Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-01
Price Four Cents.

am thankful that have been able to keen
 my famlly by my side and educate my chii- | dren-' He was man with whom anvbodv
 could differ with impunity. I have said re.
 peatedly that were Garfield alive and fully 1 recovered, and dozen of his intimate friends were to go to him and advise that Guiteau he l let of, he would say: Yes, let him po' The 1 man positively knew malice And for ! such man to be shot and tortured like a doc ! and by dogi He was extremely sensitive l have seen him come into the House in the morning when some guerrilla of the press had stabbed him deeper in his feelings than Gulteau's bullet did in the body, and when he looked pallid from suffering and the evi- dent loss of sleep but he would utter no murmur, ana ln some short time his great ex- uoerance Of spirits would surmount it all and ne would be boy again. He never went to
 lunch without troop of friends with him. lie loved to talk at table and there is no
 gush in saying he talked like god socially
 and intellectually. Some of his off hand ex
 presslons were like burst of inspiration.
 Luke all truly great men, he did not seem to realize his greatness. And, as I have said
 ne would talk as cordially and confidentiallv
 "ith child as with 8 monarch And I only
 refer to his conversations with me because
 you ask me to, and because think his off,
 hand conversations with anyone reveal his real tralts best. Coming on the train from
 
 Only think of this, am yet young man It elected and serve my term I shall still he young man. Then what am ooino to do
 lnere seems to be no place in America for an ex-Presldentn And then came in what I thought the extreme simplicity and real nobil ny or the man. Why said he, I had no thought of being nominated I had bonobt me some new books and was getting ready Tor the senate l laughed at the idea of his buying books like boy going to coIieoe and remembered that during his Congress slonal career he had furnished material for a 1eW DOCKS himself. And then, with that pe- cuiiar roll of the body and slap on the sbouI- der with the left hand which all will recop- n1ze, he said: Why do you know that m to 1856 never saw Congressional fyZ0benor knew what one wasp And he then exnlained how he stumbled on to one in the hands of an opponent in his first public anti.slayerv debate. A friend remarked the other day that Garfield would get as enthusiastic in digging six-foot ditch with his own hands as when making speech in Congress. Such was my observation. Going down the lane he seemed to forget for the time that there was any presidential canvass pend ing. He would refer to one thing then the other, and always with that off hand originality which was his great charac- terIstlc Suddenly picking up a smooth round pebble he said: Look at that Ey cry stone here sings of the seaI' Asking why he bought his farm, he said he had been reading about metals, that you could draw 'h em to certain point a million times and not impair their strength, but if you passed hat point once you could never get them pack. 'So,' said he, T bought this farm to Unfit the muscles of my mindn Coming to wo small wooden structures in the field. he alked rapidly of how the neighbors guessed le would do in Congress, but would not make much of a fist at farming, and they 'alled my attention to his corn and buck wheat and other crops and said that was marsh, but he underdrained with tile and ound spring water flowing out of the bluff, nd found he could get five-foot fall, and with pumps of a given dimension, a water lam could throw water back so rods to his ouse and 80 feet above it. But said be- D his jocularly impressive manner, q did ny surveying before I did my work !'"
 Mir. Williams added that had not Garfield xpressed wish to be buried in Cuyahopa emetery, the place for his body to rest was n that hillside where he did his engineering. l sight of the lake and the Lake Shore road, here monument erected high by the na- on would be seen by the millions that assed and repassed forever. MT. Williams lid in conclusion the roots of Garfelds life ln deep into the hearts of his wife and chil- ren and it was hard to tear them out. That 3 had great confidence in Arthur's executive oility, and believed he was wholly sincere in l his acts.