desirable patronage was not forthcoming. That he did this lower class of work well may be taken for granted, but we have also strong testimony to the tact. In an appreciative, but all too meagre, biographical sketch of him in Harris' Biographical History of Lan- caster County we find the following, which is

Gilmary Shea. Charles A. Hanna, Win- ser's Narrative and Critical History of America, and especially in Mr. Will- shire Butterfield's sketch of Brulé's explorations may be consulted. Of the French and Champlain it has been truly said: "Long before the ice-coated plains of Plymouth listened to the rugged

promise, and those best qualified to estimate his abilities felt assured that in time his name would stand high in the role of our native artists. His progress in his chosen profes- sion was both rapid and steady, and the prospect of reaching a lasting place among Pennsylvania artists un- usually

in 1782.9 Gouverneur Morris thought it was doubtful whether more than one half the people of New York " were even in really 5 Lecky's History of England in. Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3, p. 479. 6 Flick's Loyalists in N. Y., p. 150. 7 Works of John Adams, Vol. 10, pp. 63-110. 8 Works of John Adams, Vol

dollars. The total loss to the Loyalists was no doubt fully double ; including all kinds of property, the amount was estimated at $3,600,000. 2 Lee's History of the War in the South. 3 Flick's Loyalism in New York, pp. 121-122. �One result followed this confiscation of lands that was beneficial to the

OUR EARLY CURRENCY AND ITS VALUE The scarcity of a sufflcient circulat- ing medium to meet the needs of trade and the actual necessities of existing conditions through war or otherwise have been the two main reasons why so many civilized countries have at various times resorted to the issue of

, and to the magnificent domain of hill and ver- dant valley drained by it. Still later to the fine breed of draught horses bred in the valley, and ultimately also to the large and commodious wagons built here for more than a century for commercial uses at home and distant points. The Conestoga. The

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