The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-20
Gtre gatelIigetrter.
Garfield aud His wife.

From the Whitehall Review,
The sweetheart Of his boyhood-the gin
pupil whom her tutor loved-was for Gal
field the star OF his hearts horizon till tn
last moment Of his life. In n passage lead
ing from the parlor to the dining room il
his house ut Mentor, hangs the picture Of
nun about to enter the confessional in u ca
thedral. The resemblance Of this swee
face to that Of Mrs. Garfield isvery striking
one OF those accidental likenesSes on,
sometimes observes in apicture, and which
seems all the more strange and interesting
bGCauseit was evolved from the painter
fancy without any knowledge OF the deal
model it so greatly resembles SomNrked
wasthe likeness between thesweet upturneC
face Of the heayen'communing nun anC
that Of Mrs, Garfield, that stopped before
it ~ General Garfield was taking me in t
dinner. GLOW like Mrs. GartieldW | eX
claimed. She was directly behind me
walking with General Swain. The mar
riGd lovers exchanged fond glance, ant
Mrs, Garfield said, with Joyous smile
",fhe General calls that his pretty girl =
This was his pet name for herself, by whiCl
he always spoke OF the accidental portrait
never saw two people talk 80 much Will
their ewes as these two did. TWAS evident
that they consulted each other upon every
circumstance of lie MS il rose, and that tho
action he took thereon was the one which
the mutual Judgment settled upon MS best
| saw him In Inc Senate Chamber 20
a 4. Al =. u. I'll IL Il.
he was transformed from Il private citizen,
one Of the mass, to ruler whose powers,
while they last, are more autocratic than
any kings. The agitation of the solemn
moment had blanched the glowing check,
stilled the smile on the now pale lips; but
ever and anon he lifted his ewes to her, ~
she sat in the gallery above and in front Of
him, and her calm, lnrufIlcd face seemed
to give him the response he nGeded-thG
only one he could listen to, or sought.
ANY observer yersed in physiOrnomy could
SEQ Tint her ewes spoke aloud 10 him across
the space which separated them, saving,
AN is well, You are doing nobly. / am
proud ofyou." Behind the unimpassioncd
musk OF her delicate features, held in bond.
aye by the power Of her will md fortitude,
there glowed the fire Of IN enthusiastic
love for him, ioy in him, support from her
for him, to which no cold description in
written words can do Justice,
No one who saw President Garfield after
his installation in the White House can
fail to have observed tho great change
which his accession to power had occa.
stoned in him, Only mt Intervals did his
bright ioyousness shine out again, rs ut the
pleasant home at Mentor. The very day
after he became President the struggle for
the spoils Of Office began with n lierceness
hitherto unparalleled in all the strife OF
TINT kind which has been seen nj Wash.
invton. IIo was half.maddcncd bv his dc.
sire to do Justice to all the Contending fac.
tions. II was this feeling which made him
slow to give irreyoca6le decisions. |
w0s ut the White House one morning,
and he referred to his anxiety not 10
take IL step in haste which lie might
repent at leisure. The humor of his own
cautious slowness brought back the twin.
kle in his eve, ithe smile on the ROSY lin,
II don't know when | shall get around to
Tint" he said, "You know, there's no
telling when the NIississppi river will reach
a given point" The sluggish movement Of
the great Father OF Waters was hit Off to the
life BY this ilnpromptu epigran, The day
| called Mt the White House TOT say good.by
i did not think Il would be ioreyer-I
was shown into the family drawing.room