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Show People Are Buncoed I Afflicted Answer Advertisements in Cheap Papers and Always Become Victims. Story of a Man With Heart Disease and How the Astrologer Finally Got Him. Much ur the mull distributed by Uncle Sam Is Mich worthy stull as "Comfort," ''The Fireside Journal," 'Health and Homo" and kindred publications pub-lications that aie sunt broadcast throughout the country to people who neei stibserlbe ror them and aru iievei expected to p.iv lor them. These publications contain only the rotten-est rotten-est trash so far as teadlnu matter Is concerned and are supported by imack linns tli.it h.ie no other business than to catch iKiioiant, simple-minded, gullible gul-lible pei sons and It's surprising how many of these thoioare In this country The quacks resoit to all manner of Illegitimate advertising and conscienceless schemes to bilk the trusting public, and It's safe to say thai If an answer Is sunt to one of their advertisement they will always turn It to their protit and the writer's loss soonei or later. As an example: Somo person, act u-all) u-all) oi In imagination, atlllctcd with heart disease, answers an advertisement advertise-ment guaranteeing a cure, lie is sent blanks to till out and the questions asked usually cover the history of his own life-and that of his family for at least two or three generations back. These questions are also so skillfully arranged thai the person writing them Is not only convinced thai he has an extreme ease of licail ttouble, but his own answers convince him that he must be atlllctcd In countless other ways The quack llrm receives his letter, and it is Immediately tuinyd over to doctors? Never once! It goes to one oi a hundred l a week clerks whn takes f mm a glgcon holu a reply ahead) pilnted In t)pewrlter foi in and this Is couched In such language lan-guage that it usually convinces the correspondent that the quack linn could cure leprosy In a night and ho sends his Vi for a ceitaln treatment. This treatment Is prolonged so long as the patient will let loose of Ills colt) and he Is Dually forced to the conclusion conclu-sion that he was buncoed. , The "Astrologer's Game." 1 lint being buncoed once seldom sat-Mies sat-Mies such people Perhaps one, two, or even ten )ears after, this same man receives a letter from a great i?) as trologer. who claims that he can read the gentleman's past, present and future fu-ture like an open book The gentle- men is addicted by name, and hu wondcis how tho "astrologer" got his name If he had not some peculiar power, and as he reads down the letter let-ter ho 11 nds that the astrologer" has given him free a short reading that is absolutely COItRKGTIn every detail. Ho tells him of his heart disease, of his symptoms in various other ways, tells him something about his past IITe and that of his family, etc., etc. The "astrologer" then offers to give a full and complete reading for $10, and the victim, already convinced, sends the money What docs he get in rctuin'r' All the Information that he gave that quack mcd'clne tirm while lie was being be-ing treated for heart disease! All his correspondence had been kept and with thousands of other letters of like kind were sold or rented to the "astrologer "as-trologer " So with answers to piacUcall) every advertisement In the cheaper maga-xlnesand maga-xlnesand periodicals. Young men answer an-swer certain advertisements, and dirty literature is senl them. They lead it and are convinced thai they aie on the brink of the grave or likely to soon become inmates of an insano asylum They get scared, give to these quack tirms all the secrets of their lives, and are doped up to no puipop but at great expense to the victim. just as the man with the heart disease. Theii 'confidential" letters are then sold to other quacks Cacheites Are Victims. l!ovs, glils. women and men, middle-aged middle-aged and old, arc victims Practically all who answer advertisements for cures of any disease, matrimonial notices, no-tices, home work ads, agents wanted, and such like, get victimized In- one wav or another. I lis safe to say that from Cache hundreds of letters and not a little monej go to various east ern and western quacks each )ear. Hut the victims seldom make it known that the) were imposed upon and because be-cause of their sliamo others are permitted per-mitted to get the experience. Throw awav the paper that is sent )ou free, scorn to subscribe for the cheaper publications, and then do not maku the mistake of ever answering a medical advertisement, astrologer's notice or the thousand and one similar simi-lar quackeriet, that rind their way into jour household |