblem of eternity. It con
founds all notions of time effaces all
memory of a beginning—all fear of an
end."
Disraeli, the statesman, said: “We are
all born for love. It is the principle of
existence and its only end and aim."
Emerson, the scholar, wrote: “Love,
which is the essence of God, is not for
levity, hut for total worth.”
Swedenborg declared: “Love is the life
of man." and Schiller added: “Love guides
the mortal to the maker." Thackeray
■wrote: “It is best to love wisely, no
doubt, but to love foolishly is better
than not to love at all."
Miss Mulock expressed her opinion:
“Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love the master, goes in and out
Just as he please, just as he please.”
Our Whittier evidently thought the
same, for he wrote:
“O. rank is good, and gold is fair
And high and low mate ill;
But love has never known a law
Beyond its own sweet will!”
Scott was a shrewd observer, and his
opinion carries weight. He wrote;
“Love rules the court, the camp, the
grove.
And men below, and saints above.
For love is heaven and heaven is love.''
Shakespeare, the inimitable expert in
the study of men. women and emotions,
rendered the verdict: "There’s beggaiy
in the love that can be reckoned.”
Lord Byron, whose tragic life and death
could not dim the halo of genius that
had already immortalized liirn in tiie lite
rary world said: “Without hearts there
can be no home." Living, he was exiled
from England’s shores; dead, he was de
nied a resting place in far-famed West
minster. Yet more than human intelli
gence guided his gifted pen when tie
wrote:
“Curious fool! be still!
is human love the growth of human
will?”
Then in “The Giaour” he declared:
“Love, indeed, is light from heaven,
A spark of that immortal fire,
With angels shared, bu Alla given
To lift to heaven our low desire."
Bobbie Burns. Scotland’s sweet singer,
whose life became early enveloped in
melancholy's cloud (thanks to a business
marriage), wrote:
“Never met or never parted.
We had ne'er been brxiken hearted."
Those who do not love seldom feel any
great joy nor experience any great sor
row, but such Dersonaltiies arc rare,
since nlan is the masterpiece of God,
created in His image, and God is incai-
nate love!
Flirtation is an accursed habit of mod
ern times which seems inwrought info
the very framework of civic society, and
young folk of this generation n:*erj a
pilot to guide them safely between the
Scylia of familiarity and the Charybdts
of prudery. The passions are the winds
which urge our ships forward, and reason
the only pilot to steer them; the ship
could make slight progress without the
winds and without the pilot it would be
lost.
You may substitute false limbs and
false teeth for natural ones—may suu-
stitute artificial for solar light—but love
has no counterfeit. Hearts may be at
tracted by assumed qualities, but the af
fections are fixed only by qualities that
are real. .
Nature must a^d will have equilibrium.
PtjplNE
am
csssM
Out of sorts
with
Soap Powders
- then your pack
age does not look
like this
Never a complaint
Pearline
Similar traits of character prompt* mu
tual love by promoting mutual happi
ness, while inherent antagonism alienates
i each by creating mutual dissatisfaction.
| The key note of concord drowns al! minor
| notes of discord.
| I have tried to establish, more firmly,
l tiie throne of the little blind god—tried
i to show of a truth that love is all in all,
1 and that tiie sad old earih needs most
of all an enveloping blanket of love that
would make mortals not kin, but kind.
As Virgil hath declared, “Love conquers
all things—let us yield to love." the great
est thing in the world! HEX.
Texas.
IT DOES NOT MaKE OR MAR US.
Old Maid No. 2. I want to give you a
hearty handshake for your defense of us
farmers’ daughters. You. and also Bet,
in her excellent letter, depicted truthfully
the work and the daily life of the girl
on the farm. That life has its trials, but
its sweetness as well.
Trials come into all lives. Don't you
think, Alonzo Wreck, it would have been
braver to face your disappointment than
to run from it as you did? No true wom
an would have treated you so heartlessly
as did that fickle sweetheart of yours.
You ought to have thanked your stars
that you escaped a life with her. No
doubt you think, with Mr. Mason, that
it's no use struggling against fate. "What
must be. will be.” and we are not re
sponsible for our character any more than
for the color of our eyes. Well. 1 don't
believe that—not all of it. Heredity and
environment influence man’s character to
a great extent, but that they don't make
it or mar it is proved by the lives of
most of our great men. who have strug
gled up through the obstacles of poverty
and lack of education. If they had not
had the will to persevere against great
odds they would never have risen from ob
scurity.
Aldeen, I enjoyed your letter. Thomas
Howard, your account of C'ustar's last
battle was graphic and interesting. lice
Heartsill. Italy Hemperley, Margaret
Richard. Hope’. Finita, Tessa—accept my
thanks for the many pleasant moments
you have given me.
CAMILLA.
HOLD UP YOUR HANDS.
I am afraid those of our Household
friends are right who have told us girls
that home-keeping hearts are happiest, i
am only seventeen, and 1 have always
lived in the sweet, safe shelter of home,
hut 1 have read and heard a great deal
about the “snares and pitfalls" that are
in wait for the young, unsuspecting girl
who goes out into the "wide, wide world."
Evil can 'be met and conquered when it
comes in its true, repulsive shape, but it
aloes not approach us in that way. Tiie
uLjck wolf hides in the white clothing
Tit a harmless sheep—a nice, sweet-spoken
young man—and tiie poor lamb falls a
victim to subtle wiles. The worst may
never befall the girl—it hardly ever does,
I think—but her heart is deceived, her
feelings hardened, her delicacy and trust
fulness impaired. She does not return to
the home as she left i*t.
As I sit here and look, out upon the
lovely landscape I see a clear little stream
let. born in the green hills, winding its
way to the sea. Other streamlets will
flow into it. and it will grow larger and
broader, but will it keep its crystal beau
ty •> That depends on the clearness or
muddiness of the waters that flow into it.
It is so with our lives. We may grow
broader and stronger when we push out
into the world, but will we keep our crys
tal purity? How important that wha't we
receive into our being shall be pure, sweet
and elevating.
But here comes my evening songster. I
watch him as he alights on a bough of
the old tree near my window and see
his throat swell as he breaks out into a
happy song. But there! I see something
else—a wreath of smoke that I know
comes from the kitchen chimney. Mother
is cooking supper and I must go and
help her.
Girls how many of you help mother
in the kitchen? Hold up your hands. Oh!
there are quite a lot of you that I can
shake hands with. I wish you would send
The Sunny South Household some of yovrr
true and tried recipes.
SUNNY TENNESSEE.
White Bluff. Tenn.
ONE OF THE LIGHTNING FRA
TERNITY.
My sympathy go<% out to Tom Lock
hart and Ben Knight. For years we had
a "shut-in” in our midst; he was a gen
tle Christian man who had been afflicted
with rheumatism for years, more than
twenty years, he could hold a paper in
his hand if it was carefully folded and
placed there, with this exception he was
perfectly helpless, suffered all the time,
had to be turned several times during the
night, never left the house only to attend
church, and every pleasant Sunday some
member of the family put him in his chair
and rolled him to services; willing hands
always met him at the door to assist in
lifting him in. No one ever heard him
complain, when the pain was almost un
bearable he would sometimes say: "I will
be so glad when It is the Lord's will to
take me home.” He has been “Home'
aoout a year and a half,
Florida Fine, hold your hand over this
way, 1 want to shake hands with you on
tne working question. I belong to the
class of gins who work, and it is a splen
did thing to be independent. Several
years ago I began to work from choice,
later it became a necessity; so when tne
"necessity” arose I was equal to it. I
think ail girls should be prepared to sup
port themselves. Riches often "take
wings,” and “dependence” is a bitter
"pill to swallow." Wonder how many
will know what my occupation is if I
tell you I "pound brass.” For fear that
none of the “traternity" are Household
ers. I will be more explicit (?) and say I
"siing lightning.”
Doctor, don’t jet that sad “farewell”
letter be a real goodby. Do let us hear
from you again. I shall look every week
for y-our signature. Why doesn’t Per
plexed Husband tell us how he came out
with that spoiled wife of his? He hart
an assorted lot of advice given him.
DIXIE.
HER RIGHT TO FIND AN OUTLET
FOR HER TALENT.
Tessa threw her little stone at the girls
who go from home to work, and I flut
tered; for it hit me. I am a teacher—
and therefore one of the throng who leave
the home roof and mingle in the crowd
of world-workers. I don’t condemn girls
who stay at home, but I would like to
know why a woman may not have the
same incentive to live for a purpose, and
live independently, as a man has. When
a women possesses an aptitude or a talent
for some particular business or profes
sion. why shall she not obey the God-
given Instinct to do this particular work?
Many of the world’s bravest and best
sons would have perished had there been
no Florence Nightingales and Clara
Barton to carry aid to battlefields,
camps and hospitals.
What a noble contribution to pictorial
art was given by Rosa Bonheur's paint
ings, and what a high and pure illustra
tion of dramatic and of vocal art was
afforded by the genuis of Charlotte Cush
man, Mary Anderson, Eleanor Duse—and
sweet Jenny Lind?
All cannot be Clara Bartons, Mary An-
dersons or Rosa Bonheurs, but do not
censure a girl for leaving the home nest,
whether she is urged to do so by the
nr*cessity of earning a support. or
whether strong inclination and a talent,
longing for expression, constitutes the
motive power. ECHO.
Brinkley, Tenn.
TO THE HOUSEHOLDERS ALL, ..
AND TO ONE PARTICULARLY.
Some of the Household letters are lit
erary treats, others please because,
though they are simple expressions of
good will, they evidently come warm front
the heart. The letter by Georgia
Bachelor, which appeared some time ago
appealed to me in two ways, by its own
charm and from the fart that I think 1
know the author. If you are my old
friend. "Georgia Bachelor," I would be
glad to hear from you.
"The winter is over and gone. i he
buds are swelling, the meadows are dot
ted with springing herbs and grass, and
one may find violets in sheltered nooks.
Winter is not all unlovely, since it is the
season for memory and reflection. Our
thoughts are more concentrated, our
friendly sympathies more active; heart
calls unto heart, and we draw our pleas
ures, not from the outside world, but
from home and the affections.
■It is still a little cold and dreary, mak
ing a wood fire comfortable. As 1 sit be
side it tonight, memory sings a sweet
song to me of girlhood's liappy days. The
dreams of those early days come back
to me, and I feel a strange home-sick
ness and a longing to be a girl again.
Ah old song echoes in my ears:
“Backward, ’turn backward, oh, $,ime
in your flight, .
Make me a child again, just for tonight
Wishing the Household much happiness
and hoping to hear soon from Georgia
Bachelor, I bid yon adieu. ELSIE.
Georgia.
A DAY IN THE BLACK MUD BELT
OF TEXAS.
, am sure none of my Household
■friends who have not lived in or visited
thk fertji-j “binrl" mud belt” of the. Lone
Stir State can reali'Je the indescribable
st,ukiness of tiie nud and the difficulties
of traveling during a rainy winter or
spring.
The use of vehicles is almost impossi
ble. The grocer’s deliver wagon is laid
•by for the season, and the boy and pony
are the sole mediums through' which the
housewife gets her supplies.
From ray window I watch the ap
proach of this mounted delivery boy
across the waste of black mud. He has a
big basket suspended from his shoulders
by a broad strap, and numerous cans
and jugs are fastened to the many leath
er ribbons of a Texas saddle, and jingle
and slap the pony’s side at every step.
The basket contains parcels and kitchen
supplies; the cans and jugs hold respec
tively molasses and oil. Sometimes a
pair of chickens strung by the legs dangle
helplessly among the cans and jugs. The
p..#ny plods patiently through the tar
like mud. and the boy. equally im
perturbable. sometimesi unfolds a news
paper in front of him and takes a
glimpse at the news as ho plods along.
Visiting and church-going are all done
m horseback during the reign of mud.
but there are occasions when vehicles
roust be used, though progress is snail-
like indeed. Such an occasion is a fu
neral. One occurs today. The master of
a pleasant country home must be buried
in a cemetery 5 miles from his abode. In
a new city of the dead a chamber has
been made for a tenant who is expected
at 3 o’clock. A few friends who have
struggled afoot and on horseback through
the mud, wait there, with the minister,
the arrival of the hearse. Hour after
hour goes by. The gray mist of approach
ing twilight rises from the creek, and the
friends turn to their homes in the near
by town, leaving the 'man with the
Bible and the man with the spado to
wait alone.
Far out on the prairie the funeral pro
cession is seen corning, the hearse drawn
by four powerful horses, followed by a
wagon, containing members of the fam
ily, drawn by two large, strong mules.
Yet how slowly they creep through the
mud that comes up to the hub of the
wheels and fills tiie spaces between the
spokes. Fences are let down to allow
the vehicles withi their straining, pant
ing teams to come across the fields.
From time to time the horses stop, un
able to farther drag their load until the
clogged wheels aire freed from their
burden. Two> boys on horseback dis
mount and scrape the mud from the hubs
and spokes of the wheels, and the pitiful
procession stars afresh. Sympathetic
friends in carriages would have accom
panied the dead to its resting place, but
for the all-prevailing mud.
When at last the small procession be
gins to creep down the hill leading to the
cemetery, quick hands bale out the water
(almost two barrels full) that has run
into the grave, and quantities of dry ex
celsior is stuffed around the box inside.
When the hearse arrives the coffin is
hurriedly lowered to its. resting place
and 'the grave is filled up before the
service is begun, that the relatives of the
dead man may not 'be distressed by the
sight of the water that speedily begins
to refill the bottom of the grave. "The
coffin will be floating before the service
is over,” whispers the undertaker.
The service is very brief. It is too
dark for anything to be read, and a few
words, a hymn and a prayer are made
to suffice, faltering voices joining in the
song that echoed mournfully down the
creek.
So much for a day in the black mud
belt of Texas during a rainy season. This
black mud, however, is the - most fertile
soil perhaps in the world, and it Is only
when wet weather makes of it a sticky
mass that it is obnoxious.
Old Maid, I fear your pen is growing
rusty. Do let uis hear from you again.
I am gratified that a Gypsy should ask
fo'r “another sketch” from me. A loving
greeting to you all. ELLYS.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO
NORTH DAKOTA.
May I join your merry circle once more?
I will just stand a moment here by
“Tennessee,” for he and I have the same
ideas as to the moral standing- of the
“sexes.”*
I came to North Dakota from South
Carolina about six months ago. The cli
mate is quite different here from what
i! was in my dear old state. Mrs. Mack’s
description of North Dakota was true. I
have never been caught in a blizzard/ but
Worhjm
The suffering and pain
endured by many working
women is almost beyond
belief.
How distressing to seo a woman struggling to earn a livlihood,
or perform Her household duties when her back and head are aching!
She is so tired she can hardly drag about, and every movement
causes pain, the origin of which is quickly traced to some derange
ment of the female organism.
When the monthly periods are painful or irregular, when backaches and
headaches drive out all ambition, when “ I=can=hardly=drag=about sensation
attacks you, when you are “so-nervous-it-seems-as-though-you-would-fly, ’t
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New York, N.Y., says:
“It affords me great pleasure to tell you of the
benefit I have derived from taking Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vege
table Com
pound. I am
now enjoying
better health
than I ever did.
It seemed to
me that I had
no strength at
all. I could
hardly drag
about. I was
in pain all over.
“I began to
feel better
after taking
the first dose,
and am now
like a new
woman. I
know that if
other suffering
MRS FRANCES STAFFORD. WOIUen WOllltl
only trv it, it would help them.
“I thank you with all my heart for what your
medicine has done for me.”
15000.00
FORFEIT if we cannot
forthwith produce the
original letters and
signatures of above tes-
will prove their absolute
timonials, which
genuineness.
Lydia E. Pinkliam Med. Co.,
Lynn, Mass.
I have been on the prairie during a high
wind, and I could not see 5 rods ahead:
my eyelids would freeze, and I was com
pelled to trust to the “broneoes" to keep
the trail. Mules and negroes are rarely
seen in this country. Cases of frost bite
are by no means uncommon. I inclose a
clipping that tells of a minister near us
who has had to have part of his hand am
putated. he having been overturned from
his cutter into a deep snow drift as he
was returning from holding services in a
country church. However, Dakota has
its bright side, about which I would like
to tel! you in a future letter.
Langdon. N. Dak.
WISHES SOME OLD SOUTHERN
SONGS.
I have been a reader of The Sunny
South for some time, and always look
forward most eagerly for its coming.
It is, indeed, a welcome ray of sunshine
here where there is so much cold and
snow this winter. I would be glad to
have some member of the Household
send me the words to some old-time
southern songs, viz: “Darling Chloe”
and “Ella Rhea,” and 1 would return
the compliment by sending any song or
poem in my possession that they might
like. I would like a correspondent from
the south, either a boy or girl. I am ?0
years of age, and a “Missourian,” bred
and born.
A DELIA PRATHER.
Taneyville, Mo.
ODD LOT SALE.
ROGERS’ TRIFLE PLATED
SILVERWARE.
I have several different patterns
of genuine Rogers’ Silverware,
which does not match my new
spring stock, which I am selling
at less than half the regular sell
ing price. These goods consist
of Rogers Bros.. 11 llliaiu Rogers
and Simon 1*. & George S. Rogers
Company, and are fully guaran
teed full plate and strictly per
fect. Rogers’ TRIPLE plated 1*
pennyweight dinner knives, full
size, regular selling so Crt
price, set of 6 sA.UV
Rogers’AI DinnerForks.reg-so gn
uiar Belling price, set of 8 jAr.tAVf
Rogers’Al Tablespoons, reg- so en
ular selling price, set of 6 *«<.uv
Rogers’ Al Teaspoons, reg- as oe
ular selling price, set of 6 v •
Rogers’Al Rutter Knives, as on
regular selling price, each... f ■
Rogers’Al Sugar Shells, reg- oe
ular selling price, each *
ENTIRE LOT, 20 Pieces,
EXPRESS PREPAID, ££
Upon Receipt of ysl
We do not guarantee to send all
the same pattern, batgnarantee
all to be Best Quality Genuine
SOGERS’ Goods.
KELLEY, THE JEWELER,
H MHltall St, HUNT!, St
The $10,000.00
Port Receipts Contest.
Secretary Henry G. Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, re
ports through the business of Friday. March 27, the total pi rt receipts of
the current season as compared with the last three years for the identical
period, as follows:
1902-1903 6,988.653
1901-1902 6.8S7.893
1900-1901 6,357,149
1899-1900 6,034,1S9
This shows port receipts for the year 100,760 bales ahead of same pe
riod last year, 631,504 ahead of year b'efore last and 954,464 ahead of three
years ago. Should the lead over last year be maintained the port receipts
through May 1 would be 7,318,939. The past week showed a gain of 12.010
bales over the last statement made. On March 20 this yea r was only 88,750
hales in the lead, while March 27 shows 100,760.
The few weeks remaining of the contest will be of unusual interest.
There may be a lot of cotton awaiting shipment now that will be rush
ed to the ports at the first opportunity.
Some claim that practically all of the cotton is In that will come Into
market for the present season. Others hold that many farms are well
stocked with cotton stored awaiting a rise In prices or rather for prices to
start down when It will be loaded on the market and send the prices ctfil
lower.
The conditions are all before you. The Influences that control at pres
ent and the actual results up through last Friday. You can conmare these
with the past five years, for which we give completed figures for the whole
period of the contest certified by Secretary Has ter as follows:
„ -v- _ _ ’ Total port receipts
1897 IS™ Y Through May 1
S'S
1899- 1900.’.* V. .*.* *.’ .'* :: ......**„'~ • 'I’fS'afj
1900- 1901 _ saE’iri
1901- 1902 ** I’lSrs
An average of these five years will make 7,346.983. The port receipts Voi
the period of the present contest may be more or less than thla Wi
give this average simply for what you may consider It worth
The time of the offer of $1,000.00 extra conditioned upon an esti
mate if received by April 10 is drawing rapidiy to a cW S^oXlnex-
act estimate be received by us on or before April 10 the UMM
would be added to the regular first prize of $2,500.00 making atotaf of
ssrArt a s&ys s
T “ ““ -«* - «
The contest closes finally on April 20. At the close of the
order will be eligible for entry that bears postmark on or before April ’O
provided it reaches us by April 25. Five days will carry a letter acroM the
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