The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-01

1t will be observed, in reading the foregoing
tA"ie, that the pulse has been more variable
than temperature, and respiration III the last
c"l-'S ti:an either of the former. This is at
tIih":rtl by the attending physicians to gastric
disturbance, but by others to the extreme
weakness OF the patient whose system had
been reduced to the last extremity by the
treatment and lack Of nourisbment and
natural sleep. There has been from the first
such variance OF opinion as to the cause of
these fluctuations that it is difficult to arrive at
any satisfactory conclusion concerning them
WHAT has been the greatest puzzle to the UNI
professional mind is the relative fiuctuation Of
pulse, temperature and respiration. The day
after the shooting, and before the patient had
rallied from the shock, his pulse ran from 1l2
to lot', tie temperature from 80 to 1O1, res
piTa'lon: from 20 to 24 The variation in
fnctnation in this instance, however,
the 10Th of August, when the
patient suffered the most serious relapse in tho
history of his case not excepting the fixing
Of the location Of the Pns cavity and the uso of
the sca:pel. On the 10Th inst the pulse regis
tered lbS in the evening, and at the same time
on TIC following evening ran up to $50 and q
little later to 14O. The fluctuation of the tenn
pcra'u:e in the meantime was 100 on the 10Th
to 10 on the 10th Respiration for the same
time tluctuated from 10 on the 10Th to % on
tho 10Th, On the 18th tho evening bulletin
indicated tho pulse at 1870, temperature 50. 9,
respiration ID. This singular state of the
case il submitted in the record for solution by
the scientific
5nErCH OF PRESIDENT GART1ELDs LIFE.
The Of Garfield traces its ancestry back to
tn MasSa ch,lsstts Puritan stock from which sprang
so many Of greatest heroes and statesmen.
III . long roll Of the family contains the names Of
WHO perDetuatcd the stern virtues of their
falkers, and, through changes aud migrations,
transmitted them unweakened to their later rep
rrs.n.atives Abcam Garfield, the father of the
cd xvho hio horn nhor I
1881, was but eighteen months old. The widow,
with four helpless children dependent upon her,
neither yield ID to despair nor accepted any assist
ance which might be construed as charity. Fol-
lowing her magnificent gospel Of self-help. she
took uron herself their future. How faithfully
and granGly s!e fulfilled her trust is witnessed by the
touching and tender reverence shown by the son
whom the nation exalted to its place Of chefest honor
The young James commenced his school life at the
age of three years, thus evincns Necocty and
taste for study which was presage of future
greatness. For the next twelve years his life was
that combination Of study, reading aud manual la
Dor which. in our earlier history, was so frequent
lythe discipline through which poor but intel
ligent and ambitious bov obliged to pass to a
career Of honor and renown. His few books were
read and re;read, and his youthful fancy fred by
Yet with all his studious habits, he vigorous,
independent youth: and his playmates soon learned
That interference or Injustice were thEgs ne would
not brook. tie was simply boy; healthy In body,
mind and morals
When sixteen years old he went to Cleveland,
bent on shipping hand before the mast He
boarded vessel, found some drunken sailors, and
captain who looked drunken beast: was shocked,
and turned away and walked otf-partly disilusion-
lied, not wholly. He happened to meet a cousin
whom he knew merely by sight, and who run .
ming canal boat. The cousin asked him If he did
not want to drive horses for him. the offer was
accepted, for it flashed on young Gartied's quick
mind that he could make the canal work primary
school, the lake the academy, and the ocean the
college. So began his caual-boat experience, which
has been sufficiently and in some cases extrava-
ganty exploited. It came along naturally, without
accident or any merely wild notion Of adven-
ture. and james went through it rough and
tumble Ike the brave and usty youth he was, for
three months, when he got paid $40 month and
board It was ended by an attack of fever, through
which he was safely carried by the sklful and ten
der care of his mother During his convalescence
she persuaded him to effort of another kind An
education fitting him for q teacher would open be-
fore MIN q prospect OF equal independence and
greater poss Utilities than the forest the canal.
With $l7 to meet expenses, young Garfield and his
two cousins entered the academy Ut Chester. This
marks the real beginning of his busy, honorable.
ana useful life. Here he met young girl Lucretia
Randolph. who In after years became his wife.
Here he caught glimpse of the life which might
open before an educated man. and here were awak.
cned those as:,irations which only strengthened
wi increasing Year,.
At the end Of = year he undertook bis first expe.
rieuce in teaching. characterization among hts pn'
ruly backwoods pupils served merely TO display
wose pla!alE BIZ manly aoasAep eae ~ 9aa W.