Show LITTLE BIOGRAPHIES OF BIG MEN of ur tin tIme hoi Bo of if On a cold November day a In the tar car I IS Sil 1 near t the hue village l' l of Orange t there here came caine Into tho time world a lilt hit Sf If f a baby bo boy boy whom his Ills parents cald cal caB d d tl h b by name James Abraham pu Garfield Garfield- The Time home which sheltered the tIme Hub lItti ww orn was a Cahill Cabin built hullt of or n twenty nty h by thirty feet Ceet In lii size timid and inkling lug at either end a wide Ie fireplace for 01 the lie furnishing of heat heal and ami th th- ii of oC food Three other chil- chil lien Iten were in iii that lint cabin home In lii the tu forest when hen the little James came TY i m V. V iI I I I j 1 A. A s. s Meld Jut cutting wood lou for i d. n S here to begin hj his life one hu boy and and brother who who two girls a t ln loving to the thc nex aby brother The lIe family vas wa- a u v me till a day whets when James Wi but eighteen months old ther therell ell ehl a heavy r which Id left a U a dark 1111 hanging over u the lie lo log cabin n lit n the tIle A A lire fire humid had broken ou III In th the lie forest and amId threatened to de destroy h dr- stroy the tIme house and amid outbuildings i I whIch contained all the Idly good goodof I of the lie Gat For FOI hours Abraham GUI hut Held hubband anti and father lIu fathel ly Iy fought the tIte flame succeeding Jin- Jin In III lo the time lire but hut thereby y bringing lath dath to himself for COl sim lie he cau caught ht a t hta hv-avy hv cold which caused congestion I from roni whIch h he hue suddenly died l Knowing Know lug ing that flint his hiM Illness waN a fatal sue 01 tin good truo husband called 1 h hiS u weeping ellI wife to his side and IId said I J I have planted four foist little saul saplings Pigs s in us thes woods wife I must now nois leave them heiri to tu your Cal care Mimi And thou then he clo closed c his e eyes cg ioui iou for i on un t this h world After fI I the lie burial I of lit Abraham GUI Gar I Held the time neighbors and a imil relatives wi- wi xi i is sed tl the widow to tu he poor gIve awn I I and bind out SLIt lieu her children thus titus rn- rn ing hel herself of so st-i o heavy a hurl burden n nas as four foul little saplings But nut with mother love the lie noble woman sold said h No U tumid and held lucId item her little ones sines the tue Iol loser el to tu her hI cast breast They vere Item hers hersi i anti i-anti and tot for them She bho would With the lie assistance tance of hue her hel oldest h boy Thomas nine years CaIS old at hl his fathers father's death tIme death the young widow rails r and built buill a II fence round tin I I Site She hc carded wool wove Wh I cloth spun Max nax and kept lice her children lH i comfortably tably clothed She Sue sold a por- por illon lion iou of the lie laud land in Iii order to pa pay rift off a ut debt a against the lie ii acres With little Thomas Thomas' help hell sIte she he plowed and amid planted corn COIn made niale garden and kent I the lie small mall farm going antI and her hel mica dear little ones outes to together When food wa a I scarce whIch scarce was often orten the lie case calc I she sho made the lie children for forget ct th lr I i unsatisfied un hunger cl by l' singing to them I land and encouraging them with hope hOlle 0 of i the bountiful harvest whIch i soon b hI bs- lucIus In all nil the there has hag been no mm I nobler GH braver cr type of wont wont- I that we wc study sud In the lie mother othel I j of James She stands with with- out a superior among man many noble mothers I When hen little James was only three years ealS old he hc attended school with his brother and amid two sisters sitting quietly quiet luiet- I ly iy throughout the lie lon long hours on omi the hard lined split log bench hench In the little log lug schoolhouse which was vas erected on onlie the the- lie corner of or hi hIs mothers mother's farm Calm As Asan Asan an nut inducement to the neighboring families to build a n. school chool house the lie Garfield had hath generously l donated do do- for ion she determined minted the site was i to give I c her lien children the time advantage I lora a common school chool education If Ie noth- noth I 1 In Ing better heUer I And nd So so the years wore on ott on and amid th time thy little James Jame grew to the lie el verge o of or hl his i teens In a u poor but most wholesome I home atmosphere Then Ihen he lie decided that It was high hl h limo timo he lie should earn earnI I some money monc to help hell liEs his mother Improve Im- Im prove 10 tho the place As his luis brother 1 I Thomas could now tal take e full rull chal charge i n of tho the small farm James look looked d a about out him lou for outside employment lie obtained his hilts voik away from home with a farmer rannel who manufactured black salts alls For his itt services ho received 3 U 9 u Il month anti and ills his hoard hoar It Is safe fe tl to say y that the several eral months earnings s. of or James proved quite a it fortune me to his family to he so o unselfishly carried It It whom And even c while thus ena engaged Jam Jamer JamerS S did il not ne neglect his books but butel el elj j n night t by the helf firelight ht lie hue stud studied led hi hl hi I arithmetic antI and history long lon after aftel the hit j i other l fast asleep j La J-aler J Let James l took up the lie work worl of ol I cutting for lii his uncle who paid him 25 Ii 5 routs cents a cord eOld for COl the lie wood lies I I Then Thuen followed several months of or J I dl driving ln on th tIn tho canal filling the lic role of towpath ho boy But from om momi this thus service ser see vice vico the lie boy hoy James returned home ironic homeI I sick with a ague uc which winch kept him burn on his back for fOI months mouths S On his recovery at the earnest so solicitation so- so of his s- s good mother he went to tn I Cn HII to In lu hi j i. h HoA 0 nary miary his way war through the school and In iii a U small room where ho lie boarded himself tf a then I not hot uncommon practice among i poor S 5 boys who were Wll seeking an au education Then lien followed several cral seasons of district school teaching boarding round among th the l pupils 5 5 Thus did James K A A. A di dig out h by ll hl his own iii hands the tue p th musing along a lUg rugged J mountain tI side l' l whIch led heul him always always- anti and 1 I to I u goal of worthy nm ambition fromn n from tha cabin of uC logs to tl the thc While House HIU l. l ii anulli |