The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-29

else than a bundle of contradictions
There are times when he expresses
himself on the most commonplace top
les in very picturesque style. There
are times when he makes most pic
turesque assertions in very common
place style. There are times when both
his assertions and his style are COM
monplace.
CanfeId's Telephone Denial.
Garfield the famous art connoisseur
and knight of chance, who is consid-
cred likely, by those who accept Mr.
Jeromes latest story, to have been
mixed up with the matter is as in
teresting in his way as Jerome.
His name would never have been
mentioned by the newspapers in con-
nection with the story but for a tele-
phone denial of it's truth reported
from Newport To the man up tree
it looks as though Mr.. Garfield, de-
spite his undoubtedly general shrewd-
ness and SAVIOR faire, has been guilty
of talking too much. For the tele-
phone denial in question made it quite
in order for the newspapers to discuss
him in connection with the story.
Those who know Mr.. Garfield say
that in presence he is far from the
popular conception of the keeper of a
mouse. ne u correct IN MS
dress, even to fastidiousness. His
artistic taste is of a very high order.
His knowledge of literature extends
much further even than that of most
professors of letters in the colleges.
His manners are irreproachabIe. His
personal bearing and balance are rare
ly disturbed. To a goodly portion of
his friends his talking of this partic4
ular matter has seemed a very extra
ordinary thing indeed.
Gen. WheeIer's Speeches.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has made several
after-dinner speeches here this winter
which have been reported, and more
that have not. One recent occasion
where he was guest, but not on the LIST
of speakers, the men at the tables in
sisted on his saying a few words. He
did so half an hour after the reporters
had departed. He talked on Love of
Country" and he won the approval of
everybody, especially the ladies in the
gallery, in his first sentence, saying
that when we say a man loves his
country, We really mean that he loves
the women of the country
His whole talk abounded with SENT
ments of this sort, and his words and
bearing were ingenious, and IN fact
quite child-like; though in truth he
said nothing in particular, he won ev-
erybody within the sound of his voice.
Amusing Job Hedges.
Another speaker who has been heard
many times this winter, who, in fact,
is heard many times every winter, at
dinner gatherings. is Job Hedges.
job Hedges made his entry into pub
lie life when the late lamentsd Col
Strong, reform Mayor of New York.
appointed him private. secretary to his
honor. Later the Mayor made Hedges
police judge, but he didn't fancy his
Job, and got out of it. With all due
respect to MI. Hedges, it may be sail
that he has been living on his private
secretaryship and police judgeship
ever since. He rarely or never makes
an address, be 1t ever so short, now
adays, without referring to the period
OF his official prominence.
In the remarks now under consid-
Grafton, Mr.. Hedges told two or three
stories about Col. Strong, and brought
down the house oy saying, Of the la
DIES in the galleries, that he was glad
they belonged to the members of the
organization giving the dinner, because
they now had the opportunity to see
now their men folks spent their even
lngS when they We're away from home.
hedges is really an amusing chap
on his feet. lie has no delivery to
speak of, and he is always enbar-
raised. He tries to make the audi
ence believe the embarrassment Is as :
Sumed. The audience always does be-
heve it. and that puts Hedges just so
much further up. the front. What
moderately funny things he says, he
says with an air of one who has got
something tremendously humorous
and his hearers accept it at his own
valuation.
Miss Hawthorne as an Author.
The advent OF Julian IIawthorne's
daughter, Hildegarde, into she field Of
literature as author of "A Country In
terlude," adds another of her family to
the literary guild.
There are those who believe that Ju-
Ian Hawthorne has really as much
power as his distinguished father. Ma
t1anlel. ever had, and that were it rot
.nr the overshadowing reputation IF