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IA FORTUNE'FOR 50 CENTS !
® An opportunity to get thousands of di liars in cash is offered by THE MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMER
CIAL APPEAL to the subscribers making the first correct or nearest correct guess on the number of bale* of
Cotton received in Memphis from September 1, 19C1 to and including April 15, 1902, the only provision being
that each and every guess must be accompanied by -SO cents for a year’s subscription to
THE MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMERCIAL APPEAL
The Groat ttowm. Farm and t■amity Journal of tho South.
The first correct or nearest correct goes* on the number of bales of Cotton received In Memphis
from September i, lyoi, to April 15, iooj, wlil be awarded In cash c» follows:
If received In December
$5,000
If received In January
$3,500
If received in February
$2,GOO
If received In March
$1,000
To be plainer, the proposition is simply this: If the correct or nearest correct guess is received In
September the fortunate guesaer will receive $10,000.00 in cash. If not received until October, the guesscr
will receive $9,000.00. If not until November. $7,500.00. If not until December, $5,000.00. If not until
Jaouary, $3,500.00. If not until February, $2,000 00. If not until March, $1,000.00.
THE MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMERCIAL APPEAL is the greatest news, farm and family journal
of the United States. At only 50 cents a year it gives ten an.l twelve pages weekl y of news, specially prepared
farm matter by Prof. S. M. Tracy; a woman’s and children s department by Mrs Jane Howard; a religious page
with Dr Taltnage’s Sunday sermon and a Sunday-schc-d lesson; a short story and a continued story; the latest
market reports; Washington gossip, and many columns of miscellaneous news and information.
P*»|»t>r (no lie Keut U Anj AUdrcaa ami 4-ucae 4 redited to l*ar(f j Ki-mt((«n<'«,
CONTEST CLOSES Uh MARCH 31, 1302,
At raidnight, !>«t the furic is to \*r on t he number of * a!r« of cot
ton recenwd ii Memphis from September 1. 1 *>1 t«. Ap’il L5.
\VQ2, nu luaive, the official figures of the Memphis C'-itm K*
> baage to \*r t hr figui r» w I . h ! he •*-,•.! • r r
In order to help every one to figure closely and enable them
to make a clow guess, the receipts iu Memphis Tetwerii the
dates mentioned for the past six years ate given feluw
Hanker sf bales sf esttsn reeeltM In tlenphli
#>»«■ 1, 1R»A, U «|Mtl 16. !f|f& Aftl,<M»4
Hanker of bali« of euitari reeehed la Hrmpkli
fan an tryl I, JS»A So April I A, I Mt»4l
Hanker of feaJe* of e.»t«on rerehed In %l emphte
rVen lest. I, I SVi. So April I A. 1A*7 AAV *4 4
Hanker or bale* mi eoilon i eeeSys^ !Ues.atLU
fVsn tept I, I AVI, to April I A. IHiu «!'»,««*
lanber of bAles of enUun reeelveA In Haempbls
from Hept 1, IfcftA. to April 1A. I«HW 71A.OAA
Hunker of b«le« of eottou reieleed In MrnpbU
from SrPl 1. I«t»» U April I A, I V«vo A7V.4VO
lanber of bslei of eoiton received In Rfenybla
Iron* Sepl. 1, » IMPO so April IA, I IHM «tl,A*A
Ho guess will b# rseorded tvlisre postnurh shows
letter was aialled later than Hlatrclt 31, 1902. Hut
under no circti mala neea will ague#* be recorded where letter
is received at the Commercial Appeal office later than April 5,
1 VOX, uo matter a hat date of postmark,
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I urns, that the number of bale* of cotton received
j in Memphis from Sept. 1, 1901, to April IS, 1902, will be
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USE THIS CUUPOM WSES POSSIBLE,
If fi Hr 1 out properly it i* t?; tvMite .t If! * f i with if
Farming With Machinery.
Farming i-s Conducted upon n
large and economic *<c:ile in many |
portions of southern California.
In no locality has modern steam
farming machinery been applied ;
with such effectiveness as upon
the grain ranches in southern Cali
f <i'i;ia. On on- ranch the engine
used to draw the machinery is o!
tii't'-horse-iH)\ver, and has dm*
wheels eight feet high- It ejn
sumes twelve bands of oil ever,\ |
day, and its operations requires,
the services of seven men. In
I
plowing, fifty-five furrows un
turned over at one time, coverin;
a breadth of forty feet. Fight
horses are needed to keep the mil
chinery supplied with water and
fuel. The best record made so far
in plowing is seventy live aeres in
four hours and forty-live minutes.
The liehl was live miles around. |
giving the great engine a straight
away course, with feu turns, in
> making the record- In operating
this plow to the best advantage, a
water station is muinUimed at one
corner of the field, from widen the
engine is supplied as needed. Tin
average capacity of tin- machin - is
the plowing of 1 i't aeres j»er day. .
The use of this machine is not
an experiment. La.*t. year bo.ooo
aeres were harvested by it < >11 a
ranch of l,<Mio acres it. is an eeon
imic investment, but a small acre
age would not warrant the outlay.
Last season a combined harvester
was drawn by the engine, and a\ -
eraged over 1 ,<M>0 acres of wheat
in a day, cutting, threshing and
sacking the crop. One of these
great field engines is at work this
season near C ovina, d -placing s(>\
enfc.v mules. Lx
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Digests wha#t you cat.
This preparation contains all of the
digestants and digests all kinds of
food. It gives instant relief and Dever
fails to cure. It allows you to eat all
the food you want. The mort sensitive
stomachs can take it. By its use many
thousands of dyspeptics have been
cured after everything else failed. Is
unequalled for the stomach. Child
ren with weak stomachs thrive on it.
First dose relieves. A diet unnecessary.
Cures all stomach troublss
Pr-narwl on’.T b* F O. OkWitt A Co Obl. agO
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WONDERFUL HINDU FAKIRS.
iypnotum tha Cnljr KipUaatioa lor
iiomt of Their Startling Illusions.
Wonderful -tone- are told • f ii «»
powers of th' Hindu fakiis. ( ai fid
mention to their tricks ha.- imt u s
I'Ven-d their secret wit! any -
i \, but ('a [it, da in i s Darker. the I i g
! -h tra viler, who i:«r- jiut return* i
from a tour of It ■ ;a, g ves is a> ' >
belief that by [uiutisiii .# : in* n v 1 - by
whii.li they aceousplish tluir Ho>>;
startling illusions <>:<■ .undent
which lie <ii sen Ik*' *o<'ir.» burnout
hi# new
The trit k which i- a< knew h dgt d to
}>e the gn a'cst i.f thi>r II i u my ••
tic perfortnaiu i s. civs t ••«{*: I’.uker,
and tin one 1 ha: .ha- In < j: t'• -c i died l v
trustworthy pti»on> too oft< *i t*> he
doubted, i* tile one .ti w i. ci. I i • fakir ,
throw - a hah of twine in*.- t ;■ .
above him. m : it d -a[']•'■.i * ft m '
S! g ll 1. 1 ii C 1 - -» t I ! - i I I . i * 1 !' i I V. -0
hold? ii his * at it, and the hoy
assistant ha- climbed uj> tile sti m !
until he, too, is .uit of .-■■i nt. tin- fakir i
himself follow, w th a km!e ' we n 1
his teeth
Tiie spectators, surprint wlu-n
both hoy and man 11 iinH out • -tpiit,
are horrified whet: the hot - von i
head, arm, and hgs. followed by ti
trunk, full to theground,and . I <*. n an
slide- down e’.ose behind. Tin ir a>»
tOBtsmcTii is inm asi-d when 1 he fakir
gathers the ..evered im n In r- ,u;b k
stores the boy to life.
Well, l .-aw this pel formam e i m e,
and once 1 didn't >ot it;ami the littt.-r
experience w as more w • mb rful than
the other. I had some hot d. n friends
visiting me,and after baving left tin m
for a few minute., on the veranda of
mv bungalow. 1 saw. a.. 1 was ri turn
ing. the same fakir and hi- m-.-i-tant,
whom 1 had .-eei perform the inch,
standing about 10 ft c; in fr. in t f my
friends, apparently pit paring t > be
gin a performance. A> L wa> about s
far behind the natives as mv fim m s
ware in front of th<m. and had m>;
been observed. I >od quici \ w hen l
was.
Tin man placed a drawn ki ife I e
tween in# teeth, took the usual i a.. of
twine in ins i :gi t hand, made ,t root .t .1
as if t hit wing it into t in- air. ar.d then
stood perfect!y quiet. My friends on
the veranda wi se looking in'.i tlieup
' p.-r air with astonishment on tin r
faces, which in a moment turned to
a look of horror as their exes tame
Tack to thegn umi. In another min
ute their countenances lighted up
with pbasure, ar.d tht) applauded
roundly.
Tht _\ could not say enough about
tiie wonderful performance they had
seen, and they vx tre astonished bem ud
measure whtn 1 told them 1 had Ken
as near tin fakir a.- they i^ad.aiu! had
soer, nothing of what had so wonder
fully impressed them.
If that was not hypnotism, what
was it?
HE WASN’T THERE YET.
Cash Eoy Who W»i Afraid of Dolor J
L ittl« Too S uch
Wherever one may go, in factory, of
fice or store, there are a.way* some
emplovt' who. 1:11 matter if they r« ach
1111 . 1* plates of el): jf V II1C1U ... a. f
time, in the tie nia,,; oral< : .make
u <i {mini never to begin vs<»ik •.t'ti 1
lilt eu vk strikes, tin v. F:i~11 >. I 1 a .- ur
t ue be u n n g>.
Shorth before t He uVe . k a f w
iliivs a g > :• . mat. a a I.i: . :
ei lie; 'lore ii. M wauKce. s».t\i; c
Sell l it: cl, liav 4 made H ->a! . ! ' < • -
ea.'i'-n to ia.. for a ea-h bey. > yna
l'i spot, lit <J . e! -Ull ill'-i -. d l-.-- ti.i'U
vile t spied il 1 >0V sitting ;i :h. i t ti.c
t A lit r fruin \V here >l:e ' > it.
ii r,. boy." -a ' sht to the
fellow. "take tins tu U. e c<ul.le! a: i
have it done Uj
•i ain't hei' yt t." ! ■ be.! e
voting-ver, with the utmost cm in**'4
arnl Ulleof:et I I..
As tlit- w i.maii i'* i;b. :. l.i' mil.'
hot to stir. file v.aj- obligee to call lor
another.
httenng by Klec'r.cit/.
The earl of < iaw ford '•. \ '-t 1 a
im aI:,- of man.;.u>at.1.1; a i - - - e. .-1 m.
del In meat:.- * ! elcctru ;t\ front ..i v
part of the .'hip. A pr<u t u a; demon
'11 at ion of the litvt r; :oti was recently
given n]>iin thi Mivei'i r‘-steam yacht
Valhalla in tin- So],Mi i efop s< \eiai
representatives of ti e British uni
,1 a pat esf i av .e-. w l,o w i I e t ■ m- ii1 ■ -
ahlv impressed with t he ut \ ice. It is
stated that the British aiimirally pro
pose- togive the in vt ntioi; a thorough
trial tipi !' -I'.eoft. t- battle.-iiips. Tho
most ptoniit et feat tire of thu device
is that it i.- not so liable to a< eideiU a?
tin stean gear, ami :i is much easier
to manipulate Si . . • ih American.
Mariym* for Fun
Young peopb who marry f. r fun
aie iti a djtlViei;: hum. r i. the time
ti.e divore • t ourt ;-sighted.— Chica
go Dai y Xi.w.
K.nsw Vs hat Mada a Dollar.
11. i'T:h f the public s.-hords a teaoh
t i1 was recently interrogating her class
;n arithmetic Among her pupils i3
a In t le girl. f lh brew pa rent age.
“Rachel." -a.d the school m a "am,
“how many - two times .bitr''
"A >;> bar." proii.) tly replitd the
litt !e one.— Mi 1 wuukee Sentinel.
t usp Clous People.
S, rue people are so-u-p < :,.us that
it is a wi i tier that they ■ iUst thtm
A I- !< ti . e.
l utch Covl Vm Ji
In the Dutch j >r:'. i. f the recent
ly discovered Limburg c al field,
thn e nnm are u; pr. -vr.t raising coal,
ard in l'.HUt produced ( tons,
an ire:ease f 10?.'.*'2 * i - ovir th;
pri V.. u- \ ear. Ti;-. : t u , : , exported
to I’n .g uni IH.'.H’S : ms, at.d to Ger
many 1 lo.Sbl ti i.-.
Like Falling m the Rivar.
hading in love i- ,.k. ■ . .ing into a
river; it e • r t ;..,u climt
cut.—Chicago Dauy X» w .?.
- 1 ■ o. hit y i er.taakioij.
.:t. t early pt rnuakt rs the prob
i a |h ;tu was the most serious
time elapsed before it wai
'iL'iiiltC.y solved*
——
THIS AND THAT.
Germany has feOO more physicians
than it had in li'UO. The piesent
number is about 2S.115.
The game commissioners of Maine
stati that $‘>,(.»00,000 is brought into
that -tate every year by sportsmen.
The most valuable cargo ever
taken out of Baltimore was that of the
j Johnston steamer Rowanmore, esti
I mated ai $94r>,~><5.
Tin manufacture of silk fn France
j has not increased since IHito. In 1900
it ini- 3T.G3 per cent of the world's
commerce in silks.
Ft) in vocation, a word now applied
to any evasion, was once understood
to mean the calling of diverse things
by tilt same name.
London is still obliged to import
polyglot clerks for her mercantile
lo uses, as the English too seldom take
tin trouble to learn forugn languages.
“(ice Whiz" is the name of an ice
| yacht at Cleveland, which carries a
II row of four, and is one of the largest
! on tilt' lakes, it is U2 feet long, and
carries 3V5 square feet of canvas.
i here are villages near the I niver
sity of Oxford where no notion of
medical science has penetrated, and
where charms are the only recognized
cure for disease. A w man who has
lately 1 een lecturing .n the neighbor
hood on sanitation found that whoop
ing cough was always treated by
-pub r. The spider was sewn into a
piece of n uslin.and hung on thecur
tain rod. and the death of the spider
; meant the < r.d < f the cough.
Great changes have been made
among tl , negroes of German Fast
Africa. '1 hey now use plate.-, cups
saucers, looking-glasses, spoons,
knives, umbrt !;aw and occasional v
clock-; they call for soap and for ker
o.-i " In their market places they
ate .-een drinking u-a with sugar at
tab;,. ’1 i.e women have adopted Ku
ropeer ■ tih and make u-e oi sovv
ir x i!i;ii'i,ii;i even in the interiordis
tr.ci-. S g< least the German Colo*
i ai i ■ u -j ape i s i eporl.
MJ-0 FJK THE SNAKES
Exulting I jperiei.cs of * Fidjier w.th
l wo Hattlers.
I* .. a Susquehanna. Pa.,
tied. r. gavt u s*>,u a si* rt tmio nnu
under i e markable circumstance*, says
a eoi n -puiidcut uf the Chicago Inter
Ocean. 111- wit? on ins way toplaj for
a it it r re in Oreat Bend township, and
wa? waik.ng ah nga cut in the moun
tain - . r. when his attention was at
tracted hy the warning noise of a rat
t '-nake. hooking up he .-aw a for*
in.dahie snake directly in his path.
He piomptiy t ok to Ins heels, hut had
a nr jii1\ a stcpvr two when from the
\m cd? hy ihr -.he of the road another
l»:r rattier i"?i up. There was not
room enough to [ ass the snake with
out run ng the risk of being bitten,
a in! tiie frightened tiddler backed up
aga;::?-t the ledge that hung above him
an i e}td the reptile?. i.?.cape was
imp --1hi and he w a? pondt ring over
tiie dire fact, when it suddenly nc
nimti tu him ihat hr had lead of peo
ple i nai using snake.- w ith liui.-ie.
Draw ing h ? fiddle from it? box, Bill
began to play, ami almost instantly
tli • big ?11ukc? uncoiled, and, stre tell
ing themselves out ill the path.glided
- iwiy toward tiie fiddltr. This move
was not particularly pleasing to Bill,
hut lit kept sawing aw ay. Closerand
closer came tilt snake?, and faster and
> faster Hew the bow over the strings.
At last the snakes reached a point
w ithin two feet of the terrified musi
cian, and. winding themselves up,
lifted tlmir heads closely together.
At this juncture Bill’s nerves gave
way, and. with a yell, he grabbed bis
fiddle by the neck and brought it down
with crushing force on tiie heads of
the snakes. The blow stunned them,
ami before they could recover Bill
killed them with a rock.
Noiej Any Shape You Like.
The !ato?t development in surgery
is the molding of nose? in paraffin,
j vvhii i > mw being practiced in VT
i ■ nna. In tlie deformity known as
saddle rose ti, most remarkable re
j suits are said to be obtained. The
1 process consists in the -ulx-utaneous
injection of paraffin. which before it
complete.V sets i? ! .( hi’ ' into theue
?.rcil s’,;’] t A warmed ?yr:i:ge i?
charg”'’; with the melted compound
ami the needle ns inserted between
the eyebri w>. just above the root of
ti:. nose. T’i.f n tiie c<unpour.i! is in
i, ote d tu to : m - da it: ..l.cU; t.?sue as
the neocle is siowiy withdrawn.
Cijarette l*w m teslabJ
it .-Ci m? ti .. a? well as l ■ vs.
of K-. y kja\ ik. Ice mi. i, 1ih\ t con tract
ltd tin dibit of sim king cigarette?,and
. the law tilows ai.y adur. man or wom
an w ho find* a buy r girl smoking to
give the young offender a sound
spanking and to snzt and destroy any
eigaieitc found in hi* or her posset
biOii*
will readily oTiroome Lots of Hair,
’' Diseased Hoof* and Scratches In hor
L.jiiliCJlt mules and cattle. Farmer* try 14.
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A toad under
a harrow
that u t rui~
Sores, Sprain ■ <
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far and vide aa
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Cures caked udder in e iws «;’in ' '
r • ned.v. llardlv a t .s'U-o peril . r t ■ iU- jkttt
or joints that cannot Le cured i-y it.
the >■(“ ' rt'm<v!v on t* ' marVef f r
V* ukUimUs. Strains and i kin L .;nr*.
Ifixi3Vxu(r Liniment n tm4xiiui*» i..-u .-..-.a.
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People who suffer from habitual constipation with all its attendant Lila,
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and tin constipated condition recurs with greater difficulty of cure and the
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