of steel-framed spectacles. Nearly all were gray- headed, ruddy-cheeked, bright-eyed, and snowy-whiskered. Judging from his conversation, every man was either a school mate or a chum of George M. Dallas and James Buchanan. They talked not of the crops nor of the weather. They seemed to be far more

secretary to James Buchanan while Buchanan was Minister to England. Worner went into rapture in writing about this visit to Lancaster of Roosevelt, describing it in extravagant terms. But when he heard Roosevelt say his father was secretary to Buchanan, Worner immediately dashed off a letter to the