Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-05
TIMELY: TOPICS.

GENERAL" Booth, of the English saliva
tion army, is now being vigorously hauled
over the Goals by the secular press for
charging an admission fee at the recent
wedding of his con. This is not fair. The
salvation army depends for its success
upon the notoriety whichit obtains. and
indirectly upon the money which comes to
it through that notoriety. A religious
campaign cannot be brought to a success
full Issue without money any more thau
any other secular campaign. General
Booth in getting all the money he can
shows himself 10 be shrewd and far-see-
ing leader, in spite of all his fantastic
tomfoolery.
GAHf1ELD's father was New York state
boy "bound OUT to service. General
Hancock's father was also a bound boy,
bound out with his sister to Quaker far
mers, and Hancock was born in the back
part Of a roadside schoolhouse, as Garfield
kept one. The st. Louis bellies thought
Lieutenant Hancock was of the direct line
of old Governor John, the signature
grandfather was all obscure sailor of whom
50 little is known that it is not certain how
or where he died, nor of what state or tribe
he sprang, but probably from the Quaker
Hancocks of southern Now Jersey. Gen
eral Hancocks mother was superior wo
man, and made bonnets as a
miller in the very house
Hancock went to lie in after his wounds at
Gettysburg. Many is the pretty girl
whose face Mrs. Hancock was framed
while the little tacker, Winfield, looked up
wondering whether it was going to be a
three-dollar job or ive-dollar one. The kin
of General Garfield are amongst the plain
est people to be found even in pioneer
society; SO education made both these
bound boys candidates for sceptre.
SAYS tourist: was at Garfeld's cof-
fin few days ago in Lakeview cemetery,
Cleveland. The street ears run the whole
six miles out. passing the new Western Re-
serve university, and the Nickel Plated road
passes in front. The cemetery is of gray
ely bluff, well erased and ravined, with
swells and promontories in it, and timber
on the hillocks. walnut, maple. ash and
pine. On the highest copse. a narrow ram
part of bare grass. afforaing the only view
of the lake could see, and that several
miles distant. SO that the sails and steamers
looked like clouds in the sky, the generals
monument is to be, and $3.50. 900 are ready
for it. At present he lies in vault near
the foot of this hill on the principal drive
of the cemetery. in a casket sent from
New York city, of bronze or metal we'll Or
namented and color-draped, and sentinels
have tent and walk there. Near by. is
the funeral car, in a moro retired spot
The general character of the tombs sur
rounding is above the average, and some
of them are opulent and artistic, while the
soil and prospect are such as Garfeld's
toll was framed i'll. New York can show
no such rural avenue as that called Euclid.
leading to the grave, for unbroken CONT
nuity of urban villas, each owned by its ten.
ant and all indicative of America and fam
lily independence. concluded that it had
been wise to put tho tomb in the cemetery
instead of In the city, though previously 1
thought differently. Cleveland now has
about 100000 inhabitants, equal to the
population Of New York city fifty years
ago.
Is the world growing cold and rocky
hearted? Is there any such thing as living.
sustained. perpetuated natural affection !?
This question has long been a Enooted one.
The existence Of porpetuated parental Of
lection is claimed, and generally admitted.
but. that filial affection runs parallel with
it is denied. In old age parents who in
the most self-sacri6cing spirit have patient
~ and tenderly borne the burdens of caring
for and raising children. when decropitude
and infrmity bear them down, in many.
and many, instances, those same children
in their heartless selfshness feel their par.
ents to be burden, nuisance. In some
harharic and savage nations children ha
bitually and systematically compass the
death of their aged parents in various
ways. and thus relieve themselves of q
hated burden. In civilized and Christian
communities. cases. though less frequent.
do actually exist where the unfeeling in
seneibility of the barbarian crops out
where children feel burdened by the help
less decrepitude of aged parents, causing
them by their ill-disguised aversion and
neglect to wish for death: and rejoicing
when they die in the relief from a burden
unwillingly borne. The writer hereof saw
a man Of ninety years Of age bedridden
in the affluent home of a son whom he had
tepderly cared for in childhood and youth.
praying for death to come to relieve that
son of the burden Of longer caring for
him, knowing and feeling, by neglect and
scant attention by night and by day. how
irksome to his son and his family was his
prolonged existence. And this. too, in a
confessedly Christian family! This is not
an isolated instance. The world would be
astonished could their number be fully re-
vealed. Not long since, it is stated, good
looking man in middle life sought the
house of a clergyman. On being asked
his business he said: II have lost my
mother Sympathizingly the minister
said: ''You have met with great loss"