great truth take the words of the wise man and apply them to my case: Prov. 31: 10, 11, 12." That is a pas- sage that reflects infinite credit on her of whom it was written and on him who wrote it. I may add that in the Pennsylvania Freeman's Journal of September 4, 1782, only a few years after this

articles (new) of wearing apparel or household linen, or a donation of money constitutes membership in a branch. Men, wo- men or children may become members. The Lancaster Branch for the year 1907 collected fifteen hundred and eighty-three garments, a gain of sixty over last year, and distributed them as

families who have lived .in this county three or four generations who have not in some obscure and neglected corner, in box, or chest or elsewhere, a store of old papers that have been handed down for a century or more. It may be they have not been looked at for a hun- dred years. Their present owners do

, 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

when a lad had lived among the Iroquois. Every his- torical student remembers how, upon one occasion, Shekellamy, the wise and just overlord or commissioner of the Six Nations in Pennsylvania, in his old age lamented to Weiser that the latter was now old and could not expect to live many years longer

of all the men who lived and died in this city and couhty be- tween 1730 and 1825 there is hardly one who has left behind him an auto- biography, memoir or diary of the events that fell into the first hundred years of our recorded history. There is so much that we would like to know, so much of

SEEDTIME AND HARVEST More than three-quarters of a century ago, in a country school nouse, a curly-headed boy, with tremulous voice and quaking knees, appeared before an audience considerably iarger than the one before him to-night, and com- menced his address with words some of you may have heard

scenery and the beautiful and healthy country in which it is situated, eminently fits it for a delightful summer rest." The State Medical Society was the guest of the Lancaster County Medical Society, which was organized in 1844, or three years before the State So- ciety itself. Of all the medical men

total for both city and county of about 270. Not the least surprising part of all this is that for nearly one hundred years after the first printing press was established here this was largely a German community. For a time at least there seems to have been more reading done in the German language than