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The mirror., 1916-12-28
A Christmas Tragedy

s'Oh, muvver won't old Santa tum
An bring Tismas twee,
Or is we still too poor fer him
To tum an visit mel''
''No dear. fear that ell not come
For father is away,
The bread is gone, the fire is low
And not cent to pay"
''Oh, wet me hang my sfockie up
An wife little note,
An tell him dat my daddy's dawn,
Away off in a boat.
s'Oh, muver, den know he'll bwing
A little woaf o bed
An just tiny wump O. toal,
Fer us and baby Ted
"Ah, dearie, hang your stocking up
And write your little note,
Perhaps if Santa does not hear,
Someone will know you wrote
The jingling bells awake the child,
'Tis Christmas blithe and gay.
Alas for her, she softly cries,
''Dess Santa wost his way!"
Shake UIJean.
The mirror., 1916-12-28


fellow when he dies were whispered to him
j little earlier, life would have been sweet
s, lanes ened and probably prolonged
minneapolis Katharine and M.ro.ret found .h.m
Little Falls , ,
etary. ~ 0 "eA' eAeA o'"ei a. ui"ne
party and Immediately became confidential.
molly told me you told her that
l told you not to tell her, whispered Mar
garet
lgen 'Oh, isn't she a mean thing!" gasped
Scott Katherine. "Why, l told her not to tell
you'll
ID @'Well. returned Margaret, 81 told her
- Warden l wouldn't tell you she told me-so don't
uty Warden tell her 1 did,
utv Warden
Co.. voyage from which he had just returned
''Then,'' said he, 81 went down to the
cabin to lunch"
'Lunch!" exclaimed of his hearers
''But you told US there was nothing to eat
left board. What did you have for
~ o'"p'" lunch?"
"Oh," was the reply, ''it very
modest afar-beef, wine and egg.''
"Beef! Where did you get the beef
froms"
"Oh," was the reply, ''that came from
the bulwarks.'
4 "And the wine-how about that?''
"Oh, that came from the port hole
ooh, OH" laughed the listener. "Good;
? very good But tell me, where did you get
.5431 the egg?'
ooh, that the simplest of all, " came
the reply. "The captain gave orders to
9 make the ship slay to and he gave
one ''-Pearsom's Weekly.
grows best ~ .
The etheral being with unshorn locks
was shown into the editorial sanctum
'hers "hen "I have written poem on the dog he
said.
finished ne "Whose dog? demanded the editor,
r"ne fercely.
the poles It is not any particular dog, faltered
la.tened at the poet.
"Do you mean to say you took advan-
# love No tage of the dog because it partcu-
of nromise lar and wrote your poem on it,"
81 am afraid you do not understand me.
:,:.: wrote the poem regarding the dog
.,o.. h.,,. 'But why you regarding the dog
all? What had it done that you should re-
gard it?'
good motto eff you will allow explain l had
Of butchers been inspired by the dogs fidelity
The mirror., 1916-12-28

Prison Officials
Board of Control
c. J.. Swendsen, St. James
Ralph w. Wheelock, Minneapolis
c. E. vasaly, Little Falls
Downer Mullen. Secretary.
Board of Parole
r. Vasaly, Chairman.
c. S. Reed, Secretary.
Rev. H. c. Swearingen.
H. K. w. Scott.
Resident Officials
J.J. Deputy Warden
J. Backland ------ lst Asst. Deputy Warden
John Whelan---------- end Asst. Deputy Warden
). "A. Humpnreys---------- steward
"A. Whittier State Parole Agent
,. Losslus Dentist
Miss Ellen Nelson- --M Matron
c. e. Benson------ Protestant Chaplain
ChaS. COrcOran- Catholic Chaplain
Population
Number of Inmates at Prison. 1893
Number in First Grade ..................818
Number in Second Grade .............151
Number in Third Grade.
Received During Week.. ............7
Discharged ........ ................ .......... 1
Last Serial Number .5431
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
game that once made Iowa the mecca

game that once made Iowa the mecca
~ the hunters few chickens exist
IN spots and those mainly in the north
ern sections of the state where they
are renewed from time to time by the
winter migrations of the birds from
more northern states. But as sport
ing proposition in Iowa the prairie hen
IS not
There are many of us who deeply
regret that this. is SO but who realize
hat it is not 10 ne remedied. There
aud northern stares ut large expense
and who foresee the time when ou,.
side of the uncomfortable wilderness
and waste lands there VIII e no Wild
game shooting, 1t 5 the cid story en-
acted in every state rs developme n
drove the wild back. The game bird
shooter Nigh; as se:. make UP his
mind to accept the verdict of nature.
Some day, perhaps in Iowa, those
who can afford to do SO will hold town.
ships and parts of counties as shooting
preserves under game leases. raise
birds for their sport at great expense
and generally copy the system that
obtains abroad. But to insist that the
state shall do as much for every
sportsman who desires recreation with
dog and gun and tidbit for his table
i beyond the question and aside from
the general policy of well governed
state.
Better stop attempting impossibili-
ties and do the thing We can. We can
hatch fish in billions and stock our
streams and lakes. Let's do that.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON
HIGH AMBITION.

I'd like to be a fighter. and with the
fighters stand, and whip some other
Brighter, to music by the bond. The
fighters life is sunny, when he has
reached the top: some forty kinds Of
money, at intervals, he'll cop. He gets
3 roll that's Bigger than you conld
carry out, when he consents to figure
in tinhorn sparring bout The most OF
us are striving, each day. the whole
year long. that we may be surviving.
and dodge the poorhouse throng. We
must be most adroit, sir, and slave the
livelong day. If we would earn kreut-
Yer. or salt yen away. Great men of
skill and knowledge. can hardly earn
their slaw. professors in the college.
and people learned in law; and scien-
lists and thinkers, and eminent divines
must feed their children clinkers-but
how the fighter dimes. He works
when he gets ready, and then for half
an hour; the money comes in steady,
a brilliant. golden shower. I'd like to
be fighter, but I'm too fat to scrap;
and so. as hungry writer. I'll serve my
term, maybap.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
The JONES CASE.

The Jones' WIKI erson trial which
Years III Iowa-has come to close but
PROBABLY not to an end. The verdic,
seems TO have been for both men, for
the detective as one engaged in tracing
crime and thus privileged of assertion
which would be denied to others and
to a degree for Jones. The question Of
the jury as 70 whether a verdict for the
detective would be considered as in
eliminating Jones suggests that 1t had
not so connected the Villisca man with
the murders.
The trial was not a murder trial tho
might have been deceived into consid-
ering it thus. 1t was a SANDER suit be-
tween TWO men with a neighborhood
aligned on either side. So far as tbs
crime of which it is a side issue is con-
cerned 1t has done little except to stir
further suspicion and lead to more
scandal and assertion by innuendo and
to increase bitterness between individ-
uals and factions.
If Jones had been on trial for com.
plicity in the crime ne could not have
been convicted on the evidence ad-
duced. Nowhere has he been directly
connected with the murder except by
a chain Of circumstances SO weak thai
slight consideration, circumstances that
might be grouped to bear on any man
in any neighborhood who should be at
business and personal enmity with an
other. There has been no sufficient
motive for brutal murder lald at the
door Of Jones. And Jones, with life
of decent repute behind him is entitled
TO be considered innocent until some
reasonable proof. direct or circumstan-
tial, connects him with the crime
The Jones case has been a sensation
That Is all it has amounted to unless
it has established precedent" af-
fording private detectives looseness Of
assertion derogatory TO character
which is denied to other persons. It
has not cleared up the crime COM
mitted in Joe Moore's home. It has,
however, destroyed the peace Of mind
of the community and left stigma on
man who had been honored among
his fellows
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
.nAAMLn0M DEEI q
KALNLNUNI'l lNLLkI
N &<nN@!d! Il. Rm11 &
]. &C shoes a6 SHIPS -nd yeelkA uk.d cepoeSes; 4 dn2s
THE EARLY COLD.
5 ..1,0 SpolI3 INK q cabba6es: x Ml,23'

The early cold is a soul-satisfying
imitation of the mid winter infiu-
enza which takes hold with enthusi-
asm and lets go with regret.
Year after year, in our northern eli
mate, long, hot summer is almost al
ways succeeded by something else. Just
when people get accustomed to wearing
fewer clothes than Greek dancer, the
weather will change overnight and
cause every red corpuscle to freeze
in its tracks This makes bright
opening for the early cold. which
settles in the nose of its Victim and
wrines shrill. agonized sneezes from
the same.
The early cold Is caused by lack of
foresight and heavy underclothes. One
of the worst habits anybody can fall
into is to pack UP his winter under
wear Just as soon as summer opens up
and lay it away in the bottom of an
attack trunk after spraying it with
moth balls. When fall comes, with its
bracing atmosphere and hard coal
nightmare, nobody Is prepared to meet
it except sensible. fashioned people
who wear back -plastered union suits
the year around. 1t is supposed to be
part OF wife's business to anticipate
changes in the weather and have her
husbands underwear laid out on a
chair. so nat he can make quick and
easy ch:Is and not come home at
night covered with hoar frost. Some
day no single woman will be led UP to
the altar until she has signed con-
tract to perform this simple duty, but
as things are now, all the average huS-
band can do Is to wear what he can
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
LET'S DO THE THING We CAN.

1t is true that the day OF the game
log has passed, and all such had best
Jay aside their guns. II Is true that
there are no more buffalo to shoot, no
more beaver 10 trap nor bears to kill.
But it is not true that there is no
more use for dog and gun. In fact, the
real use for the dog and gun has just
arrived. There is sufficient shooting
for the experienced sportsman who
runts for recreation as his main in
centive. and a dainty morsel for his
table as a secondary consideration.
The gorging Of the old time game hog
has passed, and the day of the sports
man has arrived Humboldt Repuh.i-
can.
If the day Of the sportsman has ar
rived it has also arrived that the
sportsman must manage to have and
support his own shooting preserves.
Talk as we may s. is the height of the
ridiculous to imagine that we can
raise and. breed and hand feed game
for sporting purposes in Iowa. Also
however VIE may deny it the prairie
chicken is gone and the quail should be
protected by the farmers for It's utility
az well as itstbeanty against the guns
Of the game hogs and sportsmen alike
There are coupties in Iowa where q
prairie chicken is not reported. Tht
pinnated grouse Is on the way led y,
| the deer and buffalo and other wiki
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
VETS LEAVING THE STATE
LANa tarlln Times Z II lannn


Some time ago Cedar Rapids paper
noted the fact that quite a number of
men with inclination TO be wet were
moving from the state. some of them
DESERVING their families The VETS are
disposed TO use this as an argument
against prohibition
Cedar Rapids is not the only city
which has witnessed departure from
the state of men who cannot do with
out the flowing bowl-or think they
can not. But it is noted in this con-
nectian that the vets are not missed.
Their places have been flied. and filled
rapidly and acceptably s
There are several things to be gained
from this exodus Of the vets. The
first thing Is the influx of a class OF
citizenship that approves Of the dry
state of affairs, therefore the state
gains a satisfied citizenship where II
loses dissatisfied citizenship. A sat-
isfied citizenship is of immense value to
the state a dissa tished citizenship
must be accounted of no value to the
state. A dissatisfied citizenship means
more or less lawlessness in the state,
and everything that goes with lawless-
ness; a satisfied citizenship means OBJ
servance of the law, and the comfort
that goes with 1t. A satisfied citizen
ship means a lot to employers of labor
as ii means a lot to society in general
The new citizenship will not patronize
the bootlegger, it will not be found
hanging around the blind pig: that
means less business for this gentry
and their exodus from the state finally
Men want but a chance to work at
fair wages-that Is, the right kind Of
men. Iowa will attract them as 1t of
fers them inducements in the labor
field. 1T will attract men. too. who
want work. not booze. Iowa must be
patient; 1t must be little bit consid-
crate as to this booze problem. 1t can
not expect 10 blot Cut booze IN a few
months. The cure will come gradual
ly. AS time goes on there will be less
and less inclination for booze, the de-
mand naturally declining as the stuff is
hard to get. is Of poor quality--as the
satisfied citizenship develops.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
JUST LIKE LINN-NOT!
TCedar Rapi5S Gazette

Portage county, Ohio, has less than
one-half the population of Linn county,
Iowa. This year Portage county has
spent s3S3,031.37 for permanent road
work. When work now in progress Of
completion is finished, Portage county
will have 96.57 miles OF permanent
country road.
Portage eounty's expenditure for this
year would cover Linn county's ex-
penditures for many years. Portage
county's permanent roads are about
1857 miles longer than Linn county's
permanent roads
Portage county property owners
spent $4,000 in addition 10 regular
taxes. The special road fund contrib
uted $4,000 and the state a litt.S
more than $4,000. Townships contrib
uted better than $4,000.
The Portage County Improvement
Association has had prominent place
in the making of these remarkable road
improvements. 1t was largely respon-
sible for the perman ent road movement
in the county.
Some day Linn county viii wake up.
1t will realize that while few of its
roads are good. 1t has some OF the
poorest roads in the state. and but
very few miles of permanent roadway,
that its two principal cities are con-
nected by road that would do shame
tc 3 community one-tenth our popu
lation and wealth, and that we have
court house that is one Of the most re-
markable monuments 10 community
!assitude and backwardness anywhere
10 be found
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
Topics of the Times

Can you think of anything finer than
4 bright sharp sunshiny December
morning in Iowa? 1t beats anything TO
be had down where the grape fruit
grows or out where the oranges hang
IN the trees.
II used 10 cost this community
100000 a year to maintain saloons,
That makes $4,000 for hospital look
rather a small sum, doesn't it,
The poultry shows are getting great
notice from the newspapers nowadays.
Why not when a common old laying
dominick hen has the golden egg goose
Of the fairy stories backed off the
nest?
It was in perfect Keeping with the
time that the dove appeared al Christ
mas with the olive branch Of peace
Perhaps We shall have an armistice if
rot a permanent peace. He who was
born at Christmas knows the world
needs an interim of quiet
More farmers and less lawyers in the
Iowa house this session. Never mind,
The lawyers will get theirs after the
laws are passed no matter who passes
them.
Appanoose county and Centerville
are gaining an unenviable repute thru
- T. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
NATURALIZATION CHANGES.

England and France are revising
their naturalization laws. In France
hereafter ii will require ten years con-
t;nuous residence before foreigners
may attain to citizenship. And France
Will deny citizenship to all natives OF
any of the central powers.
Great Britain is committed TO! a
series of amendments to her naturali-
cation laws which VIII exclude from
membership in both legislative houses
and other important positions and
even from the office of justice OF the
peace all who are not British horn.
OF course the war is in the legisla-
ton as the civil war remained in our
legislation FOR many Years. Time will
bring the central and intente powers
into friendly connection. But il is
certain that no foreign born will sit
II French and British places of power
While the momory Of the past three
years endures.
lie dCAlpl tl lIt lpIe4SH COUNT! 4tS
affects the L. $ little except as con-
Germs individual cases OF citizenship
which might bring about complications
between us and the countries men
toned.
One thing does however affect this
country as other countries. The war
and its developments have brought
America to the conclusion that when
a foreign born citizen forswears all
a.legiances elsewhere and proclaims
his separate and single allegiance to
this country that he must mean what
he swears TO and live up to it. II is
time in the L. S to blot out the hyphen
and write all who live under the flag
Americans. An American citizen can
net be citizen and alien at once. More
over il is a manifest inconsruity that
any who share the benefits of AmeTi-
can opportunity thru a term of years
SHOULD retain foreign citizenship.
When Europe closes the gates ours
are open but they should be open first
"a those who come seeking citizenship.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12

the jury cases, 1t is claimed the saw
ing in jury costs alone in nearly enough
to pay the salary of the fourth judge,
The present judges are Messrs. Eskil
c. Carlson, J. e. Mershon. J. E. Meyer
and O. S. Franklin. They give great
deal of free legal aid. Employees take
their complaints of unjust treatment to
the Judges. A letter or a telephone call
brings the employer to time in hurry
and there are no lawyers fees for the
employe to pay. In minor cases the
Judges often draw up p1eadinss for per-
sons unable to stand the expense. In
criminal cases settlements are affected
thru the instrumentality of the judges.
The Impressions of a iayman, after
seeing jury service are these; Too
mach time is taken by attorneys in tri-
vial matters. Days are consumed in
trying cases that ought to be settled
in a few hours. Juries would be great
~ improved Il the better class OF citi-
zens were forced 10 serve on them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
THE MUNICIPAL COURT.
IDes Moines Capital.l

The municipal court is in the ninth
month OF it's existence. 1t performs the
work previously done by four Justice
courts and one police court. The re-
ceipts to date have been more than
CROUCH to pay the running expenses.
The court is supported Jointly by the
city and the county
In addition to performing the duties
Of the old justice system, the municipal
court has greatly relieved the burden
of the district court. 1t has concurrent
jurisdiction in cases up to $1,000. 1t is
said that IS per cent Of the civil cases
in the district court in the past involved
amounts Of $1,000 or less.
The method of selecting juries for the
municipal court is much fairer than the
one employed in the district court. In
the former the name of every voter Is
put into q can. Thus every man from
the highest to the lowest. the richest
to the poorest. Is liable to be drawn Tor
jury service. In the district court the
judges of election select the names
From these lists the Jury panels are
drawn This leads to the selection ot
many undesirables who serve only for
the money there is in 1t.
The municipal court has the trouble
that all courts experience. 1t finds
jurors who use influence I'd escape ser.
vice. Judges are but human and they
often excuse persons who have no right
to be excused. Service on jury should
be considered in the light Of patriots
duty. II every one would consider Il
SO, Justice would move In straightei
paths.
The new court is a boon to the young
lawyer There he feels that he has Al
| even change with the old. experiences
men OF the har. He feels at home il
the municipal court when trying hi.
first case willie in tine district court III
| very atmosphere makes him nervons.
There are four municipal judges. |
is thought by many that three would b,
enough. The judges themselves are di
vided on the question. One argument
In favor Of the four judges Is that jnr
les do not need TO- be si1eld sgg i0pl
where there are fctf ttnsls handfln
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
HARKING BACK TO 1890.
ISioux CITY Tribune

Tinges' of interest and romance hinge
| about the accumulation of fortunes in
any manner. The average Iowan is
prone TO give special attention to lucky
strikes in Alaskan mines or to alleged
| e buious profits IN western orchards.
overlooking some very impressive cases
close at hand. In every Iowa county
| numerous big fortunes have been Gre
ated thru increased land values during
the past thirty years.
Along this line the Alton Democrat
submits some interesting statistics Of
former land values in Sioux county. In
connection with crop returns this year.
The statistics. in fact, are more than
merely interesting. They are little short
of startling ~
This year Sioux county has produced
10000 bushels OF corn, new valued at
about s7.000,000. The corn crop alone,
taking no account of other grains and
live stock produced on the farms of
Sioux county. involves new wealth of
S2.0 per capita for the $4,000 inhab-
itants of the county. The Democrat es-
Inmates that the amount of money 10
be realized from the corn crop this
Year would have purchased every acre
|pf farm land in the county as late az
lsSO--only twenty-six years ago.
Today the good farm lands in Sioux
county sell readily at $3.50 to 5000 an
acre. In 1890, as shown by a large
number OF transfers of that period the
average was about $50 an acre The
man who owned a quarter section in
1890. and held it, is in position to credit
himself with side profits OF $4,000.
additional to the profits made in farm
ing the land
Getting away from theories and into
actual history, the Democrat presents
the following transfer records of 1890:
In 1880 Feppe De Craft bought eighty
acres for S2.4s0.
In 1890 G. w. Pitts bought eighty
scres for 1900
In 1880 Teunis klay bought eighty
acres for $3.50.
In 1890 William Duistermars bought
| eighty acres for $1,000.
In 1890 William Rieckhoff bought
$50 acres for $500
In 1890 D. C. Buckley bought eighty
| acres for $1,4S0.
| In 1890 w. c. Hagy bought 100 acres
| for $4,000.
In 1890 A. Van Meeteren bought l60
| acres for $4,4so.
In 1890 NJ. P. Van Oosterhout bought
$40 acres acres for $l4,2O0.
In 1890 w. s. Short bought eighty
acres for $1,000.
In 1890 S. j. Menning Dough, eighty
| acres for $500.
| In 1890 c. Van Rooyen bought eighty
acres for 1900
In 1880 August Boehlke bought 100
acres for $1,000.
In 1880 John KraaI bought eighty
acres for $500.
| In 1890 Fl. Hofs bought eighty acres
for $500.
In 1890 J. H. Gerats bought 100 acres
for $3.50,
In 1890 NJ. D. Gibbs bought 200
acres for $1,000.
In 1880 j. Wassenaar bought 100
acres for $500.
In 1890 c. Smit bought 120 acres for
$3.50.
! In this collection 1t is a mistaken
opinion mat ali improvement is of the
past. There wete just as many men
IN proportion in 1890 who thought land
had reached its highest price as there
are now. 1t appears to the Tribune
that when the people of 1915 mark back
to the land prices Of 1916, they will be
Just as much Impressed with lost OPP
portunities as the people OF 1915 are
In marking back to 1890.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
"A Matter Of Rivalry.

The rivalry between the two local
doctors was very keen. and they never
lost an opportunity Of scoring" off one
another
One one occasion they met and DR..
Lancet said to his colleague -z-. :,
4 Il notice that you occasionally take
a patient out for drive"
eYes." was DR.. Endem's reply y
think It does them good"
"But my dear sir. 1t amt profess
sional. I never do it."
NO was DR.. Endem's retort, IL
notice that when your patients go driy-
ing the undertaken usually accompanies
them"