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The Dermott news., 1914-12-17

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carried on apropos of it, but no one
stops 10 think of how ancient a dec
Grafton II is or how sacred il was
once thought to be.
Almost every body has vague
knowledge that the Druids of old had
something to do with the gathering OF
mistletoe. but just what that some
thing was is not clear to the average
mind
The fact is that the ancient Gelts in
their druidieal religion had t@a great
festivals. ON in June and the other in
December. the latter being equivalent
To our Christmas In beth Of these
great festivals the gathering Of the
mistletoe WIS a sacred rite.
ruHy in his Natural History de-
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prulds' worship OF the oak II 81.
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these trees is sent from heaven and j.
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parts of GERMANY the mistletoe is es-
pecially esteemed as n remedy for the
ailments of children. who sometimes
wear II hung around the neck as an
amulet
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The Dermott news., 1914-12-17

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The Dermott news., 1914-12-17
M|SILETOE HISTORY
Gathering of Plant Sacred Rite
in DruldiCaI Religious
Festivals.
Also Considered Potent Remedy for
HIS, a Belief Which Still Exists in
Some of the Remote Places
OF Europe.

NJ r decorate our homes with
N IA ( sprays OF mistletoe 1t Christ
EG mas time. but few of us
IL M know the history Of It as a
Y ~ Yuletide symbol Pretty
The Dermott news., 1914-12-17
Except We become as a
iftle child ye shall in no
sciSe enter intO the JOY
of Christmas fime.
The Christmas Robin.

In many parts of England the robin
Is associated with Christmas-tide.
There is a belief that on Christmas
eve these birds will sing near house
where person is dying. to cheer him.
The Dermott news., 1914-12-17
When and Why.

Do you so to Sunday school now,
Georgie?" inquired Georges uncle.
Yep Christmas is COMM"
Don't you go except just before
Christmas"
Yep; ! go just before the summer
picnic, too"
The Dermott news., 1914-12-17

If Grandpapa Santa Claus how happy would be
When oyshop toll finished he would take each knee
He'd tell all his and he'd the pretty
He'd made and hiding for the other girls and boys
We have real. live Grandpapa! He visits each year.
And he quite bosom friend of Santa Claus, | hear.
Although reindeer and Of things great
If Grandpapa Claus could love him
GENE MORGAN.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1914-07-11
HAPPY MOTHERHOOD

Thehappincssof motherhood fe,
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up and holds up their strength
Get Scott 5 at your nearest drug ssore.
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The fool-killer., 1914-02-01
Let Us Talk 1t
Over

Well. dear sinner friends, this In
The Fool Killer.
How does it set on your stomach?
II you like it, you can get more at
headquarters.
The Fool-Killer is not ven a forty
Eleventh. cousin to any other paper on
Uarth.
It stands in a class by itself, and
its 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.
I am the fellow who works at the
p~ump-handle on this pungent period
zeal of thrilling thought. I print only
what 1 write; I write only what l
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.
Does that sound strange?
Well, bless your soul, I am q great
deal richer than old John.
never travelled any to speak OF,
but I have read q great deal, and have
thunk some.
I have also writ a few books which
Z know are great, because they don't
sell worth a cent.
Great books never do.
And then I started The Fool-Killer,
oust to quiet my nerves and keep the
old press from getting rusty.
From the seclusion of these wooded
Aills there will go forth each month
O 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 it's sleep.
The Fool-Klller In q monthly mus
eard-plaster for the blood-boils Of
Society, Church and State.
1t 10 sailed with wit, peppered with
humor and seasoned with sarcasm.
Every line cuts like a whip, and
every word raises a blister.
Ii you are a fool you had better not
subscribe for The Fool-Killer. II
you are wise you will. And 90 that
settles 1t.
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01

by pocketing another million, he
has crushed and killed the hope
and ambition of a thousand poor
men. Oh, you know it's the truth,
confound you!
You talk about not wanting to
destroy the ambition of people!
Great heavens alive, man! And
yet here you go trying to defend
a system that deliberately mur-
ders the reasonable ambitions of
a thousand men in order to feed
and fatten the unreasonable
greed of one man. Lord have
mercy on your poor little old
warty, dried-up, mustard-seed
soul!
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01

Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin,
professor of political economy at
the University of Chicago, says
that the currency bill is the polit-
ical miracle of the age, because
not ten men in Congress who
voted for it understood what
they were voting for.
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01
E~verybody's DOM It.

w hoop!
Sick 'em!
Everybody's dom it!
What?
Cussin' the Catholics.
Even some Of the Redemocan
papers have got their eyes open
and joined in the fight.
Welcome, boys!
W. need all the help we car
get.
Let's make it so hot for the old
Dad on the Tiber and his bunch of
toe-kissing lickspittles on the
Potomac that they'll have to 90 10
hades to cool off.
It is gratifying to me that the
people have seen the danger and.
responded to the call.
-Four years ago when I began to
sound the alarm, the chorus of
responses a mighty weak, but
to-day it has swelled to a deafen-
ing roar of protest against Rome's
avowed plans to make America
Catholic"
Some of the very papers thst
used to laugh at me for even init
mating that there could possibly
be any danger in the Romisk
aggression are now cussing the
pope in such a terrific tone of
voice that | can hardly make nv
little fuss heard at all.
But that's all right.
They once were blind, but now
they see.
| am fully vindicated, and that's
glory enough for me.
But say!
What will become of your pols
tics in the shuttle?
The Bull Elephant party is the
slave of Rome.
And SO is the Jackass party.
Everybody knows that.
Look at the Taft record.
And look at the Wilson record.
Surely you can see that ne
natter which old party you belong
to, your espousal of the Anti
Catholic cause cuts you loose from
it. The big leaders in either party
will disown you, because they al
pick their chawin' terbacker out
of the Holy Roman spittoon.
If you have made up your mind
to take a stand against Rome and
her gang Of foot-kissers, there il
only one party in America that
you can consistently belong to.
A word to the wise is a-plentv.
but fools never learn any sense.
Which are you?
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01
Wilson's Sermon to the Scrats.

Now, my beloved Donkeycrats,
hear me! [ feel the spirit moving
me, and [ must speak to you in a
most confidential manner. I am
the high priest of Democracy,
and you are my political children.
Dearly beloved, you know we
Democrats are now on trial for
our political lives, and the Amer
lean people are the jury. What
will the verdict be? Doggoned if
I amt getting sorter scared. We
amt FURNISHED the evidence of our
ability to govern that we promised
before the election, and now if
we can't bride or intimidate the
jury we are gone suckers.
Yes, we lowered the tariff, and
that was going to lower the cost
of belly-timber all so fast. But in
spite of the fact that we knew it
would do it, we are up against
the fact that it amt done it. And
now our job is to explain to the
people why it amt done it.
After the tariff tinkering failed
to work, then we knew positively
it was the currency that need
ed tinkering with. So we tinkered
with the currency. Still no results,
except a few more idle and hun
cry men tramping over the coun-
try hunting for work.
And 50 that proves that it
wasn't the currency that needed
tinkering with, after all.
1t must be the trusts.
We will tinker with the trusts
awhile.
If that don't gee-haw to suit us,
we'll 60 back and tinker with the
currency some more.
We are sorter Ikea niger
cook trying to run an automobile
up a tree. We will pull and jerk
at every handle and lever about
the blamed old governmental ma
chine, and we're sure to make it
do something before we quit.
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01

Yes, honey, we all waste a lot
of time wondering about things
that are none of our business.
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01
4 R ON "AMBITION."

for plutocratic exploitation of the
poor. and in the course Of the
conversation he, pumped through
the word-hole in his knowledge
box some such brilliant remark
as this:
I'VE must not destroy the am
bition of the people,
There you have it!
Ambition!
But what is Ambition, please
yer onner?
It strikes me sorter whomper-
goddlin that there's several sorts
of Ambition in the world. Some
of the sorts are all right, and
other sorts are all wrong.
The ambition to make a good
living honestly and enjoy life and
let everybody else do the same, is
all right.
But the ambition to kill, rob,
cheat, lie, swindle, bulfdoze and
mistreat the poor and helpless in
order to pile up fabulous fortunes
that ambition is all wrong.
So it all depends on what sort
of ambition a man has and what
he is trying to do with it, as to
whether we must give him free
hand with it and tell him to go
his limit.
The speaker quoted above is a
rich man, and his ambition is to
get richer, and he don't want
anybody to NEEDLE with his dar-
ling privilege of raking in the
dough.
Here's the lire of talk your
humble servant handed back to
the Jealous defender of heartless
ambition and soulless greed:
Oh, yes, you selfish rascal, you
want the privilege of gratifying
your own ambitions, but you for
get that while you are prospecting
and piling up wealth, there are
millions of others just as deserv-
ing as you are who have to slave
through life with the hope and
ambition all crushed out of them.
Of course you'll say they don't.try
hard enough. That's a lie. They
try as hard as it is possible to try
under the circumstances, but
their trying don't amont to any,
thing. They are just as helpless
as you would be if you were in
the bottom Of a hundred foot we'll
and the we'll was walled with pol
ished marble. You might try to
climb out till you busted your in
fernal gall, but you wouldn't
climb nary inch.
That is exactly the condition of
96 per cent of the American peo-
pie to- day. The system under
which we live is designed to give
undue advantage to a fe ", and in
proportion as these few have an
easy time the great army Of 'un-
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01
EDITORIALS.

EDITORIALS.
Gee! Don't that elastic cur
rency'' make you feel good?
It is better to follow a good ex-
ample than to set a bad one.
It's hard telling which loves a
bone the best-adog or a Catholic.
Why not lump all the plute
parties together and call them
Regressocrats?
The reason they call a Catholic
priest ~''father' is because he
generally is one.
Fortune knocks at every mans
door, but Mis- fortune just walks
in without knocking.
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01
TAKE NOTICE!

TAKE NOTICE!
Do not send postage stamps on sub
Scription.
Remittances should be made by
registered letter, express or postofhce
money order.
Be careful to write your. own name
and address plainly, and direct all
letters and make all orders payable
to:
THE FOOL-KILLER,
wOrayian Falls, North Carolina.
The fool-killer., 1914-02-01

It is better to follow a good ex
ample than to set a bad one.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18

can now make either coarse or fine
music.
Theodore Edsall got caught out in
the frost the other night, and sought
shelter under persimmon tree, where
he observed the unusual sight of
seeing the persimmons ripen.
Judge Ledgerwood complains
about the persimmon crop this year
as usual. He says now the trees
are too tall as the persimmons have
so far to fall they mash when they
hit the ground. The only remedy he
can suggest is to saw off the top
limbs.
One of the sure signs of hard
winter is the fact that w. C.. Herman
has ordered a pair of new pants
with deep pockets.
During a game of seven-up on a
stump near the Coon Hill church
Monday morning AL Geunther
snapped curry comb and a jug of
Moonlight Reel to Clement Manning
for a calf and lantern. Next Sunday
Al aims to surprise the Coon Hill
preacher by presenting him with the
calf when the hat is passed around.
While discussing the many difficult
ties of life at the posotffice the other
day Senator Milan gave it as his
opinion that the most difficult thing
he ever tried to do was to whitewash
martin box on the inside.
Miss Juanita Beans has sent to
Little Rock after some beauty
Secrets. She ordered a consignment
II while back but they got out on her.
Jack Goodine started to work dig
ging IL cistern at home yesterday. He
will dig aS long as the dirt is loose.
John Kloethe has snapped for
combination coon dawg and blood
hound.
John C.. Roth, the Cincinnati Dove
Brand Packer passed through Snag-
town Tuesday riding an old gray
mule.
The European war correspon-
dent for the SnagtOwn Torchlight
cables us this week that the French
and English forces are successfully
advancing backwards, while the Ger
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
BE OF GOOD CHEER

1t j. useless to be diSheartencd be-
cause things do not go just a. you
would like to have them Murmuring
does not cure troubles A Disagree
able face will not alter a disagree
able fact. Try to extract. some
grain of comfort out of your adyer-
sites. Never despair; under what
ever circumstances be cheerful and
hope in the darkest hour. There Is
nothing so philosophical aS smile.
\ merry heart is the height Of wis
dom.
The greatest part of our griefs will
disappear when viewed through the
lenses of cheerfulneSs. Let the dark
past sink out of sight. Triumph in
the Lord. Look toward the sunrise.
Shout in the midst of shadows as if
you saw the dawn kissing the hills.
Fill your soul with the visions of
morning and the song of the lark.
Then all will become suffused with
daylght-all gloomy places will
pulse with sunshine, the clammy
rocks will glisten with dew.
Would you like to know the key to
unlock the doorway to a happy life?
1t is cheerfulness; and if the earth
has nothing to bring you, you can
still rejoice in the Lord and rejoice
evermore.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
MEASURING STARLIGHT.
curities.

A recent number Of LIE Radium
contains paper by DR.. A. H. Pfund
Of Johns Hopkins university, in
which he describes some preliminary
tests he has made of a new appara-
tus for measuring the light of a star.
The work was done at the Allegheny
observatory, the Keller 30-inch re-
Hector being Used.
The sensitiveness of the arrange
ment was such that a candle at a dis
lance of eight miles would give a
DETECTION of one millimeter. The
Elections obtained from celestial OBJ
jects were; Vega, rs; Jupiter, 80
Attain, 30 millimeters.
The author hopes, by using a more
sensitive galvanometer and other ma
terials for his thermo-elements, to
increase the sensitiveness consider
ably, and in this way TO open up a
new field of astrophysical research.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
$500 AN ACRE LAND

c. 7. Evans, formerly of this
county, has sold his handsome SUI
burban home, "Seven Pines" on the
Boonesboro pike, near Winchester,
with twenty acres of land to }. C..
Williams, Louisville railroad man,
for reported price of over 500 per
acre. Mr.. Williams will locate there
to be in closer touch with his big
work in Eastern Kentucky. Mr.
Evans has leased Miss Stanley Jack
sons flats in Winchester and will
move there with his family. lie has
large farming interests in Mississippi,
and will spend much of his time there
this winter.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
WRITTEN BEFORE WORLD WAR
Financial Advice Given by London
Standard Would Hardly Fit
the Situation Now.

For many years past a cardinal
feature of the international financial
situation has been the extent to
which Europe as a whole-and more
especially France and England-has
been financing the requirements of
foreign countries, and especially
those Of the new world. France for
some time past has been in a condi-
ton which has rendered her inca
pable of continuing to give this fnan-
cial assistance, while in this country
there has been a growing and COM
mendable disposition on the part of
the banking community to apply
curb to the borrowing propensities
of foreign countries, said the Lon
don Standard in late July issue.
This pause on the part of Europe
in the matter Of lending has had its
inevitable effect in checking the e1-
cessive trade activity which the lend
ing had previously stimulated, and
during the last few months it has
been case of many countries hav-
ing to liquidate their Indebtedness
in the shape of gold. Provided that
the wise policy is continued of curb
ing the undue borrowing on the part
Of foreign countries which has been
such conspicuous feature of recent
years, there is reason to hope that the
accumulations of capital which are
now proceeding will leave their
mark upon the course of public Sc
curities.