Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-23

Charles + Wall Of Brooklyn, re
Gently Inherited $50, 600. and was 50
elated By his good fortune that he be-
came insane, and is now locked up in
an asylum The sudden possession
If money seems 70 have q strange ef-
feet upon some men. 4 dealer In
druggists sundries was telling me, the
other day. Of man who invented a
certain lotion that attained great pop
ularity, and money came in so fast
that he did aot know what do with IT,
he spesi il a. fast as he could, but it
still kept increasing as the popularity
of his article increased Then he
took to drink and tS leading very
fast life. and finally his mind became
affected by his excuses, and be lost
his reason, and was locked up IN
mad house. where he died, and what
Is more. the receipt died with him.
No one knows what il was made of,
nor can a drop If it be found any
where 10 analyZe. The money made
10 patent medicines, and ''p-oprieta-
~ articles" is 80 enormous that one
is hardly surprised that there are 50
m4ny people in the business.
heard il estimated the other day
that nearly $500, 000, 900 q year was
m ade on these things When an az
ticle is once a success the profit Is
enormous, because the cost OF manu-
facture is very little.
There are me1 that you and ! never
heard of who are worth their mil
hons, all made from some qusck
medicine that appeals TO the creduli'
~ Of certain classes of the commnni-
w. Most of these medicines are
made under assumed names This Is
for various reasons: one being that
a man dislikes 10 have his name as
ISOLATED with liver pad or ague pill,
| but be is not sverse TO being made
rich from the money that is accumu-
lated by their sale Some of these
patent medicines are made popular
by enormous advertising | know
Of one firm that spends all of { 900,
900 every year for advertising cure
all. while others again never
spend a cent A friend of mine
met a woman whom she had
known u great many wears
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 express
sion of curiosity in my friends face,
and she at once unburdened kerscli
and told her just how she had come
by her money She said that her
husband, when she married him was
a poor country doctor; that there
were good many other doctors IN
the town, and that his practice was
not sufficient to pay for food and
clothing. So she said TO him one
day:
"Why don't you get up some pa
tent medicine, and see what We will
be able to do with itr'
He thought the idea good one.
although against the code Of medical
ethics, and he set to work and in
vented some article that struck the
popular fancy. Now" said the
woman, I'VE are making SO much
money that we don't know what tn
do with it. We have no children,
and We just spend our time in trying
10 think how we can get rid of the
money that keeps coming in every
day. We travel all over Europe,
and we buy the finest diamonds and
precious stones and live in the mos:
costly manner, but We cannot get
| ahead of our income THAT is a
rather peculiar sensation, is it moi =
my friend asked. Yes" she said,
=" suppose it is; ami, strange as il
may seem, il is uot particularly
happy one. don't know but what
We were happier on nothing a yeai
than we are now on such an enor
nous amount" This only goes to
prove what an inexhaustlble mine
public credulity is.