BUTIES OF SECRETARY HAT.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 8

BUTIES OF SECRETARY HAT.

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The secretary of state's duties axe ■lore ceremonious than those of any; Other cabinet member. At the New Tear reception he presents, the entire feplomatic corps to the president. tfe th< n returns to his own home and t"i. the corps—with its dukes, .-es, counts, Tisconnta, barons h«*r nobles—at a magnificent an, says Ladies* Home Journal. »re.:r ceremony be will from time to time personally introduce to the preside!:! all new diplomats accredited to this country. He reserves one forenoon in each week for the reception at his office of ministers and charges d'affaires. He. also attends to the correspondence between the president and the -emperors, tings, sultans and other rulers of foreign stales. "When a royal child is Ttorn he frames a letter of congratulation to the parent. When a royal personage dies it is he who dispatches this nation's formal message of condolence. A clerk in the state department copies these polite missives upon sheets of gilt-edge paper, Sn a faultless copper plate hand. A SL«Wniii.'«r takes them to the white h««u»? for the "president's signature. "Jfcey are then returned to the secretary of state, who seals them with 4Jh great seal of the United States.

ABseptable.—She—"Yes, your poetry sounds pretty, but I haven't the least idea what it means." He—**s>nreka! Then I may hope to get into the leading magazines."—Philattlphia Bulletin. Stranger—"lt seems rather strange fJsat you should complain about your %sst friciid because he took your pert." Hamphat—'Tm an actor, sir, end I wanted the part myself."— Philadelphia Press.