The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-02
BRING ONYOUU STOMACH ACHE.
GUS KOWES. THE SILK DYER,
DISPENSEs FREE CURES.
Treats at Havcrstraw so or so People n
Nay. Colonies, Judges. All SORTS. and
Ali Free, and Believes That America
Must Be the stomach Ache Centre.

0QU y lOu EgAhA bRlA@ SNAN ~ 49, W ~
Gus Kowes. who is treating thirty or forty
people with a stomach ache each day? Gus
is all right and won't bite anybody.
HAvERsrRAw. Oct. 20. II. FIT.
A reporter for The Sun sought Gus
yesterday and found him in his Haverstraw
Office. The Office is attached to the Haver-
straw Silk Dye Works which Gus owns.
Silk dyeing is his vocation; stomachache
his recreation.
II you have troubles OF that nature
the latter take a West Shore train to
Haverstraw and fall in line on Main street.
right resting on Broadway. The line OF
march Is then east on Main street, TO Broad
way. to the railway bridge a half mile to the
north, down the path on the north side
of the bridge to the dye works. TO the office
and disband. There are no brass number
checks ISSUED to the waiting line OF patients
Is is usual in most specialists offices You
lust sit among the silk bales until your u
comes, thinking the while not Of your dis
pleased stomach but of higher things.
There Ia no Use kicking if You are COM
PEELED to wait long. because Gus doesn't
charge for advice or medicine and If you
don't like the arrangements you can take
your stomach and go.
Yesterday was a dull afternoon because
there were only two patients ahead of the
reporter. a woman from Brownsville. l.. L..
and Quo from Sugar Notch. Pa. When the
seeker for information opened the outer door
Gus hurried out from his sanctum.
"Ach. Gott, | think you was the postage
carrieri" he snapped and retired to his art.
He had been out just long enough to per-
nit one to catch a glimpse Of a stout little
man, slightly bald. who says he is 90. but
whose ruddy face and swapping brown
eyes belle his age.
"Ach, such a PUBLICITY" exclaimed Gus
when asked or inf formation after the woman
from Sugar Notch. Pa. had gone away and
assured Of relief in this her hour of Attic
ton. AT lunch they come from Ohio
that's away out west-from Kansas, from
Hackensack. from Europe by letter and
from Brownsville. Why? Because l can
cure them of kidneys, u, stomachs, of livers.
Soon as they sit dow in this Office | know
whether it is the stomachs or kidneys or
livers. You don't know how | do this,
do you? / know. Only sometimes seldom
am I wrong. The d~octors-ach!
Most is it peoples coming and writing
by postage who say. Everything / eat goes
to my stomach-oh-oh.' Like that-'oh-
s-a-oh!' l will explain with you first what
q stomach is so you will know. It's a baC,
the stomach is a small bac. and every place
all over the inside Of the lining is little
tiny squirters. So you cat something may
he, yes? 1t goes in your mouth and down
and down and down and down and then
smeck! she lands with a ploomp. Now all
the little squirters begin to squirt"
Like the fire department."
NO, you don know this like I who have
studied II. All over the eating the little
tiny squirters squirt a acid, not water like
the Fire Department, and the acid. what
does she do7 All. you don't know. yes?
l know. She falls all over the eating and
cuts and smeshes up the foods tin, poofl the
eatings is no mone~ Now thessatmgE is you.
You didn't know that, eli? But some day
the souirters they stop squirting and the
victuals stay right down there like a couple
bricks. You come TO me hen or you write
me postage and ] give you my medicine
and quick the sqlnrters squirt again and
there Is no more stomach ache.
Years and years ago when j was a boy
IN Germany l was in Como, Italy. and a
reverend who treat the poor around free
Is my friend. Once he died and on his bed
he gave me the secret of the medicine for
acute and chronic stomachs. But you
will never charge money he tell me and l
mex q promise. Never have cha rye
money. Hundreds of letters | get a day
from everybody | have cured of stomachs
and kidneys and livers and they send me
onedollar, two dollar. ten dollar, ormaybe "A
bottle of wine. Only keep the wine or the
present sometime. but the money she goes
beck. See, -letters here, row and row of
letters all marked money beck. money
beck
After 1 get the receipt from the reverend
/ put her in my tTunk and travel all Europe
over n over. Then 7 get married and
some day l get a baby. Oh, but l was
sick when l get that baby! For two weeks
lay on the bed and n day my wife she
the receipt the doctor from Bonn give me
and 60 70 the Kings drug store 10 have IL
filed. While she is gone TO the drug store
quick | think of the reverend's receipt l
get In Italy. :
The doctor from Bonn he come again
You have a cancer and we will open you
he say. And when he goes out ] smile and
take the revsrend's medicine. One, two
weeks / take IL and then the doctor from
Come in, Herr Doktor." I say, and there
I'M I sitting on the chair reading a book
and no more stomach. That doctor he go
Nine years have | been treating every
body since l come, to this country and such
a fine notices in the papers. Away out in
Chicago where you have never been | get
fine notices in the Sunday papers and my
picture. Then come more letters, and right
70 Haverstrav, too, come a Colonel, the
highest in the army, and the highest Judge
and the highest everything. And every
night l begin TO make the medicine for the
next day in my laboratory from s O'Clock
until ? and make hundreds Of pills. Some
I make In bottles wet, too, but that is the
same thing, only awful strong. When they
are almost dead OF stomachs ] give them
the wet medicine because that il so awful
strong and we must do something quick.
II is good for livers and kidneys likewise,
but not for colds. 1t don't go so high as
colds"
IL is the opinion Of Prof. Gus that all the
stomach troubles in the world are centred
In America. Tobacco Is good for the
stomach unless you chew, he says, and wine
also a splendid thing is. The postman
came during the talk and dumped "A big
bundle OF letters on the professor's desk,
dated Chattanooga, Kansas City, Dayton
and other towns In the fried ham belt
The persons whose livers needed thawing
seemed 10 be mostly from between the
Atlantic and Pittsburg. Four times u day
the postman calls with the same load, and
In every desk drawer seemingly were
bundles of "testimonials" in English, Ger
man and French, dated adj the way back TO
1875. Whether the patients liveTs needed
~thawing, or IL they suffered from acute or
chronic Kidneys, or II every thing they ate
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