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Mr. Wm. Goat—“Say, Nana, will you
take luncheon with me? I know where
there's a nice lot of fresh tomato cans.”
Miss Nana Goat—“Thank you, Billy;
but I’ve just eaten half of Mrs. Mooney’s
wash, and I couldn’t hold another mouth
ful.”— Judge.
“Evangeline,” Either of the “Bayard,” following “Monarch engravings, of
the Glen” or “The First Step,” without
advertising on thorn, size 20x24 inches,
given with one 50 cent or two 25 cent
bottles of Ideal Tooth Powder. These
are not cheap D. Bowman, lithographs, but works of
art. A. Dentist, Nicliolia,
Idaho, says, I am using your Ideal Tooth
Powder, and find it superior to all others.
•safely The engraving the 24tli “Evangeline” arrived
on of December, making
it seem like a Christmas gift. Trusting
that Ideal Tooth Powder may flourish,
I remain, yours respectfully, Elois Ear
west, Denver, Col. One of these engrav¬
ings without advertising on it worth $1
retail is Isfcal given with each two 25 cent bot
fites c4 Tooth Powder.
General John B. Bowman says in the
Kansas City Times: “It is my opinion of
that irrigation will be the means
doubling the population of every State
and Territory w.thin the coming ten
years. I further believe that in the
'East, where irrigation the rainfall will is ultimately heavy, but bo
mice,tain, insure greater
resorted to in o der to
regu a itv of crops. Four-tenths of the
area of the United States, not including
Alaska, require irrigation. This terri¬
tory includes parts of C:i ifornia, Texas,
Kansas, Nebra ka, Nevada, Oregon, all
of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyom¬
ing, Montana, and portions of Dakota
and Washington. Through this vast
territory there flow a number of streams
with narrow valleys capab e of cultiva¬
tion. In these valleys settlers have
taken up their abode, cit.es have been
built and now the cry is for more room.
The room is there, and the only thing
needed to make the broad sunburned
plains vie with valleys is irrigation. method
The sentiment in favor of this
•of reclaiming lands is growing will strong, itness
sind revolution.” I predict that ten years w
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I find Ideal Tooth Powder is without
exception tlie best I have ever used.
With its aid I keep my teetli very clean
and white, which I was unable to do
with any other powder 1 have ever tried
before. So says Ferdinand E. C’hartard,
Baltimore, Md.
By tlie way, will you buy and use Ideal
Tooth Powder ? We can thoroughly rec¬ Sa¬
ommend it. R. E. Nichols, Dentist,
fina, Kansas, says, Ideal Tooth Powder
is in my estimation, just what its name
indicates. An engraving 20x24 is given
with each two bottles. Price 25 cents
per bottle.
Ika Tripp, the millionaire of Scran¬
ton, I’a., has a peculiar habit. For
many years he sraoked cigars until his
physician told him lie must stop smok¬
ing or die. Thereupon Tripp lured a
negro to smoke all day near him and
blow the smoke into his face. The
negro did this for years until he died,
and his place was taken by a white man.
Mr. Tripp is in perfect health. His
smoker uses about two ve fin© cigars
a day. Tripp seems to derive great method en
jovment from this second-hand
of indulging in tobacco,
a t H I S OLD S TAN D!
G. E. THOMAS,
The Original “No-Shoddy” Clothier,
3 117 Broad St., Next to 3rd National Bank,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
I am now located in my former place of business, at the above number,
and ask ail my friends in Harris and the adjoining counties to call and see my
Stock of Winter Clothing.
T am not advertising $80 suits for $10, but I feel sure I can sell you goods at
as low' figures as anybody. 1 appreciate the patronage heretofore given me
and shall endeavor by fair honest methods to retain it. I have a complete
line of fall samples now in stock and will have suits made to order for those
who wish them, at very low figures.
G. E. THOMAS.
HARRISON’S SHOE STOKE,
1132 BROAD ST., COLUMBO S, GA
Ever, body is invited to call and look at our stock ol
AN© SHOES.
REG l LAIi “ALLIANCE” PRICES
ON EVERYTHING.
Honoring a Noted Chinaman.
In a description of a recent birthday
celebration in Chinatown, Sen Francis¬
co, the Chronicle sa;» s: In a long, iow
ceiled room on Stockton street, near
Jackson, a s.-ore of Chinese were work¬
ing in Ins rh usl about a big wire
frame over which was dialed gaudily
painted canvas with tinsel, and the
tawdy imitations of precious gems to be
seen in the Chinese theatres when a
heavy tragedy is being enacted.
If any chance visitor strayed into the
long, lovf room where the Chinese were
working, the first impression of the
spectacle presented was unpleasant, as
| confronting of giant dragon him was the fantastically monster head
j ! puisive a Oriental as imagination re
as can
conceive, it would frighten a child
and make an intemperate man very
uneasy. When the dragon is done it
will be known as How- U ong Mue and
will represent one of the biggest men
China 1ms ever contributed to history.
Only a part of San 1 rancisco’s Chi¬
nese population is interested in the
j dragon, as he was indigenous to the prov
I ince of China lying direc ly about Pe
kmg and known as Yung Wo. There
rre about 3,000 nat ves of Yung Wo ir
this city and they will all join in the
celebration of the birth of How Wong
Mue on the 27th inst. There will be a
monster parade, in which the dragon,
sixty- feet in length, will be the central
figure. Then there will be an illustra¬
tion of the progress made by the people
of Yung Wo since Mue was born, a trifle
over 2,600 y ears ago.
According to Chinese tradition, Mue
was a bigger man in Yung Wotlian Con¬
fucius. He was a great soldier and
captured a great many towns and many
thousands of people whom he sub
ligated. His birthdays have been cele¬
brated for over 2,000 years. Through¬
out the province of Yung "Wo there are
thousands of big idols representing him
con juering the world. He was to the
people of that far-off land wliat George
Washington was to Americans. His
greatest accomplishment is said to have
been teaching his people the value of
iron and its uses. He is claimed to
have made the first iron wea‘ on.
The celebration of Mue’s birth con¬
tinued two days.
A childless old lady of Stoddardsville,
Penn., years ago set apart a small room
for spiders to make their webs in, and no
broom lias ever disturbed it. The
spiders dwell together in harmony, as a
rule, although the lady says they some¬
times have regular cat-and-dog fights.
ITHAT FIGHT
The Original Wins.
C. F. Simmons, St. Louis, Prop’r
| M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine, Est’cl
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r. I er Regulator, Kst’d by Zeilin 1868.
M. A. S. L. M. has for 47 years
i. cured Indigestion, Biliousness,
Dvspepsia,Sick Headache,Lost
* A Appetite, Souk Stomach, Etc.
tAChurcn, Rev. T 15. Reams, Pastor M. E.
k q Jkthink Adams, Tenn., been writes: dead but “I
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nt * I for your Genuine M. A. Sim
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IffOPLEl Dr. J. R. Graves, Editor Thr
I received Memphis,Tenn. of Liver says:
Medicine, and a package have used your half of i<.
It works like a charm. I want no
better Liver Regulator and cer¬
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A BONANZA KING.
THE VERY ROMANTIC CAREER
OF JAMES C. FLOOD.
His Rapid Rise from a Poor Work¬
ingman to the Attainment of Im¬
mense Weath in California.
The late James Clair Flood was born
in New York City on October 25, 1826.
His parents were Irish of the poorer
class, the family depending for a livoli
liood upon the daily labor of the father,
After receiving a common school educa
tion young Flood learned the trade of
carriage builder. In 1849, attracted by
the glowing lie accounts, his of home tlie California Hamil
gold mines, left at
ton, N. Y\, and embarked on the ship
Elizabeth Ellen for a trip around the
Horn. On arriving in San F rancisco
he obtained work as a carpenter, for
which in those flush times he was of paid this
$16 a day. After about one year
kind or work he found that tlie cost of
living was so great in the city that lie
had not been able to lay by much of
anything for a rainy day. So he pack
cd up his traps, went to the Yuba dig
gins, and began his career as a miner.
Soon lie had §3,000 to liis credit in the
bank said, considered at ’Frisco, and, himself as he rich afterward j
a man.
With this sum he returned to New York
nois, and took where his he father bought and farm mother and settled to Illi- j |
a
down. His capital proved too small to
make farming a success, and he deter
miced to return to California.
When he arrived in San Francisco
for tho second time, says the New York
Ttme*, he opened a restaurant, .but
failed in business, owing his creditors
$4,000. Looking about for another open
ing he met W. S. O’Brien, a ship
chandler, and like himself of Irish ex
traction and a New- Yorker by birth. In
1856 they formed a partnership street, and
opened a saloon on Washington
near the market. They made friends
and soon O’Brien established the a lucrative dressy busi- j
ness. was more j
member of the firm, Flood attending I .
very closely to the work behind the bar.
He was known as the best cocktail mixer i
on the coast. Their saloon became a i
favorite resort for miners, business men,
gamblers, and sports of all shades, and
while a gam© of cards was going on at
one table, important bargains Penniless were )
being transacted at another.
miners who had spent every cent that
they had in prospecting and had finally
succeeded in striking a vein of gold and j
had brought specimens of ore with them, ;
found ready friends here. The two part- j
ners were always willing to help out
these miners, to advance them money,
buy off their claims, find them custom
ers, or enter into partnership vith the !
fortunate finders who were not willing
to part with their claims. The partners j
began speculating in stocks, and being j
moderately successful, they opened a
brokerage office on Montgomery street,
at the same time continuing made their liquor
business. In 1862 they large j
profits from fortunate investments in
Kentuck, Crown Point, Belcher, and
other mines on the Comstock lode.
Just about this time, up at Virginia ,
City, James G. Fair, a sturdy, hard
working Irish miner, who was Superin
tendent of the Halo and Norcross find
Ophir Mines, entered into partnership
with John W. Maekay, also a miner of
Irish birth, for the purpose of manipu
lating mining Rtocks. Francisco, Hoeing tho need
of associates in San they de
cided to pool their issues with those of
Flood & O’Brien. This was tho begin
ning of tho famous Bonanza firm, which
added millions to tho world’s wealth,
ruined thousands of men and women,
and marked a new era of life on the
Pacific slope. Out of their first (leal,
which was in Halo and Norcross, they
cleared not less than half a million.
Then they determined to secure control
of the entire Comstock lode, in whoso
richness F’air and Maekay, from prac
tieal observation, had unbounded confi
deuce. They quietly bought up miners’
claims, many of which were popularly
supposed ing tho to have whole been lot exhausted, less than pay
for not
§70,000. These claims covered the sec
tion of the great silver lode where tho
famous “big Bonanza” lay. Tho firm
combined all these small properties into
two—the Consolidated Virginia and Cal
ifornia—divided them into 108,000
shares each, and placed them on the
market at about §50 each.
marvelous Then came the uncovering concealed of the
t: .asure hitherto in
the Comstodc. The people of Califor
nia went crazy, as it were, and every
body, from millionaires the to servant girls,
entered recklessly into excitement
of mining speculation. Tho bonanza
people unloaded their stocks at from
§300 to §800 a share, and each member
of the firm is believed to have netted
$20,000,000. Consolidated Virginia paid
$34,000,000 in dividends, and share
holders in California received $10,000,
000 in the same way, About §112,000, •
000 of silver was actually produced
from the mines.
Naturally a crash followed. The pro
duction fell off; it became the general
belief that the lode was exhausted, and
the stocks fell, until now tliey can be
bought for §8 a share. Tlie victims of
this gigantic deal cursed the men who
had managed it, but they were undis
turbed and secure in the possession of
fortunes so vast that how-to dispose of
their immense income became a serious
problem. Actuated, it is understood,
by animosityto the Bank of California,
of which W. C. Ralston was Nevada the master ]
spirit, they opened §5,000,000, the Bank
with a capital of afterward
increased to §10,000,000, and on the j
death of W. S. O’Brien, in 1878, reduc
ed to §3,000,000. The story of the fail- i
ure of the Bank of California and the
tragic death of Ralston need not be re
told. It may be mentioned, however,
that Flood was never able to cany out
the boast he is said to have made to ex
Senator Sharon, when taunted on his
former occupation, that he would some ,
Bank day sell of whisky California, over the counter of the j
Mr. Flood was the first President of
the Nevada Bank, and devoted most of
his time for a number of years to its ac
tive management. The confidence bank enjoyed of
the almost unlimited the
business community until relations in September
and OctalK-r, 1887, the of the :
bank with the great syndic ate then oper
ating in the California wheat
were such that it became involved to the
extent of over §30,000,000 in the crash
which followed. Prior to this time Sen
ator James G. Fair had severed all his
connections with the bank and tlie bon
unza firm, but when tho bank was in
trouble ho went to tho rescue with his
millions tho President of ready of tlie money, bank, and which became posi
tion lie has occupied since, Flood
The iron constitution of Mr.
had begun to fail some months before
this narrow escape of the bank frnm dis
aster, and his mends assert that had ho
not been compelled to intrust the active
management of the institution to the
Vice-President, George L. Blander, it
would never have become so deeply in
volved. After his practically enforced
retirement from the Presidency his ail
ments rapidly developed into more seri
ous complaints. Ho became almost
blind, and kidney trouble of tho worst
type weakened him exceedingly. accompanied In
the spring of last year, by
his devoted wife and his daughter, Miss
Jennie, ho went to Carlsbad. Before
going ho withdrew entirely from tho
Nevada Bank. His son, James Xi.
also Flood, received was appointed general a director, of attorney and
a power would
for his father, who feared that ho
never return alive.
I Personally Mr. Flood was of stout
build, head ruddy complexion, thick, powerful with neck. a bullet His
set on a
manner with friends was cordial, but
those having business relations with
him were in tho habit of calling him
“cold-blooded.” Ho performed many
acts of charity, of which the most nota
bio was the sending of §25,000 to the
suffering people of Ireland, V
With all his immense fortune Mr.
| F’lood’s head was becoming not turned, and for
many years after a millionaire
h<3 continued to live in a modest way in
a plain house in Eddy his fellow-millionaires street, San Fran
But when
followed began building example, palatial and residences purchased ho
their
a tract of land in the town of San Mateo,
-where tlm wealth of San Francisco was
congregating. Here he built one of tho
most magnificent on°the residences that can be
found Pacific coast. The build
ing is pure white, blue* with a fine veranda,
capped midst by a roof, situated in the
den, with of a fountains, large, beautifully-kept plants, gar- and
fine’driveways. His’house rare
in Han Frail
cisco, on tlie Summit of Nob Hill is tho
only one in built of Connecticut brown
i stone that city. It is 100 by 90 feet
n dimensions, Roman classic in arehi
teeture, Ix-auty.’ without any pretentious to
This building, with the decor
ations, cost him nearly $1,500,000. g’ood-heart- He
] e ft a wife, an unassuming,
cd woman, one son, James L. and a
daughter, Cora Jane, who inherit his
great wealth,
A Salt Lake Justice of the Peace was
recently called upon to unite a couple in
matrimony. John The name of the groom
was Pill. When the justice
reached that part of the ceremony where
the bride agrees to take the groom for
better or worse the justice said, “Do
you take this Pill?” the bride was heard
to respond “Yes” almost inaudibly
while her face w as suffused with blushes.
Virginia {Net.) Chronicle,