The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-19
He usal to rock the boat for fun;
His fooliug on this earth Is done.
Pncton rr,trt
storics of Mr.. Lamar.


It is the habit of Mr.. Lamar to tell
the waiter TO bring him a good dinner,
and he thus leaves the selection with
the waiter land the result is that he is
often disappointed in the outcome. He is
very pleasant fellow at the dinner table,
and he likes to sit at the table for
several hours. He is q good story teller,
and he has had such wide acquaintance
with public men and such remarkable
career that he can tell more stories in
which he he's had personal interest than
most officials. He is nearer able to
fill in every minute with an anecdote than
any othcrman in Washington, and he is
great quoter of poetry. He has lots of
little gems which he has picked up from
the country newspapers, and he has q
great admiration for the newspaper and
the newspaper writer. His. greatest re-
gret in the interior department has been
that it has kept him from his usual extern
sive reading of newspapers, and he de-
YOURS when he can the cross roads papers
Of his own state.
Secreary Lamar is, however, q fine
magazinist, and if he had O stenographer
constantly with him he would probably
be volnminous author. He is very apt
in his expression, and he is one Of the
most highly educated men in Washing
ton. james G.. Blaine says that his mind
has s'a;certain orientalism in it mixed
with typical Americanism, and his work
in the department. shows that Blaine was
not arliss when he added "Lamar is q
full rejection; full of imagination, SEEM
ingly careless, yet closely obseryant; ap-
paren1y dreamy, yet altogether practi-
cal."s
Lamar Is q great reader. He reads
everything and keeps up with the current
magazines he likes French novels and
readsthe French readily. He comes from
most cultured family, and if he had us
much money making as he has literary
ability he would be a rich man. AS it is
he Is worth somewhere between S15,O 600
andS20, 600, though he would be worth
$50D00 if his Jersey cattle would bring
the} values he puts upon them; and,
strange to say, oil the money he has made
hascorne from this herd of Jersey cattle.
Hehas big farm in Mississippi, and he
has one of the finest herds of Jerseys of
the state. Senator N1cPhcrson's Jersey
bull, Senator Vest, which lately took a
prenium at the Jersey fair in New Jcr-
sey, was bred by Secretary Lamar, and
Lamar has another animal, Gilt Edged
III for which he was offered $1,000.
The assistant secretary Of the interior,
Col. II. L. Muldrow, has one of the lerg-
est Jersey herds in the south, and he
Keeps them on his farm Mt Camp Oaks,
Miss, and has catalogue Of sixty pages
ontaining list of them. Lamar knows
all about farming and stock breeding, and
twill be u surprise to manyto know that
lie is the inventor of an iron harrow which
Is used to some extent in Mississippi He
Tas one Of the first farmers, so far Us
known, to advocate the use of ensilagc in
the south, and le has all the pride of the
southern lawyer in his farm and stock.
Nearly every prominent member of the bar
and judiciary of Mississippi amuses him
self in farming and stock breeding, and
ithcse Mississippi statesmen like to talk of
their farms as much as the Kentuckians
4 do of their horses, aShington Letter.