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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-06-19
Calvin HOneycutt Dead

Calvin llonryCutt passed away at
II O'Clock Thursday morning OF
last week at his home in the Pea
Ridge neighborhood, heart failure
being the immediate cause of his
death.
Mr.. %lIoncycutt accidcntly shot
himself March ,. but the wound
healed and he had apparently re-
covered from the effects of the
wound, although his general health
had never been as good as it had
been previous to the time of the
accident.
lie had been doing the farm work
and it was thought he would soon
regain his health, when death came
unexpectedly.
Rev. Thomas Todd of New Grove
conducted the funeral services Fri.
day from the New Grove church:
interment in the New Grove Gene
terry. The funeral was one Of the
most largely attended ever held in
that part of the county and was in
charge of the Jericho camp of the
Modern Woodmen of America. of
which he was Il member.
He was 81 years of age and was
the mainstay of his aged parents
who with his brothers, sisters and
hosts of other relatives and friends
are left to mourn his death in the
prime of his manhood.
He was an industrious and popu-
lar young man and had the charge
of his Elther's farm, attending TO
business in a manner TO reflect cred
it upon himself and those whose
support he was.
The Mirror joins in extending
sympathy to the bcreavcd family.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-06-19
+ IN HOSPITAL

J.E. Farmer of Birmingham, Ala,
who was injured in the recent FRS
60 freight wreck near Mansfield
died last week in the hospital at
Springfield, where he was taken for
treatment of his injuries. Mr. Far
mer was Il tc%legrapher and was a
close friend of Claude Swan of Nor
ris, Ala. who met instant death in
the wreck. q
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-06-19

The Mansfield Wholesale and Re.
tail Flour and Feed Store. with !.
b. Freeman as proprietor, is now
ready for business in the building
recently occupied by the Mansfield
Drug Co. Mr.. Freeman also opcr'
ates the Eagle Roller Mills. Fred
Carnall being in charge of the store.
Il. l.. Handy has been assisting at
the mills.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-06-19

Charles Towe of Olathe was called
west last week by a telegram an
nouncing that his son, Charles
Towe, had met with an accident
that necessitated the amputation OF
a hand.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-06-19

Just a sample of what corn will
do in Wright county, A. J. Wilder,
the progressive proprietor of the
Rocky Ridge farm, - of a mile east
of Mansfield brought to the Mirror
office Monday Il stalk of corn s feet
high.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-06-19

E.W. Iocum of Mountain Grove,
secretary of the Wright County Mu.
tual Fire Insurance Co., was here
during the week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
Danny's
Own Story
BY DON MARQUIS
Copyright. 1912. by Doubleday. Page
. e. Co.

Doctor Kirby makes him quite a
speech. I never hearn him make a
better one. DR.. Jackson. he listens
very calm, with his thumbs in the arm
holes of his vest and moving his eye.
brows up and down like he enjoyed it.
But he don't get excited none. Final
ly DR.. Kirby says he will undertake to
show that it will sell-me and him will
make trip down into the black coun-
try ourselves and show what can be
done with it and take Sam along fur
an object lesson.
Well, they was lot of rag chewing.
DR.. Jackson don't warm up none, and
he asts million questions-like how
much it costs bottle to make it, and
what was our idea how much it orter
sell fur. He says finally if we can sell
certain number of bottles in 50 long
time he will put some money into it.
Only, he says, they will be stock
company, and he will have to have 81
per cent of the stock or he won't put
no money into it. He says if. things
go we'll he will let DR.. Kirby be man.
ager of that company and let him have
some stock in it, too, and he will be
president and treasurer of it.himself.
DR.. Kirby, he didn't like that and
said so. Said he was going to organ-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24

"ef yo' kin make me white, TO- Gawd
sakes do hit. Do hit! Eff yo' does l
gwine ter bless yo' all yo' days!
"Yo' don know-no one kin guess or
COMPREHENSIVE des bein' white
would mean ter me. Lawd. lawd" he
says, his voice soft spoken. but more
eager than ever as he went on, and
pleading something pitiful to hear,
"des think Of all de Caucasian blood
in me! Gawd knows de nights er my
youth Use laid awake twell de dawn
come red In de cas- a-cryin' out ter
him only TO- ter be white! Des ter be-
white! Don min dem black, black
niggers dar. Dom think err dem. Dey
amt with nothin' nor fitten TO- no fate
but what dey got But me, what's
done KEEP me from gwine ter de top
but dat one thing-I wasn't white! Hit
air too late now--too late TO- dem am
billions done trif1e with an shove
benin me-hit's too late TO- dat! But
eff was DIES ter git one III year O. hit
one lii year O. bein' white-befo' I
died.
Then the doctor says slow and even.
but not severe:
You go back to your people now.
bishop, and tell them they've made
mistake about me. And if you can,
undo the harm you've done with this
Messiah business AS far as this stuff
Of mine is concerned there's none Of
it for you nor for any other negro.
You tell them that. There's none of It
been sold yet and there never will be-"
Then we turned away and left him
standing there in the road still with
his hat off and his face working.
(To be cOntinued)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
HEED THE WARNING.
Many Leon people Have Done So

When the kidneys are weak they
give unmistakable warnings that
should not be ignored. By examin-
ing the first sign of disorder, many
days of suffering may be saved. Weak
kidneys usually expel a dark, ILL
smelling urine, full Of "brickdust'
sediment and painful in passage.
Sluggish kidneys often cause dull
pain in the small of the back, head
aches, dizzy spells, tired, languid
feelings and frequent rheumatic
twinges.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for the
kidneys only. There is no better
recommended remedy.
Leon people endorse Doan's Kid
ney Pills.
William Kinds; Leon, Iowa, says:
II had a lame and weak back and
my kidneys did not act regularly. I
got box of Doan's Kidney Pills and
they did me a world of good. can
now rest much better at night and
my back is much stronger"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Nilburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States. .-.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
I guess 400 Of 'em must Be nIggers.

guess 400 OF 'em must Be nIggerS.
After supper we got acquainted with
purity nigh all the prominent citizens
In town. They was friendly with US.
and we was friendly with them.
Talking about this and that they final.
ly edges around to the one thing every
body is sure to get to talking about
sooner or later in the south-niggers.
And then they gets to telling us about
this here Bishop Warren I has men.
toned.
He was black bishop, Bishop War.
rem was, and had a good deal Of white
blood into him, they say-an ashy COL
ored Teller, with bumps on his face,
fat as a possum and as cunning as a
fox. He had plenty Of brains into his
head, too, but his brains had turned
sour in his head the last few years.
and the bishop had crazy streaks run
ming through his sense now. like fat
and lean mixed in slab of bacon. He
used to be friends with lot of big
white folks, and the whites depended
on him at one time to preach orderli-
ness and obedience and agriculture and
being in their place to the niggers. Fur
years they thought he preached that
Away. But gradual the suspicion got
around that when he was alone with a
lot Of niggers his niger blood would
get the best Of him. and what he
preached wasn't white supremacy at
all, but hopefulness of being equal.
He had been holding some revival
meetings in niger churches right there
in that very county and was at it not
fur away from there right then. The
idea had got around he was preaching
some most unusual foolishness to the
blacks. The whites smelt rat and
wished he would go. fur they didn't
want to chase him without they had to.
Jest when we was getting along fine
one Of them prominent citizens asts
the doctor was we there fggering on
buying some land?
NO." says the doctor; I'VE wasn't"
They was silence fur quite little
spell. Each prominent citizen had
mebby had his hopes Of unloading
some.
Another prominent citizen makes a
little speech that was quite beautiful to
hear. and says mebby we represents
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
Original Notice.

In the District Court of the State
of Iowa, in and for Decatur county.
August term, 1913.
Lena Leota Smith, plaintiff, VS..
Judson J. Smith, defendant
To Judson J. Smith, defendant.
You are hereby notified, that the
petition of plaintiff in the above en-
titled cause is on file in the Office of
the state of Iowa, in and for Decatur
county, praying that the bonds or
matrimony heretofore existing be-
tween plaintiff and defendant be dis
solved and that plaintin be restored
to all of the rights, privileges and
immunities of an unmarried person,
and, alleging as grounds therefor
that the plaintiff and defendant were
legally married on the 9Th day OF
September 1899 and lived together as
husband and wife until on or about
the 29th day of October 1911. That
the defendant in violation of his mar
rage vows has been guilty of such
cruel and inhuman treatment of this
plaintiff as to endanger plaintlff s
life.
And praying for such other and
further relief as may be just and
equitable in the premises and for
COSTS For full and complete state
ment of plaintiffs cause of action
see petition.
And that unless you appear there
to and defend before noon of the
second day of the August term, A. D.
1913, of said court, which will COM
mence at Leon on the 25th day OF
August, A. D. 1913, default will be
rendered thereon
V. r. McGINNIS,
4S-4t Attorney for Plaintiff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
4 Sat
Notice of Appointment of Admins
traitor.

In the District Court of the State OF
Iowa, in and for Decatur county,
in Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Will
liam Ortield, deceased.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed and
has qualified as administrator of the
estate of William Orfield, late of De-
catur county, Iowa, deceased. ALI
persons in any manner indebted to
said deceased or his estate will make
payment to the undersigned; and
those having claims against said de-
ceased or his estate will present
them in manner and form as by law
required, for allowance and payment.
Dated this 9Th day of July, A. D.
1913.
HARRISON ORFIELD,
47-3t Administrator of said estate.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24

some new concern that amt never
been in them parts and is tiggering on
buying cotton.
"No," the doctor says, 1--WE amt cot
ton buyers"
Another prominent citizen has the
idea mebby we is fggering on one of
these here inter Reuben trolley lines.
SO the Rubes in one village can ride
over and visit the Rubes in the next
And another one thinks mebby we is
fggering on telephone line.
Finally, after every one has chew
of natcheral leaf tobaccer all around,
one prominent citizen makes so bold
as to asst us very courteous if he might
inquire what it was we was selling.
The doctor says medicine.
Purity soon one Of them asts:
what kind of medicine?"
The doctor he tells about 1t.
When he finishes you never seen
such a change as had come on to the
faces of that bunch. never seen
such disgusted prominent citizens In
my hull life. They looked at each 9th
er, embarrassed. like they had been
ketched at something ornery. And
they went out, one at time. saying
good night to the hotel keeper and in
the most pinted way, taking no notice
of us at oil. 1t certainly was a chill.
We sees something is wrong, and we
begins to have a notion Of what it Is.
The hotel keeper, be- spits out his
chew and goes behind his little coun
ter and takes five cent cigar out OF
his little showcase and bites the end
of careful. Then he leans his elbows
on to his counter and reads our names
to himself out Of the register book
and looks at us and from us to the
names and from the names to us. like
he is trying to flgger out how he come
to let us write 'em there. Then he
wants to know where we come from
before we come to Atlanta. where we
had registered from. We tells him We
Is from the north.
Then he; says we orter 60 back
north.
'Whyy" asts the doctor.
He chewed his cigar purity nigh up
to the middle Of it before he answered
and when he spoke it was a soft kind
II a drawl-not mad or loud-but like
they was sorrowful thoughts working
In him.
| 40 all done struck the wo'st paht
O the south to peddle 20 niggah medi.
cine Ii, sab. I reckon 70 must love
,em ! heap 3 Be that concerned oves
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
They Was a Lot Of Rag Chewing.

ize that stock company and control it
himself. But DR.. Jackson said he new
er put money into nothing he couldn't
run. So it was settled we would give
the stuff tryout and report to him.
Before we went away from there it
looked to me like DR.. Kirby and me
was going to work fur this here DR..
Jackson instead of making all them
there millions fur ourselves. Which I
didn't take much to that Anti-Curl man
myself; he was so cold blooded like.
didn't like the scheme itself any too
look at it, In the first place, it SEEM
ed like mean trick on the niggers
Then l didn't much believe we could
get away with it. 81. ....
The more looked him over the more
I seen DR.. Kirby had changed consid-
cradle. When I first knowed him he
liked to hear himself talking and he
liked to live free and easy and he liked
to be running around the country and
all them things, more'n he liked to be
making money
But now he was thinking money and
dreaming money and talking of moth
ing but how to get it. He was willing
to take up with most any wild scheme
to make it.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Doctor Has Conscience.
@1HEY was something about him
III now that didn't fit in much
with the DR.. Kirby l had
u knowed. 1t seemed like he
had spells when he saw himself how
he had changed. He wasn't gay and
Joking all the time like he had been
before neither. guess the doctor was
getting along toward fifty years old.
Drinking was making him think
lot, and thinking was making him look
old. He was mOre'n one year older
than he had been a year ago.
He kept quart bottle in his room
now. The night after we had took
Sam to see DR.. Jackson he was set
ting in his room, and he was hitting
it purity hard.
Danny" he says to me after awhile,
like he was talking out loud to him
self, too, ''what did you think Of Or.
Jackson
81 don't like him much.' says.
Nor T." he says, frowning, and
lakes drink. But he's blame sight
more decent than am, for all Of that /"
..Why?'' l asts him.
Because DR.. Jackson" he says.
..hasn't the least idea that he isn't de-
cent and getting his money in 2 de-
cent way, while at one time ! was"
ne breaks o. and don't say Hhat be
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24

1Oue Stuu u CuduSS Iuc SO'oA VI ACSAo
skins. That's all. Is that all you want
to know"
The bishop hens and haws and i'd
dies with his stick, and then he says:
"Suh. will dish yeah prepa' shun sho'ly
do de wohk?'
DR.. Kirby tells him it will do the
work all right.
And then the bishop, after beating
around the bush some more, comes out
with his idea. Whether he expected
there would be any Messiah come or
not, of course he knowed the doctor
wasn't him. But he Is willing to boost
the doctors game as long as it boosts
his game. He wants to be in on. the
deal. He wants part Of the graft. he
wants to get together with the doctor
on a plan before the doctor sees the
'niggers. And if the doctor don't want
to keep on with the miracle end Of ii
the bishop shows him how he could
do him good with no miracle attach
ment. Fur he has an awful holt on
them niggers. and his say-so will sell
thousands and thousands Of bottles
What he is looking fur jest now Is
lis little take-out.
That was his craftiness and his cum
ningness working In him. But all of q
sudden one Of his crazy streaks come
bullying to the surface. It come with
Z wild, eager lbok In his eyes.
"Suh." he cries out al Of sudden
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-24
the color Of their skins"
And he turned his back on US and
went into the back room all by him
self,
CHAPTER XIV.
Doc Kirby and tho Bishop.

TaY Il seen we was in wrong in that
IM town. The doctor says 1t will
VI be no use trying to interduce
our stuff there, and we might
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20

mary line. Only the arrival of regular steamers with refugees from the Mexican ports south of the line remind that there are troubles down in that poco tiempo" country.
 As a matter of fact San Diego is too busy building wharves, docks, piers, enlarging her har- Dor facilities, water system. and her business blocks, to say nothing of her big Pana- ma-California Exposition to pay any attention to rumors from the republic.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
Currency Bill Up At This
 Session.

The senate has been trying to balk at the idea of passing a currency measure at this session, but President Wilson has shown them how earnestly the public and business world are demand ing reform at once, so it is quite certain to pass at this session. The great Wall street. banks which have been controlling the finances of the country since the war are dying hard. and they do not ike to see financial supremacy pass out of their hands, as it will when the new currency bill becomes 9 law. The new law not only spells doom for Wall Street control of our finances but it insures an additional blessing of the great est magnitude for the American people, in that panics will be impossible in the future and there will be no Shortage of money" at crop moving time, or in any era of unusual business activity, as the currency will automatically expand in accord ance with the demands of any and all sound business.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
President Wilson Helping
 the Farmers.

When President Wilson order ed the secretary of the Treasury to announce that from S25, 900, 900 to $50. 000,O00 would be de- gosited ny the government in the banks of the South and the West with which to move the crops" if that much was needed, he made a 'big hit with the far mers. Heretofore under the re- publican rule, Wall Street. would sQueal about shortage of money, and then large sums would be deposited by the fed eral government in these same banks, and which in turn would lend it for crop-mcving pur- poses. Under the Wilson method they get the money without paying tribute to Wall Street. We are not apt to hear of any more tightness about moving the large crops this year. 4-
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
I'flE BEST < < FILLER

The Bible continues to be the best seller, in spite of the boost and booming of other publica- tions. The China agency of the American Bible society reports issues for the first six months of nearly one million Bibles, Test aments and portions, and there are yet two depots to be heard from. It is expected that two million copies will be distribut- ed within the year. The silent effect of the distribution of the Bible may not be felt for some time, but it is sure to manifest itself. The distribution of Bi- bles is like setting dynamite bomb attached to a time lock or alarm clock, which will explode at the proper time. Still water runs deep, or, as the poets put it the shadows murmur, but the leeps are dumb; and the most powerful forces are the silent ones that work without attract ng attention until the psycholo- gieal moment arrives for the eclaircissen ent.
 News Scimitar
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20

interesting talk on educational work which was encouraging 10 the tea cher and pupils. We think that the students are doing some fine work and thank Miss Ruella for the inter est shown by che pupils.
 MT. Cyrus O'Neal is spending a few days in Pangbu-n.
 Mir. and Mrs. Geo. Joyner are wis iting relatives in Pangburn, this week Messrs. Ora Waller and Conley Wood and Miss Maude Yingling, spent Sunday evening at Pete Mill CTS home.
 Everybody enjoyed the all day sing ing Sunday at Matheany's Grove Mir. Will Pierce and sister, of Russell. came over in their auto Sun day afternoon.
 Mrs J. D. WooIs spent Sunday with Elihu Wools,
 Mir. Will Houses little sonis sick, Some ofthe Step Rock folks say that horse flies eyes are under their wings. How about it2
 Brown eye.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Aug. 19.- Though this is the largest city on the Mexico Yankee boundary line, wars in Mexico have affected 1t about as much as if it were located on the Canadian line. Business and social life goes un just the same as If there were no turmoil below the imag-
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
Al Clear Water

The school at Clear Water is pro- gfessing nicely, with an enrolment of l07 and an average attendance of 9o. The first months session closed Friday afternoon. The county super intendent, Prof. Bos sgs gave very
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
4 SURE REnEDV
 FOR LAZY LIVER
Go to |. M. Culpepper for This Safe Reliable Remedy and Get Your
 Money Back il it Fails

here arc very few remedies that gain the confidence of druggists as Dodson's Liver Tone does. L. M. Culpepper sells it and backs up the sale of every bottle with the money back guarantee that the price will be refunded if it fails to give com pletc satisfaction.
 Dodson's Liver Tone costs 50 cents a bottle. It is the safest and best remedy for torpid liver, consti- patton, biliousness, etc, that has ey- CT been sold,ia this city. It takes the place of dangerous caloinel and does not lay you up as a dose of cal omel often does. 4 bottle in the house is as good as fifty cents in the bank. If you or your family need a liver tonic you have the medicine ready. If it fails you get your mon ey back,
 Be sure you get Dodson's Liver Tone when you ask for 1t. There are limitations of 1t that may disap- point you.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
IIAS IA - no KIE
 i, woola standpatter

ng told by thelr constlt0- ents that the senator who fights against the pending bill will nave a hard time coming back to the senate at next el- eetion Many of tEe progress ives" have indicated very clearly that they will vote for the bill, so it is going to pass the senate by | good majority.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
Are Still Talking On The
 Tariff.

The democrats have about finished their say on the ta- riff, which was short, and they are simply waiting for the re-
 publicans to finish their wind- fest, and when they are sthrough tie bill will be passed Not on ly are the progressive republicans "heering frogs ..-,.tss4tt 7so 7s.4t the
 ad ;,M yoo,,, standnatfers
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20

Methodist Church, South. Services each Sunday except Third Sunday at Il a. n. and 8 r. Dl. Sun- day School at 10 a. ID. Prayer ser vice Wednesday evenings.
 Rev N. E. Skinner, Pa tor.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20

The services Sunday at the Trin- ity M. E. Church, were well atten- ded One of the classes met out un- Der the trees. Mrs. Orr sang a solo which was very much enjoyed.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20
Council Meeting.

The council met Monday night to consider an ordinance, requiring all coal oil and gasoline to be kept under loek It was favorably reported on and will doubtless be passed at the next meeting.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-20

President Elliott of the New Haven road says that the rail- roads must get nearer the peo- pie. They may, if they give certificates of honorable inten : tions.