universal grief.

HENRY WARD BEECHER'S EULOGY.

No final words of that great life can be more fitly spoken than the
eulogy pronounced by Henry Ward Beecher:

"And now the martyr is moving in triumphal march, mightier than when
alive. The nation rises up at every stage of his coming. Cities and
States are his pall-bearers, and the cannon speaks the hours with solemn
progression. Dead, dead, dead, he yet speaketh.

"Is Washington dead? Is Hampden dead? Is any man that was ever fit to
live dead? Disenthralled of flesh, risen to the unobstructed sphere
where passion never comes, he begins his illimitable work. His life is
now grafted upon the infinite, and will be fruitful as no earthly life
can be.

"Pass on, thou that hast overcome. Ye people, behold the martyr whose
blood, as so many articulate words, pleads for fidelity, for law, for
liberty."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAMILY.

Abraham Lincoln was married on November 4, 1842, to Miss Mary Todd, four
sons being the issue of the union.

Robert Todd, born August 1, 1843, removed to Chicago after his father's
death, practiced law, and became wealthy; in 1881 he was appointed
Secretary of War by President Garfield, and served through President
Arthur's term; was made Minister to England in 1889, and served four
years; became counsel for the Pullman Palace Car Company, and succeeded
to the presidency of that corporation upon the death of George M.
Pullman.

Edward Baker, born March 10, 1846, died in infancy.

William Wallace, born December 21, 1850, died in the White House in
February, 1862.

Thomas (known as "Tad"), born April 4, 1853, died in 1871.

Mrs. Lincoln died in her sixty-fourth year at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, at Springfield, Illinois, in 1882. She was the
daughter of Robert S. Todd, of Kentucky. Her great-uncle, John Todd, and
her grandfather, Levi Todd, accompanied General George Rogers Clark to
Illinois, and were present at the capture of Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
In December, 1778, John Todd was appointed by Patrick Henry, Governor
of Virginia, to be lieutenant of the County of Illinois, then a part of
Virginia. Colonel John Todd was one of the original proprietors of the
town of Lexington, Kentucky. While encamped on the site of the present
city, he heard of the opening battle of the Revolution, and named his
infant settlement in its honor.

Mrs. Lincoln was a proud, ambitious woman, well-educated, speaking
French f