But not alone to our own country were con-
fined the exhibitions of sympathy, and the anxioas
alternations of hope and fear. There was scarcely
a portion of the globe in which the hearts of the
people were not deeply stirred by the daily bulle-
tins that came from the sick couch of the patient



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sufferer. Of the profound impression made in
England I shall give a description, contributed to
the New York Tribune by its London corre-
spondent, Mr. G. W. Smalley, only premising
that the sympathy and grief were universal : from
the Queen, whose messages of tender, womanly
sympathy will not soon be forgotten, to the hum-
blest day-laborers in the country districts. Never
in England has such grief been exhibited at the
sickness and death of a foreign ruler, and the re-
membrance of it wiU draw yet closer together, for
all time to come, the two great sections of the
English-speaking tongue. Were it not a subject
of such general interest, I should apologize for the
space I propose to give to England's mourning :

" It happened that some of the humbler classes
were among the most eager to signify their feel-
ings. The omnibus-drivers had each a knot of
crape on his whip. Many of the cabmen had the
same thing, and so had the draymen. In the city,
properly so called, and along the water-side, it
was the poorer shops and the smaller craft that most
frequently exhibited tokens of public grief. Of
the people one met in mourning the same thing
was true. Between mourning put on for the day



JAMES A, GARFIELD, ^\\

and that which was worn for private affliction it
was not possible to distinguish. But in many
eases it was plain enough that the black coat on
the workingman's shoulders, or the bonnet or bit
of crape which a shop-girl wore, was no part of
their daily attire. They had done as much as
they could to mark themselves as moumere for
the President. It was not much, but it was
enough. It had cost them some thought, a little
pains, sometimes a little money, and they were
people whose lives brought a burden to every
hour, who had no superfluity of strength or
mea»8, and on whom even a slight effort imposed
a distinct sacrifice. 