years of age, attending now, as in early years, to the duties of life, manifesting the same sweet spirit, unchanged by the honors that have come upon her illustrious son; and it is the son's highest pleasure to tenderly care for the mother.

No profane word, no unseemly jest, no ribaldry, is ever heard at Lawnfield. No wines sparkle on its table. The moral atmosphere is as sweet, pure and healthgiving to heart and soul, as the breezes from Lake Erie to the body. It is a Christian family, — a Christian home.

XXVIII.

THE MAN.

AMES A. GARFIELD has been endowed by na

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ture with a grand physique. In the lives of his ancestry there must have been stalwart men. He is broadly and strongly built, and in stature above the medium height. There must be prodigious strength of muscle in the arms of a man, who, when sixteen years old, could cut two cords of wood between sun and sun; and there must be great endurance of fibre, that could continue it fifty days without flinching. Such strength of muscle enables General Garfield to lift great weights.

At Pittsburgh Landing, in 1862, a line of teams came down from the army for rations. There were so many wagons to be loaded that great despatch was necessary. A fine-looking soldier, wearing a blue overcoat, presented his requisition. The commissary saw him take up a barrel of flour and toss it into a wagon, as if it required no effort.

"I suppose you will require a receipt for these provisions," said the soldier to the commissary.

"Yes, your commanding officer must receipt for it." "Can't I sign it?"

"O no, it must be signed by a officer."

commissioned

"Very well, I'm a Brigadier General. My name is Garfield."

General Garfield's face is the index of his character, it is beaming with kindness; but in the lines of his countenance one can see sturdiness, energy, pluck, and the calmness and coolness of an evenly balanced brain; steady nerves, and a will controlled by moral forces. It is the face of a man not easily frightened.

It was at Chestertown, in Maryland, in October, 1863, that General Garfield addressed a public meeting, at the solicitation of Hon. Henry Winter Davis. Rotten eggs were hurled at him. He gazed calmly and steadily upon the assembly, and said :

"I have just emerged frem the rain and hail of Chickamauga; I have faced the worst that rebels can do, and do you think I can be frightened by cowards?"

It is the calm man who stills the storm. No more eggs, but silent respect from the humbled audience.

General Garfield's eyes are bright and hopeful. There is no insincerity or revenge in them. A physiognomist would say that a man with such an eye never would take gloomy views of things, even when things were at their worst. It would not be possible for him to be a pessimist.

In his bearing, General Garfield is frank, cordial, generous. He has an intense hatred of wrong, but is ever ready to forgive the wrong-doer, the moment the wrong is acknowledged.

"I would clasp hands," he said, in a speech last

year at Dayton, "with those who fought against us; make them my brethren, and forgive the past on one supreme condition: that the cause for which they fought was, and forever will be, the cause of treason and wrong. Until this is acknowledged, my hand shall never grasp any rebel hand across any chasm however small."

From being strictly temperate in all things, General Garfield is in good health.

"The advantage of a strong pulse," says Emerson, "is not to be supplied by any labor, art, or concert. It is like the climate, which easily raises a crop, which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures, can elsewhere rival."

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We have seen what this strong-pulsed man accomplished in his boyhood in his school days. We know what he has accomplished in his maturer years. He has lived in accordance with nature's laws, and nature has accordingly endowed him with her strength. can lift great weights, can endure great hardships, and accomplish great things. He can work all night if need be; but that is not in accordance with nature; it is only when the demand is imperative, that he makes any extra draft on his strength. He is an indefatigable worker. It is in his blood, coming down from his New England ancestry. It is his nature to work.

"A man accustomed to work," says Campbell, the poet, "is equal to any achievement that he may resolve to accomplish. James A. Garfield, when a school-boy at Geauga, cooking his breakfasts in a fry

ing-pan, fixed his eye on a definite object far away; he never lost sight of it- he attained it.

"How have you been able to make your discoveries? asked a gentleman of Sir Isaac Newton.

"By always intending my mind," replied the discoverer of the law of gravitation.

General Garfield has his hours of recreation; when thought and care are cast aside; but when the hour for work comes, he sits down to his labors with the appetite of a hungry man to his dinner.

We have already seen the determination, characteristic of General Garfield, manifested in his boyhood, in pushing the jack-plane, and when he engaged to cut one hundred cords of wood at twenty-five cents per cord; but to complete that job, something more than determination was requisite.

Another element of character was called into activity - perseverance. It was a contract not to be finished in a day, but for a period of nearly six weeks; he must be up before daylight, wielding the ax before the sun made its appearance above the eastern hills, and when it disappeared in the west at night, he must still bẹ waking the echoes of the forest with his sturdy blows, to accomplish his self-allotted task of two cords per day. There were blisters on his palms, aches streaming up his arms; he went to bed weary. It was the routine of weeks, and there was no let up on the part of the boy of sixteen. Determination and perseverance carried him through Hiram and Williams, and brought him to manhood. The responsibilities of life