t Thomas Paine is no more. This
distinguished philanthropist, whose life was devoted to the
cause of humanity, departed this life yesterday morning; and,
if any man's memory deserves a place in the breast of a
freeman, it is that of the deceased, for,

_"'Take him for all in all,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again.'"_

The funeral party consisted of Hicks, Mme. de Bonneville and two
negroes, who loyally walked twenty-two miles to New Rochelle to see
the last of the man who had always defended and pleaded for the rights
of their pitifully misunderstood and ill-treated race.

To the end he was active for public service. His actual last act was
to pen a letter to the Federal faction, conveying a warning as to the
then unsettled situation in American and French commerce. Just before
he had made his will.

It is in itself a composition worth copying and preserving. Paine
could not even execute a legal document without putting into it
something of the beauty of spirit and distinction of phrase for which
he was remarkable. He had not much to leave, since he had given all to
his country and his country had forgotten him in making up the
balance; but what he had went to Mme. de Bonneville, for her children,
that she,--let me quote his own words, "... might bring them well up,
give them good and useful learning and instruct them in their duty to
God and the practice of morality."

It continues thus:

"I herewith take my final leave of them and the world. I
have lived an honest and useful life to mankind; my time has
been spent in doing good and I die in perfect composure and
resignation to the will of my Creator God."

Such was the last will and testament of "Tom Paine, Infidel."

CHAPTER VI

_Pages of Romance_

In the resolute spirit of another Andor Andorra, the Village
of Greenwich maintains its independence in the very midst of
the city of New York--submitting to no more of a compromise
in the matter of its autonomy than is evolved in the
Procrustean sort of splicing which has hitched fast the
extremities of its tangled streets to the most readily
available streets in the City Plan. The flippant
carelessness with which this apparent union has been
effected only serves to emphasise the actual separation. In
almost every case these ill-advised couplings are productive
of anomalous disorder, which in the c