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she tried hard to keep the trouble
from her voice.
when was this?" she asked.
"Eh? Oh, dunno. Four years age
maybe. How about comm acrost with
the butter?"
She put the butter plate beside him.
"You and-and my husband were
in-in tho jail together four years
ago?" she asked.
"Sure, Nike"
"what-why was he there?"
"Eh? Oh. same thing that gets 'em
all. Needed the coin, guess. Didn't
he ever tell your"
She wanted to cry. but instead she
tried to laugh.
"Of course he told me-" she affirmed
bravely. "He-he always tells me
everything"
Docs, Ell? Say-now! Haw, haw
Tells you everything! That's good
that Is. Did he tell you about me?'
mo. Why should he?"
why not? Forgot it, most likely.
He hadn't ought to forget me. though.
We seen a whole lot of each other
them two weeks"
"was-was you in there for-for
stealin'?"
Me! Not on your life! Rum was
my ruin. same as it's been a whole
lot Of others. Eth? Haw, haw.''
'How long was-was Mr.. Ellis there?"
Il dunno. Year or SO. maybe. /
amt seen him since. He got his dis
charge a week afore they let me
loose
A familiar step sounded on the
walk by the side door. Lurelia
started.
"You-you stay right here" she
commanded. Don't you go away,
and don't you speak or-or move.
My husband Is comm We-weIl sur
prise him."
She hurried into the dining room,
closing the kitchen door behind her.
The familiar step came nearer. The
side door. that from the walk to the
dining room. opened. Obed came in.
"Ship ahoy, old lady" he hailed,
jovially. Dinner ready? Amt late,
1 hope, am I? Why, what's the mat
ter?'
She faced him. white and trembling,
but firm.
"Obed,'' she said, sit down. Din
ner'll be ready in q minute. Sit down.
want toto speak to you about
somethin'."
LIE SAT down. regarding her won
l. deringly.
ITO speak to me?" he repeated.
For the land sakes. what's hap
pened? Is the COW dead?"
MO. Oh, don't laugh!-I don't
feel funny just now-Obed, do you
remember that time when you asked
me to marry your
,"Eh?-well, say! Do you think
ia be liable to forget it! Luckiest
day in my life that was. Why"
Hush! Obed, 1 asked you then II
If you had a past"
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THE WAR.


Impossible" replied the ssrvitor.
Tier majesty has been an invalid for
nifty years. and sees only her ladies'
in-waiting ana her master Of cere.
monica"
Bring me that mastsrr' fumsd the
German.
But when the higher funotionary
arrived. he simply repeated that her
imperial majesty received no visits.
"Donnsrwsttsr" exploded Won
Schmitx, does that answer my quss-
ton about the Austrian haG2"
Than the master Of ceremonies re-
aiissd that this German ofiicsr was
totally isnorant OF . treat episode
In tAs lifA Of Gsrmanio ro9Aity whioh
svsfy Amsr1c4n sshoelboy knowA par
fectiy-the Mexfcel Esfventurs of
3aaxtpsii q. ssss;s;ss
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"a which,"
"a past Some secret in your life
you hadn't told me. You said no.
He stared at her. Have you?" she
repeated.
what? Say. No. of course I
amt"
"Obed-oh. don't lie to me,
couldn't ever forgive your lyin' to
me-"
lie? To you? Who said I ever
lied to you? I'll break the swab' F
eyerlastin' neck"
Hush, Sit right down again in
that chair. Obed, was you ever in the
Ostable jail?"
He hesitated. Then he colored.
"why-why, yes" he admitted.
But didn't think"
''Oh. hush. Be still. You were
there and-and you never told me?'
"why-well, no, I didn't. You see
I was kind OF ashamed, and-it didn't
amount to nothia' much. anyhow.
Didn't amount to anything! Oh.
my soul, how can you talk so? Did
you know a man there named-what
was it-Dugan?"
"Dugan? Yes, certain. Tough
lookin' critter: reg'lar tramp. In
there for bein' drunk and smashin
windows and raisin' hog generally.
Yes, I knew him. He was the only
one had to look after for one SPELL
We got to kind of-well. chummy, as
you might say. Twas lonesome bein
janitor and keeper and everything
else in a place like that one-horse
Ostable Jail. and feller has to talk
to somebody. The sheriff.. he only
comes around once in a while, So
Wait. Oh. wait! You were-a
keeper therein the tail?"
"Sure, / suppose likely / had ought
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lar, charged $4,000 in Vienna! So.
the ermine-lined chinchillA cloak at
$4,000; the tailored suits Of which
she. bought ten in an afternoon; the
signed" afternoon gowns. evening
creations and deshabilles at $500 to
$4,000 apiece. And all those 100 pairs
of shoes and 800 new hats and hand
kerchiefs mt SIS each which the
Vienna papers were telling about in
the grand days Of 1914
When the dark days eame she "lst
things CO. and raised more ready
cash ON her inhsritahoA Tho private
fortune Of her father, old King Lso-
paid, was 20 vast that single lump
OF twenty-six millionai could 'disap-
pAAa.s another lump Of nfty-fouf mil
lions could belong to the estate OR
nets md : taira lump sf nttssn NIL
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to have told you about 1t, Lurslia; but.
you see. / was kind Of ashamed. same
as ! said. 'Twasn't much Of q Job,
but took it cause mother was sick
twas just afore she died-and the
boat shop where I'd been workin' had
shut down and I needed money. Then,
another thing made me ashamed OF
il was on account of bein' fired.
Politics twas. Jim Leghorn. he vas
sheriff, and he give me my walkin'
papers to make room for another
democrat, same as him. Only Job I
ever was discharged from, that Jail
Job was. I'm sorry I never told you,
Lurelia, but-Eh? How did you
come to know about II and-and that
Dugan tramp?"
She did not answer. Instead. she
hurried out into the kitchen. closing
the door. The kitchen was empty:
so were the plates and the tea cup
on the table. So was the chair where
her recent visitor and been sitting.
So. too. was the rack on the back of
the stove where the cranberry pie
had been put to keep 1t warm.
A moment later she entered the
dining room. She leaned over her
husband and put her arms about his
neck
"Obed." she said. laughing and sob
bing together, Tim awlfully sorry.
but you won't have any cranberry
pie this noon. /"
Obed interrupted. Cranberry pie"
he repeated. Who's talkin' about
cranberry pie? ] want to know why
you--'
"Yes. yes. dear. OF course you do.
And I'm goin' to tell you. But first
/ want to tell you how bad I feel
about that pie. I'LL make two for
supper, and you can eat them both.
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THE pie baked, and tho table in the
dining room set for dinner. she
stepped to the kitchen door to see If
he was In sight. He was not. but
some one else was, a disreputable
male. who was sauntering toward
her across the back yard. His
clothes, his hat, his unshaven face.
classified him in her judgment as a
tramp. She was not afraid Of tramps
and asked him what he wanted.
MA am" he said. does anybody
name of Ellis live here?"
"Mr. Obed Ellis lives here" she
replied: "but he's out. I'm Mrs. Ellis" !"
The tramp nodded. They told me
this was his hang-out," he observed.
II thought I'd just stop in and see
him. So you're his wife, eh? didn't
know he was married"
She looked him over, and closer
inspection did not make her estimate
more favorable.
larly?~ she asked. "Is there any
thing I can do for you?"
He grinned. IT shouldn't wonder"
he said. "'Course I'd like to see ODE
all right enough. but you'll do. I'm
out of luck, down and out, as you
might say, and amt had a square
meal for a week. If there's any grub
around loose / could use 1t. 1 know
Obe would give me a hand-out II he
was here, for old times sake"
She hesitated. This man did not
look like the kind of friend her hus-
band would be likely to have, but
misfortune might come to any one.
"Come in and sit down." she said
He came into the spotless kitchen and
sat down upon one OF her freshly
scrubbed chairs. He looked about the
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skipped" but kept going. A week
later he came again, and twice during
the week following. A month later
he proposed marriage. 1t was then
she told him of her other love affair.
When she was eighteen she had been
engaged to q man who kept a billiard
saloon at Pigeon Cove. Later she
broke the engagement.
II found out" she said, with a shud-
der. that he was dissipated. He
never told me. but once 1 saw him
orunk-intoxicated. mean. He had
been drinkin' whisky then. but when
he couldn't get that he drank Jamaica
ginger. He'd been arrested and in
the lookup two or three times. If
he'd told me i might have forgiven
him. ! was a girl and ! probably
should have forgiven him and been
sorry afterward. But he'd never told
me and couldn't forgive that. That's
why I'm telling you this now, Obed.
The time to tell such things is before
marriage. not afterward. There
mustn't be secrets between husband
and wife I've read too many stories
in books about folks with a past
gettin' married and nothfn' but misery
ever came of it. If you've got any
thing in your past life, now is the
time to tell me of it, Obed."
Sure thing" agreed Obed prompt
ly. What do you say, Lurelia? Will
you marry me.
She said yes, and. six weeks later
they were married and she came to
Orham to live with him in the little
cottage at the rear of the hotel prop
erty. Now, a very happy wife. she
was making him a cranberry pie be-
cause he liked it better than any
other kind.
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room. crossed his dingy, ragged
trousered legs. and shifted.
Say he observed, cheerfully,
that pie over there smells good to
me-"
She did not take the hint. II can
give you some cold meat and bread
and butter" she said. coldly. "Will
that do?"
He srinned. "And a slab Of that
pie. eh?" he queried.
II should say not! That pie Is for
my husband. II the meat and bread
and a cup of tea won't satisfy you,
then-'
"Oh. they'll satisfy me all right. II
there's enough Of them. Just watch
what do to 'em. Trot 'em out"
She filed a plate and put It and the
cup of tea on the kitchen table. $50
you used to know Mr.. Elhs7" she OBJ
served. What Is your namer"
He grinned again. al well az one
can grin with q mouth full.
my name is Dugan." he said.
call me that. Got any more tea?"
She refilled the cup. where did you
and my husband know each other?"
she asked.
"Oh, over in the pen-the jail, l
mean"
The teapot did not fall from her
hand. but it came very near it.
THE jail" she exclaimed. why
why, what jail?"
.The Ostable jail. of course. There
amt no other in these digEin's. ODE
and me were in there at the same
time"
CHE placed the teapot very care
~ fully upon the stove. Then she
Evening star., 1922-08-27
Patience and Skill of Museum Artisans
Produce Exhibits of Unusual Quality

human figure Of our own and of other
races of peoples-that is. costume
figures. This is done In the labora-
tory Of the anthropological division
Of the museum, which is in charge
o; William H. Egberts. who has held
the position for nine years. Mr.. Egg
berts is a recognized master and ex-
pert in his art and the public has
long been familiar with some of his
splendid figures and groups in their
cases in the museum and the exhibit
ton halls. He has already completed
the Apache Indian groups. containing
and an equally good one representing
Kiowa Indian children at playa
wonderful life-size figure group of
no fewer than seven pieces.
The model of the first American
Red Cross canteen established in
France is also by this artist and is
well known achievement. as are not
a few of his figures Of the period
costumes Of the mistresses of the
White House. Busts of celebrities are
also a favorite line of his work and
some fine ones have been made in
this department of the museum.
4 X 4 X
NF all this class Of work, no part
" Of it can outrank in value and
Importance the truly life-like figure
groups Of the Indians. The day is
already with us when 1t is probably
impossible to find in any part of the
United States a single North Amer
lean Indian who does not present
somewhere about him the "ear marks
of our civilization. 1t may be in MS
speech; it may be in the way he
dresses his hair; or, what fs far more
likely, 1t may be seen in what he
wears. Even as long ago as 1877,
when saw not q little Of the various
Sioux and Crow Indians and other
tribes, this held as true as 1t does
today; and, as a matter OF fact, 1
recall but one instance where I met
an Indian who was, SO to speak,
pure indian from head to feet.
I was attached to a cavalry command as
surgeon, and we had gone into camp at
Fort Custer, at the mouth Of the Little
Horn, that post being in the very earl
Test stages of its establishment. Troops
had come in from several points. and
we had with US such historical charac-
ters as Gems. Crook. Sherman, Terry.
Sheridan, Ord and others. Many Crow
Indians had come In from the reserva-
tion. Tho day was very suitry, and ]
iay out In my tsnt with ats ''daps" open
ana the Afternoon sun streaming In.
PrssentEyss young Grow buck stood IN
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lions be described in his will as "all
that I inherited from my mother and
father" Were there not also three
trunks full OF unlisted securities in
dispute with the Baroness de
had compromised with the Belgian
government.
But as the war continued. not
even the Belgian government could
afford to pay accounts to a spend
thrift princess. Louise accepted the
hospitality OF the Duchess of Schles-
wig Holstein. sister-in-law OF the
then Kaiser wilhelm.
They were good to Louise in Schles-
wig Holstein. They cheered her up
by talk about another inheritance.
now, any day-her quarter share of a
lump sum of $12.000,000 to s1S.000,0o
from the estate of her Aunt Carlotta.
who could not live but a few months
longer!
No matter how the war should turn.
Louise of Belgium. married to a CO.
burg. would be in a position to
touch"
X
\ 4 EANWHILE, that Aunt Carlotta,
A aged and peculiar, lived in an en-
chanted castle in war-ridden Belgium.
With war all around her, in her castle
garden she knew nothing of it.
Like this:
When Capt. Won Schmitz,- of the
kaiser's forces, burned his way to the
Belgian village Of Bouchout. he and
his company beheld q grand chateau
in stately grounds. On the iron gate
were two gilded crowns. while at the
tower there few a flag he did not
know, beside the nag OF Austria.
their ally! Angrily. he jerked the
bell. An upper servant, all in silk
and satin, appeared.
who dares to fly that flag roared
the captain.
The gaudy servitor replied. with
quiet assurance:
This is the dwelling Of her imper-
ial majesty. the Empress Of Mexico"
so" said Won Schmitz. I'll pay
my respects,"
Evening star., 1922-08-27
JOSEPH C. LINCOLN,
American HumOriat.

Joseph c. Lincoln was born
on Cape Cod and started MS
career at an early age as an
artist. but shortly discovered
that his talents lay In the
direction OF writing. Among
his first writings were his
famous Cape Cod Ballads
They were not only a success
when they appeared. but the
book has gained in populSt:fy
throughout the years. He has
sold stories. short and long. TO
all the prominent magazines In
the country. and has reached a
very special place in the hearts
of his admirers.
He has admirers in England
too. He is being discovered on
that side Of the water as an
outstanding figure among
American authors, whose posi-
tion is surely entrenched
among the humorists. They
liken him. over there. to their
own W. w. Jacobs.
Mary Stewart Cutting. Jr.
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BRUSSELS, August II.
~ RINCESS LOUISE of Belgium
l. has just arrived from Vienna,
where she lived for a time in
L poverty-she, daughter OF old
King Leopold Of Belgium and reck-
oned one Of the richest women of
Europe
But Louise is also queen of the
shoppers
In 1913, she was sold out by the
sheriff in Paris. But Louise was not
in Paris when her furniture and
clothes Gin 80 hanging wardrobes in
one single Paris fiatD were knocked
down at auction. Let things go!
said the princess grandly. Already
she was in Vienna. wearing her mag
nificent jewels.
In those days the shopkeepers of
Vienna and Paris played a guessing
speculation. Did Louise have on her
jewels. or were they in possession of
her confidential maid, the celebrated
Marguerite Monnet? Half the time.
both maid and mistress Carried false
ones, the real jewels being hidden in
a box of blacking on the kitchen
mantel. The shopkeepers knew this,
too.
co. when Louise wore her real jew
~ els. she regularly enjoyed her
credit as queen of the shoppers" 1t
was argued that she had touched"
another slice of the unknown millions
at which the Belgian government had
compromised her share Of old King
Leopold's estate. She would fling her
creditors a sop-and do more shop
ping.
At one moment she had twenty fats
in as many cities Of Europe. She had
just touched some four millions
when the war came.
Through the war Princess Louise
wandered from country to country.
AS she wandered riches dropped
behind her.
Gone, the $4,000 sables coat. made
of 100 imperial pelts chosen by an
expert during two years! Gone, the
chinchilla ulster with silver-fox col
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CONTINUED from Third Pase.)


from Florida, mentioned above, do
mated by the Miami Aquarium Asso-
ciation," and to the building OF
drum for the tanning Of mammal
skins"
incidentally, it may be noted that
"the whale skeleton was being put In
shape for photographing. measuring
and description as preliminaries Tor
an extensive monograph. after which
1t will be hung in the exhibition
whale hall. In addition, Mr.. Mirguet
has prepared a large number OF rep
tile skins and skeletons for the
study series, besides plaster casts. re-
pairs, ETC.
Mr.. Aschemeier has been assisting
Mr.. Brown in the mammal mounting
when required; has worked up loe
mammal and twenty-one bird skins
and gone over the entire exhibition
collection of alcoholic invertebrates.
refilling and otherwise caring 1or ofz
tars." Few in the employ OF our
government achieve more important
and extensive tasks and few receive
such meager salaries for the work tneS
30 faithfully perform.
THERE was time, well within my
l recollection, when certain Of the
experts were doing some beautifui
work in the matter OF the preserva-
tion OF fishes--not in preservative
fluids, but in models, casts, and SO on.
Of actual material. At tho present
,, time there seems to be a complete
dearth Of endeavor along any such
line. When properly done, eolored
casts Of fishes are very good, and
surely fill an important place In the
teaching Of soology, not only In this
country, but Of moro distant parts OF
the world.
There are upward Of two dozen diff
fsrsnt kinds Of kangaroos now known
TO science, and these have their habi-
, tAts in various parts Of Australia.
New Guinea, Tasmsnia and some OF
the off-lying islands. There are tine
rock kAngaroos, the tree kangaroos.
brush kangaroos, wallabies and the
rest, including the curious hare
kan earoos, Of which there are several
spN .iss, we have also 4 peculiar
form, on the island Of Misol, with
another In Papua. OF all these the
siant kangaroo 10 the largest, and
NJ. Brown has Just finished mounting
: naSnifcsnt specimen Of cnA
FOR the past nine Esafs thers has
tsef some sxtsm1ivo nn1 hikh.ciass
work done n The mbdelinE q the
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the doorway of my tent. having arrived
there as silently as one can well i'm
agine. With his back to the sun, he
presented a picture I shall never forget.
His hair was dressed after the fashion
of the men OF his nation; he had tinted
his face a warm red; he held an ele-
gantly decorated pipe in his hand while
his buckskin costume, from neck to
moccasins, was true to the fashion that
his tribe had worn far back to the days
before the whites had invaded their
country.
ON the same foor Of the musuem
" with Mr.. Egberts, studio and the
workroom of the taxidermists we
find the "range"-a great, long room
devoted to the labor required in re-
storing the fossils that come to the
collections. This department-that
is. the department of vertebrate
palaeontology-is in the hands OF DIR.
James w. Gidley and Charles w. GIL
more, and from many fossil deposits
here and occasionally elsewhere come
the fossil remains OF fish, reptiles.
birds and mammals. Here in the
range" are employed N. H. Boss. Mr..
Horn and J. NJ. Barrett, three vet
Grams Of long service in this d.
vision. especially the last-named
artisan, who has served At least
thirty years. or perhaps more. MIR.
Boss is workman Of unusual
skill. and I have many times been
favored in being allowed to watch him
as he undertook to correctly assemble
the parts Of some fossil vertebrats
brought in from the western beds where
it had lain for something like million-
odd years.
,, The work that is dons BY Mr.. Boss is
not only interesting and very important.
but it requires q good knowledge OF
vertebrate osteology; that "a, OF ths
bones Of many backboned forms, euch
as fishes. reptiles. birds ana mammals.
Through such information there comes
to be naturally acquired the knowlsdgs
Of the skeleton ~ It occurred In extinct
representatives Of those several groups
of animals. and when the osteology OF
existing species has been more or iess
thoroughly mastered, the person thus
equipped is OF inestimable value to any
museum or laboratory where the re-
storation Of vertebrate fossils represents
the work that daily eneagss those %
employed. Some very remarkable AMI
mais have BEEN restored b. M. Boes
Under the direction Of the curakofs oe
the, department and rsstorsd wttA M
donbted accuracy.
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r oUISE OF BELGIUM has spent above
- 10000, 900 francs (mostly when they
were worth $4,000, ,0o0) and owes Any
where between 100000 and $1,000, 900
francs.
In the lawsuit against her fathers
estate, just before the war. 1t came
out that Philip of Coburg. before put
ting her in sanatoriums. had paid for
her (apart from her annual allowance
Of half a million. which she also spenD
debts amounting to 100000 francs.
None Of it was Belgian money.
In the Brussels lawsuit. Maitre Bon
nevie (for old Leopold's estate) de-
clared that, after her divorce from Co.
burg. her father had several times Of
fered to pay all Of Louise's debts con-
tracted since the divorce. but that she
had refused his conditions.
This statement made the great shop
keepers smile. They knew better than
the lawyers what sums they had re-
ceived from the princess on account Of
old debts, in order to make new ones--
not to mention her cash PURCHASES and
her general train Of life. Those millions
had to come from somewhere-and they
knew that it could be only from her
fabulously rich old fathers poekst!'
Seldom was such hocus -pocus seen
in . train Of mixed accounts. All passed
| A. II the late King Of the Belgians had
put the business genius Of his later
years to the task Of disinheriting
Louise. Yet the same hocus.pocus
would apply equally to q successful
attempt to salt down for her. . royal
life inoome-free from the attacks Of
creditors and the temptations Of shop
keepers!
Between her divorce (when Coburs
squared sverythins) ana her fathers
death (when the major creditors pre-
sentsd their accounts) Louise had. run
up $4,000. 900 francs Of debts. From
1911 to the end Of 1918, they had swelled
Ito 100000 francs! Now, they are
set down at nearly $1,000, 900 francsl 90,
Judge what millions Of cash accounts
shs must have paid!
| tForeign exchange has nothing to Do
with these figures In francs. Commodi-
ties have simply grown dsarer In Du-
/ rome. frsncs, etc.. remain francs, etc.)
Now, this astonishing fAvorits Of for.
tune (stili drawing secret revenues from
| BslsiAn sources, free from Any, eom-
pulsion Of her crsditors) is on the point
Of inhsriting vast fortune from Mad
CArlottAi
| Can you blame the Duke Of schles-
| wig .Holstein and his friends from loan
ing her some cash on her sxpectationsi
'aThsy tried to make me deed away
my rights to the inheritance OF Aunt
carlottar told Louise sxcitedjy. when
shS arrived in brussels. AZ fact. no.
body knows what she has signed.
.sThsy are determined to gst my
mensy!' means Louise. VINO WIN bro.
i tAct nasls syi
3 n xsuil bsea Dlty not . preee1e her
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nssd 4hs u16na,H