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for a course of lessons in some newly dis- 

 covered occult art. We can readily imagine 

 that ignorant people in Jamaica might send 

 money; but it is a mystery to me how there 

 can be people here in the United States who 

 would be caught by such senseless false- 

 hoods. 

 Here is another in the same line: 



Mr. A. I. Root:— My attention has more than once 

 been called to the inclosed advertisement by the sick 

 and dying. I was po urgred recently to write for the 

 book that I did so. His promise of no money is alluring 

 to the poor and suffeiing- Please note the reply. It 

 seems to me any thing b t a. free matter after you write 

 to them. I have never taken up any thing of this kind. 

 I may not understand them, but it seems to me an out- 

 rageous thing. You have done much good through your 

 valuable periodical by exposing such, and I thought you 

 might see this in the light of a fraud, and do something 

 to warn the credulous. 



Yo r expo.^ure of a party recently has brought out 

 gratifying expi essions. Miss L. E. Spalding. 



Brooklyn, Conn., June 16. 



With the above came a double-column ad- 

 vertisement. Let me quote some of the 

 concluding words: 



"Do you mean that any one can accept this offer?" 



" I mean it for any one who is ill. from any cause, and 

 who feels that the doctors do not understand the case, or 

 who does not want to pay doctoi-s' and druggists' bills." I 



"But how about those at a distance— can you cure . 

 them too?" j 



"Just as easily and just as surely as though they 

 came to my office. Whether they live one or a thousand 

 miles away, it's all the same. A letter to me does just 

 as much good as a personal visit." [No doubt. — Ed.] 



" And they do not have to inclose any money ?" 



" Not a single cent. Simply write to me and ask to be 

 cured." 



" But it seems strange " 



"Strange or not. I mean just what I say. as any one 

 can find out by writing to me." 



The lady sent for the wonderful book; but 

 not withstanding the strong and explicit 

 language the professor wanted $5.00 before 

 he would commence a month's treatment 

 with his wonderful " vito-opathy. " He said 

 the regular price was $25.00; but as there 

 were so many suffering people who could 

 not scrape up the above sum, he and those 

 associated with him had, out of the kind- 

 ness of their hearts (?), reduced their 

 price to only $5.00 ; and although there 

 was a great mass of literature sent along 

 with it, with affidavits from the bank, and 

 from people who had been cured, there was 

 not a word of explanation or apology for 

 wanting $5.00 for the secret when the news- 

 paper advertisement said so plainly it was 

 absolutely /ree. He tells the same old story 

 of how the government of the United States 

 had investigated in regard to his wonderful 

 hypnotic power, and was "astounded." By 

 the way. that word makes me think of the 

 United States Senators who were "astound- 

 ed " in regard to the wonderful goodness (?) 

 of the new whisky. And then some big man 

 at the "Institute of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons," at Rochester, N. Y., in an address 

 called attention to the wonderful success of 

 this particular professor's distant treatment. 

 It is a little funny that a medical institute 

 should indorse distant treatment when the 

 best doctors the world affords have so much 

 trouble in curing people when they are close 

 by their patients, not only every day in the 

 week, but sometimes several times a day. 



Now, ridiculous as this whole business is 

 from beginning to end, these quacks must 

 find people who believe their senseless false- 

 hoods or they certainly would not keep pay- 

 ing for double-column advertisements in our 

 home papers. 



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