first issue, he said: "I have long wanted to see in circulation a newspaper adapted to the capacity and wants of the youth and others in the United States, free and untrammeled by the unseen scheming of designing men and parties, and opposed to war, slavery, intemperance, military honors and

slab was placed here 137 years ago bearing this inscription: "In perpetuation of the memory of Thomas Mifflin, Major General of the Revolutionary Army of the United States, and late Governor of the State of Pennsylvania. A distinguished Patriot and Zealous Friend of Liberty. Died January 19, 1800

, Strasburg, Pa. Since that paper was published, Mr. William B. Bishop, a prominent citizen and progressive farmer of Strasburg township, Lancaster county, applied to the War Department, through Hon. J. Roland Kinzer, Lancaster county's distinguished representative in the Congress of the United States, for a