in his chosen path, but when the times and the occasion demanded it lent their services to the public weal and it is through official letters and public documents that most of what we know concerning them has reached us. Blot out, in your imagination, all the Court House records, all the offi- �cial

�own affairs, it put it out of my power to give that attention, which I thought it my duty to do, until the month of February last, when I went to Phila- delphia, and attended a number of meetings of the Board of Managers, at their office, until the 12th day of March, on which day it was unani- mously

preservation of their liberties; "Resolved , That any person holding an office under the United States, who shall act, promote, encourage, or at- tend such play, shall be deemed un- worthy to hold such office, and shall be accordingly dismissed." (See Journal of Congress.) it is possible that the great expense

origin far back in the annals of Great Britain. We know the Lancas- ter Plantagenets adopted a red rose as their symbol and the York branch a white one. If access could be had to old English deeds of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it is possible the red rose would be found even at that remote

Revolution, the Quakers had from the beginning been in control of the Government. By birth and educa- tion they were loyalists. Their fealty was first, of course, to the State and then to the parent country under �which they had for nearly a century been prosperous and contented. lt is true, they were almost

opinions. Briefly stated, it was as follows: "That the method of choice should be through electors specially chosen for that purpose in such a manner as the State Legislatures might direct, as many in each State as there were fed- eral Senators and Representatives; these eiectors to meet in their respec