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To My Fellow Citizens of Brevard and Transylvania Coiinty. This is to |remind*’yoii that I am still in business. And notwithstanding the tact that 1 have to compete with socalled “spot cash’^ and *‘cut price’’ stores, I am still doing some business; and if good goods, fair dealing and accommodation (where it is deserving) is appreciated as it should be, I expect to do even more business in the future than I have in the past. Having been to market and personally selected my stock, my line of DRY GOODS and NOXIOlSrS is especially strong; in fact my stock is strong in nearly all lines that 1 keep. I want your business, but 1 want you to understand that I don’t think it treating me right to go and si)end your money else where and then come to me to buy on credit, and if I lind out tl'.at is what yen are doing 1 will send 3"ou back to get your (rre<lit where you s[)Osul your money. I have an assortment of Good Clothing which T am going to close out and on which induce" ments will be ollered, as 1 want the money for other purposes. 1 am 3’ours for business, X. D. TLNGL^ND > THE ATLANTA Great IMew Offer Upon Receipts of Cotton at All United States Ports From September 1st, 1903, to May 1st, 1904, Both Inclusive. Contest Opened Jan. I8th?l904, Closes April 20th, 1904. DIVISION OF PRIZES. For the exact, or the nearest to the exact, estimate of the total number of Bales of Cotton received at all United States ports from September I st, 1903, to May 1st, 1904, both inclusive $ For the next nearest estimate For the next nearest estimate For the 5 next neares estimate, $23.03 each FOr the lO next nearest estimates, 12.50 each For the 20 next nearest estimates, 10.00 each For the 60 next nearest estimates, 5.00 eaclT For the lOO next nearest estimates, 3.00 each 2 500.00 1,000.00 500.00 125.00 125.00 200.00 250 CO 300.00 Additional Offers for Best Estimates iVBade During: Different Periods of the Contest. For convenience the time of the con test is divided into estimates received by The Constitution during four pe riods—the first period covering from the beginning of contest to February 10, 1904; second period, from Febru ary 10 to March 1, 19U4; third period, March 1 to 2o; fourth period, March 20 to April 20, li4 4. We will give the best estimate received during each period (in addition to whatever oilier prize it may take, or if it take no prize at all), the sum of $125.00. The four prizes thus offered at $ 125.00 each amount to $ 500.00 $ 5,000.00 TWO GRAND C0?43OLATION OFFERS. First—For distribution among those estimates (not taking any of the above 188 prizes) coming within 500 bales either way of the exact figures $ 1,000.00 Second—For distribution among those estimates (not taking any of the above 188 prizes and not shar ing the first consolation offer) com ing within l,OuO bales either way of the exact figures 1,000 00 Grand Total $7,500 OO In case of a tie on any prize estimate the money will be equally divided. Conditions of Sending Estimates in This Port Receipts Contest. Subject to the usual conditions, as stated regularly in The Constitution each weeiv, the contest ^ is now on. Attention is called to the following summary of conditions: ^ 1. Send $1.00 for The Weekly Constitution one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. 2. Send ou cents for The Sunny South one j’^ear and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. 3. Send $1.25 for The Weekly Constitution and Sunny South both one year, and send TWO ES TIMATES in the contest—that is, one estimate for The Constitution and another for The Sunny South. 4. Send 50 cents for ONE ESTIMATE alone in the contest IF YOU DO NOT W’ANT A SUB SCRIPTIONS. Such a remittance merely pays for the privilege of sending the estimate. If you wish to make a number of estimates on this basis, you may send THREE ESTIMATES FOR EVERY $1.0Q for- w'arded at the same time estimates are sent. If as many as ten estimates are received at the same time without subscriptions, the sender may forward them with only $3.00—this splendid discount being of fered for only ton estimates in one order. A postal card receipt will be sent for AIvL ESTIMATES RE CEIVED WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS. Where subscriptions are ordered. THE ARRIVAL OF THE PA PER ITSELF IS AN ACKN'OWLEDGMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND IS CAREFU LY RECORDED. 5. The money and the subscription and the estimate must come in the same envelope every time. The estimate, the money and the subscription go together. THIS RULE IS POSITIVE. Secretary Hester’s Fi&:ures Covering the Period of the Contest. COTTON SEASON. TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS. from 1st Snptomber to 1st Mav (inolnsivc) of foll'iwiiiff year. The period covered by this contest. 1897-9 8 3,333,862 1898-9 9 7.993,451 1899-0 0 6,843.134 1900-0 1 6,346,3 12 1901-0 2 7.218,179 1002-03 7.378 627 BALES IN COTTON CROP. This irt merely foryotir inform.ntion and is not th(^ subj»>ot of this present oonti'st. It is piveii only :is ail additional aid to an intelli gent eiatiinates. I 1,199,994 I 1,274,840 10,383.422 9,436,416 10,680,680 10,727,559 The fii^ures above are certified by Secretary Henry G. Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, who will furnish the official figures to decide this contest. >) Address Ail Orders to THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ca. A SIGNIFICANT BANQUET Supreme Court and Trust Mag nates Dine With President. PASSING OP THE TEUST BtJSTEE. The Reported Opposition of Wall Street to I’reMident Roosevelt Re- i'u ted—Corporation Alasnatea and Trnsit Millionairea ISnjoy White Houtte Hospitality. The evidence has at Ifist come out that Jill the talk of President Roose velt’s opposition to the trusts and Wall street was sheer i)olitical buncombe. The list of guests present at the White House at the dinner on Jan. in hon or of tho supreme court included A. .1. Cassatt, president of the I'ennsylva- nia railroad; .lames Stillman, presi dent of tlie First National bank of New York and head of the Rockefeller banking syndicate; William F. Draper, head of the cotton machinery trust; liepresentative IJttauer, ciiarged with illegal profits from army glove con tracts; Norman I>. Ream, director of the steel trust, b(‘sides other great linancial magnates and corporation attorneys. As these great banquets are in tlie public eye and are exploit ed in the society columns of the news papers, the invitation to the trusts and financial millionaires shoAvs plainlythat all the talk about their being opposed to the nomination and election of Roosevelt is but an eiuU‘avor to capti vate the “plain people” with the idea that the Republican candidate is op posed to the trusts and will stay their extortion. The president of the United States, like other people, does not in vite jjuests with wh<mi he does not wish to associati? or with whom he is not on the most friendly terms. The state baiKiuet to the supreme court is one of the i;reat events of the Wash- infjton social season, and to be invited to meet the chief justice and his asso ciates is considered a jjreat honor and much s<mf;ht after. Tlie guests are CJirefully selected and witli premedita tion. It is tlierefoi'e strangely signiti- cant that the president should select the head of the great Ilockefeller syn dicate and one of the leading members of tJie Morgan steel trust to meet the judges who have an important trust ca.se now under consideration and ■would, if the administi’ation was real ly <.'i)i;osed to the trusts, have these very men on trial for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Whatever object President Roosevelt may have bad in thus bringing the judiciary in toiich with the trusts, he has most certainly served notice on the voters that he is on the most friendly terms with the great cori)oration intei*ests and the most important members of the Wall street crowd an«l the money power. 'I’hose Republican newspapers that have been aliempting to fool the peo])le into believing that they had a trust buster in the White House will’ soon have to be singing a new song, the biirden of which will be that the great tinaiicial interests of tlie country are united in sui>port of the party and its nominee, who alone will conserve the great business interests. The exigen cies of the campaign may re(iuire this open allijinee b(*tween President Roose velt and the trusts that the campaign cotters ma.v be filled, without which the wheels of the Republican chariot would drag heavily and the voice of their spellbind('rs be hushed. The trusts are still in tlu' sa<ldl«? and looking for ward to another long lease of prosjieri- ty if Mr. Roost'velt is elected president of the United States. “Get There!” Is the Cry. The gentlenuMi who are managing the atTairs of the R('publican partj’ are more for policy than for principle. 'J’hey do not allow a matter of faith or doctrine to stand in the way of adopt ing a harmony platform and nominat ing a luinnony tirket. The party is di vided on the tariff, on the IMiiiippines, on the Paniima revolution an.d on near ly every other leading (lueslion. The parly chami)ions are walloi>ed nearly every day in congress. They stick to one line of action, though. When any man of consetiuence shows an inde pendent disposition ok\-iginous mission aries are sent .-ilti'r him, and he is speedily l)rougii1 back to tiie fold. **Get therel” is t!ie i).irty cry. Not much time is spent in phil(v;o])hy and disqui sition.—Cl icinnnti Enquirer. Co:] iiiidruiiis. Besides v.-agi's. iiienrion something that lias been reduced by the trusts. ^Vhy does 'I’heodore Roosevelt insist on digging that canal by hook or by crook (especially crook) to facilitate the exchange of foreign commodities, while both he and his partj' favor a prohibi tive tariff to exclude them? Why is it that articles manufactured in this country are sold cheaper in Eu rope than they are here?—Dan Cava naugh. What Will the Voters Say? “Stand pat on high taxation, protect the trusts and pray for prosperity!” is the Republican cry. The voters w'ill have a chance to say how they like it next November. TIPS FOR CORTELYOU. He Can Catch a Big String of Tra«t» If He Will Fish In Earnest. Secretary COi*telyou is at the head of the new department of commerce, whose bureau of industries has beeu trying so hard for a whole year to tind a bad trust. If such a trust is found the life is to be frightened out of it by publishing the facts in regard to its crookedness. Although Mr. Cortelyou has frequent ly been told w^here to fish if he wants to catch a big string of trusts, yet there is no evidence that he has as yet got a nibble. His patience must be nearly exhausted. The trade and com mercial papers and journals are filled with information about old and neAV trusts, manj' of which are of the most obnoxious type. The Iron Age of Feb. 4 is filled with such information. Thus, the manufac turers of axes have just formed a new trust, w'hich at one jump advanced the prices of axes $1 a dozen. The hatchet manufacturers have behaved lo a sim ilar w-ay. “Their orf^ nization,” says the Iron Age, “is a strong one, regulat ing prices and production, and in its general features resembles the Shovel association.” The ax, hatchet and shovel trusts, when they put up prices from 25 to 10(1 per cent, are most obnoxious to farm ers, carpenters and others. They should be ferret<^d out and held up to public scorn. Then, if publicity doesn t mak«? them ashamed of themselves and cause them to mend their wicked w^ays, per haps it will occur to some bright mem ber of President Roosevelt’s oflScial household to take away the tariff that I>rotects these pestiferous trusts. Mr. (’ortelyou may remember the sto ry of the bad boj’s up in the tree steal ing apiiles who laughed at the fanner while he tried to drive them out by throwing tufts of grass at them, but who changed their tunes and ran away w’hen he began to throw stones. That farmer was not such an everlasting chump after all.—B. W. H. Republican Rakeoflf Prom Panama. When the inside history of the seces sion of I’anama is given to the world it will make interesting reading^f-fc»i-tucJ-vo ax'dent friends of the stre-iiuous occu pant of the White Hou/e. who, they claim, had no knowledjVe of the con spiracy that hatched tl rebellion to or der when needed. The regular corre spondent at Washington of the Chicago Chronicle in a- special telegram on Dec. 22 said: “One of the sensational charges Sen ator Gorman is prepared to make here after is that a coterie of New York men subscribed a war fund to the Panama revolutionists amounting to $.300,000 with the understanding that they would be repaid tenfold from the ^10,000.000 Panama expected to receive and the .'?40.000,000 which ostensibly w'ill be appropriated for the French company. Senator Gorman is said to know the names of the men who ad vanced this money. “He will charge in connection with this disclosure that the fund was sub scribed only after definite and positive assurances were conveyed to the sub scribers by ro.^iponsible con nected with the administration that substantial aid wotdd be extended to the revolutionists and the republic of I'anama would not only be recognized by this government, but that its inde pendence would be guaranteed as well. Several Democratic senators will charge in addition that the lobbyists and promoters, who are expected to re ceive a large share of the .$40,000,000. h;ive agreed to make a substantial con tribution to the next Republican cam paign fund. The Democratic senators beli(‘ve the story. One of their number said in discussing it that ho had bo<‘j>. informed that the amount set aside for political ptu'poses was .^.xOOO.OOO. “If that is true.” he said, “no woTidr-r the president’s political friends are not worrying about the hostility of Wall street.” The fact that the receipts of the first ten perforinances of “Parsifal” in New York were u(>arly ^200,000 would seem to indicate that the clerical protests and the indignation of Frau Wagner were pretty good advertising mediums. Not a little surpnse is expressed be cause the <Ierman crown prince talked back to his royal pa. ilow does it hr.ppen that the royal family has been thought hitherto to be different in this respect from other families? Now that the bear has walked into the China shop it is possible that the bull will go in after him. With both the bull and bear in the China shop there vrould be a great smashing of crockeiy. There is one good tiling at least about the Louisiana Purchase exposition stamps, which are to be ready for the philatelists on May 1. A complete set of them will cost only 21 cents. The surprise of Russia that she is not very popular among the nations is decidedly touching.
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