The retiring member addressed his constituents for half an hour.

He was standing before them as their representative for the last time, and it was natural to look back and note the milestones behind, the changes for the better with which he could fairly claim association.

They were matters of Federal business chiefly, beyond the immediate horizon of Jordanville, but Farquharson made them a personal interest for that hour at all events, and there were one or two points of educational policy which he could illustrate by their own schoolhouse.

He approached them, as he had always done on the level of mutual friendly interest, and in the hope of doing mutual friendly business.

"You know and I know," he said more than once; they and he knew a number of things together.
He was afraid, he said, that if the doctors hadn't chased him out of politics, he never would have gone.