Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-05

Ns1r lOrk LITTER
Charles +. Wall. of BROOKLYN, recently
inherited $50 900, and was so elated by his
good fortune that he became insane, and is
COW locked up IN the asylum. The sudden
possession ofmoney seems to have a strange
effect upon some mems minds A dealer
in druggists sundries was telling me the
other daY of a man who invented a certain
lotion that attained great popularity. and
money came in so fast that he did not
know what 10 do with it. He spent it as
fast as he could but it still kept increasing
as the popularity of his article increased
Then he took to drink and to leading very
fast life, and finally his mind became affect
ed by his exces es, and he lost his reason
and was locked up in madhouse, where he
died, and, what is more, the receipt OF his
lotion died with him. No one knows what
it was made OF, nor can a drop Of it be
found anywhere to snalyze. The money
made in patent medicines and proprietary
articles is so enormous that one is hardly
surprised that there are so many people In
the business. heard it estimated the other
dsy that nearly 500, 100000 year was
made in these things. When an article IS
once a success the profit Is enormous De-
cause the cost of manufacture is very little
There are men that you and | never heard
of who are worth their millions, all made
from some quack medicine that appeals to
the creduity of certain classes of the COM
munity. Most Of these medicines are made
under assumed names This is for various
reasons: one being that a man naturally
dishkes 10 have his name associated with a
liver pad or an ague pill, but he is not
ayerse to being made rich from the money
that is accumulated by their sale. Some Of
these patent medicines are made popular
BY enormous advertising. | know of one
firm that spends all Of 81 900 900 every year
advertising cureall, while others again
never advertise line. A friend of mine
met a woman whom she had known good
many years ago, when she was very poor
and was surprised to see her gistening in
diamonds aud rustling in silks. She thought
that she noticed an expression Of curiosity
in my friends face and she at once I'M
burdened herself and told her Just how she
had come BY her money. She said that her
husband, when she married him, was
poor country doctor; that there was good
many other doctors in the same town and
that his prs tice was not sufficient to paw
for TODD and clothings 80 she said to him
one day Why not get up some patent med
icine and see what you can do with itY
He thought the idea q good one, al
though against the code of medical ethics,
and he set to work and invented some article
that struck the popular fancy. Now. said
the woman I'VE are making somuch money
that we don't know what TO do with it. We
have no children. and we Just spend our
time in trying to think how we can get rid
Of the money that keeps coming in every
day. We travel al over Europe, and we
buy the finest diamonds and precious stones
and live in the most costly manner, but we
cannot get ahead of our income" That
is a rather peculiar sensation, is it notY'
nv friend asked. Yes" she said; al sup
pose it Isl and strange as it may seem, 1t is
not a particularly happy one | don't
know but what we were hapl Ter on nothing
year than we are now with such an enor-
nous amount.
This only goes TO prove what an mex
haustible mine public creduHty is.