, meagerly educated and reared in the practice of the strictest economy, were provincial in their ideas of art and government expenditure. "Jefferson was almost the only man then conspicuous in public life who had the advantages of extensive foreign travel; and even Jefferson wished the city laid out in the

reproduced. All have been enlarged about one-third. �history, derived from Dr. Seidenstick- er's "First Century of German Print- ing," may not be amiss. It was the third German newspaper published in Pennsylvania. The first number was issued on August 7, 1787. The pub- lishers were Steiner, Albrecht and Lahn

, the petitions for the laying out of roads in the Road Dock- et of the Court of Quarter sessions between 1740 and 1775 ask for these conveniences to enable the people to more easily reach "mill and market." But horses were not numerous in these early days, and mere bridle paths were sufficient for a

ARTHUR ARMSTRONG. One of the best-known names in the galaxy of artists who adorn the roll of Lancaster county's honored sons is that of Arthur Armstrong, portrait, landscape and historical painter. His is the distinction of being born, rear- ed, educated and living his life among our people. He was

were at work on the Virginia and Pennsylvania borders. A letter from Washington to him shows them to have been on cordial terms. But things were changed now. He says: "I was now to see a man with whom I had formerly been upon a footing of in- timacy, I may say friendship. Politics might induce us to

DATE STONES. As a rule, the early German settlers in Pennsylvania were not much given to self-laudation or praise- They were too busy in cutting down the forests, tearing out the stumps and carting off the stones that often covered their lands to give much attention to less material things

side of the colonies. As early as 1774, he was a member of the Committee on Correspondence, which met in Philadelphia July 15, 1774. He was Colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Battalion, was a member of the State Assembly in 1775-1776, and again in 1778-1780. For a short period he was a member of the

been printed in this city and is exceedingly rare, I shall give the title in full, which is as follows: "(A) Cir- cular Letter of the United Reformed Preachers (pastors) in Pennsylvania to all the Reformed Congregations (situ- ated) there, in which they briefly set forth how the great Jehovah has in

a recommendation by the Lords of the Privy Council to the Crown, that "we do not see any Sufficient reason for an Absolute pro- hibition of all Theatrical Representa- tions in Pennsylvania, and, therefore, beg leave to propose that this act may not receive His Majesty's Allowance, Yet we do not mean

occurrence is laid in Lan- caster nearly three-quarters of a cen- tury ago, it is presented here as a proper supplement to the articles on "Early Lancaster Playbills and Play- houses," published in our proceedings for November, 1902. When I first read the story as told by Mr. Murdoch, I confess I was