difficult to find even a single great work in any one of the thousands of homes in this city and county which have the char- acteristics of culture, taste and refine- ment. This is somewhat due to the fact that wealth has never centered here; and no pre-eminent artist has ever sprung from or been nurtured

Columbia. That was a most laudable, but un- successful, attempt to divert from Baltimore to Philadelphia, across this county, the river trade descending the Susquehanna, April 7, 1826 (P. L. 216), the Columbia, Lancaster and Phila- delphia Railroad Company was char- tered with $650,000 of capital, and the

Tour Through the Northeastern Section of Lancaster County. Continuously since 1882, inclusive, W. U. Hensel has organized and participated in annual, and some years semi-annual, drives over Lancaster county, the party often comprising strangers, who in this novel way have a much more deliberate

by a brief tale of one "twig' of the order in Lancaster. Their de- scendants can afford to regard their attitude from an almost jocular point of view. Chance opened to me the other day the locked and dust-covered minutes of "Lodge 42," of the Know Nothing or Native American Society of the old North