Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-05-06
Tributes Paid by
Greatest of Earth
Mothers Love Recognized
by Those Whose Names
Shall Live.

NAPOLEON said: 1.-THE future Of
~ the child is always the work Of
the mother" And we realize how
true this is If we read what some IA
nous sons and daughters have said
OF their mothers and what influence
the mother seemed to have on their
careers.
A striking example is that of Victor
Hugo and his mother. When he was
born his life was despaired Of by all
except her. She was determined he
should live and gave him the name of
Victor Marie, and her determination
won out, for within SIX weeks he was
well on the way to recovery. Never
did mA give UP hope Of Victor Hugo's
success In life and one writer tells US
that she looked forward with the
greatest confidence to the future of
her son, holding that @he might with
wen greater justice than Foquet
adopt as his device the words, "To
what may I not riser" And Victor
Hugo was devoted to his mother, but
like many mothers she did not live
to see his first great success, for she
died just one year too SOON
LIncolns Great Mother.
To all Of us the story OF Abraham
Lincoln and his mother is familiar.
We know how, through all her great
struggle, she managed to impart what
she knew Of the Bible and the little
education she had to her son And
we know how hard Il vas for Abra-
ham Lincoln to see his father put his
mother into a green pine box and bury
her, and how he grieved for three
months until his father brought q
parsop from Kentucky to preach the
sermon and to conduct the proper
service for the dead.
Frances Wizards devotion to her
mother is one of the most beautiful
parts Of her life. Truly. Frances Will
lard inherited her greatness OF
thought and her determination to sue
coed from her mother. When as a
young teacher she wrote: Il thank
God for my mother as for no other
gift Of His b~estowing. My nature is
so woven into hers that / almost hin
1t would be death for me to have the
bond severed and one so much myself
gone over the river"
Frances WllIard's Tribute.
That bond was severed and Frances
Willard lived just six years after that
mother had gone over the river"
Her last words we're: 1--WE crept In
with mother and it is the same beat
tiful world and the same people; re-
member that-it's just the same
Another mother who lived to see
her hopes in her child materialized
was George Washington's mother.
George Washington Park GUSTS tells
us that "the mother held In reserve
an authority which never departed
from her, not even when her son had
become the most illustrious of men,
All who have written Of her have
ACCORDED ueT du luuucuCo III Acl0A
mining both his character and his ca
e And on her monument we find
the inscription, MARY. the Mother OF
Washington"
Stern Mans Devotion.
One Of the soffenfng influences III
we can believe there wal one) IN the
life Of oliver Cromwell was his moth
err. There was a great devotion be
tween these two, and she lived with
him until her death at ninety-foui
years In whitehall palace Each day
he visited her room, and at hei
death he stood by her bedside witt
tears In his eyes her last words were
my dear son, l leave my heart witt
thee; good night" She is buried IN
Westminster abbey.
They say that man is mighty.
He governs hand and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
Ger lesser, powers than he.
But mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled.
For the hand that rocks the cradle
In the hand that rules the world
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