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GEORGIA—Houston County:
S. H. Rumph, executor of the will of
Mrs. Caroline Rumph, of said county,
deceased, has applied for dismission
from said trust.
This is-therefore to cite aU persons con
cerned to appear at the October term,
1§98, of the court of Ordinary of said
county and show canse, if any thoy have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
June 6, 1898.
JOSEPH PALMER, Ordinary
GEORGIA—Houston County.
M. A. Edwards, administrator of the estate of
Thomas Hardison, deceased, has applied for
dismission from said trust.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the September term,
1898, of the court of Ordinary of said
county and show cause, if any they have,
why. said application should net be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
June (5,1898.
JOSEPH PALMER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County.
W. B. Jordan, cxe5utor of the estate of J. W.
Hardison, deceased, has applied for dismission
from said trust.
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the September
term, 1898, of the court of Ordinary of
said county and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not
be granted.
Witness my official signature this
June 6, 1898.
JOSEPH PALMER, Ordinary.
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The Cost of t-he Wav.
The New York Sun. figures that
the cost of the present war with
Excursion tickets at reduced rate*
jetween local pefints are on sale after
12 noon Satnrdays, and until 6 p. m.
Sundays, good returning until Monday
loon following date ot sale.
Persons contemplating either a bnsl-
less or pleasure trip to the East should
nvestigato and consider the adyantages
iffercd yia Savannah and Steamer lines.
Hie rates generally are considerably
iheaper by this route, and, in addition
» this, passengers save sleeping car
'are,and the expense of meals en ronte.
We take pleasure in commending to
he traveling public the route referred
;o, namely, via Central of Georgia
Railway to Savannah, thence via the
ilegant Steamers of the Ocean Steam*
ihip Company to New York and Boston,
md the Merchants and Miners line
to Baltimore.
The comfort of the traveling public
Is looked after in a manner that defies
criticism.
Electric lights and electric bells;
handsomely furnished staterooms,
modern sanitary arrangements. The
tables are supplied with all the delica-
lies of the Eastern and Southern mar
kets. All the luxury and comforts of
s modern hotel while on board ship,
lffording every opportunity for rest,
recreation or pleasure.
Each steamer has a stewardess to
took especially after ladles and chil-
Iren traveling alone.
Steamers sail from Savannah for
York daily except Thursdays and
Sfindays, and for Boston twice a week.
"Tor information as to rates and Bali
ng dates of steamers and for berth
reservations, apply to nearest ticket
lgent of this company, or to
J. C. HAILE, Gen. Passenger Agt.,
E.H. HINTOX, Traffic Manager,
Savannah, G*.
50 YEARS'
EXPERIENCE
not only current expenses, bnt inter
est on .the war debt contracted, pen
sions, losses of productive labor, war
claims and other items.
With respect to current expenses,
which cover merely the sums appro
priated, or to be appropriated, by the
federal government in prosecuting
the war to its close, The N. Y. Sun
calculates that at least §400,000,000
will be spent before hostilities are
over. In arriving at this amount,
our contemporary is guided by the
record of sums appropriated by the
federal government during the late
civil war, and also by the fact that
operations in the present war are
relatively much more burdensome
upon the treasury than were opera
tions in the late civil warjor any
former war. Up to the present time
it finds that the average monthly
expenses incurred in the present war
have been 50 per cent heavier than
the average monthly expenses in
curred in the late civil war from
1861 to 1865; and when everything
is taken into account on the score of
current expenses, it contends that
§400,000,000 is more apt to fall
short of than to exceed the actual
figures. /
Under the head of state expendi
tures the New York newspaper fig
ures that not less than $15,000,000
will cover the cost which the present
war will entail in the aggregate up
on state treasuries. Mention is made
of the fact that New York alone has
appropriated §1,500,000.
Next, under the head of private
contributions, the New York news
paper estimates that not less than
another $15,000,000 will be paid out
before the record of 'the present war
is complete. This amount includes
the subscriptions which have been
raised in the way of relief funds and
the like. With respect to war claims
which aggrieved parties have filed
for damages, and which they will
file hereafter, the New York news
paper estimates that fully §20,000,-
000 will eventually be paid out in
this manner.
Another cost which the New York
newspaper considers grows, out of
the losses of productive labor. This
is estimated at §100,000,000. Inter
est on the war debt, which will
probably remain for some time, and
which will probably be increased to
meet current expenses, is fixed at
§90,000,000. Pensions are estimated
at §300,000,000, and finally the val
ue of the Maine is put down at
000. 000. Recapitulating, the New
York newspaper arrives at this re
sult:
1. Current war expenses §400,000,000
2. State expenditures 15,000,000
3. Private contributions 15,000,000
4. War claims 20,000,000
5. Loss of soldiers’productive labor. 100,000,000
6. Interest on Avar debt 90,000,000
7- Pensions 300,000,000
The Maine 3,000,000
Marks
Designs
Copyrights &c.
Anyone sending a sketch and description may
quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an
invention is probably patentable. Commnnica-
rtlQiis strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents
sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents.
Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive
epecial notice, without charge, in the
Scientific American.
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Total §943,000,000
On account of* this immense finan
cial burden, to say nothing of the
lives lost in the present war, The
New York Sun contends that the
United States government should
never consent to the relinquishment
of the Philippines nor of any other
territory wrested from Spain.
Queer Kissing Business.
“Old-fashioned Hungerford has
once more celebrated Hocktide with
all its quaint customs and ancient
ceremonies. This interesting cere
mony began with the annual ‘mac-
caroni supper” and ended when the
two managers of the rival banks,
who were elected ‘tuttimen’ for the
ensuing year, went around to the
houses of the tenants in the town
and exercised their prerogative of
kissing all the ladies in each house.
Hungerford is one of the last re
maining unreformed boroughs of
England, and still retains its ancient
official nomenclature, electing to
have in place of mayor and corpora
tion a constable, a portreeve, a keep
er of the coffers, a hayward, two ale
tasters and a bellman.
“Two tuttimen (who are also col
lectors of the poll tax) have from
time immemorial called at every
house in the borough and received
from each inhabitant, if he be male,
a penny, and in case of the ladies a
kiss, the ceremony being announced
from the balcony of the town hall by
a blast from the Hungerford horn
blown by the bellman. Afterward a
dinner is held, at which the officers
for the ensuing year are elected.”—
Notes and Queries.
A man’s health is the rope by
which he climbs to success. If he
can keep his health, he will go on to
success. Yet his health is the very
thing he neglects more than any
thing else. It is easier to keep health
than it is to regain it. When a man
feels himself running down, when he
realizes a loss of vitality and energy,
he must call a halt. The strands of
his rope are parting rapidly. Dr,
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
has helped thousands of men in just
this condition. It makes health, it
makes pure, rich blood, it forces out
impurities and kills germs. It doesn’t
make any difference what name you
call your trouble by—dyspepsia—
kidney disease—rheumatism—con
sumption—skin disease, the “Golden
Medical Discovery” will cme it ab
solutely. None of these diseases can
retain hold on the body when it is
full of rich, pure hlood.
Send 21 one-cent stamps to cover
cost of mailing only, and receive free
a copy of Dr. Pierce’s Medical Ad
viser. Address, World’s Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Mr. Davis’ Last Speech.
Atlanta Journal.
The lastr public speech made by
Jefferson Davis was to a meeting
near his home at Beauvoir in 1888.
He said:
“Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citi
zens: Ah, pardon me; the laws of
the United' Statee no longer permit
me to designate yon as fellow citi
zens, but I am thankful that I may
address you as my friends. I feel
no regret that I stand before you
this afternoon a man without a
country, for my ambition lies buried
in the grave of the Confederacy.
There has been consigned not only
my ambition, but the dogmas upon
which that government was based.
The faces I see before me are those
of young men; had I not known this
I would not have appeared before
you. Men in whose hands the des
tinies of our southland lie, for" love
ot her I break my silence, to speak
to you a few words of respectful ad
monition. The past is dead; let it
bury its dead, its hopes and its aspi
rations; before you lies the future—a
futime full of golden promise: a fu
ture of recompense for honorable
promise; a future of expanding na
tional glory, before which all the
world shall stand amazed. Let me
beseech you to lay aside all rancor,
all bitter sectional feeling, and to
take your places in the ranks of
those who will bring about a con
summation devoutly to_be wished—
a reunited country.”
There are both patriotism and
prophecy in these noble words. The
belief that Mr. Davis was embitter
ed by defeat and by the sufferings
which he was made to bear for oth
ers has no foundation. He urged
the people of the south to lay aside
sectional feeling and to cherish a
love for the Union. He begged
them to look to the future and to
contribute as fully as possible to the
restoration of complete unity, of sen
timent and to the strength of their
reunited country. When he spoke
only a little while before his death
of “a future of expanding national
glory before which all the world
shall stand amazed,” he described
what has recently come to pass and
what he would have rejoiced to live
to see.
A Unique Notice.
The following notice is tacked to
a roadside tree in Maine:
“STRAYED OR SWIPED.”
“A young hog shote with the left
ear eropt and the tale gone. Also
black spot on left hind hip and hole
in other ear. Said hog shote disap
peared from premises of the undar-
cined ouner at nite under circum
stances pointing to him being stole
said hog shote being a pet and not
apt to go off on bis own accord.
Said hog shote answers to the name
of Nellie and he will eat from the
hand and can stand on his hind legs
like a dog, and is of afl'eckshunate
nature. Any one returning said hog
shote or letting me know where he
is at will confer a benefit on a inva
lid lady whose pet said hog shote
Avas.”
The Little Queen’s Picture.
Wilhelmina, Avho is to be croivned
Queen of the Netherlands on Sep
tember 6 next, has personally sent
to Mr. Bok, editor of the Ladies’
Home Journal—himself a Hollander
by birtli—one of her private por
traits for publication in the next
number of his magazine. It is the
last portrait which Avill be taken of
the little lady before her coronation,
and will be printed in connection
with a specially prepared sketch,
showing the personality of the first tQW ’ and fetch me th
Queen of Holland from every point
of view.
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The acquisition of neAv territory,
the independence of Cuba and coal
ing stations in the Pacific are not
the only things to be gained by the
United States as the result of the
war with Spain. The war has dis
pelled the notion of European na
tions that this Avas solely a money
making country and had neither
time nor inclination to to go whole
heartedly into war, and brought a
regard for our dignity as a nation
which will make it an important fac
tor in future international problems.
Not only that, but it has increased
our respect for ourselves, and will
stimulate the nation to even better
progress in the arts of peace.—Sa
vannah News.
As early as 1612 the French began
ta advertise in a paper called the Pe-
tites Affiches, and ten years later the
first bona fide attempt at printing a
newspaper was made in London.
One of the earliest mercantile adver
tisements to appear in England was
one advertising the sale of tea. It
appeared in the Mercuritis Politicus.
You invite disappointment when
yon experiment. DeWitt’s Little
Early Risere are pleasant, easy,
thorough little pills. They enre
constipation and sick hpadacke
jnst as sore as yon take them.
G'loper’s Di ng Store.
v —
It is estimated that the total loss
of life by the Americans during the
Avar Avith Spain, excluding those
killed by the blowing up of the
Maine, will not exceed 400, while
the number of Spaniards killed Avill
approximate 3,000.
*-t-
A stnbliorn cough or tickling in
ike throat yields to One Minn'e
Congk Cure. Harmless in effect,
touches the right spot, reliable
and just what is Avanted. It acts
at once. Coopers Drugstore.
A Fruitful Source of Wealth.
Tacon Telegraph.
Georgia has suppliedb the coun
try^ with peaches this year, and it
has been a good thing for both
Georgia and the country.
It has been only a few years
since the posibilities of Georgia
fruit have begun to be recognized,
and yet already the one item of
peaches has brought into the state
a million dollars. When there is
added to this the amount of money
saved to the state or brought here
by the fruit which has been saved
by canning preserving, or distilling
it ie safe to say that the peach crop
of 1898 has been worth to the state
close to a million and a half of dol
lars.
To the peaches must be added
the melons, the plains, the pears
and small fruits sold, and a grand
total of $2,000,000 brought into
the state. by the fruit crop will
not be far from the mark.
Fruit industry is practically in
its infancy here. A great deal „of
the crop has been lost because be
ing new in the business we did not
know how to save it, or had not
made sufficient provision to handle
it.
In the course of time oar people
will have learned the art of can-
ning, preserving in other ways the
surplus Avhich will alwrys accom
pany a big crop, and tbis great
waste seen all over the fruit conn-
try this year -will be avoided,
and Georgia canned peaches will
take their places on the grocery
stores of the country ahead of
those of California.
This lesson will be learned in
the costly school of experience and
by the usaal slow processes pe
culiar to that institution. It is
hardly going to far to claim that
every orchard in the state with its
soiljeovered with rotting fruit of
fers a potent argument in favor of
industrial edneaton. If our boys
and girls of the farms had been af
forded an opportunity to team the
art of saving fruit which it was
impossible to market, the figures
on the credit side of the ledger
would have been greater tbis year
by huudreds of thoasands of dol
lars.
Wings oC Slander.
Once there was a woman who
spoke a slander against her neigh
bor, and repenting of it she went
to her eoufesBor, . saying that she
had already untold the tale to
every one to-whom she had spok
en it, says Happy Thongbt.
The priest said to her: Go at
once into the town and fetch me a
towl.”
This she did, and returning, she
said to him: “Here, father, is the
fowl yon bespoke.”
Then he said to her: “Go
again into the town, even to the
market place and pluck me this
fowl.”
Which she did as he commanded,
and retnrhinp, said to him: “H°re,
father, is the fowl, plucked as you
bade me.”
‘Now,” said the priest,“go into
feath
ers.”
“Alas,holy father, they are scat-
terd to the four winds of heaven.”
“Even so,” replied the wise and
holly man, “and thus it is with
the slander you have spoken.”
There is said to be some talk in
Jamaica of the possibility of the
annexation of «that island to the
United States through a trade
with Great Britian. The report
is that the people would not be op
posed to it on the ground that by
the annexation of some West In
dian islands to the U nited States
the trade relations of the others
become so much the more difficult.
If Cuba and Porto Rico gain the
advantage of the United States
tariffs, it is urged that some snch
step will have to be taken for the
protection of Jamaican interests
Reed and Bailey.
Savannah Xew3.
The distinguished leader of the
majority of the House,’ Mr. Reed,
aod the distinguished leader of
the minority of the Honse, Mr.
Bailey, do not seem to be m sucb
high favor with their respective
parties as they were before the be
ginning of the war. The troth is,
they both took the unpopular side
on the question of annexing terri
tory.
Mr. Reed opposed the annexa
tion of Hawaii, and there is no
doubt that he did right in doing so,
but his party thought otherwise,
and annexed Hawaii without con
sulting him. And it did not coo
salt him in demanding the cession
of Porto Rico. Mr. Reed does
not believe in territorial expansion.
His party believes in it to such an
extent that it wonld not be sur
prising if it should insist upon the
annexation of the Philippines be
fore the negotiations of the peace
commissioners are ended.
Mr. Bailey has been even less
fortunate than Mr. Reed. He pat
himself in front of his party and
attempeed to prevent it from tak
ing a step in-the direction of ter
ritorial expansion. It paid no at
tention to him. It rushed ahead,
practically tramping him under
foot.
It is rather remarkable that two
sncli leaders should take a stand
npon an important question and
not have the approval of their par.
ties. It will be interesting to watch
their future. Will they maintaiu
the positions which they have ta
ken, or will they take an - early op.
portnnity to get into harmony with
their associates?
About one month ago my child,
which is fifteen months old, had an
attack of diarrhoea accompanied by
vomiting. I gave it snch remedies
as are usnally given in snch cases
but as nothing gave relief, we sent
for a physician and it waa under
his care for a week. At this time
the child bad been sick for about
ten days and was having about
twenty five operations of the bow
els every twelve hoars, and we were
convinced that unless it soon ob
tained relief it wonld not live
Chamberlin’s Colic, Cholera and
DiarrhoeaRemedy was recommend
ed Iecidpd to try it. I soon noticed a
change for the better; by its con
tinuous nse a complete care was
brought about and it is now per
fectly healthy.—C, L. Boggs,
StnmptowD, Gilmer Co., W. Va. j
For sale by oltzclaw and Gilbert, j
Perry, and L- W. Stewart, Myrtle, i
Ga.
Words of Wisdom.
What we are is much more to
ns than what Ave do.—George Her
bert.
Be a whole man at everything;
whole man at study, in work, in
play.— Joseph Gurney.
I have always been a quarter of
an hoar before my time and it has
made a man of me.—Nelson.
Economy is half the battle of
life; it is not so hard to earn mon
ey as to spend it Avell.—Spurgeon.
It as easy to call back a stone
thrown from the hand as to call
back the word that is spoken.—
Emerson.
A closed heaven represents the
blackest misery that humanity is
capable of suffering.—Rev. W. S.
Cassmore.
It is the vain endeavor to make
ourselves what we are not that
has strewn history with so many
broken purposes and lives left in
the rough.—Lowell.
Beware of stumbling over a pro
penalty which easily besets yon
from not having your time folly
employed. Do instantly whatever
is to be done and take the hours i f
recreation after business, never
before it.—Sir Walter Scott.
The law of nature is that a cer
tain quantity of work is necessary
to produce a certain quantity of
good of any kind whatever. If you
want knowledge, you must toil for
it; if food, you must toil for it;
and if pleasuere, you must toil for
it.— Ruskin.
If a man has no regard for time
of other men, why should he have
-their money? What is the differ
ence between takiug a man’s hour
aud taking his $5. There are many
men to whom each hour of the
businass day is worth more than
$5.—Horace Greeley.
Qaeen Victoria is a strong be
liever in the reality and near pres
ence of the spirit Avorld. She be
lieves that the departed loved
ones watch over those who still
struggle with the sorrows and
temptations of the earthly life.
Duriog her retirement at Osborne,
after the death of the Prince Con
sort, she found “her only comfort
in the belief that her husband’s
spirit was close beside her, for he
had promised that it should be so.”'
This was told to Dean Stanley by
the Queen’s half-sister, Princess
Hohenlohe.
DeWitt’s Witch hazel Salve has
the largest sale of any Salve in the
world. This fact and its merit
has led dishonest people to at
tempt to conutefeit it. Look out
for the man who attempts to de-
cffve you when you call for D<*
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the
great pile cure. Coopei s Drugstore
. An Old Idea.
Every day strengthens the belief of emi
nent physicians that impure blood is the
cause of the majority of our diseases.
Twenty-five years ago this theory was used
as a basis: for the formula of Browns’Iron
Bitters. The many remarkable cures effected
by this famous old household remedy are
sufficient to prove that the theory is correct.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
—$1.75 will pay for the Weekly
Atlanta Joarnal and the Home
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Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding
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ALL KINDS WOODWORK ACCURATELY AND PROMPTLY DONE.
We are in the business to stay, and OUB pkices abe bight. Compare
’em with Macon’s and see. Special prices on car lots.
ZE3I. L. HARRIS 8z CO.,
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
Sole Agents foroAnniston Cement Lime.
N. B.—If it’s made of wood, we have it or will make it.
T'BLlSI’B.OKrE 3*7.
BICYCLES
carried over from 1897 must be sacrificed now. N iw High
Grade, all styles, best, equipment, guaranteed,
$0.7^5 to 17.50.
Used Wheels, late models, all makes,
to $12.
We ship on approval -without a cent payment.. Write for
Bargain List aud art catalogue of swell 29S models.
:E3Ics7-cle [ZF’xee
for season to advertise them. Rider Agents wanted. Learn how to
Earn a Bicycle and make mouev.
J. L, Mead Cycle Co., Chicago, 111.
A $5,000 Cash Offer!
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This paper announces, in connection with The Atlanta Weekly
Constitutution, a new offer in which everyone may have a chance,
^_SEND IN M ESTIMATE ON—^
THE 60TT0N 6R0P SEASON OF 1897-98
60NTEST BEGAN MARCH 1-ENDS SEPT. 1,'98.
TO ENTER THI$ CONTEST YOU MUST SUBSCRIBE FOR.
IN CONNECTION WITH
HOME * journal;
AT THE EXTREMELY (Pf) fin
LOW PRICE OP U)&iUU
In connection with this Clubbing Rate, we will, if you send your
guess with the subscription price, forward all for you and thus
^ 6IVE YOU A CHANCE AT THE SPLENDID CASH PRIZES
AN EXTRAORDiNMlflFFERTOffiJRSUBCRIBERSI
Here it is, read It all
First Awards To the subscri
ber or subscribers naming the
exact number or nearest to
the exact number ot bales in
tn* cotton crop of 1837-93 we will
give, if the estimate is received
very carefully and be sure yen understand the tensss
Second Award: To the sub- Third Award t To tbs sub
scriber or subscribers naming scriber naming tbs second
the first next nearest we will next nearest we will give If
give If the estimate Is received the estimate Is received
Jiarch,
$2,500
During: March,
1808
$1,500
Daring March,
1893...
SI,000
If During April,
- 2,000
If During: April,
. 1,250
If During April.
_ 750
If During Mayor
1,500
1,000
If During May or
1,000
If During Mayor
Jana, 1898.
If Daring: July or
August. 1838
500
If During July or
August, 1898
If During: July or
August, 1808
750
_ 250
SO, THAT THE FIRST THREE PRIZES AMOUNT TO $5,000 IN CASH,
Mnfp Sn^rinllv/ U the EXACT figures are not given daring this coo-
^pcciauy. tes ^ the money wiU be paid ont to the NEAREST TO
THE EXACT figures. Somebody will get the money, it does not go hack to the The
Constitution by any means. Those who solve the problem at the longest range will re
ceive proportionately the highest prizes, as you notice the figures grow less as the time ex
pires and because the number of bales received up to certain dates, as the time advances,
can be known exactly, leaving shorter time and probabilities to figure against.
In all three of the cases submitted it is distinctly nnderstood that, should more than
one correct or equally correct estimate "be filed in the contest, the amount of th. prizes so
earned will be divided equally among the correct answers. The prizes are offered in cash.
There is no “missing word’’ in this, no probability for some one to know absolutely the
correct answer, bnt this is brain versus brain, skill versus skill, pencil versus pencil, fig
ures versus figures. Every man is interested in the cotton crop, the amount of the crop
varies the price and the price of cotton in our territory is the barometer of the people’s
prosperity.
dtmas—.On Such a Vital Problem You Ought to flake Figures.
THE CONTEST CLOSES SEPT. 1st
The estimate is to be made upon the total United States Cotton Crop for 1897-98, the
crop that has already been gathered and is now in the country as official figures of receipts
wfll show it from Sept 1,1897, to Sept 1,1898 This is not the crop that is to beplanted
this spring, because the figures thereon will not be obtainable until Sept X, 1899. It is for
the crop already in and marketed, official figures of which will be announced in September.
As a guide for making your estimate we give official figures for Mch of the last ten crops.
The conditions under which this last crop was grown and its probable output are ele
ments for you to compute from and will aid in the correctness of your present estimate.
The figures given by Latham, Alexander & Co., of New York, are generally received
throughout the South as official, and we given an exact copy from their latest edition of
“Cotton Movement and Fluctuations” as follows:
Season Acres planted Bales in crop Season
I f|7-|8 - • • 18,961,897 7.046,833 1892-93 .
• . . 19.362,073 6,938,290 1893-94 ,
1889-90... 20,171,896 7,311,322 1894-95 .
• • . 20,809,053 8,652,597 1895-69.
1891-92. . . 20,714,937 9.035,379 1896-97.
I — - -
Acres planted Bales in crop
. *8.067,924 6.700,365
. 19,684,000
. 21,454,000
. 18,882,000
22,341,000
7.549.817
9,901,251
7.»57.346
^757.964
■' Their figures will be used in deciding this contest.
Thor Estimate of the Acreage for the Crop of the Season of 1897-98 is 23,320,000 Acres.
jutaertpaon. You cannot subscribe now and BeadvSn”££££.
noeoura * zeat of The constitution, you make him^yonr agent wi
£ *125? 88 *° the correctness of the figures as you intended Md
wmStttlSii party ” od more thou one estimate, h.or she
Sat JersSSSay^tS-thoraJtS^M m ™ d ,^? lch J t ““reecure a prize for each correct eettmsU
-mil 0 In “^ryoaraMwer. last state simply: “I estimate the number ot bales of cotton
wsmttureouit the esHnSX? PhUn. If you want to make estimates later, or If you
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