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

street, on the site of the buildings numbered 120-122, now occupied as a cigar factory. Mrs. Wolf, then a young girl, was an inmate of her Uncle Dering's family, and gives the following account of what she witnessed at that period in the following language: "Lancaster, at this period, was crowded with

e i r d i l i g e n c e a n d i n d u s t r y h a v e been richly rewarded,and, as a result, the history of our county has been as fully explored and as voluminously written as that of any other county in the State. But let no one suppose for a moment that all the finds have been made, and all the

for ours, their descendants, pass down to us in tangible form the story of their lives and times. The student of our early local history is confronted all along the way with un- settled questions, matters merely hinted at and doubts without number, the solving of which will always re- main to vex and

Matlack be appointed Secretary of this meeting. "On motion, The act of Congress en- titled, 'An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States and declaring the officer who shall act as President in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President

nothing left to be said on the subject. From the earliest period of its history distinguished men made journeys to that monastic community to learn whether the re- ports that from time to time reached the outer world were correct, and, coming away, recorded what they saw and heard, and these long-ago

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

the most judicious economy; but she did so without complaining, and suc- ceeded not only in raising, by her in- dustry and frugality, a large family, but at her death left to them a small house and lot as an inheritance. When a girl in Philadelphia she was fre- quently employed as a seamstress in