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The fool-killer., 1914-03-01
Old Bill Scott.

Bees I remember Old Bill Scott?
Well, deed, I sho1y does!
He use ter tend our meetin' house
Bes' preacher at ever wuz.
Old Bill, he couldn't read ner write,
But, gemmen, he war smart;
He seem ter know de Scripture book
Des might-nigh all by heart.
Wen he got up dar in de stan
An roll dem Eyes aroun',
De congregation sot SO still
Oar warn't a single SCUM.
Kaze all dem niggers knowed Old
War gwine ter do his bes'
At showin' pore lost souls de way \
What lead ter hebbenly res.
But wen Old Bill begun ter pant
An dem white eyes ter shine,
An all dem eoons got on dey feet,
De shoutin' sho' wuz fine. .
Desc upstart niger preachers now
Dey thinks dey knows a lot,
But de whole bilin' couldn't hold
A light fer Old Bill Scott.
james Larkin Pearson
The fool-killer., 1914-03-01

The New York Independent
for March 9 just giggles all ov-
er itself about what great things
"we' have done for the Fillipi-
nos. I'VE" have civilized and ed
ucated them, taught them how
to wash their sinking feet, and
change shirts at least four times
a year. And that is going some.
After eve" get those foreign
'niggers fully established on a
high plane Of Christian (O civ.
ilization and supplied with all
the l~uxuries Of life, maybe Eve
can find time to fling some cast.
off clothing and a few moudy
biscuits to the naked and starv
ing of our own people here al
home. Don't eve" beat the dev
il, anyhow? i
The fool-killer., 1914-03-01

C1lC VIC SOOOO WA wv . 1C1 q
Hubbard is about empty. But
Nav gifts a littul washin 2 do now
an then, an, line Citing purity
Janus as a ritter, an SO maybe we
can pull threw till Paw gifts a
job.
Thar is one thing erbout this
here Employment bizniss that I
cant fgger out. It's a fack not q
be denide that thar amt nary
willin wurker in the United
Stats but whot can git wurk,
kaze the Sharlit Zurver ses so.
But on tother hand, heres Paw
jist as willing as you plees, an
he cant git nuthin 2 du. Them
thar 2 fax seem 2 sorter contra
dick one anuther, but Of coarse
that don't. It must be jist my
lack ov understandin ov the glo-
ryus prinsipuls ov Redemocan-
ism.
Sum ov them-thar fetch-taked
Soshubul papers air a-talkin err
bout Koxy armiz, supe houses
an hard times, but Dekin Sorter-
good tole Paw that it was awl a
kampane Ii. The dekin ses times
is good and that everybody is
prospectus. In We-un's case it
seems like prosperity is sorter
hard on the belly, but the dekin
. ses it is our duty 2 be sadiide an
happy. He e the authoritiz air
doin jist. rite in shootin down
them-thar doggon kalamity
howlers an Soshubuls out west.
Them's mi sentiments, 2. Hur.
raw for prosperity, an down with
them dadgasted Soshubuls whot
wants 2 destroy our happy homes
an maik us devide up our wealth
Fer instunce, if venus wealth
t wus devided up, woodent it be 3
L purity lookin site?
Wei, it has gone 2 rainin, al
thar is a big leek right whur il
wood plum ruin Maw's pianne1
;, if she had airy one. In mi mex
letter lie tell We whot suckses.
Paw has in huntin fer a job
He's out in this rane sumwhul
rite now, tfampin around an beg
gin fer "a chance 2 ern sum bred
The Deekin ses Paw is liabul 2 gi
q arrested an. locked up as a Va
grant, but [ kin pruve that h
never voted that ticket in hi
y. life. Paw is a good loyul Redemo
l. can, an nobody is prouder o
V our CRATE wealth an u bewtifu
y Krischun sivulizashun than Pay
= is. [ hearn him tell Nav las
n mite that everone ov them oil
Soshubuls ort 2 be hung befor
o that git in an destroy our pros
perity an reck our happy homes
s Yores trewly,
BILLY BONEHEAI
The fool-killer., 1914-03-01
BILLY BONEHEAD'S LETTER
Foolville, S. I. (the S. I
stands for Stait ov
Ignerunce),


March the two-th, 1914.
Dear Mister Editer:
Well, we-uns have got muved at
last, SIGH a muve as it is. But /
kin tell We our present pallis amt
Mutch adapted 2 this-here March
wind.
AS I tole we in mi last letter,
Paw purt-ni run his. legs off
huntin fer us anuther sta-place.
Tia wuz sevurl places 2 rent,
but that >awl wanted niggers,
kaze tina sed a niger Good bee
kussed an ordered about. Paw
tole EN- that we-uns jist dotted on
bein kussed an ordered about,
and that we pinned away an dido
when we coodent git it. Ov
course tina awl believed that Ii,
but fer sum reezun it dident hav
the desired effekt. Tha probly
hated 2 kuss such a good Rede-
nocan as Paw is, an so the surch
kOntinude. -
Finely we got permishun to
sckipy a ole empty sawmill
shack on Deekin Sortergood's
place not moren. a mile frum
whur we did liv. Our new home
amt got no wotter-works in it
except when it ranes-but it has
got plenty ov wind-worl-s right
along now.
Paw got a job at Buck Brad
ley's saw-mill down the creek a.
- dollar a da, but the seckunt d.
Sog Sanders cum along an toll,
Buck that he'd wurk fer St,
cents a da. Then paw spoke VI
and sed he'd wurk fer City cents
Quick as a flash Sog responde,
that he wood maik IT Sly. Where
upon Paw flung a ~handspike a
SOg and tole him 2 talk the jo1
an go 2 Ginny whiz with it, kaz
he'd jist as sune do nuthin a.
starve as 2 wurk an starve.
An SO Paw is out ov a job, a.
The fool-killer., 1914-03-01
Ii the pope Of Rome should di,

If the pope Of Rome should die
right suddenly, and the Gear
dinals' were all too drunk to
elect another one right at once,
[ suppose God would just have
to throw off the belt and let the
world stand still for awhile, till
there was another pope elected
to tell Him how to run it.
The fool-killer., 1914-03-01
HAVE SOME PIZEN IN YER
\ BISCUIT.

Of course [ may get yanked
up for contempt Of court for
saying it, but here it comes, any
how:
The Supreme Court of the Be
nited States has once more run
it's leg down it's throat and puk-
ed up the seat Of it's breaches.
It is Cuss-to-Mary for a court
to 'thand down" a decision, but
this time the old gal has taken
her hind foot and "kicked' a
decision right kerdab into the
face Of Old Man Peepul, break
ing his nose and knocking out
three Of his store teeth.
The present decision has to do
with the Poor Food Law in gen
eral, and the "bleached flour
case in particular. That old hag
that struts around in a silk
Mother-Hubbard and answers to
the name Of Justice has strad.
died two silver dollars across
her nose for spectacles and look.
ed into the manufacture Of fooo
products. And her official opin.
ion is that the grand rascals who
put poisonous and injurious
things in our biscuit-truck are
perfect gentlemen and must no
have their sacred rights inter
fered with. She declares tina
they have a legal right to poison
our grub as much as they please
just SO they don't get it poison
enough to throw us into spasmt
and kill us suddenly, like tn
bite Of a rattlesnake. They cal
cram us full of poisoned ant
adulterated food-stuffs and xii
us by slow degrees, and that
all right-so says the pope's ju
dicial mouth-piece up as Wash
ington.
Yes, honey-that' just tn
size Of it. Before the Poor Foo
:. Law can take any action agains
these privileged concerns, OIL
Man Peepul must prove that tn
stuff they r selling to him j
= being poisoned to a dangerous
extent, and the word "dange1
. ous' will be construed to mea
$ something that will kill you il
stantly, like being struck b
' lightning or having your thros
l cut. If they kill you gradual.
' and take several years to ge
t the job done, it is so easy to pac
e the blame off on Providence, yo
know.
OF course the question that
have in mind is a very silly an
foolish one, and of cours
the wise judges and the million
aire grafters will wink at eae
= other and laugh at me for aski1
it, but I'm simply going to fa'
the music and ask it anyhow:
What in the name Of the Pun
tan's Witch and two forked-ta:
ed devils is the need or the ju
d tice Of letting them put AN
poison in the stuff we buy to ca
q Huh?
re D.
The fool-killer., 1914-03-01
March, 1914.
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The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04

When the tangos,ne orange was
first introduced into China, it was SO
highly esteemed that 1t was given as
a gift TO the mandarins. and hence
became known as the mandarin or
ange. Our tangerine is simply a
descendant of the ancient mandarin
orange.
In the last few years there seems
to have been falling off in the popu.
larity Of these dainty, little glove or
anges, as they used to be called. Pos
sibly 1t is because the modern navel
orange, with it's sweetness and de-
hghtful flavor, is SO plentiful.
Even so, the appetizing little tanger.
Inc ought to have bigger place than
1t has at present. 1t would seem that
the very fact that the tangerine skin
peels off so readily would insure It's
popularity. But there are fashions
IN food, as well as in clothes, and the
wheel OF fashion revolves from time
to time. Perhaps when bustles are
In again the tangerine will be daily
visitor TO our tables.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
GODS CYCLE OF REFORM.

The seventeenth century brought to
mankind spiritual emancipation, the
right to think, freedom of worship;
the eighteenth century brought pollt-
ical emancipation, democracy, the
right to self-government, the rule of
the people by the people, for the peo-
pie; the nineteenth cntury brought to
mankind physical emancipation, the
right to selfownership, of private con
tract, to engage, to quit and to the
fruits of toll; the twentieth century
will bring to mankind moral emancipa-
ton, freedom from the Intoxicating
cup as legalzed institution, and the
browning glory OF them all, for there
can be no true spiritual liberty, no
true political liberty, no true personal
liberty to an intoxicated man, people
or nation.-Clinton n. Howard.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
NOT IN KANSAS SCHEME.

1T was hot summer day, says the
EmpOria (Kan) Gazette. 1t was also
dusty One hundred and fifty men were
riding from town to town in Central
Kansas, in autos, on a trade extension
tour. They were Kansas men-mer-
chants, lawyers. doctors. editors,
clerks mechanics, bankers, farmers.
From time to time they stopped at
thirteen towns during the days run
No one in the crowd spoke OF beer
No one had any beer. No one at the
thirteen towns offered anyone any
beer. At most of the towns there
were great, deep, stone jars of iced
lemonade Oh the sidewalks with bright
tin cups hanging from the jars, and a
sign up, Welcome, Emporians.' There
was no whisky, wine or beer in the
crowd. No one missed it. No one
spoke of it. For these men, ranging
from thirty to sixty years Of age, had
lived In Kansas thirty years under ab
solute prohibition. Most of them had
never been in saloon in their home
town in their lives. Booze was as re
mote from their consciousness as car
bolic acid. Booze IS not in the Kan
sas scheme of things No one thinks
Of it. It's presence or absence is not
considered by the Kansas mind"
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
A SAFE PLACE.

A noted citizen of Topeka Kane.,
took his small boy, who up to that
time had not been outside of the sun
flower state, to an elegant hotel iIr
Washington. ID. c. When they came
full upon the bar doing business, the
Kansas boy, with eyes wide with ex-
element and horror, pulled his father
into corner and whispered; We've
caught them this time, father, caught
them selling it right out in sight. I'll
stay and watch and you hurry and
bring the officers"
When the father explained that
liquor selling was not a violation of
law at our nations capital. the aston
ished child turned sadly away from
the beauties of Washington and said
Let's go home 10 Kansas"
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
pIMlNlsHEs RESISTING POWER.


The first man to make an expedition
across Greenland was Doctor Nansen.
He and his men had to cross on foot,
spending several weeks on floating ice.
For 40 days they tramped over frozen
snow with 50 degrees of frost. In re-
ferring to this journey Doctor Nan
sen said
The only spirits that we took were
as fuel for our stove TO melt the snow,
that we might have water to drink.
believe the use of stimulants to be
mistake"
Capt. Edward Parry, after II years
experience in the Arctic regions, said:
Are ardent spirits necessary? say
decidedly, No. 1t is said they keep
the cold out. l say they do not; they
let the cold in
The whole crew of the vessel that
took Commander Peary TO the north
pole. from commander downward,
worked on temperance principles.
They could face 60 degrees below zero
and all hardships better without alco-
hcl. No wines or intoXicants were
taken in connection with their work.
In the words of Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson, the eminent English ply
| sician You know that alcohol only
| makes the body feel warm, because 1t
causes more warm blood to come to
the surface of the body there to lose
It's heat and leave the body colder.
You know that cold and alcohol eXer-
else the same kind of influence on the
body, ard that when working in the
| cold, even in the EXTREMIST cold, that
| man viii work longest and best who
avoids alcohol altogether"
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
LAUNCHES MOVE TO
AID FEDERAL WORK
Congressman Goodwin Suggests pu.
hitting Cities TO Draw PostoPice
Plans. Architectural Force
is Inadequate.

Washington, d. c., June 3.-Assis.
tant Secretary of Treasury Newton
today agreed to an innovation sug.
gested by Congressman w. s. Good
win of Arkansas, which should facii.
tate opening work upon a number Of
federal buildings throughout the coun.
try. The government is three or four
years behind in its work. At present
there are $40 federal buildings and ex.
tensions to be erected upon sites not
yet purchased while 4S7 buildings
have been authorized, for which plans
and specifications have not been pre-.
pared.
In 1912 the citizens Of Arkadelphia
Ark, donated a federal building site
to the government and while Congress
has authorized the erection Of build
ing, the plans and specifications have
not been prepared, owing to an insult
ficient force in the supervising archi-
lN1t - OiliNC.
Arkadelphians have become impa-
tient over the long delay and have Of
fered to defray the cost Of preparing
plans and specifications for the build
ing subject to the approval of the gov
eminent.
Congressman Goodwin today took
up the question with Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury Newton, who
agreed to the proposition. While MIR.
Goodwin's plan is somewhat revolun-
tary and never before suggested it is
thought that much can be saved the
government annually in eases where
cities donate federal building sites to
the government and then bear the eX-
pense of having the plans and speci-
fications for the building prepared, as
in the case of Arkadelphia.
Under the Goodwin plan, preference
would be given to such cities, and the
work rushed on federal buildings
where buildings and plans are donated
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
4 Liberal Offer.

The undersigned druggist is author
lied by the American Drug & Press
Association, of which he is a men,
her, to guarantee Meritol Hair Tonic
to give satisfaction or the purchase
price will be refunded. This indicates
the confidence they have in this pre-
paration.
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The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
TIE WAY LIE TRADE GEES II.

Three men talked together in one Of
Chicago's big hotels a few days ago
The eldest about siXty-hye years >of
age, had been in the liquor business
since he was boy of eight; the other
two had spent the larger part of their
lives in it. Their conclusion was that
it's days are numbered. The older man,
wholesale dealer of some reputation,
at last gave it as his opinion that they
would all have TO get out of the bust
ness by 1920
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04
Delinquent Tax List
State of Arkansas

The lands and lots and of lots delinquent
Nevada County for the 1913 together with
penalties charged thereon agreeaby law contained
described in the following list Viz:
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-06-04

Fire, Tornado and accident mSlr-
ance-F. f. Murrah, Bank of Prescott
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-05
NOTES FOR THE
cIAKEAPEARE CLUB.


Resume of winters Tale.
l. Plot Dramatic plot ts q reveal
taon az moral providence. Wrong may
find it's restoration. Redemption, the
profoundest OF moral principles. - one
OF Shakespeare's ideals, but poetry ana
theoIory aresnot identical The mission
OF poetry is not to give US plan or
salvation, but II recognizes the WoTk
OF restoration in life ana touches u
with artistic beauty ana synpaen -
winters Tale is a special study OF
Wrong and Restoration. In this pay
the meet has borrowed from ancient 1T
eratnre the device of the Oracle mus
fhe arch plot of Fall and Restora-
ton il bound together by oracular
interest
i. what is the tone Of the first half
of the play? The second?
what causes the sundering OF 81
ella and Bohemia? The reunttlng.
n. what ~ the skiold destruction.
How Is the destruction revealed
and the restoration shadowedE
what IL the turning point!
a what IL the sixfold restorenonI
7. Discuss the underplot OF nenel'
showing the atmosphsre. acconnanies
pasasre If centre from Complication
TO Resolution.
n. Special CharactSr STUDY OF L.
ontes. In the Wintersz =. a. M .ssnn
rve.rt~s Thee are wrongs hmm
~ ~ Cher looked at in themselves
49, r-Lfch give US different impress
is1iops of the wrong doer. This is
+esp9cially true Of jealousy.
In othello. observe that lagos Jeal-
t,1sy is the result of nature wholly
shepraved while Othello's guilelessness
q makes 1t possible for Iago to work
I him up to frenzy or suspicion. VI
what type is Leontes2
Discuss following special points in
favor of Leontes's character: IDEAL
/ friendship like David and Jonathon,
ca Hermiones devotion. and (S) At
/ tachment of Camille. his return after
} injury and exile. w, 2, 1-32 and ~,
I scene 4, from 519.
The outburst OF jealousy is really
|, moral disease. |, scene 2, 2s6. scene
+ 2, 3s4.
friend but Camille realizes that the
morbid passion has passed beyond that
point. Act /, scene 2, 424. To a Ger
tain degree we are Responsible Tor
our moral as for our physical nealtn,
but IL Is wrong to denounce Leontes
after he reaches this stage Of deiirium
A modern alienist would term this
brain storm.
The beginning of the jealousy is be-
fore the play opens and we first see
him struggling against what he feels
/ to be unworthy. /, scene 2, but Soor
turns to bitterness. The effort was
TOO much for him. Act I, scene 2, los
H~Ahe ean reason with his passion
81 4 gcsnes eN13S -146.
mione ta&eAQ .s->-alone. he bids Her
II am angling now, tnous-~4-
ceive me not how / give line" Jea4
ously INDUCED reaches high tide. Ac
I. seen e2, 1877.
In tracing the psychology Of Jealous
we see the very shame or 1t 1nname
the Imagination and suspicious becom
realities. He no longer hesitates t.
tell Camille and the thoughts ono
spoken becomes truth to his mind. &C
I. scene 2, from 267. Camille in orde
to help his friend sees that ne mus
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-05

were owned by Miss Julia Macarthur.
Miss Faye Rhodes returned to her
home in Century Tuesday after hav-
ing taught a very successful term az
a assistant teacher in the Bagdad
school.
Miss Ellie Simpson will leave for
Mobile Saturday, where she goes TO be
with her friend, Miss Essie White, also
TO study for a trained nurse.
Mr. and Mrs. A v. Brown and son
Of Mulat spent Sunday with Mrs.
Browns parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jno.
McCurley, Sr.
Mrs Carol White spent Tuesday
and "Wednesday in Pinewood guest of
Mass Ellie Simpson.
Mrs Tervin has returned home aft
err a pleasant visit with her daughter
in Monroeville, Ala
Mr. E c. Work left for Chicago on
wednesday where he has accepted a
position.
Mrs. Emma Allen, Mrs, Trean and
Mrs Hanrblen of Pensacola were Wis
iting friends in Bagdad this week.
Mrs English was found dead on
Thursday morning at the homo of
Mrs Ida Simmons with whom she vas
making her home She has one brother
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-05

nrerend TO agree with him and enter
into the plot. When the two have fed
from Sicily, 1t seems confirmation OF
all his suspicious to Leontes. Act II,
scene /. 81. Whole scene
The injured innocence Of the queen,
the Amusement of the lords (Act II,
scene 1. from 1850 the sons illness
(Act II, scene 8, 12) all prove fresh
evidence for jealousy to feed on When
the babe is brought before the king, II
but hardens his heart (Act ii, scene 8,
90 and whole scene) and he orders It
committed to the flames. The king so
far believes II but justice. In second
thought he commits the babe to some
place where chance may nurse IT. ID.
53,) an appeal to providence. Act
IL scene 8, from 154.) Compare line 183
and Act III. scene 8. Ais.
To convince others. not himself, the
king has sent to the oracle Act II,
scene /, $50, 1s9; Act III. scene 2, 4.
The adverse decision cannot check the
course of jealous frenzy. Act III. scene
The crisis has come and nothing but
a great shock can cure him. 1t comes
in the sons death and the seeming
death of the queen, and Leontes is re-
stored to sanity Not his change of
heart. Act III. scene q, ais and 235-245.
Time and human skill assist nature
in the healing Of the wrong of Lee
ontes.
Camille and Pau1ina furnish the hu-
man aid and they are also assisted
by the romantic love OF F1orizel and
| Perdita.
| Discuss the sixteen years devotion
| OF Leontes. In the end. Leontes with
| the greatest sorrow of his life un-
heralded, kneels in penitence and de-
| votion before the statue and sees II
grow warm with life and love. Moth
ing is more beautiful in itself than
Redemption and Shakespeare chooses