of Charles Dickens, that an American would not accept a place in Heaven unless he was allowed to move West. Their posterity inherited tile habit and followed the course of empire. Few of their descendants are found here to-day; while the South and West are rich in good citizens, splendid men, noble

dealing with the subject in a paper of reasonable length. there- fore,decided to take up but a single one of these men, and have chosen one who was born in this county, and whose ca- reer was perhaps as notable as that of any other. He was not a politician, like Joseph Galloway, who is, perhaps, the best

with the mother country for independence. In fact, the story of the Loyalists at the beginning of that struggle, during its continuance and after its close marks one of the most painful, pathetic and pitiable episodes in our history, one that should be bet- ter known than it is by most persons. Not

course, we cannot com- pare in this particular with the great cities like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. We are a rural population, only one-fourth of our inhabitants re- siding in this city, and this makes our record all the more remarkable. Few �of us ever dwell on this matter, al- though the

of civilize. tion in pursuit of this desirable trade. For a time the Indians themselves carried their peltries to Philadelphia, but after a while, not willing to await their arrival there, men in the fur trade began to take out licenses to pursue the business in the interior, and soon the frontier

indicated that of Colonel Nicholas Houssacker, who, after first serving as the Colonel of a Lancaster county regiment, went over to the British at the battle of Trenton, carrying about a score of his men with him. Since then some facts have come into his possession concerning Colonel Houssacker, and these

articles (new) of wearing apparel or household linen, or a donation of money constitutes membership in a branch. Men, wo- men or children may become members. The Lancaster Branch for the year 1907 collected fifteen hundred and eighty-three garments, a gain of sixty over last year, and distributed them as

mentioned. Some account of these during the "town existence of Lancaster," that is, between 1730 and 1742, or even between the last-men- tioned date and the year 1800, would now be most welcome. Doubtless none such were accessible to the writer of the paragraph just quoted, and we are not even told upon