"The actual cultivators of the soil here have been the same 

 kind of men preciselj^ as those who filled the professions, or were 

 engaged in commercial and mechanical pursuits. 



" Of two sons of the same mother, one became a lawyer, perhaps 

 a judge, or went down to the «ity and became a merchant, or gave 

 himself to political affairs and became a governor, or a member of 

 Congress ; the other stayed upon the ancestral homestead, or 

 made a new one for himself and his children out of the public 

 domain farther west, remaining through life a plain, hard-working 

 farmer." 



S 



From " Log-Cabin to White House." Life of James ' 

 Garfield, President, U.S.A. : 



" James might have called the farm his teacher. It taught him 

 many excellent lessons. 



"He extracted the most valuable knowledge from its soil. He 

 evoked inspiring thoughts from its labour. His manhood 

 developed under its rigid discipline. His mind enlarged its 

 mental grasp. The season spent in the log schoolhouse could 

 not have pushed him higher up than did his experience on the 

 farm. It was positive proof that work is discipline as much as 

 study, and that it can do for boys often more than study to 

 qualify them for the stern duties of life. James was more of a 

 man at the close of that season than he was at the beginning of it.*' 



N.B. — James was twelve years old at this time, when he ran a 

 farm of fifty acres alone for his mother. 



Lord Coleridge said ("Pall Mall," 11th September, 1883) : 



*' England and America are one in blood, in language, in law, 

 one in hatred of oppression and love of liberty. We are bound 

 together by God Himself in golden chains of mutual affection and 

 mutual respect, and two nations so joined I am firmly convinced 

 man will never put asunder." 



To those who prefer an active out-of-door life to the Prospects. 

 sedentary occupation of an office, or who seek, but are unable 

 to find, an opening in England which will permit them to 

 earn an income and maintain themselves, this occupation 

 must specially commend itself; for the life is a manly, 

 honest, self-reliant, and healthy one, and a substantial hving 

 can be the result. 



But whilst it offers an assured future to those who will 

 acquire habits of industry, and are content to live soberly 



