In her early life Miss Booth dressed neatly, though with the utmost plainness, and applied herself to the work of gaining the more enduring ornaments of mind and heart. In her first years at Hiram she had devoted all her powers to teaching and mastering the difficulties of the higher studies, and had given but little time to what are called the more elegant accomplishBut she was not deficient in appreciation of all that really adorns and beautifies a thorough culture. After her return from Oberlin she paid more attention to the mint, anise, and cumin of life. During the last fifteen years of her life, few ladies dressed with more severe or elegant taste. As a means of personal culture, she read the history of art, devoted much time to drawing and painting, and acquired considerable skill with the pencil and brush.

She did not enjoy miscellaneous society; great crowds were her abhorrence; but in a small circle of congenial friends she was a delighted and a delightful companion.

Her religious character affords an additional illustration of her remarkable combination of strength and gentleness. At an early age she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and continued in faithful and consistent relations with that organization until she united with the Disciples, soon after she came to Hiram. Her firmness was severely tested by the religious changes which occurred in her own home. Her father's enthusiastic temperament led him to study any new phases of religious opinion, with a somewhat impressible credulity. The Mormon movement of 1830-32 swept him for a time into its turbulent current; ten or fifteen years later, he was interested in the socialistic theories of the Shakers, with whom, as I understand, he united for a short time; later still, he paid much attention to the Spiritualistic philosophy. But while Miss Booth thoroughly respected the sincerity of her father's opinions, and from them doubtless became wisely tolerant and liberal in her opinions, she maintained firmly, but without bigotry, her faith in God and in the life to come. She cared little for mere differences of ecclesiastical form, and abhorred every species of ostentatious and noisy piety; but her life was full of the calmness and beauty of religion; her heart was filled with the charity that" suffereth long and is kind," and, still greater, that "thinketh no evil." At the memorial meeting held here soon after her death, the very just and striking statement was made

by one who had known her from childhood, that he "had never heard her speak evil of any human being."

I venture to assert, that in native powers of mind, in thoroughness and breadth of scholarship, in womanly sweetness of spirit, and in the quantity and quality of effective, unselfish work done, she has not been excelled by any American woman. What she accomplished with her great powers, thoroughly trained and subordinated to the principles of a Christian life, has been briefly stated.

She did not find it necessary to make war upon society, in order to capture a field for the exercise of her great qualities. Though urging upon women the necessity of the largest and most thorough culture, and demanding for them the amplest means for acquiring it, she did not waste her years in bewailing the subjection of her sex, but employed them in making herself a great and beneficent power. She did far more to honor and exalt woman's place in society than the thousands of her contemporaries who struggle more earnestly for the barren sceptre of power than for fitness to wield it.

She might have adorned the highest walks of literature, and doubtless might thus have won a noisy fame. But it may be doubted whether in any other pursuit she could have conferred greater or more lasting benefits upon her fellow-creatures, than by the life she so faithfully and successfully devoted to the training and culture of youth. With no greed of power or of gain, she found her chief reward in blessing others.

I do not know of any man or woman, who, at fifty-one years of age, had done more or better work. I have not been able to ascertain precisely how long she taught before she came to Hiram; but it was certainly not less than fifteen terms. She taught forty-two terms here, twenty-one terms in the Union School at Cuyahoga Falls, and, finally, two years in private classes; in all, nearly twenty-eight years of faithful and most successful teaching, to which she devoted the wealth of her great faculties and admirable scholarship.

How rich and how full was the measure of gratitude poured out to her, from many thousands of loving hearts! And today, from every station in life, and from every quarter of our country, are heard the voices of those who rise up to call her blessed, and to pay their tearful tribute of gratitude to her memory. On my own behalf I take this occasion to say, that

for her generous and powerful aid, so often and so efficiently rendered, for her quick and never-failing sympathy, and for her intelligent, unselfish, and unswerving friendship, I owe her a debt of gratitude and affection for the payment of which the longest term of life would have been too short. To this institution she has left the honorable record of a long and faithful service, and the rich legacy of a pure and noble life. I have shown that she lived three lives. One of these, the second, in all its richness and fulness, she gave to Hiram. More than half of all her teaching was done here, where she taught much longer than any other person has taught; and no one has done work of better quality. She has here reared a monument which the envious years cannot wholly destroy. As long as the love of learning shall here survive; as long as the light of this College shall be kept burning; as long as there are hearts to hold and cherish the memory of its past; as long as high qualities of mind and heart are honored and loved among men and women, so long will the name of Almeda A. Booth be here remembered, and honored, and loved. All who knew her at any period of her career will carry her memory as a perpetual and precious possession. With the changing of a single word, we may say of our friend what the Poet Laureate of England said of Isabel:

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

REMARKS MADE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL 6, 1876.

ON the 30th of January, 1875, the representatives of the United States and of the king of the Hawaiian Islands signed a commercial reciprocity treaty in the city of Washington. Legislation was necessary to carry it into effect. Pending the bill introduced for that purpose in the Committee of the Whole, Mr. Garfield made these remarks.

MR.

R. CHAIRMAN,-I do not approve of the Hawaiian treaty because it looks in the direction of securing possession of those islands. I wish to state distinctly that, except in the north, I make an exception there, I trust we have seen the last of our annexations; and in this remark I include the whole group of West India Islands and the whole of the Mexican territory contiguous to the United States. Both these islands and Mexico are inhabited by people of the Latin races strangely degenerated by their mixture with native races, a population occupying a territory that naturally enfeebles man, — a population and a territory that I earnestly hope may never be made an integral part of the United States. I cannot more strongly state my view of that subject than by saying that, if the island of Cuba were offered to us with the consent of all the powers of the world, and $100,000,000 in gold were offered as a bonus for its acceptance, I would unhesitatingly vote to decline the offer. We occupy a portion of that great northern zone which girdles the world, and which has been the theatre of the greatest achievements of civilization, especially in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race; and should. we extend our possessions into the tropical belt, we should weaken the powers of our people and government. Hence I

disclaim any purpose or suggestion of annexing the Hawaiian Islands as any part of my reason for supporting the treaty. On the contrary, one of the reasons why I favor the treaty is that it will be a satisfactory substitute for all probable schemes of annexation. It is the best solution of the question.

Mr. Chairman, there are two reasons why I specially desire the passage of this bill. The first is on the ground of the duty which the nation owes to the Pacific coast; the second is on the ground of the general good of the whole country.

The Pacific coast, the latest born of our possessions, was in a most perilous position fifteen years ago. Far remote from us, there was great danger that a feeling of isolation and of alienation would spring up between the people of that coast and the people east of the Rocky Mountains; hence arose the conviction that these distant commercial and industrial interests should be more closely united. And to me it is one of the sublimest facts in our recent history, that, in the face of the opening horrors and dangers of our great war, when it was in question whether our republic would live or die, the great men of that period who filled these seats and the seats in the other chamber dared to show their faith in the future of the republic by proposing and finally carrying a measure to make the largest appropriation that, up to that time, had ever been made in a single act by any nation of the world. It was substantially to appropriate $100,000,000 in order to bind by material bonds of iron the Pacific coast to the Atlantic, and thus hold together in nearer ties of commerce, amity, and brotherhood the two coasts of this republic. I speak, of course, of the legislation that looked toward the construction of the Pacific Railroad. It was a great act of statesmanship. The purchase of Alaska was another step in that direction, not so marked, not so important, but yet important, for it secured to us the extreme northern American coast of this great Pacific Sea.

Now, as we still desire to complete the work of amity with our Pacific brethren, we must get a foothold on the southern line of our western border. The whole Pacific coast, with hardly a dissenting voice, comes and asks us for this legislation; and if we have doubts ourselves on the ground of general policy, we owe it to these men, our brethren, who are among the choicest, bravest, and most enterprising spirits from all our Eastern, Middle, Western, and Southern States, who have