gold and jewels as to cost fifty thousand dollars! The
queen's letter is kept there to this day.

Mr. Peabody gave money for museums at Yale and Harvard, an Academy of
Science at Salem, a memorial church at Georgetown, the birthplace of his
mother, and large sums of money for schools in the South, because he
realized that after the Civil War there would be much disorder and
poverty. Some men could not have kept perfectly friendly with two
countries, but Mr. Peabody loved both England and America and in all he
did and said tried to bind the two nations together. The very last time
he spoke in public was at the National Peace Jubilee in Boston.

When George Peabody died, the queen wanted him buried in Westminster
Abbey, and when she found he had left a request to be taken to America,
she sent a ship, the _Monarch_, across the Atlantic Ocean with his body.

A good many lives and stories have been written about George Peabody,
and he has earned several names like The Great Philanthropist--The
Merchant Prince--the Ambassador of Peace--the Friend of the Poor--and so
forth, but none fit him any better than the saying: "He was a
comfortable man to have round!"

DANIEL WEBSTER

Before New England became such a busy, hurried sort of a place--say a
hundred years ago--its men and women had time to listen to sermons that
were more than an hour long, or to lecturers who talked three or four
hours. When a public speaker used very fine words and could keep the
people who listened to him wide awake and eager to hear more, he was
called a great orator. An orator who dazzled our grandfathers and
grandmothers was named Daniel Webster. He has been dead a long time, but
the public speeches he made will never be forgotten.

Down in the business part of Boston can be seen, on a large building, a
tablet which reads "The Home of Daniel Webster." On the terraced lawn of
Massachusetts' State house stands a bronze statue of Daniel Webster. And
in old Faneuil Hall, Boston (which is called the Cradle of Liberty),
there is a huge painting, as long as--well--as long as a street-car,
which is called "Webster's Reply to Hayne." In this picture there are
the portraits of one hundred and thirty senators and other men, but all
of them are watching Daniel Webster. This is a picture well worth
seeing, and Webster was well worth hearing.

Daniel Webster was born in New Hampshire. When he was a year old, his
parents moved onto a farm which they