, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

parents; but the counties of Lancaster, Lebanon, Dau- phin, York, Cumberland and Berks, which contain more than 700,000 people, are probably over half Penn- sylvania Dutch; half a million would be a low estimate for the total num- ber of these people within the State of Pennsylvania alone.' Very Much

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

, lath mill, miller's house and fifteen acres and sixteen perches of land, in two tracts, were bought at Lock No. 3 of the Conestoga Navigation Company. lt also included the surplus water power of the Cones- toga river at that point, beyond what was needed for the canal and the mills. The sum paid for

. LANCASTER,June 5, 1787. TO THE GERM AN PUBLIC. FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN. A German newspaper, the third to be published in Pennsylvania, would seem to �be somewhat superfluous, and the pub- lishers of the two others might complain especially, and not without reason, be- cause of the trifling price, as thereby

the owners and made payment for the lands they had taken without first se- curing right and title by purchase." (12) "Proud's "History of Pennsylvania," vol. 2. p. 128. "The following is a copy of the cir- cular alluded to above: "Philadelphia, 20th of the 6th Month, 1730. "WHEREAS divers PERSONS have

in English. In fact, the Dunkers (German) were the first people in Pennsylvania who availed themselves of the art preservative. Not only was the first newspaper printed in Lancas- ter, of which a cut is reproduced at the head of this article, printed both in the German and English languages, but at

Between Martin Bowman and Elizabeth his wife of the Town- ship of Lebanon in the County of Lan- caster and Province of Pennsylvania, of the one part and Abraham Miller of Lebanon Township county and prov- ince aforesaid of the other part— Whereas William Penn formerly of London and then of Dublin, Esquire