Show nA DOOS FORTY DOLLAR HAT he went all the way to panama to pay per cent for it from the washington post when assistant secretary of the navy mcadoo went down south on the united states steamer columbia last year he follon ed the example set by many new travellers trav ellers and secured 21 memento ot every place visited at panama he concluded that the best thing he could buy to remember the country and at the same time secure a useful result was to purchase a panama hat hats of the genuine quality are expensive but he was in a liberal boid and so when the dealer showed of such expensive texture as to permit it to be folded and passed through a napkin ring without damaging and asked 10 for the same retook betook it without a murmur the hat was a beauty and he placed it carefully away in his trunk last monday was hot weather and he concluded to bring forth his 40 genuine panama aliat liat he did so and received several compliments on hia way from his home to the navy department there several of his friends spoke of tho handsome headgear and tho assistant secretary considerably flattered over the universal approval of his selection held forth in eloquent manner on the excellence of the purchase and desirability sir ability of getting things right on the ground in order to insure their being genuine in the midst of one ot his eloquent bursts a newspaper man who bad picked up the hat looked closely on the lining and discovered there the brand of a new york hat manufacturer revealing the horrible truth that the 40 ha had been made in new york and sent down to panama for sale the high regard for tho home readers of this paper forbids publishing the assistant Secre remarks some men folk may imagine them if eo they might get a further insight into what the assistant secretary said after learning that his tia but might have been purchased eed in new york for 5 by closely punctuating bis imagined utterances with exclamation cla mation points |