THE © Wie 1 How Secretary Cortelyou Runs the Treasury Depart ment and Drives Dull Care Away from His Door = rm T has been a strenuous period for George Bruce Cortelyou, tary of the treasury seCIe- financial on which he could bid dull care flee away and feel himself at liberty to do | a little loafing. He has had the finan clal stringency on his mind; he has had to give advice on currency reform » preparation of that report, and to cap the climax he had to do it while suffering from an attack of grip and while reports were flying about that he had had a misunderstanding with the president over his candidacy for the Republican nomination and was LIKE FATHER LIKE SON. The Two Sotherns, E. A. and E. H, as Lord Dundreary ’ 4 EB A BOTHEHRN 2% DUNDREARY your fl role ern ght.’ ¢ na Sothern In the of Dundreary again. E. H. Soth has le his reputation as an actor In romantie drama, but he has mastered the humorous role Dundreary, with all its traditional busi. ness, and the stutter and drawl char mat the acteristic of the foppish English Jord. | Bome who have seen the revival of the play claim that the elder Dundreary possessed more finish and that his work contained a personal quality the son has not been able to acquire, but this, they say, Is not strange, consid. ering that it took the elder Sothern Years to build up a creation. “Lord Dundreary,” which was orig: Inally*known as “Our American Cous- in" was the play at Ford's theater, Washington, the night that Lincoln was assassinated, and E. A. Sothern and. other noted actors of the time were In the cast. When the Sothern of today produced the play at the eap- ital some weeks ago President Roose velt expected to witness It. He spe clally desired to do wo, both on ae count of his Interest in the play and on account of his wish to show that | about | {It was about this time that neighbors of the Cortelyous began to remark that gomebody was keeping the plano and . h . ping | | the domain of Since the | beginning of trepidations in the | world last autumn up to the | present time there has not been a day | of | IL Discords of Official’ Life For- gotten-as the Talented Sec- retary Wooes Harmony From Piano and Organ ———y./ of to resign In consequence organ going a great Ceal In their home. It appeared that the secretary to dis- | tract his mind from the discords of his official life was paying more than usu- al attention to making harmony in his home. He is very fond of the organ and also plays the piano well. He used to play on the keys of a typewriter. Other people do that for him now, but the keys of the organ and plano possess for him still a great fascination. Secretary Cortelyou has the reputa- tion of being the and member of the cabinet hardest workers, Taft Is the joker—not the little joker, either—of the Roosevelt board of adv and he is a hard worker, too, despite the fact that fat men are su Ar. Cor- telyou Is his desk long aft- er tl and clerks of the It is hard department | executive silent serious Isers, osed to be lazy, rally at i¢ subordinates worl with hi dered if he hi men ex! reir bill tec tives in ronning him down. Aft last he slipped into his hotel quietly, and it turned out that for hours he had been walking around Central park alone do the dark. In explanation he simply sald; “I can think better when walking out- doors.” ted thi i ities as d« there | iperstition ows prever At tl} York the a Heury van in his makeup official Quties thelr the looked Scot rine Ting withon in which a how Sam t a smile, Dun ate his irned to the others they fool" are irteen dos with thre eg hs } catch forty-eight rabbits w» EM. SOTHERN AS DUXDREARY. seventy-six legs In twenty-five min utes, how many legs must twenty-four rabbits have to get away from 3,000 dogs with no legs at all?” . At the beginning of his present en- gagement Mr. Sothern offered $200 In prizes for the best answess to the rid dle. The answer wh won first prize was : “All bets are off. Its pot a race” iy LL it. | and one of its | i Jitner] ption Is & most efficient remedy, t Is equally effective in curing painful peri —— The Trouble A Revolt Against Graft In the Monarchy of King Carlos. The Tobacco Mo- nopoly. Ora | | 3 bp) In Portugal. The Fat and Jovial Don Carlos and. “Dictator” Franco. Penury of the Royal House. <C A RHE American minister at Lis bon, Charles Page Bryan, re cently returned to the capital of Portugal after a trip through King Carlos and in an interview th a correspondent of the Associated I'ress sald no evi- that the the of civil and revolution, have been many Vv w he saw dence country was on verge There political Portugal AC tions of Minister war rumors that a in observa uphenval was imminent the the kingdom ording to Bryan, 6G CARLOS ARD 1 opinion of : Portugal is passing through a history making epoch. 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