an say,
after the plan was agreed upon and adopted for determining the result,
that the person who did occupy the chair did not have a legal right
there, and was not president after the acceptance by the House of
Representatives of the conclusion.

Mr. Tilden will never be considered inferior in intellect and learning
to the many great men of whom New York can proudly boast. He will ever
be ranked with Daniel Tompkins, George Clinton, William L. Marcy, Silas
Wright, William H. Seward, John A. Dix and many others, and it is not
strange that it was with a feeling of deep and genuine regret that on
the 4th of August, 1886, the people were told of his sudden death at
'Greystone.'

HENRY WARD BEECHER.

A sturdy tree, standing alone in a vast field, suggesting strength,
growth and independence, and regarded both as a landmark and a shelter;
withstanding alike the heats of summer and wrestling with and throwing
off the blasts of winter; drawing from Nature her myriad stores of
nutrition and giving back to Nature a wealth of power and grace in
return; seemed Henry Ward Beecher, in his youth of old age, to the
observation of men. Original orator, advocate, poet, humorist, agitator,
rhetorician, preacher, moralist and statesman. The greatest preacher of
modern times, possibly of all times, the man was one of the wonders of
America; one of the marvels of the world.

Henry Ward Beecher's career has been phenomenal for the activity and
variety of its achievements. Coming from a long line of mentally alert
and physically vigorous ancestors, he was richly endowed with the
qualities going to make up the highest type of human nature. He was
handicapped only in being the son of a man whose fame was world-wide; a
preacher of such intensity of spirit and eloquence of expression that he
stood at the head of, if not above, all of his contemporaries. Yet,
while Dr. Lyman Beecher will always hold an honored place in American
history and biography, who can deny that his fame has been far outshone
by that of his brilliant son? It may be truly said, therefore, that
Henry Ward Beecher won a double triumph. He emerged from the comparative
obscurity in which he dwelt, behind the shadow of his father's
greatness, and he lived to see his own name emblazoned more brightly and
engraved more indelibly upon the records of time than that of his noble
father.

He was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 24th, 1813. His father was
a busy mini