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

several churches—one of which is an English one but they have at present no service, as the parson taking the contrary side in the disputes was obliged to fly the country." (This was Thomas Barton, tory pastor of St. James' Episcopal Church.) "The town contains about 800 houses and 6000 inhabitants

half miles above Eagle Furnace. Made, 1845, one thousand tons of metal. Timber all gone in 1851. 11 Mary Ann Furnace, 1844, cold blast. Stood on Paint Creek at the crossing of the Franklin-Brookville turnpike (present Lakes-to-Sea highway). Thirty feet high, eight feet bosh. In 1846, produced 1,100

Pennsylvania before he became pas- tor of the Moravian Church at Lititz. He was a man of varied talents and university culture, having studied at Jena, and an accomplished all-around musician, with sufficient skill on sev- eral instruments and knowledge of others to instruct the likely members of the community