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doubtedly be retained in office as long as
he retains his zeal for work.
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In the White House itself Mr. Taft will
find a veteran official who cannot be
spared as long he retains his. present
robust health. This is Maj. Charles d. A
Loeffler. L. s. A. widely known as door
keeper to the Presidents Going on fifty
one years ago the then youthful Loeffier
at Baltimore enlisted in a cavalry regi-
ment. in which Robert +. Lee was lieu
tenant colonel and F'itzhugh Lee was
second lieutenant. With this regiment
Loeff1er got into the thick of Indian fight
ing, and showed his courage on many oc-
casions, particularly upon d notable one,
when he aided in saving the life of F'itZ-
hugh Lee who as long as he lived there
after was one of the plucky soldiers
warm friends Indeed. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
always visited the White House to see
Maj. Loeffler when in Washington.
At the outbreak of the civil war Loef-
f1er, now a sergeant, was ordered to
Washington, where he was kept on Spe-
cial scout duty until the close of the
struggle, when Secretary Stanton appoint
ed him his bodyguard. Later he was
with Gen. Schofield, and when Grant was
inaugurated he was told to report for
duty at the White House. He was post
thus guarded every President until this
day. When Mr.. Taft is inaugurated Maj
Loeffler will celebrate his fortieth year
in White House duty. In 1878 Hayes
gave him the commission of captain in
the regular army. He was later promoted
to major and even when he was placed
on the retired list he was deemed in
dispensabe to the White House, where
he will undoubtedly remain as long as
his present youthful vigor lasts. Last
July when he celebrated the semi-cen-
tennial of his service to the government,
President Roosevelt sent Maj. Loeffier a
letter of congratulation. in which he said:
To-day you complete your fifty years-a
full half century-of service in the army
of the United States, and you have been
in close and confidential relations with
eight Presidents. You have rendered
loyal, faithful and gallant service to the
country: you have shown yourself an
a bsolutely trustworthy man; you have
done we'll every duty intrusted to you. 1t
is a record for your children and your
children to be proud Of"
In the Loeff1er family there is also an
incipient case of like father, like SON."
similar to that in the Kimball family. In
1889 Carl A. Loeffler, the majors little
son, was appointed a page in the United
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She Needed Brain Food,

nR. JOSEPH BRYANT said at the
~ tuberculosis exhibition in New York
that human mating based on good sense
rather than on beguiling sentiment
would do much toward making mankind
immune to tuberculosis
"Afterward at a dinner, the noted ply
siclan was attacked by young lady.
How dare you. sir" said she, claim
that love causes consumption?"
"Oh. didn't go SO far as that DR..
Bryant returned
But you said.'' declared the young
lady. that, if marriages were based on
common sense instead of love, consump-
tion would decrease.
He nodded.
Well. isn't that the same thing?' she
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mastery Of the French language. added to
his experience in diplomacy, led to his
recommendation to Grant for a regular
appointment in the diplomatic service. and
Grant. overlooking the fact that Vignaud
opposed him in the civil war. both with
the sword and with diplomacy. appointed
him In 1875 secretary Of our legation in
Paris, where he was promoted to first sec
retary by Arthur. He has remained at
our Paris post since his first appointment
by Grant. and thus he has there repre-
sented altogether three governments.
serving US continuously for thirty-three
years, under nine administrations. repub-
lican and democratic alike. Had Mr.. Adee
and Mr.. Vignaud been men Of great
wealth, who could afford to expend about
$4,000 a year on entertainment they
would have been ambassadors a decade
or more ago. AS it is they have been
content with salaries of $500 and So 900
respectively.
Quite as indispensable to the govern
ment during these two generations has
been DR.. Sumner Increase Kimball, gem
erai superintendent of the life-saving
service, who has been continuously con-
nected with the federal service for forty
seven years. He was born in Maine
where he was graduated from Bowdoin
five years ahead of the late Speaker Reed
Like the great Speaker. he also be-
came lawyer. served his apprenticeship
in the Maine legislature. but left 1t
decade before Reed. entered. He came
to Washington at the beginning Of the
war as a clerk in the second auditors s
ONCE. In eight years he became chief
clerk of that office, and year more
round him chief OF the revenue marine
now the revenue cutter service, although
still In his thirties. The life-saving serv-
then ri
and young kimball at once set to work
to develop it. Its humane necessity so
impressed him that he aided in having
1t made a separate service. and his name
in 1873. while Hayes was President
So we'll was he known to our law
makers. even then. that the Senate con-
firmed him without referring his name
to committee. and he has served as the
head Of the service for thirty-one years.
without break under eight Presidents ;
and two democratic administrations In
1888 Congress rewarded his services by
an increase in salary while the position
is held by the present incumbent" as it
trusted by secretaries of the Treasury
that frequently he has been asked to act
as controller. registrar or solicitor He
has also represented the government at
conferences cor abroad Last October he and
his wife entertained many of the high
government officials at their golden we'd
ding anniversary, q conspicuous figure
at which gathering was their son, E. F.
Kimball superintendent of the money
order service of the Post Office Depart
ment. DR.. Kimball is hale and hearty
at seventy-four. He has personally known
all the factors in our government prom
inent during and since the civil war
period. The life-saving service without
him would be as Hamlet without the
Dane" for it has known no other head.
He has made 1t what it is. and will un-
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ttTHE chorus girl is the rose wreath
! on the bowl. the foam on the
wave of frenzied finance said a FASH
ionable florist.
He was discussing his failure, which
had been causd by the failure of a num-
Der of rich Wall street patrons, and he
said philosophically:
The millionaire who. bent on making
the chorus girls life a bed of violets and
orchids. orders her $500 or 5000 worth Of
flowers week. belongs to the class that
is pinched first when a financial strin-
gency comes. Crash goes the money
market, the frenzied financier and the
florist go into liquidation. but the chorus
girl goes on forever
These chorus girls he continued. Il
know the type. One of the prettiest of
chorus girls married young Newport
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made no difference to Mr.. Cleveland. who
promoted him to the second assistant sec
retaryship. which he has retained under
Harrison. then Cleveland again. then Nc
under Taft as long as he will Indeed, it
would be considered little short of a
calamity should he retire. Being but
siXty-six. he will probably remain the
oracle of the State Department for at
least a decade more.
1t is ASK Adee" nine cases out of ten
when things get into a tangle at our for
eign office. He knows by heart the pc
culiar form of addressing every sover-
eign on earth. whether as 'his most cath
olic majesty" "his most Christian mai
esty" or what. He has at tongues END
the yard-long list of titles Of every mon
arch Of Christendom or heathendom lie
tells the President where distinguished
foreigners in Washington should be
placed at table or in what order they
should be received with respect to home
officials, and this function has resulted
in his being dubbed etiquette tutor or
the Presidents
He can play the diplomatic chess game
blndfolded or on dozen boards at a
time, and what he doesn't know about
the rules is not worth Knowing Indeed,
he probably knows even all that ism
worth knowing. Like the late p. d. Ar
mour he rejuvenates his mind with tea
Annually he bicycles through some part
of Europe for a month at a stretch. MAX
ing snapshots as he goes. He also de-
lights in making photographs of his col
leagues at their desks
Another of our diplomats who has been
promoted under both republican and dem
ocratic administrations Is Henry White.
now ambassador to France. 1t was
rumored the other day that he was the
only one of our present ambassadors
whom Mr.. Taft would retain. However
true this may be, he, like Mr.. Adee. enter
ed the cant be spared class at an early
age and there is little doubt that he will
remain in our diplomatic service for many
years to come. Arthur sent him TO
Vienna as secretary of legation in 1888,
and he had been there but year when
sent to London as second secretary. Here
he made himself so useful that, In spite
of his being the appointee OF republican
President Cleveland retained him ana
promoted him to first secretary. From
this time he repeatedly acted as charge
d daffaires in the absence of Minister
Phelps and his having been favored by
Cleveland did not, in turn, cause Harrison
to overlook his special abilities. However
he was not reappointed during Cleveland's
second term, but Mckinley was glad to
send him back as chief assistant to John
Hay. when the latter was ambassador to
London.
Indeed SO tactfully had Mr.. and Mrs.
that they had become intimates of the
then Prince and Princess of Wales. and
when these royalties ascended their
thrones America had at court a man and
woman who could chum with their ma jes-
ties. This was what America wanted.
and Roosevelt retained Mr. White until
1905 when he promoted him to ambassa-
dor and sent him first to Rome and later
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office February o 1914. having served
twelve years eight months and twenty
six days. He was the adviser of two
Presidents. Jefferson and Madison. while
James Wilson will have been the ad-
wiser of three, Mckinley Roosevelt and
Taft. On the date when this article is
published. Mr.. Wilson will have been
in the cabinet eleven years ten months
and nineteen days
He has been continuously in public life
for forty-ffve years, having served eight
years In his state legislature where he
was speaker: six years in Congress. and
the remainder Of his time up to his cabi-
net service. in various state Offices. He
was in Congress four years while Grant
was President. and during two years Of
Arthur's administration. However highly
he might have distinguished himself in
these days. however. he never could hope
to be President, since he was born in
Scotland from which country he emil
grated when seventeen. When he breaks
the cabinet record he will be in the seven
ty-fifth year of his youth.
Another noted official who cannot be
spared is Alvey Augustus Adee, who has
been assistant secretary of state for twen-
ty-seven years. Indeed. he has been con-
tnuously connected with the diplomatic
service and State Department for thirty
nine years. He was the son of a naval
surgeon of Astoria, n. Y, and when he
was twenty-seven President Grant ap-
pointed him secretary of legation at Mad
rid. where. as charge d affaires at differ
ent times. he early felt the responsibilities
of diplomatic career. After remaining
at Madrid seven years he came back to
the State Department as a clerk when
President Hayes came in but in less than
a year Secretary Evarts had noted his
skill and had appointed him chief of the
diplomatic bureau. Four years later
Arthur made him third assistant secre-
tary of state. That his career had thus
been started by republican Presidents
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to be denied that out of the pockets of
Americans would come most of the outlay
to pay for tariff on coffee
Most persons will perhaps be surprised
to know that nearly all the coffee used
in the United States comes from Brazil.
for 1t is the practice to see it generally
listed as Mocha or Java" But this
means that these are two names to be
conJured by, that is all. Most persons
have been brought up from childhood To
know a certain brand of coffee and
would he loath to take any that had an
Other name. and would decline to believe
In its virtues, even though 1T were acJu-
ally a finer brand
Therefore a lot of coffee that comes
from Brazil masquerades as Mocha and
Java.
The Brazilian minister to the United
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lies. and in 1902 the figures were 1882,
or eighteen-hundredths of a pound more
than for 1904.
1t is the huge growth of the coffee in
duStry in Brazil that makes it possible for
this immense American demand to be sat
isfied. Out of the 17.O0O,OOO bags required
yearly to meet the demands of the world
Brazil produces no less than 14,0OO.OD
bags. or about 20 per cent of the whole
amount
A few years ago, when coffee was
bringing a higher price than at present.
the condition of the business seemed to
warrant extensions: enormous sections of
the South American country were given
over to the planting of new trees.
1t takes five years for these to arrive
at the bearing point. Some shrewd oper-
ators saw that the business was being
overdone, and the state of Sac Paulo pro-
hibited further paintings.
The new trees came into bearing, and
the crop of last year is said to have been
in excess of 2OOOO,OOO bags, or more than
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cried triumphantly, as saying that con-
sumption is caused by love-?
II couldn't be rude to you if / tried
said DR.. Bryant, but, really. you know,
your way of arguing is very much like
the way recruits drill
Recruits-they are called the awkward
squad-often reduce the drill sergeant to
despair. l once heard a sergeant, after
struggling with a particularly inapt re-
cruit for some time, say to the youth:
"'Young fellow. do you believe that fish
is good for the brain?'
Sure. 1 do replied the recruit
promptly.
:" Then for goodness sake exclaimed
the sergeant, go and eat a whale"
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work. Which way they nave Noteo,
for what party they have worked in the
past. for what candidate they have
whooped and hurrahed and thrown up
their hats does not matter a jot to the
President-e They are simply inval-
liable, and it would be a hard rake and
scrape to find others just as good. That
is all No one understands it SO well as
does Mr.. Taft himself, who knows his
Washington better than any other Presi-
dent-elect since John Quincy Adams.
During the campaign it was rumored
that Mr.. Bryan, if elected would invite
James Wilson of Iowa to retain his seat
in the cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture.
This may or may not have been true.
The point no less remains that James
Wilson is one of these men who cannot be
spared and who may remain in the next
cabinet SO long as his health lasts. On
the last day of the present year-Decem-
ber 81, 1909-he will have broken the
record for cabinet service. now held by
Albert Gallatin, the great financier. CAL
latin was commissioned Secretary of the
Treasury May IA. 1901, and vacated that
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TT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED BY STATISTICS
i THAT ON AN AVERAGE EVERY AMERICAN DIS
POSES OF 1864 POUNDS OF COFFEE PER YEAR
BRAZIL GIVES TO THE WORLD YEARLY ABOUT
FOURTEEN MILLION BAGS, AND GREAT PART
OF THE COFFEE THAT is LABELED HERE AS
MOCHA OR JAVA IS IN REALITY THE OUTPUT OF
THE SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE FARMS, WHOSE
QUALITY HAS BEEN SO STEADILY IMPROVED
THAT NOW 1T RIVALS THE FINEST IN THE
WORLD.
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A Labor-Savinq Device.

MFRS. BELLE DE RIVERA, whose spe-
AvA cial knowledge of New York public
school life has made her famous. mar
rated at recent dipner number Of
public school episodes.
One concerned the small boys winter
hatred of cold water
His teacher" began Mrs. De Rivera.
'said one morning to a little boy:
g Jimmy. I'm ashamed of you Your
cheek Is all black and sticky. Go to the
hydrant and wash it.
Jimmy went out to the hydrant, mois-
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market with the result OF tumble in
prices, and. secondly, to provide for an
excess surplus Of coffee to be available
at any time should the crop fail to come
up to the ideal.
This agreement was aided and given
its binding power by the action of the
president of the republic and affords an
excellent idea of how seriously the bus-
ness Is regarded in Brazil.
But as a result of this virtual control
Of the market Brazil would not be the suf-
ferer even should Congress find it neces-
sary to impose the tax on coffee. No mat
ter at what price. the public must have
it's morning consolation. Coffee slaves
are innumerable. There are many men
who can't develop a good humor till they
have had their coffee: there are still
others to whom the finest kind Of dinner
would be disappointment were it not to
wind up with coffee.
Therefore. while the sale would perhaps
fall Off a little and the Brazilians lose to
that extent, it is nevertheless a fact not
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Statistics,

KISS MARY COLEMAN is one of the
AvA leaders of the suffragette cause in
New York. Miss Coleman is a lawyer
and perhaps it is her legal training that
makes her SO skillful in putting down
those wrong-headed men who interrupt
suhragette speeches.
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enough to meet the demand Of the whole
world.
Had such a crop been thrown on the
market 1t would have sent prices tumbling
and ruined the business SO the three
coffee-growing states entered into an
agreement, which was ratified by the
President of Brazil.
According to this they agreed to assume
a pro-rata responsibility for the purchase
of such surplus quantity of coffee as
would be necessary to fix the minimum
market value at a price reasonably re-
munerative to the planters They further
agreed to borrow money with which to
carry that surplus. the commodity being
held as security until 1t could be mar
keted without the need of selling at
ruinous price.
The plan of the scheme has been two
fold, first to prevent the glutting of the
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plutocrat last year. For the honeymoon
they went abroad. A friend of theirs
dropped in the other day. and I asked
him how they were getting on.
Jack said my visitor. would have
run through his whole fortune if 1t hadn't
been for that pretty wife of his
vent it?'
Spent 1t all herself said he"
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+ r / G | A l. $ may
come and officials
may go. but a few
officials. like Ten
nyson'S brook, may
go on forever in
office. without Mr..
Taft's hindrance, at
least. These few
officials are the men
who cannot be
spared as long as
lasts their zeal for
u
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ing In the course of Its deliberations
the ways and means commibtee fire.
quently consulted a report prepared by
the bureau of statistics for the calendar
year ended December 81, 1904. The
amount has increased since then, and
there are later figures available. but
the report for that year was so de-
tailed that 1t forms an interesting basis
for calculations.
At that time every person in the
United States was using per annum IL. "a
pounds.
What was more astounding still were
figures showing the disposition Of the
worlds crop. and these proved the United
States to consume nearly half of the to-
tai supply.
The bureau of statistics puts out these
figures in pounds: United States, S52 272- :
900; Germany. $50, $4,000; France 1SS-
100000; Austria Hungary. SO. 100000; Hol-
land. S2,5OO,OO0; Belgium, 726OO, go;
Sweden, 57,420OO0: Russia. 80. 800 OOO
Italy, 35,64O,OO0: Great Britain, 32,34O. 600
For the fiscal year of 1904 the total
amount of coffee which came into the
worlds markets was, in round numbers,
., 226O. 900 900 pounds.
The United States took for the calendar
year 1117.0OO.OO pounds. or just about
half of all of it,.
A study of these figures will surprise
most people and turning over of pre-
conceived notions as to the coffee -consum-
ing propensities of the various nation
alities.
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r the ways and
means committee
OF the House,
which is now pre-
pairing a tariff bill
for presentation to
that body at the
special session be-
ginning the latter
part of March, de-
cides TO tax the
coffee cup there
will be one Of the
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tened his wash rag and rubbed soap over
It, Then. rag in hand, he returned to
the school room
CURED
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hveliest floor fights that has been seen
In many day in the lower branch OF the
national legislature. The proposition of
friends of coffee tax is to impose a tax
on the aromatic berry of : cents a pound
Just now the republican members of the
ways and means committee are not dis
cussinS in detail any of the schedules.
and are particularly averse to talking of
the proposition of a five-cent coffee tax.
Tulio Larrinaga, the Porto Rican resi-
dent commissioner, is anxious and hope
fui that the ways and means committee
III IL reaches a dead center on the cof-
lee question. VIII weigh the needs of the
Porto Ricans in the balance and decide
on the five-cent-a-pound schedule AS
has been repeatedly published in The
Star. the Porto Ricans say that the
lnlted States could do more for their
island by the imposition of a coffee tax
than by any other proposition of legisIa-
tion. Indeed, there are those who con-
tend that tax on coffee is necessary un-
less the main industry OF the island is to
be deliberately ruined.
Altogether the coffee schedules II the
ways and means committee recommends
tax on the breakfast beverage. promise
TO excite more interest in the House even
about which there has heretofore been a
great deal more talk. Incidentally, some
member of Congress undoubtedly will air.
at the proper time, the rumor that a
$o,OOo.O0O pool has been formed by cof-
fee importers to take immense financial
advantage of any coffee tax proposition
by rush shipments.
The country may submit to a high
tariff on diamonds. wines automobiles
steel and a host of other articles but
when ii comes to getting revenue out of
every cup of coffee that graces the Ameri-
can breakfast table there is peril
The two side lines that go with the
coffee are already costly. Sugar is heavi-
ly taxed. and yields a big revenue. Milk.
of course. being purely domestic. propo-
sition, returns no profit 10 Uncle Sam, but
the increase in the farmers expenses has
compelled him to boost the price of milk
in most sections of the country
With this condition prevailing, the law
makers do not yet know whether to re-
gard IL a safe proposition TO make the
national love for coffee bear an increased
tax
The amount of coffee consumed in the
United States is little short of astound-
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CARL A. LOEFFLER.

. EMARKABLE CASES OF MEN WHO HAVE
~ PROVED THEMSELVES INDISPENSABLE
TO THE VERNMENT-REGARDLESS OF PRES
IDENT OR PARTY THEY GO ON, LIKE TENNY-
SONS BROOK-WHO THEY ARE AND HOW
THEY HAVE MADE THEMSELVES so VALUA-
BILE.
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That the consumption of coffee is an
nually increasing in this country is clear
ly shown by the bureaus figures as given
for the end of each decade since 1880.
These figures are In pounds per capita
per annum: 1880. less than 8: 1910; 5;
1850, SO; 1860, SIS; 1870. .; 1880. SO; 1890.
IS. In 1897 it was 1912: in 1898 it was