Arizona republican., 1891-12-15

president thinks this Is very good Joke, but as yet he has not sent for the palace car.
 asked gentleman of high station who was the presidents favorite cabinet minister. If you mean his nearest per sonal friend in the cabinet" he replied, "my answer of course is Attorney Gen. eral Miller They were, as you know, law partners, and their friendship is of long standing, very close and confden- tial After the attorney general, Secre- tary Tracy comes net in the presidents affections. have heard General Harri- son say that Mir. Tracy was one of the most lovable men he ever met, and he commented on the fact that the only man he took into his cabinet as stranger-General Tracy and the presi- dent had never met before the former came down to Washington to take his seat at the presidential council table had quickly become one of his warmest personal friends and most valued ad- visers
 Secretary Tracy is indeed an admirable man-plaln, simple, sincere, direct, thoughtful of the rights and feelings of others, and with a tinge of unconscious melancholy in his composition, placed there by the tragedy of two years ago, to make him more interesting and fascinat- ing. He has won the hearts of all the newspaper men by his kind treatment of them and his willingness to help them in every way he can. A correspondent who called at the secretarys house one recent night said he found Mir Tracy sitting in his window smoking and reading q newspaper, and in his shirt sleeves. The correspondent offered to give his card to the servant at the door, but the servant replied that card was not necessary, that Mir. Tracy made it rule to see every one who wanted to see him.
 Uncle Jerry Rusk is another favorite with President Harrison. The secretary of agriculture is, indeed, one of the nost popular men in Washington. He is as simple and unassuming as any farmer, full of good humor and dry wit, Prob ably nothing better than his response to the man who joked him because he was the tail end of the cabinet-"Well, if ] am the tail end will try to keep the flies off this administration"-has been heard in Washington in many a day. Uncle Jerry gets off good many things like that. don't know another promi. nent man in Washington who goes to bed as early as Mr. Rusk does. It is a rare thing to find him up after 9 o'clock in the evening, and he likes to retire about half past 8. He gets up at day light and, farmerlike, takes a peep at the weather and comes in talking about the possibility of frost and the progress of the corn crop. Another of Uncle Jer- rvs peculiarities is his liking for the old fashioned noon dinner. In Washington every one takes lunch at midday and dinner at or in the evening-every one but the secretary of agriculture, and he insists on having his dinner at 12 o'clock sharp and his supper at G.
 The death of w. l.. Scott has remind ed good many people in Washington of the days in which the late millionaire was page in the house of representa- tives here. Even at that early age Scott developed remarkable facility for poney making. He saved up enough of his salary to buy horse and wagon, and let the outfit to the postmaster of the house at good rates. He took a contract for carrying the mails from the railroad to some country postoffices in Maryland, and sublet the contract at profit. He bought a piece of real estate in Wash ington out of his savings, and held to it till he was able to get about fifty dollars back for every one put in. We have a young paee in the house now-or he was in the last house and hopes to be in the next-who has made about $20,000 by judicious investment of his savings in Washington real estate Some day no doubt he, too. will be millionaire and a statesman.
 One of the brightest, most manly lit tie fellows ever seen in Washington is the youngest son of Mir. Clarkson, the chairman of the national Republican committee. Grosvenor is only nine, but he is a lad of remarkable spirit and in- dependence. Three weeks ago he was at Fortress Monroe with his nurse and his aunt, his father being busy in New York and his mother and elder brothers not having returned from Europe The next Sunday was his birthday, and he wanted his father to spend that day with him at Fortress Monroe. Mir. Clarkson couldn't go, and telegraphed Grosvenor to that effect. Imagine MT. Clarkson's surprise on Sunday morning when Gros-