dismiss our Terrors, as he was himsels from Lancaster county, and would shed the last drop of his heart's Blood, to procure a proper Respect for every Individual srom that place. This gracious Assurance did not, however, very much tend to dissipate our Alarm: until the Gentleman, in a voice which made the

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

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

great historic value, not only from the names appended to it, and from the �eminence of the one to whom it was addressed, but by reason of its subject matter. The reverend gentlemen wrote: A Clerical Protest. "Lancaster, the 8th Day of Feb'r. 1778. "Sir: "We are much obliged to you for the Honor you

standard type very soon became known throughout the colo- nies as 'the Lancaster rifle,' and, prior to the conquest of Canada, its manufacture was practically monopo- lized by the town from which it took its name. After 1760 makers who had learned the art at Lancaster branched out for themselves and set up

pleasure boats, "with cabins for ladies and gentlemen, dining room, bar and pantry," were moving up and down the stream, and cargoes were clearing daily srom the port of Lancaster for Baltimore and other distant seaports, carrying flour, corn, whiskey, pork and like native products, while incoming arks

Lancaster Lodge. Just what "bad eminence" he occu- pied does not appear of record— though the Know Nothing records were most distinguished for what they did not record. It seems that his father-in-law, the late Hon. Chris- tian Kieffer, who had been already Mayor of Lancaster, 1852-54, was ir- regularly

resigned his Judgeship to become Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, which he also resigned, and in 1821 settled down to the prac- tice of law in Lancaster. In 1817 he declined the portfolio of the War De- partment in President Monroe's Cabi- net. In 1832 he was the candidate of the Anti-Masonic party for