are difficult to solve ; and to add to this confusion, while some historians and cartographers have, from time to time, done much toward establishing the accuracy of history, others have drawn erroneous conclusions. It will be our aim in this article to establish, as nearly as possible, the truthful

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

complete "History of New Sweden" has been referred to several times. Acrelius's History was published in Stockholm, 1758, and ranks as one of the first, if not the first, historical writings relating to the United States, and written by one who lived here. For seven years, from 1749 to 1756 he was pastor

now avail- able for a short history of Chartier and this tribe, is a letter written by Gov- ernor James Hamilton of Pennsylvania in 1750 to the London Board of Trade, in which he states: "The Shawonese in old times lived near the Spaniards (the lower Missis- sippi and Gulf of Mexico region) and were

judgment and uncom- mon application alone can elevate. "At the opening of the Revolutionary War, he engaged in the service of the United States as practical surgeon and physician, and therein continued almost throughout the war, among the most eminent and respected of his profession in the army. "When he

size of the ear of corn, which was driven through with a mallet. One cause of so much complaint about farming to-day is, that few who are engaged in it have any conception of the hard hand labor, the self reliance and economy that had to be practiced a few gen- erations ago. What are considered