Show yw t Charles Edward Sells an Invention l I 0 By Hal raison Rhodes 1 11 t UopyrlKht by Joseph 11 Howies When the Austins are in n mood to 1 Invlto confidences most men tell their I troubles nt once It was only tho shortest time after Turner the Inventor Inven-tor had been lunching with Charles Edward Austin and his wife Lady Angela An-gela that he was engaged In a somewhat some-what long account of his experiments In artificial refrigeration Turner had perfected what one may describe hi lolly as an Ico making ma chino of great efficiency Turners Invention enabled one with a trifling I expenditure of money and trouble to carry the inestimable comforts of cool drinks and of healthful and fresh food everywhere This Is no longer oxpoilmentnl Inquhed Chniles Edward You can really do this Yes said Turner Hut what I dont underst lid continued con-tinued Charles Edward Is why I find you saying youre down on your luck You ought to be within fifteen or twenty minutes the richest man living Oh I dont know murmured Turner Tur-ner I dont understand anything about business And I thought my Invention In-vention would be so splendid for tho armyWonderful Wonderful for Held hospitals Bald Lady Angela Yes assented Turner brightening brighten-ing and so Ive been trying to sell the whole thing to the government I lint its no good I thought I had bettor not sell my patent altogether so I offered to sell tho government for five years the right to make my machine for tho uso of tho army for nnd ho hesitated for fifteen hundred dollars Charles Edward turned to the Inventor In-ventor Your machine Is worth fifteen thousand thou-sand well worth It isnt it Yes I suppose It really Is Then why pursued Charles Edward Ed-ward when you only I ask fifteen hundred hun-dred do you expect tho war department depart-ment will ever think It worth more You may take It I from me Jio went onIhat If you offer a thing for less than Its worth no one will believe It Is wotth anything No ono will trust It no ono will believe It 1s genuine Why I dare hay I might go up to tho cupitol and offer to every one who came along Churles Edwaid stopped with extraordinary ex-traordinary abruptness and his eye geamed Lady Angela leaned forward for-ward Well said Charles Edward I at length with the utmost calm tomorrow tomor-row upon the steps of tho capital I will publicly prove all that I have just been saying and I trust end In selling your Irventlon to the war department for a reasonable pi Ice At about 11 the next moinlng a western member hurrying to an appointment ap-pointment for which ho was already late descended the steps of tho capitol capi-tol two at n time Half way down he was stopped by n young gentleman who had been standing contemplatively contemplative-ly I In the sun I beg your pardon began tho stranger in a tone ut once confidential confiden-tial and confident putting his hand upon the legislators arm Im sorry broke In tho congressman congress-man but I cant give you a moment If you want an Interview come to the Ebbltt house tonight about nine and 1 ask for me That would bo delightful said the young man Hut I dont know who you are Dont know who I am Then why the dickens have you stopped mo I wished to propose to you was the response that you should buy this twenty dollar gold piece for five dollars Will you buy Do you take me for a fool No naturally you wouldnt buy It at this price You dont believe Its good Neither do tho people In tho war department Have your been trying to sell twenty twen-ty dollar gold pieces to them for five I dollars Not exactly said Charles Edward I Ed-ward but a friend of mine has been I doing what amounts to the same thing I Is your friend as mad as you are he asked at last surprised at himself for putting the question BO seriously There Is more method In my mildness mild-ness You stay and watch If you like No ono will buy from me HI there Joe shouted tho western west-ern mwnber as It In response to this A fat man with a red tuft on his chin turned and came towards them Heres a good thing for you Joe continued his friend Twenty dollars for five Tho newcomers comment was In almost al-most too picturesque and extravagant language yet the wouldbo salesman did not seem downcast This story remarked tho representative repre-sentative of a Metropolitan journal who had just Joined the crowd with care can bo made a warm ono Would you as soon as not ho asked Charles Edward try It once again just to let me see tho game 1 might I suppose was the response re-sponse not too enthusiastically given I Well hero comes somebody and shes II corker too exclaimed the journalist espying Lady Angola I Madame I offer yon n most unparalleled unpar-alleled opportunity of behaving dla ertetly he would linvo liked to say of purchasing u live dollar geld piece for a dollar he said Instead He went nn further fill tho youm woman clasped her hands together In an nppnicnl ecHlnev of lnnnc > ace mil rnptuio Oh I should Juitt love to she said I hope 11 In na good thing ft It It looks very funny to no somehow some-how r Eviiyone Htailcd This lion I was the explanation of the young man seeming imulnes Lady Angola ngnln piuducml a gold piece nnd looked I 1 I appealing ntylht men mound Moved by chivalry and by tho love of HPiisntlon also they lushed forwaid to examine lie coin Its I a bad ono mndnm If ever them van said a reporter with rod hair I think its lion Id of him complained com-plained the young woman turning an accusing face upon Charles Kdwatd Ihf p II I r I ir k uIw Half Way Down He Was Stopper What ought I to do she asked of tho med hstired gentleman who seemed so markedly sympathetic Arrest him of course and ho bounded away towards the policeman at tho top of tho capital steps At this point ho was Interrupted tIt t-It stulvvait blue arm laid upon his own Charles Edward l linn a generous spirit and he would be the first to nd mlt that his wifes intervention hart given to tho whole affair a publicity beyond anything to which his own unaided un-aided effoits could have attained It was a sheet delight to tend thu headlines head-lines Member of Smait Now York Society Arrested for passing Counterfeit money u Earls daughter accuses husband Of being blackleg I As for Washington the next day It I did nothing less than bolt Its lunch and picclpltntc itself upon the dingy police court where it was understood that ho examination was to bo hold that afternoon < Thu appearance In the witness box of Lady Angola in a mnuvo costume of Parisian origin quieted the assemblage assemb-lage But alas the witness In the prettiest and complotest way broke down lu her evidence Yes she ad milled she did buy a gold piece from her husband paying him a sliver dollar dol-lar And he gave you this coin now Ju the possession of the police Well said Lady Angela thats Just what now I think of it I cant be sure of at all You see I put it at once Into this purse and she holdup hold-up a network article for Inspection there were a good many other gold coins there They may have got mixed up Then you have no Idea how you came to have this coin II I cannot possibly tell replied Lady Angela evading the question and the necessity of lying at one and the s same tIt t-It was evident Chnrles Edward must be acquitted There it was But the judgo experienced a pardonable curiosity to knew the reason of the prisoners behavior Let mo tell you then cried Charles Edward enthusiastically did so An enunciation of a great moral truth such a description of Turners Tur-ners portable Ice machine as In the overheated atmosphere of the court room moved everyone At first it must bo confessed till incongruity and humor of the whole thing were what chiefly struck tile people Then tho representatives ot tho press regained headway as It were Turner being at hand was In a viewed at length Then they descended U i de-scended upon the secretary of war Somewhat confused that gentleman I admitted that ho had heard nothlnp I of the Turner machine that it was doubtless being investigated that lie would himself personally see that It I was so investigated Ho had bettor was succinctly put the editorial comment everywhere next day Charles Edwards photograph appeared ap-peared In sixteen weeklies and In two hundred and fifteen dailies A leadIng lead-Ing merchant In Now York put on sale the Lady Austin Dust Cloak And on the fourth day the department ol war offered Turner twenty thousand donna for his Invention |