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

operative until all thirteen states ratified the Articles—and that did not occur until 1 March 1781, long after Congress had left York. "Ah, but this nation was not the United States of America prior to the action of Congress in York in November 1777," say our neighbors. Using the �92 JOURNAL logic of the

be accepted regardless of quality so that the examples would be representative. (We may be certain the teachers of the students exercised some discretion in which examples to submit!) Sixteen other states mounted educational exhibits in the Main Exhibition Hall, but none approached the depth and

in the United States. Lancaster's prolific early printer, Francis Bailey, a native of Sadsbury Township, did much to keep booksellers' shelves filled with works of every variety in the eighteenth century. Two early poets were Sallie Hastings and Benjamin G. Herr of Lancaster County. Mrs. Hastings was

furnaces and the Safe Harbor rolling mill." Despite a mild depression which occurred in the United States in 1854," Lancaster County anthracite furnaces operated at 70.2 per cent of capacity in 1854, 64.8 per cent in 1855, and 79.7 per cent in 1856. The aggregate number of weeks in operation were 434 in