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Partlettlar attention paid to tm,tness in the Orphans Court and to the settle ment of eciateh.. mace In 311ontanyes-f3lock OVERTON S; SANDERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW . TOWANDA, PA. JOHN F. SANDERSON f.. OVERTON. JR 11._.TE ! SSUP, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, AIONTIZOSE. PA. Jes:ip hawing re•mmed the practiceof the acv in Northern Penttzyivanta,will attend to any egal loudness intrusted Whim In Bradford county. wishing 'to consult him, can call on H. Esti., Towanda, l'a., when an appointment HENRY ,STREETER, ATTORNET::RNEO COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, *WANDA, PA lip ATTORNEY-AT-LAN, - TOWANDA, PA. (nOVII-75 ,11 . 1.1A1. E. LULL, hIiTILVEVOIL SIALVEYING AI , ID DRAFTING. ')Rice with (1: F. 31aann, over-ratch & Trucy, Main street, , • .1.15.a0. F I LSBREE .& SON, ATTOREYS-AT-L AR, TOWANDA, PA. !S. C. ELSEREL TOHN W. MIX, ArrA.M.!SES-At-LAW AND U. S. COMIIISSIONZR, TQW A NILL, PA. r. ce- - -N Grit Side Public Square ANDREW 'WILT, t) • ATT9RNS.Y-AT-LAW., . 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OAS FITTER P It t'e of totstnestt, a few doors north of Post-Office P:all.ll)ing, Ga 3 Fitting, Repairing Pumps of all and all kinds of hearing promptly attended to c , 411. wantlttg. work in Els line should glee him a • 11cc. 4, 1879. VIRST NATIONAL BANK,. !TOWANDA ; PA .IVITALTAID 15 Sr ::11.CS FUND... This flank o'rr..rs farilit leo for the trans 6 , :c..e or, a zenerai lqiuking business: , N. N. BETTS, Cashier JOS. pow ELL, President. Tp:NRY HOUSE, N MA! k -WASHINGTON STREETS F 1:04T )VAILD, TOWANDA, PA 1.1 , :“:.:tt Ali hour'. Terms to sult the times. Large stablesattarbed. WM t 11 F:NftY, rnorniziou. T.l: Ands, 3184..2. n'tqf j\l E'AT MARKET! C. M. NITE R, L.nated in 1.7:11)1.,:m.tx•s BLOCK, BRIDGE •STBEET, Keep on hand, FRESH AND SALT MEATS, DIUED - BEEF, FISH, POULTRY, 'GARDEN VEGETABLES AND BERRIES IN THFUR 81cAriON, &c air All goods dellirtred free of charge P• Mgt 111. INSU.R ANCE! C. S. RUSSELL, Agent, TOWANpA, PA. FIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT POLICIES limed on Eby moat reasonable torme None but reliable companies represented. Losses adjusted stid paid here. Towanda, Noir. 11. 171. AI)AtINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE I..tters of administration having been grant c•l to the under•lgned, upen the estate-of Illlten usour.late of Springfield twp...deeessed,netice is 11 ..r.-hy r givetl that all->pertionit indebted to the said relate are requettrul t. make Immediate payment, nud glrpersnus having elating against said estate tno,t pr”sent the rneue duly authenticated:to the tw.lerstgheil for settiritteitt. ANN SE YllOllll, A tlmt nb•trarxix, with the VII anneled, 'Feb. 2, . • Otlpqr-LlllereurNet nut ut met, up stain' TOWANDA, ra.. Deliw•ered In the 'House of ilepresen Wires, on Monday, Feb. 27. 11182. Mr. PRESIDENT Fort the second • time in this generation the great De partments of the Gove=rnment of the United States-are assembled .iti -- -the Hall . , of Representatives to do honor to the memory of a murdered Presi dent. Lincoln fell at the elose of a mighty struggle in which the passions of men had been deeply stirred. The tragical termination of his great life added but another to the lengthened succession of horrors which had marked so many lintels with the blood of the first born; Garfield was slain in a day of peace, when brother had been reconciled to brother, ancl when • auger and hate had been ban ished from the land." Whoever shall hereafter draw the portrait of mur der, if _he will show it as it has been exhibited wherif such example was last to have been looked f6r, let. him not,give it the grim visage . or Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate.i Let him draw, rather, a • decorous, smooth faetd, bloodless demon ; not so much an example - of human nature in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime, as an infernal being, a: fiend in the ordinary display and develop ment of his character." Stay /,'79 . From the landing of the Pilgrims Ea Plymouth till the upfising against Charles 1., about twenty thousana emigrants came from vld England to . New-England.. As they came in pur suit of intellectual freedom and ecel siastical independence rather thlin for worldly honor and profit, the em igration-naturally ceased *hen the contest for religious liberty began in earnest ; at home.- 'The man who struck - .his most effective • blow for freedom freedom of conscience by sailing_ for the colonies in 1C)20 would have been accounted a descrier to leave after Feb 27, '79 16,10. The opportunity . had then come on the soil, of Brigland for that great contest which established the authority of . Parliament; gave relig ions freedom to• the .. ..people, sent Charles to the block, and committed to the hands of 'Oliver Cromwell the supreme Executive authority of En gland.. The Englis'h emigration was never renewed, and from theSe 20,0(:0, men, with a small emigration from' Scotland and from France, are . de scended :the vast , nuinbers who have New-England bloOd in their veins. In 1085 the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis:XlV. scattered to other countries. four hundred thou qand 'Protestants, who 'were ,among the most intelligent and enterprising of French sutilectsmerehants of capital, manufacturers and hanii craftsmen. superior at the time to MI others in Europe.. A considerable L.ELsßnict Jan.l,lS7S . . number of these lingenot Erench came to AnwriCti.; a few landed in New-England:and became honorably prominent in . history. Their names have in large, part become Anglicised, or have disappeared, but their blood is traceable in many of the most re putable families , l and their fame is perpAnatedjin liquo,rable memorials and useful institutions. FroTh•thek two squ'rees, the Eli ali-3.11-Puritan:antl‘ the French-Fluge: not, :came tlie late President--his . father, Abram Garfield, being de scended from. the one, and his ne,ther, Piza Ballau, from the othe - r. It was e,oodstock on both sides--none -bet ter, none braver, none truer. Therm was in it an inheritance of courage, of manliness, of imperishable love of liberty, of undying adherence . to principle. Garfield was proud of his blood ; and, with as tuna satisfac tion as if he were a British nobleman reading his stately ancestral record in Burke's Peerage, he spoke of him self as ninth in descent fiorn . those who would not endure the oppression of the Stuarts ; and seventh in descent from the brave" French Protestants who refused: ;to submit 1.:C! tyranny even from rthe Grand Monarque. Generd Gardeld delighted to dwell on these traits r and, during his 'only visit to England, he busied himself in discovering ' every - trace of his forefathers in parish registries and on ancient Army rolls. Sitting with a friend in the gallery of the House of Commons one night after a lon:t days Jaborin this field of research, he said with evident elation that in every war in which for three centu ries patriots of - English -- blood had struck sturdy blows, for constitutiOnal government and human liberty; his family had been represented." They" were at Marston Moor, at Naseby and at Preston ;= they were'at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, and at Monmouth, and in his -own person had battled fir the same great cane. in the war which preserved the Union of the States. • .........8123,000 75,000 _1 Losing his 'father ,before he was two years old, the early life of Gar tiqd was one of privation, but its p , verty has-, been 'indelicately and unjustly prominent. .ThoUsands. of readers have imagined him as the ragged, starving child whOse reality too often greets li the eye in the squalid sections of our large cities. General Garfield's infancy and youth had none of their destitotion, none of their pitiful features appealing to the tender heart and to the open hand of charity. lie was a poor buy in the same sense in which Henry Clay *us a poor boy; - in which Andrew Jack son was a 'poor boy; in which Daniel Webster was a poor boy; in the sense . in which ° a large majority of the . .eminent men of America in all generations have been poor boys. Before a great multitude of men,. in a • public speech, Mr. Webster lore this testimony • , " It did not happen tolte . tp. be born in, a log' cabin, but my elder brothe4'and sisters were :horn in a lom 6 cabin raised amid the snowdrifts of New-Hampshire, at - a period so early that when the, smoke rose first from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills there _was'no similar evidence. of a white man's habitation between it and • thi.! settle ments on the rivers of Canada: Its remains Still exist. , I make to it au annual carry' my children to it to teach them thetardshipeudured by, the generations which ,gave gone C: M. 114YRE BM 4 ENIMMIIa MARSH & HITCHCOCK, Proprietors. VOLUME XUI, Blaine's Eulogy on Garfieldd GARFIELD e R EARLY LIFE 11111 , - • ;_ • '; --.- • ..1 4 7 ', _ _ k. - :.;, 7' ' 2 • •! - before theni.• 'I loVe to dwell on the tender reconeetionS, the kindred ties • the early affections, and the tpitching narratives and incidents whielt min gle with all I kno* of liiisquilinitiie family aeodeb"..: '• 1• .; With the requisite changef scene the same-words would aptly.' rtray the early days of Garfield. TIM pov ii3 erty of the frontier, *here all are en 'gaged in. : 4l common 'struggle and where . a common sympathy and .hearty cooperation -lighten the bur dens of .each, is a very different pov, erty, different in kind, 'different in. influence and effect, from that con scious and humiliating indigence which is every day forced to contrast itself with . neighboring wealth on which it feels a sense of grinding de ,pendenee.. - The poverty of the fron tier is in4eed no poverty. ItAs.but the beginning of wealth, and has the bound o lois possibilities of the Iftiture always - opening before it. -No man ever grew -up in. the agricultural re gions of the West where a house raising, or even a corn-husking,. is matter of common interest and help fulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous inde pendence. This honorable independ ence marked - the youth of :Garfield as it marks the youth of millions of the best blood and brain 'now itrain ing for the. future citizenship and future government of the 'Republic. Garfield "as horn heir to' land, to the title of freeholder, which fins( been the patent and passport of'self-rOpect with the A nglo-Saxon race' ever! since Hengist and Floysa landed ol) the shores. of England. ' His adventure on the canal—an .alternative betiveen that and the deck of a Lakel Erie schooner- T wal a farmer boy's device for earning money, just as the :Nee-- England lad begins a . possibly great . career by sailing 'before the mast on a coasting vessel or on a merchant miin bound to the farther Ind*or to the China Sea. No manly Man feels' anything of - shame in looking, back to early struggles with - adverse cir cumstances, and no man feels a wor thier pride' than when•• he has con quered the obstacles to his progress. But no one of noble mould desires to he ,looked upon as having occupied a menial - position,. as having been re pressed by a feeling of infericirity, or iSllaving suffered the evils of pover 'ty.':Aintil _relief was found at the hand of charity: 0-encl.:A Garfield's youth presented no hardships which family love and faMily energy did not over come, subjected him to no privations Which he did not . cheerfully accept, and left no memories save, those which were recalled with delight and transmitted with profit And • with pleasure. Garlield's early opportunities fik securing, an education were extreme_ .. l} and yet were • suffieient to develop in him an intense. desire to learn: - He could read at three years of age, and each winter he had the advantage of the district school. He read. - all the books to be found with in the circle of his acquaintance ; some of tivim he got by heart. While yet in childhood .he was a constant qtnirent of the Bible, and became farbiliar with its literature. The dignity and earnestness of his speech -in his mature lite gave evidence of early -training. At eighteen years of age he was able to teach - school, and thenceforward his ambition- - was to obtain a college education. To this n-I he bent all his : • efforts, working in the harvest field, at the carpenter's tench, and in the winter season, teaching the common . schools of the neighborhood. While . thus labor iously occupied he found time to prosecute .his studies, and was so successful that at twenty-two years of. are he was able to enter the juw class at Williams College, then under the presidency of the venerable and honored Mark .iopkins, who, the fullness of his power, survives the eminent pupil to whom, he- was of inestiinable service. The history of Garfield's life, to this period, presents no novel fea tures He - . had undoubtedly _shown perseverance, self-reliance,. self-sacri fice, and ambition—qualities which, be it said for the honor of our country; arc everywhere to be found among the young men of America. But froM his graduation at Williams onward, to the hour of his . tragical deal h, Gal fiel!l's Zrareer was eminent and - exceptionable. Slowly work ing-through his edifcation.tl period, receiving his diprotim when -twenty four years of age, he seemedi ih , one bound to.spring into conspicuons and brilliant success. Within six . years he was successively president of a college. State Senator of Ohio; . Ma= jor-General of the Army of the t r inity(' States,. and Representiktive cleat to the National Congreas.• combination of honors so elevated, within a period so brief and to a man so young,is without precedent or parallel in the history of the country. A SOLDIER OF THE VINTON: . Garfield's Army waS begun with no other military knOWledge than such as he had - hastily gained from books iir the few months preced ing his match to the ;field.. Stepping . from civil life to g i''the head of a regiment, the first 6rder he received when ready to cress..the Ohio was to assume command of a brigade, and to operate as an • independent force in Eastern Kentucky. His immedi ate duty was to :check the adVance of Humphrey Marshilli who' was inarching - downthel.Big .Sandy with the intention of oecupying in con nection with other Contederateforces the entire territory of Kentucky, and of precipitating the State into se,- cession. • This was at the close of the year 1861. Seldom if ever, has a young. college 'professor been thrown into a more embarrassing and discour6ging positi4n. lie knew just enough -of military science nar.he expressed it himself, -to meas ure the extent of his'ignoritnce,. and with, a handful of men_ he was march ing., in rough winter , weather, into a strange country, among a hostile population, to confront a. largely superior force - - under the . command of a dtatinkuisheitgradnate 'of Weit - Point, who had seen active and ire portant service two FTC* iho WaiOr • NIEN ififfil ECM TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY: MORNING, MARCH 9, 1892. - The result of the campaign is natter of . •history . The . 21311, the endurance, the extraordinary energy .shown by Gat the courage ue imparted to his men, raw and untried as binotiolf, - the measures be adopted ter.increase his fOrte and to cre: ate in the onemy'B mind exaggerated estimates of his nurnber, .perfcct fruit in the rent , pg j,f Marshall, the cap . ture of his. clam, Alm. dispersion :of his force, and emaneiPailan of an important territory from th 6 Control of the Rebell ion. Coining at the clemi;ola long series , of d4akiteis:to the Haien arms, Gat victory had an unuWal and 'extraiteou importance„ and in rho popular judgment elevated' the young commandlir to' the rank of a mill. ary Item. With less than two thousand men in his entire command, With a mobilised- force of only eleven hundred, without cannon,- ho had met -an army of -five thousatid- .anti defeated them—driving Marshall's forces success. ively from two strongholds of their own selection; fortified with abuindant art ill ery. Major General 'Buell, command ing the department of the Ohio, an ex perienced and able soldier of the Regular Army, published au order of thanks and congratulation on the brilliant result of the Big Sandy_ campaign, which would. have turned the head. of a less cool and sensibl-• man than Garfield. . Buell de clared that his services had called into action the highest. qualitic,s'of a soldier, and President Lincoln supplemented thean - words of praise by the more. substantial reward of a Brigadier-General's connuis sion, to-bear date from the day of his de, cisive victory over Marshall. The subsequent military career of Gar.- field fully sustained its brilliant begin ning. - With his new commiSsion be was assigned to the comman.l of. a brigade in the Army of the Ohio, and took part in-the second and decisive day's fight in the gt eat Bat tie of Shiloh. The r. main der of the year 1862 was not_ especially eventful to Garfield, es it was not to the. armies with which lie was sAwing.: His practical sense was called into exercise in coulleting the task .assigned hint by •General Buell, of reconstructing- bridges and reestablishing lines of railway com munication for the Army. His occup tinn in- his useful but not brilliant, lint was varied by servicti'on courts martial- of iinportauee, in Which department of duty he won a valuable reputation,. attraeting the notice ami securing the appro al of the able and eminent Judge-Advocate- General of the Army._ That of itself was warrant to honorable fame ; for tunong the great men who in those trying days, gave themselves ' with entir e devotion, to The serein e , of .their country, one who brought to that servicti the ripest learn= ing, the most fervid eloquence._ the most varied attainments, - who, labored with modesty and- shunned applause, - who in the day of triumph sat reserved and silent and grateful—as Francis _Dealt, in the hour,' of Hungaiy's deliverance—was Joseph Holt, of . K.-nrueky,- who in his honorable retirement enjoys the respect and veneration of all who love the Union of :the States. Early in 1803 Garfield was asSigneA to the highly iMpertant and responsible post of Chief of Staff to Getteral Hose erans, then at the head of the Army of the Cumberland. - Perhaps in a great military campaign no subordinate • officer requires sounder judgment and quicker knewledge bf . men , than the Chief of Staff to the commanding general. An indiscreet man in-such - a position can sow more breed more jealousy end disseminate 1n Ore strife than any other man in the entire, org. nization. . When General Gai field assumed his new dutierr ho found various troubles already well developed,: and ierionsly affecting the value and efficiency of-the Army of . the Cumberland. The energy, the impartiali ty,- and the tact with which ha tallay these dissensions, and, to, discharge - the - dutieS'of his new and trying position, will always remain oni of • the Itiost striking proofs of his great versatility. His mili tary duties closed on the memorabe of Chickamauga, a field. whic!i, however disastrous t 3 the Union aims gave to .him the occasion of winning. imperisha ble lrts rels. Tile very rare distinction was aoeordi4l hirri;of a great promotion, -for his bravery - on a field that was lost. President Lincoln appointed him. a Ma j General in the Army of the United States fot gallant and meritorious conduct in tie Battle of Chinkainaugu. ' Tffearmy of Cumberland was reorgan z-d under the command of General Thonns, who promptly offered Garfield one of its divisions. He was extremely desirous to accept the position, but was embarrass 'd by the fact that Le had, a year ber.re, been elected, to Congress, and GI. Hum when he must take his seat, was drawing near. He preferred to re main in the military, service,. and had within his own breast the -largest conti-. deuce of , sue ess in the wider field which his new rank opened to hith. Balancing the argument on one side and the other, desirous above all things to do his patri otic duty, he wits decisively influenced by the advice of 'President -Lincoln- and S'nretary Stantou r both of whom assured hint that he could,' at: that time, be. of especial value in the House of Representa tivcs. He resigned his commission of !ll.ljor General on the sth day of Decem ber 1.863, and took his seat in the . Houstt of Representatives on the 7th. He had served- two years and four mouths in the Army, and had just completed his thirty second year. • ENTEUING THE WAR CONOIIESS. The thirty eighth Congress is reernin ently entitled in history to the designs thin of the War Congress, It,was elect- . (Awhile the war was flagrant, and every member was chosen upon the issues. in volved in the coutinucatie of the struggle. The Thirty.seventh Congress had, indeed, legislated.to a large extent on war meas ures, but it was chosen before any one . believed • that secession of the States would be actually attempted. The mag nitude of the vo(rk which fell upon its succ ssor was unprecedented, both in re spect to the.vast, suing . of mono , raised . for the support of the Army and Navy, and of the new; and extraordinary. pow ers of legislatiOn which' it was forced to exercise. Only tw.ni y-four States were represented. and one hundred and eighty two members were upon its roll. Among these were many distinguished party leaders on both sides, veterans . :n the public service, with. established reputa tions for ability, and with that skill v.ilieli.comes only from parliamentary ex patience. Into this assemblage of men Gal fild entered without special prepara thm, and, it 'night 'almost, be said, unex pectedly. The.gneStion of taking com mand of a division of troops, under Gen eral ThomaS or taking his seat in Con qv:i was kepLopen till the last moment, so late indeed, that the resignation of his military commission and his appearance in the Rouse were almost contempora neous. lie It .re the uniform ota Major- General of the United States Army on Saturday, and on Mond ty, in civilian's dress,he answered ,to the . roll call • as a Representative in Congress from' the State, of, Ohio. • He was especially fortunate in the con. stitnency which elected him. Descended almost entirely from New-England stock, the 'Men of the Ashtabula District were intensely radical on all qu stions relating to human rights. Well educated, thrifty: thorougtily intelligent in affairs, acutely discerning of character, not quick to be stow confidence,' and slow to withdraw it, they , were at once the most helpful and most exacting o. sup2orters. 'Their tens = ciou. trust •in men in ahem they have once couildni is illustrated by the unpar alleled fact that; Elisha Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddings and James A. Garfield repro. tented the district for fifty.four years. - . '.. There is . no test of, a man's ability' in' any department of public life snore severe than service in the House of Representa tives; there _is no place where so little deference is paid to repnlatinn previciady act uirodr or to oluPletic9 won °Meld° ; , ; r,, -- ::;. - i:..7T.'1.•,. ,- :"' Kii , !.. ,- ,,, , ,-, , ,'-,::-:'1.',': '',l'''-:.i.-:.l';'.-tS'.7;-':,' '. - 1 -- 1 . N ` , 7 ' -,-,,,, ~. 4 _ ~.',, • s ". ‘ . ' ... ' .1 ( 44 =Luau= OP DERIDIOLLTYOR FROM QUARTER. . no place where so little consideration' IS sh own for the feelings or the failures cC beginifers. -What • man-. Ping i>a the House lie gains by sheet force of his own character, and if he loses and.falls-ba,ck he must 'expect no mercy; and will receive no-synnithy: It is a field in which the survival of the strongest is the recognized rule, and where no pretence 'eatideceive and -no t4lamer tan _mislead. `. - The 'reel man-is discovered, his worth iszimpartial-' ly weighed; his 'rank is irreversibly de creed. With - Possibly a single:exception, Garileld - was the youngest member in the House when ho entered, and was. but sev en years from his graduation. Butts had. not been in his Inuit sixty days before-his ability was recegnixed and his place con ceded: Ho stepped to the front withthe confidence of one who belonged there. The House was crowded with strong men of • both parties ; nineteen of them have since been transferred to the Senate, and many of them have . 'served With distinc tion the gubernatorial chairs of their respective Stites, mitten foreign Missions ,of great consequence; but among them all none grew so rapidly, none so firmly as Garfield. As is said by Trevelyan of his Parliamentary hero. Garfield . succeeded "because 'all the world in concert could not have kept him in the backgroUnd, and because when once in,thei front.he, played his part with a prompt intrepidity and a commanding ease. that were but the out ward symptoms of the immense reserves of energy on which it was in his - powei to draw.' Indeed the apparently reserved. P. -fee which Garfield piasse . ssed was one of has great characteristics. Be never did so 'well but that it seemed.heeould easily have done better. Be 'never expended so much strength but that he seemed to be holding additional, power at call.. This is one of the happiest and rarest distinctions of an •effective debater, and often counts for as much in persuading an assembly as the eloquent and elaborate argunrint. - 'The great measure of Garfield's fame Was tilled byhtis sdrvices hillle House of Representatives. his military life, illus. traced by honorable . performance. and rich iu promise, was, as ho himself felt, prematurely terminated and necessarily incomplete. Speciilation as to what he Might have done in a field whore the glreat prizes are so few cannot be profita bl. It is. sufficient to say that as a sol flit* be did his duty bravely; he did it in. telligently; he won Au enviable fame, nntl *lce etired from the service without blot or breath aga'nst.him. as a lawyer, the' admirably et-nipped for the prorea-ion, he can scarcely ba said' to have entered on its practice. *flu) feereff rts be made at the bar were distinguished by the ranee high order of talent 'which he exhibited on eve ry field 'where he was put to the test, and if a man may bo accepted as a . competent judge-of his own capacities and atlapa dons the'law was the profession to which Garfield should have eevoted himielf. But fate ordained otherwise, and his rep utation in history Will rest largely upon his servide in the House of Representa tives. 'Mat service was exceptionally long.. He was nine times consecutively chosen to the House, an honor enjoyed by not more than six. other Representatives of the more than five thOusand who have been elected from the organiiation of the Government to this hour. - As a parliawentary orator, as a-debater ou an issue squarelyjoiued, wham the po sition had• been chosen and. the ground laid, Garfield must bo assigned ti - very high•rauk. More, perhaps, than any man with whom ho wa.s associated in public life, he gave careful and systematic- study to public questions, and ho cairn to every dtscussiou in which ho took part with elabOrate and complete preparation. He was a' steady and indefatigable Worker. Those who imagine that talent or genius can supply the place or achieve the results of labor -will 'find no encouragement hi Garlield's life. In preliminary work he was apt, rapid and skilful. Ho possessed, in a high degree, the power Of readily ab sorbing ideas and - facts, and, like- Dr. Johnson, had the ~rt of getting _frOm- a book all thatrwas of value in it by a read ing apparently so quick and cursory that it seemed like a Mere glance at the table. of contents. .11c was a preeminently fair' and Candid man in debate, took no petty navautage, s.ooped to no unworthy meth- - ods, avoided personal allusions, rarely ap pealed to prepidiee,did not seek to inflame passion. He had a quicker eye. for the strong point of his adversary than for his weak point, and - on his -own side he so Marshaled his ~,weighty arguments as to make his hearers forget any possible lick in the complete strength of his position. He had a habit of stating his' opponent's side -with such amplitude and fairness, and suchJiberality . olconcession, that his followers often complained that ho was giving his case away. But never in his prolonged participation iii the proceediugs -of the House did he give his case away, or fail•in the judgment of competent and impartial listeners to gain the mastery. OPEA,T PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS. These characteristics, which marked Garfield as a - great debater, did not, how ever-. make him is great parliamentary leader. A parliamentary leader, as that term is understomi wherever free repre sentative government exists, is necessarily and very strict!y the organ of his party. Au ardent American defined the instinc tive warnit of patriotism when he offered the toast. „ Our country,- always right, but, _right or wrong, - our country. The parliamentary leader who has a body of followers that will do and dare and die for the cause, is - oneWlici believes his party always right, but. right or wrong is for his .party. .No more important or.exacting duty devolves upon him than the selection of. the field and the time for the contest. lie must know not merely how, to Strike, but whom to strike and when tostrike. Ho often skilfully avoids the strength of his opponent's position and scatters con fusion in . ' his ranks by attacking ail-ex.; posed point when really the righteousness of the cause and the strength of logical intronchment are against him.• He con quers often both against the right and the. - heavy battalions ; as when young Charles Fox ? in the days of his Toryism, carried the House of Commons against justice, against its immemoriatrights, against his own convictions, it, indeed, at that period . FOx had any .Convictiuns,sand, in the in terest of a corrupt administration in obedience to a tyrannical sovereign,-drove Wilkes from the seat to which the elec-, tors of Middlesex bad chosen him and in stalled Luttrell in defiance, not merely of law, ' but of public . doecitcy. For an achievement of that kind Garfield was disqualified—disqualitied by the textttre of his mind, by the honesty of his heart, by his conscience, and by every instirt, and aspiration of his nature. The three most distinguished parka , mentary leaders hitherto developed fin this emintry are Mr. Clay, Mr. DouglaiSs anal :Ir. Thaddeus Stevens. Each was a maii • of. contaminate ability, of great earnestness, of intense personality, Offer ing widely each from the, others, and yet with . a 'signal trait in contriAcinthe pewee" to . command. In the give and take_of - daily - dismission ; in ;the art of contolling tend - consolidating reluctant and refractory followers; ill the skill to. overcome' ll Ibrins of opposition and to meet with competency. and courage the varying phases of unlooked-for assault utemspeeted defection, • it would be difficult to rank with these a fourth name in all- ur Congressional history. plit of these -Mr. Clay was the greatest. It would, perhapS, be impossible to find in' the parliamentarir annals of the world a - parallel to Mr. City in *hen_ at sixty-four years of age he took tho con trol of the Whig party from the President who had receive .t their suffrages i against the pewer of Welitter • in the Cabinet; again:it the eloipiente of 'Choate - in-the Senate, against thehercidean efforts of Caleb C-ushing. and - Henry' A. =Wise in the House,_, in unshated leadership, - in the pride "and :plenitude of -power; he titlFl944gidon 40114 --Tyler ;_with deepest . - NZ= ME ORATOR AND DEBATER. inn .:.,-,_,:,..,-::. .--,‘,;,=.,;4•.:=,-..-r.-.::---.!'i..:','.:•,,',:-..;:".',7,',',,:;.,'.: ME EMI „ . • scorn the Masi of thateenipiefing column whiCh had swept, over the land in MO and drove Ins , administration • to .seek Shelter,behind the lines of ilis.:politieal toe's, Mr. Douglass achieved a victory .searcely less:Wonderful w , hen in 1854; against the 'Secret: desires of, a strong administration s against the - wise counsel of the Oldercluefs,against the•conserva tire instincts and even the: moral sense of the conntry,,he forced - a relectent.Con , gress intoa repeal of the Missouri com promise. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, in his contests from. 1865 to 18(18, actually advane3d ;his parliamentary !etdership until Congress , tied the hands of the President and govei ned the country by its own will, leaving only. - ,perfunet.iry' duties to be discharged by the Executive. With two !Mildred millions of patronage in his hands at the opening of the con test, aided by the active force, of Seward •in the Cabinet and the : moral politer of Cheap_ on .the bench, Andrew Johnson could not command the support of one third in either house against the parlia mentary uprising •ef •which Thaddeus Stevens was the animating spirit and the unquestioned leader. • . From these three great men Garfield differed radically, differed in the quality of his. mind, in temperament, in the form and-phase' of ambition.. He Could not do what they did, but he:could do what they could not, end in the 'breadth of his Congressional work he lift that which - will longer exert a yotential influence among men, and which, measured by the severe test of poAlitunons criticism, will secure a more enduring and more enviable fame. . . GARPIELD'B onv.vr INDMRY. Those unfamiliar with Garfield's in dustry and ignorant of. the details of his work may in some degree..measurelitem by the annals 'of Congress. No one of the generation of pubbe men to which he - belonged has contributed so much that will be valuatile for future reference. His speeches are numerous, many of them brilliant, all 'of them well attuned, carefully phiwied and- exhaustive of the subject under consideration. Collected froni-the scattered pages of ninety*royal octavo - volumes of the o»agrestional Record they would present an invaluable compendium of the political history of the most important era through which the national government has ever passed. When the history of this period shall be impartially written, when war legislation, •measures of reconstruction, protection of human rights, amendments to the Con stitution,„ maintenance of public credit, steps towards' specie • resumption; 'true theories of revenue may be reviewed, n surrounded by prejudice -and discon nected from partisanship, the speeches of Garfield will be estimated at their true value, and wilt be fOund to comprise a vast magazine of fact an argument, of clear analysis and sound conclusion. Indeed, if no other authority were acces sible, his - speeches in the House of Rep resentatives from December, 1863, to . June, - 1880, would give a well connected hstory and complete -defense of the im portant legisiation of the seventeen event ful Years that constitute his yailiatnen tay life. Far beyond that. his speeches wOuldbe found to forecast ninny great measures, yet to be completed—measures which he knew were beyond the- public opinion of the hour, bin which he con fidently believed would secure popular approval within the period -of his own lifetime and by. the did of his oivn efforts. • Differing,- as' Garfield does fromithe brilliant parliamentary, leaders, it is not easy to find his -- counterpart anywhere in the -record of 'American public life. He perhaps more clearly resembles Mr. Seward in his,--supreme faith in the all 'conquering power of a principle. .He had the love of learning and the patient industry of investigation to which John Quincy Adams owes his prominence and his-Presidency.. He had some of those poi derowit elements Of mind which dis tinguished Mr. Webster and which, in deed in all our public life have left the great Massachusetts Senator without an intellectual peer. • - • . , THE PRFSIDENTIAL NOMINATION In English parliamentary history, as in our own, the leaders in the House of Commons , present points of essential difference from Garfield.' But sonic of his 'methods remit the best features in the; strong independent course of Sir Robert Feel, and striking resemblances are kliscernible in that. most promiSing of mo(lein Conservatives, who died too carte for his country. and his fame,ilie Luria Georg Bentinek. Ile had-nR of Burke's love for the -sublime and the beautiful, with possibly something of his superalmdance, and in his faith and his magnanimity, in his power of statement, in his subtle analysis, in his faultless logic, in his love of literature, in his wealth and world of 'illustration, one is reminded of that great English statesman of to-ilay, who, confronted with obstaclei thatwould daunt any but the; dauntless,. reviled by those whom he *ould relieve as bitterly as by those whose Supposed rights he is forced to invade; still labori with serene courage for - the amelioration of Ireland and - for the honor of the English name. • Garfield7s nomination to. Presi dency, while not predicted or anticipated, waS.not a surprise to the country. Ills promintlnce in Congress, his solid quali ties, his wide reputation, strengthened by his then recent • election as Senator froM Ohio, kept him in the public eye as a man occupy inc.; the very highest rank among those entiled to be:called states men. It was not mere.chance that brought him this high honer. "We must," says Mr. Emerson, " reckon success a con stitutional trait. If Eric is in robust health and has slept well and is at the -top of his condition and thirty years old at his departure from Greenland he will steer west and his ships will reach - New Foundlaud. • But take Erie out and put in a stronger' and bolder man and the ships *ill sail sis . hundred, one thousan d, fifteen hundred miles farther and reach Labrador and New England. There is no chance in results." • A 8 a candidate Garfield steadily grew in popular favor. lie was met with a storm. Of detraction at the very hour of his nomination, and it continued with increasing volume and momentum until the close or his victorious campaign No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'some ; hoek-wounding calumny' The whitest virtue strikes. What k ingrao strong t.,ut tie the gall hp in the slanderous tongue. CHARACTER. OF THE CAMPAIGN. Under it all he was mini . and strong and confident; never lost his self-posses sion: did no unwise act, spoke no hasty or ill-considered word. Indeed nothing in his whole life is more remarkable or more creditable than his bearing through those five full month s of yituperation— , a prolonged ,-agony of trial to a sensitive man, a constant and cruel draft upon the powers of moral endurance. The great mass.of these unjust- imputations passed unnoticed and, with the general debris of the cainpaign, fell into oblivion. But in a few. instances the iron entered his soul, and he died with the injury unfor gotten if not uriforgiven. • . • . One aspect of Garfield's candidacy was unprecedented. Never before,,in the history of partisan contests in tis epun try, had a successful @Presidential candi date spoken-freely, on passing events_ and Current issues. To attempt anything of the kind. seemed • novel, -rash and even desperate. The older class of voters re ailed the unfortunate ,Alabama letter, in which Mr. Clay was -supposed. to have signed his polithal death - warrant.. They (remembered also the hot-tempered ef -by •which' General Scott lost, a +lT:!share of his popularity before his n inination, arid thecinfortunate speeches. which rapidly consumed • the remainer. The younger voterslitei seen Mr. Greeley in &series ;of. VblOrons :and original ad preparingihe • pathway. for. oath. defeat. .Unnundful of these warn ings,' Unheeding:.the,'-advice 'of friends; • .. , . „, .. . _..... .., ..,.. ........ .. :_.....„,..,,,....: ~_._ .. .. . , ,?,:i.j.:- , tlf;,;:ig;:??,',.§ - ';T:',.•: ., : - -„ , f: - ,: , :. ,,,-, . ,, . -,-,,,, .. - : , 4f.2:-.4::::i7ig..i. 7 ...114:4:1=e4-4i:Si4"..gc . j." l " . Fi i4 q . ..... —...—.._.,„,..,,,,,rie. - . . , , • , I , , - _. . , . .. - - 4 tla , •.'" - ..- . .. - -- :- ~ Garfield »poke thlarge crowds as he Jour neyed to and from New York in August. to a great multitude in that city, to dele gations and deputations of every kind ,that called at Mentor during the summer and autumn. With innumerable critics, watchful and eager to catch a phrase that ruighebe turned into odium or ridicule, or:a,sentence that might be distorted to his own orVlis party's injury, Garfield did not trip or halt in any one of his seventy speache.g. This seems all the more re nuirkable when it is remembered that he did not write 'ghat he said, and yet spoke with such ldgiml consecutiveness of thought and such admirable precision of phrase as to defy the accident of misre port and the malignity of misrepresenta tion. In the beginning of his Presidential life Garfield's experience did not yield him pleasure or satisfaction. The duties that engross so large a portion of the .Pre,sident's time were distasteful to him and were unfavorably Contrasted with the legislative work. "I have been deal ing all these years with ideas,P lie im patiently exclaimed one day, ".and here lam dealing with persons. I have been • heretofore treating of. the fundamental principles of government and here I am considering all day whether A or B shall he appointed to this or that office."' Ho was earnestly seeking some prattical.way of correcting the evils arising from the distribution of overgrown and unwieldy patronage—evils always appreciated and often discussed by him, but whose mag nitude had been more deeply impressed upon his mind since his accession to the Presidency. Had he lived, a comprehen sive improvement in the mode of ap pointment and in the tenure of office would havebeen proposed by him and with the aid of Congress no doubt perfected. But, while many of the Executive duties were not grateful to him, he was assiduous and conscientious in their dis charge. - From the very outset he exhib ited adm:astrative talent ofa high order. He grasped the. helm of office with the hand of a master. In thisresneet, indeed, he constantly surprised many who were most intimately associated with him in the government, and especially : 'those who had feared that he might be lacking in the executive faculty. His disposition of business was orderly and rapid.. His power of analysis and his skill in classi ficationerrabled him to dispatch a vast mass of - detra • with singular promptness and ease.._ His' Cabinet. meetings . were admirably coil - ducted. His clear presen tation of official subjects, hiS well con sidered suggestion of topics on which dis cussion Was Invited; his quick decision when all had been heard, combined to show a thoroughness of mental training as-rare as his natural ability and his facile adaption to a new . and enlarged field of labor. • . With perfect comprehension of all the inheritances of the war, with a• cool cal culation of the obstacles' in his way, im pelled always by a generous enthusiasm, Garfield conceived that much might be done by his administration towards har mony hoween the different sections of the Union: ':-I.le was anxious to go South and speak , to the people. As early as April he had ineffectually endeavorei to arrange fora trip •to Nashville, whither lie had been cordiallV invited, and he was again disappohiteil a few weeks later to find that he could not go to South Carolina to attend the ..Centennial cele bration of the victory of the Cowpens. But for the autumn he definitely count ed on being present at three memora ble assemblies in the South—the celebra tion at Yorktown, the opening of the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta. and the, meeting of the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga. He was already_ turning over in his inind his address for each occasion, and the three taken together,he said to a friend, gave him the exact scope and verge which he needed. - At York+ town he would have before him the as sociations of a hundred years that bound the South and the. North in the sacred' memory of a common danger and,a com mon victory. At Atlanta he would pre sent the material interests and the Unit's-. trial development which appealed to the thrift and independence of every house hold and which should unite the two sections by the instinct Of self-interest and self-defense. At Chattanooga he Would revive memories of the. war only to show that after all its disaster and all its suffering the•country was Stronger and greater, the Union rendered indissoluble and the future, ,through the agony and blood of one generation, made brighter and better for all. Garfield's ambition for .the success of his' administration. was high:: With strong caution and conservatism in his nature, he was in no danger of attempt ing rash experiments or CT resorting to the empiricism of statesmanship. But he believed that renewed and closer at tention should be given to questions af fecting the material interests • and corn mercialprospects of fifty millions of peo ple. He believed' that our continental relations, extensive and undeveloped as they are, involved responsibility and could be cultivated into profitable friend ship or be abandoned to harmful in difference or lasting enmity. He be lieved with -- tonal confidence that an es - , sential .forerunner to a new era of na tional progress must be a feeling of con tentment in every section of the - Union and a .>•enerous belief that the benefits and burdens Of government. would be common to all: Himself a VonspiCuous illustration of what ability and ambition mak do under tepublicaLinstitutioilit, he loved his country with a passion of patrk otic devotion and every 'waking thought was given to her advancement. He was ail:American in all his aspirations,- and helooked to thedestiny and influence of the. United States with the philosophic cninposure of Jefferson and the demon+ strative Confidence of John Adams. • The political events which disturbed tbe President's serenity for many weeks before - that fatal day in July form an im portant chapter in his career, and, in his own ,judgement, involved questions of principle and of . right which. Are vitally essential to the constitutional administration of the Federal Govern ment. It would be. out of -place here and now to speak the language Or.controver sv ; but the events referred toi however they may continue to be , source of con tention with others, have become, so far asGarlield is concerned, as much a mat ter of history as his heroism at*Chicka mewl' 'or his illustrious service in the House. Detail is not needful, and per serial antagonism shall not 'be rekindled by any word uttered to-day. The tives : of those opposing him are not to be here adversely interpreted nor their course harshly characterized.. 'But of the dead President this is to be said, and said because his own speoeb is 'forever silenced and he can be no more heard except through the fidelity and the love of-surviving friends: From the begin ning to the end of the controversy he so much deplored the President was never for one moment actuated by any 'naive Of gain to himself or of loss to others. -Least of all thett did he:barbor revenge: rarely did he even show resentment, and malice was net in his nature.- lie was congenially employed only in the ex change of good offices and the doing of kindly deeds. There was not "an hoer, from; the of the trouble till the fatal shot entered his body, when the President Would not gladly; for the sake of restor ing harmony, have retraced any• step he had taken if such retracing had merely involved cont!txpiences personal to him self. The pride .of consistency or any supposed sense-of humiliation that might result from suiTendering his position had: not-a - feather's weight with him.. No man eras ever less subject to such influences from within or from without. lint after meet anxious deliberation and the NoleSt surrey of. all the 'elreumetaneee, be sol . "17',]-•'-,',-.,'-',''4':: ' ,,..,- ' ,: ' ,1 ‘ :...., : - : • ;..L: , : -, _•,.4 , .i; - -Z-,-_--,',:.' = " i ‘• ENTERING UPON TIIE PRESIDENCY. CARFIELD AND TIIE SOUTH $1.50 per Annum In Advance. . emnly believed that the true: pre ives of the Executive were involved t _the. imam which had , been raised and tti" be would be unfaithful! to his suptem ob ligation ligation if he' failed to maintain, iiti all their vigor, the constitutional rights and dignities of his great 'offiCe. lie believed this in all the convictions of conscience ,when in sound and Vigorous health, and he believed it in . MS• suffering and pros tration in' the. last , - conscious thought which his wearied mind bestowed on the transitory struggles Of life. . More than-this need not be said:' Less than this 'could not be said. Justice.to the dead, the highest obligation- that de volves upon . living, demands the ~ declaration dietitian the bearings of the subject, actual orpoisible, the'Yresident was content in his mind, justified in his . conscience, immovable in his conclusious.• The religious element in Garfield's character wits deep and earnest. In his early youth he espouSed the faith of the Disciples, a sm. of l that great Baptist Communion which iq different ecclesias tical establishments is so numerous and so influential throughout all. parts of the United StateS. But the broadening ten -dewy of his mind and his active spirit of inquiry were early apparent and carried him beyond the dogmas of sea and the restraints of association. In selecting a college in which to - continue. his educa tion he rejected Bethany, thbugh presided over by Alexander Campbell,thematest preacher of his Church. His reasons were' characteriStic,,. first, that Bethany leaned too heavily toward slavery ; and, second, that being himselta Disciple and the son of Disciple parents, he had little acquaintance with - people of other beliefs and he thought it would inake him more. liberal, quoting, his own words, both in his religions and general views: to go into a new circle and. be under new in fluences: The'iberal tendency which : , Ike antici pated as the result of wider culture was fully realized.. He was emancipated from mere sectarian belief ,and with eager in terest pushed his investigations In the aitection of modern progressive thought. He followed with quickening step in the paths of exploration and speculation so fearlessly trodden by Darwin, by IluX len by Tyndall and by other Hying scien tists of the . radical and - advanced type. His own church, bindingits disciples. by no formulated creed; but accepting the Old and Nei- Testaments as the, word of God with unbiased liberality of private_ interpretion, favored, if it did not stimu late, the spirit of investigation Its mem bers profess with sincerity, and profesS only, to be of one .. mind and one faith. with those who- immediately followed the MUSter, and who were first called Christians at Antioch. But however high Garfield reasoned of ".fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute." he was never separated from the Church of the Disciples in his affec- Bops and in his assotiations. For him it held the ark-of the covenant. To him it was the rate of heaven. The. world Of religious belief IS full of solecisms -mid contradictions. A. philosophic observer declares that men by the thousand will die in defense-of a creed whose doctrines they do not comprehend and whose tenets they habitually violate. It is equally true that men by the. thousand will cling to church orga.fizations with instinctive and undying fidelity when their belief in maturer years is - radically different froM that which inspired them as neophytes. , ' HIS CHARITY AND - I.IIIRRALITY. But after thii range of .speculation and this latitude of doubt Garfield came bark always with freshness and delight to the simpler - instincts of religious faith, which, earliest imWanted, longest sur vive. Not many weeks before his assass ination, walking on - the banks of the Po tomac with a friend and conversing on those topics of personal religion:concern ing which noble natures have an uncon querable reserve, he said that he found the Lord's Prayer • and the simple peti tions learned in infancy infinitely- restful to him, not merely in nieir - stateil reiteti tion, but' in their. casual and frequent . recall as-he went about the daily duties of life. Certain .texts. of Scriptures had a very strong hold on his memory \ and his heart. He heard,while in Edinburgh some -years ago, an eminent Scotch preacher who prefaced his sermon with reading the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans,• wltich book bad been the subject of eareTul study with Gar-_ field during all his religious life. He was greatly.iMpressed by the elocution of the preacher and declaredthat it had impart ed a new and deeper meaning to the ma= -- jest ic utterances of St. Paul. Jle referred often in after years :to that ineinorable service and dwelt with exaltation of feel ing upon the radiant prothise and the as suredhope with which the grearApostle of the Gentiles was "-persuaded that :rieither death,- nor life, nor angels, nor, principnlitini ' nor powers,- nor things present, nor things to come,.nor height,' nor depth, any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." • The crowning characteristic of General Garfield's religious opinions, .as indeed. of all his opinions, was his liberality. In all things he had charity. TOlerance was of hisi nature. He respected in other the qualities which he possessed himself --sincerity of conviction and frankness of _expreAsion. With him the inquiry wriS not so much what a man believes, but does he believe it ? The lines of his friendship and his confidence encircled men of every creed and men of ho creed, and to the end of his life on his ever lengthening- list of friends were to be found the names of a pious - Catholic priest and-of an honestnrinded and gen - - erous-hearted free-thiiiker. On the morning of Sattirday,,JUly 2d, the President was a contented and happy man—not in an ordinary degree, but joy fully, almost boyishly happy.. On • his Way to the railroad station, to which he drove slowlyc in conscious -eOjoyment of the beautiful morning with aq-unwant •ed sense of leisurvand a keen anticipa tion of pleasure, his talk - was all in the grateful and gratulatory vein. He, felt that after.foffr months of trial his admin istration was strong in its grasp of affairs, strong in - popular favor and •destined to grow stronger; that grave difficulties confronting him at his Inauguration had been safely passed; that trouble lay be hind him and not before him; that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved now recovering from - an illnem • which had but lately disquieted ,at and times .almost unnerved t=int ; that; he was go ing toles alma mater to renew the post cherished associations of his young man hood and to exchange greetings with these. whose deepening interest quad fol lowed every step of . his upicard progress from the day he entered upon hiS col lege course until he had attained the loft iest elevation in the gift - or his country men. Surely, 'if happiness . can ever come from the., honoru or triumphs in - this world, on- that quiet July morning Imes. A. Gartild may have well been a happy man. No foreboding, 'of evil haunted hits; no slightest premonition of danger clouded his sky. Ilig - teriible fate 'was upon him in an instant: One moment he stood erect s strong, (=aide* in the years stretching peacefuliy out before him. The'riext - he lay Wounded, bleed. ing, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence and the grave. . • Great in life, he was surpassingly great in -death. For no atuse, iu the very frenx.- of wantonness and wickedness ; --by thii red hind of murder, he: was thrust fro the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspiration, its victories, into the visible presence of death--and he did nut quail. :got alone .for. the . shqt mo mentin which shinned' and (hued, he EMMA NUMBER 41 GARFIELD AND RELIGION. VIE ASSASSIN'S SHOT. , OREATNEBB IS DEATH. MEM could give tip ilk badly vesreef linqiiishmentAnt" through dart of Wl"' pun', through weeks of, agony, that wall not less agony because - ailentlY toncrin, with, clear Bight °and calmbe looked into open - grave. Wight and ruin mettle angirished ia r whose lips may tell--what brill broken . Plans, what bated, high am no,what sundering- of strong,` warm, manhood's friendships, What bitter rending of iiweet household ties! Behind him a proud expectant nation, a great host of sustaining friends, a cherished and lisp py mother, wearing the tall, rich boners of her early toil and tears; the wife of his youth, whose whole,life lay in his: the little boys not yet emerged "from childhold's day of frolic; the fair, young _daughter; the sturdy sons just springing into closest companionship, chiming eVely_day and every day rewarding a father's love and care ; and in his heart the Liger;rejeleing 'power to meet till de mends. Before desolation and great darkness! And his soul was not shaken. His. countrymen were thrilled with instant, profound and universal sympathy. Masterful , in his mortal - weakness, he became the centre of a na tion's love, enshrined in the prayer 4 of a world. But all the love and, all Vie sympathy could not share with him his suffering. He trod the wine-press alone,. With unfaltering front he faced death: With unfailing tenderness he took leave - of life. Above the demoniac hiss of the -assassin's bullet he heard the 'voice of God. With simple resignation he bowed to the Divine decree. TUE &VD Or ALL. - • - - As the.end diew near his early crav ing for the sea returned. The stately mansion of. power had•. been to him the wearisome hospital of: pain, and he beg ged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, stiffing 'air, from its homelessness and its hopelesiihess.. Gent ly, illently, the love of a great people bore the vile sufferer to the longed-for healing of - the .sea t •to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heav ing billows. within sound of its manifold voices. - With wan, fevered face tender ly lifted to the cooling breeze he lOOked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders; on its far sails, whitening in the morning light ; on its resting waves, rolling shoreward to, break and ,to die beneath the noonday sun; on the red, clouds• Of evening, arching. low to the, horizon; on the serene and shining patb way of the stars. Let us think that hist dying eyes read a .mystic meaning which! only the rapt and parting soul tarty know.l Let us believe that he the silence of theil . revelling world he heard the great waves; breaking on a further shore, and felt! already upon his wasted brow-the breath of the eternal morning. - AT LAST. When on my day of life the night is And, In the windstrom unstained- spaces blowll, I bear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to piths unknown., Thou hart made my home of life so pyassnr. Leave not Its tenant when_lts walls decay, 0 Love divine, l? Helper ever present, Be thcu my strength and slay _ Ile near me whew all else Is from me drifting. Earth, sky, home's pieta+, days - of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my owttupllft!ng The love which answers mine. - I have but Thee, 0 Father I Let Thy s drlt • Be with tn. then to comfort and uphOid ; • !co gale of pearl, no branch of palm, I merit, Nor street of shining gold: Suffice it if—my good and ill tinreckonfd, 4 And both forgiven through Tby ; abounding grace— I T . fled myself by hands familiar beckoned _ Unto my fitting place Some bumble door Thy many ufinsions, • Some sheltering nhade where - sin . afid striving cease, And ficws forever through heaven's green espan. storks The river of Thy peace There, from the music round ahout me stealing. I fain would learn the new and holy song, And find, at last, beneath Thy trees of healing, i - The life for which I long. _—John Greenleaf Wlitttter in March Atlantic. Victor. Hug6's Joyous Faith.- I feel myself the future life. lam like a forest'which T has, been more than once cut dowur The new shoots are stronger and_livelier thati ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection or unknown worlds: You say the soul is nothing but the resultant , of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the more luminous when my - bodily powers begin to fail? Win ter is on my head and eternal spring is in my heart. Then I breathei at this - hour, the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and - the roses as at twen ty years. The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds_ which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple. It is a fairy tale, and it is history. For half a century Lhave been writing my. thonghts in prose, verse, history, - philosophy,dismi, ro mance; tradition, satire, ode, song— I !mire tried all. But I feel that I have *not said the thousandth. part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others, ," I have finished my day's work;" but, I cannot say "I have fin ished my_life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes .in the -.twi light to.open with the dawn. I:im prove every hour because r lovethis World as my fatherland, because the truth compels me-as it compelled . Voltaire, than human divinity. My work is only a beginning. My mon ument is above . its. fousdation I would be glad VI see it mounting and mounting forever. The thirst for'the infinite proves infinity.-- , -Victor Jlitgo. Boy Inventors. Some of the most important inven tions, have been the work of mere boys The invention of -the valve motion to the steam engine was made by a boy. Watt left.. the en gine in - a very incomplete condition from the fact that'e had no way to open or close the valves except by the use of levers - operated by the hand. He set up a large engine at one of the mines, and a boy was hir edqo work these valve levers.: Al though th's was not hard work, - yet it, required his constant attention. As he was working these leveri ho saw that'parts of the engine moved in the direction, and- at the exact time that he bad to open cr close the valves. Be procnrred a small cord and made(-one end fast to the proper lever ; arid tbe- boy had the satisfaction of seeing the engine move of with ( perfect regularity of - motion • A short time after the foremanenuni around and found the boy playing marbles at the door. Looking at the engine he soon saw. the ingenuity of, the boy, and also the advantages of so great an invention. Mr. Watt then carried out the boys inventive geni us in a practal form, add naule the steam engine a -perfect, automatic.; working machine. -- There is Hardly am Adult Persia living but is sometimes trembled with• kid ney difficulty, which is the most prolific and &amorous cause of all disease. Then• is no sort of need to have any form of kid ney or urinary trouble if flop Bitters are taken - occasionally. • - Tut St. Panl (Minis.) Globe. observes : Things had goon wrong w;th him, and he wanted to die ; yet he. had the whole Douse darting around mighty lively, so we heard, hunting toe the St. Jacobs Oil bottle, when the And twinge of fhennut, tie* gathered htm np. ~}'; I!. EINI EOM NM
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