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H VII VEST was. Mori bath -xaiUie, mon new, Tl e ewiii tto it capers ni'-te ; Xor IscUs nit neon wrvtei tw. While crlcka ting the tong of heat. An boor-tons I -vcn the rtanei 3 Ki-ep With die ru at iegtoa of tU-- stain ; Thr.v.,gb swstt ai;C stuofcte -i-UUrs erettf, And wab the in ita 4 m; stela. Tb bees fo--fc t Iboir 0' raotrv, I-apped in u e -.-'over white md red; Tbrtmimt, fro!5 Taint l'.li lrsrrj., IVeavea lb r pe thistfc-dowii uisacd; KtiM, yonder, it the wag, Cray road, I: lives a mcntcnfeiry quat. riiaa drives ah-ng, with n.ie"ws goad, A whir) f tamtam clothed in dust. Tbe dreau-s ol utpht? Ko-u. too, bjtth dream? : la fiiititi, fe:wu tKuidp, Ttey Ssuticu tV-r fltet en uivei ing f treaius That Sow ab:ve ttw aun-rrig'tit lands! I see tSetr praM-s are southward net: And soon t.Vir sal's V-e bearer. i crowrt. By swinmfna donio and ctluret. And rich pa ilion wove of cJcmlJ Atlantic Hvnthlg.

THE MATiOB'S CALAMITY.

End of the lc.r Strngiilr of tbe Prea

Wl for Lite The Siatf'tercr'a Laiat

Memcnn Narked by riktons of That

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fal Dreaoj o LtapHi Joy TeH

Kobhed the Hanr t Ma.lt ibtXenw,

Loi Pnjc.cH, Sept. 19.

' Preeidnit Junos A. Garfictt died as the

Frsceklyn otttt?, et Eloeron, at 33 annates After 10 this evening. His death was o sad

den and unexpected that when Use family wia

summoned tike P.-ecident was uncouscioaa. From ttu) he did not rally. He died a few

-a-omenta alter Hn, Garfield entered the room.

From win! cut. be ascertained, ha death from sheer exhaustion. At the

President's bedside, holding his poor.

emaciated hand in her or. s, and watching with

cjjgatdh anntoa-.tble the fast-vanishing sands of life, sat the faithful devoted wife during

ihe closing boars of the President's career.

Around him were other weeping friends and phyaiciaas, Ian tenting their poierleasneesm the presence of the dark sucul of death. Toward

the last the miud ot the snfferc-r wandered. He

ma once more lack in Mentor, unid those scene

'where the happiest hours of his life wire spent.

He satin the deal old homestead again with the

loved ones arcasd him. his aged mother so proud oi her M5 bo;, his faithful wife and beloved children. it was a bbssf ul dream that sobbed death of its terrors asd rendered the dying man for loo aiomcnt nnconaciont of the cruel rending of hU onea-VKjirotB frame that waacooatantrr going on. 11 moan of the resttess ocean tuiiajkd with the tob of toe bred ones a$ the inmc of life thekered and went cat forever. Nearly everj' one arenact th3 President clone; hope" to the list, and ix-laed to itlieve the apraoaeh of (atb cntH the shadow deepened and the deatrtijei's prtstiace couid. be no longer unfelt. Flags hang at lialtnass from every hone ra Ocean Kvenae, asil tiv. gnyetyof tli faTjrita watertng-plkce is toSowed by the deepost gloou. 'Cne stroggie ts over, and oeaui is the victor. 'this morning the physieisns thooght that the President was a tittle better. He Seemed to bare some appetite, and no indication of any cull or any iliiturbance' wae noted. The insUionsnatnrt of these-aitacfcs was again made manifest soc-c after 8 o'clock. The President tad been very nttiet, and seemed comparatively oomf or table, boddeaty he ecsnphunedof chut

nesB, and, aitbceti hia body was wrapped in

warm nanoeui, ana win f i i . ,

it an hoar he had

been bathed in hot aJoofcql, a was foand that Us feet and InutdewKSrere coU, and, in a moment, there was imaxked rigor. He abivered and every mascle in his body was rigid. The poise went np to 140, and even

was impoiuitbli: to court too beats. After it .

had passed that ngurc mete was great danger that, be would sink into a comatose state after thengorhad piHsed'uid evwy exertion was madetoindnc('reactidi. Hot flannels were applted to the f M:t uad ponltkes of raw onions eat fins and --aepud m alcohol wen placed nnonhis stomach. In addition cooling lotiorm were applied to the head, and the arms ami limba fere nibbed vigorooily The resnit tma that a reactiai wan jtabUsued mneh sooner than the physicians expeeted. After flfteea misotiM had elapaed, Dr. Elit s noticed increasing warmth in toe feet, and at the aarae time the rigidity Of the mnsetea was observed to be relaxing. It rcaa undent that the rigor was pas&ngaway' in about half the time whicfrthe first one had lasted. That cue, in spite of the most vigorous treatment, sad only yielded trader half an hour. The vitalit y uf the President ones more astoukhed the pby.sians so ranch so that Br. Agnew said, wliei lie came from the nck-chamber, as be has said before: "Tile vitality of the president is something more remarkable than I have ever mi't with ra all my practice.' This was said to Hi sl Garfield and Private-Secrttary Brown, and tie great tnrgeoa also added that "M H was net. for hu wonderful evidence of constinitioial strength, he shooid feel aa thongh it was folly to indulge in any hope." After the rigor had paved the President fell sbep, Rod, a thongh his peine was still beating above 110. yet hia temperatare had not decreased more than a tenth of a degree or so below normal paint. Heawoke it aooot twmty minutes, and the nrsfrworda he said ehoed that the mind waa more active t) an his bodily Htrength. Ha said to Br. Wi-w : " Doctor, T fad very eomfortabla, but I. ate i feel drcadYrdty weak. I wish vouwoiiH gi erne the h&od-glast and Jet me lookat nryrtti." Gen. !;tr.r said: "Oh, ao, dorr"; do that, Mr. President, see if von can't get xome mors) Bkep." u laaut to'see lnysi.'lf, the President ropaed. - HSn. GarBeld gave turn a tand-glass. He heki it in a position whi A enabled mm to see bis face. Mr, tiarfleld, Sr. Bliss, Sr. Agoew. Gen. Hwnim and Sr. Boynton stood around the fci d. gayinj not I. word, tot looking at the PretiidV n:. He btadKd the reflection of hu ojrn features at length. He Tea-iiy let the glass tall nron the conoterpatm, and with a sigh said to Slrx. Garfkld ; 'Crete, I don't see how 't ia ilitt & man tvho looks as welt aa I do should be 10 lieadfnlly weak.'' In a motceat or twt he asfced for his danghtcr.SissMoiue. Th-iy tild him that aha weald come to et-s 1 ici later in th day. He said, however, th- t he wanted to see her then. Thereupon BockweH wenr tq tne beach when Kiss Alollie v as sidia; with Jliss BockweU, and told her thut her father wanted to see her. When the child went into tea room she kissed her father an d told bim that she was glad to Bee tb.U he t. is looking so much better. The President said : ".Von oaiik I do look better, Jtaiie?-" She said : "I do. pa." And then she took a chair and sat at the foot of the bed a moment or two. After Sr. Boynton netfecd that Hiss Mnllie waa nwaying in the diair, he slipped np to her, hot before he could teach her she had fallen over in a dead Taint In felling her face struck against the bedpost, and when they raised her from tte floor she was not only nncoaBcicnfl, but t.Iso .bleeding from the contusion which she had received, 'they carried her nut where the conld get the fresh breeze from the ttean, and, after restoratives were appUed; she -tjioetlily recovered from the faint. The room vre dote, the windows were dosed, and MU 'Molliehiu not been very welt, and all these caoaa , combiuod with the anxiety, iar dnsed the fainting fit. The President, tbey thought, hhc not noticed what had happened to his petted child, for he seemed to have sank into the stupor which characterized Ilia condition most of the tune. Bat when In-. B--wnton wnnt bck into the roomhowaa astonishedto heartlie President say': " Poor little Mollis. She fel over hksa iogi tiliatwa the matter?'' Taey assured the Piesident that the fainting fit was caosed by the ekkienessof tb .ieom, as well as the dsiicate constitution of the girl, and when he had that attirBce he again sack into a atnpor or sfcepv which lasted until the noon examination. Thin stupor wis nit a healthy steep.' The President frequently muttered and roHad, and tossed his head upon ttte pillow. After th noon examination there was very little cluuu.'e in the Presideni's condition, excent tbat it .-as noticed that there was more

mental confiuion. The fear of rigor about,

thtttbour wu not realized, out were waa a fear that a t gor locld occiv in early evening; At the same time tho rreatdent as doing So well, oniiai5tively, that the physicians entertained a slight hope that the evening, and possibly th night, would pass without anv I'ccurrnnce of the rigors. The Cabinet, who are all here with the exsentiott of be Secretary of State and. Secretary of War, axkedtfce phvmdans for an honest prognosis o! the o. Tbey were told that the cai was almost hopeless ; that a person who htjt ks vitality than the FrasideBt haesltown .vonkt be pronounced by the attendiDK pbvsicians v be beyond bops. Sr. Agnear slid that the Presidenra condition waa bad as bad xndd be, but that he was not yet quite prepared to say that there waa absolnielv oo bope. At the same time the Cabinet 'haard that which fauafled them that the President wac sow muTeiing from acute pvQinia. " it the ensuing bulletin bis condition was thought A tiulu more comfortable. There was afeahDCjof congraUilaKo-i on all sides that he had esobpcil another rigor, which had been amtiotuilY f'-ared since the chill of tbe morning. Sr. B-Titoo, during the early everiing, taiked even a little hopefuly, and the people about too hoiete prepared it retire at the aoial hoar, having almost no fears of ill news before morning. At i o'clock Bemetary Brwrn's cctUge was dari and deserted. A few of the raoru vigilant newspaper-men eat taJMng of tho case on the Klberon Psba. Dr. 3-"-riton was among them. At twenty auc-Ltes' pisl 13 a colonid messenger called Dt, fio)T.m WrW t!e OArt a, "lapersd

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to him excitedly. The Doctor turned back to tie gang of reporters. "The President is sinking rapidly,'' he said, and disappeared in the gloom across the lawn toward the Presidents cottage. In a minute the scene had changed. There was a harrying about the home, and the word was quickly sent the length til t ong Branch that the President was greatly worce. At 10-30 Oapt Ingalls came across from the .jottage slowly, as if nothing wss wrong, and, when questioned, answered very quietly : - was j ua t sent for by the officer of the gna rd, to w nd oneof my men to the camp rarceon for musidfor an application to the President's bodv.' The reporters went out on the lawn as far" M the euard lines to wait for tidirci. The report that mnstard had tees sent for led to the report of another rigor. The reporters wera nearly all out n the dark lawn, and there was a susncu. Suddenly, with a rash, the reporters came across tin lawn, their boots sounding upon the hard pinzxA like honta) stampeded. In anhtait the httte telegraph office m the ElIvron wss-sarroundcit, and there was a shower of bu'letins thrown apon the two itiralyzed openvton', -'He is dead," was all that could lieheardThc President bad been dead half an hour wkor, at 11:10, Windora, Hunt and James arr.vid from West End. Tney went into the hotel office and were met by HaeTeagh, who led them away to the cottage. It was then leartvd that the President bed not died in a rigor. He Jutd suddenly shown lijgts of failing, and messengers were sent nut for all of the doctors and attendants. Everv possible application waa used to revive bhn 'from the sseper which waa apparently overtaking him. The end was plainly at hand, and present y he sank away. Ho was dead; The &rot report wai not believed, when it waa continued, and the messengers who hurried away in carriages and on horseoack were called for confirtnatioD of the distressing news by ocopta along the wayride. The guests at the hotel j who had retired were at once aroused. Attorney General HaeTeagh, aa soon as possible after the death, came to the office of the El bra on and made the following statement as to th-j death-scene. He said : "Dr. BIUb at &30 went to the cottage to make his final exam'ttaUun bafore he retired. Fe found the pulse, 'emperature and respiration exactly as they were when tha eveninc bul

letin was issued. There had been no change of any kind. There was every promise of a quiet night. All of the doctors rctimd at once tor the night, as did all of the attendant except Gen. Swaim and CoL Bockwe'L They remained, and nothing transpired until about 1020. Then the President said:

"lira suffering great pain. I fear the end m. near." The attendants sent for DrrSlisa. who had

retired to Private Secretary Brown's cottage. Dr. Bass came very rapidly, When he entered Hie -oom he found the President i an uncon---cio is state, and the action of the heart had lit'BS ceased. Sr. Bliss said at once that the Pre ident was dying, and directed the attondKut to send for Mn. Garfield and Drs. Agnewt and Hamilton. The President remained Id. a chnj; condi km until 10:25, when Dr. Bliss pron-mnced life extinct.

4. Stanley Brown, the Presidents Private Tceretsrv. oives the foUowins descriution of

the death sceue: When Hr. Brown entered the room, Mrs. Bockwell and Hiss Lulu, wlfo aad ju;t eocieiu witli Mrs. Garfield and Heine, left the room and stood in tho hall .iut

out-!de the door. Pr. Buss stood at the head of ch bed, feeling the pulse, As he cams in,

k nguis praceamong tne people pr bote, via. Agnctv and Hamilton were trying to revive the President with hypodermic hijeciKrcs of brandy. Cul. Rockwell tnen went out a moment and reiiimed with Mollie Garfield. Ai the Presi

dent paKed into the sinking coiidition and began to breathe in great, slow gasps, Col. Itockwelwent qtuetly to the wineows and closed th m. Mr. Brown walked to Mr. Garile'd, and she leaned upon his arm as Urn President Blowly breathed his last. Mrs. Cbrtietd was calm, save for the convulsive

sh uidero that attinua overmastered her. Mol-

be came up to her a moment later, and tier mother pot her arm around her as th'3 Utile girl sobbed bitterly. Her weeping end tho President's gasping Ireath were the only sounds in the room. Then Qua. Swaim came to Miss HoUie, fearing her grief would be too much for her mother, and lei her away out of the room. Ihera was a period of gasping, and then the President ceased to breathe. Mrs. Rockwell then placed her arm around Mrs. Garfield .and led her

away. As Mrs. Garfield left the room she terned and said to Mr. Brown, as sho wrung bo hand: -I shall depend upon you."

Pwbtic Sorrows The lntelliRence of the death of President

Garfield was received everywhere throughout the country with expressions of the profoundsorrow. The tolling of bells, draping of boildiQgs, closing otf places of amuircraent, and hi some cities an almost total suspension of business, are but a f ew evidences of the depth of

gloom produced by the sad event. Nor ban

kjS ieeirng ueen commea to any one secuon or cartv. North and South. East and We.-, tho

great public heart was hurled in one common grief over the ices of the great and good Pres-

i-ient, ana one common sympathy tor inn stricken mother aad wife and children in their terrible bereavement.

nslttw Eceentrre. How the news of the Ceath of President

Grfield was received by Vies President Arthur,

is thus enromcied in a New yoi k oiupatcn : There was no unusual stir about the house-. The servant at the door informed the reporter

hat Gen. Arthur Had received nothing later ban the t veniug bnllt tin, "The President is lead." said thercrorter. At that moment Gen.

Arthur appeared in the hali. " The President is dead," the reporter repeatod to him, " Oh, ao ; it car not be true; it can not be; I have heard nothing."

'The dispatch has just been received," said

the reporter.

" I hone, rov God. I do hope it is a mist ike.1'

Gen. Arthur's voice broke at the last word).

uid bis filled with tears. He then retired

to the bick room, where M'.-enre. EWin Rot

ind Daniel G. Itulins wore awaituv: bim.

''They say he is dead," said Gen. Arthur. A leep silence ensued. A nriment afterward a to'egramwaBrerrired. Gen. Aithnrbrokeitcptn slowly. After rcaa.ngtt he buried his head in hia

tiaaoa, ana remsmea in uus position Tor a Jong litre. Meanwhile the diupstcb waa handed

slowly around. It read:

it becomes otir paininl amy to mfTra yu f tbed atb of Pns dent Garudd, nnd to ad,m" von to take the oath of ofiicesnPreiildetitof !e ri l states aitb-int delay; If it conenr .tb your judgment we w.Il be very glnd if you ..ill come here ou the earliest train to-morrow .uoroing. " WlLUiSI V.'UiDOjr, Secret rv of ihe Trent ury. "W. H. Htarr. "Serretary of ti c Savy. "TnoaiAH L. Jakes, l'"istiii i'r Huiieral. " Watse MaVeaoh, " Attornt-y G-jotrul. "S. J. KuiKw-ovn,

"Secretary of ti e In'orior.' By ISo'il-K thesouad of cabs rattling up iu ron. ol Ihe hcuse filled the street. A few HKoacits at r receir ng the uev of tlie Prcgtn nl's (i ath Gep. Acthur's son hauteiieJ np te kp-'. Ho lemaimd a fvw meet : t in the ro in with hi father, it the lat er was still too much HEfo;ed vtlie news t sptistk. It was 12:1) 0 clock h-B G'M A-tl'hr roiT'vtxl the fnriiinl nolincati n of the President' h death, signed by the ITiinet. ne had not then decided what stjps to take. He was again completely unnerved -ad agniu buried his face in his hands.

all arrived immcdiatelv after KJS. Ganield and her litt le daughter Mollie. Mr, flarliold had nerved licrsolf for tho eud, wh oh bhe had for some hours dreaded s inevitable, Bhe went at once to the aide of lii r dying husband and took his hand in hers. The President, was helpless and spcechlesu, but, us his wife sat down bv him, he turned his ' ace toward her? slightly "and fired his eyes upon his wife's, and so he Hank into uncons.nousncas, his eyes still bent on her face. With one hand tbe held her husband's, and her other hand lay on bis heart. There was no word uttered. Drs. Agnew and Bliss stood by tho bedside. Mollie, restraining her sobs, was at her mother's side. The watchers and attendants rtood by, sud Dr. Boynton sat at the Pres'dQtit's heao, fanning him. Thi- pulse became enl iraly mpi reoptible. The applications which bad lx en brought to be applied as restointivcs lay uul-mchrd. Tlieend was plainly at hftiid. When another minuh had come' the great-hearted man was dead, and lay free from pam and ttrife. Hi eyes were open but vacant, th pupils stilf bent on the face of the stricken wife. Brokenhearted Mollie turned and sobt.ed. Tbo effort with which Mrs. Garliold herself kept back her tears was seen in the fixed lines of the face aa she arose and went from the room. At the door of her chamber she broke quite down. For the first time she sobbed :ilotid, tuul in thi first burst of grief sbe alint ht rselt alone in her chamber. She remained thus alone for perhaps three minutes, and what now strength she got in the brief communion was t een in her brave and resolute face as she cam: back to the bed where her dead husband lay. Dr. Hamilton, with a woman's gentleness, had closed the

eyelids. Mrs. uarueio, soon by the bed, took 1 np the lifeltos band that had held her heart, ' and there the sat for neirly three hours. Drs. Agnew and Boynton and Gen. Swaim remained i in the room for some time until, at last, Socre- . tary Brown and Warren Young alone were left to keep the vigil till daybreak. Nothing waa

ever more pitinenc tnan me peaceiiu a caw oi the once strong man the passing away of a nation's leader, his helpless hand lying in his wife's, to whom he was ever more Uian President. Htm Aopy Its Strange Derelopments. The autopsy is the most marvelous feature in ibo President's case. It shows that the surgeons had absolutely no knowledge of tho character of the wound, or Ihe location of the ball What was called "the track of the wound" was, in fact, n burrowing pns cavity. The catheter, that was following the truck of a supposed tortuous wound, was being pushed into a pus cavity. The hall which Dr. Hamilton, even, tlioiutht he

Leonid locate within half an inch

proved to ue a mere ban of pus waited up. The metal which the induction balance discovered was the same accumulation of pus. The doctors all knew within an inch whore the bail wats, and could have reacted it immediately wiOi a knifi. Yet it was ts o feot, by tho surface of the body, from where tbey thought it was, and behind the hetirt, instead of being in front of the groin. The bail never went downward and forward. It woat sideways across the backbone. Tiie ehatt red rib, which was not known to the consulting Burgeons until July 23, wis the obstacle which deflected the bullet, and caused it to locate v,-hore no one ever Busperted that it was. and where it remained, a permanent danger to (he heart. The doctor however, ongratolnto themselves that the lung was not erkiisly affected that there was no metastatic bs.-e-is. The ease illustrates how great thu skill of good nursing itt, for it nhow-: that the President was kept alive for eighty dare solely by g.od nursing, while lie bad a mortal wound that was constantly poisoning the system. But the autopsy shows bow gient!y the moM eminent surgeons inav err plsinlf spoken, that the doctors knew veiy little about the wound or the cOGi-se of the tell. Tho po-t mortem was made the day after death, in the presence aiid with the assistance of Dri. Hamilton, Ag lew, Tilts, Barnes, Woodward, Boybuni, Audrov. H. Smith, of Elberon, and Acting Assistant S urgeon D. S. Lamb, of the Army Medical Museum of Washington, The operation was performed by Dr. Lamb. The physicians, in their official report of tho antopsy, say : "It was found that tho ball, utter fracturing tho right eleventh rib, had ,ia-iSoJ throngh the spinal column, in front of ttio spinal canal, fracturing the body of tho first lumbar vertebra, driving a number of email fragments or bone into 0io adjacent soft parts, and lodging just below the pancrers, about two ltichen and a half to tho left of the spine, and behind tbo psritoiieism, wh"ro it had become completely encysted. "The immediate cmseof doath was secondary hemorrhage from one of the mcnen-

tenoartoilcB adjoining tne trade oi tne u.ui, via blood rupturing the peritoneum and nearly a pint cs aping into the abdominal canty. "This hemorrbsgo ?s believed to have been the cause of the sevciv pain in the low r part of the chest complaini'd of just boforo death. " An f.iiro8 cavihy six inches by fmir in dimensions, was found in the vicinity nf tbcgr.ll ladder, beta ecu the liver and the transverse colon, wl.ich were t-trongly inter wlhoitnt. It did not involve the substance of tho liver, and no communication was fonnd between it and the wound. "Along the snppura' ion a ehannH c! nded Ironi I'm external wonnd between the loin mnscJcs and the right kidney almost t the right gro'n. This chi-nnel is now known to bo due to the burrowing of the pus frori tbe wound. It was supposed durlrg life to have been tte track of the ball, ' On et.niution cf the organs of the chest evidences of severe bronchitii were found on Loth t-irlcs, with broncho-pneumonia of the lower portions of the right lung, aad, though to a much less extent, of the left "The lungs contained no abscesses and the heart no clols. , "The hvor was en'arged and fatty, but five from abscesses, nor were any found in nny other organ except the left kidney, which contained, J'r its surface, a small abscess about one-third of an in diameter. "In i eviewing the history of this case, in connection with the autopsy, it is quite evident tli it the different suppurating surfaces, aud especially the fmctnreil spongy tissue of tbe vertebra, furnish sufficient explanation of the sepiic condition which existed."

The Dear Old mother. President Garfield's mother slept at the house Of her daughter, Mrs. Larrabcn, at Mentor, ou the night that doath overtook tier son. Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock the following telegram

Te Death-Be An A 'lectin; Scene. The death-bed scene of the President was a peculiarly sad and impressive one: The follow! nc orisons were present when tho great man breathed his last : Drs. Bliss and Agnew, Mrs. Garfield and her daughter Mollie, 3ol. BockweH, . C. Bockwell. Gen. Swaim, Dr. Boynton. Private Secretary 3. Stanley Brown, Mrs. and Miss Bockwell, Executive Secretary Warren Young, H. lu Atchison, John Bicker, 8. Lancaster and Daniel Spriggs, attendants, the Inst named colored. At 10 o'clock tbe patient was sleeping. All around waa q.tict, and the last preparations for night had been made. Mrs. Garfield and Miss Mollia were in their cottage, near by. At about 10:19 the President was. widtened from hi? sleep by a pain in the region c f the heart. He ex-clamied to Gen. Swaim; " I am suffering vreat pain." These were his last words. Dr. liiiMii, who was at hand, was summoned. Even then the President had began to fail. Geo. Swaim did not appreciate the crfcii which had come. Dr. Bliss felt far the President's pulse. It was hardly perceptible. " My God ! Swaim," be exetatmed in a whisper, "he is dying 1 Send for Hrx. Oarfleld." Kis heart then was but weekly fluttering. S.-s. Agnew and Hamilton were wilt far, suci the former reached the room m 9m m to ts& 'ft mm tftoxJwto

"Euiebos, M. J., Sept, 19. "Ml. ISiza Garfield: "James died this evening at 10:53. He calmly breathed his life away. ' D. G. Swaim." Mrs. Ltirrabee's first thought was as to her mother. The latter was sleeping calmly, and they did not awake her. Not until 8 o'clock did the old lady awake, having slept since 11 p. ni. At that time Mrs, Larrabee passed the door with a heavy heart, and found her np and dressed reading the Bible. It was thought liest not to break t je news until Mrs. Garliold had eaten breakfast. Oddly enough, tho old lady did not toast upon hearing ttio news until Bhe had finished eating. Then, taking tbe fittal telegrom from the shelf, she was about to read, but Hbs Ellen took it from her trembling hands. "Grandma," sho mid, "woaldvou be Burprised to get bad news this morning ? " " Why, I don't know," s lid Mrs. O-.rfleld. ' Well, I shouldn't," said Mrs. Larrabee ; "I have been fearing ami expecting it all tho morning," "Grandma," said Ellen, "(hero is bud news." "Is ho dead?" asked the old lad-, tremulously. "He is." The quick tears started in the sensitive eyes. There was a violent paroxysm of grief. No expression of frenzy told of the anguish within. "Is it true?" sbe asked. "Then tho Ird help me, for if he is dead what shall I do?" Sbe was rendered weak and a little uervoui by the announcement, and was obliged oncn or twice to repair to her room, where, in sobrado, she might begin to comprehend the awful-truth. But she was not contented to remain tin re, and soon returned to the sitting-room. About 0:30 o'clock Mrs. GnrAold was fonnd Hitting in the rocking-chair watting for tho news. The morning paper she read with eagerness. It cannot bo Unit James is dead," she murmured. "I cannot understand. I have no further wish to live, and I cannot live, if it is so." BREAKING T1JK NEWS TO TUT HOSS. The orphaned sons at Mentor were not informed of their father's death till after breakfast tha next moriing. Poratimn therwept bitterly, hut afterward grew quiet, and bore :.Vir iiilliction -vilh jlni.iHl pl.i:.s ,)i)cal -Oniiit'd.,. AdKiet li fr:-ni WiUlnnxltinn. M'ii, avs : ' Vbet. Hu-n fi4il.-!ti let'. Will s .wc !., a'for

I ptfiDn Jif 'Ml woii? inj his WvtU). 'ies

A. (larfidd, who is confined to his room with A severe attack of mail rial fever, contracted at the White Houso, should not lo informed of Ins father's death until he waa bettor. The tolling of tho church bells and the eicitemont aroused the suspicions of James, i.nd it was thought best by his Attending physio an that ho be informed of the truth. A burst of grief followed, but he is now bearing the trial bravely; though he is still in a precarious condi ion. Ho wi 1 be removed this afternoon to President Hopkins house. The college wont on as usual this morning. Memorial servioas will probably be held iu a d.iv oi- two." Aiuionnceiiieiit u the Nations of Euioic, Lono Bbancji, Sept. 20. To Lowell, Mintstct : James A. Gaffield, President of tbe 'United States, died at Elbt-rcn, K. J., at ten minutes before 11 o'clock. For nearly eighty days ho suffered great pain, i and, during tha entire period, exhibited extraordinary patience, fortitude and Cbruifaan rcmgiiatioo. Tbe sorrow thronghont the count 17 is deep nnd universal. Fifty millions of people stand as mourners at his bier. To-day, at his resilience in the city of New Yoi k, Chester A. Arthur, Vice President, took the oath of office an President, to which he succeeds by virtue of the constitution. President Arthur h w entered upon the discharge of his duties. Vouwiil formally communicate these ff cts to th( British Government, and transmit this disnatch to theAmcricaa Ministers on the continent for like commtintcation to the governments to which the' are respectively accreditol J Elaine, Secretary. Preaident Arthni IU First Cabinet fleeting. 3en. Arthur arrivec'i at Long Branch on the afternoon of Sept 30. He was met at tbe sli Hon by Secretaries Windom, Hunt and Eirkwcod, Postmaster General James and Attorney Gineral MacVoagh. Secretaries Blaine and Lincoln acooiapanied him from New York. President Artour looked quite sad and careworn. His face was pale. He was driven to Attorney General MacVeagh's cottage, and was soon jcined by the Cabinet officers. At: this, the flint Cabinet meeting in which the new Execulivo participated, two questions were discussed, one being tho matter ol funeral arrangements, and the other tho cf replications that had arisen in regard to an iuquest on tho body of the President. It had been discovered that, under the laws ot Now Jorsey, it would be impossible to hold an inquest without the -presence of the assassin Guitcau. As bringing him to Long Branch was out of the question, a conflict oJ iuterest. secned likely to arise. After considerable discussion, in which Gov. Lvidloir, of New jersey, Marshal Caleby, the Sheriff of the county, and the Attoruov Gencril of the State participated, it was finally decided that they would be obliged to dispense with the inquest altogether. The State officials agreed, and thus the disputed question wr. . avoided. The other matter with regard to funeral arrangements was an almost equally delicate subject. From all parts of tiie country, from thu municipal corporations of tho large citieti, and the Governors cf nearly all the States, had come in tho nuani nous request that tho people bo permitted a view of the murdered President. In conflict vrith this wai the decided wish of Mrs. Garfield that there should be no display, and this desire 'n the minds of the Cnbinet finally bore down idl other considerations, and the decision was reached to hive tho obsequies and the removal to Cleveland as unostentatious as possible. Removal of the llemaina from fong Rranch to Washington. The remains of President Garfield were exposed to public view in one of tho lower rooms of Franokiyn collage, At Long Branch, on Wednesday, Sept 21. He was laid out in the suit of clothes wlrcli he wore on inaugurntion day. His left band was laid across his breast, after the thinner he had In life. This was done in order to make his resemblance ns near to life m possible. The body was so grertly stirnnken that artificial means had to bo resorted to to give the clothes an appearance of titling. In addition to the natural ehruikinc from his illness, tbu

operation connected with tho antopsv had left j I I 1 . , ' 1 mi . t

tne uuuv iu au even more emaoiateu state, i uo

face wa so charred as to be scarcely recognizI able. j At half-past 0 o'oleofc religions services wers j conduct" d by tho ltev, Charles J. Young, of tho I'in-t lioformed Chinch, Long Branch. 'Hit re nera present, bcsidts the faniil" and tltoii attendants, the Chef Jtistieo of the Sui premo Court, mcmbors of the Cabinet, their

wi-es, and a few neisoiial friends, numtierins iu all not more thao fifty. As the minister stepped np to Ihe head of the coffin, Juit a he was going to begin, Mrs. Garfield leaned toward Col. Iickwiil nd cithr epike in a very low whisper to him oi ludic-ilcd ber desire bv a gesturo only. The Colonel raised his hand' to bid the minister wait, and said in a low tone :

"Mrs. Girtidd want to look into the coffin :

lie lore tbe service. Immediately the widow, taking her daughter by the hand, arose, iind descending tbe slops w.thout aid, both stood hand-in-haud for what stemed a very long t me, and gazed at tho face of the dead man. Miss Moliie's feelings were beyond hei control, but her mother was as motionless in attitude and feature as a statue. ' I stood and faxed at her iu wonder," said tbe ltev. Mr. Young to a friend. " I,t was a marvelous sicht to see that won au standing there, looking into that cofiin, holding herself ur-der such control. But of courte htr face waiiaUko marble. 1 never sawanythin; like it, fo except Mrs. Garfield's there wss not a dry eye in the room." Immediately after Ihe conclusion of the services, Mrs. Garfield, accomuauied bv her son

Harry, Col, Swaim, Col. and Mrs. Bockwell, .

una ur, lioyiiioii anci u. u, Itocawcu, left me cottage and boarded tho first coach. The members of thi; Cabinet and their wives followed and took s.-ats in the second coach. Mrs, Oariicld was heavily veiled, and p wing to tho train exhibited the tame fortitude which ha

clinraoterijMd her manner throughout. Just before the tram aK ready to start, the . flm'fnwil' mil ntltot- vlintM ftnif,t-a Af KIa. T.. I

soy. sco mpanied by members of tbe Legislature, arrived, and acted as a puan! of honor. A few minutes boforo 10 o'clock tbe casket was removed Irom the cottage aud placed in the (hiid coach. 'Die attendants aud others who accompanied the party look scats iu Iho fourth car. At oxictly 10 o'clock the train -tailed ir-'m tho cottage, moving frjra the grcunds vory slowly. The route to the national capital wss found to bo decorated rth mourning emblems, Ihe people standing w lu uncovered heads, and ever- church bell tolling iu honor of the illustrious deal Every iiburc along the line there were touching matiilestatious of popular grief. Ihe Hags in the groi uds ot the rich were at halt-mast, aud were intertwined with mourning emblems. The houses of iho poor (bowed, from the doora sud windows, Iho depth of the i:atkual grief. Through Jersey the farmers were assembled at the crtssi.igfs, as tiny bad been two weeks before, to witness tho same Prcsidoiitial train, which then bore the fcving, but which now carried hack the liiug and ihe dead Presidenls. Eveiy Mv.to.btei.du' had p'ftccd -tno mourning taken abu lit his house, l lie woikuu n in the cities that wire pasted suspended their labor as the trmn went by. The most touching iucid nt of (be day wurred at IVouion, neat which is Princeton tVjIlegt. The students bad telegraphed ir!y in the morning to Hccrtlarv lllamo a n qm st thai Ihe train might go slowly tiiruugk Tttu ton, aiitliey uished to tender some flowers. Tlieir req it st was heeded. As tho coitego approached Trenton, iu train stoned down, and it was soon seou that Uin students, ranged on either side, b&d strew n the (racl; with flowers, 'flie speed, too, had been so slackened that a larj;o btEiSkct of choicest flowers were received by some one in tho baggago car. They wore im ended for Mrs. GailiyM. As tho train rolled into tho depot at Washington every head was uncovered and a solemn silence was olmened by tho immense crowd winch had gathered Oniccrs of the nnnv aud navy to the mimltr of 180 formed iu single rank facing tho train. Mrs. Garfield, assisted by Secniary lilaino aud her sou ,'Iarr)-, was llm fir;t to descend from tbo carriage, flie was hw vily veiled. She entered thi slide cairisge in waiting for her, and waj followed by her dmu liter Mollie, lior son Harry and Mr. nnd Mi's- Il'ickwell. The other mmnberu of the funeral parly were President Arthur. Senator Jonos, of Nevada, Gen. Grant. Gcit. Beale, Gen. and Mrs. Hwaim, Col.K- ckwtll, Col. Corbiu, Dr. Bliss i,nd daughter, Dr. Hovulor, Iir. Agnew, Dr. Himilloti, Attorney llenerrl MacVeagh, wire and two sons, Secretary Lincoln, wife and win. Secretary and Mrs. Hutu , Piwtmas'er Ociiei tl James aud Mrs. James, Sfcroiery and Mn. Kubnood. The cofiin wsg borno from the ept In the liciuso on tha -h lulders of eight s'lldiers nt the Second arlilluy TJtft M.irino Band uitfrd "Keenw Sly God (o 'J.hce" at the coflin pas borne " H y

After the offi n had been pliiced in thehcan-e tho remaluiier of the party entered their carriages and took places in tlie procession. Tho fuucral procession moved slowly up tho avenue. A mass lined the sidewalks all '.ho noy from Sixth street to tae east front o 'bo Capitol and along thin portion of the route the crowd was apparently as great as upon the occasion of the President's inaugural procession. As the procession moved np the avenue soaiculr a sound was heard, save that from tho feet of the moving men and horses. Hats were removed, ami heads bowed as by a common impulso of deep aud uufeigued grief as the procession moved on toward the Capitol. Here, at the east front, a vast assemblage h-id congregated to view the funeml cortego. At the foot of ' he steps there was a double file ot Senators and HuprorcntaliTCS, headed by tluir respective-1 Dicers, waitiig in respectful silonce to escort tho ivinaiiw into the loluitda. At preatoly 6:10 the head of the pitv-essitut, niovim; around (ho south tide, arrived at the east front of the Capitol, the arms ol th-military being reviirsetf, and ihe hands playing a dead lufticlt. The order tvas Ihen given to earn- anus, sud the troops came to a front face, whtlo to the muffled boat of the drums tho betrsc and its attendant train ot car.iages drew slowly up in frost of tho escort A hu?b came over the ninlttttiile, and heads wore reverently uucoveied as the Cffliu was "carefullv lifted from the hearse. 'Iho iflicer of the army and navy drew up in parallel lines ci oitber side of the hearse, and the Marine il:id played again, with much sentiment, ' Nearer, My God, to Thee," a, with solemn tread, (lie imams of Pretidont Garfield wtro lonie into th. rctuuda, auti placed upon tho catafalque, tbo tniintoiH and Itepreseutativej freceding au.l lanKii'Rthemse'vesotioitliei stdo c-f lheda:. Close lieliin1tiiecftin-valAedPies-ident Arthur au I Secretai y 1 llaiuo, who were followed bv Cluef Justice Watte and Secretary W.udont, Gen. Grant and Secretary Hnut, Secretary Lincoln and Attorney fiuueral MacVeagh, Secretary Kirkwoofl and Postmasttr Goueral Jmnes, Col. liockwell and Geu. Stvaim, imd Gen. torbin and Private Secretary Brown. U 5:2-') the lid of the coffin was opened, aud be face of tbe late I'resident was expesed. Noiselessly Piceiccut Arthur and 'Secretary Blaine approached and gazed upon die face of the dead, and then slov.lv an J sadly passed out of the ball. A Hue was "formed by rgesnt-at-Arms Bright, and, one by one, tboe present advanced aiidgazed ut the emaciated and discolored face. The put lie at largo were then admit ted, and hundreds of iiersons testified liy their reverent ul conduct aud mournful countenances the sorrow which they f It on locking upon Ihe features of their murdered President Epidemics Among Animals. At tha meeting of the International Medical Congress, at London, among the most; notable of the addresses doliveied thore was one made by M. Pastour, ivbOBe researchet. in fermentation have nude him so celebrated. This French airant. has been devoting himself of late to the study of epidemics in the lower animals and (he propagation of their s cial difeenscs. Two subjects had pnn icularly attracted his attention ; one was n species of cholera in fowls, and the other the terribly destructive disease known in cattle as the eharbrm, splenic fever, or Siberian pest. Storting with the idea that an attenuated form of the diseaso would protect the animal from more aggressive and general attacks of the same disturbance, ho proceeded exactly as did Jeaner with emall-pox, In noticing how wonderfulhad been this method of treatment in France, wlutt M. Pasteur said may bo Minunarized as follows : By this splenic lever in Franco alone every year the loss in cattle had been 20,000,000 of francs, or about $4,000,(W0. Wishing to convince agriculturists that by matins of vaccination their cattle could be saved, ho experimented on iifty sheep Twenty-live of these were iuoculatsd with an attenuated vinia. Ii two weeks afterward all the fifty sheep were inoculated with tho unattenuatei

virus. Every one of the sheep that had not boon vaccinated died of splenic fever in 5fty hours, while not one of the vaccinated animals suffered. Since that experiment, M. Pasteur stated that his time aad energies had been taxed to their utmost to meet, the demands for supplies of this vaccine, and that in the space of fifteen days iu the doputtmcnls surrounding Paris more than 20,000 sheep and horses and cattle had been vaccinated. Conld there be a more convincing proof of the- usefulness of human vaccination? Tlie tcHtunony of certainly the greatest authority in the world on germs of disease ought to silence ( hose insane persons who not only take their own lives iu their hands, but are desirous of preventing others from benelhing by the great service rendered to luiruanitiy by Jenner, With a few fanatics at their head iu England, they are not salisiied with giving trouble at home, bnt are just now dist ributing gratuitously their foolish publications in this

country. iVew York limes. Spotted. Tail. Spotted Tail possessed uncommon ability, but his mind did not reach far beyond the narrow cirole of traditional Indian ideas, He'kcpt, good watch over the interests of his tribe, as he understood them. But a question concerning the boundaries of the Sioux reservation appeared to liim more important than On: question how his people could be best put to work. He wan a brave man and a strong fighter in his day. But ever since 18(33 he could bo depended urori as an advocaie of peace and good understanding with the white men.' Ho was at times pretentiously dignified in his bearing aud jealous of the outward signs ot authority. When years ago a tl-jvenimcnt ciVnmission visiting the Sioux nation sent for him to meet tlu'm at a certiiin point, lie replied: ' If 1 had anything to say to you I would ;o to you. Put if you 1 a ve something: to say to me you must come whew I aw. " In the autumn of 1H77 n large delofia! ion of Sioux, visited Washington and iiad a council with the President in tho fumoui East room of the White House. Spotted Tf.il, when asked to let tho I'n sideiit know what he hod to comuniurrntf, wild that ho would twt spcali until all Hw other chiefs had rpokt-n. So they made their speeches one uf:cr auot'ier, ttiiiHlitig up before Ihe President with (,1-eat holcmnity. When they had apDken, Spotted Tail rose and ask ed one ot the utletidiuits by gesture to put his chair immediately in front of '.ho Picaidev.t. This done, Spotted Tail pi'iively sat down and talked to the President, not in tho usual oratorical style, but in a more familiar way, as if conversing with an equal. JVcw i 'ork Evening I'ml. "Tire hen is a frugal housekeeper, -said the old Doo.inique ; " she finds her nest ud then sho makes her own spretdti." "And the chicks have to shell out before sho scratches a sinirle worm for thom,"eaid the Itantam. '' I' us jiuleody," Hoid the Dominique ,f " the chick comos down the first thing." " Ho has to." said tlie Spangle. " 'father or no." "How ran the hen mako him comedown?" inked the Aprd chioken, who was just too fresh fur unvll ing. " Son." said the Hp-uriah o ick, a ikminly "I cannot tell a lie : she did it with her litllo hatch U"Jitrlitifton Hurl!, zin. CoMAseifis Bim., a native alissoitiian, now on ih( plains, claims that ho never hits b it two irientK both of them being

'luisijir.. a. a it r huh.

THE NEW PRES1DEKT. BiograplMiitl Sltcitch of Cbctrter A, Arthur. Chester A. Arttur was born at Fairfield, Fi anklui county, Vermont, Oct 6, 1830. So say his biographers, aid so says the official record, althot.-ghciluraaci nnofticial authorities have located his binhplt.ee on the other sido of tlie Cinada line. His father, William Arthur, was an itinerant. Baptist preacher, born in County Antrim, Ir.-lrir,d, t.nd educated at Belfast College. The young licentiate came at once to America, and hero married and began his work, which, m a busy 1'fo ending Oct. 27, 1875, led him to many pulprts in Vermont and New York end to some in Cinada, the town of Fairfield, ,, being imoiif them. The early dayr. f Chester A Arthur's tnition were passed under the tutelage of bis father From his homo studies he went to the v ider field of iojlructionat Schenectady, N. Y., in the grammar school of which pltce he wag r itpared i'jr enttiing Cnion College. At 15 u, , ( . i, . i ioic i.a , i

1,'oion, anc, after a regular course, graduated

high in bis class. Like many another ambitious tut in.pecuuious student, young Arthur '.aught school m tho vacations of college specially provided fcr that purpose. It is a coincidence that in these days of sturdy struggle the young student from Union College aud a young student (Garfield) from Williams both taught school in Kortu Powual, Vt With eoUO in las pocket, the frugal savings of a sehool-masUrr's scanty pay, Arthur went to New York city mil entered tbe law-office of Hon. Lrastus I). Culver, and was in 1852 admitted to ihe practice of law. Bnt clients did not then Hock to b:s standard, And, with a youug legal friend in like circumstances aud h-omo ot mind, two britiloss youag lawyers roamed Iho Western States for threo months, Keening a ?lace to locate. In the end, not satisfied with the advice of Grcelev, the young men returaed to New York and pooled their issues iu tho firm r.amo of Arthur tl Gardner. About this time Mr. Arthur made a bappy matrimonial alliance, marrying tlie only daughter of .Lieut, Hvrndon, U. 8. S.- tho brave Htrudon who went down with the Aspinwall sle.imshipCtuttal American, which he commanded. Mrs. Arthur dud in January, 1880, leaving :wo children, a son now in his 16th and a daughter hi her 10th yesr. The career of the young lawyer was rnade mere suecessfi l by tho interest he look in politics and tho militia. Ho was at the front m caucuses and conventions, and on military parades. His earlier political instincts wore with the Whig'", but wi h the decadence of that party lie jo-nod the multitude of American youth (il the Ninth) in advancing the standard of the Kcpublican party. He was, indeed, a dclegato to the Saratoga Convention Unit organized the lie-publican party in the State of New York, and was a delegatt in succeeding State conventions, year attet year, until he had attained the Chairmanship of the Stato Committee and the uomiuaitiou to the Vice Presidency. Gov. Morgan, iu organizing hia military staff ia 1H61, named Mr, Arthur as Engineer in

i.mei. tie liuu just ueiore uus uoia tiie position of Judge Advocate of the Second Brigade, New York city. A Ii tie later, Gen. Arthiuwiis appointed Inspector General cm the Governor s staff, and so continued during the first year of the great civil war a year busy w.th the organization and inspection of volunteers for the field. On Jan. 27, 18(52, Gov. Morgan advanced Gcx Arthur to tho more-.important' post of Qaarirmastcr General, which pceition he hold uiidl the expiration of Morgan's term of office at (lie endof that year. Iu July. 18t2, Geu. Arthur was invited to be present at a meeting of Governor in the city of New York, held for tho purpose of discussing measures whereby tho Onion armies could bo kept with f nil rinks, nnd U is said bo was the only person present who was not a Governor. In the same year hn was on tho i.daff of Maj. Gen. limit, ia the Array o( the Potomac, astuspcotor ot New loik Iroopi in the field. With tho end of Gov. Morgan's term of ofl'.ie, as already stated. Gen. Arth tr's militiry career euded,' and lie returned to the law. Business of a most lr.cra ii-.o cbar.iclir now ourcd in upon him. Much of this work consisted iu the collection of tvar claims and the drafting of bills for legislnliein. Iu cruseouenco, a great doal of his time was spent at Albany or in Washington, where his successes won Jiim a renown hardly second to that of any other lobbyist. He held for a short time the position of counsel to tbe Board of Tax Commissioners in New York city , al $10,000 a year, and in November, 1871, was appointed bv President Grant to be Collector of the Tort of Now York. Ou the 28th of January, 1879. John Sherman, Secretarv ot the Treasury, addressed a communication' to President Hayes setting forth the necessiiv for a change in tho New York Colleotorship, saying (hat the Treasury Department stood ready to submit proof that "gross abuses of admuitsh-ation have continued and increased daring bis Arlbur'sl incumbency." The removal of Arthur aud the appo.utmont of Gen, Mirritt as Collector of tho Port followed. The history of (hat memorable strugglo at Chicago, which led up to the uomination of Garfield iu June, 18HQ, is fresh in the minds of tbo people. After Garfield had been nominated, ou the sixtn day, fie convention took a recess, iv. tb the tacit understanding lint Now York might, if it would, name a candidate for the Vice Presidency. The New York delegation, therefore, spent tha iiiteneniug hour ia caucus, villi closed do- rs. Mr. Levi P. Morton, now Minister to France, declined to bo considered ns a candidate. Vice President Wheeler, Lieut. Gov. Hoskins And ex-Go v. Woodforl were presented without favorable response. Tlie sense of tbe caucus was so largcIv in fawn- of Arthur that, after half an hour's talk, all other names being nitbdrawn, it was determined to present his alone. When tho convention re.tssembled, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 8, tho nomination of Arthur was made in short order. Modern English. Tho following conversation, between a couple of newsboys in Park row, will give an idea of tlie Amerioan form of tho English language as improved up to date : I told that rooster ' to ' hump liimself." " " Uid ho 'acknowledge the com ?' ' ." Y-u bet.' If ho hadn't I'd just 'putja mansard over his eye.' " " ' Hold your horses,' ' ho'ii on his muscle and 'eouhl lay you out.' " "'Not mu'h.' He's ouly a 'toddy blossom,' and 'hangs np his landlord.' " That's ' smalt potatoes,' and it I was his landlord I'd sit down on him. ' " "That would be the 'correct thing." l'ou sen lie's a 'bad egg,' and I'll 'make it warn for him, ' tlem't you forget it.' " " All ri.uht ; ' let's toko a nip,'" " Hhvo jou got 'ihe uoonssaiy ? " Yes, i met an old chap' who was 'dead gone ' on piety, and I played innocent, and he come down with the rhino,' ''--jXtyif York Mar. An Offer IJwllncu. A Jotter ri-om tho Hon. Orabtroc Lynch, ( IhifTalo, who ntyles himself: " TJmi in ud-odou orator of tho niactocnth cctitutirv," cnntaiiioe1 an ofior to appear before the club nnd deliver his lecture on: "Seven Ways of lining Happy," provided Iii I'xpensoii were paid and a J'l bi t liiuuled htm ati lie left town.

President in reply, " Iho iirico am not only too high, but we eloan't wimfc no-

liodv to toll us how to bo happv. I:

tloan' know what hia oelicit ways am, but when I gets down of an cvcniit' wid

a pan of meU'iiv apples on one liantt, a dish uf i amits cju de e ddor, wid my eo'n-cob piie wltcre I kin reach it an' de dog asleep under the bed, I reckon I tackle 'bout all do happiness any one uced fish fur in die weary world. If I had.

six odder ways in reserve I auould bus!.

wiel comfort." -Limc-KiH CM: MICHIUAX'S CALAMITY.

Proclamation by the Governor of the State. The following proclamation has been issued by the Governor of Michigan: Exzcoiive Mansion,! Las iso. Mich., Seft 19. ( To the Peiple of (he Culled StatesOil tho 15th inst., m behalf of the homeless sufferers by tbe late fires in a portion cf our State, we asked the people of this lonnliy to coutribute to their great distress. Since that imo I bavc visited tho burned diatri'rt and traversed a great portion thereof, drivirg throngh ll. o ruins. The knowledge thus obtained satisfied me (bat the former estimate of 290 persons havius; perished in tho' flmieu was.ccrrect, and the flutt er estimate that there are 15,000 of these siiffi-rers now dependent upon the. genrosity of the . public . was not exaggerated. The tiro district, covers a territory of about 1,800 -square miles, about onehalf of winch escaped the flames and tho other half is a blackened waste, tho destruction of property being pretty orenly distributed over tho whole territory. This isan agricultural county, with occaiiiontlly a village, or small bu-iucss center, where wttre licuringmills, sun -mill?, storet. c tturches, etc, etc. Many of these places and their industries were wholly destroyed, and in t lie farrain;; portio-s, in tbe track o' the fire, nothing was left lor man's use bnt the land. Barns, cattle-sheds and structures of every kind that remain are being uii'i".c l as .tcniorary shelter for the homi less. Hospitals for the care of those who suffer frcm burns are already eaULtshed. They are fairly surplierf witt volunteer physicians and uurses. Among the latter are some good bisters of Charity who are tioing most efficient, work. The eipoeed and eivercronded condition in which thousands are now livhig trili necessarily increase the niektiet s and add to the needs of medical treatment; and provisions for the care of the sick. Focd in furnished by those whose homes were spured and by those outside of tho burned clislhct. There if httle suffering from hunger ia tlie main. The want of bedding is one cause of real distress. Stations for the distribution of supplies are established at conveniiint points and under tbe supervision of efficient individuals anil committees. Careful lists are being prepared by personal inveatiRar tion of tho loss of e&ob family, with data, showing their necessities. These are to be used to insure a judicious distribution of supplies. Tbe whole work of those to whom the contributions have been intrusted gives evidence of having been inaugurated and conducted with care, skill and fidelity. In this good work the people of Port Huron, from their proximity to the scone of disaster, were first upon the ground, being represented by a committee composed of some of the best citizens, prominent amorog whom was United States Senator Omar . Conger, By tho exertions of this efficient organization, aided by the managers of the Port Huron and Northwestern riilioad, nxtra trains with relief reached tlie sufferers before any could come from mora remote points. In conjunction with other organizations tho work v. -as begun, and it is being prrsecuted yet. Mostof the people whoso destitution appeals to tho benevolence of tho public are purely agriculturists. They were in a ttu-ifty condition, considering tho time they had occupied these lands, but had no accumulated surplus. They arc dependent upon the productions of thou farms for support. There are tew, if any, manufacturing industries near them to give thorn employment. Tbe aid extended to the unfortunate by . those whose homes were saved will soon exhaust tbe surplus of the latter. What these people require is aid to proeuro such necessities ns will enable them to live and till their lands. They must have food until the harvests of 1S83 are gathered. Anything Bhort of this will fail to accomplish tbo undertaking. The first effect of this disaster waa to t-tnpefy and paralyze the energies of the people. The prompt orcouragement received has stimulated them to new efforts to 1-elp themselves. With tho bare land and their labor ouly left they wiil begin to build anew. Already many are constructing log houses, aad every available team is being worker with vigor to put in wheat, the seed for which is furnished by the relief committees. They appreciate their condition and the necessity for labor, and will struggle hard to do their part as they have an opponunity. I have thought it due to the public, who have read the appeals heretofore made, io lay these results of personal inspection before them. The necessity for continued aslrstanco to enable the sufferers to go through the coming winter and to become tolf-sustainnig is to nowise abated. The well-known generosity ot the Americnn peoplo "has never been invoked iu a more meritorious causa David W. Jerosik, Governor.

Purchasable Health A writer in Scribner's Monthli under the caption of "Purchasable Health," offers some timely observations which overworked busineKi men woidd do well to heeel. "Money," he says, "will not purchase health oat of season, but health is to be had for money under proper conditions." There are thousands of men in every large city who ave barik.rnpting themselves in health. " Col. Scott carried his burden so long that tlie $4,000,000 he had won had no powerjo bring baeis; the health he had parted with ; bnt thore were undoubtedly times in his life when, by the proper expenditurn of money and ol time, he could have brought health enough to last him a brace of decadeslonger, and to enatle him to double the nnmbor cf millions for hia heirs." Money can buy health in two ways. It may enaide the possessor -of it to set asidij a part of each day for recreation, or it may justify him in giving up two months of every year to solid, rest. TI.o same writer shrewdly observes :' "There is a hallucination, cherished by a great muititutlo, that they must be. constantly in their own business, or it cannot possibly go on prosperously. Some of tUt fto men are so unfortunately orgauu-cd that they cannot believe that anybody living can do thoir work as well ai they can do it. It takes an enor -nious self-conceiit to come to such a conclusion as thk, and there is great misfortune in it. Of course, these men are never able to leavo their work for a moment in other hands, and so they become the bond slnvcs of their own mistake. Now, there is nothing in vhicli a great business ma :i shows his greatness so signally as in his ability to find men to do- hi work to find competent instruments to execute his purposes. The greatest business man is always a man of comparative lcctsure. His own work is alwa.) a deliberately done. It is, as a rule, the small umn who never gets a moment, and who never can find a pair of hands as good -as his own. It a man cannot leave his ' business, or thinks lie caunot, he shows (hat he lacks the highest grade of business capacity."

PITH AUD MIlBf How to raise beetaTake ftoMl q( tops and pull. , :f . QtLEM Can a nut eating friga Ton said to consume time?

War is a sword like beer

ifa no use till it's drawn. . Why is a thunder-storm liketeeBiMr Because it's peal ou peal. '.! In some hats the tbbagf IieiP moat feel perfectly at MSKtJ."--JRrattsHI JflJft. Tub Earl of Fife lias no mlich h. all England, That is, there, ia n'.Eri of Drum. Matt is the picture, his de -thee (fee frame. The frame is often worth wff than the picture. , - i ., Why is a Zulu belle like a prophet f old?' Because nhe taaaaet afttewttAsr in her own country. Wxt asked one of oar Genoa fellowcitizens if he knew how many tailoateH took to make a man, and -he sasweMd "Neinl" ' Now ia tiie time when even the pot newspaper man gets a chatoe'(o'!MMle a cool million a cool water-! Billion. Tcxm mUttfft. - -, ,' Bbe wears flncMt eliam-mda and lacis,' ' '-" And 1 worth half a mUHonVOte-r sajj' Her bo rocUlictif embraces V .-( The fsshion and wealth of the dsn ,' . . Her face Is a model af bt-rat-r " .. Her prolm are rang o'er and 9at, But what an her wealth ud 17 bo -,-, . When a fcshoraant equal Iter teaser . t "Aire port in a Btonn," said Kifferf when he partook of aome Mine ima necond-chist saloon where, he had taker , refuge from the elemente." A battbioaij young lady ppetrmtea this "con:' ' When does a ytoooffAan feel meet down in the.montikr When hie is trying to cultivate a moustaobA','

An AiSBJuas man roae uu miiea tco shoot the chap who cheated, bis. talhelr in a horse tradei Filial affection 'can never die in this country. Detroit 3te iVe. ' .:? Thk London Timet says thbt the orif inal of Dickens' "Fat Boy" wasanaA who Uvea at Budden, Epghind. TBii relieves the Hon. Alexander fl.f5topl6n of considerable anne4y. jaTiaa Otfr Time. v Gi.tjoosb contains sulphuric : . acsaV Sulphuric acid ia hot enough, vrhen xt cited to burn the insides oat ot a mavrbie statue. Glucose is largely iistkrib fitUt manufacture of lager beer. Aeid denoetl sweet reflection to cme stealing lik-a summer dream over a man as heuaf) his fotuniug beverage, isn't it?--fre Press. "WHiUAM, my dearr, will yofr-kiiifir explain to your poor, ignorant Ut&swin what difference there iu, if any,.betweajt 'deport' and 'transport?' "WitfcpW; ure, my love! Ahem, let me see. fZrhl If your mother, for instance, - wer 'to commit a felony and be coiiTictediSeBt, would be depocted .and I ahonld be transported see?" ( . DiatjOotix between the doctor and his patient: "Well doctor, now that yoai have thoroughly diagnosed' my Case, what do yon think about it, mndifflyt' Does there seem to Toe any dsng&r , Sot you? " " N-no, not the slightest. bat"-r-"Eut? I don't understand you." "There it not the slightest langer''to me, personally, from your ilinetsa ; Iwiahi I could say as much for yon I" -: .' EiniiR Girabdik, the great French' jouurnalist, used to rise at A o'ctook' every morning. And now he ia dead. Jte a sad, sad lesson, but let us not forget its warning. Let us lay our heads on oar' vwtntW.ive hear ta and saw that. ralBflrthan

imitate his fault, if it is necessary for xsb tp

toe up at 4 a. m., we will sit np to n. xo-" rise at it this is too, too ; it is too strioV. ly too. Jiurlingkm Hawk-ye. " ' PnAT tell me, pi"tty rural mid, Why you so early iorth bare atra;fdf : Wh" gate you down uw western thy With graceful post) and eager yet - Art tliinliing cf tie wondrous apwa Twlit here and distant jnropjK e rlaos;'

Or are yjou loownfi loruwone . . ,. . . t . You reckon dearest "neath the son ' Tell mo what great attraction Ha ... , Within tlie range tit those bright co-seT'' Tbe maiden grume! a besutnooa gi'OVt' Bar tcctti nicked 1th a crooked tttn.

And said : " It ain't no stch atfckar

As that air song you've tried te thai ;

I hatn t got any bean, notww 1 'in lcokin' fur our brlndl eow 1 "

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Why Ho Mourned. The late George Borrow, of England, wan a man of powerful frame and was six feet two in height without his shoes. Haviug been bom at a period whon pugilism was in vogueit was one of nis father's tuvompluihments he wan not slow to cscrciso bis physical capacitiijs if the occasion required it. Lamenting, wlton he was verging toward (SO, that he waa childless, lu said very mournfully, "I shall soon not bo able to knock a man lown, and. j shall have no son to Jiy Joy ,'

AT. Omul . . v. ... A OAS of baked beana ewloded in Paterson, X. T., demolisliihg . range and frescoing the walls. ' When the) representative of Boston Culture acts that ' way it is time to propound the new eonnndrtim, " Whither are we oWttingt, The Fenians should be, watched, amey will conceal a' number of these Jhfejrhar "' 'machines in out-going! Fglitdi vessete.-' Norrislown Jferald. , . "What beautiful biscuit tt$ee am,. Somo of your own making, n J)i boopefu; Miss Fitzjoy," said young Egrinont av the table. " J-e-e'h. It was almott nrr '

first attempt," was tha reply.'- "Oh h ' hi" spoke up the little tot at the lowar s j,i 1.1J. tiv l ui 11 1.. - .'A

np an' mtuataa sent the to the' 'tore va - Hi i i

IOT mese. sn cuoiw, nua -T7 it ii- : i a ili. - - .

anew uetuua; swat anat-Rnsw; vtaaveaa Siguier.

Topmast High, fhave often wondewcLm reading .that magnificent description of "a faddr

height of cliff in " King Lear:" liiow the :

great master would have - deserved . view from tlie mast-hend of a. lofjc . vessel. Say what you will of purvey i from a mountain-top or from the eadge' of '' towering cliff s ; in my humble iiatjlgaMall ' the most thrilling impeet noQ n ot great elevations can produce is (les.yitig of course the balloon oar put of this question) to be obtained from the alender yard of a tall ship in tho middle of the sea, ; : .

For hero you Ret an element of isola

tion that, in spite of the lcneaomeness ot craggy land, is qualified, if not extinv guished, when, survoyuit; a scene fxuas ' any sort of height ashore, not only by the sighisof land all aroand you, but by land being nnder your feei But at tibp mast-head of a ship yon stand npen.va slender rope or bestride n spar that looks

no stouter tnrn a kmrnasr-nee-HS roe

the deck, and you gaqe arotmd tipoiva .. mighty surface of water, for tho narrow . and familiar horizon beheld from'lai deck is macmifled info an imrffWiaw

ocean, and a whole herattipheM'of heaves la or, ci o-ar ;A.-, AI.A n-vliiMnM AiattomAA

VJ....1 .nMlJ WX VHWHW lll.ll J I J,- : whilu below is the narrow shape of the hull on whose surface tlie seamen crawl in size no bigger than flies, and you are 1 amazed that so slender and taperiaw-At fabric should support tlie sky-aearhu

height of mo it and canvas from the summit of which you look down, fiter I gay, a man gets that sense of isoksncn which no land eminence yields, and it is complete enough even when tee mg -bask brightly and c.Mmly tirormct, when tho sails are gently drawing, wheti Ihe sweet winds blow- softly, and the 'bins sky looks blandly upon the deep in whose IxKom it pictures its aauie boattty. But it is supreme when the tempest is around you, when the heavens are fan of sooty clouds, whirtinit in convolutioM like the smoke of a ne wly -ted famaee crowding in black, fat. volumes from a factory chimney; when the torn aea spreads like a vast surface of wool for leagues and leagues, and the' huge surgos plash in slwte vif bUwling tapray over the streak of hull that races, far beneath you, like a sun low through the white haze of storm-driven spam, end reels under the shook with a quivering " that seta the mast or. which yon. ate poised trembling like ait old man s hand when ti.-i gale is roaring in thunder out of tlie atrip of soil sti etched upon U : yards a long distance txtlow you, and th din of clashing seas, and the yeSling of the toniixst. in the sky perfect tatough the oar tl c scene of graudeur and terwr boheJd bj the eve. Ooro Fr tmnok' Witkn a New Orteans man wanted nfa picture in a heroin attitude, theartiB painted 1dm itt the) art cf tejosing o.