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built for that trip, alone, and seldom made use of 

 afterward, except for short distances, here and there. 

 The Christian Science Monitor, of Boston, recently 

 told the story, as follows : 



Marie Paul Jean Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, the 

 Marquis de Lafayette, paid three visits to America, 

 the hrst in 1777, the second in 1784, and the third in 

 1824. Thus, nearly half a century intervened between 

 the times of his first and last arrival. Great changes 

 had taken place in the interval of forty-seven years. 

 George Washington, his almost idolized commoner 

 was no longer here to welcome him. Adams, Jeffer- 

 son and INIadison, who had been numbered among his 

 intimates in the old days, had each in turn, served m 

 the chief magistracy of the young republic which he 

 had helped to found. The war of 1812 had become 

 merely an unpleasant memory. The great disturbing 

 human factor of the period had at length been quieted 

 on the fone island of St. Helena. 



France was in a stage of transition ; the revolution 

 of 1830 was six years off. James Monroe, who was 

 in the battle of Brandywine with Lafayette, was now 

 President of the LTnited States. The area of the na- 

 tion had been broadened by the acquisition of Louisi- 

 ana and of other territory. The number of the states 

 had nearly doubled since the Revolution. Settlements 

 and villages were dotting those parts of the country 

 that were unpeopled when Lafayette was a young 

 man ; hamlets had become towns : towns had become 

 cities : cities had grown to amazing proportions ; Wash- 



