Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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one of the most popular men in the institution. After two years in Hiram College he went to Williams College, Massachusetts. When twenty-five years old he graduated from Williams College and returned to Hiram as a professor, and the next year became its president. A year later he married Lucretia Rudolph, one of his pupils. In 1858 Mr. Garfield was elected State Senator. Later, in 1861, he was chosen Colonel of the -12nd Ohio regiment and left the Senate to lake part in the Great Civil War. Nearly one hundred Hiram College students went with him. In January 1862. he with his men. fought the battle of Middle Creek driving General Marshall with five thousand men out of Kentucky. The battle lasted five hours. As a reward ho was made a Major General. In the summer of 1880 Mr. Garfield was elected United States Senator and in 1881 was elect- ed president of the United States. Four months after his inauguration while going with Mr. Blaine, Secretary of State, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Washington he was shot by Charles Guiteau. a disappointed office seeker. For this crime Guiteau was hanged. Garfield lingered till September 19th when he passed away, the whole country mourned his death and when Queen Victoria of England heard of it she sent Mr . Garfield her sympathy. Two days Inter his body was taken to the capitol to lie in state. Thousands of people went there to sec him for the last time. After that his body was brought to Cleveland for burial. Rev. I. Errett, I). D. of Cincinnati, Ohio, preached the funeral service. Mr. Garfield was greatly revered by all and especially by the deaf us during his short term in office he greatly aided Gallaudet College, the only college for the deaf in the world.

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JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD By Mux Lewi Jimu's Abram Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, was born in a poor log hut in Orange, Ohio, November 19th, 1831. The Garfield family lived on an eighty acre farm which his father hud purchased at two dollars per acre. The Garfield home was not far from the railroad. When James was eighteen months old, u spark from u pussing locomotive set fire to their wheat field and his father became ill from fighting the flumes and died. His body was put in a plain box and buried in a corner of the wheat-field. Mrs. Garfield was then left alone to support her four smnll children and had to work hard. She helped her nine year old son, Thomas, split rails and fence in the wheat field. She got wool from her sheep und made clothes for her little ones. Mehetohel, Thomas and she ploughed and planted the field and gathered in the harvest. Mrs. Garfield wanted her children to receive a good education so with the help of neighbors she erected a log school house. The scholars sat on logs for benches und learned how to read, write and spell as best they could. James was then nearly three years old and went and sat all day on the hard benches with his brothers and sister. Mrs. Garfield was a Christian woman and taught her children her simple faith. Garfield began to earn money working for neighbors when he was ten years old. One job brought him nine dollars a month and board. He was fond of reading and studied arithmetic and read books about the sea every night. Robinson Crusoe was one of his favorites. Once he got a job cutting wood for his uncle in New-burg and cut one hundred cords of wood at twenty-five cents a cord. When this work was over, he went proudly home with twenty-fiive dollars. He urged his mother to let him be a sailor and at lost she gave him permission. Putting his clothes in a bundle, he started off for Cleveland. Ohio, seventeen miles from his home. As soon as he hnd reached there, he went down to the wharves and on board a schooner and asked for work, but the drunken captain told him to get off the boat. James did not know what the reason was und he was somewhat disheartened. At lost he met a cousin who gave him a job driving mules along n canal. The salary was ten dollars and board per month. During the three months he worked on the canal he fell into the water fourteen times. He caught a fever and went home where his mother took care of him until he was well. In 1849 he decided to enter Georgia Seminary at Chester, Ohio. He, an eighteen year old boy, went on foot to Chester carrying plates, knives, forks, a kettle and other utensils as he must board himself. There were four boys in the room he secured. At the start James had seventeen dollars but they soon melted away. He then found work in a carpenter shop where he worked nights and mornings while out of school. In the school library there were one-hundred fifty volumes. James eagerly seized the opportunity to reud specializing on biography and history. He joined the College debating team and made good. In the winter he was appointed an assistant teacher. After he hnd graduated from the seminary, a friend of his urged him to attend college. He told James that his chances for success would be much better if he went through college. When Garfield was twenty years old, he entered Hiram College, Ohio. Every morning he rang the bell for the students and the teachers to start for school. He was always cheerful and became

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THE STORY OF FOOT-BALL By Arthur Szablewtki Foot-ball, next to base-ball, is the moat popular athletic game in the world. It is played principally in the United States and the British Empire. The Indians in North America and ahorignes of the Pacific Islands played a game much like it. The Greeks seem to have taught it to the Romans and the latter, through their soldiers, to the Britons and other races of the North. The game was played at Rome by opposing teams and was handed down to the Italians. A famous foot-ball field was in existence in a square at the end of the Church of Santu Croce, the Westminister Abbey of Florence. There judges, former players of renown, sat in a commanding position three on each side of the field to render decisions. Of the twenty-seven men, fifteen were runners, five interferers, four half backs and three full backs. The ball was kicked over a goal. The names of the Medicis and other noble families appear in the lists of players. In Germany. France and England, the bladder of the hog was used much by children as a foot-bnll after it was dried and inflated. In the British Isles, in the Middle Ages, foot-ball was ployed by whole communities who kicked the ball without clear design through the streets and over the meudows. This game became so rough that it was forbidden by law. In 1314 Edward II issued a proclamation: “For as much as there is great noise in the city caused by hurtling over large balls from which many evils might arise, which God forbid, we forbid such game to be used in the city in the future.” Various monarchs objected to football as it tended to cause archery, of greater military vulue, to be neglected. In 1457 the Scottish King. James III, decreed that “foot- balle and golfe be utterly cryed down and not to be used.” while his successor with equally queer spelling gave orders that “In na place of this realme ther be used futeball, golfe, or other 8ik unprofitable sportes.” James I of England declared foot-ball Meeter for lameing than making able the users thereof.” Never-the-less the game was for centuries u favorite pastime throughout Great Britain. When it ceased to be a pastime for men at festivals and fairs, it was kept alive by school boys. It was not until the nineteenth century that it became an organised game, with fixed numbers on each side and a definite method of keeping score. Weight, physical fitness and endurance are requisites in players, but quick thinking is very necessary. It was at the great English schools like Rugby, Harrow and Elton, that foot-ball was first made practical. The boys’ playground at Rugby was largo and there was plenty of room for running and tackling. At other schools the game was confined to kicking and bunting the ball. Two distinct types of football have developed, namely; Rugby, which permits running with the ball, and soccer or association which prohibits tunning with the ball. Rugby includes English, Canadian and American Rugby, three distinct styles of play. The name, American Rugby, sounds strange to foot-ball players in the United States, but it is the correct name for the game. The early Virginia colonists brought the older English games to America, and soon after 1830, students at several eastern collges began to play them. Ten years luter at Amherst, Brown, Harvard. Trinity, and Yale, there were inerciass games something like the class rushes which some colleges still have. These games became