The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14

which the braves pride themselves it Is
the personal popularity and "squareness
Of the men who lead them. They do not in
the least mind any charges made against
them. provided they involve no disgrace "a
the people who stand up for the Wigwam.
The word disgrace, however IS to be IN
derstood in the Tammany connection pure
~, for IL stands to reason that what would
be deemed disgrace by an outsider is not
disgrace at all for an insider under the
code Of ethics prevailing in the Organiza-
ton Now, when Croker went abroad II
was taken for granted that. like all Tam
many men on their travels, he would prove
TO be what they call a good fellow-gener-
Gus. genial and all that. But the stories
that have come back to New York seem to
indicate that Croker has been just the
other thing. He has shown pettishness,
spleen and illadvised outbursts OF i'll hu-
NOR. He has not been open handed. He
has failed TO give the foreign sports any
idea of the really generous ideas Of things
which prevail in Tammany. This IL is that
has made any resumption by him of real
leadership an utter impossibility. Not
withstanding the apparent friendliness OF
Purroy and Croker. the two men cannot
work together. Purroy is trying hard to
create a sound and honest Tammany. He
has brought the rank and file around to
his way of thinking, that honesty is Just
now for Tammany the best policy. Tam
many, in Purroy's perspective. must pose
as the innocent little smokers of the calu-
met of peace, and no longer as the tiger.
And when Croker reaches New York in the
autumn he may learn a thing or two.
Those rumOrs of the coming enga cement
of Miss Virginia Fair to the son of a
wealthy and powerful United States SEN
ator, of which so much has been heard,
fall to materialize. At the same there is
much significance in the mutual devotion
of the two to the delights of Newport Miss
Fair decidedly took the wind out of the
sails of Mrs. Henry Clews by her speed
on the bicycle, being now deemed the
champion rider Of that famed seaport. Mrs.
Oelrich, her sister. has been so recreant
to the charms of the Pacific and of Cali
fornia-for she. too, spends days and days
at NewDort-that there has come 10 be
entertaued a very general belief that the
fair Miss Fair has, after all, SURRENDERED
her heart to the charming youth in ques-
ton. All the same.i IL will require some very
positive announcement on the part of the
parties most concerned to have the mat
ter regarded as beyond question. Miss
Fair, as is well known, is religiously in
clined, and, besides that, is a thorough
business woman. Stories of her sl1rewd-
in circulation in New York, and
show that very clever indeed,
must be the person who would get the
best of her in a bargain. 1t seems that
she has herself directed the investment
of certain large sums of her own, which
have resulted most profitably and now she
Is consulted by her sister and brother-in-
law whenever business matters of moment
are on the carpet. Miss Fair is one of the
few society bellies who can keep a set of
books She is very methodical and quite
at home among ledgers. The story goes
that she once went to office of her brother
m-law accompanied by her sister. She
sat down at desk and began pouring over
some figures in her account book. While
thus engaged one of the office employees
came ina youthful and callow dude
who at once assured the heiress that she
had no right TO sit there because the papers
OF the Fair estate were at that particular
desk and he had charge Of them. So he
took books and papers away from her and
locked them up and then nearly swooned
when the identity of the heiress was re-
vealed to him.
One of the maladies incident to the ad-
vanced period of life to which the pres
ent President of the United States has
attained, is a tendency to fall asleep at
inopportune times. Mr.. Cleveland. vigil
liant as he is in looking out for the public
welfare, is said to be at this time quite a
victime of this tendency. He mods after
meals and drops into the soporifc abyss
OF slumber Immediately after exertion of
an unusual or excessive nature. There is
a story that when he goes fishing about
Gray Gables on these warm days and
bites are not as plentiful as they ought
to be, he will drop off gently into SUM
Der. There is an element of peril in this
tendency, however, because one day he
sat down on the edge of a grassy bank,
cast his line, and soon slept deeply Along
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President is well known by sight there.
they promptly walked him up, fearing that
II he slept much longer he would tumble
into the water. Very soon the story
spread, and by this time 1t is said to he n
regular duty to keep an eye on the Presi-
dent. in order that he may meet with no
accident while he sleeps. He has. in fact
met with one mishap already, because a
bee stung him on the hand and ii swelled
considerably. Mr. Cleveland is amused
rather than otherwise by these alarms
and refuses to allow any hired attendant
TO perform these offices for him. relvjng
instead upon the company of a stray
nsherman. He met a village boy on a
recent fishing trip and fshed with him
for hours. The boy knew perfectly who
ms companion was, but it made no differ
ence, and the two shared the labor as well
as the sport of the day In this resnact
MT cleveland is very successful man in
dealng with people, and around Gray Ga.
bles he is decidedly popular.
The craze over Harvey's "Coin Finano,,,
School, having begun to subside in the
west, has broken out in New York. where
1t RACES side by side with one over "Merrie
England" Robert Blatchford's socialists
DOCK OF which 10000 copies have sold in
england, and which has been brought ont
on this side of the water by more than ono
publisher. The enormous sums of money
made In the publication of books of this de-
scription have tempted many publishers 10
oiter large prices for successful exposi-
ton OF social questions. Regulations Of
magnitude are quickly made at this sort
OF literary work, but as quickly lost al
though the money can be made to last in
the hands of a competent man. "NIerrie
England is somewhat like Coins Finan-
car ochooi IN the matter of quaint illus
tration and homely argument. but If man-
aged to capture the New York market
somewhat ahead of the latter. Besides ~