Chairman Har- rity and many other outsiders in this way have been introduced to, and have been made to especially feel, the beauties and resources of Lancaster county. But to a New Era reporter Mr. Hen- sel admitted the other day he had never joined so thoroughly apprecia- tive and intelligent a company

Commonwealths. In journeying hither from Maryland Whitman Marshe's way led through Quaker settlements in Chester county, but he soon joined the Commissioners of his State and journeyed hither, maybe by the Buck, the Valley and Willow Street to Lancaster. That the traveler of that time fared scarcely less

Alexanders of Prince- ton. One of Smith's pupils, John Mc- Millen, became the apostle of Presby- terianism in Western Pennsylvania, founded Jefferson College, and, from a log cabin in Washington county,sent more young men into the ministry than any other individual on the con- tinent before the days of

ter- ritory covered in the plan os the so- ciety. Lancaster county as now bounded stretches from the Octoraro on the southeast to the Conewago on the northwest; from the Brecknock sorest on the northeast to the slate hills of Peach Bottom on the Southwest. With- in these boundaries there have been

may have seemed to the other an ordinary affair to "trip it" "on the light fantastic toe," while momentous things were depending on "the wager of battle," a large portion, if not a majority, of the people of Lancaster had no heart in merry-making, when their fellow-countrymen were engaged in a deadly