The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
Mr.. Loeb's Record.

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Nashville American.
Mr.. Loeb's Record.
Secretary Loeb has broken all
length of service records for his Of
| fce, and a week from today will have
| completed five years as the presi-
dents confidential man. In addition
| to holding the position of secretary
to the president longest, it is safe to
say that none ever enjoyed the execu-
tlve's CONFIDENCE In greater meas
ure than Mr.. Loeb.
One day at luncheon party in
the White House about a year ago
the president said of Loeb that he
was the best secretary any presi-
dent ever had" and as he has not
only retained him in the place since
that time but was instrumental in
| securing for him a substantial in
| crease of salary, he evidently con-
tinues to hold him in the same high
regard.
That Secretary Loeb has repaid the
| presidents good will and favor with
the utmost loyalty is well known to
all who are familiar with the routine
| at the White House.
| If Mr.. Loeb had not been con-
cerned heart and soul for the welfare
ago have left the place he now occu-
pies He has received many offers
from business concerns which have
promised greater financial reward
than the secretaryship. but he has
| steadfastly refused them all.
only few weeks ago, when the
| presidency and management of the
| principal railway syndicate of Wash
| ington was offered him, Mr., Loeb re-
fused to leave his place at the White
House. 1t is probable. however, that
he will eventually accept the street
cOmnAnV'S h fv-ja dc
| who secured controlling interest
have filled the presidency only tenn
porary, and have announced that
they will install him whenever he is
ton dispatch to New York Tribune.
Australian Mechanics.
characteristic of Tasmania that II
bears the nickname of "the land O.
lots of time or 1.-The land of sleep 6
lot" while its inhabitants are called
'Tassies" and Jam eaters" the lat
ter being an allusion to the island.
great fruit farms. "Cornstalks," as oul
| general and sporting appellation O.
Australians, applies in strictness to the
people of New South Wales only, OF
account of their height and slimness
trees Victorians are required to answer
to the inelegant sobriquet of gum
suckers" while South Australians ar,
crow eaters in reference to the use
| of crows as food in times of drought
The large banana plantations o
Queensland give it's people the name O
banana eaters,'' and the hot and arit
| wastes of West Australia explain tn,
term sand gropers. Dali!
Chronicle.
Gaze on Child Buried Fifty Years Ago
When Postmaster Joseph widmer. o
| New Hartford, lost his little daughtei
so years ago his wife and he were hor
ri1ed by the thought of physical dis
| indignation, and they sought the ai(
of New York undertaken to preserve
the chiIds features. AS a result tn.
as an lair tight coffin of iron with {
| cover of glass The undertaken assur
ed the Borrowing parents that if the!
| looked at their daughters corpse
half century later 1t would be as nat
ural as it was then. The so years ex-
pired last week, and the Widmers had
the body exhumed. When the earth
was removed from the glass cover they
saw the child's face as calm and un-
| changed as on the day of death. The
coffin was reburied and the Widmers
| are happy in the belief that the earth
ly form of their child will defy the
ravages of all time.-Waterbury dis
patch to the New York World.
seThe Morning Tub
A few years ago a sister of mine call
ed in to see an old lady who lived in a
little cottage in Lincolnshire, and In
course of conversation happened ia
mention that she had cold sponge
down every morning.
Law, miss" said the old lady, land
does your mother known"
Yes, certainly; and she quite ap-
proves"
WELL" said the old lady. "a washes
mi face livery day, an washes mi
neck once a week, but ave nivver bin
washed all over since a was a babby.' .
This good lady lived to the ripe old
age of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
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