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TIIVj SUNDAY OKEfiOXTAX. rOHTLANP, JANUARY 10, 1000. . JEWELL pORD WJ , SAT. ft beats me where Sadie digs m all up. "Who? Why, these young couples that she's always pairln" off I tell her she ought to go Into the busi ness reg'lar, and have some office sta tionary, docorated with cupids and double hearts, and pick out a motto, like "Get Together." "And by way of example," says Sadie, "I suppose I could tell theal to look at tis." "Sure." says I. "Only It ain't every girl can tag such a prize as you did." "That la why they need my help, don't you aeeT aaya she. Tou win." says I. "Only don't drag me Into such fumes." As a rule, though, Sadie likes to play a lone hand In these little affair; but when she dees want help she ain't back ward about callln' on me. Generally It's for Mrs. Purdy Pell, or Plnckney, or some body like that. So when she rings me up the other afternoon, 8-nd wants to know If I can't break away early, I don't suspect anything of the kind. "liuess Swifty can run the studio for an hour or so," says I. "Whai's the programme?" "I want you to come rieht tip to the rotrl," says she. "You'll find us in the tea room. Tory Tolliver's hero, and that young Wally. I'm giving them a tea. you know, and I must leave for nn hour or so, ami Veil, I can't leave them alor.e. and there's no one else handy; so-" "Lovely:" says L "Id look handsome rlayin chaperon in a tea room, wouldn't I?" ".lorty," says she, "you've simply got to come: And you must get a frock coat somewhere and " "Io I have to carry a bunch of lilies of tho valley too?" says I. "Ion't be silly." says site. "This la serious. Sometliing was happened at the Tollivers. I don't know Just what, and Tory hasn't heard, and you must stay with her until I come back. Xow hurry!" There was no dodgln. Not having any extra, frock coats hanging' around the studio, I was going to risk cuttin' It out. when In blows Plnckney. wearin the very regalia I needs. " Gee; but you're Just la time!" says L "Jhcd tho Johndrew." "The what?" says he. "The Bertie coat." says I. "I'm due to break loose as a tea room chaperon lnld'1 of minutes, and I need the uniform. Come on. Pinoknry! Don't stand there askin' fool questions. Peel:" "Why, certainly." si.vs he, and off It comes. That's Pinckney. I could have had tho shirt too. If I'd said so. The coal's a little long in the skirts, end I'm sumo pinched across the shoul ders, even without tryin" to hook it up the. front; but you can't be fussy about your get-up when you're answerin" an emergency call. Maybe the red and green fancy vest wa'n't just the thing either; but It has to do. All I was worryin" about on the way up was how I was coin' to tackle this new Job. I've been master of ceremonies at boxin bouts, and um pired ball games, and re fereed matches on i tho mat; but thia glvln" the breakaway signal to a couple of lovey-doveys was a new dal. The worst of It was. I wa'n't ac quainted. This Tony girl I'd sen once or twice, trailln' around with Sadie; but Wally boy was a perfect stranger. All I'd heard of him was that on account of Iosin' two rich grandmothers he waa left la tho plute cluss. and that he was dead gone on Tony. Accordin" to Sadie, he'd been chaalu" Miss Tolliver around ever since the horse show, tryin" to ask her If she wouldn't be his'n; but she'd been holdin him off. Tou could guess by her last name what part of the country Tony hailed from, fadle always gave it out as Virginia: but that didn't quite tell the story. Sadie lets It out to me that Toney'a late post ofTice address was Horsefoot. W. Va.; but it was something she was tryin' to forget. Do you blame her? Tou wouldn't if you could see her once. Say. for her a?o and weight Tony was the pick of the fruit basket. a head of hair like a load of straw, big blue eyes, and a f.guro like that soap bubble girl you see on the perfumery bottles. Seems that the move from Main street, Horsefoot. to Madison avenue. New York, was due a good deal to Miss Antoinette. Papa Tolliver had been a Judge down there. Also l.e owned a lot of up and down real estate, somewhere In the moun tains, that his father had left him In stead of the old plantation. -As It was worth all of 10 cents an acre, the Judge turns tt over to Tony as a birthday present. But about a dozen years back they'd begun to d.g lead ore in that sec tion, ar.d the first thing Tony knew she had mines of her own and was connect In" with more coin every month than you could spvund in Horsefoot In a lifetime. Course, Papa Tolliver w as managin" the business, and he got the Idea that he was : . ft - V , 5 -:''H' It's My Mines You're Trylna to Get MM. t 1 quite some of a financier. His next think i was that he could invest the lead mine I surplus a whole lot better If he was nearer "Wall Street. It only needed a hint from Tony that she was ready for New York, and -the jump was made. Along with them comes Sister Martha: but she don't count. She was a misprint, Martha was. Iookin' about as much like her kid sister as a bunch of raisins looks like a cluster of hothouse graps. Martha had mud colored hair, parted real sensible In the middle and brought over her ears, and she got her joy out of"lire by dis tributln' potted geraniums among the SkovlnxkU down on Broome street. Tony went In for posies some. orchids and English- violets, but she pinned hers to her fur jacket. Tho merry swim was L V-t .'. -:.V -' YOUNG WOMAN WILL YOU KINDLY TELL ME WHO YOU ARE? what Tony was cut out for; and being a fourth cousin by marriage of Mrs. Twombley-Crane. she found tho door to the pool wide open. She was learnln" to wear fluffy tilings that made her look too sweet for any use. and when she strolled across the bailroojn floor there was generally a flock of Peggies In tow. Down In Horsefoot there had been only the assistant superintendent of the mine, tho clerk In the postofflce. and the new Methodist minister to keep tittered up; but here in our nice little steam-heated village she found the Johnnies grew thicker. And she was bavin' a nice, playful, glrly-Jtirly time of it, without gettin" tangled up serious, until this Wally boy bobs up. He's one of these "I want w hat I want when I want It" chaps. And he wants Tony the worst way. He tries to tell her about It; but as ehe won't listen ho tells Sadie. And Sadie, after look in him up and finding he answers specification, backs "him for a winner. So I can frame up what this afternoon tea business means. It's to give Wally a show. " "That's all right, to far as Sadie goes." thinks I; "but while I'm subbin" on the Job X'll use my own judgment. Maybe Wally gets It, and maybe he dont. It 1I depends on how I like his face." I'd just thought this out when I fetches up at the Hotel Perzazzer. Handin" my overcoat and lid to the cloakroom boy. and tryin' to cover up that red and green vest with one hand, I walks into the tea room. "Oh, here you are at last!" says Sadie, niettin' me half way. "There they are, right -In the corner. I ll be back as soon as I can," and on she goes. Well. I strolls over to the table, pulls out one of tho looey Fourteenth-street chairs, and springs my best o'clock grin on Miss Tolliver. 1 "Oh. Mr. M-.-Cabel" sho gurgles. "How Jolly of you" Ain't it?" says I. "And you've met Wally. haven't you?" says she. "Oh. then you must!" I knew the minute I put eyes on Wai!y that his face didn't suit. Not that I mentioned it. Oh. no! I can be reckless enough at times; but this happened to be one of my careful days. For Wally was something of a boy. I remembers Sndio sayin' what a big. handsome fellow he was. Well, he was big. all riirht. shoul ders as wide as a flat topped desk snd a fist like a maul head. Maybe he was handsome too. It all depends on whether you like so much Jaw. and a chin with a dimple In it. But he wa'n't cheerful. Oh. my. no! He looks about as amiable as a 30 pound college halfback when he tucks the ball under his arm. third down, flva yards to gain, and starts to hit the line. And there ain't any change In his expression as he turns that pair of gloom condensers on me. "Glad to meet yuh," he grunts. "You hide It well," thinks I. What I said, though, was something that didn't mean anything special. Then I lets a waiter bring me some toasted crackers and cream cheese and bar le due Jam. and tries to head off Tony from pouriu' me a cup of tea. But Miss Tolliver Is too Interested in passin' me out a fine line of afternoon conversa tion. And say. for the. brand. It waa great talk. It comes out In gurgles and giggles and guggles, like pouring" cham pagne from a bottle; or maybe more like one of lhes3 geyser fountains, such as the one in Madison-Square Park. you know, a gush and then a splash, then another gusli and another splash. Sounds a good deal the same too-kind of tinkly, almost as good as music. But say, there wan't any more sense to it than as if she'd been blowin" on a cornet. You've heard these feather-weights conversers. Why, I couldn't tell you now of a single thing she said In the half-hour I sat there listenin" to her. But she was worth watchln", with her big eyes rollin', and the feathers on her hat noddin", and the pink and white playin' peekaboo In her cheeks. I'll admit I was enjoyln" it, until all of a sudden I remembers Wally. Tou see, I'd sort of been expectln' to sit around In the wings Iookin' foolish, while them 1 two made googoo eyes at eacn ouicr across the table. But here I finds myseil bein' played for first leadin' gent, wnne "Wally is cast for a thinkln" part. As I turns to S"e how he's takln" It, I has oil I can do to keep from throwln" up my elbow to block a swing. And he sure Was Iookin' savage. "Never mind," says I under my breath. '."She don't mean It." Kh?" says he. '"Beg pardon?" "Ah, cheer up:" says I- "It'll be your turn soon." s Butsay, he don't seem to gt a glimmer of what I'm drivin' at. But he don't cars much either, for he only gives me "1 a scowl and turns back to watchin" Tony out of them heavy tragedy eyes of his. Course, I can see that Miss Antoinette is just usin" me for a dummy and givin' Wally a benefit performance. But, not know-in' how much of that kind of stringing' he'd stand without gettin' am bitious to- take it out on me, I wa'n't restln' any too easy. I kept thinkin' what a figure I'd cut rough housin' It with a heavyweight in a swell tea room, and me wearin' Pinckney's frockcoat. Them giggles of Tony's was gettin" on my nerves too. It was awfully cute and cunniu". for a few minutes; hut it's sometliing you don't want in big doses. And Just as I was wonderin' if there wa'n't any way of turnln" It off, Sadie shows up again, Iookin' serious. "Now, don't be frightened, my dear Tony," says she, puttin' an ann around Miss Tolliver; "but I think you had better go home at once. Shorty and I will go with you." "But why?"" says she, poutin" out her lips. ""What is the matter?" "Well, you see." says SUdie, sparrin" for time, "your father" "Daddy!" says Tony, grippin" her hands Dawn of New N")W DAWNS a new era for Turkey. It has brought with it the assem Dllruj of the recently-elected Parliament under the constitution promulgated In July by Sultan Abdul Hamid. The now order of things Is called the result of the "great bloodless revolution" carried on for years by the "Young Turks" party. And all tho world is wondering how long it will lat this new era of peace and good will and relief from despotism and religious liberty In the blood drenched realm of Abdul Hamid. For It is only S3 years ago that a simi lar "new era" was Joyously acclaimed throughout Turkey, when this same Ab dul Hamid proclaimed, soon alter his ascension to tho tottering throne, that "the welfare of tte Turkish empire lies wholly In the full and sincero application of the constitution. It contained tiio same high-sounding ring of .sincerity as hie recent utterance to the effect that "all In the nation are 3IENTIONKD FOB ATTOK . I : 1 ; ! M . IN" T A FT t A1IINKT. i mvM iiiila'n -iwin'.n HiriiHtfttttiii1 mir-it n-t i Photo Copyright loos, by Q. G. Fln. George W. Wickrrsbam, of New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. (Spe cial.) George W. Wickersham. of New York, may be Attorney General in the Taft Cabinet. He Is a lawyer and connected with a prominent law firm at 40 Wall street, of which Mr. Taft's brother. Henry W. Taft. is a member.' it : i i ervN, It :? ' - - 1 s 3 together and Iookin" wild. "Tell me, he he isn't '" "'No, no," says Sadie. "He's all right now. But you'd better go to him." There wa'n't any need of urgin' her. She's made a break for the cloakroom, and before Sadie can more'n give me a bulletin of what's up, she's ready to start. All I could gather was that the old man's got Into some snarl over money matters, and the folks at home had caught him wanderln around the house with a gun In his hand. Sadie breaks the news to Miss Tolliver after we gets placed In the carriage, and I was Iookin' for nothing less than to see her go throu&h the roof. But she don't even faint. She sits there starln hard straight ahead, and her hands grip pin' one of Sadie's. As for Wally. he seems to have been left out altogether; but through the back window I sees him trailin' along In his cab. And we sure did run Into a stirred up mess at the Tolliver house! The butler that lets us In has the knee shakes the worst way, a red-eyed parlor maid is crossin' herself in the hall, and In the lihr'y Is Sister Martha, face down on the couch, actin" like she was try!"' to swal low a sofa pillow. Slumped down In a big leather chair is Papa Tolliver himself, with his gray hair all rumpled up and his white Colonel Carters droopin" like roosters" tail feathers in the rain. A fine Iookin" old boy he was, for all that; but it's easy to see he ain't one of the kind that stands up well under punishment Martha lifts her head up far enough to see who has come, and then she begins to let out the groans. "Oh, oh, oh! Isn't It dreadful?" says she. "Papa's lost all his money, and now now I must give up my flower mis sion, and Oh, Isn't it perfectly awful, Tony?" That should have been Miss Antoinette's cue to throw herself on the floor and beat her head on the rug. After hearin' them giggles I wa'n't expectin' anything else. But say, w-hat's the use tryin' to size up girls like that? She just gives Sister Martha one sniff and then pikes straight across the room for papa. "Never mind, daddy." says she, gettin a side hold and snugglin' hor head down on his shoulder. "I have enough for all of us; haven't I?" That makes the old man wince like she'd stuck him with a pin. He breathes hard for a minute, and then he manages to say. "I'm sorry, Tony, but yours is gone too." "All of It?" says Tony. "Every dollar," says he. . "Then we'll all be poor together; won't we, daddy," says she, pattin" his cheek. 'But perhaps It Isn't so bad as you think. Tell me all about it. Please tell your Tony!" And out It comes. Well, It wa'n't any thing uncommon in these days. Papa Tolliver had been flyin" his kite. He"d got mixed up in a lot of deals that prom ised well but needed time and coaxin". To float somo of his schemes he'd soaked the lead minee for half their value, at & per cent, with an accommodatin' trust company. Everything was Iookin' well, snd he was figurin' on buyin' a Fifth-avenue plot with the profits, when all of a sudden the trust people calls in the loan. They gives him five days to cough up $500,000 in cash, or else let go of the lead mines for good. It's a case of squeeze, with Papa Tolliver as the lemon. He's got only 24 hours left before he'll be on the outside Iookin- v. up to date. ' "Why, I thin! That's the situation those folks are per- Era for Turkey members of the committee of union and progress, and I am their president. us live together and make the country prosperous." In 1ST6. as now, a parliament was elect ed by the people. That parliament met twice. In 1S77 and 1S78. Then, as now. It was a polyglot gathering. In which were represented the scores of creeds and races that make up the vaet empire on three continents Moslems. Protestants, Greek Catholics. Roman Catholics, Ar menian Catholics and Jews; Turks. Al banians. Bulgarians, Armenians, Mace donians. At that time a frightful struggle was In progress between the Christian Slavs and the Moslem Turks in which Russia played a prominent part. Whether it is true, as has been claimed, that the action resulted from a secret treaty with Russia, which did not relisil the idea of being the sole despotism in Europe and agreed to main tain Abdul on his throne if he would abolish his parliament, the fact remains that the Sultan peremptorily prorogued the parliament, and it stayed prorogued from that day until yesterday. Bv the treaty of Berlin in the Summer of i.7S, following the defeat of the Turks by Rcssia, larse slices of the Turkish em pire were imputed and divided among Austria. England. Russia and Greece, but Macedonia, with its overwhelming Chris tian population, was allowed to remain under the Iron heel of the Turk. '. These events all transpired within two years of Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne, an event which was brought about through Intrigue and assassination. In Ifi'U, when Abdul ' Medjid. father of the present Sulian, died, Abdul Aziz, his brother, was elevated to the throne. He was a profligate who. by his extrava gance, emptied the treasury. Eventually he became a frenzied maniac, whom the palace clique decided to put out of exist ence. May A JS76. he was murdered, his body being barbarously mutilated. Then Mui-ad V, elder brother of the present Sultan, was made ruler. He was allowed to remain only threo months and was deposed on the ground that he was In 111 health. Like his predecessor, he would have been murdered except for the super, stitious fear of his successor. Abdul Hamid. who had been told by seers that hte death would speedily follow that of his elder brother. Rumor has It that Murad, rightful ruler of Turkey, sjtlll lives In a dungeon, the prisoner of his brother. The conditions of discontent and in ternal strife were then much the same as they have been ever since, and It was on the advice of Midhat Pasha that the Sultan In 1S7S proclaimed a constitution as a means of stilling the storm. Midhat Pasha knew all the terrible secrets of the palace clique, that Murad V, the rightful ruler, had regained his health through the quiet of Imprisonment, and he also knew the plans and Intrigues con cerning the abolition of the Parliament. He had the reputation of sympathizing with the liberal- and progressive element. He had written the proclamation which Abdul Hamid proclaimed. Being rid of Parliament and having ap peased the powers by the division of his empire, the Sultan decided also to dis cup 'el Diplomdr in Rimrvee ond Love fectly horrid!" says Miss Tony. "Didn't you tell them they were, daddy?" No, daddy hadn't. "Then I'm going to," says Tony. "I know Just where their building is." Course, Papa Tolliver tells her she mustn't think of trying to do anything of the kind, and' Sadie asks her not to be foolish, and when she turns to me I r "I HAVE ENOUGH FOR says, "No use, miss. They'd give you the laugh." "I don't care." says Tony, stampin" her foot and poutin'. "I will go! Tliey sha'n't take away our mines! So there! I'm going right now!" She makes a dash for the front door, Sadie after her. But out there in the hall, waitln" as patient as a bull pup on the kitchen stoop, is Wally. "Oh!" says Tony, grabbin' him by the arm. "You'll take me, won't you, Wally?" "Anywhere," says he. "Goody!" says Tony. "You see. some horrid men are trying to get daddy's property away from him and " "Yes, I heard," says he. "And I'm going to tell them they mustn't." she goes on. "All right," says Wallie; "'so you shall." "But, Tony" begins Sadie. "Oh, you can come along too," says Tony. Talk about your nutty expeditions, that was a Brazilian picnic for fair. Here was three of us, with more or less sense, going down town with a rattle headed girl to hear her tell the president of a trust company that he was a horrid man. I gets in with Wally. while Tony and Sadie has the other carriage to them selves. We don't say a word durin' the drive, until we're almost there. Then it pense with MidJiat and his secrets. Mid hat fled to Arabia, but was seized and strangled to death by the Sultan's orders. This much accomplished, the Sultan set about the task of disposing of tho liberal element, consolidating his power and re venging himself upon the Christians. But with all this tho power of the Sultan was gradually waning. Vast regions be came depopulated, revenue-producing dis tricts had been ruined and everywhere throughout Turkey poverty and misery were increasing, while the treasury and the credit of the empire sank lower and lower. Meanwhile the activities of the "Young Turks'" Increased, and tho party was augmented by enlightened and cour ageous men of every race and creed in the Sultan's dominions. Among their leaders is Prince Sabaheddlne. son of Sultan Murad V. who was depossd. Ceaselessly, fearlessly they havo de manded reform for years until even tho hungry, unpaid soldiery saw the justice of the cause and threatened to rebel. At last the Sultan read the handwriting on the wall and yielded. Whether it is only another cunnina ruse on his part time alone will reveal. Chicago Record Herald. bRK'ADIKK (UAK1) IS li.M rtOlDII BV MAXIXE lll.LIOTT. Peter McCuIlagb. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. (Spe cial.) The Grenadier Guard who is to look after he carriage patrons of The new Maxino Kl liott Theater in New York, after the fashion of London play houses, arrived In New York on the Campania, He is Peter JIc Cullagh, who saw service in the Boer War and won several medals for bravery. He is six feet, elpht inches tall and weighs 273 pounds. He is on leave of absence. Miss Elliott saw him in London and offered him the position. "5 , t , . ! I I I J leV- ' J I . , t tv . v- -V v j l - 1 Wftttff&MftfflWxtt ! strikes me that of course the shop will be shut at that time in the afternoon. "Goin" to let her have It out with the Janitor?" says I. "JanitorV" says he. "No." "You won't see anybody else this late," says I. "Perhaps I can attend to that."" says he. I thought that was just a bluff; but hanged if he don't give a nod to the , , SS ! ALL OF US," SAYS SHE special cop outside the gates, and the next thing I know we're being: led in through the marble corridors and behind the brass doors. "You will find the president In there," says Wally, polntin" to the ground glass marked "Private-," and wavin' olT a clerk tiiat starts to butt in. Then he whispers somethin' to Tony that we didn't catch, and in a minute more the three of us has pushed in, leavin' Wally as outside sentry. It's a big room, with a double breasted desk in the middle. Sittin' behind the desk is a pompous, clean mugged old gent, with white eyebrows and a pink boulevard connectin' his forehead with the back of his neck, a nice, prosperous Iookin' old party, that you'd trust to bo good to himself, even If he had to fore close on an orphans' home. Tie was signln" his name at the rate of SO sigs. a minute; hut be comes to a dead stop when he looks up and sees the delegation. "Why why what " says he, his mouth comin' open. "Sick him, Tony!" I whispers, nudgin' her elbow. And Tony does. Grabbin' her fluffy skirts firm in one hand, puckerin" up her lips, and shakin' a finger at him, she cuts loose in her own peculiar style. "So! You're the man who is trying to Shirtwaists and them," says the ancient proverb. "Yes, and clothes change some, too," Is the modern amendments to it, and these warm days are proving it. Where is the "statesman's" dress of yesterday that every patriotic American used to wear right through August? The black frock coat, white stiff bosom shirt and broad-brimmed hat? Gone. Whero are the "professional" togs that doctors were wont to affect? The formal cut away coat, white vest and square-toed shoes? Gone also, along with the long tailed coat and shoestring tie so long a tradition of the law. Today men are going in for colors and comfort in their dress, and it would take more than or dinarily close observer to distinguish a judge, from an actor when both wear flowing ties and cuffs on their trousers, says tho Kansas City Siar. Business and professional men alike have discovered that they call look just as wise in a collar that 's comfortable, and formality In dre.ss lias finally petered down to dinner togs which still are de' rigeur for wait ers. "it is tho ase of common sense in dress," said a Kansas City clothing man the other day as he superintended the draping of his window witli a new lot of patterns. "By that I mean that con siderations of comfort, taste and aes tbr,ticlsm are overcoming- tlie century old prejudices that have dictated the cut and color of our clothes. We do not realize how great the changes have been, but i" you will try to imagine Daniel Webster in a pink shirt and belted trou sers, you will st an Idea of how com plete this revolution has been. Not that you n-ed go back to Webster's day even in the late 'Ss most politicians and business ami professional men, too, dressed liko undertakers. A banker, for Instance, would have lost the confidence of the public by appearing In anything but a black coat and patent leathers or at h'ust he thought so. and a doctor In anything but the same garb would have seared his patients to death. The idea b3ck of it all was that you must Jiluff everybody into believing that you were strictly respectable. Perhaps thero is some truth in the belief that only "sports" wore unconventional clothes in those days, and that others were driven to the opposite extreme in self-defense. All that is changed, however, and man kind is less under the tyranny of clothes traditions than at any other time sines knee breeches and silk stockings went out. "What did it? Why. the women did it with their lit ti 3 shirtwaists. But for that we would still be wearing heavy black coats and costs every afternoon from 1 till 6. We looked at the shirtwaist and saw that it was good, and the revolution In mens dress began. Observe how the change began. At first it was our Sum mer togs only that yielded to the influ ence. Conservative dressers decided that they might safely don flannels at the seashore and on holiday occasions where Bradstrect wouldn't hear about it. That was tho opening wedge, and it wasn't long before common sense suggested that it was Just as easy to be comfortable get daddy's mines away from him, are you?" says she. "Now aren't you ashamed of yourself? Aren't you now? Such a nice looking old gentleman too! Why. I'm surprised: really, I am. But I want you to know that I think you're Just as mean as you can he. .So there! X'ou're horrid, perfectly horrid, and "Youns woman," says he, catcliin' his breath and breakin' In by main strength, "will you kindly tell me who you are and " Why. I'm Tony Tolliver." says she. "You ought to know that. It's my mines you're trying- to get. But you sha'n't have, them! No: indeed, you slia'n't! Kor a young gentleman has just told me that, he will give his note, or something, for for" "To secure an extension of credit .'" puts In the old boy. "Yes. that's it." f:iys Tony. "Now is It all right? Will you give daddy hack the mines?" That gets a grin our of him. one of these quarter-inch kind, iiko startln" a safe door. "Would It be too much." says lie, "to ask the name of tlii.s young man whoso" "Oh, he's a real nice young man," breaks in Tony. "He's perfectly splrn did." "No doubt." says tho old one; "but" "Well, you can see for yourself," says Tony. "He's right outside now." "Ah. that's Interesting, I'm sine." says he. "Just call him in, will you?'' "On the carpet for you," says T. sttokin' my head out of the door and beekonin" to Wally. And with that ho inarches In. big ns a house, and with that chin of his juiiin" out liko a cement pier. Tho old gent takes one look at him,- the smirk comes off his face, and he throws up Ills hands. "Why, Wally!" says he. "It's me, governor." says Wally. Say. no wonder we got through aft. r closin' time, with the president's son for a guide! Tho two of 'cm looks in. each other for a minute, and then the old s-'rt starts hi to spread on tho soft soap. It appears ho thinks tlia best way to handle Wally is by not bein' too rough, lie tells him he supposes he don't intend ilieddiin' with this mine transaction, which ho can hardly be expected to understand. If the old man was Iookin" for informa tion on that point, ho got it. Wally says he don't care whether ho knows tho lino points of the case or not, he was goin' to see that Tony's daddy had a square deal; and if ho didn't see. it comin'. ho meant to call around bright and early next mornin', pull out $1,Oh0.ito hi cash, and put It in some other bank. Wally's governor made a face like he'd bit Into a pickle; but ho recovers quick. "Then I may inf.-r. Wally," says lie, "that the young lady in question is your " "Nothing of tho kind, sir." says Wnlly. "I am too!" says Tony. "He's my own dear boy. and I'm going to marry linn when I get ready." "Tony!" gasps Wally. "Is that true?" "Of course." says .she, tossin" hf r head. "But don't get silly over it here." "Ahem'." says the old gent. "Wally. congratulations. And, in view of tho cir cumstances, I think you may assure Mr. Tolliver of a reasonable extension of credit." "Isn't that sweet of you!" squeals Tony, mukin' a rush at hiin. "Why. you dear old man!'' And before he. I: now it he's been kissed twico on tho pink boulevard. "Gee!" says 1 to Padio on the wny home. "That's what I caii giving hicli finance, the tlufT treatment. Talk about her needin' a chaperon. Oh. squash!" Men's Clothing and good-looking all the year round nnd in .-.II places as well as for a f -w day or weeks at a pleasure resort. Look at tho many advantages that havo conin from this reform. Nowadays when all men do not havo to dress alike, lasto and expediency may be consulted, and a man may dress as best becomes his pliy ical proportions and his iueas of pt itu'iet y. It is not contended that all men look equally well in a pink shirt any moto than that all looked equally well in frock coats, but every man can now chooso for himself without being taken for a gam bler or tho advanco agent of a circus. "Why there over should havo been a prejudice against color in men's dress it Is hard to say. Colors always were ad mired in carpets, in wall paper, in paint ings, in nature and everywhere except in a man's coat, hat or stocking.-. Thesn had to b'j black. The only persons al lowed to transcend this tinie-h lilowed propriety were actors, and they were niiuwed to wear attractive clothes so that we could pay money to go and admire them. Tiie loo.-e, cnmfurlahlo tils, tho soft colors and graceful cuts apt' al 'd to us, wo saw that they were artistic and beautiful and In every v.ay to h-j desired for actors." m:it of ioi.l.t T iji-'.N'I- TA FT. r V J v 4 Photo Copyright 130S. by a. G. Ham. Henry IV. Taft, of Jeff York. NKW YORK. Jan. !). (Spe cial. ) Thl3 is a new photograph of Henry W. Taft, brother of President-elect Taft. Mr. Taft is a la wye at 10 Wall street. Now York City, and has not been as conspicuous in public life as any of his brothers.