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The Washington times., 1912-08-15
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03
So / give The Mirror readers a

So / give The Mirror readers a
glimpse of one of the great causes
that makes men forget there is to
be final reckoning. voice the
need of the men who are low down;
who always were low down; who
always will be low down just as
long as they are classed as irreclaim-
able.
Cry not heredity as the cause
for crime; rather cry environment,
for it's the surroundings that make
or break men or women.
If you come from such place
that Maxim Gorky came from;
where life is a fight for existence;
where sin and filth abound where
men and women are beasts and vir-
tue sold for a song; if you come from
such hole and do not develope
criminal tendencies, go thru b e
world and cry out with loud voice
that God has special charge over
you.
The message that Maxim Gorky
gave to the Russian world in be-
half of His misunderstood" l give
to you in behalf of the many here
who want some one to believe that
even here CLEAN hearts of courage,
intelligence, and of heroism. Even
here Good can be found, in tiny
particles and invisible roots-but
still it is here. And those roots
will not perish; some will grow and
flourish and bear fruit.
/ bought dearly the right to know
the truth of this article; to know
that you can awaken any heart. 1t
is bound to rise tC self-respect and
and if you but give it half chance
it will rise in majesty to meet thine
own.
Take home the words of the poet
and this article may not entirely be
in vain.
Forbear to Judge for we are Sim
ners All.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03
The Destiny OF The
Majority
Editorial-Minneota Mascot.

Over the hills to the poor house. 81
Many a man has gone over the hills
to the poor house even if they have
not landed at the place officially so
designated.
1t is not given all to be rich.
Some men can play the violin.
Some men can bulld "sky-scrap-
ers."
Some men can invent talking
machines.
Some men can make money.
But all men cannot play violin:
all men cannot build sky -scrapers;''
all men cannot be inventors; all
men cannot make money.
SO over the hills to the poor
house, is the marching order used
by Fate, or Fortune, to large num-
Der of the human race.
The art of making money is not
learned in school any mGre than the
art of making poetry, or.the art of
oratory. These things may be cul-
tivated, made more keen, more
effective, more. finished" in t h e
schools. but the requisite talent can
not be created in the schools.
You may know all about t b e
formation of letters and be able to
tell at glance whether a letter is
properly formed. whether the shades
and hair lines are where they ought
to be or not, but for all this you
may be mighty poor penman.
You may know all the rules OF
writing poetry and yet be unable to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03

Uncle Eben Jackson, an old col
ored man from Georgia, journied on
one occasion all the way to Wash
ington to see Ty Cobb play baseball.
Fortunately, Cobb came up to ex-
pecta.ions, and knocked home run.
Dat" exclaimed the old fellow,
with enthusiasm, is somfn mighty
few white men kin do, an no niggers
at all. The Popular Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03
r-,,J $1.OOa Year
TERMS: 6 Months Fifty Cts.
Liberty
Selected.

Life without it's sweets would not
be worth the pain of living were
the future that is to come be barren
Of promise and hold nothing in store
but an empty lapse of time. The
future? What promise even the
mentioning of the phrase implies?
Bright thoughts of hope burst like
sunbeams through the clouds of des-
pondency lifting the gathering
gloom, and through the rising mist
we see the dawn of brighter and
happier day. A welcome and a
happy day indeed that one shall be
when again we shall enjoy that boon
we priced highly. Liberty, how
little must one value it, how little
must one realize the enjoyment of it,
to jeopardize all that makes life
worth living for paltry gold. But
when one has lost it, well he learns
the value of it and pays the penalty
in sad penance. [ envy the vagrant
bird that circles where it will and
rests its pennons where it NAV. or
perches in some leafy bower and
fills the breeze with melody. The
glad notes of its song proclaims the
liberty it feels; it's airy fight tells
the enjoyment of it. Blessed is it,
for it knows not the Turing temp
tation and the CALLING curse of gold.
Accused is the love of gold. that
deprives one of the pleasures of ex-
lstence. What useless dross, com
pared with the pleasure of wander
ing through the sunny fields, or
strolling along some dancing brook
beneath the shady trees, listening to
its wayward music.
l envy the benighted savage who
untrammeled by the laws stern de-
cree" explores his native wilds, or
guides his rude bark between the
grassy banks of some vernal stream.
wherever fancy will Within bis mod
est hut he seeks his couch of skins.
and is rocked to sleep by the songs
OF the birds. No thought of morrow
disturbes his tranquel rest. Dishon-
or does not haunt his peaceful bed.
nor disgrace profane his dreams.
Happy. indeed is he that greets the
rising sun and wanders forth to
visit nature in her sunny home, un
molested, unfettered, at liberty.
You who have not been deprived of
the sympathizing love of wife and
children, of the gentle guidance of a
loving mother, the careful counsel
of watchful father, or the confd-
ing companship Of the tried friend.
know not the meaning of liberty.
nor the dearth of affections that
darkens the life Of convict and
shrouds his heart in gloom. Sad as
the life of a convict is, something
bids him hope, an impulse stirs the
sluggish blood of despOndencv to
move in life-quickening throbs
through the following breast.
Future, bright star o life, beams
beckoning on the horizon and cheers
the way to liberty. The day will
come, it must come. STime has no
friend. nor foe." And it is for us to
choose between monotonus exist
ence aleviated by the pleasures of
life, when liberty is granted to us
again.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03
'roduce a single verse.

iu"J AuOW all Tic rules Oh the
game OF money-making and be able
to see just where other players fail
to produce results, but for all that
be unable to get into the game and
play a winning hand yourself.
And so it's over the hills to the
poor house" for you. That is to
say you will have to fight the wolf
at the door, struggle with poverty
to the end of the days allotted you.
So many are inclined to blame
the man who cannot succeed fnan-
cially. | f man IS not making
money someone will be sure to find
fault, say mean things, blame the
fellow who is down.
But no one ever blames another
because he can't play the piano,
write poetry or deliver SPELL bind
ing orations.
Yet these things are none the
more special gifts than is the art of
money-making.
One must be specially gifted to
be able to make money come ones
way. A man must be a financial
magnet if he is to attract the filings
of commerce.
1t is common to denounce the
man who piles up riches and makes
much money, but this is all mis-
take. The man who makes money
is merely following his bent, doing
what nature intended he should do.
No one ever blames the poet for
writing poetry. nor the orator for
using his gift. Why then should
men curse the money-maker? Is he
not doing what his nature Graves.
that which his faculties most readily
turn to?
Surely every man should be en-
ployed at that which his faculties
seem best fitted for.
TO put the poet at commercial
work and the tinancier at art of let
ters is to deprive society of valuable
resources and send two men "over
the hills to the poor house,
But there are thousands, yes mil
lions who are neither poets, artists.
orators nor financiers-they are just
people, just common, ordinary men
and women. That class of which
President Lincoln said that G O d
must have loved because he made
so many of them"
These people must live, that is to
say, they must have the wherewithal
to make existence possible, and not
having special gifts in any particular
direction they just scramble for
things in the open market" of the
world.
The making of money is distaste-
full to some, difficult to others and
impossible to many.
Yet the social order" is such
that it requires of all those that they
devote their time to the art of
money-making.
And so we find blacksmiths prac
ticing medicine, lawyers planting
potatoes. preachers building houses
and so on down the line.
How few are not the men whose
vocations fit them!
This is one of the strong causes
for the continuous march "over the
hills to the poor house."
A social order under which en-
ployment would be regulated by a
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03
1T IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND.


ed us as hardened criminals. All,
there lies the shame and the blame
for they did not understand us.
0, yes, they told us some truth.
They said we were bad. We were
bad, but how different it might have
been had they said there was
some good in us, and wonder of
wonders, if they had only under
stood us, not the us they had seen
but the us that was the reNL us if
they dug far enough.
Yes, they told some truth-truth
that tore many a little heart and
dragged what little there was left of
beauty down into the slime.
Do you wonder why memory is
an awful thing to us? Do you won
der why you hear the cry Never
Had Chance" Do you wonder,
as you read The Mirror, why it is so
full of beautiful thoughts? You need
not wonder, for we talk of things
that rightfully belong to us.
This is not a whim, do not take it
as such. 1t is the voice of one cry
ing the need of his kinda need
that the world some day will pom
der over.
No, we can pay the price, we
have been schooled to do so, for, as
Herbert kaufman says:
I'VE buy at price that the Fool can't count
| and the Coward's afraid to pay.
And the most we gain is blind. black pain:
Yet we keep right on in the fray
A n d you may rest assured, o
reader of mine. that the fray is the
only door that welcomes us, for it is
fed and has it's being by the
understood.
We have made a gap. Half of
the world says we cannot bridge it.
The other half (those who are not
so perfect) says that we can. We
believe that we can and with the
help of the latter half of the world
we will do good job.
We don't care for the assistance
of the worldly saint, because just as
we put a few of our principles to
work to bridge the gap he would
come along and tell us what an ex-
emplary life he leads. And right
at that moment we would declare a
strike in the construction works.
All, no, friend, if you would be
in sympathy with us tell us how
you got out of the rut. grasp us by
the hand, forget what W have been
until we give you cause to remember
it, and then we will take up the
Vessel that was marred, cement
it with honest endeavor, faith, and
hope, and live so that others may
learn that the drip of boyhood tears
needs understanding.
Scum of scum they call us, yet
some of us have never insulted q
woman; have never wronged bene-
factor; have never cursed our God
Some one to Understand is tie
cry today, just as it was the cry OF
he who was born under an evil star
$50 they said): Ie was viscious;
the black sheep. He bowed his
fathers head in shame and almost
broke his mothers heart. Then
came girl, frail, with CHRIST and
Love in her heart. She spoke to
him. She understood him; had
| faith in him, and-as the hand of
God had wrought m iracle, he who
had been an outcast turned Gentle.
man.
Friend, the writer's version O.
their great damnation, being mis-.
understood" will find echo in 20C
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03
Vol. XXVI.-No. 9.
Misunderstood.
A. N. Apache.

Come let lis reason together, for
we have something in common.
You may be saint; a thief. You
may be the vessel that looked good
to the Potter's gaze, / the one that
was marred in the making. Yet
this fact remains, we are both clay.
The Master Potter spat upon a
common chunk of mud and out of it
He made me. I do not know if you
were turned out of this same clay.
Perhaps you may think that your
clay was of finer grade than that
which was used TO make me. Per-
haps you may claim distinction in
the spit. If so this is not for your
persual. But if you are common
placed person | address this to you,
because you of all men will under
stand.
If you happen to be saint this
is not for you, for somehow or other
you cannot get a worldly saint to
reason, for they are all reason them
selves.
We are both clay. 1t is not a
pleasant theme at its best, to speak
about our frality, but [ must grant
you this l am a weak bit of clay be-
sides you. So would put before you
one of the great phrases of life,
knowing that you also are sinner,
feeling that you have made a few
mistakes in your life and profted
by them and because you have been
mired by circumstance you will
give ear to one who has beugn to
see that decency is the mightiest
asset a man can haye.
Did it ever occur to you that there
is mighty force constantly at work
filing our prisons today, and that
that force is, the ignoring of Boy
hoods Rights? The boy that was
misunderstood yesterday is your
convict today. The boy who was
not believed yesterday, whose story
had but the one side. and that the
law, is your hardened criminal today.
Some men fall while on the heights,
others fall because they never get a
a chance to realize that there were
heights worth striving for, because
there never was two sides to any
story that connected them, or if so
their side fell on deaf ears.
It is of this class l would speak,
The Great Army OF The Mjsunder-
stood. Because of it prisons flourish
and crime stalks boldly thru the
land.
Heredity is the cry ofthe GRIMM
ologists, but we who know the
depths are living refututions of that
argument and we know that envir-
onment and being misunderstood
are the potent forces that sead men
to the gutter.
Some of us were born in the slums;
from the day on which we came in
to the world to this day we have
had nothing but kicks. Today we
can look back over our lives and
there looms up a blur-a tear-stained
boyhood. In that boy hood we often
were wronged by injustice, and we
became bitter because there was no
one who had a good word for us.
They bounded us back there in
that heart-aching and heart break
ing boyhood, and it is only thru a
great Gods mercy that we (some OF
us) did not become visclous.
We were called hopeless cases
and they buried us away. They
claimed they understood us and
thru that understanding thew class
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
PLAN LARGEST" STADIUM
Conference Held in Park Com
missioner's Office.

Park Commissioner Slower announced
yesterday that tentative plans for the
largest stadium in the country had been
decided on at a conference held In his
office few days ago. II these plans
are carried out the structure, which is
10 be erected in Riverside Park between
116th and 120th streets, will cost &c.
100000 and have n seating capacity OF
more than 100000.
According to suggestion made by
the Commissioner and adopted by the
conference. it to to face the river. The
expense will be shared by the city and
Columbia University. The Hudson-Ful-
ton Association, which was represented
at the conference, has decided to place
its memorial five blocks further south
than was originally intended. so as not
to mar the scenic effect by too close n
proximity to the stadium. A bill is to
be presented to the Legislature in Janu-
AIRY recommending that the plans now
decided on be carried out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
YOUNG MAN HELD AS THIEF
Arrest May End Series Of Robberies
in Big Apartment House.

Occupants OF the big apartment house
at No Gil West 10th street have been
the victims OF a series Of robberies ex-
tending over several weeks. The super
intendent decided that the burglar must
have gained entrance TO the house each
time through the basement, and rugged
up an alarm that would go of upstairs
when any one tempered with the base
ment door. Last night at the dinner hour
the buzzer attached to the electric wires
sounded, and a hallboy telephoned to the
West 10th street station for help.
Half dozen policemen came and sur
rounded the house, while detective en-
tered and made search. In the base
ment, I'm q corner. were found nineteen
year-old youth and a market basket filled
with clothing. At the station he said his
name was Anthony de Palma, that he
was a clerk and lived at No. 234 East
10th street. He was locked up on a
charge OF grand larceny. The clothing in
the basket was identified as the property
OF tenant I'm the house.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
GARBAGE PROFIT FOR CITY
McAneny Reports Plan to Yield
100000 a Year.

How the city can turn an expense of
81, 10000 a year to a net profit OF from
500, 900 TO 10000 in such a period was
outlined 10 the Board of Estimate yes
terday by Borough President McAneny
as chairman Of the special committee on
the final disposition Of refuse.
The plan is for tho city to put in
g. 800 900 for the construction OF a garbage
disposal plant. and for contractor 10
put in some $4,000 for land and the
necessary machinery. The city would
make n contract fer fifteen years with
the contractor to dispose of the garbage
and divide the not profits from the by
products with the city II was demon
strated some time ago that the company
which gets pay from the city for taking
away the garbage makes handsome
profit on the transaction. II was sug-
gested the plant be put on Barren Island
or Rlker's Island. The report was laid
over for a week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
MRS. LAUTERBACH IN COURT
She Must Pay $500 on Elk.
Surrogate's Claim.

Tho tury IN the suit brought by Nai'o'
7 NcWhinney against Mrs. AMANDA :.
Ta,terbach for N,423 on claims assignee
N the plaintiff by former eurroga'e
postu. q Ransom and Samuel II. wan
dell. counsel for Mrs. Lauteroach IN her
1,voree action against her husband Ed
ward Iauterbach, awarded the plaintin
600 on the claim Of Mr.. Ransom. but de-
c,dod In favor OF tho defendant on the
cla,m Of Mr. Wandell. Mr. Wandeil had
received 1900 OF his 5000 fee. ana Mr.
Ransom had received 1900 OF his t@'oOo
,oo General stillman Foster kneeland'
tos,,fving az an expert witness. said MT.
yvandeIl should have felt that G'0W was
suficient for his services, and Judge KAN
som should not have asked more than
81 ,50a
Mrs. Lauterbach told on the stand about
her suit against her husband, but avoided
mentioning the woman who figured In the
case. She told OF a conference Win couh-
sci AT which 1t was decided to Withdraw
the name Of the correspondent from tho
connlaint In tho divorce suit and suosti-
tuts an unknown woman" She SAID She
d,d NOT know the court papers had been
sealed until her lawyers told her. She
continued:
TT was with great surprise that heard
Mr.. WandelI testify yesterday that there
had been monetary consideration for
withdrawing the name OF the core
spondent. II had known that 1 would
never have permitted 1t. Not that the
name OF the woman made any difference
10 me. II might have been any one. two,
three, four. five or six for all I cared.
But I never would have agreed 10 q
monetary consideration"
Mrs. Lauterbach said she had been
prosecuted since she obtained her divorce,
and told of an item IN TOWN and Topics
which she said Mr.. Iauterbach had
caused to be printed and which was d.
rected at her.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
TAKES $4,000 IN GEMS
An "0Iiver Twist" Aids in Loot
ing Fifth Avenue Store.
LAD WRECKS SHOWCASE
Police Believe He Was Lowered
Through Small Hole Broken
in Ceiling by Burglars.

Burglars tore their way into the Varga
Art Jewelry Company, at No. s24 Fifth
avenue-within half block OF a police
fixed post-early yesterday morning and
carried away about s20,0Oo worth of gems
and jewelry. After they had ripped
through a wall and floor they entered
the store and smashed open fve big show
cases. Joseph Varga and Max Goldberg,
salesman entered the store at 8 In the
morning and discovered the robbery and
wreck.
The burglars, who apparently brought a
small boy with them, entered the build
Ing next door. No. 32s. They went up a
long fight of stairs that brought them 10
a small room used for trimming hats.
They did not take the trouble TO force
the door, but smashed the glass into
smithereens. Once inside the room. they
entered washroom and crept through
its window, no bigger than a portfolio,
upon an extension, where they found
themselves separated from the jewelry
store building by stout wall.
Nothing daunted, they ripped fair
sized hole in the wall and crawled
through. finding themselves in an empty
loft just above the store. So they tore
another hole through the floor. There Is
where the small boy must have been
necessary.
The hole they made was scarcely more
than foot in circumference. A clothes
line. knotted at intervals. was tied to a
beam above the hole and permitted TO
drop into the store. just above one OF the
large showcases. Down that rope the boy
slid, landing on the case. The lad must
have been hurried by his bigger COM
panions, for he smashed holes In the
glass top and sides Of the case and, reach
ing inside, grabbed the gems and jewels
by the handful.
In the first case. which was cleaned
out, were big plush trays bearing rows
OF bracelets, rings and earrings OF dla-
monds set In platinum. Case No. 2,
which contained more earrings. scarfpins
and Hungarian jewelry. was half cleaned
out. Cases 3, and ;, containing neck
laces. pendants, girdles and smaller bits
OF jewelry. set with diamonds and other
precious stones, were only partly looted.
The more valuable jewels in the store are
each night locked in the large safe in the
office at the rear The thieves used the
large pockets Of an apron that had been
worn by one Of the saleswomen In which
TO stow some OF the jewelry.
The boy was well screened from OBJ
servation by any one in the street, for
the front windows OF the store were shut
off by a high wooden partition, and a
heavy curtain covered the door. The
doors and windows were criss-crossed by
electric burglar alarm wires
Captain Cooney, OF the West Goth street
station house. assigned two detectives to
the case.