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it is a matter of much doubt, but that these appel-
lations should be changed. Geology is the most
ancient of all history—the history of mankind is
the most modern, because of all life man was the
last to appear from the womb of time.
ORAW A LINE FROM
2 70 79 AND SEE WHO
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R OYIYPFIND 10 WRONG {f. THE HISTORY
2 V7 7 S SO INTERESTED IN HIS ROLE
Ge ae ra ATHINGS IN THIS NA CARTAN MGM's * MAN PRGDE" THAT HE [5
§7 8 0 ag GOOF Y GRAPH NOW STUDYING ART WITH A PRIVATE TEACHER, * OF LUZERNE COUNTY
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A £9 ef. SA Lim + i -, (Readers will enjoy Myr. Bradsby’s quaint,
eT h 6 SE CY 18 7h paranthetical remarks more if they keep in
: $0 . mer 24° y . 2 mind that he was writing this history of
i °
: 5%. i Luzerne County forty-five years ago, and
A $7, 0 ee 25 refers to conditions as he knew them, not
JH $3, > Ry } Mas 6, as they are in 1938.) —EDITOR
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; go tT ge 48 a ; We call our continent the new world simply !
: : Yo 35, 2 Pt / / : because it is new to us.
: 7 3,2 36 hi / Bi (WHO SAID HE NEVER: . :
1 | ; y A JS 7 by WOLD SING AGAIN IN Both geologists and archaeologists tell us that
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Evidences are scattered across the continent
CAREFULLY SELECTED A NEW & hit th ;
YOU \ TEN Nall JAPA BLT ken SHE t at there were peoples here before the native In-
£h OF THE WORD 0BTECTS dians. One certain and probably two other dis
0 IN THIS HUNG IT UPSIDE DOWN! tinct races. They are lost to history, whether one
ALPHRBET/CAH Tp L Y
SCENE P : CoN o THE 2 IC)
LEARNED To ACT BY IMITATING
TTT FAMOUS ACTORS BEFORE A MIRROR
or many.
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Wg
Coepyrichs 193 Lincoln Newspaper fedlutes 100
The Mound Builders must have been a nu-
merous race that were dead or dying people prob-
ably before the pyramids or the Sphynx were built.
They covered this continent and to this day the
‘works of their slave-lives are seen in the systems
LITTLE BUDDY
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a bes LEY: ET A BARGAIN, BUDDY! TOO, 50 IT'LL SCRATCH kb of great artificial mounds that we can trace from Pik
a sas n i! cor TLL SCRATCH OFF go OFF THE OTHER HALF ‘northern Canada, running southeast and along the w.
TE DIE 3 LOANED HALF OF \T, TO SHOW Ji SO NOW WE'RE whole of North America and the penninsula into To A
= a 3 ERR i m YA THE KIND OF E ‘South America. And of these innumerable hosts,
5 =
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Bunliy -
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with many evidences’ of considerable civilization,
not even a trace of tradition has been passed down
Ie us.
|
Whether this numerous people so long held
| together by some form of organization—a form
that had a controlling head that enslaved the mass-
es, and finally broke up into warring factions and
became the builders of the fortifications, with skill-
| ed engineers to plan and lay them out as we can
| dimly trace the remains, and thus hurried all to
mutual destruction, or whether the unco: ered cities
|and remains of public works and these extensive
(forts and places for military defence were from a
(new and distinct race succeeding the Mound Build-
! | ers, we are left to conjecture.
GOOD GOSH 7 IT'S THE ¥
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DASH DIXON
b-——— MOOT AND DASH AND
DOCTOR 0OZOV ARE NOW
SPEEDING THROUGH SPACE
TOWARD JUPITER TO
RESCUE THE DOCTOR'S
DAUGHTER —
YOU CAN REMOVE THOSE
SPACE HELMETS/ THE
SHIP 1S EQUIPPED WIT
i OXYGEN Jom
BOY! WHAT A RELIEF
TO GET RID OF ALL THAT J
EQUIPMENT / el
WE SHOULD
THE VICINITY
( OF JUPITER WITHIN
{) A WEEK, IF NOTHING |
HAPPENS / 4
PDASR 7 DOCTOR 77
Lae 7P TOR AN GIANT COMET! IF WE
ENORMOUS BALL OF GET CAUGHT IN THAT TAIL OF
FIRE APPROACHING | FIRE WE WILL DISAPPEAR /
US WITH TERRIFIC / ;
l eer
History is but agreed fiction, but there is much ;
| realism in the fiction, while here all evidences of » A
| peoples, of civilizations, powerful society organiza-
[tions that rose, flourished and passed away, con-
4 cerning whom we have no tradition. All life is but
IS TOg |swift change. The centuries chase each other as
E ITA, the ripples on the water: national life grows old
¥ land dies, plunging into the river of tinte like the
| snow-flake. Slowly and painfully civilizations are
builded, every step marked by the blood of its mar-
|tyrs; every age by its wars for glory and for pelf.
| There is no day nor time with nature, while with
all else it is but birth and death—the very change
that is life itself,
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RACING A COMET 7777
IT'S EITHER SUCCESS ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS
|
In Luzerne County there exist some remains
(of ancient fortifications, which appear to have been
| constructed by a race of people very different in
their habits from those who occupied the place
when first discovered by the whites. Most of these
ruins have been so much obliterated by time that
OR DEATH //
CONTINUEDD
DETECTIVE RILEY
= THAT CONFESSION
~— AND THATS = PUTS THE END ON
WHERE You'LL ==
§ THE 'HCOKED HAND"
FIND MY BOSS.
TWO HOURS LATER ~~
SURE, You \N DET. RUWLEY'S HOME. ....
AIN'T PULLIN
A BND PIS MOBY < I WONDER WHO their forms cannot now be distinctly ascertained.
THE " HOOKED # oa Gra HOME ot THAT could | That which remains the most entire is situated in
J HAND"— TS Sen a ar © ET | Kingston, upon a level plain on the north side of
ky THE oye SER. hy TRB Fol THE Toby's Creek, about 150 feet from its bank, and
FINISH BD A ID We about half a mile from its confluence with the Sus-
Aci : = si quehanna. It is of an oval or eliptical form, hav-
= = [30 a ing its longest diameter and its shortest diameter
|
from tht northeast to the southwest 272 feet wide,
opening toward the great eddy of the river into
which the creek falls.
A GRM WARNING OF
DEAT for REY.
HO PLACED THIS DEAD MAN
Whe BEHIND THE DOOR 222
From present appearances it consisted prob-
ably of only one mound or rampart, which, in
height and thickness, appears to have been the same
on all sides, and was constructed of earth, the plain
on which it stands not abounding in stone.
11111] TET POE EERE LT ARERR ERA
On the outside of the rampart is an entrench-
ment or ditch, formed probably by removing the Nt | py
Re
FACTS YOU NEVE
Toe ANCIENT
EGYPTIANS TIED
UP THE BRIDES
HAIR AT THE
FREEDOM
AND ENGLAND THERE ARE
Hl MOTHERS WHO BELIEVE THAT
8 THEIR CHILDREN WILL GROW up
TO BE THIEVES IF THEIR NAILS
ARE CUT BEFORE THE FIRST YEAR.
ETT
LIPS OF BOTH SEXES
THE BELIEF THAT IT
In NEW ZEALAND, THE
ARE DYED BLUE, IN
THEIR | AZ
BEAUTY |
OR PLEDGE OF
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STRANGERS AS A TOKEM #
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earth of which it is composed, and which appears
never to have been walled. The creek on which
|it stands is bounded by a high, steep bank on that
side, and at ordinary times is sufficiently deep to
admit canoes to ascend from the river to the forti-
fication.
ye When the first settl to Wyoming thi
CONCLUSION OF Dm, EE en the first settlers came to Wyoming this
THE 77
| plain was covered with its native forest, consisting
WEDDING | principally of oak and yellow pine, and the trees
CEREMONY WA ) WZ Rll eT A z { which grew on the rampart and in the entrench
TO SYMBOL ZE Wi y = Ny > {Ment are said to have been as large as those in any
THE : 2 : A i Ae [other part of tht valley. One large oak particular-
LOSS Sz" Ze PARTS == ay I es (ly, upon béing cut down, was ascertained to be
OF LER GERMAN
|seven hundred years old. The Indians had no tra-
{ditions concerning these fortifications: neither did
‘they appear to have any knowledge of the purpose
for which they were constructed.
! (Continued NeXt Week)