placed in the belfry. The payment for the above items seem large, and 1 i� the explanation no doubt is that the money used was the depreciated currency of the period. ; • • I No lengthy description seems to be required, as the building speaks for itself. It was also known as the I f State House, because

were largely loaded with the same products. The conviction is in- evitable that our patriot fathers were �by no means averse to a social glass— or more. On April 24, 1774, the first express arrived with a report of the fight at Lexington. From that time the diary becomes a chronicle of war news and war

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

daily was issued in this city and what was its name? If there is a tingle one who believes ho can answer these questions it is not 16 to 1 but 1,000 to 1 that he will say the paper was the Inland Daily and the date of first publication, 1853. Until a few days ago 1 would have said the same thing

, and trusted that " generous attention would be shown to them." An act was passed creat- ing a Board of Commissioners to examine and pass upon the claims of all such persons ; they were also directed that in case any of these persons claimed greater amounts than they had lost, they were to receive no

the southern colonies, adhered generally to the Tory side." " The Episcopal clergy throughout the colonies leaned, with very few exceptions, to the support of the crown ; and in the middle and northern provinces, their flocks were chiefly of the same way of thinking."2 " A large number of the

OUR EARLY CURRENCY AND ITS VALUE The scarcity of a sufflcient circulat- ing medium to meet the needs of trade and the actual necessities of existing conditions through war or otherwise have been the two main reasons why so many civilized countries have at various times resorted to the issue of

, ran over into the ncxt year, and closed in June. The title page of an early volume had two dates, such as 1899-1900, 1904-1905. In the last mentioned year the Secretary directed attention to this irregularity and suggested that the 1905 volume should be continued till the next January, and a new start

miles, draining a territory 315 square miles in area, and zigzags around the southeastern boundaries of this city in a way that makes it an unending pleasure to all who are thoroughly acquainted with its un- ¹Burns' "Address to William Sim- son," �numbered attractions. During the past fifty years it has

�were directed to invest their share in the proceeds continuously, until the amount "shall in the whole amount to a principal sum not less than $1,000; and thereafter the interest and in- comes of such principal sum, or so much thereof as the Trustees at the time being, or a majority of them, may think