, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

Lancaster county is written the historian will have to �scheme detailed so fully in this old paper, and put on record how it was proposed to erect a county out of this garden spot two hundred years ago. Every scrap of writing of that early t i m e h a s i t s v a l u e . W e c a n h a r d l y overestimate

taken Prisoner and delivered to the Officer of any Fort garrisoned by the Troops in the pay of this Province, or to the Keeper of the common Goal of any County Town, within this Government, One hundred and fifty spanish Dollars. "For every Female Indian Enemy, and for every Male Indian of 10 Years old

THE RED ROSE QUESTION. --- One hundred and thirty years ago, Henry William Stiegel gave a piece of ground to a Lutheran congregation in the then hamlet of Manheim, in this county, for the sum of five shillings, to make the deed of gift lawful, and the further honorarium of one red rose to be ever