ade upon his brow their mark;
     Those fearful times, those dreary days,
     When all seemed but a tangled maze;
     His noble army, worn with toils,
     Giving their life blood to the soils.
     Disease and famine brooding o'er,
     His country's foe e'en at his door;
     But ever saw him noble, brave,
     Seeking her freedom or his grave.
     His was the heart that never quailed;
     His was the arm that never failed!
     Old Mirror! thou hast seen what we
     Would barter all most dear to see;
     The great, the good, the _noblest_ one;
     Our own _immortal Washington_!
     Well may we gaze--for now in thee
     Relies of the great past we see,
     Well may we gaze--for ne'er again,
     Old Mirror, shall we see such men;
     And when we too have lived our day,
     Like those before us passed away,
     Still, valued Mirror, may'st thou last
     To tell our children of the past;
     Still thy dimmed face, thy tarnished frame
     Thy honored house and time proclaim;
     And ne'er may sacrilegious hand,
     While Freedom claims this as her land
     One stone or pebble rashly throw
     To lay thee, honored Mirror, low.

                                Y. F.


Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.

Mr. Halsey, historian, biographer, as well as lawyer, has published our
most valuable "History of Morris County", and is considered an authority
upon that subject, his accuracy being unquestioned. By his sterling
integrity and superior intellectual ability, he has, in the practice of his
profession, gained the entire confidence of the community in which, as a
lawyer, he has passed the greater part of his life.

Included in his literary work are "Personal Sketches" of Governor Mahlon
Dickerson, Colonel Joseph Jackson, and others; "The Revolutionary Army in
Morris County in 1779-'80"; and a brief sketch of the Washington
Headquarters entitled "History of the Washington Association of New
Jersey", published in Morristown in 1891.

Mr. Halsey also assisted Mr. William O. Wheeler in the publication of a
book of u