Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-06

The right time to study the milliGn-
aire, prominent politician and man of
affairs is when he is on his vacation.
Then the true character shines out,
and you get a glimpse of the real man.
Americans so concentrate them
selves on business that the f1nancier
at his desk is so absorbed III money
getting that all his natural character
istics are swallowed, not to reassert
themselves till he allows himself the
pleasure of brief surcease from the
office and its cares.
Forgotten impulses then crop out,
some of the natural boyishness that
has been repressed in the process of
years of money-getting crops out, and
the august man of affairs becomes
the noisiest and jolliest of compan-
IONS
Every American was interested in
the recent vacation trip that John D.
Rockefeller took to Europe. The news
papers sent reporters to accompany
him, and all they wrote was eagerly
read. 1t was something new to see
the iron head of the most rapacious
trust in existence frollicking over Eu-
rope, and men studied the spectacle.
The vacation idea is divided into
two classes Men first of all want a
change of scene with new ideas to
take overstressed minds off business.
This much contents some, but others
Of more active turn insist their va
cations must also be made the occa-
sion of physical exercise with which
to stir up muscles fallen into decay
from long inaction.
Mr. Rockefeller took plenty of this
exercise He played golf everywhere
he could during his stay abroad.
President Roosevelt works as tire
lessly on a vacation as he does at
home. The sort of thing that the
strenuous president regards as diver
sion would be the death Of some men.
He must be on the go all the time. He
loves to hunt, and the game cannot be
too big, or the danger too great He
also boxes, rides horseback insistently,
plays tennis, fences and wrestles.
His picnic trip the other day with
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children was a
pretty incident It brings one closer
to the chief executive, and makes our
democracy more convincing to learn
that the Roosevelts, big and little,
from the father down to little Kermit,
rose early, filled their hampers and
went out o nan old-fashioned picnic.
Mr.. Roosevelt did the rowing, no
one going along to give any aid. Mrs.
Roosevelt cooked the coffee that went
with the luncheon. The father and
sons played ball, and the fun was of
the same kind that thousands of
Americans are taking today ali over
the broad stretch of country.
Secretary Cortelyou takes his vaca-
lions somewhat like the president
Commissioner of Corporations Gar
field spends, a good part of his vaca-
ton awheel He loves to ride and is,
like the president and Mr.. Cortelyou,
an expert tennis player.
Grover Cleveland takes his vacation
in a more dignified manner that better
fits his greater adiposity. The only
living ex-president knows only one
amusement that he really loves-that
is fishing. It is an old joke about Mr..
Cleveland, and the saying is generally
credited to his old pal, the late Joseph
Jefferson, that the former president
would never stop fishing till one OF
three things happened darkness
came, he had his creel full, or the
river dried up.
Thomas Lawson, the inveterate foe
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