already erected on part of the lots, a two- story brick building,—the same building as now stands here,—which in- cluded the building now owned by Dr. Theodore B. Appel, except the brick wing later built on the south side of the Appel property, the building of The Lancaster County Historical Society, and

country in the world where gambling, on an extensive scale and for big stakes, is so general, wide-spread and universal as it is in the United States. There is a good reason for the prevalence of this strong gambling in- stinct among the American people. The very emigration of the first set- tlers was a

, Roman Catholic, Lutherans and Reformed. Espe- cially after the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648, ended the long re- ligious war, known as the Thirty Years War, the persecution was of a milder and more humane form. Mennonites and Pietists were no longer burned, hanged, drowned or beheaded. But they were