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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

assessor. Later he bought farm or
ago and when his farms were sold and
his caches rified it was found that this
man had saved a fortune Of more than
| 100000. Somebody once asked him
! how he managed to build up that for
tune Said he, II just plugged away"
Nobody is foolish enough to walk to
| the Pacific. There's a better way Few
| persons are misers because miser is
| Il failure. But the plugging away
business is the secret of success just
the same. The man who is willing to
plug away and stick to it six days in
the week and twelve months in the
year finds himself somewhere as re-
suit of the plugging.
1t is as natural for a boy to dream
as to breathe. We all did it, Life
seemed so Ions ahead Of Is There was
so much time on in front that we
scarcely knew what to do with it. But
dreams do not get us anywhere unless
we start 1t takes plugging away. No
body ever magined himself a scholar
or merchant or the owner of a fine
farm and made good at it unless he
plugged for it.
If you will interview the man whom
you ina sine was endowed with
natural ability" to accomplish things
l,.,
has made good. he'll tell you that there
isn't half so much in natural ability as
in plugging away. It isn't any use to
say cit comes easy to him and let it
go at that The big things don't come
easy to anybody There's only one way
to get up a hill alone and that is to
climb. The more you climb the easier
it looks and in fact the easier it is.
Nobody jumps over a mountain except
in the fairy stories and lie is no fairy
story if anyone should ask YOU. \
fellows simply got to keep plugging
away.
Start plugging now. Start at school.
Keep at it when you get job Learn
something worth While every day. Dent
be a miser but use the miser's success
in his pitiful effort to help build up Il
real character and a competence Wash
your feet in the waters Of a real sue
cess that you Won by starting early
and keeping up the gait.
Keep plugging away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
while the present attorney general
holds Office

y
The day the writer was in Monte
yuma, showed an old fashioned sight
to an Iowa man. In some way one
grain. firm, was paying 80 cents for
ear corn, cents a bushel more than
the Chicago market would warrant.
and cents more per bushel than other
towns nearby could afford to pay. This
firm had cinch somewhere. Result
they took in 100 wagon loads one day,
and $4,000 bushels during the week.
Some of us can remember similar
scenes, years ago when the streets were
crowded with loads Of corn and fire.
Quently it was long after dark before
the last team got on to the scales and
even then the farmer had to shovel
the ear corn into the crib. Now the
farmer drives near a high corn crib,
behind his wagon on the ground a
chute is placed, the end gate Is re-
moved, the tug unhitched from the
Whiffle- trees, an elevator from the
chute on the ground starts carrying
the ear corn up to a twenty-five foot
corn crib. Soon after a wire arrange
ment over the hubs of the front wheels
lifts slowly up the front end Of the
wagon, the corn runs out. and no one
has done "a stitch of work." Mean
while the shelter is running, receiving
the corn-thhru another chnte-from
which the corn runs down HILL" and
this only stops when another wagon
box takes the place of the filled one.
Dealers here and elsewhere say as
soon as the surplus crop, i.e., the bush
els on the ground for which there Is no
crib room, and the renters share which
many have to sell at the market price,
as soon as the two causes of supply
are ended there will be a decided stiff
ening in prices as the average Iowa
farmer does not "have to-" sell his corn
crop at present prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
Looker-On In Iona
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Eldora, Jan. 1.-The change of ad-
ministration causes little uneasiness
in Grinnell on account Of the new
postoffice building. 1t will be remem-
bered the stefan ideal one-near by
other public buildings. was purchased
for $4,000, the government paying
$4,000 and public spirited citizens
raising $4,000 to secure the lots. An
appropriation of 100000 has been rec
commended Now If the democrats
have spasm Of economy it may be
delayed for a while.
Already the successor to Postma ster
Norris is talked Of and so far as this
scribe heard mentioned w. ]. Nelson
is almost the unanimous choice Of the
voters. IF we must have a democrat"
he's is the choice of the republicans. He
has already Served time" in the post
office under DR.. Lewis if the writer's
memory is good is a young man Of
more than ordinary business ability,
and the only objection Is what will
Samuel do without him in the store.
With the incoming of a new judge
for the superior court in Grnnell is
heard considerable talk concerning the
office. Here are some facts given the
writer: The salary is $4,000 a year.
half Of which is paid by the county,
half by the city. The fees so to the
city and if business enough comes be-
fore the court these fees pay the ex-
pense to the city. One well posted
lawyer says one way to have the SUI
perior court pay out, is to increase the
amount of the fines imposed. Thinks
automobile fines not heavy enough. The
writer gueses said lawyer does not
own car.
The people here in Grinnel have
great hopes of Il new depot this year
coming. The c. r. l. & P. r. r. now
ownes the old Chaplin House. SO that
there is no trouble about location.
Members of the commercial club say
the hitch now is for the NJ. & ST. L.
r. r. and Rock Island to get together
on plans and cost.
The people of Montezuma and many
taxpayers in the county feel that the
sooner the now notorious lottery case
against fifty or SO business men of that
place is dropped out of the courts the
BETTER for the taxpayers. SO far as q
result of trying one case the costs are
over 5000. Many have asked when this
first case was lost to the prosecution
what's the use Of an appeal. as jury
trial settled the fact the indicted man
can not he tried again for the same Of
Tense. 1t seems the prosecuting at
lorneys want rulings from the supreme
court to be used in any future trial OF
like nature and it's no uncommon pro-
ceeding Out of all this lottery business
its safe to assert two things: First,
no jury in Poweshiek county will con
vict on evidence brought out in first
trial Secondly. there will be no more
automobile lottery schemes in Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
AMMO pOMINl 1918.

Not a dead year but a new one. Not
death but birth. Not the passing
but the promise Of things. The out
look is forward. Eyes front.
The first question men ask Of the
new year is what Of prosperity. The
answer is satisfactory. All the ma
tons Of Europe point to the past year
as one Of great national prosperity and
Of trade expansion. There is our market
for our surplus If they are in condi-
ton to buy we should be able to sell at
satisfactory prices. Last year was
record twelvemonth in the commerce
of the United States with foreign ma
lions. we sold abroad over $500, 100000
more than ever before. Our Internal
commerce was tremendous in volume.
Returning to the figures Of foreign
trade last week expansion of foreign
commerce from New York broke all
records. Exports We're more than 81
600 900 more than in 1911, $4,000 900
more than in 1910 and we sold over So
OOO. 600 more than we bought. The ex-
pansion is everywhere, abroad as at
home We raise the stuff to sell. The
market is good The United States is
in precisely the same situation IS the
merchant whose community is pros
porous and with the money and inclin-
alton to buy.
The big crops Of this year are water
on the wheels Of prosperity. If prices
are somewhat lower there is no loud
outcry from the farms nor any slack
ening in previous plans and projects.
The farmer who had intended to buy
another quarter section has not
changed his plans, the one who had
planned a new barn or house is going
on with his architect and his lumber
dealer. The city resident is breaking
ground for his new dwelling. Conf
dence is undisturbed by the change Of
ward the outlook is toward prosperity.
We are at peace and there is no ru
NOR Of war and disturbance of annie
able relations with other nations. We
have long been a peace. With the eX
ception Of the Spanish war this country
has enjoyed practically a half century
Of peace. To enter upon a new year
in national friendliness with our neigh
BIS is to add another blessing to our
prospects.
Iowa goes to meet the new year with
justified faith and hopefulness. Never
has the state been so great in every
avenue Of endeavor, never her pros
poets of future greatness so hourishing.
Iowa comes to the new year strong in
her past and sure Of her future
All the world begins this new year
under better conditions than any New
Years day that ever dawned. Oppor-
tlinity stands taller for every man than
ever before. There is more chance for
the young man than ever in the worlds
history There is more chance for old
men and for women. There is more
thought Of the poor, more and better
understanding of the common rights OF
humanity.
The year is ours. 1t will be what we
make ii.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
PLUG AWAY BOYS,

If man were to start this morning,
walk three miles an hour and walk
eight hours he could cover twenty
fur miles Three month";; from! now he
could wash his tired feet in the Pa
cific ocean.
There was an ignorant man over in
Illinois sixty years rago who never
earned more than 50 day. He just
kept plugging away. The man was a
and saved all he earned. He
sfnried his cash in the woods and lent
a, favored few without notes of
las security thus lodging the tax
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
a. m ~1~%<
Iona Newspapers
IOWA CLIMATE THE BEST.

lbuTllnStO f1d"keye.J
A well known Burlington citizen
spent month in California the pres
ent season and caught one Of the worst
colds in his life. He could not get rid
Of it until he came back to Burlington
and; had the advantage of the uneX-
celled Iowa climate. He is convinced
that there is considerable Of a hollow
mockery about that wonderful climate
Of California.
THE PIONEER AND HIS PIPE.
tWill Chamberlain in Sioux City Jour
nall
The pioneer drew his old fashioned,
patriarched beard from its cosy and
neck warming seclusion within his buff
falo coat, took. proffered seat at the
grocery fire. searched two or three
pockets until he found his pipe, and
then. filling that receptacle Of dreams
and companions with fragrant. pow
derry leaves, began to add his mite of
Writhing, curling blueness to the al
ready hazy atmosphere of the place.
Tibet buf'lo coat Of yours is prob'ly
worth a nice little bunch Of money"
remarked an inqusitive looking linger-
err cycling curiously the garment which
incased the pioneer.
Well" slowly responded the man
addressed, this robe was bought in
Sioux City in 1S71-forty- one years
ago this fall--for SIS It's been worn
more or less every winter since. but it
couldn't be touched for four times that
sum right now. I couldn't keep house
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
that half Of the usual melon 10 a pretty
fair melon after all.

that half Of the usual melon 10 a pretty
fair melon after all.
One Of the best New Year resolutions
an Iowa assemblyman can make as to
lay the Shankland bill away for keeps.
I $3.50 Il
The coming year. ;iss. the best year
because 1t has all its. chances in 1t. 1t
is mine Of untapped opportunity.
The presidents evident intention to
push Colonel Goethals forward strikes
the American public much better than
his fidelity to Ballinger.
We eat eighty-seven pounds Of sugar
apiece in Iowa. Seems like we ought to
make more of it in Iowa.
Seven years seemed short to the
average person but it looked longer to
the dynamiters.
Nobody expects to make his automo-
bile out of the debris Of old corn plant
ers and disused hayrakes but most
everybody seems to, think that good
roads are to be had without spending
good money for them.
Good resolutions are proverbial paw
ing material but the road runs the way
nobody wants to go.
Perhaps enough snow to cover up the
germ laden dust would check the cpl
Idemic of grip and other kindred dis
eases. Think of Iowa at New Years
without enough snow to make u rabbit
track!
If the prospects outlined in the Chi
cago newspapers are correct as to the
debauch on New Years eve, 1913 will
double up to look like 1926 in that city
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
Topics of the Times

Ever notice that a man who is In
love with his home rarely gets into
trouble?
It's easier to say what we think OF
people than to hear what people think
of US.
One Of the ways to get things Is to
go to them. In fact, that's the only
way.
1t would be pretty good resolution
to resolve all the good roads bills into
one real enactment and pass it early in
the session.
Expectation as to the volume OF bust
ness to be done by the parcels post
should await the action of the express
companies. No doubt they will feel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

companies promptly cut the rate. Go
to an express office next Wednesday
and IL it doesn't meet any rate the
postoffice can offer 1t will mean that
the express companies have gone crazy.
OF course they haven't: Express pro-
fits have been enormous in years past.
Postal rates might be. cut another rs
per cent and the express companies
probably still operate'-at good profit.
A monopoly seldom learns how cheap
ly it can do business till touch OF
competition turns teacher.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
Easter This Year
Earliest il, Year.
BY JOHN w. WELLS.

With Easter Sunday coming th3
year on March %, within one day 4
the earliest date possible. history hs
not repeated itself since 1S56-fiftA
seven years ago. The history Of TIL
reckoning Of Easter, and how it haI
pens to fall so early some years, an
SO late in other years, is Interestingly
The church authorities, in arrangin
tho dates for Easter, have complicateI
things somewhat. The rule is tina
Easter Sunday falls on the first Sun
day after the full moon that comes q
or after the 21st Of March: but tha
full moon is not the actual full moor
it is what is called the Ecclesiastical
full moon, that is, 1T is the fourieeIif
day Of the moon, and sometimes til
astronomical full moon will not be By
fore the 18th day Of the moon. It
usually the 18th day Of the moon, for2
lunar month is very nearly twenty-niIA
and a half days. There are 1854 day
in twelve lunar months, or there al
twelve lunar months and eleven das
over in a common year.
The effort to make the Easter SuA
day differ from the Jewish Passovi
was accomplished by making EastS
the Sunday after the full moon
cases where the fourteenth day Of TIL
moon was Sunday. In such easel
Easter is the following Sunday. II
1918 Easter Sunday was the 22d o.
March, the earliest possible date.
was the day Of the actual full moor
tho after the fourteenth day of thu
moon on which the Easter reckoning y
based In 1s45 it was on the Esd q
March, which was the day Of the actual
full moon.
The lunar cycle Is period Of ninei
teen years, in which the moons
changes come around to the same day
of the month. Thus, if the full moor
for 1913 (actuaD is the 22d day oI
March, in nineteen years, or in 1922
the full moon will occur on the 22d Of
March again, but the Sunday follow
ing the 22d will not be until the 9th.
So again the next nineteen years, IN
1851, the full moon will be on the same
day Of the month but the following
Sunday will be the 25th. In 1870 we
again have a full moon on the 22d OF
March, and the Sunday following on
the 29th. That is one of those clost]
dates, where the full moon falls on
Sunday. In 1889 Easter Sunday will
be the 26th of March, and the next
nineteen years after, or zoos it will be
on the 23d Of March again, the same as
for 1913. The latest date for Easter is
the 25th Of April, which will be the
date in 1943 The last time that Eastel
was the 25th Of April was in 1856
There is an effort Of the present pope
kNv
the 21st of March. While it would les
sen the confusion, it will be hard to
depart from the old customs, however,
complicated they may be.
Guard the health Of your family h1
keeping at hand bottle Of Chamber.
tlain's COUGH Remedy It has no enllal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

without It." he went on, laughing
my, but the blizzards It's been thr
Buf'Io coats are pretty middling scar
now, I tell YOU"
It may have been caused by q
Of smoke. hut there was the trace on
tear in the, old settlers eye as
added, reflsCtively. ut was black
to butcher those &buffalo the way tn
did in early days" IN 4
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

traveller who goes forth hereafter may
become a sincere and enthusiastic
booster for his town.
TO everybody the Times Republican
wishes Happy New Year for 1t is an
unusually promising future that con-
fronts Marshalltown Just now.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

A little word in thoughtful kindness
spoken
Made glad sOrroWing heart,
And those who heard it went their
ways forgetting
Life's bitterness and smart.
A little smile from one who was
stranger
Made glad a child's sad face.
And 10, it was as if day of sunshine
Dawned in the market place.
A little word that angry thoughts made
bitter
Was spoken to a friend
And a hurt heart ached Oh in srieved,
dumb silence
Until the long days end.
A little frown from one Of whom
conrade
Sought help in time Of need
Crushed the last hope Of one whose
heart was starving
For kindly word and deed,
These little things of life-but, oh, how
mighty
They are for good or ill
To bless or hlight-to ease another's
burden.
Or make It heavier still.
Oh. be It mine by deed or work Of kind
~ ness
To strengthen for the strife
Weak hands and hearts that sorely lack
the COura &c
To make the most Of life.
-Eben f. Rexford in Christian Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
"Governor Wilson is now trying. his
Parcels Post VS.. Express.
TLincoln Journal.

Another reason why the postal clerks
need not worry lest the parcels post
swamp them is the express companies.
A California prune shipper proposes
to send couple CT cars of prunes to
New York by parcels post The express
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

while the first inference might be
that Mr.. Bryan is not being considered
for the cabinet, the true deduction is
more likely 20 be that he is the one
man whose appointment to the cabinet
is SO certain that there s no occasion
to discuss it's LIKELIHOOD" lays the Ne
vada Representative. Pr badly wha!
the two men r ally did was to canvass
the field and to see how nearly they
could come to agreeing upon an adj
ministration with Mr.. Bryan as secre-
tary of state and a complement of min
listers acceptable to them BOTH
IF tn re is a money trust this linan-
cer is not a member OF it." says the
Hapkintun Leader. "Thereforc we are
inclined to agree with j. Pierp. that
there amt no such aninlile. Still some
one must have a half hitch on the big
wad or there would be more of i.
around"
Governor Wilson is now trying his
hand at the healing OF party wounds,
observes the Bu-ling ION HaWkcyc. IF
he can realize that what is oil to one
wound is vinegar to another, and can
learn to diff rentiate between the hurts
he will have proven himself worthy of
his election to the position of guide and
counsellor Of the nation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
Life's Little THINGS.

A little flower by the wayside growing
Lifted it's face to God.
And passerehy smiled at the bit of
brightness
It's beauty gave the sod.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

Guard the health Of your family b4|
keeping at hand bottle Of Chambers.
'lains Cough Remedy. It has no equal
ADV.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01

A little word in thoughtful kindness
spoken
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
CLEAR SKIES
FOR BIG CAME
IN AUGUST A
Georgia Expects to Beat Clemson
by a Big Score This
Afternoon.

n UGUSTA, Nov. G.-Although the
~ weather man predicted cloudy
weather for the game between
Georgia and Clemson, the skies We're
bright and clear Thursday morning
and the indications were for ideal
weather. Ii is expected that one Of
the largest crowds that ever attended
q football game In Augusta will be
on hand. The banner attendance in
the past has been 5000, and nearly
900 are expected this afternoon.
The Georgia team arrived at 1910
o'clock last night and all appeared
i'm fine .fettle for the game. Captain
McWhorter is sanguine of a sriumph
for the Red and Black, and says that
~ score of % or 80 to 0 will not be
surprising.
Clemson boys do not talk so much
of overcoming the fierce onSlaughts
of the Georgia eleven and winning the
contest, but they are hopeful of tieing
the game OF holding Georgia to a
very low score. Clemson gained much
confidence from the game against the
University of South Carolina last
week when that team was beaten
decisively.
The names Of the officials had not
been given out early to-day. The
Clemson team arrived here last night
at 9:35 o'clock. their train being two
hours and thirty-tive minutes late.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
Ritchie Getting on
Edge for Bout With
Leach Cross Monday

NEW YORK, Nov. 6. - Willie
Richie, the lightweight champion Of
the world, is getting into condition
for his bout with Leach Cross next
Monday night in Madison Square
Garden.
81 am feeling very strong and fit,
and know that 1 am hitting as hard
as ever" said Richie to-day. Those
who say l am not a heavy puncher
will be surprised had Wolgast tot
tering on the verge of a Knockout
when he fouled me and I punched all
the fight out of Rivers in the tenth
round
Cross put in telling ticks down at
Arvina L. l., yesterday. He is in
splendid shape for the big scrap but
is working up speed until Sunday.
Cross states that he intends to box
Richie at the outset with the idea OF
drawing him out. If the world g
champion decides TO mix it up, Cross
promises to surprise him with the
big wallop on the point of the jaw.
Richie mas agreed to let the title go
to Cross if the latter can score a
knock out.
The advance sale of reserved and
box seats indicates u big house. Billy
Gibson, Of the Garden A. c., says that
the receipts of that night will total
at least $4,000 if not more.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
Sidelights on Sports
sy A. X. c. MITCHELL


| 7 Mess someone succeeds
- Wicked Willie Dahlen as
manager OF the Brooklyns be-
tween now and training time. the
eight National League clubs VIII
enter the next championship race
with the same managers they had
in 1913 This will be a most un-
usual thing.
p.
THE National Commission il
j is said VIII tolc radi,sI
measures IA rr.,s,t r,.,,,l,rrs ,t
hip I.ay7,, teams won ,,a,.rnrr,
iney vJth sc,,i -r,.ofas, t,,,.,1 -,
affer The Regular sn,snr md.
Tho con,,ission rortn,5s n,at g.,
5atrarts frnn, thc algrit,. ~ hc
s~an,c =, ,s'yc f,.n,Dn, t,.'.,,,a,,
stars n,ircia 80, tSn 80 -
vith any lind ~ , nicll-uD team