AN OLD TIME WORTHY Jacob Hiltzheimer was a native of Manheim, Germany. He left there when nineteen years old, and arrived in Philadelphia September 5, 1748. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, but, after he had completed his trade, he very wisely preferred horse dealing, farming and open air to

the most important, ever con- cluded on Pennsylvania soil, which was held here as early as June, 1744, you will realize, even one hundred and sixty years after the event, the geo- graphical, ethnological and political importance of a place that, scarcely then fifteen years old, invited the as