ant district attorney of Kings county, and he discharged with intelligence and fidelity and great expedition, the duties of that office, in addition to his share in the private business of the firm of Morris & Pearsall. During the period last indicated, Mr. Pearsall has appeared in the Fanny-Hyde-Watson and the IrishAnderson murder cases, and in other almost as celebrated civil and criminal issues. In the cases enumerated, the sides represented by Mr. Pearsall have been successful in the final result attained by the trial of the causes. In the case of Tilton v. Beecher, Mr. Pearsall for the plaintiff has been intrusted with much of the preparation of the evidence, and with part of the preparation and arrangement of the authorities relied on by the plaintiff's counsel in the many weighty law questions affecting the litigation. That he has discharged this onerous and not publicly-apparent duty with great research and with exhaustive skill, his professional associates and opponents have abundantly attested by their labors upon the subject, and their elaborate and prolonged development in the public trial of the case.

Mr. Pearsall is of medium height, compact build, and unaffected bearing; and both as a counsel and an advocate he has won great respect and a strong position, alike with his profession and with the public.

A. H. S.

THEODORE TILTON.

THE Tiltons are an old West of England family-large limbed and fullblooded; the sort of men who made Queen Elizabeth's yeomanry the strongest broad-sworders in Europe. In the year 1250 there was a progenitor of the race who built a stone church, which exists to this day. From him there has lately been traced an unbroken line of Tiltons, all of the earlier sort. Every one of them seems to have been nourished and thriven on a strong, simple, and conscience-making spiritual diet. They were churchmen of the state establishment and also, oddly enough, conservatives.

One might have expected to find the name here and there on the muster-roll of the Ironsides. But none of them fought under Cromwell. Their sword-arms smote for God and King Charles, and when the Revolution submerged their country, they were washed out of sight, for awhile, like tree-tops by a flood.

When the Restoration brought loyalty out of its hiding-places, the Tiltons came out likewise, but Charles the Second had a short memory, and among the many sacrifices which had no compensation, was theirs.

Shortly after the "May Flower" spread her white wings westward for a second time, the Tiltons prepared sadly for emigration, and in the very daybreak of the colonial period, some of them took passage for the unexplored forests of America. Two families of the parent stock made settlement in New England. A third fluttered for awhile like Noah's embassador, and at last found a refuge in New Jersey.

In the travail of revolution, the New England Tiltons stood manfully by the infant republic, the New Jersey Tiltons just as manfully by the mother country But when American Independence had been accomplished, the children of the Protestant Tiltons were numbered with its most faithful upholders.

Born in Monmouth, New Jersey, was Silas Tilton, the father of Theodore, For wife he took Eusebia Tilton, who stood in no relation to him though by coincidence her name was identical with his own. These parents are living today. The father is a large, grave, magisterial character, such as in early settle. ments would have controlled his neighbors. He is sober and reverend as a Puritan, rich in all the endowments of a practical religious faith, apostolic in his dignity, and severely plain as one of the forefathers of this American people. The mother is of a like physical and spiritual conformation. Her face is the face of George Washington over again, beaming with a glow of piety and wear