picturesque freight vehicles often gathered in lines of two or three hundred to be chalked numerically—await their turn—sometimes two or three days—to be ferried across the Susquehanna. The music we can hear, if we lend our ears to the local past, is the tinkling chimes of the Conestoga bell teams. Even with

its present form by James Donald Cameron. Simon Cameron's influence on national legislation was prob- ably as great as that of any man who ever served in the United States Senate. "He made history as few other statesmen in this country created it ; by producing results in the practical walks of life

life. During the summer of 1939 Mr. Haines and the writer made history in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. According to the forest rangers there we were the first horsemen to ride the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, from Front Royal to Swift Run Gap, as it passes through the National

stock then existing in the country, an animal better suited to the exigency of the times was produced; while at the same time the heavy draught horses to transport the weightier and more cumber- some articles of commerce were constantly in demand. At a later period in the history of our country, when

somewhere in the eastern end of the town south of Main street. The church records were indefinite on the subject. Careful an- nalists though they usually were on community affairs, the early diarists, whose piety inclined them toward pacifism, made but few entries on the portentous events of war about them

gunsmiths. Calibres of rifles varied from squirrel to buffalo sizes. James Leman remembers a special order for shooting matches in the South, in which a .22 calibre bullet was fired through a long barrel weighing about fifteen pounds. Obviously, these rifles were shot from a rest. The bullet molds were

range. It is likely, too, that the iron masters of our region planted the first red foxes here. This has often been done during the past century when they became locally scarce. The present red fox is probably a cross between the English fox and the Canadian red fox. The black phase of this species has