troubled souls unto the paths of righteousness and bliss, they do preserve and nourish the moral and intellectual tradition of our civilization remarkably well. County historical societies simply haven't got an emotive corkscrew for drawing out funds from the public; they must depend on the rare bequest

well as banned theological and mystical groups was influential in the activity of the Cloisters. When his mystical activities became known to the bakers' guild, Beissel was cast out, condemned socially and economically. So in 1720 young Beissel sailed to the New World with fond hopes of entering the

in Harrisburg in 1827 attempted to solve the intra-party problem. The charcoal cold-blast furnaces which characterized Lan- caster County as the "Eighteenth Century Pittsburgh" continued to produce iron well into the nineteenth century despite the rising costs and increasing scarcity of forests from

19, 1873, "They [Mathiot and Gundaker] were the first and only persons who .. . sold lumber of that description . . . as early as 1800. The boards were yellow pine from Juniata and Dauphin counties." The same newspaper account describes the accidental death of John Mathiot : "Mr. Mathiot, while