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■ < r nearest correct guesa on the number of bale* of
n iwig April 15, 1902, the only provision being
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CONTEST CLOSES ON MARCH 31, I9G2,
At midnight, hut the guess is to be on the number of bales of cot
ton received in Memphis from September 1, 1301, to April 15
1W1 inclusive, the official figures of the Memphis Cotton V
change to be the figu/es upon which the contest is to 1-e dec led.
In order to help every one to figure closely and enable them
to make a close guess, the receipts in M« mphis l>ctween the
dataa mentioned for the past six years arc given below ;
)T««W ef bal*i of cotton received In t!«>raph!a
ftvn Sept. 1, 1*494, *s April 1 6. I 8**5 . . ^1,004
Moaibor of balea of eotlon receive*! In Menaphla
fron »rpt 1, l»OA. lo April 1 [*, 1KW« 407,240
IVnnber of bales of cotton reeel>ed In K: «::l*
from Kept. 1, 1*90, t%> April lfi, * sM G4C.341
Xaaibrr of bales of* rotlon receiver 'r. ■. thl*
from Kept. 1, 1*0 7, lo April IS, l ■) > >
V amber of bales «f cotton recetv« d * 4t. ntoiilR
from Kept. 1, 1*»*. to April 15, . 718,655
Warn Her of bnlea of* cotton r«r«lvf<i In Alrntpbls
*®m Keps. i, i*£d. to April 2 5, ■&«»«> .7... 671>,4uO
sbtr of balos of eattoa recolscd In Memphis
from Kept. 1, 1 IMP! to April 15, 1901
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1902, no matter what date of postmark.
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• TUB WKRKLY (OlHIKHt lAb APPEAL,
Memphis, Tenn,
SHE WAS IN DOUBT
Couldn’t Understand the Elevator Syt
tem ot a Big building.
She was a nice, motherly old lady,
who carried a puckered handbag ai d
squinted through her glasses. ' She
iBcTYlftcfmart oliice boy were waiting
on the eigtTfHMltiomo takfijuudcvalor
going down. The tw^Trows of ele
vator shafts laced each other. She
was standing in front of a door when
an elevator shot u; ward. A moment
later, says the Milwaukee Sentinel,
another car in the saint row whisked
by without stopping.
“I want to get a car going down,”
said she, turning to Hit smart hoy.
“Well, ma'am, you'll have to step
over here to this other side.”
“Is thfct so? I don't know much
about these thing>, except that it
gives me a gone fee ling to ride in one
of ’em.”
“You see, all the cars on that side
go up, and ail the cars on this side go
down. Didn’t you say you was goin’
down?”
“Yes, I want to—”
“All right, here's a car now.”
Sure enough, a descending car
stopped at the floor with a jolt, and
the nice old lady and the smart boy
got uboaid. Siic was evidently puz
zled about something, for she looked
at the boy ir, a questioning way as they
stepped into the car.
Two floors down, while the car
stopped to take on another passenger,
an elevator was seen to descend in one
of the shafts of the opposite row.
_jr said, pointing, “now
there’s an elevated-going down on the
other side.”
“Oh, well, there’s one goes down
once in awhile. It has to, you know,
so it can go up again.”
The elevator man gurgled and the
bad boy winked at him. But the old
lady ieft the car in deep thought and
evidently trying to get the system of
running elevators in th„t building
straightened out in her mind.
j in ambush. “Trust tome, and we shall
j escape seathless!” and 1 sitzed her
about the waist, darted down the
| It reel with my hair flying in the wind
: and my trusty blade held ready for ar y
1 onslaught.
Alas! I wist not that the watchman
which these modern cities employ
be not asleep! I received a terrific rap
upon my ghostly head and rolled into
the gutter with every bone clattering.
And as I faded away into thin air
I heard a mere youth say:
“Hully gee! Did you see Ole
Skinny tryin’ to elope wit’ de mil
, liner's dummy?”
Alas! Marry and alack! but 1 long
for the good old days of \ ore and the
cutting, slashing days of chivalry!—
San Francisco Bulletin.
Germiny’j Population.
There is no immigration into Ger
many. The increase in the population
is entirely natural, and amounted to
nearly 7,000,000, or about 11 per
, cent, during the decade from 1800 to
1900, and nearly eight percent, dur
ing the five years from 180.-) to 1900.
The population of the ( mpire general
ly is advancing at the rate of about
1.5 per cent, annually, but the in
crease tn the cities has been phenom
enal. It is almost incredible that sev
eral old towns, whose history is meas
ured by centuries, are growing more
rapidly than Minneapolis or Denver
or Kansas City, or any other of the
booming young cities in the United
, States.—Correspondence of Chicago
liecord-Uerald.
Will Nsver Know It
It is too bad that he will never
know it, but an Atchison man whose
wife used to shake her fist at him, now
wrings her hands when she mentions
his death—Atchison Globe.
DEFENDING THE NEST.
ADVICE ON MARRIAGE
An3Wsr to Question ot Young Man About
to Take a Wife.
A young nran recently wrote to the
editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal
asking: “What have you to say,
squarely and fairly, to a young man
of 29 who is about to marry?” Mr.
Bok uses a page for his answer. Its
salient points are these: That a mail
should make the woman of his choice
his chum, as well a.- his wife; that he
should show her the highest consid
eration as well as love her; that he
should remember that he owes his
wife to her mother, and treat his
mother-in-law with respect, at least;
that he should keep his wife informed ,
as to his income; that he should give
her a regular allowance and that he j
should have his life insured ir. her fa- i
vor. And above all, that when a]
young man marries he must remem
ber that he leaves a world of self and I
enters into a world of another and
Self.
Progrsji in Egypt
The demand for agricultural im
plements in Egypt is bound to in
crease with the great progress made
in cultivating land. Farmers are rap
idly finding out the value of improved
machinery, and have in use already a
number of threshing machines.
Not a Sate Inaex.
You ean’t tell how far a man is go
ing by the number of time tables he
has in his pocket.—Washington (ia.)
Democrat.
I wo GoocJ Kessona.
Some men treat their wives well
for the looks of things; others be
cause they fear if s mething hap
pened to their wives theirconscier.ee*
would hurt them. — Indianipolia
News.
MONKEY FALLING OUT.
Pe3U’.ted la Sonsatioas of Mingled fe n
Once upon a time the monkey who
married the babboon's sister was vis
ited by his mother-in-law. While the
old lady was dialling with her daugh
ter on a lower limb of the family roof
tree he was teaching the children in
the higher branches.
“Children what is the great truth
of evolution?” he asked.
“That when we drop curtails we
degenerate into men,” said his eldest
child.
He was so staggered by the correct
ness of the ai - veer that he lost his bal
ance, fell, struck his mother-in-law
and swept her to the ground w ith him.
“You brute! exi l . mtel the- old
lady, as she gathered herself together
and started away limping. "I know
that was intentional. J will never
darken your tree with my presence
again.”
Though the monkey was quite bad
iy hurt by his fall, he sat up and
rubbed his bruises, while an exceed
ingly broad smile spread itself over
his countenance.
Moral—Nature is often kind in
providing a compensation for oui
ImivU —Ronton Gloos
aud Pleasure
l
Pluck of a Tiny Lave rat When Distur
bancs Threatened.
It had been a pouring wet morn
ing and we w ere in rome very dripping j
swedes. Hares were numerous, but1
we were not shooting them, having as
many as we wanted. A hare went off
rather wild, and one of the walkers
found that she had just left a nest
of four small leverets under the leaves
of a big turnip. They were not quite
so long as my hand, and each had a
white spot on its forehead. When
tiie man lifted up a leaf with his stick
to show them better, one of the lev
erets came out about 18 inches from
the nest, and. jumping up, struck the
stick with its paws, making at the
same time a small snuffing grunt
The other three kept quiet, but this
little chap acted as champion to the
lot, sallying out and striking the
stick four or five times whenever it
was poked at him. Keepers have told
me that grown-up hares will do ex
actly the same tiling to grazing cat
tle when they come near their young,
striking the muzzle of the cow or ox
with their forepaws and making a
noise, and then lying down in the
furrow again; but 1 never could have j
guessed that the lighting instinct
could be present in a tiny leveret.—
Cuuntrv j^Lfc.
U C/J _Q
IN DAYS OF OLD.
Chivalry Wat More Appreciated Than It
Is at Present
I was moving ghostily down the
broad thoroughfare of one of these
modern towns. Mystified and dazed
was 1 by the strangeness of it all ami
heavy of heart withal!. For men
aought not to jab one another in the
fi midriff with deadly weapons. Indeed,
bJo a'*' wh° 'n fl rang* stood face to
face with each other aDd shouted vo
ciferously:
“Blank - blanket)- - blacky - blank
blank to blankation—!*’
And much more which 1 wist not,
never having heard much profanity
in the days whe-n a knight durst not
waste his breath beneath his r-tifiing
helmet.
Suddenly I beheld a maiden stand
ing out in front of one of the great
niporiums. Her face was deathly
lute and her arms were rigid as
lough she were about to ask for aid,
durst not from fear.
"Thv knight hath arrived, fair
iden!” 1 whispered, with a furtive
took about to ?ce that none were lvirg
^ •"SiTIES OF FUN.
“Whatlfo you think of that cigar?" !
don’t think of it—I try to forget
it.”—Lustige Welt.
Why It Looked So Blue.—“Jane,
did you take a good look at this milk
“No, ina'ani, I just skinuned it over.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Brown (indignantly)—“la it
true that he said I was ‘fair, fat and
40?’ ” Mrs. Jones—“I’m not sure he
said ‘fair.’ ”—London Tit-Bits.
“What will you gimme for a wagon
load of corn?” “As much as anybody
else will.” “Well, I guess I’ll look
around a bit and see if I can get a bet
ter bid.”—Indianapolis News.
Sea Captain—“Waiter, w'hat do
you call this?” Waiter—“Bouillon,
sir.” Sea Captain—“Well, well, 1
must have sailed on bouillon all my
life and did not know it.”—Mcggen
dorfer Blaetter.
“Do you know Miller, the manufac
turer of explosives?” “Yes; I’m in
the balloon service, and we passed
each other when his factory blew up
—just a passing acquaintance.”—
Fiiegende Blaetter.
Towne—Scribbler tells me he
worked hard and lost a great deal of
sleep while he was writing that novel
of his.” Browne—"Well, his loss was
my gain. I tried to read it last night.”
—Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Jones—“Mrs. Robinson is the
greatest woman to stick to a fad I ever
saw.” Mrs. Brown—"Why, 1 never
heard anybody mention that before.”
Mrs. Jones—“Can’t help that. It’s
so, all the same. Just see how she
has gone on admiring that husband
of hers these 20 years and more.”— ;
Bustun Transcript.
RED TAPE IN RUSSIA.
Wounded Sentinel Relieved Onle by
Order of the Cur.
Through the explosion of a powder ;
magazine several persons were recent- !
ly injured at Batoura, iu Russia. I
Among them was the soldier who was j
on guard at the gate leading to the |
magazine.
One of his arms was shattered and ;
there was also an ugly wound in his ;
chest. Still, though on the verge of;
fainting, he remained steadfastly at
his post.
There his colonel saw him and said:
“What are you doing here? Don’t
you S4t« that the magazine has been
blown upand that there is nothing for
you to guard? You look half dead,
and I order you to go at once to the
hospital.”
“Colonel,” was the reply,“Icannot
do it. My sergeant instructed me to
stay here.”
“But your sergeant has been j
killed,” remonstrated the colonel.
“That does r.ot concern me,” said
the soldier. “There are only two per
sons who can relieve me from duty— j
my sergeant and my emperor.”
Seeing that the man was deter
mined to remain on duty until re
lieved, the cob uel telegraphed the
fact to the minister of war and the
latter at once laid the matter before
the czar, with the result that the lai-,
ter sent a dispatch relieving the sol
dier of duty and at the same time
announced his intention of confer
ring on him a gold medal and a dec
oration.
Not until this dispatch was handed
to the soldier did he consent to go to
the hospital. He had then been 14
hours on duty.—Exchange.
LETTA AND HER CURLS.
Borrow*-i Ficorf, as Usuat, Brings Grief
to a Ycunj heart.
In a >\ :scons in town were two '
young girls who we>< fas t friends »r I
had Lut one ,0; t: y between them.
'I lie older of the two, says the Mil
waukee Sentinel, had hair just the'
common length, while the younger
had long brown tresses that rea.hi.tl
near the bottom of her dress. Night
ar.d day Letta of the scanty locks pon
dered over the situation and ttied va
rious means to coax and impress upon
her hair the propriety of thrift. But
all in vain. As time sped on, her
parents moved to Milwaukee, and as
they wne sorting and packing Letta
found in an old bureau nothing less
than a bunch of curls that hermother
.iad worn in her girlhood. Compari
son proved them 10 be the ex-act color.
‘ Mow,-’ said the young leader of
fashion, “I will be just swell the first
day at school.”
Letta braided her hair carefully and
tied the curls at the end with a fresh
ribbon.
When recess came the girls were
ranged up in a row for pull-away, and
as all went flying across the school
yard a spry little maiden caught the
t nrls as they sped by her, and lo! they
stayed with her while their owner
went straight to the goal.
oilc la** nt. P.stss!
'Some 1 :ways look disap
pointed.—Aiviiiton (Lobe. I
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