The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-16
IOoncluded from First Paqe. ]

The new medicine, Shake & Spoons
Catholcon, is now put upon the market,
and the newspapers are heavily freighted
with recitals of its virtues. 1t is a costly
business, this, and demands a large capital
to carry it on The sales amount to moth
ing at first, and the advertising bills fall In
like leaves in Vallombrosa. Presently news
paper paragraphs begin to suggest that DR..
Bead's asthma is troublesome and growing
worse. His own religious organ shakes its
head ominousy. Things are coming TO a
very bad pass. The doctors devoted con-
gregation is filled with apprehensions. The
doctor locks badly. His rest is much dis
turbed He buys an easy chair, and has
twenty similar chairs made presents to
him. The ladies send him worked slippers
by the cart-load. The mails groan with
letters prescribing all sorts of infallble
remedies fer his affection. lie tries them
all in vain. He grows worse. DR.. Blead's
asthma becomes a sort of national disease
He is prayed for The bubble is inflated
as long as it can be without danger of burst
ing, and then, yielding to the solicitation
of friends, he tries the Catholicon. In six
weeks he is cured in three months he
gives the certificate. In six months the
Catholicon IS selling at the rate of half a
million year, aud Shake " Spoon are
coming money.
Eg uno disco oWnes DR.. Blead is pros
porous man, and after every disease that
strikes him down he rises, like Antpus, all
the fresher for the blow. He has an en-
thusiastc and profitable congregation that
pays him unquestioning devotion. lie lives
in handsome house, and his second wife,
young, rich, lively, has brought him some
handsome children. He has invested his
money iudiciously, and is already accounted
very rich. His sermons (for which he now
pays 500 each) are profitable to the book
sellers and to himself also. His eloquence
is easy, striking, imposing. His teeth are
white and sound-hc keeps them SO by
mems of Clishmaclaver's Paragon (the
certificates yielded him $4,000 He has
two of Browns Rhythmic sewing ma.
chimes in his house, which he pronounces
incompatible" (S2 800 and Chickstein
grand piano Git paid him $4,000 also.)
His lectures are in great request, For
one of them the Vertical continental rail-
way is said to have given him 500 shares
of stock and a handsome slice of its land
grant. For three line puff Of a washing
machine in another lecture he is snid to
have received $1,000 in cash. Two or
three breezy papers, of his on the import
ance OF life Insurance have yielded him an
enormous profit sentence in one OF his
sermans in praise of a particular florists
caladiums was worth $1,000 to him. In
the same way the Reverend Doctor has adj
vertised and made money by brand of
Washing soan n natent snortinr rifle a new
hair-dye, brand of 'bitters," &c.
When had gathered all these astound-
ing particulars in re ,ard to the enterprising
DR.. Blead's career, / consulted with some
of the older members of the club, and then,
in obedience to their advice, called upon
the learned doctor at his elegant residence
Mt an hour when knew he would be home.
He received me TO his ''study," library
finished in oak and furnished with much
taste and very extensively. His manner
such an affectionate kindliness that upon
my word | was half ashamed to 20 on with
my Grand But l did. laid my discov-
cries and their proofs before him, in all
their enormity He heard me without in
terruption, with grave, watchful atten-
ton, but could not see that his equan-
nifty was at all disturbed / finished by
demanding that he withdraw from the Uti-
nam club at once
"Youth is always so impeuous he
h SAID, with kindly smile-'.so unwilling to
make a few triflng concessions TO that spirit
of humbug which the experience of our sc
dater years compcls us, in frankness, to ac-
cept as one of the controlling forces of So
cietv."
81 am not here 10 argue the question with
you, Mr.. Blead; but only to give you your
choice between iesignng and being ex-
PEELED"
.t, 81 like the Utnam clrb-composed, as
it is of men IN whom, rs with me, the ear
lier illusions and enthusiasts of lie-I
cannot see why one so young, so ardent MS
you should be a member, Mr., Smith. AT
your years, 1t is impossible that you should
confess to have failed in authorship; you
have scarcely made the experiment yet.
My acquaintance among publishers is ex-
tensive and intimate. If you would intrust
me with your MSS. fora while, perhaps
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