"The twelve stalwart bearers, representing all branches of both army and navy, who had all through the sad journey lifted their loved burden lovingly and borne it tenderly, took the weight on their broad shoulders for almost the last time, and the admirals and commanding officers of both branches of the service lined themselves upon either side of the flag-draped, flower-covered casket. "In long double lines from the entrance to the vault to the edge of the driveway these dignitaries ranged, their heads reverently bared, in order of their rank, from Roosevelt and Gage down to the military and naval men. At their head, the black entrance to the vault yawning behind him, the flag-draped bier within showing but dimly, stood venerable Bishop Joyce waiting. BUGLERS SOUNDED "TAPS." "Bearing their loved burden high above all these honored heads, while a squad of buglers from the Canton G. A. R. band sounded taps, the soldiers and sailors advanced slowly to lay it at the churchman's feet. Solemnly the words of the Methodist service rang out that all might hear: "I heard a voice from heaven say, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.' "And for the last time the boys in blue lifted the weight of a nation's woe to their stalwart shoulders and, the good Bishop leading them in, bore it from the light of day to the gray gloom of the tomb. With streaming eyes, they who had been the President's family, official and unofficial, watched it pass into the shadow. With heavy hearts they acquiesced in the posting of the guard, three men at the entrance to the tomb and one at the head, one at the foot of the bier, which seemed to shut them who loved and shared his life out from him as effectually as it did the veriest stranger. "Then, since on the isolation of death even they must not intrude, they turned sadly away. Following them came Senators and Representatives, the great majority of the people's representatives at Washington, each, as he passed the guarded doorway, reverently uncovering. After them walked the federal employes of four great cities. It must have been nearly 7 o'clock when the last of these filed past the door of the open tomb, when the last head was bared, and the last tear-dimmed eyes that sought out the vague shape of the bier in the shadow behind the impassive guard." CHAPTER XX. Magnificent Tributes to Mr. McKinley-Eloquent Eulogies from Celebrities-Grief and Indignation-The President's Virtues and Character Extolled. HON. ON. WAYNE MACVEAGH, who was Attorney-General in President Garfield's Cabinet, said at a great memorial meeting in Philadelphia : "I am quite incapable of making you any formal address to-night. Others will discharge that duty, and I am here simply as one of you, to stand side by side with you in this expression of our share in the universal sorrow which binds the nation together North and South and East and West as a united people, mourning for their chosen leader, who has been so suddenly and so cruelly taken from them. "It has happened to me to know intimately and well each of our martyred Presidents. It is thirty-six years since, in obedience to the request of President Lincoln, I reached Washington in the dim gray of an April morning to find that he was dead. It is just twenty years ago to-night since I sat by President Garfield as he died. It is only twelve days ago that all the joy of reaching home was changed into unutterable grief and pain by learning that President McKinley had been shot; and now he also is hidden from us in the grave. "It was eminently fitting that this great and noble city should array herself in the habiliments of mourning and give this solemn and impressive celebration of the feelings of her citizens at the appalling calamity which has befallen us. With the Mayor in the chair, surrounded by this vast concourse of her representative citizens of all parties and denominations and of every walk in life, with solemn music, and with the presence of the reverend clergy, Philadelphia attests her grief in a manner worthy of her and worthy of the affection felt for her by the beloved President whose loss she mourns; for he was in the habit of frequently expressing his great regard for our city, feeling, as he once said to me, when he was here, as if he was at home. "What is to be said in the way of eulogy must be said by others. I do not feel equal to it, but some things all men know. He was a brave and faithful soldier in as righteous a war as was ever waged. As Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means he was necessarily influential while framing tariffs in assisting others toward the making of great fortunes; but whatever he did was done because he believed it to be for the general welfare; and no suspicion ever existed, not only of improper gain, but not even improper motive on his part. TOO GOOD TO BE GREEDY. "Like Lincoln and Garfield, he was too good an American to care to be rich. As a husband, he has left us a measure of duty in self-denial to which few of us can hope to attain. A professed believer in the Christian religion, he lived more nearly in obedience to its requirements, and was more fully imbued with the spirit of the Master than is often found in this practical and metallic age. Indeed, there need be no better test of his true Christian spirit than that his only reported allusion to his murderer was an entreaty in his behalf, and his last words assuredly were suggested by the words of our Lord on the Mount of Olives: 'God's will, not ours, be done.' "Yes, we have lost three noble President's by the assassin's hands, and all the assasins were native-born Americans. The first was a scholar, and used a Latin quotation to justify his hate, born of the Civil War. The second was an educated man, and his act was due to what he supposed was an unequal distribution of the spoils of office. "Of the real motive of the assassin of President McKinley we know too little yet to form a final judgment; but surely the alarming outbreak of bitter hatred appearing about in so many different parts of the country requires the earnest and serious consideration of all good citizens, for he must learn the true cause of them before he can be able to apply an effective remedy. It will, however, always be true that, under the whole wide canopy of Heaven, there can be found no antidote to hate but love. "Meanwhile, we may all rejoice that the Bench and Bar of Buffalo are reflecting credit upon the whole country by again securing reverence for the calm, orderly and resistless processes of the law. "And after all, my friends, it is upon the processes of the law that you and I must, in the last resort, depend for the perpetuity and the greatness of the Government our dead President loved so devotedly, and which he believed, as you and I believe to be, in spite of all abatement, the best Government under which men have ever lived, and no other form of government could in a single generation have produced and conducted to the seat of the Chief Magistracy three such rulers as Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. "We grieve at having lost them, but we are proud having had them as our Presidents. Our hearts just now are full of sorrow at losing him we have met to mourn. "And while the races of mankind endure Let their great examples stand Colossal seen of every land. To keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure, ELOQUENT WORDS OF ARCHBISHOP RYAN. Honored by an invitation to speak on this sad and solemn occasion, I naturally regard it from the religious standpoint. Religion is an integral portion of our nature, as real as the intellectual or material portion of it, and cannot be ignored in individual or national character. It has had more influence on our race than any other power. I am gratified to state that the deceased President recognized its great claims; that, according to his convictions and the dictates of his conscience, he was a religious man. His forgiveness of his murderer and his profound submission to the Divine will, expressed in these words, 'This is |