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Show JUDGED OTHERS BY HIMSELF Small, Persistent Jibber Imagined Colored Col-ored Man Had Bi en Punished In the Customary Way. There are no negro settlers In the portion of the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas traversed by the St. Paul branch of the St. Louis & San Francisco Fran-cisco railroad. Accordingly man? children grow to the age when they attend high school before they see a colored man. Little Johnny had been a resident of Combs, Ark., all his life. He was an adept at fibbing and to break him of theiabit his mother painted a little spot on his band with ink every time she caught him fibbing. The result was that some days he would have several black spots on his hands. A new railroad is building from Combs south, and Borne of the grading grad-ing contractors imported negroes to drive teams. One day Johnnie ran to his mother very excitedly, and exclaimed: "Mamma, I have seen the biggest liar in the world. His mother must have used a whole bottle of ink on him! Come and see him!" The mother went to the door and Johnny pointed to a negro driving by with a team of Bupplies. Kansas City Star. |