Daily Republican., 1881-09-20

'"ohr rHIsTOEY OF THE LIFE O
y THE DEAD PRESIDENT -srRrrcrr
F"rAS EnrCATIoS-nglLri
ANT cRowNING or
f. HIS EFFORTS.
James A. Garfield was born, Noyeu
E'er WA, 1881, in Orange township Cuy
tnoSo '"dntv, Ohio about 10 miles trny
8o'eNr1'nd, his parents being of Nnv
Eheian' stock, His father, Abraham
'athe'", died In 1888, leaving the fam
y consisting OF a widow and four chill
'iffn,ot whom James was the Youngest
without means, except the ovnnrsh;,
u W,s SIN J. farm and entirely dependent
hen Ja'neS was but , years old hi
hhcr dlrd late in the autumn, and al
Chr"uSh the severe winter the childre,
we're Obliged to rely upon their moth.
] "r support. III the spring Il debt wa,
o DE paid, ard Il part of the farm hn,
Fo 70 IN payment. The thirty remain
hs acres were cultivated by Thoma,
ina the brave mother, who is said tf
nave sFl!t rails and fenced the 10, or
which the cabin stood.
TWO years after the fathers death
\ a'homas Garfield WAS hired by u neigh
boring farmer to work at ST. \ month.
9rr"in tn" first weeks wages he paid in
pare Tor tho first pair of shoe his broth.
IT lanes Wore, the shoemaker taking
n" rest OF his pay IN board. Thomas
also PAID part Of the cos, OF his youu.
ger brother : schooling. The school
mouse was about mile and halfdi,
ltant and as James was barely five wears
|ntd, his eldest sister, Mehitablc. oiteu|
|'arfied him there on her back. Thel
y image, whioh then consisted of littleI
cluster OF houses, was called Chapriu!
{ ais. a mil was built there in early
spring by owe OF the first settlers. Bull
men sum- er came the stream dried ulI
IRON TINS circumstances the place deri
we'd its nrmc.
lhe distance 10 schoo, was so great,
and Mrs. Garfield, who had l.crseltI
taught her sons, was 50 anxious thati
James should have every facility for
learning that her limited means could
afford that she offered the village "a It'll
tle pot or ground on her farm on coudi
tion that Il school house should be builtl
on it,
James was quick at learning, al.
though he was very restless. This rest
csshesS was "a characteristic which he'll
'etalned throush lite. When he was III
years old his brother returned from
Michigan, where he had been emplnvedA
" farmer to make clearinss, with
money enough to build frame house.
ames assisted him, and did so well
nat one of the joiners advised him to4
oIlow carpentering as "a trade. During
he next two years he worked regularly!
- carpenter, going to school only All
intervals, but studying diligently in
pare hours at home. He mastered al
eXt BOOK on grammar, an arithmetic
lla geography, and as after two years
t carpentering he had not got beyond
arn building he concluded to try to
urn ms wits to better account. He as y
lsted IN putting up some frame addi-
IONS AT biaC timing esta ablsllmen,
OF far from Cleveland, and the pro.
rietor had noticed him figuring over
ONE measurements and reading and
'rltlng In spare moments.
fdmud klrke says that one day the
r"prletor stepped up to Garfield within
ne remark: "iou kin read, YOU KIM
rite, anu you are death on tiggers; 40
'ay with me, keep my counts and
ohd ny saltery. I'll find you and
i've you Sl4 a month" He acceptedH
le ofier, which brought him in an in
)Me larger than he had ever received
B any time, and he remained at the salt.
y ior some time, satisfied himself and
ltisfying his employer. One dav.
)wever, member of the family spoken
MIN as servant. A few hours after
ard Garfield threw up his place.
He now took odd Jobs, among them 4
le to chop twenty-five cords of wood
farmer near Cleveland, for whichM
was to receive 81. While he hadm-,
ied at the black salter's he had co eE'
ross number Of sea tales, which,
a awakened III him strong desire toI
come a sailor. He went to Clevp q
nj and applied to several captains ofa,
boomers, but he looked every inch all !,
and was unsucc uccussful Hv
sheart+ned by his failure, vet want 81,
: some aquatic occupation, he went Ia
his cousin, Amos Letcher, who ownedB
,oat on the Ohio and Pennsylvania
nal, and the boy who had been u
canning of sailors life was engaged y
drive a canal-boat team.
Having been on the canal boat four II
,nths and fallen into the water four
N times, barely escaping with his
} on the last occasion, be made IN ct
! mind that "sailor life" was not 80 N
N SAINT as he had pictured to himself, NJ
4 he went home with the determine.
n Of going to school again.
lie had saved a little money, and It
at was wanting towards paying for 20
instruction was supplied by hi, X
'ther Thomas. Accompanied by
lsin and another young man from the
says Mr.. kirke." and th
piled by his mother with a few pots, Of
ing pans and dinner plates, he set 90
for Chester, where the academy was
lted. The three young men rented a
IN in an CID, uDpainted building an
r the academy, and, with their FL
king utensils, a few dilapidated
irs, loaned by a kindly neighbor, =.
some straw ticks, which they =,
,ad upon tire floor to sleep on, they -,
up housekeeping-for they were too v
r to pay board as we'll as tuition. D.
artield now paid his own way by NJ,
ing odd jobs from carpenters OH no 70
lrday and in the evening. During w
summer he made enough money by !.
piping wood to pay his board for the NJ
t academy term; the price for his aiI
I'd, washing and lodging being 81. O6 Nil
eek. In the fall of this term he first .
Lucretia Rudolph, whom he after bel
d married. English grammar, nat MI