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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30

No guiding God appears
To my strained eyes.
Athwart the fog of fears
And hates and lies,
| see no goal, / mark
No ringing message flying;
Only brawl in the dark
And death and groans of the
dying.
For you, your men OF dreams
And your strong men Of deeds
Crumble, and die with screams.
And under hoofs like weeds
Are trampled; for you,
In city and on hill
Voices you knew
And needed are still.
And roundabout
Harbor and shoal
The lights of your soul
Go out.
To what end, o Fatherland?
l see your iegions sweep
Like waves up the gray strand.
| hear your women weep.
And the sound is as the groan-
ing
Swish of the ebbing wave
A nations pitiful moaning
Beside an open grave.
All, Fatherland, not all
Who love you most,
Armed to triumph or fall,
March with your mighty host.
Some there are yet. as 1,
Who stand apart,
And with aching heart
Ponder the Whittier and Why
Of the tragic story.
Asking with bated breath,
Which way lies glory,
And which way, death?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30

tx n n
A young man has mastered a
college curriculum, and has essayed
public career; but he soon learns
that in each and every profession
be it secular or sacred there is
more or less of chicanery and in
trigue. Strong indeed must be his
character. and sound his morals, else
he will become an automaton, a
puppet, at the behest of the powers
that be. Well were it for our
country, yea, for the peoples of all
nations if religious expounders, po-
litical opponents, etc. etc., were
true to the idealistic principles of
their respective affiliations, and
were invulnerable to corruption.
Nearly every one has ha bits
which they wish they did not have.
One has the drink habit; he is
confirmed by the world at
large a Observation-Disclosures; he
has wished time and time again that
he was free of such an habit. He
may have taken the gold cure, or
he may have tried many other rem
edies, but the habit is firmly rooted
and fixed. The time to have gained
the victory was in the days of
young manhood before his will
power had been undermined and
weakened.
Another has an unruly temper.
In carly childhood his passionate
outbursts were the source of much
merriment for certain unwise grown
ups; aud later his display of tenn
per was accepted as evidence of
strong and virile manhood, and
was thot to augur we'll for his flu
ture success; but instead it does but
ruin his prospects tor success, in
wolves him in trouble, and finally
lands him behind prison bars, or
cause him to assist gravity in main
tanning the perpendicularity of a |
rope.
If in our youthful days we had
fought our silent battles more val
iantly, greater success would have
attended us in our efforts to over
come the evil propensities of our
natures.
Even within the narrow confines
of a prison there is much inter-
Declne strife; not so much between
individuals-for that is taboo if |
known-as it is between the indi- |
viduals inherent knowledge of |
right and his inclination to evil. |
There is a tendency on the part of
certain inmates of penal institu-
tons to hold society blameworthy for
their present distress; and because
of this they allow their assumed |
grievance to rankle in their minds
until it poisons their system with
the virus of revenge; and they vow
that once again they are free men
they will get even." Their thots
by day and their dreams by night
are formulatiye of plans for re-
venge. Better far would it be for
themselves and all concerned if
they would use the interim of their
imprisonment to wage silent war
fare with their evil inclinations, so
that in after days they may hold
their period of confinement IN men,
DRY as the date under which their
evil Ego met it's Waterloo.
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30
Wayside MeditatiOnS
"Optmo"
Silent

The heights by great men reached
and kept,
Were not attained by sudden
fight;
But they, while their companions
slept
Were toiling upward in the night. F"
In these days when Europe is
seething in a maelstrom of blood
and carnage the thot of battle is
uppermost in our minds. We be-
gin to compare the battles of the
present with those of the past. Our
minds eye pictures continent as a
battlefield, with millions of men in
mighty phalanxes aligned in battle
array, where hurtliug shot and
screaming shell carry their message
of death to the opposing ranks.
Where winged juggernauts traverse
uncharted highways in aerial spheres,
and drop death dealing bombs down
into the busy marts of trade and
traffic of large cities, or pour their
molten death upon the slice ping, I'M
suspecting inhabitants of wayside
villages and hamlets. Here a mother
and her babe, guiltless of all harm;
there group of innocent children
with never thot Of ill; yonder the
bent and decrepit forms of aged pa
rents who have reared family of
capable children; boys who were
physically strong, morally clean, and
mentally alert, only to have them
set up as targets for the enemy to
murder; and as if it were not
enough to commit wholesale slaugh-
ter on the field of battle, these inno-
cent and helpless women and chill
dren. together with the aged and
infrm, must needs be murdered in
order that twentieth century civil
ization may have full and free dem
onstration.
But we did not intend this article
to deal with the mortal combat of
nations, tho our system is 80 sur
charged with hatred of the hell
born barbarism practiced in the
European conflict that we would
be untrue 20 ourselves did we not
voice our sentiments as occasion Of
fers.
There are battles of no less mo-
ment fought by individuals, that
none know of except the individual
himself; moral battles, wherein
some unseen but potent force wages
war with your better self. Two
powers have been in evidence from
the earliest known date Of the his
tory Of man. There is a power
which if yielded to will lead us to
sublime heights of idealism; but
there is another power which will
draw us further and still further in
to the vortex of evil with each sue
cessive period Of yielding. This
latter power accompplishes its end
with greater ease because our nat
ural inclinations impel US to in
greater or less degree follow the
line of least resistance.
1t requires no effort to float down
stream; you may drift downward
but energy and combativeness are
necessary elements of character if
we would make progress against
the stream of adversely. Human
driftwood is composed of individ-
uals who for one reason or another
have not faced the issues of life, but
have, instead of stemming the tide
of human possibilities. merely drift
ed with the downward current.
The man who has attained a pos
ition of eminence or power in hu.
man affairs is man who has fought
many battles in solitude; these are
the hardest battles. See you a man
who in the hour of a great crisis
stands firm and immovable as Glib
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
FACED FIRING SQUAD.
But DIR. MacFarlane Yet Lives to
Tell The Story.

The" Near and Far Man" in the
st. Louis Republic recounts as fol-
lows
DR.. w. w. McFarlane of Mexico
knows how it feels to face a firing
squad and hear the click of the gum
locks. He was a Confederate sol
der. Captured by Uniou troops in
Galloway county, he was taken to
Mexico, where he was condemned to
b shot. He was taken to the place
of execution where he stood beside
coffin and heard the officer give
the firing squad the order to aim
Just then another officer stepped
forward and read an order commut-
ing tn sentence to Imprisonment dur
ing the war. The local commander
had had this order several hours,
but went thru the painful pantomime
just to give MacFarlane a scare. This
undoubtedly was one of those "cruel
and unusual punishments" express
ly forbidden by the Constitution of
the United States.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
BENTON CITY ITEMS
INTENDED for last week.

(lnJended Tor last week.
Fred Kellerhals and family were
guests of Bert Waddington and wife
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. j. F. Johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Mcclure and Chas.
Harrison attended the Easter serv-
ices of Crusade Commandery No. 23
in Mexico Sunday.
George Hilderbrand of Wellsville
spent Sunday with his brother, Os-
car Hinge.
VIM. Coil and DR.. w. H. Douglass
were in Mexico Sunday.
The funeral of Miss Lucy Vail, who
died of pneumonia at her home
three miles east of town, was held at
the Presbyterian church Saturday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. A.
Wallace of Mexico, after which the
remains were inferred in the GEM
etery here. Deceased leaves an aged
brother who is critically ill at this
time
Ice Lovett and family of Thomp-
son visited at Leo Hampton's Sun
day.
Harold HUTCHINSON and family
motored to Palmyra, their former
home, Sunday.
The second entertainment of the
Lyceum Course will be given in
Hines Hall next Saturday evening,
April 10th. The first one was ex-
ceptionally good and a still larger
crowd is expected for the second.
The c. w. B. M. Society of the
Christian Church held their Easter
services at the church Saturday. Two
excellent programs, one in the fore
noon and one in the afternoon, were
rendered which reflected much cred
it on the members, The Easter
songs and recitations by the little
folks was also an enjoyable feature.
of the program.
Mrs. w. H. Douglass was the guest
of friends in Montgomery City Fri
day.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
ON TO SANTA FE.
And Then A Paris Editor is coming
Over To See Us.

Jack Blanton, editor of the Paris
Monroe County, Appeal, enthuses
as follows:
We learn from a reliable source
that work is being pushed rapidly
on the extension of the electric road
from Moline to Santa Fe. Our
informant says that about three
miles Of the road has been graded on
the Moline end of the road and that
ties are being laid. Only four miles
of the line is yet to be graded to
reach Santa Fe. AS soon as the iron
rails are received at Moline they
will be laid and at the present rate
of progress it will not be long until
the cars will be running over the en-
tire line from Mexico. When that is
accomplished we intend to go to
Santa Fe and take a ride to Mexico
and back to Santa Fe.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
COUNTY RoADovERsEERs.

The County Court has called a
meeting of the SO roadoverseers of
Audrain county in Mexico Friday,
April 16. The meeting will be prac-
tically an all-day session, and will be
held in the Circuit Court Room.
The purpose is to discuss road condi-
tons, how to make concrete culverts
and other matters of Importance con-
corning the highways of the county.
An effort is being made to secure
a concrete expert to be here at this
meeting and demonstrate the proper
method of mixing and building con-
crete culverts. 1t is expected that
many farmers as we'll as roadover-
seers will be present. The roadover-
seers will be allowed a days pay
for attending.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
1T TAKES WORK.
To Build Roads Says Thompson Man
In Missouri Ruralist.

j. NJ. r. Thompson, Mo-, has the
following letter in late issue of the
Missouri Ruralist:
/ am farmer and live IA miles
southwest Of Mexico, Mo. find
that the only way to have good
roads is for thefarmers to make
them good. Newspaper talk doesn't
build good roads. We pay road tax
but get very little money to work
with. We have an mile road dis
triet around our city and when you
reach that part of the road 1t is al
most impossible for vehicle. 1t
hasn't been graded for year and
isn't dragged often. Occasionally a
man comes out from the city and
drives over the road, then goes back
to town.
Several cement culVerts have
been built In our part OF the county.
We helped haul the sand and gravel
and the County Court provided the
cement. Then we put the cuIverts
in free. That's the way we get
good roads.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

The application of Ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers who may wish to draw
pension money from the State must
first be passed upon by the County
Court Don't get miffed if you are
turned down The law requires that
you must be wholly dependent and
without income or support. You
would get but a small sum anyway.
and SO keep sweet If you lose.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
NIatthews.Kunkel NuptiaIs..

DR.. Stanley Cant Matthews of
Mcclure, ILL.,, and Miss Callie Kun
KEEL were married at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Kunkel, southeast of Mexico, We'd
ncsdey of last week. They left i'm.
mediately for their new home at
Mcclure. The bride is a graduate
nurse and is high up in her profess
sion. She is a loVable and accom-
olished young woman. The groom
is leading physician of his city.
May long lie and happiness crown
heir days.
L. r. Aust:a retuIa'd from Now
So,k last week wh".e he went with
a car If poult.y.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
A DEAD ROACH.

The following vigorous editorial
is taken from the Mokane (Mo)
Missourian:
"Con" Roach and few of the
newspapers thruout the State which
he has Subsidized" with the States
money which he has at various times
distributed to his henchmen in the
printing of the Constitutional Amend
ments are making a great howl"
over the "uncalled-for" insult re-
Gently paid Connie" by Lieutenant
Governor Painter when that gentle
man insisted upon Roachs vacating
the seat of one of the State Senators
which the officious Secretary of
State had taken in violation of the
rules of the Senate Press reports
inform us that after Roach had vaca-
ted the seat of the Senator which
he had usuTped during the absence
of the man whom thepeople had
elected to fill it, he went to the ia
BILE of the Secretary of Senate and
performed the duties of that fCnr-
tionary for ten minutes, after which
he left the Senate chamber and went
to his own office from which he
wrote a curt note to the Lieutenant
Governor in which he took the latter
to task for offering him a gratuitous
insult, and tried to cite the gentle
man who so ably presides over the
Senate to a law which permits the
Secretary of State the privilege of the
floor of the Senate Painter treated
Roach with the contempt which he
deserves by causing the note to be
read to the Senate and making the
statement that if Roach again came
upon the floor of the Senate he would
be forcibly removed by the Sergeant
alarms, as the Secretary of State
looks like anyone else to him and is
entitled to no more consideration
than any private individual.
Some of Comics" friends in the
newspaper business who have tasted
his"pie" and who hope to receive an
other slice or two are accusing Mr..
Painter of being jealous of Roach
for the reason that the two are like
ly to be opposing candidates for the
Democratic nomination for Govern
or at the coming election. If Roach
is the only opposition that is to be
offered, neither Painter nor anyone
else who cares to enter the race need
have any fear, for Cornelius is dead
politically as the vermin which
bears his name.
Roach has worked his vulgar, sug-
gesttiVe reasons" argument so long
that the public has become thoroly
disguised and will take particular
pleasure in seeing that he is con-
signed to that political oblivion to
which he long ago should have been
relegated.
We glory in Governor Painters
"spunk" and we are convinced that
instead of detracting from his po-
litical chances he has made himself
stronger than ever before with the
"rockribbed" Democracy of Mis-
souri, which believes that such
"snobs" as Roach should be "sat up
on" when they show such brazen
effrontery as was displayed by the
fellow who has so long lived at the
expense of the taxpayers
Send him back to Carthage, Dem
ocrats, and let Col. Bill Phelps
"use" him there.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

The case of Tony Trower against
the city Of Louisiana for damages
for the loss of an eye, alleged to have
been caused by bullet from a gun
in shooting gallery during thestreet
CARNIVAL in Louisiana last fall, is to
be tried in Mexico, change OF venue
from Bowling Green.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

The flve-year-old son of Chester
Scobee of stoutsVille was playing
upon a load of baled hay and one
bale with the boy fell to the ground,
inficting injuries which proved
fatal to the little man.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

Walter Williams of Columbia
wants a gourd, like our dads used to
drink from, but says he can't find
one in all the wide State of Missouri
Why should the Show Me State quit
raising gourds? Send Walter viii
liams a gourd.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

Prof. r. G. Hale, who has taught
at Rush Hill and Benton City in this
county, has been reelected Super
intendent of Schools of Galloway
county without opposition. A fine
tribute to a mighty fine man.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Mexico loses a fine man in the
death of P. H. Cant. He was
Christian and thoro gentleman and
possessed of the highest ideals of
citizenship.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

REV. B. G. Reavis OF this city is
conducting series of evangelistic
meetings at Canton MO. Bro. Rea-
Wis used to attend sCaool in Can
ton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

Mrs. Etta Marshall and two chill
dren are at Oakland, Iowa, where
they will pend the summer
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

The Louisiana Press observes that
an Audrain man lost his eye sowing
oats. And they were not wild oats
either.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
CHURCH HISTORY
IN ONE FAMILY
ORDAINED BAPTIST DEACONs In
THE JESSE FAMILY.
Contributed BY Rev. John s. Jesse. }

Ed. w. M. Jesse. He was ordained
a deacon by Hopewell church in
May, 1868. He served till his death,
in July, 1877.
James Madison Jesse, son of Ed.
w. M. Jesse, was ordained deacon
by Hopewell church in Sept, 1870.
In 1888 he went to Sloan Springs,
Ark, and served that church until
his death in August, 1912, period
of service of AZ years. He served
Hopewell as Clerk 20 years.
David Lumpkin Jesse, son of Ed.
w. M. Jesse, was made a deacon by
the Pleasant Grove Church, near
Lockhert, Texas, in 1874. He has
served also in Hopewell, Missouri,
and Sloan Springs, Honey Creek,
and Mayville churches, in Arkansas.
He is the only child of w. M. Jesse
now living.
William Thomas Bradley, a grand
son of Ed. w. M. Jesse, was or
dained deacon in Hopewell church
in Nov, 1885. He died in Dec, 1892.
William j. Creasey married Mary
Elizabeh Bradley, granddaughter of
Ed. w. M. Jesse. He was made a
deacon by Hopewell, Nov, 1885. He
is still living.
James Robert Pollard, married
Martha Frances Bradley, grand
daughter of Ed. w. M. Jesse. He
was made a deacon by Mexico Bap-
fist church about 1887. He served
Mexico, New Hope, and Dripping
Springs churches in Shannon Co.,
Mo-, Cordele church, Jackson Coun-
ty, Texas, and Aztec church, New
Mexico. He now lives in Virginia.
Isaac Black, son of w. ]. Jesse,
was made deacon by Hopewell
church in Nov, 1898. He is still
serving
william Lecil Griffin married
Laura Belle, daughter of Ed. R. A.
Jesse. He was ordained by Hopewell
church in May, 1891. He is still
serving.
Edward Francis Beatty, grandson
of Francis Armstead, neighbor and
lifelong friend of w. M. Jesse, mar
ried Elizabeth Ann, daughter of
Ed. John Parker Jesse. He was or
dained deacon by the New Hope
church, in March, 1898. He served
this church till his death in July,
1905.
Joseph Edwin, son of Ed. w. ].
Jesse, was ordained to the office of
deacon by the Mexico Baptist church
in Sept. 1897. He is still serving
He was elected Moderator of Au-
drain Baptist Association in Sept,
1905, and is still serving. He was
Clerk in Hopewell church from Nov,
1885, to Feb, 1888.
Joseph Samuel Bradley, grandson
of Ed. w. NJ. Jesse, was made dea-
con by Beaver Dam church, Oct,
1898. He is still serving.
Thomas william Carter married
Nellie Jesse, daughter of ]. s. jesse
He was made a deacon by the First
Baptist church, Sherman, Texas,
Feb, 1902. He Also served the First
Church, Fulton, Mo. He now lives
at Merceder, Texas.
Clifton Thomas Jesse, son of Eld.
w. ]. Jesse, was ordained a deacon
by Bethlehem church, Audrain Co.,
Mo-, Oct, 1911.
A correction for the Preacher list:
Harry 3. Parsons married Anna
Jesse, daughter OF Ed. R. A. Jesse.
He was ordained to the ministry by
Mt. Harmony Church, Tennessee, in
Nov, 1891.
Richard Peterson married jamie
e. Pollard, daughter of Ed. S. H.
Pollard. He was ordained by the
scofield Baptist Church.. Polk Co..
Mo-. in 1898.
Mrs. M. F. Horton and small
| 49,.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

Have you noticed the war pictures
that-appear in the Message from
week to week. They are worth
while.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
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SOME VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS.

John w. Freeman: During my
recent visit in California l met Bill
Bybee and his son, Sterling Bybee,
at Santa Anna. Uncle Billie" is
old and more shaky than ever. They
are in the harness repairing bus
mess. 1 also met Frank Osterhout,
formerly cashier of the Farber
Bank. Judge M. l.. Raftery and his
brother, Tom, also greeted me. Jim
Landrum is located out therein
the real estate business. Every
place went / met former Audrain
county people.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

w. w. Cornett: Say, can you tell
me why the Legislature should have
raised the salary of the Supreme
Court Judges from $4,000 to $500
each per year? What meritorious
or honest reason for it? What farm
err in the State, from the hardest la
Dor and closest economy, is taking
in that sum? Even at the old salary
of $4,000 there were always plenty
of candidates around seeking the
offices. 1t looks like the lawyers of
the Assembly got together and put
the dirty thing over.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

A. w. Worsham: 1 am writing
from my home at Hedley, Texas. 1
was in Audrain a short time ago.
Rented my 40 acres northeast of
Mexico to John Gilpin, who was we'll
known around Mexico. He died re-
Gently of pneumonia at California,
Mo. His wife, Mrs. Julia Griffin,
survives him. 1 hope to- visit in
Missouri again soon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

Noah Hickerson: live four
miles north of Wellsville, on that
fine county road direct between
Wellsville and Farber. I sold fine
drove of hogs the other day at
good figure, but I'll have to admit
that their feed while I was getting
the meat ON them cost good
figure too.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

And they tell it that at Twelve
Oak Park, ILL.,, women, constituting
the first full woman jury ever en-
paneled in Illinois to hear a INSIDE
meanor case, proved themselves first
jurors and then women and mothers.
They carried out the law as they saw
it. They returned verdicts of gull
ty in two cases and assessed fines
and then they had a good cry, declar-
ed they didn't mean to do it and had
the court costs RENTED 1t was a
confusion of tears and smiles in the
court room after the verdicts had
been read. The woman defendant
and her four children claimed the
tenderness of the jurors, and one by
one they filed up to her, put their
arms around her neck and told her
they were sorry.