The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-02-10
$4,000 CASH PRIZE CONTEST.
The Atlanta Constitutions Great Offer of rsoo-The Cotton RI
cepts at New Orleans from September to ApnI-FuI Stats.
tics Given for Your Guidance-An Unparalleled Offer for Of,
Readers.

The Atlanta Constitution offers a $1,000
cash prize contest for January, February
and March, 1900, as follows:
To the person sending a yearly SUBJ
%scription to The Weekly Constitution, to-
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven months of the present
cotton year September ], 1899. to April
/, 1900
$1,000 If estimate is received during
January.
1000 If estimate is received during
February.
$500 if estimate is received during March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes, rang
ing along, $500. $500. $3.50. $50, s125 and SIS,
amounting to $500, that will be paid out
sure for the six nearest estimates to
the New Orleans cotton receipts at any
time during the three months Of the con-
test. But you hit it exactly during IAN
uary and secure the full $500 prize
check.
The Constitution believes somebody will
hit the figures exactly and expects to
pay out the full amount of the prizes
o~ffered-$3,000 In all. In a Constitution
contest upon the same subject in 1896
Oh4s - - SO4Nt LII Y 80
hit the exact figures and received a
check for $1,000 as his prize. Mr.. Poole
did not try to swell himself up at once,
but very generously paid off a mort-
gage on his fathers home place and with
the balance he very wisely educated HIM
self at Trinity college, Durham, N. c.. He
Is now doing well In business in North
Carolina n lives still near his old home.
| 1t Is needless to say he Is a warm friend
Of The Constitution.
AS a guide in making estimates upon
the New Orleans rort receipts, The Con-
stitution gives the following figures, COM
piled from statistics of the past four
years
SEASON, M seR. s spGs gsss 81. 's sePs a9r
1856. ....L.62o,974 1;s12.167 1888 AS
1851. j. u ,9S6,5S7 2,102,4 8,757, 964
1850. -. ..1.S54.15s 2.1so,2s6 11,274,Sao
The Constitutions market page viii
give each week the port receipts for the
cotton season from which you can always
see the New Orleans port receipts from
September 1, 1899, up through the Friday
Immediately preceding the publication.
Tbis will keep you posted to within two
or three days of the time you send In
your estimate.
IT is believed that some of the Texas
crop. that as a rule is sent in bulk to
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
70 other points because OF the quaran-
tine regulations against New Orleans.
The effort of Louisiana to have quaran-
fine raised by injunction from United
states courts will not have very soothing
effect upon the direction of cotton ship
ments to New Orleans. This is mentioned
simnlv as a pointer in making up esti-
mzfas: how much to allow, If anything,
for This cause must be left to each mans
judgment.
The s3, 900 contest is an express contract
To which The Constitution will stand in
every particular. Yet It is in its nature
simnly an advertisement by which The
Constitution, combined with this paper
NAV be made better known In this COM
mlnity. Send US the subscription to The
Constitution and our paper at the adj
yertised price of the two and with 1t
vo,1r estimate on the New Orleans port
receipts. and we will forward all together
for you. On April LIST we trust a 81, 500
check will reach some of our subscribers
to help make times even more easy
round about us.
The Weekly Constitution for 1900 viii
be better han ever before. It's special
news features are unsurpassed. The Boer-
British war. the Philippine and Cuban
operations. the busy session Of the most