. Hollinger �buildings remained. Within recent years, sponsored by Wm. Randolph Hearst, New Salem has been restored. Many of the original buildings have been reconstructed and refurnished. A very large number of the furnishings, orig- inally owned and used by New Salem families during the years Lincoln lived

, sharing its toils and trials, and if we can only get these facts sufficiently before the people, depend on it there is some chance for you." "And now," Fell continued, "Mr. Lincoln, I come to the business part of our interview. My native State of Pennsylvania will have a large number of votes to cast for

street, near Front street, with Shawanese Indians as his neighbors. The rising tide of travel and traffic focussed toward Wright's Ferry. We can lend our imaginations to-day to these travel lines of man and beast. We can see herds of cattle wading and swimming after their lead-ox led from a canoe across

succeeding issue of the Lancaster Journal, dated Friday, March 1st, 1822, contained an announcement that a meeting of the society would be held on Wednesday, March 6th, at the house of Christian Smith. How long the society continued to exist and who were the officers and members of it is not now definitely

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

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

all-day ceremony of the "old order" of "house" Amish. It began early Tuesday and was concluded, as such affairs are, after midnight Wednesday morning. Among the invited guests was a friend, who also happened to be a reporter .1 — hence this story — for the Amish Church does not seek publicity

Andrew Snyder A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER WHO REACHED THE AGE OF 112 YEARS By OLIVER SNYDER SPROUT Andrew Snyder was born in Switzerland in the year 1733. Family tradi- tion states that he arrived on these shores during the year 1766. I. Daniel Rupp in his "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants," p. 368

had charge of the post office in this city for a number of years, and was the first female ever appointed to office under the Federal government, although the precedent established in her case has since been followed in several other instances. The facts which led to her appointment were these : The