Show MADE OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH Colonel Nips a Slander In the Bud by Emphatically Denying That He Had Pajamas Joel Mitchel Chappel In Affairs nt Washington In the National Magazine Maga-zine tells a story on ono of the soldiers sol-diers In the Cuban war tho same story In fact that has been told of a thousand other soldiers but always makes one laugh It runs as follows Tho congressional campaign revived re-vived a lot of old stories told by Col A K McClure the veteran newspaper news-paper man One which he often tells relates to tho time of the Spanish American war Tho ladles of Con shohoclcon were engaged In making o supply of pajamas for the soldiers ol a favorlto regiment That type ol sleeping garment was new In those days and the relatives of the soldiers were determined that every man In the regiment should have tho most stylish thing obtainable In n robe do nult as the young lady from a Washington Wash-ington boarding school said My boys has always worn nightshirts night-shirts said an old lady busily stitchIng stitch-Ing on the modern garments I hope theyll know what to do with those The parcel was duly sent to Cuba but no word reached the ladles from the supposedly grateful wearers ol the robes do nult They waited a month and then wired Col A K Mc Cluro who hailed from Consho hocken Anxious to know If you got the pajamas last month Tho colonel read the telegram and marveled Ho was a wholesouled citizen but wore nothing newer than a nightshirt when ho slumbered He would nip a slandor In he bud his wire read Story Is a lie out of whole cloth probably fabricated by enemies to ruin mo politically Admit am not total abstainer but never had pajamas last month or any other time |