publi- cation was in a small house back of the old Collector's office, at the corner of Duke and Chestnut streets, Mr. Car- many being at that time clerk in the office of his father, who was Collector of Tolls on the Pennsylvania railroad at this point. This paper was issued at short intervals and

empires ought to be worth at least one page somewhere in the annals of the nation it has created and defended. But thus far that page has been begrudged. Let us write one. When Brought to Pennsylvania. "The art of making rifles was brought to this country in the year 1721, when a small colony of Swiss

Zeitung," the "New Un- partizan Lancaster Newspaper." It was published in this borough in 1787, and a volume of it is here for inspec- tion by the members of our Society. It was secured some time ago by Mr. A. K. Hostetter, whose property it is. A few more particulars relative to its To show the crudeness

and the era of better highways came along. At almost every session of the Quarter sessions Court petitions for roads were pre- sented. From 1729 until 1775 fully one hundred and fifty of these peti- tions were acted upon. The King's Highway. At the Board of Councils held at Philadelphia on January 29

, 1739, recorded April 21, 1765, conveys to his son, Matthew, this property, subject to a mortgage to the Trustees os the General Loan Office, sor £1,737, dated March 8, 1737. The witnesses are Samuel Reed, Thomas Thornbrugh and Thomas Cookson. Around him were the "lands os Jacob Lundis (Landis

strenuous politics of long ago. The place of publication of The Hive was called the Sign of the Bee Hive, and I have been told that it was the present Excelsior Hall property. I have, however, been un- able to verify this information. It was undoubtedly somewhere in that vicinity, as it was nearly opposite

in Pennsylvania—or even in Philadelphia—during Colonial and Revolutionary days. The Scotch-Irish will themselves often remind you of their presence; but the shy and re- tiring Pennsylvania German almost must be dragged into the historic lime- �light. Hiltzheimer was conspicuously of these; and so was