, and were it not for the serious side of the mischief they performed, the whole affair could be viewed now as one of the most humorous and grotesque comic operas ever put on the stage in American history. The "Knights of the Golden Circle" was a secret society, first established in the United States in

of the Lincolns while in Spring- field and when the President and his family left for Washington, Dr. Wallace was one of the few who accompanied the party to the capitol. The Presi- dent later on appointed him paymaster in the Army with the rank of Major, and, he was on duty to the end of the war

HISTORY OF CEDAR GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN EAST EARL TOWNSHIP By Hon. A. G. Seyfert In the midst of the monuments and tombstones in the cemetery around the Pequea Presbyterian Church down in Salisbury Township, stands a gigantic White Oak tree. Between the church and the Session House is a Black

greatest event in the history of civilization since paganism gave place to Christianity. The; central fact of the Reformation was the detachment from the papal chair of the Protestant Nations. Out of this religious upheaval came many religious heroes. Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, Wesley, Menno Simons and

county, and died at the residence of his son-in-law, George Wallace, Esq., at Bradford, Pa., April 19, 1822. He was a brave soldier and an honest man of high character. The third paper was a history of the duel between Captain Stephen Chambers and Dr. Jacob Rieger, both Revolutionary soldiers They had a

his environments were such that he cared but little to converse with any but those who thought along the same line as he did. Current events and the World's history of the past were ever uppermost in his mind. Israel Smith Clare had a unique somewhat eccentric one-track mind. His reading and

the individual who alone can make history. In other words, the true story of a human life is more interesting and far more fascinating than the most thrilling romance. The one is history, the other fiction. The best in litera- ture is autobiography and biography, because it deals with facts relating

Lancaster County's Superintendents of Public Instruction By A. G. SEYFERT T AM not unmindful of the fact that all history is that which the human race 1has made, either in units or as a mass of units. To me there is nothing so interesting as the story of a human life, be that life great or small