Strasburg and was engaged in "mechanicai pur- suits," and it was from 1787 to 1810 that he resided there, and during that period made some clocks. In 1810 he returned to Ireland, where he inher- ited an interest in an estate, which he collected, and, in 1822, he returned to the United States and to

and annul all laws of religion and virtue, I am not very pious to be sure, but I don't think I am one of those. But if it is meant by an Abolitionist that I am one who is opposed to the institution of slavery everywhere, wherever it exists, all over the face of this earth, whether in the United States

of himself should, if he has the courage, after realizing his state, become an artisan, or an idler. He does for art far more by laying aside his tools than he will ever do for it in the imitation of others. Imitation not only spoils the general appreciation of the best in art, but, in the end, does

. If a large patronage is an indica- tion of success, then Mr. Williams was a very great success. In his native city, Philadelphia, many paintings done by him can be found; a great many in the Pennsylvania Historical Society; in Lancaster, I have found a great many which later I shall men- tion; in

September meeting of the Historical Society by Mrs. M. N. Robinson and Mr. F. R. Diffenderffer. Mrs. Robinson's paper on "John Landis, Painter," is as fol- lows: The compilation of this paper was undertaken with many misgivings. Not the least obstacle in the way was an entire ignorance regarding the man in

of whose efforts was a portrait of Gen. Simon Cameron, which has been high- ly spoken of. That, no doubt, was the place where his public career as an artist began. The eminent minia- ture painter,J. Henry Brown, was also one of Armstrong's pupils. Why he �preferred the country town to the cap- ital

Early Lancaster Artists. The following sketches were pre- pared in connection with the recent exhibition of Lancaster county por- traiture: Ferdinand Huck. Lancaster is one of the oldest in- land cities in the United States, and has naturally developed into a settle- ment of conservative family

of the greatest of modern sculptors, Antonio Canova, and he named his eldest son for him. About this period he was persuaded to construct some artificial limbs, none at this time being made in the -United States. Seeing that those im- ported from France were imperfect in the knee joint, he invented a

Jacob Eshleman Warfel, Painter. This promising artist, the son of John and Maria Warfel, was born in Paradise township, Lancaster county, on July 21, 1826. He developed a natural inclination towards art at an early age; so much so, indeed, that his youthful efforts in drawing and painting drew the

most strenuous efforts to prevent the inser- tion of the word "white" into the or- ganic law of the State as a restriction to the suffrage, but all without avail. He died, as he had lived, a true friend of freedom, and an able and worthy champion of the anti-slavery cause. Through his son, Simmons, he