The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-20
GREAT RICHES.
The Strange Effect the Sudden Possession
of Wealth Haa ON Mems Minds.

The Strange Effect the Sudden Possession
of Wealth Has ON Mems Minds.
Charles L. Wall, of Brooklyn, recently
inherited $50,0OO, and was so elated by
his good forum hat he became insane,
and is now locked up in the asylum.
The sudden possession of money seems
TO have strange effect upon some
mems minds. \ dealer in druggists
sundries was telling me, the other day,
OF a man who invented certain lotion
that attained great popularity, and
money came in so fast that he did not
know what to do with it. He spent il
as fast as he could, but it still kept IN
creaSing as the popularity of his article
increased. Then he took to drink and 10
Loading a very fast life, and finally
his mind became affected by his excuses
and he lost his reason and was locked
up in "a mad-hOuse, 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 drop of il be
found anywhere to aualyze. The money
made in patent medicines and "pro-
prietary articles" is so enormous that
one is hardly surprised that there are so
many people in the business. | heard il
estimated tho other day that nearly
things, When am article is once n success
the profit is enormous, because the cost
OF manufacture is very little. There are
men that you aud never heard of who
are worth their millions, all made
from some quack medicine that
appeals to the credulity ofcertain classes
Of the community. Most of these medi-
zines are made under assumed names.
This is for various reasons; one being
that man naturally dislikcs 10 have
mis- name associated with liver pad or
an ague pill, but he il not averSe to be-
ing made rich from the money that is
accumulated By their sale. Some of
these patent medicines are made popu-
lar by enormous advertising. | know
of one firm that spends all of $l,0MOO0
every year advertising cure-all, while
others again never advertise line. a
friend Otmine met a woman whom she
had known good many years ago,
when she was very poor, and
was surprised to see her
glistening in diamonds and rustling in
silks. She thought that she noticed an
expression OF curiosity i'm my friends
face, and she at once unburdoned herself
and told her Just how she had come by
her money. She said that her husband
when she married him, was u poor
country doctor; that there were a good
many other doctors in the same town
and that his practice was not sufficient
to pay for food and clothing. SO she
said TO him one day: "Why not get VI
some patent medicine, and see what you
can do with it," He thought the idea 4
good one, although against the code ol
medical ethics, and he set TO work and
invented some article that struck the
popular fancy. "Now," said the woman
eve are making SO much money that We
don't know what to do with 1t. We have
no children, and we just spend our time
in trying to think how we can get rio
of the money that keeps coming in every
day. We travel all over Europe, and WI
buy the finest diamonds and precious
stones and live in the most costly man
ner, but we cannot get ahead of our in
come" "ThaG is rather peculiar sensg
tiop, is it not?" my friend asked
Yes" she said, III suppose it Is; ant
strange rs it may seem, it is not u par.
ucularly happy one. don't know but
what we were happier ON nothing yea
Than we are now with an enormous
amount" This only goes IN prove what
an inexhaustible mine public sredulity
S.-lNew York Cor. Philadelphi,
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