The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield

on.-Teaches a higher Grade of School.-First Oration.-Determin

at Mr. Woodworth's own house, and the payment was to be taken out in labor at the carpenter's shop. It was an excellent plan, and gave James more time for his studies, in spite

ttle money at haying. They accordingly hired themselves out to a neighboring farmer who wanted s

ting way ahead of you. They make broader swat

settling day came, the farmer aske

hink is right,"

yer only boys, of course ye

s, "that we did more work than your men? I

e the boys the same wages he paid

id boys so much, but you've f

he anti-slavery contest began to a

this republic?" It was a subject that roused James to his best efforts; and his school-mates, as th

month and his board, which was more than he had ever earned before. It was in this school that o

geometry after school-hours, until he had mastered the science, and his pupils ne

elivered his first oration. It was prepared with his usual carefulness, and deliver

orld," said every one who had listened

ne great aim of his life now was to procure a liberal education. A deeper, broader ocean wa

s possible to work one's way through college as well as through school. It was a new thought to James. His poverty had seemed to him before an insurm

r, and, when he found that he could obtain a school near Zanesville, he was quite ready to go. The Cleveland and Columbus Railroad had just been opened, and this was James' first rid

a student from the Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, he learned that opportunities were there afforded for studying the branches of the firs

king over the matter with his mother, he determi