ones passed on to their reward. But joy also came with the birth of many babies who through the years have grown up with the church and have given their lives to the service of God. �I wish we had space to name and to talk about the great numbers, both men and women, who were pillars of the church and

John Dickey of Beaver County who was a member of the 28th and 30th Congresses; and he became acquainted with Lincoln when the latter was also a member from Illinois of the 30th Congress. 0. J. Dickey came to Lancaster in 1846, was admitted to the bar and soon became a law partner of Thaddeus Stevens

, composed of camellias and white �roses, upon the casket. As the train pulled out, few of the great crowd left with dry eyes. Great throngs gathered wherever the body laid in state, enroute to Springfield over the same course Mr. Lincoln had traveled enroute to Washington, as the following will show: The

politics, clerk in the House of Representa- tives, Washington, and founder of the Philadelphia Press, after removing from Lancaster to Philadelphia—all of which I forego in the interest of brevity. Mingled with the burdensome cares of the great Civil War which devolved upon Mr. Lincoln's shoulders soon

. .. ." Beck then proceeded to match gory story with gory story by telling Aunt Cellie of a boy who had skinned a cat alive, and "when a whipping was imminent jumped through a window carrying sash & all with him." Although Beck had had great success in handling such cases, he told Aunt Cellie that the job was

and coasts from the 40th degree to the 46th degree. Acadia, from its earliest settlement by De Monts, had for a century been repeatedly taken by the English and lost or restored by them. By the treaty of Utrecht, May 22, 1713, France finally surrendered to Great Britain "all Acadia." This vague

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

Thomas Jefferson. The "momentous" period to which the address refers, was the difficulty with France, to which country the Jay treaty had been very distasteful, as the French declared that it favored Great Britain and denied certain rights to them. Happily, war was finally avoided. The Dispensary of St

the bosom of freedom can by no mean permit to be gainsaid, we feel ourselves forcibly drawn to acknowledge to you a thankfulness for the earnest endeavors you. have used in your diplomatic intercourse: to cultivate and nourish harmony with the FRENCH REPUBLIC: For the sincere, candid and unequivocal