The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-14

mia, he would rise and spend the midnight
hours over 1.-THE Four Seasons" or "Napo-
leon at st. Helena"
Blaine's chief amusement is thinking of
Bar Harbor and what a good time he will
have there in August. Of games, long
He cannot walk much, for he is now far
the best known man in Washington, and
whenever he tries to 60 about unaccom-
panied he is sure to be accosted by some
persistent applicant for something. These
watch his house in the morning, and when
he starts they flock hurriedly ahead of him
and reach the state department first. 1t ID
only a block off, but the officials there gem
orally know when Mr.. Blaine has started
by the sudden appearance of his parasites,
as the girl who s~catters corn in st. Marks
square. in Venice, knows when it is fivc
minutes of noon by the appearance of the
pigeons. @
just now the great foreign secretary is
having ''lots Of fun with Italy," and he adj
mits it.
Assistant Secretary Adee is probably the
best known man in the state department
next to its chief. He has amusements ga
lore. He is a poet of no common ability.
He is one of the most artistic, intricate and
far-reaching of punsters. He is a very &C.
oomnlished amateur photographer, and his
negatives do not produce half as much
havoc as those of the secretary.
knew Secretary Window we'll for thirty
years, but l I never knew him to play a game
He would get up his horses and drive them
out once in a while, but he seemed to do
even that perfunctorily-a duty drive'' he
used to call it, for health rather than for
pleasure.
Secretary Foster is a famous whist player.
When at home in Fostoria he takes much
of his recreation evenings at the tank, where
he hQa n liftln room SocreH fO tho avoifipo
emulations of whist. Here he meets three
of his friends one or w evenings in the
week and ~"settles it" with a rubber where
the 'rigors of the game" are enforced in a
manner that would have delighted the soul
Of Thackeray's heroine. The strongest Pole
Foster has no time for whist now, as the
duties of his office generally keep him till
six O'clock; but he is trying hard to assign
specific duties to the assistants, 80 as tc
give him a chance once more to get in hit
long suit.
Gen. Nettleton, assistant secretary, ont
of the finest looking and most popular mem.
bers OF the administration, puts in what
little time he can get at social and literary
gatherings. He is 80 fond of books and
pleasant conversation that l lave u fancy
that he doesn't know whether two pair are
technically inferior or superior to three OF
a kind.
General Noble, secretary Of the interior.
goes to tho theatre once a month or 30, in
season, not oftener. for the reasons: He ia
tho hardest worked mar in the government
and can't get time; and he and Mrs. Noble
and Miss Halstead are connoisssurs in all
intellectual entertainments, and a really
good thing doesn't come to Washington
theaters oftener than that. Secretary Noble
stays at the office hard at work till six or
seven or eight O'Clock almost every night.
"When the president gives strict ORDERS
said Mr.. Nobl the other evening. that
Mr.. Noble must cave the department at
four o'clock, l tried to cooperate with him
to enforce ii and | went down after the de-
linquent, but it failed; he says he can not
get homo till his work is DONE"
The secretary Of the interior has charge
of more complex and elaborate interests
and II larger army of clerks thar all the
other cabinet officers put together, and in
order properly and promptly to solve the
problems before him, he ought to AVE a
Gen. Noble WAS recently asked what was
his chief recreation out of Office.
Getting my hair cut" he answered.
"What2 ! don't understand" said the
interlocutor.
Having my hair out" repeated the Sec
rotary. TT IL quite an achievement when |
get time to 60 and have my hair cut. The
tendency of the hair of a secretary of the
interior is to grow long"
His questioner then recalled the fact that
Carl Sohprz and Teller both wore long hnir
when thew were Mt tho head of this neon.
etuous congeries OF bureaus; that Secretary
he WAS a perfect sight, and that even Gen.
Villas. neat and trim in his personal habits,
surrendered 20 the temptation and grew u