Excerpt from A Tribute to Thomas Starr King "To-day is the fourth of March: sad news will go over the wires to-day." Thus spoke Thomas Starr King, at San Francisco, at about eight o'clock in the morning; and, a few minutes later, he was dead. As the intelligence spread through the city, there was sorrow on all faces. Unusual stillness was in the marts of trade. Public business was suspended. The courts and the Legislature were adjourned. The national flag was everywhere set at half-mast. The city was in mourning. "A Christian minister," - it was said from the bench, - "a Christian patriot, has fallen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.