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A PRESENT FOR KIDDIE
SENATE
fi/T
FROG had a delightful time
*V1 listening to the rem arks of his
A BIOGRAPHICAL
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY
WITH AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS
1774-1911
| callers, who had no idea that he was
so near at hand. And as the w eather
grew colder, they began to shiver and
th eir voices began to shake. And by
the tim e It was almost dark all the
waiting company were quite discour­
aged.
‘T il never be nble to stay out to­
night I" Chirpy Cricket declared. “Pm
so cold now th at I can scarcely move."
And It was the sam e with every­
body else. Even Freddie Firefly com­
plained that his light didn’t warm him
i In the least. And he said he would
have to go home at once.
"Mr. Crow will be very angry with
us tomorrow when he learns we
haven't called on Kiddie K atydid."
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
SEPTEMBER 5, 1774-OCTOBER 21, 1788
T H E U N IT E D ST A T E S C O N G R ESS
FROM THE FIRST TO THE SIXTY-SECOND
CONGRESS, MARCH 4, 1789-MARCH 3, 1911
forHieomins Edition
Will Correct* Many*
whole. And not w aiting to watch the
shivering party leave the neighbor­
hood. he set off at once tow ard F arm er
G reen's house, making first for the
river, which ran uear the farm build­
ings, because Mr. Frog did not like to
travel by land.
Because the air was cool, the w ater
felt all the w arm er Anil by the time
Mr. Frog had reached his Journey's
end he was alm ost overheated. Be­
sides, as he noticed. It was not so cold
In F arm er G reen's dooryard as It had
been by the creek.
He stopped, for a few moments, to
cool him self In the w atering trough
And then he hopped briskly onto the
front yard.
To his great delight he had scarce­
ly reached the clump of m aple trees
when right above him he heard K id­
dle K atydid's famous refrain.
“Good evening!” Mr. Frog called.
"I've brought a little present for you.
all the way from the creek."
"How-d.v do!" said Kiddle K atydid
" It’s a cool night. Isn't It?"
“You won't mind the w eather when
you put thia on," Mr. Frog replied,
holding up the small garm ent he had
made th at afternoon.
"W hat's that?" Kiddle K atydid
asked.
"An oven oat, fashioned expressly
for you by the finest tailor In Pleas­
an t V alley!” said Mr. Frog very
proudly.
"You're exceedingly kind, I’m sure.''
said Kiddle. And he was about to
Jump down and slip Into the coat
when he noticed th at Mr. Frog had an
extrem ely wide mouth. . . . Sup­
pose. a fter slipping into the coat, he
should find him self slipping down the
tailor's throat?
"Ju st hang the cont on a twig and
I’ll get into It a little later," Kiddle
Katydid suggested.
"I see!" Mr. Frog cried
"T h at’s
your way of accepting a gift. And I
wouldn't dream o f quarreling with you
ah ut th a t. So I'll hang the eoat right
here and go hack to the w atering
trough to wet my feet. While I'tn
gone you can try the coat on. nnd tell
me how you like It when I come hack."
“I hope It’s a green one!" said Kid
die Knt.vd'd somewhat noxiously. “For
If It isn’t green, I couldn't w ear It, you
know. I alw ays w ear green. It's my
favorite color."
“Ah ! T rust me not to make a mis­
ta k e !” Mr. Frog chuckled happily.
And then he withdrew. But he could
not help pausing for a moment, to
look buck and watch, while Kiddle
sprang down from his tree and took
Ills new cont from the tw ig on which
the tailor had hung It.
tory, to com prehend all th e con
grosses preceding w as first brought
Kiddie Sprang Down and Took His
out by C harles I.anm an In 1859 and
New Coat From the Twig.
the work b ears the title, “D ictionary
» t > S . r r o r -5
of th e U nited S tates C ongress.”
i somebody rem arked. And a hush fell
T h e n have been a t least six edi­
upon the company. But Chirpy Cricket
tions, each Intended to bring the m a­
had a happy thought, which made
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terial to date. The com m ittee respon­
them all feel better.
By J O H N D IC K IN S O N S H E R M A N
"K iddle K atydid won't stay out of
IG libraries of the country sible for the 1911 edition o f the "Bio­
j doors on a night like th is!" he sud­
ps
are w aiting iiui>siii«*n11y for g raphical Congressional D irectory"
city.
Note
th
at
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W
ar
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epartm
ent
denly exclaimed. “He'll find some
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I th e
publication o f the bus th is to say, among oth er th in g s:
has had the D unham record all these snug place to creep Into. And we
fort hcomiiig Congressional
S in c e Mr. Ia n m u n 'i l a t e s t v o lu m e years.
wouldn’t bp nble to find him In F arm er
D irectory. F o r th e book Is th e s u c c e e d in g c o m p ile r s a p p e a r to
H ere's a curious sort of m istake, Green's door.vard even If we tried to.”
in g reat dem and on th e re f­ h a v e d o n e l i t t l e m o re th a n to a d d to
e p e r m a n e n t v o lu m e s u c h I n fo r m a ­ w ith an absurdly simple e x p la n a tio n ;
"T h at's so I" C hirpy's companions
erence tables and th ere has th
tio n a s c o u ld be o b t a in e d fr o m th e p e ­
' One day In settin g the type of some shouted.
not been an edition since r io d ic a l
C o n g r e s s io n a l
D ir e c to r ie s .
“Then there's no need of our freez­
(bat of 1911. Congress lias T h e r e s e e m s t o h a v e b e e n l i t t l e e ffo r t one of th e v arious “d irectories" a
m ade considerable history In th e last to c o r r e c t, r e v i s e o r p e r f e c t th e w o r k com positor picked up from th e case ing here any longer, w aiting for that
o f th e e a r l ie r c o m p ile r s , a n d th u s e n d ­ n capital "It” Instead o f a capital
w retched tailor, Mr. F rog!" said
14 years, so the 1911 edition can h a rd ­ le s s e r r o r s c r e p t In.
Freddie
Firefly.
“E.”
T
hereupon
the
type
read
"
R
d
“
ly be called up to date. Moreover,
T h e p r e s e n t c o m m it te e h a s u n d e r ­
And somehow, Mr. Frog did not
th ere are many erro rs in th e last edi­ ta k e n th e w o r k o f g e n e r a l r e v is io n in stead of "E d.” In consequent»
tion and It Is prom ised th a t these will a n d v e r ific a tio n . It h a s n o t o n ly c a r e ­ som ew hat la te r E dw ard becam e llien- smile quite so widely over that speech.
f u lly s c a n n e d th e jo u r n a ls a n d r e c o r d s ard . So we find In the 1911 edition of
N evertheless, he was pleased, on the
<(£) by Oroaaat A D u n lap )
be corrected.
o f d e b a t e s b u t It h a s a ls o c o n s u lt e d a ll
th e
following bi­
T his "B iographical Congressional th e a v a ila b le b io g r a p h ic a l w o r k s ; h a s th e D irectory
D irectory” should not he confuseil w ith m a d e s p e c ia l a p p e a ls to g o v e r n m e n t ographies :
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d e p o s it o r ie s ; p u b lic lib r a r ie s ; h is t o r ic a l
the "Official Congressional D irectory" a s s o c ia t io n s ; s t a t e , c o u n t y a n d m u n ic i­
M c G a u g h e y , E d w a r d W ils o n a r e p r e ­
which Is published durin g each con­ p a l o ffice r s, a s w e ll a s to I n d iv id u a ls , s e n t a t iv e fr o m I n d ia n a ; b orn In G r e e n ­
gress for the use of th a t congress fo r s p e c ific a n d g e n e r a l I n fo r m a tio n . c a s t le , Ind., J a n u a r y 16, 1817; a tt e n d e d
u n f o r t u n a t e th a t s o m e r e c ­ th e p u b lic s c h o o la ; s tu d ie d la w , w a s
and deals alm ost en tirely w ith con­ o . r . d s . t It h a Is
S U P E R S T IT IO N S
t m ig h t be o f g r e a t v a lu e , a d m itte d to th e b a r in 1835 a n d p r a c ­
tem poraneous m atters.
e s p e c ia lly a s b e a r in g u p on e a r lie r c o n ­ tic e d ; m e m b e r o f th e e t a t e e e n a te In
By J ean N ewton
By
H. I R V I N G K IN G
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As ap p ears by the title page of the t e s t e d e le c t io n c a s e s a n d t h e ir d e te r m i­
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c o n g r e s s (M a r ch 4, 1 8 4 5 -M a r ch 3, 1847);
1911 edition of the larg er work (here­ n a t io n , w e r e b u rn ed b y th e B r it is h In r e - e le c t e d to th e 31st c o n g r e s s , M arch
>oooo<x>ooooovooooo<xxx>oooo
1814 . . .
4, 1849-M arch 3, 1851); u n s u c c e s s f u l
with reproduced) It contains m aterial
“ 13”
WITCH-RIDDEN HORSES
which m ukes It a valuable reference
The p resen t Joint com m ittee on c a n d id a te fo r r e - e l e c t io n to th e 32nd
c o n g r e s s ; d ie d In tian F r a n c is c o , C al.,
( ( A H , NO. I am not superstitious,
h o o k . It will he noted th a t the edi­ printing, in charge of th e new edition,
A u g u s t 8, 1852.
hut I take no liberties with th ir­
4 T H E good old days when Cotton
tion of 1911 w as prin ted ns Senate talk s th e sam e w*ay—only more so.
M cG a u g h e y . R ic h a r d W . a r e p r e s e n ­
M ather declared th a t a man who teen.”
D ocument No. 654, second session of S enator George H. Moses of New t a t iv e fro m I n d ia n a ; r e e ld e n t o f R o c k ­
T his Inconsistency Is not peculiar to
iid not believe In w itchcraft ought to
the Sixty-first congress. T he title page I H am pshire Is chairm an. The vice v ille , Ind.; e le c t e d to th e 3 1 st c o n g r e s s
he burned as a witch himself, one who the person quoted above. It seems to
hears th e Im print o f th e G overnm ent chairm an is R epresentative E dgar R. (M a r ch 4. 18 4 9 -M a rch 3. 1851).
doubted th a t horses were sometimes be one of those common paradoxes
P rinting OHice a t W n h ln g to n and the KI pss of Pennsylvania. T he oth er
Y es; as you have already guessed,
date of 1913. It may have been "re­ m em bers are Senator A rth u r C apper th ese two McGaugheys a re one and found of mornings exhausted In their which link our modern practical, cold
stalls a fter being ridden all night by blooded world to the rom antic, eerie,
vised and corrected to th e Sixty- of K ansas, S enator D unean U. F letcher th e name man and his nam e w as Ed­
w itches would have been looked upon goblin tenanted ages of past.
s e c o n d congress.” N evertheless, th ere I of
Florida, R epresentative A lbert w ard Wilson McGaughey. A study of
We are e m p h a tic I ly not su p ersti­
as a suspicious ch aracter to say the
are astonishing "b reak s" In It, some ' Johnson of W ashington and R epre­ the house Journal for th e Thirty-first
least. Many people will be surprised tious, yet, though we may not walk
of w hich a re ap p aren t to the moat sen tativ e W illiam F. Stevenson of | congress disclosed the m istake.
to learn th at this superstition still lln around all day on the thirteenth with
South Carolina. Ansel Wold is clerk.
casual reader.
Page 464 o f th e 1911 edition Is large- gers among us—but It does. The our fingers crossed, how many of us
However, probably It w as an Im­
T his Joint com m ittee has been w ork­ l ly taken up w ith biographies of the American Folklore society has found are there who will sta rt an im portant
provem ent on previous volumes o f the ing on the forthcom ing edition since B ayards of D elaw are. Almost con- It still existing, chiefly among the ne business arrangem ent on th at day, or
kind. T h ere w as no effort, so fa r as M arch of 1925 under a concurrent re s­ I tlguous are biographies of "Bayard, groes. and also In sections w here It Is who do not find It expedient to alter
can be discovered, to keep any sort olution. According to reports, th e com­ Jam es Asheton. Jr." and “Bayard, common among the whites.
our arrangem ents when we think
o f a history o f congress or a directory m ittee has been p retty thorough nnd I Jam es Asheton 3d." They are one and
In one section, however, It Is not there will he thirteen at tHhle?
of Its m em bers before th e y ear 1820. among other things has w ritten many I th e sam e man—who represented Dela- w itches but “lutlns" who ride the
It may he because of the absolute
la th a t y ear the first publication ap­ thousands of letters In Its search for ; w are In th e sen ate faom 1851 to 1869. horses at night. Lutln Is a French unequivocal penalty th at this supersti­
proaching the dignity of a congres­ inform ation. It Is known th a t some of. w ith th e exception of a short time. word meaning the evil spirits of the tion above all others, has survived In
sional directory appeared. It w as com­ the glaring erro rs have been detected I The new edition, of course, will add night and this would Indicate th at the to this unsuperstltlous age. One of
piled and edited by D aniel Rapine, and corrected.
I an o th er B ayard—th e presen t senator, superstition In Maine was an Im ports the thirteen Is doomed to die and no­
Agent—w hoever he may have been.
Possibly the most astonishing e rro r T hom as F rancis Bayard. The aena- tlon from Canada. Investigation would body Is sufficiently Interested In de
It is a sm all volume of about forty In the 1911 edition is concerning to rlal record of th e B ayards Is unique. probably show that the superstition llverlng posterity from Its tentacles to
pages ami contains tliP nam es o f the C yrus L. Dunham. The biography of T he fath er of th e present senator, flourishes across the Canadian border try the experiment.
The uiqiopularity
of "thirteen"
members of congress, w ith home and th is Indiana member of th e house , T hom as F ran cis B ayard (1828-98) j his and some other of the American states.
One of the peculiar phases of thl« started with the Last Supper at which
W ashington ad d resses; th e names and
g ran d fath er. Jan ies Asheton Bayard
re a d s:
local addresses of the heads of the
3d (1799-1880) ; his great uncle. Rich­ survival of an old superstition Is that C hrist and his disciples numbered
in the modern version th at m anes of thirteen The Implication we all know.
D u n h a m , C y r u s 1». a r e p r e s e n t a t iv e ard H enry B ayard (1796-1868) ; his
executive d e p a rtm e n t; an Incomplete
the nlght-rldden horses are alw ays The reason why the first to rise from
list of A m erican m inisters abroad, and fr o m I n d ia n a ; n a t iv e o f N e w Y o r k ; great-g ran d fath er,
Jam
es
Asheton
e e l f-e d u c a te d ; m o v ed to I n d ia n a an d
an alphabetical list of W ashington lo c a te d In S a le m ; s tu d ie d la w a n d w a s [B ay ard 2d (1767-1815), and I l l s great- found braided—which Is probably a the table Is supposed to be the one
hoarding houses. T his publication nnd a d m itte d to th e b ar; m e m b e r o f th e : great-g ran d fath er, R ichard
B assett phase of the old superstition which to die is the fact that Judas, who was
others sim ilar appeared from tim e to s t a t e h o u s e o f r e p r e s e n t a t iv e s 1848-7; (1745-1815), w ere all U nited States has “stu ck ” while others have dropped the first to leave the supper table,
e le c t e d a s a
nut. In some parts of Europe It Is the very soon after hanged himself.
'It c during succeeding sessions of i e D n e g m a o g c e r d a t In to a g th r e ic u 3 lt 1 u st. r e ; 32n
d an d 33rd sen ato rs from D elaw are,
(® b y B r il S y n d ic a te .)
fairies who ride the horses at night
< tigress. They w ere p riv ate e n te r­ , c o n g r e s s e s i M arch 4. 1849-M arch 3.
Roger Sherm an, delegate, represen
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In others the hrownles and In still
1855); d e fe a te d a s a c a n d id a te fo r th e
prises.
ta tlv e and sen ato r from Connecticut
San Franclseo leads the cities of the
In 1865 congress took up the work 34th c o n g r e s s , a g a in e le c t e d a m e m b er from the F irst C ontinental congress to o thers witches, the sam e as In Amer world In telephones per capita,
o f th e s t a t e h o u s e o f r e p r e s e n t a t iv e s ,
of publishing a congressional di­ d ied In V a lle y F a r m , Ind., O c to b e r 15, his death In the Second United States lea. R ut som ething or other uncanny
rides the peasants’ horses at night In
rectory. Biographical sketches first | 1854.
congress. Is set forth as having given nearly all sections of northern En q o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o c w
«11 cared in the directory of the third
As a m atter of fact C yrus L. Dun­ unique service In th a t he helped pre­ rope. It was alw ays a part of the
A LINE O’ CHEER
session of the F o rtieth congress. III
ham served through the Civil w ar as p are and signed all four of th e great witch belief of continental northern
1*19. T he Joint com m ittee on p rin t­
docum ents; A rticles of Association. E urope th a t on certain nights the
By John K e n d r ic k Bangs
ing suggested th a t, " It Is desirable ! colonel of th e F iftieth Indiana Vol- 1774; D eclaration of Independence, w itches went riding to the forests, or
)
„n
teers
and
died
In
Jeffersonville.
Ind.,
that no gentlem an shall occupy over
o o <> och > oo <>< h ><><> o oo < kj 5
¡N ovem ber 22, 1877; he Is burled 1776; A rticles o f Confederation. 1778; aome o th er lonely locality, to keep
ten lines In p rin t.”
C onstitution of th e United States, 1787 th eir "W itches’ S abbath" or to "meet
EXIT MARCH
!
In
the
W
alnut
Ridge
cem
etery
In
th
at
A permanent congressional direc­
the black m an"—th at Is the devil—and
fi L A M B o r r o a r in g lion M arch
in our own Colonial wltchlore we had
i o n o u t—
like w ays of life. They a re fond of I (m osses), heath peat, meadow peat the sam e belief, though broomsticks
W h ic h o f (h e tw o It Is th r r s
w ater, but a t night, when alone u n ­ (g rasses and sedges), forest peat or appear to have been their favorite
m a * ba d o u b t,
B u t If s h e goaa w ith s m ile s o r
der ordinary conditions, they hunt for wood peat (trees) and sea peat (sea­ steeds. T he reprehensible custom of
te m p e r h ig h
prey, and In so doing w ander greatly, w eeds). F or use as a fuel, peat 1« w itches riding borrowed horses, how
I s e e m to s e s a t w in k le In h e r e y e
There Is but one species of tiger,
j
dried
and
often
compressed.
It
Is
ever, w as not unknown to our Colonial
retu rn in g at dawn to chosen places of
A s th o u g h d e s p ite h e r w a y s o f t -
wlih h ranges through o u t southern
I widely found and Increasingly Ira- ancestors and was an Inheritance from
tim e » s e v e r e .
hiding during the daytime.
and w estern Asia. Its length varies
po rtan t, but. ow ing to Its hulk and Its th e old world w itchcraft belief. A*
S h e k n e w s h a d led u s up fr o m
W in te r d'-ear,
considerably, and Is often overstated
! large content o f w ater and ash. does such. It appears, the superstition still
V a rio u i K in d i of P e a t
A nd In th e fa c e o f t e m p e s t s b lu s ­
hy reason of Inaccurate m easurem ent.
lingers among us.
Pent varies in consistency from a not compete form idably with coal.
te r in g
hot it may he said th a t few properly
|£ br McClere Newseaesr eradicate.)
f^ald ue s e c u * e u p on th e la p o f
tu rf to a slime. As It decomposes Its
measured before rem oval of the skin, color dee(»-ns, old peat being dark
T?ie word ''lan tem -slld e'' did not
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Spring
t
& by M c C lu r e Newspaper Syedleate.1
have exceeded nine and a h alf feet brown o r black, and keeping little of officially come Into th e language until
C ats a re kept on some fox farm s to
from nose to end of tall. The weight the p lan t texture. According to Its 190», when It first appeared In a d te care for young fuiea.
a large one Is about 500 pounds. form ation It Is known as bog peat tlonary.
T iiis r s a r e elrnnli big cata. w ith cat­
«THE WHY
of
How It Started
1
Size of Tigers
This popular “movls" comtdienns
was a vaudeville dancer until the
reached the West, but there she de­
serted the stage to play in pictures.
Her eyes and hair are brown. She Is
an athlete, and loves sports.
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W H E N I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
BY JO S E P H K A Y B
At 2?; John J. Carty M ight Be En­
vied by Many Others ef H it Age.
TWENTY ONE I was with the
“A T 1 Bell
Telephone company of Bos­
ton, w here I started two years before.
"I got this position when I was tired
from a laboratory supply shop. In a
fit of hum or I coated several chunks
of old brass with hii acid preparation
to make It look like gold
The pro­
prietor of the store actually thought
it was the precious metal and was
wildly excited. Ju st us he was about
to test the lumps I hurst out laughing
and gave the show away. He failed
to share the Joke with me.
"I went to the superintendent of
the telephone company and he put me
into the business I have been In ever
since. The first tim e I tried to listen
over the telephone In those early days
I couldn’t hear a thing.
F or a few
moments the fear gripped me thut I
w as going (leaf. I.ater I did learn to
hear, tint there was so much noise on
the lines th a t It was quite a trick to
understand w hat was being Bald.—
John J. C arty.”
TODAY; Mr. C arty la one of the
lieads of the great American Tele­
phone and T elegraph company, nnd Is
responsible for num erous Inventions
which have made telephoning possible.
((c) by M cClure N ew sp ap er H yn d lcata.)
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SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
By F. A. W A L K E R
SLIPPING AWAY
precious Is thia day which Is
A ' yours to do with as you may elect
—to w aste In Idleness or to dedicate
to noble, enduring endeavor.
A day Is but a brief space of time,
yet It Is about all we can w ith any
degree of certainty call our own. No
man Is sure of the morrow, though
millions of men count upon Its com­
ing with assurance, und plan to meet
it w ithout any visible doubt us to Its
arrival.
This day Is yours.
How a re you
spending It?
Are you filling It with III humor, am­
biguous acts, unpardonable words,
thoughtless or w asted tim e and op­
portunity?
If you are, you will regret It when
the night comes, when your sun I
gone down and you stand alone In the
dark an unknown, w ithout friends In
a world which to your am azem ent has
slipped away from you, leaving you be­
numbed nnd dazed.
T here are no sym pathetic ears to
hear your cry. no loving hand to dry
yotir tears.
Young men and women, and those In
the m eridian of life as well, who wish
to he assured of their fu tu re should
pack th eir kits with fine resolutions
and m ake the best use of th eir time
By following the straight road and
keeping step with the faithful, when
thy shadows fall there will he no dread
of loneliness, for there will come In
the nighttim e sw eet dream s of a day
well spent and the assurance of a
brighter day In the daw ning!
( £ by Mrf'Iur» N»w«p»i>»r R yndlrata )
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<fe by Me( la re N a^ ap ap cr By ad le a ia .)