OFNTRE ‘HALL, PA,
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JAMES A. GARFIELD
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1831—Nov. 19, James Abram
Garfield, born at Orange,
Ohio.
1858-61—President
College.
1858—Married Lucretia Rudolph.
1860—Member of Ohio Senate.
1861—Colonel in Ohio Volun.
teers.
1862-—Brigadier General,
1863—Ma jor General.
1863.80—In Congress.
188C—Elected to the
States Senate.
1880—June 7, nominated for
President by Republican
Convention at Chicago.
November, elected ‘Presi.
dent.
of Hiram
United
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Boe
AMES ABRAM GARFIELD was the
latest and, it is fairly safe to say,
of the presidents born and
bred log eabing. Notwithstanding
that he
half-dozen scholarly men who have sat
In the presidential chair.
the only president
at his own nomination
The presidential lightning struck him
in t most ex
the last
in
humble
state, was one of
who
Garfield Is
was present
as he his seat in that
traordinary
vention wl
All the
q St. Louis edi
sat
and exciting national con
n NDICAg
hil
“Stulwar , believing with
there was “one
more president in the bloody shirt,”
upon the great
banner of the “Hero of
seized name of Grant,
and under the
against
agn the
rina rl
CIMNAark
cago were Ros
if the “Stal
Garfield
he “Half Breeds™
restrained
by th
rectly support Haine ¢ instruc
tions of | in favor of the nomi
nation of Sherman.
studied
his
stage the
the
theatrical
day,
applause as he advanced
with his “grandlioquent
majestic
make
first
alal
iigle
supereminent, over-
which
up to the laughter of
g, turkey
had held
gobbler strut”
$s years before In a never to-be
next day Gar-
18 revenge by entering while
p and the
drowned the volee
the third
; grips in a
bate and the Ohloan scored on the New
Yorker,
While the gallery still was cheer-
ing the victor in that round, Conkling
wrote on the margin of a newspaper
ind sent to Garfield a mocking sugges-
tion that he was playing to the gal-
lery In his own interest: “I congrat-
ulate you on being a dark horse!”
In truth Garfield
the convention
Th
abé
speaking,
wel
of
indignant
speaker. On
the two came to de
without helping him-
self more than he helped Sherman,
who never had a chance to win. As
ballot after ballot was taken, it be-
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ASSASSINATION OF GARFIELD
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1881-March 4, James A. Car.
field, inaugurated 20th
president, aged fifty.
Mar, 23, sent to senate
the nomination of federal
officers in New York City.
May 16, the senate con.
firmed the nominations.
May 17, Senators Conk.
ling and Platt resigned.
July 2, Garfield shot by
Charles J. Guiteau at
Washington.
Sept. 6. Removed
Elberon N, J. Sept,
died, aged fifty.
1882—June 30, Guiteau hanged.
to
19,
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AMES A, GARFIELD fell a sacri-
fice to the spirit of faction and of
Although
of
made
J
the spoils system.
tle, kindly man
stuff that martyrs
wns not
ure of,
yor
7" who followed Grant nor the deaf.
ening cheers which his name evoked
a third term in the White House, and it
was made equally plain that this “Old
auard” never would surrender to
Blaine,
A new eandidate was necessary if
the convention was not to fall to
pieces in factions. One solitary vote
tor Garfield on most of the ballots had
sontinued to point the finger of des.
tiny at him, Wisconsin pointed all her
fingers In his direction when her dele
gation broke to him on the thirty.
fourth ballot. .
Garfield rose with pallid face and
ry lips to a point of order. But Sen-
ator Hoar of Massachusetts, who was
m the chair, rapped him down, In twé
more ballots he was nominated by a
rombination of the Blaine and Sher.
man men,
In the midst of the uproar the nomi
nee sat mp and perapiring in his seat.
“Get me out of here,” he faintly whis-
red to his seatmate, Ex-Covernor
'oster of Ohio.
Rarely if
office with a larg-
ple, regardless of fac-
tion,
of party and
than flowed out to Garfield as he
the
the sunshine of his Inaugural
of
in its prime
stood on steps of the
capitol in
day, the
robust American manhood
His first ki after kKiss-
of a
for the
os
the preser
iE th iD in i
multitude of
Woe
witnesses, was
forest hut,
way to the W
ice of honor
who
nll
ged mother, who, in
on his
use and who held a pls
started
H
beside
him
the schoolmate sweetheart
hind been his faithful
companion
long the road.
and
the
to the
fatal
**One thing though
that slight
heart,” John Hay
dent-elect
inckest yet,
ossification of
had written
This lack
been hard
made
is a
wis
Garfield
iis heart
have is administration
his
, and he mi
own, fac
Ive
ght
ive Uf
term Ir
ved through
he
White
rosperous stead re
few months in the
had
mained his
Hon
iivgtennnt
%¢ what he heen
« to the
love
and
ce the power behind
ighteen years”
president
decide on his sole re sponsibii
Garfield himself
ent to factions, liking to get along with
all m He
relu« but timely support in
invited him out to Men-
winter New
si le
HIVE.
. indie
wis rather indiffer
en. appreciated Conkling's
the
aign and
in the
to talk over
He thought
itself, until
the
patronage, of
him
+ whispered no,
Loss than three wes
into the cabinet
took
ks after he
sent, Garfield told the
senate
he was not yet ready
question of
fices. Only
or the highest
‘s best friend
enemy in New
hand, Bl
down i gauntlet to
of
York
had
the
ing's worst
ith Garfield's
ili ne
thrown
chiefinin he
a duel of factions
y he
heating Conkling in
administratio
1
ceeded In the
ate, where he opposed the confirma
tion of the offensive neminee Jt the
senator and hig colleague. Thomas ©
a]
{
Lucretia R. Carfield.
Platt, resigned thelr sents and appeals
ed to the New York legislature to re-
elect them as a vindication of their
course,
When the conflict was bitterest and
when the “SBtalwarts” were losing at
Washington, Charles J. Guiteau, con
ceived the mad idea of saving the sit.
uation with a pistol shot, and he posted
himself at the railway station, where
his victim was to take a train for Mas.
sachusetts. The president was going
back to Willlams college, the goal of
his struggling youth, and was smiling
Hike a boy off for a vacation as he
entered the waiting room at the rail
way station with Blaine at his side,
In two flashes of a revolver he fell,
(Copyri/t. "0. by James Morgan)
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Pe
rE
¢
Products of the Vineyards Are in
Big Demand, Says the
Federal Government.
FRUIT FINDS NEW OUTLETS
Makers of Unfermented Juice,
and Jellies Are Utilizing an
creasing Tonnage Each Year—
Co-operate Handling Crop.
Jams
in.
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ashh
Ww
the grape-growing
an Aglde from Caitifornia,
indus the
iry in
United States promises soon to become
f in
of tl
wine
Importance
:
making
even greater in
ye before
according
bis
4
made
tions
fean type o
Michigan Growers Wise
The surpl
between 192 and
TRE a!
i
iis production ”
1908 wth
gErape-pressing indo
LOADING FOR A SALUTE
Loading a Ginch rifle at Fishers’
just a few seconds before It
fleet.
COST
tiers of Countries in
Central Europe.
¢
Price of Passport Vises Has Been
Greatly Increased, Especially
for Americans,
Budapest.~—The cost of travel for
Americans in central Europe and
Balkan countries is reaching extor-
tionate proportions through the tend-
ency to charge Americans the same
price for passport vises as that of the
American government for foreigners,
which recently was Increased from ¥1
to $10. If this tendency Is continued,
an American in the course of a few
days’ journey, passing several foun.
tiers, may have to pay $30 to $30 in
vises,
For travelers of all nationalities
however, the charge has been rapidly
Zion canyon, in the park.
*
fermented and fermented grape juice
or w “the bulletin savs “It
that
time had been from
to ital
tendency coh
1918,
is In-
| teresting to note while the ten-
| dency up to that
winegrape production
i production, the
1904 and
tog
i
tween ang
noticeable in
vied i v §
find Ohio during
gan, however, built
for
Co-operative Associations
js%¢ of the firm Ket pos
TREASURE
Searchers for Buried Siiver Are
Sure to Fail.
So Says Galveston Expert of Efforts
to Find Wrecked Bullion
Pet
Chr
t
footed to dient
Iie
of br. J Yer, a cal w
on
scientific sublects
cnn
recently of 20 sued
on historical
rush gov kore he
th the
i he MEATY
wiiovedd hy pany to
of n
foun
in the
nhers of the eren
«1 ip = hich
Texas conkt earls
eighteenth century. No record is avail
thie of
he
the
Wired
wke
$
Hew oO
any such K.
“Nife” of a leton buried In
{ the consial
is
spnids of the bead
Dr
over 40 years
He
Mexico to Spain were discontinued aft-
er 1820, partly because of the
ties of Jean Laflite's fleet
neers,
Even hefory
tried to avoid
storms and Laflite's fleet
neering vessels amd 50
| transported less than 20 tons of silver
| bullion 10 the vessel,
country, Dyer points out not
paleo says treasure ships from
activi
of bucen-
that time the
excessive losmsex from
ol bueca-
Spaniards
fncreasing during the lust «ix months,
The Germans began the pigh charges,
demanding £5, Then Austria followed
suit with the same charge and Hun
{ gary and other countries have been
obliged to make like charges. Because
Lof the huge revenue so obtainable,
| passports ure severely examined, more
so than in war time,
{ Under pretext of
i ghievik travel, guards
ohstracting bol.
at frontiers
| proper vises,
Because of this unneighborly prac
| tee, It In diffienit for citizens of a
| foreign country to pass homeward.
| Budapest ix now full of thousands of
| people who, under the new frontiers
| fixed by the pence conference, are
| sabjects of Romania or Jugo Sinvia
but cannot get passport vises howe to
their property, In one instance Ameri
cans used thelr good offices to get
| Vises for two Widows, formerly
| Fnngartons, but whose furnie are how
{im Berbla, They had waited eight
tion occupied by this commodity in the
leading producing sections of New
York, Michigan and Penneyivar
the {
dure
ing past few years, local dealers
have been able to dispose of practi
cully all offeris
wire orders, that cons
the
y
has
the
“Co-operative
0
exception
gms
heen rather
rule
Wir ow
sipping
be
heen found to
Mistook Monster Snake
for an Automobile Tire
Paris. Kj
Mrs Henrs
from an
When Mr
were returning
trip, they
what resembled a black and
and
Ross
automobile
Kaw
white automobile tire Iying in the
road. Mr. Ross got out to pick
up the “tire” when it moved, and
glided (way into the bushes. The
“tire” was a bon constrictor, the
property of a carnival company
that wet disaster in a clondburst
near here, Employees of the ear.
nival company later captured the
snake,
months to get travel
150 miles,
The office of American High
missioner Grant Smith at Budapest ie
daily besieged by hundreds of people
who wish to go to American or to se
cure help reach their homes in
Cuecho-Rlovakin or other countries,
permission to
Com-
in
NEW JAP CULT IS RADICAL
“Omcto Kyo,” Mysterious Religion,
Proves to Oe an Extreme Form
of Seocialiem,
Tokyo~"0Omnoto Kyo." the new mys
terions religion of Japan, Is merely
an extreme form of socialism aimed
at the destruction of the existing =o
cin! order, according to Kakajli Kato,
an merchant who made a secret nil
grimage to Ayade. the village head
quarters of the sect,
The leading adherents of the en,
Kato reported, were retired and dis
contented military men, He sail the
tomb of the sect’s founder bore a
striking resemblance to the huperial
wauscicais at Modyama,
WAS WEARY OF
LIFE'S BURDEN
Despondent Mother Drowns Child
to Save It From Life
of Toil.
Heavy Labor,
and Lack of Sleep, Had Driven
Mother to Welcome the
Thought of Death,
Cleveland
Mrs
hardship ar
Life had
Katherine
wish to end it
from
threw
daughter
thu iT
thal she
Th ew Her Child Into the Water.
hin. Then 1
afterward 1
worked and saved
100 i
from
and came here,
“He worked sometimes in a butcher
But all the time he's drinking,
he lost his work
“Four years 1 worked every night.
the day time 1 could net sleep.
Yes,
1 erled & iiitle; but he was no geod
Mad Often Wished to Die.
Continuing in her broken English,
she said she weut back to work
pay for her hushana's funeral, but did
not want to leave her baby.
“I worked last night, but again 1
could not sleep and still 1 had this
headache, 1 walked the floor, up and
down. and then 1 said: ‘1 will die’
“Please let me die and go to my
baby.” she sighed again,
Samuel White, 8106 Medina avenue
N. E, was working near the foot of
East Seventy-second street when he
heard a woman was in the lake.
Plunging in fully clothed, he swam
to where she had disappeared. He
dived and hrought her to the surface,
When she regained consciousness she
cried: “Why don’t you let me die?™
“My baby's In the Inke” she sald,
“please let me die, ton”
White swam for some time before
he recovered the child's body,
Mrs. Mikulle was taken to Mount
Sinai hospital and later to the City
hosoital, .
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