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

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

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

first issue, he said: "I have long wanted to see in circulation a newspaper adapted to the capacity and wants of the youth and others in the United States, free and untrammeled by the unseen scheming of designing men and parties, and opposed to war, slavery, intemperance, military honors and

, Strasburg, Pa. Since that paper was published, Mr. William B. Bishop, a prominent citizen and progressive farmer of Strasburg township, Lancaster county, applied to the War Department, through Hon. J. Roland Kinzer, Lancaster county's distinguished representative in the Congress of the United States, for a

members. They represent an experiment in organization and control of an idealized community life, which is of intense interest in the history �of America. Who the authors of these regulations were, we know not; but we can surmise that the practical mind of Spangenberg played an important part in their