The Index from Hermitage, Missouri • Page 5

governor wno wur pronounce no o. b. sfeeg from Page 1 Him a traitor; there Is the Cross to which He must be nailed and die little by little. No wonder thtl he cried out in agony, We Overwork, lack cf fresh air, mental strain or any sickness disturbs their functions. Stubborn coughs tear and wear tndflv the strongest advocates -tlT.

1. wende why when od heard tha lung fcssuss CBDKRI wuum ue Jf that cry He did not say. "Thou citing that as an illustration in art my beloved Son. and I wil iiDDort of capital punishment save Thee from all thla. auifr.

and would be "There is ingT but God in action did say. van instance where society was 5 xou cannot escape this, and be protected by the infliction ru Quaiutea to; sit in judgment capital punishment." It was upon the human race; for when not On the other hand, society you sit as Judge, no man must "was blessed by the example should taken promptly for hard coughs, unyielding colds, mm 4 one of the vilest sinners' turning come to you and say. "xou do not understand what I have suffered, you have never been 1 i i toJGod and becoming; a power in God's hands tn help other mn where I have been." "T6 be what they ought to be. Another argument in favor or wnen sirengui lowerca irom any cause, iu wgn nutritive value creates resistive force to ward off sick ness. The rich cod liver oil improves the quality of the blood to relieve the cold and the glycerine is toothing and healing to the lung tissues.

RhusAkoboUcSiibttitateWbkli Exclude tie OH. men the son or uod can answer, the abolishment or capital pun than any man that ever comes ishment is that our present -law before me in judgment" God is costinsr the People of the state recognized the principle that thousands of dollars and depriv the Judge must experience what the spirit for revenge shall today, instead of being law lug the state at the same time of the services of many of the the man has experienced that forever be banished from the makers would be law breakers. comes before him. bestmen to serve on our juries. it fair that we should take the hearts of the people of this grand Now, preparatory to voting on Whenever a case is called in Ives of men who are criminals old state or ours.

The Weber -Always Leads ABOUT 1845, when the first Weber was built you could not buy a better wagon than a Weber. There were no better built Weber made "the Ilia standard. That was seventy years ago, but 'the standard has been the same every year since. You know that, from the Sood work you have seen Weber wagons doing. You know -ley have been always popular.

We can show you, if you come in, that "the best" is the Weber standard to-day. We want to show the wagon to you in the up-to-date form, with -every improvement, some of which, you can't find on any other make of wagon. this proposition. I did what which capital offense is charged I don't want to take the life of because society has made them ask every other man to do, a. a a a large per cent or the men call such? tried to imagine myself a It is wrong to make a criminal ed to serve as jurors disqualify in answer to the -question, "Do criminal.

I tried to feel as the and then take his life, as a Frisoner would on the scaffold, am a father. In my imagination I saw my own son become penalty for his crime You may take human life in self-defense you have consciention scruples against inflicting the death penal ty?" These men must be paid any man who is helpless within my power. It is going beyond even the rules of warfare to do that. Why, if a man surrenders on the battlefield to hts enemy and that enemy takes his life, it is a violation of the laws of war, not of peace, and I appeal to the gentlemen of this House that it is ungodly, unchristian, and un- and be justified, you may take their fees, the sheriff's fees for criminal. I saw him turn rnm mv nrlviA and trnm tha human life in defense of another You can see, here in the store, the new fifth wheel the notifying them must be paid.

and be a hero: you may take ove of his mother, and go down gate, DOM Other jurors and witnesses must uie una en a too, cue etnmg cooatruction ot gear, a. Come in the firet chance rou have and aee this human life ia, defense of your folding end wheel, end wagon. to crime until he committed the capital offense, and saw him country or your country's flag and be a patriot; but the man who takes human in revenge to take life in revenge before the court I asked for his acquital, but could not get or retaliation. ROY MANSFIELD. Wheatland, Mo.

JOHN T. IHRIG, Cross Timbers. Mo. G. W.

INKS. Preston, Mo. There is another reason, Mr. or retaliation is a murderer, and it the loving arms of my or the state to legalize the act Speaker, vital to us as we come to vote on this proposition. No only makes it legalized murder wire about my neck when she said, "Yes, sell the home, sell all we have and save our boy man is qualified to sit as a judge be paid for waiting while the attempt is being made to em panel a jury.

The courts are congested with work because of this delay. Therefore by the abolishment of capital punishment in the state we will save the state thousands-of dollars, and get a better claBS of men to act-as and relieve the congested condition of our criminal dockets. Another reason is the sociological reason, and this is the and -shifts the responsibility from the citizen to the state, from the individual to the mass upon his leiiowman until he from the scaffold." I did it. himself has been in the tame and again I felt her arms about of the citizens, and by that act position as the man at the bar; bers of the Forty-ninth General Assembly, her love, if they can see her as I spe her. will touch the heart of every man present every man that loves his mother, his wife, bis sister, and he will vote "Yes I "and blot our for multiplies the crime by the num me and heard her say, "Borrow every dollar you can and save him.

I will wash; I will sew no man should dare to act as a judge until he has put himself ber of citizens in the state. as far as imagination will per REBUTTAL. until the skin and flesh are worn from my fingers to help ever the curse of legalized AVERY By Mrs. Andy Breshears Mrs. J.

C. Miller, who is ailing with rheumatism, is reported better. Mrs. W. W.

Breshear. who has been sick, is reported better at this writing. Elbert Breshears and family visited Sunday with his brother, Birchie Breshears, and family. Rev. J.

R. Varner passed Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of strongest human reason that I know of. Criminals are made murder in the State of Missouri. ou pay the debt." I did it and elpless, listened to the sentence the House: mit, in the position of the man upon whom he must pass judgment.

Interrogated by Mr. Stuart) Mr. Stuart. I would like to ask this What per criminals either by birth or of death. I fall before the Governor and plead for pardon, and he replies.

Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A Replying to arguments by gentlemen of the House I want to call your attention to these significant facts: statistics show that of 657 lynchings in the United States all but five occurred in states that inflict iftg wvum una ucvawu i aim environment There is absolutely no criminal in the world today nor ever has been nor ever will be that doeanoi belong to one or the other of these two classes. Every criminal was either born a criminal or made a criminal will not stand between the court and the people." through here Friday on his way On my knees plead with the to the Oooley Bend to fill his appointment capital punishment though there manent protection will society have for criminals if your bill becomes a law? Mr. Whitaker; We will have the same protection that the eleven states have that have this law on their statute books, and statistics show that the very crimes that were capital crimes until after the law was repeal ELIZABETH PIPER. by environment or by a combi judge and he says, I have no authority. I followed the law." I turn away in despair.

I see nation of these two influences. A good mother is gone, a i' my poor boy mount the scaffold; I see his hands bound behind If he is born a criminal then we are taking his life for a sin that was committed before his baby eyes saw the light of this Rev. J. M. West and daughter and Miss Nannie Maxwell of Fristoe passed here Saturday on his way to Macedonia to fill his regular appointment Elmer Harnham and Ethel htm lest he grapple the rope are now eleven states that have abolished it And second, statistics show that crime has not increased where the death-penalty has been abolished, but on the contrary it has diminished Governor Eberhardt, of Minnesota, says: "The death penalty in this that is chocking him tol death: world, a sin for which he is in happy home is left sad.

Though not unexpected, yet sad and sorrowful was the news which quickly spread over Preston at six o'clock Saturday morning. May the 12th, that Elizabeth Piper had just passed away after an illness of seven months. No means was spared by ed, have diminished in number and not increased, and that ought to be a final answer to 1 Bee fci8 feet bound lest he show the agony he is suffering; every man. Goodman closed a successful term no sense responsible; and every man on the floor of this House revolts at the very thought of such a thing. If he was made a I see his face as he turns in a Mr.

Stuart: I wish to ask you of school here Friday. Mr. Harpham left for Warrensbunr last piteous appeal to me in which he says, Is there noth if it isn't a fact that all of these criminal by environment then medical aid or loving hands to vile criminals that are sent to where he' expects to attend the ing you can do," and I have to state was abolished four years ago with the result, that there has been no increase of crime." nurse her back to health, but it answer, rvo we nave done an the penitentiary are finally pardoned or parolled and turned was of no avail. The all wise we can." I see the sweat of The psychological reason that God said. "Come up higher.

society made him what he is, and I ask you in all fairness, "Is it right -that society should take his life as a penalty for crime when society made him a criminal?" Society invites into loose on society 'While greatly grieved over the agony flpon his brow, see the black mask fall over his face. I Mr. Whitaker: I most em underlies this is that murder, is a disease and a contagious disease. As loner as murder is in summer school. Mr.

and Mrs. Andy Breshears visited after Sunday school Sunday, with Jess Breshears and Mrs. M. J. Demits is visiting her daughter, Mrs.

J. H. Breshears, at this writing. irreparable loss which has come phatically answer, and to the children, yet a rich herit the gentleman who asked the see the officer lift the mallet to strike the prop from beneath the scaffold that will send him existence through the gateway question knows that answer age, a precious memory or noble deeds, trusing devotion, patient the state it spreads to the hearts of the people of the state; as long as murder is legalized it will tend to develop the spirit of into eternity. I am suddenly before I gave it love will ever be the beacon star Now, Mr.

Speaker. I started to of birth, the human race. Some are born in, homes of filth and dirt and vice. Some are born in homes in the same building in which are saloons licensed by startled by the cry of a broken hearted woman, I turn and see amid the shadows and sorrows say that a most vital considera of this life, bidding them to a murder in the hearts of the P9Ple. the mother of my child at my tion to come before us as we happy reunion in the bright society: in the same building in I (Mr.

Whitaker was here inter side, I forget, my own love, my own suffering, my own agony. worio to come wnere are no vote upon this proposition is thai no man has the right to sit NEASE By Mrs. J. M. Bybee A.

R. Bybee went to Cross rupted by an interrogator more long weary days, nights. in the greater love, suffering in judgment upon his fellow Mr. There are but months, years, burdened with me oacic room oi wmcn is a gambling den and on the upper floor of whicji is a house of prostitution, permitted by the man: until he has put himself, twoiuct and rightful purposes Timbers Thursday. and agony of the woman at my side; and I said, Though her sickness, suffering, sorrow, sad so far as he can.

in the position of punishment one the protec partings; where pain and death Mrs. ia soma agony may not strike the fatal of the man whom he is to judge. tion of society, the other the re- police employed by society and are reit and reared no more sentence from the instructions better at this writing. God recognized the principle formation of the criminal, and in uie miaac ox sucn environ forever. and applied it to his own son.

ment is it any wonder that many! the only man who wants to take of the court though her suffer ing may not secure a governor's 0. E. Nease parontized Fris Your are heavy and It seems to be a little distasteful the life of the helpless' prisoner children grow up to-be criminals? toe merchants Thursday. pardon, yet if she will stand by to some gentlemen that I should the home will indeed be sad and lonely since mother has gone away, and your thoughts will is the man who wants revenge; and God hasten the day when Under the same environments I am sure that many of us here my side as I appeal to the mem Miss Mamie England stav appeal to the Bible In this areu ment I saw the Governor of ing with Mrs. Cornog at present swiftly flow to the Silent Citv the State inaugurated, and take or the dead wnere sleeps the iov A.

R. Bvbee and familv visit Wwo a a ox every noma, wmie -our his oath of office; and I saw him lay his right hand upon the ed P. L. Bybee and family Sun Mr in iW day. hearts are crushed and bleeding, as it were too truly, say, "Thy will be done." Bible and kiss the Book as he took the oath of office.

From A. B. Bybee and Ben Owsley Washington to Woodrow Wilson, Elizabeth Piper was born June and son. Perry, went to Fristoe Saturday. every president or this great 26th, 1833.

Green County.Ma, and died May 12th. 1917. at her nation nas laid, his hand upon Mrs. Cornog and dr.uchter. that book as iie took the oath of home in Hickory County.

Mo. office. President Jackson said. Esther, visited Mrs. J.

M. Bybee Friday evening. Sister riper professed faith 'It is the rock upon which our in Christ as her Savior in 1856. republic stands." I am therefor Hies O. E.

Nease and W. H. Cos- appealing to the highest author Cfets ruth She united with the Methodist church of Preston in 1ST8, and was one of its active workers in HUH grove made a business trip to ity: higher than the constitu Hermitage Monday. tion. higher than the treaties and ardent supporters.

She This has been a fine week fci made under 1t when I appeal to the Bible. was ever ready to give her assistance to any movement that was for good of the com munity or the cause of Christ and when the evening shadows tha isoyyotJ vtatti it Yo can finish year furaitaxa and woodwork way joa wait tt with God, before He could make His Son the-judge of all the human race, compelled Ilim to go through the experiences that farming and people seem to be making good use of their time Mr. Ryan, wife and two sons visited the lady's brother, R. W. Bliss, and family this Mrs.

Jim Ray and daughters. Miss Noia and Mrs. John Estes, and husband and little daughter, Racine, attended church at South Union Sunday. Germ-carrying flies bring disease direct to your home from th privy and outhouse. They wipe) their germ laden feet on.

your food, bath in tha baby's taSk and ieava many forma of gickneas than, coma tha doctor's bUls and you know what that means the men would have to pass through before they came before Him to be judged. began to gather she could look back on a life well spent in the cause of Christ and say, "I have fought the good fight I have kept the faith, there is therefore Though I have been a student ritm tuny on thatr fcot aha and the gwtne of tjibolil fcwv larfa. thmrmti I'areAa Jraea nn where Infantile Baralyeis and ether Oread i of the Bible for many years this hour I see far greater meaning to'Gethsemane than ever before laid up for me a crown of life." And, "I heard a voire saying onto me 'write blessed are the Ear! Nease and family and J. the Son of God upon his knees ife and two sens. from henceforth sayeth the Clifton and OrviHe, and littla daughter Ruby, and Lewis England visited J.

M. Bvbee spirit tftey rest from their labors and their works do follow with his hands, stretched out in agony, with the expression of suffering on hi a face, crying out to Ocd, "If it be possible. Destroys Thn Flf EPRUmjt RED BSVXL LYX ntXXLY eace a twice a VeraJcd renews tha fialelk that Las becoat dull aad tuni IVt pood tor chair, teJHetatofaaatl other artkka hoeachoSJ ftarai- lata. Is also far toast a woodwoi eli araew. Eety to pet ea, aad LarJ L-ea (kaa.

ni rt, war aWry Of ihnaee. Toe cul eae Vum BwcW te wCI let this cup pass from rrse." and I se the drops of sweat run down his face and from' his trow upon his bo'n I tarn to the picture before Iliia: There is them. After funeral services in the home church a large cumber of relatives snl friends followed the body to its ian resting place in the Towers Chapel cemetery 12th. In her death the family have Joit a ay thm pirnem imiwi the tl odor and atop I isa enrx irr at afee ewii'wr re I aaaaAafi Met. eeailni I and family last Sunday.

Rev. Rosa and another gentleman preached at the South Union church last Saadav Ttcre were services all day a I dinner at the church, tzi Ja.es Girrkca and 1Z: Li a Ksr.rcl were uslted ia -rri-j. We pin their frieml ia a htrrr kind and troth er. the and '0TIH2 a rxd the moo that will tike Ian and I brutally-treat Ilia, rpit epen illun. smite Kin; there is thei t-tl mil tKJ liira asd Hash c-tJ tmxea comnian.ty I et IMag ES3 rVtV LTV Njmk.

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