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tack on Christmas Day. averted trouble.
Colonel Luther X. Hare. of the Ihirty-
third infantry, who has been Ioiiowihs q
party of American prisoners, lost trach
for three days. about December Ioth' vi
such signs and evidences OF their pas
sage that they customarily lett pehino
them. 1t is thought the prisoners were
separated and conveyed to remote parts
OF the mountains, thus increasing the oii-
ficulties of General Young's troops to ell
feet a rescue.
General Wheeler, who was recent
ly in Manila requesting an appoint
ment south in the line of the expect
ed campaign, is now at Panique.
Otis Tells of Work Done.
WASHINGTON. December 29-The adjutant
general received cable message from
General Otis this morning telling OF the
capture of a mountain stronghold peyoho
Montalban. northeast Of San Mateo, ior-
merly supposed to be impregnaDie anu 'he
capture Of many prisoners and larse
quantity of arms and ammunitioh. Inc
dispatch is as follows:
Manila. December 29.-Adjutant Gener-
al, Washington: Colonel Lockett with
regiment, two battalons Forty-siXth
lColonel Schuyler, one Forty-hith lColo-
mel DorsO. and company OF lWeH.y -Scr Tn,,
eerth infantry, two guns. COO Sap,aim ,r an an
Duesen, attacked enemy QUO strong on
mountain stronghold beyond Montalpah,
northeast San Mateo. Large numper
killed and wounded twenty-four taken
prisoners. Locket captured one cannon,
forty rifles. 10000 rounds ammunition, oOo
pounds powder, arsenal fortiftcations, an
food supplies ana considerable other prop
erty. This cabtured point is located on the
mountain trail and formerly supposed 10
be impregnable. Our casualties, Lleuten-
ant Enslow. Eleventh cavalry, ana lVe
enlisted men wounded, mostly snSht.
private Matson. Forty-hfth MANY m1j,1, iy'
drowned. ollo'
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The he--tv i king ulau who thrIups
sis chest and sa~ hes s,and as 4 dollar,
siues ~; take into consideration the ca
t---l- which boilers hun occasionally.
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"Ohi every
body has
more or less
cltarrh.
That's moth
ing" lie says
Bat lie is mis-
taken. What
begins in Ca
tarrh NAV
end IN coll
sumption. n. It
Is a foul dis
case at its
best and af.-
tai disease at
its W st
when II in
wolves the
lung tissues.
For cataTrh
and for dis
eases of the
throat and
lungs in gen.
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To Cure n Cold IN One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund money if it fails 10 cure.
25c. H.. w. Groves sig. Is on each box.
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NEWS FROM AFRICA NOT GOOD.

London January LIN the absence OF
confirmation of tho reported scrtie from
Iadysmlth. that story is discredsied- No
such hnneFtsl view can h. taken as the
Rocr account of the MafekinE scrue
seems To- convey. M word regarding any
such movement has yst arrived from
British sources and the feeling ot sns-
pens Is deepening. as q = feared Colo
mel RaIru-PsweII's silence indicates that
his POSITION IS becoming desperate.
The dispatches from the front
breathe a confident spirit, which is
by no means echoed here.
The lates- Ladysmith advices
show that the Boer shelling is be-
coming deadly, while sickness and
ennui must also be telling strongly
upon the garrison
Ths news NJ the spread % n rebellion
among the Dutch coIoaIsts and ~ the
attempts 81 Rocrs In cut the railway at
widely different points Is very d.sluicsing
as bearing uron the safety OF the ex-
tended lines ~ communication
An tho corr srou,leut- are h7Cinuing 70
hint nj q forward movement IN the part
cf General Butler. the dancer 81 which
f. fr.,lira-ed in a dispatch tn Ihe I..-ly
sreIeErarh from Frcrc recording the un-
fortunate. failure of two re7,nuu1i~siI iI'csas-
In Ou- case the B1.r lines AZ C"ltnso
We're to have been hornhagied by night
Mounted men drew the Boer fre. and II
was int.uiie,s that the naval guns should
lombard This. however. IN" iactcr fali-
a L. do. "v5nG to SOME misunceTs,-lI'd-
fuc. and the. accommodating party was
comrrIletl 10 founder back - camp
thrnu-h the Wet ami stormy nishi, march
fus- In Iutsi aud water with the greatest
discomfort
According to the same correspondent
Similar fate awaited another rec"nn'ais-
au.ss IN the opposite direction
Two detachments," says the els
patch. lest their way in the dark
ness. They were unable TO effect
junction for attack, they stumbled
into water holes and We're out all
night, only to return drenched and
disappointed N the morning"
II is roughly estimated that there are
.50u Beers between Lniysmith and Co
Isrlsn. snrrlr - being oI the south side
Cf the Tu,.la river - au points The
enemy shows rsas-icss activity
\ --rr number uf Au1er.-'sif,s are SAID
o. D.. finding th.-r wav s1-o The various
volunteer r, =imerts being RAISED ia Cape
Colony IL IS n.sr reported thil many
Africans are arriving - I'"1ts"a htt'
haviuz- t,eu expelled from the rand be
s-at@c they Eg4 r,fusel q" work the Jo-
hann,saur.- mines for the government
British Destroy Cannon.
I.onIpu- j. crns.-- sI--A dispatch TO
The Daily 2f4l frssu Lorenzo Marques
dated Drs. mLer -'th. says
1T s. r.r..rts,I from Ia..ysmIth. hv way
al Pretoria that tie British are destroy
.uG tLcir heavy c-Huuu. prior L. a ina!
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How To Use Coffee Without Its
Hurting You.

The aromatic oil and Tannic acid in
coffee Is what Gisagrees with the stom-
ach and produces nervousness. These OBJ
jectiOnabe ingredients only give flavor
10 the coffee and have nothing no do with
its stimulating and cXhilarating effect.
Groves Concentrated Coffee Tablets
contain I'm "a concentrated form all the ac-
tive principles of coffee without the two
Objectionable ingredients which irritate
the stomach thus producing Sour Stom-
ach. Dyspepsia and Nervousness. Use
these tablets in place Of coffee and these
troubles will disappear.
Believing that when tried every coffee
ard tea drinker will not only continue to
use these tablets. but will recommend
them to their friends. We have decided
to introduce them by sending for 30 days
a 25c package free by mail 10 any one
who will write for them. Address the
Paris Medicine Co. st. Louis, Mo.
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IAN things must have an end" says
the proverb maker. Yes. and all things
that have an end must have two.
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Beers Retire to ColesbuTg.

London J1ruary The war oiiice p;ll-
fishes tls s5=-ltch datei yesterday
from the general o.iicer commanding at
Care T-a~n- .Llc-hu-u-s position IS un-
CHANGED French reports -alt thc B0ers.
fearing their vpmmuuicatiun would be
CUT hy alr c----IN- l.lys -e-.Lcd So Coles
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burg. Hear unofficially from Sterk-
stroom that a British reconnaissance.
seven miles north of Dordrecht. engaged
superior forces and was obliged To retire
on Dordrecht." y
Farmers Join the Beers.
London. January 1.-The Daily Mail pub
lishes the following dispatch from Cape
Town: "Ninety-five per cent OF the
Bechuana farmers IN the Nryburg dis
trict Joined the Beers. helping them to
loot the stores throughout the country
north or Orange river. They also under.
took TO invest MafelSing while General
C,ronie's men went south TO meet Lord
Metnuen. Government OF Bechuanaland
Is being administered as IL the Dutch had
been in possession for ages.
Eoers Bombard I.adysmith.
Ion6on- January 1.-The following hello
yranh message has been received by way
OF Weenen from Ladysmith' dated we'd
nesday. December 9TH:
..Tbe Roers are actively bombarding the
town one shell struck the Devonshire
moss tent killing Captain Dalzel ana
~ornding seven lieutenants-Dent. Twiss,
Trincham. Caffyn. Byrne. SCARE aid
Kane"
A later dispatch from Ladysmith by
way of ween,/. dated Friday. Deeem-
ber 18th. says:
"au well. The Beers have been firing
and the compliments CT the season. iney
are s;.Il fortifyiIs their positions, ana are
evidently determined TO make hrni
stand.'
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RODS for treasure seekers. guaranteed: circular
free. Texas Rod Co, Box 1s+. Dallas, Tex
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STRAWBERRY GROWERS

Should send for handsomely illustrated pamph-
let to W. L. Glessner. Commissioner OF ImIni-
grafton Macon. Ca
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Captain Nayson. same dato. attacked
IN mountains near Sulig, one man miss
ing. OllS.
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A Funny Shoplifting Story.

Paris correspondent Pail Mall Gazette: A
shop thief was CAPTURED recently at the Bon
Marche in circumstances that in all probability
are unique. One of the private detectives in
the pay Of the establishment noticed a man
who, with the most barefaced efrontery was
appropriating articles Of every description. The
individual, indeed, seemed to make little or no
attempt to keep his operations secret; he sim
ply walked from counter to counter and filed
his pockets with whatever attracted his fancy
In spite of the strangeness of the mans pro-
have him arrested and he was given into Gus
tody. His indignation was extreme He pro-
tested that it was most unjust that he should
be interfered with in this way when other
people who were behaving in exactly the same
manner were left unmolested, and he pointed
to a stout gentleman of most respectable APP
pearance who he asserted had been laying his
hands on all sorts of goods without resortine
to the formality of paying for them. The DO
1iceman to whom he had been given in charge
had been accustomed to listening to uncon-
vincing explanations, and took his prisoner to
the station A few minutes later the stout
gentleman, also in the care of a policeman ar
rived at the same destination. The detective,
whose curiosity had been aroused, had watched
the parsonage and had found it to be true that
utmost dexterity. After short investigation
he was recognized to be an expert and notori.
Gus shoplifter, whereas the prisoner first ar
rested proved to be lunatic but recently dis
charged from asylum, whose mania took
the form Of initiating any person whose might
happen to strike him. The professional thief
was beside himself with rage at what he de-
scribed as the bad luck of getting into trouble
through the yaearies of a mailman. ~
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doctors. They prescribed no drugs.
was all a puzzle to them.

doctors. They prescribed no drugs. It
was all a puzzle to them. $50
3. .tWhen the eleventh died we despaired
of ever raising ore. Finally a friend
said he believed our children were suf-
fering under some spell We did not be-
neve in any witchcraft. We are Chris
tan people We were willing to try any.
thing to keep our little ones. Il l.
eve were told Of two pow-wow doc
tors, men, and sent for them one at a
time Both said that a certain woman
was taking the lives Of our babies by a
SPELL but they mentioned no name. 50
1--WE agreed, when one of these witch
doctors said he could help us, TO let hin
20 ahead When our twelfth child was
born and seemed to be failing the witch
doctor brought a piece of muslin and 6
needle with thread. He had what he
said was the Seventh Book of Moses 8
pen and red ink. He looked at the SICK
child, blew over Its shrnnken arms an6
limbs. waved his arms, said a, prayer
then copied from the book on slip OF
paper, using his red ink: Il # . +
"Trotterhead, I forbid thee my house
and premises. I forbid thee my house
and COW stable I forbid thee my bed
stead, that thou mayst not breathe upo1
me- Breathe into some other house I'M
til thou hast assembled every hill, unit
thou hast counted every fence post, ant
until thou hast crossed every water, ani
thus dear day may come again into my
house. . ..= y. * II.
HE put this writing into small mus
lin bag, which he made with his own
hands, and hung it at the head of the
cradle, and from that very moment the
child began to improve. Our little Mabe
is now five years old. She, is bright anc
happy child. After the powwow man ha6
left the cradle her cough went away, hel
food did her good, she slept better.
Our thirteenth child was taken sick
in the same way, but the man who at
tended MabeIs case was gone, so we haG
to find another man who possessed the
power. We had three for our three chill
dren who still live. Strange to say, every
one told we should mot accept any
gift from anybody. and of course We
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obeyed instructions to the letter. Our re.
naming children did not die like the 9TH
ers, and yet they had the same 'aff1ictior
after a week or month of excellent
health
Many of the witch doctors are ole
women who have picked up various for
mulas and charms in the course of thei,
lives, and who practice only upon thei,
relatives and friends. These it is diff.
cult to- reach through the law, but those
who have a more extended practice may
be prosecuted. Curiously enough, Penn.
sylvania has upon it's statute books to-day
a law expressly relating to witch doctors
and forbidding them to practice. One sec.
ton of the act reads: w..
Amy person who shall pretend for gain
or lucre, to predict future events, by
cards, tokens, the inspection of the head
or hands of any person, or by any ones
age, or by consulting the heavenly bodies;
or who shall for gain or 1ucre pretend to
effect any purpose by spells, charms, ne
cromancy or incarnation, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, punishable by any court
Of quarter sessions in this commonwealth
with fine and imprisonment or both or
OA|AiSA, a. SuS ulSCISlIOi VI Tile court. L he
first offence shall be punished with not
more than two years imprisonment nor
less than fifteen days, and a fine of not
more than 500 nor less than $40; the sec
ond offence with any term of imprison-
ment and fine not exceeding five4years. OF
$500. as the court may deem proper
: Another section of the same act has this
to say: on .love powders ANY person
or persons who shall advise the taking Or
administration of what are commonly
called love powders or portions, or who
shall prepare the same to be taken or adj
ministered, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor, and shall be punished as is pre-
scribed by section one
Another section Of the act makes it a
to pretend, for gain or lucre,
to be able to. tell people how to recover
stolen property, stop bad luck, give good
luck to persons OF animals, to injure
health, shorten life give success in bust
ness, lottery or SPECULATION: to win the
affections for marriage or seduction,
where to dig or search for gold or valu-
ables; etc. This is punishable under the
this ait, and any person who
has consulted q person pretending to be
able to do these things shall be q com
petent witness.
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S A T o r
A r E P o
T E N E r
O P E r A.
r q n G

The charms vary greatly in form, Mosl
OF them contain some such written forms
as the one quoted, and some have also the
claws or hairs of certain animals, bits of
herbs or other harmless substances,
unfortunately, it is impossible to reach
some of the impostors who practise on the
superstition of their patients" continued
DR.. Bertnlet, "for the reason that they
have been able to get behind the law. OF
course they do not openly avow them
selves witch doctors except to patients
who are likely to believe in such super
stition. For their other patients they pre-
scribe simply herb remedies or other
preparations of their own, which are
usually, though not always. harmless.
Some years ago law was passed by
the state legislature compelling all ply
sicians to register This law provided
that those who had been practising for a
certain number of years, even though not
graduates of a medical college, could
register as practising physicians Of
course these fellows who had been pre-
scribing for years made use of this loop
hole and rushed to the prothonotary's
office to register on YEARS of practice
Thereafter they paraded under the title
of doctor OF course the law does not
permit this sort of thing now, but a
good many who got in under this guise
are still in practice, while others, without
even this justification are practising more
or less quietly in violation of the law
Why, l was called some years ago in the
case of woman at White Bear, in Ches-
ter county, who was in an anaemic con-
ditian, and who had been attended by one
OF these men, registered under the law on
years of practice He had prescribed
some powders. After examining one of
these I touched a match to it., Whit!
Bang!' It went off in sharp explosion
1t was gunpowder." r.
I visited number of witch Doctors
and "pow-po physicians in and about
Reading. 1t is not difficult to find them.
for the knowledge of their practice is
pretty general Some of them dislike the
attention that they have been receiving,
and deny that they prescribe treatment
been directed as the most prominent of
the class declared that he had never
doctored for witches. However. as I had
previously talked with others who had
evidence of such practice in the shape of
charms that he had prescribed, was not
as greatly impressed by his denial as
might otherwise have been.
He was an old man who looked, from
his general proportions and the style OF
chin whiskers which he. affected, as
though he might be q near relative Of
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1t seems strange that such law as
this should be needed in any part of the
world at the present day. But, as have
shown, there is plenty of evidence TO be
had within the State of Pennsylvania that
this law is being violated. We may get
be treated to $the strange spectacle OF
witchcraft trials at the end of the nine
teenth century. -Jr ri. ..,.:a Il .a..'.s
DR.. Bertolet makes the following signed
statement: e.: a~---.. s---s ST. z a. TX
II have in my possession convincing evil
dence that a widespread belief in. witch
craft still exists in this locality. This evil
dence consists of charms which ] have
taken from the persons OF: patients whom
I have. been called to attend and the
statements of those who have employed
the so-called witch doctors. A few weeks
/ ago I became acquainted with the cases
of two women on whom a commission in
lunacy was appointed, and who are now III
asylum The testimony plainly showed
that they were victims of the nonsense
preached by the witch doctors. 2
1.-THE first charm that T found 1 came
across about two years ago. In making
an examination of the patients chest I
found something beneath the undergar-
ment. On asking her what it was I was
told: The witch doctor placed that on my
|, chest, saying it would drive, away all my
ailments into the body Of him or her who
was haunting me-. When I removed the
charm and placed it in my pocket the
woman was Mortified, and said: L would
not carry that charm in my pocket for
one minute if I were you. 1t will bring
the spell upon you
"a few months ago was consulted by
a young man who seemed to be on the
verge of becoming maniac. He had con-
suited a female witch doctor, who told
him Tat he had Dcc1 Dewitcned oy a
young woman, who had held penny in
her mouth when he visited her. The
witch doctor predicted that he would pass
into consumption and die within a few
months.
This statement threw the young man
into a condition of acute melancholia. He
consulted another witch doctor. who gave
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The MOSQUITO.

writer in the Philadelphia Times, VIII; has
been looking UP the record OF the mosquito fl
natural history, has conce to the conclusion
that it is very useless insect. Here is the
result Of his Investigation: "Just why the
mosquito bites people is not yet krnwu. It
lis not to furnish it food. for it is established
fact that mosquito. after goraing himself
with human blood, dies within q few hours:
whereas mosquitoes that have never tasted
blood have been known 10 live very ccn-
fortably even through the entir. winter and
into the next season. The adult mosquito doea
not need food. During its larva stage it has
stored up enough nol-ishment TO last all its
life, and it il 2 normal state for it tc go with
out food fer the rest of its existence. All that
it needs is moist air, adult mosquitoes being
known to K.sss the winter in damp cellars, liy-
ing on nothing but the moisture. The fact
that it is estimator that only one out Of
10000 ever tastes human blood also proves that
it is not necessary. Why it persists in tortur-
ing MANKIND, therefore has not yet been
fond OF, and scientists can only swear soft
" with the rest of mankind and make the
general statement that the mosquito is horn
with yitiatei appetite for human gore-an
appetite that causes the death of the In
GuIger." -
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Dom Paul lie certainty Would never nave
been picked out of a crowd as being a
physician. It did not require a long con-
versation to reveal the fact that his
medical knowledge was an unusual as his
personal appearance indicated. Some
idea of it's extent may be gathered from
a testimonial which he proudly exhibited
to me. II ''r7
This testimonial was a bona fde state
ment from a young woman whom he had
treated, as discovered on investigation.
It set forth the fact that the writer at
one time had lost all control of her nerves
and suffered from "spasms" almost every
day. She consulted other physicians in
vain, and at length called in this partlcu-
lar one, who pronounced her trouble
electric magnetism q quote from the
test1moniaD, land after three months Of
his treatment I was completely cured"
The method of the cure is not detailed,
but it would doubtless be interesting to
Others, If any there be, who are afflicted
with electric magnetism - Z. - 49,
Another man on whom called, and who
had been recommended to me as a most
efficient pow-wow physician, was more
frank. This was DR.. Jacob Brown, an
other aged gentleman of German extrac-
ton. When I broac hed the subject to him
he said:~
''The Bible tells us that Christ cast
out evil spirits. If we believe the Bible,
we must believe that, and why should
not such spirits exist now as we'll as
then?"
DR.. Brown appeared to me to be per-
fectly honest In all that he said, which
is more than can be recorded of some of
the others. A well known resident Of
Reading told me that he knew Of many
cures which he had effected. One Of the
diseases that this citizen has seen treated
the doctor called ''wildfire'' It was an
eruption Of the skin, apparently similar
to ringworn1. 1t had been treated: by
moving a shovel containing live Goals
about the patients head, the operator at
the same time repeating certain FORMS
The usual pow-wow treatment is to blow
upon the affected parts, repeating forms
Of incarnation intended to drive away the
evil spirits. In connection with this treat
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him a charm intended to break the spell
upon him. When he visited me his mental
condition was really alarming. He be-
lieved that he was afflicted with con-
sumption. There was nothing really the
matter with him. SO far as his physical
health was concerned, but he was in a
fair way to become an inmate of an in
sane asylum. There is no doubt that the
practice Of the witch doctors has resulted
in the sacrifice of lives that might have
been saved by prompt medical attend
ance.' /