fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col