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THE. OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, "SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1903.
BELLE GUNNESSv WHOLESALE MURDERER -2
.Woman Peculiar Features of a Case TLat Has Surprised tne Worlds Rest Detectives Matrimonial Advertisments Lure Many Men to TLeir Deatk A Tale of Deep Mystc
olmes. Hock and Others M:y
ave Been Eclipsed Ly Tkis Strar
By Charles H. I-alehliter, Chicago
, - -. Record-Herald.
1
arts of murder, would be - able to , do
away with as many victims a It now
appears havo been burled on the Gun-
ITRDEREH TTOT..ME8. who deal!
out death as a druggist does at : "B! ,larm, u"nr mo eigm years oru
- of Mra. Gunness occupancy,
ordinary prescription; kuetgert .. iH pny event, whether th woman had -of
" sausage fame, who. put his , accomplices or whether she 'did not. the
wife under the knives 1i his fac- finesse with which she worked indicate
t -, 4w - h- ve' -Holmes, the archmurderer of ;
. tory and destroyed her body & vat modern UmeB waft m "selling plater"
- of acid; Kate Bender, who Inveigled compared with this woman of N6rwe-
- men to her sheet curtained frontier gian extraction.
room where they were knocked In the .onfounded has been
j head by her, .masculine relatives; Jo- through the presumably tragic death of ;
. hann Hoch, to whom bigamy became 'a the woman and her three children. The:
profession and -lUIJine-a. pastime;- (mtlrr- amlly -is -supposed -to have been
.. man Billlk, whos-. alleged victims run wiped out in a mysterious flqe which
. high in numbers tne homicidal achieve-; razed the two-story-brick residence, one
meats ot these ipast masters of crime ,0f the moit notorious houses in north
and their prototypes pale into insignifl- crn Indiana, formerly the home Of Mnt
eance when compared with the appar-; Ua Altik, a member, of the demimonde,
ently proved accomplishments of Mrs. wh0B9 exploits made her - notorious
jseue uunnoBs, in uiijihib, , iimiuna, through the country.'
widow whose murderous career has Vt, "Hriw.tion nf
V, startled the-world In Its disclosure dur-
ns-
'- Underlying the course of the tragedies
laid bare bv police Investigation of all
these crimes are of course the questions
of lust and avarice. The two Incentives
are intermingled. But aside from theso
common presumptions there ' are '' pre- ,
sented In the latest discovered ct8e of
that this modern Lucretia Borgia Matrimonial Ad . JUireS.
; coarse and avaricious as she undoubted- . .. " . . . ,,, ,t,.
ly was so thoroughly commingled the Helgeleln. like probably several others
m faculties of Intelligence and strength. 0f tne aunness farm victims, was lured
vnai sne was hoj. noiumjr n.n.wuy yut , . . - . viver through a tnatrl-
Th destruction of the Gunness House
occurred on the night-of April 28. It -came
as climax to a strenuous Inves-.
ligation inaugurated or a proiner as 10
the whereabouts of Albert Helgeleln, a.
South Dakota rancher, who Is supposed
to have been one of the last. If not the :
last, victim of the wiles of the Norwe
gian widow.
physically, of herself to perform the
- lastis or a monster.
Holmes Case Eclipsed.
The discovery of the"' bodies of almost
... a score of presumable victims of this
fiendish, woman on the grounds of her
suburban' home at Laporte and the de
velopments that undoubtedly will dome
. with further- Investigation already In
dicate that this series of crimes will
eclipse even the wholesale murders of
H. H.- Holmes, whose operations ex
tended from Chicago to Philadelphia'
and from Indianapolis to Canada. The
score of Holmes' victims, as near as It
has ever been figured, ran well Into the
thirties. His operations extended over
, a considerable period of years, and the
unraveling of the black skein of his
criminal career consumed the attention
of the police of the entire country for
many n.ntbs.
The history of the Bender family,
which added another blotch to the
bloody history of Kansas, indicates a
probable list of. between 20 and 30 Inno
cent, inoffensive and well to do persons
who lost their lives through a woman's
wiles and because -they were the pos
sessors of money. -. -
Hoch and Billlk embarked on the mat
rimonial sea as the quickest course to
the goal of easy living. Hoch already
has paid the penalty of his presump
tion against the established taws of the
commonwealth and of humanity. -..
But now comes, in a peaceable com
munity, disclosures which make the
crimes of the Bender ; family. Holmes,
I. uetgert, and their Uk appear lnfinltes-
lmal. , ; .
Woman Master of Crime,,
In the present case, the dsclosures of
which have made the world stand
agape, the preponderance of evidence so
far uncovered' ' indicates that the su
preme master ' of criminology was a
woman, who superficially was coarse,
almost vulgar, and not accredited, even
by those who knew her best, with even
average intelligence. ' -
Tet this woman, it now appears, has
been able to outwit for many years her
neighbors and the police of several
communities. In her suburban home
near Laporte there is no question but
that she did to death at least 11 people.
..dismembered their bodies and disposed
of their remains in various parts of the
GO acre farm adjomng tne home.
monial advertisement Inserted In one
of the numerous "soul-mating' publi
cations which the United States author
ities recently have been ,so assiduously
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fled one of the bodies disinterred from had an exceptionally "large amount of the ' result that the woman and her
the barnyard graveyard as that. Of the gold filling in her teeth, and this, in children died. , ! .!
missing girl. 4 addition to the Impossibility - of de- Imphere himself is a man of mH
The body of Andrew Helgeleln, sup- stroylng teeth except In the very hoi- intelligence who appears t have b. ,
posedly the last victim of this human test kind of fire,' and the further fact for a considerable time on very frinniiy
murder machine, was rut .'up In much that . the searchers . naturally' -would- terms with his -rinioyer the ul
the same manner. Unlike most of , the have been n the lookout for every por- Gunness. While he absolutely drna-
Other bodies, this one had' not -been put-tion of a-burned body possible to . h any malice, although he was arresH-a,
In quicklime, It had been, burled prob- recovered, accounts for the belief held several times at the instigation of Um
nMijr nut lunger ini-n x- monms, ana dj
V nilnv ntlirr, that the hitrned hodv widow., he 1.1 known to
its condition was such that Identifies- of the adult female was "not ' that of that he could "send the
h.ive dri'larcl
woman over the
tion was easy.- and the featurAM wn Kfr- nnnn,,, k,, a nntha, nf AimtlM- rand."
readily distinguished . The particular alse' substituted by the believed dion Setting aside the theory that tho
articulations of this body which led the' deress, and that Mrs, Gunness herself woman did her murderous work alontv
surgeons identified with the case to the is still, at large. ' Lamphere logically appears in the lti.
belief that the murderers had know!-' . , , . , " of a possible accomplice. Howwver, he
edire of lurrerr wan Indlmtnit In , Via T :... i hfin s-lven the authorities ' consldersliU ,
severance of the"arma' from the" trunk.' wvyniie. - information with regard to the vlsHe
The ligaments and muscles connectlnr The nA 'that- - th, -nm,n ,im not of different people to the UunneNS
these portions of the human body ln ih flames ; is ohierted to farm while he was there, and his ao
so conetltuted that such an operation is ln lhe flan.es is oDjecteo to paent Winngness to talk, coupled wuli
one of the most, difficult in surgery, further, because of the fact that she the respectability of his antecedent
The - bodies' of . .all Uie vlctlma were left ln bee anfetv rtenoult vault ft and his own lack o perapiculty, ha
Plainly the cuts of tha knife. The ! wl" aisposing es :ner. property . in wUr or was at best a mere tool In
cleaving , was practically as clean as "uZaZII n? . lnu,n-i,, f1 A?,' the bands of an exceptionally intelli-
dlnsected Jn the same way, and that of considerable amount 'of cash and also convinced the majority of those Inter
Helgeleln, being the freshest, showed ', a --rt t ln the case that he either is n;
Plainly the cuts of tha knife. The w,u dlaposing cf :her property : in atr or wa- best a mere tool Ir
would haws been accomDllahed bv an
VAl'-i i. vurKeufi.
.rii.iaren.io an orpnan aeyium in y - -ent.and cold-blooded murderess.
ii,a jav c,uii(ikw
cago.
eld him by her devious
ho
lures and
Another neculiarltv In th. "oUw f th Jwomui'l ubBtlt.Ul)tt Mmnelled him hrotih her favors to
of the bodies was that the legs of the ,th r,SSliin--5i.-?5i tv?It ?h a her bidding and V the same la-
-vlctlme had been cut off two or three hJJh .t86!?. ? -1 it.S Bl"0-8 hae sealed hie llpe.
Inches above the knee, the bones being mif.h.be Jl3??hl TiSI "lit
sawed off. This was true of every LWnclarylrhet fte FiuMted Many Men.
poay so ttr jincQvere. rumor' that Hae "been eutrentr hi rhtTeriir Tjimniiern 'inne to be
T- r Laporte since the discovery of the Tne caee of lAmphere Appear to oe
IS Mrs. Jjunness Dead? wholesale crime at the Gunness home- an indication of the power the woman
To tfld In th mv,t,Hni,. ,,, etead. but which has not been posl- exerted over -men. Ungainly as she
10 ana to tne mysterious circum- tiveiv verified tn th effect that . . . . -
atances surrounding the ase, th wonian wait tsktn to the Quiimh housT" "".r-rT1.8 r,"a r P.ii-
e Bhore train, on the night ., h- , ti,.nnt fin nf
vis- ,1 1 ,;,. A- m.-.a-
comes the considerable doubt
whether or not , Mrs.
am in from a Lake
xne nouse was oesiroyea Dy lire.
One of
Ing accldcntallv
suits. However,
There Is yet a grave question wflether had come to a state
with such fatal ra
the sunerflclal inves
tigation failed te uncover anything of
a criminal nature, and although many
of the neighbors or tne uunnees sna
other people of Laporte who were fa
miliar with the case had their suspi
cions as to the bonafldeness of the acci
dent theory no action was taken. ;
Mrs. Gunness, who was a large, mus
cular woman, weighing over 200 pounds, ,
vm held In fear and distrust by the
majority of the people with" whom she
came ln contact.
Fond of Children.
t was her habit to come from' her
hoimj, a mile north of Laporte, on a
road long known by the residents of the -Indiana
city as the ''red light" district,
in a curtained buggy, drawn by a pie
bald pony with a docked tall. Winter
and summer she wore over her lap a
eheepskin robe and a rubber blanket.
Usually she wore a shawl over her
head .and when addressed would answer
necosary Inquiries in a very gruff
voice. Superficially she was a religious
woman and protested an ardent belief
in the Methodist creed. Another pecul
iarity, noted not only In Laporte, but
durlnar her lone residence in Chicago.
prosecuting. He. was a bachelor and of enticing matrimonially Inclined men was her fondness for children., She had
or competency or means to ner nome, a picturesque . mania 'for adopting youths, ana one
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MRS. GUNNESS A ND HER CHILDREN.
Gunness, whose ,n"?"hrT-Sr the bodies uncovered appear, to have
body was at first supposed to have been and the baggagemen of' Laporte ap- Pe" t Willa t n'ts al
leged, made the woman a beneficiary of
his generosity.
Helgeleln, the" man whose murder
brought about the downfall of the mur
derous scheme, Is known to have turned
Into the woman's hands very shortly.
before hie disappearance about 13,000.
Hla brother, Asle K. Helgeleln, who In
stituted the Inquiries which. It is be
lieved, induced the woman to fire her
nouse ana drop out of sight, either by s
death or otherwise, apparently was
slated by Mrs. Gunness as one of her
future victims.
' A e,w h VnA am-.a-.I-.m K i
the First National bank of Laporte and;
with Mrs. Gunness about the prolonged!
absence of -bis brother, she wrote him, J
urging him to dispose of hie brother's'
cattle, horses . and land and bring the .,
proceeds with him and together they
would go in search of the . missing j
brother. Instead of doing that Asle ;
Helgeleln went to Laporte and put all j
his information in the hands of the au-
tborltiee. Before this he had such -communication
with one of the Laporte (
banks as .undoubtedly led Mrs. Gunness i
to believe that her murderous methods l
were about to be uncovered. A letter)
which practically meant the Institution
of Investigation of the Gunness house-
hold was received in Laporte the (lay!
before the house was burned and with.'
It. presumably, Its mistress auLJier
children.
In the letters which the woman wrote
to . Andrew Helgeleln, which hie broth
er found and read, the widow admon
ished the South Dakota bachelor to con
vert his property into cash and to brlnr
it with him on his person, because
lUItKI Wr 1171 RU a Kna TiBtn nil, T t a
further word that if he would turn all
his property into cash and join her in
Laporte they could make of the Gun
ness farm the prettiest and most home
like place in northern Indiana. Helge
lein apparently was convinced, after
having spent a week with the woman,
that she could make the place homelike. .'
She made It so much so," In fact, that
he never left It.
Surpasses All Other Cases.
Mrs. Gunness is believed to be respon
sible Is now 15, with grave prospects
that this will be materially Increased
probably doubled, at least. In the palm-
tn,nV lest days of the Holmes investigation,
IB
SEXiltH FOR BODIES IN RUINS OP FARM HOUSE,
?L?L Mr8U.S2 5 ?athfSirf!f wherein the xjuestlon of marriage be- spot, and with the lure of her reputed of her victims was a girl, the daughter found with her three children in the pear to have taken a number of tn
i' .ZdiZl 'Ji HI. Vh itl tame a desirable consideration. Living wealth Inducing them to turn the r pf a relative, whom she had taken at a rulrig ot T burned house, is dead or to the place. The possibility of a
fir,ht l t .. mhiX alone on his section of land, near Aber- property into cash and carry it on their tender age and reared to almost woman- ot The body of the adult female man thus far unaccounted for ha
'i'u' th j"norror house,". from which deen, South Dakota, his thoughts nat- persons to her house of death.
.no u,u, i .,, - r ." uraiiy turnea to a nome Wherein a wire
W, V I vim were UI--M BUI) 1 IIIVUV r-i -
the "Castle murderer never was ac-
i-.- cused of killlnff mora, than 35 Deonle.
h0S- - , . . found in the ruihs was headless. The gone to the Gunness home the night of The. actual deaths of which this male
The bodies uncovered in the barnyard ,h,H tanH th hn)v f what the fc- mi-ht .ivniint fr thT uh. fiend as proved to be responsible
.' r,Z,JZZ f-t Vi il ana TAuy would enable -mm to enjoy Woman Twice Married, ,r tn-uunnese larm moicate me vie- presumed to be the 5-year-old son of stitutlon of the body of the alleged numoerea less mari . o--n.
?-iP1 .,VtJ Like many . 2 , tims to have ranged In years from mere fhe woman lying on her breast, lncaaed murderers. No trce ban been found , -ohfnHp-h'a victim, were vriou.-
7L. . ,ZZ Le '-T.ffiJf-- thJ",S another man who has lived long alone. After one or two weeks of love-mak- infancy to full-grown and matiire man- )n R blanket' which had been burned, of any trunk or other baggage having ly estimated up to the neighborhood of
but covered wltn a night gown which been delivered to tne house within a . uu,ft,u """ ;-'.
was scarcely scorched. The bodies of number of days preceding the conf la- door, all of which were done with a
the other two children lay on either sxation. The delivery of trunks and certain nicety that did not disturb the
... . . . . . . t i . j :' l . . 1 . . m IKI11,ia f an a Vit i luH v VI ll-
St II another theory which has many In a paper printed in his own language, directed against the woman. She had KP.a. nVfmZ LV. i&i m BUch mathematical precision as to the theory that the farm may have numoerea prooaoiy eigiii.
sunnorters would IndTcate that the w,th wh,ch hejftnd hla hired man were been twice married and nt the lme of 8ho ad? Pro'681"1-1 accomplice. This . lend coior to the suspicion that they been a clearing house for a murderous Billlk, whose Ay of
supporters wouia ; lnaicaie . inn , ui ,j v,n , ,i,i. i--. neen twice marriea ana at tne time or peculiarity also accounts for the belief Ksri hn -.i.-h th.,. Vrnr. h. hu r-h-.- set and nassed three c
woman nerseir committea an tne crimes,
disposed of the bodies of her victims
by her own band end profited from their
money and private effects, t
Mystery in Tale.
accustomed to while away their lone
some hours. ,
Mrs. Gunness, it appears In the light mors were current to the effect that he
of disclosures following her supposed had met with foul play and & super
death, was a good patron of matrimonial flcial Investigation was made by the
agencies ana a steaay aavernser in me local authorities.
death has been
peculiarity also accounts for the belief y,'a .- -iai.i there V tnr h hnnui rhiMm -n- set and Passed: three different tlmes-
the death of her second husband ru- Indulged-in by many people that her had been set on fire. ' and whose case now Is before the su-
larm w a ciewrii K-nuuBe lor a raur--. Sheriff Smulser, Who has been most TealOUS Suitor Arrested. preme cour. on appeal, rms uwn cnargeii
derous gang in Chicago. The body of industrious ln investigating the terrible -.-.-.su. w,th the humane 8iaylng by poison of
jennie. uison. a 16-year-oia gin, wno mystery, advocates the theory that the Still another theory relative to the at least eight people.
until the
years ago,
time of her disappearance two woman hrRlf met death In the flames, -ti -. -, Of the victims of the notorious Ben
. had. been a member of the which consumed her house. He was one "f -rum. mua ir fler famay of Kansas, moat of whom
-nl,lm- -f r.-.r .roolll th-. DhllH n th h ATT ". . J? " i ' AT i WIUCB tuu.uiuw I re .-" "1 K- V.lln.. , ,v- . "
---. , , ..,.,. - w , - . - j - - -,' . . ...... v,9 uuojit?s nuuneiiuiu, was msmonmerw, of the nartv which discovered the re- vuhuicu ia.oi ,h ,u- hu w i, - u- were men tnveigiea dt ivaiw jtienoer. no
Except for the Increasing number of printed in ttoNW-fotWWf band of the alleged wholesale rmir- th hfsd belng ,,epar.ted from the m)ns? SaL MprSaa?. tha ? belief that, tlpathy erlsting between Mre. Gunness Accurate account has ever been ob
grewsome exhibits, the latter theory carried matrimonial advertisements, deress, died about four years ago His trunk, and the limbs cut off at the trim the position of the bodies with re-' Bnd former hired man Rv lm. talned. It Is safe to say, however, that
would probably have the' greatest TKhro,ugh,t?112 n"sanB U ,s ? beeve 2h was said to have been due to the hips. At one time of the dlsap- lation to the hottest fire, the head of ' rTorm!' MraK Ray iI'am; in the light of the disclosures of the
wrht Rt in th llt of fll-eoverles l Inveigled many men Into her net falling, of a heavy meat grinder from pearance of the Olson girl Mrs. Gunness Mrs. Gunness may have been burned Phre- Lamphere le under arrest and last few dayt. Mrs. Belle Gunness. the
weight. But in the light of discoveries From the experience of Helgeleln and a sherf over a. table at which he was told neighbors and friends that she had entirely from the body. Opposed to this by severer whe have investigated the Laporte widow, has eclipsed the record
already made and indications of those from a part of the bodies discovered en sitting upon bis head. At the time been sent to California to attend col- belief, which is shared by many others, case closely, it is thought that he of the prairie vixeh of Kansas, and that
yet to come It seems scarcely credible the farm, the identification of which la there Were many rumors to the effect lege. j the fact that the searchers could dis- might either have killed the woman she undoubtedly holds the palm as the
that any person, however astute, cap- complete or partially so, it appears that that the meat grinder had been pro- The girl's sweetheart and others who cover absolutely no trace of the head and her children and set f!re to the most extensive slayer, man or woman
able, cold-blooded and versed ln the this modern arch-fiend was In the habit polled by a human hand. Instead of fall- knew her intimately have folly Identi- of the adult female body. Mrs. Gunness . building or have fired the building with of the age Chicago Becord-Herald.
ALL ROADS THAT LEAD TO GOD ARE GOOD
(Copjrrlftht, 1908, by Amerfcan-Ioarnal-Kxamltier)
IT IS always a compliment when our
friends want us te think just as
- they think . about the matters ' in
this world or the worlds to comev
- It Is a proof of their, Interest in
us. and of their solicitous regard for
our welfare. " ; v ..
Every man naturally believes fits own
ideals the true ones; and when ho
wants us 'to hold these same ideals he
wishes us to have the best life can
offer from his viewpoint. !
There is no kind of heaven made by
the creator or imagined by man to
which I have not received amiable in
vitations to accept - as my ideal by
kindly disposed friends.
Fortunately my belief Includes al
most every one of these' heavens, and
knowing reincarnation to be a funda-.
mental fact, I hope it may be my privi
lege to see all these realms in time.
Jl man who has lived six decades writes
me " upon the question of prayer and
belief and -among other things saysi
"I ask you this: Ho you believe that
God ever dispenses "special favors T It
so, then In doing it he must "of neees--slty,
do' away with laws of nature. Now. .
if he ever does this, is he not wicked
in refusing to do it and prevent such
awful calamities a the killing of 270
children the other month In Ohio, and :
the Iroquole- theatre? Does vhe . ever.
frant you a little favor? . Then wny
oes he send eueh heart-rending grief
as you have had In your lifer' i !,.'
To reply to- the. last query first, no
frrlef or trouble ever came into my
ife for which I am not deeply grateful '
today, because I have eome to an un
derstanding, of why every ; experience.,
was sent to me. The, very trials, and ,.
seeming misfortunes which .confronted
me at various periods, as they confront
every Individual, have been- sources of
my greatest happiness afterward. My
want, my woe, my sorrow, and my
sinning, all were needed lessons for my '
soul. - . - - ' '
- -I believe In a creator.. Not the per
sonal God of Genesis, but a vast un
thinkable, illimitable Intelligence, which
formed this glorious system of worlds ;
beyond worlds, suns beyond suns, uni
verses beyond universes. .-- v
- Astronomers - have- discovered over ...
6,000,000 burned out suns, all larger
than our own sun. which will-ln time
. burn-out and - circle-around with the
other corpses- of suns - in space. - But .
new suns will be. born, new planet--spring
to existence and be populated
with new fnrm. and our Immortal Mnlr-'
its will live a raln. In these planets-as Jg
By Ella Wheeler Wil COX
All roads that lead to God are good;
What' matters it, your faith, or mine;
Both center at the goal divine
Of love's eternal Brotherhood,
The kindly life in house or street;
The life of prayer, and mystic rite;
The student's search for truth-and light;
These paths at one great junction meet. .
Before the. oldest book wasx writ,
Full 'many a prehistoric soul,
Arrived at this unchanging goal,
. Through-Changeless love, that led to it
What matters that one found his Christ
, " In. rising sun. or burning fire; ,
If faith within him did not tire,
His longing for the truth sufficed. - '
Before ourmodern ffell was brought , -
v To edify a modern world, i
- Full many a hate-filled soul was hurled
In lakes of fire by its own thought. -
5 A thousand creedshave come and gone;
But what is that to you or me? -., l
: Creeds are but branches of a tree, -The
root of love lives on and on. . '
;-Though branch by branch proves withered wood,
' The root is warm with precious wine; , ,
, ; Then keep your faith, and leave me mine;
' All roads that lead to Cod are good.
A
. we have already lived ln hundreds of
others from - the Inconceivable -begin- where else does not matter.- - .When formation of the earth they will cease
nlnS. tote-now' ' " " . . ' . .. PPle - come to that knowledge, the.-, to build enormous cities . on volcanic
'Death, the transition of the spirit great calamities which result, front rocks or under the shadow of flre-spit-
from one plane of life to another, is cheaply and dishonestly" built ships, ting mountains. And when, In spite of
of small -consideration to the creator sohool buildings, tenementhouses and; alt these wise precautions,' death
of such-a universe. . It Js because we bridges and railroads will no longer comes, they will understand it Is only
consider it -of - such vast Irnportance occur. When the religion of the world an incident In the unbroken chain of
that we call God "cruel" to let people enters into the work of ts Individual Uves. Again my ..friend wkyn- -
die when we pray for them to live, in nine-tenths of the disasters which we . 'The other day yon said you love, irt
l b great scheme, the only important now place oh the shoulders of Ood will hear the expression 'God bless you." So
.. matter ls the. . building nf .. character, - be averted. - When men are educated do I. but do you reall v think the request
.Whether that . is done here or some- to an understanding - of the geological , ever caused GodU do to humanity what
otherwise hT would not have done had
the 'God bless you' never have been
uttered?
"I want to impress you with the faes"
that until I was 40 years old I believed
that God dished out to every one Just
what he wanted them to have, the aam
as a boarding house woman would fix
dishes which she thought would suit
her boarders. I don't . think so now.
"Cause and effect,' .'supply and demand,
'survival of the fittest" and the -'laws
of nature' rule this universe. I do not
think prayer to stop a storm which
would kill a hundred people can. ever
did, or ever will avert the calamity."
My belief causes me to understand
that every thought sent out of a mind
is an electric wave, and if the wave
takes the form of a "God bless you," it
carries with it a prfrf of divinity. Every
good, ktnd. tender, loving thought has
great force, because, "Of such is the
kingdom of heaven;" in ether words, of
such electric waves is the central power
house made which we 'call God, v An
evil thought or a curse can harm only
the mind that sends it r-cut, : unless it
finds lodging In a heart, full of curses.
Curses are created-bv mortals; they
have no origin in divinity.-- So far .as
the prayer to -avert a storm goes. If
human beings knew the unlimited power
of concentrated thought they-could un
questionably control the laws of nature,
because they are the greatest expression
of nature. i -. . .; - .
We are on the eve of vast discoveries
In this realm, and all of the seera and,,
miracle workers and Togls of old pro-:
claimed to be possible Is to be proven
ecientlftcally true by our men of phys
ical science in the next 50 years. Pos
sibly sooner. Already hae it been proven
that gold. can. be changed to a baser
metel; by and by the reverse will be
proven, , and then the alchemists'
''fables" will be found to be fact. So
one by one the long-hidden, truths of
this wonderful ,- universe will be re
vealed.. ;- '----(; v ..-::(,:...
Still - another - comment of my corre
spondent: "Mlse Stone wired ln a hurry
to these United States for the-170.000:
that ehe would be killed If it didn't
eome quiek-- Juet as - eoon ' as . she
reached home she declared that 'she
knew that God wouldn't let her suffer,
end that she never believed she would
be hurt.' If she told the truth she
elded the brigands to extort, the t'O.OOA
from. her American friends, and should
have been arrested for helping them
perpetrate a fraud, thereby by false pre
tenses obtaining money Unlawfully.'' .,
Prayer ofttimee brings nn answer bv
awakening the mind of the one who
sends it forth to a material method -of
proceedure Personally 1 believe onlv
In prayer for light and guidance until
.we haver used every possible means
within our power a Intellle-ent human
belns to- accomnllsh'a remilt. - ; . -v-
Otherwise we become spiritual "loafers
end mendicants. , The nuoll who prsvs
for answers to be revealed to him with
out studying his 'lessons deserves no
resnonee. And netw will be given. He
is In school to ileviop his mentality bv
study. But he will make far greater
rtrorres and "revive gret llluwlnation
If he acks eieh d-v that llrht and guid
ance and strength be given him. By
this prayer he keeps the windows of
his spirtuai nature open; "by . refusing
to believe in anything but his own in
tellect, he shuts his windows on one
side of his triangular nature and so
dwarfs his- powers one-third. Space is
filled with invisible helpers who are
ready to lend help and ntrengt'a to those
who are ready and willing to receive,
and who have earned the right by per
sonal endeavor. . - -
It Is not well to lean upon them, but
it is well to appeal to them when we
have done all that we know how to do
alone, For , all such ( appeals bring
response.
HOW OLIVE OIL IS MADE.
HOW FLOODS MAY Bfi CHECKED
, WESTERN IRRIGATION PLANS
w
HEN "Preuiftun ' TtsmaavA. t An. waafiin1U'Anatis tha OttAsh a. mA4I "!
f ers with the governors next w.ul affect the Big Horn, whose waters
mnnth .kf iu m,-, ultimately enter the Missouri, and-the
" " , tsetie rqurche project will afTect the
uneyenne, which has a reputation for
floods and which adds to the volume of
of ' natural resources, he will
ltave in the five irrigation
-, .. ,. the Missouri.,
t.UJ-.. i,uw unuer con.inicuon a line Th h.Ut,- ., kbk ??a -- .
Illustration of such conservation.
water by these five reservoirs means
It will be shown at the conference more than accomplishing Just that much
that these f.A irrigation project, win Stt, pwSTo" cS
give high agricultural value to a total down mud and slit Into tha Missouri.'
of about one million acres of land... That And If it were not for mud and slit th
Fruit Is Crushed Into, a Paste Prom is then- direct purpose. But incidentally reptwionitV
i.'.k u T n hey will have a material effect in do- "f,u,Lw,?l.It i?!"?! ", rt?
The finest, olive oil In the world is
grown inr Tuscany--the garden of Italy.
The trees blossom In Tuscany ln the
month of May. The fruit begins to
ripen In November and is generally ln
full maturity by January..
It Is a risky crop, says What-to-Eat,
maturing. as It does during winter
weather. A cold snap with frost may
cause great damage to tha fruit.
'- Sometimes the fruit remains on the
trees till May, yielding a pale, very
thin oil,, appreciated in some quarters,
but which speedily develops rancidity.
- The process of extracting the oil Is
Simple in the extreme; the fruit is first
crushed In a mill to a uniform paste,
then the paste is transferred to circular
bags or receptacles made of vegetable
fiber. A pile of these are placed m
a press and the exuding oil flows Into
a' collecting tank below.
Essential conditions are that the mill
should not revolve too fast, or it will ;
overheat ' the olive paste and give a
bad flavor to the oil; that the bed of
the mill should not be of metal for the
same reason. :
Also the degree of pressure, when the
object Is to get the finest quality of
oil- "oil from the pulp," as the term
runs must not be excessive. The fin--,
est olive oil Is essentially a cold-drawn ;
oil. Heat la prejudicial to quality.
However, when all possible tare has.,
been taken In the process the fact re
mains that olive oil can be made only ,;
from freshly gathered, perfectly sound,'
ripe olives of the proper klrd. The. big
fat olives of hot. subtropical climates
can never yield a delicately-, flavored
.oik -- -".
The newly made oil must be allowed
to 'settle. . It is then clarified simply
by passing . it through purified cotton :
wool In a suitable filter. Realty , fine
olive oil calls for no other treatment
whatever, chemical or otherwise, to
render-It fit for the table. On this point
it is as well to be clear, as reference
has been made before now to processes,
for refining olive oil so -as to obfain
a specially fine quality one .might as
well try to ."paint the lily or adorn the
rose."- . - v .
-After being brought to, America the
clarified oil Is preserved ln warehouses ;
in large slate-lined tanks, holding up
to 10,000. gallons each, wherein - the oil
is maintained at an equable temperature.-
For bottling and can filling pur--'
roses It Is transferred by pipes from
hese large tanks toother smaller tanks
in the packing rooms. . , -.
those rivers, and developing a large
amount of power. The five object les
sons to which the president will be able
to point are the Irrigation projects
xnown as tne muh ana sun river in
poiarily, the reclamation acts providing
the necessary legal authority. Power
will be sold at cost, an allowance being
ing away with floods, clarifying the w.h,fi ,'8 Jts channel, and which
waters of the Missouri and its tribu- fS"sS .!S,?f.,i",n? r new channels and
tarles. maintaining a steady flow in destruction of agrlculturai land.
... u x XkW tvnvi Yuirs
will become the means of swelling the
flow of the Missouri and Its tributaries
From the reservoirs the water will bo
gradually released. Much of it win h.
Mr.n,o-o ak-H-, ix7 used for Irrigation, but not all. An r
Belle Kourche In South Dakota, and the th?,t r,!?".'8 U8ed u-?on tft lan 1 '
North Platte in Wyoming and Nebraska. 55"?!?, J?"00. K?Sd authority that
The effect of these projects upon fi'lJ1 ff'f wiU ''"d y bk
floods and in regulating the Missouri is Into the. streams, largely through seep
not left to the realm of speculation. ,.--'.,'', ' " . .
The basis of success In irrigation, which 2Sf? ,rrlaHon projects except
Is the chief object of each project, de- Htk.i Ti." 5uarantee to .each nel(tn
pends upon catching and holding flood borhooa abundanc ef very ch.ap
wat-srs which formerly ran off unhtn- .""J?, V construction hast
dered. carrying destruction with them ' ?IS7S?? "ti,. fuIther. the orders
and augmenting the floods of the dread ifct;Lcl,ty'.f '"rm?r" an nm
Mlssourl. In connection with each pro- ?!?,pal f,, v ? direct vicinity of em li
iect a great dam la being constructed. IJ?1 uken- Tht lnstnllatloi,
With Its help will be formed a mam- L.jl?-. iT8!. ' machinery and tlm
moth reservoir, in which the flood wat- pPrtIon : of the plant will be in the
era of the spring and fall will be held. n.?",,.?r ';iri government tem-
The smallest of these reservoirs ;wlll
hold enough to cover 203,770 acres of
ln ,... n eswi, 1. .! J,
the largest will hold enough to cover l" ? y, Y? OP9'0". rnalntenne-
I.O.s.ou acres to the oepth or one foot. -i'i" "" -.i tim na or ninny
Altogether the reservoirs will have a y01' nrter the cost of the reclamation
storage capaeity of 2.885,770 acre feet, construction has been made good bv the
Tiie Important poInt-.-i'X- that- lt'-tv,,M,-' ?w,nep ,th Metrical plant will
known, through figures gathered during P88" ,Bt their possession.-,; Thus the
many vesrs, that each reservoir is large fornmun.ties in the vicinity of esoh of
enough to hold all of the flood water ' tn? roup nroje-ts will guarantee ne,
which it? particular river will pour into'p'Ltu,r .nershlp of a public utllltv.
It. Each of those reservoirs is situated w"lcll wl,l: become more n nd more
either at the headwaters of the Missouri ' EI'16" as the fuel supply dlminlsh-H.
or at the headwaters of rivers which are Z?t cheapness of this eleetrlcftv U1
tributary to the Missouri, and so the '1"?8 J. "vlceable in funiillert of v-nr
effect upon that worst of American rnodr rate means for light, for now-r In
rivers is direct For its effect on floods !,a.Vma,nr ?tlvtp, about the ami,
the North Platte project will be most 8X1(1 ..ultimately for heat.
notable. .The Platte river has a bad . .
reputation. It has been" estimated that -, French Chemical fic'arfcrow.
Its floods, before they join the Missouri, From the Ijin.inn i3i,
do a damage of at least a million dol- . 7 i-onUon Globe,
lars a year. The dam in connection with According to recent experiment -the
North Platte Irrigation project will Sansllas Tetard, a widely known I'r m !i
oost about a.mlllioa dollar and It will agriculturist; wheat and other tr. ut
hold more than -a mlulon acre feet of can be protected asrahiHt ti.e mix 1
flood water. .As the reservoir Is situ- f crows, which are paru.-ul.wl v tn.i ..
ated at the headwaters of the North the-grain when the snrouia i-mt
Platte, it wul have a direct effect upon pushing above the gromxl, bv tr.-n'i,,
the lower river. - IXpon the South Platte,' the seeds before thev in wn mi s, ,,
which also contributes to the floods of mixture of ckiI tar, pen .) 'tn n i
the Platte, the government has no reaer- phenie aeid. '
voir. But private interests, encouraged This treatment. Mch Situ ('
by the success of government irrigation, growth of the need f..r r , ,.r t ,,
are already constructing djms, nnj are but causes no il-imnaft, l.-n' ii -- n-i r
thus coopers ting-in restraining flood -- which is lnsnff-ritu l U. ,.
In a-lnilar--way- the Milk en.l flirtr which iltni' s arter n . , i , ,
river projects will directly affect the attatneil a larger gri-w't, ... . ,
headwaters of the -dissourt in north no longer sul'jtct to uiu s.