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VERSIONS new WALK.
Veteran Pedestrian Purposes to Gross
Continent In One Hundred Davs.

Veteran Pedestrian Purposes to Cross
Continent In One Hundred DAYS.
When Edward Payson Weston, the
famous pedestrian, walked across the
American continent last year in lO5
days 1t was considered a marvellous
feat, and as he had then reached
the age of seventy-one most people
thought, of course. that it would be
his last journey of this kind. But they
did not know this remarkable man.
He has now arranged another tour and
purposes to walk from ocean to ocean
In a hundred days. If he reaches the
New York city hall steps on schedule
time he will greet Mayor Gaynor on
May %. He will then be seventy-two
years old, as he is near the end of his
seventy-6rst year.
When Weston leaves Los Angeles on
Feb. l at 4 p. m. he will first travel
westward to the Pacific. Leaving the
Pacific at Santa Monica, the worlds
walker, both for age and
distance. will follow the tracks of the
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road. The first city Of any size he will
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mined than ever in their opposition to
Speaker Cannon, to whose methods
they have given the name Cannon
ISM"
A number of the insurgents have
given out statements recently Of just
what they conceive their rights to be.
what their political principles are and
what they hope to accomplish by real
persistence. Here is what Victor Muir
dock of Kansas thinks of the matter:
To-day there are 391 members Of the
house. Only II Of them, the speaker.
actually exercises the functions of rep
resentation. All power in the house
has been shifted from the membership
to the speaker. There is but one way
to give representation back to the
house, and that is by taking the power
which has been concentrated in the
speaker away from him.
AT present the speaker, Cannon, en-
e~rcises, first, control over business:
second. control over recognition, and,
third. control over the votes of men,
bership. His control yer business Of
major Importance is exercised through
his membership OF the committee on
rules, the committee which forces
measures through the house under clio
ture-that is. without the right of
amendment Of debate. 1t is proposed,
therefore, first. to put the speaker off
that committee. The speakers control
through recognition comes under the
right Of the speaker to inquire into TIN.
purpose Of a motion made by a men,
Der and. If the motion be obnoxious
70 the speaker. the right to refuse the
member recognition to make his mo-
ton. 1t Is proposed therefore. second.
to take that tyrannical right away
ftom the speaker. The speaker today
appoints ell committees. He appoints
men - chairmen who will be loyal to
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In many cases. it is alleged, without a
hearing. This so aroused Mrs. o. H.
F. Belmont and other rich and we'll
known women that they have taken a
hand In the matter. Recently Mrs.
Belmont spent the entire night in tho
night court in New York city watching
the cases Of the women strikers that
were brought in. She hired c lawyer
to protect the girls against unjust ar
rest and gave her property as security
to bail them out. The most spectacu-
lar features Of the whole event have
been the visit of several thousand
workers to the mayor of New York to
ask for fair play from the police and
Mrs. Belmont's woman suffrage meet
ing in the Hippodrome. Miss Anne
Morgan. daughter of j. P%ierpont Nor
gan. has also rendered the strikers val
liable assistance and has entered heart
lily into the affair.
AS for the college girls assisting the
strikers, when Miss Inez Milholland. a
Vassar graduate. who is a suffrage en-
thusiast. went into the struggle she
carried with her a group Of Vassar
girls of similar interests. It was a
sort Of "you-a-girl-and-me-a-girl' spirit
that started it. The factory girl makes
shirt waists, and the college girl wears
them, and when they first walked
Broadway arm in arm as pickets in
the big shirt waist strike that is now
on they both wore the garment Of con
tention. They still wear the shirt
waist. but in addition they are consid-
ering DOMINIC the boards Of the sand
wich man. and perhaps they may yet
be seen parading Fifth avenue clad in
this manner
Recently some forty women have
Joined the fighting ranks Of the shirt
waist girls. and they have never done
o than wear shirt waists. They
are college graduates most of them.
su1ragists some Of them, all of them
with independent incomes. some of
them with millions.
The public does not know and cannot
distinguish the college girl who is
walking up and down the sidewalk
with almost every group Of pickets.
But the police have discovered and so
have the bosses that wherever there il
. scrimmage there is certain now to
be a girl "from the league" to see that
the pickets have fair play.
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make will be Raymond, CAL, and then
be will journey through Santa Fe,
N. NJ; Pueblo. Colo; Wichita, Kan. ::
Kansas City and Chicago.
From Chicago Weston will take the
most direct route possible and will
travel over, the country roads instead
OF the rights of way of the railroads.
On his trip west last year Weston did
not make it across the continent with.
In the hundred day limit he had set.
He arrived five days behind the sched-
ule, because in several instances he
had to double on his tracks. BY fol-
lowing the railroads from the west to
Chicago. travelling northwest all the
time, he expects to make better time
than by following the western country
roads.
Throughout his long public career
Weston has been the leading exponent
of walking. He has taught its advan-
tages to American youth in the inter-
est of perfect physique and moral
mentality. And now, while passing
from his seventy-first to his seventy
second year, blessed with robust health
and untiring activity as the result of a
life of temperate and correct habits.
he starts forth for his walk across the
American continent to prove simply
that the feat is not n of superhuman
or even unusual effort, but an educa-
tional and healthy exercise which any
man of normal health and temperate
habits can successfully follow.
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WAR ON BEGGARS,

A New Society Is Rounding Up the
Rogues and Impostors.
The beggar must go. All those
professional impostors and charity
frauds" now operating in the big cities
might as we'll begin to peruse the
"help wanted" columns Of the daily
papers and find work or seek some
other cline. A new society is on their
trail, and hereafter they are to be
rounded up wherever found plying
their trade" and made to earn the
bread they eat or 60 to the workhouse.
At the same time the unfortunates
who are really deserving Of charity
will be rendered every assistance.
The new organization that has taken
up this matter is called the National
Association for the Prevention of Men.
delaney and Charitable Imposture,
with headquarters in New York city.
1t will cooperate with police depart
ment. charitable organizations and in
dividuals in every M of the large
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oPEAKERCANNON

In front Of Uncle
Sans big capitol long enough to shake
. fist at the building and then shake
the dust of Washington from his feet
forever?
Ask any insurgent in congress these
questions and he will promptly reply
In the affirmative. for the ranks Of the
Republicans who are so bitterly op-
posed to his methods have been
greatly strengthened in the past few
months. and they now feel pretty GER
tain that they are to have a new pre-
siding officer.
Be that al it may, it would seem
as If one OF the greatest questions be-
fore the country today is the %insurgent
move in the house against its speaker.
The mutterings. Of the past four or
i've years became a revolution on the
first day Of the extra session Of con-
gress, called by President Taft to re-
wise the tariff. On the very first day
Of the session twelve members voted
against Cannon as speaker. On the
same day thirty-one Republicans voted
against the adoption Of the rules Of
the preceding congress and in opposi-
ton to the general Republican vote of
the house.
The following is a list Of men who
are against the old system in the
house among the Republicans as re-
1ected in votes. It is said there will
be more the first opportunity there is
to express it: William ]. Cary, Wis
consin; Henry A. Cooper, Wisconsin;
Charles r. Davis. Minnesota; John ].
Esch, Wisconsin; Charles N. Fowler,
New Jersey; Augustus P. Gardner,
Massachusetts,; James w. Good, Iowa;
AISLE J. Gronna, North Dakota; Gilbert
N. Haugen. Iowa; Everis A. Hayes,
California; Edmund H. Hinshaw, Ne
braska; Davis A. Hollinsworth, Ohio;
Elbert H. Hubbard, Iowa; Adna r.
Johnson. Ohio; N. e. Kendall, Iowa;
Moses p. Kincaid, Nebraska; Arthur
w. Kopp, Wisconsin,; Irvine L. Len
root, Winconsin; Charles A. L~indbergh,
Minnesota; William c. Lowering, Mas
sachusetts; E. II. Madison, Kansas; e.
A. Morse, Wisconsin,; Victor Murdoch.
Kansas; John M. Nelson, Wisconsin;
George w. Norris. Nebraska; Charles
e. Pickett. Iowa; Miles Poindexter.
Washington; Halvor STEVENSON. Min
nesota; Andrew j. Volstead. Minneso-
tn; Frank p. Woods. Iowa.
Since the adjournment of the tariff
session the insurgent movement has
gained considerably in strength, &C.
cording to reports, and the opening of
the regular session found the group
OF member insurgents in the house
more strongly united and more deter
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-@NA "a coOI ~
party leaders in congress-. 1t will have
failed in it's purpose if it's result is
merely the deposition of the present
leaders and the selection of others fol-
lowing the same tactics and pursuing
the same policies. 1t is a revolt against
the systems and policies for which the
present leaders stand; it is a revolt
against special privilege and against
the control of legislation by certain
large interests. ~Insurgentism first
manifested itself in the house in ID
position to the readoption of the rules
OF the house. The rules give the
speaker power to block legislation that
he does not favor. This power has
been Of gradual growth, and it's exer
else las been acquiesced in because it
was believed that it was necessary in
order to secure the enactment of legis-
lat1on desired by the majority. The
speaker has used that power to defeat
legislation instead of %furthering legis-
lation."
Gilbert N. Haugen, representative
from Iowa, says of the insurgent move
ment:
Experience, careful observation and
thought convince me that the best in
terests of the people in general and
the country at large could be better
s~ubserved by a modification of the
house rules. I am absolutely opposed
to the concentration Of legislative pow
er In one man and the curtailment of
a members rights and personal indie
pendence. l believe that a better op-
portunity should be given the people
In general to express their wishes
through their representatives in con-
gress and to obtain their just rights.
1.-THE right and privilege under the
rules should be given to members to
record their judgment and convictions
as their consciences dictate. This is
simply %contending for that which our
forefathers fought-freedom of thought
and action"
Here is what Miles Poindexter, rep
resentative from Washington, saws Of
the movement:
Progressive Republicanism especial.
~ ~ AOA u cOISuulZdtlOu or the
house of representatives so that that
branch OF congress at least shall be as
1t was intended to be-responsive to
public opinion. AS it is controlled to-
day by the patronage and power of
the speaker. it is wholly unrepresenta-
tive. 1t is not even conducted under
regular rules, but in all crises under
a system Of special orders for partic-
ular occasions as the desires or the
exigencies Of the speaker and his lieu
tenants may demand.
1.-TWO changes alone will restore the
u to its true character rs a n
lar legislative b~ody-frst, that the
house itself and not the speaker by a
geographical system Of distribution
shall choose its committees, and. Sec
ond, that the privileges of the com-
mittee on rules be restricted and that
Its orders shall not be adopted but by
q two-thirds vote, as is already really
provided by the rules Of the house. but
ignored in practice"
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gwine to cast my fust vote men cum
to me and told me not to vote fur dis
n and dat one. and I finally got so
mixed up dat on lection day l went
off rabbit huntin' and didn't vote at
all.
Il was a %greenhorn den, but l have
since learned a thing or two. In de
fust place. u politicians are Jest as
honest as our grocers or any other
class of business men. De whole world
am on de make. l are sittin' in a.
church on Sundays whar de preacher
gifts $4OO a year. If any odder congre-
CATION would pay him a hundred mo-
he'd shake us in a month, and l
wouldn't blame him. A thing is not
only with all it's with, but all you kin
git fur it.
Fright straight along fur de last
fo'ty years when lection times come
round dar am de same old story about
dishonest men. l used to believe 'em
and take it to heart. but l got ober
dat long ago. l take it dat one party
am jest as good and jest as bad as
anodder. l take it dat one man am
jest as good and jest as bad as anod-
der.
II once knowed a mighty good white
man. and my respect fur him amount
ed to reverence. used to think dat
when he cum to die de gates of heaven
would be standin' open fur him. After
a time he run fur Office. 1t wasn't
much of an Office. but it was big huff
to bring out his record. What did l
read and hear bout dat good man?
According to the Newspapers.
II read dat he sent his ole mother TO
de p%orehouse.
dat he burned a nayber's barn.
"Dat he hadn't told de truth in thir-
ty years.
dat he was allus cuffin' his wife
and beatin' his chill'en.
dat he was a bankrupt. a thief, a
hypocrite. and had been in prison fur
stabbin' Il man.
"My frens. when l read and heard
all dose things about de nan ! had
r~everenced l jist broke down and cried.
Den went right ODER to his house to
console him. To my amazement. he
didn't need any consolashun. He was
as clipper as you please. He wasn't
eben put out. He said dat it was SIM
ply de way Of politics and l mustn't
pay any tenshun to it. And neXt day
arter lection de men who had called
him de hardest names We're walkin'
arm in arm wild him and proud of de
honor.
Don't you believe nuthin' dat you
hear about a candydate. Be he high
or low, rich or poor. it is deemed nec-
essary to pitch into him and smirch
his character as much as possible fur
a few days. AFTER dat, whether 'lect-
ed or defeated. he am all right ag'in.
It's jest onr leetle way. you see. Oar
am two parties. If YOU belong to one
you I'm spected to say and believe dat
de odder am composed Of rascals and
villains. We all know better. but OATS
anodder of our leetle ways.
'I've knowed a score of different pol
iticians. and I've allus been told to
look out fur ZEN and dat dey would
sell my grandmother's grave if dey
got de chance. Nobody eber told me
to look out fur lawyers and insurance
and real estate men. but as a matter OF
fact 1t was n Of de latter class dat
sold me a bit Of land with $3.50 fur
double dat price. and. As fur my grand
mothers grave. a lawyer stole de hull
graveyard wherein she was buried. A
politician simply bankers fur Office.
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Revelation.

Revelation.
The truth that Figures never lie'
I eve dared assert
Until I saw Babette go by
Clad In her new sheath ski.t.
But now l know-I must confess
My feeling can't be hid
That when it comes to women's dress
'Twere better II they did.
Judges Library.
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4 PROFESSIONAL WHO EATS X BREAD on
THE STREET TO AROUSE SYMPATHY.
cities in the United States, and much
good work is expected Of it. For
months the society's agents have been
collecting data. and photographs Of
hundreds of notorious professional
beggars have been secured with 10000
records Of the history and the practice
Of mendicants. rogues. frauds and
knaves Of every description. These
will be used as Il bureau of infcr:na-
ton to enable police departments and
charity organizations to deal intelIi-
gently with any mendicants and
rogues who may be found imposing
uDOp citizens.
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Alas, Too True!

"Life with us is very uncertain" re-
marked the wise bird. I'VE fly high
today. and tomorrow we are roasting
on some woman's hat"
Same with u.s." rejoined the philo-
sOphical Goldfish. I'VE are in the swim
today. and tomorrow we are cod liver
oil or Goldfish lls."-Chicago News.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
Comparative Morality,

"John Peters isn't fit to associate
with gentlemen"
Gee! What's the matter:"
"He held out a card when we were
playing poker last night"
$50 did YOU"
"But l only held out a nine spot. He
stole an ace."-Cleveland Leader.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
The Great
Feminine
Strike

w 'e ear "s WEALTH 3!
lest and best
known women at it's
head and with many
rich college girls as
sisting, the strike Of
the shirt waist max
ers, which started in
New York last No
vember and which
is now spreading to
other cities, is no
doubt the largest
and most remarka.
BILE woman's strike
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
lmpertinence.

"!t seems to me that the ten cen
deal better than the ones we get now"
HAS somebody been giving you
one ?"-Chicago Record-Herald.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
Unromantic

Anything romantic about their we'd
ding"
"Not a thing. She can cook. and he
has a job."-Kansas City Journal.
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The Settlement.

Suitor-What will your father settle
on the man who marries you?
The Girl-Al the rest of the family.
] spppose.-St. Louis Times.
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Politics and Candidates Discuss
ed at LimekiIn Club.
ALL PARTIES ARE JUST ALIKE

SUs~Soso0TO NOt 90 MUCH TO name u
They Graft as the People Who Pu,
Temptation In Their Way-Govern-
ment Always Safe.
By N. QUAD.
Copyright. 1910. by Associated Literary
Press.1
~ the last meeting Of the Lime.
kiln club, when the routine
business had been disposed
Of and the temperature of the
hall run up to 120 degrees, Brother
Gardner arose and said:
MY frens. we have Jest passed
through de throes Of a local lection
In dis city. and tonight while l was
waitin' fur de meetin' to open l heard
Giveadam Jones lamentin' dat a dozen
different rascals had been boosted into
office and dat dar was gwine to be u
heap o corrupshun fur seberal years
to come.
II want to say a few words on poll.
tics and candydates. When l was
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
Is Uncle Joe to go?

Is Uncle Joe to 60?
Is it true that
the speaker of the
house of representa-
tives spends u OF
his a time in
.perusing the Help
Wanted-Male" and
business Opportuni-
ties columns of the
newspapers?
VIII he s shortly
pack his grin. pause
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-06
IOWA WINS FROM MINNESOTA.

Iowa City, Dec. iowa won from
Minnesota here by decision to two
to one = the question of the closed
shop, the tHawkeye UNFOLDING the
affirmative.
Glenn Cunningham. leader for Iowa,
cam, third in the contest, summing up
in opposition to M. N. Olson. leader for
the Minnesota team. TIL debat. on
the Iowa side was opened up by Kari
Loos and following him came Stanley
Gillal, opening speaker on the Mimi
esota trio. In respective turn these
were followed ly R. P. McClougi OF
Iowa AMI Henry Paddock OF Mimi
esota
An offer was made on the part OF
minnesota to show that the question
should hinge on the ultimate Justice OF
the idea. Where Iowa made an espec-
tally strong point was in her reouttlng
argument Of the present opinion for the
general public over the question.
Dean Gregory Of Iowa presided ana
"a. F. Sheldon of Lincoln, Neb., Dean
10. A. Marker, Urbana, Ill, and Judge
S. IT. sedwick of Lincoln, Neb., judged
the contest.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-06

wa as a body. and as individuals
tbereof are opposed to such law;
Be it further resolved that the Iarlil.
ers are now paying more than tnelI
inst portion of the taxes. And tnaI
such a law in our judgment Wouid DC
unfair to us.
Re it further resolved that this feso.
luton be spread upon the mlnr'tes VI
this body, and copy OF the same oe
sent to Senator-elect JOHN F. Weboer.
and Representative-elect Frank Shane'
and copy furnished to the news
papers of the county, for publication.
The Auction.
One of the features Of the closing
dav of the institute Saturday after
noon was the auction Of the various
products exhibited and entered IN tne
contest for which prizes were AWARDED.
The prices brought by these different
articles as they were sold IN ones
twos and baskets containing as h1gh
as two dozen ears in the corn solo.
.rought such prices as SIG, Sill ana
down to ten cents both as to single
ears and baskets full. The great
prize winning display of the Krlzer
brothers of Eddyville which took the
first in the county and township
classes both Az and &C.. and were
exhibited in a neat glass case. brought
the highest prices and were the means
Of bringing out some sharp bidding.
They were finally landed by 4e
Krizer brothers for SIG and $11 re-
spectively Basil Davis also paid Sll
for his own prize winning corn.
The auction of the farm pro-
ducts was not completed until $3.50
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NO SUCCESSOR TO MRS.
EDDY, Say SCIENTISTS
Continued From Page ~

Frye, who said: Mrs. Eddy had been
in error about week, and passed
away very quietly
Mr.. Frye described the symptoms
and spoke of an Inflammation of the
chest which led me to the conclusion
that pneumonia had been the con-
tributory cause of death.
Discussing what effect Mrs. Eddy's
death would have, If any, upon the at
fairs of the Christian Science church,
Mr.. Farlow expressed the conviction
that matters would continue just as
they are at present. He said Mrs.
Eddy's connection with the church in
recent years has been that of pastor
emeritus and in an advisory capacity
to the board of directors.
She had left all her property to the
church, according to her WILL made
Of the equity proceedings instituted by
her son, George W. Glover. After
ward her relatives, Yin view of certain
settlements made upon them by II
Eddy, had waived all rights under the
will.
Property In Trustees Hands.
Her property is now and has been
for some time in the hands of trustees
headed by Archibald Mcclellan.
Mr. Farlow did not know whether
Mrs Eddy had given any private ir
structions to the directors of the
church as to the conduct of its affairs
"All 1 can say is that the Christian
Science church has lost its leader and
good adviser" he said
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-06
CEDAR ROUTE NO. 1.

Mrs. J. L. Moore who has been very
ill with neuralgia has recovered
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Carnes We're call
ers in Ottumwa Tuesday.
Miss Viola Ross visited Mrs. E. J.
Newell Wednesday of last week
John Ross is working for r. w.
Moore.
Mrs. r. J. Newell called on Mrs. J.
L. Moore Thursday.
w. j. Brown was business caller at
the John Ross home Monday evening
Seigle Allison delivered hogs in OF
tumwa last week.
Ode Newell helped Seigle Allison
husk corn.
Mrs. John Ross called on Mrs. j. L.
Moore Monday of last week.
The ladies of the M. E. church serv-
ed dinner Thanksgiving day.
Isaac Ross and family visited at the
parental Ross home recently