The morning call., 1895-01-04
HAS NO ELIXIR.
B. Olcovich Says He Can
Prolong Life.
HE ADVERTISES IN LONDON.
But His Business Office Is in
This City.
HE ADVERTISES IN LONDON
AN INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED.
Not by Skeptical Scientists, but by
the Postal Inspector, Who Thinks
All Is Not Right.

AS one star fades In the dazzling uni
verse of research and discovery another
burns and biaZes in its stead. DR.. Brown
Sequard of France has gone into oblivion
with his elixir of lite. but B. Olcovich of
San Francisco Is scintillating in his pace.
A well-read and phil0sopbic man is b.
Olcovich. He knows that prophet is
not without honor save in his own coun-
try and among his own kin. so be has
blaZOned his discovery of method by
which life may be prolonged to the people
who dwell on the other side OF The At
lantic and has selected the columns of
1.-THE Thunderer" as the proper vehicle
for conveying the information OF his
achievement to the world. The London
Times is publishing the following adver-
tisement:
Valuable Informationi How to Prolong
Lite!! Address California Export journal,
la Sansome street, room 3, San Francisco,
California, q. S. A.
Postal Inspector Erwin. who is employed
by the Government to detect and punish
persons who use thu mails for fraudulent
purposes, obtained copy OF the Times
in which the foregoing advertisement was
published. and, while he was anxious to
do his duty in the state of life to which
Gu0 OUfoEu ulou6 udu Caileu uluis no w do
also possessed of a laudable and very COM
mon desire to know how to prolong his
days in the vale of sunshine and sorrow.
The inspector procured a city directory
and from its veraciOus pages learned that
the California Export Journal was pub
lished by Joseph and Bernard Olcovch at
124 Sansome street, and he decided to in
terview the brothers. SURPRISING as best
he could the emotions that commended in
his heart, Mr.. Erwin mounted the stairs
10 room s. and affecting calmness that he
did not possess called for the llfe-glver.
a middle-aged man, whose lips were hid
den under a heavy gray mustache, was
ushered into his presence.
81 called to obtain some information
about your method of prolonglng life
which is advertised in the London Times
he remarked.
The man with the mustache. who was
subsequently revealed as B. Olcovich,
closely scrutiniZed his visitors features,
and intimated that he was not imparting
his information for fun or charity.
"Row much ?" asked Mr.. Erwin.
Five dollars" was the reply of the dis
coverer, and then the inspector took him
using the mail for fraudulent purposes.
He also introduced himself as Govern
ment agent sent to Investigate the life
prolonger.
"Therr is nothing fraudulent about it,"
Olcovich declared. 'If people will take
the advice l give them their lives will be
heightened. Here are the circulars have
prepared to send my patrons"
The inspector read one of them and
found that tue method was nothing more
nor less than set of rules such as: Don't
get your feet wet, Don't linger in
draughty balls" ''Be temperate" ETC.
If hese rules were followed Olcoyich de-
clared life would be prolonged. and the
inspector confessed that he was right.
'IHow many people have answered that
advertisement or paid you for one of your
SETS of rules"
Not one." was the doleful reply.
"Then it is true that the worlds supply
of suckers is falling off," soliloquized
Erwin, as he left the room. The inspector
does not know what to do with Olcovich's
case, for he fails TO see how the sending of
The circulars through the mails is viola
ton of law