General Davidson asked me to mail you a carbon copy of a report we left with the Committees regarding the Trans-Continental, which I herewith enclose, and beg to advise you that we furnished sworn affidavits that practically $500,000 had been expended to date.

If, what Mr. Mann saw had been all that we have done and got controll of and put money out for since the beginning of this work, it would, indeed, been even a worse showing than Mr. Mann reported. There are reasons for us permitting everything there (and sound ones) that you will not be long understanding why.

I am advised that you are suffering with the rheumatism. I am going to take the liberty to suggest to you a remedy that cured my mother, relieves me whenever I am attacked with it, and I know of as many as twenty people, some that have been almost unable to move, that have been entirely cured with it. It is known as Dr. Shoope's treatment for rheumatism. Most all leading druggists have it, and it will certainly do you no harm, if it does you no good. It's not rheumatism that I'm sick with; it is trouble with my heart. Fat growing around it. They have reduced my weight twenty pounds in the last fifteen days, and I am feeling much better.