THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to

A WITHERED TWIG Dark Lantern Glimpses Into the Op- eration of Known Nothingism in Lancaster Sixty Years Ago. The following article was prepared by the late W. U. Hensel, Esq., and read before the Society on Feb- ruary 5, 1915: In these hysterical days, when emo- tionalism seems to be threatening

life in Lancaster, suggested by the passing of one of the most notable landmarks of house- hold life in our fair town. Notwithstanding the stability or Lancaster's population and the per- sistence in its citizenship of many families who have been of it for generations, there is a notable ab- sence of