Show SHEARED HOT COAT 1 story about william B mckinley that Re reveals eats the wealthy con gressmann gress gre etmans mans kindly heart although william B McKIn mckinney fey ot of Is almost alnio st the wealthiest mem anem her ber in fix congress lie he Is one of the quietest and most unassuming ot of men those who know him at flose range tell many a story of ot his andly heart hild and generous nature one hot day says gays a man associated with mr mckinley in business we were in the office when a little dog ahme came sneaking in toes capt the misery ot of blistering sidewalks A A worse specimen of tatterdemalion dog I 1 never saw it was mud stained sta ened and owned a bushy unkempt ampt coat that made hot weather a horror to it its ears ear were ragged and there was a hunted homeless look in its pathetic eyes it turned these pathetic eaps on mckenley who was trying to catch up with a third alard days work in a few minutes he be laid down ih his pen left the room and returned with a bowlful of water I 1 was called away when I 1 came back I 1 found the congressman with a newspaper aws paper spread over his knees and upon it stood that doga dog A pair of scissors which had cut lions of dollars in coupons was shearing sharing away at the ragged coat of the wretched little beast which was looking up with almost human gratitude in its pathetic eyes what are you doing I 1 asked im getting the hot coat off t a poor bor little pup ties hes in misery answered the cong congressman in his quiet way since that day mckinley has had a a shadow hadow in the shape of a small mongrel that any dog fancier would cast outside the pale of classified canines lesliee Le sIles |