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A FORTUNE FOR 50 CENTS!
An opportunity to fret thousands of d< liars in cash is offered by THE MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMER*
C1AL APPEAL to the subscribers making tne ffrst correct or nearest correct guess on the number of bales of
Cotton received in Memphis from September 1, r*,‘1 to and including April IS, 1902, the only provision being
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MEMPHIS WEEKLY COMMERCIAL APPEAL
Tho Great Nows, Farm and Family Journal of tho South■
The first correct or nearest correct guess on the number cf bales of Cotton received In Memphis
from September t, iooi, to April 15, 1002, will be awarded in cash as follows:
If received In December
$5,000
If received in January
$3,COO
If received in February
$2,000
If received in March
$1,000
To be plainer, the p- . If, d, this: If the correct or nearest correct guess is received In
September the fortunate guenst r will rec< ive $t>< 000.00 in cash. If not received until October, the guesser
will receive $9,000.00. if notuuiil Noverobe* $7,500.00. If not until December, $5,000.00. If not until
January, $3,500.00. If not until February, $2, »> 00. if not until March, $1,000.00.
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CONTEST CLOSES ON m?W 31, !! '!2,
At midnight, but the guess it to be on l!nun. 1 er of 1-ale* of cr *
tONKreceivediit Memph Horn Sc-.te» r 1, i *1. t > Apiil l.:.
V?'JX inclusive, 'Me official figure-. M ti p t ! . r
ChtngetoK ^e figuoi upon which th' contest it tote ed.
In order to help every one to t, jure closely an t eti«t ’•* t ’• m
to make a close cues*, the receipts in Memphis between the
detes mentioned for the past six years are given below :
geabor of bales of cotton received In ttrmphla
from Kept. 1, 1 HOI, to Ap.il 15, I • ».V . M 1.004
Bfumber of bales of cotton received In I'omplili
from Aept 1, l«93 to April l «T», Is 11 4 97,340
Namber of bales of cotton received In Memphis
from »ept. 1, m»H. to April I I 637 ... t%42,244
Xanbcr of bales of cotton received in Memphis
from Aspt. 1, 1H97, to April 1 .*>. I 83H ... G4.>,<1HO
R«ah«r of hales of cotton received In Memphis
from Slept. 1. to April IS, l h HI 713,
Bfnmher or halos of cotton received In Memphis
from ftept. I. 3. to April 15, 1 9<iO . 573,400
Xamhsr of bu'f* • ton receive*! In Memphis
from Hept. 1, lt> to April 15, 1901 029,460
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WHY SH.; WANTED SAMPLES.
Dou: «3» air K9pr33eat.it V9 of Bar.
gain- .ua ia' ram a uity.
At the end of each season big dry
goods nousts always have on hard a
huge supply of small-piece samples,
sucfl as are used by salesmen both on
the roed and in the house.
The pieces of cloth are rarely a
quarter of a yard square, and when
the house has no further use for them
will give them away or sell them ai
any price dieted.
One of the department stores, says
the Milwaukee Sentinel, recently
bought a quantity of these odds and
ends of cloth and offered them at ex
ceedingly cheap price#. Strange to
say, there was quite a demand for
them, and in the course of a few
weeks the entire stock had been sold
out.
“I never could understand what
the women wanted with these scraps
and samples,” said a department man
ager, ‘‘until one day a woman ap
proached me and asked if we had any
more of them left. I said no, and she
seemed very much disappointed, so
much so that I asked her what use she
made of them.
“ ‘Oh,’ said she, ‘I still have what I
got here before and I don’t know what
I can do with them, but they’re so
cheap and I was ever so anxious to get
a lot more!’
“Then I understood why we sold
out—because the stuff was cheap.”
of the telegraph operator. Abbrevi
ated dispatches are often sent in five
minutes that would require half an
hour’s work if transmitted in full.
But there is, according to the Wash
ington Star, an operator out in Pitts
burg whose originality in inventing
substitutes for good English surprise
even his woik mates. When the
death of young James S. Ayres was
first sent over the wires and the name
of Mrs. Bonine was first mentioned,
one of the local operators received
a query from the Pittsburg man:
“Who do you mean?” “Mrs. B-O-9.”
When the significance of the phrase
burst upon him the local operator an
nounced the abbreviation to his asso
ciates and the name has been se-nt all
over the country as “B-O-9’’ ever
since.
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tug, and then, as quick as thought,
another on the line. But even as
quickly as the second tug succeeded
the first, he had the line on its way
to the surface. lie was shaking up
that hook and its contents with the
dexterity born of long practice.
When it reached the surface he was
so astonished, old fisherman as he is,
that he almost forgot for a second
to haul it into the boat. On the hook
—an ordinary tautog hook—hung
two fish, one a big tautog, weighing
about one pound, and the other a
chogset, weighing a pound and a half.
The tautog had taken the bait fist.
The hook had passed through a corner
of his upper lip, leaving a part of the
bait still on the barb of the steel.
Then the chogset, coming fast after,
had seen the piece of bait, ar.d with
the cunning that gives it its name of
dinner elsewhere, had tried to seize
the bait and get away. It had failed
ar.d was impaled fairly.
“ ‘Sid’ Cornell and John Neville
saw it,” said Mr. Smith, in telling of
the caich. “I held ’em up on the
hook and showed ’em, and they can
tell it's all straight. Ar.d I’m the only
man in Pawtuxet that’s ever done it,”
he continued, “ever caught two fish
on one hood. Don’t you forget that,
my boy. No one else ever heard of it.
Ar.d I can prove it by ‘Sid’ Cornell
and John Neville.”
It is certainly a good story, says the
Providence Journal, but the season is
young and there have been few as
yet. The reputation of the teller in
the village is such that the story is
believed implicitly on his statement.
The Pacific Cab.e.
The principal difficulty in regard
to a Pacific coast cable has disap
peared. during the past few years with
the acquisition by the United States
of Hawaii, Guam and the Philippinr
islands. It is now a comparatively
easy matter to secure the necessary
mid-ocean landing places. The
greatest distance from land to land
would be from San Francisco to Hon
olulu, 2,080 miles. From Hawaii to
Wake island would be 2,000 miles;
from that station to Guam, 1,290 miles,
and from thence to Manila, 1,520
miles. Although the Pacific is deep
er than the Atlantic, little difficulty
is anticipated on that account. The
cable from Hayti to the Windward is
lands lies in 18,000 feet of water,
; and is working successfully. The
greatest depth between San Francisco
and Hawaii is 18,300 feet, and be
tween Hawaii and Manila, 19,600—
dhle-rences which present no serious
obstacles.______
TWO FISH ON ONE EOOK.
An^lsr Has Two WUassasi to Bactr Uj
His Story.
If it had been anyone else than
Israel Smith—well, Pawluxet might
have doubted. But when he came in
from a fishing trip lest week and calm
ly announced that he had caught two
fish on one hook, and at the same time
and with the same bait, the other fish
ermen in the old village locked at him
■ and wir.kc-d an eye. Some stuck theii
tongue in their cheek—and then
when he told how it had been done
. concluded to believe it.
i “If y’ say it’s so, Isr’i,” said one o:
. them, “I'll have t’ believe y’r. Bu:
• don't go t’ te'.lin’ no more on ’em, f’:
f it’ll take me some time t’ digest thii
r one. lFw fare ye?” he asked of an
- other old resident who joined tin
i group. “Heard Isr’l’s fish story? It’
i a whopper. See if he’ll swaller it
- Isr’i.”
s Then Mr. Smith, who is one of th<
j well known men of the place, told tin
e newcomer the story. The teller of th
( tale follows the shore, and in the fish
ing season take,; parties out fishing
He was out alone the other day when
t down off the mussel beds of Cor.imi
cut, be baited his hook and dropped i
e over the side. He had, he says, bare!,
r settled dcv'E to wait when he felt
A S-E E IN JAPAN.
Life an V.ew.-d ta a Suburb ot Wondrrful
Tokio.
At the end cf that hour’s journey
from my hold, I reached the Eueno
park. There was u lake, on the
smooth surface of which the maple
trees were dropping the last of their
red leaves. Tiny, doll-like Japanese
children were p'ay.r.g about in every
direction. - iris with chil
dren on th nJ children with
smaller cl.da.. . scrapped there
on. till c no .. ,.e tiny mite who
carried a doll .. - back in prepara
tion and .r ,. :r the next unbom
baby. Idi-i.r .. r.ding all this were
fUely vr . lie pines, aisle-like
pillaring . .. .ut sky, and a Buddh
ist temple whh old oak columns ver}
much Id.c ..e pice trunks and lacquei
and carving that harmonized w ith tin
messes on t-he p re trunks, am
m emed to mirg;e sc intimately in feel
:•:» that apparently there was no ga]
v r.cre nature ended ar.d art legaD
And now and again from these tern
pies came the mellow, soft sound o
a great bronze bell, a bell that neve
seemed to be struck, but from the in
r.or part of its hollowness appeared t
breathe forth into the air around
quiet sigh of music, a soft, gentle, ha]
lowed sigh, filling it with mysteriou
color, and leaving no footfall of eeh
in the air as it died away.—Magazin
of Art.___
ABBREVIATIONS.
Good Illustration of a Telegrapher's B
in Th e Direct.oa.
Abbreviatm-s make up one of th
most important elements in the caret
UAVr, iir.K I'LJSriIX UJ^ limb,
This Man Knsw His Wife Way of Pack'
in? Trunks.
An East side woman who is well
: known in society commissioned hei
husband to send a messenger up tc
the house for her trunks Friday, as she
intended to leave the city on an ex
tended trip yesterday morning at
11 o’clock. The dutiful man went tc
one of the ‘‘lightning1’ messengei
companies and gave his orders, tak
ing the liberty to add that the wagor
had better he sent up early, as there
was a number of dresses to go in at the
last moment, and that the folks woulc
tot start to pack them until the mes
senger came. _
Shortly after six o’clock in the
morning a servant came to the roon
1 of the woman ar.d announced that i
, man was wanting to take the trunks.
■ “Mercy,” the woman excitedly ex
i claimed. “The trunks! Why, 1
. haven’t even started to pack then
. yet!”
5 “That’s it!” the girl replied. “Th<
t man says Mr. C-told him to com*
earl*-. so you would have time b
j pack!”
j There was an interview at breakfas
» that morning, but the trunks wer
. r*ady in time.—Milwaukee Sentinel
A.i Exc ptioa.
It is *a:J that misery loves com
t paay, but the spins.Tf never lived «h
, wasted any sympathy on an old bach
j elor.—Chicago Daily News.
TORTURES OF HINDOOS.
Terrible Puimu»n:i of a Native tot
Breaking a Rule of Casie.
Frederick Tone, whose diary of
jungle adventures in India is so en
grossing in interest, has written a let
ter to a friend in Carlstadt, N. J., re
garding the mysterious and powerful
influence of caste among the natives
of India and the tortures of punish
ment which they sometimes undergo ;
for infraction of its rules.
“There are,” he says, “289,000,000 !
natives in India. To a European (all
white men are styled Europeans)
there seems to be a countless number
of castes. The two principal creeds
are Hindoo and Mohammedan. The
highest Hindoo caste are the Brah
mins. This caste includes the priests
and principal officeholders. Brah
mins are vegetarians and never know
the taste of meat. The trades or pro
fessions are the same, each trade hav
ing its separate and distinct caste,
and as the cacte is hereditary, it fol
lows, of course, that the trade must
also be.
“These castes are distinguished by
various signs. The Brahmins paint
their forehead with red or white paint
i to denote which God they serve; some
others wear a string of beads on the
right arm, while even the folding of
a turban is indicative of something.
“To describe even one-tenth of
them would be impossible, as the
meaning of the marks is known only
to the Hindoos themselves. The Fa
cirs are distinguished by a peculiar
colored robe they wear, a sort of saf
fron yellow. They are about the most
grotesque and hideous looking ob
jects I have ever seen. A native is
not a pretty sight at the best of times,
but when that man is crowned with a
head of long, dirty, unkempt hair, and
is smothered from head to foot in
wood ashes (as these Fakirs are) he
becomes positively repulsive.
“The power of the priests over the
natives is unlimited. Should a native
i be so unfortunate as to lose his caste
by eating a prohibited food, by using
a vessel or utensil which has in any
way come in contact with an infidel
or person of another caste, or by al
lowing an infidel or person of another
caste to usea caste vessel fordrinking
purposes without immediately de
stroying the same, or should he per
. mit the infidel or person of another
caste to pass by at meal time so that
the shadow touches his food, not to
mention some hundreds of other for
bidden acts, then the priest fixes the
amount of the fine he must pay or
punishment he must undergo to re
gain his lost caste.
‘•Should the offense be beyond pal
liation the priest condemns him to be
an outcast, oftentimes for life.
“The punishment inflicted by these
priests upon outcasts is to an outsider
ncredibly severe, a cruel ordeal un
dergone merely for the sake of a re
ligion whose visible benefits are nil
and whose final re-ward is promised
to be absorption into ihe Divine Es
sence—Brahm (God). Yet among
the 240,000,000 Hindoos there is not
one who would refuse to obey and car
ry out a punishment in obedience to
the will of his priest for any offense
j against the Hindoo deities,
j “I saw one of these unfortunates at
Bareilly. He had been condemned for
! life to wander on foot throughout
j Ilindoostan, resting only for a cer
: tain length of time daily, with his
i arms stretched to their full extent
j above his head. Day or night, walk
ing or at rest, he must forever keep his
arms in this position.
“This docs not sound very awful,
perhaps, but try it for five minutes,
and then you will get an idea of what
it must be like for life. When I saw
him he had been undergoing this tor
ture for six years. His hands were
held erect above his head, palms
turned inward, the whole of the arms
bandaged.
“The hands, arms, in fact all the
muscles of the shoulders and arms had
become paralyzed through being kept
in this position. Even though the de
crees of the priest condemning him to
1 this punishment were revoked, it
1 would be impossible for him to bring
1 his arms to their natural position at
his side, as the paralysis has turned
; them into the withered stumps, of
• which it would be a mercy to deprive
‘ him.
“You will readily understand that
i we foreigners have to be more than
i careful; all the more so as rather se
: vere punishment is meted out by both
civil atid military authorities for any
- effens';- a-jainst the native religion ”
i —N. Y. World.
Ihls Ij Eislv Believed.
It is far easier for a needle to go
- through the eye of a camel than it is
: for a woman to pass through a room
- without glancing in the mirror,—Chi
cago Daily News.
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i
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