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~Tke ns st p1 St fr 1T STRANGE THINGS DROP FROM THE SKY Science Says Nothing Comes I)own That Has Not Gone Up, Hut Au thor of Weird Book Opines' That Earth Has Been Bombarded for Centuries With Planetary Mes sages. Simultaneously with the announce nent of Marconi, the wizard of the vireless, that mysterious undecipher able signals, "which come from some where outside the earth," have beeni noted at wireles sstations at intervals both before and since the war, comes from the press of a New York pub lishing house ( Boni & Liveright) a strange book--a sort of an aerolite in the bibliographical world---contain ing a remarkable assemblage of au thenticated data of unexplained things that have happened on this earth--not psychical, but real physical pheno mena---marvelous things that science has either side stepped or but lame .ly accounted for that seem to point to the possibility that other worldslS uve been not merely tryvings to signalI usz, but, literally toi b~ombard us wvith 'ommliunien8tionis or oe sort of' an otheri. The author of lhe book, Charles Fort, whlo has i ravu~eledI81. t1 : in0 mies andi~ insackedl thle sc'ienif i reports, kg hi data:, dIoes tnot underta dke to -gvrovVe hiis t he(ory oif ('onscious11 of' i u t ion -fromt inter('-p lanet ary commiiunica tion---fromi thi'e vry niat ure' of thlit pihenomei(na, Ih' says noth ini-'' enn lbe proved: in fact , noth ing. ill the woildl is susee('tibille of absoulutte an.] final Sroof, IT is btook is a cenito of miyster ms andI amuazine: facts that science'* has not beeni able to clanssi fy or ex plain in a sat is factory mnnner and so it hats simpl1dy set themi aside as "'freaks of iiniure, rlete~itl the toi thelu~ sien j1OUR BANE STHEY ARE INSEPARABLE A good future without dloesn't often happen, y< Our institution is a v and investing bank. We solicit the patrona al attributes are likewis( ly desire to become such. You never' regret me use to regret when it is 1The Banki JOSEPII Si T. M1. MOU 'irst After the Chero-( erilized, scrubbed a aced on a conveyc erilized bottles pa: om which the wat< aperfect bottle befo This is another reason f " There',s ii title purgatories. Hence the weir title under which the voiutme has bee launched-"The Book of the Damn el." Startling Missiles. Startling things have coie dow, out of the skies upon the earth-de luges of blood, curiously carved stone stones hatchets, globular and pyra m idal projectiles, living animals, hug chunks of ice, strange showers of ani nial matter, frogs, fish, snails, gels tionus matter of seemingly superter restrial origin. Curious nebular strut tures, as of venturing voyagers fron other planets, have been seen hover ing in the far atmospheric spaces these and a thousand other things thai have at one Lime and naM ther' been se forth in more or les scientific recold as "strange phenomena of nature" an then forgotten. have been fa rshale, and corelated by dlr. Fort. to whon they suggets rany wonderful eonjee tu re:. For instance: Is there somewher up in the interstelIa r spaces a 'super Sar8 aso sea" of cosm v debris int which we crash occtsionailly and piel to rome fragments ? 1Iare some o IIe, hold crusaders of other planet penletrnated our a tmosph.lerie Ii mits an, b'een turned b~ack for .soo r'eason 't anotcther'? HIa ve they(' occasionally hur edl down: a1 few things at. us to let u know how niear the'' werec? llav there been: ireat aeriai lt ttles fou~gh upI thenr bet weenl Iihmtary air sai] i n-e armis t hat have :at t imecab h-et '.heir hibindy fragments upifon th: on th enrIhI ;anywhieret must: lhav tine up' lrom it someitwlhr else. Biu Ith I ":. .di dlVon" toryV dloes no I'r i~rier i-alls; it, *.ives: a wx ip hi'h r ien thei athlor cites his au Ithoity, v. iounw. <bite mat page' an fori th' moat :'art t hieV are takeni frer E and our Future~ saving is someth'ing that mU kno'w. rogressive mfonley savmwg r r'ce of these whose p)erson -and~ those who ear'nest necy saved. T~hereC is not )f Manning "ROTT, President ZON. Cashier ola bottle has been nd rinsed, it is autom r. A continuous sti 3s along the endless hful inspector reno' re it reaches the fille or Chero-Cola's crowing p None So Good". Red Sunsets, Blue Moons. 1 ( onistriate the scientific method of explaniation take for instanwe, those red sunsets anml blue moons umat oc (urreId in 188; and for several yea is aftervards. lIFour honred andi niatty two li-ges of at report. of the loyal so ciety vere given to denumstrate that they were caused by the eruption of the volcano of Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sumla, which occurred Aug. 28, 1883. But the red sunsets rl blue mootins occurr'ei seven years af tAi' hat a nI within that seven years there was an interval of severnl years in which they disa.ipptearedl. What becamee of the volcanie dust in those years? And then t the Anual IRegister and KnowleIge are ttuioted It show that the s: ne at mospheric efel ts were seeni in Tirini dul at short ti lme befon- the )sopr p ion :tnl in Natal, South :\frica, as lon ' :is six mnthls i foret Krakatoat blew its heal oil. \Nmeous inutanc~es atre vv of a t ::t falls of yellow ;ah.M;;ur~es muu~ thte narth of, an app.m-y tt: e tra miiul hote cimracter. The scient ists saidl they\ \V w tn :-nows' t loreI wi-h tail!b-n. Nevrthele.;s the .lunthiy W\e:ther lRe i! . .liar, 1>,7-7, re n t d a cable.n v-I Io fal oif lebi~rmo- ->7. 187,. at p. -r Ih aerniny. i-i whi'h li ki imn matiitir inu t ha-imels iislbn(- ik tt b'ti C h te r m l-roi a subs'tace, retlilish yellow, that tX-ll a i pipi tit les amouan in: le-t inuirb; e ftis) e of~~y1j tnin l a m t i S in, \pri 30, hi-y I adlay itti _ ih abizeda l li eu "tiw- "odt I no -lo itae it thiel anim:i. h bi lie if or Iofte ia M a itt: inil i -- d \i~ti it:i o f his e ta l it (;.lo s .. I '- !i iii , It ari h 1.1.oi8s : w ,i- e i of ti h i inb -n - as -I c ol iia bie. l. l'r tssu bl taen ra. tl diu ot'yh. t Iknown lasiile on n arkhhhnk ~iw e coi -coi-~nts of(- ahs fallui ylow unh fill ini ireland, Mlay h-h, 18-Itt, over a 1 - i'triut -ii mile-s squiariei; ai::ani mi " \p il. 1857. saain in Oc-tober,- 190i7. 'It ii tnel in lh - a ir." Thi.- riunt itt-ic - ifhmition -r was t hat cam-ei furomn -liiib - ef rotifoum the iimnf-tuimea townii of i n--uri antI W: h-s. lIut how abitit the "hoiwersi- of blaick rains, as lbla-k - s ink." thaut f-Il ini S~tw-ir imd .Iant *I ('ap if G on.! I ipe, fur ir-i'-'ed fromui I l~i i--ins, tirrifying ''rains of loil,"' as they were calledl, have lb-en -kiowno I iturii as fir back is thie wi-bIiu:-ms naiy, as far laek a C -io--nris Ii ime. when Ithey "drI uizzled "hbood upnI t- capjitl." Ited saintd dst- fiiom the Siharta, the s-ieiitists sayI' this us. Noivembher 12 aind 18, l902 it iruie r-S muii. auccordting toi the' I \onithiv Wealtheir lteview, iiillians oif 1ton- oif it,- ini Tasmaia. Sever-al harts of Europile were drenched with the i.i red str in F"ebruar-y, 1 903--for sev i.irl idev- theii south iif Iltandhit wa-s a g iliiumpin'y gi-riund, frinn soumewhere up ifibove. htlotody rains fell, too, in Ire-. ] landi andii Scotlan rd. The st-i-nt ists still r stuc k to t he Sahara theory. Hut then, II when Oine (of the red raIns fell in copi -v 5 .. '' 3oflhed, eam Of chap n, Ices any Hr 4 IOUS (fldaltit 'ii neatr the coaist o1 N(..\\ fouini1 tnd in 189.0, the editor Of the oln t hi \ We:i ther Rev iew says: "It1 'AOIti4 he4. Vt-tVy rIt'I1;ll( et if this wats, Siahara duist." Blesides, tihe S-1h1111 dust LA white, lnt red. And wvhat about I hatI redd~ish s in;tatnte, "'thick, vis.ous11 anid' plutrid,'' that fell Mllarcl 17, III~I; in the towni of Chat iilon-sur-Seine, andI Iflose 4.'Oiu(t5 Itakci; oI :t sutistatnt tha~t look~ed Tike4. heel' fell front1 a 41 t sky~ at Olympian Springs. Bathl t'll)1 t I\y .tiarc 11 'II 3,, i$iti, r'1'tt i "1 a lthe Sicientitit' :\nl'ictn, \"d.,1. np I9- S~k' of 'hel , li)( s ize ()I" all What11 1)o) .less-eIntters' M1ean? IIt he4.re airc Slte Iva t'41 )s:jt'Wi'c. r ill) Ill tho(ste inltter stella h sp'ac des----orI else Cl' ret' I tIihle 1,." tihe ' .1what fil 4 I4-t- clit dFC1 iht.11111" 1tI " t ' l i'l~l' Ia llllilt hl:":1 1 1sat by tt crowdi~t of i ii iii I 44 4n, 1t44 t 44 1), tlt Si - (4 &'i.- the' .11 :<(11 - ' 4 ( Ie of4 ''1144 l~l( 11. 114 4 th la k t) dlb o,1''-' a A 44 t :-1, \ 14t of Ii i 4i ne i iI''It'j44tca . 1':it (t Ii1 1-(t41 . r "'lI l (1 : 14 .loin t i. t i 4'1 lI : n Ia: o ti-ill t . It i4l -. %OF v , ,t s ; 1 upr.ds . We h the pAst ted iagofti mat a e o th s n teprices have adv c past week it is si pared with oth< Get ou-rcs1 MANNIN Ca/aiedCrrI ~II We Are thi~He;wa ~i ()n 1 q atites~i fiero S ae o ths his ms<rtate1 wepst wert s I a red wi!!!!!ith t b~ti Bredetors pofe ~MANNING .C the bark (liii nkenbierg, 'I'hui :leistoiics, pate 10)., A COWwas1) killedl by what, looked like I ightIil jag at G uernsey, TIhe peasnt whoii ownte th 114cow (1lg up the ait.(4ii at1 the spoit and' fun~d :t smiooth '' '(ee I: tne a xe.'' A real round1 eI d at meeting of the Royal M et('or'( i~pical 1socy l by C. ('a tttus-W ilson. It wv:ts a hallI of "h'Iiai 1'fc: L1-gpinhi; ls uay azt, I)(iUt. lilt size if :1 e'oii~auj t, that. h ad n mile (iwI Out of th e sky and kille'! a lot of' shieepia ('::stertoa1 \Wt'st no'eIamd. the aul ~tho of "The Poo,; If thle I )arn ed," "what doi they ittir: Innltaril 11ttit of this earth'' :\tt 'ia; ti 'orninlil on iate ?" :\ 1( herie a1U( aural~ thing- that lioot, lilae reauI ntU(.'SS)s. *'yra idl sll-ap "Ii $t')1)(S'' otia o ti t' sky i't' Ielij( 1 by the ris (asheclt.ll one 2 tt 'Ii, ot)her at. ;giiwiit'lee, JlniiI., ?iianh I~ I 1:8. 1l'h rounded ((11.!1 of tle' jillt mi ;r,- sharpily maarked b lil: tint4 ilt lhla(I crust as if by a mule,"P say: D r. 11., I 'in. I it tfiiIt itie .\ oer: - (':ll Sipltijilier 1(0, 199)0, (In 1les I. .,ile1 tl r -II inito the Valley of the Y q i. t)":11, ;n l p(1 p in i it. is -(471 f,, n; 1it(00 1is (itlir with 111 :t rir 1(1 . tl.1 1 adl( htshi'sz. 1{1 i-ks if itj ... a favoriti missiles oif r,' att l),-rlixsluir-' i. l>teattl 'M y 12. 1811, rise if l4:I'nllifts at Ihingalore. India. Mi'.- 22. 18511: a masns wenthint' 80) latlkd wa. (-IIuike:l ilowa1 by some1 ('ill li':ln ice 11a11 lrt11 i4iiI I sky near ali1i6. Kh-s.. :Amnyiist, . 8 awl a1 hui.i bink "ats Iti'; as ati tit-pl i t.'' was4 re poted cml finn Si~tlthi 1. Ini a. In :n r ,- -- (4v. W ila- .\ a ztiui:;, 2( ntli~ linl \ie l iii i, a filled o loon t-(114441 at Ross liidI ii'ai l'c, atit of 1 itnt \\i!=mn yestierday..\ nl lane:;i(- :1i1i41 nios \Vete itiel h-aselhir~nt the t i'ttik b.": sldir :ol-. A I\I)VRCl SE I N' THE,; 'I'1 NI1 4 rquari-ers for r SoU-1da rn ten tons and ye sold during s a large ton rial, and while trced during the ? Al cheap corn '.r arnmates. ti