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Show Afosiartmp-The Gqrernment s Sticky Fly Ffeiper I In Nation Wide Crusade Against Quack Doctors, Use of the Mails to Defraud Is the Hammer Used Chiefly in Breaking Up Fraudulent Practice A little postage stamp is the Sticky fly paper the government has learned to use often in hunting down in" fraudulent. There is nothing noth-ing eo all powerful as the postal lervjce in snaring wrong-doers, foi It is a comparatively easy matter to catch a man who uses a postage B'.imp to praxtice fraud In the last few months the government gov-ernment ha been especially active In using the nmils to catch those ho defraud by selling remedies. While it Is admitted at the outset out-set that many of the remedies sent by mall are In reality beneficial, i1 also must he admitted that many of thfm are harmful. The public is unable to determine. It takes a. . costly laboratory -with high-salaried chemists, to analyze medb ine and test their worth The people art: unable to do that individually. Therefore the roi ernmcnt has col-unteered col-unteered to aid them. The jovfrnmint stands a a l it' brother to the people, who are un-a'de un-a'de to care fur themselves Remarkable facts about the fake medicines, which have been sold through the mails, have been discovered dis-covered by United States chemist It may be said that nearly nil of them are harmless. They also an1 manufactured with little cost, and the profits are enormous. Here is a rase In puint: Recentlv a sample of medicine was bought from a man in Snn franclseo. It was guaranteed to rure fatness Upon being analysed It was found to contain alum, which would makp the skin pucker, nnd oil. Tt was applied externally, whle the patient sat in a bathtub. The alum would pucker the skin nd the results worp remarkalde The pitlnt actually would see him-lf him-lf get thin where his skin would draw up. ty hop he sat In the wtr'' the advertisements said he could the fatness float away. The floating substance was oil in the medicine. When the dot tor learned he had been trapped by the government he fled to France. The most recent case on record I"? that of Prof Henry Samuels, who advertised extensively, spending as h'Sh as 187,000 a year. His income Wg as high as ST. 000 a week, gov-rninent gov-rninent officio Is said, although the 'xact figures wpic never introduced hi court, lie was convicted by the government. He cured anything by dropping hls remedy in the eye". He did a big 'nail order business nnd advertised everywhere. The patient would describe his symptoms. By return mall he would set a letter saying ho hal medicine which cost S5 a bottle Which could be taken for the cure, k The story of how the government proceeded against him Illustrates the methods well TH E BYE IS Tilt, W INDOW OF THE SOIL. "The eye Is the window of the BOUl," said Samuels in his advertisements, advertise-ments, if on wanted to be cured all's nil had to do was pour the medicine medi-cine in t he w Indow. A woman Six feet tall, weighing ninety-eight poundg rould become plump by pouring the water in the eye Likewise n fat woman could become sylph like. A man asking If his remedy rould equalize the length jf his leg, one of which was two incheH shorter than the other, go; a reply from Samuels that fOI $." he WOllld send a bottle of medi-Cine medi-Cine "which had baffled all scientists." scien-tists." A remedj for bow logs, flat feet xB and Ingrowing toe nails also was Old for S. " was taken as all other remedies, through "the window win-dow of the soul.- The "medicine presumably would soak through to the bowed legs, the flat feet and In- growing toe nails nnd make them all perfect. Samuels did mt waste his time claiming he could Slte t cures, lie enclosed testimonials with the letters. These testimonials testimoni-als were from every part of the country. Samuels started in business as a spectacle salesman. Then he branched Into the remedy business, claiming that In his "experiments" "experi-ments" he had discovered a wonderful won-derful cure all. The Urst time he hit a shag was In 1911 when he wanted to branch out in his business and open an office tn Kansas City MO. Prior to thut time Kansas health officials had tried to mqke a ca against him without success When he placed his "remedy" on sale In Kansas City, Dr. Cutler of the Missouri Hoard of Health, took samples to the office of Burton H. St. John, assistant city chemist at Kansas City, and had him analyse them. St. John found that the remedy consisted of salt, and sugar dissolved in hydrant wa- AT TOP William L. Reid, Postoffice inspector, in-spector, who has had charge of numerous mail fraud cases. Center U. S. District Dis-trict Attorney Daues, another anoth-er link in prosecution of cases. Below Two doctors doc-tors who have faced charges of fraud. ter. Trace were found of calcium sulphate Iron and boric acid. The city water of Wichita was known to i ontain calcium sulphate iron nnd boric acid and analysis by St John showed the medicine contained it in the same ciuantltles as water. G At K OF src;.R i SALT IN LABORATORY. Samuels was given an opportun ity tn pet out of Missouri without a prosecution. Then he went to Detroit De-troit where he opened a laboratory. He was forced to leave Detroit to escape arrest and In his laboratory the police found a sack of sugar and a sack of salt. But Samuels continued to operate In Kansas nnd from there did an enormous mall order business. The state authorities finally appealed to the T nlted Slates Government. United states postof flea Inspectors sot a trap to catrh Samuels. Postmasters Post-masters from eleven towns were instructed in-structed to write under assumed names for some of the remedy af-trr af-trr describing symptoms of some disease that did not exist All the diseases Were different, hut thf same remedy and an eye dropper was sent to each person. The labels did not show the medicine medi-cine wns all the same. It was not until government experts analyzed the eleven medicines that they found eah was the same as the other. All of the postmasters used as sumed name to disarm suspicion. When the mall came to the postoffice postof-fice the postmasters seized it and sent it to the inspectors who turned It over to Elnathan K. Nelson, chief of th essentials oils laboratory of the. bureau of chemistry under the United States Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. Nelson discovered the Ingredients were the same as St John had discovered dis-covered in Kansas City except there was no iron In the medicine. The water supply had been changed In the meantime and government - of -(b-lals explain that is the reason for the absence of iron. Nelson said the calcium sulphate and boric acid were In such small quantities as to be of no value whatever from a medicinal standpoint. After one analysis is completed It is customary to turn a quantity of tne material over to another chemist chem-ist to check the first chemist's findings. find-ings. It happened that soon after making the tests in Kansas City that St. John was given an appointment appoint-ment In the bureau of chemistry at Washington, D. C, and by chance he was assigned to check up on Nelson. Nel-son. St. John was not told he was to test the same remedy he had handled in Kansas City. In fact the government officials did not know he had ever seen the remedy before. When he had finished making his '.est he found the asme contents as before except the Iron and made his report, agreeing in every particular par-ticular with Nelson. All that remained re-mained was to arrest Samuels and try him. For the defense forty witnesses were introduced, whe testified they had been cured of various diseases. All had unbounded faith in Samuel, and illustrated the remarkable hold he had on their credulity. ine of these witnesses, a plumber plum-ber Frank Hoff. testified he had been cured of tuberculosis PATIENT CURED AFTER. BLEEDING F! E GALLONS. "You say the remedy helped you iglit days after you hnd a hemorrhage hemor-rhage of the lungs?' asked District Attornej Fred Robertson, on cross-examination cross-examination of Hoff. Yes, sir." was the reply "How much did you bleed"" i bled enough to till a sink, li by 32 inches, 2 inches deep." "You a i e sure of that ? ' know 1 did. And ejCht days ,-rtrr taking the remedy t was better bet-ter and could sleep.'' According tn Holt's testimony he Pled 1,1.53 CUbir ln hei ..f blond, whlih, reduced to gallons is not quite ne gallon. Physicians claim that death always ensues where there S a los of more than a gallon gal-lon and a half of blood no matter how robust the vb-tim of the bleeding, bleed-ing, yf. Hofr w.ts so Impressed witi the alue of the remedy, he WSJ 2 g rTxr onvlnced he had bled the five gal- ggggggfl "Was your appetite improved bbbbbbbI after taking the remedy through the LH eye?" asked Robertson. Iggggggfl "Yes, sir, I could eat shoe nails." flliggB "You are sure you could digest HLH shoe nails?" gggggga "Yee, sir; I know I could after BHgl taking the remedy." Hsgga Other witnesses made similarly HH wonderful claims as to the efficacy ggfliMH of the cures. Bffnfa After nineteen of the forty wit- HHaj nesscs were called United States IjlffiH Judge Pollock, who was presiding. ByM called n halt. He said the testimony MMB was Immaterial, as it made no dif- IffiUH ference what the witnesses thought EffijaH they were cured of. The only thing fflB that mattered was whether Dr. Sam- jjflHfij uels thought he had effected cures jgjggfiw or whether he thought there waa ftiWf" any merit In his medicines. BBsgai If he thought the medicine was k&kI valueless, he was then guilty of us- BKjEj ing the mails to defraud, the Judge wEBm held Judge Pollock instructed the lgji3 jury to make ita decision on thai IhIIf ground. HnSS One of the expert introduced by iaSHSI the government to tell of the value Plwii of adminlstetlng medioine through quIr the eye, was Dr. J. G. Dorsey, an gram eye, ear and nose expert. He testi- Tied that medicine introduced in the 'icSh eye would ha no effect on any part ISSa of the body except the eye, because Ftfircl the blood would have to absorb the !ygra medielne and carry it to the diseased part of the body. ?9jjSc Dr. Dorsey showed the medicine r ould not be transmitted by the eye. 'p':jSj A slight part of the medicine would $fjj be absorbed by the eye. Dr. Dorsey MJfr ald. Another part would wash out nnd the rest would come out as tears. None would find its way to the lungs to cure consumption and ."' none would find its way to the toes 0''k. to cure ingrowing toe nails, no mat- .?J ter how powerful it was. SyX'': ri-k-ins: the jury was no small part of the government's case. After l3;s1 ofte of the men had almost been de- Sv i Ided on as a juror it was learned a fcAv fraud order against using the mails '5tl; hs.l iiem issued against him as had imp veen Issued against gamuls. Hi was dismissed and another man wai EKLi "Professor" Samuels has an- fwv-J nonn-ed he will appeal his case. IT has until December to file his appeal. t'S He Was found Rullty on eleven ta'?' count!. The maximum renaltv in 'vf' each ease is a fine of $1,000 and five Lc'. years In prison. 5 "f ;, rtad Preere. ft-t'fi For I he purpose of establishing an- l other wild fowl refuge on the north- If' ein shore of the ulf of Mexico, the W''t& Rockefeller Foundation has purehased ftx the Grand Chehler tract contalninc Kvf; s;,.ftrui res iii the parishes of Cani- V eron and Vermlillon La . at a cost of r i approximately $225,000. An an- 1 nouncemenl to this effect was made recently by the secretary of the Foun- datlon, upon its excution of a deed ! placing the land for an Initial term if hve years under the protection of Louisiana conservation Oomntisslan. The commission, on Its side, has formally for-mally a epted the tract and has un- derlaken to protect It by game war- I dens I This vuirchase, the arrtiKmnts for which have consumed more than a year and a half, is another step in the programme to establish throughout 1 1 he winter feeding and resting grounds for birds, and along their migration routes suitable preserves where they can be protected at all times of the 1 j e 1 r and be safe from persecution. The Grand Chenier tract is full of I shallow ponds, lakes and bayous, I abounding in cover for the protection Of birds against storms It produces I an enormous natural food sufficient to provide for vast number of birds from 1 the north, which winter along the (Julf coast. The Kreat traet purchased by the Rockefeller Foundation is an integral part of the "wild life preserve sys- j tem." for which persons interested In I the welfare of birds have been work- hut for year It Is only a few miles H um .Marsh Island, purchased by Mrs. KuHsell Page for a bird refuge at a j 081 Of about $150,000. Marsh Island j was for many -.ears the greatest slaughtering ground for ducks in I North America. 1 1 I The tirand Chenier trac t and Marsh Island are a part of a preserve ot f' 500 s'liiare miles, with a frontage of t-, 75 in ilea on the Oulf Coast, which it i ' . is proposed to acquire. Included in this preserve will be the fiO.000 acres previously dedicated to wild life pres- ervatlon by E. A. Mcllhen'ny. I bLt When we were marrld ""e jfr I thought our tastes were congenial." H:' iayS she. "Well," answered he. fW- they arc. We both like to argue." ffc'-- Washington Star. F. |