theatre performances of one of our frontier posts, 1816. The visitor emphasizes the enthusiasm of officer and men, the excellent performance and the good military band. The Americans liked the theatre, but the English were more than enthusi- astic about it. Quite a number of the famous English generals

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

Shippen wrote to James Hamil- ton in Philadelphia, regarding an alarm at midnight the day previous, of a threatened Indian attack. After three hundred men had gathered in Penn Square, it was found how poorly equipped they were for such an eventuality, for among them there were but fifty guns and little