George Washington spent a good part of his time between his migra- tory abiding places and after serving two terms as the First President of the United States remained here until his death on the fourteenth of December, 1799. The most beloved home in the world is kept in excellent condition by the

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of Ohio, who had been a member of the United States Supreme Court since 1839, although seventy- five years of age in 1860, still had a very definite ambition to reach the White House and in fact was the choice of Thaddeus Stevens, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the convention. Enroute to

large concourse of people included the President of the United States, members of his cabinet, governors of the loyal states and many distinguished civil and military gentlemen." This paper de- voted one and one-half columns to Everett's address, making no reference to the address of the President. The

Judicial Branch of the Government ; but all will yet be well. "Your friend always, "James Buchanan." 1 On the 4th of March, 1861, after Lincoln had taken the oath of office as President of the United States, citizen Buchanan and President Lincoln entered a carriage, and a military procession escorted them

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

boys were reprimanded for their delinquency and given memory tasks of such selections as "The Village Blacksmith," "Breathes There a Man With Soul So Dead," or portions of the Constitution of the United States. Long will Dad Stamy be remembered for his severity and for his ability to cram a boy's mind