, 1880-06-27
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Gen. Garfield is q remarkable Conversations
His private talk, When the harness OF polite
has been laid aside, is brilliant and fascinating
He seems never to forget anything; and In quiz
! moments, when friends are by him, 1t is pleasar
to hear him tell Of the old days, and to dream {
the future.
Heis SO full of pleasant anecdote-
So rich, SO guy, so poignant Is his wit
Time ranisho5 before him us be speaks,
And ruddy morning through the lattice peeps
| Ere night seems well begun.
| BENEATH THE KNIFE.
| remomber some notable talks with the ma
who will be the next President Of the Unite
States. Tho record Of these talks will sho'
something of tho inner life Of the Republican
candidate. Some years ago Gen. Garfield suf
fered from a temporary disorder, and was com
pclled to submit to painful surgical operation
He lay here for six weeks in this tropical sun
| recovering from the effects Of that operation
| The town WIS dead. 1t was vacation time. No
| one member of either House wns here. On on,
! Of these burning days had occasion to call upo1
him aEyer}ling WIS anlet ;3 aad wthin
| from bis sickbcd, q charming, silly old Dozzy'.
journey to the Hebrides, over ayain. He is ii.
ways the same kindly, lazy, genial. old man, for,
soft hearted giunt Of a fellow"
Gen. Gilrield lay there, where ho had been fo1
SIX weeks. and said not i word Of his pain. j
and wasted. Disease had come upon him like "a
hammer OF the red son Of the furnace" He
was dis1nantlcd statesman. 4 good cOnstt1-
ton was to bring him through but for some
weeks he was compelled to refrain from par
ticipatins in tho tight against the cheap and
adt g1 pHf9r of tR Allen
face, which was then mt its hight in Ohio
Gen. Garfield lives in d home-lke modest, I'M
pretentious house, opposit Franklin Square,
one Of the most attractive locations in Washing
ton City. In Il cheerful upper chamber, which
had been stripped Of its tiesh and was clothed
only in Its boncs as all Washington houses in
month and haif, looking at the mighty sum-
mer, ,cumull toating in the burning, brazen sky,
and listening to the merry chirp of the summer
birds in the park below.
Garfield Is
4 MAN OF INFrNr1 RESOURCES.
BE is one of the half-dozen men in Congress
who read books. He is one Of the few persons
crush and pressure of the winters business, lind
time to follow course Ut non-politicat reading
No man then had more arduous place
him with neglect of duty Yet Garfield
found time to read nearly all the new books and
old ones. He has hungry brain and 4 wonder
ful constitution. Readlng and study at Ill
times tin and l IL al places, have been the method Of
Garfield reads everywhere. In the cars, going
TO the Capital: ia the cars, returning from his
@ only werk; and in his committee.room. He
VII! light about the necessity Of building fortii-
cations at distant points, and contest with a
Granger, from the Modoc country about the
to give ten minutes to :'siIIy old Bozzy" orsomc
Of his charming comrades. should say that
the Sf Gareds resources IN deoae tie
to literature in all its branches is due to
H1s ynnAo,o11s r,Trptn.r .pprr1,.
hayo read" he said, turning to his visitor,
~ " SINCE nave been lying here, struggling with
end co1nmonplaced them all Pretty fair WORK.
I take it, for six weeks Of midsummer in wash.
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cent industry The narrative Of Hozzv's in1r-
noy lar beside him. and an immcnee af11a SIN.
ported by an elevated stand, stood near tie he'd
Bpzxy in the Journey to tho Hcbr;fies 4 fHith
full wife was tracinr with n nencii tbe Ina % and
outs which the genial Old philosOpbor tnnk an IN
his way to these Northorn ts1onda r. tuvn ne W ~
this ,gly that Garfield was turning tn n1f;t Iha
leisure that tho surgeons knife Ind oivcn him
AT THE nAyor1i,r. no.nn AA'AD'
AuoLner tilA that recall was at social
geaudnerln8. at was A1s dinner party after the
ncrbans u ta est e2aa The hest vas
nu III. II was ~ olu companion Of Greeley at
@ nruok f fartn. ne was giving the dinner In pay-
dn4na ~ IT. oea ~ mao ioss py Ieason o. Greeleys
" : LII tne oay, anu IN the course OF 1t turned to
oGMalu. n.n .
,or Inc 81 transition an 70 Seward was easy. mem
een bee OF a tna company thought that Seward had
9 oeen oead years 3, before he WIS put into his |
;aase ;,its. yen uarne.u lnought Inherently, and
ria erI' oi m ane spaa o1 tne moment remark
n, ,Sui1pe5 ~ t1e VeAu atAtesntn- ooon after
e,,lorp eo Tar @ o,es tne outline OF thaf
reproduce it here. Gen. Garfield possesses rara
conversational powers, ana uses In sociai dis
course a diction not less eloquent and elegant |
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