Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22

pranks as a schoolboy, and is as fond of
getting a good one on some of his fellow
Senators as a New York city politician.
Who would suspect, as he looked down
| from the gallery on this nlack-el ed,
smoOth-shaven man, with face as de-
mure as Judges and the wrinkles in
his eyes concealed behind Old-fashioned
steel-bowed specrscles that he was writ
! ing note with fictitious signature for
| the purpose of melting some lOng-w Inded
bore of "A Senator TO get up and make
| speechs More than one long harangue
! has been set agOing by Garland that he
might have the Iun Of teasing some one of
his friends who had set his heart on get
| ting the floor for pet measure. Who
will forget Senator Ransom's discontinue
when speaking TO the river and harbOr
bill, and working up to an effective eli
max, he received note that Garland
hastily wrote and sent over by page,
reminding the North Carolina Senator
that in the excitement of his splendid
argument his cuffs had slipped up his
sleevei Ransom wore phenOmenally long
and ivOTy-white cuffs, which were the
subject OF a good dead of fun, which he
gOOd-naturedly received; but he turned
fer a moment and glanced at the sedate
Garland with such look Of reprOach,
sorrow, and mOmentary vexatiOn that
Butler and Vest, VINO were in the secret
with some others, rushed to the cloak
room that they might let their laughter
loose. Garland, unlike almost all practi-
cal jOkers, rather liked good one on
himself. To see Mr.. Garland on the street
no one would think that no grotesque,
ridiculous, cOmical sight escaped him,
and that in his strOlls. slowly sauntering
along with a slOuched felt hat, not
deliberately fitting coat, and rjdgy trOus-
ers, he seeks his keenest pleasure in the
way Of recreation in gratifying his acute
sense of humOr. Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet
will be sure before long to be entertained
by his quaint conceptions, his humorous
way of putting things, and by and by, if
all goes well, 1t would not be astonishing
if there were prank or two with gentle
humOr in it.
Senator Garland is a total abstainer
from stimulants. He was asked one day
how it happened that he, coming as he
did from a part Of the country where
liquor was believed to he used as COM
monty as coffee, was a teetotaler.
"Well, it was this way: l used to
drink as regularly and as frequently as
any one, but one day some years ago
was walking through our cemetery at
Little Rock, and 1 saw the grave of one
very bright man who would have been
my age, and then / saw another, until
suddenly realized that almost all the
young men with whom / began life had
gone and 1 almost alone was left, and l
knew what had carried them away.
Well, as had been spared, 1t occurred to
me tnat L had certainly had my share of
alcohol, so l made up my mind that
wouldn't drink anybody else's share; that
wouldn't be fair. SO just stopped right
then and there"
rrsfN a pdin ic
huge frame and fine, shaggy, nOn-like
head, takes not the slightest interest in
any physical pleasure. 1t IS his delight
and his habit to get his mind out of his
body and go wandering away off with it
back to Moses time or ahead into the
twentieth century. He will get into an
old dressing gown, draw his chair up to
his fire, and take one of these excursions
ana be gone all an afternoon. To him it
is as vivid and realistic as though he were
actually present where imagination takes
him. At such times his senses seem 10
be subject to his Imagination, and 1t is
then that he will meet his best friend
with an unrecOgDiZing stare, aud will
respond nothing 10 the friends greeting.
The truth IS he neither sees nor hears.
To him Garlan IS eXuberanJ nonsense is
an ineXplicable mystery, and Bayard's
Open-alr enthusiasm u strange thing.
His temperament is such that he would
never get lonesome if he found himself at
the north pole or in Sahara. His imagi-
nation would create companions who
would be real enough for cOmpaniOnship.
Yet Lamar Is the most cOmpaniOnable OF
men. These reveries are not unconscious
habit. They are arbitrary. They make
his recreation. They begin and end when
he chooses, and therefore those mistake
who surmise that the habit of wandering
on in dreamland may impair his capacity
as an administrative officer. No man in
the Senate has greater capacity for
steady, concentrated, and untiring work
than be, When he works it is at high
pressure. He is as simple and cOntiding
as a child, as far as his personal relations
go, while wise and acute enough in his
official dealings with men.
Between these three Senator's there
exists a cOngenial intimacy born OF re-
spect for each others intellectual attain
ments and q common political training
and belief.
What a Cabinet 1t is physically There
must be close on to 1,400 pounds OF solid
Drawn and bOne-full-chested, big-nos-
trilled, healthy -stomached men-aDd
| these qualities 90 good deal further
toward developing the sort of energy that
an administration needs than might be
supposed.