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fSi On the night of October 20th the Carpet Department of our Minneapolis» m Boose was completely flooded. Many ueople have wondered win-, ere this, we

have not advertised a bargain sale of Wet Carpets. We concluded, however, thatf *%. tin*best plan would be: -\J> Frist—To dry them.

Second-To cut them up. every one of mem. Into Beady-Made Carpets, ivp sizes that would fit any ordinary room, then give them to you',.- ...--.X AT ONE FELL SWOOP AT A PRICE. I\^J y-i'-: , \u25a0 .••-'•'\u25a0..•'_ About half of them have been brought" to St. Paul, ami .tomorrow morningr % you will tiud them ivour Misfit Carpet Room, with the sizes plainly marked ou\^f each carpet. ,:.'-. '-'i "'."'.\u25a0/

Q Ingrains, Brussels, f||§.ji Tapestries, floquettes,q Velvets, and WiltonsO HUNDREDS OF THEM.0 ..,.::'::'_ The damage was entirely on the edges of the carnets. Had the roof teenif > perfectly clean.little damage would have resulted, Uiifortuiiaiely.the water wasi^^ dirty, and there are in ail cases some discolorations, but. takim; into account the

~ PHK'ES we have placed on them, the damage is hardly worth talking about asiy > compared with the great saving. Anyslight alteration iv shape will be made4h^ w;mout expense. Be sure to bring the size of your room.

9 FOR THE LADIES.1 \u25bc

Our Crockery Department is overflowing with coin catchers.f\ The Latest Haviland China Dinner sets in the following designs: Violetmm spray. Blue Forset-ltte-Nota. Chrysanthemums and Hume. Beau-*• tifulas a dream. Your choice at $35,00 per set.

2 STOVES ARE SEASONABLE\u2666** Don't purchase before examining our complete line of Peninsulars and5 5 Radiant Home*. • •

%«/ Kemeniber. ere are the only strictly one-price house-furnlsh-In"establishment in this section ol the country.

it Our usual terms appiv. no matter what the special sale may be. Cash, or a

'*» small portion down, aud'the balance monthly.

§ New En Si and>jf Furniture and Carpet Co.

Ci The Liberal House-Furnishers.O 434-436 Wabasha St., St. Paul, Minn.

TATTOOED TO ORDER.

\u25a0SHOP WHICH DKCOK YOU

IVHILi:YOU WAIT.

Disfigured tor One Dollar—TheJapanese Are Very

Clever.

The tattooed men seen in dime mu-

seums throughout the country havenearly all or* them been operated on by

'a Chatham square specialist in .NewYork city, who has probably tattooedmore persons than any other man liv-ing, says the New York Press. Thereis scarcely a man o' warsmau anchorsin the bay that doesn't send its quota to

"Professor" O'Reilly, and with theseand museum people he is kept busy.

His prices are very moderate, ranging

from 75 cents to M or >5. according to

the amount and delicacy of the decora

Young Men's IStylish I

WearingApparel.

A beautiful line of these Istylish garment- received i

this week in sizes 34 to 40. |All imported goods —Patent IBeavers, English Meltons, IVicunas and Irish Friezes. IpPrices, 3

$14 to $25.TTHE

PLYMOUTH£lothing HOUSE.

"Plymouth Corner," Seventh arid Robert.

tion. When one submits himself to theskillful hand ot the protestor he selectsa design out of three or four thousand,and within thirty minutes the work is

JOHN RUT HERFOBD, THE FIRST TATTOOK I) MAX.

completed, the ink is in the skin andcan never be removed.

How It In Done.O'Reilly tattooes by electricity. A

number of fine sewing needles are fixedfirmly in a block of wood. This is at-tached to a sort of trip hammer, which isrun by an electric battery. O'Keillynever traces the figure beforehand; hesimply looks at the design, dips theneedles in India ink, places them in thearm or breast and presses the button.The hammer plays on the skin withsufficient force to puncture it effective-ly, but not enough to draw blood. Thesensation is rather tickliiig than pain-ful. There are no after results, noteven swelling.

So superior is the work of the Jap-anese that European 'sailors are said tolook forward to it as the greatest ad-vantage of a visit. The custom Iswidespread among the lower classes.In Tokio alone it is estimated tnat thereaie 30,000 tatooed men.

The principal objects of adornment

NEW ZEALAND TATTOOING INSTRUMENTS.

; are dragons, lions, battle scenes andI historical occurrences.

Reasons lor Tattooing-.Only in the last-named country does

| there seem to be any practical use made;of body tattooing. The Japanese cool-j ies, being compelled to work hard andi perspire greatly, have their bodies tat-! tooed in exact representation of their| clothing, so that one is almost unable toi tell whether they are dressed or not.i The primitive reason, though, was un-

doubtedly that ofattracting the oppositesex. The Iroquois of North Americaused to trace a single row of embroideryalong the jaw. This was supposed to

j prevent toothache. ;-,Until lately deserters from the army

and navy and bad characters were tat*

' tooed with the letters "D"and "B C"I respectively. Criminals in Japan are; still branded with a peculiar ring roundj their elbow. As a means of identifica-j tion, tattooing is unsurpassed. So welljknown is this that old criminals take

i great pains to have their devices! changed. In France, some time ago,! out of 800 convicts, 50 per cent were' tattooed. Safffgfc

Or. Wey, of the Elm Ira reformatory,' says an investigation of these marks hasI led to an important discovery. Of thoi boys scut from New York and Brook-lyn, it was found that many had minute

] tattoo marks on the web between the| thumb and first finger. Sometimes therewere more than one mark, and thesewere arranged in a row, sometimes in atriangle and again in a star. In everycase the design, while clear' and dis-tinct, was small enough not to attracti attention. After a careful study of these

| with a comparison of the history ofthe; boys, the reformatory authorities havefound that the designs were distinctivemarks of certain gangs. Each gang hasits own mark, and the designs furnishedas ready a means of identification in ahandshake as the grip of other associa-tions. Some of these gangs are merelysocial societies of street boys; others are

i thoroughly criminal.

FOR ORIENTAL PEACE,

As a Result of NegotiationsNow Pending", It Is Confi-

dently Believed

UNCLE SAM MAY MEDIATE.

Both the Belligerents Inclinedto Favor Arbitration of

Their Dispute.

CHINA • MUST PROPOSE IT.

Japan, Though Willing: to Ac-cede, Not Likely to Take

the Initiative.

Washington', D. C, Nov. 10.—As aresult of negotiations now pending, it isconfident!? believed that the UnitedStates will very soon be asked, tomediate between Japan and Chinawith a view to permanent peace on abasis satisfactory to both countries. Itcan be stated positively that the UnitedStates has declined to join with Euro-pean powers in any arbitrary interven-tion to force a settlement. But, whilenot willing to act in any arbitrary man-ner/either individually or jointly withEuropean nations, the parties tothe war have been given to under-stand that the good offices of the govern-ment would be gladly exercised to se-cure peace iv case such is their- ex-pressed wish. Natunrtly. Japan insiststhat China shall take the initiative inany negotiations looking toward restora-tion of peace, but that she is entirelywilling to accede to [any reasonableproposition is not doubted.

The foregoing briefly summarizes thesituation as it is viewed by the officialshere who have recently had most to dowith the subject. At the outset GreatBritain sought to have the United Statesand the great powers of Europe inter-vene. The facts as to these negotiationsat Washington have not until now beenmade known. Cable directions from theLondon foreign office first came to Mr.Goschen.the British charge d'affaires inthe absence of Sir Julian Pauncefote.He would not interfere. Mr. Goschenwas at the time at his summer home atNew London, Conn. The subject wastoo important to be committed to themail, so that Mr. Goschen took the firsttrain for Washington. He arrivedSept. 35, and remained two days. Hesaw Secretary Gresham in person andpresented Great Britain's propositionthat the United States co-operate withother powers toward peace. A replywas received that this country

Would Not Co-operate,on the ground, it is said, that thepolicy of the United States was to avoidentangling alliances on questions inwhich it has no immediate concern.Since that time no efforts on the part ofGreat Britain to urge the negotiationshave been made so far as is known.Under these circumstances the presentnegotiations do not involve foreign in-tervention, but a mutual arrangementbetween China and Japan to whichforeign powers will give their moralsupport. It makes little difference,therefore, what the United States orother powers may [do, so long asChina and Japan come together, al-though both powers seem to beanxious to have the co-operation ofthis country and others in their; nego-tiations. To what extent the Chineseminister here had directed the negoti-ations is not exactly known, as the lega-tion officials are very secretive. It isknown, however, that the Chinese min-ister had a long conference with Secre-tary Gresham morning. Thiswas one of several conferences heldwithin the last ten days. It is said,however, that the main proposition onthe part of China came direct fromUnited States Minister Den by atPekin.

From the very beginning of hostilitiesthe Chinese have been anxious to havethe United States arbitrate the differ-ences between themselves and the Jap-anese which led to the war, but ofcourse there could be no arbitration ex-cept upon the request of both parties,and that was lacking. But after thebattle of Kiu-Lien-Chang, on Oct. 25last, when the Chinese suffered theirdefeat at the hands of the Japanesetroops, who had crossed the Yalu river,and were obliged to retreat towardsMoukden, they became thoroughlyalarmed and convinced that somethingmust be done to terminate the war.They could not, however, so humbletheir pride as to sue for peace directlyto Japan, but, casting about for somemeans ot opening peace negotiations,hit upon the treaty ot the United Statesof 1848. The very first article of thistreaty pledges the United States, incase China is oppressively or unjustlytreated by another power, to

Use Its Good Officesto arrange the difficulty. It is similar inscope to the first article in our treatywith Corea which led Secretary Gresh-am at the beginning of tho trouble towrite the note to United States MinisterDun at Tokio lelative to the Japaneseoccupation of Corea, which has excitedso much comment. Encouraged by theattitude of the United States at thattime, the Chinese government, as indi-cated by the Associated Press cable dis-patches from China, at the time ap-pealed to United States Minister Denbyat Pekin to cause his government to in-tervene, and Mr. Denbv transmitted theapplication to .Washington, where, itwas laid before the president, who hashad it under consideration for a week ormore. As our representations in thecase of the occupation ofCorea had littleeffect, there was no reason to "supposethat a different result would follow anattempt to use our good offices in favorof China.

As already indicated, our governmentwas indisposed to co-operate directlywith European nations in any effort tocoerce either party to the war, and forthis very reason we were in a betterplace than any other power to act as anindependent intermediary in bringingabout peace. Both China and Japanwere assured that we were free fromany of the suspicion of a desire to se-cure accessions of territory in Asiawhich hung over the great Europeanpowers, and their confidence in our fair-ness aud impartiality was strikinglymanifested by the selection of theUnited States by both nations to carefor their subjects in the other terri-tory. So the United States is at thepresent placed in a position where shewould naturally be looked to by

Both China and Japan

to serve as an arbitrator in case ot adifficulty in arranging terms of peace,and it is therefore very improbable thatwe will forfeit this position by yieldingnow to China's request to intervene.Arbitrate we may, but intervene wecannot, is the manner in which the sit-uation is summarized in officialcircleshere. If the Chinese government de-sires the United States to present peaceproposals to Japan this maybe donethrough Minister Derby, but it is felthere that the better way would be forChina to submit her proposals directlyto Japan, when it would he entirelywithin the bounds of propriety for thoUnited States to express the gratifica-tion it would feel as a nation friendly toboth combatants to see peace restoredon honorable terms. An official of thestate department conversant with theChinese attitude says : " China nolonger conceals her inability to prose-cute a war. She recognizes that shewas caught unprepared, and that, it isthe part of wisdom for her to make th*most of a bad situation by getting peace

on the best terms possible. She doesthis with the expectation and assurancethai Japan will come half way.-Japan ~ boijaii the war - for tiiepurpose, as she- said, of securingCorea's complete sovereignty. ThisChina will fully concede. It" is alsoprobable that China willpay a fair hi*demuily. This, however, will be incash, and not in Chinese territory, as 1do not think any peace can bo arrangedwhich will permit Japan to occupy apart of Chinese soil.'' i

Another department official presentedthe view of the negotiations as follows:

"Japan recognizes China's craft, an«is not likely to be misled by any emptyoffers of peace, on terms which seem tomean much, mid in truth mean nothing!.The sovereignty of Corea is ofie of fti'oseempty propositions, as China has beendriven out of Corea, and has nothing toconcede as to that country. Neitherdocs Japan want any Chinese terrfejfru,not even the Island of Formosa, whichis in reality an extension of the Japau~ese group. What she will undoubtedlyexpect is a cash indemnity sufficient lbrecoup her for her war expenditure.That and the prestige ofJapanese arms,and the humbling of China, will givethe full fruits of victory. i

Japs Cut tlio Wires.Hiroshima', Japan, Nov. 10.—The

cabinet ministers at their meeting yes^tereay discussed very important mat-ters, including great diDlomatic ques-tion?. No . official report of theoccupation, of Kin Chow has yetbeen received here, although it issupposed that . the town is inpossession of the second Japanesearmy. The Chinese telegraph line fromPort Arthur to Tien Tsih via Kin Chowhas been cut by order of the Japanesecommander. The British steamshipGallic lor San Francisco from Yoko-hama and Hong Kong, which was seizedby the Japanese authorities on themound that she was carrying contra-bands of war, has beeu searched at Na-gasaki.

A BAD SET.

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Old Gent—Why, certainly.Ef the draf blowed on 'emlong- they wouln't be good—

.—fer—

—settin'.— — -Very Important.Laura—Auntie, should I be justified

in writing.. to a young man who hadnever written to me?

Auntie—Only on very important busi-ness, my dear.Laura—Well, this is important busi-

ness. Iwant to marry him.m ——Painless Death.Authorities say that a fatal fall from

a great height is absolutely painless.The mind acts very rapidly for a time,and then unconsciousness ensues.

THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE:; SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1804—SIXTEEN PAGES.

FOREIGN FORTUNES.The Richest Man in the World

Is a Resident ofRussia. .

CAPT. M'CALMONT'S LUCK.

Becomes Heir to Twenty Mill-ion Dollars as Pocket

Money.

THE ENORMOUSLY RICH

Generally Fettered With En-forced Expenditures of

Many Thousands.

In order to appreciate the sensationwhich has been created throughout thelength and breadth of the English em-pire by the news of . Capt. McCaimout'sentry into possession just three weeksago of the 520.000.000 bequeathed to himseven years ago by his Uncle Hugh, theLombard street banker and stockbroker,it is necessary to take into considera-tion the fact that this vast sum ofmoney comes to him absolutely unfet-tered and without any charge whatso-ever upon it, says the New York Trib-une. It is tj.ill intents and purposes

pocket-money—or, as the Duke of Dev-onshire calls it, "male pin-money"—free for him to dispose of in whatsoevermanner— short of criminal—that he maysee fit. ~ As such it is absolutely uniquein the United Kidgdom, and the case ofCapt. McCalmont is without parallelamong his countrymen. True, severalof the latter, indeed, quite - a respect-able number, have fortunes that areconsiderably larger, such as, for in-stance, the Dukes of Westminster, Dev-onshire, Bedford, Norfolk and Buc-cleuch; Lords Derby, Bute, Cadoganand Bath. But their possessions areencumbered by heavy charges of onekind and another, which leave themeach year with an astonishingly smallsum of money at their untrammeleddisposal. The majority of these Eng-lish fortunes are in land. Even wiftnthey have been acquired by trade andindustry, such as those of Lord Hilling-don, the banker; Lord Iveagh, thebrewer, and Lord Mash am, the manu-facturer and inventor of cotton-spinningmachinery, they always end by beingInvested in real estate, and then becomesubject to the inevitable* charges uponthe same. What these charges are waspointed out by no less a person than theDuke of Devonshire during the debatein the house of lords upon

The New Death Duties.They include interest on mortgages,

cost of management, expenditure onestates, cost of new buildings and of re-pairs to old ones, allowances and remis-sions of rents to. tenants, the cost ofmaintaining roads and hedges, keepinguna number of country seats, lookingafter the poor on the estates,. paymentof annuities aud jointures to relativesof one kind and another, pensions toold servants and retainers, and the pro-vision requisite for the younger chil-dren's future. Nor is this expenditureupon the estate of an altogether volun-tary character or prompted by self-in-terest, since if the occupant fails tokeep the property in good repair andcondition the heir-presumptive to theentailed portion thereof can force himby legal process to devote each year acertain proportion of his income Co thatparticular use.

Then, too, there is tne turf, which isto such an extent a national institutionthat many of the great English terri-torial magnates, titled and untitled, feelconvinced that they would be wantingin their duty to their country if theywere not to devote both their time andtheir money to this particular form ofsport, Few of the owners of Englishracing stables bet— not even on theirown horses, being opposed to it onprinciple— merely beeping a racing studbecause they think it necessary to liveup to the traditions of their ancestors,and to fulfillwhat they believe to betheir obligations as patriotic citizens bymaintaining at no matter how great lossthat which they and their fathers beforethem have always regarded as an es-sentially English institution. Howsmall is "the male pin-money"— that isto say, the pocket money— may begathered from the fact that 1 have fre-quently heard men with incomes ofover §500,000 a year complain bitterlythat they did not have even $25,000 ofthat sum which they couid dispose ofasthey listed.It is obvious that English million-

aires whose property is fettered by somany

Forced ExpendituresAs those which I have endeavoredbriefly to enumerate must regard: withsentiments ofenvy a man in the posi-tion ofCapt. McCalmont, whose lot canonly be compared to that of the im-mensely wealthy foreigners who go toEngland for the purpose of spendingthere the incomes which they deriveabroad—that is to say, incomes freefrom any charges in England, It isRussians in particular who have hith-erto aroused the greatest feelings ofjealousy in London. Like the Englishmillionaires, those of the czar's domin-ions mostly derive their revenuesfrom landed property. While theBriton, however, devotes a largepart of his gross income toward improv-ing his possessions and to the ameliora-tion of the lot of his tenants in one wayand another, the Russian, on the otherhand, extracts every farthing that hecan from his property, and spends itupon himself, the result being that agri-culture in Russia is going from bad toworse, that formerly productive andproductive estates have now becomebarren and impoverished, and that,while the peasantry are in a state ofmisery bordering on famine, the noblesthemselves have been obliged to mort-gage or sell their lands, and are atthe end of their financial tether. Ofcourse, there are some exceptions, suchas, for instance, the Yousoupoffs, theDemidoffs ar.d the Schereinetleffs. Thewealth of the Demidoffs is so vast thatit is beyond calculation, and strangelyenough, the fortune is of relatively re-cent creation, its founder having beon acountry blacksmith in the days of Peterthe Great. It was while traveling Inthe Ural mountains that the latterbroke one of his most valuable Englishpistols. A village blacksmith mendedit so quickly and so well that the czarwas delighted and asked the man'sname. "Demidoff, I shall rememberyou," he said,

As He Rode Off.The poor man was beginning to think

that Peter had forgotten him, whenthere came an officialdocument adornedwith the imperial seal, granting himthe freehold ot a great tract of crownland in the neighborhood of the village.Demidoff went to work on his new prop-erty, and found there inexhaustiblemines of iron, silver and mala-chite. Young Elim Demidoff—hedoes not bear in Russia the Ital-ian title of prince generally, prefixedto his name by foreigners—is at thepresent moment tne richest man in theworld, Princess Yousoupoff, with hergreat turquoise mines, coming next inrank. 'Fortunately, both of them aremore free-handed ahd generous thantheir respective immediate predecessorsas head ofthe family, the late AnatoleDemidoff and the late Prince Yotisou-

poff having been alike renowned fortheir meanness and avarice, of whichalmost incr dible stories are related. \u25a0/.a Austria and Germany resemble Eng-land in that their land owners, devote a'considerable portion of their revenuesto defraying what they so rightly re-gard as charges upon the estate. Mostof the large fortimes 111 Jjoth empiresare iv laud and mineral properly, thoseof Prince Pless and Count Henckel-Donnersmarek. in Northern Germany,and of Prince Liechtenstein and PrinceMontenuvo, in Austria, beinsr enor-mous, even according to Englishand American ideas. For themost part, however, the German andAustrian estates are heavily incum-bered. That of the Esterhazys. for in-stance, onco the largest and richest inf,the dual empire, is mortgaged up to thevery hilt. There, as in England, when-ever a man a acquires a fortune, eitherIn trade, speculation or industry, he im-mediately invests a goodly portion, ifnot all his wealth, in an estate, with aview of achieving the social prestigethat invariably attaches there to a landowner.

Willi the exception of the Berlinbanker. Huron Bleiciiroeder; of the gun-maker. Krupp, of Essen; of -Offerman,the cotton spinner, at Bruno, and twoor three more, there is uo

ICuoi-mounly Ki<-li Subjectof Emperor William or Emperor FrancisJoseph who does hot belong to the ter-ritorial class.

In France there are practically nolaige fortunes left, save those of thesugar refiners Say and Lebaudy, andHenri Schneider, the ironmaster ofCreusot, who is the Gallic counterpartof Heir Krupp. of Essen. Great terri-torial possessions and estates are nowalmost unknown, the entire land beingdivided up into small holdings, this be-ing the inevitable result of the abolitionof primogeniture, and the obligationupon each father to bequeath his prop-erty in equal proportions to his children.Itis difficult to know from what sourcesthe French aristocracy derives its reve-nues. It is certainly not from land,and the presumption is that there arefar more members of the aristocracy intrade or allied thereto by marriage thancare to avow it. At least two of theducal families are indebted for what-ever wealth they possess to the manu-facture of champagne, namely, those ofUzes and Montebeilo. The Due deFeltre, it Iremember aright, enjoys aconsiderable income derived ftom largeflour mills; the Dukes of Wagram andGraiumont have gilded their coats ofarms by matrimonial unions withladies of the house of Roths-child; the Due de la Tremou-ilie's sou and heir married thedaughter of a banker,.while the son ofthe Due de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeau*ville may be said to have found a goldmine in the person of his wife, who is agranddaughter and co-heiress of old M.and Mine. Blanc, the founders and crea-tors of the gambling establishment atMonte Carlo. But, for the most part,the great world of France is far fromrich, and if its members are aide in ameasure to keep up appearances, it ismainly because they have no suchcharges upon their fortunes as the mil-lionaires of Englaud, Germany andAustria. When they

Choose to Economizethey can do so by the mere sacrifice ofpersonal luxury, vanity aud even com-fort, without feeling, as is the case withthe landowners of the three countriesjust mentioned, that by shutting uptheir country seats and reducing theirestablishment they are throwing hun-dreds offamilies, for generations in theservice of their houses, out of employ-ment and depriving them of their meansof existence.

In Sweden there are about a dozengreat fortunes—not more—and they arein each case of a territorial character,several of them, such as those ot theCount Hallwyl and of Count Wacht-meister, having been derived from coaland minerals. Others, including that ofBaron Dickson, came from lumber.In Belgium and Holland all the greatfortunes have been made in trade, andare bound up therein, while in Spain,Portugal and Italy there are no largefortunes left to speak of. With the ex-ception of the Torlonias, who made theirmoney by banking; of the Galliera for-tune, acquired by building railroads,and the inherited wealth of PrinceDoria, and possibly, too, of the Duke ofSermoneta, there is no one in Italywhose wealth can be regarded as con-siderable from an English or Americanpoint of view.

In Spain the state of affairs Is of asimilar character. That is to say, thereare a few large fortunes, such as thoseof the Dukes of Salamanca and of San-tonio, made in railroad contracting andCuban trade respectively, while thehereditary fortunes of the ducal housesof Medina-Coeli, Eernan-Nunez audVillahermosa still remain, like those othe Italian Princes Doria and Sermo-neta, invested in land. It is the Dukeof Yillahermosa. by-the-by. whoseancestor and predecessor in the titlefigures In "Don Quixote" as the Duke,while one of his minor titles is that ofConde de Luna, of "Trovatore" celeb-rity.

From this it willbe seen that the vastmajority ot large fortunes iv Europeare in the form of landed property in-cumbered with heavy obligations of onekind and another, and that, therefore,the case ofyoung Cant. Mc.Calmont,whofinds himself suddenly placed in thepossession of $20,000,000 of male pinmoney, without any kind of charge uponit, is sufficiently rare and unique in theold world to call forth more than ordi-nary attention.

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TEMPORARILY FOR SALE.

Situated directly in the midst of the phenomenal Cripple Creek gold fields.which are regularly producing more gold than any other camp known. lhe mostflattering and advantageous mining investment propositions ever submitted forthe consideration of an intelligent capitalist. The Directors of the .

• Victor Consolidated Gold Mining Co.,Of Cripple Creek, Denver and Colorado Springs, State of Colorado, have decide*to temporarily offer one hundred thousand shares of fullpaid and nob-assessabletreasury stock at the ridiculously low figure of ten cents per share, proceeds tobe exclusively utilized in completing extensive systematic development in variouslocalities of the Coiimaiiy's rich territory, consisting of nearly thirty acre*'if :extraordinarily valuable mineral-bearing lands, bounded and* surrounded by,adjoining and intersecting the

RICHEST KNOWN GOLD VEINS IN EXISTENCE.We unhesitatingly invite thorough investigation through capable medium?,feeling positively assured of the justification of our opinions acquired by theenormous expenditures of money. Jf rich ore bodies, now supposed to exist, are

encountered as anticipated, ail shares will be immediately withdrawn, without1

notice, from the market. The Victor Company's various properties are designated-as follows: The Victor Consolidated, the Victor Consolidated No. 2,the Calhoun,*Calhoun No. 2 and Calhoun No. 4. The two Victors are located In the south-slope of Squaw mountain, in the Immediate locality of man; ofthe greatest and-richest regular producers in the district. In addition to this* the Company haveobtained with great difficulty long-time working leases on adjoining properties,*]thereby advancing the possibilities ot our organization practically loan unlimited:extent. White the present value ofour properties might be considered by the'uninformed partially speculatively, however familiar with this especial loealitv2or reliable mining enterprises of this class, would not hesitate to consider it other!than a conservative aud safe mining investment of the highest order. We araiassured that subsequent developments will demonstrate this.

THE VICTOR CONSOLIDATEDCOLD MIMING COMPANY

«? nnCOrP or,}t^ under the laws of the State of Colorado for 2,000.000 shares aftfrl-in? fully paid and , forever non-assessable, one-fourth remaining in th*treasury, positively carrying no individual liability. All dividends, if any, de-3!hTt?itehfi££ nVer£ S *are *uaranteed equal. The management reserves the:right to withdraw all offerings or advance stock without notice. Cash mustH^M-llrU orne:>r-, 50 P,«r ""Wrequired on blocks of 10,000. balance in 90days at b per cent. The officers of this company respectfully refer to all leading,'experts familiar with Cripple Creek mines. This is practically a ground dooropportunity of unprecedented promise to acquire an interest in a gold mine audisuch a favorable chance should be carefully investigated before arriving a adefinite decision. The same consideration given small • investors as larger ones.'No further annoyance to be apprehended on account of recent labor troublesabsolute quiet prevails throughout the entire state.

"whims, *$ 10.00 buys 100 shares. ' $ 50.00 buys 500 shares.

100.00 buys 1,000 shares. 500.00 buys 5,000 shares.These properties are not connected in any way with the Victor mine on DullHill, nor is our name tauen from it.The Officers and Directors are:

Tnos. L. Darby. Mining Engineer, Cripple Creek, Colo*E. G. Lowe, Capitalist, Boston. Mass.Wm. (iFt.DKii, Capitalist. Denver, Colo.A. H. Weber. Aluminum Manufacturer, Denver Colo

am**KTTi:»«;FIX.Vice Pre*. Colo. Mining Stock Exchange.DenvenAllcorrespondence, Inquiries or orders should be addressed to

A. H. Weber.Equitable Buildiu/. Deliver, Colo., or

Official Broker ami Secretary. 11 First National" Bank Building. Colorado Soring..Colorado. U. S. A. Member of the Colorado Springs Mining Stock SanS"Personal references: First National and El Paso County Bank. iv!i«SSprings; Dun's Mercantile Agencr, Denver, Colo. * * kS * {-oloiA^Cable Address. "Cripple." P. O. Drawer 27. Telephone <*>S.Do not under any circumstances omit to mention this paper.

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