The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-27
FUNERAL DAY.

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] wing and moving being that the people de-
lighted to honor will remain but the memory
ofhis virtues and the light Of his illustrious ex-
ample. Though dead, he yet speaketh, and,
though his mortal part has passed through
nature to eternity, his noble words and deeds
remain as bright examples to men ages hence.
As was said Of the illustrious Cardinal Wool.
sey: a
"He gave his honors to the world again.
His blessed past to heaven, and slept in peace.
And to add greater honors 10 his age
Than man could give him hedied, fearing God."
In the measure # the excellence of his
personal and public traits it may be written Of
him as it was of DR.. Belfair: "Greatness
was Of his essence; nothing paltry, 'othing
secondary, nothing untrue. Large in body,
large and handsome in face, lofty in manner
to his equals or superiors; homely, familiar,
cordial with the young and poor-I never
met with Il more truly loyal nsture-more
native aud endured to rule, guide and 'bene-
fit mankind" His was indeed "One Of the
few, the immortal names that were not born
to die"
1t is exceeding y appropriate that people
everywhere tomorrow should 10 honor to
the illustrious dead. Such an act will par
take of none of the charac' listics of hero
worship, but will be all act of devotion to the
principle of goodness in punl c station 1t is
. principle hat the American people cannot
too reverently cherish, that they cannot too
strongly commend to the emulation of this
and fut ure ages. Although there may now
be mingled with our regard for the deceased
some consideration of the inexcusable blow
that struck him down, and the intense and
wasting suffering that attended him during
the eighty days of his confinement to q sick
bed, we cannot fail to perceive that the spon-
taneous evidences of regard and universal
mourning of the American people spring
from a general conviction Of his worth.
Among the public men of the day he stood as
a clean-handed man. After twenty-five years
of public service, it was infinitely to his
credit, when he was called to the highest po-
sition within the nations gift, that he was
poor. Thesartitices ofthe politician were not
known to hi. methods. He was elected to
Congress without his '>olicitation, and while
he was away fl ON hone and fighting the bat
ties of his country. And when he was Sc
lected to become the standard-beare OF his
party in the last Presidential election, ii was
not u position of his seeking, but was accept
ed with misgiving aud doubt. 1t is the recog.
milton of this worth to which men of all
shades Of opinion are now crowding to do
honor. They place him in their hearts by
the side of tho martyred Lincoln. When, in
1865, the indignant people of the city of New
York were approaching a condition of riotous
fury, from the receipt of the news Of tho as
sassination, General Garfield, then in the
city, arose and addressed the multitude these
memorable words: yellow CITIZENs:
Clouds and darkness are round about him.
His pavilion Is dark waters aud thick clouds
Of the skies! Justice and judgment are the
establishment of His throne! Mercy and
truth shall 60 before His face! Fellow citi-
zens, God reigns, and the Government at
Washington still lives" The contiding trust
that he then urged should animate the Amer
lean people to-day.
ii6 it3C 1slu SSEglcHS Oh JdIleS "A. Iaruelu |
are perhaps better known than those of any of
our public men. In infancy he was left to
the care of q widowed mother who was poor.
The good woman faced her difficulties with
true heroism, often toiling in tue fields with
her own hands to Keep her children together
under her " eye. James received his first
lessons from his devoted mother. Al the age
of sixteen himself and a cousin took a con-
tract to cut one hundred cords of wood
for $25. He made up his mind at that
time to become a sailor, and went
upon = schooner at Cleveland, with the
obj.ct of carrying ont his purpose; but find
ing the crew all drunk and the ca plain a
coarse and brutal man, his ardor was damped
and he modified his sailor purposes so far As
to become a driver on the tow-path of a
Canal. Three months Afterwards he was car
ried home with a malarial fever, and during
his five months convalesence he resolved up
on a course that was the turning point Of his
life. He entered Geauga seminary, fourteen
miles distant, with just SIT in his picket,
During his VACATIONS he worked in the bar-
vest field or taught school. He prepare d
for college al this institution, and
from there went to Williams college in Mas
sschusetts, working his way through that in
stltution as he had done in the seminary. At
the conclusion of hi. collegiate course he re-
turned to Hiram, and became q professor in
Tho Western Reserve Institute. At the break
ing out of the war Garfield was a member of
the Ohio legislature, and President of Hiram
college, and upon the new of the battle Of
Bull Run aided in e~nlisting a regiment, in
which he took the position OF. Lieutenant
He was placed lin charge of a
in eastern Kentuck1. And tor di..