New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-30

| Just been forgiven by her naughty relatives
and inherited an EliZabethan mansion III
Kent, with 100000 per annum, and went
about taking leave of her kind friends with
crape-bordered kerchief to her eyes. In lew
days later she appeared on the platform be-
side Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the accredited
correspondent of a well-known London jour-
nal One week she was arrested on charge
of theft, and the next she was escorted by
guard of eminent Congressman to the elevated
dais in the Centennial Grounds and seated
beside the President and the Emperor of Brazil
while the Exposition was opened. She next
appeared in Washington as the guest OF
committee of Senators and foreign diplom-
Artists and read in public at their instance
study of the Life of Sumner. A few
weeks later she was again in GUS
tody for stealing, and cOntrived almost
to strangle herself with veil knotted
tightly around her throat Madame Trenlhdl
then disappeared from Philadelphia, and Mabel
Carter entered missionary meeting LII PITTS
burg, walked shyly up to the pulpit, caught
a venerable old clergyman by both hands, and
claimed recognition as a fellow-wOrker with
him years before for the souls Of the heather
in Shanghai. lie rubbed his spectacles, did
recognize her, and the devOut Mabel was
handed tendeIly around from one piOus old
lady to another as a religious prodigy during
that winter. Again the police interfered, and
the sanity young missionary vanished to re-
appear a minIstering angel in Plevna and
through the TurcO- Russian war, back in
England as a second Florence Nightingale,
and now, as our readers saw last week, sem
fenced as Mabel Wherefore, alias Jones,
after a trial which attracted attention through
out all England, to nine months hard labor in
Jail.
Now this woman was not vicious by nature
She was kindly, generous allectionate but all
her lesser virtues and faults were dominated
by an OverpOwerng passion for adventure.
She threw up certain income, comfort and
responsibility again and again to undertake
some fresh role, play out a newly conceived
lie to an impotent conclusion. She expended
on these social dramas Of her own construc-
ton and rendering as much talent energy
and downright hard work as would have brought
her in good income in any honest business.
There are numberless TTenfds in the COM
munity; with less power, brilliancy and eclat,
perhaps, than this wicked, charming Evange-
line but east after precisely the same model
Why does not society, or rather Christianity,
make Use of them? 1t is only III the world OF
souls that capital is wasted when will we
learn how to economic and turn it to account
In the material world we force the most nOx-
ious elements to serve good purpose for the
general benefit Out Of the deadly nightshade
or the very poison of the rattlesnake we ex-
tract medicine of rare healing power; but for
human being in whom the predomi
nance of wholesome, helpful qualities is
paralyzed by the magnetism OF some one
eccentric evil passion we have only the clumsy
way of handling of the police and gao
The modern Church of Rome and some of the
ancient pagan religions knew better how to deal
with such cases. They found work for the
male and female TreniGdis in which their inn
agnation and dramatic power found exercise
helpful to the community. They strengthened
their feeble moral sense by rigid discipline; in
short, if they did not earn Heaven for them
selves they were harmless to society. We,
on the other hand, attend more to prac
teal matters and less to training souls than
they did i'm those earlier days of binder faith.
,ot a river or brook finds its way to the sea
which is not made to contribute to the mate
rial wealth of the body polite; but these indi-
vidua currents of human force, full, rich
and sparkling, which might be made to
carry fertility with them, are left to sink, I'M
cared for, deep down to the dark Kingdoms Of
death below.