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

transformation had taken place, a kind of rebirth which shaped the European immigrant to an American citizen according to the requirements of the new surroundings. The Puritans in New England, the Dutch in New York, the Quakers and plain sects in Pennsylvania, etc., did not realize that they were already