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VOL. II.
MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH, 19ll.
NO. 3
MAMMON WORSHIP.
Oh. the poverty ancf wretchedness and
woe! .
And you find it nearly everywhere
you go; - ' -:
From the hands of toil wrested,
All the wealth is now congested
Into hands that never earned it
even so! , -''- '
Oh. the idle rich ' are riding o'er the
earth .
And proclaiming all the millions they
are worth, .
While the. men who earn the mil
lions
Are denounced as slayes and . vil
lians All the victims of an accident of
birth.
Real manhood stands for nothing any
more; . , ' ,
It is gold that people worship and
adore; . .,7 . '" ;
Gold will buy an invitation
To the highest social station, '
ThoughV. its master may be rotten to
the core. : ';'-. ' '
Take the biggest highway thief you
ever saw - :. "
Givo him wealth, and he's superior to
the law; -...
He can buy the courts and judges,
While old Justice never budges,
But looks on in admiration and in
awe. - '
Take a fool that don't , know water
when it rains,
Let him stumble into, million-dollar
gains; : -Just
you watch that fellow, sonny,
And you'll soon observe that money
is a never-failing substitute for
brains. s -
JAMES LARKIN PEARSON
A SERMON OH LOVE. - : , digging holes in your gizzard,
you d better not want it. -
TEXT In : the spring ;the
young mans ianey turns to
thoughts of Sally Ann."
Yes, children, that's what Ten-
nyson says, and I reckon Tenny
son knows what he is talking
about: . - ,
I looked out toward the east
this morning and saw Spring
coming over the hill with a rose
in her hair and a smile on her
face that would melt a polar ice
berg. ,1 " .
And that reminded me that if
And this is the time of year, my
dear; goslings, that you want to
be careful. Spring will be here
in -about three winks of a roost-
-er's eye, and when the Easter
dresses come out "to .sun .them
selves, and the Easter hats3 are in
full bloomthen if you . don't
want ta get that awful. , disease
called Love,' you had better shut
your eyes, plug up your ears and
hold your heart with both hands.
; . oYi '--'r
THE EDITOR'S WIPE AGAIN.
I had anything to say . to .theiJ Most of you remember the little
tender-hearted lads and lassies . X r ' speil ' ' over; my name :. a .- few
had better say at now -better fnlonths ago, accompanied-by. a
iais.e iue juuujj uiiugs-. uy uief piuiure ujLmvst3ix,? asking vvu.aii
A subscriber up in Northern
Virginia writes me and wants to
know if I favor the election of
United States Senators by the di
rect vote of the people. No, Mis
ter. I'm not in favor of electing
them that way nor any other way.
We ain 't -got one particle of use
for that pestiferous pack of pot
i-rntted plutocrats loafing around
up there and representing only
th e interests of Wall Street, the
Morganheims and the " Carne
f ellers. It would pay us a blamed
sight better to abolish the entire
Upper House, 7 ' as we call it, and
rent out the North end of the
Capitol for a Chinese laundry.
liand in a fatherly sort : of - way.
and give them some advice beiore
it is too late. V
Spring,' with all her ' far-famed
loveliness and beauty, is "a dan
gerous proposition; She is I the
queen, of all the sirens and: the
mammy of broken hearts. "Her
smile is a snare and a delusion,
and danger lurks in her song.
When the fatal virus of Spring
gets to galloping around , in ; a
young fellow's bloodbetter look
out! There is going to be -the
devil to pay pretty soon. Ten
times out of nine the stuff will
settle around the fellow's heart
and 0 cause him to act worse than
a love-sick gander at a poultry
show. Especially is this the case
if there happens, to be a pretty
girl somewhere in sight. : . - J
Here is a reliable formula for
making a love-sick fool : Take
two parts gentle spring, one part
J goslingr boy and one part pretty
girl ; mix, and set out in the
moonlight. That's all; Itwill
make one .fool - certain, and often
makes two: -- . .
But il wouldn 't advise you
young 'uns to try the experiment.
Itis dangerous. Love-sickness is
a terrible disease, but there are
three cures for it time, death
and matrimony.- Take your
choice. If you" can't" get your
choice, take something else. One
thing is as i good as another, and
a blamed' sight better
; Love is sorter like the r itch
more folks have hkd it than are
willing to own up to it. But if
you have never swallowed ; 'the
love-germ and felt its .toe-nails
to push The Fool-Killer "for my
sake;" Well, I want" to tell you
the results. A few sent ; in clubs
on the strength of it; one man
wrote that I should not have
printed such a healthy looking
picture f if I wished to gain peo
pie 's sympathy; another man wras
heard to remark that it was all u
' ruse ' ' to get money ; and an
other man (from another state)
called at our office to see if I had
told the truth, - These are ; cases
that have come to my knowledge,
and goodness knows there might
have been much more incredulity;
The idea ! As if I would have
put up such a story if it had not
been true ! As bad as I want
money, I would -not stoop to lying
for.it. Yes, I DO want money
because at present I need it awful
bad and though I will confess
that -the principal reason I wrote
the article was the hope that it
would .bring in more money, I do
hot feel it was. a ' ruse to make"
money?' I did not ask for char
ity, as I knew full well that every
subscriber would get more ' than
his money 's worth in return. I
do not want any one's "charity,"
and any , of you are welcome to
come and see whether -our condi
tions are as I told them. My face
might fool you, as my ill health
shows very little in my face, but
if you could hear me cough' and
wheeze and struggle for nreath
you, might think I told the truth.
Anyway, -1 'm thinking r a - lot of
you would thinks you ; were dying
if you had to have such spells as
I've suffered. 1
- As to the home I spoke of, if
you could see us "camping" in
the. rear end of a dusty .printing
office, you might think that" I had"
occasion to wish, that The . Fool-r
Killer would, grow, by leaps and .
bounds for a few months at. lafst :
ai is uui uui means - ox income, -
and certainly honest . and honor
able, although its rough style, is
not exactly in harmony with my
aesthetic and spiritual nature.
Consequently I , know :that it . all
depends on the receipts. from the
paper: as, to when I will get the
ed for a long time. In my cohdi-
tnati get out.oi the dusty closo
quarters Pnoccupyand vIhope J
the time will not le ".loner, As
soon as warm weather coines -I 'm
going to get out, even it I have to
live in a tent. ; , . , -
l ve- uone- my pan toward
building the : home, as ; I have designed-
about' 25 different original
nouse plans tins winter, 1 nnaliy
got one to suit my "notion" as
well as my needs, and it 's a "dan
dy little cottage, too. It will have
an open-air porch room where I
will live , most of the time during
the day and sleep at night, thus
enabling me to get well by means
of plenty of air and sunshine.
When any of you want to build a
new house, just write for, some of
my plansj They are strictly orig-
mai, and no nies on tnem, eitner.
Though if you are rich and want
a great big fine house you needn 't
send for them.
So we expect to r start up the
framing in the v spring 'and then
finish up the house just as fast as
The Pool-Killer will permit. " Al
though :the little paper has far
exceeded our hopes when we first
launched it, yet if it " does not
grow still faster ;n the next few
months, I 'm afraid the new home
will not be far enough along to be
comfortable next winter. "
I T n Atiirfl.ll v f fiftl a'TiftrsffTn al errat-
itude to every one of you who
have sent and will- send us sub
scriptions, but please remember I
have not written this to "work on
your sympathy, ' -but to vindicate
myself from the 6harge of hav
ing circulated a falsehood ; as a
' i ruse . to make money. "
" " , Yours sincerely,
; " - CORA PEARSON.