singular in the light of the after reputation he made for himself. His education was, no doubt, that which the local schools of that day could offer. That he was a very well informed and intelligent man the writer can testify, having seen and heard him frequently a year or two before his death. The

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

Jacob Eshleman Warfel, Painter. This promising artist, the son of John and Maria Warfel, was born in Paradise township, Lancaster county, on July 21, 1826. He developed a natural inclination towards art at an early age; so much so, indeed, that his youthful efforts in drawing and painting drew the

companies of loyal militia. The officers of twenty-one 2 Hildreth, Vol. 3, p. 56. 3 Hildreth, Vol. 3, p. 102. 4 Hildreth, pp. 56, 102, 182. �corps were on the pay-roll of the British army as late as June 27, 1783, as on that day Lord North rose in the House of Commons and asked for £15,000 on account of

." The great au- thorities on international law of that day, Vattel and Puffendorf, were quoted and the arguments were in reality very strong. They had taken up arms at 6 A Friendly Address, etc., p. 5. 7 Ibid., p. 43. SA View of the Controversy, etc., p. 23. 9 Chandler, What think ye of Congress now? pp

behalf of borrowers. The first emission's of provincial paper had their origin in the immediate necessi- ties of government. In times of peace, provinces which had an empty treas- ury issued bills of credit, redeemable at a remote day,and put in circulation, by means of loans to citizens, at a low rate

in the Pennsylvania Arch- ives I have found it called the Cones- toga River. That was well nigh 200 years ago, and the men who so called it were men who came from the Old World, where streams of less than half its length and size were and are still called rivers, not only in ordinary speech, but on

asked to prepare and read an address. He did so. Our personai relations had long been pleasant and cordial. I was on the committee to nominate officers, and as I considered him the ablest his- torian in the membership, I nominated him. The day before his address was delivered he called on me at the