Theodosius Bartow, rector of New Rochelle, at her father's house in Pelham, to Captain James Hague, commander of a ship iu the Kast India trade, lived happily, the life of her family circle, until nearly ' fourecore years ' of age ; and then, after fourteen yeans of widowhood, died at the house of her only daughter, Mrs. Dr. Alexander \V. Rogers, Patterson, New Jei-sey, amid the benedictions of her children, who, in accordance with the old scripture's voicing of filial love, 'rise up ami call her blesseil.'

"The contrasted issues of two lives thus realized by two friends of Huguenot descent imparts significance to a saying noted at Paris in a

' Dr. Miuson's physique, his figure ar.d manner, were majestic and comnianiliiig. On one occasion, after listeiiingto him at New Rochelle, Hon. .lohn Hunter said to my mother, "That man was born to command, not tu pei'suade ; he has mistaken his calling ; he ought to have been a major-general in the United States Army."

tourist's journal, that the trend of the French nature is toward intellectual freedom, and that where there is Freui h blood it will lussert itself in individuality of character, tempered and toned by inherited tastes and manners into social and civil concord. The fortunes of Pelham anil New Rochelle illustrate this view. In this connection it seems a noteworthy fact that the English monarch who gave to Pelham its first manorial charter, was himself the sole, solf-deteniiined donor of the charter of Rhode Island to Roger Williams, openly declaring the reason of his action to bo his sovereign will to ' experiment whether civil government could consist with such liberty of conscience.' It may seem strange that a notably careles,s, pleasure-loving king, like Charles II., should rise to the height of the grandly exceptional opportunity presented to him as a means of solving a great problem for the world through all time.