THE DAILY HXAMINEK CHAXKLOT''TETOWN, DECEMBER 2, 1899

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TRUTH IN BULK.

Recent Issue of the Star Causes a sensation Among its Readers.

EMINENT MEN INVOLVED.

utable Mass of Evidence Gath- ei by a Canadian Concern Op- crating inthe United States.

(From the Toronto Star.)

startled last Saturday to see the men high in the service of the

Readers of the Star were of prominent publi

United States printed in ynnection with endorsations of a

Canadian patent remedy. Not only was it surprising that men w. . 1

of such prominence would permit their names to be used, though

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usual enough and it speaks volumes for the prep- i

he case, but that United States senators

t | > Was i tion that such was t professional men and willine to endorse a Canadiar bil ~~ i ot a ana¢ lan The people on the other side

and congressmen, prominent . , “> <6 .% States army ofticers should be rising still,

remedy is more sur oO

THE DAILY EXAMINER

DECEMBER 2, [899.

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COLONEL JONES’ OPINION.

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Lievr.~Con. Jones, of the United States

Engineers, thinks chat General White has handled himself uousually well. His at- tack at Eland la sole, which was so much

criticized at first, was @ necessary move to cover the retreat of a part of his command from Dundee—an uatenable and undesir,

able position. It is, the Colonel thinks,

doubtful if the Koglish try to force th® Boers out oO} Nat al. Rather they will, ip his opinion, d»> everything they can can to

keep them there. Iisa fatai position fo; the Boers, because it leaves them uncover- ed at their weakest point. The time iss he believes, near at hand when the grass will not grow under their feet while they are taking themselves out of that locality, eaving emall forces to defend the passes, wile they hasten to the fortifications of P,etoria. The great fighting, Colonel! Jones feels sure, will be there—unless the Boers have the wisdom to give up the un-

equal and hopeless contest beforehand.

There is, the Colonel adds, a strange parallel between these Boers and the North

American Indiane. When the greatest

( nited deposit of gold the mind of man ever

dreamed of was tuocovered in the barren Witewatersrand, the chariot of civil za-

} . 7 . . . . ‘ w : > of the border are rather noted as being oreater believers in the | rolled into their country. Rather then

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merits ol

Last Saturday the Star published a full page of testimon- ials in favor of the Canadian preparation, Dodd's Kidney Pills. f.ach one of those letters was signed by a public man—and an eminent public man—in the United States. Each of these letters was accompanied by a portrait of the writer reproduced from photographs supplied by themselves. Seldom has there! been such an exhibition of genuine gratitude to a medicine than that given Dodd’s Kidney Pills by these gentlemen. Their names are known all through the States, two of them, at least, throughout the world. Men in the eye of the public such as these men are, feel very strongly before they allow statements of opinions attached to their names to be published all over the country. They rightly feel a greater responsibility in such natters than ordinary private individuals. A public man has a reputation to sustain and from long experience considers well before he expresses himself for publication.

There were no traces of hesitation about the letters on that United States history page in last Saturday's Star how- ever, all was plain, honest and straightforward. The writers had been cured of kidney diseases by Dodd’s Kidney Pills and had the courage and independence to announce the fact in plain outspoken terms. They were not getting anything for it; some people might make slighting remarks about their names being connected with a patent medicine testimonial. But this did not interfere with what they esteemed to be their duty to fellow sufferers and but fair to the medicine that cured them. Careless of anything but the fact—that Dodd's Kidney Pills hacl cured them of kidney diseases where other medicines and treatments had failed—they gave their evidence fairly and honestly for the benefit of others.

It takes a very unselfish man to allow his name <o be associated with a patent medicine testimonial—or a man pow- erfully impressed with the merits of the preparation and un- usually grateful for the benefits derived from it. One naturally dislikes having accounts of one’s physical defects published broadcast even though there is acomplete cure attached. But there is a stage where ill-health becomes so pronounced that all pride, vanity, reserve—call it what you like—gives way. You are sick and you don’t care who knows it. The fact can’t be evaded. When a man in this condition, trying remedy after remedy in vain, at last strikes, perhaps quite unexpectedly, a medicine that cures him, he is so genuinely grateful, so filled with the joy of convalescence that he is ashamed of keeping the facts to himself.

Such, no doubt, was the condition of mind of R. A. Wade, the great criminal lawyer, of Chicago, whose testimonial ap- peared on the page under discussion. He it was who defended Pendergast, accused of murdering Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago. He is probably the best known man in his profession in the United States, having been retained in more sensational criminal cases than any other lawyer in America. He was not only cured of kidney disease, but his sight, which, owing to the attacks of that essential feature of kidney disease, uric acid, had been entirely lost, was restored by Dodd’s Kidney Pills.

Captain Bogardvs, champion rifle shot of the world, dis tinguished veteran of the Civil War, was cured of Bright's Disease by Dodd’s Kidney Pills. When it is considered that Bright's Disease used to be incurable, the feeling that prompted Captain Bogardus to give his name and testimonial for the benefit of others will be understood.

Hon. Alva Merrill, of Illinois, was cured of Rheumatism by Dodd's Kidney Pills, and thought enough of the medicine

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heir own goods than in those of other countries. g

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for just exactly what they were worth—

as people do in real republics—they have.

vain hope of stopping the great proces«

sion.

ESTEEMED EXCHANGES,

Hamilton Spectator: Foraside show Kitchener is doing pretty weli.

Toronto Mail: A Boer with a camera is the ovly kindofa Boer that can take Ladvemith.

Dundas Banner; How doth the little busy Boer improve his his shining hour, by firing cannon every day and turning all things sour.

Ottawa Journal: Kitchener’s work seems to haye got its fishing touch. Wily old @sman Digua escaped again, but he is sv old and bas now been thrashed so often tnat he will bardly count further.

Mail and Empire; It seems evident that Qom _Tom in Manitoba and Oom Paul in South Africa will meet a some- what similar fate.

Talana Hill.

Copies of the London Times with detailed descriptions of the battles ot Talana Hill (Glencoe) and Elands- laagte, long extracts trom which have already appeared in THE Examiner, are to hand. ‘They contain some ad- ditional interesting particulars of these struggles in regard to Talana Hill. For instance, the Times correspondent con- cludes his account as follows :

‘The Boers were beaten and driven from a strong position of their own choosing. Some half-dozen men stood in the laager on the nek holding a flag of truce to say the fire of the despised ‘Rooinek.’ In the meantime tugitives were streaming down the reverse of the position. Fire will never on these oc- casions stop automatically, and a smat- tering musketry sul] took place and continued on into the night. But be- fore darkness became absolute the mass of Dutch fugitives were overtaken by the 5th Lancers, kept in leash on the left for this purpose. Their work was simple, and the infantry success on the hilltop was rendered complete by a cavalry pursuit pushed home But there had been a price upon the victory. It had been said that intantry would never in the face of modern arms.be called upon to deliver an at- tack such as was made at Elandslaagte. But having done so, the price of neces- sity must be heavy. We lost in the action against Commandant Koch’s commando four officers and 37 men killed 31 officers and 175 men wound- ed and ten men missing. What the enemy’s losses were it is hard to esti- mate, as early in the day they had made arrangements to remove their killed and wounded. But a British burying party subsequently sent out trom Ladysmith interred 65 dead Boers found lying on the field alone, so that,

that cured him to recommend it above his own signature. ‘|| heartily endorse Dodd’s Kidney Pills,” says he, “to anyone! with deranged kidneys or rheumatic pain,”

Senator Busse, Representative Risum, Captain McComb, Koy heator, were among those who freely testified to the merits of Dodd’s Kidney Pilis on the United States History page, and their pictures appeared last week in the Star. This page is considered the strongest mass of evidence: ever printed in favor of a patent medicine in this country, i

with the fifty odd for which the Lancers were responsible, it will not be far wrong to estimate their losses in killed alone at 150. As forthe wound- ed, but few of these that have sur— rendered have escaped. Amongst the dead upon the field were found Leggelo, public prosecutor ; Dr. Coster Bodenstein, judicial magistrate, Krugersdorp; Mare Landorst, Boks- burg; Captain Figulus, Krugersdorp. Commandant Ben Viljoen is reported '

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to have been present, and to have died

et into their wagon and play their role}

thrown themseives under the wheels in a; Sot , annihilated or compelled to lay aown

of his wounds. Lying on the hillside were commandants Kock, Pienaar and Pretorious, Colonel Schiel, Judge Kock, De Witt Hamer, Volksraad member for Barbeston, and many other prominent Hollander and Dutch officials,

THREE HUNDRED PRISONERS,

“The British force was compelled to bivouac on the position it had won. Then began the sad and gruesome task of searching for the wounded in the dark. It was impossible to find all in the evening, but numbers were car- ried down, as were the breech blocks of the two captured guns, which accord- ing to the intelligence department,prov- ed to be the identical guns captured at Krugersdorp. ‘The reverse of the posi- tion was littered with Mausers, and for the trouble of seizing their bridles Boer ponies became individual pro- perty. Koch’s commando was com- pletely broken up. Three hundred wounded and whole prisoners remain- ed in our hands, and all the equipment of 12,00 to 14,00 men.”

A» LOST OPPORTUNITY,

Dealing with the Glencoe fight the correspondent shews that a good op- portunity was lost. He says:

‘During the last stageof the fight our guns had been moved up from their second position behind the donga to positions on the flanks of the woud and when our men emerged on the top of the hill a battery was pushed for- ward along the road to the top of the Nek. From here the Boer army was visible within easy range retreating across the open country below, and if the opportunity had been promptly seized the whole force could have been

its arm ; but there was some unfortu— nate misunderstanding about an armis- tice, and the opportunity was lost.”

50 Held 500 at Bay.

The Government of Cape Colony has made public the following addition- al details of the defence of Kuruman, the capital of the Bechuanaland pro- tectorate, which was formerly known as Moffat’s Mission Station, news of the attack on which p ace was recently received here by runner’ and telegraph. The commandant of the Boer force notified the magistrate v1 his intention to occupy the town, whereupon the latter informed him that he had orders te defend the place. The magistrate collected 20 men be- longirg to the Bechuanaland police and thirty half-castes, who entrenched themselves in the mission chapel. The

30ers, who numbered five hundred, at-

tacked them, but the British force re~ sisted and maintained their defence for six days and nights. The enemy then abandoned the attack after having lost thirty oftheir number killed and wounded,

At The Melodrama,

“I think he’s juet lovely,” said she, as the curtain fell on the first act.

“Who?” asked be,

“Why, you know. The one with lovely moustache and the blue eyes. You know. His nose is just too Roman for anything, and nis hair falls in such sweet curls ove: his forebead.”

“You wust mean that prig of a hero,” said he-

“The one the borrid dark man with the top hat is always lookicg out of the cor- nerof his eyeat. Doyou know, Ed, I believe he’s up to something |”

I shouldn’t wonder,” said Ed.

“T mean something bad. Mischief, you Enow. Can it be he’s going cheat him out of property or anything like that ?”

“It would be a surprise if he dida’t,” said Ed.

‘Maybe he wiil kill h'm,” exclaimed she in a horr.fied whisper.

“IT wish he would,” said Ed,

“If he does I shall scream,” said she.

“It’s only a play, you know,” eaid Ed

“I know,” said she. “But its awfully real, isn’t it? It makes me just wriggle when that horrid man shows his teeth like that, That poor, nice young man! Iam so nervous about him.

‘ He’]] come out al] right in the last act, never fear,” said Ed.

“I know be will. ButI’m in awful aug. pense just the same,” said she.

How would you like to enjoy a play like that, you black people? You’re too ola? Noneense, youo morbid, that’s all.

Morbidness is the result of dyspepsia, Take Docd’s Dyspepsia Tablets and get out of that slough of depression. Then you'll ficd that there’s zest in life, and even in melodramas, after all.

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Toe Montreal] Daily Star has its cwn correspondent with the Canadian contin- gent. It will have and bas had more war news than anyother paper in Canada. and you can get it for a whole year every day for one dollar. Robert L. Cotton agent, P O Box 84, Ch town.

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