The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-12

for the lady herself and one for her maid. The
winter season at this favorite resort for chest
complaint was just commencing, and persons
in all stages of consumption were eagerly
hooking to 1t. However, Matilda Forteecue,
nee Sarlin, was just in time to secure one of
the handsomest suites In the hotel, and by the
time every nook and Granny are filled, behold
her and her maid comfortably settled down
in their new quarters
Now Matilda, being a very handsome girl,
and well educated to boot, was soon well
known to all the gay people in the hotel
She danced and sang, and tobogganed and
flirted with such hearty good will and en-
joyment that che soon became universal
favorite. The men Wed with each other in
appropriating her, and the women showed
sufficient envy to satisfy much more hardly
pleased damsel than Matilda. Indeed, she
found herself enjoying life so amazingly that
she was tempted to forget the business part
of her expedition. She was, however, reused
from her FOOLS paradise by q letter from her
father, complaining that, although six weeks
had elapsed since her departure, not single
application had been received for one of the
guinea boxes of pills. Then she realized that
she must set herself seriously to work to carry
out the audacious scheme which she and her
father had agreed upon. From that day her
hitherto robust health appeared to flag. Con-.
stantly she complained to her partners that
she was too tired to dance. She left her food
untasted at the dinner-table, although it must
be admitted she made up for this self-denial
in the privacy OF her own apartments In
fine. 1t began to be whispered about that the
handsome Miss Fortescue was far from being
as strong and healthy as her blooming ap-
pearance would lead people to suppose.
The inhabitants of the Spitz Hotel, there
fore, were more or less prepared for the start
ling news, one morning about week later,
that the universal favorite was stricken down
with terribly sudden pulmonary attack The.
doctor who had been called in went about
with very grave face, and 1t got whispered
abroad that, never in his large experience had
he witnessed SO sudden and utter collapse.
After two or three days the symptoms became
so alarming that he called in an eminent
physician who was wintering in the place. in
consultation, and, as a result, Informed
Matilda's maid that Miss Fortescues relations
ought to be summoned. He confessed to one
or two of his intimates that the case was most
serious, and, he believed, could have but one
termination, and that in the near future
The gaiety of the hotel was eclipsed The
sensation caused by one SO beautiful, and,
apparently, healthy, being struck down in
this terrible way, was profound; and when
at the end of week, the doctors said that
she was actually sinking, people moved about
voices above whisper.
The next morning every one was prepared
Tor the worst news; but what was their aston
fshrnent day or two later to see Matilda,
beaming, smiling and beautifully healthy as
ever, in her ordinary place at table dhote At
first her friends hardly dared to approach her.
and, when they did, they carefully avoided
the subject of heri illness. After while, how
ever, this shyness wore off. and congratula-
tions poured in upon her, and then was made
E Snown wonderful and ,perplexing thing.
She declared-and in this she was supported
by the testimony of the doctors-that day or
two before she had been to all appearances in
the extremity of death That, when informed
OF her precarious state, the truth of which, in
deed, her own sensations confirmed, she had
suddenly remembered that she had, before
starting abroad, been attracted by strange
advertisement of q new and marvellous remedy
for consumption. That she had, in an inspir-
ed moment, purchased a box of these pills for
the amazing price of one guinea That, in de-
spatr, she had, according to the directions on
the box. hidden her maid administer six to
her, at intervals of one hour, and that as a re-
suit, she had risen within forty-eigkt hours
with every symptom gone, and not trace of
weakness left by her apparently exhausting
attack.
The effect upon the phthisical population of
San Ritzma Bad may be imagined. Every one
clamored for the address Of the inventor of
this marvellous remedy, and two days after
Bellerophon Sartin received fifty orders for
pills, varying from one box to half dozen.
With each box he sent half dozen handbills
In the following terms, printed on rainbow
hued papers:
SARTIN'S ANTI-TUBERCLE!!!
Query-Is Consumption Durable?
AnslUer-Yes.
TRY SARTINS ANTI-TUBERCLE PILLS.
ONE GUINEA A BOX.
These, naturally, were sown broadcast, and
with them the story of Miss Fortescuc's
wonderful recovery, with the result that, by
the end of a month Bellerophon Sartin had
sold over two thousand boxes of this harmless
pill at profit of at least 81 $50.
Having thus successfully opened the cam
paign, Matilda thought it wiser to seek fresh
fields and pastures new, especially as there
had been more than one very evident failure
In the efficacy of the remedy which she had
been the innocent cause of advertising Pack
Ing up her traps, therefore, she and her maid
started OIL to that group of islands in the
South Pacific, called the Sherry Isles, to
which every year thousands of consumptive
patients are sent by the most eminent physi-
clans. Here the very same programme was
gone through, and with even greater results,
so that Bellerophon had his work cut out to
keep pace with the orders which arrived by
every mail. He wrote to Matilda that he had
opened an account at the leading bank, and
that, finding it necessary to give up the whole
OF his house to the manufacture of the pills,
he had taken another in the best part of the
town; that they now employed two maids, and
that he always went about in silk hat on
week days.
This was, OF courses all very gratifying to
his adventurous daughter, and she was en-
eouraged to continue her exploits on the
French littoral-indeed, wherever the fiend
tuberculosis collects its innumerable victims.
at the end of six months her father wrote
that such had been his success he thought
she might very well rest from her labors and
come home and taste the pleasures of hand