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liberty, Philadelphia offers special attractions, 

 and hours may be pleasantly and profitably 

 spent in the well-known "Independence Hall." 

 Here time seems almost turned back on its 

 track as one stands amidst the relics of those 

 days of old. We see the very chair once occu- 

 pied by him whom we have learned to revere as 

 " the Father of his country" — the illustrious 

 Washington, and the thoughts are borne back- 

 ward to the time when, seated in the chair before 

 us, his hand held the destinies of a nation in its 

 grasp. Near by we see the pew in which that 

 great man sat and listened to that gospel whose 

 power and principles controlled his life. It is 

 taken from the old Gothic church which the 

 General attended and is preserved amongst the 

 relics of those revolutionary times. Mementos 

 are there also of the period when the Declara- 

 tion of Independence was signed and the eye 

 rests on the autographs of the illustrious signers. 

 There is also the ereat bell which ranof out the 

 glorious notes of freedom and on which is in- 

 scribed that grandest of words, " Liberty." After 



