empires ought to be worth at least one page somewhere in the annals of the nation it has created and defended. But thus far that page has been begrudged. Let us write one. When Brought to Pennsylvania. "The art of making rifles was brought to this country in the year 1721, when a small colony of Swiss

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

objections to her choice os a husband; years of separation ensued, which only sailed to culminate in a divorce because her stepsather had sterner Presbyterian ideas on the legal dissolution of mar- riage than prevail in these later days os sree and easy divorce. Her daugh- ter, Margaret, died in childhood

Christiana riot in lower Lancaster county in 1851 when Gorsuch,the slave- holder, was shot dead and his son seri- ously wounded by their fleeing bonds- man in a melee with his assembled sympathizers of different colors. In reply I had the following letter:, Glimpsewood, Dublin, N. H., September 3, 1899. Dear

, was the "first drop of blood actually shed" in resistance to or enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Unwilling to have the history of Pennsylvania forever written—or unwritten—by New Englanders, I chal- lenged the distinguished historian's ac. curacy and called his attention to the "Christiana riot