fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

affairs. As a member of the Council of Nine Men he was the writer and probably the author of a letter of the Council to the States General (July 26th, 1649) complaining against the misgovernment of Stuyvesant. In business Herrman engaged in extensive transactions between the colonies and adja- cent

were first made in the Dutch or German countries on the continent and were simultaneously developed on both sides of the chan- nel to their present perfected mechanism. The "long case clock," as they were called, first made its appearance about 1732, and they were looked upon as a great improvement

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

the United States. This lot was sent to St. Louis for the Indian trade. This order brought many others, for the rifles were found to be of such excellent quality that their fame soon spread, and orders began to pour in from almost every state and territory in the Union, especially from those of the

throughout the states,—the turf being removed and the ground made as level as possible. After the Revolutionary War, the importation of thoroughbred horses from England became quite common, and selections were made from the best stock in the United Kingdom. This continued and even increased as late as 1840

estab- lished as unities of compact economic interests. In the former, the "Pilgrim Congregation," the members were missionaries or in training for mission service; or were laboring for the support of those in active work among the Indians and the Negro slaves in the West Indies and Surinam. Nazareth