made them famous had not their political errors served to overshadow their other successes. The men referred to are the Fifteenth President of our Nation, the Honorable James Buchanan; and a Secretary of War under Mr. Buchanan's successor, the Honorable Simon Cameron. A unique pair indeed. Mr. Buchanan

Franklin and Marshall College Library. ° George Tichnor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan, N. Y., 1883, I, pi 21. 10 Boston Herald, Aug. 28, 1883; Boston Post, Sept. 12, 1883, containing the refutation. �In those days Lancaster was a proud community which was still quite conscious of the fact that it had

Union, but he would be pretty safe in the Senate; at least a vast improvement over Brodhead. If Forney got the Senate, there would be no resistance to Jones in the Cabinet. After much prodding, and very late in the game, on January 7th, Buchanan wrote a guarded letter to Harrisburg, stating his personal

. We now have seven hundred subscribers, and I feel hopeful indeed nothing but a failing of my poor energies or a discontinuance of public favor, can overthrow those hopes. . . . " The same letter, incidentally, asked Buchanan to get Forney's former partner, Bryson, a job at printing in Washington, 1

vessel leave the ways after the bottle of sparkling Conestoga water, wielded by Harriet Lane (Johnston), broke upon her side. Miss Lane was accompanied by her uncle, James Buchanan, president of the United States, and in his honor the ship was christened with the name of his native town; also present

such as was not in her power to procure, and drank the Lady's health who made them." Susanna Wright said, in a letter to Charles Norris: "I must add a few words of a fruit, or whatever you call it, which when sliced and fried is vulgarly called pork steak. Jimmy (her brother James) either did not hear

HON. JASPER YEATES Born in Philadelphia, April 7, 1745. Received Bachelor 0f Arts and Master of Arts degrees from College of Philadelphia. Admitted to the Bar in 1765. Married in 1767 Sarah Burd, daughter of Colonel James Burd and Sarah Shippen Burd. Chairman of Committee of Correspondence of