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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
BA|LEYS SWAN SONG.
TEXAS SENATOR, ABOUT TO RE-
TIRE, DEFENDS HIS CAREER
IN CONGRESS.
GRIEvES ABOUT ~ AND R"
Lone Star Statesman Quotes From
Presldent-EIect Wilson-Did Not
Favor His Selection, but Wishes
His Administration Success.

Washington, Jan. 4.-The swan song
of Senator Bailey was the feature in
congress that attracted throngs to the
capitol Thursday. The retiring sena-
tor, defending his cwn career in con-
gress, made an elaborate attack on
the initiative and referendum.
Practically none Vf Senator Bailey's
address had been prepared in adj
vance. 1t dealt principally with the
principle of the Initiative and referen-
dunn, and he directed his words to-
ward his resolution, declaring that
such system of direct legislation
as the initiative and referendum
would establish is in conflict with the
representative principle on which the
republic is founded"
"The wise and patriotic statesmen
who dedicated this republic to liberty
and independence" declared Senator
Bailey, rejected a direct democracy
in which the people would rule with
out the intervention of representatives
and adopted representative democ-
racy in which the people should rule
through their duly chosen agents"
The senator quoted from states
men who participated In the formation
of the Constitution and the organiza-
ton of the government to show that
they had never intended that the re-
public form of government should
give way to direct legislation by the
people, such as the initiative and ref
erendum would provide.
This is a republican democracy"
he said, and cited again opinion of
men identified with history to prove
that a representative democracy"
was better than a true democracy.
Senator Bailey said he would not
quote from lawyers, because they do
not seem to be in high favor now
with those who wish to work this
change in the government"
Il never had a client who was my
master in any manner" he declared
at one point.
Mr.. Bailey quoted from works of
President-elect Wilson.
II am a Democrat" said Senator
Bailey, "and though / did not favor
his selection, no man living hopes
more for the success of his admins
tration than do"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
FOUND WORKS OF STEVENSON
Manuscripts and Works of Popular
Writer Unearthed in Samoa and
Hawaii, by an Admirer

1t is learned that number of new
and relatively important manuscripts
of Robert Louis Stevenson have been
discovered in Samoa and in Honolulu
by an ardent admirer of the great
novelist, who had been for some time
in both Hawaii and Samoa seeking
such writings of the famous Scotsman
as might possibly be found in the pos
session of some of the many friends
of Stevenson during his years in the
Pacific.
The result of this research has been
the finding of an essay, said to be
highly poetical in character, written
by the novelist after witnessing vol
cano in action, supposedly either the
famous crater of Savaii or the pit Of
Kilauea in Hawaii; piece of fiction
dealing with South Sea life, and a
number of smaller verse compost
tions.
Still another manuscript, a blank
verse relation of well-known legend
Of Maui of considerable length, but
unfinished, has also come to light, and
the enthusiastic admirer of Stevenson
feels highly rewarded for his month
of effort.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
FREE men ON BAIL
DYNAMITERS CAN LEAVE PRISON
BY SCHEDULING 100000
PENDING APPEAL.
HocKIN ACCEPTS SENTENCE
Supersedeas Bond Fixed in Chicago
to Await Hearing on Writ of Err
ror-Should One Flee U. S. They
Cannot Be Returned.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Writs OF superse-
IDEAS were granted Friday by the Uni
ted States court of appeals in the case
of thirty-two of the thirty-three labor
leaders convicted Of a dynamite plot.
All will be released on bonds. That
of Frank M. Ryan was placed at $1O,-
600. The bonds were made on basis
of $4,000 for each year of the term
to which the men had been SEN
fenced.
In fixing the bonds Judge Baker re-
viewed the evidence and the argu-
ments in the case and stated that the
bonds should be large enough to make
the persons furnishing them very
much concerned in getting the men
into court when they are wanted.
The charge is not one in which ex-
tradition may be resorted to, he SAID.
If the men should once get out or the
country, he declared it doubtful II
they could be compelled to return or
if the government could punish them.
Only thirty-two of the thirty-three
committed men were specifically rep
resented, although all were mentioned
in the petition. Herbert S. Hockin of
Indianapolis had expressed willing
ness to serve his sentence and not
ask an appeal.
Attorneys for the 33 convicted labor
leaders at once took steps to provide
suitable bonds for their clients.
The bonds for the 80 men, as fixed
by the court, aggregate $1,07O,0OO.
Immediately following the decision
of the court of appeals the point was
raised by whom the bonds should be
approved. 1t was agreed by the court
and the attorneys that Federal Judge
Anderson in the district court at In,
dianapolis should be the judge to ap-
prove the bonds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
GALE RACES ON THE COAST
Norfolk and Newport News Isolated
by Steamships Sink at Sea-
Freight Destroyed.

Washington Jan. 6.-The south At
lantic coast states Friday were in the
grip of terrific wind and rain storm,
which worked havoc with shipping
and cut off the cities Of Norfolk and
Newport News. All land wires lead
ing out OF the cities were destroyed.
Before the last two went down a tele-
graph operator in Newport News re-
marked that the gale was so terrific
that the waters of the James river
surged up into the lower parts of the
city with the violence of small tidal
wave
The navy wireless sent out unan-
swered calls to the ships of the Allan
tic fleet gathering in Hampton roads.
Anxiety was felt for the safety of tor
pedo boats in the narrow sea way.
Launches and small boats from the
warships which attempted landings
were swamped. Large quantities of
freight on the piers were swept into
the sea. The beaches about the Vir-
ginia capes were strewn with wrecks
of small craft.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
SENATOR DAVIS IS DEAD
Passes Away Suddenly of ApopIexy
at His Home in Little Rock-Was
Enemy of Plutocrats.

Little Rock, Ark, Jan. 4.-United
States Senator Jeff Davis of Arkan-
sas died on Friday of apoplexy at his
home in Little Rock. Tis term will
not expire until 1917. He was elected
to office when twenty-one, serving con-
tinually since that time. He was fif-
ty-one years old. He served three
terms as governor of Arkansas.
Mr. Davis was one Of the most spec
tacular members of the United States
senate. At all times an inveterate
enemy Of "the plutocrats," he attract
ed worldwide attention in the winter
Of 1910 in a speech opposing a bill to
give right of way through Arkansas
for gas pipe line. He was proud
of being known as "trust-buster."
Senator Davis was born in Russell
vile, Ark, May 6, 1862, and was
graduated from Vanderbilt university
in 1884, being admitted to the bar
the same year. He married Ina Nc
Kenzie in 1882. Three sons and four
daughters were born to them. Two
years after Mrs. Davis died he mar
ried Miss Leila Carter, daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. Wallace A. Carter of
Ozark, Ark
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
ROCKEFELLER WILL TESTIFY
Oil Magnate Accepts Service to Appear
Before the Pujo Money Investi-
eating Committee.

Washington, Jan. 6-The end of the
long search for William G. Rockefel-
Ter, Standard Oil magnate, wanted
as witness before the money trust
investigating committee, came Friday
when Chairman Pujo was notified by
Rockefeller that he would accept serv-
ice.
The search has lasted since June,
and for the last few weeks has cost
the public at least $500 a day.
1t was arranged that Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter will appear before the committee
on January 10.
Rockefeller's decision was communi-
Gated to Chairman Pujo through At
torney Samuel Uhtermyer, counsel
for the committee, and House Ser
geant-at-Arms Riddell, both of whom
are in New York.
Mr.. Pujo would not discuss the
terms of Mr.. Rockefeller's surrender.
if terms were made by the Rockefel-
Ter lawyers. Details of Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's agreement to appear before the
committee were left to Mr.. Inter
myer, although there were frequent
telephone conferences between the
chairman of the committee and its
counsel during the day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
SKIN ERUPTION ON CHEEK

Kingsley, Mich.-"Last May my
thirteen-months-old baby had a sore
come on her cheek. 1t started in four
or five small pimples and in two or
three hours time spread to the size of
a silver dollar. 1t spread to her eye.
Then water would run from the PIN
pies and wherever that touched 1t caus.
ed more sores until nearly all one
cheek and up her nostrils were one
solid sore. She was very fretful. She
certainly was a terrible looking child
and nothing seemed to be of any use.
"Then l got some Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. She tried to rub
off everything we put on so that we
would sit and hold her hands for two
hours at time, trying to give the
medicine a chance to help her, but
after 1 washed it with Cuticura Soap
and then put on the Cuticura Oint-
ment they seemed to soothe her and
she did not try to rub them off. 1t
was only a few days before her face
was all healed up, and there has been
no return of the trouble since. We
thought that baby's face would surely
be SCARED, but 1t is not" (Signed
Mrs. w. J. Cleland, Jan. 5, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09

A baby never laughs, an aged per-
son very rarely. But the smile, like
the pleasures Of the palate, according
TO Brillat Savarin, belongs to all the
seven ages of man and with normal
persons 1t is universal. Imagine new
er-smiling human being, and you must
assume that he is either a physical or
a psychological eccentricity, or both.
The Greenpoint youngster who shot
himself in Central park, Manhattan,
and died few hours later, is said to
have been known among his school
mates as ''the boy that never smiled"
He could work, he could study, he
could think. He appears not to have
been without affection. Yet suicide at
the age of sixteen was the climax of a
sort of abnormality which science new
er had an opportunity to analyZe or
classify. The child that never smiles
demands scientific attention. In this
rather jumbled up universe occasions
for smiling are everywhere. Breaks
in symmetry are everywhere. An eye
that does not see, mind that does not
comprehend such breaks, is unusual
enough to be made a study of for the
ultimate benefit of the rest of the race.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
THE CHILD BEHIND.

Look about as you walk along the
street and see how many children you
can count chasing after or riding on
the ends of wagons in the streets. The
odds are heavy that you cannot fail to
see such sight every time you take
the sight and nobody does anything
about it. Would you believe that it is
just as much against the law for
child to catch behind as it is for a
stranger from out Of town to stop his
vehicle within ten feet Of a hydrant.
Let the stranger try it on and he soon
finds himself in the clutches Of the
law, says the Hartford Courant But
let child try it on and there he is.
Now the inevitable result of this utter
neglect to enforce a law that makes
for safety is simply to invite peril.
Pretty soon, possibly on another page
OF the paper in which this article ap-
pears, there will be an account Of an
other automobile accident. Some ex-
citable observers will likely call it an
automobile outrage. It will be the
story of how an automobile ran over
a child that had been playing catch
behind and had jumped off the vehicle
1t was stealing ride on. The one
way to prevent these killings for
which drivers are not to blame is to
impress on the children and their par
ents that this business, which the law
forbids, must stop.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
LEGISLATOR A SUICIDE
CONGRESSMAN WEDEMEYER OF
MICHIGAN LEAPS INTO SEA.
Became III, Then Violent, on Trip to
Pharmaceutical Over Failure to
Be Reelected.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Representa-
tive William w. Wedemeyer of Ann
Arbor, Mich, who suddenly became i'll
and was thought to be insane at Co.
lon, Panama, at the time of President
Taft's recent visit to the isthmus,
jumped overheard from a ship on
which he had been taken at Colon.
His body had not been recovered.
Representative Wedemeyer went to
the isthmus with a congressional par
ty at the same time the president Wis
tied there. On the voyage from New
York he collapsed and was taken first
to sanitarium in Panama and later
was put in confinement in a hospital
where he became violent and raved
He developed suicidal tendency and
was closely watched Mr.. Wede-
meyers close friends say that few
days before leaving for the isthmus
he fell and struck his head on an icy
sidewalk. It was not regarded as seri-
Gus and did not deter him from going
with the congressional party.
Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan. 6.-Although
it was reported that the mental con-
dition of Congressman William W.
Wedemeyer, who, while insane leaped
overheard from a steamer carrying
him home from Colon, Panama, was
due largely to a fall he received re-
Gently In Washington, his local friends
and associates attribute the congress
mans breakdown to the strenuous
campaign he went through last fall,
which resulted in his defeat by S. w.
Beakes, Democrat, and his enthusiast
tic congressional work in general.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
NEWS FROM FAR
AND NEAR

Washington, Jan. 4.-President Taft
sent to the senate the name of Henry
s Boutell of Chicago, minister to
Switzerland, for appointment to the
United Sattes court of claims. Mr..
BoutefI wa@ former member of con-
gress. The president nominated Judge
Fenton w. Booth for the position of
chief justice, in place of Stanton J.
Petite, who retired.
Cincinnati, Jan. 4.-Harry G. Ellard
better known to the literary world as
the Cowboy Poet" and the Poet
Lariat," is dead here in his fifty-fourth
year, after life spent in travelling
about the world, during which time he
wrote many interesting and clever
poems and books.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Secretary OF
War Henry l.. Stimson has made
formal request that congress immedi-
ately appropriate 100000 for horses
for all branches of the army He
stated that the service is seriously
hampered by lack of mounts.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh sent letter
to congress asking an appropriation
of $4,000 to stamp out the opium
evil.
Concern, N. H., Jan. 3.-Samuel D..
Felker, Democrat, was chosen COVER
nor of New Hampshire by the legisla-
ture, which had been called on to
choose an executive, as neither lead
ing candidate in last November's cleo
ton had received the necessary ma
jority at the polls. Mr.. Felker re-
ceived 222 votes to 191 for Franklin
Worcester. the Republican candidate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
JAMES r. KEENE SUCCUMBS
Death of Financier Follows Operation
For Abdominal Trouble-Had
Been III Two Years.

New York, Jan. flames r. Keene
died Friday morning in Miss Alston's
private hospital. Death followed an
operation for an ABDOMINAL trouble Of
long standing which became acute a
few days ago and which necessitated
his removal from the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel to the place where he died.
Mr.. Keene had been an i'll man for
two years.
He was leader in Wall street
stock speculation and also a COM
handing figure on the turf. He had
the distinction of having owned, bred
and raced some of the greatest horses
in the history of the American turf.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09

It is astonishing how prosperous we
should be il there were no waste and
losses. We are now told that cattle
ticks cost the country $1OO.OO0,0OO a
year. If we remember Alright, the de-
partment of agriculture has told us
that rats cost us as much as that, and
several other varieties of vermin and
injurious insects rob us of as much or
larger sums. The underwriters tell us
that nearly all the $40, OOO, 900 a year
we lose in CONGREGATIONS is prevent
able, and the doctors tell us that the
greater part of the sickness, which is
a tremendous drain on individual and
national resources, is preventable.
Some time we may stop these leaks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
EVENTS OF 1912

War between Turkey and the
Balkan states.
Sinking of the Titanic, when
SO souls persisted.
Attempted assassination of
Theodore Roosevelt.
Democratic victory in the
United States and the election
of Woodrow Wilson for presi-
dent.
Establishing of the Chinese
republic.
Winning of the Nobel prize
for surgical research by DR..
Alexis Carroll of the Rockefeller
Institute.
President Taft's veto of the
tariff bills reducing the rates on
wool, cotton and iron. Also his
veto of the farmers free list bill.
Canada's rejection of the reel
procity agreement
The assassination of Herman
Rosenthal, q New York gam
bier, at the instigation of Police
Lieutenant Charles A. Becker.
Death of thirty airmen during
the year, bringing the total up
to PIT.
U. S. Supreme Court decisions
in the Union Pacific merger and
the anthracite coal trust cases.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
WIRELESS FROM PARIS TO u. S.
MESSAGE is Sent From EiffeI Tower
in French Capital to Airing
ton Station.

Washington, Jan. 2.-The long arm
of the wireless has reached from the
Eiffel tower, Paris, to the govern
ment station at Arlington, a distance
of four thousand miles, according to
a report of Commander c. H. Billiard
to Secretary of the Navy Meyer to-
day.
Naval officers consider this the
most important achievement OF the
wireless since it's invention.
The communications between
Washington and Paris were estab-
lished in the quiet hours OF early
morning when the Arlington operator
received the time signal sent out from
the Efffel tower every fifteen minutes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09

Napoleon was the greatest egotist of
history. He was not disposed to give
credit unduly to other people. Yet he
wrote of his mother: 1T is to my
mother, to her good principles, that
owe my success and all have that
is worth while. l do not hesitate to
say that the future of the child de-
ponds on the mother" All through life
he ordered his brothers and sisters
around, and paid slight heed to rela-
tives of any sort. Yet he always treat
ed his mother with respect, and she
in her turn never lost her head, but
thriftily laid aside resources for the
days of adversely which she saw were
bound to come. This influence OF
mothers is inevitable, says the Kansas
City Star. The father is away from
home large share of the time 1t is
to the mother that the child turns. She
is his closest companion for the first
few years of his life. In all the period
when his habits are forming he is con-
stantly in association with her.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09

Roses at one time figured pr%sAF
inently in the pharmacopoeia. Pliny
caves so remedies compounded OF
rose leaves and petals. Sufferers
from nervous complaints used to seek
relief by sleeping on rose pillows and
one is told that Helogabalus used to
imbibe rose wine as pick-me'up
after his periodical gormandizing
hours. The flower was also served
at table, both az a garnish, in the way
parsley is now used, and as salad,
and rose water was largely used for
fiavoring dishes. Roses as food have
gone out of favor among western ma
lions, but the Chinese still eat rose
fritters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
GOMPERS AND AIDS APPEAL
Petition Alleges Court Erred in SEN
fencing Labor Leaders to Jail for
Contempt.

Washington, Jan. 4.-Samuel Comp
ers, John Mitchell and Frank Nor
rison of the American Federation Of
Labor, convicted of contempt of court
and sentenced to Jail in connection
with the Bucks Stove G Range case,
have filed their appeal in the District
of Columbia court of appeals. 1t al
leges the men were convicted not of
contempt of court, but of want of re-
spect for judicial authority. Seven
teen alleged errors are charged
against Justice Wright The commit
tee of prosecutors" will file a brief
in reply before February s.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
BROKER KILLS WIFE AND SELF
Henry C. Edey, Retired Trader, Com
mits Murderous Deed at Long
Island Home.

Bellport, N. Y, jan 4.-Henry c.
Edey, a wealthy retired Wall street
broker, shot and killed his young wife
in their home on Great South Bay and
then committed suicide Thursday. The
murder and suicide followed by six
weeks Mrs. Edey's reconciliation with
her husband, whom she left last sum-
mer Mr.. Edey's bedroom, where the
tragedy was staged, gave evidence OF
. violent struggle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
ahnnner,s cramn.

Simeon Ford, at a dinner of hotel
men in New York, discussed new
disease.
There's O new disease called shop
per's cramp," he said. ut appears
early in December, becomes violent
~ epidemic about the middle of the
month and ends suddenly on the eve
ming of the oath.
Women feel shoppers cramp In
the arms, the limbs, everywhere; but
it attacks the husband only in one
place-t1le pocket"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
EARN THIS SIS TANNING MILL
He's Not a Chicken FancIer.

Speaking of chickens, a funny man
writing in Puck says:
"They are the most dadbusted, I'M
certainest creatures that walk the
family acres. Almost everybody tries
to raise chickens at one time or an
other. Looks easy-that's the deceiv-
ing part of it.
And it is easy after you learn one
thing. Little chickens don't know
anything, medium sized chickens dons
know anything. If there is any change
of an intellectual nature as the size
increases the big ones know less If
possible than the little ones
eff there is a wire partition in your
pen with an open door at one end the
chickens will try to plunge through
the wire instead Of going around and
walking through the door,"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09

There is one district in China which
is going to reform the opium scandal
of the nation without any sentimental
nonsense. Opium fiends under forty
are to be executed and those over that
age will be imprisoned for life, which
is rather reversing the Oslerian meth
cd. So the habit is bound to be cured
without tiresome educational pro-
cesses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09

A California girl has given up mil
linery business worth $4,000 a year to
go on the stage as a chorus girl at
$25 a week. says theatrical ex-
change Perhaps she figures that with
that income and the stage. a title Is
assured her.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
GRAND DUKE MiohaeI Retired

st. Petersburg, Jan. 3.-The emper-
or's brother, Grand Duke Michael, was
relieved of the command of the Cheva-
lier Guards regiment Wednesday and
given II months leave of absence,
either in Russia or abroad.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-01-09
a WeakIIna.

ct am sorry to say" remarked the
young wife, that my husband seems
to lack initiative and decision"
what has caused you to think SOP
her friend suggested.
81 have to suggest it every time
when he asks for raise in salary and
then he hesitates for long time
about doing it."