a white background, appear the significant words from Ecclesiastes :

"And a three-fold cord

Shall not be broken."

There is scarcely a suggestion of death, but rather of a joyous welcome to the guest approaching.

utters no moan.

While the casket is borne to the opening, Mrs. Hendricks, on the arm of her brother, passes the grave, and with anxiouss eyes scans the interior. Turning then, she for a moment bends over the grave of her baby boy, dead so many years. With fortitude borne of a womanly resolution to repress her anguish, she bears up bravely and The interest of the spectators is now supreme, and with bared heads under the gray skies they reverently bow while the officiating clergymen begin the simple but beautiful burial service, familiar to all. "Man that is born of woman"—all have heard it; and the response," In the midst of life we are in death." The Lord's Prayer, participated in by people, an invocation by the Bishop, and all is over.

The leaden clouds at this moment let fall a few drops of rain, which is quickly succeeded by a momentary sunbeam upon the assembled people. A happy circumstance, as if nature had dropped a tear in sympathy and brushed it away with a smile of hope. The last words are spoken, the casket is lifted from its flower-covered supports and is lowered into the beautiful chamber prepared for its reception. The spectators then approach, the carriages go their various ways, and the busy world returns to its duties, while the landscape fades rapidly into the shadows of night.

CHAPTER XXII.

THE CONTEMPORARY ESTIMATE.

Indianapolis Sentinel.

The spectacle of a leader of a hopeless minority gathering the scattered remnants of his party from the debris of defeat and the wreck in which the storm of Southern separation had left it, making of these remnants one of the pillars of the State, retaining his popularity with his party and the respect of its Opposition, never losing the confidence of his followers, and ever by his genius increasing its influence and popularity until it again became dominant,-is a spectacle that no other, among all our leaders, of whatever political creed, presented.

Indianapolis Journal.

A tall man was he among the people, conspicuous for his abilities. A strong man by the power of his eloquence and the breadth of his acquirements, he won his way in the ranks of his party to near its leadership. His personal character was above reproach, and he was approachable—a man of the people. The American people have been generous toward him; to-day its charity covers him like a pall. The memories of the war are buried; the mistakes of the past are not remembered. May the better phases of human nature that have come to the front at this hour find due appreciation and bear fruit many fold.

New York Tribune.

Of conciliatory ways and winning manner, he was probably the most popular man in his party, and came the nearest to representing its true views and honest wishes. That fact alone had much to do with the repeated defeat of his efforts to secure a Presidential nomination, as the time had not arrived when the Democratic leaders saw the way open to success with a candidate who professed no aims other than those popular with the masses of the party.

New York World.

An active, aggressive statesman, strong in his convictions, Mr. Hendricks naturally was honored by political enemies and the hostile criticism of Republican organs. But no opponent could gainsay his ability, and no assailant of his partisanship ever dared to question his purity and honesty. In his long public life he had filled the highest posts of honor and

trust in his State, and all but the very highest in the United States, and he came out of them with a clean, unsullied record as public servant, and with the increased respect, confidence and affection of his party. The higher the trust bestowed upon him by his party, the more brilliantly shone the luster of his Democracy.

New York Sun.

Adopting the Democratic faith at the beginning of his career, he was faithful to the last. There was no eccentricity and no compromise in his political ideas. The doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson were his doctrines, and he held fast to the traditional statesmanship of his party. He belonged to the people, and knew nothing of the Pharisaical and Federalist pretension which holds them in distrust and contempt. His political speeches were filled with this spirit, and like his forensic arguments, commanded respect by their breadth, elevation, and vigor of reasoning, and catholic comprehensiveness.

Boston Globe.

Governor Hendricks was one of God's noblemen and, take him all in all, we shall not see his like again. He was a man of the people; he loved his country, and of his integrity of purpose and motive there was no question. His manly way of expressing his convictions was recognized and respected by all. Born a man and a statesman, he continued to increase in the affections of his countrymen, and he dies universally lamented.

Boston Post.

He ranks with Allen G. Thurman and Horatio Seymour and Samuel J. Tilden and Joseph E. McDonald-giants, all of them, and men of convictions. But yesterday, and Mr. Hendricks was apparently the strongest of them all. To-day he lies dead in his once pleasant home in Indianapolis, and the country is without a Vice President. The Democracy has lost one of its most faithful and earnest and conscientious leaders, and constitutional government one of its ablest advocates.

Cincinnati Sun.

He was, too, in all respects a strong man - thoroughly equipped by reading, study and experience for the highest positions of public life, and possessing in a pre-eminent degree the courage of his convictions. Possessing a genius for diplomacy hardly inferior to the greatest American diplomate of modern times, Mr. Seward, he was yet thoroughly outspoken on all questions of great public interest. There was never any doubt as to his position. He might be wrong, but he was always frank, earnest and sin

cere.

Cincinnati Enquirer.

He was a Democrat of the strict sect. He was a statesman and publicist, but he hewed his public life to the Democratic line, and was a fair illus

tration of the truth that parties are indispensable to our republican form of government. He was a thorough student of affairs and a firm believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and he swerved not to the right or left of his party allegiance.

Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.

He was a very gentlemanly man-calm, pleasing, courteous, persuasive; gifted with brains and information, intelligence and will; a good lawyer, and, as a politician, one who held in a surprising degree, through personal magnetism and winning qualities difficult to define, the confidence of the people. He said at the Chicago Convention that he was there "to speak for a mighty State." He had great power in Indiana; and the first serious appearance that the Chicago Convention of the Democracy had to Republican observers was not when Cleveland, but when Hendricks was nominated.

There is reason to believe that if he had consented to have the "old ticket" reproduced by the Cincinnati Convention of 1880, the political history of the last five years would have been wonderfully changed.

National Republican, Washington, D. C.

His home life was always bright and pure; the relations between him and the partner of his joys and sorrows were not those of affection only, but of friendship and hearty co-operation in mutual interests and pleasures. All who were admitted to social intercourse with the Hendricks household carried thence a sweet and lasting impression, for they saw a close approximation to the ideal husband and wife. No man, however high his achievements in politics or statecraft, can leave a lesson more needed or more useful than that of absolute fidelity to home.

St. Louis Republican.

Thomas A. Hendricks died too soon for his country, but not too soon for his fame. That was completed. It was not the creature of accident or of a combination of circumstances, but the natural and inevitable product of long years of arduous labor, of high responsibilities, faithfully and conscientiously discharged, of unflinching devotion to great principles, of pure and ardent patriotism which nothing could change or chill, of an abiding sense of duty which hesitated at no sacrifice of personal feeling, of a public and private character without stain or flaw. He was one of the very few American statesmen whose biographers do not have to employ either apology or explanation for public or private action. Honest and honorable from beginning to end of his career, he deserved and obtained the confidence and affection of hosts of friends throughout the land, and the fiercest political opponent was compelled to yield him the tribute of sincere respect. He had that rare quality in these latter days-" the courage of his convictions." Living through the stormiest period of American politics, when smaller and weaker men were content to swim with the pop

ular current, he never abated jot or tittle of these convictions, and was ready to proclaim them at any cost and all hazards.

Chicago Times.

The Democracy of the West has lost one of its most capable leaders, the veteran of a hundred battle-fields of disaster and victory. He was one about whose banner recruits and veterans would rally with a volume and enthusiasm which could be elicited by no other captain in his adopted State. It would have been well could he have outlived the present changeful and stormy period incidental to a radical change in the Administration, and until such a time as when peace should have prevailed, and unity absorbed angry and warring elements. Then his actions would have been judged by their merits, and not by a sentiment tinged by selfish motives or animated by individual ambitions.

Evansville Courier.

It must be admitted, of the many great names that adorn Indiana's history, that of Thomas A. Hendricks stands first. In honors no other Indianian has equaled him, and to his great accomplishments as a statesman, to his achievements in his country's service, he adds the adornment of a spotless fame. In his private, as in his public relations, there was always that kindly essence that never flows from a turgid spring. His comely manhood was a revelation of the clean elements of which his nature was composed. No man was ever more loved by the people with whom he communicated.

Atlanta Constitution.

Few men had a stronger hold on the affection of the people than Hendricks. He was a popular idol. He addressed himself always to the people rather than to the politicians. He looked above and beyond the head of the man who contested with him, and addressed himself to the dim and vast populace beyond, the hum of whose industry reached his ears and was music to him. His real power was with the people, and he was weak with the men who pettifogged. This weakness alone prevented his reaching the highest office within the gift of the American people.

MEMORIAL ADDRESS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

By Senator Daniel W. Voorhees, January 26, 1886.

MR. PRESIDENT: For the eminent citizen of the Republic who lately fell from his high place among living men, and who sleeps now in peace and honor in the bosom of the State he loved and served, we can do no more than has already been done by tongue and pen, and by every method which human affection can inspire. The heavy drapery of woe has darkened alike the public building, the stately mansion and the doorway of the humble home; the proud colors of the Union have drooped at half mast throughout the United States, and in all civilized lands beneath the