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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
Topics of the Times

Among the sure signs cf spring are
the alleged nigh prices being offered
for baseball players.
Have you noticed that the horse rae
ing craze seems 70 have changed TO
sanity since The race track gamblers
were squelched? Perhaps prize fight
ing might be modified the same way.
The state o. Iowa has 1000 more
banks than California, state twice as
debt while Minnesota owes three and
a quarter millions, yet both California
and Minnesota are spending ether mil
lions upon paved country roads.
Governor Sulzer says Its better to
go slow than be sorry" Sure. But
those who go so slow that they're never
sorry never start and never get any
where. The real way to go is to start
and keep on going. TIE man who
stands still never gets thorn in his
foot. but might have been born with
out feet for all the good they are to
him or any one else.
A prominent scientist warninS
against anti-fat cures says the only
safe way to take it off is to quit eat
ing That system also takes the obesity
off the grocery bill
D.,arcy ;e denouncinp the Chicago
mayor for permitting the New Years
orgy. but If every person who orgied
New Years eve votes for the mayor ne
viii find ways and means to get enough
decent votes to be reelected. That's
how they work it. Decency doesn't vote
loud aren't decent anyway.
Build the good roads as We dig the
drainage bitches. Let the man who
pays see where his money goes and
benefit by It's expenditure. There's a
big difference between paying for a
road In Page county and for the same
ers.
One month Of traffic at the gateway
to Lake Superior is equal to the total
yearly freight movement, inward and
outward, at many a great and famous
ocean port known all over the world.
There Is no seaport In France which
handle: as much freight Il a yea. as
passes thru the canal locks at the 500
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
o World, Be Cheerful!

Q World. Be Cheerful.
o world. be cheerful. Wherein lies the
art?
It is to stay the bitter thought and
word.
To seek in all mean things some eoodly
part.
To hear this old, sweet tale, and hav-
ing heard
To keep II in the heart.
Thus runs the tale: The master on his
round
OF wonder working. faring forth one
Came to a citys market place, and
found
The townsmen viewing with disgust
and scorn
Some object on the ground.
And drawing near. the Son of God de-
serted
A loathsome thing. a pitiable wreck
A dog, with tortured eyeball staring
wide;
He saw the shameful halter round
its neck
It's torn and bloody side. i.
DFaugh! how 1t desecrateS the air!
cried one.
foul crows meat" said another,
and third:
Mark ye the rope: its thieving days
are done"
So cursed they all with contumelious
word
The lifeless flesh and bone.
But ere the master went upon his way
He spoke with sweet compassion.
looking down
where the poor, broken, hfeless Great
ure lay:
Behold its teeth. Pearls Of a
Caesars crown
were not more white than they!"
@ world, too long in forum and in mart
You have preferred the bitter
thought and word,
seek you In ali mean things some
goodly part;
Hear, world, this old. sweet tale, and
having heard.
Oh keep It In your heart!
Tom Daily In Catholic Standard and
Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
UNCLE GEORGES SERMON
[Sioux City Journal.I

Sioux CITY Journal
II may be that the pure food law
and things like that are doing a good
deal for religion. There is nothing
stronger on the side of temperance
than the besotted and disfigured out
cast Men will make struggle to be
temperate because of fear OF rheuma-
tism who will not make the struggle
for wife and children. Men are that
cowardly. that weak, and that mar
rowly selfish But there is good In it,
10th without the fear OF Theumatism
the same men would inf1ict more OF
pain upon society and more shame
upon family and friends. Rheuma-
tisIn is a moral agent, and doubtless
al, Affections of the flesh are intend
ed for human betterment. Men are
more willing to serve themselves than
they are to serve God. and what they
need to learn in the study OF hyGienic
science is that they can not serve
themselves wisely without serving
God: 20 1t is plain to be seen that
men and God are one when they are
in right relations.
Il is hard for the spirit to get in its
bes. work at a time OF excruciat-
ing toothache. At such a time 1t is
difficult to resist temptation to put
energy into the enunciation Of some
word listed as profane. and to do so
because the word IL popularity under
stood to be profane and therefore
wicked The spirit is deprived or a
fair chance. But after the toothache
has been subdued by science the spirit
is able to makeitself heard. and it
suggests the foolishness OF the wicked
word. and It says a full grown man
should be ashamed Of himself for
such conduct. The case is so strongly
on the side Of the spirit that there is
little to say In defense and 1t Is nos
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07

Z .
Ia the spring Of 10, ! was attaeks1
by Muscular and lndammatory
Rheumatism. suffered ~ only
those who have It know, for over
three years. I tried remedy after.
remedy. and doctor after doctor. but
such relief as received was only
temporary. Finally, ! found reme-
dy that cured me completely. and y
has never returned. have given II
to \ number who were terribly at
flicted and even bedridden with
Rheumatism, and it effected . cure
In every case. -
I want every sufferer from any
form OF rheumatic trouble to try
this marvellous healing power. Don't
send cent: simply mail your name
and address and I will send it free
to try II, after you have used It
and It has proven itself to be that
long-looked-for means OF curing
your Rheumatism, you may send the
price Of it. one dollar. but. under
stand, do not want your money
unless, you are perfectly satisfied
to send it. Isn't that fair? Why,
suffer any longer when positive re-
lief Is thus offered you free! Don't
delay. Write today.
Mark H. jackson, No. 21s. Alhambra
Bldg, Syracuse. N. 7.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07

nay Who insnlts IL trial juAoA ~
spectatop who raises disturbance
iii are II contenpt Of. court. They
must be punished II the court 10 70
maintain its function in the interest
OF the public. All such offenders In
terfere palpably with the going ad-
ministration OF Justice. They must be
brushed aside, not because they have
hurt judges feelings. but because
they have interposed obstacles to the
progress Of justice.
Is It contempt Of court when an cd
itor, after the close OF a case, ventures
to write an opinion that the court has
made a mistake? Is 1t contempt OF
court when a public speaker discussing
public policy ventures to express an
opinion that the courts opinion Is not
in line with public policy? Such
criticism, even tho vigorously voiced.
can not interfere with the course OF
justice in that particular case, which
has been decided. Does 1t amount to
interference with justice to intimate
that court is not infallible? The his
tory Of jurisprudence shows that our
courts. from the lowest to the highest,
have made mistakes. Therefore 1t Is
advancing nothing new or startling to
point cut alleged delinquencies in Ger
tain decisions.
If a public speaker can not express
his opinion of court decision what
becomes Of his constitutional guaranty
of free speech. II an editor may not
write his honest opinion Of the out
come OF a case involving principle
Of large public Importance, what be-
comes OF the constitutional guaranty
Of free press?
Criticism IN print and criticism by
word CT mouth are applied freely to
the executive and legislative branches
of the government. When the president
makes q break criticisms come pour
ing in from ell sides. So also as to
congress. Is the court to have a spe-
cial license to make mistakes and have
nothing said about it because it might
detract from the dignity of the judi
CARY?
There is, of course. difference be-
tween criticism and libel. If a public
rfficer IN any capacity is libeled. or
thinks he is. he has recourse in the
law If ne can prove the libel he can
have the libeler punished. But the
question must be decided by a jury.
after the regular form of court pro-
cedure. When a judge thinks he has
been libeled is he to have the privilege
of calling the offender before himself
and imposing such punishment as he
may please for contempt Of court?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
PUTTING OUT POISON.

President Taft's valedictory address
the other day was merely an outbreak
at the prosressives. His vehement and
red faced assertions Of Unbalanced
fanaticism' and prediction Of the
doom of constitutional government"
are simply ridiculous to those who
know the American people. When the
Intelligence and purposefulness OF the
farmers and business men of the
mighty states which repudiated Taft's
unholy denomination are understood ard
considered the angry TRADE Of the out
going president becomes only the re-
sentful expressions of fat. faced
man in the anger of disappointed am
bitoin. President Taft is talking about
our neighbors when he makes these ac
cusations. our judgmatical. sincere ard
intelligent neichbors who were once his
political friends and who gave him
the chance TO make good wherein he
failed so sisnaNy.
President Taft is out of il He was
out of il when he fastened TO
repu6iate the most important OF
his pre-corvention pledges Immediately
he found himself elected president.
He was elected as a progressive. Els
language before his first nomination
was insurgent. He came to Iowa for
the shelter plank which was the red
badge of insurgency and carried il back
vention Then he forgot his promises
ard his friends. Joe Cannon danced
jigs in the White House. AS a conse-
auence the great republican states gave
him the cold shoulder. Barnes and
Penrose nominated him. The voters
gave him one fftieth of the electoral
party.
He is going the right way to COM
pletely disorganize il nationally and il
may be noted in passing that state or
carnations do no, long remain power
full after the national organization has
been repudiated. When President Taft.
gathering $500 of the old guard about
him leaves as legacy to the repub!!-
can party the policies and purposes and
methods and men who pirated the last
national convention he is the advance
agent Of the democracy and the third
parry That Wav lies madness and de-
structior. The principles about which
the opposition to the Barnes and Pen
rose regime crysrallized will endure 1t
is the sense Of the voting population of
the country. No party name, however,
hung with greatness Of past achieve
ment will suffice to hold the voters
against the call of the progressive
movement. The president should know
this. If experience teaches him any
thing he does know it.
There is no process of reorganiza
ton possible which eliminates the con-
victions Of majority and substitutes
the desires, ambitions and interests Of
the few. President Taft's idea that
the majority is unfit 10 rule. that pro-
gress is fanaticism. and that platforms
and the promises Of candidates are
life 10 the democracy and the third
party but ii is deadly poison to hi.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07

northwest wouldn't BE- any better than
those tourist states where people who
are sick or rich or lazy 90 to sleep. .
Let 'er come We have all been there
before. We all hope to be there again.
What's a snowstorm but tonic?
What's snow but the poor mans fer
tilizer? What's a bob sled for?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07

Three Months Free

Enclose regular price for any Of THE
list Of magazines scoring twenty points
and we will send the Daily Timss Re.
publican, (rural route sdition), three
months free as . Christmas present.
Enclose regular price for magazines
scoring twenty five points and we will
send the Evening Times Republican by
mail the same.
Enclose regular price for masaxinss
scoring thirty points and We will send
the city edition by carrier thrse
month"; the same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
probat. Notice.

Office of the clerk OF the district
court. State Of Iowa Marshall county
So. District court January term. A. d.
1913
To Whom 1t May Concern:
You and each Of you are hereby no1.
fled to appear at the court house in
Marshalltown, Iowa, in said county, at
10 o'clock a. m, on the 2Sth day Of
January. 1918, to attend the proof OF
and probating an instrument in writing
purporting to be the last will and tes-a
lament of George E. Harrington, late Of
Marshall county. Iowa. deceased, &C
which time and place you will appear
and show cause, II any, why said will
should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof, have hereto
subscribed my name and affixed the
seal OF the district court. this Goth day
Of December A. D. 1912.
F. NJ HARADON,
Clerk Of the District Court
BY 81 H. REILLY, Deputy Clerk.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07

cash q - ttmA tAsy teok cook stoves
in exchange. anything to sell steel
range. u an thsy shipped u four car
loads OF steel ranges and disposed Of
them. And ~ there 10 little or NO com.
plant It II fair to assume they sold
a good article. And II they sold them
at q higher price than the hardware
dealer in town asks for some steel
ranges. whose business Is It?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
THE PRESS AND THE COURT.


(Sioux City Journal
Is it a crime for newspaper to
c-iticisc court? The supreme court
Of Idaho says yes" 1t has ordered
the publishers Of Boise newspaper
to spend ten days in Jail and pay
fine of $500 each for contempt OF court.
The offense in this instance consisted
in publishing in news and editorial col
umns criticisms Of ruling By the
court The ruling barred the progress
sive electors from place on the or
fetal ballot in the late election. One Of
the contemptuous articles complained
Of by the court was from the pen OF
Theodore Roosevelt and was printed In
the news columns of the Boise paper.
other criticisms to the same effect
were published in the editorial COL
umns. Fer alleged contempt OF court
in circulating matter held to impede
the administration Of justice the Of
Tending publishers are now to be fined
and imprisoned, the offended court act
ing as jury and judge in the case. On
the same principle Theodore Roosevelt
might be fined and Imprisoned II he
should come within the jurisdiction OF
the Idaho supreme court.
Three rights seem to be involved IN
the Idaho case % There is the right
of the court to protect its dignity. CD
There is the right Of the individual to
free speech. go Finally there IL the
right of the press to free expression.
At this distance 1t would appear that
the Idaho court has acted on the theory
that only ono right was involved. and
in SO doing the court seems 70 have
subordinated the more important to the
least important issue.
What is contempt Of court? There
is such an offense and It often merits
severe punishment Anything that in
terrupts orderly procedure in the
court room or tends to interfere with
the fair trial Of a case amounts to con-
tempt OF court The witness who re.
fuses to answer q question. the attor-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
AN OLD TINE SPELLING SCHOOL
[Tama Herald

Our memory went back thirty five
years last Thursday night when we
read in an advertisement in county
exchange the words. Snow Blocade
Will Come" 1t was that miss2elied
word "Blocade" that cans@d our sub
consciousness to pull out that forgotten
drawer in memory's bureau and peer
into il for incidents that happened so
long ago.
1t was a spelling school held over in
Columbia township and We went aionS
with other Tama boys. Mack Hill was
there and Wallace Worrall and Wallie
Wonser and others from town. We re-
member just two of the country boys
who were present-Fred Tomlinson anc
Chal Johnston. We were working IN
a printing office and thought we could
spell anybody down" with one hand
tied behind US.
And in the first time around the
teacher gave US that word. Blockade,
and We spelled it without the *. just
as our county contemporary did las.
week.
What little things some time wipe
out the intervening years and take US
back to the halycon days u youth. And
what dainty morsels for the mind those
recoIlections are and how the teeth OF
the brain love to crunch them again.
We are under obligations to that
printer for his typograp hical blunder.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
wASTEFUL ROAD WORK.
darlington Hawkeye.

! The present system of highway con
struction and maintenance is one o,
the most wasteful Of public expenoi-
/ lures. This is especially true OF Iowa
and Illinois. Careful investigation has
shown that of the 100000 expended
annually in Illinois on public ROADS
approximately 37l. per cent is wasted
and in some townships much greater
ner cent is spent without benefit. What
private enterprise, what merchant
manufacturer. banker or railroad com
MANY could stand such loss as that
without bankruptcy?
Why is no, the taxpayer entitled 70
as fair treatment as the indiVlduai c'ti-
zen in his own business!
There is another view OF TINS eA-
| trayagant wasteful use OF road iuhos
What business man or firm would III
trust the expenditures OF his business
! to incompetent employees. men VINO
know nothing practically about the
| business and who give 1t only secoho'
| AIRY attention?
/ And vet. is not that the way the
road funds, in many instances. are ex-
! pended. and is not the work done by
mec VINO know very little. If anything
| bout scientific read masing. There
are notable and praiseworthy excep-
tons to this unbusiness- like highway
practice, and there are grades OF abii-
ity from the highest to the utterly IN
! competent But why have il so: why
! not employ competent road builders
and give the taxpayer an adequate re-
! turn for the tax burden imposed up
I on him for the public welfare?
This is a very practical question
! ard a timely question, which is UP tc
] The state legislation to answer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
The ysrbea.

The jerboa. which Is found in the
deserts Of Nubia and Syria. resembles
very small kangaroo and has a rich
brown fur On the 6rst alarm 1t leaps
over the ground With lightning rapid
ity and disappears in TT burrow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
cvrisus Mammals.

Some Of the smaller desert mammals
In lower California never drink. In
tho regions where they live the heat
and the aridity are excessive. and
these animals thrive on dry seeds and
Scraps of vegetation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
We NEEDED IT.

A touch Of winter in a summer land.
That Is what this cold spell and storm
Is.
It began with a typical Iowa fall.
sunshiny, corn drying weather. 1t con-
tinued on thru November bright. still
beautiful days. one like another as one
pa in q pod Is like another. 1t sat in
the lap Of December and chucked win
tsr under the chin until he smiled like
Summertime and forgot TO grow those
lon1 white whiskers which are his dis
tinguishment when he Is on the Job.
Christmas was green and New Years
gentle. It was fine while it lasted and
It lasted long while. What do you
psopls want?
fused TO go below zero. There has been
Z little wind and there is some snow.
but what Of It? What do you expect in
lsfitude ~ north in January? That's
ne place where the snow falls and the
winds blow in January.
It's good for us. We were beginning
to ret lazy and conten.ed like the
South Sea islanders and those people
who 70 TO California or Florida for the
winter. We were waxing fat and get
ting too contented to kick. Outside Of
- coal man and the merchants whose
etock Of rubbers and fur overcoats still
retained their places on the shelves
nnhody had any fault to and With the
zWsaxher. the outlook, our neighbors and
everything else. We needed this shak'
- up. We got II. We will be better
r. st. Iowa without some Snow a2E
- eecss3oEa! sharp wind from thu
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
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Iona Newspapers
STUNNING THE PIT.


Mr.. Wilson appears to have his head
with him on one matter pertaining
to the cabinet. that being an idea of
! whom not to appoint secretary OF the
intericr In other words he is under
stood as barring any of the candidates
from the public land states. 1t was
primarily because OF adopting quite
contrary policy that the Taft admins
,ration lest hopelessly its standing
with the country; for from the mo-
nlent when Mr.. Taft on the eve of his
inauguration determined to displace
from the interior department; an hon
est secretary, whom he was expected
TO continue In office. and substituted
fer hin. the chosen agent Of the land.
grabhers the Taft administration was
launched on a course which could
never have possibly but one end, and
that end disgrace and reputation. But
1t has developed that the condition
with which Mr.. Taft thus attempted to
deal with complacency is by no means
partisan condition. Turnout all the
public land states there are democra-
tic lawyers and politicians who would
like to have Baliinger's opportunities
and who fancy that they could carry
out Ballinger program without get
ting caught at 1t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Whipping posts and the lash for
wife whippers," demands the Marian
Register. Then after they have felt
the scorpion whip let them be put 10
work and after their board and clothes
are paid for give the res. of their wage
10 their families for 4 period Of five
TO ten years. Call ii 9 barbarian pun
ishment" il you will, certainly would
he just.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07

Talk about bosses Where Is the one
with the power Of Mr.. Bryan? asks
the Webster City Freeman-Trioune.
Didn't he nominate Wilson and doesn't
Wilson ask him about il before ne oe-
cides upon any appointments! y"
wonder William ]. Dodges every time
a dornick is heaved at the bosses
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
An INSTANCE OF INJUSTICE.

zone man." said Miss Jane Adams,
in a recent address. was in prison
seven years. He had forged check
with which to make the final payment
on little home. All the seven years
he worked long hours daily. The profit
OF his labor went to a prison con-
tractor. The state received only 50
cents a day for his work-not enough
tospay for his maintenance.
The wifeII saw her almost every
day when she brought three little chill
dren to the Hull House nursery to be
kept while she was at work-used TO
say: must keep the children to-
getf1er till he comes. For six years she
did SO. working as a scrubwoman in a
downtown Office budding
It is merely Justice that he man who
forged should be deprived of his liberty
and punished with hard labor. Il was
injustice to him. however. that the
state assumes TO deprive him Of the
highest rights Of mankind the power
to provide against hunger and cold for
His wife and children. So much is
surely injustice to the prisoner. Pun
ishment should contemplate reform.
What reformation is to be accomplished
in a husband and father who pictures
his children starving and his wife
forced to shame?
II was cruel injustice to the wife and
the children. innocent Of any crime. but
suffering all the consequences and pen
aities Of criminality. There Is 40 argu-
ment here. It is fact as plain as the
forgery.
How long is this to continue in Iowa
Jane Adams instance is one which
can be multiplied indefinitely What
are We In Iowa going TO do about il?