The fool-killer., 1919-08-01

where in the United States where
the Fool-Killer was not known. 1t
had simply surpassed all my expecta-
lions and had become famous. My
droll, unusual, serio-comic style of
writing seemed to make a great hit
with the common people, and they al
ways wanted to see what The Fool
Killer was going to say next. There
was awhile that | got as many as
800 letters per day, nearly all contain
ing money. / finished up my home
and painted it, built an addition to my
office, bought new machinery, en-
ployed several hands all the time, and
always had plenty of money in the
bank.
Considering what | started from,
and considering also the sickness and
trouble that / had to contend with all
along, it looked like l was doing very
we'll. If my wife had been well so
that l could have given my undivided
attention to the business, as other
business men do, l could easily have
built up The Fool-Killer to 100000
circulation.
But just about the time | begun to
think that / was getting a good start
then the crash came. The Great
War in Europe broke loose like a
thunderboit out of a clear sky, and the
effect it had on a business like mine
was hard to understand. The reading
public went wild over the daily papers
to get the val news, but most other
papers suffered heavily, and mine
was no exception.
| also had some enemies around me
!, who had long been jealous of the lit
tie success | was making, and these
enemies took advantage of the wal
conditions and started a campaign to
/ wreck and ruin my business. l was
? loss of sleep (having hardly had a
good nights sleep in eight years. and
> l was not physically and mentally
: able to bear any more. And SO my
/ enemies, aided by the treachery OF
:. false friends, succeeded in breaking
+ me up. The close of the year 1915
e found me just about fiat. My bust.
e ness was ruined, my home was gone
and l had to gather up the few rem
8 nants and drag my invalid wife Off tt
hunt a new location.
After looking around a little, | de
e cided to locate at Boomer, N. c., ant
try it again. Found a room that W.
e could get to live in for awhile
e Went to work and knocked up a rougl
office building out Of Gull lumber
- Fitted it up the best / could with tn
i few office things / had saved out o
the wreck. Had The Fool-Killer re
d entered at the Boomer postoffce an
h went right on getting out the paper
q Even in the darkest days of the strug
gle, and during all the wreck and ruin
4 the paper never missed an issue. T
be sure, it was a mighty slim lookin;
prospect compared to what it ono
was, but | never lost sight of my de
4 termination to keep it alive and bull
VA it up again. -.
/ The Bible Comes In
Soon after launching The Foo
:. Killer | got started in the study of tn
III Bible, and for several years I ha
been gradually getting my eyes ope
"a to the truth. Having already broke
a with old-line politics, / was in a fa
re vorable state of mind to break wit
t. that if l wanted to find n Bibl
a Truth ! must look for it outside of tn
7e orthodox church creeds. So, on to
a of being a "heritic" in politics, I grs
20 dually became a "heretic" in religion,
I became interested in the variou
e u time-prophecies and Interpretation
~ and was led to see that the Gre;
War must be the beginning of tt
great TIME OF TROUBLE predicte
as to come at the end of the Gentle Ag
1t I learned that "The Times of Il
er Gentiles" was a definitely stated pc:
H. iod of $3.50 years, beginning in &C
m B. c., and ending in 1914 A. D. Frol
lg that l went deeper into dispensation;
study and learned many beautif1
~ truths about the Bible and it's teacl
ne ing that are utterly unknown to tt
n popular creeds. I found truths thel
l that cannot be comprehended at
a shallow glance such as most poop
give them. The wonderful dept
beauty and harmony of them can OF
ed ly be seen by long, careful and syst
an matte study.
d. So it began to be impressed upo
" me that I ought to launch out in tn
rt new field of Bible Truth and try
re open the blind eyes of the people.
~ In August, 1917, therefore, I chan,
&c ed the name Of my paper from TT
's Fool-Killer" to "Good News" thinkin
J. the latter name would be more
~, NJ keeping with the spirit of what
~, wanted to teach. / continued to wri
in my same original, droll, semi-h7
IS; nG morous vein, but devoted the pap
mostly to prophecy and other religion
subjects.
in Good News has been we'll receive
by those who already have their ey'
49,, open, and | think it has helped
'ss open the eyes of some. But l ha'
- had to deal with so many blind, igno
e. ant and creed-bound fools that | ha7
ny come to the conclusion that the o
~ name is more appropriate, after a
n So, after letting "The Fool-Killec
ne name rest for two years. | have take
it up again. l can handle the pr
phetic and dispensational subjects
D. The Fool-Killer just as we'll and it w
y give me a chance to handle warrior
other related things that l can't
re- we'll handle in Good News. Just
long as / write the "dope" it will
IN the same paper no matter what nan
nv it goes by. l shall try to put my ov
as personality into it in such a way as
make every reader feel a person
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