plan for thirteen States and three millions of people, but for a republic of fifty States and five hundred mil- lion; not for a single century, but for a thousand years. Dominated by this thought, he builded better and wiser than anyone in his lifetime was willing to admit; for the chief men of his day

not pay the bond he had given sor the purchase money, and Franklin in 1754 put one William Dunlap in charge. He rented the establishment to the latter from February, 1754, to April, 1757, at the rate of £20 per annum, then ceased. Those were the days os small things in the newspaper world, as well as

never given to thinking one thing and saying an- other. He was a close observer, both of men and things, and for many years was accustomed to note in what may be termed a note-book or diary his ob- servations on persons and the things that were going on in the busy world around him. Some of the most

surmise. According to Rupp, it was built at great expense in the same year that the town wa s laid out, 1730, and the earliest mention os the sulling mill in any deed I have seen is in Record Book L, p. 62, when sor the sum os £40 and for his natural affec- tion, Stephen Atkinson, under date of March 30

McDowell, and he launched his paper with the following announcement: "The first number of The Hive is offered to the ladies and gentlemen of Lancaster and its vicinity as a speci- men. The editor or some person au- thorized by him will call in the course of a few days on those subscribers who have not yet

settler, who had his wagon shop at the corner of Orange and Duke streets,' received November 17, 1806, one pound, six shillings and one pence for wheelwright work. The signatures of the following men are easily recognized: Michael Gun- daker, Christopher Mayer, John Wein, Benjamin Schaum, before mentioned