THE CONGRESS: Homecoming

On a triangular plot, measuring 80 feet a side, a veteran gravedigger performed his accustomed labor one day last week. He wept. "I knew him many years," said he. "But this is the prettiest spot in the cemetery; it will be a nice place for him to rest."

Two days later, with Boise's depot chimes echoing through the gloomy haze of a heavy snowfall, all that was mortal of William E. Borah, late a U. S. Senator, was committed to the Idaho earth.

Appointed by Governor Bottolfsen to succeed Idaho's Borah (for eleven months) was solid, taciturn 66-year-old John W. Thomas,...

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