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‘PAGE SIX THE DALLAS POST FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938
|THE TREND OF THINGS] Te es a
THE HISTORY ar
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OF LUZERNE COUNTY
By H. C. BRADSBY al
| (Readers will enjoy Mr. Bradsby’s quaint,
paranthetical remarks more if they keep in
Chom | mind that he was writing this history of
WL fling * Go | Luzerne County forty-five years ago, and
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TnL Yi refers tol conditions as he knew them, not
Bo Al =) as they are in 1938.) —EDITOR
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“Can You FIND ATLEAST 10 OBJECTS
BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER RR” Sy
IN THIS SCENE 7 MIKKORS ARE GOING |} The name “Indian” came from the discoverers Y
Tn {of this continent, who did not know it was the
Re ater a i >
5 FOR 7936... PANORAMIC | Western Hemisphere. Their place in history that
IE YOU REARRANGE [treats of civilization is a negative one. The race
THE LETTERS YoU
WILL SEE WHAT
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| 2 BY-PRODUCT OF A | : when we found it in the thirteenth cefitury was
CAMERA INVENT ION- ‘mentally petrified, and the only good thing it could
THIS NEW TYPE MIRROR {do the Wii was to pass out of existence as Gi.
‘as possible. ir of
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ee TE gf SEE WHAT WILLIE QEWR @ A : Fate so ordained that it stood in the path of
FIRST LETTER FROM. 207.0 I 0 WALL MI RROR WILL the ever-advancing, bloody and all-conquering white
! ili 22.9 fr 9 REF LECT ALL VI EWS a man. The svg had no history, and had ¥ re
9 The a’ I mained here undisturbed indefinitely he would have
18 E 2 SzayoNnBLe lo J = we < fa, SIMU LTAN EOUSLY ‘made no more than the same idle, childish tradi-
be——mtemmpmenCopyright | Lincoln Newspaper Features, inc 2 sips C.B4Y 5* tions that he possessed when Columbus first sighted
lour shores.
He was in the act of dying out when we found
thim, and it is probable that the white man’s coming,
THE POOR MAN | | with all its supposed wrongs to these forest children,
LOST ONE OF HIS | £ 5 N SN LOOK DAD, THERE S 3 [tended far more to prolong that people's existence
LEGS AND HE HAS £ A - 3 P COR WITH A lon the earth than to hurry them to unmarked graves.
TO HOBBLE ALONG | EB LLL . ] = WOODEN LEG Il : | He was but:a filthy cannibal, and the seeds of decay pe A
ON A eohEn were within. No lengthened existence on earth
would have ever caused the Indian to invent soap,
the lever that lifts mankind from the wallow to the
purer air and sweeter sunshine. If his nature had
ever possessed possibilities of good they had given
way many generations before we knew him to the
baser heredities of the serpent and the ferocious wild
beast. In these he was caked and mentally was pe-
trified—cunning, cruel, hopelessly and helplessly
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ignorant.
The only history there is of the American
{ Indians of any intelligent interest now to us is the
short story of their contact with civilization and
futile struggles to beat it back or to live in new and
strange environment. The Indians built no mounds
DASH DIXON : is By Dean Carr | nor enduring pyramids for after-coming races to a
= STREAKING THROUGH SPACE GOOD GOSH, DOCTOR, THE | | wonder at and construct imaginative stories of their
AT A TERRIFIC SPEED; DOT,DASH HEAT IS GETTING | numbers, wealth and evident advancement; they 4
AND DOCTOR OZOV ATTEMPT , TERRIFIC #/ ISN'T THERE i HURRY, | proposed to leave no traces for future archeologists &
TO OUT-DISTANCE THE FIERY # SOME THING — Ad DOCTOR! DOT | to hunt for their “lost arts.”
; pny a Je LACE § x fi : IR Ean ] | While this may be disappointing to the delver
; : , oe Se | in the musty kingdom of the dead yesterdays, to the
as Za NO, I M2 | more practical philosopher it reveals the best thing
: T M ; : gg os |
: Ee oY ; “ AAFRAID ‘ (ascertainable of the Indian’s nature.
‘ c+ > hm | He was his own master; he loved his liberty
j | better than his life; he was not and would not be a
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: ote i = “| |slave. That is the pre-eminent mark of the Indian
ESPHE SPACE SHIP IS NOW | character. You might cage him and so you might
A SEETHING OVEN? THE |the eagle, while neither could be made to do base
DOCTOR'S FUEL HAD BETTER | service, both would die of broken hearts. “Born in
I WORK ’ THERE ARE ONLY VERY the wilderness, rocked on the wave,” he would be f
: : I free.
! FEW SECONDS TO LIVE 2% :
} Between death and a task-master he had no in-
| stant of hesitation in his choice. Some need of gen-
i uine admiration is'due to the wild savage here. It
By Richard 4 | was that deep-seated love of liberty that is the most .
IF THE HOOKED HANDS MOB THINK NO TRACE OF THOSE YELLOW | = LARRY! GET ME THE FASTE G ennobling trait in human nature. He possessed a ~ »
THEY'VE SCARED ME BY PLAGNG THIS | BSL RATS OUT THERE! FINE 14 RATHER ATTEND TO THOSE WHITE “THE "HOOKED HAND" AND HIS | no miserable fetich. His god lived across the moun-
CORPSE BEHIND MY DOOR, THEY'VE ACCEPT THEIR CHALLENGE
GOT ANOTHER THINK COMING! AND HERE T GO
NOW TLL TEAR AFTER THEM
HARDER THAN EVER
BELLIED SNAKES ALONE! IVE | B¥ GANG OF BLOOD-THIRSTY CUT [i
GOT A HUNCH THAT'LL BRING HOVE| BE THROATS ARE IN FOR! WHEN
THE BACON AS SURE AS Tm ALNE!| Yl T FINISH TRS SOB ON HAND 4
DON'T WORRY, CHIEF, TM PREPARED) i TREY'LL WISH THEY WERE
© FIGHT FIRE WH FIRE sno J [Wl NEVER Born Ev
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tains and was a great hunter and warrior, who
would welcome every brave as a brother hunter in
| the land of plenteous game. He constructed his god
| after his own fashion—a fellow hunter and never a
| master.
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CPR YOUVE GOT! NO; THANKS, I'D WHAT A SWEET SURPRISE a | | religious faith, but crawled upon his belly before 0)
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| struggles and trials of the conquering race that
| came and possessed this now rich and teeming land.
The mammoth, the mastodon and the huge hairy
{elephant once roamed over all this continent. There
| were, too, here lizards, so enormous of size that we
|can now merely conjecture their outlines. The re-
mains of the hairy elephant with long curling tusks
| | were recently found in Siberia where they had re-
| mained frozen in the ice for thousands of years, the
w | flesh so well kept that the dogs ate it readily when
{uncovering the remains. All these monsters were of J
tropical habitat. The species passed away, so did Bl ~{
the unknown races of men. Human, animal and °°
veketable life in kind and species come and go with BA
the fleeting ages and the slight traces of existence of ’
that we find are only of the most modern who pre-
| cede us. Our vision backward is short and uncertain,
| before us is the dark wall jutting up against our very
noses.
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By H. T. Elmo
KNEW i
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GAME IN THE WORLDS
MAM LONG
EANING “SPARROW “IN CHINESE.
Z IT WAS INVENTED BY A
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AMERICAN
ND ve 1 LIVED DURING | : But antedating all this, varied human and
3 THE TIME OF | animal life were the infinitely more powerful factors
FiRsY CONFUCIUS {in shaping the world’s destiny—the glaciers that
TO USE | ground their way over this continent—the world |
INVITATION builders, fashioning the face of the earth prepara-
CARDS! THEY tory to our occupancy. |
BURNED THEIR
WHEN A WOMAN WAS INTRODUCED
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TO A MAN IN PERSIA DURING THE :
We can liken these wonderful ice movements
MESSAGE ON || : ice
BUCKSKIN A MIDDLE AGES, SHE ALWAYS KISSED | to nothing so well as the world’s finishing sand pa:
AND SENT 0 THe oo ec ig on Ben |] per—the mere polish of a round world by the hand ki
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RUNNER 2 Y Ie YL , 5 | This, then, was the real beginning of the His-
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