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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
Shootin' at the Moon
Soc ct tuum damum.-Pliny.

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Hello, neighbors. For team worl
the cigaret stub and the waste basket
has any other combination beaten
off the map.
doc Smart has new dishpan at
his house." is a pithy bit of news
from an Idaho exchange. Bob used
the one that was in service to give
his bull pup bath in-why say any
more?"
man may carry spare tire and
still have no tire to spare.
The average husband is either in
bed or in bad at eleven p. m.
The reason bachelors live longer
is because no gentle tyrant requires
them to take something when they
feel little out of sorts.
Modern women may admire these
Egyptian styles of costume, but the
mummies themselves were all
wrapped up in them.
Nothing succeeds like sucess-ex-
cept large inheritance.
We read that in st. Petersburg,
Fla, the other day thief stole
bathtub. We have often heard of a
person taking a bath, but seldom of
anyone taking a bathtub.
Alva White thinks that another
unequal tax is having to pay all
kinds of congressman the same sal
airy.
When picking your friends be
careful and don't pick them too
much.
The boy with the dirty hands and
ears may be your state health officer
some day, warns Tom Blodgett.
Just charge it." said the sweet j
'oung thing when she left her stor- /
ige battery at the garage.
A hick town is a place where the {
leighbors know something is wrong
when your lights burn after 10 v
CLOCK, L
A fellow who has worked out in i
he open all day, John Bonecher p
inds, doesn't have to have any "
Magazine article to tell him how to Ii
o to sleep.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

is often caused by an inhamed condition
OF the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is infiamed you
nave a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing. Unless the inflammation can
be reduced your hearing may be de-
stroyed forever
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
do what we claim for it-rid your system
OF Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
mas been successful in the treatment OF
Catarrh for over Forty Years.
Sold by all druggists.
f. j. Cheney & Co, Toledo. o.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
THE TEMPERATURE OF HELL

A negro was asked by another
black boy if he knew how hot hell
was. "Dohs II" was the reply "Ah
shuah do. Des take all de wood in
Main, all de coal in Pennsyltucky,
de oil in Californy an set en- afah.
Then take man out'n hell an throw
him in de middle of de mess, an, dat
man would freeze to def. OATS how
hot hell am"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

per cent interest, reaches a total OF
$1S,5OO at the end of 20 years.
The important thing for the saver
to remember is to invest his money,
not to speculate with it. Invest
ment is defined as placing ones
money in productive channels.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
HARDING URGED
TO SEE RESERVOIR
Such INSTALLATION, 1t Is Felt, Would
Help Progress of Great Ameri-
can Falls Project

Boise, Idaho, June 21.-Learning
there was a possibility of some
changes being made in the itinerary
for President Harding's western trip,
the Idaho Reclamation association,
through its manager, Guy Flenner,
wired the President urging him to
include in his trip view of practical
irrigation through the application of
stored water.
1t was suggested that this could
be done, and apparently without SER
iously interfering with the an
nounced itinerary, by visit to Ar
row Rock dam, the highest in the
world, which would give the Presi-
dent a first hand conception of the
wonderful benefits of conservation of
water.
when / learned that the Presi-
dents itinerary might not have been
definitely fixed as to all details, -
said Mr.. Flenner, 81 thought it pert
inent to suggest a "trip to Arrow
Rock, where he could see for the first
time a government irrigation reser-
voir and observe the benefits flow
ing therefrom.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

The smell of onions may be taken
away from the breath by chewing
little garlic
Flour added to dough will be
found to make the bread much more
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

Edith Mason is attending the
Washington university summer
school for advanced studies in jour
nalism.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
Bearing on American Falls

Such an observation, in our judg-
ment, would greatly stimulate presi-
Dental interest in reclamation and
especially in storage, and would have
a powerful bearing on the American
Falls project, which might be de-
layed by departmental or congress
sional action or lack of action, un-
less the president takes hand. The
effect upon the American Falls prof.
ect of such a Installation as pro-
posed would prove especially valu
able in view of the recent check up
on the progress of the undertaking
in WASHINGTON.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

Blanche Boyer returned from Mos
COW last week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

palatable.
Carpets can be held tight to the
floor by the use of spikes.
If the banging of doors bothers
you, the annoyance can be obviated
by using the windows.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

Roscoe Smith tells us that Adam
was man who had trouble with one
of his ribs.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

THAT was a bad SLICE" said the
golfer as he lay sick from eating his
wife's bread.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
Indian Land Controversy

The decision of Secretary Work
to refer the question of sale of Indian
lands needed for the American Falls
reservoir site to congress is, of
course, a disappointment, but it
should not interfere seriously with
the work at American Falls. No
doubt congress will grant authorize
ton. Meantime, if the pending con-
tracts with the big district and the
power company shall be signed by
the Secretary, approval of the prof.
ect should be completed and the gov
eminent appropriation of $1,000, 900,
available by June 80, should be re-
leased. This would make possible
the commencement of work soon on
of the town of American
Falls. If, however, final approval
must await congressional decision on
he sale of the Indian lands, there
may be full years delay.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

DR.. o. P. Hamilton and family left
Tuesday overland for a months va
cation in Oregon and Washington.
Mrs. Hamilton's mother, of Boise, ac-
companied them on the trip. DR..
Mather, of Boise, will take care of
DR.. Hamilton's practice here while
he is away.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
FOR SALE

Six foot Porch Swing for
So. All ready to hang.
Guaranteed to please in
every respect or no pay.
Order one.
S. P. Fairchild
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

Mrs. Brigleb and her daughter
Irene, left for Berkeley, California,
where Irene will attend school for
the summer. According to letters
written to friends in the city here,
they are having fine time and
do not feel entirely as strangers in
Berkeley as they have met some
former Mountain Home residents
there.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

Rockefeller says save it and Hen
ry Ford says spend it. Perhaps it
is a fifty-fifty policy that keeps us
all poor.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23

Tom Trathen would like to know
if bootleggers hold rummage sales.
Richard come back. Return to
your wife and family. The phono-
graph has been sold.
A little thing like the truth does
not disturb some people when they
are trying to produce an argument.
Don't monkey with a fools glands
nor fool with monkey glands, opines
DR.. Evans.
In this old world you'll find
A lot of honest fellows
Who think it is no crime
To walk off with umbrellas.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-23
Build Now; Talk Afterward

Our position has been indicated by
our representations to officials to Ego
ahead and build the reservoir and
talk to the Indian land owners and
other land owners, afterwards if nee
essary." 1t is regrettable that con-
ditions exist that make it possible
to have this great project held up
because of Idian land valuations. If
the Indian land owners are to have
more money than the appraisals pro-
pose, it is logical to assume that the
owners of other lands, and especially
those in the town of American Falls,
should have more.
These owners of property in Amer
lean Falls have been offered an ar
bitrary figure, much less than the
has actually cost them -
possibly less than a fourth of that
cost II and it is apparently up to
them to accept or fight condemnation
suits. For the most part, however,
they have aeceeded, with splendid
spirit, in the interest of speedy con-
of the vital project
The Idian representations appar-
entity are not so deeply concerned.
In my opinion the owners of In
liam lands have been offered a price
IS high as has been offered the
'thers, and perhaps higher, taking
nto consideration the character of
he property.
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

down to the lowest depths that human
depraVity can reach"
Since this informant's return it would
seem, however, that the abbey has
been acknowledgements at least.
=. When Crowley appeared in Cefalu
he called himself Alastor de Kerval.
There was woman with him and two
little boys. Later on another woman
joined him. This woman's name he
altered in the same dignifed and aris-
tocratic manner that he had his own She
became the Countess Lea Harcourt.
These names were registered at the
Banca di Stella with deposit of few
thousand francs in bonds, and all checks
drawn were to be signed by the two thus
-Alastor de Kerval. knight Guardian of
the Sacred Lance, and Lea Harcour, Viz
gin Priestess of the San Graal or Holy
Grail By the Sacred Lance was meant
the spear that pierced the Saviour's side
while he was on the Cross, and the Holy
Grail is the legendary cup that passed
from hand to hand at the Last Supper
and which caught the blood from His side
when the spear pierced it.
me purpose OF the TWO was 10 eNLenh
20. 7. o." in every country, with the
abbey" as it's sacred headquarters.
Soon many Converts" began to appear
at the abbey" foolish, weak, supersti-
tious, unbalanced men and women lured
by Crowley's sinister brilliancy and the
ecstacies his debased Occultism promised
them. All of these, of course, possessed
money in various degrees.
The rituals and observances they were
taught are embodied in the Book of the
Law" or Liber Legis, which Crowley con-
siders his masterpiece and which is the
ritual of the 80. T. O." He claims that it
was dictated to him by the Devil, and GER
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

dowless, with a fagstone floor. On the
floor is. painted a great orange circle
lined with pale yellow. Inside the circle
are interlaced black triangles. The room
is lighted by'candlos.
"a tripod, upheld by three little fauns,
burns incense. In a cupboard are little
cakes, all made Of goats blood honey
and grain, some raw and some baked.
The raw ones, gone bad, fill the room with
their stencil.
'In this room are carried on unspeak-
able orgies, impossible Of description.
Suffice it to say that they are horrible
beyond the misgivings of decent people.
"Many women come to Cefalu, all with
money, for whatever else Crowley may
demand Of them, money is his primary
need. 1t takes money to supply him with
the drugs he uses necessarily, the hasheeSh,
cocaine, heron, opium, morphine. every
drug known from the Orient to the
Occident
"Three women he keeps there perma-
nently for his orgies All of them he
brought from America two or three
years ago. One is French-American
gOVerncsS, one an Observation-Disclosures and
one cinema actress from Los Angeles.
"The French-American governess has
two children-of which he is the father
who live in the midst of this debauchery.
The children of the schoolmistress by him
are dead Crowley himself, clever
talker, with no little personal magnetism,
spends his time smoking opium in a room
which is really a gallery of obscene
pictures gathered from all over the world
'He bases his religion on a few texts
CLEANED from Pythagoras, which he quotes
persuasively when trying to attack a new
victim. But the real facts of his system
are much simpler than that. They go
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

forced to sign his or her name to. what
was called the "Affiliate's OATH" In this
the Knight" and Virgin Priestess" be-
come respectively the Beast" and "Scar-
let Woman" The neophyte swore to sup
port the authority of these two and to
practice and promote the doctrines as de-
clare.. in the "Bools of the Law"
Delegates of the 30. 7. O." were Sc
lected from the converts and assigned the
mission of carrying the teachings to every
country.
One large room in the villa was re-
modelled and decorated as temple.
circle of elaborate design was painted on
the floor, an altar set up in the east and
various other properties installed to en-
able the worshippers to perform their
rites and ceremonies of devil worship.
The members of the Abbey were forced
to attend two ceremonies each day.
At last the reports of the doings at the
abbey" became so sinister that the Ital-
ian authorities were constrained to inves-
tigate. But when they arrived there they
found things very quiet, indeed. Crowley
had fed to Paris, taking the Scarlet
Woman" with him.
The Australian representative, Frater
- Dionysus TX o. T. O., had returned
to Sydney carrying with him COM
plete set of official documents and the
new rituals of the order. Weeks previous
to thi the American delegate had depart
ed and the English visitors returned home,
but before the departure of these latter
they had been admitted to the "MinervaE
Degree" of the 80. T. o." and put
through the ceremony of initiation.
They had been present at the bloody
sacrifice, where young virgin he-goat is
slaughtered upon an altar which consists
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

tainly no one would deny the Satanism
of it. It's principal tenet is the famous
do what thou wilt shall be the whole of
the law" This infamous but remarkable
book was, written by Crowley at Cairo,
Egypt, after the following fashion, ac-
cOrding to Crowley. His wife told him to
go into room for three consecutive days
and write down from dictation every word
he heard for the space of an hour. Thus
the Book of the Law is divided into three
chapters, taken down from dictation re-
spectively on the 9th. 9th and 10th of
April, 1904. Crowley claims that the
Devil himself appeared to him, calling
himself by the Syriac name of Aiwass,
and claiming to be messenger of Hoor-
pa-kraat the Egyptian God of Silence and
Secrecy.
The first chapter contains sixty-six
verses and is supposed to be the revela-
ton of the Goddess Nuith, the Lady of
the Starry Heaven, who is also matter in
whom we all live and move and have our
being. She saws: "Come forth, o chill
dren of the stars, and take your fill Of
lover and BE We gOodly therefore: dress
We all in fine apparel, eat rich foods and
drink sweet wines, and wines that foam!
Also take your fill and will of love as ye
will, when. where and with whom We will |!
But always unto me"
Crowley, SO it is reported, stocked up
the Abbey with choice selection of
wines and spirits and drugs. Under the
guise of scientific experiments it did not
take long to bring victims to the stage
where they use opium, ether OF, other
"dope" daily. And once the moral stam-
ina is undermined it is not hard to guess
to what extremes the "DO what thou wilt"
command is sure to lead.
The Convert" of the abbey was
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with meal, honey, thick leayings
of red wine and sacred oils and baken.
This was in accordance with verses % of
chapter of the Book Of Law, and sue
ceeding verses which tell how these So
called Cakes 81 Light shall be made.
The previous batch 81 cakes had been
made with blood voluntarily offered by
one Of the female members. AT other
times they had used the blood Of Ia black
rooster. The rooster had been blasphem-
ously baptised and christened before its
throat was cut.
The Italian police officers found only
two women and three children at the
Abbey. So they had to satisfy themselves
with demanding the registration Of baby
which was done shortly afterwards by the
mother at Taormina.
The Italian authorities could not be ex
pected to make any but superficial in
vestigation, the complaint lodged with
them was simply the mistreatment of the
children So having satisfied themselves
that the children were now in good hands
they left.
IF they had examined the books on
the shelves" says one who is familiar
with Crowley, cor entered the Holy of
Holes they might have decided that the
welfare Of the children was still in
danger. This Holy of Holes is a
chamber whose walls are completely coy
cred with paintings Of men, women,
animals, and all sorts Of monsters
illustrating every degree and fashion of
worship. It is impossible to any more
than suggest the nature of the scenes
coarsely depicted on these walls.
among the books to be found in the
Abbey library are the original manuscripts
of the personal diaries of the Beast
From these one might CLEAN many strange
and unbelievable things; for example,
that Crowley actually believed that he was
on earth before under many lamentations.
'He brought out in 1913 or thereabouts
a story of a former incarnation" of
his in Egypt Six months before Crowley
was born Eliphaz Levi, notorious char
acter of France, died. So Crowley claims
to be a reincarnation of Levi. Before
that he states that he was born in 1850
as Cagliostro. Previous to that he was
Sir Edward Kelly, famous as an astrolog-
er and magician and alchemist in Queen
Elizabeth's time
"Pope Alexander vi. is another histori-
cal figure Crowley claims as one of his
former incarnations."
According TO the Express, although
Crowley has used such high-sounding
aliases as Count Won Zonaref and Earl of
Middlesex, he is reported to be the son
of Kentish brewer. He first came I'M
der the notice of the police in 1900, the
Express says. when he stole 81 900 from
q widow, who refused, however, to prose-
cute him.
I'm 1910" asserts the Express expose.
Crowley was holding meetings in Caxton
Hall to witness the performance of the
Rites of Eleusis;' he cultivated an inn
moral society for the worship of the God
Pan, and he organized every kind of evil
rite, including the cult of The Beetle
and the Black Mass
The devil worshipper is said to take his
title of ''the Beast" from the passage in
Revelations that describes the advent of
''the beast with seven heads and ten
horns" The peculiar symbolism of "the
Scarlet Woman" is drawn from the same
source.
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

ss
TEADERS Of this page will remember
the disturbing revelations made in
Detroit some months ago when the
courts unexpectedly stripped bare the am
bilious plans of little coterie of men of
evil reputation who were trying to
establish new religion based upon this
astonishing doctrine:
do what thou wilt shall be the whole
Of the law
The wicked results of preaching any
such doctrine are not hard to see. It is
not surprising that those who joined this
new religion soon found themselves in
difficulties of one kind or another.
Wives who went through the secret
ceremonials of the order were soon thrown
out by their husbands, and husbands who
joined the cult did not escape long from
the divorce courts.
In the course of the court testimony,
it was developed that a sinister figure
who called himself Aleister Crowley was
the evil genius who was behind this effort
to establish this "Do anything you want
to do' new religion. This man Crowley
was reputed to be the head of sect
of Devil Worshippers."
81 am Baphomet X1., of the %. T. o.
he told those that he took into his con-
fidence. 'In me you see the Supreme
and Holy King of Ireland, Iona, and all
the Britains that are in the sanctuary of
the Gnosis'-whatever that meant.
"The names of women members arr
never divulged," said Crowley, sig-
nifcantly.
There soon came tales of the secret
meetings at "secret fortresses," where the
members clothed only in single covering
sat about on the floor while they received
their lessons" in the cult whose motto
was "Do what thou wiltr'
And at these meetings was always re-
cited the "Hymn to PAM" which appears
on the opening pages of Crowley's book,
"The Equinox" 1t begins:
s'Thrill with Iissome lust of the light,
o man! My man!
Come careening out of the night
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress"---
The rest is unprintable.
But when the authorities tried to put
their hands on Crowley, the head "devil
worshipper," he had disappeared. Search
was made for him all over the United
States and in England, but he could not be
located. But the moving spirit of this
abominable new religion has now turned
up, and the London Express, discovering
his new book just put on the market in
England called 1.-THE Diary of a Drug
Fiend," says that "at the baser and more
bestial horrors of the book, it is impossible
to even hint"
= The Express then announces that it has
traced Crowley to Sicily, where the "devil
worshipper" has been conducting a mock
religion in an abbey" and asserts thai
there is now on exhibition in London 8
portrait of Crowley, by the artist, Jacob
Kramer, which is called "The Beast"
The Express says that Crowley's orgies
are carried on as mystic religious rites in
an old farmhouse near the village OF
Cefalu in Sicily. Crowley calls the place
the "Abbey of Theleme," title coined by
: the medieval French writer Rabelais fol
another famous rendezvous, whose motto
was "Do Here Whatever You Please
The Express quotes woman who haC
recently returned to London from the
"Abbey" as follows:
"The msin room of the house is win
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

OF an uncIotled woman. In
this particular instance it had
been necessary to administer
hashish to the woman before
she would undertake to 60
through her part 81 the cere-
mony The blood was collected
III . consecrated dish and mixed
with meal. honey. thick leavings
The Washington times., 1923-03-25

Aleister Crowley in
Mystic Costume With
Hands at the Side Of
His Head Making the
Secret Sign of the Horns
Among the Devil
w or shipp ers the
Thumbs in This Position
Represent the Horns Of
the Devil.
Evening star., 1923-08-03
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