. Buchanan's public career was practically ended before Mr. Ste- vens had ever attained anything like leadership of his party or in Congress. They were radically different in every element of their make-up; and this difference was highly accentuated by the circumstance that Mr. Buchanan's career covered a

Scotch-Irish Presbyterian and the Friends; between them there was considerable friction, if not antagonism; they had for nearly a century repres�mted different views .of society and government. Their variance was very distinct in their respective early attitudes toward "the Indian question." It has been

its present sumptuous ty- pography and binding involve. One fine spring day, some years ago, driving by the Brown homestead, between Nine Points and Andrews' Bridge, in a romantic and beautiful country, over which a sort of poetic spell still lingers, I thus secured a bunch of books at a bargain; when