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The Tomahawk., 1919-10-09

Irving Branchaud, of Waubun,
was a business caller here on Sat-
urday last.
Rev. Bodie will preach next
Sunday at the day school, at $3.50
p. NJ.
FOR SALE-One small cottage
'Heater'', burns coal or wood. In
quire of G. A. Wage, White Earth,
MINI.
Rev. w. D. Smith, of Nay
tab-waush, was q White Earth
visitor a couple of days the fore
part of the week.
Mrs. Leo. Wright, of Mahno-
men, visited with her mother, Mrs.
Antoine Charrette, several days
during the week.
Don't miss the fifth episode of
the big serial Elmo the Mighty"
at the motion picture theatre Sat-
urday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Shepard and
little son, of Pipestone, Minn.,
arrived the first of the week for a
short visit with Mrs. Shepard's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Frank Roy.
FOR SALE-The hotel build
ing and property which was for
merly the Louzon property, and
more recently operated by W. A.
Burnette as a hotel. Located in
the center of the village. Inquire
of Jerry Selkirk,> White Earth,
MINI.
Andrew Bellecourt, who has
been spending q two months fur
Tough at bis home here, departed
the latter part of last week for
Camp Dodge. Andrew has four
months more to serve in order to
complete the term of his enlist
ment.
Attorney r. J. Powell. of Min
neapolis, and Assistant Attorney
General Landrum, we're here DUR
ling the week on business in con-
nection with the blood status cases
and other business connected with
the Department of Justice.
David Potter, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Potter, died at the
home of his mother in this village
last Thursday morning. Mr.. Pot
ter had been a sufferer from tuber-
colosis for some time and about
two weeks ago he took a sudden
change for the worse, he grew
gradually weaker until about $3.50
last Thursday morning when death
came to relieve his suffering. De-
ceased was "a years of age and
was born and raised in White
Earth. The funeral was held on
Saturday from St. Benedict's
Catholic church and interment
took place in Calvary cemetery.
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-09
CARD OF THANKS.

To the many kind friends who
offered me their aid and sympathy
during the recent illness and death
of my beloved father, l wish to
express my most sincere, thanks.
Rev. w. d. Smith
and family. .-aagu,.
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-09
State Fair Premiums Awarded
to White Earth indians.

Supt. Dickens is in receipt OF
the checks for the various amounts
due members of this reservation as
premiums awarded on agricultural
exhibits at the Minnesota State
Fair. The following persons were
awarded premiums, the amounts
ranging from so cts. to 1915.
Kay gwa1di, $2.75
John Smith 2.OO
Me zhah ke ah bah dung rs
Star Bad boy 70
Henry Warren LOO
Henry Vizena 80
L. G.. Uran 40
Robert j. Fairbanks LOU
Jos. St. Clair 70
Charles Any waush 2.OO
George Bellanger so
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-09

Atty. F. D. Beaulieu autoea to
Detroit and return last Friday.
Michael La aChappelle was among
the visitors at Detroit on Friday
last.
DR.. Campbell, of Ogema, was q
professional caller here on Tues.
day.
O.muck-kah-keence, one of the
Oldest members of the reservation,
died at the home of his son, Win
field D. Smith, at Twin Lakes last
Friday. o muck kat keence vent
to Rochester last winter to under
90 an operation for cancer, but
owing to the advanced stage Of the
disease it vas not attempted, he
was brought back and since then
had suffered a great deal until
death came to his relief on Friday.
The remains we're brought here
for burial, which took place on
Sunday at the Episcopal cemetery.
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So
William ]. Long, author of "How Animals Talk"

it must be added that some of his cases
seem very easy marks. But for every
case demolished, the nearest outdoor man
of experience and an open mind can sup
ply Mr.. Long with another. The writer
himself would be pleased to offer him sew
eral. While such evidence may not prove
that animals communicate and perceive
in a fashion not yet understood, on the
other hand it is equally hopeless to try
to proue that they do not.
However, once having, as he feels, es-
tablished his proposition, Mr.. Long goes
on to consider what the "talking" process
can be; and at this point he naturally en-
banks upon pure theory. He weighs the
claims of telepathy. He ranges back to
the original amGba, thus:
EVERY cell of the multitudes which
make up the human body has a more or
less complete organization within itself
These human cells inherit GER
tain characteristics common to all animal
cells since life began; and it is not i'm
probable that they inherit also something
Of the primal cells sensibility, or ca
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BY HARRY ESTY DoUNcE.

COL. ROOSEVELT is dead, Mr.. Bur-
~ roughs has reached fine age be-
yond the demands of controversy, and
Rev. William ]. Long is out with book
on How animals Talk.
This is his most serious and ambitious
book to date. Unlike his others, it is less
remarkable for assertions of fast (there is
nothing equal to the memorable woodeock
splinting a broken leg or the almost his
toric wolf that bit through the brisket of
the caribou) than for elaborate adven-
lures in theory.
The note of the volume is sounded in
the subtitle, viz.-And Other Pleasant
Studies Of Birds and Beasts. There we
have it. pheasant" is correct. The pages
themselves are pleasant; good type, good
paper, wide margins, and Typographical
cleanness that seems phenomenal in these
days of cheap and copious botch work
railroaded through the press. AS for the
illustrations, Mr.. Longs habitual draughts-
man, Charles Copeland, cannot charac-
terize any bird or beast with really in
cisive fidelity, but he always draws pretty
pictures that are pleasant to behold.
And there is no doubt that William
J. Long is uncommonly pleasant to read.
lie is the best of company, a delightful
entertainer. Both in literary manner and
Ito be JUST in manners during contro-
versy he is the superior of some of those
who have attacked his scientific veracity.
But he is richly endowed with that kind
of poetic sentiment whose expression
rather runs to pathetic fallacy." If his
critics had observed that such sentiment
seems at times to run away with con-
scientiousness, the observation would have
been more appropriate. Faki,ss is a diff
ferent thing. The present writer would
never have dreamed of calling Mr.. Long
a nature faker, no matter how wide the
discrepancy between the generous expan-
siveness Of Mr.. Long composing in his
study and such actual occurrences as he
could possibly have witnessed in the wids
With Hoto Animals Talk Mr.. Long
essays, inductively, to prove that ami
mails and birds have powers of direct
communication independent of the known
and measured senses shared by man; and
that savage and semi-sayage men may re-
tain more or less of these powers, where
as in civilized man they have stalled like
the optic nerves of fishes in the Mammoth
Cave.
That is his primary undertaking, and
we havs no fault to find with it. The tire
some people who carry any club for any
transcendentalist will explain away, to
their own satisfaction, each else which
Mr.. Long reports and reasons from-and
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pacity to receive impressions from the on.
ternsl world"
And 90 on and 20 forth, to the effect a,
suggesting that the cells of the oute,
covering Of an animal truly alive, as wild
things are and civilized man is not, ara
Marconi receivers ESQ to speak for Her.
zian waves projected by another animal
Mr.. Long is ingenious and plausible
and withal 30 enchantingly "pleasant"
that only after his book is laid down does
your mind begin to bristle with question
marks and exclamation points. He has
not overlooked any important objection
to his theories. But he has not dealt with
all the objections as fully as they de- land
He notes his seeming inconsistencies, and
leaves them seeming inconsistent For
example: why on earth, if deer and tigers
can sense excessive eagerness and blood
lust in a hunter, and if floeks of plover
execute their wing drill on sixth sense
principles, does not the sentinel crow
make use of cognate faculty and give
still alarmf For that matter, why have
sentinel crowf By the way: Mr.. Long
has seen crows whirl upon disastrously
negligent sentinel Of their flock and "beat
him savagely to the ground'-which is
more than any one else has seen or chron.
icled, within our knowledge.
Indeed, and truly, Mr.. Long has seen
rare sights. He is always seeing them.
This book, like his others, is as full Of
them as fruit cake is Of raisins. They
make capital reading; and, to be sure, he
does not say theye are not days on which
he roams the forest from dawn to dusk
and sees nothing more remarkable than a
ehickadee. But that is not the idea he
gives of his outings. You would suppose
he can hardly take ten steps away from
his tent before nature begins to stage
manage, her secret dramas all around him,
placing the climaxes under his very nose.
He admits he is exceptionally favored
in this way and attributes it to gift
which he has cultivated, of keeping "men-
tally quiet''-that is, restraining all
psychological projections calculated to
make shy animal afraid. His mental
quiet must have been extraordinary on
the day when he watched deer when a
pack OF wolves that were not hunting
passed by in plain sight, and beyond an
occasional lift Of the head
the timid creatures showed no sign Of
alarm, or even of uneasiness" From this
is but one step to Mowgli, and improving
table talk with benevolent carnivora.
Frankly, our reaction to Mr.. Longs
pages is skeptical one. A trait Of his
apart from all question of logic or Of
veracity, may have more to do than We
realize with our doubts. "Pleasantness"
is as good name as any for that trait
Mr.. Long is too pleasant, in his own
pleasant fashion. His gentle and casual
sweeping up of all scientists who don't
agree with him into the dry bones closet
naturalist dust pan is a trine too gentle
and casuaEand, besides, it is absurd.
None of these little mannerisms in
itself is anything ponderable against Mr.
Longs data and conclusions.
HOW ANIMALS TALK. AND OTHER
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07

HOW ANIMALS TALK. AND OTHER
PLEASANT STUDIES OF BIRDS AND
BEASTS. BY WILLIAM ]. LONG, Harper
G. Bros.
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INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A MIN
ING ENGINEER. BY E. T. MCCARTHY
L. p. Dutton & Co.
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Common Sense and Cheerfulness

are especially welcome in these unsettled
they abound in the new novel RAINBOW
hy the author If 0Appa Of Graan CoLlao
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Democratic Women Meet

Pursuant to call, the Demo
cratic ladies of Pleasant Valley
township met Aug. II in the di.
rectors room of the Bank of
Mansfield, Dr.. W. M. Fla milton,
com mitteeman of PleasantValley
township, presiding. Mrs. A j.
Wilder was elected temporary
chairman and Mrs. Blanche An.
derson secretary. The follow
ing permanent officers we're elec.
ted; Mrs Al Wider, chairman;
Miss Maude Reynolds, secretary
Mrs. A. j. Wilder was elected
township committeeman to at
tend the township meeting to be
held at HartyilIe Aug. 19. A
vote Of thanks was extended to
CIV. Freeman for the use of the
directors room, There we're
several ladies present. After
discussing topics of the day the
meeting was adjourned. Miss
Maude Reynolds, Secy.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Odd Fellows Picnic!

The Odd Fellows of Jericho
Lodge, No. 745, will give an all.
day picnic at Jericho Wednesday,
Aug. q. and hereby extend .
hearty welcome to all Odd Eel.
lows and their friends to attend
and help make it a great day Of
social enjoy ment and worth to
Odd Fellowship. A full supply Of
ice water will be furnished abso.
lutely free, and we want every
body to drink plenty and enjoy it.
Hon E.B. Garner of Springfield,
deputy grand master, and others
will address the people. Every
one is cordially invited to come.
BY order of committee.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Christian EndeavorProgram

At NJ. E. church.
Sunday, Aug. u.
Subject, Our Heritage
Scripture lesson, Gen. 25:27 81,
Pauline Paul.
Leader, Leona Hoover
What rich birthright is within
reach of most young people in
our community? Mrs. H.B. Paul.
What are some influences of
these times that tempt men to
part with their birthright? Alice
Mooney.
In what bodily condition does
one need to be especially on
guard against temptation? Mrs.
+. Peters
What does laziness have to do
with the loss of birthrights? Ru.
by Lee Yates.
What is the effect ON our spir.
itual condition of impatience for
quick results? Coda Norcross.
What effect will doubt have in
making Us give up high ideals?
Pauline Craig
Special music, Alice Tomhe.
son, Mamie Beach.
What must any one do to Sc.
cure his spiritual birthright? H.
b. Paul.
What will help US to set a true
value on our birthright? ]. d.
Reynolds
What will thought of the fut.
ure life do to keep US from being
satisfied with what is worthless?
Mrs. G l.. Beach.
What has money to do with
our Christian inheritance? DR..
R. M. Rogers
How can we help others to en-
ter into their best inheritance?
Lula Riley.
Bible references
Manliness, III Samuel 1912,
Lorenda CanCrell
Our Inheritance, Psalms 61:5,
Robert Craig.
Luke 1913, Julia Divan.
Isaiah 1;22, Linn Cantrell
Everybody welcome
Patronize Mirror advertisers.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Gasconade

Still hot and dry. The farmers
are waiting patiently for rain, so
they can do theif fall blowing for
wheat. Threshing is about over
jake W. Brooks returned from
Wisner, Neb., Saturday. He says
Nebraska is o. X.
Raymond Brasher and viii
Brazeal have started out with
their hay baler
We have Sunday school every
Sunday, ard a large attendance.
School opens Sept. /, with Ev.
erett Todd as teacher.
Everett Rosevear is able to be
up again.
Jackson Stogsdill is building
Silo;he says it pays to have a silo
Matt Peters went to Seymour
Tuesday on business trip.
OLD.TlMER.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Adopts Feud Tactics

Alleging that he adopted the
tactics, once so prevalent among
the feudistS IN the mountain re.
glon of Kentucky, and waylaid
his victim from ambush, Jim
Thomas was arrested Monday
night by Special Officer Roe
Strong, who was attracted to the
old canning factory site by cries
OF bloody murder" issuing from
the lips of "BoSco" Holman, who
was beaten by Thomas, who was
just recently released from Jail
after having served sentence
at HartvilIe for hitting John
Fleetwood in the head with a
rock. Thomas, who is - years
old, was placed in the city bastile
over night, and Tuesday was
turned over to Deputy Sheriff
Joe II. Dennis, who, accom- pan.
led by Attorney NJ. Craig, took
him to Hartviile to Jail.
Russell and Burney Walkcr,
aged 10 and II respectively, were
arrested by Constable 81. White
Monday and turned over to Con.
stable Silvey Of Seymour on a
charge of robbing a store in Sey
mour about year ago. The
boys, who forme' ly lived in Sey.
mour, denied their guilt.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Pleasant Valley

Rev. J. w. Null preached at
Pleasant Valley Sunday night.
Mrs Jackson Stogsdill visited
at Sebron Mackey's Sunday
Mrs. Will Davis and son and
Mrs. Naomi Blazer and daughter
visited at Ira Holden's Monday.
r. S. Kerr's visited Sunday at
w. A. Rosevear's.
Sunday school at Pleasant Valley
every Sunday at 3 p. M.
JACK FROST.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14

Miss Zella Letsinger spent
from Saturday until Monday
with her Grandma Letsinger.
Sam Letsinger was in Hart
vile Saturday.
Mrs. Sam Letsinger spent
Saturday night with her sick
sister, Mrs, David Crider.
Lester Hale spent Saturday
night with his sister, Mrs Morris
Mrs. V. II. Hale made bust.
ness call at Jack Brazeals' and
John Brentlinger's Monday.
Geo. Miller went to Douglas
county Monday after cattle and
shipped them that evening going
with them to ST. Louis.
SUKEY.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Red Wing.
We're needing rain.

were needing ram.
Misses Elizi Owens and Opal
Fry were recent visitors at the
Spence school.
Samuel and Jehu Fry were in
Hartville Wednesday.
Mrs. Verba Huggans is visit
ing home folks.
Canning peaches is the order
of the day.
Miss Gertie and Homer Stout
spent Sunday at Joe Fry'S.
j. Owens and wife. Mrs. NC.
Fry and twin sons, Orel Dennis,
wife and mother and Claud
Shannon spent Sunday at W. W.
Fry's.
LITTLE JIMMY.
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Route Number 2
Still hot and dry.

SsAs ssoe "he y
Peaches are getting ripe now
phach canning will be the order
of the day for week or two.
Those at David Orders Sun
day week were j. w. Edwards
and wife, j. Dennis, wife and
two smallest children.
Mesdames In. Roy and Dora
Robertson were callers atJ Den
MIS- Tuesday,
Forest Dennis spent last Mon
day night with Alva Letsinger.
Miss ZelIa Letsinger spent
last Monday at David Orders.
Sam Letsinger and Paul Viii.
iams stopped with John Brent.
linger's Tuesday afternoon while
we got nice shower.
Mrs. Vina Morris and Mrs.
VIM. Hale were Tuesday callers
at J.W, Brentlinger's.
Mr.. Barlow is building a new
smoke house.
Mrs. Robert Perry and child
rem are visiting parents and rel,
atives around Mansii lid and Ola.
the for 3 nr / weeks.
Miss Gertrude Brcntlinycr is
spending this week wi h ner
aunt, Mrs Baker.
Miss RoseWilliaIns came home
one day last week.
james Brazcal and wife, Hey
Blazeal and wife were Saturday
night and Sunday visitors at
Jack Brazeal's and stopped at
Ira's as they went home.
Uncle Bill Letsinger went to
Springfield this week. His son,
Joe, and family are visiting rela
tiveS here for a few days: they
came in their car from Kansas.
Mrs. Vim. Hale spent Thurs
day with home folks; her hus-
band came that evening and they
stayed all night They also spent
Saturday night and Sunday there
j. W. Edwards company Sun
day were Harley StOut'S, Sam
Letsinger and wife and Gum Ro
per and Misses Elsie and Lizzie
Crider.
Mrs. Geo. Brentlinger is Wis
iting her daughters, Mesdames
Silas Rippee and Geo. Miller.
Misses Alma and Cora Draper
were supper guests Sunday at
Mrs. VII. Hale's and Cecil Let
singer; then went to Prairie Hol.
low to church, a revival having
commenced there.
Mrs. Robert Morris and Grace
spent Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. Hale. Geo Brentlinger,
Mrs. Baker and children and
Gertrude called also and they
had all the watermelon they
could eat.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
City Council

At the regular meeting of the
city council Monday evening, F.
M. Carnall was appointed street
commissioner. The report of
the Mansfield special road dis.
trjct was received and filed.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-08-14
Tersely Told Town Tales


near Macomb.
Probate court convened Mon
day at Hartville
Wright county gets SIS, 900. II
state school money.
DR.. a G. Ames of Mt. Grove
was here last week,
Miss Sarah Gaskill is teaching
the Flat Rock school
Mrs. A. V. Mccormack has
returned to'Chicago
Prof, D, Fl Kay came in from
Springfield this week.
G. Il. Cooley OF Norwood was
here during the week.
Harness and Collars -Rey.
nolds & Campbell adv.
A. J. Clark and wife of Emf.
nence We're here Monday.
j. II. Ayers and wife have
been visiting at Pryor, Okla.
Always square deal at the
Mansfield Produce Co. adv.
Col. Roy r. Dennis recently
cried a sale at Willow Springs.
Tinware and Galvanized Ware
Reynolds g. Campbell adv.
Mrs. Sherman Coday of Fell
owS, Calf has been visiting here
A. Reuben Of Kansas City is
visiting Dr.. f. II Riley and wife.
FOR SALE-IHord ton truck,
good as new. M. Hodge-adv.
Mrs. NJ. +. Stephens and child
ren have returned from Wichita,
kanS.
Mrs. Il. M Rogers has re-
turned from her visit near Sout.
land.
Col; Roy Y. Dennis sold some
horses at Mountain Grove YES
terday.
When in nged of anything in
the Furniture line, go to FIoyd's
store. adv
Reynolds & Campbell is the
place to buy Groceries at bottom
prices. adv.
r. +. Stones address is order
ed changed from Strathmore to.
Lindsay, Calf
+. A. Alcorn, wife and daught.
er, Miss Vivian, have returned
from Colorado.
Mrs. Y. A Kay of Ava went to
Springfield last week for a sur.
gical operation.
II. G. Shelton and wife were
here yesterday en- route from
Ilartville TO MacOmb
No hunting nor berry picking
allowed on the Boswell place. -
W. N. Draper.-adv.
FOR SALE Good Dodge
touring ear. See NJ. j. Hodge,
Mansfield, Mo. adv.
Always highest market prices
for al! kinds Of produce Mans
field Produce Ca.--adv.
&, c. Walters and wife, who
own farm in Douglas county, |
arrived here this week.
With every S25 worth of goods
] will give an ) quart aluminium
iettle.-J. w, Floyd. --adv
Judge John A. Honsley attend.
ed the session of the county |
court at lIartvilIe last week
G.F. Williams sold some horses
At auction here Monday, Col Roy |
Il. Dennis acting as auctioneer. |
ClS de Turner, carrier on Rur.
u Route No. /, has traded his
Ford touring car for a runabout.
Col. Chas. l.. Woods, editor of |
the Rolla Herald and deputy
state oil inspector, was here Fri.
day.
j. II. Deckard is now driving a
new Overland car bought from
W. b. Hitchcock, agent for this
Ear.
The Wright County Sunday |
School Association meets in Mt. |
Grove mkt Wednesday and
Thursday.
A, II Brown and l. b. johnson
If the Cash Mercantile Co were
in Springfield Tuesday buying
new goods.
Cnc black SOW weighing about
l25 pounds; taken up 29lh day |