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PASS WO TBE FOOL-KILLEB, BOOMEE, N. C. FEB., 351. The Fool-Killer A Monthly Mju&tard-Plaster for the Blood-Boils of Society, Church and State. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. James Larkin Pearson - - - Editor Ralph Swanson - - - - Publisher . BOOMER, NORTH CAROLINA; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single Subscription, one year. ...,40c In clubs of four or more 25c Entered &s Ef&rch 3. 1916, Roomer, N. C, March 3, 1879. second-class matter at the postofflce at under the .-' act cf TAKE NOTICE Do not send postage stamp on iub fctrlptlon. Remittances should be made by registered letter, express or postofflce eaoney order. V . Be careful to write your own name and addresg plainly, and direct all letters and make all orders payable Is: THE FOOL-KILLER, Boomer, - - - - North Carolina. (Advertisement) BLUETS3AND -BUTTERCUP A Little Book of Verses by Cora Wallace Pearson. "Release Unto Us Barabbas." And this incident makes the I may be a ba&ket of peaehss. You Vvofwois-n Toghc QTirl I navm ran telK (Continued Irom page one.) jyes st m0re remarkable. I When you read a poem written t mrt.;f 0"Mou,w,nf Arn. bv such poets as Tennyson and am not going to be held respon- ' myself, to say nothing of Long- sible for taking the life of this ita wm uc "C1VC. fellow and Kiley, you don't need w V II 1 1 1 X just man. l wasn my nands oi a luaa Ali wcuojy um w anv interpreter to stand over r I J I Jk J A W I I - II AX A and explain what you are the Atlanta Federal prison and crucify Debs? " AND THIS IS FEBRUARY. the whole business. If you crur cif y him the ' guilt will be on yourselves and not on me." And with-that Pilate reluc tantly turned Jesus over to the angry, mob to be crucified, and Barabbas the murderer .was Here in these Benighted nit If .you February is just as full of weather as a dog is of . fleas. Jt think of start- sv. "; JL "j 1" : you reading. The meaning is clear, and the rhyme and meter per fect, leading you onrom line to line with all the ease and satis- action of -hot buttered pancakes going down the throat of a hun- .yvu unmix vi aitut- i in ' f nrn j jv ii ri olmiic ix uux iiiuuti 11 i ca States we have a famous prisond J""1"0"" ti-y-the kind that is now being pr who has hppn HVptiaH imtn yu nad bettei take 1 amcoat, -I . n , , . . T . -j Jesus-frti febA.r VaSTef Undy-you" can4 teU other man ever was. Ha was uw,l'"OMlv vv,w, fVi put in prison for the same crimes that Jesus was charged with and bathing suit-Snd whether -the wntYS casing tHe wear, then stay at home. government in Chaldean or pray- Tf vmi foilpH tn crt all vmw lug Wl .wwuwi)suu in iiiiicac. t : .1. T7.t ,1. , tat the bottom and read uo. or at America thouo-ht this lnnfl-hl.anu1JrL tnen r eoinary is xne tv- T : 4- 1 W1C HUI WICOOll sedition, inciting to riot, etc. " " You can't ten whether to beein Thp hlnoH-th rst.v 'W.rint.a of ew-. iw iwiuuon UMen m m , m , lm - , This little book oi poems was written by the wife of James Larkin Pearson, editor of ! The Fool-Kilter: The book contains about twenty poems, a fev7 writ ten in the author's girlhood days, but moat of them in later life. Every reader f J The Fool-Killer ought to have a'copyi)fthis little book. It is beaulifally printed and tastefully bound, with portrait of auchor. -J willj send you one postpaid f or;i 25fcents, and will also thro 77 in for good measure another 1ittle'boaken titled ' 'An Autobiographical Sketch of Jamrs LHdPrsQ!'," giving- Killar and its editor. This liis "tory 'booklet will be of spedal interest to;all you folks .who en joy reading the paper. Both books together for 25 cents. Order to day right now! Address Mrs. Cora Wallace Pearson, Boomer, N. C. The Fool-Killer is published for thinking people, and there fore those who cannot or will not think will not enjoy reading it. READ "WORLD TO COME.'i 300p. 25c Presents an easily understood out line of the whole Divine Plan. Reve lation interpreted and many Prophetic savings explained in the light of passing events. Appreciated by every truth-seeker. Senc on approval if preferred, all we ask is the return oi the book undamaged if found unle sirable. Nothing gained by waiting Order NOW! HOME BIBLE STUDY CLUB, Xufl&it, IIL hearted and peaceable old man was dangerous because he didn't believe in killing people. Strange idea,f wasn't it? Usually we are afraid of people because they WANT to kill, but this time we were afraid of a man whose only crime was that he didn't want to harm anybody. mi I'll it t 'mis Kina-neartea ana peace able old man, Eugene V. Debs, who happens to be one f the world's greatest orators and thinkers, has now been in prison nearly two years. And during the recent holidays a thing hap pened that could not have hap pened even m Jerusalem under corner across. as good and read One way' sense as "Kmc f n -finieVi tlnam' Rnmo rorcnki V'lUV W AXAXAkJXX VllVllla KJVliJW kVVUA 1 1 - v I I Irk Tfi find-it a rather big job to get &1.ullAV.Vcl one month, and so I gladly ex- another. Tell ye what if I had u to write jazz poetry I wouldnt onr ere olnrovc nrm 0 tUrOUgil all the agOllV OI in February. ! never knew it to studying it out one spoonful at fail. I predict that February 1 would simply lay a will be cold this year in the far dictionary on a stump and chop M.fh ,-0 tkof it up fine with-a meat-ax. Then North, and my opinion is that it will be warm down about the Equator. , x , A good way to tell what the weather is going to be is to wait and see. A SERMON ON "JAZZ. 99 it up I would spread it out on a plank and invite the public to read it That would be a whole lot less trouble, and the result would be just as good. And as for music, I just want you to hush, as Tom Watts says. I enjoy having my soul irrigated Jazz is a new worn that has I with thp Rnnthincr mplnHv nf t.ViA -rnj- mi n j i I. . - .... I . " rimte. lne mu g mat nappen- lately come into the language, old-fashioned music that our ea was tnis: minions oi people Nobodv has eve1. iwa a&iLw ptuawio ugiiig vi. ky wnat it iiieaii,. sjul ixiy own guitar at sundown, wiuie we sat the release oi Debs on Chris tnias personal home-made opinion is on" the edge of the porch and aay. Many or Americas lore- that it means "crazy" in other leaned our heads back against most literary men ana women words, batty, bug-house, loony, the honeysuckle vines and didn't naa ponriea out tne cruei mjus- it is. a breaking away from, all care if corn was a bushel. tice oi tne government s action the rules and regulations for do- But there is only one thing m; keeping Debs behind the bars -mo- things. anH w rniTio--it H-.Hnt. will f., . viidiv " n longer. Even tne Attorney blind and reckless, like the Kais- modern iazz music' and thah caused the arrest Lr trvine to swallow the world is t.hp rV;pnt. fpntTrtonf- On 1 t 7? ' ' w.. wrv v-jl w w -v vi-v w J. i i j. a. v j.. t caLUL iiiAUiIbUiiIIIL;Ilt.-r alilA WilOIIl who with t hf nop mo1 r.r nnH mono n-r 1077 inc-i c--nnHc. naa ny General regaraea as tnorougmy nothmor . but blood to -wash-it Must- exaollv like, all the rest. heartless even Palmer repented down with: . if not more so. And if I oi his act ana oee-fired vvilsbn to .w o-nf "ia??" coirmoi vom-c ir, fA'rv,,,a.rt 1 ,r4-i,;.. t7 " 1 I W V V A Ji. . ' J- V V fii T V J. A. 1 it. ilease Debs cn Christmas day. before we But what did Woodrow Wilson- 7 r 1 we might i 1 tne name say that got 101 ll openly insulted the American people by refusing their request for the release of Debs, and then turned right around and releas- Ci i VVU Ji-UKiJiiiKiSKb.- . 1WO Barabbase.3 instead of one! The difference between Wood- row . wiison ana Governor iri- is this: Pilate WANTED do right, but was too weak. of Jesus. The mob forced the re in this modem instance it was right the were in the world I would say it re started minds me of a three-cornered cat they called 1 V ii.J.JL J.X J.Ii.. was several years ago. Then I Kvery man should have a hob- ;ame jazz poetry, only they call- by to ride, but he shouldn't let . j zi. a 1 "i yy -? j? 1 1 i 11 eu it vara u.'jre ur ire vertie. it get saaaie-sores. And now for the past two or music, wiiicn is just aoout tne like putting talcum powder on a rottenest sort of jazz that ever rOC3f hT177owi . iate neopie s7 iarred on the nerves of the hu- man race. It was the jazz music that really let the cat out of the bag, as Postle Paul says.. It. was dead give-away on the rest of the -"i jazz trucK, ana w7e were aoie If your thinker IS so ty- ciiau it screaks everv time vou try to make up your mind, vou better grease it with Fool-Killer the eagle a long' md they had not asked for the release of ofte murderer, much ture IT I invented 1 Co ovn proper name. hirr'0 bQ"foip itti TT71 --.J!' Z I . 1 w nen you see an omiiiHiy pic- tlymg machine. Yes, honey, God i t VUU C2I1 V AlVA iAl V IlidLVe r.'.. I c-Anrvio 4-. 1 1 J 4-. v,w w,ia-n a . . i " o i " , ...... I OWi" uw J.ew. ictus aiieciu every opportunity to do a good to represent. But when you seH deed, but was too mean. Just a jazz picture, you can't 'go by Lifting yourself by your own for pure contrariness -he kept a the old rule. The thine- that it boot-stram is wfvov good man in j ail and "released i00ks most like is the very thing but it is said to be W compared unto us TWO BARABBASES." it ain't. For instance, if it looks to being lifted by another man's T . .-11 1 - 1. 1. -1J I. J J! . . "? J ii " !ik wTin always nave a uetter use a section oi staKe ience moot. oninion of Pilate after this. With standing on its hmd legs and -i- i-..v. n n i ii i . . .ii iiffir,o wHVi oil tigntmg a tnunaer-cioua, it may Tne standard of inteiwi or, v UY'U T vA . n funung uuuiic men is oemer eie- iUWO' iiV- vtAivtv vt4o hammock and kissmc bv moon- vf.prf RnmQ flp,-;i . 1 y . 1 f I . . . . - .. I .x. wvniv, UX UUi Vli-lClCHO ana nne ana nowe m compansoa liht. Or if .if Joofes" like Wail now believed to hfv flQ in. to Woodrow Wilson. ! StrAftt blown rro with a bomb, it I f olli iron no o aht