publi- cation was in a small house back of the old Collector's office, at the corner of Duke and Chestnut streets, Mr. Car- many being at that time clerk in the office of his father, who was Collector of Tolls on the Pennsylvania railroad at this point. This paper was issued at short intervals and

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