Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-20
HUSBANDS AND BROTHERS

The Phs1sokher had several of his fol
lowers ouE toSthe Eco the other day. The,
were in the wing to the animal house look.
i -tng- at the selection of alligators when
the Professor began to lecture. He ex-
4 risfned that ailigators were like some peo-
1 PIE, they ldrspped down in one position
and stayed there for maybe twenty-four
1 hours without awinking' an eye.~ but all
the samesthey kept close watch on the
discards all the time.
There Is my friend Michael Dalin as an
example. YoHs don't know Michael Dulin
Michael tie biggest one Of those ALL
gators. IN ihs tank He ,as about eleven
! feet long an Is anywhere from seventy
| to ninety yea4s old. Those alifgators reach
| 81 tneir present positions bYs.s different
| means. Some Of them were sent up here
Iron Florida straight yta+She Zoo. Then a
good many people when they come north
i.hring a LITTLE alligatsrsfor a peti They
| keep him around for a while until he gets
org enough ITO scramble out of the bowl
IN which they. Keep him, and they step
Fon him with their@bare' feet a few times
| at night, when they usually decide that
tney don't care much about raising an
ailsator, anyway. and send MIN to the
zoo. Mr.. Bhckburne keeps these young
outcasts by themselves until they get some
| size and then they go In the main tank
with the others. Sometimes a miscalcula-
tion is made as to the size of young one
ana then there Is a mysterious disappear
| ance You will notice that Michael Dulin
az prest' looks a little swelIed out and
mas a rather pensive air. Last night
young alligator graduated from the kinder
garten and was placed in the tank. This
morning he was nowhere to be found. That
mlcdle-slzed lady-gator oyer there discov-
ered the loss. She is sister of Michael
Dulin: and her name is Maria. This morn
ing she looked around and then shrieked
Where is little Petey?"
Petey! Pete? Petey? Little Petey who?'
said Michael Duln. -
'"Petey. Petey, Petey? Little Petey who?"
gator who came in here last night was
your own nephew, son of Archibald, your
brother, by his second wife, his wife hav-
ing beer made up into pocket books and
nand satchels. That boy was right over
beside you last night. Michael Dulin and
now where in the world can he have got
ten to-"
Michael Dulin did not stir for four hours,
and then he was heard to murmur sorrow
fully. My! My. Poor little Petey. My own
nephew. Now. why in blaZes didn't that
Kid tell me his name was Petey Dulin?'
Michael Dulin has been in the Zoo sew
eral years now. He was brought up here
at the time of the Grand Army encamp-
ment by couple of spectators. who
thought there was money In him. The Grand
Army visitors were too busy to waste any
was transferred to Schmid the bird man,
In return for two tickets for Florida
BESIDES keeping birds, Schmid keeps billy
goats, dogs and rabbits. One day Michael
Dulin was caught in the act of swallow
Ing small billy goat. Then Sehmfd sent
him out to the Zoo. asking them to keep
him for few days. Schmid took a CEN
sus OF his stock and found three setter
dogs and eight rabbits missing, and then
ne sent word to the Zoo that they could
nave Michael 'Dulin for keeps.
You will notice Michael Dublin has only
one eye. This is the story that Michael
DulSl tells Of how he lost his eye:
"One day /, was lying out on a sand bar
in lagoon down in Florida, when a boat
came along with two men and a woman in
1t. 1 didn't pay much attention to the
boat. as l see they didn't have any gun,
I'LL just beyond me L see the boat go PUNK
INTO a sharp rock, stave her bow in and
sink onto a sand bar in about foot of
water. l knowed there was deep water all
around that sand bar, and l swan down
then to see If, there wasn't something in
this for me. The three people were stand
ing up and shouting all together, but it
didn't do them particle of good as there
wasn't any house within two miles Then
one OF the men got out and started as If
ne was going to wade or swim ashore.
Then. as luck would have It, he saw me
and got right back in the boat" q .
b Those people stayed in that boat all night
and stayed right by them. One of the men
was the woman's husband and the other
was HeF DTotner. Inc next day they
reached the conclusion that their s'oniy
chance was for one of the men to try to
get ashore. If he could get by me, all
right II not. he would divert my attention
so the other one would succeed Then
those men argued the question of who
Should make the trial. The husband was
opposed to going because he was family
man with wife to support. The brother
said he couldn't go because he had note
10 meet the next week. The husband said
ne would meet the note himself but the
brother said when he promised to meet a
note he did not leave it to somebody else
to meet for him. They argued and argued
Tor two hours, and then somebody suggest
eu that the question be left to the woman
l don't remember who made this proposi-
ton, but l remember that the, husba nd
jumped at 1t like fish at fiy and that
the brother took it as if he was not half
hungry.
The woman. after thinking the matter
over for aawhile. said that under ali the
circumstances she had decided that. with
the help of Divine Providence and the
life insurance policy, she might get her
self another husband, but that her parents
being dead she could never get another
brother, and that therefore. painful "a n
might be- she had to decide that her hus-
band was elected.
THE husband didn't even saw hood hive
to his wife, but took knife and started
for shore. l lost my eye in that fracas
but the husband didn't reach the bank
The Philosopher told his class that all
this showed that with women husbands
are not always ace biph nor hrothor,