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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
"MOTHER LOVES YOU"
How these Loving Words Sank
Deeply into the Breast of a
Condemned Man.-Heart
Was Bleeding.
Boston Transcript

The oldest emblem of deathless
affection is the natural love of a
woman for her child. Maternal
love remains, indeed, as fixed, con-
ventional type, as if the tender emf
hence belonged to every mother.
To illustrate the child's hold
upon the mother DO ordinary in
stance would be new, but an Incl
dent in the last honrs of a condemn
ed criminal furnishes one of the
crucial cases.
Two days before his execution
telegram was brought to him in bis
cell. He snatched it., and tore it
open with an oath. In an instant a
change came over his sullen face.
He threw up his hands with cry,
and began to weep and sob. The
chaplain took the telegram and read
these words:
Your mother is loving you yet. "
The message had come two thou
sand miles. The mother in her dis.
tant home had not heard of her run
away boy for three years. The
young prodigal had not changed his
name, and one day, in brief news
paper mention, she read of him "a
murderer condemned to die. 1t
was too late to try to save him. All
her bleeding heart could send him
in his ignominy and ruin was that
last fond sentence.
Another Instance.
An anecdote of wretched look
ing tramp. arrested for vagrancy
the other day in Brooklyn, tells us,
on the other hand, something of the
hold a mother has upon her child.
When the man was searched by
the officers, soiled photograph Of
young woman was found in his
clothing. Beggars' explanations
usually find a more credulous au-
dience outside of the police station,
but the officers heard the tramp's
story and believed it. He declared
that the photograph was a picture
of his mother.
She's an old woman now," he
said, if she is alive. I've carried
that picture for many year. /
didn't follow the road she marked
out for me.-the more shame to
me, but her face has been with me
in every state in the union. l
wouldn't part with it for anything
in this world, Keep it for me, and
let me have it when l go.''
Mother love is holy thing. Pit
iful. and more than pitiful, is the
baseness that will drag it in the
mire. But it outlives even that in
dignity
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
MOTHER KNOWS


Let us put aside our woes;
Let us go and talk to mother,
For I'm sure that mother knows.
Let us tell what's lost or broken.
Be it heart or hope or pearl,
And the tale may bide unspoken,
For she used to be girl.
She has been through all sorrows
OF girl at nine or ten;
She has seen the dawn of morrows
When the sun shone bright again:
Her own heart has been near breaking
Oh! more times than can tell;
And has often known the aching
That girls heart knows so well,
am sure she well remembers.
In her calendar of days.
When the girl-heart was DEFENDERS
Though the sun and flowers were Mays
She has lived girls life. lassie,
And she knows just how it goes;
Let us go and talk to mother.
For I'm sure that mother knows.
Let us tell her all about it,
How the sting of it is there,
And have not any doubt it
Will be easier to bear;
For she's been along the byway,
She has dropped some bitter tears,
She has travelled DER the highway,
She can quiet all your fears.
She will put aside the worries,
That your day may follow through.
For this mother always hurries
At the call of help from YOU
She will heal the heart that's broken,
With her love so true and strong.
And the tale may bide unspoken-
For mother once was young.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
SOME MOTHERS CHILD

At home or away,
In the alley or street,
Wherever chance
In this wide world to meet
A girl that is thoughtless,
Or a boy that is wild.
My heart echoes softly:
1t is some mothers child.
And when see those
Ger whom long years have rolled.
Whose hearts have grown hardened.
Whose spirits are cold.
Be it woman all fallen.
Or man all defiled,
A voice whispers sadly:
1t is some mothers child.
No matter how far
From right she hath strayed:
No matter what inroad
Dishonor hath made:
No matter what elements
Cankered the pearl;
Though furnished and sullied.
She is some mothers girl.
No matter how deep
He is sunken in sin:
No matter how much
He is Stunned by his kin;
No matter how low
Is his standard of joy:
Though guilty and lOathsome.
He is some mothers boy.
That head hath been pillowed
On tenderest breast;
That form hath been wept DER.
Those lips have been pressed;
That soul hath been prayed for
In tones sweet and mild;
For her sake deal gently
With some mothers child
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
NO SYMPATHY

Waiter" said the man III the
hotel dining room, there's fly in
this ice cream"
Serves him right, sir" replied
the waiter" Let him stay there
and freeze to death. He was in the.
soup yesterday"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
Why?

the fag The President decision which
adheres strictly his original policy There
tuona government in Mexico Dlpomatcaly expressed
government, but The
evolves from uurpaon predicated
have pointed the foul
constituted authorities which naturally
the high moral by absolutely
unassalabe The administration stands
this. and other side matter
which adiates from the main
of and the almost unanmity of the reflected
the public press, the administration solidly backed
I'VE dealing with facts the key reply
President Carranza
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
The Only Way

line strictly with the programme
TO DEAL WITH THE FACTS. The facts these: The
honor of the nation has been assaulted by of
the of the existing of Mexico (make
sona and uertahis clubbing of words does the
fact that Huera the of that and
which eliminated in the incident Tmpco The
refused make the
flag unless returned for said salute
col it, which would effect nully the
cple involved in the demand Following this refusal
Vera Cruz sustaining and nficting loss of life strong
of the under the leadership of that little fire eaerFunon
is encamped in the which, up the present.
hold Huerta remains from all defiant and refuses
get The SINE QUA NON of the Presidents demand
antamount to the elimination of Huerta Huera Mexico
Vera Cruz What have taken Vera Cruz for
this sacrifice of life both sides? the administration
that this will ntimidate Huerta. Nohank you Vcoriana
Huer quite contened Mexico City the victim of
the of UNNECESSARILY mghtier than the
which he-righ wrong-presdes Foxy Huerta. He
doubtedy taking full advantage of the But this
the the possibilities which hating tactics placing
the hands of this unsrupuous placing obstacles
the of the work that inevitably be DONE
dous In a word-Huerta is Mexico City-ALIOllS!
As Messieurs Carranza Villa
that the mighty u S. will descend alliance of oene
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
The lfinesse
of Diplomacy


character be interpreted expression
ton. But-this is against Mexico nation"re-
Washington this merely regreable and
enforce ecogniton etc. Recognition?
From whose official standing have consistently dis
avowed? Impossible, Deep
plhair concede diplomacy be-
against for fair in this instance.
will with the precedents
dodge the fact the gov
toward Huerta employing the offensive
agencies of the PUNITIVE pure
simple This is really the of the The
present is presumed diplomatic desnes may
burn the midnight oil in the HOLES of his department.
marshall scintatng the choicest
from his prolific mind endeavor beguie the nations
mind into the belief that the situation which, aside from
complete back down the part Washington
sar involve this nation in the consequences will inevitably
follow the already taken buthe will dismaly fail
Consistency has been the shbboe of the
the insofar relates the Mexican mbroglo Many Of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

" expressed itself against the submission
of questions involving the national hon
or? Can there possibly be such a twist
given by diplomacy to plain language,
that the incident of Tampico can be made
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
Post Impressions


What going arbitraie about? record
that
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

us who have closely followed events are
at loss to understand how we are going
to deal with facts and yet avoid con
ditions," since the facts that we are to
deal with arise from these conditions.
However. let us waive this aside. Let
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
The Colorado
Slaughter

Hueano counties throng the details of the fighting
check the lists of casualties and for the
break of hoses So know whether the slaughter
Ludlow the blunder of plain fool incident
of extemnaon cite phrases used by Denver editors
We do know that last weeks dispatches armed
ct between strikers and mamen and guards and the burning
of the Ludlow camp where strikers lived with their families
ack mines and twelve long line held for hun
dreds miners fewer but miamen This
about dead the and child
them burned suocated in the of refuge be-
meath their fameswept others wounded
or missing-Lerary Digest.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

marked emphasis on the position taken
by Washington of non-recognition of
Huerta, demands that we withdraw from
Vera Cruz. on the plea that Huerta's
acts, whether in the Tampco incident, or
in any of the others. lack the official
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

defense with faction which, after all,
gives no reliable foundation for the hope
that the carnival of butchery and rapine
would stop if they were placed in COM
plete power; to say nothing of the fact
that it would he humiliating the nation
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
A Humiliatine
Alternative

before the the world
alternative march Mexico City, Mexico City
Moreover consider what advantage this would Huea
What pose he could say Il dignity
the inevitable. The earh vauutng al
its fair play crpples the board and grmly
under its Vera Cruz while the unchecked hordes
the north descend defenseless man, Are
that this mighty nation will this indictment
history?
On day the capture Cruz with
lives there battle the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
KAISER Is ASKED BY
WIRELESS FOR NEWS
Request Sent From TuckertOn
Station Through His Friend
Prof. GOldschmidt.
SERVICE AT Z. s. DISPOSAL
German American Chamber of
Commerce Protests Against
Censorship by Government.

Wireless communication was opened
yesterday between the radio station at
Tuckerton. n. J., and the station at Han
over. Germany.
One OF the first messages sent was 10
Prof. Rudolf Goldschmidt. a close friend
OF the Kaiser. asking him to request THAI
war news from the German side be sent
TO this country. Prof Goldschmidt was
asked TO tell the Kaiser THAI the war news
up to the present has come through Eng
fish and Franch censors.
Theodore II. Lompke, manager OF the
Tuckerton station, sent the following mes
sage to Secretary Bryan:
/ beg to advise you that we have
opened wireless communication be-
tween our American station at Tuck
erton. ~ j., and the German station
at Eilvese. We put ourselves at
your disposal In case you. want to
get into communication with the
American Ambassador at Berlin. or
for any other purposes. especially to
aid American tourists now in Ger
many. All messages OF this nature
will have preference over all other
messages. Kindly let us hear your
wishes.
Capt Howard. stationed at the New
York Navy Yard reported last night tina
there had been no attempts to evade tn,
Governments censorship OF wireless.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
GERMANS MAY YET WIN AT LIEGE, WAR EXPERT SAYS

| the field army, the only one to be reck
Oned with as yet At least three are
ON the Russian frontier. As the French
army contains twenty-one corps of about
equal strength II Is plain now that from
the start the allies may be able ia
establish a dangerous numerical superior
ity when to the French force there are
Joined the Belgian field force. which has
the strength OF at least two army CORPS
and the British force, with n strength OF
four
What must now occupy the attention
OF the world Is the question as to whether
the protracted resistance OF Liege has or
has not resulted In a material disarrange-
ment Of the whole German plan, which
as Is well known contemplated throwing
"A huge force into France and crushing
the French array before Russia could
mobilize and become aggressive on the
east This the Bulgarians accomplished
by their unexpected victory about KIRK
Kfisseh In the Balkan war
Moreover the resistance of Liege raises
one more serious question. II a fortress
such ms Lcge. only imperfectly gar
risoned and almost without preliminary
warning Of attack. can make so terrible
resistance. Vhat prospect is there OF
German success In rushing the great
barrier fortresses Of Frahce, such as
Belfort. Toul. verdun and Epinal. or ir
/ the north Reiyls, La Fere and Laon
which bar the,Nxay TO Paris Paris. too
with its wonderful line OF defences
hundred miles in circumference. must
Offer tremendous obstacle.
II Is far too early to place any per
manent estimate of the Liege incident.
But II is clear that the French and
British have placed much significance
upon the temporary check to German ad-
vance and are rushing forward 30 pin
down the German forces operating in
Belgium and along the Meuse. Ever
should Licge captulate now British. Bel
CLAN and French armies would probably
arrive at Namur In advance OF the Ger
mans and Namur is r fortress hardly
weaker than biege.
Meantime what flood OF historical
parallels the arrival Of an English army
on the Continent must awaken. 1t Is al
most a century since Wellingtons army
| won It's last great campaign. Two cen
/ turtles span the time between Kitchener
and MARLBOROUGH. But to-day the French
and English soldiers are to fight as allies
apparently once more on Belgian terri.
| tory.
And in the twentieth as in the pre-.
cedng centuries supremacy at sea ha,
enabled England to strike where she
chose, having swept the German feet
| from the North Sea
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
Position of forts

Wv Ddnh Ol lnf
form the northern curtain" denying the
advance OF an enemy except through the
intervals to the north and south.
The immediate Belgian frontier is I'M
protected except by the old barrier forts
OF Montmedy and Longyy and BY the
strong entrenched camp Of Maubeuge.
The guaranteed neutrality of Belgium
was at first counted on to afrord some
protection. In 1887 to 1891 Belgium con
structed line OF defence to deny the
valley OF Meuse to any invader. France
later fortified Maubeuge by girdle OF
detached forts similar TO Nerdun, forming
an entrenched camp that Is kept always
garrsoned on war basis These two
sets OF Notifications are now furnishing
common barrier to a German advance
through Belgium.
Another Defensive Curtain.
France did not rest content with these
border defences alone as points OF sup
port for her field armies in opposing the
advance OF the Germans on Paris. Paris
Is only 100 miles from Belgium. 40 miles
from Germany II was desirable TO fur
nish other barriers so that even II the
field army were driven back they could
delay the enemy long enough for France
to muster her last reserves for the defence
OF her capital. sixty miles from Belgium
she constructed another defensive curtain,
supported on the fortified cities OF La
Fere and Reims
La Fere at the northwestern end Of the
line has an outer line OF detached forts
eight miles from the city an intermediate
line and a citadel. Reims Is an en-
trenched camp protected by circle OF de-
tached forts, forty-hve miles In circum-
ference A lire OF Ave detached forts
runs from La Fere through Laon TO Reims,
completing the curtain 1t is probable
lna ia . N
the concentration of the principal French
army TO oppose the German advance
through Belgium.
At the southern end of the German
boundary France also has second line
OF defence Besancon. near thu Swiss
boundary, is an entrenched camp with an
outer line OF forts. also an inner line.
Dillon, Atty miles west, has "A similar
defence.
Langr.s Atty miles north. Is on the
principal rail route from Paris via Belfort
to southern Germany. II IL strongly de-
Tended by circle of detached forts
eleven miles out. by four int mediate
/ forts and by a citadel.
These three fortified cities Besancon,
Dion and Langres, form a fortified dis
trct TO cover the concentration OF a
southern French army to oppose the ad-
vance OF an enemy from South Germany
via Belfort and the roads over the vosges
Mountains.
The Last Resort.
! II all her field armies and all her
barriers fail France has yet the defences
OF Paris TO save the capital. With the
old forts and half trained forces Parts
was able to hold out in 1870 for a three
months siege. The French prohted by
the lessons OF that disaster. The new
line OF defence is moved out to seven
-. - l...4t L..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
The British Expeditionary
Force on the Continent
From THE EVENING SUN Of yesterday.

By all ,neaps the most iptorostlpg reu,s
n, ,ho ,,,an,,,rr Il, a." ~, es w"
'''' ,'"e &c ''e ra''s uesPa'ch an
'ouhclhs the arrival AT ports unnamed
but In France of the first division OF the
British expedl,ionary army Not only
does this news ~ +, no true ,t.o,o.. :,
ra,,,,,,, I'LL. , @
~ ""Vi' u,'eNpe''Vu' pu' taken IN
oonNec,ioh with the reports that French
army corps are arriving near Liege IL
demonstrates that the allies are taking
swift advantage or the Belgian resistance
10 pin down the German advance before
II actually reaches the French frontier.
The English expeditonary amy con-
ssts OF some $4,000 troops of all arms
the best army OF Its size in Europe, be
cause II is composed not OF two or three
year conscripts but OF regulars, who
serve for number OF years and like our
regulars are professional soldiers, in many
cases veterans, and commanded by on
GERS who have seen active service all over
the world. This force should be carefully
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09

reports from French. Belgian and British
sources
Mr.. Haimhausen said that the German
operations NJ Liege were merely the
movements Of an advanced guard and In
no sense tho attack of one of the main
German armies. He added that the ad-
vance forces were without the requisite
heavy artillery needed to silence the guns
mounted behind fortincations.
OF the fleet the charge expressed the
"a inion hat 1t In lying in the mouth II
Of the Elb, secure from attack by the
British and ready to dart into the North
Sea to strike blow when opportunity
offered or drop back into the Baltic
through the Kiel Canal.
Thus the British feet is being held
helpless, required to watch for the Ger
man fleet which is refraInng from ex-
posing itself &C attack from q vastly
superior force. He also pointed out that
the British feet is obliged TO stand guard
at SCI where the vessels can hardly even
Goa, while the German fleet Is resting
comfortably IN it's protected places
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st. Petersburg would he largely as
counted on account O. long line OF com
rnunications which would require protec-
tion between II and the operating forces
in the enemy's country. Fer this reason
the Germans would logically prefer Ria
and I.lbau as bases, while 81 Petersburg
use would be AZ a protecting position OF
the line OF communications
A consideration also not to be iert out
of account In that the Russian roads will
In a short time become impossible for
the carriage material Of the German
army.
Even II the German army should enter
81 Petersburg and Moscow, the Russian
empire Is so vast that no real impression
will have been made on the Russian
militant forces and the Russian people
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
Situation On Hostile
Frontiers Explained

a detailed explanation by Prince
Observation-Disclosures of the
situation on the hostile frontiers of
Europe will he found on the second
page Of the Third section of The
Sun today. with an accompanying
map on page 3.
Articles ON the personalities lead
Ing the contendlng forces and other
points will no found on rmges 1. 5.
q and II of the Third section.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
GERMAN MOVE
ACROSS MEUSE
is IMPORTANT
Leaders Nay Leave Liege
Aside to Rush Into
Open Battle.
TO STRIKE BEFORE
BELGIUM IS READY
Little Advantage Seen i'm Oc-
cupation of st. Peters,
burg by Kaiser.
n, PRINCE LAzAROvICH-HRE
IIANOvICH.

TIE news received OF the encounters on
ire Lorraine border and In Luxembourg
ere Of minor Importance. as they are
clashes Of sporadic character. but the
report that large German army bodies
had crossed the river Meuse near Wise Is
worthy Of serious consideration.
IN the scheme Of the defence OF Bel
CLAN territory the task assigned to the
two great fortified camps OF Liege and
Namur was to prevent the crossing of
the river Mouse on the points most favor
able FOR such an operation, and 80 allow
the Relglan army to mobilize and con-
cer'rate in a zone most advantageous for
rerelling the invader and also give time
for foreign aid TO arrive.
Tro crossing OF the Meuse by very large
hoiie. Of troops could be taken as an in
dlcat.on that the German headquarters
decided 20 leave Liege aside and take
me offensive into Belgium. LieSe will
Re either submitted to a regular siege or
be invested only by large bodies of Ger
man reSerye formations or Landwehr
formations
During the Franco-German war the
loTN VI "''H was H""JeS''u " suSH +"
siege operation, and had finally to sur
render The same was the case and the
,a'e II Adrianople in the last Balkan war
against Turkey. In both these cases the
greater part Of the field army passed by
those fortified places and continued its
advance, Field railroads. hastily con
s,-Icted. renlaced those parts OF the
trunk railroad lines which lie within the
range of the fortified place
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09

Capt Charles w. Rankin, chief aid to
Fire Chief Kenlon, was greatly astonishc1
last Thursday when his daughter Ella,
who has been living at Tenahy, announced
to him that she was married and intro
duced her husband. Clifford II. Kimball II
TenRfy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
GERMAN DIPLOMAT EXPLAINS.
Charge Haimhausen Says LieEe
Attack Ia Only y "F~cIer."

WASHINGTON, Aug. s,--Haniel Won
Haimhausen, counsellor and Charge
dAffaires OF the German Embassy, who
arrived here this morning and returned
I, New York and Newport this evening,
pointed out that the cutting of the cable
to Germany had left the American public
without any Information as to the Ger
man position. while there is food Of
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The base of mobilization Of the Belgian
army ~ ~ Antwerp. the great fortified
c,mp and Iort at the mouth of the Shelde,
whose frs; line 90 defence il at distance
81 nine miles from the enceinte. which IT.
SELF Is at n great distance from the centre
OF the town and port, making n half cir
Gle around town and suburbs with open
communication by sea, Antwerp is al
most impregnable.
T. can be assumed that the concentra-
ton ~ the belgian army Is now taking
place In a zone between Louvain- Namur
p.ast on re Bender and Licge, covering
tho road to Antwerp and Brussels. from
which places all reenforc ements must
come The French army group sent to
MAKE junction with the Belg!ans, IL can
be assumed logically. will be concen-
rated nearer Namur and Liege covering
~" road 10 France The British forces
who's" landing in France has been re-
ported Will probably assemble near the
Oh battlefield Of Waterloo, as their con-
centrauon must be n matter OF some time
Every day OF retard in the advance
~ the German forces in Belgium will put
fmor" odds against them in that part OF
M" theatre ~ war. II can be assumed
with certainty that the German head
quarters, knowing this. will have decided
IN strike With the utmost rapidly a
bow against tho French and Belgian
forces and II possible crush and throw
N'm against Namur. That would leave
~" way 0uen for the German forces 10
ai'anco INTO France and menace the
fr'nch line OF communications