The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-14
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EYES," said the secretary with a sigh,
they had no time to get their hair cut dur
ing the winter"
Conversation and reading are the chief
amusement of the Noble household-read-
ing good books and conversing on literary
and philosophical topics. Among the fire.
quent and welcome visitors are such men
as the Emersonian Mystic, Professor Harris,
chief of the education bureau, and such in
ventors and scientists as Langley of the
| Smithsonian and Power of the geographical
surveys.
Secretary Tracy is temperate in the ex-
ample he sets to the navy. lie plays lone
of the technical amusement games. He
drives moderately. He smokes about one
cigar a day. He dimes absteniously and
a sober-minded man, and the tragedy which
darkened the first months of the admins
tration has thrown a permanent shadow on
his life.
At his elbow, serving as private secretary,
is a handsome young man with full flowing
blonde beard, a bright eye, and a nervous
vivacious manner-Henry w. Raymond, a
son of the eminent proprietor and founder
of the New York Times, and SO closely the
living image of his father that the resem-
blance startled me when | stepped into the
office the other day. He is fVll of business,
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a valuable officer.
Assistant Secretary Solely is quite an
athlete and a member of the Athletic club.
He takes under its roof most of his physical
exercise. There he oun the parallel
bars and swings himself about and abou,
%wrenching into shape what Harry Edwards
who hit according to rule, but talked wild,
used to call his "cuspidor muscles"
General Proctor, secretary of war, is in.
spired with rare passion for whist. Al
evening rubber is his frequent amusement,
with Senators Cameron, Edmunds and per-
haps Hawley around the other sides of the
table. His ambition is to make a Gatlins
gun of his long suit. Then he has a com.
binat,on pool table at his house, and tum
bles the worries with considerable skill
But his chief fun is with horses, He love-
the whole equine genus. and is very fond o.
his own horses. He has astonished the cit,
with his superb spans that he has brough'
down from Vermont, and his turnout gen
orally fires the cabinet with a sad sort o
envy. Gen. Proctor gets . good deal of fur
out of life. He is II very sober-looking maj
with Il low temperature and nj
equable pulse, but he is easily tickled ant
when something really funny occurs b,
goes off like a shot.
l asked Gen. Rusk, secretary of agricul-
ture, what his chief amusement was
WELL" he said, lin q general way, listen
ing to Il good story from somebody. In
special way, and right now l find my ia
vorite amusement in distributing the root
of the American hog. l think we shall gei
there, too"
don't think that DR.. Edwin Wilt, as.
sistant secretary of agriculture, has man.
sources of deliberate diversion. His enter
tainments are impromptu, Rs it were, and
he takes them as they come. He is Il mar
of high culture, and he oould never be lone,
some with a library of books. His phys
zeal recreatiSn he gets from walking. "Dc
You know" he recently said to a friend, 81
think | should ave made an enthusiastic
neutrality-suspicious. n skillful one. | enjoy
nothing more thar walking over my part OF
the Town and watching the progress and
development of new houses. l study the
various plans. inspect the building meth
DDS and keep track of the advance made
from day to day. l find real entertainment
in it,"
lnquiring at the congressional postofice
l lind that there arc nearly thirty senators
and seventy-tive representatives still lin
all summer-mostly from the south, but
including the Farmers' alliance mon who
are planting their batteries for noxt winter
met Jerry Simpson In at Senator Pef-
fer's and asked him What was his chief
amusement.
"Skinning skunks," no said; "both par
tics -pertoctly impartial"
MIR. Ingalls, liz said to lind fun in farm
ing." suggested rs u leader.
YES" remarked the audacious vandal,
and he asked in a sock manner, do
you know that he has this very week mndc
himself eligible to memberahip III the al
lance. and taken the first steps towards in
| itiation2"