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An opportunity tc pet thousands of d, liars in cash is offered by THE MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMER
CIAL APPEAL to the subscribers making the *irst correct or nearest correct guess on the number of bales of
Cotton received in Memphis from September 1. l'A’1. to and including April 15, 1902, the only provision being
that each and every guess must be accompanied by 50 c^-nts for a year’s subscription to
THE MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMERCIAL APPEAL
Tha Groat Nows, Farm and Family Journal of tho South•
The first correct or nearest correct guess on the number of bales of Cotton received In Memphis
from September I, spot, to April 15, iqoj. will be awarded in cash as follows:
if received In December
$5,000
If received In January
$3,500
If received in February
$2,000
If received in March
$1,000
To be plainer, - bon is simply this: If the correct or nearest correct guess is received in
September the fortuna, .ic-.ser will recti\e $10,000.00 in cash. If not received until October, the guesser
will receive $0,000.00. It not uiuil .November $7,500,00. If not until December, $5,000.00. If not. until
January, $3,500.00. If not until February, $2,000 00. If not until March, $1,000.00.
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CONTEST CLOSES ON MARCH 31. 1902,
at midnight, but the guess i* to be on the number of bales of cot
ton received in Memphis from September 1, 1701, to April 15,
1702, inclusive, the official figures of the Memphis Cott* it 1
change to be the figures upon which the contest is tot** de* ided.
In order to help every one to figure closely and enable them
to make • close guess, the receipts iu Memphis between the
dates mentioned for the past six years aie given below -
NaaWr ®f balea of rotten received In Memphis
fWM Sept. 1, INfM, to April I 5. IflD.T. 551,OU4
IV an Her of hales of cotton received In lUrinphb
frsa ftopt. I, la April I A. IH'Ml 407.240
Mam her sf bales of rutloD received In llciuphl*
frea kept. 1, 1H0«, h» .l|>i l) 15. I HOT 543,844
Wamber of bales of cotton receive*: In Memphis
from Sept. 1, l*®7, to April 15. I MU A <U5,««0
Mam be r of hates of rotten received In Memphis
from Sepl 1, 1 m»S. to April 15, I H »> 713.055
Number of balea of cotlon receive d In Memphis
from test. 1, 1 *Wf». to April 15, lOaO 570,490
Xaabar orbalri of rotten rceelved Jn Memphis
from Sept. 1, I 900 to April 15, lUOl
Mo gneta will he recorded where |»om<himrli allows
letter woo mailed later than Tlurrh 'i 1, 1*10*2. But
under no circumstance* will a guess lx* recorded w here letter
la received at the Commercial Appeal office later than April 5,
1702. no matter what date of poatmark.
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i Uters P«i4 Street Musician and Then
Wlih d he i'n’t
It was Mi Bittirs who, having
returned fr< m ... :.'.ng trip, ar
rived at his offii e o fi d with new
life that even th sti t gtaj aerconde
scended to smile on him, and his
clerks indr.. ... . r.v.u se-uetiy de
cided to a-k :• ; a.. ... v oil next wet. k
to gtt a little out* shooting down the
hay.
“Glorious morning!’- cried Mr. Hit
ters, blowing upon them with iheluut
of his enthusiasm. “Glorious mor—
say; do you realize what a day this isr
Coming down Congress strict 1 met
a poor fellow churning a hurdy-gurdy
and he looked so sorrowful I gave him
half a dollar. You ought to hav* seen
him tune up and get into sweet—
ahem—sweet accord with this glori
ous day!’’
“How much did you say you gave
him?” asked Mr. Bitters’ best man,
over his shoulder.
“Half a dollar—50cents! No less.
J hope!” was the reply, “and the music
of his smile is still ringing in my—”
“Tinkle-tinkle rinkle-rankle, lill
eree! Pr-r-r-rom petoodle-doo! T'iiik
tank, tink-tank, tr-r-r-r-r ker boom!"
came from under the w indow.
Mr. Bitters leaptd to his fe>t.
“What in goodness’ name is that
dreadful racket!” he exclailm d. “Did
anybody ever hear such a noise ?”
The stenographer looked out and
winked slyly over the lust mar
“Looks like your friend after another
half-dollar,” she replied.
“How I hate smartness in young
women,” was what Mr. Bitters' look
said, but he maintained a silence
which did not matter much in view of
the thunders emitted by the barrel
organ in the street. Mr. Bitters has
an indifferent tar for music, but he
felt sure his beneficiary was below,
and a sudden sense that lie had in him
self the capacity for all crimes sent
him back to bis disk, v here he buried
his head in business and tried to
think.
The hurdy-gurdy kept him busy. At
the very moment w hen, after the ab
rupt close of some unknown but duly
dreadful number, lie \\n< about to
take advantage of the sudden deathly
silence by saying:
“Miss Johnson, I we nt to- ”
“Bangety-bang! Tra-la-la-le-lao,
ker-boom!" Off went the machine
again on some terrifying two-step, and
his angry eye c aught Ids stenographt r
tapping one foot in time to the music
and saw that not a clerk was work
ing. All over the office pens and pen
cils were wagging back and forth in a
silent drill, and nobody was looking
at Mr. Bitters’ famous motto ovtrihfe
doorway: “Every minute you lose
here counts against you in eternity!”
lie endured until the end of that
outburst, w hen he leaptd to his feet.
The dreamy, care-free looks that were
cast languidly at him by his intoxi
cated helpers only maddened him. He
cried:
“1 want every one of you to under
stand that hereafter—”
“Tumpy - tumpy, teedle - duru!
Trill-la, lill la z-z-zip kt r-booin!” re
sumed the machine, fortissimo, and
drowning out his voice. He yelled as
louil as he could without avail as he
saw, for his stenographer smiled
sweetly and came ove r to where he w up
standing with something w ritten on a
pad.
lfe reail it: “It dots make one feel
like singing, doesn't it? We think it's
just lovely ol‘ you 1”
Mr. Hitter- went hack to his desk,
and counted off the minutes during
the hour the hurdy-gurdy wa> there.
When it was all over his fact was sadly
Hu Hud and hi* hands ult damp and
hot.
“Mis.- Johnson," he-aid, with per
sistent dignity, “you will take a !■ t
ter for me."
“Can't 1 do it, Mr. Hit (ms ?" a?k( d
the la st man.
Mr. Hitter- dared n -ttiust himself
beyond saying:
“No. sir! I'm writing to the news
papers about this infernal nui.-anoc of
street music during business hour.-.'’
— Portland (Me.) Advt uist-r.
Ths English Navy Leads.
The black handkerchief which the
sailor of the English navy knots
around his threat was first- worn as
mourning by Nelson, and has ever
since been retained, while the bright
stripes around the broad blue collar'
of the sailors jumper commemorate!
the victories of Trafalgar, Copen-1
hagen and the Nile. The broad blue1
collar itself is older than Nelson, and'
was lirst adopted at that period when
sailors plastered their hair into a still!
pigtail with grease and powder.
TOMMY’S FRIEND.
Pathetic Story of Lieut. Roper and ths
New York Baotb.ack.
It is quite safe to say that when tlie
new - reached this country that Eicut.
Commander J. M. Roper had
lost his life in a heroic endeavor to
save a member of hi- cre-w from suf
focation in a burning (impartment in
the hold of the gunboat Petrel, in the
Philippine waters, no one felt more
his loss than did a humble truck
driver in Ntw York.
In the days gone by this man had
been known simply as Tommy. He
had been a typic.it New York waif,
knowing neither home nor parents.
He could neither read r.or write, but
these were the bust of his troubles.
Possibly when he was hungry he stole
trifles of food occasionally, but never
wa- guilty of a vicious theft- one
committed for the theft’s sake. This
was Tommy when at the age of 18 he
enlisted in the navy under the misap
prehension that all sailors have an op
portunity to see every bit i f the wide
world.
Hut he was soon disappointed. Aftei
a few weeks on the training-ship, tire
monotony of tire daily drill became
irksome. If ever he had any ambition
it had all inserted 1 im. No one un
derstood him ar.d no one cared foi
him.
Then one day the captain took him
to Lieut. Roper, and said. “Lieuten
ant, 1 wish you would take this boj
■and see if y: a cun inaiic anything cut
of him. Hverv officer on the .-hip has
li.nl him and no one can do anything
with him. The lieutenant evidently
knew boys, for the first thing lie did
was to take Tommy to the“master-at
arms and order a brand-new .m lit of
clothing, That the clothing must tit
was imperative. No makeshifts would
do. Wlun Tommy was newly anayer
he began to feel like a prince, lie
forgot to long for the Hast side, and
Lieut. Koper became father, mot Inl
and family to him.
Then came a naval parade at New
port. Tommy at his lust walked
proudly along behind I ;> friem . Hut
when the edict r returm d to tlie ship,
Tommy w as unacceunti d for. Later in
tlie ( veiling Tommy appeared in the j
duotw. y of the lieutenant - roam, and !
ir: ie-ponse to the lit nit rant's in<[iiir- i
it', said: “ Kxettse me. sir. fur bein' j
left, but some o’ ('em slo re guys !
t'oughl de c’do me playin’ milts, an’
see here." and Tommy sht.vtd a big
bagful of marbles in M r. Hnper s fat c, j
c< nehisive evidence that "deni shore j
guys” had been ‘‘done.’”
And tht n Tommy had been t reins- :
ferru! to aimtlu-r ship. .Tl'is was a sail 1
parting for Tommy, and many were
the secret tears lie shed. Hi- new of
ficers were kind enough, hut still he
felt the loss of personal intern-1.
Again his thought.- reverted to the
Kast side and one da\ Tommy was
missing. I
Some years lat< r Lieut. Koper.
w hile walking up Murray street, was
stopped by a familiar voice crying:
“Shine, sir?’’ That “sir" sounded
wonderfully like Tommy. So it
proved, and tite tear- were in his eyes
and voice as he said: “You set1. Mr.
Koper. I couldn't stand it. Dem of
ficers was all right, Imt dey wasn't
you, an’ when J see de Battery—well,
1 loved you best, an’ Xi w York next,
an'—well. 1 jumped overboard, an’
here I am.”
The lieutenant turned his head
away, and after a short pause, said,
with an affected sharpness: “Had
your breakfast, Tomnivr”
“Yes. sir.”
Tommy lied. But lie gloried in the
j lie after it had been told. How could
I he accept more kindness front the
only true friend he ever had? The
lieutenant ignored the falsehood.
“Take this and buy your break-feast,”
were his last words, and he went his
way with a >ad heart, leaving a sadder
one behind.
In a little niche cut in the wall of a
squalid tenement-house there isagold
eagle. ’1 he occupant of the room, like
a thief in the night, goes stealthily t.o
the corner, takts it out. fondles it like
a miser does his gold. It i? a monu
ment of the most sacred tie lie ever
knew.— Harper’- Weekly.
A Big Boot.
The Carnavalet museum at Paris
has just made acquisition of a curious
object in the shape of an enormous
brodequin with five soles, and weigh
ing at least GO pounds. It is a speci
men of the cobbler's art which a cor
doimier of the sixteenth century ex
hibited In his window for advertise
ment purposes
A TOY OCEAN
Oae Constructed at Washington to Test
Ships for the Navy.
A quarter of a century ago an Eng
lish naval constructor. Dr. William
Froude, performed a series of experi
ments with scale models designed to
predetermine the resistance of ships
being built for the navy. He made
small models of the vessels to be con
structed, giving great care to the
preservation of the scale and these
models he then towed through the !
water, under varying conditions, by
mechanism extremely sensitive to ;
variation in the pull. The tension in
each case was carefully recorded, and ;
conclusions drawn as to the lines most I
favorable for speed. To verify his re- j
suits a British man-of-war was towed I
by another vessel, and the actual pull
on the tow rope was carefully meas
ured and compared with the results
of experiment; made with a small
model. The two sets of answers were
so nearly alike*as to leave no doubt of
I the practicability of actual experi
! ments with reduced scale model-.
At the Washington navy yard a
model basin for experiments of this
kind has been constructed, at a cost of
$100,000.
Within a building designed to pro
tect it from all disturbing conditions
j of the atmosphere is a tank of pure,
: fresh water, .570 feet long and K5 feet
i wide, with a uniform depth of It feet.
| Spanning this narrow sheet of water
is a movable bridge, set upon steel
; rails, which run parallel to the length
I of the basin. Heavily built, and fast
ened and braced so rigidly as to avoid
all unnecessary vibration, the bridge
is provided with a wonderful motor,
which (-an drive it along the rails, if
need he, at the rate of 20 knots an
hour.
The model of the proposed ship, cut
from soft pine, conforming bb nearly
as possible to a uniform 20-foot
length, and ballasted with the utmost
care, i- (irmly fastened to an arm
which projects from below the cen
ter of the bridge or towing carriage, as
it is railed, un t lie carriage are placed
all t lie delicate dynamometrical medi
an, bins which record the “pull” of the
mode! as t glide? through the water
beneath the span of the bridge. This?
multiplied by the propc-r ratio must
establish accurately the power that
will lie rtq uired to overcome the resist
ance of the finished vessel.
Thanks to art almost flawless elec
trical development, the bridge moves
forward with an even motion, with
out a trace of the rattle and jouncecf
an electric car.
lies ides the motormen. there are
two persons on t he carriage during an
e.xperinu nt. They watch the pens of
the recording cylinder of the dyna
mometer. These pi ns. by means of
elect rieity register the act ual distance
traversed, together with the vatying
pull of the model as the spied changes.
When all is ready f< r an experi
lmnt, at the clang of a gong the
bridge start- from the south toward
the north end of the tank, while be
neath it the ‘10-font warship glides
evenly through the filtered water. As
the run nears its end and the specta
tors wonder how the great bridge
with it- precious freight of instru
ments is going to escape collision with
the wall ahead, two great hydraulic
brakes operate automatically and
bring the mass to a gentle stop with
out a jar or quiver.—Youth's Com
panion.
AN ANCIENT RELIC.
Reminder of Roman Occupation of Scot
land Recently Discovered There.
An interesting relic of the Roman
occupation of Scotland has been dis
covered during building operations
at Falkirk, in the form of a large
stone, about 19 inches bread, ten
inches thick, over four feet high and
weighing probably half a ton, writes
a correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News, it is beautifully sculptured in
high relief. The ornamentation is
divided into two panels, the larger one
being at the top. These panels an
separated by a band about one and £
half inches broad, which is earriet
round both panels, meeting at at
angle at the top of the stone. Undci
the angle is a beautiful shell-like de
vice. delicately executed. The up
per panel is completely filled by r
horse ar.d rider, the rider carrying i.
sword triumphantly aloft. The fig
ure is pictured in full armor and
bears a shield. The lower panel rep
| resents a naked man—a wild Celt, pre
sumably—prone oh the ground, his
shield and weapon lying beside him.
The profile is perfect and the store is
in a wmplet stau of preservation.
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