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something strangely familiar in his
style, yet I can't place him. Must
have met him-or seen him-long
ago"
81 never met him. He must be q
regular person, though, for saw him
at Mrs. Delmont's the other evening
and he was at Mrs. Thomas last
week. At both places he seemed to
be dancing endlessly-and most OF
the time with Miss strongv'
"well, dear. must meet him--just
for a dance" And Mrs. Manfred
sought Mrs. Strong for an introduc-
tion to the marvel who had involved
her Imagination. She found that lady
alertly watching her daughter
movements with the young man.
''who is he?" Mrs. Manfred asked. :
Hubert Bell. Seems charming
fellow, in way, although I don't
really know him." replied Mrs. Strong
.eYou don't mean that!''
"Candidly, my dear, he was not in
yited." Mrs. Strong whispered "But
I've seen him at so many places,
among the very best people, that
really he must belong. I don't care
to have Eleanor dance with him
don't like to encourage him, you
know-until I can make inquiries
But he is such q dancer! And Flea
nor is obsessed. She has danced with
him at several places. and my talk
ing 70 her seems useless. It's all
right don't ron think (.
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The Authors
Rupert Hughes

I first met Rupert Hughes
several years ago. I sat next
him at a dinner. Mr.. Hughes
was, then as now, very much in
the limelight. His play. "Ex-
cuse Me-" was creating widely
popular comment. People were
talking of how it made them
laugh. and telling their friends.
who went to see it and broad
casted their own pleasure. I
was very much thrilled at being
seated by so popular an author.
But Mr.. Hughes did not talk
at all about his own work. He
asked me about mine, and told
Of how, once. when he was an
editor, he had cut an authors
story in a moment Of stress to
fill an exacting space. and how
that author had minded. His
feeling still, though this had
happened years before, was one
of real regret for that authors
chagrin.
1t is that quality of UNDER
standing the other fellows
feelings that gives him such a
large hold on the American
public.
asked him last winter when
he had first begun to write, and
he said at the age of seven,
and that he had been at 1t ever
since. A short time after he
left Yale he had had six months
experience on newspaper.
After that he had been an edi-
tor on various magazines until
a little more than ten years
ago, but that during those edi-
torial years he had done a
great amount of writing at
night.
MARY STEWART CUTTING, Jr.
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"Why-it must be. And I want to
dance with himv'
= \ Il X +
a ND so Mrs. Manfred was introduced
n to Hubert Bell as soon as Mrs.
Strong could catch her daughters
eye effectively; and the mother inn
pulsively took her daughter aside,
perhaps for a lecture.
When the band played again. Mrs.
Manfred and Mr.. Bell Joined the
dancers The young man was
groomed to the moment. Though
tall, he was muscular. and his grace
was study. He would have been
handsome but for his eyes, which
were. small. set close together and
elusive.
II thought you never would tire of
dancing with that young man." said
Mrs. Pelham as Mrs. Manfred rejoined
her. The party was breaking up. HE
must be a charming fellow"
"His charm lies in his symmetry of
motion. dear. I never SO enjoyed
dancing. But I wanted to keep him
from Miss Strong. He talked about
her endlessly. though he was curious
about the whole Strong family. I
must see Mrs. Strong tomorrow"
"why?"
"Well. I've placed him. He doesn't
belong with our sort. And he wasn't
invited here. I met him-or saw him,
mean-a year ago. in an uptown
cabaret. He was what they call n
dance hosts there.. !.
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"The idea!'
As they were leaving with other
guests whom Mrs. Strong was speed
ing, they noted Miss Strong and HUI
bert Bell together half concealed by
a palm down the hall.
Mrs Strong was worried about her
daughter, and had taken her husband
into her confidence. Strong was q
man of action. He was bound to find
out all about Hubert Bell A detec-
tive was employed, and Strong asked
his daughter to avoid the young man
until something definite could be
learned about him. To simplify mat
ters, the Strongs planned to send
Miss Strong to an aunt in Newport
at once.
NKIss Strong was shipped of to
|Nl her aunt, who in due time wired
that the girl had not appeared. A
letter came from the girl, postmarked
at Boston, telling her parents that
she had married Hubert Bell.
The detective called on the Strongs
ten minutes after the girls letter
came. The strongs excitedly greeted
him.
s.The last we knew Of the gent in
the department" the detective said,
..he was dancing in a cabaret We
thouRhtahe had reformed. We didn't
know he had got among the swells. "
"Reformed?'' exclaimed Strong.
.'What do you meant"
.His nane In the gallery is Bud
Aiken. ana he has served tims..
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against the Stuarts and he represent
from 1715 to l7e2. He and his wife
lived happily together. having two
sons and two daughters. The wife
survived her husband many years,
says a writer. She had been the lady
bountiful Of Nithsdale. and in her
later years was a notable gossip and
matchmaker. It was under her di-
rection that the present mansion
house of Craigdarroch was built, and
a relic of her taste is preserved in
the formal Georgian gardens at the
back. One OF the winding paths still
bears her name. The portrait of her
hangs in the dining room at Max
welton.
An eminent Scotch author. writing
about the famous Maxwelton house,
says:
''Maxwelton House, the home of
Annie Laurie, enjoys any notoriety
which it may possess, not from its
antiquity, for there are many older
houses\even in this part of Scotland:
not from any popularity of struc-
ture: not"from any part it has played
in history; but solely from its as
sociation with the name of Annie
Laurie. And that lady owes her
fame not to any accident of birth or
to anything remarkable in her char
acter or career, but simply to the
song composed by the man she threw
over. and more particularly to the air 10
which in later days that song has
been sung.
Evening star., 1922-10-08
Gem Mining.

WITH all it's mineral wealth the
United States does not take
high rank in gem mining and its
production during the year for which
figures are available. reached only a
value of $4,000. This, however. is
the lowest total since the geological
survey began the collection of sta
tistics in 1888, except in the single
Year of 1886. when the value drop
ped to $S7,500.
Four gem NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
quartz, tourmaline and turquoise
represent four-fifths of the total
annual value. the chief stone of the
lot being the sapphire variety of
corundum, which is used industrial
ly for the frictfonless bearings of
watches and other instruments. The
gem minerals are chiefly supplied by
Montana, Nevada, California, Colo
rrado. Maine and Arizona. although
some production is reported by
twenty other states. Arkansas yield
ed number of good-sized diamonds
last year, including a canary-colored
octahedron weighing nearly eighteen
carats. but the total production an
nually of the country never exceeds
a few thousand dollars. s-e
One of the government experts
gives an interesting description of
the sapphires of Montana. The only
systematic mining for these precious
stones in the United States is done
in that state. The annual output is
something like 100000, including the
stones that are suitable for cutting
as gems and those that are useful
only for mechanical purposes. 1t is
said that the lapidaries in Montana
do work that is comparable to the
work done on slopes sent to London
to be cut.
Montana might well be called the
"gem state" in view Of the fact that
her output OF precious stones exceeds
the production in that line Of all the
rest Of the United States
Evening star., 1922-10-08

THosE who have experienced it
l. say that there is nothing like
being the wife of lawyer. For
a time Peachblow agreed with this in
it's simplest implication; then she
amended it to:
There's nothing like it because
nothing else could be so bad"
She had a husband who tore him
self from her society of mornings and
went forth to do battle for woman
clients over whose wrecked lives he
waxed so eloquent that his tears
were rivaied by those Of the jury,
and strong Judges bent their heads
and wept secretly on the papers
where judges make idle marks to
pass away the time.
Elphinstone not only spent hours
upon hours in his ONCE with ex-
quisite clients, whose. hands he pat
ted and whose charms he expatiated
on before the courts, but-he came
homo and told his wife about it.
He wrote briefs as impassioned and
as full Of imaginauons as any seem
- ~ oA0 SAACu 6SSSo AAAS o"h SOhSi-
naities with frey enthusiasm. His
cases often took him to distant cities
and it was not always convenient for
Peachblow to go with him.
There was such q strain upon her
natural jealousy that she had to con-
suit q physician, DR.. S. Q. Lapius,
who had q charming bedside manner
and soothed her by suggestion rather
than by knife or nostrum.
After one notorious lawsuit in
which Elphinstone wore himself al
most to q wreck by his defense Of a
wayward lady who had bankrupted
her husband and then sued him for
alienation Of her affections. Elphin-
stone came home to find his mother
and father .in-law and the physician
trying to restrain Peachblow's hys-
terics. when Elphinstone spproach-
I'd her. seltcitouslx she covered int
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long in vogue among the So
cially elect, had a fresh allotment OF
climbers-they were numerous IN
every notable summer place-for war
fortunes had to be exhibited in fash
ionable circumstances.
A dance was in progress at the new
and snowy home Of the Strongs, who
were simply well-to-do before the
war, but who now were leaders OF So
cial high jinks, anxious to display
their apparently endless resources.
Mrs. Manfred and Mrs Pelham
young society women; quite intimate
considering their contrasting trends
the former was frivolous and the
latter sedate-were late arrivals. and
dancing was in progress. They en-
tered the ballroom together. and sur
veyed the moving throng. Y
+Who is that chap?'% Mrs. Manfred
asked.
what chap. dear?" responded Mrs.
Pelham. There are quite a number
of chaps in sight"
"The tall fellow dancing-with Miss
Strong. What dancer! I must meet
him.
you're actually insane over dane
ing! Yet TIL confess that II I were, ]
should look for = partner like him.
But for dancing only. Otherwise not
q wonder VIM he is1.. Thes.:s
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the bosom of the doctor and
screamed:
Go away, you are no longer a hus-
band of mine. in fact you never
were.''
Eliphinstone was seized as by in
visible hands and hailed backward to
his own office. where he awoke with a
splitting headache and a strange gap
in his memory.
Peachblow, once more miraculously
restored to maidenhood. said:
After all, a doctor is the worlds
most useful citizen. believe 1 should
enjoy being a wife to one"
".Barkis is Willin','" said the physi-
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tain her friends in the upstairs liv

tain her friends in the upstairs 1iv-
ing room.
could hear what went on in the office.
The halest and heartiest women con-
stantly entered the parlor In a state
of acute distress and after long
murmurous consultations went away
so much better that Peachblow grew
frantic with suspicion. She remem-
bered all too vividly how gentle and
soothing her husband had been with
her when she was another mans wife.
And she wondered, till her wonder
ment grew to be bitter conviction.
Worst yet, he was the slave of the
Evening star., 1922-10-08
By Rupert Hughes

bons and lipsticks and what not. He
thought about fashions and he was
SO weary of feminine charms and
their enchantment that when he came
homo to his Peachblow he left at
once for one Of his exclusively male
clubs in order to keep his sanity.
A small shoeshop man was Peach
blows next experiment. But when
she went by his store and peeked in
at tho window she always found him
kneeling before some woman. or try
ting to crush a No. 6-E foot into a
No. IA shoe, and she simply could
not endure it.
+ X 4 4
VI.
4 PLUMBER she married was for
"A ever puttering about other peo-
pies homes in the most personal
crannies. and she gave him up.
An iceman followed him through
her much trodden heart, but he, too
had his kitchen doors to visit.
Discouraged by her inability to find
a husband in town who did not have to
spend a large part Of his time and at
tention upon other women, Peachblow
resolved to marry some homely old
farmer who lived in solitude.
Ezra Hepple was the happy man
for a time. And he was SO content with
Peachblow's society that he would not
even keep a hired girl to cook for the
hired men.
He rose at am, and Dragged about
it. He woke her up to brag about it.
The fact that he had gone TO sleep at
dusk did not abate his pride. Tho only
poetry he knew was something ending
with healthy, wealthy and wise." She
knew he was neither wealthy nor wise,
but she was afraid he was healthy.
Her jealous little soul had its wish at
last.
But a wish ceases to be a wish as
soon as it is achieved. Like the candy
in the bonbon dish, it is apt not only
to turn sour. but to wreck the ap-
petite as well.
Peachblow's latest installment in her
serial husband never cast an interested
eye on any other woman. But this
curtously made his interest in her un-
important. robbed him Of suspense and
her Of the drama of anxiety. He was
unskilled, uncouth, illiterate in femi-
ninity.
No other woman cast an eye in his
direction. But that was because he had
nothing attractive about him. And the
man who is unable to interest any other
woman is unable to interest his wife.
Poor Peachblow, having no rivals to
fear and having a husband who made
no perilous comparisons, began to
neglect herself Her beauty wilted from
lack Of attention. Her incompatible
complexion began to yield to farm food
and farm labor in farm weather.
She sighed: 1T doesn't seem to make
much difference what man a woman
marries. every one of the brutes has his
own speciality in being impossible"
By this time Peachblow had so dis
organized the machinery Of the universe
that the world was in the garage halt
the time, and all the angels exhausted
1t is not such an easy matter fol
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/ even the angels to keep everything go
ing. especially when it goes backward
frequently. There was talk Of strike
in heaven and celestial society was
profoundly disturbed. The oldest angels
were forever talking Of the last big
revolution when Lucifer and his whole
party were thrown overheard.
But how was the dreadful situation
to be changed? The Lord did not want
to cancel one Of His own generous gifts
to one OF the most beautiful creatures
But beaven was ceasing to be heaven
Tor all its deserving tenants.
At the height Of this dreadful comic
crisis, Peachblow in frenzy and state
OF dependency. while shaving in her
kitchen, chanced to catch a glimpse of
herself in the casual mirror in the
round bottom Of big dishpan. She
had long ceased to peruse her own look
ing-glass.
The vision that stared at her from
that tiny surface shocked her into a
sorrow too deep for Mysteries. She
meditated on her own image:
Every husband is worse than
every other husband. A woman might
as well stick to the first wretch she
happens to marry. was ~luckiest
when I had the most lovable of men,
and I wish had him back again,
movie actor though he be.
This hateful power of mine has
been my ruin. It's best to let nature
take her course. The one thing /
most wish had never been is my abil-
ity to make things as if they never
had been"
AS she exhaled this last sigh, dis
tinct earthquake was registered on
every seismograph in the world. The
heavens shook, at first with surprise,
then with delight
Peachblow herself was shaken. She
found herself staring at a dishpan as
if under hypnotic spell. She heard
her husbands voice from the dining
room door. 1t was the voice of Claude
Winsor. the star supreme of the
cinematic armament. The world
might share his silent beauty with
her. but his voice belonged to her:
the kitchen. my darling? It's no place
for such exquisite grace. And. be-
sides. / see that there's a ton of fan
mail that you haven't answered. You
haven't autographed any of my pho
tographs for me in ever so long.
We've got to get busy or Well lose
our little public"
With cry of rapture she flung her
arms about his universally admired
neck. and rejoiced in the fact that
at least hundred million women of
all ages and races about the globe
would have been glad to poison her
for her enviable privilege.
The moral, if any, has to do with
leaping out of the frying pan into
| the fire. The moral is ancient-the
fire is the same old ineXtinguishable
blaze of discomfort But the frying
pan is forever[new. Each one of US
furnishes his or her own frying pan.
Selah.
Copyright. 1922 All rights reservedD
Evening star., 1922-10-08
FAMOUS OLD SONGS
Annie Laurie.

- ONG writing and romance have
always gone hand in hand.
Back of all great love songs
is some individual who served
as the inspiration. That individual
may have had nothing to do with the
song making and yet become its di-
rect cause. A great love stirs some
heart, in the background hides
beautiful face or charming person
ality. and out Of these come the mel
ody which stirs a world of music low
ers.
Annie Laurie is one of the old
favorites-a song which has lived
and grown in popularity for genera
tions back. 1t is a song which never
grows old. The mother sang it as
a lullaby to her baby girl. In after
years the grown-up young lady sings
it to her lover. and later to her own
fchildren. Its popularity never wanes,
and this is the surest sign of songs
fixed place in the world of music.
Tho words were written by William
Douglas of Scotland and the music
was hy Lady John Scott. The origi-
nal annie Laurie was not a fanciful
vision of a dreamer poet, but was the
daughter of Robert Laurie, Baronet
of Maxwelton. Rerhaps on account
Of her position in life the father did
not look with favor upon the love Of
William Douglas for his daughter.
and she, being of an obedient turn of
mind, would not marry against her
fathers wishes. Some have said she
was of a flirtatious turn of mind and
cast her first lover over in a moment
of jealous fervor.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS could love with
w all the fervor of his race. but 4
! refusal of his suit did not break his
I heart. Therefore when the obedient
or tickle Annie turned him down he
| went forth in search of another, and
| soon found her, but not until after ne
had written the song which immor-
| talfzed both himself and his first
! sweetheart.
He did not lay him down and die"
says a writer. He did not even pine
| away in the sorrows Of cel!bacy. In
stead, he made q runaway marriage
with one Betty Clark Of Glenboig, in
Galloway, who bore him four sons
| and two daughters. His poetic fire
must have cooled down. for we have
no lyric descriptive Of the swan-like
| neck and other features Ct Betty
Clark. Possibly Betty could not COM
/ pete in beauty with her rival: possi-
| bly, the braes of Glenboig were not
| so bonnie" as the braes Of Maxwell
ton.
The original song for which the
| music was written by Lady Scott fol-
lows:
Maxwelton's braes are bonnie
Where early falls the dew,
And twas there that Annie Laurie
Gave mo her promise true.
Her brow is like the snowdrift.
Herthroat 10 like the swan, .
Her face il ID the fairest .,---
| That e'er the sun shone on
Like dew on tn gowan lying
| u the fa' o her fairy feet, -. 49,
Like winds in the summer signing
| Her voice is low and sweet
And she's all the world to me
And but for Annie Laurie
I'd lay me doom and dee.
| A LEXANER FERGUSON, husband
IN Of Annie Laurie. was one Of the
1 country gentlemen who showed de-
J yeeed allegiance to King william
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clan, who was unusually we'll read
for a doctor. He persuaded another
physician to take care of his patients
and went away on a bridal tour of
all imaginable bliss.
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Ill
WHEN he came back DIR. Lapius
w found that his overworked sub
stitute had let all his patients get
well. and he had to buckle down to
the task of restoring them to a state
of profitable disorder.
He had his Office in the parlor of
the home and this made it necessary
for Mrs. Peachblow Lapius to enter
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PEACHBLOW

telephone. At no hour of the day
or night was he safe from the hate
full summons to hurry to the rescue
Of some distressed patient. In nine
cases out Of ten it was a woman. and
in no cases out of ten was Peach
blow ever urged to come along.
She so lost her taste for material
medicaments that she longed for
spiritual help, and went to her rector.
dear DR.. Clarence Yost. to confess
her misery.
She was set upon divorce. but he
was horrified at the thought.
Now an annulment would not be
SO bad" he urged.
"All right, it's annuiled," she
Peachblow grimly.
And DR.. Lapius found himself
back in bachelorhood. But Peachblow
had come to depend upon DR.. Yost.
He lived in such an exalted sphere
and such a comfortable parsonage
that she decided to share both with
him.
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A MERCHANT was Peachblow's 8
~ next first husband; handsome ju-
nior member of the firm Of Wanafield
& Son. at whose great department
store she had long run up bills for
her father to protest against and
pay.
But when she called at his Office she
found him SO surrounded with Ste
nographers. buyers. manikins. cloak
models. designers and other woman
customers and aides that she could
hardly get to him.
His heart was given to providing as
many women as possible with beauti-
full garments and embellishments OF
every sort, with perfumes and rib
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ITO her intense confusion Peach
i blow discovered that the femi-
nine portion Of the congregation took
her marriage to their dear rector as
a personal invasion of their rights.
For a time the attendance fell on
noticeably. But gradually the lonely
women returned to their pews. Next
they resumed their habits Of bring
ing their woes to their spiritual ad-
wiser.
These were genuine woes beyond
the reach of scalpel or tonic, but
Peachblow could not regard them as
anything but a hypocritical excuse
for weeping on her husbands shoul-
der and clinging to his rescuing
hands.
Whether or not she did them a
cruel injustice, the effect on her
nerves was manifest At last in q
crisis of unhappiness, she stormed:
I'm sick of all the professions. I'm
going into trade"
She unwished herself from DR.. Yost
and he once more assumed ali the
charms Of an unwedded clergyman,
eligible and available.
4 4 X X
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THE summer season-usually
silly period-was in full swing
at Harbor Bar. This resort,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-04-13
MONUMENTS

are TO commemorate the love and
esteem In which the party that is
dead was held, by the enc that
-erects the monument. II the lionu-
meat .eans aud falls IN the grave,
cracks and lettering becomes in.
visible, it. dees away with the
above pretty sentiments and shows
neglect and peer judgement.
Naefirst class firm does bust
ness.thrsugh agents as they know
nothing about the business and
only interest in getting one fourth
Of the amount you spend. We have
ia4bnuments ell through this terri
cory that was erected ever fifty
years ago. They are standing erect
and if cleaned sf would look IS
pretty and clear ~ the day they
were erected. You can get this anne
class .of wsrk by ealing or writing
to Z 4
A. j. MARTIN
MARBLE 4 GRANITE WORKS
153 East Capitol st. Jackson, Miss.
l s-22.