New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1924, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FIRE-TONGUE By SAX ROHMER ILLUSTRATED BY - RAV, SATTERTIBLD = = ©UeINF A SERVICE.INC S BEGIN my throat! Bir Charles Harley, crimina for him the veillance of invites Haricy to the Abi n falls to the floor is last words ar re-Tongue. Paul asks Nicol T3 the mear Brinn reft Harley of Sir Charles, the home of Ormu tal. Nico! Brinn goes to tell the story o to the police HERE TODAY Abingdon cnaages v s 1 bega investigator ‘ realized that, w might be, | thug e to swim to the a desperate fight for atever else certainly an the rocks, me as | and felt the small of my const was ungle, around ground in the Sir Sir inc scemed CHAPTER XXXT Story of the City of Fire (Continued) “How 1 aged to think of any lef such an attack, and ¢ circumstances, is a about wghter divulge Abingdon, d mad Khan, an ( are PriSONCrs i matter 1 have often wondered sinee “You that I have large and strength s occasion. At rope tightened my throat 1 reached up and the Brahmin's left thumb. gave me additional pped it like a st may observe Their well Fire Tongue | hands size served me on t the moment that ti STORY about scale a grasped to | Despe strengt of NOW GO ON WiTH TH! “Thils was not primarily to peak of the Hima visit Khatmandu, but obtain a glimpse of Fire! “We had camped the shadow of one of s tors. The bearers were around their fire at some littie tance from us, d Vadi and 1 consulting respecting route the morning, when 1 him into my confidence ingly: **Vadi' 1 said, '1 tive fact that ten miles of the secreet Temple of Fire” ““The sahib is wise,’” he replied, *'So is Vadi,' s 1 “Therefore knows how happy a thousand pounds of English money would make him It is his in return for ight of the Temple.' ‘A man may die for nothing’ he| returned, softly. ‘Why should the sahib pay a thousand pounds? “‘Why should the sahih die?' 1 vas, even to er > to time ¥ felt the st in the nick of me giant eated dis- were in to take | Accord- | our decided know for a posi we within he sa ‘]. ‘Tt {8 forbidden for any to see the Temple, even from a distance.’ “‘But if no one ever knows that 1 have seen it?” R MY “‘Pire-Tongue knows evervihing WIRE he replied, and as he pronounced the | name, he performed a curious salu-{ T tation, touching his forefinger with | HAD the tip of his tongue, and then laying | ME." DEALT WITH AR MEANT TO HIM DBAL WITH | ASPIRIN | Say “Bayer”-Genuine! ! Genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” have been proved safe by miHions & ibed by physicians over twent Colds and gri pre; three y S misery. H cost only fe cents at any drug stor’. Fach package contains proven direc- tions for Cc ind tells how to pre- pare an Aspirin gargle for sore throat nd tonsiliti; ——— prehensible Engiish; but during my {journey 1 had been considering it {from every angle, und I had recently come to the conclusion that the trance to this mysterious place |in some way concealed by water. And now, gentlemen, 1 must {1ate a discovery which 1 had made in the act of removing Vadi's clothing. for e en- was re- Upon his right forearm was branded | tion | night, | appar the resembling the had witnesses | namely, a littie torch, flambeau, | surmounted by a tongue of fire, | “The plateau upon which 1 stood was one of a series of giant steps, and on the west was a sheer descent to A dense jungle, where banks of rotten vegetation, sun-dried on the [ top, lay heaped about the trec stems. | “Dragging the heavy body of Vadi {to the brink of this precipice, 1 to: I pled it over, swaying dizzily as 1 watched it crash down into the poi sonous undergrowth two hundred feet helow, | "1 made | stored the | setecting only thought necessary ct out again nort the sound of falli “At midday the that a halt hecame a mark | whieh I in or where 1 bulk of my provisions: and, articles as 1 purpose, 1 guided by rongh cache snch or ward, my g water heat grew imperative 0 great The 1dy boxes of twelve tublets | MONDAY, VOICES IN THE AIR | A | KDKA (Westinghouse, Bast Pittsburgh). Monday. January 7. 6:15 p. m.—Dinner concert KDIKA mphony orchestra, Saudek, directos 7:15 p. m—"Winter Sports in New England,” Harrison Brown of the Boston-Maine railvoad 0 p. m—Radio 'l ing. conducted by Laura rector of Girl Scouts, 7:45 p. m.—The Children's Period. S p. m.-—Market reports furnished by the Nationa! Siockman and Farm- by cout meet- Hollund, di- P mo—Address. p. m.—Concert by Chris Mitier Clemson, mezzo contralta; Mitchell, accompanist, and the KDK Little Symphony orchestra, Victor Saudek, directo WBZ (Westinghouse, Springfield) lLate strial pro- . m from Conference gram. 0 p. m.—Twilight | Kiddies. New book jed City Library by 1 7:30 p. m.—Farmers § p. m.—Concert by the and Winifred Beaver, piar 9 p. m.—Bedtime {ups by Orison 8 M WGI Radio & Research Hillside, Mass.) -“Just Boy,” a Droadcast American Boy Maga m.—Code practice, ~The we in history. the National Indu Beard. Humorous tales the the Spring- Little, for at WBZ Trio, iat grown- | (American Corp., Medford G p.om from the 6:15 p. | No. 208, | 6:45 p. lesson Roston police reports WHAZ Polytechnic Troy, N, Y.) Concert recital Fidna v Towne, reader; Robert Hanna, vie H r Fiddy, accompanist, with quartet fr Jermain Memorial chureh of Waterviiet; Manchester, soprano; Mrs, . , contralto: August Mertens, tenor. Warren Gibson, baritone; Mrs. Ethe! P. Heltzan, accompanist, Wiz (Aeolian Hall, New m nsselaer Institute, Miss Mrs. Ty " p York eity) \'i(‘tor: ' | the department for 1922, JANUARY 7, 1924. FVEDIEHEREIN A Richne NOTOR ACCIDENTS| | ket Fatliies in Gonneetcut in Past Year Totalled 255 | Hartford, Jan, T7.—-Motor vehicies figured in approximately 255 fatalities ' in Connecticut during the calendar [year 1923, accoMiing to a prelimi- : complication of accident statis- !tles completed at the state motor| | vehicle department. That total rep- - resents an increase of 26 fatal acei- E Hemte over the wumper reported 10|91, LOUIS FIRE DAMAG but the 1923 ! the department for 1832, bt the tasel . 1S. MORE THAN MILLION 1o 1623 accidents should be later re- ported to have resulted fatally subse- {quent to the close of the old year. Firemen Fight Spec lar Blaze 14 While the 1923 total of fatalities is| the highest of any year since motor !vehicles began to be operated in Con- | necticut, the ratio of increase over 11922 is 2 per cent less than the in- crease in the number of motor vehi- fire in the business district of this cles operated on the public highw icity early yesterday caused an esti- The preliminary - compilation shows mated damage of siightly more than that approximately 191,647 motor ve-|$1,500,000, destroying three buildings hicles were registered in Connecticut and damaging several adjacent build- lin 1923 as against 168,357 -registered ings. in 19 representing a 12 per cent! 8ix streams of water were increase. Deaths due to motor ve- bouring into the smouldering ruins hicle operation increased about 10 until late today, the firemen having per cent in Connecticut during 19 fought the flames for 14 hours, Prac- Automohile fatalities throughout the tically all loases are sald to be cov- country increased about per cent!€red by Insurance. . & Auring 1922 and while these The cause of the fire has not been for the country at large are not yet determined. At the same time the available, it is certaln’ from such firc departments were fighting ' the figures as it has been possible to pre- | flAmes in the business district a call |pare that the percentage for the|™as sent from the Queens’ Daughters {country will be several times larger ANReX, an Institution for, working than that for Connecticut girls, . . . Hartford, with 31, had Jargest | Thirty-five giris were forced from {atimbar dat ot vahinle clities, their beds carrying only a few clothes I New ttiban camie At an for. | With them into the biting cold. Towed by Bridgeport with 15 Water.{. N0,one was injured aithongh most * oumy ith 11, and’ New' Britaln with of the affects of the girls were lost. [five. Thirty-one of 94 fatalities in e large cities occurred to children 16 years old. Hours — Three Buildings Are Completely Destroyed St. Louis, Jan. 7. — A spectacular kept figures it st FIRE DRIVES OVER 100 0UT INTO CITY STREETS these under Women and Children Among Those Driven Into the Snow at | Cleveland. 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Peter; fir Eleven A Richness of F layor 388 Neighbors, also thinly | clad, took the children as they were Then they helped catch the adults as they leaped. rescued were Riegelmayer, Mr. and Mrs, their sons, latter's « wiv hours house persons, and children, ¢ driven from their quarters when e SW ept an Carnegie avenue AUTO AWAIT A runabout jiéar the Sedgwick Stanley Quarter take® to the MeAvay by Sergeant Walter Wagier. that battery and been taken off the car. have a report of a machine, similar found, December 28 and are endeavoring to get in communication with the owner, Mother-s: Do-'i'liis; was arter, the found on apartment was Upon the spark plugs had being house in D “WITHOUT.” found abandoned chicken Saturd municipal and farm in afternoon garage Mechanie examination generator, The police stolen When the Children Cough, Rub Musterole on Throatsand Chests No telling how soon the symptoms may develop into croup, or worse, And then's when you're glad vou have a jar of Musterole at hand to give prompt relief. 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Millions of boxes are sold annually at 15¢ and 30c, his hand upon his brow, upon his| Mps, and upon his breast, and at the same time bowing deeply. “This conversation took place, have already mentioned, shadow of one of those strange stone | hillocks which abounded here, and it was at this point that 1 received a warning which might have deterred many men, since it was inexplicable and strangely awesome, “My attention was drawn phenomenon by sudden ter amongst the bearers seated around their fire 1 aware that an absolute stillness had gentlemen ufd in the eyves of the DBrahmin who had meant st facing me 1 sawy a lock of ex-|only | used my v tation, of wild f.v’tnn ism, a job of it 1 jerked “The fires k over but T made I shall r them: a 1 I been kinds of jungle furtively out of the me path was still elearly diseernible; and VOIS | in w0 dittle beside it, which af- led grateful shelter from the mer- ss rays of the sun, 1 unfastened my bundle and prepared to lake a frugal lunch. “I was 8o when I heard the sound of approach- ing footsteps on the path Lehind me ~-the path which 1 had recently tra- versed, “Hastily {slipped into xome by the entrance | crouehed there, 1 dealt with him I had not waited to deal with me; * o) jgwargbed mendicant bare hands and made | upepyving a bundle not unlike whereby 1 concluded that comie some distance, “I gave him helf and then resumed my conld trave!l beneath a so could 1 “In this fashion I presently out upon a larger higher pl teau, carpeted with a uniform, stunt. ed undergrowth, and cxtending, as flat to the cdge precipice, whieh ros. from it to three o hundred naked rock, showing no ion fire destroyed & home and damaged two apartment houses, Six adults and fve children, driven from their beds by fire resulting from the explosion of a coal furnace, shiv. ered In their night clothing, Iu {footed in four inches of snow with the thermometer elght below zero while neighbors rescucd them from the poreh of their home in Woburn avenue, This was the lowest tomper- here sinee 1918 when 12 bhelowd vere was registered Y With the stairways blocked by {ames, those rescued climbed through a hole smashed in the front window !cord relax, and, although the lin my head seemed to be bursting, 1 managed to get my fingers under that damnable rope “Clutehing hand, T groaned Srahmin slightly cave p. ni—MacMillan bedtime & 20 p. m.—Harold Dellon, program of popular sengs, £:15 p. w.—~The minutes, 8:30 p reet from as 1 y the Onutlook literary the with my and still. The | shifted his position, which was what T wanted him to do. The brief respite had heen sufficient, As he moved, 1 managed to draw my knees up, very slightly, for he was a | big man, but sufficiently te | {enable me to throw him off and roll over roy N ree 1- Hos Estey Ftoy lay gentiemen, m the orgs 8t employed WGY bundle, 1 (General Eieetric dense unde owth N, to the cave, and po— - waiting and watching.| & m.—Produce and siock mar. long before a|ket quotations; news Lulietins pussed by, | T:45 . m.-—Musleal program my own SekiBade o he had = < 'Halliday to Discuss i Railroad's Problems he N, | Lione elub will mect at 6 tomorrow night at Odd Fel. for its rogular weekiy scs. chief speaker wiil be J 10, Halliday, superintendent of trans |portation of the New York, New Ha-' ven and Hartford raliroad. In addl. tion to the speaker a musical pro- gram will be by Crawford Adame, the noted violinist. All meet. Ings of the Lions will hereafier held at Odd Fello ) ! 5 to the Schenectady, | sation concealing my [ heavy Y ature became | fellen, ! “Then as very hie Better than @ must. rd plaster head arov looking | burned lower and lower, shoulder,and forget, able my my no to replenish 80 ercatures what 1 attempt hour's st march. 1 noo 3 an Snapshots. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Portrait of a Man While the Collection Plate is Going Round nor to this cause 1 sat there sitent, all crept lay to expls the shadows glittering menns by which the illusion was pro- f The o'clock hall slon, The dueed watched with their came “Mor through evenly downward ungle at a toward me slowly the hout ing the but ground of what | fifteen feet, flambeau, visibic 1y luminous; and surm € it @& darting tongue of blue flame! “At the moment that I set upon this apparentiy superr spectacle the bearers, crying word In Minduhtani which 1 did understatnd and fled in a body “I may say that I never saw any of them again: although sidering that they took nothing them, how they regained the village is a mystery which never solved “Gentlemen, I know few of my fellow-citizens k know something of the are latent in som tive in others. Tha guide was a hypnotist and sionist, 1 have since thoukht “For, even as tter steps of the bearers distance, the a8 If by magi “So the night and dawn o i ] I found me still sitting there, the d man huddled on the ground not three paces me, 1 am a man who as faint- | a rule thinks slowly, but when the lght came mind fully made up. 1 dressed myself in Vadi's clothes being at this time, T think 1 fairly creditable natiyve 5 darkness passed cight jud as a table, very of & sheer a height fect--gnar estige By torc wa eos, of four led vegit this time water had become 1 emerged from the DIghL, | gnieh the path ran on to thi the ingle, 1 the further listant falling vellow robe Nag- Iking straight secret stra rendered my ryes it sound of atural ) - be € hall, some not Faintly 1) s 2 1f (he populatien of Seuth Africa goes on increasing the present | | - _ ration the mnext 50 years the white 1| have grown " THING g THINGS = WHRT THEY'LL to 4,000 Dlacks will v e . b TOR DINNLR AND THAT o |mumber 27,000,000, 1t is estimnte | e o capt out, e GHT T COMC T (MURCH Nothing New—Only Different ALLEN’S LUNG HEALER NOT A NEW REMEDY., HAVING BEEN IN USE FOR 20 YEARS, ughou e rose other e s or here card 1 o L0 W He w of the spot at rock TR AND (HANCE ablels dicant the fac for the in the to fall a winding bubbled away w rd, form a greater 1 beyond The mendicant T half mile away from me, but in that cle tropical air was plainly visil earing that he rour stepped back inte shadow of the gorg Gentlemen, 1 saw Ylacing his bundle squarely into and disappeared! C PTER XXX Story of the City of Vire (Continme Quitting must pass t The HEBRS GENERAL SOUNDS OF CLINKING AND DAL LECTION el 3 THINKING ABOUT WOTS con- | wat B witl king nearest rmant at to me of words precipice, which, fr . stream fifteen popuiation while the the and e m o fissure hoever fire water ha would se t " mus! air and he s is through mysterions pass 1 1 sheerly ten or formula he had into com- channel, along W declined to transiate PAIN GONE! RUB SORE, RREUMATIC, ICHNG 0T loubtices powers w Orientals # rully t my migit the e the comparati and watche fiery torc und a silk S a strange 1} TCUR the face of VN UCES T'OUR kE ELING REACHES SEVERAL MA £S5 LEPT HAND POtk= RUBBER BAND AND ANCTHER PENNY air, ater meaning of those became apparent eno oot o fissnre Afthongh 1 the at the rom artistically joubt that this ire A gt Aea mist it But sre t it REPORTS #s41 NO R T POCKETE ME T GET AN IDEA WhaT SHERS ARE PUTTING it \DEZ 151K V. 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