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THE EVENING 23, 1930. 2 y non. me to t first | on mankind at large by the thorough| “‘Four membranous wings covered | the window sash, I find it to be about tv?“m ummeoflnn:n—aum m’:m h‘mmmhmm”_“‘ hmm-;::.d into | diftusion of democracy, the distance of I'with litfle colored scales of a metallic | the sixteenth of an inch in its extreme 100 yards in length—one pair being the epoch at which such diffusion may | appearance; mouth forming rolled | length and also about the sixteenth |reached. laced Shove the other, and all thiokly |40 exomsively grave demeancr, as it biy be sccomplished, should mot | proboscis, produced by an e of an inch distant from the pupil of | it will be only a matter of hours before :om with metal scales, each scale My insanity was & thing’beyond sus- | fail to form an item'in the estimate. jaws, upon the sides of X they recover the bodies of the other apparently some 10 or 12 feet in diam- | picion, [} Yet can you tell me one writer on the | found the rudiments of mandibles was trick of perspective | entombed men. ' et?r‘ I :herved that the upper and | At this instant I again had a distinct | subject of xmmmelnt :hn has_ever | downy palpi; the h!ebr;ar- :fik&flh.r;- . e Jower tiers of wings were connected by | view of the monster—to which, with a | thought this particular branch of the tained to the superior by 5 St FAI Porty ex-service men have been placed & Seoug s, shout of absolute terror, 1 now directed | SUpCCt ROTRY U g IoTO" oo yont | Club, prismatic, abdomen pointed. The | the face of in charge of dusting the 3,000,000 books large trees. which it passed—a few | But the chief peculiarity of this hor- m:l ;gf;flmth“!‘leh elo:kel el{;fly,_.mllf stepped to a bookcase and brought | death's-headed Sphinx has occasioned peihai g et 1 0,31 in the British Museum at London. giants of the forest which had escaped 'rible thing was the representation of a | FLRgingd Got BC Jaw POMRE—R 0| forth one of the ordinary synopses of | much terror among the vulgar at times 5 Y RECOVERED Ehe furv of the Jandslide—I concluded death's head, which covered nearly the | though T designated minutely =the| byl history. uesting me then | by the melancholy kind of cry which it| MINER’S BOD a5y far larger than any ship of | Whole surface of its breast, and which | COUrse of the creature as it made is | {0eiChange seats with him, that he | utters and the insignis of death which AT B A the line in existence, I say ship of | Was.as accurately traced in glaring | W0y ot ol vl e Clarmed, for | might the better distinguish the fine | it wears upon its corslet. o ¢ 8 Victims in Penn: ARl Pall | the line, because the shape of the mon- | White, upon the dark ground of the |, o e POR SERMIASIrabY slarmed, I8 | print ‘of the volume, he took my arm- here it is!” he presently ex-|One of ms in 5ylv: 5 4 ster suggested the idea—the hull of |body, as if it had been there carefully | o SUCSGRT S TR B e r an omen | F 1 Gt the window and, opening tho | claimed. " “It is reascending the face| pound Under Tons of Debris, Saflowis ety adiealds ofee one of our Td4s might convey & very|designed by an artist. While I re-| % U eep o Sop VI B8 1NN oW myself | Dook, resumed his discourse very much | of the hill, and a very rematkable look- SRR ' ks W it e Near the :he‘ olf‘ an rxceedhmldy tolerable conception of the general out- ::;edeldum?h u::pl'; ‘_:‘l;chefl-"l;_l T&dbr':::: passionately back in my chair and for | ib the same tone as before. ing creature I admit it to be. Still, it N, Pa., January 23 (M) — warm day I was sitting, book in hand, |line, clally the st vi with a feeli f horror and awe—wit he said, “in describing the monster, I |as you imagined it, for the fact is that | the men entombed in the Jermyn mines 5 " M. Throush & 1ok vista of the Vet banis, | 4, The,Quth of the anima] was situ- ) 7 sentiment of forthcoming evil—1 per- | HANds; When T uncovered my eves the | pigiii ‘never have had it in my power | as it wriggies its way up this thread, |of the Hudson Coal Co. Tuesdsy by a | ™V Pt m:.. the it B o view of ‘a ‘istant hill. the face of | Tieo,a¢ the exiremity of & Drobosclt | ceived the huge Jaws at the extremity | *PEATIIOR WO 1, GnESE Oy o | to demonsirate to you what it was. 1n| which some spider has wrought along ! fall of roek, was found by rescue work- |prove vitakity and complexion, which nearest my position had been | ana “about as thick as the body of an [Of the proboscls suddenly expand them” | resumed the calmness of his demeanor | the first Pince To¢ g read to you & denuded by what is termed 1and- ordinary elephant, Near the root of [Selves, and from there proceeded & |and questioned me very rigorously in |SCnOOIOOY RECORRC D FIF £EAGE SRAITH slide of the principal portion of its | greisry CBant, FI KR¢ EOT LY | sound so loud and so expressive of Woe | feipect o the conformation of *the | Of the family Crepuscularla, of the or- trees. Uplifting my eves from the Page. | of black. shaggy hair, more than could | that 1t struck upon my nerves like & yisionary creature. When I had fully | 9e% LePAORIET BRAS SPRILES DUtter they fell upon the naked face of the|paye peen supplied by the coats of a knell, and as the monster disappeared | caticied him on this head he sighed ' M (G v e munuc! , OF hill, and upon an_object—upon some | score of buffaloes; and projecting from | 8t the foot of the hill, I fell in & | geeply, as if relieved of some intoler- n%ec living monster of hideous conformation. | this hair downwardly and laterally, it ! able burden, and went on to talk, with B which very rapidly made its Way from |sprang two gleaming tusks not unlike | Upon recovering, my first impulse | what I thought cruel calmness, of vari- the summit to the bottom, disappear-|thoce of the wild boar, but of infinitely | was to inform my friend of what I had | ous points of speculative philosophy. 1|| AUTOMOBILE, LIABILITY, FIRE, - e J ASCO Policy Affords Opportuniti ing finally in the dense forest beloW.|creater dimensions. Extending forward, [seen and heard. 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