men, all of them-as famed for their eloquence as for their services in the great struggle for the Union. .

The generals were Daniel E. Sickles of New York, Oliver O. Howard of Vermont; both on the retired list of the regular army; George A. Marden of Massachusetts and Thomas J. Stewart of Pennsylvania.

The privates were dear old Corporal Tanner-whose rugged gift of speech, wit, humor and pathos, is a perpetual delight, and Jack Burst, famed alike for his warlike valor and his modest bearing. It appeared as if Grand Army men everywhere knew something about Tanner and Burst that inclined them to love them. There was also the old Christian bugler, who thrilled the audiences by his bugle calls, and employed his Sundays on the tour in assisting the choirs of whatever church had need of him, in whatever city the party happened to be.

On one occasion the church was the Methodist church at Canton, of which McKinley was a member. McKinley was present at the services, and listened with profound emotion to the bugle accompaniment to the hymns.

Such speeches, such scenes! It reproduced again the excitement of war, and the fervor of patriotism, and it was impossible to tell whether the generals or their audiences experienced most the tumult of feeling that manifests itself on the battlefield. George Hopkins, imperturbable, never forgetting, always with the same good nature, directed the course of this wonderful campaign expedition, and regulated it so that there was never a disappointment.

That you may judge of the magnitude of the journey I mention that the party traversed in its special train the states of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and through New Jersey to reach the city of New York, where the last grand rally took place. The party traveled 8,848 miles; it stopped at 255 places; and 276 meetings were addressed. In the larger cities more than one meeting was held, the speakers dividing for that purpose.

The year 1898 opened with the destruction of the Maine in the harbor of Havana. The country could not be restrained in its purpose to avenge that crime. The war with Spain broke out. General Alger was secretary of war. He needed a man that could serve as his eyes and ears. When Alger was commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic 1892, he appointed Hopkins his adjutant general. Knowing his efficiency, and his honesty, as well as his calm judgment and sterling good sense,

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when war was declared, he called upon Hopkins to render service again to the country. The call was eagerly awaited by Hopkins. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel, and made assistant adjutant general on the personal staff of the secretary of war.

In this capacity Col. Hopkins visited every camp of the army. He observed, with careful and just eye, all that took place. It was his reports that advised the secretary of war of the needs of the army, the deficiencies of the service. He was not only in the camps but in the hospitals, and on the transports; in the tents of the soldiers, and the headquarters of the generals. What a book his reports, and his private observations, if recorded and preserved-would make. Very illuminating of that epoch in our history, the Spanish-American war.

It is necessary to say that Col. Hopkins was most deeply interested in the welfare of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a commander of the Detroit Post; he was also department commander of the department of Michigan.

I shall not speak of his business successes. They were ample, and for a man of his modest tastes, affluent. He became an important factor in the manufacturing and banking interests of Detroit, and was a director in some of the largest enterprises of that city. These are material and distinct conquests, and men of less ability achieve them in greater measure than George Hopkins. Nor is it necessary to dwell on his social life, which was pure and upright. He lived and died a bachelor, something inexplicable to those who thought they knew him well. His amiable manners, his genial companionship, his sympathetic naturewould have insured a happy domestic life. He did not lack opportunities to make a suitable match, for nature had endowed him with a manly beauty and grace of figure rather greater than she bestows upon any but her most favored ones.

I prefer to remember his sterling honesty, his quintessence of good sense, his rare judgment, and his fidelity. The honest man is the king of men; the capable man is the guide and leader. We can all join with Carlyle in his detestation of the human sham. We can all rejoice in those qualities of head and heart that make men brave and true, tender and loving, modest and forgiving.

JUDGE GEORGE P. WANTY.

George Proctor Wanty, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, died in London, England, July 9th, 1906. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 12th, 1856, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Proctor Wanty, both of whom were born in England. He completed the public school courses in 1872 and in '76 entered the law department and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878. He moved to Grand Rapids and successfully practiced his profession there, having many strong legal partnerships. In 1900 he was appointed Judge to fill the vacancy of Hon. Henry F. Severens, who was promoted Circuit Judge.

Mr. Wanty married Emma M. Nichols, June 22, 1886, and she and two children surive him. He was president of the Michigan State Bar Association in 1884. He was a consistent and helpful member of St. Mark's church.

The Colonial Club, of which he was a valued member, paid tribute to the services and memory of Judge Wanty by a memorial prepared by Bishop McCormick.,

Kent County Bar Association, presided over by Hon. William R. Day, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, met in the court room and very touching and eloquent eulogies were delivered by its members.

Mr. Bundy gave a memorial pronouncing him one of the state's best citizens, one on whom no suspicion of his honor or integrity as Judge or man ever rested.

Mr. Patton, in seconding the motion, spoke feelingly of his legal career, and manly life. In closing he quoted

He has done the work of a true man,

Crown him, honor him, love him,

Weep over him tears of women,

Stoop manliest brows above him.

Judge Montgomery extolled his legal attainments and his ideal domestic life, saying he had never known a sweeter, purer life, or one more noble and forceful.

Hon. Henry M. Campbell said the Bar of Detroit mourned with Kent county, not only a loss to the state, but a personal loss, and he could offer no greater praise than that the world was the better for his having lived.