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THE DELUGE By DAVID GRAHAM PMLLIRS, Authcr of ‘THECQSC&e isos- tv#* *aaB3-7zaaBcu am&iMO CHAPTER III.—Continued. "We’ll fix it up later, Blacklock,” | said he. "All right," said I. And from that minute I was almost silent. It was something in her tone and manner that silenced me. I suddenly realized that 1 wasn't making as good an im pression as I had been flattering my self. When a man has money and is will- i ing to spend it. he can readily fool ' himself into imagining he gets on I grandly with women. But 1 had bet- j ter grounds than that for thinking myself not unattractive to them, as a rule. Women had liked me when I had nothing; women had liked me when they didn't know who I was. 1 I felt that this woman did not like! me. And yet, by the way she looked j at me in spite of her efforts not to do ! so, I could tell that I had some sort of unusual interest for her. Why didn't she like me? She made me feel the reason. I didn’t belong to her world. My ways and my looks offend ed her. She disliked me a good deal; she feared me a little. She would have felt safer if she had been grati fying her curiosity, gazing in at me through the bars of a cage. Sam—not without hesitation, as I recalled afterward—left me with her, when 1 sent him to bring her brough am up to the Broadway entrance. As she and I were standing there alone, i waiting in silence. I turned on her suddenly, and blurted out: "You don't j like me.” She reddened a little, smiled slight- j ly. "What a quaint remark!” said ! she. I looked straight at her. “But you shall." Our eyes met. Her chin came out j a little, her eyebrows lifted. Then. | in scorn of herself as well as of me, she locked herself in behind a frozen j haughtiness that ignored me. “Ah, i here is the carriage.” she said. I fol- ; lowed her to the curb; she just I touched my hand, just nodded her j fascinating little herd. "See you Saturday, old man." called her brother friendlily. My lowering j face had alarmed him. "That party is off." said I. curtly. And I lifted my hat and strode away. As 1 had formed the habit of dis missing the disagreeable. I soon put her out of my mind. But she took with her my joy in the taste of things. I couldn't get back my former keen satisfaction in all I had done and was doing. The luxury, the tangible evidences of my achievement, no long er gave me pleasure; they seemed to add to my irritation. I worked myself up, or rather, down, to such a mood that when my office boy told me Mr. Langdon would like me to come to his office as soon as it was convenient. I snapped out: “The hell he does! Tell Mr. Langdon I'll be glad io see him here whenever he calls.” That was stupidity, a pre mature assertion of mv right to be treated as an equal. I had always gone to Langdon, and to any other of the rulers of finance, whenever I had got a summons. For, while I was rich and powerful, I held both wealth and power, in a sense, on suf ferance; I knew that, so long as I had no absolute control of any great department of industry, these rulers could destroy me should they decide that they needed my holdings or were not satisfied with my use of my j power. I was surprised when Lang don appeared in my office a few min utes later. He was a tallish. slim man, care fully dressed, with a bored, weary look and a slow, bored way of talk ing. I had always said that if I had not been myself I should have wished to be Langdon. His expression, as he came i ito mv office, was one of cynical amusement, as if he were saying to himself: "Our friend Blacklock has caught the swoll- j en head at last.' Not a suggestion ! of ill humor, of resentment at my im- j pertinence—for, in the circumstances, j I had been guilty of an impertinence, f .lust languid, amused patience with the frailty of a friend. "I see,” said he, "that you have got Textile up to 85.” He was the head of the Textile j trust, which had been built by his brother-in-Jaw and hart fallen to him 1 in the confusion following his broth er-in-law's death. As he was just then needing some money for his share in "the National Coal undertaking, he had directed me to push Textile up towrard par and unload him of two or three hundred thousand shares—he, of I course, to repurchase the shares after he had taken profits and Textile had dropped back to its normal 50. “I’ll have it up to 98 by the middle • of next month,” said 1. "And there j 1 think we’d better stop." "Stop at about 90," said he. "That ! will give me all I find I'll need for ; this Coal business. 1 don’t want to be bothered with hunting up an invest- j ment.” 1 shook my head. “I must put it up ; to within a point or two of par,” I de- ; dared. “In my public letter I’ve been ' saying it would go above 93, and I never deceive my public." He smiled—my notion of honesty always amused him. “As you please," he said, with a shrug. Then I saw a serious look—just a fleeting flash of warning—behind his smiling mask; and he added carelessly: "Be careful about your own personal play. I ! doubt if Textile can be put any! higher.” It must have been my mood that prevented those words from making the impression on me they should have made. Instead of appreciating at once and at its full value this char acteristic and amazingly friendly sig nal of caution, I showed how stupidly inattentive I was by saying: “Some thing doing? Something new?” But he had already gone further than his notion of friendship war ranted. So he replied: “Oh, no. Simply that everything's uncertain nowadays." My mind had been all this time on those Manasquale mining properties. I now said: “Has Roebuck told you that I had to buy those mines on my own account?" “Yes," he said. He hesitated, an# again he gave me a look whose mean ing came to me only when it was too late. “I think, Blacklock, you'd bet ter turn'them over to me." “I can't,” I answered. “I gave my word.” "As you please,” said he. Apparently the matter didn't inter est him. He began to talk of “.he per formances of my little two-year-old Beachcomber: and after 20 minutes or so, he drifted away. "I envy you your enthusiasm," he said, pausing in my doorway. “Wherever I am. I wish I were somewhere else. Whatever I'm doing, I wish 1 were doing some- i thing else. Where do you get all this j joy of the fight? What the devil are you fighting for?” He didn't wrait for a reply. I thought over my situation steadily for several days. 1 went down to my country place. I looked everywhere among all my belongings, searching, searching, restless, impatient. At last I knew what ailed me—what the lack j was that yawned so gloomily from : “I’ll take care of that,” said I, quite easy in mind. “Mowbray Langdon’s president, isn’t he? Well, he's my closest friend.” I spoke quite hon i estly. It shows how simple-minded I was in cqytain ways that I had never | once noted the important circum ! stance that this “closest friend" had. ; never invited me to his house, or any where where I’d meet his up-town as sociates at introducing, distance. Sam looked surprised. “Oh, in that case,” he said. “I'll. see what can be done." But his tone was not quite cor dial enough to satisfy me. ; To stimulate him and to give him ; an earnest of what I intended to do | for him, when our little social deal ! had been put through, I showed him how he could win $10,000 in the next ; three days. “And you needn't bother about putting up margins,” said I, as I often had before. “I’ll take care of ! that.” i He stammered a refusal and went out; but he came back within an hour, and, in a strained sort of way, accept ed my tip and offer. “That’s sensible,’ said I. “When will you attend to the matter at the Travelers? I want to be warned so I can pull my own set of wires in con cert.” “I'll let you know,” he answered, hanging his head. I didn't understand his queer ac j tions then. Though I was an expert ; in finance, I -hadn't yet made a study j of that other game—the game of I “gentleman.” And I didn’t know I how seriously the frauds and fakirs I who play it take it and themselves. I attributed his confusion to a ridicu lous mock modesty he had about ac cepting favors; it struck me as being particularly silly on this occasion, be ; cause for once he was to give as well j as to take. He didn't call for his profits, but wrote asking me to mail him the | check for them. I did so, putting in ! the envelop with it a little jog to his memory on the club matter. I didn’t see him again for nearly a month; and though I searched and sent, I couldn’t get his trail. On open ing day at Morris Park, I was going along the passage behind the boxes in the grand stand, on my way to the i paddock. I wanted to see my horse : that was about to run for the Sal • YOU’RE BOUND TO WIN AND I’LL SEE THAT YOU DON'T LOSE.” everything I had once thought beauti ful, had once found sufficient. I was in the midst of the splendid, terraced pansy beds my gardeners had just set out; I stopped short and slapped my thigh. "A woman!” I exclaimed. "That's what i need. A woman—the , right sort of woman—a wife!” IV. A CANDIDATE FOR “RESPECTA BILITY.” To handle this new business proper ly 1 must put myself in position to look the whole field over. I must get in line and in touch with “respecta bility." When Sam Ellersly came in. for his "rations,” I said: “Sam. I want you to put me up at the Trav- i elers Club." “The Travelers!" echoed he, with : a blank look. "The Travelers.” said I. “It’s about the best of the big clubs, isn't it? And it has as members most of the men I do business with and most of j those T want to get into touch with.” j He laughed. "It can't be done.” "Why not?” I asked. “Oh—I don't know. You see—the fact is—well, they're a lot of old fogies up there. You don’t want to bother with that push. Matt. Take my advice. Do business with them, but avoid them socially.” “I want to go in there,” I insisted. “I have my own reasons. You put me up.” “I tell you. it'd be no use.” he re plied, in a tone that implied he wished to hear no more of the matter. “Yon put me up," I repeated. "And if you do your best, I’ll get in all right. I've got lots of friends there. And you've got three relatives in the com mittee on membership.” At this he gave me a lueer, sharp glance—a little fright in it. I laughed. "You see, I’ve been look ing into it, Sam. I never take a jump till I’ve measured it.” “You'do better wait a few years, until—” he began, then stepped and turned red. “Until what?" said I. “I want you to speak frankly.” “Well, you’ve got a lot of enemies— a lot of fellows who’ve lost money in deals you’ve engineered. And they’d say all sorts of things." magundi Sweepstakes, and to tell my jockey that I’d give him $15,01)0, in stead of $10,000, if he won—for I had put quite a bunch down. In one of the boxes I spied my shy j friend, Sammy. He was looking bet-i ter than I had ever seen him. Less] heavy-eyed, less pallid and pasty, less like a man who had been shirking bed and keeping up on cocktails and cold baths. He was at the rear of the box, talking with a lady and a gentleman. As soon as I saw that lady, I knew what it was that had been hiding at the bottom of my mind and rankling there. Luckily I was alone; ever since that lunch I had been cutting loose from the old crowd—from all its women, and from all its men except two or three real friends who were good fel lows straight through, in spite of their having made the mistake of crossing the dead line between amateur “sport" and professional. I leaned over and tapped Sammy on the shoul der. Boy Scored One on Teacher Hereafter the latter Will Likely Be | More Precise in His Language. Many a schoolmaster discovers to his cost the need of the utmost pre- j cision in language in speaking to his : pupils and questioning them day by day. The lesson in geography in a cer tain class dealt with the islands off the southeast of Asia, and reference was being made to the Philippines and the adjacent groups. “What are the inhabitants of the Sulu archipelago called?" asked the master. “There is no specific name for them," answered one of the sharpest of the boys. “They may, however, be classified under the one general name of fish. Among these fish, sharks, flying fish, and others of various kinds may be mentioned. Then there are sorts, though these cannot really be tortoises or turtles of different sorts, though these cannot really be called fish, but—” What on earth are you talking about?” exclaimed the master, as soon as he could recover from the astonish ment created by the inhabitants of the Sulu insands, and you ought to know that these are Malays by race and Mohametans by religion." “I beg your pardon, sir,, retorted the lad. “You asked me about the in habitants of the Sulu archipelago, and I believe I am not mistaken in think ing that an archipelago is merely a sea or body of water interspersed with islands." The master gasped, and has since had a dread of that boy. Rhodes Was No Bookkeeper. Unlike Alfred Beit, Cecil Rhodes had small patience with arithmetical details. Once this characteristic in volved him in a difficulty. Pitching a balance sheet into the pile of pa pers before Beit, he exclaimed des perately, “Here, you understand things; for heaven's sake tell me how I stand.” He glance.d round, and when he saw me, looked as if I were a policeman who had caught him in the act “Howdy, Sam?” said I. “It’s been ^o long since I’ve seen you that I couldn’t resist the temptation to in terrupt. Hope your friend'll excuse me. Howdy do, Miss Ellersly?” And I put out my hand. She took it reluctantly, she was giving me a very unpleasant look— as if she were seeing, not somebody, but some thing she didn't care to see, or were seeing nothing at all. I liked that look; I liked the woman who had it in her to give it. She made me feel that she was difficult and therefore worth while, arid that’s what all we human beings are in busi ness for—to make each other feel that we’re worth while. “Just a moment,” said Sam, red as a, cranberry and stuttering. And he made a motion to come out of the box and join me. At the same time Miss Anita and the other fellow began to turn away. But I was not the man to be cheated in that fashion. I wanted to see her, i and I compelled her to see it and to ! feel It. “Don’t let me take you from 1 your friends,” said I to Sammy. “Per ! haps they’d like to come with you : and me down to look at my horse. ! I can give you a good tip—he's bound ! to win. I’ve had my boys out on the | rails every morning at the trials of all the other possibilities. None of 'em’s in it with Mowghli.” “Mowghli!” said the young lady— she had begun to turn toward me as soon as I spoke the magic word “tip.” There may be men who can resist that word “tip” at the race track, but there never was a woman. "Mowghli!” said Miss Eilersly. “What a quaint name!” “My trainer gave it,” said I. “I’ve got a second son of one #f those broken-down English noblemen at the head of my stables. He's trying to get money enough together to be able to show up at Newport and take a shy at an heiress.” At this the fellow who was fourth in our party, and who had been giv ing me a nasty, glassy stare, got as j red as was Sammy. Then I noticed that he was an Englishman, and 1 all but chuckled with delight. However, 1-said: "No offense intended," and clapped him on the shofilder with a friendly smile. "He's a good fellow, my man Monson, and knows a lot about horses.” Miss Eilersly bit her lip and col ored, but 1 noticed also that her eyes were dancing. Sam introduced the Englishman to me—Lord Somebody-or-other, I forget what, as I never saw him again. I turned like a bulldog from a toy ter rier and was at Miss Eilersly again. "Let me put a little something on Mowghli for you,” said I. “You’re bound to win—and I’ll see* that you don't lose. 1 know how you ladies hate to lose.” That was a bit stiff, as T know well enough now. Indeed, my instinct would have told me better then, if I hadn't been so used to the sort of women that jump at such an offer, and if I hadn't been casting about so desperately and in such confusion for some way to please her. At any rate, « hardly deserved her sudden frozen look. "I beg pardon,” I stammered, and I think my look at her must have been very humble—for me. The- others in the box were staring round at us. "Come on,” cried Sam, dragging at my arm, "let's go." “Won't you come?" I said to his sis ter. I shouldn't have been able to keep my state of mind out of my voice, if I had tried. And I didn't try. Trust the right sort of woman to see the right sort of thing in a man through any and all kinds of barriers or caste and manners and breeding. Her voice was much softer as she said: "I think I must stay here. Thank you, just the same.” As soon as Sam and I were alone, I apologized. ‘T hope you’ll tell your sister I'm sorry for that break,” said I. “Oh, that’s all right,” he answered, easy again, now that we were away from the others. “You meant well— and motive's the thing." “Motive—hell!” cried 1 in my anger at myself. “Nobody but a man's God knows his motives; he doesn't even know them himself. I judge others by what they do, and I expect to be judged in the same way. I see I've got a lot to learn.” Then I suddenly remembered the Travelers Club, and asked him what he’d done about it. “I—I've been—thinking it over,” said be. “Are you sure you want to run the risk of an • ugly cropper, Matt?” I turned him round so that we were facing each other. “Do you want to do me that favor, or don’t you?” I demanded. “I’ll do whatever you say,” he re plied. “I'm thinking only of your in terests.” "Let me take care of them,” said I. “You put me up at that club to-mor row. I'll send you the name of a seconder not later than noon.” “Up goes your name,” he said. “But don’t blame me for the conse quences.” (To be Continued.) Our Washington Letter Interesting Gossip Gathered at the National Capital—To Stop Mar riage of Blind Persons—Weak Spots in Bank Examinations Pointed Gnt. WASHINGTON.—Government control of the marriage of persons deprived of one or more of their senses is the latest administration idea. By his appointment of a committee on eugenics As sistant Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Hayes has taken a step which, it is expected, will result in a great improvement in the human race through more favorable conditions in the relationship of the sexes. It is the o'bject of this committee to devise a way to prevent the marriage- of two blind persons, should it be determined that their union would resuit in a transmission of their deficiency. Members of the committee are: Dr. Alexan der Graham Bell, Washington; Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford university; Maj. Charles Woodruff. M. D„ U. S. A.; Dr. Charles B. Henderson, University of Chicago; C. W. Ward. New York, and Rev. J. E. Gilbert, Wash Eugencies is defined as “the science of generative or procreative devel opment; the doctrine of progress or evolution, especially in the human race, through improved conditions in the relations of the sexes.” _ The committee will submit a report at a meeting of the American Breed ers’ association in Columbus, O.. January 15. The committee. Assistant Sec retary Hayes says, will “investigate and report on heredity in the human race; devise methods of recording the values of the blood of individuals, fam ilies, peoples, and races: emphasize the value of superior blood, and sug gest methods of improving the heredity of the family, the people, or the race.” SIMPLIFIED SPELLING GETS A REBUFF. “Roosevelt spelling” was up before the su preme court of the United States the other day, and in an encounter with the traditions of that ancient body it did not come off the victor. The case under consideration was that of Dal cour against the United States, and Solicitor Gen eral Hoyt was engaged in presenting the govern ment's side. In the course of his argument he had occasion to refer to a long quotation in his brief from a decision of the court rendered some years ago by Justice Bradley, in which the word “through” was spelled "thru.” Chief Justice Fuller held a copy of the brief in his hand, and when the word was reached in terrupted Mr. Hoyt with a question as to whether the extract was intended to be a quotation from Justice Bradley's official opinion. In all except the spelling, replied Mr. Hoyt. “Ah." significantly responded the chief justice with an interrogative inflexion that caused a general smile through the court room. The solicitor general explained that the department of justice, like all other departments of the government, had attempted to follow the new order of spelling, and he added that, while he considered it proper to pursue this course in the original text of the department's briefs, he did not feel that the department was justified in changing the orthography of judicial opinions He said that in the future such changes would be guarded against. The court has not adopted the simplified spelling system. _ BANK EXAMINATIONS ARE NOT THOROUGH. Do bank examiners examine? Is their exam ination worth anything? Is the public protected against loss by their work? Such questions as these are inevitably sug gested to the average man by disclosures like those in Chicago recently, in connection with the failure of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank: in connection with the Philadelphia failure, and the Pittsburg bank thefts. ‘Xo bank inspection will protect the public against downright dishonesty on the part of the bank's officers.” This may be taken as the official and final statement of the comptroller's office. Banking always has been and always will be a business in which the head of the bank must be trusted and trustworthy. It has been shown repeatedly that collusion between two officials in a bank (or sometimes merely tne dishonesty of one official) will deceive the best bank examine; in the employ of the government. A good illustration of this fact took place in the failure of a bank not long ago at Redbank. X. J. One of the best examiners on the comptroller's force was sent to look into the affairs of the institution. He spent several da>s going over the securities and books, and then called the directors to gether and reported that the bank was perfectly sound, and that he would recommend that it go on. At this moment the cashier of the bank came in. "You are entirely mistaken, gentlemen," said the cashier. ‘This bank is busted." The examiner and directors looked at the man in amazement. It is very simple, said he. “If you will wait a minute I will go into the cellar and get some papers.” Presently the cashier returned with some loose sheets which had been removed from the .ledger. They contained the record of deposits. Most of them were of money which bad been put in for saving, and to draw interest, but it was one of the bank s liabilities, and it put a verv different aspect on the matter. Until the dishonest bookkeeping was disclosed the affairs of the bank appeared all right. There was no way in which the examiner could tell that loose pages had been taken from the ledger—unless, indeed, he were gifted with some Sherlock Holmes instinct beyond the ordinary equipment of the accountant. In other words, the national or the state bank examiner is not a Sherlock Holme>. In most cases he judges a bank’s condition bv surface conditions. Only when rumors of something wrong have come to him does he try to insert the probe below the surface. And even then he has small chance of outwit ting the sharp and crooked bank officials who are on the ground and who have had every chance to cover their tracks. HUNDREDS OF BANKS TO EACH MAN. There are 78 bank examiners to examine *.966 national banks. Last year these examiners made a total of 11.716 examinations. Anybody will see from these figures that an examiner doe's not linger long over any one bank. What the examiner does is to look over the securities, check up the amount of loans and dis counts. see what proportion they bear to the cap ital and assets, and generally to make sure that the books of the bank do not show anything con trary to the national banking act. The examina tion is, in fact, more a check on the officers’ way of doing business than a precaution against actual dishonesty. National banks are not supposed to be ex amined oftener than twice a year. And then all that is necessary, in most cases, is that the rec ords may appear all right. Among the assets may appear certain cotes which are forgeries, but the bank examiner does not take each signature to be less effective than it should be. It has one great weakness—namely, the fee system. ’Comptroller Ridgely says of this: “The weakest feature of the present system of examination is that the examiners are paid by fees instead of salaries. I believe every comptroller of the currency in recent years has recommended a change in this system. “The government Can and should by ail means improve the service by paying examiners by the day and greatly increasing their number, so that a man should have time and take time to go into matters as thoroughly as is necessary to get at the real condition of the bank. The men ought to be paid good salaries; large enough to attract and hold good men. It is one of the difficulties of the present service that it is hard to keep good men.’’ PEOPLE’S LOBBY FAVORED BY THE PRESIDENT. The president, is deeply interested in the sue cess of the "People's Lobby,” for the purpose of organizing which several well-known investigators and writers met here recently. The mo3t impor- | tant meeting for the purpose of giving direction to this movement of safeguarding the inte-esis of the public against the malevolent influence of special interests was delayed until John Qronson Reynolds, co-author cf the Xeill-Reynolds report on Chicago packing-house conditions, could get the ideas of the president on the subject and con vey them to the organizers. The important matter is the selection of a Washington head of the lobby. Frank H. Hitch cock, first assistant postmaster general, has been suggested in this connection, and it is understood j that President Roosevelt thinks that he would be ( an excellent person to stand sentinel for the com- U mon good and unearth bad legislation and p-e vent the emasculation of good legislation. Should Mr. Hitchcock leave his present position for the rather idealistic duty which the people s lobby will create he will receive a larger salary than he now gets. Tlie “people's lobby" will have nothing to do with the “First Christian Lobby,” headed by Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, and which in its fight against saloons and liquor interests used the postal Tranks of senators and represen tatives until the post office department discovered the fact and stopped this ahuss of the franking privilege. I \v fE-RU-NA FOR catarrh 1 OFTHE head.throat Lungs. STOMACH. I KIDNEYS.BLADDER I ill AND pt PELVIC IS>ORGAN§, Will Introduce Pension System. A pension plan for aged and dis abled employes will soon be intro duced by the Boston and Maine rail road. Magazine For the Blind. Through the munificence of the wid ow of a Newr York capitalist, the means has been supplied for the es tablishing of a magazine printed in blind point type. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt waist just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. Not Complimentary. A stockdealer, buying horses in Colorado, had been directed to the ranch of Old Bill Sands. Wishing to learn something of Old Bill's business methods before entering into negotia tions, he made some inquiries at a near-by ranch. “What sort of business man is Bill Sands?" he asked. “Wall, stranger," replied the ranch er, “I don't think Old Bill would go plurnh to hell for a nickel; but he’d keep fishing around the edges for it until he fell in.”—Lippincott’s. HOW DEBILITY SHOWS And Why Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilla Are a Specific for Dangerous Physical Declines. The symptoms of general debility vary according to the cause but weakness is always present, a tendency to perspire and fatigue easily, ringing in the ears, sometimes black spots passing before the eyes, weak back, vertigo, wakeful ness caused by inability to stop thinking, and unrefreshiug sleep. The cause of the trouble may be some drain on the system or it may be mental or physical overwork, sometimes insufficient nutri tion due to digestive disturbance. In the latter case there is generally a loss of appetite and a coated tongue as well us general languor and debility. Miss Lula M. Metzger, a stenographer living at 71 Mill street, Watertown, N.Y., suffered for over a year from general debility. “It was caused by overstudy,” sbe says, “and 1 had no ambition, didn't want to go anywhere, my food didn't taste good, I was run down, lifeless and listless. I took medicines but they failed to help me. Finally friends recom mended Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to my mother and she got some for me. I took them for some time and was entirely, cured and have had no return of the trouble.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cure debility because they actually make new, red, rich blood, and as the blood carries nourishment to all the organsamHissues of the body, nerves as well as muscles, the new blood stimulates the organs to do the work that nature expects of them and normal health follows. Not only is this treatment sufficient to cure de bility but many severe nervous disorders as well. Tlie pills are sold by all druggists, or will be sent i>ostpaid, ou receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenec tady, N. Y. Send for free diet book. NEW WHEAT LANDS IN THE CANADIAN WEST tial miles iwav this ened up a a-^ed te’rri rogreserve Western the Got. he Doin .u to give ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES FREE to every settler. THE COUNTRY HAS NO SUPERIOR Coal, wood and water in abundance: churcben and schools convenient; markets easy of access; taxes low: climate the best in the northern tem perate zone. I*aw and order prevailsevery where. For advice and information address th<; SUPERINTENDENT OF IMMIGRATION* Ottawa. Canada, or any authorized Cauadi.au Government Agent. V. V. BENNETT. 801 New York Life Beikbc. (kill, Nekraiiu.