People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — How Garfield Was Scared. [ARTICLE]

How Garfield Was Scared.

Secretary Foster has been telling some queer secrets about President Garfield, with whom he was on terms of the closest intimacy. As illustrating his fear of the newspapers a summer night incident at Willard’s hotel in Washington is recalled, when a party of Mr. Garfield’s intimate' friends got together in one of the uppdr rooms facing Newspaper row and began playing a game of cards with a ten-cent ante. It was hot, and the whole party had their coat? and vests off and their sleeves rolled up to the elbows. The windows were wide open, and by the gaslight anybody could look in on the game from across the street. Suddenly a messenger boy came to the door with *. message, which read thus: “Immense excitement on Newspaper row. A big crowd is watching your little game. Pools are being sold on the result, and the boys are sending dispatches out over the country concerning it.” The message was read aloud, and it scared Mr. Garfield half out of his boots. Of course it was a bogus message, but it was hard to make Mr. Garfield believe it was not genuine, and it spoiled all his fun that summer night.—Chicago Times.