Show 1 charles edward sells an invention by barnson rhodes t by joseph bowles when the akstins austins are in a mood to invite confidences most men tell their troubles at once it was only the shortest time after turner the anven tor had been lunching with charles edv ard austin and hig wife lady an eela that he was engaged in a some what long account of his experiments in artificial refrigeration turner had perfected what one may describe briefly as an ice making ma chine of great efficiency turner s invention enabled one with a trifling expenditure of money and trouble to carry the e comforts of cool drinks and of healthful and fresh food everywhere this Is no longer experimental 9 inquired charles edward you can really do thise yes said turner but what I 1 don t understand con linued charles edward Is why I 1 find you saying you re down on your luck you ought to be within fifteen or twenty minutes the richest man living oh I 1 don t know murmured tur ner I 1 don t understand anything about business and I 1 thought my in ven ion would be so splendid tor the army wonderful for field hospitals said lady angela es assented turner brighten ing and so I 1 ve been trying to sell the whole thing to the government but its no good I 1 thought I 1 had better not sell my patent altogether so I 1 offered to sell the government for five years the right to make my machine tor the use of the army for and he hesitated for fifteen hundred dollars charles edward turned to the in your machine Is worth fifteen thou sand well worth it isn t it yes I 1 suppose it really is then wh pursued charles ed ward when you only ask fifteen hun dred do you expect the war depart ment will ever think it worth morea you may take it from me he went on that it you offer a thing for less than its worth no one will believe it is worth anything no one will trust it no one will believe it is genuine why I 1 dare say I 1 might go up to the capitol and offer to every one who came along charles edwaad stopped with ex tra ordinary abruptness and his eye gleamed lady agela leaned tor ward well said charles edward at length with the utmost calm to mor row upon the steps of the capitol I 1 will publicly all that I 1 have been saying and I 1 trust end in selling bour invention to the war department for a reasonable price at about 11 the next morning a western member hurrying to an ap for which he was already late descended the steps of the caal tol two at a time halt way down he was stopped by a young gentleman who had been standing contemplatively in the sun I 1 beg your pardon began the stranger in a tone at once confided con fiden bial and confident putting his hand upon the legislator arm im sorry broke in the congress man but I 1 can t give you a moment it ou want an interview come to the ebbitt house tonight about nine and ask for me that be delightful said the young man but I 1 don t know who ou are don t know who I 1 am then why the dickens have you mea I 1 wished to propose to you was the response that you should buy this twenty dollar feld piece tor five dollars 11 you buya do ou take me for a fools no naturally you wouldn t buy it at this price yo i don t believe it s good neither do the people in the war department A sou been trying to sell awen ty dollar gold pieces to them for five dollars 9 not exactly aid charles ed ward but a friend of mine has been doing what amounts to the same thing Is your friend as mad as you area he asked at last s at himself for putting the question so seriously there is more method in my mad ness you stay and watch it you ike no one will buy from me HI there joe shouted the west cm member as if in response to this A fat man with a red tuft on his chin turned and came towards them heres a good thing tor you joe continued his friend twenty dollars tor five the newcomers comment was in al most too picturesque and extravagant language yet the salesman did not seem downcast this story remarked the depre of a metropolitan journal who had just joined the crowd with care can be made a warm one would you as soon as not he asked charles edward try it once again just to let me see the gamec T might I 1 suppose was the re not too enthusiastically given well here comes somebody and she s a corker too exclaimed the journalist espying lady angela madame I 1 offer you a most unbar alleged opportunity of behaving dis freetly he would have liked to say of purchasing a five dollar gold p ece for a dollar he said instead he went no further tor the young woman clasped her hands together in an apparent ecstacy of innocence and rapture oh I 1 should just love to she said I 1 hope it is a a good thing Is ita it looka very tunny to me some how everyone stalled this then was the explanation of the young man s seeming madness I 1 ady angela again produced a gold piece and looked appealingly at the men arkind moed by chivalry and by the acne of sensation also the rushed forward to examine the coin it s a bad one madam it avei there was said a reporter with rec hail I 1 think it s horrid of him corn the young woman turning ar accusing face upon charles edward what ought I 1 to do she asked 0 tl e red haired gentleman who seemed so markedly sympathetic anest him of course and h bounded away towards the policeman emar at the top of the capitol steps at th s point he was interrupted b a stalwart blue arm laid upon his own charles edward has a generous si irit and he would be the first to ad mit that his wife 3 intervention hac given to the whole affair a publicity beyond anything to which his own un half way down he was stopped aided efforts could have attained it was a sheer delight to read the head lines member of smart new york society arrested for passing counterfeit money earl s daughter accuses husband of being blackleg As for washington the next day it did nothing less than bolt its lunch and precipitate itself upon the dingy police court where it was understood that the examination was to be held that afternoon the in the witness box of lady angela in a mauve costume of parisian Pai isian origin quieted the lage but alas the witness in the prettiest and comple test way broke down in her evidence yes she ad bitted she did buy a gold piece from her husband paying him a silver dol lar and he gave you this coin now in the possession of the policed well said lady angela just what now I 1 think of it I 1 can t be sure of at all you see I 1 put it at once into this purse and she held up a network article tor inspection there were a good many other gold coins there they ma have got mixed up then you have no idea how ou came to hae this coina I 1 cannot possibly tell replied I 1 ady angela evading the question and the necessity of lying at one and the same moment it was evident charles edward must be acquitted there it was but the judge experienced a pardonable irio sity to knew the reason of the prisoner s behavior let me tell you then cr ed charles edward enthusiastically and did so an enunciation of a great moral truth such a description of tur ner s portable ice machine as in the over heated atmosphere of the court room moved everyone at first it m be confessed the incongruity and h mor of the whole thing erp what chieffi stride the people then the representatives of the press ic gained headway as it were T irner be ng at hand was in ter viewed at length then they de scented upon the secretary secre taly of war somewhat confused that gentleman admitted that he had heard nothing of the turner machine that it wag doubtless being investigated that he would himself personally see tl at it was so investigated he had better was s put the editorial comment next day charles adwards photograph ap I 1 eared in sixteen weeklies and in tac hundred and fifteen dail es A lead ing merchant in new york put on sale the lady austin dist cloak and on the fourth day the department 0 war offered turner twenty thousand dollar for his invention |