The Garfield Cycle

Twenty miles to the southeast of Cleveland, on the extreme verge of Cuyahoga county, ia the pleasant village of Chagrín Fall?, builded at the rapids of the same name. Three miles from this village, and about a mile norlh of the Cleveland road, in the southern part of Orange township, is the old Garfield farm. At present Chagrín Falla has a population of about 2,000, but fifty years ago it could nQt have had a populationof mire than two or three hundred. Some time before 1870, General Garfield said to the writer, as we walked along one of the streets oL this village : "When I waa a li'.tle boy, I carne regularly to this place once a week ia the summer season, barefooted and wearing a 'chip' hat. I was sent by my mother, bnnging a little pail of butter, three or four pounds in weighr, that she had been able to save above the wants ot the family. This I exchanged at the store fe r a little tea, C"ffee or sugar, a paper of ping and some thread, or such other small articles as the wants of the family demanded, and then trudged home again over the bilis to Orange." This bit of history very fitly.characterizs the beginniug of the Garfield Cycle. Cleveland is a beautiful city of 250,000 people. It never appears to better advantnge than on a perfect day at the end of May or at the beginning of June. This has been such a day. The city has been lull of strangers. The president, vicepresident, members of the cabintt, the chief jus'ice, the general of the army, a f r ;ater soldier once the general of the army, the governor of the state, a multitude of men distinguished in public hfe, civic socieiies and military organ zitions have ben hei e. The city people have turned cut en masse. Tbe city is aflame with flags aud other deoorations. From Monument Square to Lake View Cemettry, five long miles, a distinguished procession moved aloDg Enolid ave, three bours in motion, between masses of people that have lined the avenue, often ten or iwenty rar.k-i in depth, throughout the whole distance, and then on through the c?metary, clso fiiled with people, to the high ground in the rear on which the American people have erected lh magnificeot mmurial to President G-arfield. All the arrangements were perfrctly made befoiehand and there hfls bem no break or jar in carryïng ihem out. Everybody has bf en plQased and delighted. This is the program preseated at the monument ■ ORDER OP EXERCISES. Music, " America," Memorial Chorus, liitroductory remarks by the President of the Memorial Associatlon, Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes. Prayer, Kight Rev. W. A. Leonard. Oration, Hon. Jacob D. Cox. Music, ■' Hallelujih Chorus," Handel, Memorial Presentation of the President and Vice President of the United States, Members and ex-Members of the Cabinet, the General of the Army, and the Governor of the State of ohio. Music, ■' O, Weep for the Brave," Meitzke, Memorial Chorus. Brief Ceremonies by the Knights Templar. Music, Doxology, Memorial Chorus. Benediction, Rev. T. D. Powers, D. D. To-day's celebraron is the close of the GarBeld Cycle. He whom the people have thus honored has himself significantly suggested its deepest meaning. In one of his most finished public utterances, charterizing the genius ot America, he once ssid : " We point to the fact that in this country there are no classes in the British sense of the word, - no impassable barriers of caste. Now that elavery is sbolished, we can truly say that through our polit cl society there runs no fixed horizonal strata above which noce can pass. Our srcety rathtr resembles the waves of the ocen, whose every drop may move freely among its fellows, and may rise toward the light until it flashes on the crest of the hiehest wave."