The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-09-29

ty have never forgiven him for not
forgiving his daughter. Judge B. had
no earthly use for poor man, much
less for poor man who was friendless
and stranger. When Judge B. died,
about three years ago, he left to each
of his four younger children $4,000,
but Mary's name was not even men,
toned in his will. Neither she nor
her husband have ever grumbled or
repined, but have always parried the
remarks and inquiries of unduly solic-
itous friends by saying the judge had
right to do as he pleased with his mon
ey.
But the voters of Stagpation County
elected Tom Saterland to the legislature,
and he came back as he went--a poor
man, which speaks well for his honesty.
He refused denomination on the
ground that he was too poor to take
his family to Albany, yet could not
bear to live apart from them. Take it
all in all, he was the wisest, the best,
the gentlest, and therefore the mani est
man it has been my good fortune to
become acquainted with. His constant
aim was to be just towards all men,
and if any one has ever accused him
of injustice, haven't heard about it.
He was i'll but short time-pneumo-
MIA laid him low after three days at.
tack. His wife is left with six chill
dren, one of them baby, born since
the father died. She has nothing but
the little house she lives in and per-
haps three or four hundred dollars in
the bank.
But she will never want for any
thing, Hiram. Every man, woman
and child is ready to help her. We
have already put her in the way Of
earning fair living, and to enable her
to educate her children. She is the
richest woman in the world today:
richest in the things that the moths
and the rust spoil not, that corruption
cannot corrupt, that time cannot de-
: stroy; richest in the love and respect of
her fellow beings. And she more than
deserves that love and respect. She
was ever of gentle, helpful disposi-
I tion, loving wife, kind neighbor, a
4 refined and intelligent woman, without
e pride, and as mother she stands with
out peer. No wonder, therefore,
the people delight to honor her. For
4 remember this, Hiram: The merely
beautiful woman may captivate us for
time; the highly intellectual woman
may fascinate us; the witty woman
: may awaken admiration in us; and the
o woman who can lay claim to beauty
0 intelligence and wit may get her pic.
I ture in the magazines, or eventually
if she is very rich, marry foreign
i nincompoop with blue, and therefore
corrupt, blood in his veins; but oul
# lasting sympathy flows to the womanly
J. woman, the loving and faithful wife
J; the mother of large family, and il
n she brings up her children in the right
y way so that they reflect credit upon
Q herself, and become a power for good
o in the community in which they live
I; we almost worship her, we regard hel
g as public benefactress, and crown hel
with glory and honor that queens
@ may envy, but cannot obtain. Tht
n welfare of a nation does not depend 81
! much upon the material aff1uence OF
o. the people as upon the duties of moth
erhood conscientiously performed
When we dig down to solid, rock-bot
tom facts we find that the mothers IL
:. Israel are the real pillars that uphol(
:, the structure of society. Motherhood
- is woman's greatest glory; the indiffer
= ence to motherhood her greatest shame
: The most beautiful sight this crust,
- - old world vouchsafes to the eyes of th'
= children of man is the sight of a moth
= : or surrounded by well-behaved, intelli
- gent and conscientious children, ant
: the more there are of them the bette
: the picture.
q Base is the man who does not wor
"a ship at the shrine of motherhood, ant
n the basest of all is he who belittIe
re- what must forever remain the holies
,e feeling mortal being is capable of OK
Il periencing: the outpouring of moth
r. er's love to her helpless infant.
mi Your loving father,
b. HIRAM SLowao, SR.