, "whose influence has carried on through the years in the splendid public school system we now have in Pennsylvania and the fine old coloniaI College of Franklin and Marshall." Dr. Schaeffer related how Rev. Mel- sheimer personally raised funds for the school building, which was erected on a plot of

The Memorial Marker to General John Augustus Sutter By M. LUTHER HEISEY Not the magnet of gold—but respect for the character of the man that gold, rather the discovery of gold, ruined—General John Augustus Sutter— drew hundreds to the staid, quiet old town of Lititz, Pennsylvania, for the occasion

Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during