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VOL. II. MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY, 1912. TO MY CLUB-RAISERS. T NO. 12. well as mme, and after awhile, when it covers the nation even as How I Got Left. When I was a little,' chap, "just growing up, I was about as poor and seedy looking as they made 'em.' Ain't much better yet, so far as looks' sro. One Christmas bjir, Sunday School was ' going to helped to lug he darn thing two niiles and ut it up. And if I got ap much as one stick of striped candy yoVmay. shoot me. I was jpoor trashy" and .it. would dis grace the : Sunday School to give me anything. .'. I xotice that the same rules are obseryed " to-day. When the Christmas presents are distributed, the rich kid (who don't need -anything); gets a whole -arm: fulli while the poor kid; just has to stand there ' and slobber his lower lip;full and then drink. it. Friends, I hardly know how to rags cover the poor, you' will be express my thanks to you for the glad that you gave-me a: helping splendid work you have been, do- hand in time of neecf. Therefore in for me. If I had a thousand continue the good wbrk:which you arras, and every arm was a thou- have so bravel v becmn. Don't rest sard miles long, I'd 'just like to and don't 1st anybody lse irest un- Kaveua bi "tref went with w, ,Trtl1 ii,f Dva the boys to cut the tree, and I hug every one of you. But. lye til , every grown man in yourJupinptft h ' tuA rfrn t.wr two only got two poor little arms, and neighborhood is a subscriber to they are kept so busy that I doil't The Fool-Killer. If ever the com- hardly get time to hug my bid mon people needed to do some in- wmmpm ' i- dependent thinking it is now, and My appeal, iii 'the-December The 5?ol-F'?F ,wi give them i i Vi i . something to think about. issue, for helpvto buy a new print- Now so it eo6d bovsr Just ing plant for The Tool-Killer was "shell the woods" with - Fobl- well received and the response has Killers and don't let a man escape been very gratifyinir have literallyvpoured in irom .ev- f?ufr ueasuriug aPP es, anu . v TT ,A , if I don't keep 'em awake you uuuA auu wiuci utuq " iCan have my head for a maul. btates. Several club-raisers have sent three or four: clubs ar wjeek right along. I have been tryinjg to acknowledge the receipt of all clubs, but during December they came so fast that Igot behind and couldn't catch up. Therefore a' good many clubs were not ac knowledged in the usual way. To those club-seriders whddid not re ceive my card of thanks, let ? me say here that I appreciate; your kindness more 'than mere-words can express. The total subscription - receipts for December, 1911, amounted to $269.40. That was not quite as much as I was hoping for, but it did pretty well. That amount will go a good piece-to ward paying, for the new press, 1 but , you know mere are some running expenses that must come out! of it. And there must be a gasoline engine to run the new press, also ' a paper-: cutter and some more '' type. So you see we are not quite out of the tight place yet. I called . for 1500.00 in December, and. got a little over half of it. This time' I will not name any certain amount, but please send just all you pos sibly can. I will, use v it for the equipment and .improvement of the naDer. flompqfta vhn-tnnw ;J CHRISTMAS BEGGARS. i Defense. J5Ki4 .- Drawn especially-for The FoolKiller by Lawson C. Dreese. ' ( MISTER WORLD ENJOYING HIMSELF. 4 ' Oh; herels oiir old friend, Mr. World, a-straddle of a gun; He loves that little music-booK-r-Dut. murder is sucn mm While songs of "Universal PeaceVrare falling from his lips, , His navy-yards are busy building bigger' battleships. 1 , ''. ' A bannon for a tuning-fork to get the proper pitch, ' " t s f . And death for all the under dogs and money for the rich; , A lot of silly twaddle in an Arbitration Court, r, ; - : And then another i,Dreadnaughtn ; and another frowning fbrt. A missionary crusade to the lands beyond the tides, . . , . And guns to, shoot religion into. their old stubborn hides I . . The World's a bloody hypocrite and sings a drotted lie : ), , . The chorus" of its Song of Peace is, igeeP yourpowderdry!n - ; . V JAMES LAJIKIN PEARSON. , There have , been more "beg-, gars". in this" neck of the, woods , during the : recent' holidays than Carter had oats. I never have earned for certain, how many oats Carter had, but it must have been a monstrous pile of 'em. - I am not much popular around here, and the ; women Tand girls don't usually smile at me unless they want something. So when. .1. see a big holiday smile coming .to wards me with, a woman; or "girl ,'" clipity-clip right after it, I always know whats coming next. , .Here "Oh, Mr. Pearson, I'm SOilad ; to see you! We are -getting up money to buy thev children a - Christmas treat. Won't you please give something?" . , l,. And with that smile hanging . over me like a hatchet over a tiir- C key's neck, what can I do? Not ay . darn thing but cough upr And to ' make it still worse, I don't hardly- get over the first shock till I see another smile coming with a girl in Hts arms, and the same per-( f ormance has to be enacted over ' again. And again and again, till I get sick and tired of it all; What next? Why, bless your granny's rheu matism, they go ahead and buy J candy and dolls 7 and other junk, and maybe fix up ' a Christmas tree. Theh if you will listen to he i names as theyare ca li ed out, every'dadgasted one will J belong to well-to-do families who are a heap more able to buy things than l am.; The poor little ragged w aifs who live' in cabins and who don't have nice clothes to wear "they never . get a smell-of the Christmas goodies. And yet God 1 knows if anybody needs a little bit of Christmas cheer, they are' ' the ones. t ; r ; . ' But; our good Sunday School ; Christians are afraid it might sor ter contaminate their eminent re- . spectability if they should stoop down and touch hands with the poor and needy,; , , ---" ' Th3 Fool-Killer is your paper as r " 1 ( i f 'il-
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