Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-05
GARFIELD AT MENTOR.
Farm-home of the Next President Visited by
Inter Ocean Correspondent.

MENTOR, Ohio. July l8.-North.
ern Ohio is as much like New Eng.
land as one locality can be like
another. The same thrift is here, the
same white paint and green blinda,
the same oyershadowing barns and
prison like corn CRIBS, standing on
stills, and which are capped with
tin pans TO keep the rats down the
same sort of hammocks swinging be.
tween the same sort Of trees 10 the
same sort of "door yards" the same
sort of peoples and ho'lyhooks, sun
flowers and peonies, with clusters Of
mignonette nesting under the "china
asters" in the housewives neat and
well kept garden
New England sent these people
here and althccgh 8 century has
gone since they cleared their farms
and laid their rifles by their bedsides
as they slept, the traits of ancestry
still remain, and will remain as long
as habits and customs are transmit.
ted from fathers to sons.
Taking the cars at Cleveland, on
the Lake Shore road, passing flaming
FORCES, then ripe fields of corn and
grain, twenty miles bringing you to
the town of Mentor. There is a
handsome little depot, a meeting
house or two, q store, where every
thing that human kind finds neees.
sary can be purchased a blacksmith
shop, sleepy looking hotel, where
for twenty cents, you can get din
ner good enough for the gods a
livery stable. where. for dollar, you
can use horse All day and this
Mentor village. Within the village
limits live about two hundred people
while Inc thickly settled township
shows population Of 1900 Every
body has farm and o dairy and
sends bis milk to Cleveland
Passing up the main street for q
mile and half, the houses few
hundred yards apart the whole dis,
lance, with the farms behind them
stretching back indefinitely, you
reach large two story and a half
frame house-new, and with the
odor of pa;Gt still olinging to it's
walls. OF modern English pattera,
with large, airy rooms, high ceilings,
aud tat windows, porchas al around,
and modest cupols browning its
neighbors only because Of its new
ness.
The grounds about it aro well
kept the wide lawn is shaded by
immense trees and the flower garden
sheds perfume which the breeze
bears to yen Back Of the house are
immense barns, and d load Of hay
stands pietureEquely in the fore
ground At the right is a small one
story frame structure, about twenty.
five feet in size, with the Inevitable
porch, and before il on the lawn,
where the shadows from 8 great elm
falls, q half dozen comfortable chairs
are scattered. Croquet wicsess and
The network for lawn tennis show
that all work aad no play does not
make dull boys here
To make the picture complete, on
the edge OF the road, juat outside the
gateway, stand platform the height
of q wagon box, on which are bali a
dozen shining milk cans, az large as
barrels, which have been placed
there for tina Tec@uIisn If The even.
ing's mix. These cans are carried
to the depot each evening, fun Of the
fruit of the uddsr, ard their ceatents
are peddled about In Cleveland the
| next morning.
| Tais il where the next president
of the Uaitef States can be found
/ these Days; q Ysritable Cinciana;us
called, not from the plow, bat from
the bayfield, His home Is democrat.
10 enough to suit the traditions Of tht
nation, and the grangers should hsvt
| his cowhide boots photographed To-
! campaign purposes But polities
honors have broken in upon and ID
terrGpted q farmers life.
When General Garfield was n0mi
mated 80 unexpectedly, lie had d
. other plan than to repeat the previ
: Gus summers experience ia the la,
aud harvest fields he is a man G
muscle, and can lift o. big forkia
or plow as straight . furrow as an,
lyeonan 10 Ohio; and last summe