Administration of her bachelor uncle, James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. — From the Col- lections of the Library of Congress. �A hostess with little perceptivity and restraint would have soon placed the President in embarrassing situations. Because of her good judgment a number of Buchanan's

suitable monument to the mem- ory of James Buchanan, at his birthplace near Mercersburg, Pa., as- sures a monument to the fifteenth President of the United States. The memorial will appeal to posterity in behalf of one to whom his fellow-citizens in the stormy times preceding the civil war were scarcely