president and Emlen Franklin, district attorney of the county (later, colonel of the 122 Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers) as captain. The uniform adopted which was practically identical with other clubs consisted of a black cape, with the letters L.W.A. (Lincoln Wide Awakes) on the back, a glazed cap

more than the copied violet shadow and pale orange high-light does a Monet. The genius of the great is always securely hidden from the imitator, behind its obvious characteris tics. �The so-called artist (or band of ar- tists), who follows through his ca- reer some other man's work and gives it nothing

official court records of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D. C. Autographs-16 rare papers in the handwriting of Lincoln valued at $10,000. Autographs of hundreds of Lincoln associates. Pictures—Hall collection of about 1700 different items. Metallic Lincolnia—a wide

selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

of Philadelphia crosses the same," praying that a law, entitled "An Act establishing a ferry and building a bridge across Conestogoe Creek, in the county of Lancaster" might be passed. Abraham Witmer at that time must have resided on the east side of the Conestogoe. As shown by the records, he owned

Pennsylvania. On November 18, 1775, a vessel as- cended the Delaware river bearing several hundred of these persecuted people, many of them being sickly and feeble, and on November 19 and 20 two more vessels as- cended the same river, bearing, all told, 454 A cadians. The ships which brought them were the