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HUTCHISON AND THE SPIRITS
He Dilates Upon Elsie Reynolds'
Alleged Past
The Kicker Thinks That the Ignorant and
Foollah Have Not a Deep Insight
Into Spiritual Matters
In the last few days I have made sev
eral attempts to lind the "masculine
defender who would call Mr. Hutchi
son to account" for his remarks con
cerning one Elsie Reynolds, an alleged
spiritualistic medium. I have heard of
several of him, but all seem to be out
of town at present.
I am sorry that Ella Lucy Merriam
threatens to quit saying anything on
this subject, for there are several in
teresting discoveries which we might
discuss With great pro tit.
I have discovered that this Elsie Rey
nolds is tile same Elsie that was ex
posed—in fact, very much exposed—
during a "seance" at a house on the
east side of Flower street, between
Seventh and Eighth streets, about nine
years ago.
At that time some honest people pro
vided several devices to enlighten
their deluded friends and relatives who
■were communing witii Elsie Reynolds
while she was attempting to Imperson
ate certain departed mortals.
One gentleman appeared with an
electric lighting apparatus with shirt
bosom attachment. Another gentle
man had a candle in his pocket. To in
sure against a suit for damages they
had also constructed a cabinet at their
own expense.
At the tlmo of the seance, about
thirty well-known residents of this city
were present. The spirits "worked
beautifully." While one "spirit" was
regaling the audience with choice bits
of information concerning spiritland,
the gentleman with the electric light
turned on that illuminator. It worked
like the proverbial charm. It revealed
the fact that the spirit in evidence was
none other than Male Reynolds, robed
only in a very simple chemise.
Elsie Reynolds gave a Bcream, nnd
some other "eagle-like oratory," and
fled furiously; her brave "masculine
defender" was overpowered by honest
men and his revolver was taken from
him; the seance broke up in confusion
and light: several "believers" were
cured; and Elsie Reynolds left the city
for a season.
Her escapades In San Francisco and
Ban Diego are also interesting to stu
dents of the weakness of humanity.
Her career in San Diego was cut short
by an arrest fjr obtaining money un
der false pretense. Tn San Francisco
the Chronicle made her record odiously
clear.
However, she could not withstand the
attractions of the holy city very long,
and she mode frequent incursions
therein.
At one time she occupied a house neaf
tbe corner of Fifth and Spring streets,
where she had a very ingeniously con
ktructed apparatus in the shape of a
wide, movable baseboard In the corner
of the room where she kept her cabinet.
The walls of the bouse were of brick,
surd some bricks were placed In such a
position that a blow upon the baseboard
iln question would indicate that a solid
Iwall was behind it. When partially sen
bible "doubting Thomasess" had tested
tbe baseboard by thumping it to their
■itisfaction, an attendant, or "mascu
line defender" of Elsie, who was on the
other side of the wall, quietly removed
toe false backing: then Elsie entered
tbe cabinet; the lights were manipu
lated) so that they would not injure tha
eyes of the angels from heaven and
hades, whose chief business appeared
to be to dance and sing and wave pep
per- tree boughs and blue gum leaves
before the "believers" at the bidding
ef the saintly and chosen medium. Elsie
Reynolds.
At one of those seances, Elsie was
again exposed. At that time she fled to
a convenient closet, where some honest
persons soon after found her ghostly
varment which was coated with a chem
ical preparation tnat emitted a faint
phosphorescent light.
Those honest persons are well known
In business circles here, and have been
at the same location for more than
twenty years.
If Ella Lucy Merriam or any other
champion will controvert these state
ments they will be substantiated by
certain and divers doctors, merchants,
bankers, and others who were my in
formants, and who themselves aided at
several expositions of the game of Elsie.
Tn my former observations concerning
this question I spoke entirely by way of
general argument based on reason and
science, and the hope of a hereafter
which others than spooks and goblins
and idiots might enjoy. Ella Lucy Mer
riam seemed determined to stake the
whole matter on Elsie Reynolds, and I
trust that I have thrown a few lights
on some of the dark passages of that
text.
I feel that I am Innocent of the charge
of using ' eagle-like oratory." Men do
not usually Incur the charge of scream
ing—in fact, 1 know of but one mascu
line chump in the city who even pre
tends to "scream like the eagle bird,"
and he is beneath notice and Otis.
Ella Lucy Merrlam says: "No men
tal, moral, intellectual, nor physical
phenomena is unattended by the exer
cise of the human will." That is ut
terly absurd. If it were true every
sane man could believe that iron rust
is butter and that solid iron is bread.
Besides, what of dreams, and fancies,
and sickness, and pain, and being
knocked down, and of death itself ?
The spirit bands that "are for the
time being physical bands" for all
purposes save bearing the light and
touching the hands of honest skeptics,
are the hands of rascals.
The following alleged English from
Ella Lucy Merriam's last reply is not
clear to anyone that 1 know, and its ex
planation would be much appreciated:
To spiritualists death ceases to be
speculation." Morality is not the stat
us of a medium, but their organic, con
struction." "A test is the presentation
of some fact or event, even though triv
ial, that betrays the existence of some
invisible knowledge." "Air and its
properties are in more rapid motion in
light than in darkness, thus being more
easily manipulated in the shadow."
"Every mortal attracts to Itself sim
ilar elements from the Invisible." "A
test is not high-flown sentiment alone
nor eagle-like oratory."
These fearfully and wonderfully con
structed specimens show 1 a clearness of
mind that would delight even Professor
Search, w hose own chaste and chased
effusions they resemble hideously.
We are continually told that we may
be wise and learned In earthly lore, yet
know nothing whatever of spirit lore.
Therein 1 agree with all my antagon
ists, but I do not agree with them in
their corollary which intimates that the
ignorant and foolish have deep insight
Into spiritual matters and a monopoly
thereof. The great and wise and good
men of this world have been sadly neg
lected by revisiting spirits.
Considering the number of those who
have been afflicted byvisits from spooks
and goblins, and the fact that I have
been on this earth a little over a quarter
of a century without seeing anything
but physical and chemical manifesta
tions, I am led to tbe conclusion that my
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAT MORNTNG. APRIL 21, 1596,
eyes are mates and that each is next lo
the other.
My offer of J2O for the privilege of
shaking hands with a spirit at a large
public seance and $1000 for sight of a
proof" of spirit of mortal still holds
good. Yours truly,
EDWARD L, Hl-TCHISON'.
One W cv ol Seatonlng Lumber
The distinction is enjoyed by Spring
field, Mass., of possessing the largest
lumber and wood-working establish
ment east of the Mississippi—P. H.
Potter's—who, it seems, is an ardent
and successful advocate of what is
termed the "common-sense system"
of kiln-drying, a theory which is consid
ered very simple and sound from a prac
tical standpoint. The kilns are con
nected by a shaft, in the middle of
which is placed a fan, six feet in diam
eter, which makes 300 revolutions a min
ute. The whirling of the fan produces
a partial vacuum in the kilns, and the
air, laden with moisture from the par
tially seasoned lumber, is drawn through
the flues and brought into contact with
cold pipes, which condense the mois
ture, then through a steam coil, after
which it is sent whirling back through
the kilns again. Subjected to such
treatment, lumber is ordinarily sea
soned to satisfaction in six days, but in
the case of southern pine, oak or
other descriptions of c lose-Hbred wood,
sometimes four weeks are required
There are twelve sets of these drying
kilns, reaching up two stories, and hav
ing a capacity of 150,000 feet.New York
Sun.
Call tel. 243 for ambulance. Krcgelo
& Presee, Sixth and Broadway.
A LESSON FOR YOUNG AMERICA.
RAMBLING THOUGHTS
LEONARD FOWLER
Crowds are always interesting. Thu
broad streets ,„ lowing withj their
stream of hums are to me the ar
teries of civiliza, . Or, mayhap, they
resemble the tides of the ocean running
up the sandy beach. The light and the
laughter is there, hut under it all is tbe
undertow of sorrow and sadness and
pain. A common impulse impels it in a
common direction but each particle and
atom moves in a diverging path. Each
one is tilled with his own purpose, in
tent upon his own efforts, giving no
heed to nor having no thought fur the
wayfarer, spectator nor each other. It
is as if they were shpwrecked upon
some surging main and the small boats
insufficient to accommodate all. Fight
ing, striving and toiling, they, while at
atemptlng to gain their own ends, spend
half their time and energy beating back
their fellow toilers. It is a story com
mentary upon the self-confidence of
Christianized humanity. Surely there ia
room for all. The bright sunshine, the
green trees, the gorgeous flowers, the
birds and the lapping, singing waves
of the placid, blue, old ocean were sure
ly made for all. I entertain this opin
ion because there is so much of each.
And after all this is all we can get—the
sunshine, the birds and the rest of it.
•theme men did not smoke cigarettes."
And I think this Is what we must be
striving for. Our ability to see it, of
course, depends upon our mental condi
tion. If we are harrassed with, petty
cares and small worries, it is all beyond
us. We cannot feel it because our bodies
-mentally speaking—are benumbed by
the trivial wounds and petty irritation.
1 11 such v condition it is beyond us to ap
preciate the beauties of earth. Forget
ting the true Creator in whom we have
been taught to place reliance, we at
tempt to rise superior to nature and the
result is a constant groping in the
gloomy corridors of our own vain con
ceit.
And by the way it is the small worries
that hurt. It is the fine sand that, pen
etrattrtg our flesh, irritates to madness;
it is the pin In our clothes that spoils
the day's pleasure. The whining voice
of the house-cat spoils our night's rest
while we slumber on undisturbed by the
thun-
( lashings and muttering*: of the
der storm* ft is our foolish friend and
not the open enemy who hurts and In
jures us. In other words it is the Inci
dental, not the aeeidental, ills of life that
c ause our degeneration.
Am! it does cause our degeneration.
Small worries harass and make us peev
ish. Great prices are onobllng. They
reach down into our very life-springs.
They cause the In-art to throb. They
muse a complete change, reflection anil
thought. Not so with the little ones.
They do not cause the blood to How in
great, wide torrents. They do not cause
a single extra heart throb. They sim
ply abrade the flesh, and. causing us to
think of them forthe time being, distract
out attention from the more serious
problems of existence, thus taking us
away from the great, wide, beautiful
world so full of music, gladness and
peace.
And this brings me back tn the origin
al proposition. It is an art to enjoy
life. We must have seen a rose before
if we would handle it and beware of the
thorns. And larking this experience
all that money can buy is the sunshine
the birds and the flowers. By purchas
ing our Immunity from these petty ills,
these little cares, these thorns on the
rosevine. these pin points of liCe. it pur
chases the rosecolored glasses through
which we may see the purple color of the
distant Catalinas, or the shimmering
waves of Ihe blue Pacific.
Niagara's Forces.
On the sth of next month the power nf
the dynamos at Niagara Falls will be
transmitted to New York city, a distance
of -402 miles by wire, and at the same
time the roar of the great Falls will also be
transmitted by the Bell telephone. This
162 miles will be by far the longest dis
tance over which electric power has over
been transmitted, 110 miles having been
hitherto the long-distance limit, and that
in Europe. But in mechanics one thing
leads to another; one success to another.
One of the first uses of the Niagara Falls
water power waa the manufacture on a
great scale of aluminum, a few years ago a
rarity, a wonder, now becoming as com
mon a metal aa copper, and the same wa
ter power will be used to demonstrate
hitherto unheard of resources in electricity.
So the world moves—Kansas City .Star.
Campaigning on a Low Level
Mark Hanna bas bargained for the right
to make tbe tariff laws of the country. He
is now buying the power to tax the Ameri
can people. Mr. McKinley is merely an
incident of the deal. It is necessary that
there should be some person like McKin
ley at the head of the government in order
to carry out the scheme of farming the
taxes of Mark Hanna and his associates.
In the very nature of things a campaign
based upon such motives, conducted for
such a purpose and by such persons, must
be on a low plane. Tbe crawling vulgari
ans who have planned to buy the presi
dency for McKinley and tbe power of taxa
tion for themselves have necessarily
dragged the campaign down to their own
level.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Silver Monometalllsts.
Says the Utah Republicans: A "Protec
tion tariff, as long as the money of the
country is held, otm.'e for ounce, 100 per
cent higher than the money of the orient
and Spanish-America, is important to save
our farmers and manufacturers from a
competition which they are helpless to
meet." If this means anything it means
that our silver is held 100 per cent higher
than ths value of >the metal contained in
it by its practical convertibility into a dol
lar in gold, and that the only thing that
can save our farmers and manufacturers
is to let the silver dollar fall one-half to its
bullion value. The gold coin would then
be worth just as much aa it is now, and the
dollars of silver would be worth only half
as much aa the dollars of gold. Yet these
Republicans pretend to favor bimetallism,
pretending that two kinds of dollars, one
worth twice aa much as the other, will cir
culate side by side. They know better.
They know they are silver monomatallists
and not blmetalliats at all.—Chicago Chron
icle.
A Liberal Estimate
The Chicago Times-Herald (Independent
Republican) thinks there is no good reason
wby the money plank of the St. Louis plat
form and the money plank of the Chicago
platform should not be identical, word for
word, aa "96 per cent of the people of the
United States are in favor of a single mon
etary standard and that standard gold."
Rheumatism in the back, shoulders, hips
ankles, elbowi or wrists is caused by accumu
lation-of acid in the blood. Hood's Sarsapa
rllla neutralizes the acid and cures the rheu
matlsm.
Hood's Pills are the bast family cathartic
and liver madlela* Harmless and reliable.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
ZANONI
In the ancient times the people be
lieved that the "stars in their courses
governed, or had influence over, all th i
affairs of mankind: consequently their
wise men or priests were consulted on
all Important occasions, even in nation
al affairs, such as crowning of kings,
etc.
Why should not humanity listen to
the same oracle at present, and then
pass judgment as to whether it,is true
or false.
April gist the earth enters the zoadi
cal sign Scorpio, which is .expressive
of a malignant force upon this planet,
especially as the planet Saturn is ie.
the same sign and is ruler of the pro
ceedings of this period.
On the above date we will find tiie
planets in the zodiac, hellocentrlcally,
as follows: Neptune in Gemini, Ura
nus ami Saturn in Scorpio, Jupiter in
Leo, Mars in Aquarius. Earth in Scor
pio, Venus in Pisces, Mercury in Tau
-1 rus. Sun in Taurus, aioon in Leo. The
deductions to be made from all these
planetary positions and combinations
is significant in more ways than one.
It will produce an'intense effect up-
I on this planet, mankind included.
Beginning at this time we have the
worst planetary combination so far
tills year (and for some years past)
the effect of which will last quite a
while in the future. It will be a fruit
ful time for murder, suicide, robberies
and riots. Disputes, religious and po
litical, and news from abroad will In
form us of fresh disturbances, military
manoeuvers, etc. Individuals will not
be Inclined to say much, but will use
physical force at the least provoca
tion.
Highly nervous persons should b»
careful during this period and not get
excited, but try and keep control of
themselves: keep cool.
Business may be disturbed by tbe acts
of the malcontents, but aside from this
we may look for more than usual ac
tivity In wholesale and retail lines.
Speculators will make deals without
reason or judgment, which will affect
the market and cause great fluctua
tions.
Children born during this period will
be daring and brave, with an abundance
of vitality and energy, consequently are
not liable to die young from infantile
diseases.
Are you thinking of putting on the
yoke of matrimon*? If you do not want
discord in its worst aspect, in tbe con
jugal relations, better listen to the stars
and wait a little longer.
Party Plana Contrasted
The plan of Democrats is to call a eon- 1
vention to agree on a platform, and then
select a statesman to illustrate, and, if
elected, to assert the principles of that
platform. The plan of the Republicans i»
to get the nomination, by unfair means if
necessary, and then concoct a platform
with delusive promises to every faction
from which they expect to get votes. Thi
differentiation explains why one party a
noisy, while the other party is siraplis
waling for the convention at Chicago ty
nominate the candidate who will, if fairo
ness and reason triumph, be the next preal •
dent of these United States.—New York-
Journal.
One Explanation
The gains which the Democrats made in
the municipal elections in Ohio this soring
are explained by the attention which the
McKinley managers are devoting to states
which properly belong to other favorite
sons.—Kansas City Star.
The Nickel Creamery
Has the largest plant for making butter
and ice cream In the city. 542 S. Spring.