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ABIMELECH
THE BLOODY
A STORY OF THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES
IN ISRAEL
By the “Highway and Byway” Preacher
(Copy fight, iw;, by tha Author, W. 8. Edson.)
Scripture Text: — Judges, chap
ter 9.
| SERMONETTE. *
£ In this story of Abimelech we £
£ have a striking illustration of £
£ the evils resultant from the *
£ polygamous marriage practices £
T v/hich had grown up in Israel £
£ through the contaminating in- £
£ fluences of the heathen nations £
£ al-out. £
J Envy, jealousy, hatred found £
£ rich soil in which grow, and £
X the awful crime which the vil- £
£ lain of our story committed is £
X but the natural fruitage of such £
J seed. It was but natural that £
4. the sons of different mothers £
£ shculd be at variance with one £
♦j. another; especially so with Ab- £
£ ihiclech, who was evidently £
£ laqked down upon and despised £
£ by the other 70 sons whose £
❖ mothers walked in a higher so- £
£ cial and moral sphere than did £
£ the mother of the former. £
£ How much of the evil of the X
£ world enters through the door £
X of the home. If its atmosphere X
£ is not pure and clean; if the £
£ sacred relationship of husband X
£ and wife are lightly considered; £
£ if the social and business cares X
X an d tbe pursuit of pleasure are £
£ allowed to absorb one’s thought £
£ and time and sap the vitality of £
the home life, what can be ex- £
X PO -ed of the young men and X
£ young women who are reared £
£ in juch homes? £
£ We have not the polygamy of £
£ the long ago as a canker in the £
£ moral life of the nation, but £
£ have we not something which X
•> is more insidious and more dan- £
J* gerous, the growing divorce X
evil? God pity the nation whose £
* home life becomes tainted £
£ with moral decay and irre- £
£ Hgicn. X
Again in this story of Abime- £
£ lech we find illustration of the X
❖ inevitable outworking of every £
£ evil life. Evil may seem to £
£ flourish like a green bay tree £
X tor a time, but never since the £
woi Id began has evil been able £
X to escape its final doom. Not £
£ a history of nation or individual X
£ but forcibly emphasizes the £
v truth of the Scriptural declara- £
£ tion: “Whatsoever a man sow- £
X eth that shall he also reap.” £
£ Abimelech planned and plot- £
£ ted in the narrowness of his X
X own evil heart, his vision did £
J not reach beyond the present X
£ advantage, his ambition grasped £
X a fleeting power and glory, with X
X never a thought of what lay be- £
X y° n d. He began with the sword £
£ and he died by the sword. He X
X left the true God out of his £
£ reckoning, and sped on the X
£ way to destruction. The cry of £
£ Jotham from Mount Gerizim X
t** against the evil course of Ab- £
imelech comes ringing down X
X the ages as God’s unalterable £
❖ judgment upon evil. For the X
£ Abimelechs of evil and those £
£ who make alliance with them X
£ there can be but one warning X
£ note of judgment. Fire shall £
£ come out from Abimelech and X
£ devour the men of Shechem, £
£ and fire- will wit uul us the £
£ house of Shechem and devour ♦l*
£ Abimelech. Evil is se!f-destruc- X
X tive. it works its own ruin, it £
<• feeds on elements that event- £
X ually react to its undoing. £
l ie STORY.
IT was the proudest momeni of Ab
imelech r life. The ambitious
dream of the years before had been
realized, and there he stood, elated
but imperious, before the people of
bhodiem, their acknowledged kinff.
The sun shone in his strength and
gioi 5, and nature all about seemed
smiling in silent tribute as the sol- 1
emu procession of the priests of Baal
had set forth from the temple that
morning and proceeded to the great
oak that stood like a giant sentry
upon the knoll just outside the town.
Thete the priests had chanted their
invocations and had spoken the
•word a that proclaimed Abimelech
king, at the same time placing upon
him the magnificent and costly ephod
which years before had been made by
Gideon, the father of Abimelech and
which lip to the present time had
been treasured in the house of Gideon.
Suddenly as the procession enters
the town a voice rings out from the
heights above overlooking the city.
Quickly every eye is turned in that
direction, and there sharply outlined
on the gleaming white of the rock a
man is seen standing. His appear
ance is almost that of a supernatural
being. His white, tense features, his
gleaming eye and streaming hair, his
outstretched arms ahd hands pointing
to the people below him, and the
nervous tension apparent in every
muscle of his body as he drew him
self up and shouted in high-pitched
voice cast a mysterious spell over the
people, so that where an instant be
fore had been the noise of tramping
feet and the shouts of acclaim there
fell a silence still as death.
And had not the people been so fas
cinated by the apparition before
them, they would have noted the
startled look of surprise and fear
•which passed across the features of
Abimelech, they would have seen
him start back and catch his breath
and mutter:
“Jothnm* By the gods I thought
my men had slain him! Or is it his
spirit?”
But this dkmay gave place to won
der as he listened to the remarkable
parable which .Jotham spoke.
fire come out from Abime
in closing, “and devour
and 11 <• house
ome out from
d f1 r m the
house of Millo, and devour Abime*
lech.”
Quickly Abimelech recovered him
self and his lips curled in scorn, and
his eye flashed fire aThe shouted to
his men to hasten forward >and seize
the man. But it was no easy or quick
task to gain the heights where the
man stood and ere they had reached
the place Jotham had made good his
escape.
One. two, three years sped by. Abi
melech ruled over Shechem and the
surrounding country, and prosperity
seemed to attend him. If the words
which Jotham had spoken ever oc
curred to him they did not trouble
him? Word had come to him soon
after he had been made king that
Jotham, his half brother, was at Beer,
and the murderous passion had seized
him to kill him as he had killed the
other 70 of his father's sons, but just
as he had completed all his plans to
this end. Jotham's woids of warning
had come to him, and laughing in his
mad derision, he had exclaimed:
“Nay, let the cowardly dog live that
he may know that his words will not
come true.”
Thus the three years had passed,
and Abimelech’s power seemed
stronger than ever. He felt secure
in his position and the patronizing,
flattering methods by which he had
ingratiated himself into the confi
dence of the people of Shechem, had
given place to a domineering, and
cruel spirit more natural for him, and
where formerly he had been disposed
to defer to the wishes of those over
whom he exercised lordship, he now
was governed only by the caprice and
desire of his own cruel nature. Woe
to anyone who should cross his pur
pose or fail to carry out the dictates
of his will. Many an one had felt the
st l ength of his power, and what he
did not dare do in the open he found
mean spirits like his own which were
ready to strike the blow in the dark,
so that more than one of his enemies
suddenly to be heard of
no more.
Such was his despotic rule,and it
may well be understood that it gave
rise to under currents of opposition
which were only awaiting a favorable
opportunity to burst forth and engulf
him. And so it came to pass when
Abimelech found occasion to go from
Shechem for a season, the bitter
hatred against him crystallized into
action and it was not long ere the
entire city was swept into open and
declared rebellion against him under
the leadership of one Gaal, the son of
Ebed, a boastful fellow whose tongue
was stronger than bis courage.
When word of this thing reached
Abimelech he was wroth and came up
against Gaal and his men .and when
he had driven them before him. he
laid wait before the city and took
it by strategy, and laid it waste, and
destroyed the inhabitants thereof,
even to the strong tower of Shechem
whither the men and women of the
city had sought refuge.
"Yea,” be exclaimed, with grim
humor, “the fire of Abimelech’ hath
gone forth and destroyed the city.
Now we shall see whether the fire
from Shechem will come forth to de
stroy Abimelech.”
But if Abimelech had had his re
venge, his own stronghold and power
were broken, for no city was left him
which he could call his own and he
had only the fighting men in his army
to depend upon.
In consequence of this thing, the
fever of conquest seized him and he
and his army went forth and en
camped against Thebez and finally
took it. But there was a strong tower
within the city, and thither fled all
the men and women of the city and
shut and barred the door.
Now there was a certain woman
_among—thx‘ number wlio - had escaped
from Shechem before its destruction.
And she cried in the ears of the men
of Thebez. saying:
"Know you not. what Abimelech did
to the tower of Shechem? Get thee
up to the top of the tower lest he do
likewise to the tower of Thebez.”
At llie word of her command the
men hastened to the top of the tower,
taking with them a piece of millstone
which wa.», lying there. Thither sho
followed them and none too soon for
even then Abimelech pressing
hard against the door and had started
his fire thpMR as at the tower of She
chem. Then the woman with keen
eye picking out the form of Abinie
lech, heaved the piece of mill
stone from the wall, at the same time
crying:
"Let the fire of Shechem come out
and destroy Abimelech.”
At the sound of the fateful words,
Abimelech hxiked upward and re
ceived the full force of the falling
millstone upon his forehead, so that
his skull was cleft asunder. Then he
called hastily unto his armor bearer,
saying:
"Draw thy sword and slay me, that
men say ■ not of me, A woman slew
him.”
And his armor bearer thrust him
through. Thus God rendered the
wickedness of Abimelech, and all the
evil of the men of Shechem did God
'lender upon their heads; and upon
them came the curse of Jotham, the
son of Jerubbaal.
Big Plans for Atlanta.
Rev. Len G. Broughton, of Atlanta,
Ga., has all his plans made to build
a great new Baptist tabernacle. He
j)ioposes to erect some other build
ings all on the same square, one of
which will be a Bible training school
similar to the Moody Bible institute
in Chicago. Such a school is already
being conducted in a small way, with
Miss Blodgett in charge. The taber
nacle is to have many stories, and a.
great deal of institutional work will
be carried on. The church is the
largest of the Southern Baptist de
nomination. having about 1,800 mem
bers, and a Sunday school of about
1,000.
Union of French Protestants.
One of the most important events
in the history of modern French
Protestantism is the union of the re
formed churches of France as a re
sult of the new separation law. This
will unite their forces and strengthen
their hands for more aggressive evan
gelism. in response to the call, over
100 Protestant churches sent dele
gates to the assembly at Jarnac and
thus showed the desire for a closer
.tie.
Shooting Wild Turkeys.
i’r-ph, copyright, by UntLerwood A Undo! wood, S. T.
A popular spori in the woods in Indian Territory.
MAKE QUARTZ GLASS.
WASHINGTON SCIENTISTS DIS- 1
COVER NEW PROCESS.
Feat Achieved by Carnegie Laboratory
Workers After Many Fruitless Ex
periments—Value of the New
Product.
Washington.—One of the most im
portant commercial developments
from the work of the Carnegie geo
physical laboratory in Washington is
the possibility of manufacturing quartz
glass.
Dr. Arthur L. Day and E. S. Shep
herd are the two men who have
achieved the feat. They do not take
any interest in the commercial possi
bilities of the matter. Dr. Day, for in
stance. says that they have shown
that the thing can be done, and now
if a commercial company wants to
take it up it can do so, all of the facts
having been made public in the scien
tific press and’ before learned societies,
so that there is no possibility of any
one getting a patent on it.
The value of quartz glass over ordi
nary glass is that it can be heated to
a temperature of about 1,000 degrees
Centigrade without softening, and its
expansion under any ordinary heat is
CITIES MAY CURE DRUNKS.
Wabash, Ind. —The reform wave
which has been sweeping Indiana for
many months has taken a peculiar
turn in threatening to invade the
county jails throughout the state. This
particular reform is not aimed at the
jail management, though some may
be badly in need of attention. It is
proposed to install it as a department
of each jail in the larger cities. If it
is established it men ms n n Q -w terror
in the bastile for the toper who is
wont to imagine strange and dreadful
things in his cell the while he forgets
his debauch.
The new terror will be the “jag
cure.” In other words, a movement
10 provide a system of treatment for
drunkenness in the case of habitual
drunkards at each jail or lockup in
the cities that can afford such a plan
has been started and is being favored
in several Indiana cities.
One of the most interesting features
of the movement lies in its origin. It
was started indirectly by a woman.
The fame of "Tish” Higgins, of Wa
bash, is not confined solely to the city
in which she lives. Year in and year
out for a decade or so “Tish” Higgins
has been a frequent visitor at the Wa
bash county jail. Usually she came
unwillingly, protesting wdXh maudlin
vigor against being locked up. It is
said that no other woman in Indiana,
and it is not a record of which any
woman would care to boast, has been
locked up as many times as “Tish”
Higgins.
She came so often to the Wabash
jail and became such an expense to
the city that Mayor Murphy finally
began to wonder if it would not be.
money in the city treasury to devise
some way to quench “Tish” Higgins’
unfortunate thirst. Then he decided
to give her a “jag cure.” and broke
the news to the woman after one of
her numerous appearances before him.
It was enough. She has not been
back since.
GIRL INHERITS A GOLD MINE.
Beverly, N. J. —Miss Helen G.
Arnold, who has been clerking in a
candy store here, has been notified
that she has become the chief benefi
ciary under a will executed in Idaho
by her late uncle, John T. Arnold, who
left Philadelphia in the ’GO’S to carve
out a fortune in the west. The west
ern attorneys inform her that she has
been given his interests in gold and
silver mines near the Bitter Root
mountains and vast Wheatfields along
the Snake river in Idaho.
After Arnold left Philadelphia no
word came home from the supposed
shiftless son until about 25 years later,
when, after having made a fortune in
the mining of gold in the northern
part of Idaho near a place now called
Murray, like one from the grave he
came back to his homestead and upon
inquiring found that his parents had
died and his brother George, father o!
Miss Helen, had also been dead a yeai
or EQ.
so trifling as to be almost a negligible
quantity. It also can be heated al
most red hot and plunged into cold
water without cracking and has the
peculiar property of allowing the pas
sage of the ultra violet light rays,
making it remarkably valuable in pho
tography.
The value of quartz glass had been
recognized for a long time, and owing
to the cheapness of German labor it
had been manufactured in away for
laboratory use in the form of tubes
by heating small clear quartz crystals
and sticking them together. The
tubes and other vessels thus built up
were rough, patchwork-looking affairs,
but served a number of useful pur
poses. However, there was no way
of manufacturing the substance into
glass sheets of any size because ran
dom masses of broken quartz could
not be fused together without having
the resultant glass full of air bubbles.
The workers of the Carnegie labora
tory tried all sorts of methods. If
the quartz was intensely heated, free
silicon was deposited on the inside of
the air bubbles, and the glass was
spoiled in two ways, instead of one,
which was a-plenty. The final solu
tion of the problem was found in heat
ing the quartz to the melting point.
Birthplace of Susan B. Anthony.
Bj-
■■ "
The house was built by her grandfather, near Adams, Mass. In July.
1897, Miss Anthony visited it as the guest of the Historical and Scientific
Society of Berkshire. The old home was filled with relatives and friends,
including many distinguished men and women. It was a remarkably well
preserved, substantial building. Not very long ago it was destroyed by fire.
SIGHTLESS WHIST PLAYER.
Uses Special Cards and Has Wonder
fully Retentive Memory.
Philadelphia.—Henry Kuhl Dillaid.
whose funeral took place a few days
ago, had a marvellously retentive
memory that served him well in the
25 years of his life, during which he
was sightless.
Becoming blind in 1882 when a
member of the firm of George C. Car
son & Co., which succeeded to the
business formerly conducted by Car
son & Newbold, Mr. Dillard retired
from active business and had remain
ed at his home for the greater part of
the time since that date.
He searched far and wide for the
widow and her two children —a son,
who recently died in this city, and a
daughter—and found them in Altoona,
and for a time freely shared his wealth
with them.
But then the voice of the west kept
calling him back and he made an ex
cuse that urgent business required
him in Idaho and left them with the
promise that he would come back as
soon as he could find an opportunity.
Nothing more was heard of him, and
the widow's letters received no re
plies.
Then unannounced came the mes
sage that Miss Helen Arnold had been
left considerable money. Her unci?
had taken such a liking to her that
when he left for Idaho he expressed a
desire that she would go back with
him for only a short time to cheer his
childless home, but. tlje.
not hear to
The e x
liol
about 4.000 degrees Fahrenheit, and
then subjecting it to an air pressure
of between 400 and 500 pounds. After
this it was allowed to gradually cool.
The air pressure squeezed out the air
bubbles, ahd the result was a solid and
clear mass of (juartz glass. The plates
that nave so far been made are only
about three by five by half an inch in
size. The bubbles are lew, not over
one-half a millimeter in diameter, and
are not frequent enough to interfere
with the use of the glass lor lenses,
mirrors and other optical work. The
experimenters think that a little more
skill and experience would enable
them 10 make the glass entirely free
from flaws.
The value of lie glass in photo
graphic work is dm*, as lias been said,
to its property of allowing the pas
sage of the ultra-violet lays, which
are the rays that do the actual work
in photography. In this connection
the glass will be peeuliaib valuable
for the Cooper-Ilowiit incandescent
light tubes, such as are now in usu
in tlie post office building. These
tubes are very valuable now for pho
tographic work, but with the quartz
glass tlilies they will be immensely
more so.
The glass, when it is once made,
can be blown or pressed or cut like
ordinary glass. It takes a much
higher degree of heat to handle it, the
oxyhydrogen blow-pipe having to be
used, while the material has to be
worked much mere quickly than ordi
r. .ry glass.
As to the cost of the process, Dr.
Day would attempt no estimate, mere
ly saying that they had spent a great
deal of money in doing as much as
they had done, but that probably if the
thing were done on a commercial scale
and a larger unit of production adopt
ed the cost would be considerably re
duced.
The cylinder where the glass is
made is a powerful iron "bomb," lined
with graphite, and one of the problems
in working on a larger scale would be
to secure larger sheets of graphite for
this lining. These sheets could be sup
plied only by one of the big companies
now operating at Niagara.
DISASTER POSTAL CARDS.
M*ade From Material That Has Fig
ured in Some Accident.
New York. —The disaster postal is
one of the latest forms of the souvenir
postal craze. It is fashioned from
some material which has figured in an
accident or calamity and is properly
labeled and dated.
The collision off Noyes Beach, by
which the steamer Larchmont was
lost, furnished a number of these
cards. They were made of a piece
of sail, cut regulation postal card
size, and on the back was printed:
"Piece of sail from wreck of schooner
Harry Knowlton at Noyes Beach, R.
1. Wrecked by collision with steamer
Larchmont. February 11, 1907.”
The cloth was about an eighth of
an inch thick and on its face bore
the address and the usual stamp. San
Francisco and Kingston have furnish
ed any number of these postals. From
railroad wrecks have been sent pieces
of car cushions or Pullman draperies.
I Being a devotee of whist Mr. Dillard
I was loath to be deprived of this pleas
, । ure when stricken, so he obtained
1 cards upon which the numerals and
। letters were raised and. became a
' member of a whist-playing coterie in
' j his neighborhood, playing almost daily
1 for more than ten years.
! I Until he lost his sight, he was a
> member of the Philadelphia club and
’ a director of the Philadelphia National
| bank and belonged to many societies.
i , For many years he was a vestryman
• I in the Church of the Epiphany and
s I St. James's church. Born in Philadel
• phia in 1834. Mr. Dillard came of a
I | distinguished ancestry. In 1870 he
- married Sallie Poultney Williams,
f who, with a son. Dr. Henry Kuhl Dil-
I lard, Jr., survives him.
Gas Well Sneezes Tools.
Irwin, Pa.—Twenty years ago Irwin
citizens put SIO,OOO into a 3,000-foot
hole in Derrick hill and were ready to
go deeper for gas, when the drill and
attachments were lost in the bottom.
Three months’ fishing failed to re
cover them and the well was aban
doned.
Occasionally boys would light the
gas and a small flame would result.
The other afternoon the well broke
loose. A column of water and dirt
shot up 100 feet, and among the debris
was part of the lost tools. After the
upheaval the gas pressure was found
to be strong, and when lighted the
flame shoots up 40 feet.
Professor on Educational Tour.
Prof. Charles S. Minot, of Harvard,
has visited the universities of Mis
souri, Kansas, Nebraska. lowa and
Louisville and at each of these deliv
ered an address before the medical
and students on the new ideas
education for which the
of the Harvard Med
and.
Charles Edward Sells an Invention
By Harrison Rhodes
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
When the Austins are in a mood to
invite confidences most men tell their
troubles at once. It was only the
shortest time after Turner, the inven
tor, had been lunching with Charles
Edward Austin and his wife, Lady An
gela. 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 inestimable comforts of cool
drinks and of healthful and fresh food
everywhere.
“This is no longer experimental?”
inquired Charles Edward. “You can
really do this?”
"Yes," said Turner.
“But what I don't understand,” con
tinued Charles Edward, “is why I
find you saying you're down on your
luck. You ought to be within fifteen
or twenty minutes, the richest man
living.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” murmured Tur
ner. “I don’t understand anything
about business. And 1 thought my in
vention would be so splendid for the
army.”
"Wonderful for field hospitals,” said
Lady Angela.
“Yes," assented Turner, brighten
ing, “and so I’ve been trying to sell
the whole thing to the government.
But it's no good. I thought I had
belter not sell my patent altogether,
so I offered to sell the government
for five years the right to make my
machine for the use of the army,
for—" and he hesitated — for fifteen
hundred dollars.”
Charles Edward turned to the in
ventor.
“Your machine is worth fifteen thou
sand. well worth it, isn't it?”
“Yes, 1 suppose it really is.”
“Then, why,” pursued Charles Ed
ward, “when you only ask fifteen hun
dned do you expect the war depart
ment will ever think it worth more?
“You may take it from me," he went
on —"that if 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 dare say I might go up to the
capitol and offer to every one who
came along—”
Charles Edward stopped with ex
traordinary abruptness and his eye
gleamed. Lady Angela leaned for
ward.
“Well," said Charles Edward at
length with the utmost calm, “to-mor
row upon the steps of the capitol I
will publicly prove all that I have just
been saying, and I trust end in selling
your invention to the war department
for a reasonable price."
At about 11 the next morning a
western member, hurrying to an ap
pointment for which he was already
late, descended the steps of the capi
tol two at a time. Half way down
he was stopped by a young gentleman
who had been standing contemplative
ly In the sun.
“I beg your pardon." began the
stranger, in a tone at once confiden
tial and confident, putting his hand
upon the legislator’s arm.
"I'm sorry," broke in the congress
man, "but I can’t give you a moment.
If you want an interview come to the
Ebbitt house to-night about nine and*
ask for me.”
“That would be delightful.” said the
young man. "But I don't know who
you are."
"Don’t 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 wouldn't buy it
at this price. You don't believe it’s
good. Neither do the people in the
war department.”
“Have you been trying to sell twen
ty dollar gold pieces to them for five
dollars?"
“Not exactly,” said Charles Ed
ward, “but a friend of mine has been
doing what amounts to the same
thing.”
“Is your friend as mad as you are?”
he asked at last, surprised at himself
for putting the question so seriously.
"There is more method in my mad
ness. You stay and watch if you
like. No one will buy from me.’
"Hi, there, Joe!” shouted the west
ern member as If in response to this.
A fat man with a red tuft on his chin
turned and came towards them.
"Here’s a good thing for you, Joe,”
continued Ills friend. "Twenty dollars
for five."
The newcomer’s comment was in al
most too picturesque and extravagant
language, yet the would-be salesman
lid not seem downcast.
‘This story," remarked the repre- ■
xentative 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
tne see the game?"
“1 might, I suppose," was the re
i >onse, not too enthusiastically given.
"Well, here comes somebody, and
he's a ‘corker,’ too,” exclaimed the
journalist, espying Lady Angela.
Madame, I offer you a most unpar
alleled opportunity of behaving diSr
creetly.” he would have liked to say—
“of purchasing a five dollar gold piece
for a dollar," he said instead.
fie went no further, for the young
woman clasped her hands together in
an apparent ecstacy of innocence and
rapture.
“Oh, I should just love to," she said.
“I hope it is a —a ‘good thing.’ Is
it? It looks very funny to me some
how."
Everyone started. This then was
the explanation of the young man’s
seeming madness.
Lady Angela again produced a gold
piece and looked appealingly at the
men around. Moved by chivalry and
by the love of sensation also, they
rushed forward to examine the coin.
“It’s a bad one, madam, if ever
there was," said a reporter with red
hair.
"I think it’s horrid of him,” com
plained the young woman, turning an
accusing face upon Charles Edward.
"What ought I to do,” she asked of
the red-haired gentleman who seemed
so markedly sympathetic.
"Arrest him of course,” and he
bounded away towards the policeman
at the top of the capitol steps.
At this point he was interrupted by
a stalwart blue arm laid upon his own.
Charles Edward has a generous
spirit and he would be the first to ad
mit that his wife's intervention had
given to the whole affair a publicity
beyond anything to which his own un-
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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
Os being blackleg.
As for Washingtcn, 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 appearance in the witness box .
of Lady Angela, in a mauve costume
of Parisian origin, quieted the assemb
lage. But, alas, the witness, In the
prettiest, and completest way, broke
down in her evidence. Yes, she ad
mitted, she did buy a gold piece from
her husband, payldg him a silver dol
lar.
‘‘And he gave you this coin, now In
the possession of the police?”
"Well," said Lady Angela, “that's
just what, now I think of it, I can't
be sure of at all. You see I put it at
once into this purse,” and she held
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?"
"I cannot possibly tell^l—replied—
Lady 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
curiosity to knew the reason of the
prisoner’s behavior.
"Let me tell you. then," cried
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 flrst, it must be confessed, the
incongruity and humor of the whole
thing were what chiefly the
people. Then the of
the press regained headway, as it
were. Turner, being at hand, was in
terviewed at length. Then they de
scended upon the secretary of war.
Somewhat confused, that gentleman
admitted that he had heard nothiag
of the Turner machine, that it was
doubtless being investigated, that he
would himself personally see that it
was so investigated.
"He had better,” was succinctly put,
the editorial comment everywhere
next day.
Charles Edward’s photograph ap
peared in sixteen weeklies and in two
hundred and fifteen dailies. A lead
ing merchant in New York put on sale
the "Lady Austin Dust Cloak.” And
on the fourth day the department of
war offered Turner twenty thousand
dollars for his invention.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Pallid and trembling, the grief
stricken wife met her husband at the
door.
“She Is gone!" came the wail from
her set lips.
The man’s face blanched, and he
reeled as if from a heavy blow. Halt
dazed, he sank into a chair.
"Gone!" he echoed, vaguely.
"Gone!” repeated the wile, with a
brave effort at self-control. "Oh, what
shall I do without her? I had learned
to lean upon her so, she was'so much
to me, and now—” Her courage for
sook her quite, and the burst into
tears.
Her husband drew her to him.
"Don’t weep, dear heart," he said,
tenderly. “Tell me about it. I had
feared that It might happen, but the
blow has fallen so suddenly."
The wife raised her head and her
eyes flashed Are.
“How did it happen?" she reiterated,
in a changed voice. “Why, that cat of
a Mrs. Jenkins offered her six dollars'
a week, and no washing or ironing.
So, of course. Bridget jumped at it,
and left us without notice!"