judge was inclined to look the other way, and in his own way, contributed to the immorality of our fair city. Even �110 JOURNAL prostitution, which the Law and Order Society had realized significant success in eliminating, now was connected with a mob, and instead of Lancaster's own fallen women, whole

present time; and two vols. of "The Normal Monthly," edited by the principal. 8. Copies of Wickersham's "School Economy" and "Methods of Instruction;" Brooks's "Outlines of Professional Training," "Mathematical Works," fourteen volumes; Westlake's "3000 Practice Words," and "How to Write Letters;" Lyte's

popular works in the early inventory. Lancaster wit and humor surely was tickled by reading Jean Baptiste Morvan de Belle-Garde's Reflections Upon Ridicule, or, What it is That Makes a Man Ridiculous and the Means to Avoid it. This rib-tickler was published in London in 1706, and was stocked on Mr. On's

-manufacturing and war-provisioning activities should have been a target of the invaders, but the British made no move towards Lancaster. The state government felt safe in Lancaster and remained there throughout the British occupation of Philadelphia. (From 1799 to 1812 the state government made Lancaster its