Blood-Poisoning. -Symptoms of Malaria. - Removal to Description of the Francklyn Cottage. -The Arrival at Long Branch. The President is Drawn up to the Open Window. Hopeful Symptoms. - Official Bulletin.-Telegram to Minister Lowell. Incidents at Long Branch.-Sudden Change for the Worse. Touching Scene with his Daughter. - Another The Midnight Bells - Universal Sorrow. - Queen Victoria's Message.Extract from a London Letter.-The Whitby The Services at Elberon. Journey to Washington. - Lying in Journey to Cleveland. - Lying in State in the Catafalque in the Lakeview Cemetery.-Talk with Garfield's Mother.. The Sunday Preceding the Burial. - The Crowded Churches. The one Theme that Absorbed all Hearts. Across the Water. At Alexandra Palace. At St. Paul's Cathedral. National Day of Mourning.- Draping of Public Buildings and Private Residences. - Touching Incident.-Tributes to Gar- Subscription Fund for the President's Family.-Ready Generosity of the People. - Touching Incident. Total Amount of the Fund. How the Money was Invested. Project for Me- morial Hospital in Washington. -Cyrus W. Field's Gift of Memorial Window to Williams College. - Garfield's Affection for his Alma Mater. - Reception given Mark Hopkins and the Williams Graduates. — Garfield's Address to his Classmates, 301 Removal of the President's Remains. - Monument Fund Com- T Southern Feeling. - Memorial Services at Jefferson, Kentucky.- Extracts from Address by Henry Watterson Senator Bay- Extracts from some of the President's Private Letters to a Friend Poems in Memory of Garfield, by Longfellow. Lathrop. From London Spectator.-Oliver Wendell Holmes. H. Bernard Carpenter. John Boyle O'Reilly. - Joaquin Currency. Lincoln. The Draft.- Slavery.- Independence. The Rebellion. - Protection and Free-Trade. - Education. -William H Seward. Fourteenth Amendment. — Classi- cal Studies. History.- Liberty. - Statistics. - Poverty.- The Salary Question.- The Railway Problem.- Elements of Success. Law. The Revenue. -Statesmanship. - Rela- tion of Government to Science. Gustave Schleicher. - Suf- LIFE OF JAMES A. GARFIELD. CHAPTER I. The "Great Heart of the People."- Bereaved of their Chief.-Universal Mourning. - Wondering Query of Foreign Nations. Humble Birth in Log Cabin. - The Frontier Settlements in Ohio. - Untimely Death of Father. —Struggles of the Family. "The great heart of the people will not let the old soldier die!" So murmured the brave, patient sufferer in his sleep that terrible July night, when the whole nation, stricken down with grief and consternation at the assassin's deed, watched, waited, prayedas one man - for the life of their beloved President. And all through those weary eighty days that followed, of alternate hope and fear, how truly the great, loving, sympathetic heart of the people did battle, with millions of unseen weapons, for the strong, heroic spirit that never faltered, never gave up "the one chance," even while he whispered: "God's will be done; I am ready to go if my time has come." Party differences were all forgotten; there was no longer any North or South—only one common brotherhood, one one great, sorrowing household watching with tender solicitude beside the deathbed of their loved one. How anxiously the varying bulletins were studied! How eagerly the faintest glimmer of hope was seized! And when, on that never-tobe-forgotten anniversary of Chickamauga's battle, the midnight bells tolled out their solemn requiem, "The nation sent Like Egypt, in her tenth and final blow, And yet, with renewed fervor, we repeat those pathetic words: "The great heart of the people will not let the old soldier die!" While bowing reverently, submissively to the decree of the Almighty Disposer of human affairs, the nation feels that "no canon of earth or Heaven can forbid the enshrining of his manly virtues and grand character, so that after-generations may profit by the contemplation of them." A halo of immortal glory already gathers around the name of James A. Garfield. The remembrance of his brave, self-forgetting endurance of pain, his strong, indomitable will, his tender regard for his aged mother, his simple, |