The Washington herald., 1911-12-29

Congressman Henry Barnhart, being a
Democratic editor, is always around
whenever anything happens in his part of
Indiana. Some time ago he was we'll
within listening distance when a certain
minister of the Gospel was called into
! an Indiana court room as witness in a
will case.
| Your occupation" asked the lawyer,
after the witness had stated his name.
'Oh, I'm supply" the witness said.
"A what?"
"A supply. I fill in at different puIpits
when the regular mans away"
Have you any other occupation?"
"Yes sir. I'm substitute driver OF q
huckster wagon"
when did you last see the late Thomas
Smith,
"On the 18th of December"
Looking about as well as usual, was
he?"
"A little paler."
Where was it you saw him?'
"Oh, it was at his funeral"
Representative Thomas Parran, Of Mary
land. is called out of the House chamber
by visitors at least five times as often as
any other member Of the House. The ex-
plantation lies partly in the fact that his
CONSTITUENTS i've "llulH d SHOTl Eluc VI
Washington. But Parran gets even more
calls than any Of the other Maryland
members.
Next to Parran, the man most fire.
quentIy called out of the House is prob
ably Nick Longworth, OF Ohio. People
call Nick out just on general principles.
Congressman Henry George, jr., was
the speaker of the evening at a big do
fno in To- 1T
The chairman OF the gathering, in his
speech of introduction, lauded both Hen
ry George and Lloyd-George, and said
that the name of George was great
throughout the land.
1T now gives me great pleasure" he
added 'to present to you the speaker
Of the evening, Mr.. Lloyd-George."
The audience knowing that it wasn't
Lloyd-George at all, laughed uproar1
iously, and the chairman looked worried
throughout the rest of the evening, try
ing to think what he'd said.
Adam Brown Littlepage, the West Vir-
ginIa Congressman who wrote such an
elaborate and fiattering biography of
himself when he first came to Congress,
for the Congressional Directory-which
he boiled down to four lines for the latest
directory-was telling a crowd of his con-
stituents about the efforts of the present
Congress to reduce the cost of living.
Lttlepage has a slight impediment in his
speech, but his remarks were substan-
TALLY as follows:
why. all through those hot summer
days We just worked and worked, pass
ing tariff bills, trying to reduce the cost |
OF living and give relief to you people. |
But when the bill got to that there Presi- |
dent, what do you suppose that President |
did? Why he just vetoed the bill. That |
was on a Saturday, and all along Penn |
sylvania avenue that day you could see |
crowds of people with tears in their eyes. |
And that day is known now as black /
The story is that Littlepage defeated /
former Congressman Joe Gaines by max
ing the matter of garden seeds a cam
paign issued. Whenever he spoke, Lit
tlepage asked how many had ever re-
ceived any seeds from Gaines. ANY
body that has ever received any seeds |
please hold up the right hand" he'd say. 4
1t appeared that Gaines hadn't sent
out as many radish seeds as Littlepage |
thought Congressman should.
Senator John w. Kern, OF Indiana, re-
Gently gave a fairly satisfactory explana-
ton of his whiskers.
''It is a mooted question:" said Kern,
what comprises personality. Some say