Raymond : -- I take pleasure in- handing herewith my cheque for fifty dollars, towards the Monument to the Soldiers of the Revolutionary War from Philipse Manor, to be erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery'.

Although the family whose patronymic I so unworthily bear, was one of great pruminence in the Colonial history of Massachusetts, and adoined the pulpit, the bench and the bar with its members, I cannot find that they were particularly prominent in seeking the bubble reputation even at the cannon's mouth. They split into fragments, 00, after the eventful Tea Party, and large delegations returned to Quebec and to Eng-

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land, disgusted with the turn affairs had taken, Rut they did yoemen's service in the building of New England, listened to and preached their full quota of long sermons and burned as many witches as came before them in the line of their duty.

Neither am I any more fortunate in Revolutionary connections in the other line of descent, for my maternal grandfather " Served King George at Lexington, a Captain of Dragoons.''

But the cause is a sacred one, and the memory of the men who fought for the liberty we now enjoy, deserves to be kept alive in stone, and celebrated in monumental brass. Philipse Manor was a spot where men had to show their true colors, and, although it was part of the neutral ground there was no neutral tint in the patriotism of its freemen. Here's to them, then !

Their swords are rust.