"I am asked to discourse on the subject, 'Why do I swing on the gate on Sunday morning?" I will divide the discourse into three heads. First,"

Then, with a twinkle in his eye, he suddenly changed from gay to grave, and said:

"I will tell you. When I first saw my wife she was swinging on a gate, Sunday morning The next time I saw her she was swinging on one side of a gate and I was swinging on the other; and next time we were swinging on the same side; all on Sunday morning."

(Phillips' love and devoted care for his invalid wife was well known She used to say he was her husband, mother and everything else to her).

Pointing to the inside of the gate, he said to Mr. Conwell: "All inside it is Paradise, all outside, Purgatory" His home life, like that of Longfellow and Browning, was ideally happy.

Mr. Conwell also told how Dr. Smith came to write "America." The story has been often told, but not correctly. As we are now singing this favorite hymn so often it seems well to tell the story as its author told it to Mr. Conwell:

When Smith was an Andover student, Lowell Mason brought from Europe a lot of new music, and sent to young Smith the tune to which "America" is now sung, and suggested that he write a hymn for it. One day when Smith (whose home then was on Salem street, in the "North End" of Boston) was going to carry a basket of food to a poor family, the inspiration came to him, and sitting down on the steps of the house, he wrote:

"My Country, tis of Thee,"

on the brown paper wrapping of a parcel of meat. It was a flash of genius.

He sent it to Mason, and it was first sung at a Sunday-School celebration at Park Street Church, Boston, July 4, 1832. It soon became popular and has since remained so.

Transcript, BOSTON

E. F. MERRIAM

I

NEW JERSEY COUNTY NAMES

N a colony growing as New Jersey did, by extension of early primary settlements, the chronological order, or order of settlement of the county tracts, is the natural and significant order of arrangement; this colony has also the peculiarities arising from two different kinds of political units, arising from its division between Carteret and Berkeley, into East and West Jersey; the former, settled mainly by New Englanders, having the town as the political unit; the latter begun by Quakers, making the county the political unit, after the manner of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland; the present towns arising from the old constabularies (or constables' districts) where courts of the county were held. An act to establish four counties in East Jersey was passed Nov. 13, 1675, shortly before the division of the colony, 1676; but they were merely projected, the boundaries not being laid out until much later. The act was passed as authority to divide East Jersey into four counties, and they were established by act of Assembly convened March 1, 1682-3, O. S.

Bergen county, origin and name being from Bergen village, now a part of Jersey City, and in Hudson County. A short stay in this vicinity was made by Dutch traders in 1617, and an unsuccessful attempt at settlement was made by Michael Pauw 1630-1634 at Pavonia. A patent was granted by Stuyvesant in 1658 to certain Dutch the patentees giving their tract the name Bergen from Bergen-op-Zoom Holland; yet there was little of white settlement in 1664 when Gov. Nicolls, superseding the Dutch government, gave his patent of “Albania", covering the tract west of Achter Coll (i. e. "Back Bay") now Newark Bay, to families from Jamaica, L. I. One of the four counties established by act of the Assembly of March 1, 1683; (O. S. 1682-3.)

Monmouth county, begun at Shrewsbury, which included several of the present towns, in 1664, by Connecticut people arriving by way of Long Island; the county established by Assembly of March 1, 1683, and named from Monmouth county in the west of England; the boundaries were fixed Jan. 21, 1710 and March 15, 1714. It was the "Monmouth purchase" from the Indians.

Essex county, begun at Elizabethtown in August, 1665 and Newark in 1666; the county established March 1, 1683; the boundaries defined

by act of Jan. 21, 1710, but modified Nov. 4, 1741. Named from Essex county, England.

Middlesex county included part of the Elizabeth purchase from the Indians, and was settled at Woodbridge by Carteret's company, 1665, and at (New) Piscataway by settlers from Piscataqua, Maine County established March 1, 1683; named from Middlesex county, England and the boundaries settled 1710-1790.

Salem county settlement began at (New) Salem, 1675, by John Fenwick, bringing Quaker immigrants, by the first English ship which came to West Jersey, and named from the Bible Salem, "for it seemed the dwelling-place of peace": it was near the site of the old Swedish fort Elfsborg. The county was given court jurisdiction in 1694; and the boundaries were determined in 1710.

Burlington county began with the arrival in August, 1677 of two hundred and thirty Friends from Yorkshire and Lancashire, who called their settlement at first New Beverly, then Bridlington, from Bridlington in Yorkshire, and later, like its parent town, varied to Burlington. It was incorporated in 1693, but its bounds first mentioned in 1694, and completed in 1710. The tract was bought from the Indians Sept. 10 and Sept. 27, 1677, before settlement.

Gloucester county began at Woodbury, settled by Richard Wood of Lancashire in 1684; the name is from Gloucestershire, England. Woolwich township is the site of the Swedish settlement of 1642.

Somerset county was set off from Middlesex by act of May, 1688 and named from Somersetshire, England.

Cape May county, settled largely from Long Island shortly before and during 1691; incorporated in November 1692, and named from its southern cape; and that from the New Netherland Captain Cornelis J. Mey, who explored the vicinity in 1624. Bounds settled in 1710.

Hunterdon county, set off from Burlington by act of March 13, 1714, and named from Robert Hunter, Governor of New York and New Jersey 1710-1719.

Morris county, set off from Hunterdon by act of March 15, 1739 and named from Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jersey 1738-1746.

Cumberland county, set off from Salem by act of Jan. 19, 1748; named from Prince William, who was also Duke of Cumberland.

Sussex county, taken from Morris by act of June 8, 1753; named from Sussex county, England.

Warren county, taken from Sussex by act of Nov. 20, 1824; named frim Gen. Joseph Warren.

Passaic county, taken from Bergen and Essex counties Feb. 7, 1837; named from Passaic river.

Atlantic county, from Gloucester, 1837; named from the Atlantic ocean, its eastern boundary.

Mercer county, Feb. 11, 1838 from Burlington, Hunterdon, and Middlesex; named from Gen. Hugh Mercer.

Hudson county, Feb. 22, 1840 from the southern part of Bergen; named from Hudson river.

Camden county, taken in 1844 from the northeast part of Gloucester named from Camden village, then in Newton township, when founded 1773; that from the Earl of Camden, C. Pratt.

Ocean county, taken in 1850 from the southern part of Monmouth named from its ocean boundary; all originally in Shrewsbury tract.

Union county, taken 1857 from the southern part of Essex and Bergen; named from the town of Union, or "Connecticut Farms" settled from Connecticut in 1667.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

JOEL N. ENO

NOTES BY THE WAY

SCRAPBOOK WORTH $20,000

What is probably the most valuable-and certainly the most interesting-scrapbook in the United States is a large volume owned by the Government and kept by Major Albert R. Quaiffe, who has charge of the safe at the Treasury Department in Washington.

Shortly after he took charge of the big vaults where the Treasury Department stores the money that it pays out every day over its counter, Major Quaiffe conceived the idea of starting a scrapbook that would serve a double purpose—as a record of the various issues of paper money authorized by the Government and as a means of identification of old

notes.

On a number of occasions the book has been of great service in detecting counterfeits of old issues or in identifying bills with which banks were not familiar. It would probably be hard to cash some of the paper money in this scrapbook at the present day, for many of the older bills are queer looking. There is a $100 gold certificate, dated Jan. 2, 1877, that is engraved on one side only.

The value of the book is constantly increasing, for, in addition to the bills that are added to the collection from time to time, the old notes become more valuable.

We referred this clipping to Major Quaiffe, who replied:

Dear Sir:

"The so-called "Scrap-Books" consist of three large books with leaves made of double sheets of celluloid, (to show face and back,) between which are placed United States notes ("greenbacks"), gold certificates, silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes, National Bank notes and several varieties of interest-bearing notes: (in all some three hundred kinds:) some of them issued in the sixties, during the Civil War. They range in value from one dollr to one thousand dollars each, and aggregate at the present time, over twenty-one thousand dollars, face value. Many of these notes have long been out of circulation, and are no longer printed, consequently they are unfamiliar to even money experts.