an age-long custom. History does not record a time when monuments were not the customary means of commemorating great events, historic occasions and distinguished services. Standing in the midst of your people, on a central and commanding site, in the shadow of your ancient church, this shaft will

existing resources exhausted. Our history dates back more than two h u n d r e d y e a r s , a n d t h a t i s a l o n g pe riod t o glean i n. D uri ng al l t hat time men and women have been do- ing and writing things' many of which were seemingly of little importance at the time. Many of these things

further privilege of erecting dams 12 inches high across the waterway.³ Let me now direct your attention to a quotation from Rupp's History of the County, which is also marked as having been taken from an earlier authority. He says: "Governor Ham- ilton made an offer of two places, the 'Old Indian Field

ELECTORAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN 1804. There was recently brought to light in this city an official document nearly one hundred years old, which has both a local as well as a national interest. It is the report of the Electoral Board of the State of Pennsylvania covering the eiection for President

, but indulged themselves upon good featherbeds, of which they had a great number. They showed us �some volumes of most excellent pen- manship and needlework. They were employed in instructing some girls in sewing, others in reading and writing; they were the children of the neigh- boring dunkards, who

Gilmary Shea. Charles A. Hanna, Win- ser's Narrative and Critical History of America, and especially in Mr. Will- shire Butterfield's sketch of Brulé's explorations may be consulted. Of the French and Champlain it has been truly said: "Long before the ice-coated plains of Plymouth listened to the rugged

well as those of her husband, now rest in the same burial place, where rests the remains of her two sons, the place being mark- ed with a head and a foot stone. A General Knox Letter.* Our President, Mr. Steinman, a few weeks ago became possessed of the following letter, written by General Henry Knox