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The fool-killer., 1913-03-01
Let Us Talk 1t
Over

Well, dear sinner friends, this Is
The Fool Killer.
How does it set on your stomach!
If you like it, you can get more at
headquarters.
The Fool-Killer is not even forty
Ieventh cousin to any other paper on
earth.
It stands in a class by itself, and
it's field is as broad as the English
language.
This paper wears no bell, muzzle,
collar nor halter.
You can put that down to start with.
am the fellow who works at the
pump-handle on this pungent period
ical of thrilling thought. I print only
what I write; I write only what |
think; and I think what I doggon
please.
I own this entire establishment,
and Rockefeller isn't rich enough to
buy one share of it.
Well, bless your soul, am a great
deal richer than old John.
I never travelled any to speak of,
but have read a great deal, and have
thunk some.
have also writ few books which
I know are great, because they don't
sell worth a cent.
Great books never do.
And then I started The FoolKiller,
just to quiet my nerves and keep the
old press from getting rusty.
From the seclusion of these wooded
hills there will go forth each month
bundle of literary dynamite that
will shake the rotten foundations of
society and cause the Church of Nam
mon to at least turn over in its sleep.
The Fool-Killer is a monthly mus
tard-plaster for the blood-boils of
Society, Church and State.
1t is salted with wit, peppered with
humor and seasoned with sarcasm
Every line cuts like a whip, and
every word raises a blister.
II you are fool you had better not
subscribe for The Foo1-Killer. II
you are wise you will. And so that
settles it.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01
PERSONAL CHAT.

Well, folks, how is your happiness
by this time? Hope you are all right
side up with care, and living "a hours
a day. I am little bit late again, as
usual, but just naturally couldn't get
to you any sooner. Seems like there is
always something to bother me : If it
amt one thing it's another.
AS stated elsewhere in this issue,
found it necessary to make trip to
Washington recently. The main
object of the trip was to see the
Belknap Stencil Addressing Machine
in the Government Printing Office.
Always like to see machine at work
before buying it, you know. But,
incidentally, I stayed to take in the
Inauguration. Elsewhere in this paper
you will find some comments on the
"big event."
That Washington trip spoilt the
biggest end of a week, and then after
got back we had big rain-a
''freshet'' we call it here in the back
woods-which damaged several rail
road bridges and delayed my shipment
of paper another week. Guess I'll
order paper for about six months
ahead and not get caught in that kind
of trap any more.
I had hoped to get the new mailing
machine installed and working in
time for this issue, but there are al
ways unexpected delays in such mat
ters, and hope you will all bear
with me as patiently as possible.
After the machine gets here it will
take at least month to get all the
names of my $4,000 subscribers copied
off onto the stencils. But when that is
done the big job will be fnished-the
lists can then be printed off very
rapidly.
am mighty anxious to get the list
in better shape, because our present
method of writing off everything by
hand is very laborious and unsatis-
factory. I am expecting The Fool
Killer to at least reach the 100, 900
mark by this time next year, and
might as well go to putting in ma
chinery that will handle the business.
Subs are coming in now at the rate of
nearly thousand week. I am both
surprised and pleased with the won
derful success of the paper. Friends
and comrades, you have done the
work, and the honor is yours. And
there is absolutely no limit to what
you CAN do along this line if you
will only keep up the present gait.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

The name of Woodpile's private
secretary = Tumulty-is no doubt
prophetic of the 'tumulty" times
that are just ahead of us, when
Romanism gets a little more
power.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

They tell us now that China is
rapidly becoming Christianized.
Well, if that's true, maybe there
is still some hope for America.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

Perhaps the reason the lions
didn't eat Daniel was because
most Of him was backbone and
the rest was grit.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01
TOO NASTY FER THE VIM
MEN,"

snorter of a sermon on Woman
Suffrage, delivered before the
Anti-Sufrage Club of Stu,dhoss
Ridge by the Honorable Hank
Hardwad. It seems to me that
Hank has got his argument sorter
twisted, but I give it to you for
what it is worth. Here it goes:
No, sir-ee-bob! 1t never would
do in the world to let the wimmen
vote.
In the first place, wimmen ain't
got sense enough to vote.
They would wreck and destroy
this glorious free country where
we have the blessed privilege OF
working one day for ourselves
and two for somebody else they
would ruin it all inside of a week
And, besides that, politics are
too nasty and corrupt for the
wimmen to dabble in.
Wimmen are too pure anc
angelic for such business, and
that's why their influence il
politics would corrupt and de-
stroy our free institutions.
We must preserve the purity
and integrity Of this nation by
keeping it in the hands of the
men-the same high toned gentle
men who, by their superior
knowledge and fitness for the
duties of statecraft, have succeed.
ed in making politics too nasty
and corrupt for the wimmen tc
dabble in.
Then again, if the winner
we're given the ballot, who woulc
stay at home with the babies
while the wimmen went to vote?
| dare anybody to answer tha
question.
Of course woman can go to {
cotton mill, or factory, or some
other kind of a sweat shop, anc
work all day for fifty cents while
her loving husband sits arounc
the crossroads store smoking anc
telling lies, and the public dom
care a cuss what becomes of the
babies.
Or a woman can take in wash
ing and bend over the wash tul
for ten hours at whet, while hel
devoted and patriotic lord goe.
a-fishing, and the babies can lool
out for themselves.
Or a. poor girl can work in
great department store at sucl
pitiful wages that she has to take
her choice between prostitution
and starvation, and gallant maj
don't care doggon which patti
she chooses.
The refined occupation Of beins
a wage-slave is good for a woman
and it don't take her out of the
home and away from her family
Oh, no! Of course it don't.
But to walk few steps once il
two years and drop a piece O
paper in a box-that would take
her out of the home and away
from the babies. and just tee
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

It seems that the Promooseive
Party found the gulf between
capital and labor too wide to
straddle.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

Never give advice it is better
business sense to charge for it.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

Ii thief undertakes to steal
from you, and you object to
it, or foil his plans, he at once be-
comes your enemy
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01
EDITORIALS.

It never makes sin any whiter
to call ita mistake.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

We are now living under
Tumulty-ous administration.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

The poor fools reap a FOOLS re-
ward trying to initiate the lives of
the rich fools.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

Well, here we 60 under another
DENNY crackit administration.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

A genius is a man who can sup
port a big family on $50 a month
and have bank account.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

The self conceit of fool excels
all other forms of grandeur.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

Well, the nation amt quite
broke yet, but it's doggon badly
twisted.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

The loudest mouth frequently
accompanies the most brainless
head.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

Fools and fads form a fitting
friendship in fashions flirting
follies.
The fool-killer., 1913-03-01

An honest mind is in continuous
progress, but that of a fool is for
ever fixed.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01
WASHINGTON D. {.
NEWS LETTER

SPECIAL TO COLORADO STATESMAN.
Washington City as most strang-
ers see it, is the most beautiful
and we'll regulated city in the
world, but it is supported in its
beauty and granduer by the great
treasury of the United States Gov
ernment.
Ye correspondent witnessed for
the first the "Jim Grow" school
system, or the operation of the
seperate school law. We do not
like this bad system, but it has on
it's pay roll, SCI colored school
teachers, with salaries ranging
from $50 to $50 month, up to
$500 year. There are 20 col
ored schools Washington has
nearly 100000 Negroes, almost
one-t third of the entire population.
All Juu6ldSllC IldSS uGeIluS
of 1900 Negroes congregated on
the 21st of February, at the Met
ropolitan A. M. E. Church, to pro-
test against the threatened Jim
Grow" law on the street cars, which
the white citizens are agitating.
Each speakers fired their audience
to the place, which would have
been dangerous indeed for a white
man to have appeared on the scene.
Strong resolutions were endorsed
but no daily paper published them.
in fact the correspondents of the
daily papers were invited to attend
the meeting, but they absolutely
refused. For their excuse, they
said they could not see why the
Negro should object to seperate
street cars, making it evident that
they were willing to continue their
agitation for "Jim Grow" cars.
The speakers were:
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01
Must Hang For
Numbering Negro

Montgomery, Ala, Feb. IS
Arthur Jones and William Watson
two white men of Bloody Beat
o." Birgingham District, Jefferson
County, must hang for the murder
of John Holland, Negro, the Su-
preme Court having refused to re-
verse their case on appeal from the
decision of the jefferson Criminal
Court. Watson will be executed
March J21, unless the Governor in
tervenes, but no date has yet been
set for the hanging of Jones.
If Jones and Watson pay the ex-
treme penalty for the murder OF
Holland, it will be one of the few
times if not the only one in the
history of the State, that a white
man has been executed for the
murder of a Negro,
The testimony in this case show
ed Jones aud Watson lured Hol-
land to secluded place near Cat
Mountain, in Jefferson County,
and, in the presence of Will Wade,
they shot and killed him.
Several others in jefferson Coun-
ty are still under Indictment for
the same offense. 1t was also
charged that the condemned men
were implicated in other murders,
which took place in Lewisbury
beat, which was given the sobri-
duet of Bloody Beat %" because
of the large number who have been
killed there within the last five
years.
The murder of Holland was the
only crime that could be defnate.
ly fastened upon the two men, al
though they were strongly suspect
ed of other crimes committed in
that section of the country. Hol-
land was murdered i'll February,
1912.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01


Rev W. Ell. Brook, Hon. Archi-
bald Grimke, DR.. John r. Haw-
kins, DR.. A. g. Garner, Atty. JOS
eph Stewart, Rev. 1. n. Ross, Hon.
III. III. Hart of Howard University.
A copy of the resolutions will be
sent to each member of Congress.
The law against inter er-marriages,
which recently passed the house of
Representative was also condem-
ned. A committee of fifteen was
appointed to appear before the
committee of congress to protest
against its passage.
L Lelender King, president and
legal adviser of the National Civil
Rights Protective Association re-
ports that his Association is grow
ing in membership, and predicts
great things to be received by the
Negroes through his organization,
which is a nation wide effort.
tbs city with its 100000 Ne.
gro population has only one Ne
gro paper, published weekly. We
believe it a spendid field for a
hustling newspaper man, and that
is the opinion of many we have
talked with ON the subject. About
1900 Negroes are employed here
il the Government service, and
but few of them save any money,
as it all goes for good time.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

low themselves to be worked into
a frenzy over race constituencies.
When | gaze upon this the worlds
greatest university for successful
vocational training, I think only
of men and women and not of race
and color"
The last two days of the festivi-
ties here have been Chicago days.
All day yesterday the Rosenwald
party was inspecting the various
trade departments.
The John A. Andrew Memorial
hospital, a gift of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles E. Mason, wife of a trustee
of Tuskegee and granddaughter of
Governor John A. Andrew, was
dedicated yesterday before an i'm
mense crowd Seth Low, presided.
The farewell scene as the Ros-
enwald party pulled out of the
campus today was touching. Six
teen hundred students, Principal
and Mrs. Washington and the Of
fcers of the school stood, great
mass of humanity, along the en-
bankment overlooking the cars.
AS the train pulled out and Mr..
Rosenwald waved last farewell,
the institute band played "Auld
Lang Syne," and the great chorus
of voices joined in the song.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01
MRS. YOUNG OPPOSES
RACE CONSEQUENCES

Tuskegee, Ala, Feb. 22.-De-
claring that she was not at all in
terested in the Negro problem, as
such, Ella Flagg Young, superin.
tendent of the Chicago schools,
created a great wave of enthusiasm
last night in the Tuskegee Insti-
tute chapel, where the Rosenwald
party, along with the visitors, who
came with Seth Low, had gather
ed to meet the $500 people who
up the life of Tuskegee.
Il don't understand prejudice, I"
said Mrs. Young. "Neither do l
understand why colored people al
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01
Educational
Pilgrimage To
Tuskege
Wealth Power Represented Personal of Rare Charter Low
And Rosenwald Head Parties.
SPECIAL TO COLORADO STATESMAN.

SPECIAL TO COLORADO STATESMAN.
Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Feb. %
The week just closing is one
long to be remembered by the
Tuskegee Institute. Gathered on
the campus of the Institute dur
the week was as large and as i'm
portant body of men and wemen
of wealth and standing in the citi-
zenry of the country as has ever
before been gotten together in the
South. For three days and half
Tuskegee Institute, entertaining
the visiting members of the Board
of Trustees of the school, enter
tanned also, and happily, a huu-
dred of the best representatives of
the intellectual and civic life OF
the nation who had come from the
East and the West to see the work
of the great school located here.
RosEswA1D GETS GREAT WELCOME
The visitors began arriving
Wednesday afternoon, February
10Th. A special train out OF Chi
cago, made up of the personal
friends of Julius Rosenwalb, the
merchant prince and philanthro-
pjst. and bearing Pullman and pri-
yate cars, rolled into the Institute
grounds to the deafening applause
of the 900 students and the teach
ing body headed by Principal
Booker II. Washington and offi-
GERS of the school. Amid Tuske-
gee cheers and yells, and the mar
tial strains of the famous Tuske-
gee band, that appropriately played
"Welcome Home" Mr.. Rosenwald
and his party received at the Cap
ital of Negro struggle and striving
a veritable hero's welcome. With
him we're men and women whose
names are part of the high regis
ter of the city of Chicago. There
was so much of welcome for Mr.
Rosenwald that he very generous
lv shared it with his friends and
guests. They took it because as
they said, it was welcome with
out a grudge.
FAMOUS NEW WORKERS ALSO PRESENT
Several hours after Mr.. Rosen-
wald had fetched his party, the
snecial train out of New York roll
ed in. On it were the former
Mayor of New York, Hon. Seth
Low, who is Chairman OF the
Board of Trustees of Tuskegee,
William Jay Schiefflin and Frank
1,rumbull, Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, and also a
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

u uStee VI IuSkeSee IuSLltute.
The welcome given to Mr.. Low
and his forty friends was equally
as warm as that extended to Mr..
Rosenwald.
TRUSTEES MEET
The mid. winter meeting of the
Board of Trustees was an impor-
tant one. Of course every meet
ing connected with Tuskegee is
important. Booker Washington
long ago arranged that. The
Board, with Mr.. Low, chairman,
preaiding, held sessions Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. DR.. Wash
ington, as usual, submitted report
that gave not only a strict but a
faithful accounting of the steward
ship placed in his hands, and that
in measure, as a Trustee said,
''he allows his trustees to share
with him." This report in due
time, will be sent throughout tine
country. White and colored pres
idents of colleges, i'll the North as
we'll as in the South, and particu-
larly in the West where words are
not rare, ought to sit down and
thumb it.
The week was one of great mo-
ment, not only for Tuskegee In
stitute, but for the Negro people of
the whole country. Such an event
as this pilgrimage of wealth and
power to the heart of the South, to
pay tribute to Negro effort and
achievement, in this fiftieth year
of freedom carries a significance
which will not be overlooked or
underestimate by thoughtful Ne
groes anywhere.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

1t is reported that the Negroes
of Valdosta, Ca, pay tax on near
ly 100000 worth of property. One
colored stock company owns a
$4,000 Office building in which
are Negro professional men and
other business enterprises. There
are two schools, fifteen churches
and twenty one business enterpris-
es, including drug and grocery
stores. There are about 1000 COL
ored in the town.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

Burlington, Iowa, Feb. "a
the walters who reported for duty
at the Hotel Burlington, last Sun
day morning, were much surprised
to find their places taken by white
girls. No previous notice had been
given the boys, that their services
were to be dispensed with.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

Washington, D. C,-Ground has
been broken for the new S25O,OOO
building for Normal School No. 2,
Georgia avenue, near Howard
University. For nearly thirty
wears this noted institution has
been presided over by DR.. Lucy
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Little Rock. Ark, Feb. 21.-Ar-
ticles of incorporation of the Ne
gro National Life Insurance
of Arkansas, capitalized at $780,
600, were filed yesterday with Sec
retary of State, Earle w. Hodges.
The promoters state there has
been paid in 5000 of the capital
stock, and that they have many
promises of more money.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 18.-As a
result of the refusal of the man
agement of place of amusement
in this city to sell him seat else
where than in the gallery. Frank
Robinson has entered suit against
the company to have the restric-
tions removed. A number of the
amusement houses of this city
have placed signs at their entrances
and in other places where passers-
by may see them to the effect that
colored patrons will be assigned
seats in the gallery only. This is
only an index to the conditions in
this city which have steadily been
growing intolerable.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01

Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. pa
movement started among colored
citizens of Cincinnati to raise
100000 for Y. NJ. G. A. was CIV
EN- impetus today by an announce
ment by F. M. Russell, temporary
secretery of committee of fifty,
in effect that Julius Rosenwald,
the Chicago philanthropist, has
contributed S25, 1000 and that a Gin
cinnati man, whose name is with
held at his own request, has dona-
ted another S25,OOO.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-03-01
NO 25

E. Moten, one of the races great
est educators. 1t is suggested that
the school be named in honor of
Prof. George F. T. Cook, under
whose capable administration as
superintendent. of public schools
the normal school for colored
pupils was established.
Jersey City, n. j., Feb. I'll
Mrs. Julia A. Hill, who claimed to
have been Abraham Lincoln's
housekeeper when practicing law
in Springfield, Ill, before his cleo
tion to the presidency, died here
last Sunday. She was l01 years,
IL months and L day old, accord
ing to her relatives.
Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 16.-A bill
to annul the charter of the Bor-
ough of CoatesVille was presented
to the Legislature on Monday ev-
ening. 1t provides that the bor-
ough's affairs shall be settled by
the Attorney General and for the
preservation of liens, records, judg-
ments, both for and against the
present borough. John I'll. Fow
has prepared the bill for the Inde-
pendent League, the headquarters
of which are in New York. The
bill provides that the territory now
covered by the borough shall be-
come part of the township in which
it is situated. In his annual mes
sage Governor Tener recommended
the revoking of the borough's
character for it's alleged refusal to
disclose those concerned in tho
lynching of Zack Walker.
Petersburg, Va, Feb. 1S.-The
local school board has asked the
city solons for a bond issue or an
appropriation of 100000 for three
public school buildings for colored
children. With the resolution was
presented the report of the special
council committee to look into the
advisability of consolidating the
Peabody and Jones schools. The
shameful conditions existing in the
colored schools were emphasized
by Messrs Wilcox and McKenny.
In declaring that the right aud
justice of the situation needed
prompt remedying, Mr.. McKenny
in reading the report said; The
colored people are, and always have
been, valuable element of our
population. Tney furnish the
best labor we can get for some of
our most valuable and best tax
yielding industries. If we are go
ing to give them the education
which the Law requires that we
should give, we should do our full
duty i'll that regard. remembering
that tho white people and the col
ored people of this community are
bound together by mutualinterests
and that these interests cannot be
disregarded and neglected"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-19
FIVE POINTS.

Mrs. Myers OF South Bend is visit
ing her sister. Mrs Zimmerman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hay and little
son spent Tuesday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brom at
CrumstOwn.
Mrs. David Brom spent Saturday in
South Bend. the guest Of her sister,
Mrs William Scott.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hummer and
children Sundayed in South Bend.
the guests Of the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Hummer.
Edward Wilson. who is ill with
typhoid fever at the ST. JOseph's hos
pitsl il South Bend. is improving
slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs Leroy Golf spent
Saturday in South Bend.
Services Sunday at Monson chapel
will be as follows: Sunday school at
10 o'clock. Epworth league at s
o'clock. Preaching services at
o'clock. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all to attend these services.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kelley Of
South Bend spent Sunday at the
home OF the latter's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Ora Taylor.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-19
FOR SALE=HOUSES.

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a modern house, on Portage av.
A modern house, on Cottage ay.
A 6-rOOm house on Summers court, close
to the LaSalle V. line. Cheap.
a modern house, on Dubail av.
A 7-room house nearly modern, close to
the Stu5ebaker factory.
A double house, modern, on 5. William
st.
W. X. McHENRY,
lis s. Main St
home Phone 5733, Bell Phone 300