Their visitation was not a success.

'Don't let 'em come here again,' he said, curtly, to his housekeeper, Mrs.Hedden, when they had departed; and added: 'They trouble me.' In pursuance of this order, when they returned to the attack, Mrs.Hedden denied them admission--saying with a good deal of piety, and with even more common-sense: 'If God does not change his mind, I'm sure no man can!'" Apropos of the two houses occupied by Paine in our city Mr.van der Weyde has pointed out most interestingly the striking and almost miraculous way in which they have just escaped destruction.

Paine's "Providence" has seemed to stand guard over the places sacred to him, just as it stood guard over his invaluable life.

A dozen times 309 Bleecker Street and 59 Grove Street have almost gone in the relentless constructive demolition of metropolitan growth and progress.

But--they have not gone yet! I have said that the Grove Street house stood in an open lot, the centre of a block at that time.