THE DELUGE
By DAVID GRAHAM PMLLIRS, Authcr of ‘THECQSC&e
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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.
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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.