volumes, from which the children each Sabbath are furnished with a book. The school now numbers 216 scholars and 28 teachers; and from the efficiency of and the great interest manifested by the teachers, it is to be presumed that the number of scholars and the prosperity of the school will not

grove south of Landisville. John C. Landis and a few others, how- ever, did not take much interest in those transient exhorters from other parts. John C. Landis, Jacob H. Hershey, George Dingler, Henry Eshleman, Jacob H. Smaling, Jacob Minnich and S. D. Druken- brod were among some of the early

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

profane cursing and swearing and many other enormities—which most of the inhabitants witnessed with great pain, we wish and purpose to use our endeavors to prevent. We presume this inti- mation will be sufficient to prevent persons of character from assembling in this place in future, for the above

Quixote, the famous hero created by Cervantes, in his make-up, and failed in his high endeavors at reform because he, like Quixote, did not learn the lesson that often men accept great truths but slowly. It is easier at times to lead than to drive them. WOODROW WILSON IN LANCASTER By WILLIAM