Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1895, Page 23

| Ny JAMES ¥ (Copyrighted, 1565, by the Author.) | I have been asked to give an account of the early life of the late President Garfield. 1 wrote such an account as long ago as 1880, and intended to have incorporated it In" a life which 1 then prepared for publication | by Harper & Bros., but as I found this early the book it portion would too much enlarge was left out, £nd the period was “skimmed over” with little attention to detalls. I now reproduce that original narrative, as it fs uthentie than anything that could now because all its facts were derived i be written, from Garfield himself, and its every word was | to his mother, who pronounced arate as it could have been made been a witness of the events it re- read by m it had 1 lates. James Abraham Garfield was born on the 19th of November, 1831, in a little log cottage In the depths of the Ohio wilderness. Ohfo was then not the great state it is no its settlements were few and far between, and a large portion of its surface was cov- ered with great forests, In the midst of one of these forests stood the little log cottage, miles away from any other dwelling, It was built of rough logs, to which the bark moss still were clinging. Its doors were of plank, swinging on stout iron hinges, and it had two small win a floor of split sap- plings, hewn smooth with an ax, and a roof covered with pine slabs, held down by long cleats fastened to the timbers, The spaces between the logs we filled in with clay and the chimney was of sticks laid up in mud, so, If not exactly a mud house, there was a good deal of mud about it; but it was cool in summer and warm in winter, and quite as much of a house as was then to be found in that region A HAPPY FAMILY. Tt held, too, all that the little boy had in the world—his father, his mother, his two sisters and an_clder brother; and they were a happy family py because united, for the distance that divided them from the rest of the world brought them the closer to one another. But, before the little boy was 2 years old, the strong, broad-breasted man Who bound these lives into one was borne out of the low doorway and laid in a corner of the little wheat fleld forever. Nothing re- mained to bind the little family together, save the weak, puny arms of the mother, but she threw them about her children and stood up bravely to meet the storms of winter—and it was a cold, hard winter, and they were alone in the wilderness. The snow lay deep all over the hills, and often, when lying awake at night in his mother's narrow bed, the little boy would hear the wolves hungrily howling around the little cabin, and the panthers crying and moaning before the door like children who had lost their way in a forest. ONE WINT One night, In the midst of a terrible storm, a heavy drift burst open the door and piled great heaps of snow all over the lower floor of the little dwelling. The mother sprang out of bed, for she saw the danger—the wolves would be upon them soon as they detected the opening! She was a fragile, little woman and her arms were weak, but all at once they grew strong, for they held the lives of her children. Seizing the big black log that was smouldering on the hearth, she bore it to the doorway, and piling dry fag- gotr upon it, lighted ‘a great fire on the snow. The strong wind fanned the flames and soon it blazed up, scaring the wolves away. Al night long she piled the faggots on the fire, and in the morning cleared away the snow and closed the door. After that they slept in safety. The long, dreary winter wore away at 1ast, but spring brought little fair weather to the solitary household. They were not only poor, but in debt. The debt must be paid, and ‘the futuro—ah! that stared darkly in their faces. But the brave mother went to work bravely. Fifty acres of her little farm of elghty acres were sold, and with her older son, Thomas, who was 12, set at work upon the remalnder. Thomas hired a horse and ploughed and sowed the little plot of cleared land, and the mother spiit the rails and fenced in the smail house lot. The maul was so heavy that she could only just get it to her shoulder, and with every blow she came to the ground; but she struggled on with the work and soon the lot was fenced, and the little farm in tolerable order. NIGHT. FACING STARVATION, But the corn was running low in the bin and it was a long tims to the harvest. Starvation at last looked in, like a gaunt wolf, at the doorway. This wolf could not but the mother went out bravely to raeet him. ured out the corn, \h! meas- reckoned what her chil- dren would eat, and went to bed without hor own supper. For weeks she did this, but the children were young and growing, their little mouths were larger than she had measured and after a while she neglected to eat her dinner also. One meal a day! Think of it, ye chillren, and thank God 4f you have ‘such a mot But, at last, neighbors gathered round the little Jog cottage in the wilderness. The nearest was a mile away; but a mile in a new country is not half as long as a mile in an old one, and they came often to visit the lone widow. They had sewing to do, and #he did it, ploughing to do, and Thomas did that; and, after a time, one of them hired the boy to work on his farm, paying him $12 a month for fourteen hours' dally labor. Thomas worked away like a man; and—while 1 do not state it as a historical fact—T verily believe that no man ever was so proud and happy as he was when he came home and counted out into his mother's lap his first fortnight's wages, all in_silver half-doliars. “Now, mother,” he said, “the shoemaker can come ‘and make James some shoes.” James was the little boy who was to live to be president of the United States, and though the earth had then made four jour- neys around the sun since he first set foot upon it, ho had never yet known the warm embrace of shoo leather. A school had been ‘started at a village threo wmiles away, and Thomas wanted the athers to attend ii; 50 ho, worked away with @ will to earn money chough to keep the family through the winter, The shoemaker camo at last and made the shoes, boarding GARFlELD AS A BOY. The Early Struggles of Oluo s Lamented Son. GILMORE (Bdmund Kirke.) and | ont a part of his pay, and then the older alster took James upon her back and they all trudged off to school together—all but Mhomas. He stayed at home to finish the barn, thresh the wheat, shell the corn, and forcs a scanty living for them all from the little farm of thirty acres. STUDYING AT HOMB. ‘When winter came and the snow lay deep » the roads, his sister was mot stout enough THE ()‘MA HA DA ILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1895. 23 to carry the little boy three miles to school, #0 he remained at home and learned to read at his mother's knee. When he was not au years old, and ble to spell through his words, he came across a little poom about the rain. After patient efforl he made out this line: he rain came pattering on the roof.” “Pattering on_the roc he shouted, “Why, mother! I've heard the rain do that myself!" All at once it broke upon him that words stand for thoughts; and all at once a new world opened to him—a world in which | poor boys are of as much consequence as rich men and often of much more, for nearly all the valuable work and thin g of the world has been done this new world opened to hin mere scrap of a boy he set himself zealously to work to open the door that leads to it. Before he was out of bed in the morning he had a book in his hand, and after dark—the family being too poor to burn candles—he would stretch himself upon the naked floor, and by the light of the fire spell out the big words in “‘Bartlett's Reader, book was in his memory, where it remained to his latest day. ecing his fond determined to do all she ¢ and thinking James still too young to trudge off three miles to school she called.the neigh- bors together and offered them a corner of her little farm If they would build upon it a school house. It would be as far away from the homes of most of them as the other was, but they caught the spirit of the little woman and in the course of the autumn the great trees bowed their heads, climbed upon one another's backs and became a school house by poor boys. Well, d though a ness for le 1g his mother HE WOULD STRETCH HIMSELF ON THE NAKED FLOOR AND SPELL OUT THE WORDS. It was only twenty feet square, had a puncheon floor, slab roof and log benches without backs or a soft spot to sit on, but it was to turn out men and women for the nation. SCHOOL SUCCESSES Before winter set in the schoolmaster came—an awkward, slab-sided young man, rough as the bark and green as the leaves of the pine trees which grew about his home in New Hampshire, but like the pines he had a wonderful deal of sap in him—a head crammed with knowledga and a heart full of good feeling. Under his instruction James progressed rapldly and at the close of the term he was presented with a testament— which was the teacher's way of saying that he was the best scholar in the school. So things went on—Thomas tilling the farm or working for the neighbors, and James go- ing to school and helping his brother morn- ings and evenings, until one was 12 and the other 21 years cid. Then, to make more money than he could at home, Thomas went to Michigan and engaged in clearing land for a farmer. In a few months he returned with §75, all in gold. Counting it out on the little pine table, he sald: *Now, mother, you shall have a framed house.” All these years they had lived in the little log cottage, but Thomas had been gradually cutting the timber, getting ont the boards and gathering together the other materials for a new dwelling; and now it was to go up, and his mother have a comfortable home all the rest of her days. Soon a carpenter wa hired and they set to work upon it. James took S0 handily to the business that the Joiner said to him, “You were born to be a carpenter.”” This gave the boy an idea. “'Shall Thomas,” he sald to himse!f, “make so much money for mother, and I make none No. I'll set up for a carpenter and buy her some chairs, a bedstead and a mahoginy burean.” And straightway he did it. Durlng the next two or thres years h built four or five barns, going to school on at intervale; and then he had learned all that is to be learned from Kirkham's grammar, Pike's and Adams’ arithmetics, and Morse's (old) geography—that wonderful book which describes Albany as a clty with a great many houses and a great many people, “all stani- ing with their gable ends to the strest.” With this immensity of knowledge he thought he would begin in the world. Not having got above & barn, he naturally concluded he wa not “born to be a carpenter” and so cast about for some occupation better suited to his genius. One—about its suitableness I will not venture an opinion—was not long in pre- senting itself; but of that I shall need to tell in the remaining chapter, CONF CSSED SHE | Little irl Disappo xpeeta- tions of Her Guilty Mates. Something dreadful had happened at the Queensville district school, relates the Phila- delphin Times. May Greene, the belle of the viilage, had smuggled her Sunday sash out or fae bureau, and, “unbeknownst to her mother,” had worn it to school. Her trl- umph, however, was short-lived. She had hung the sash most carefully on a hook In the cloak room while she ran out at recess for a good romp. On her return she was dismayed to find that it had been cut in two pieces. Rvery scholar was carefully ques- tioned, but no oue, of course, knew anything ebout it. The 'teacher accordingly an- nounced that when the afternocon session should open she would lay all lessons aside and hold a court of investigation. She he selt would be tho Judg y Greene should be the plaintiff, and every scholar in turn should como up into a witness box, rigged up for the occasion, and teli exactly what he knew about the matter. She also said that if anyone weuld confess his wrong-doing be- fore the opening of court he would be par- doned and all procoedings stopped. Two guilty boys, disearded beaux of the gay coquette, were now pale with dismay. They had told untruths when privately questioned, and now they feared they would not be able to brave them out before the awful court ordeal—especially since it had begun to be whispered around that they knew more of the matter than had at first appeared. They therefore hit upon the fol- lowing expedient: The youngest child in the school, Itile Aunle Cork, was the pet of the county. It she now could be induced to confess to the cutting of the sash surely she would be par- doned on account of her popularity, She was thereforo boset by the gullty young- sters, who, by dlut of dire threals and large bribes, and by urging confession upon her a duty, finally secursd her bewildered consent “to confoss.” ‘When the afterncen bell rang the scholars came in promptly, looking askance at the awful witness box and at the mutilated finery floating out from the teachsr's desk. The judge was sbout to open oourt, came th nnx&rnh triumphantly the innocent 14 el u them. informed the judge that Anmnie Cork haa come to coufess, and, officiously placing her on the witness stand, they withdrew to thelr seats. The child's belpless attitude was too much for the tendes-hearted judge, who took until the whole | d to gratify it, | her by the h dear, have y “Yoth," | earnest nd and sald gently: y 1 really come to confess? she faltered, oppressed by the stillness in the room: but, gaining courage from the judge's kindly manner, “Yeth, teacher—I'th come to confeth—I'th come to confeth that I didn't do it." “Well PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, “Rising nicely, ain’t he, mamma?" “Jimmy! What on earth have you been doing with Fido?" *He's just e't three yeast cakes and drunk a pan of sour milk.” Teacher—How did sin come into the world? | The New Boy—The preacher picked out all | the things peopla liked to do and said they | were sins |, “Mamma, Jimmie Watts' goat got loose | today.” “'Did Jimmie find him?" *No, the goat found Jimmie—just when he wasn't lookin', to Little Tommy—Pop, have yow a_ mechanl cal brain? Tommy's Pop—Not that I am awaro of, my son. Why do you ask? Little Tommy—Nothin', only I heard Mr. Brown say you had wheels in your head. Papa—Did you ask God to give you your daily bread this morning? Bobby—No, papa; I looked in the pantry last night and saw that there was enough to last for three days. Tommie was looking over the puzzle col- umn of his paper. One of the questions was, “How can you put down nine strokes in such a way that their total shall represent one?” “Ho! That's easy,” sald he. “Nine strokes is about the size of one spankin', Rev. Dr. Meredith, an English clergyman, tries to cultivate friendly relations with the younger members of his flock. In a recent talk to his Sunday school he urged the chil- { dren to speak to him whenever they met The next day a dirty faced urchin, smoking a cigarette and having a generally disreputa- ble appearance, accosted him in the street with: “Hullo, doctor!” The clergyman | stopped and cordially inquired: “And who | are you, sir?” “I'm one of your little lambs,” replied the boy, aftably. “Fine da And, tilting his hat on his head, he swaggered off, leaving the worthy divine speechless with amazement, — - HIS PRAYER. wrl for The Bee. God keep you my little love, All through the night; in His encircling arms Until the light; My heart is with you as T kneel to pray; Good night! God keep you in His care alway. Thick shadows creep like silent ghosts sout my bed; If In tender dreams, hile overhead The moon comes stealing through the win- A s 1 lose my gleaming 'mid the stars, For T, away, tron dear love, night is long. sobbing breath though 1 and yet the old, fond you TOLD OUT OF COURT. A curious judgment other day by Volisso, dama the 1 was pronounced the a judge in a court of law at in the island of Scio. An action for was brought by two persons against rallway company for losses sus- a collision. It appeared that a lost an arm and a young woman hiad lost her husband. The jidge—a Greck d the damages thus: He gave 6,000 plastros to the man for the loss of his arm and 2,000 to the woman for the loss of her husband. At this there were loud murmurs, whereupon the judge gave his reasons in these terms: “My dear people, my verdict must remain, for you will see it is a just one. Poor Nikola has lost his arm and nothing on carth can restore that priceless limb. But you,” turning to the woman, “you are still young and pretty. You have now money; you will easily find arother husband, who possibly may be as good—perhaps better—than your dead lord. That is my verdict, my people, and so it must go forth.” So saying, the Judge left the hall. The people cheered him d congratulated themselves on having such a judge. % In North Carolina the judges of the su- perior courts “rotate,” 1. e., ride each cir- cuit of the whole state in regular succes- sion. When Judge Shipp of one of the moun- taln courts, in regular rotation, came to ride a circuit on the sea coast, he was much pleased with clams, which were new to him. He had a clam supper, with the result that he hat a most violent iliness, and could not hold court for two or three days. When able to sit on the bench the first case tried was an_affray in which one man used a pistol and the other knocked him down with a clam (in the shell). Manly, appearing for the state, introduced a witness to prove that one clam, #0 used, was a deadly weapon. “Stop there, Manly,” sald the judge, carnestly, ‘“‘the court will hear evidence whether or not a pistol is a deadly weapon, but the court knows without further evi- dence that a clam “Witnesses are often remarkably candid some of them unconsciously or unpremedi- tatedly so,” says Luther Laflin Mills of Chi- cago. “I met one of the latter kind, who was trying to prove an alibi for a man whom I was prosecuting for burglary. The burglary was committed about 11 o'clock at night in the heart of the city; the witness gave evi- dence that at that hour on the night in ques- tion the defendant was in his company in a boarding house away out in the northwest part of the city, about five miles from the scene of the burglary. ““What room in the house were you and the defendant sitting in that night? I asked him In cross-examination, ““In the kitchen.’ “‘Was there any other person with you?' 4 the rest of the people of the house had gone to bed.’ *“‘How do you know it was 11 o'clock when you were sitting there?’ “ know it by the clock.’ “ ‘Whero was the clock?" On the west wall, back of the pipe.’ “‘How were the hands of the clock when you looked at it?' “+Just showing 11." “ Not cven a few minutes before or after that hour?' “‘No; just 11." Why did you look at the clock? Because 1 expected to be called as a witness in this case. stove- “One time during a session of court at Jacksonville,” related * Lawyer Dummer of Chicago to an Inter .Ocean reporter, ‘the presiding Jjudge was sitting on the court house steps chaffing with a 1ftle group of lawyers, as was his wont. Felix McAvoy came up and the judge, singling him out, aid quizzically: ‘See here, Fellx, George Smith says he just came out from your office, where he went to consult your library. He says all he found there was a copy: of the session laws and last year's almanav.’ Felix was-a little nettled, for the judge was twlit- ting' on facts, but, looking around at the group, he sald In an indifferent way: ‘That's true, your honor. You see we lawyers don't need books as long as there are such fools on the bench Somebody tells the following yarn on a Silver City (Nev.) justice of the peace: He had a prisoner up for trial and there was no- body present to prosecute him. He proceeded to question the prisoner himself concerning the charge, and the prisoner declined to an- swer, saying that he did not intend to prose- cute’ himsclf, Then he found the prisoner guilty of contempt and sent him to jail for twenty-four hours, e - s S SR IMPIETIES, Rey. John Brown ot Haddington, England, the author of the “Self-Interpreting Bible, was & man of singular bashfulness. His court- ship lasted seven years. Six and a-haif years had passed away and the reverend gentleman had got no further than he had been In the first six da A step in advance must be made, and Mr. Brown summoned all his courage for the deed. ‘Janet,” said he one day, as they sat in solemn silence, “we've been acquainted now six years and mair, and I'vo n'er gotten a kiss yet. D've think I might take one, my bonnie lass?" “Just as you like, Joha; only be becoming and proper wi' “Surely, Janet, we'll ask a bless ing.” The blessing was asked, the kiss was taken and the worthy divine, overpowered with the blissful sensation, most rapturously exclaimed: “Heigh, lass,” but it s gude! We'll return thanks!” Six mouths later tue plous couple were made one A certain popular divine la the north, who Is noted quite as much for his absent-mind- edness on occasions as for his general plety, was called In once by a young couple, whose home had just been lightened by a minla- ture representative of the mother's self. 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No Postponement on Account of W Leaves the Show Grounds Promptly at of Magnificently Carved and Decorate pather The Proce: 10 o'clock on the Morning of the Bxhibition. Over a Mile in d Dens of Wild Animals Exhibited I'rec and Open on the Sty »u Moves Rain or Shine. Length. Scores ets. Ten Kinds TWOCOMPLETE PERFORMA NCES DAILY. AFTERN ODN DO RS OPEV ONE HOUR EA~ AT 2-NIGHT AT 8. One 50-Cent Ticket Admits to all the Combined Shows~ = L __Children Under12 Year, Half Price SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS. OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPT. 9TH. WILL POSITIVELY ERHIBI. IN hibition grounds, 20th and Paul St‘s ing at home. The minister took the child in his arms, and in his kind, fatherly way addressed a few words of advice to the young people. ‘“‘See that you Irsm this child up in the way that he should go,”” he began, “Give him the benefit of a good example, and see that he is surrounded by the very best in- fluences. It you do this, who knows but that he may become a George Washington or a General Grant? What Is his name?” “Jennie,” demurely responded the mother. Francis L., being desirous to raise one of the most learned men of the times to the highest dignities of the church, asked him it he were of noble descent. ‘“Your majesty,” answered the abbot, ‘‘there were three brothers in Noah’s ark, but I cannot tell positively from which of these three I am descended.” From Plymouth, where the Wesleyan Meth- odist conference has been in session for three weeks, there comes a good stor relates a London paper. Two boys were discussing the appearance of s0 many looking persons in the streets. One What are all those parsons here for?" * gaid the other, “‘to swap sermons of course.” Mr. Snaggs did not go to church on Sun- day morning, but Mrs. Snaggs and little Sammy went. At the dinner table Mr. Snaggs asked: “Sammy, what was the text?"” “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that tread- eth on thy corns,” replied Sammy promptly. A negro preacher addressed his flock with great earnestness on the subject of ‘“Mir- acles,” as follows: “My beloved friends, de greatest of all miracles was 'hout de lo: and fishes. Dey was 5,000 loaves and 2, fishes, and de twelve 'postles had to ‘em all. De miracle is dey didn’t bust.” FIRST BLOOMERS IN JAYVILLE, New \n World, I seed the crowd a-getherin’ Like flies in front of Pettigill's An' think, says I, as sure as sin A man has come with circus bills The folks was jammed around the An' more a-comin' on the run An' pushed an’' crowded till the Jes" wouldn’t hold another one, An' every neck a-stretchin’ out Jes' like an old tea kittle spout. Dad sald it 'minded him o' when The war bruk out In sixty-one, When all the able-bodied men '« itehin' fur to grab a gun. tore o' Pettingill's, he vow packed from mor plumb tili night, very feller in the crowd hawin' plug an’ talkin’ fight; And now he reckoned mebbe there Was some new war talk in the air, store, door ‘We both was short o' breath when wa Got to the store an’ jined the crowd An’ craned our éhger necks to see What caused the ‘aproar. Dad allowed *At mebbe burglars had bin And robbed the place back in the night— 1 thought %o, too, Il Gr: anddad Linn Said, “Jemeses 'drickets, what a sight! It beats the very' Dutch, I swan! Two city gals with britches on!” Bimeby the crowd:eome back, A-treadin’ on each. oth: c An' all a-yellin’, “Qlear the track! Their eyes bugged out like heifer's horns. Out come the gal§, a-munchi Some cheese an' cluckers, an’, by jings, 1 blushed clear underneath my hat To see the queer:outlandish things, Fust time 1 ever had a chance To see a gal a-wearjn pants. at T thought it wasn’t Fizht to look An' turned my fack the other way, But dad he never:flinched, and took The hull, blamed circus in; an’ say, You'd orto seed ol' Preacher Moore; He moved his lips in pra'r, an' sneaked Around the corner of the store An' stood there horrified—an’ peeked. He said it was a burnin’ shame, But kep' on peekin' jes' the same. The critters wa'n't a bit ashamed, But looked at us with sassy eyes An’ sort o' smiled, an’ I'll be blamed If T warn't bustin' “with surprise. They jumped on them new-fangled traps They oall bl-sickles—"straddle. 00— Told us “Ta-ta” an' tipped their caps, An’ land o goodness, how they tlew! 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