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der the high and mighty name OF
REV. James Douglas, NJ. A" has
aindered away and writ a book
on the subject of Spiritualism
He calls the book, "Spiritualism:
a Sin and a Crime"
Now that title is all right, for
Spiritualism is a sin and a
crime. But the poor old fool
completely spoils the effect Of
his book by writing it from the
orthodox standpoint and taking
for granted the Immortality OF
the soul.
I wish to goodness | could get
the wooden-headed warts of or
thodoxy to see that the immor-
tality of the soul is positively
the only leg that Spirituallsm
has to stand on. Knock that out
and the whole devilish scheme
falls kersmash.
But we find that the entire
strength of Orthodoxy is exert
ed to sustain this false leg on
which Spiritualism stands while
at the same time it is pretend
ing to oppose Spiritualism. It
reminds me of the old niger
NANNY who whipped her son
Sambo for stealing green water
melons, but gave him to under
stand that it would be all right
for him to steal ripe ones. And
then she explained to him how
he could tell when they were
ripe. :
EFF hit goes Pink! when you
thumps. hit wild yer finger, dat
millyun am green. But. eff hit
goes 'Punkp den hit am ripe.
Now, you low-down, roguish Mig
4 ger see eff you can member dat
mex time you goes to steal q
worter-millyun."
So it seems that the differ
ence between Orthodoxy and
Spiritualism is just the differ.
ence between "Pink!" AND
"Punkr" Old Nanny Ortho.
doxy doe not object to-her son
! Rev. Sambo, D. o., visiting the
spiritual watermelon patch il
:, the dark Of the noon, but she
y wants hi INTO bring home spook:
t that will say "Punkr"
k Orthodoxy thinks the spirit
ual watermelon patch is full o:
h good healthy living spirits al
right, but is as mad as the Oh
It Scratch because the Spiritual
r lists are pulling 'em green.
It is a strange and unaccount
:, : able thing to me that anybod,
can be so totally devoid of sens
and reason as to hang on to
y theory which is not only con
ID trary to the Bible, but contrar
to all reason and common sense
ID But if people are determined t
ie be crazy idiots and believe tina
the souls Of deal people are alive
- then why in the very mischie
are they unwilling to accept til
30 proof that %Spiritualism offers
5 AS DR.. Conan Doyle says, on
it problem that even Sherloc
Hn1nooc nonnnA cnl11n 10 xx,h,x IL
The fool-killer., 1920-02-01


the soul. It is sorter like a
starving man refusing to eat a
nice, warm dinner when it is set
before him. From the ortho--
dox standpoint Spiritualism is
the very richest kind of soul
gravy, and it looks to me like the
churches would just fall over
each other to get their shouts in
it.
Try your smeller on this bokay
of nonsense quoted from the
aforementioned book:
"There is no case in scripture
of a human spirit being per-
mitted to hold converse with
man after death, except that of
Samuel, who was sent in Gods
anger"
Samuel's big toe! There goes
the ignorant fool trying to argue;
that it really WAS Samuel that
the old Witch of Endor called
up for Saul to talk with. And
he says that Samuel was sent
in that case because God was
mad. What an awful conception
of God! To think that God, in
a fit of anger, would establish
| Spiritualism in the world, and
then have His churches fight it
all the rest of their days!
Why, you poor simpleton, God
had no more to do with that case
than you did. Not a bit. And
the spirit that talked with Saul
was no more Samuel than the
daddy of Tom Watts old mule
was Samuel. The whole thing
Was the devils work-the very
same kind of work he is doing
today in all this Spiritualist bu-
siness that is going on. And old
man Saul lost his life for that
very act Of consulting that. old
witch. IF you don't believe it,
read LIST Chronicles 1913.
Now does anybody believe that
God would have sent Samuel to
talk with Saul, and then killed
Saul for talking to him? No,
sir, that won't work at all. When
you try to admit that as ONE
case where a d~isembodied soul
was allowed to come back and
!, commune with the living, you let
!, down the bars for other disem-
bodied souls to do the same.
And then you have no right in
the world to kick against Spirit
| ualism, because it is only follow
| ing in your footsteps-coming in
through the gap you have made
for it.
But if you have sense enough
to put up that gap and teach the
truth that dead people are
DEAD, and that they CANNOT
: leone back and communicate
Y with the living, then Spiritual
ism has no place to come in at.
o You have slammed the door in
t it's face and knocked the las.
prop from under it.
fl Now, Mister Smarty, which
are you going to do? Are yor
gOinq to- keen on holding thai
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CORRESPONDENCE.

A~@ ~
it brought plain truths to my mind
that I had v got elsewhere. And
not only the last paper but all that I
have received have opened my eyes
to truths that are reasonable, and |
got a lot of those old ~hide-bound fools
in some close places just by using
truths that I find in The Fool-Killer.
Y>ur view of an endless torment has
ever been my view since / got old
enough to have any at all.
Some men with the burrows Of age
ON their faces will laugh at me for
saying the Bible does not teach that
there is a place of endless misery
after death. And / wish old Pearson
was present to sit down on some old
pine log and tell him just how it is.
can see through the thing, but I
can't explain it like you can. I wish
I was able to show the whole matter
with fair cas- as you do. l would
change their laughter into studying.
Let me tell you what / think Of a
man that believes that old lie. He
has let the other fellow do his think
ing, also his reading, that's what's
the matter. Not long ago I was
talking to a goody-goody Baptist, and
I told him what I believed about that
old lie. And he said: swell, if I
was you / would be careful and not
talk that before nay children" l ask
ed him why, and he said: ut will
cause them to be bad men and wo-
men" Then / said that I wanted my
children to believe the truth about
anything, and I had long ago been
convinced that his kind had slandered
God with that old falsehood, and |
didn't want my children to be that
ignorant if !. could help it,. Well, ]
just want you to keep on. giving us
the same kind Of stuff. ~. : -.
FRED SCHULZ, "a Henry st.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-Dear Brother
Pardon me for calling You brother al
our first introduction to each other.
but I am so much in harmony with
:. your views as expressed In your yer,
valuable paper, The Fool-Killer, re
.garding your political and religiou'
views that l cannot help shaking you,
hand and calling you brother"
don't know how you got hold Of m!
address, but it does not bother nn
any; enough to say that I am might,
glad you sent me some copies Of TIL
Fool-Killer, for it has amused m
every time it came to me I intende
many a. time to send in my subscrip
ton, but I receive SO much readin'
matter from all directions that
hardly get through with it all, an
consequently forgot to send in m
sub for your paper. Received Vo
X, No. l., today, and being a yer
cold day I stayed at home tonight an
read it through from A to lizard, g
you express it, and I assure, you
laughed more than / ever did in an
good vaudeville show. Your treats
On Luther is great; 80 is the "Se
MOI on Persecution" and the Use
mo on Souls" I agree on all poin'
with you, religious and political, f,
have held the same views for mar
years.
- -
r. H. DONALDSON, Watts Su
Station, Laurens, 8. CT am sendi1
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JOHN MILTON SAMPLES, Mason,

ara sensible ana We'll exp .DSSefA. |
While I like the name "Good N, vs."
best, I agree that 1.-THE Foo'-Ki4le,"
is more appropriate, considering tie
style Of expression you employ. There
are those who disagree with some
things you say, but every n finds
your paper interesting-and that is
saying a good deal. Indeed, I find
much to admire in you-your fearless, |
bold, Understanding phrases are
forceful and full of good sense. Your
periodical is improving, and I wish
you success. EDITORS NOTE:-|
Thank you, Brother Samples, for your
kind words. I knew you were a good
generous-hearted fellow, but knowing
you to be entirely orthodox (and a
preacher besides, I believe) I hardly
expected that you could appreciate
The Fool-Killer at all. Most people
of your kind are too dead set against
my views to even acknowledge that
they are interesting. It is a hopeful
sign when leaders Of orthodoxy will
read and consider what I say. It
shows that the light of truth is grad
ually breaking through into the minds
of the people, and it will not be many
more years until you will all have to
| openly acknowledge that I am right.
Some of the most intelligent among
you (such as yourself) are "almost
persuaded right now, if you would
just own it. I know all about how
hard it is to break away from the old
errors of orthodoxy. I have been
all along the road. We are all cow-
ards, more or less, when it comes to
a thing like that. We are lot afraid
Of the truth when we find it, but we
are afraid of what somebody will say
about US if we dare to get out Of the
old rut. People who stand high as
leaders in their church find it much
harder to accept the truth than do
those who have no Reputation" to
lose. They think they never could
face the scandal and disgrace Of be-
ing called q "heretic." But they may
have to face a worse scandal and dis
drace than that some of these days
if they don't get right. L. Pear.
sony
AUBREY o. PAINTER, Roxboro
N. C.-Well, sir, Mr.. Fool-Killer, yo,
haven't quite killed me yet, but yot
are pecking at me like a chicken in .
slop-barrel. I am going to let you
see what you can do for three Of m.
! brothers and some Of my friends tina
have read your paper, and / thinl
; they like it fine. I am glad to sa,
| that The Fool-Killer is certainly wortl
taking. It Is worth so much that i
even teaches sweet potatoes to &C
the fool. I had some Fool-Kille1
Y papers in the potato cellar, and tn
potatoes had such good eyes that the
S read The Fool-Killer and they though
their time had come, SO they rottee
y Our old red rooster was walkin
e around in the yard the other da
Growing, "Hurrah for Pearson!" an
I asked some one what he was doin
s that for, and they said they guesse
y the rooster had been reading Til
y Fool-Killer. Editors Nete:-Yo
have got it backards about the pots
toes, my friend. Sweet potatoes don
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g mighty poor n They couldn't 81
lie to read The Fool-Killer, and that
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r would hove roxyod +ho~o Do,ao~
The fool-killer., 1920-02-01

My guess is that the next presiden'
well be Hoover, Bryan or Debs.
The fool-killer., 1920-02-01

r. H. DONALDSON, Watts Sub
Station, Laurens, 8. CT am sending
you one dollar for four subs to The
Fool-Killer. Send all to Watts Sub
Station. Jim, I like your paper fine.
I was tickled nearly to death at what
you said about the Cardinals. Put it
TO them till they feel 1t. Send me q
lew samples.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10

FOR SALE-Six- room house. splendid
condition.; electricity and gas. Lot 165
feet deep. Apply 176 Fourth St, East.
por. all
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10
NEW TASTELESS
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less Castor Oil Insist On Lab
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10
DREAM HATS ARE
SOMEWHAT ELUSIVE

In the Spring a woman's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of-hats-
Every woman feels tina, one day she
will find the Dream Hat, woman
writer confesses in The london Daily
Mail 1t may be waiting just around
the corner in some shop yet undiscoy-
cred. Or it may be that the quest
will go on for weeks or months or
years.
But one day she will find The Hat
which will make life a roseate thing
until il wears out or becomes old
fashioned Undor the brim of it her
eyes will shine like stars.
A decent balance at the bank gives
a comfortable air of assurance 10
many men Silk stockings-not the
half-and-half sort-bring a blissful
sense OF well-heing To most women.
But nothing can give the same poise
as the Dream Hat. To wear it is 10
be a success.
"How well you are looking today"
your friends say.
You know that ii is the hat.
All the same. you are well No one
could be i'll in the Dream Hat.
1t conjures up thoughts of soft
music. scents of flowers, shaded lights
and the Spring. What may not one
accomplish in such a hat! What adj
ventures may not happen!
The hat must be subtle in its con-
ception. Iii must have enough color
to bring out the light in your eyes,
but not too much TO deaden the color
of your hair The line must be good
and accord with the contour of your
face. Light and fanciful. there must
be in it hint of something a little
provocative, fantasy one could never
I associate with jet and bugles..
But whore is the Dream Hat to be
found? All if one only knew Some
how, it still eludes ones search. Time
| is getting on. A hat you must have
and so you must be content with the
second best.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10
MANY EXHIBITS BY
EXTENSION SERVICE
AT I|MON|UM FAIR


College Park. Md. Aug The grad
ing of apples and peaches. the plant
ing and pruning of varieties OF fruit
for home and commercial orchards, a
special marketing demonstration
showing the value Of the motor truck
for Transporting produce from farmer
70 consumer. a package exhibit OF the
various types OF baskets with sugges-
tons for Improvement. an exhibit by
the University OF Maryland Expert
ment station dealing with soil fer
tility, lime requirements, forage, grain
and potato experiments and poultry
work. will be some OF tho features
which viii he under the direction Of
the University OF Maryland Extension
Service at the Timonium Fair, Angus;
31st to September6th
The Extension Service has arranged
en- unusually large and interesting DIS
play for the Timonium Fair as a re-
suit of the appropriations which the
fair officials have made for this specific
purpose. DR.. T. B. Symons, Director
of the Extension Service, has mapped
ont a program which will cover in de.
tail most of the phases of farm work
and it is expected that the displays
will be the most interesting of their
kind ever seen in the State.
The problem of better farming has
Il -. ,,tnnnffaO thr
exhibits and the displays while inter
esting in themselves viii be designed
TO aid the farmer in better production
Each exhibit will carry its own lesson
in Improvement methods and TO make
the display more forceful specialists
will be in charge of all the booths to
explain any phases of the work not
clearly understood by the visitors
| Particular emphasis will be laid on
dairying and in addition to the dairy
Judging contest for boy club members
there viii be exhibits showing food
requirements and milk production to-
gether with a most interesting demon
stration of the many attractive ways
in which milk can be served as 9
beverage.
The special horticultural exhibii
showing the grading and pruning OF
fruit will also show specimens of in
sects which injure trees and orchards
and the most approved methods of con-
trolling them. The use Of spray ma
terial will be explained and literature
on this subject as well as on other
phases of farming will be available
for distribution.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10

The big liners appear to have
learned a lesson in passenger ca
pacity from the Army's achievements
in the transport service. Boston
Herald.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10
is HOURS AND 80 CENTS
TO FINISH HOUSE SALE

This morning it happened that a
gentleman called and asked to have
his advertisement of yesterday remov-
ed from the classified column. This
is the advertisement:
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10
Altar Boys On Picnic

Acolytes and all boys who serve on
The altar of St. Mary's are enjoying
an outing today at the Priests Farm,
on the Severn River. The boys left
early this morning loaded with lunch
boxes, bats and balls, prepared for
an all-day's outing at one of the most
picturesque spots on the Severn. The
Rev. Father Rector, of st. Mary's, ac-
companied the boys on the picnic,
and they expect to make a fine days
pleasure of the outing at the Priests
Farm.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10
PUBLIC SCHOOL
TEACHERS ARE
NAMED FOR YEAR
CONTINUED Prom Page -


PARROT; 7, Samuel R. Fox: 7. Mil
dred Kolb: Z. Corinne Alvey: S,
Merle Leaiherbury; 3. Minnie Mae
GLADDEN.: 10. Governors Bridge, iva
cancy).
DISTRICT TWO. Mad cline
Bond; 3. Lillian Worthington: 4. Amy
Hopkins; 5. Mamie Linthicum; 8.
Nancy Hopkins; Z. Mahala Wilson; s,
Rebecca Parsons: 8. Lillian Baker;
3. Miss Maggie WooafieId: 3. Mary
Dorsey; 8. Marie CAN'T: 3. Audrey
Shipley: 3. Elizabeth Harmon; 3.
Ethel McCarty; .. Emily Rawlings;
10. Igleharts. (vaeancyl: IL, Estelle
b. Carter. II, West Annapolis. ia
nette RUSSELL II. (vacancy); y
Edgewater: 10. Ethel Collision: IA
Germantown, Gladys Taylor; IA. Ruth
Parker: IA. Helen Jones.
DISTRICT .THREE-Carolyn Cav
thorne; 3. Sara Phelps; 4. Margaret
Hamilton; 4, Jacobsville. Miss Colli-
son; 5. Magothy, Rock Point. Miss
Arnold; 8, Lake Shore. (vacaney) ;
| z, Jessebell Suit; Z. Lucy Walker; 7,
Miss Jessie Finkbaum; s, Sadie Rice;
| s, Mary f. Ditzell; 10. Florence Ow-
ems; Is. Ocie Barnes.
DISTRICT FOUR, Anne COLLEEN
/, Elizabeth Clark; ., Marie Biggs; 5
Evelyn Herbert; 6. Adele Joyce; Z
Helen Rhodes; s, Violet Muirhead; 8
Geniveve J. Proutt; 3, Severn. Miss
Herbert; 10, Mamie Lowman; 10
Temperance Higgins; 10, Fannie O.
Jenkins; IL, Marguerite Turner; u
Margaret REEVE: IA. Laurel, iva
yancy); 10, Matte Pmmmer.
/ DISTRICT FIVE, Dorsey, Miss
Marguerite Linthicum: 2, (yacancy)
7, Helen Harman II. Georgette
Dawson; Il. Leroy Cochran; II, Ma
bel ellis; u. Ruth Parker; II, Eta
NJ. Benson: u, Anna W. Morton; II
Ida Van Fossen; u. G. b. Bann; Miss
Jenkins. of Jacobsyille; ID. Maud
Roberts: IS, Zenia Slacum; Is. Helen
Stoneham; Is. Buelah Fyffe; 10. Ma
Dol Gaver; 13, Miss Duke.
ANNAPOLIS HIGH SCHOOL -
| Anna Redmond, Marie Linthicum
Louise Linthicum. Emily Hopkins
Ethel Bare, Sarah Mason, Letitia Far
rell, Helen II. Scheller.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL - Dorothea
Brewer, Carrie Williford, Dollie M
punch, Ruth Himmelheber, Helen
Hunter, Josephine Riordan, Miss
Mihm, Edith Childs, Minnie Childs
Irene Harrington, Mary Arnold, vir-
ginia Duke. Lucy Redmond, w. r,
Irving, Stella Callaghan, Nellie Nc
Crane, Irene Roe, Alice Glyndon, Eliza
| Suydam, Alma Duvall
DITRICT EIGHT, Mrs. An
drews; /, Mrs. l.. c. Bass; 1, Helen
Dawson; ?, Earneston Baltz; 3, Mag
gle Glover; 4, Mary Hawkins; 5
Mary Rockhold. 5, Lima Proutt; 6
Sears. Miss Birkhcad; Z, Calvary. iva
| cancy): s, Leon. (vacancy); 8, Lee
nora Owens, 10, Miss Mamie Good
man; 10, Bristol, Mrs. Florence
Owens; II, (vacaney); II, Deale. Miss
Price; IL. Lillian Wilkinson; ID. Mrs
wayson: new High School. Frances
Bennett.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10

1t was ordered for three times. The
first time was last night This morn
ing the sale was made-within fifteen
hours after the Capital appeared on
the streets.
q had never tried an advertise
ment BEFORE the gentleman said,
and / had no idea that it could
bring results like that He wanted
10 pay fer the whole business--all
three insertions. but the classified
column can't take pay without CIV
ing something in return; so the sale
of the house only cost him 80 cents.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10

What's the matter, ma, sick? No
Why do you ask? You didn't order
ne to go right upstairs an wash my
hands and face when came in
Detroit Free Press.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10

Sandusky. Ohio. reports another
killing by dry enforcement OH
ciaL' I.ynchings are not in order.
but justice shouldn't miscarry in such
a case. - Brooklyn Eagle.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-10

Most everybody was really willing
to see Upton win this year''-until
Shamrock won two races straight
and we all got.nerYons- milwaukee
Journal
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-13
For Young Mothers

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q difference as between black and white.
| was also able to nurse these last two, which
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when he was only six months old. My two
girls have always been healthy and strong
and ] am sure that my own health has been
improved by taking this wonderful tonic at
the time my system most needed It"
MRS. MATTE GLASS, 917 West st.
DR.. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. y, long since
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women's diseases. lie learned it all through
treating thousands of eases. The result of
bis studies was a medicine called Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. This medicine is
made Of vegetable growths that nature
surely intented for backache, headache,
weakening drains, bearing-down pains, peri
odical irregularities. pelvic infammations,
and Tor the many disorders common to
women in all ages OF life.
Send 10c to Dr. Pierce's Invalds' Hotel.
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Prescription Tablets.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-13

feel that they had very little to lose must
know that today, that very little" would
cost several times as much to replace and
IS no more very little
This article and the several that will
follow are paid for by the leading fire insur-
ance agencies of Martinsburg as the quick
est and surest means of urging their policy
holders to give serious thought to the
amount of insurance they are carrying. No
fire insurance man wants fires, but when
they do come, he wants the property owner
to have enough insurance money coming so
that he can rebuild.
Yet very few people realize that they
are not carrying enough insurance. They
think of the original cost of their property
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-13
USING MUSIC To
TEACH PATRIOTISM
"Make America A Singing
Nation" Is Slogan.
10y international News Service

New York, Feb. u Make amer
lea a singing nation"
Behind this slogan campaign,
launched by the War camp Com.
munity Service is under way in the
United States and its promoters as
sert its object already is approach
ing realization The movement is
Icing carried on in the form of
community singing which is being
ade a part. wherever possible. Of
very community gathering.
European nations maryelcd when
fmerican soldiers in France during
Tie World War went into battle
.tinging The singing soldiers" Of
uncle Sam became famous through
cut all the Allied armies and feared
BY the armies OF the enemy,
Enhancement of the spirit that
produced the singing soldiers Will
It is believed develop in the Unit
ed States a higher type Of patriot