for our loss. The German Emperor sent his personal representative to a memorial service and put the flags at half-mast on the vessels of his navy. And so the tale went around the world, to the antipodes and back again. Differences of race and of form of government seemed for the time forgotten. There was something in America's bereavement which transcended all such artificial lines. There was a sharp, deep touch of elemental nature, and it made the whole world kin in bonds of sympathy.

We can not but remark upon the manifestations of sympathy made in the British Empire, both in Europe and in America. It was a unique thing for the King to order his court into mourning for an American President, and so it was for such notable services as those which were held at St. Paul's and Westminster. It was a notable thing for the great commercial exchanges throughout the kingdom to be closed, for the flags to be half-masted in the navy, and for memorial services to be held in cathedrals and churches everywhere. A memorial service at the British Embassy at Constantinople, a salute from the guns of Gibraltar, and the closing of all banks, exchanges and places of business in Bombay, are only a few items from an innumerable host telling of the unfeigned sympathy of our "kin beyond the sea."

In the Dominion of Canada the demonstration was perhaps of all most marked. The heir The heir apparent to the throne had just landed, and all the country had prepared to welcome him with fulness of rejoicing. But for the time of our mourning Canada, too, mourned scarcely less generally than we. The sad occasion was made one of cessation from business and from pleasure, and a day of mourning and prayer, north of the border as well as south of it. In that respect the traveler would scarce have been conscious of having crossed the line from the one country into the other. For the day the dream of continental union was in sentiment realized. Canada and the United States were one in some of the tenderest and not least strong bonds that can bind humankind together. The generous and sympathetic messages and actions of England's King

in this sad drama will henceforth cause Americans to regard him with added friendliness. So the fact of his participation in the mourning of the Dominion for our lost President will cause the Duke of Cornwall to be esteemed with love and gratitude by this nation, which would have been glad under happier auspices to welcome him to its soil.

Our day of mourning was thus gently illumined with the light of sympathy and gratitude. The American people are a grateful people and look upon these tokens of neighborly sympathy with gratitude and appreciation, and surely will not forget in the years to come that the nations of the world were one with them in their grief.

Copyright by Judge Co.

Copyright by Judge Co.

OATH OF OFFICE BEING ADMINISTERED TO THE PRESIDENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER

CHAPTER XXV

The World's Sympathy with the Nation's Grief

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HE murder of President McKinley by the fell hand of Anarchy not alone threw the American nation into a stupor of grief, but also gave a shock which was felt round the world; the nations of Europe could not have shown greater horror or manifested more fervent sympathy had the assassin's bullet reached the heart of one of their own most honored rulers. From princes and people alike came warm expressions of sympathy with their stricken. sister nation, as deeply inspired with feeling as though our murdered ruler had been President of the world instead of the United States. It is our purpose in the present chapter to present some of the more important and significant of these contributions.

From England, with which, a few months before, the United States had so warmly sympathized in the death of her beloved Queen, the fatal act of September 6th called forth the following earnest expression of grief and regret. King Edward VII. hastened to send the following message to the Foreign Office :

Kiel, Sept. 7.--Please send at once to the American Embassy to offer my deepest sympathy at the dastardly attempt on the President's life. I have telegraphed direct. Please keep me informed of his condition."

Lord Roberts was as prompt to speak for the military establishment of Great Britain, sending the following message to the American Embassador Choate :

"Please convey to President and Mrs. McKinley, on behalf of myself and the British army, our profound regret at what has occurred and our earnest hope that the President's valuable life may be spared. "ROBERTS."