unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to

It was not until 1850 that Millard Fillmore, then President of the United States, had the first bathtub installed in the White House. It was made in Philadelphia, of thin cast iron. It is interesting to note that nine years before Adam Thomp- son introduced the first bathtub into this country

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

of nearly two months in Havana, Humboldt sailed on April 29th for the United States, accompanied by two friends, — Bonpland and Carlos Montufar. In the Channel of Bahamas they encountered a severe storm, which lasted seven days, but were mercifully pre- served, and finally, after a voyage of twenty

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

making the United States wholly inde- pendent of foreign countries in all articles of the first necessity, and in many of mere luxury and elegance. In the hour of war and affliction, the fostering hand of government was promised to these benefactors of the nation; liberal encouragement was unsparingly

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

the habits of business, without relin- quishing those gentle virtues peculiar to her sex." Mrs. Moore held office under six successive Presidents of the United States : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Meeting of Distillers By WILLIAM

," the fifteenth President of the United States. The work was edited by John Bassett Moore, counsel of the Spanish American Peace Commission in 1898; and comprises Mr. Bu- chanan's speeches, state papers, private correspondence and a biography. Since this excellent publication was issued, I have