Liberty and the second war sustained it for all time. The famous muzzle-loading flintlock Long Rifle, made by Jacob Dickert in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the early days figures again in the "Story of the Alamo," published recently by a magazine. This rifle, bearing the name of J. Dickert "fired its last

, 120 by 120 feet;° "Deeded by Andrew Hamilton May 16 1730 for the keeping, erecting and holding a market within the Town of Lancaster." On the southeastern end of the "Market Square" was built, between 1795 and 1797 the "Public Office House," which from 1799 to 1812 was the State House of Pennsylvania

enclosed with a strong stockade. The officers were "paroled" and lived in rented quarters among the townspeople. Close to the barracks was the stone tavern known as the "Cat", where General Moses Hazen, commandant of the prison guards maintained his headquarters.2 �From where did these prisoners come? On

the purpose of spinning kniting sewing &c they being a very Industrious People and withal very neat and Cleanly, they re- ceive great encouragement from the neighbors who bring them work and Likewise the Necessarys of Life. We then bid adieu and came away without seeing the brothers, who live within

Lancaster County who abandoned his religion and joined the Ephrata Cloister. As "Brother Jabez," Miller led the commune from the death of its founder, Conrad Beissel, in 1768, until his own death in 1796. As pacifists, the Ephrata anabaptists would not cooperate with the war, but they found the pressing

remember it, as being a two-story frame structure, with a high, peaked roof. A great stone door step at its entrance on the north, a town pump on the edge of its sidewalk, and a conspicuous board—pendant from a cross arm, and bearing the sign of the anchor were notable features of this historic hostelry

the scheme of independence ; and there were many more like him. On October 16, 1775, while the Congress of the Colonies was sitting in Philadelphia, sluggish and irresolute, hardly knowing its own mind, the newly elected Legislature of Pennsylvania was organized. Chosen under a dread of independence

before the commencement of hostilities, I know not ; but before that, I �never heard a whisper of a disposition to separate from Great Britain ; and, after that, its possibility was contemplated with affliction by all." Mr. Madi- son may also be quoted : " It has always been my impression that a re-estab

Wilson and his achievements. Three of these high school texts are among the most widely used texts in the United States." One contains no mention whatever of Wilson, 49 a second simply lists him as a signer of the Constitution from Pennsylvania," while the third merely states that he was 45 years of age

but a plain man who did his duty and did it without ques- tion. One of the many who when Congress had changed a name which read "United Colonies" to the "United States of America" helped by his unselfish- ness to make a possibility a certainty. When General Washington changed his headquarters in April