AN OLD TIME WORTHY Jacob Hiltzheimer was a native of Manheim, Germany. He left there when nineteen years old, and arrived in Philadelphia September 5, 1748. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, but, after he had completed his trade, he very wisely preferred horse dealing, farming and open air to

voluminous correspondence which is still care- fully preserved in the fire-proof de- partments of the Pennsylvania His- torical Society, and there are many evidences of the Italian painter sculp- tor's gratitude to Mr. Buchanan. It appears that his Lancaster friend of old times secured thirty-eight of his