red the
first, "To the Queen of England!" Thereupon Sickles walked out with
needless clatter, and Buchanan sat glued to his seat. The affair came
near being an international episode.

Peabody was always an American, and better, he was a citizen of the
world. He loved America, but when on English soil, really guest of
England, he gave the Queen the place of honor. This seems to us proper
and right, and at this distance we smile at the whole transaction, but
we are glad that Peabody, who paid for the dinner, had his way as to the
oratorical guff.

The Queen offered Peabody a knighthood, but he declined, saying, "If Her
Majesty write me a personal letter endorsing my desire to help the poor
of London, I will be more than delighted." Victoria then wrote the
letter, and she also had a picture of herself painted in miniature and
gave it to him. The letter and portrait are now in the Peabody Institute
at Peabody, Massachusetts.

When Peabody died, in Eighteen Hundred Sixty-nine, Queen Victoria
ordered that his body be placed in Westminster Abbey. The Queen in
person attended the funeral, the flags on Parliament House were lowered
to half-mast, and the body was attended to Westminster Abbey by the
Royal Guard. Gladstone was one of the pallbearers.

Later, it was discovered that Peabody had devised in his will that his
body should rest by the side of his father and mother, in Harmony Grove,
the village cemetery at Danvers, and in a spot over which his boyish
feet had trod. The body was then removed from the Abbey and placed on
board the British man-of-war "Monarch," in the presence of the Prime
Minister, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and many distinguished
citizens. The "Monarch" was convoyed to America by a French and an
American gunboat. No such honors were ever before paid to the memory of
a simple American citizen.

Well did the Reverend Newman Hall say, in his funeral oration: "George
Peabody waged a war against want and woe. He created homes; he never
desolated one.

"He sided with the friendless and the houseless, and his life was guided
by a law of love which none could ever wish to repeal. His was the task
of cementing the hearts of Briton and American, pointing both to their
duty to God and to humankind."

A. T. STEWART

The merchant of the future will not only be an economist and an
industrial leader--he will also be a teacher and a humanitarian.

--_A. T. Stewar