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said TO have conducted her murder mill.
while her neighbors remarked upon her
good humor and her children mingled
with others OF their age in the neigh
borhood. And the end of this record
Of crime and mystery is shrouded In
uncertainty. A fire which destroyed
the Guinness home also disclosed the
fact that her three children had either
been murdered before the fire or that
they had persisted in the flames
IN some respects the methods OF Mrs.
Belle Guinness seem similar to those
az the Infamous Bender family In Kan
sas. Yet it Is doubtful IL the blood
thirsty Kate Be.dsr in her palmiest
DAYS was ever equal TO the awful
crimes that are laid at the door OF the
Guinness woman. The story of the La
Porte murder farm recalls the motto
rious d0ings Of the Bender family in
Montgomery County, Kan. about fcrty
years ago. and the famous case Of
Henry II. Holmes. who swindled insur-
ance companies and was held respon-
slble for the murder OF quite long list
II persons. He was hanged In Phila-
de.phia- The Benders. husband and
wife and son and daughter. were sup
posed to hare murdered nine or ten
persons and buried the bodies In the
vicinity OF their home. robbery being
their motive. The Blenders mysteri-
ously disappeared and their fate Is IN
known. although rumOrs were abroad
at the time that indignant citizens put
an cad TO their infamous careers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-09
THE UNIVERSE.

Mans Plea in This Eternity of
Space and Matter.
The solar system is but a fragment
of the universe. Every star is sun
with solar system. 1t is possible that
there may be millions of planets in
habited by beings higher or lower than
ourselves. What we see going on Is
what we call the process OF evolution
from broken fragments to coherent
masses and to inhabited worlds, f1om
chaos to cosmos struggle upward of
the universe from something lower
and disorganized to something higher
and organized.
AS to how life originates on these
planets science is ignorant at present
1t Is an entire mystery l would not
have you think it will always remain a
mystery, nor would l have a theologian
shaken In his views If science should
discover something about the nature
and origin Of life. 1 want you to real
lie that this process of evolution is
not process which negatives or ex-
cludes the idea Of divine activity. 1t
is, | venture to say, revelation to us
of the manner of divine activity. 1t is
the way the Deity works.
The attempt to show that evolution
is unguided, that it is the result of abb
solute change, fails. What is pointed
to is not unguided random change, but
guided change. The other could not be
done In time.
What we have to realize In regard
TO our place In the universe is that we
are intelligent, helpful and active parts
Of the cosmic scheme. We are among
the agents Of the Creator One of the
most helpful ideas Is cooperation
helping one another Cooperation
this in new and stimulating sense
cooperation with the Divinity Himself.
Sir Oliver Lodge
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THE La PORTE MURDER FARM.
Grewsome Revelations There Read
Like q story of the Mid-Centuries.

Grewsome Revelations There Read
Like q story of the Mid-Centuries.
Like chapter from the bloody rec
ords of the mid-centuries is the ter
rible story unfolded by the authorities
of La Porte, Ind, where wholesale MUIR
der was done for years without anyone
knowing or suspecting it. Criminal rec
ords contain nc parallel Of the grew
some story revealed in the finding of
the clearing house for murders kept by
Mrs Belle Guinness near the Indiana
town. Just how many persons met
their fate in connection with the bloody
business carried on there will perhaps
never be known. The skeletons dis
covered on her premises and the fact
that expressmen had many times de-
livered to her boxes and trunks now
believed to contain human bodies form
the chief materials for the construction
of the strange story of her career. She
is supposed to have lured rich men to
her den by matrimonial advertisements
and then made away with them for
their money, and also to have run
murder "fenee" for the benefit of her
partners in the awful trade of human
slaughter, the latter operating in Chi
cago and sending the bodies of their
victims to her for burial 1t is the
theory Of the prosecution that Mrs.
Guinness deliberately lured men to
her farm by means of an advertisement
In Chicago newspaper, in which she
represented herself as an attractive and
amiable widow looking for mate. She
alleged that she was the owner Of
valuable farm and sought a well-to-do
farmer as husband. After a visit
from such a candidate she generally in
duced him, it appears, to sell his farm
and come to her with the proceeds of
the sale, at which time she would de-
liberately murder him and bury his
body en- the premises.
For years this strange woman is
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close friend or relative. and 1t Is
guarded as sacredly as IL 1t were a
gift Of gold or bonds. No stress would
induce a Brazilian parent to use cof-
fee which was made the birth gift OF
child. As rule 1t Is sealed with
the private seal of the owner and bears
a card giving all particulars about the
variety Of grain, its age on being sack
ed and the birth of the child TO whom
it is given. and other details which
are very interesting when the gift is
due.
Generally the coffee Is opened for
the first time when the child marries.
The coffee for the reception or mar
riage feast is made from the legacy,
and, according to precedent. this must
be the first time the sack is opened.
After the coffee is made for the wed
ding feast the sack Is carefully closed
and sent to the new home of the young
couple. ard should keep them In this
staple for year at least When both
bride and bridegroom have the birth
gift OF coffee they have started life
under very hopeful conditions. 30 far
IS one necessary Is concerned Few
people know that the older the un-
parched grain OF coffee is the better
the favor. Like wine ii grows with
aye. and that which Is over twenty
years mellowing under proper condi-
tons viii bring from $50 10 So
pound from connolsseurx The giving
Of pounds Of green coffee - CON
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mo, not wonders. Only I'd have
little common sense, and 1 would marry
her If l cared for her."
Pendleton blew ring Of smoke into
the pleasant June air, and remarked
after a pause: ''Scotch-Irish, which
accounts for your overweening assur-
ance and Impudence."
"Shall tell you something you
ought to known resumed Perry placid
ly. You never would be in your pres
ent predicament if you had little OF
that same blood In your veins And,
what's more, you ought to go out and
find her."
BY the time they sauntered to the
front door of the club. Pendleton had
made up his mind to GO fer months
wandering in the Blue Ridge ranges.
1t was an intense relief to get away
from the city and to speed away toward
the mountains, and to find himself final
ly among the peaks and crags and for
ests of the vast rolling ranges, where
the majestic mountains smile at the
fret and heartbreak of humanity.
The days slipped by for Pendleton in
his rural retreat, where life was I'M
eventful. But it is a mistake to suppose
that the specter Of recollection and the
torment of unfulfilled desires can be as
suaged by aloofness from others.
Pendleton found that Vera, with her
changing moods, mellow laughter and
infinite destinations, was much more his
companion when he sauntered through
the forests, sat on the porch Of the pref
ty cottage he had rented, at dusk or
when he went at dawn to fish in some
dark lake in the heart of the mount
aims, than when they were together in
gay meetings and in crowded drawing
rooms.
Pendleton saw Vera always any
everywhere, at dawn and at nighfall.
That explained why he watched with
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NATION WILL EXTEND
IRRIGATION SERVICE.
Meeting to Be Held in Albuquerque,
N. M, Will Give Impetus
TO Great Work.
WILL HELP FORESTRY. TOO.
Projects to Be Undertaken May In
voive Total Expenditure of Hun
bred Million Dollars.

Following by only few mcntss the
meeting of the Governors to consider
the conservation of the nations re-
sources the sixteenth annual irrigation
congress. to be held in Albuquerque.
n. NJ. from Sept 20 to Oct. 10, will
be gathering of unusual significance.
Within the next few years the work
of the government for retaining the
unfruitful lands of the continent will
almost certainly, it is asserted, under
go a big expansion. and where now NIL
lions of dollars are being expended in
utilizing wasted water supplies and di-
verting them to fertile arid regions, the
draining of swamp lands and the prob
lem Of reforestation are likely to be big
questions that in the near future will
receive the attention Of the scientists
and engineers of the reclamation ser
vice.
In the work at present undertaken
the next three years will witness an
expenditure of $39,O00OO0. according to
the broad program that is being carried
out, and this, added to $31 100000 that
already has gone into the irrigation
works concerned, will bring to compile
ton twenty-eight irrigation projects in
sixteen States, making productive
100000 acres of formerly desert
waste
From tins time on. also. the govern
on at least one big reclamation project
each year until the whole scheme, in
yolving an outlay of $100,000000, shall
have been completed. Plans will be
discussed for those to be begun, includ-
Ing big works in the valley of the Col
orado River and in the Sacramento Val
ley in California. All of which lends
magnitude and Importance to the COM
ing congress.
VIII Consider Forestry Also.
The subject of forestry is slated for
extended discussion at this gathering,
it's relation to irrigation being the most
intimate, it is said. Rivers rising in
devastated countries are subjec. to an
nual floods that cannot be controlled
and work only further devastation each
year, while the flow can be turned to
no useful purpose.
In the country surrounding Albu-
querque, where the modern wonders of
irrigation are to be discussed, there
are traces of ancient works fully as
wonderful in their way because created
by primitive peoples ages ago who were
the first irrigators of the West.
The most remarkable part of it, ac-
cording to the government engineers
who are surveying new canals for these
same regions, is that the ancients, with
their crude instruments, hit upon the
most advantageous routes for carrying
out these big engineering works, and
in many sections to-day, it is said, the
surveys are plotting out tie new works
right along the lines of those in use
centuries ago.
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Chinese Faith in Gin.ene.

Many of the Chinese believe that
when all other remedies fall, and
death Is at hand. ginseng has the
power to bring back health and lon
gevity; hence, when they feel the need
OF it they will pay fabulous prices for
certain kinds OF roots A root to be
really valuable as commodity mast
come from the mountains OF Kirir e
be reputed to have come from there.
1t must be bifurcated. so as to resem-
BILE as much as possible the human
form. and be semi-transparent, dry.
and hinty. OF course. the larger the
root the better. and as 1t Is sold by
weight it is not very uncommon for
good specimen TO bring as much a.
500 an ounce. The value of. such
root il In It's shape, its texture, the
manner In which it has been cured.
and the region whence it came.
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said to the hostler. House full Of sil.
yer and handsome things, and the ladies
just go out driving and won't see no
callers, / hear"
Something wrong, l guess" the hos
tier answered, throwing bucket Of wa
Ter on the wheel of the trap he was
cleaning and spinning it around.
Sam acquitted himself without enthu-
siasm Of the commission to renew the
rent for another month. Why stay up
in these solitary mountains, the near
est town being small place a mile
away? Why not go to Bar Harbor
or some civilized place?
But Pendleton fingered, and the
charm Of the mountains grew ON him,
and the girl across the way became in
extricably mixed UP in his thoughts
of Vera, until ne grew amazed md irri-
tably anxious to see her face 70 face
and get rid of the absurd illusion.
1t was in vain he scanned his volumi-
nous mail each morning. No letter adj
dressed in the firm, delicate handwrit-
ing he knew so well ever came, an9 be
still carried in his inner pocket that lit
tie note, Goodbye, l am gone.'
Yes, the days seem to vanish like a
dream In the fastness of the Blue
Ridge.
The time drew near when he would
go back to life's tumultuous cares and
pleasures, and Pendleton was no nearer
an acquaintance with his neighbors. He
could not force himself upon them, and
she was as elusive as some water sprite
or wood nymph.
The world had done its days work,
the sun had set behind the SUBMITS Of
the ranges In all it's accustomed pomp
and glory, and faint mists were yelling
the peaks and valleys. Pendleton sat,
absorbed in distracting thought, by the
side Of still lake Swallowed by tower
ing hemlocks, when somebody came
slowly toward him through the forest
path.
Hers was beautiful face, laughing
and proud and tender, and the only
word Pendieton could say as she
paused before him while he sat motion
less. was: "vera."
"Why, I've been your neighbor all
summer. How did you happen to come
to this wild and beautiful placer she
asked a little while later, as she sat by
his side. when some very broken and
breathless words had been spoken.
Pendleton took out his letter and uD-
folded 1t.
"How could you be so cruel? So In
humanity cruel? To write goodbye TO
me! Why, child. through all eter-
nifty -"
You don't mean to say - you
thought l meant it?" Vera asked in
amazement.--New Orleans Times-De
ocrat.
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The Doctor Habit.

One of the tendencies of Ill health Is
to make one morbid. People who are
constantly thinking about their all
ments. worrying about their troubles,
suffering pain, often develop a morbid
passion for sympathy They want to
tell everybody of their aches and pains,
TO describe their symptoms
Have you ever known a woman who
has acquired the doctor habit, a wom-
ON who loves nothing In the world
quite so we'll as an opportunity to tell
the doctor of her ailments She has
poured them out to unwelcome ears. to
forced listeners, till she longs for some
one who can really appreciate 1t all,
who sympathizes with her In her rfou-
bles; so she sends for the doctor, or
goes to see him.
This becomes almost a mania with
some women. who have few outside ac-
tivities to divert them. Their minds
naturally revert to themselves and
they think Of their unfortunate condi-
ton until they become saturated with
the poisoned thougbt.-Success Maya
zine
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Az the appointed time Edwin Jones
had called st bis best girls home, but
somehSw Miss Wrinkle was not there
to greet him-
He seated himself in the drawing
room and anxiously awaited her ar
rival
Presently the door opened; but, alas
it was only her esght-year-old brother.
Hello" exclaimed Edwin. as your
sister busys"
-she seems 50" replied the young-
sfer. but / don't know just what she
thinks shes doing. She's standing in
front Of the mirror. bIushing just awful
and whispering TO II, "0h. Dir. Jones
this ID % sUdden!'
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startled pleasure and a strange thrill

startled pleasure and a strange thrill
a'tall. graceful young woman who oc-
cupied with an elderly relative cot
tage a short distance away, as she
passed leisurely down her little gar
den path and out In the winding public
road. going evidently for a tramp. a
book In one hand. her face completely
hidden by sunshade-
"Who rents the cottage over the
way, Sam?" Pendleton asked at break
fast the next day.
"A Miss Cullom. 1 hear, sir. Very
wealthy people. I'm told. sir. No, sir !;
] can't find out where they are from.
Big establishment. but they live very
retired, SIR" Sam supplemented. "Just
been here ten days"
that name. Since he had taken posses
sion OF the pleasant bungalow on the
side OF the cliff he had seen no one In
the gray stone cottage but the graceful
girl. 50 wonderfully like Vera In her
supple movements The elderly lady
must be q reciuse-
The days slid one into the other, and
Pendleton grew TO watch for the girl
who so reminded him OF a beautiful sb-
sent woman She and her companion
had handsome traps and horses. and
they often went oCt driving. but Pen
dleton could never catch sight OF the
young girls face. Tnrergh Sam be
learned that his all but invisible neigh
bors were going to prolong their stay
in the mountains
Go and see the owner and renew the
rent for another mouth. SAM" Pendie-
ton directed. as se strolled from the
house down into the valley.
Queer folks across the way Sam
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With such broad basis to work on.
it Is not impossible that the artists In
America are going to keep us pretty
well interested in their future work.
No other band of men has worked so
hard to overcome obstacles. The art
list feels his triumphs when be Is
young-when mere boy, In fact
just as Fink felt them when be drew
little sketches on his mothers table
cloths This burning desire to some
day swing some mighty thought on
canvas cannot be kept down 1t be-
comes the embryo painters master,
and in its power be Is slave.
1 do not include here the vast army
Of daubers who persist in calling them
selves artists and who ought to be sup
pressed by a kindly but firm law. It Is
Of men Of ideas and ideals and origin
atty that speak.
Funk is one OF that new American
school that is exemplifying this indi-
viduality. He shows II In the force
and originality Of his wo-x.-success
Magazine.
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+ a(sSl,esssi ~
The.MewSG
~~~~~~~~~~~

Pretty soon steak will be a sign Of
wealth.
The American navy is still the unfeated
wonder of the world.
The Japs realize that peace has its dis
asters no less than war.
The desire to take Harry Thaw to Eu-
rope ought to be encouraged
Congress has been just as busy as
though it had been doing something.
Prince Relic refuses to plunge at Monte
Carlo. He prefers to play sure thing.
1t takes strong rlinded woman to sup
port the weight of & Merry Widow bon
net.
Evelyn Thaw says she wishes the pub
lie to forget her. The public wishes it
could.
An authority says diamonds are hard
er than STEEL" They are certainly harder
to get.
Now let us hear from the delegate on
Merry Widow mats as one of our national
resources.
trouble and some marry into the Gould
family.
Mrs. Hetty Green denies that her
daughter is going to get married now.
Husbands will probably be cheaper before
the year is out.
The House of Representatives costs us
$50 a minute. Yet people still say that
talk is cheap"
The fact that the japanese invented
limericks thousand years ago is enousn
to make some hot-headed people want to
go to war with them
Every young naval officer knows ex-
actly how to build battleship, just as
every man knows how to run a farm, a
hotel or a newspaper.
Down in Georgia they start a State
campaign a year or two in advance, so
as to find time to say all the hard things
they think about each other
When Mrs. Hetty Green begins spen,s-
ing $50 day at hotel it's a sign that
the panic is over.
The price of foreign noblemen has been
reduced. but the better ones are still
scarce and expensive.
The man who swallowed check for
$50 must have some personal knowledge
OF. undigested securities.
Gov. Swanson says "a clear conscience
is to be preferred TO gold But some
people have neither one.
If Russia and Japan do not maintain
the "open door" in Manchuria. Uncle
Sam is prepared to smash window or
two.
Business must be picking up. High
waymen have just made haul of S35. 900
from Iexas train.
Paris col.1.1des that in Pittsburg d.
vorce snit each side is as bad a. the orh-
er, and probably worse
When peaches sell for $3.50 each, 1t is
comfort to know that there is more
ncurixhment in potatoes.
If freight rates are raised, shippers viii
be inclined 10 believe that Govenmen.
regulation Is working backward.
Some Of the governments trust prose-
cations are badly overcapitalized- The
$50 900 suit against the Sugar Trust
hasn't amounted to sven 80 cents
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much beloved by poets and artists seems to be
upon replaced by that of the darker
hue" 1t is melancholy prospect for the esthetR.
Where the conditions favorable, such as suburbs
in which are large dwellings, with plenty of open space
around blondes nearly to hold their own The
conclusion fair type must die out IL deprived
of fresh air while the dark suffers comparatively little
striking example of natural selection and the sur
fttest under unnatural state of things.
Prof Ripley asserts that in the country London
the average stature of the people is lower than in
the metropolis and they darker mostly. This he at
tributes the constant migration of the taller ndiyid
uals VINO seek "better themselves" in town. But the
TALL as class fair moreover Iney the
enterprisng And this rule applies 70 emgrants general
y fair go, the dark less inclined for adventure,
remain to propagate their like In the mother country
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6HOOZS
COLLEGES

Ground has been broken for the new
science hall at Albert Lea college. The
building is to be 106x50 feet in size, and
will cost $4,000.
Hamline university athletes defeated
the South Dakota Agricultural college
team from Brookings in the field day
meet at st. Paul.
Five vacation schools are planned for
the corning summer in st. Paul. No book
studies will be pursued, but the pupils
will be taught other useful work.
The Grand Forks IN d. county
schools will engage this year in corn
growing contest. One bushel Of seed has
been received by the county superintenl-
ent from Fargo, and circulars are being
mailed in regard to the contest.
A number Of st. Paul policemen at
tempted to arrest students of IIamline
university, who were celebrating a hase-
ball victory over Gustavus AdolIjhus col
lege with bonfire on the university cam
pus. The whole body of men students
charged the police aud took their prison
ers away from them.
Ep-to-date imam Of the hour oratory
as taught by the University OF Chicago
has forced that institution to give up all
intercollegiate contests with its sister
universities. 1t is declared that Howcry
oratory is priced too highly by judges,
who decided against Chicago speakers.
On a field Of mud, with driving mist
and a piercing wind, Grinnell began her
first intercollegiate game of baseball for
this season with the University Of Ne
braska. 1t had been decided to play but
seven innings, but it required the eighth
to decide that Grinnell had won by q
score Of to 6.
At a meeting Of the board of regents
OF the Minnesota university it was recon-
mended that Prof. NJ. Rarig Of North
western university be appointed to sue
coed the late Prof. r. f. McDermott, who
taught English oratory.
The South Dakota interschoIastic high
school athletic meet, held in Sioux Falls.
resulted in MitchelTs high school athletes
securing the highest number Of points
and capturing the honors Of the occa-
sion. Mitchell captured events enough to
be awarded Sc points; Sioux Falls was
second with "a points, Howard was third
with IS points and Madison high school
was last with 10 points.
The charge OF rioting preferred against
fifteen University of Michigan students
as a result of the student outbreak OF
March 10, when a mob Of 200 Students
attacked and wrecked tbS Star theatsr,
was dismissed in the Washington Cir
cult Court after the Students had reim-
bursed the county to the amount Of
s2O6.5O for expenses and paid $1,000 Cor
division among persons whose property
was DESTROYED in the outbreak
Manchester college Of St. Paul has re-
lived from friends an offer of $4,000
fer an arnory and gymnasium, on condi-
ton that military instruction be sdopted.
The college authorities hare taken tbs
matter under adyisemeDs.