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devoted to home interests PROGRESS AND CULTURE PEEET, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1902 CHR1STMAS IN JAMAICA, A Tropical Celebration With Santa Clans Lett Out. The white people of Jamaica cele brate Christmas in spirit rather than in | active observance. Of course Santa Claus is unknown here, for what would Kris Kringle.do in his fur raiment and with his reindeers in a land Where few indeed of the people know what snow is and fewer still ever saw it Outdoor sport is out of the questioh, and Ytiletide patrons in Houston County are tidy references Ship me your Cotton. IiLiINGHAM, Cotton Factor, 2*v£a,c©n» Gt-eoigia,. spon; is out or the questioh, and even lawn tennis cannot be substituted for the skating and tobogganing of the north. The white people sit or swing in hammocks under the cool shade of the palm trees and look with curious interest over the holiday numbers of English and American magazines, with their strange pictures of snow scenes, and read the stories of Chrlstmastide in the lan(I of Kris Kringle and Jnck Frost. After sundown there are social gatherings, at which the guests sit out on the verandas, eat ice cream, fan themselves and while away the even ing with conversation and in that “ojweet doing nothing” way that is such a feature of life in the tropics. Very many of the white people of Ja maica were born in the island and so know nothing of the Christmas cus toms of the north. But there are also quite a number of Americans and Brit ishers here, and these try various ways to get up a semblance of Christmas, but it is like the crew of a polar expedition celebrating Fourth of July while ice bound in the Arctic circle, and their Christmas is mostly one of reminis-, cence. Still wintering in th'e tropics is not without its compensating advan tages, and although Christmas here is apt to be a pretty lonesome time to Americans, they are very apt to find cause for congratulation after the fes tive season is over in the fact that they are safe from the cold, the snow, the slush and the blizzards of the north. A SONG for old Christmas, For jolly old Christmas, The monarch of merriment, fun and good cheer! ILet all the bells ohhnlng Bing out with a rhyming For Christmas, good Christmas, King Christmas Is here! Pile up the log Are Still higher and higher; He loves the bright blaze of a wide open I hearth. I No shadow of sadness i Must darken our gladness, For Christmas, blithe Christmas, now ] rules the broad earth. I The stars are all winking As if they were drinking Time out of ethereal champagne that he j brings. »• I The winds shout In chorus; "Long may he reign o’er usl Good Christmas, King Christmas, the greatest of kings!” At a nominal oost by joining COLEMAPS CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Fifty oents per month, ©3 00 for six months, or ©5.00 for twelve months. • Write for new List of Books and further particulars. I also liaudle a Complete line of BOOKS AND STATIONARY, and give special attention to Mail Orders; My Houston County Friends are Invited .to OaU When In MacoX. T. A. COLEMAN. 308 Second Street, MACON, GA. NEXT DOOR TO ACADEMY OF MUBIC, 663 MULBERRY ST, MASON, GEORGIA, j Rates, $2.00 Per Say.; A HOME-LIKE HOTEL ' vSpeoial attention given to Transient Trade. r OF THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION UPON TOTAL PONT RECEIPTS OF COTTON 1st SEPT., 1902, TO lOth JAN., 1903. T HE housewife will find no better suggestions for the Christmas spread than are contained in the A following. • The menus have a Christmas flavor and are cosmopolitan in their makeup. They are planned for ten or more people, but for a small family the fish course and some of the vegetables and sweets could be ornit- w.-jumi: To the on© Making the exact, or the nearest to the excot, estimate of the receipts of cotton AT ALL UNITED STATSS PORTS from Copt. 1, 1002, to January 10, 1903- •• ©5.000 To the next nearest estimate £,QOO To the second next nearest. To the five next nearest— To the ten next nearest To the fifteen next nearest -. To the twenty next nearest ■ To the fifty next nearest •• • To the one hundred nearest ■ K - For distribution among; those estimator* (not taking any ©f above 203 prizes) com MENU NO. L Oyster Cocktails. Julienne Soup. Olives- Celery. Salted Almonds. Broiled Smelts, Tartar Sauce. Parisienne Potatoes. Boast Turkey, Stuffed with Truffles. Oyster Brochettes. Spinach. Macaroni Croquettes. Lettuce Salad. Plum Pudding Glace. Mince Tarts. Small Cake3. Bonbons. Nuts. Coffee. menu no. 2. Oysters on the Half Shell. Clear Tomato Soup. Celery. Olives. Salted Pecans. Boiled Rock, Egg Sauce. Potato Cakes. Roast Turkey, Stuffed with Chestnuta Cranberry Jelly. Giblet Sauce. Brussels Sprouts. Sweet Potato Croquettes. Grape Fruit Salad; Crackers. Cheese. English Plum Pudding. Frozen Friilt Cup. Bonbons. Cakes. Nuts. Coffee. MENU NO. 3. Oysters on the Half Shell. Consomme. . Radishes. Salted Filberts. Halibut Cutlets on Toast, Lemon Sauce. Roast Goose, Savory Stuffing. Giblet Gravy. Jellied Apples. Hashed Browned Potatoes. Lemon Ginger Sherbet. Celery Salad. Crackers. Cheese. Plum Pudding, Rum Sauce. Fruits. Nuts. Bonbona Coffee. All of these dinners are easily pre pared. The soups are light and sim ple, but must be perfectly seasoned and perfectly free from grease. Nearly every one now prefers the Christmas turkey stuffed with truflles or chest nuts and has a favorite recipe for this delicacy, so it is unnecessary to say anything on this subject. If this noble bird is to appear on the table, put a double row of nut meats down his breast, to button up his brown coat in true military fashion, and let him rest on a bed of celery and parsley leaves. The Christmas goose, celebrated in song and story, is not very well known on this side of the water. The turkey tired palate will welcome the appear ance of the» goose, cooked by this rec ipe, on the board.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ©300 OGCh- S200 each- HOC each* & $ ©a oh' 16 each- 8 each “HAIL TO XING CHRISTMAS j| O’er snow plies, high drifted, His throne Is uplifted! His mantle Is pinned by the North Polar star, And down the dim ages Saints, sinners and sages Cry, "Hall to King Christmas, who rules near and far!’’ Ing within l t OOO bales either way oftheexaot figures .......... 83,300 $17,600 8hould the exact figures havo been glveh during tb» content prior to 8opt. I et there was offered to the successful estimate, If rmido before than 3,000 Grand total — — — - • • • • i—— ©20,000 S®ns$deigj Estfauvsitf;®® Th2& I’aaBrnmc 4fa &2Gf,&£?Q Qoesiss&tm [1] Send 81.25 fbr WEEKLY CONSTITUTION and SONNY SOUTH, feotb one yo»r, and oend two oaiituAtos Ui tills contest—that la OB* estimate fbr tho SUNNY SOUTH and another estimate for THE CONSTITUTION. [2] Send 81.00 for WEEKLY CONSTITUTION one yaar and with It one outlimito Ih tho centaur. T; ' [8] Send 50o for BUNNY BOOTH one year arid with It one estimate In the contest. 14] Send OOo for one eot'.mato alono In the contest If you don’t want a subscription!, or If you wish to mako a number of estimates on this basis you may send THJ?S~ oatlrrmto;; fol* every OM E DOL LAR forwarded'at tho came time estlmatos arc cent. If ns m»n y r.s T eatimatoo are 3 ant at the same time, without subscription, tho sender may forward them with only THRZS. doUars--thl8 spe cial discount being offered only to estimates of ten. A postal card receipt will be sent for each estimate so received. Whore oujiaorlptlons are cent tho arrival of the paper Itself Is an acknowledge ment that your estimate has been received ond carefully recorded. 161 The money and the eubsorlrfllon toe *»ttmato must oome In tho eame eu velopo overf Mmo. Tho estimate, tho money and the subsorlp- Hls brows wreathed with holly, Fat, rosy and jolly, He sways the proud scepter no monarch can boast O’er realms that are boundless And depths that are soundless, For he, mighty Christmas, alone rules the roast! Then plump be the purses Of all whom these verses May reach, with their tidings of jolly good cheer. Their presents be many, Their fun best of any, For Christmas comes once—only once—In a year, y —Almee Carey In Philadelphia Ledger. FEEDING THE BIRDS A Happy- Christmas Custom Among Swedish Peasants. Christmas is celebrated in Sweden to an extent unknown in our country, and the celebration is not over until Jan. 13, or “twentieth day Yule.” A very pretty feature of the festivities is thus described by a writer who has visited that country; One wintry afternoon, at Jul-tide (as the season is called), 1 had been skating on a pretty lake three mites from Gothenberg. On my way home I noticed that at every farmers house there was erected, in the middle of the yard, a pole, to the top of which was bound a large, full sheafjof grain. "Why is this?” I asked my confirade. "Oh, that’s for the birds, the little wild birds. They must have a merry Christmas, too, you know.” And so it is; not a peasant in Sweden will sit down to a Christmas dinner within doors until he has first raised aloft a Christmas dinner for the birds in the cold and snow without.—Pittsburg Dis patch. Stops the Gough and Works Off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay Price, Scents STATISTICS OF LAST SEVEN- CROPS. THE PORT RECEIPTS for the PMt low years, from Sep tember I through tho first ten days of January, are given to eld you in making an intollt- E«nt estimate In this contest. It Is not necessary to ltemlzo your estimate, give it In one plain sum expressed In figures only; let them mean just what you mean to cay. Total Port . Receipts from Cotton Tear— Soot. I to January 10. 1896- 6... 3,662,196 1890-7.. .. .. .. .. 6.139,272 1897- 98.. - .. .. .. 6,961,253 1898- 9 6,166,283 1899- 1900.. .. .... 4.207,865 1900- 01.. .. .. .. .„ 4,804,514 1901- 02 6-J 37,819 Secretary Hester, of the How Orleans Cotton Exohange, will furnish the official’ figures to decide this contest. Don’t forget, every eubooHp. tion for yourself or your frlendo ■will entitle you to an estimate’ In the great 320,000 contest. BLSHK FOB 81.00 000 THREE ESTIMATES, WITHOUT 8UBSGBIPT10B. (To be ebangod If •(.ascription* tad estimates both are sent.) PUBLISHERS CONSTITUTION, A Manta, On. Enter THBEE estimate* for me, for »».** enclosed. In your oarrent oontest as follows; Upon Total Port Receipts September l, >902, to January >0.1903. tfame Postoffice.. State. ...... wrvrw—.Tf von wish only ONE estimate In the contest, send FIFTT CENTS and fill out only one line of wSSSTlf /^wihTBfl estimateslntne oontest s.nd*HRBEDOLLARS and write your own figures to nnbsorlbo to THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION orSUNNY SOUTH, or both, ns above offered, &keMitten*Indited and send estimates EEBB—ons estimate for each yearfy auto«fotlon. or two tot gf^SbteattoS! changing thtscoupon accoralnfily and enclose with remittance. ATLANTA, Address all Orders lo.^t Subscribe for the Home Journal