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192 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS are around him; His pavilion is dark waters and thick clouds; justice and judgment are the estab lishment of his throne; mercy and truth shall go before his face! Fellow-citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington lives." After the death of President Garfield, a popular subscription for his widow and children realized over $360,000. The income of this fund is to be paid to Mrs. Garfield during her life, after which the principal is to be divided among the children four sons and a daughter. More than forty of Garfield s speeches in congress have been pub lished in pamphlet- form, as has also his oration on the life of Gen. George H. Thomas. A volume of brief selections, entitled "Garfield s Words," was compiled by William R. Balch (Boston, 1881). His works have been edited by Burke A. Hinsdale (2 vols., Boston, 1882). The most com plete life of President Garfield is that by James R. Gilmore (New York, 1880). A monument to President Garfield, designed by John Q. A. Ward, was erected in Washington, D. C., by the Society of the Army of the Cumber land, and dedicated on May 12, 1887. It consists of a bronze statue of Garfield, 10^/2 feet high, standing on a circular pedestal 18 feet in height, with buttresses, on which are three reclining fig ures, representing a student, a warrior, and a statesman. The U. S. government gave the site