The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-06

close. There have been thou
sands of death-beds as calm and beautl-
full as this, but they were not so con-
spicuOns. This eleetrifes ChristendOm.
This encourages all the pain-struck In
hospitals, and scattered all up and
down the world to suffer patiently. The
consumptiye, the cancered, and the pal
sled and the feyered and the dying of
all nations lift their heads from their
hot pillows and bless this heroic, this
triumphant, this illustrioes sufferer.
The religion that upheld him under the
surgeons knife and amid the appalling
days and nights at Long Branch and at
Washington is a good religion to have.
Show us in all the ages among the enc
mics of Christianity death-bed that
will compare with this radiant sunset.
Again, our Presidents death will do
more for the cOnsummatiOn or right
feeling between North and South than
his Administration of four years could
have accomplished. This is not "shak-
ing hands across the bloody chasm," ac-
cOrding to the rhetoric of campaign
Documents; this is shaking hands
across the palpitating heart that was
large enough to take in both sections.
This expiring man took the hand OF the
North and the hand of the South and
Joined them together, and practically
said, with a dying pathos that can
never be forgotten, 'Be brothers.
Where now are the flags at half-mastF
At New Orleans and Boston, Chicago
and Charleston. There is absolutely
to-day no Republican party, no Demo-
cratic party. new party has swal
lowed up ala party of national
sympathy. The bulletins on the south
side of Mason and DixOn's line have
been as carefully watched as on the
north side. We have been trying to ar
bitrate old difficulties and settle old
grudges, yet the old quarrel has ever
and anon broken out in new place.
But this requiem which shakes the
land forever draws out all sectional dis
cords. After all that has been done and
said during the last eleven weeks the
people of the South will be welcome in
all our homes as we shall be welcome
in theirs. He who tries hereafter to
kindle the old fires of hatred will find
little fuel and no sulphurOus match.
Alabama and Massachusetts, stand up
and be married. South Carolina and
New York join hands in betrOthal.
Georgia and Ohio pronounce you one.
nH hof inin
man put asunder. The seal is set by
the cold, emaciated hand of our dead
President. No living man could have
accomplished it. More of the sectional
prejudices and the misinterpretatiOn
and the bitternesses of our old war
times have perished in the last eleven
weeks than in all the seventeen years
since the war ended, and so the dead
which Garfield slew at his death were
more than they which he slew in his
whole life.
Again, President Garfield's sickness
and death have educated the world, as
all his life and the life of thousand
men beside could not have educated
it in the wonders of the
human body. For the past two months
all ChristendOm has been studying
anatomy and physiology. Never since
the world stood has there been so much
known about respiration, about pulsa-
tiOn, about temperature, about gunshOt
wounds, about febrile rise, about di-
gestiOn, about cOnvalescence. The vast
majority of the race have hitherto wan
dered about stupidity ignorant of this
masterpiece of God, the human mech
anism. This last eleven weeks have ed
ucated ten thousand nurses for the
experience will have better attendance,
more kindness, more opportunity of
restoration. Never has there been such
examination of dictionaries to find the
meaning of medical phrase. One new
word of the morning bulletins has set
the leaves of all the LexicOns in Amer
lea ahutter. Since the time when
David, the psalmist, probably returned
from an Oriental ldissecting-roOm, wrote
the autopsy, 1--WE are fearfully and
WOIuClLhAlg anu 1OAOLhObJ WIN
was wise in physiology as well as in
everything else, called the spinal mar
row the silver chord (Or ever the silver
chord be lOOsed'O and called the head,
the golden bowl" because the skull is
round like a bowl, and the membrane,
which contains the brain, is yell
low like gold (Or "the golden bowl be
brOken'0: and called the veins of the
human body pitcher, because they
carry the crimson liquid from the heart,
the fountain, through all the organs of
the body (Or "the pitcher be broken at
the fOuntain'0; and called the lungs a
wheel, because they draw to itself and
let go away like well bucket; and
called the stomach the cistern Ghe
wheel broken at the cistern"); and
showed that he knew what Harvey
thought he was discovering thousands
of years after cOnceiving the circulation
of the blood say since those obscure
times down to these days, when all
physicians are busy instructing the
people, and all Medical Colleges and all
High Schools are scattering physiology