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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-04-15
Wilson Carriage Co
New Masonic Bldg, ITO w. Second st.

Warren township, returned home yes
| terday.
The Misses Ruth Bennett and Irene
Farrell, who are attending the lowe
state university at Iowa City, arrived
home yesterday to spend weeks va
cation at their homes.
Mrs. J. A. Tate Of Red Cloud, Neb
is visiting in this city, guest at the
home Of her brother, L. N. Edison.
Miss Maud Garnes Of Kansas City
came yesterday for visit with her
sister. Miss Nellie Garnes.
DR.. and Mrs. j. A. McKlveen re.
turned yesterday from Riverside, Cal,
where they had been spending the win
ter with Mrs. Hugh Craig.
Carl Wiltsey of Hemingsford, Neb.,
who has been here for some time at
tending the Charlton Commercial col
lege, returned home yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dawson OF Bur-
lington, formerly of this city, came
Yesterday for a brief visit with rela-
tives and old friends.
Mrs. C. G. Phinney and daughter de-
parted this morning for visit at their
old home in Taylorville, III.
Mrs. r. N. Mumford Of Greensburg,
Kansas. who was called here few
weeks ago by the death of her mother.
Mrs. William Keysor, returned home
yesterday. ~
q. ]. Stewart was business visitor
in Abba yesterday.
Mrs. Emma Beckman OF Grumpy Cen.
ter, worthy grand matron OF the Order
Eastern Star, paid the Charlton chap
ter visit on Monday evening. After
the business matters had been dis
posed Of, social session was held.
Light refreshments were served and
a general good time was had.
Mrs Arthur Curtis and two children
OF Ottumwa have returned home after
few days. visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. o. Becker and other rela-
tives. y
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Holmes of Hite-
man have returned home after q visit
"a Whitebreast township with Mr..
Holmes parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 8.
s. Holmes, and with relatives in Luz
cas-. where they formerly resided.
3. r. Erb OF Manning. returned home
Yesterday after few weeks visit with
his uncle, j. M. Kneeland, and other
relatives. He resided here several
years ago.
Mrs. Dora Marchand Of Des Moines
is visiting in this city with her mother.
Mrs. Wiley Young. and brother, Chas.
e. Fluke and family.
Mrs. Homer Caughlan is spending a
few days in Ottumwa with her mother,
Mrs. Chris Kaiser, and other relatives
and old friends.
Miss Marietta Taylor OF Chicago. for
merly Of Washington township. arrived
Yesterday for a visit with her niece.
Mrs. G. L. Johnson, and with relatives
at Russell.
Mrs. Ludlow Robbins OF Des Moines
returned home yesterday after a visit
at the home Of her father-in-1aw, Jas.
H, Robbins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Evans and
baby Of Los Angles. Cal. visited with
friends in the city yesterday while on
their way to Humeston, their former
home.
Mrs. w. j. Darby of ST. Joe, has re-
turned home after visit with her sis
ter, Mrs. Chas. Culbertson.
Miss Helen Tansey of Leon has re-
turned home after a ten days visit with
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MARS HILL.

Mrs. Buchanan. daughter Miss Ella
nd son WEISS spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs w. Shank.
ROSS Turner OF Ottunwa spent Wed :
nesday at the home OF his parents
here.
Geo. Deiters was in Floris one day
Mrs. Vivian Kashner who has been
staying In Ottumwa has returned
viii shank was in ottumwa satur-
day.
Geo. Deiters has rented the May
farm for this year. :,
Miss Stella Thomas and Frank Cruel
residing near here were united IN mar
mage Wednesday.
Marsena Mowery and Glen Miller
delivered corn in ottumwa Wednes-
day.
The Belknap farm was sold recently
tosan Ottumwa man.
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her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. q. M.
Whittlesey.
Rev. Theodore H. Aszman, pastor OF
the First Presbyterian church, left yes.
terday for Des Moines to attend q
meeting of the Des Moines Presbytery.
VIM. Campbell also went as dele.
gate.
Mrs. John Webb has returned from
Pattonsburg, Mo-, where her husband
has been located for some time, and
who has been transferred to Abba.
Mrs. Webb will remain here for the
present
Mrs. w. c. Martindale Of Murray
returned home yesterday after few
days visit with her aunt, Mrs. Lot
Curtis.
Miss Josie Swift Of Des Moines re-
turned to her duties yesterday after
few days visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. B. Swift. and with her SIS
tiers.
Vera were Ottumwa visitors yesterday.
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CEDAR ROUTE NO. l..

Misses Cecil and Hazel Moore az.
tended church in Kirkville Sunday.
John Ross visited at the Willian
Kerr home Sunday.
Ode Newell is working for walter
Brown.
Isaac Cook was caller at the JohE
Ross home Sunday.
Those visiting Sunday at the e. j.
Newell home were Mrs. j. L. Moore,
Mary and Alice Baker. Cecil and Hazel
Moore and Viola Ross
Miss Bertha Courtney OF Kirkyills
is very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence Harding and
children visited Sunday at the William
Kerr home.
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CHICAGO Live stock; OPENING.

Chicago April lathe live stock
Rrket follows:
Cattle-Market steady; receipts, l.
o; beeves, S5.2O@6.75; Texas steers pr.
.50@5.70; western steers. $4.SSV o.eo
boxers and feeders, s4.10@ $50; COWS
4 d heifers, $2.70@ 5.85. ,,,,
IHogs- Market slow, generaily
Ieady; receipts. 10000; light, s6.dSg
b5; mixed, $6@6.50; heavy, s1.evg
B0; rough, $5.S0@6: good 70 cnoiI I,.
Raxy, $6@6.30; pigs, $6.l @o.oo' DUN
sheen-Market steady; receipts. g.
m. native. s3@4.70: westerns. $3.15@
Ko: yearlings, $4.40@5.4o; lambs, ma :
I've s475m6.15: westerns, $4.7o@6.lo.
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LAMB PRICES
UP FIFTY CENTS
PRICE ON MUTTON SHOWS IN
CREASE. EGGS DECREASE
oNE-rALF CENT.

In the local wholesale markets lambs
are quoted at fifty cent increase,
which is the only change in the live
stock markets. The hog prices remain
the same as yesterdays quotations.
Eggs are shown at "a one-half cent
drop. No other changes. Rhubarb in
the retail markets Is quoted at two
and one-half cent drop. Asparagus
dressed hens and butter show q slight
increase.
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|0C MARKET IS
STEADY TODAY
(IPPERs PAID FIVE CENTS
HIGHER AT CLOSE; CATTLE
MARKET DULL.

chicago. April 14.-opening prices OF
gs were fully steady, though tns
rket on this basis was supportsu
belly by scalpers, shippers and PACK
trying to bear the price lists. snip
rs later paid strong to five cents
CHER values. -,
Cattle market dull and slow on nsne
Eeipts and inactivity of buyers. inere
no quotable changes IN prices.
meager supply sent prices OF NV
lttons up five cents. Best sioi =
hbs went at $3.50.
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Omaha Live Stock.

omaha, Nebr, April IL The live
jock market follows: ~.
cattle-Market steady; receipts, 500:
|atiyes steers, $5.2o@6.S0; cows and
Ieifers, $4@5.7O; stockers and FEEDERS
t.25@5.85.
kipts, s,1OO: heavy, $s:75@e.So; mixed 's'l
s5@5.so; light, $5.9o@6.10.
'Sheen-Market steady; receipts. SOC;
heep. s3.90@4.90; lambs. s5.25@5.9o.
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Chicago Provisions.

! Chicago, April 1.-THE provision
market follows: IL
4 Butter-Market stfady; creamer1es'
34@21c.; dairies. 1S@lSc. .,
4 Errs-Market steady; receipts, 23.-
ta5 cases: at market, cases included.
ish@14c.; flrsts, &c.; prime hrsts'
Cheese-Market steady; daisies, lao
I4Ac.: Twins, 12A @13c.; Youns
& mericas, 13N @14c.: Long Horns,
pntatoes-Market weak; choice to
FANCY. 62@55c.: fair to good, 500 SIC.
Poultry-Market steady: turkeys,
stressed. l9c.; fowls, live, 15c.; springs
veal-Market steady; 80 to so Id.
wts, 6m7c.; so to IS lib. WITS. 1850; IS
10 ITO ID. WITS, sh q 10c.
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chie.no 1.-Two Stock; cIosins.

Chicago, April 14.-The closing i've
ock market follows: ooa .
Cattle-Market slow; receipts, l.oono
eeyes, s5.20@6.75; Texas steers, S4;oo
55.7O. western steers, $4.85@ o.oo,
lockers and feeders, $4.10@ $50; cows
nd heifers, $2.70@5.a5. ,oon.
IHogs-Market firm; receipts, lS,ogo.
|ght. s62o@6.55: mixed, $6.15 @6:oe.
|eayy. $5s5@6.35; rough, $6.soWo,
BOD to heavy, S6@635; pigs, $o.loW
|50: bulk of sales, s4.16@6.3O.
sheep Market strong to snade DEN 81 !.
+; receipts. 1900; natives, *oW4 az,
20: lambs, s4.75@6.15: westerns, $4''
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81 Louis Live Stock.

St. Louis 1.-Two otoSH'
st. Louis, April 14.-The live stocA
rattle-Market steady; receipts, 300 );
Z tive beef steers, $5@6.75; cows ana
letters, $4.75@6.55; stockers ana 1eea-
|rs, $3.50@5.75. +. <
loo. pigs and lights, $6.30@6.55; pack.
Ia. s5.75@650; butchers ana Dest
(eavy, $6.20@6.50.
No sheep.
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81. Joseph Live Stock.

South st. Joseph, April 1.-THE live
Jock market follows: ,o,.
4 Cattle-Market steady; receipts, so0'
seers, $5.50@6.40; cows and hel1ers'
g.50@6; calves, S4@7.
/ IIors-Market steady; receipts, -
DO: top, 1885; bulk Of sales, 5000
sheep-Market steady; receipts, l.
100 !: lambs, $5.50@5.90.
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Kansas City Live Stock;

kansao City Live STOCK.
Kansas city, April 1.-THE i've
|tock market follows: -oo
Csattle-Market steady: receipts, 500 /;
lative steers, $5.40@6.50; southern
Eteers. 34.5O@6; native cows and neil
r.. 3s@6.25; stockers and feeders $4.'o
[. $50: western steers, $5@6.lo:
! fIogs-Market steady: recelPts'
muttons, $3.50@4.75; lambs, $5@
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New York Provisions.

New York, April 1.-THE provision
market follows: a..
Ecreamery, 1914 @19Hc.; held creamery.
Fdrsts to extras, 17@19c:
! cesheese-Market steady, unchanged:
receipts, 1885.
Eggg-Market steady; unchanged;
Ixeceipts, 1851.
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A. .Ioui. Wool,

St. Louis WOOL
st. Louis, Mo-, April 14:-Wool-
Market lower; territory and western
mediums, 15@17c.; fine mediums, 1870
15c.: fine, HOBO.
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Miscellaneous

STANDING FOR SERVICE, AT FAR
son, Ia, Kentucky bred year old
stallion. also two full blooded Nor
mans. have sent to kentucky for u
mammoth Jack which will be here IN
a short time. Hawthorne at FArsor.
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IOWA FARMS.

and real estate agent In Iowa to have
my large illustrated list Of Worth
county improved farms and pictures
of buildings. positively have the
best and cheapest list OF land IN
Iowa. Write for 1t today. G. M. EN-
cry, Northwood, iowa.
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tt
Will Pay You
to Advertise in
the Want Ads
For Sale

FOR SALE-I HAVE ELEVEN ONE
and two year old recorded Angus
bulls, also some cows and heifefs.
Extra good ones. Prices reasonable.
VIM. Caylor, Unionville, Ia.
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l HAVE THEM HERE AND YOU
can save time In getting Klondike
and Old Trusty Incubators Of me and
at factory's lowest red ink prices
Jas. H. Shepherd. Ottumwa, Iowa.
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EGGS FOR SALE FROM SINGLE
Comb Rhode Island Reds, as large
as Plymouth Rocks. They are from
best laying strain. Eggs 81 per sit =
ting. $3.50 per so. 81 per 100. Charlie
August & Son. Belknap. Iowa. r. No.
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FOR SAI,E--PR1ZE WINNERS BAR
red Buff. White Rocks, Rhode Island
Reds. White Wyandottc. Leghorn
eggs, 81 hundred; also Orpingt?n
Bronze turkey and duck eggs, baby
chickens, Scotch Collie. Aliens Stock
Farm. Atlanta, Mo.
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FOR SALES. C. w. LEGHoRN
eggs Young and Wyckoff strain.
Bred for laying qualities. Is cents
per IS; $500 = 100 Glen Heninger.
Hedrick, IoW
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k.n... City Butter and Eggs.

I Kansas City, April 14.-Butter-
creamery, zoe: f1rsts, 17c.; seconds
Il 5c packing stock. 12hc.
! Eggs-Pscking, 16c: firsts, i4c.
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FOR sALE-sIx BIG BARGAINS IN
mems suits Of clothes. Sizes SO. 38. 40
and 81. Well made, stylish fine suits
at Just half what they are worth. los
Market ST.. opposite McElroy's Res
taurant
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FOR SALE-ROSE COMB RHODE
Island Red eggs at Is cents per 10;
also eggs from extra good barred
Rocks at Is cents for Is or $500 per
100. Mrs. Frank holland, Blakesburg,
Iowa.
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Nav York Poultry

New York. April 14-Poultry-Mar-
&tet dressed, quiet; western fowls. 15t9
EI7c.: turkeys. 10000.
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FOR SALE-10 OR Is NICE DRESS
shirts for men worth $1.25 and $3.50
for TIC. Nice colors and good style.
1C8 Market st.
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s. c. BUFF oRPINGToN EGGS
from fine stock. $1.OO per sitting s(15)
also some choice s. G. Buff LeghOrns
same price. F. Roper. Box 277. Pella.
Iowa.
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RANGE OF HOG PRICES

range Of hog values at Chicago TOT
past two weeks with comparisons:
i S--,. = -. Mixed and IiRht
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have been known the world over as
the best that skill and honest work can
produce. They have the reputation sim
bly, because they deserve 1t. They are
built with exceptional care, from the
pick of the worlds best materials. IN
the largest and best equipped vehicle
factory in the world. They are made
right and they give unusual service
and exceptional satisfaction. Why not
get Studebaker and be sure!
We are local agents.
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FOR SALE-sOME WHITE HoL-
land turkey eggs for setting. Phone
new 690-D. Mrs. A. Areingdale.
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FOR SALE-PURE FRED EGGS FOR
Matching. Bradley Barred Plymouth
Rocks, Is cents per Is; $500 per 100.
Providence Tompkins single comb
Jacob Schlotter, Selma. Iowa. Phone
Leando. II
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FOR SALE-PCPE BRED ANGUS
bulls Ed F. Oehler. Moravia. la.
FOR sAL~G GOD RESIDENCE
property in South Ottumwa Good
I room story and half house. good
barn, six lots. good neighborhood.
cheap for cash or partly on time.
II. c. Leach, Bloomfield. la.
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FOR E-SACRIFICE-IF YOU
have $1,000 cash and can act quick
! will sacrifice my finely improved
farm in Swift county. southern Min
nesota, for $AS per acre. Same Harms
all around me cannot be bought for
less than $50. I need $1,000 cash
within two weeks. If you cannot act
at once, no use to write. On balance
terms will be made to suit. N. P.
West. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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GO SOUTH AND SEE THE WON
derful Louisiana country-Some rare
bargains from S. to $500 per acre
Rice, corn, fruit and truck farms
Splendid climate--Good soil-$3J
round trip. Box ia, Ottumwa, Iowa.
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FOR sALE-BARRED ROCK EGGS.
75c per sitting, $3.50 per hundred.
Bun Cochin Bantam eggs soc for 3.
Mrs. w. c. McMichael. 409sN. Clay.
New phone 771-K. #sss
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FOR SALE-ROSE COMB BROWN
Leghorn chicks. Will have about 200
April rs. Eggs $3.50 PER- 100. Farm
range. Mrs. Charles Lasley, Floris.
Iowa.
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FOR SALE ADVANCE SAW Mill
complete. Almost new.ts Price $500
Address H. 0 Bowman, Melrose.
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For Sale

FOR sALE-2oo ACRES, IMPROVED
land, fine buildings; rural delivery
two miles station and creamery,
Freedom county, the banner dairy
county Of Minnesota. Full descrip
ton given on application. f. l.. dis,
GAINESVILLE, Mimi Administrator.
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Poultry and Eggs

FOR sALE+A FEW SETTINGS OF
White Wyandotte eggs, Fishel-Can-
dee strain. Nothing fancy. just egg
dollars. c F.. Boise, Ottumwa, la.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-12-29

It was New Years night. An aged
man was standing BY the window. He
mournfully raised his eyes toward the
deep blue sky, where the stars were
floating like white lilies on the sur.
face Of a clear, calm lake. Then he
cast them on the earth, where few
more helpless beings than himself
were moving toward their inevitable
goal-the tomb. Already he had pass.
ed sixty Of the stages which lead to
1t, and he had brought from his Jour.
ney nothing but errors and remorse.
His health was destroyed, his mind
unfinished, his heart sorrowful, and
his old age devoid of comfort.
The days Of his youth rose up in a
vision before him, and he recalled the
solemn moment when his father had
placed him at the entrance Of two
roads, one leading into 4 peaceful,
sunny land, covered with q fertile har-
vest, and resoundlng with soft, sweet
songs; while the other conducted the
Wanderer into q deep, dark cave,
whence there was no issue, where poi
son flowed instead Of water, and
where serpents Kissed and crawled.
He looked toward the sky, and cried
out in his anguish: "Oh, youth, re-
turn! o my father, place me once
more at the crossway Of life. that |
may choose the better road" But
the days Of his youth had passed
away, and his parents were with the
departed. He saw wandering lights
noat over dark marshes, and then dis
appear. Such" he said, were the
days Of my wasted life!" He saw a
star shoot from heaven, and vanish
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on more manure, and did more disc

ON more manure, and did more disc
ing, and planted strawberries.
From the half patch he got 25O bu-
she's, worth on an average of $1.25
Per buShel-all tod the cash returns
from the acre were s275. without
Counting a crop Of turnips sown. after
the onions. This succession of crops
has been kept up, and the Land has
been bringing gross neturns SO large
that after paying all expenses the net
income has been from $3.50 to $500.
Does this mans experience prove
anything OF not? l say DIT does. It
shows that cultivating only so much
land as can be made extremely pro-
duc'lTe, and cultvating as thorough
as possible it takes but a small area
OF the right kind of crops to make
very large returns.
There are thousands of farms all
over this country that are known as
good farms, that do not pay so well,
though many times as large.
The lesson lis one that all of us
need to learn. When we farm on the
extensive plan 1t is impossible ever
to raise maximum crops, or to make
The soil much better. am convinced
that 1T is almost impossible for any
man who has not large capital, or
does not borrow it, to do this thor.
oughness of cultivation, that is so alb
sohtely necessary to securing the
best results.
| have had much experience of a
varied kind i'm farming, and observed
closely the operations Of others, and
the two things that | have found to
be always practicable has been ma.
nurtng or in some way making the
soil behber, and doing the best posi-
BILE cultivation.
We all know that intensive farm
ing Is usually done on a small scale,
but that is not necessary. The larg-
er the scale any business iB done on
the smaller the cost per acre; but no
one should forget that the thorough
ness and the heavy manurfng are JUS:
as necessary or even more So than
on a small scale.
But one might begin small and grow
up. am trying some small area on
The intensive plan this year, and |
hope to get a maximum yield of corn
and potatoes
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in darkness athwart the churchyard.
Behold an emblem of myself" he
exclaimed and the sharp arrows OF
unaVailing remorse struck him to the
heart.
Then he remembered his early COM
panions, who had entered life with
him, but who having trod the paths Of
virtue and industry, were now happy
and honored on this New Years
night The clock in the high church
tower struck, and the sound, falling
on his ear, recalled the many tokens
Of the love of his parents for him:
the prayers they had offered up in his
behalf. Overwhelmed with shame
and grief, he dared no longer look to-
ward that heaven where they dwelt.
His darkened eyes dropped tears, and
with one despairing effort he cried
aloud, Come back, my early daysl
Come back" 30
And his youth did return; for all
this had been but a dream. visiting
his slumbers on New Years night.
He was still young, his errors only
were no dream. He thanked God fer.
Vently that time was still his own:
that he had not yet entered the deep,
dark cavern, but he was free to tread
the road leading to the peaceful land
where sunny harvests wave.
le who still linger on the thresh.
old Of life, doubling which path to
choose, remember that when years
shall be passed, and your feet shall
stumble on the dark mountain, you
will cry bitterly, but cry in vain, 20
youth, return! Oh, give me back my
early days!"-Jean Paul Richter.
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The New Year begins earliest on
the 1SOth meridian, that is at the part
OF the world which lies exactly oppo-
site Greenwich, on the magic line
where sailors have to jump a day
either forwards or backwards, accord
ing as they are sailing with or against
the sun.
The earth rotates on its axis once
every tWenty-four hours, 30 that in the
same period Of time the sun apparent.
ly circles the earth. supposing We
travel around the earth in the same
direction As the sun, and at 4 speed
great enough to keep 1t in sight, then
We get back to our starting point with
out once seeing q sunset, so that as
far as We are concerned 1t is still the
same day. Az 4 matter OF fact, 1t Is
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II New Years comes as late again
This year as it did last,
: don't believe I'll get to see
The end, when 1t goes past,
And when the new one starts to 20
. Across the calendar,
Last time watched until I dreamed
/ was New Years star.
Pa says there isn't anything
That folks can see or hear
When midnight comes and Father
Time
Brings in another year.
But maybe he is fooling me.
Why do the people sing
And call It watch-night meeting, and
Why do the church bells ring?
Pa says they got the number Of
The year by adding one
Each New Years to the year before.
And when that year was done.
By adding on another, till
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exactly one day later. Even If you d
not keep the sun over you on your
voyage, it is apparent that you viii
reach your starting point with your
calculations one day out, unless you
have provided for this by striking out
an extra day on the calendar. II you
travel against the sun you will have
to add q day to the calendar. t-ra
The convention that has been sstah-
lished with regard to this matter ID b
consider the day a. beginning at tho
1SOth meridian. so that the 1s1sl
meridian IL always 4 day ahead of the
l7sth. Az the day begins irst at the
1SOth meridian, the New Year comes
first at that point, too, being there
twelve hours sooner than 1t comes q
Greenwich.