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PHILLY TARGET? made many forget that he was once a con­ observing their reactions. Funny - he never DOUBT was described "by scientists" as siderable poet and fire-spouting rebel. Early did see the similarity between himself and brilliant (bolide) in many years'' in life, he had sublime self-confidence and those monkeys. It never occurred to him T;h�· Fortean Society Magazine in the sky to the east of Philadel ­ a grand ·impatience with all Philistines. that they had objections to being stuck with Because publishers could make no money Edited by TIFFANY THAYER phia "a few minutes after 3 o'clock thi� needles full of infection - for the good (10-21-45 from his books they rejected them, but of their jailors. But a beneficent god pass­ Secretary of tile old style) morning." Which re­ calls a similar occurrence on the morning of De Casseres had the courage to print them ing that way was not so blind as Dugan, FORTEAN SOCIETY 5-4-45 old style at 3:38. The May meteor himself, in the face of widespread popular and when he saw what the Conscientious Box 192 Grand Central Annex got much more publicity than this one in scorn for that practice. He employed no Objector was doing to the helpless monkey, "vanity publi�her", nor was his motive vain. New York City October, although judging from the above �e let a scratch admit the virus into Dugan's data it was the smaller of the two. Also - Read anything he wrote before 1925 to system - and kill him. I93I A D = the year I F S regarding this later arrival - "The meteor taste the salt he was made of. Your Secretary does not know the name appeared at the crest of a three-night mctEw You will find many contributions in the .)t the god who managed this bit of blind We use the Fortean I3-month calendar shower." (Orionids? Ed.) Cr Bloch. old Smart Set. H. L. Mencken knew his just1ce, l)llt he offers to touch off one votive merit. And De Casseres was one of the light c.f respect to the deity, what ever his Membership available to aU BRONX MIRACLE first to recognize the quality of Fort. They nan•t, immediately upon indubitable iden­ Annual dues $2.00 Coverage of the doings of 9-year-old corresponded, and De Casseres wrote his tification. Joseph Vitolo, Jr., who says he sees "the essay- Charles Fort: the Puck of Mysticism In ENGLAND address Virgin Mary" £rom time to time has been out of a great feeling of kinship for a SAME PAPER Eric Frank Russell adequate. For the benefit of members who brother poet-prophet. 44 Orrell Road, Orrell have seen no photograph of this erdgeist, -When the Fortean Society was founded All newspaper accounts of What-is-it Liverpool we report that all he lacks is a pair of (1931 = the year IFS), De Casseres hunts are written by the same man, whether horns. The infant Panurge must have had refused to participate, under the misappre­ it is for the N. Y. Times, the Toledo Blade, DOUBT is on sale in principal cities eyes like that. In twenty years he'll be the hension that "joining" implied discipleship, the Chicago Daily News or the Paris edi­ of the world at 25c per copy. Ask your wag of his regiment. and he, of course, would be no man's tion of the South African Herald. This bookseller to get it. omnipresent writer is just under twelve CONCHY SPECIALIST disciple. In refusing, he assured Fort of DOUBT is in principal Publi c Libraries, HFFS his unfailing affection; and many times, years of age, slight l y sub-normal mentally, and many universities have complete files. As you drive through the beautiful Ever­ since, in his Hearst columns, he urged Fort suffering under the delusion that he is a ERIC glades, hook your tarpon off Fort Meyers, comical wit. He covered the Geezil-the­ Ask us for list of back numbers still upon his readers. play checkers at St. Petersburg or get cock­ Weasel story, and thousands of others - available. FRANK The Society is now negotiating with the eyed in Palm Beach, you may forget to De Casseres estate, in the hope of publish­ all facetiously, all disarmingly, all to pre­ RUSSELL have an attitude toward the disposal ot ing the Fort chapter of Raiders of the vent public panic. Searching out facts black sewage in the neighborhoo:.l. It wants Absolute together with the Fort-De Casseres which may be submerged in columns of To prick a swollen one disposal to prevent contamination of Florida unfunny flapdoodle is a boresome h.u siness correspondence. . in the belly, I call water. - but must be done . . . This time it:"s good pastime. Building privies is one way that helps, "Montie the Monster". In the Sheep's Hill Nietzsche CONFIDENCES RESPECTED of polecat. What with this, and Truman's HEHR ON GOLD HILL and under WPA some of these were erected. section of Pennsylvania, five miles north of ill-timed demand that Jews be exported to recentl y Conscientious Objectors have Any U. S. Navy personnel who have Pottstown, something which "(a) screams Practi Palestine ad lib (while British troops pay cally everybody has heard put to the task. participated in voyages with mysterious, like a panther, (b) barks, like a clog (c) John Litster's plot near Gold Hill, 01 RUSSELL IS OUT ! the price in blood-letting) has, I'm sorry to are proud of the Fortean membership unknown personages aboard (not as pris­ wails like a banshee and ( d) 1 laughs like The American W eel?Jy has noticed it, oners), destination Tampico, Havana or The best news on this desk in three say, caused somewhat of a reversion from ' these toilers in the vineyard, and a hyena," had been - on II-14-45 old we have mentioned it before. The p e­ Buenos Aires, in the last year of World years is that HFFS Eric Frank Russell is wartime pro-Americanism. There has been t of Werner Janney. Werner (called style - raiding hen houses and "snarl ing nomena described arc very similar to if not Fraud II, please send complete details to out of uniform! Mrs. Russell has worked a slight drift of sentiment away from the "Casey") is so literate that his course - at children coming home from school" for identical with those on display in "crazy Your Secretary. Your identity will be held valiantly through Eric's absence to keep the American world-policy and toward the Rus­ since the reinstitution of slaver y in the the previous ten days. houses" at big city amusement parks. in absolute secrecy. Society from slipping back in Great Britain, sian world-policy, a fact that our scheming United States - can be followed by a broad The journalistic insistence upon taking it The first MFS to report upon a visit to Members who would recognize Mussolini, and many members have doubled their own diplomats are finding extremely embarras­ trail of pamphlets. Wherever he goes he all lightly assumes this form in lieu of de­ the place was Albert E. Page, who found Claretta Petacci, Hitler or his alleged mis­ efforts, to keep data flowing, to distribute sing in their efforts to make common cause sets up a Camp Magazine. The latest, scription: "Those who claimed (sic) to evidence to support the Pagian Vortex "27 tress, are urged to be alert in Barcelona, THE BOOKS, and to increase the member­ with Americans against Russian finaygling called F" after the number of his unit, have seen Montie (sic) described him in theory, of which you read something in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Hollywood and ship, but without the spark plug it was a - it's unfortunate for said diplomats that is the best, and it contains the information odd shapes, various colors and a hodge­ issue No. 5 of this family journal. The 1-1 Moscow, for a sight of any of them - and shoulder-to-the-wheel kind of progress, halt­ armed intervention against Russia is now that an "installation" which required podge of features ...It was agreed, how­ latest is Frederick G. Hehr, who reports 3 4 report. ing, limping, slow. likely to precipitate something that can't man-days under WPA is made in · man­ ever, that he possesses a most magnificent that he "came prepared to check on abber­ The Last Three Days of Mussolini, in the Now he's out - and our mail is no be stopped in this country, and even more days under CO. Of course, the men were tail ." Cr Farnsworth ations of gravity, but found a force which December Atlantic l\1/onthly, is too circum­ longer censored - so all kinds of British unfortunate that the Russians are aware of paid under WPA; the CO gets less than does affect s-ravity, but as a secondary or stantial by half. It is signed by one V. Lada­ Orthodnxy is warned to get out of the way. it and willing to take advantage of the fact. nothing. The booklet closes with this note, even tertiary effect." (Mr. Hehr employs PENINSULA PYTHON He writes: Your international ballup-the-works boys arc by Janney: "The writer of this article was Mocarski, a vice-president of J. Henry the term "gravity" as if it had some abso­ Shrocler Banking Corporation (sic!), and a A superior type of journalism was dis­ "So short a time at home isn't long now paying for past misdeeds along with not born with a flush toilet in his mouth. lute meaning with which he is conversant. former Colonel in the Office of Strategic played by Robert Bordner in covering the enough for me to formulate a worthwhile are our specimens of like ilk. They've cast As Woodrow Wilson might have said, he Probably he adopts this orthodox viewpoint Services (sic!). mysterious appearance of a "python" about report on the state of affairs over here: all their bread upon the waters and it's coming used open plumbing openly arrived at, until only temporarily and for a specific purpose.) Hitler has been reported seen in Cranston, 19 feet long near Peninsula, Ohio, summer I would say is that the country's in an back all wet. he got to college." "It is the focus of a force," he goes on, Rhode Island, by United Press, and in of I 4 F.S. The hunt and subsequent disap­ unrestful state of incipient revolution, with This is as fine a time as any for whole­ In a letter he discusses Floriel a politics, "which I have reason to suspect emanates Cairo, Egypt, by Reuter. pearance of the snake is summed up in the a pseudo-socialist government trying to put sale Forteanising, and I lick my lips when saying such things as might work hardship from a machine or instrument buried at "November 1945" Atlantic Monthly. Cr over Toryism disguised as reform, and with I think of it. This situation, plus a good upon him if we quoted it, and adding: this place in pre-historic time, perhap� pyrotic. Waring. the people pulling in the opposite direction, deal of· revulsion from orthodox science "I like the term What is the AND PATTON TOO ! caused by the manifest benefits of atom Atlantean or even extra-terrestrial origins." term for people or families susceptible to sometimes irefully. The Bank of England, Warren G. Dugan was born in this same bombs, is all to the hey-ho. (Mr. Hehr has before this reported upon falling stones, lithotics? And what is the MORE ANIMALS once the doghouse of the Big Bad Wolf, squirrel cage the rest of us still live in. "Joy! his personal acquaintance with inhabitants name for the one who receives the atten­ . seems to have been replaced by Wall Street, He didn't know it was a squirrel cage until At North Smithfield, Rhode Island, an of Ve nus.) tions of an ordinary poltergeist, as distinct and there are plenty of deep, dark sus­ "Eric F. Russell." unexplained armadillo, found (I1-28-45 P.S. Litster, too, is an MFS. from the out-door type ? There really ought some men in uniform tried to teach him picions that we are being sold across the old style) about 3:I5 p.m., crossing the BEST SELLER to be some all-embracing term for the per­ trick�. They wanted to dress him in a counter to your local cloak and dagger boys. highway with the green light! Cr Brooks son (adolescent girl ?) who is ' the center of monkey suit and send him off to kill - for There's more opposition to the American Wherever one goes in New York, accord­ ATHEIST ACTION In Chicago, I I -2-45 old style, a deer - any disturbance, whether she cracks her big the good of humanity - to protect other loan than our papers have cared to admit, ing to MFS Fred Keating, everybody is An impressive list of the leading lights a a buck - leaped into an auto show room, toes or entertains visitors from Pluto, who people from scourge. plenty of people cannot see any reason why reading Frank Fay is ivly Co-Pilot, by God. of Atheism in the United States are plan­ Dugan could not see it. He became a through the plate glass window : leaped out the allegedly huge and wealthy British like to shy stuff at her. Vortex?" WHAT KIND OF BOTTLES? ning an active campaign against organized Con:>Clentiom Objector. l-Ie was sent to :1 through another window - and led police Empah should have to go cap in hand religion. This appears to be the most OUR LOSS camp, and when opportunity offered, tram­ and boy scouts a mile-long chase for up­ begging for Yankee dollars, plenty think Pol tergeists or ugly neighbors had bec11 energetic group since the clays of l ng r · II, _ Benjamin De Casseres i� gone, :!1- ferreJ to an asylum as an order! y. From wards of an hour. Then it disappear ed . they�d like to see your compatriots told to hurling bottles at the horne of Harold Hick­ and �everal of its leaders arc Fo the last of the none-suches. Hoys :111d there he got something better, the post of Cr Fritz keep their money, and lots think that the man, Cheyenne, "for the last several nights," WRITE to "Temporary Committee", , of today know him, if at :111. as one laboratory assistant at the Yale School o( A two-inch fish - just the one fish - entire financial set-up is surrounded by a according to the Wyoming state Trihune of 27, Clifton, New Jersey ...Send no 1 rst's columnists, a book reviewer and Medicmc. His work was innoculating fell on the umbrella of a letter carrier, peculiar aura which to their nostrils smells Nov. 2I, I945 old style. Cr Bloch. - now - just write. uss. His flag-waving of late years has monkeys with the virus germs of polio, and I. J. Williams, Birmingham, Ala., 3-28-44 204 205

old style. Rain had been heavy for days. If it was a plane, it was one the like of n insuperable dread. "No," said he' WILL 0' THE WISPS ing to Reagan, his permission was not re­ the identifying and indicated that he might � The· fish lived in the man's hend for about which "the Swedish General Staff" never It the Interplanetary Exploration · en the ground is very moist" in quested, no explanation was offered, no ask U of Mich. to form a research e_xpcdi­ tion in Allegan County. (Also see Wombat 20 minutes. Identified by an amateur as of had seen before. and 1'11 come in, but not as long as s Southwestern Missouri Ozarks, ncar waiver was presented for his signature, no below.) a "salt water variety". Cr non-member An African native who could pretty we11 my name on it." ton, residents observe "strange balls ot opportunity given him to refuse. He had Residents of East Lansing saw a strange Bairnsfather substantiate an age of I 30 years died in Ever since, we have had the warmest light which float" over the swamps and not been in a hospital for twenty years and I igh t "in the general vicinity of the moon" An unidentified beast was roaming Wild­ Serowe just before 8-31-45 old style. He cordiality for the rocketeers, and kept tabs sometimes along the roads. Reports appeared had no idea what they meant to do to (roughly, up, you might say) and asked cat Hollow, near Latrobe, Pa., 9-8-45 old had been blind many years. on their progress here and abroad until 7-1 1-45 old style, in the Kansas City Times. him. "Had I known, I would have refused ...A spinal puncture is a major operation, police what it was (8-4-45 old style). The style. "About four feet tall, weighing Ioo Portugesc.children arc given airplane rides censorship interfered. Cr Merker. pounds, it broke up a corn-roast by leaping to cure whooping cough. "The method lias Now we arc delighted to announce that �nd a FORCED one is a criininal assault, police asked the Weather Bureau "experts", into the crowd" and grabbing two cars of proved successful in the Azores." 8-29-45 the President of the United States Rocket LOOK FORWARD by act of Congress." and after a "huddle" the police "came out unofficial ) corn"! Cr Hoernlein. old style. Society, the well known pioneer in this 1947 old style, the year 17 FS, should Reagan has been in one hospital or with an verdict" (Ed's italics that it was "Venus showing off". Doing a A monkey in Mrs. Mary Murray's kitchen, When Dr. J. W. C. Wand was confirmed field, R. L. Farnsworth, and one of the mark publication ot a sealed MSS deposited another ever since, and doctors have re­ strip-tease, no doubt. San Francisco, threw dishes at her, 5-30-45 Bishop of London, 8-22-45 old style, over vice-presidents, John M. Griggs, are mem­ in the Library of Congrcs� by Abraham ported disability from 30% to 75%. He old style, bit a cop and got its picture in I oo men in the audience shouted protests· bers of the Fortean Society, and wi11 thence­ Lincoln. Watch for i . was discharged from the Army 2-26-43 old "Thousands upon thousands" of what were "tentatively identified" by Dr. Robert the paper. Nobody questioned knew where and sang songs of criticism. lt did not forward be ou r liaison - transportation­ 1956 is the year the Phoenix ri�c::s again style, with a pension of "3o%". He has the monkey came from. stop the ceremony. been fighting ever since for 1ooo/o pension, C. Miller, of the San Francisco Academy of wise - with Luna, Mars, and points up. from the flames. · from the date of the puncture. All appeals Natural Sciences, as "monarch butterflies" FAREWELL TOUR Hammcrsprings Spa, in South Island, Farnsworth edits a quarterly for his New Zealand, was rocked by a quake, organization, Rockets, $4.00 per year. Ad­ EWEL FOUND have been denied, and he now places his flew in from the ocean near Golden Gate, We have had the last word on Pearl J Cr, which lasted 27 hours, according to Daily dress: 69 Duane Street, Glen Ellyn, Ill. While reading Reverend Joseph Berin.;ton only hope in an act of Congress to cover 9-28-45 old style. ( also, Merker) Harbor, the last last-word, and the abso­ Herald 9-1-45 old style. Probably he will report upon the recent (1750-I827), on the Literary History of the his case specifically. It is case No. C-3 On the twelfth of the same month, the· lutely last last-word. One is reminded of News VERBATIM: "Haunted house, at Brea­ "radar" high jinks in the columns of his l'viiddle ,Ages - this gem! ..." ...from q6 62!. Detroit announced that the orbit of Sarah Bernhart, Harry Lauder and others more, Hants, occupied by United States publication. No advocate of flight to Luna the time of Nicolas (Pope Nicholas V the planet Pluto is so eccentric that in 1989 who kept coming back and coming back for Army generals, has been returned to the could afford to scorn such an opportunity. Parcntucelli, d. 1455) to our own, with THAT CAMPBELL A D Pluto will be the eighth planet from years to make positively, absolutely last, the sun instead of the ninth. It will swing War Office. Herald 5-29-45 old style. For what it may be worth, however, we the single exception of Alexander VI .Ever on his toes, Jack Campbell, from final farewell tours. And every mother's in closer than Neptune. J. W. Fletcher, of Cremorne, New South pass along the observation of MFS Stevens, (Borgia) ...no pontiff will be .. named his home in Florida, sends a cutting from son of us in sufficient possession of our fac­ On 10-6-45 old style the same paper Wales, started standing on his head a few that such nonsense as the "Heaviside layer" whom we can justly load with the reproach the Orlando Sentinel-Star of Dec. 2, 1945 ulties to stay in out of the mid-day sun minutes every clay, five years ago. He has announced finding - by archaelogists (sic!) · and other "ceilings", which have been of. ignorance or of vice." old sty!�. _The salient portion occupies three knows full well that the last word on Pearl not had a cold since. - of a burial urn bearing the name "of "bouncing back radio waves" for ever so That's a WOW, son. A WOW, that is. columns, .between an item - STOCKS Harbor will not be made public until some Jesus" (the Christ is implied). It is about A "very old" rose bush in Newbiggin. long, must have parted like the Red Sea HAVE BANNER WEEK, and an ad for "natural law" makes the Official Wink, the time the schoolmen ca�· ne up with some which has never done anything of this kind to let "radar" thro1,1gh - round trip! STEIN IS STEIN IS STEIN cemetety lots in Woodlawn Memorial Park. Nod, the High Sign not only indelible and . concrete evidence for the Church. The pro­ before, put forth a branch which bore That's Gertrud�, of course. The afo"rtsa1cl �alient portion consists of a self-explanatory but admissable as evidence ponents of the Christ-was-a-myth argument seven red roses and one white one. 7-24-4::; In Life she wrote: "When General Os­ diagrarn plus mathematics, "squaring the..: as well. COLOR HEALING have been gaining ground with every war­ old style. borne came to see me just after the victory, circle" and somehow employing Holy Writ In words of one syllable, Pearl Harbor · . miracle published. Ants have taken complete possession of An all-woman jury in Brooklyn Federal he asked me what I thought should be (Daniel and Revelation) to create a "Form­ was agreed to by the potent of the United Lastly - the south magnetic pole is the village of Joane, Portugal. The popula­ Court decided (6-26-45 old style) to let done to educate the Germans. I said there ula for Nullification of Destruction" etc. States and Japan, in all personal friendliness, moving from the Indian Ocean toward East tion (under 200 persons) was compelled to ·the Government stop Dinshah P. Ghadiali is only 'one thing to be done and that is It's �Iii very atomic, signed by William as a necessary step in the development of London, South Africa. "It may require a evacuate 9-I 3-45 old·· style, London Times. from selling any more· of his "spectra­ to teach them disobedience, as long as· they Kendrick Hale,· and not one whit more World Fraud II, and the only "evidence" century or two (sic) for the pole to make St. Paul's is moving West, down Ludgatc chrome" machines. These machines obedient so long sooner or later they goony than anything else you have seen of the fact which ever existed was the Wink the trip." Hi11 "at the rate of about one inch every off colored light and were used to be ordered around by a bad man and on ·this subject. We are hard after Mr. passed. All above to the credit of LMFS Augusta hundred years." people feel better. will be trouble. Teach them dis- Hale and plan to stack him up against some Stetter, all from the Detroit News. 30 FIRES ONE WEEK Credit Elsencler for all the above. The use of colored lights in heal ience, I said . . General Osborne o'f the men who get paid for this sort of no new thing. One- recalls that Babbit ad­ shook his head sadl y, you'll never make The first fire started in a table drawer, thing. In fact, we conceive a Blindfold BEES vocated use of yel low light for a physic. the heads of an army understand that " Sunday night, 9-9-45 old style, in the home Test for higher mathematicians. We think Jimmy A11ison, 2, San Bernardino, Calif., ·Our MFS Faber Birren will cite you books of Mrs. Annie Bryan near Midland, Ark. that -not even the best of them can tell the GREEN MEANS GO was in a serious condition, I 1-14-45 old on the s.ubject for the past two or three POLIO FROM VACCINE By the following Friday "about thirty" difference between a . page from one of style, "from poisoning and shock" after centuries. MFS George Starr White M.D., According to MFS F. S. Hurd, who has Your Embattled Secretary, forced by the mysterious blazes had occurred, in curtains, their own books, and an artfully contrived being attacked by a swarm of bees. Cr has had wide experience in the field. He data on the subject, inf antile paralysis is of no import exigencies of that post to stand at a per­ wall paper, clothing, etc., etc. A barn page put together by a man Brackett. ill ustrates and describes some "fundamental caused by vaccination. In fact, Mr. Hurd petual cross-roads and attempt to keep burned down Wednesday, and nine fires who never studied algebra. We'll see. Swdrm� estimated to total I oo,.ooo bees work in colored music as a therapeutic has been telling people this for a long time, traffic moving, is called upon often to act were discovered Thursday afternoon. Mrs. took over the vi11age of Woodcliff Lake, agent" in his book, "Lecture Course to and has successfully fought legislation to as arbiter in questions of precedence. One Bryan had no insurance. Cr Wakefield, STETTER SELECTIONS N. J., 9-I6-45 old style, when a beeman Physicians, 7th Edition", and he "even make vaccination compulsory in several of these which has been awaiting publica­ Giles & Merker. tried to move them from a house to a hive. built a piano· so the rolls would play auto­ localities. If you want to krtow more about Archaeologists and geologists snappc..:d tion this good while concerns color. SKY BLAST At least 700 persons · were stung. No fatal ­ matically when cut, playing the music and it address P. 0. Box 191, Evanston, 111. back to normalcy all over the world with­ As a part-time painter, we have known Cr out apparent regard for the dilemma in that any color could be mixed from pans South of Great Pond, a lake which is 12 ities reported. Reagan. giving the color that corresponded to the Individuals injured by innoculations who Mrs. Isabella Mason, ae 64, of Manor which their physicist colleagues have be­ of red, ye11ow and blue (if one but had miles Southwest of Waterville, Maine, about theme." take their cases to court may obtain evi­ House, Leek, North Lancashire, was stung dence against the racket from this source. come embroiled.· A Russian party took off the patience), and as an observer of the I :45 a.m., 8-1-45 old style, a "terrific" Apparently it's all in the way you go by "a bee or a wasp", and died 15 minut (6-28-45 old style) for the Chukotka Penin­ human scene we have been aware that explosion in the sky followed by a bright es about it, because the Auroratone Foundation Pertinent is the death of 10-month-old later. At an inquest the verdict attributed twins "after they had received injections sula in Siberia opposite Alaska "to clarify scarcely any two people called colors (other light. The observer, Raymond Stickney, of America Incorporated, "Music in Color," death to pen1iciotts anaemia! Cr Elsender. against diptheria and many questions in connection with the pop­ than those three) by the same set of names. said i� rocked the earth. Cr Brooks. has a book fu11 of testimonials from hospi­ whooping cough from tals, the voice of Bing Crosby on its rec­ their family doctor". They were Garry and ulation of North America". Attention is Moreover, we never yet have met a female POWER GOING UP ords, and the names of at least two Jesuits Donald Miraglia, of · Jackson Heights, directed to theory of a land bridge between who did not know better than the next one Last issue we noticed, incidenta11y, that A col umn of water about 20 feet wide on its letter-head. One Cecil Stokes is the Queens. Daily News 6-20-45 old style. continents, there once, now sunk ...A. M. what colors every member of her sex could motors to utilize high explosives could and 100 feet high arose from the ocean impressario, but he does not sell his ma­ Private Butler, RAMC, �as forcibly vac­ MacGregor, "a (British ?) government ge:ol­ and could not wear. Next only after an have been perfected at any time since the (and ascepclecl into hea'ven ?) Oct. 31, I945 chines or charge fqr demonstrations. What cinated "against his wish and contrary to ogist" in the "remote" Sebungwe District extremely high arch, this amazing color­ invention of dynamite if those who control old style, "in the afternoon", between Cape he sells, or plahs tb, is fabrics or the color the King's Regulations . . . in the Anzio of Southern Rhodesia, reported (7-20-45 sense is the most nearly universal of all our economy had considered such engines Henry and Cape Charles, off Norfolk, Va., designs for fabrics '·made after the patterns bridgehead. The M. 0., Major Carson, was old style) discovery of two ancient lake feminine characteristics. · good for us. Pertinent too is the past according to J. Arthur Addenbrook and a music puts on co lor film. called on the carpet but got off without beds wherein were fossilized remains "of Aside from those rudiments, our familiar­ neglect of the steam-driven automobile. party of fishing friends. They thought it One is reminded of Thomas Wilfred and disciplinary action on the ple a that he had giant reptiles, fish and other fauna that ity with the field of color has been limited. Some places even have laws against their was caused by an explosion but no sound his "Art Institute of Light", which was the "acted in good faith". Reveille 7-3 I-44 old roamed ...Africa millions of years ago." \Vhen a question arose, we always referred use on the highways. Why? Is it because was heard and the Navy could not explain esoteric fad of the 1920s. Wilfred had style. Cr Elsender. Only a week before, a dredging crew it to MFS Faber Birren. Faber is the man the bugs couldn't be overcome by Yankee it even after investigation. Cr Reagan. built a "color organ", soundless, which Beatrice Cook, A TS, ae 24, died after working in a peat bog on the Dale Keith who showed billiard champs that they could ingenuity ? - or because water is so much "played" in response to pressure on a key­ being injected with a vaccine used against farm near Martin (near Allegan) Michigan, run higher scores on a purple cloth than cheaper to boil than gasoline to octane ? THE ROCKETEERS board. The colors were projected upon a typhoid. Daily Express 8-4-44 old style. Ibid turned up a jawbone three feet long, weigh­ they ever had on gre en, and the map who When we were founding the Fortean screen, falling in patterns the player could ing forty pounds, containing back molars put up yellow "black-boards" in our most FROM LABOURLAND Society, Charles Fort refused to join. We devise, and repeat at will. The "range" was ARMY STUCK WRONG MAN seven inches long, a section of spine three progressive schools. Notwithstanding these Something flew "at an unheard-of speed", wanted to name him Honorary President, limited only by the size of the instr the U. S. Army doctors at Fort feet across, a shin bone :1nd ribs, of wh:1t ::tchievemcnts, we have ever taken his dict:J about I o,ooo feet up, going South, over or to give him some..: other. ti tle, one es· and the ingc..:nuity of the "composer". ita! decided to puncture the spine was identified ::ts "definitel y" a mastodon. with more than a pinch of salt because of Vaesterbotten, Sweden, just before 7-9-4::; pecially calculated to remove all onus of Bartholmew R. Reagan, September, R. A. Smith, chief of the geology division his acceptance of the orthodox philosophy ever became of Wilfred ? We h 11 l\' old style: "shape resembled that of a bird." vanity or self-exploitation, of which he had heard from him or of . him in years. they didn't know their man. Accord- of the State Conservation Department did of the spectrum. To wit - that because 206 207

a beam of sunlight, intercepted by a prism, makes use of pigments and dyes or other total light remtsswn (all color bl RATTLERS TURN BLUE MOONS own shortcomings or seeking to take ad­ turned into a sort of rainbow, that "light" chemical influences to produce its manifold gether) and Black is total absorp vantage of their fellows'. In like wise one d's chillun in the tall anJ uncut who RqJoncd "only a few years ago" by in· per se was the sum of all the colors thus variations. absence of any remitted rays. may trace back every non-religious, "scien­ with 'nakcs, a' reported last issue, habitant� of Suva, Fiji Islands, that the "separated". That deduction has always tific", mechanistic explanation of the uni­ But in the last analysis, color becomes a The hues arc known as chromatic ors, the district to squabbling about whether moon rme a "vivid Blue". Kansas City Star seemed to us to be a good deal less than verse and its alleged "laws", to no-less-hu­ psychological sensation as it reaches the and pure or saturated hue has no black or it was legal or not. Coming under the heaJ ;-:•9-45· Further details arc being sought. necessary, representing - in fact - only man sources, and to equally selfish motives. vision and mind of the observer. It was thi� white content. White and black (and their of religion, nobody could stop the m, but Cr Merker. one of a score or more va rious inferences Thus, we atheists, who are the pure in aspect that gave Dr. Ostwald his clue to mixture into grey gradations) are known the Virginia State Police did kill some of J. Hugh Pruett, the Oregon Astronomer which might be drawn from the phenom­ heart, unpoisonecl by doctrine or dogma, the logical method of measurement and as ach romatic color, or color wit hout hue their snakes. who prefers God, wrote in his col umn enon. With only that somewhat basic reser­ unlamcd by awe for god or for professor, correlation to set up an organized system of content. These two groups arc simpl y two Scoffers said the snakes were not prime 8-13-44 oiJ style, that four bl ue moons had vation, we have let Faber Birrcn draw all take confidence from the example of men color identity and relationships. types of color. Pigment mixtures are neces­ specimens, that poison had been remo\'l:d. been reported in "the past five years"', and our color lines. who have lived before us. What man may To illustrate the relationship of color sary to produce surface color variations . fangs drawn, anJ the crawlers drugged that he himself had observed one "shortl y What, then, was our amazement to re­ Jo, man may criticize - perhaps improve stimuli to color sensations in the human in terms of the many tints and tones. before the services. after sunset on J uly 28, I g -t-t " - Cr Hoern­ upon. So that, when we observe the sky ceive a broadside attack upon Birren as a observer Ostwald sets up the following Nevertheless, Lewis E. Ford, a "lay" lein. To summarize: at night, over the dese rt or over the sea, color expert by a new member, Marie P. sequence, in terms of OPPOSITE sensations. preacher died of a bite, and so did Mr s. Ida Griffin of Hampstead saw one 2-21 -45 and elwell upon all the gods and hypotheses Sweet, who fired salvo after salvo to the In the visible spectrum, depicted on surfaces First step-selection of the fOUR funda- Anna Kirk, and her baby, delivered between oiJ style, and wrote to the London Times glory of Wilhelm Ostwald. Specifically, men have put forward to elate to explain by chemical pigments, there arc FOUR • mental (unmixed hues ..locatcJ a' the bite and the mother's death. Four of about it - "pale bl ue anJ duck green ." that spectacle, we are struck by the inad­ Birren was accused of not doing Ostwald outstanding chromatic or hue sensations opposites. the Bible thumpers were indicted on a Cr Elsencler. equacy of the entire lot. We arc inspired, justice. Not to be caught with our Fortean­ called fundamental (or unmixed) hue areas. murder charge then, 1 o-1 8-45 old style. Second step-mixture of aJjacent funda­ our own be half, to guess - and guess ism down, we volunteered to look into the From a subsequent mixture of these four Cr Reagan. on mental four hues to produce secondary MORE PRUETT again. matter, and offered MFS Sweet the oppor­ and the addition of white and/ or black, "I have never envied God his friends, links. Perhaps this is not the standar tunity to tell the membership about Ostwald ALL other variations are obtained. To nor he mine, perhaps." Ben Hecht. The astronomer mentioned above, a sort d view of Third step-mixture of white anJ black in DOUBT. While she was preparing her chart this progressive process in color re­ of poor man's Garrett P. Serviss, got a the atheist. The writer has no portfolio (achromatics) to produce grey gradations. from that clan. It is, rather, the view of a paper, we dipped here and there into Bir­ lationships we make a circle, placing oppo · VOLCANOS ACTIVE wh:1ck athwart his pantaloons in these (Eight of these gradations, at equal inter­ Fortean, embracing atheism without insisting ren's published work to see how Ostwald sites directly across from one another. Wave Ventura County, Calif., has a baby vol­ cobmn' some months ago, and by way of vals, are used by Ostwald). fared there, {lnd discovered this - in length measurements and psychological an­ cano, discovered 1866, quiescent for the retaliation asked Your Secretary to write a upon it. For instance, if the next man's guess ca lls for a new god, by all means Color Dimensions, by Faber Birren, Ig34, alysis determine correctly balanced opposites. Fourth step-mixtu re of white with hues past 10 years. 5-l 2-44 "a large section of statement of the Atheist's reason "for be­ p. 35= to produce lightest variations or clear hillside caved away" and the na meless waif lieving the universe Godless". The state­ let him be heard. So be his god is not indigent, neither beggar nor despot, nor "It has remained for Wilhelm Ostwald to TINTS. smoked. 4-6-45 oiJ style, it was smoking ment was wan ted for inclusion in a book bearded : and if his god's name should be blaze new trails and literally to mark out To illustrate: Fifth step-mixture of black with hues again. Cr Lovejoy. Prof. Pruett was putting together, and he called "Law", then let his principle be all­ original paths to beauty heretofore unknown to procure darkest variations or clear Crater Lake, Ore., is an "extinct" volcano. promised not to tamper with the words. embracing, infinite, truly universal, and not because no previous · color charts either re­ TONES. On Jo-8--ts old style, and again to-26--ts, No man to shun encounter, Your Secre­ some make-shift rule-of-thumb purporting to spected or divu lged the true nature of sen­ strange clouds of "gas or smoke" hovered tary whittled a pencil and let Ry. Months Sixth step-mixture of greys (from mid­ comprehend eternity on the evidence of a sation. Ostwald has pioneered in fields of over the still water. That is all. Cr Hocrn­ passed withou t a word from Pruett, not grey to white) for greyed-tints. single four-thousand-year instant. Or - if which no other colorist has ever dreamed lein, Bowring, Stevens. even acknowledgment of receipt. At length Seventh step-mixture of greys (from mid­ you will have a god named "Flux", with . . . Wilhelm Ostwald was the greatest sci­ we wrote asking if the MSS was in hanJ . grey to black) for greyed-tones. Infinite Diversity, for his first principle, entist ever to devote a large portion of time MAGNETIC NORTH \.Vel!, sir, it was, but it had reached Prof. Eight step-m strong knees will bend before him. Yea ! and energy to· color harmony. An eminent ixture of eight fundamental The crew of the Aries, a British plane, Pruett too late for inclusion in his book. hues with If you don't ask too much for your candles, man, Nobel Prizeman in Chemistry (Igog ), adjacents for 24 hue-circle need 5-26-45 old style that they had He had got some "other" Atheist to fill a Fortean might light one - yes, even I. honorary member of a dozen or more sci­ Ninth step-using 24 hue the magnetic pole to be from 200 those pages, but, as of that date the pro­ entific societies, he yet understood intimately and eight achromatic gradations o miles NNW from its formerly ac­ posed book had no publisher. This is a the many temperamental and psychological center pole, to procure a color-so position. They place it on Sverd rup Fortean accident if we ever encountered VERBATIM idiosyncracifs of hue and sensation. Though 68o measured color relationships. (Ost­ Island, I 500 miles from the geographical one : the phenomenon of a MSS arriving "'I am convinced that any group of he was a great abstract colorist in his own wald's scmichromc series.) North Pole. "too late for publication" by a publisher people, if given educational advantages and They do not convince the Canadian Mi nes who does not yet exist! proper research facilities are potentially right his enduring contribution to the art Combinations of these color variations, and Resources Department, which holds with What the "other" Atheist wrote, we can dangerous." lies in the remarkable manner in which he with areas in measured juxtaposition, is used its "numerous investigations" placing mag­ only guess, but probably it was less difficult Dr. James W. Broxon, U of Colorado has chart ed the spectrum and has forced it to form the various types of harmony. Selec­ netic north on the Boothia Peninsula. The for the pious Prof to swallow than the physicist speaking, as quoted by AP in into alliance with human sensation and tion at measured intervals gives an orderly Scientists there add that the Magnetic Pole following, which is Your Secretary's piece : Buffalo Et,ening News of 8-27-45 old style. experience of color ...Let me confess now series of relationships. The Law of Order may move about as much as 100 miles Asking an atheist to explain why he that at least half of my own principles of equals harmony. This provides us with a during "severe magnetic storms". thinks the universe "godless", is like asking NEUMANN STILL ALIVE harmony to be described in the next chapter fool-proof method of color selection and have been made possible by Ostwald's MFS Elscndcr, who contributes the da�a, a baby who never heard of alcohol why he The stigmatic Therese Neumann, reported control. I ombination with psychological Ig3g ingenuity." � � adds that the Aries times its "discovery" at isn't drunk: or like asking one with two dead in (sec DOUBT No. 3) is _ still color assoctatton and symbolism, we can gc r 3 a.m., DBST (actually 1 :oo a.m.) May 2G. sound legs to explain why he doesn't me alive and bleeding according to AP/ Cr A man could scarcely asknowledgc a debt predetermined reactions to color stimuli by That on May 27, a full moon was due at a crutch. The question, the world-condition Hoernlein, Merker. more fully or honorably than that, and usc T'of this method of control. which makes the question possible, and the greater praise could hardly be heaped upon 1:48 a.m., GMT. "On this day Uranus was A REAL CONTRIBUTION Any person can understand, become in opposition to both luminaries. What concept which conditions the phrasing of anyone less than Abe Lincoln. Whatever may be said for or against . aware of, and usc color successfully through could have happened had they been 24 the question, are uniformly preposterous, The paper prepared about Ostwald by an adequate study of Ostwald's system hours late in their Right?" barbaric and synthetic. "Preposterous" in Vaughn Bachman Brokaw's economic the­ MFS Sweet follows here. Its many dog­ that artificial symptoms of a non-existent ories, called "Equitist", we must acknowl­ �ach o server and user then being his own matic assertions are permitted to pass un­ expert �, so to speak. SEMANTIC disease have been created for which a edge his contribution to the American lang­ challenged simply because they are the Attention is called to a current, livin.<.;, spurious remedy is then suggested. "Bar­ uage. He has invented a pronoun for those commonplace prejudices of all men 111 this For a technical explanation of these prin­ active example of word metamorphosis. The baric" in that worship of the supernatural awkward third-person spots where we mean field, incl uding, alas, MFS Birren. ciples of color, consult Ostwald's "Color process is somewhere midway of its course, is a survival from savagery. "Synthetic" in both sexes and have to say "he" or "his", Science", 2 vols., and Color Album, pub­ but the end is clearl y in sight. Most of us that the whole is a purposely and purpose­ and sometimes usc the singular when we lished by Winsor Newton, Ltd. Ig31. (Out Twenty yt·ars of research and experimen­ are too young to remember how or when fully acquired but superfluous accretion. In mean the plural. You know. of print. Go to your public library.) tation have urought US an organized system "usury", "ci tizcn", "anarchy" and a thou­ short, the shoe should be on the other foot. The pronoun is VEY, and here is how it NOTE : Spectrometric measurements estab­ of color rel{ltionships such as we have not sand other words were perverted from their If thinking thr. universe goclful, or getting works: "An economic fundamental of it lish the four basic complimentary wave is that each sane adult be free to spend previously known. The old ' mystery' of original meanings, but here - for everyone soused, or walking with a crutch, have lengths. Photometric measurements estab­ color no longer reigns with its confusion to see - the same thing is being done to advantages, the burden of proof is on the the whole of veys adult life working for and chaos. Orderly relationships have been lish the Grey Scale of eight logarithmic the word "discrimination". side of those who ha vc these boons for sale. vcys own benefit. That vey is free to spend measured and established as sound and gradations. Pure Hue (no white & black Time was when the term was compli­ We innocent, curious, healthy children of every hour of veys adult life on veyself." content) circle of 24 hues are identified by workable by a scientist wel l versed in the mentary, indicating fastidiousness, skil l, the twentieth century whom the religious Want any more ? Write to the Equitist number. Steps in the Grey Scale are iden­ fields of physics and chemistry where color taste, breeding, ex perience, ability, judgment call atheists, negatively, arc the trul y affirm­ League, Del Rosa, California. Specify tified by letter intervals. Thus any variation has its source of origin and expression. - in short, discrimi11ation. Now, by a ative (the UNconditioned ) in such a fan­ whether you want your pamphlet in English in the Color Solid can be identified by change in the tone of voice employed to tastic debate. or in "Iclo". Color, as light-ray waves and frequences, In terms of psychological 'en,atioll, a' means of three: symbols: C + W + H. ounce it, "di,crirnination" becomes :t Even in so meager a ,ource of evidence dwells in the realm of physics. Color, as well as pigment or surface color, White and Color (hue) plus White plus Black con SOCRATIC QUESTION rdly act, even punishable by law in as this world's books afford, one may trace surface preparation, which gives the human Black (and their mixture, Grey) are colors This eliminates confusion of ambi e States. Commandment XI : Thou shalt any and every god back to origination by Do you think the "Allies" painted out eye colorful impressions or stimulation, also, though in terms of light. White is terms and color names. choose. humans seeking to compensate for their the "USA" on the tanks we sent to Java? 208 209

VIVA O'DONNELL ! NOR HAIL NOR SLEET ... cause remark (not to say alarm) a VIVA CORNELL ! ! ! On the bank of the Green River ncar physicians: item - that minor aches, Walton, Ill., about sooo first class and and complaints, that "touch of liver", We are delighted to report that John registered letters - unopened - dating as headaches and a score of other human O'Donnell, Washington columnist tor the ments, diminish - aye! vanish - among . far back as 1922, were found on a dump, N . Y �.,,1 Daily News, covered the case of 9-19-45 old style. No Post Office in Wal ton the patriotic who give their blood for Ezra Pound I I -27-45 old style with a de­ plasma. No fooling. Whatever becomes of for past ten years. No explanation offered. gree of fairness seldom encountered in the the blood - how necessary or helpful it Cr Yetter. freeprez today. may or may not have been to The Brave We arc gleefully glad to announce that A SKY ANCHOR OF COURSE who were duped into being shot or burned LMFS Julien Cornell, attorney for the Fort­ - the benefits of bleeding to the blood e can Society, author of the Conscientiow Across the roof of 3-17 Hal Street, Oak­ donors is causing widespread di�cus�ion Objector and the Law, has been attorney land, Calif., and two adjoining houses, a among the medicos. Or maybe you sho11ld for Ezra Pound and would have defended steel cable was draped. It was 750 feet plant potatoes in the dark of the moon ! him if the poet's condition had permitted long and 3h 6 inch thick. "Found'' by a the obscene trial to proceed. patrolman. o mention of anybody hearing LIE-DETECTOR LETTER Pound is at present in St. Elizabeth's it arrive (night of June 4-5, 1945 old style). Hospital, Washington, where Forteans have o damage done. Mr. William J. Conway visited him. He is translating Chinese poetry Fourth Air Force Headquarters had no Associated Press while he waits for the world to become sane. record, but said it "could have been tossed Chicago overboard by an airplane crew which may Dear Mr. Conway :

WATER FROM NOWHERE have thought itself over the ocean. " A member of this Society has sent us a Midday, 1 o-I6-I920 old style, in Dublin, Query : Is 750 feet of steel cable standard clipping from the Times-Herald of Newport Georgia : rain that formed "a short distance equipment of planes ? Or were the boy' News, November 30, 1945 old style. It is off the ground" on a perfectly clear day, attempting to tic to a wave ? Cr Yetter. an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago in front of the bank: steady shower, large signed by you, relating to the so-called "lie "Just ignore it. The Times says there isn't any such thing." drops, "went on for days ... at intervals PYROTICS detector". Courtesy of the New Yorker and the artist. for three years ... then it stopped abruptly." You credit John E. Reid of the Chicago Clayton Metzler, ae 43, farmer, Rt. 1, Oakland Tribune. Police Department, Richard E. Gorman, and Crimera, Va ...."in a blazing bed " about Same date, died in Oakland, Dr. Duncan Prof. Fred E. Inbau of Northwestern Uni­ 6 a.m., 10-17-45 old style. Cr Reagan. DREISER DIES NO SUCH ANIMAL INDIANA'S SKY MONSTER McDougall who claimed to have weighed versity law school, with "improvements" Arthur Hangard, ae 39, an invalid, Lan­ the human soul. He carried a postal scale upon this device which "make it a tough Charles Fort and Theodore Drciscr were One tangled with a fishing net and was caster, N. Y., 2-2-43, burned beyond rcco�­ (Contributed by MFS Gaddis) in· a grip, and "dashed hither and thither job to beat the machine". You quote the cub reporters together, just after the turn killed with three harpoons, off Gothenburg, nition, all his clothing burned off - "it on a bicycle looking for people who were report of "tests" demonstrating that "45 of the century. They arrived in ew York before 8-26-45 old style. Towed to shore, Fifty-four years ago a large and myster­ seems strange that none of the furniture dying". Cr Yetter. of 147 verified guilty criminal suspects tried City about the same time, Fort from Albany, the Swedish "scientists" did not recognize ious object appeared in the sky over , was even scorched." Cr Giles. to falsify their recordings, and were Dreiser from the banks of the Wabash. it . . . "12 feet long, had a tail a yard Crawfordsville, Ind. A brief account of the SUNSPOTS CAUSE WAR Hrrbert Evans, 55, "suffocated ...when Eagle trapped". Two young radicals, both contributed to across and a queer head". American Weekly. occurrence taken from the Brooklyn his bed caught fire, evidentl y from a cigar­ After studying the eclipse of 7-9-45 old May we ask how you came to write this Tom Wauon's Magazine, a publication the Cr Price. (Sept. I o, I 891) will be found in THE e ette ... The fire had burned itself out style, Prof. Knut Lundmarch, chi f of Lund story ? Were you assigned to it by which is not on the stands toJay. 7-20-45 old style, off the Tyne, Andrew BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT (p. 637). before spreading beyond the bed." Seattle U Observatory, Stockholm, said that sun­ superiors in the Associated Press office ? was a life-long friendship, and Lownie, skipper, and John Hamilton, sal ­ The writer, residing close to the scene of Times 8-9-45 old style. The Star of same spots caused wars and the "next" one will were you handed a publicity release we founded the Fortcan Socictv vage officer, working on a wreck, saw 5 this occurrence and having access to news­ date attributes death to "overexertion ... come in I962. Cr Rayner. Chicago Police Department, by Mr. 193 1 ) , Dreiscr was one of the mo;t or 6 feet of it above the water: appeared paper files containing a direct report from extinguishing a fire". Cr Hocrnlein or his press agent? By the public relations energetic and helpful . to be 8 to 9 feet across. They lowered a a Crawfordsville correspondent, adds the NO GOD IN SCHOOL Mrs. Lillian Chastain, 42, Tacoma, officeof the electrical appliance manufacturer Since the death of Fort in 1932, Drciscr motor boat and pursued it for 5 or 1 o following notes to the published account: Mrs. Vashti McCollum who refused to 9-13-45. "Fire department reports show" ­ who sells the "lie-detector" ? By the District contemplated writing a biography of his minutes, once getting as close as about 200 permit the Illinois public schools to teach smoking in bed . Ibid. Self-luminous, or surrounded by an aura Attorney or somebody else interested in ob­ friend. He was the only man equipped to yards. "Although swimming against the tide her son religion received so many com­ The rest arc all from MFS Bowring, of dim white light, the object resembled taining convictions no matter how ? do it. Now his own death has intervened. it kept its distance." The next clay a fisher­ mendatory letters from all over the country chief of our Pyrotic Dept. "a white shroud with fins." No clear-cut Were you aware, when you wrote the Perhaps we never shall have that greatly man towed in a ship's derrick found float­ that it was necessary to print a thank-you Ernest M. Forbes, 34, Los Angeles shape or outline could be observed. It was story, that you were aiding in the decep­ desired book. The Society is making every ing, and the newspapers promptly identified reply. 6-I 6-45, "on a blazing divan". about I8 or 20 feet long, eight feet wide, tion of the public? That you were helping effort to acquire the MSS, in whatever stage it as the "monster" seen and pursued the Forrest E. Smith, 33, Bellflower, Calif., and no "head" or "tail" was visible. It FREE PAMPHLET to impose upon innocent people an awe­ of completion, as well as the extensive cor­ day before. Cr Bowring, Elscndcr. called "a human torch", attributed to "de­ moved rapidly, "like a fish in water" with Jhettong ko Tal has published a pamphlet some respect for an inquisitorial device respondence between the two men over a Another, N. Y. Times 7-1 5-45 old style : fective wiring". 8-2-45 old style. the aid of "side fins". At times it flapped called The Barrier, a bt·ief discussion of the which has no merit whatever? And just period of about thirty years. three witnesses, bathing Lake Storsjoe, Malcolm McGregor, 53, actor, Los An­ its fins with rapid motions. Emitting a rise and fall of civilization. Members who what IS a "verified suspect" ? Just how is Sweden: "The lake's calm ,hining surface geles, 4-30-45, "beclclothing caught fire wheezing, plainting sound, it hovered about keep abreast of such fluctuations may have it possible to keep tabs upon this machine's SURPLUS DISPOSAL was broken by a giant snakelike thing with from a cigarette". 300 feet above the surface most of the time, this piece by addressing P. 0. Box 300, hits and misses ? Does "conviction" by a jury three prickly clark bumps." Swam at a The Los Angeles Fire Department posed Cutting tools used in war factories, many but several times it came within a hundred Stoughton, Mass. truly verify guilt? And how do the marks r good speed. a photograph to show how it happens. new, unwrapped f om original boxes, worth feet of the ground. of the machine's records differ when a $6 to $8 each, were being methodically .. DIFFERENT" Says Bowring: "Quite an effective way of All the reports refer to this object as a guilty man hears the question upon which destroyed by Government order according "ROCKET" IN N. CAROL. e stilling any isolated charges of srontancous living thing, but it could have been a Lilith Lorraine, a Texas writ r and an his life depends and when an innocent man to the Lansing State Journal 9-18-45 old MFS, gets out a magazine called Different. combustion." "A shiny object (described as) tubular construction. A flaming, red "eye" (or hears the same question and reacts to its style. Cr Yetter. MFS Reagan calls attention to a chapter light) was noticeable. At times it "squirmed One thing "different" about it is that al­ menace which is no less dreadful to him be­ in shape, glistening in the light as if on the subject in Death : lts Ca11ses and most anybody can understand the poetry it fore trial than it would be if he were WHERE WE CAME IN covered with shiny aluminum . . . five as if in agony." Once it swooped low over Phenomena, by Hcreward Carrington Ph. D., prints; whether it is all worth printing or guilty? or six feet long and th ree or four inches a group of witnesses who reported that it Dodd Mead, 1921. "Work" has started on the White Ele­ r with a not is another question, and one which no­ Dear WilliarlJ J. Conway, will you not in diamete " bl ue flame spurting radiated a "hot breath .." phant of Palomar again. The puff is a from its tail, whizzed over Morganton, body asked us to answer. Different also has take thought, and refuse to write any more This visitor from the void made its hand-out from the Carnegie Institution but N0rth Carolina, going Northwesterly, at a department of Forteana called "Strange PRINCETON'S NEW DANE crap about "lie-detectors" - out of simple appearance for two successive nights, Sept. AP sends it to its papers as news under a o v Experiences," edited by Dariell Dunay. Send Although he was born in 18T3, and ha, respect for yourself? Please ? about 7:30 p.m. 6-1 -45 ld style. It an­ Washington elate line. We have it from 4-5, 1891, first coming into view about 35c for a sample copy or $2.00 for a year, been dead a good while, Sorcn Kicrkcgaard , Sincerely, ished, and "a few seconds later" an explos­ MFS Stevens and many others. midnight on both nights, and disappearing to Different, Rogers, Arkansas. a Danish mystic, parent of "existential SECRETARY ive sound wa� heard from the vicinity of othing will ever come of it but reams upward about 2 a.m. On the first night k the mountains at the head of Lake James. WEIRD FORCE thin ing", has only recently been dignified of gush and bilge, but we do not disparage the Rev. G. W. Switzer, pastor of the local by translation and publication by the-up-and­ Cr Bush. Methodist Church, and his wife, watched The Chicago Tribune was frankly non­ PAINE IN THE HALL the effort. It's a safe and sane semi-private coming Princeton U Press. Fortean opinion the sky phantom for over an hour. Al­ pi us sed, 7-30-44 old style, by the fall of a The Thomas Paine Memorial Committee, boondoggle, and we add it to the Fortcan of his work is solicited. though Charles Fort confirmed this state­ bridge at Chester, Ill. A 6so foot sran an activity in which Anti-God Joseph Lewis Society Plan for Perpetual Peace: METEORITE FIRES HOUSE ment, he was never able to obt:�in a detailed over the Mississippi was "hurled" into the has been a moving spirit, announced in ltem - Erection of a 2oo-inch telescope The Ameriwn Wctl(ly of Nov. d\, '9-l'i BLEEDING GOOD h report from Rev. Switzer. river in the midst of a th under 'torm about NoYernber of the year 1 5 FS, that ry village and cross-roads in t e old style, records that :1 rncteoritc was ob­ 9:30 p.m. No lightning marks near. No No statistics arc available that we know twenty years of effort it had finally as a means to use up steel and keep served to fall upon and to ignite the home On the second night severai hundred tornado damage anywhere in the vicinity. of, if indeed they would be compilable, but cceded in getting Thomas Paine ad ployed - it beats making and of G. E. Thompson, Tulsa, Okla. Time of residents of the town watched the monster Jupiter pluvius - the bridge fell. Cr Davis. this phenomenon is sufficiently evident to to the Hall of Fame. air-craft carriers all hollow. day, and date, not �tatcd. Cr Reagan. as it moved slowly over various parts of 210 211

raja seemed to take no unwholesome the business district for two hours. On the escaped being �·mashed, were carried to The Truth About cit1ilizatio11 . There is no more room left l11dia is reported to have suffered this fate t in his daughter-in-law, which nat- third night almost every adult in the town great altitudes caught in prevailing wind�, � for any further additions to these, at least in certain States. Whoever you may be, . gaz1e riu to tl2e suspicion in the w:utPd for its appearance, but it never came. borne eastward, and then dq.Jostted by ra1n INDIA J\1' not till we feel sure that this process will your life, your property, your freedom, not 11. of the Pn'nce. It did not take much Many remained up all night, only to be on the fields of southern Illinois." And the 110t lead us to become completely oblivious infrequently the hon.our of your womenfolk time for the Prince to detect the swTepti­ disappointed. writer bless him, adds: "If this keeps up, by of lndia's own greater past. Therefore, my is entirely at the mercy and caprice of the tious motives of his indiscreet father upon The monster's appearance was stnctly. it wo 't be only the film that's fogged." earnest advice to all true sons of tl2e country ruler. Against his orders there is no appeal, ;1 Kanhayalal Gauba his wife. The Yuvraja deliberately a11tl localized to the sky over Crawfordsville. Cr also Merker and Douglas. is that they should fully consider and weigh no revision, no action can lie in any of boldly refused to accede to the wishes of The writer has carefully checked all Indiana POOR ECONOMISTS the pros and cons before they think of the Courts either in the State or elsewhere. (continued) a Don Juan father and the remit un­ demolishing an existing edifice." (Nawab news dispatches for six months preceding The same people who wail about the The Paramount Power will merely file your pleasant frictio11. Life grew u11bearable for and following this appearance, but no addi­ destruction of Japanese cyclotrons lament of Bhopal to Assembly, 21-9-29). petitions. The Prince knows he is main­ But why go to the State Peoples Confer­ the Yuvraja as l1 e was oppressed in every tional information or reports can be found. the "wasteful" disposition of surplus good, tained in his authority not by the will of ences or to the Rajastan � The Administra­ conceivable way. He was given no money 12 stored by practicall y every branch of the his people, not by the sanction of any STANFORD U PAYS OFF tion Reports tell us all we need to know. for his necessities of life ; the Sardars and U.S. Government, military or simply bur­ Chudgar maintains that with the excep­ assemblage, not by reason of any conquest The dough which has been spent at For instance of the Hyderabad Legislative Officials of the State were strictly prolubited eaucratic. This mourning is utterly ridicu­ tion of Mysore, Travancore and Cochin or military right, but the accident of birth Stanford U to build a "new microwave lab­ Council and the Bikaner Legislative Assem­ by the orders of the Maharaja from show­ lous. Even the simplest minded of them there is practically no State in which the or adoption and by recognition of the oratory" brings home this choice slice of bly. The Hyderabad Council met twice in ing their due respect and regard towards must realize by this time that destruction representatives of the people have an effec­ Paramountcy. Autocracy is impregnable in bacon: Dr. William V. Hansen, d1rector, the year 1926-27. As the AJministration the future ruler of the State." - Pri11cely is what makes the mare go. The Japs will tive voice or indeed any voice at all in the and out of the State. Whoever attempts to announced 10-24-45 old style that the speed Report for the year tells us, it passed exactly India, 2 7th Janum·y 1928. build new cyclotrons. That's the whole matter of legislation. Laws are issued in show up the details of any particular Ad­ of light could be measured to within an two bills. The report is however silent as idea ... In the course of World Fraud Il, This Ruler was, at the same time, re­ the form of orders, decrees ·or flrmans either ministration in its true colours runs the accuracy of .oo.ooooooooooooo3 of a second. to the time spent in the consideration of the U.S. government handed out to some­ ported to have "impoverished the State by the Prince or by action taken under gauntlet of the Prince's Protection Act. Cr Merker. these bills and also as to why no other hody $)17, 6oo,ooo,ooo. How much Treasury by his vicious and wasteful ways his instructions. They have no broader Within the boundary pillars of the State, a of it business was transacted. The Bikaner As­ SOCIETY'S SOCIAL SIDE did you get? Cr Farrow. of life," "collected revenues from the ryots foundation than the mere caprice of the ruler can do pretty much as he please-s and on other hand, when Two esteemed members of opposing sembly, the it meets several years in advance" and paid "no Prince. In some States, British Indian legis­ how he pleases. He may create an offence FODOR SPEAKS sets a world's record in the quantity sexes Hilda Downing and George Christian up of attention to the welfare of his subjects, pur­ lation is adopted with such modifications as which was not an offence when it occurred, MFS Na ndor Fodor LL. D., of talking public business transacted. There were two suing "his pleasures with increasing zeal ." the Prince pleases, but these so-called laws he may withdraw your citizenship and di­ Bum , both of Chicago, wed. This is the mongoose fame, read a paper, the Psycho­ � as Sessions in the year 1927-28. The January So a Representative Assembly" was sum­ are in no way binding on the Prince. He rect you to quit the State within 24 hours, first Fortean marriage on record such. a11alyttc App1 oa( h to the Problems of Oc­ Session lasted three days, the September Ses­ moned, and it was announced by the Presi­ can repeal, amend, and suspend them at he may dissolve your marriage, disinherit The bride's friends gave her a shower cultism, before the Association for the of frogs. sion two days. The business transacted dent of the Council, on behalf of the his will and pleasure, and deprive any man your children, send you to the lock-up and Advancement of Psychotherapy, March 30, MFS Edward T. Chase, Jr., is now lead­ . during the three-day Session consisted of Government, that "the State would take up of his liberty, commit him to prison for an keep you there for such time and on such 1945 old style, and the paper was printed Hotel Mayflower, an important pronouncement by His High­ the question of compulsory education in indefinite period, and banish him from his terms as he pleases. He may give you ing the orchestra at the in the foumal of C/nncal Ps)'chopatho!ogy, Washington, D. C. ness on the position of the Princes and the right earnest if the Assembly desired it''. birthplace at will without reason, charge; or hard labour for life for a small misdemean­ in the July issue. States, also the definition of the duties of Incidentally "the annual budget was also trial. He can confiscate anybody's prop­ our or for an imaginary crime, he may SEE MASTODON ABOVE may not be an entirely new ap­ This Kingship, already cited, the presentation discussed and passed"! erty, withdraw cases pending in courts, grant you an estate, if you commit a b t (diproto­ to study of mediumistic ph ­ Bones of the a giant wom a proach the � and the discussion of the budget for the and pass such orders as he likes, regardless murder in his interest. The theory of sov­ 6 29- old but it is certainly a mtlestone 111 In spite of the brave declaration that "we don) reported found, - 45 style, in nomena, flna ncial year 1927-28, six resolutions, of the law. A subject cannot sue the Prince ereignty translated into practice means the psychics. Leastwise, it is the first are moving with the times", in their heart ot the dry bed of Lake Call abonna in Central American seven interpellations and six bills. The two­ or his friends in the Courts for breach of unimpeachable divine right to do anything, Cr ce on the Society's records of a body hearts the majority of rulers have little sym­ Australia. Elsender instan day Session later in the year consisted of contract or infringement of their rights. If that is morally, socially and constitutionally A small fossilized tree found in Dune­ of the Orthodox lending car to a report of . pathy with democratic ideas and popular an opening speech by the Prime M · an official, however low, commits a criminal wrong, without interference from the Para­ a psychic investigator with almost straig t ts. They look with suspicion upon din, New Zealand 1s estimated to be � closing speech by His Highness, four offence in his private capacity, and even if mount Power and the consequences of its both sides of the fence. Harvard s of their subjects. This is natural, 5o,ooo,ooo years old. faces on pellations, four resolutions and eight the act constituting the offence is not in any displeasure. case does not ocracy spells constitutional monarchy. inquiry into the "Margery " a record, which it will be agreed. GIANTS IN AFRICA too altruistic a conception of human way connected with his duty as an official, (To be continued) begin to compare, neither as an ach1cvement wonckrful than the speeds att:J.ined for A sandal "turned to stone" bearin� a nature that five hundred odd autocrats, will, he cannot be prosecuted without the Chief's for the goats nor as a concesston by the S hnie footprint 12 �lz by 6 X inches was foun , c der Trophy. sanction. Even if there is no definite law MORE INVISIBLES sheep. Most noteworthy in preventing on of their own free will, divest themselves together with several Stone Age axes, �111 prohibiting public meetings, the publication A "super Nova", 5,ooo,.ooo light year� this occasion such an aftermath of mutual of the powers and privileges they now en­ diamondiferous gravel in the Klerksdorp 11 of newspapers or the forming of associa­ away, discovered by Milton L. Humason of recrimination as followed the Harvard­ joy. It is true many of them recognize that district of South Africa. Buffalo Courie1·­ tions, no public meeting, even of a social Mt. Wilson, 5-19-45 old style. "Such dis­ argery" show, was Fodor's skillful and It may be asked what is the usc of such their safety lies in the good -will of their Express Cr "M _ nature, can be held, no newspaper can be coveries occur about once every 500 years, 9-23-45 old style. Giles, Kreiger insistence upon categoncal no­ Assemblies. Why establish mock Councils at subjects, but precept is easier than example unobtrusive started, no association formed without the Humason added." Norfolk Virginia-Pilot -- which is not quite the same all � Why the humbug that Taine describes and almost all cl utch with fond hopes the FIRE-BALL IN REVERSE menclatwe Chief's sanction previously obtained. If Cr Reagan. ics. In this particular the as the language of democracy and the way crumbl ing hillside. Read between the lines About 5 p.m., u-29-45 old style, resi­ thincr as semant these are held, started, or formed the police h y of at least an Archbishop. of tyrants � There arc a few Princes, as of orations such as this : dents of Modesta, Calif., and of districts as spec h was wort can at any time step in and interfere. FORTEAN DEFINITIONS � already admitted, who are genuine in their "T l1 e fact is that the pea pie's ignorance far east as Fallon, Nevada, saw a flaming ANY ICE TODAY? Against this there is no remedy. (Indian HISTORY-Posthumous electioneering. desire to associate their subjects in the Ad­ of modern and progressive ideas makes object in the sky. It exploded 11nd the11 MFS Martin J. Fritz writes: Princes under British Protection, p. 556 ). SEMANTICS-New word for "advertising". ministration. But there arc often other them an easy prey to bigotted conservatism , transformed itself into a ball of fire, which I found an old article that is new to me, (which is described as the art of stating for the establishment of Assem­ apparently landed nowhere. The object concerning the appearance and disappear­ reasons such which lead.- to most deplorable communal 13 facts in such a way that nobody can fail blies. There may be the necessity of afford­ strifes and creates a feeling of aversion in was moving northeast, "quite low", at a ance of ice in Kane Basin and Smith Sound, The administration of the State is above to misunderstand them.) ing a democratic argument to the Prince theit· minds to the initiation of social and speed estimated to be no more than Roo between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, public opmton. The reasoning if logical REPUBLICAN-An anarchist with a bank d u ring a European tour. Europe likes other reforms. Their opposition to their miles per hour. The Turlock (Caltf. ) in winter of 1923-24. To quote, from the is absurd. The King is the State, L'Etat account. Princes but abhors despots. A Prince who education and their obstinacy against their Daily Journal named the object a "comet". ;".ratio11al Geographic, Volume XLVII, Nr. c'est Moi or "I am the State." The King DEMOCRAT-An anarchist with a bank can show that he is progressive and demo­ adoption of modern medical, sanitary and Cr Sayres 6, page 677, "This disappearance and re­ can do no wrong. Here are two doctrines account. cratic lar. In some cases the motive scientific methods stand in the way of their While MFS Wakefield comes along with appearance of drift icc is so aston1sh111g is popu - legal criteria, as Sir Leslie Scott would may be sinister. There may be widespread political progress. You cannot alter the.re WALPOLE ON BAYLE the Oakland Tribune version which states that Newfoundland fisherman clcclare that call them - that regulate the relations discontent and misgovernment in the State. conditions by, so to say, a wat'e of the "The perfection of history is when it that "It was reported sighted in western it rises from the bottom and sinks beneath between a ruler and his subjects. If the The Prince mav be absorbing more of the magic wand. You need centuries of per­ displeases all sects and all nations, this Nevada a full five hours after it was first the surface." . Kings can do no wrong and the administra­ State revenues than even the Chamber of sistent and honest work, and I think that being proof that the author neither flatters sighted here." Also Cr Oliphant. Also, page 679, "By September 6, the tive reins are in the King's own charge, Princes could justify. If, therefore, he want s it would not be practical pol'itics to aspire nor spares any of them, and tells the truth harbor was so firmly frozen over that my the administrative machine must be infal­ PILE IT OVER THERE ! to white-wash his administration, a good to mle with any success a medieval people to all parties." men, all new to the north, though t we were lible. What is not or cannot be wrong We had resolved not to give their way to accomplish the desired object is to by 2oth Century methods. After all, o11e in for the winter. The next morning the must be perfect. As the King can do no THEY LET HIM DOWN semantic bomb another l ine of free public­ show to the Political Department and the cannot lose sight of the fact that an ignor­ ice had completel y disappeared." Now you wrong, therefore whatever he does must be The following paragraph was written by ity, but this bit from the ·Motion Picture Aaent to the Governor-General that he is ant and irresponsible democracy is, and ca11 see it, now you don't...... right. Whatever his administration is like, Brigadier General Frank Percy Crozier, Herald, 11- 10-45 old style, sent in by MFS a constitutional ruler. An Assembly or he, the greatest danger to a country, a11d ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? it cannot be impeached on any score what­ C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., in 1937. It is from Subotsky, is too good to pass up. You have Council may be formed: in mock procecd­ thereby, to the peace of the whole world. fogged fogged by Time told about one Chcrepanov being soever. Upon this theory is conducted the p. 235 of his book, The Men I Killed. read about the film - inrrs the crimes of a generation may be l am convinced that the success of an cardboard. that has been "dead" for some time and recovering, administration of several hundred principal ­ "There is one aspect of the whole ques­ radioactive Well, co cloned by the puppets of dcspoti�m and m·iental people lies m their remaining which started correspondence about where ities. Anyone who presumes to differ from tion (of World Fraud II) that is never topped. The magicians - that is, the the� slaves of tyranny. Typical of this class oriental. his "soul" w::ts interim. The ,ubject w::t' these well established legal formulae, treads touched upon by those military commenta­ physicists, at M.I.T., under Robley D. Evam, of at " the Ruler p>eudo-Democr m afraid, ttH' lu we already had too examined the cardboard and di�covered that 'ettled by E. M. SmoLt in the Oct. 1, 1<)-J'> perilous ground . If he is a foreigner, th:u tors and armchair theorists - and that is Southern State : western ideas forced on our Eastern what made it radioactive was the �traw, is�ue. The 'oul "remained attached by a is not a state subject, he may be expelled. the possibility, the probability, of revolution which was grown in Illinois. You sec, tenuous chord " to the man's heart, " within "The Prince wa.i 11npop11lar. Fr and tlwt too at the expe11Je of our If the critic is a newspaper, it may be in this country should war over England , and to the detrime11t of our active ingredients of the bomb, "which seven feet of his mortal body". Cr Reagan. first day of the marriage of Ius s .lie banned from the State. Even the Times of break out and the people be doomed be- 212 213 cause of the inability of our rulers to read "They haven't got anything on !" the writing on the wall. I, personally, can­ Hans Christia n Anderson not see how a revolt in this country could 0 GLACIAL PERIOD and DRAYSON'S HYPOTH- 1 be avoided if we were subjected to aenal I FROM "PUCK" 1888 invasion. And I do not see why It. should ESIS, by John Mil lis. Reprinted by permission from (Incidentally, we're lool(ing for a Nast or be avoided. I should be more than surpnsed if the betrayed civilians were ca lmly to Popular Astronomy. Published for the Society· a Keppler. Know one?) submit to the doom brought upon them 16 pp., diags., wrapps...... ---- -····--· ·············------·-····--- by their false leaders, were idly to he. dow� $1.00 . and die without havm. g a shot at stnnglnt, up to the lamp-posts those responslb � for the visitation of horror and massacre. ! NEW GAS ORDER NOW A dentist who shall be nameless, re­ ports that he has been �sing a new and improved gas for extra�twns. He re�om­ mends it, especially to h1s women pat1en s, � Tb e 1Ob l·quity Curve During a Cycle of 31,756 Yea�s. and observes that, after telling th��, of Its · · Showing the com encement. duration, and termmatwn o f 1 as t Glacial Peri od. Yirtues as he prepares to admm1ster 1L . m they i�variably cross their legs. HICCUPPERS B.O. 30,000 I� Angelina Lucente, McKeesport, Pa., hie­ .... coughed IS days in I942, c;o days m 1943, B . .C. 29,000 and on g.g.45 old style, she h�d entere� th� B.c: 2a,ooo fifth day of a new attack, w1th one ! h1c \ B.C. 27,000 every seven seconds. Cr �eagan. Perry Toll, Piqua, Ohw, who was ae 59 B.C. 26,000 MOR at the time, was reported 3-25-40 old style B.C. 25,000 \ E NO TES of as being in the ninth day of a s1ege. Seven years before he had endured a 13- B.C. 24,000 ' day bout, and seven years before that he B.C. 23,000 had his first attack. B.C. 22,000 CHARLES FORT FISH DIE B.C. 21,000 1837 before. (reverse) L. T. July 7, (F) Gross-Divina. Hungary. Met­ Death of fish "in the Baltimore region" B.C. 20,000 (Box 1 Continued) p. 7. See Sept. 6, p. 4· eorite. BA '6o. (reverse) Nagy­ was so great prior to 8-24-45 old style, th�t 7 A Colchester a countryman sup­ (Slag) Am. ]. Sci. 33/395. Ac­ Divina Ac to F. on that elate the Datly Press of Newpo1 t B.C. 19,000 posed to have come from the cording to Boston Daily Adver­ August Esnaude, Charcnte. Meteorite (F) News editorialized. The Governor of Mary­ B.C. 18,000 \. neighborhood of Thorpe engaged tiser, slag, or stones that looked BA '6o. land was investigating ...death of "roc \ a room at the Mitre public house : I ike scoria from a furnace, fell 2 St. Thomas, W. Indies. Light fish" or "striped bass" - "by the ton� · B.C. 17,000 morning of the 8th he did not at Bridgewater, Mass., B.A. '6o quake. Also ..."The surface of th� Patapsc B.C:. 16,000 appear (reverse) Landlord found :: (reverse) said been warm when 2 St. Thomas, W. Indies. Destruc­ River was covered with dead alew1ves, the door locked and key gone. a.c. 15,ooo found. Am. J. Sci. o/322 Prof. tive quake. BA I9II-SS· about 4 tons, some in the 5 to 20 po md s Forced the door open. Floor, bed, � Shepard says nothing but slag 2 Quake and hurricane. Islands of class. Also, crabs were Aeeing the noxwus B.C. 14,000 curtains covered with blood - and had been on the ground 1n St. Thomas. BA '54 says account waters, climbing up on piles, etc., and lodger gone. Because a penknife . B.C. 13,000 )blic the first place. seems very doubtful. strewing the beach, dead, when the t1de covered with blood thought he 5 between 3 and 4 p.m. East 2 Night. Sydney, N.S.W. BA '54. ebbed. Cr Reagan, Kerr. B.C. 12,000 had committed suicide. Police in­ i) Bridgewater, Mass., .according to 3 Morning. Severe shock. Zanet., ... quiry-nothing heard of him. B.C. 11,000 A. J. Sci., 32/395, quoting the BA '54. BLUE FROG J L. T. I2, p. 5· B.C. 10,000 Boston (reverse) Dail y Advertiser, Box 1 (Resumed) 5 New Haven, Conn. Meteor BA The Philadel phia Zoo was showing a 7 June ro. A meteorite resembled 6o-76. blue frog as of 8-3 1-45 old style . "Caught B.C. 9,000 July 12 De Vico saw a small and per· . lava or the scoria of a furnace. 9 Geneva. At 9 p.m.--clouds on in New Jersey." Cr Wheeler, Bownng. B.C. 8,000 / I6 London Times May 16, p. 7· fectly round spot, without a trace horizon - none zenith - water Another wonder. of penumbra traverse a good part fell - large drops - to such a B.C. 7,000 �/ of the (reverse) sun's disc in 6 SOME GLOW ! L�--'--l-1- I7 London Times p. 7· ext. phe. degree (reverse) as to drive peof>le 1--l--1-++V-b,.A --tlt-HI hours. Observatory 2/424. B.C. 6,000 I 7 Algeria. Mirage of troops ? La Sci to shelter. Fell for several min­ The Chicago Daily News, (which, by the 90 �[_1f (F) . p ,,4 HnA -�-- m:liq. 2 Pour Tous 2-206 col. 2. Yonozu, Japan. Meteorite utes and stopped - but fell again way, appears to have turned a shaq editor­ B.C. 5,000 Glacia 21 � : June Quake in Syria, Safat and T b­ Beware "Exocetus". Niles Regis­ several times during an hour. ial corner on a steep down grade smce the � . B.C. 4,000 ereah. Athenaeum, 1837-416. F11-c ter, Aug. s, 1837, that according Ac to Watermann. C. R. s / s. passing of Knox ) advertised �'The Leo111ds", to the naturalist, Dr. Wood, fishes shot from ground many hot Aug g The quakes here at Acapulc I I-14-45 old style, and attnb�ted the fol­ B.C. 3,000 had fallen 1n the storm into the � springs burst out. Throughout were from W to E till 12th ot lowing nonsense to the authonty of F. W. B.C. 2,000 streets (reverse) of Louisville. He I month of June. November - after that stronger Schlesinger, director of the �dler Pla�etar­ considered them doubtfully a , 1,000 2 r Aqout I r a.m. Bleibourgh etc. and from E to W. In Dec., again ium. The Leonids are descnbed as pa1:t· B.C. species of Exocetus but was . . Illyria. Quake preceded by a W to E. icles of matter . . . less than an mch 111 A.D. 0 doubtful because the pectoral fins sound like (reverse) thunder BA 9 See Sept. 2. Shock here (Mexico) diameter, which burn so brightly ...the�: were peculiar. Holding one up to . A.D. 1,000 7 '5 4· went on (reverse) Sept. I 8 VIO­ may be seen for several hundred mdes. a light he found it devoid of . . July 4 Insects may haYe been at tracted If that is not a new h1gh 1n vlslbdny, A.D. 2,000 veins or arteries. lent severe 21st and 22nd. 23° 47" by the light. 9 Quake and phenomena. Morelia kindly supply us wit h the datum wh1ch A.D 3.000 ·enou Box A (Resumed) outstrips it, Cr Farnsworth M�d-T Ob\iq. � Box A (Resumed) (Michoacan) Mexico - shocks - 23c 24o� 26o-27"28 o 29o3()03t� 33o34o3 5o 36o July Canterbury. From ruins of a fort­ 21 Fishes streets of Louisville. 15 minutes 4:I5 p.m. (revers ) Box 1 (Resum�d) � RAIN OF BEANS ress a stream of red ligh t was later great tempest and electr�c (reverse) seen. Residents were 24 Redruth. Shower in one street discharges so great that the a1r Report of a rain of beans reached the alarmed but it was found ligh t only - small yellow Aies - fell seemed on fire and falling stars weather bureau in St, Lou1,, 9·22·-J "i old came f om swarms of small in­ thick - bit or stung severely. in the evening. (reverse) Ref. . r' st �le. The lady asked the bureau 1f the sects. Said that at same place L. T. July 3 1, p. 7· (reverse) See early Nov. 1839. w rld was com ing to an end. Cr Burbank. been a similar phe about 30 years Cardiff, May 1907 or 1905. 9·10 The Perseids noted in Switzer- 214 215

Ncar bank of Bahama, land by M. Wartmann, noted as 7 and 8 Samoa, ,hock!>. C.R. 10-836. Heavy quake. and q." BA '54/277 (reverse) looking for Pcrscids. A. J. Sci. vessel saw an enormous 1. coming from Ccph., Cass., and 1 o Meteor 1110\Tll like (illu,tration Venus greatest brilliancy A C.R. 7/89 8/344 35/167 7· horizon for 4 hours. T Kaec, Oude, India Meteorite 23 Pers. (reverse) C.R. 5-552. I (re­ T.T.) LT Nov. 18, p. / / Pcsaro (Marches) Italy. Light 10 Flash ll1 the sky so brilliant that near a submarine vole. On verse) p. 183, M. Arago an­ (F) See Jan. 17. quake. the eye could not bear it. Aug 3, another captain found the sea nounced extraordinary number of Feb 2 Ncar Sassaric land violently I ifted 23 Quake and meteors. At Pesaro, 10, 1838 left a train like that of disturbed and milky. Nov. 30 meteors - as directed toward and torn. henaAt eum 1838-396. Italy 9 p.m. Many meteors com­ a meteor Prof. L. Wailman BA quake Martinique. Athenaeum Taurus. (reverse) Sec that some Diron, France. 4:30 6:30 p.m. ing from the east. (reverse) They 1846/II 1838/349· noticed them in U.S. too. Sec slight shocks (reverse) but violent were bright and large and 111 30 4 p.m. Providence, R.I./ Tor­ 25 Banks of Bahamas for .J hours A. J. Sci. explosions. BA '54. such great numbers that they nado/ Finley's Report. great fire, as reported by captain Augmt Meteors. A. J. Sci. 33-inJcx 3.J­ Umbria, Italy. Light quake looked like fireworks. A few min­ Scp 7 Oxford / 9:20 a.m. / Quake and of a ship (reverse) on the hor­ r8o. Vole. Tcrnato, N.M. C. R. 70- utes later a violent quake. (re­ rumbling sound/ "At the time izon, as if from submarine vole. g-IO Perseids. A. J. Sci. 34-180. 878. verse) Rep't BA 73-385. the atmosphere was much dis­ Later water was seen discolored. IO 6o meteors an hour counted at 28- Night. Lisbon. shocks, thunder 23 A few minutes before violent turbed indicating storms and (re­ C.R. 6-302. Vienna. Athenaeum 1838-goo. Mar I and lightning, ram, hail, wind. quake at Pesaro, Italy Jt 9 p.m., verse) thunder though none were 24 About I 1 p.m. Rutland. Quake. 10 Vole. Merapi, Java, N.M. C.R. C.R. I7-61g. as recorded in the works of Count heard 1n the neighborhood. At 70-878. (about) See Dec. 15. Joseph Mamiani, many large mete­ March 4 19 h. Venus lnf. conjunction Sun Aderbury ac to Index. L.T. Sept IO-I I between rr:r5 and 12:15 M. Ar· Dec 2 Hurricane at Tortola, U.W.l. 36 ors from the cast toward the 19, 3· A I p. ago and 8 other astronomers ships wrecked 111 the harbor. (re­ south. The numbers attracted (re­ 15 10 London fireball BA '6o p.m. Waves of light from a counted 107 meteors. L.T. Nov. verse) L.T. 1867, Dec. 3 · p. 10. verse) attention of the people of Shrewsbury 1 p.m. quake rum­ dark bel t of clouds Lincoln. LT 2, p. I. Houses carried away. Pesaro. BA 73-385 7· bling sound L T 19, p 4., 21, p 7 22, p. L.T. p. 3· Astro. rarity. Aug. 2;, 7:40 p.m. Great meteor. Connect·· 23 Quake - meteors. Pesaro, Italy, 16 4 p.m. / Barton and Grumsby 7:30 p.m./ St. Alban's / band of p. 3· 23, p. 6 other notes. icut. A. J. Sci. 37-130 27-130 (?) 9 p.m. / A few minutes after the and other places on coast sudden light that moved slowly. L.T. 29 Upper Silesia. Fireball. BA '6o. (Fort's question. T.T.) (mets) a "very violent" quake in tense darkness and electric Sept 17, p. 7· 3 0 Cork, Ireland, Fireball. BA 'Go. I S Rutland. 3 violent shocks. People (reverse) Many meteors were tla�hcs (reverse) and then sud ­ Arcturus beam. Taunton. 7 p.rn. Sep 2 See Aug. g. Mexico - after a supposed been an explosion of seen - from east to south. BA dcnly light again L.T. 26, p. 3· Auroral arch and especial ray storm - clouds around vole. Jor­ gun powder. (reverse) Had been 73-385. 1 7 .J p.m. / Near Barton (South from Arcturus to Lyra. L.T. Sept ullo and at night many meteor:-.. one 3 weeks before. L.T. Dec. 23 and into 1839. Quakes of St. Jean Killingholme) Grumsby heavy 22, p. 7· BA '54· J8, p. 3· Maurienne Savoy, Italy. BA 1911. clouds, darkness, thunder and Ec. Sun. / New Haven A. J. 6 Barbadoes. Light quake. 11 p.m. 3 shocks Ill Rutland. 25 At Toulouse "The atmosphere lightning and soon passed away. Sci. 35-403. 21 7:48 p.m. At Paris great meteor Violent enough to shake houses. had become opaque but without I :45 L.T. March 26, p. 3· :q a.m. (Fr) Cautcrcts near from near the Eagle. C.R. 5-555. 12 Time ot great aurora, :-.even: Had been one here (reverse) 3 any appearance of a (reverse) 30 Bagncres ? slight quake and rum­ shock, Lucerne. BA '54. 1 · Quake and aerial / reported by 22 Big quake and phenomena in weeks before. L.T. Dec. 8 , r. 3 storm". Then streaks of fire from bling sound. L.T. Oct 9, p. 5· 12 Sky fire. England supposed cott­ ship captain - a black, thin Van Dieman's Land. BA 54/269. t6 Athenaeum some time before - horizon toward zenith at regular 27 31:41 N 44:30 W sound like flagration sounds. L.T. Nov. 18, cloud passed overhead - "very L.T. p. 6. High Tide Havre. many stones Macao, Brazil. (Sec intervals for about minute and a thunder and a ship violently etc. heavy, distant thunder" quake at L.T. qth, p. 4· Ireland. Nov. I I, I 836) half. LT July 3, p. 6. quaked. On Oct 9 27:37 N 3I :7 12-13 Paris, etc. Aurora. CR s/726- Lima and lives lost. J(ournal) End of Vole. eruption near Acheen East Met burst of Carinae. Sir ). Aurora, Macao, Brazil C.R. 7-87 W 2 p.m. 3 small shocks same 704-761. F(ranklin) Inst. 23/308. (reverse) Sept Indies. BA '54. Herschel / (undecipherable word ) Whirl near Elgin LT July 19, vessel (reverse) Athenaeum r839- 1 2 (cut) Aurora and quake. Severe the current seems to have passed Oct I Loud rumblings at Agram. Oct. Hist Astro appendix. p. 7· I4I. shock at Lucerne - "During the over chain of ship's anchor parts 6 detonation like discharge of Great part of Europe. A July 6 Liverpool 1 1 :30 p.m. / a flash of 3 I 40' 44° 30' had appearance of having been 0 N. Lat. W Long. artillery and earth trembled Oct. night of the 12th and 13th a kenny, Ireland, looked I lightning then a ball of fire (re­ melted. 3 strong shocks to a ship, and 7· (reverse) 2 reports. On 6th at beautiful aurora borealis was ob­ great globe of fire throwing I verse) stationary 2 minutes emit­ sound like thunder, I on Oct g, served at different places Ill Eu- April il Whirlwind near Calcutta A. J. intervals day and night. Great on all sides. (L) Les Mondes ting sparks then falling. LT I 3, but clear weather. But no dis­ rope." BA 185 4-272. Sci. 36-7 1 damage reported. Athenaeum. 26/Bo. (reverse) Bull de L'Assoc p. 6. turbance of the sea (reverse) 13 The Leonids 111 N.Y. L.T. Dec. Akbarpur (Saharanpur) India. I837-852. Scientifiq. July Dec 15, 1939 - June r6, July 27 ° 37' N and 31° 7' W Long g, p. 6. (reverse) on Morning of Meteorite. Mems. Geolog. Am Scy 6 Devastating gale. New Orleans. Lights in sky. Ireland / C.R. 13 (noted ) Mexican quakes and again 3 concussions sn1all ones ______no one dated I :IS a.m. of India. 43/part 2/ (F) (Rep) L.T. Nov. 2I, p. 6. Siance sep. 1 8, 1 871. meteors BA '54 CR 8-32. 226 counted . (reverse) N.W. Provs. II Sky fire. 8 p.m. Oct. 18. 7 p.m. 30 Trebnitz / N to S daylight tire­ 11 at noon. A whirl ncar Middleton 29-30 Night. Etna increased violence ] 2-13 Aurora. C.R. 5/764-726-76 1. Nov. 5 II:30. Nov. 12. 5 to 10 ball. BA 6o. April 20 to 4 a.m. 2Ist./ Knoxville, Tenn. / at 2:45 near Lincoln. L.T. 14, BA '54. 13 8 groups of sunspots visible to p.m. Nov. q. ro p.m. red ligh t 154 meteors seen/few 111 other p. 6. Oct I3 Meteorite hot and smoking yet smallest of telescopes. N.Y. L.T. m sky. (reverse) No arch as ob­ 1838 places/ Am J. Sci. 34/398 Montlivault, Loir-et-Cher, France/ was of combustible material. A. J. Dec. g, p. 6. served at Cambridge. L.T. Nov. (?May ?) Maggio / substance / Fass. q. Meteorite (F) C.R. ;6-3 14. Sci. 40-199. (reverse) Oct I2 1s IJ-I 4 From II :30 p.m. of 13th till about 22. p. 6. 12-l.:l 2/3 75 25 Afternoon. Rushford, N.Y. / Tor­ the date here. daybreak qth at Vienna 1002 '39. 11 7:30 p.m. Dept. of Calvados, 1838 India D-274 Sec nado/ Also Belfast, N.Y. Finley's 13 Cold Vokkevcld, Cape Colony, meteors counted. Athenaeum May 18 Michigan, N.Y., Canada, meteor. France. Violent shock and loud Jan 2 Breslau N.E. to S.W. fireball BA Report. Meteorite (F) I837-900. BA 6o-76 explosion heard. BA '54. 6o. 30 London. Frogs. Cor. to the Sun 22 ]sere, France, light quake. Morning Bercas (Ardeche) Fr. Nov Leonids active. See Perseids. 2 saw in Tower Street after the Box A (Resumed) Morning. Extraordinary display of 26 Near Halle, Prussia / severe Met after met from point 111 ] 2 About 6 p.m. Luminous red arch mets at Mornez, near Geneva. storm, dozens of young frogs, Hercules. C.R. 8-344 5· shocks "a dull sound was heard 12 LT p. Wild man, Indiana. - sky cloudless - about 8 p.m. I 3-501. largest not exceeding Yz (reverse) Proc. A mer. Phil. Soc. (reverse) which, according to 1 a great meteor appeared suc­ 7:15 7:30 ) inch, hopping on the pavements. Box (Resumed) and a.m. Bellay (Ain some persons was subterranean". Box A (Resumed) See 36. Aurora. Paris. CR 5-639. ceeded by others (reverse) up to shocks and loud sounds. BA '54. Mirror 32/r 12 D-8o. BA 54· 22 "singular and mysterious fire" In 2 0 Stowe, Ohio. 3 a.m. Tornado 10 p.m. when clouds covered sky. 7 Kacc, Oude, Hindoostan. Old­ 31 by Prof. Wart man, at 7 p.m. - a huge hollow tree. Sheffield Very few tornadoes early morn­ L.T. 14, p. 7· ham's elate Fletcher Jan 29. Box A (Resumed) sky clouded 111 zenith and more L T Nov 5, p. 3· 12 5:30 p.m. 2 belts cnmson light. 8-J 4 Umbria (It) flames from the ings. (reverse) Finley's Rept. rain, lukewarm and In large 30 Frogs. London. Manchester. L.T. 17, p. 3 · earth and quake See I 8os 20 Quake and sound. Devon. Sec drops fell/ Timb's 1839, 262. Box 1 (Resumed) May 3, 'og. 12-I 3 Night. Great auroral glare 111 8 Spoleto quake / said that flames June 6 Chandakapur, Berar, India/, Mete­ Box 1 (Resumed) 20 At Camelford, rumbling sound sky at Paris, but only one metcot seen issuing from earth. BA '54· Nov 12 Ac to cor 111 Times - nothing orite (F) and vibrations. (reverse) Thought seen. L.T. I7, p. 3· 21 Tynehead quake / rent Ill earth Aug etc. Vesuvius. An. Reg. '38-1 21, could have exceeded the grandeur 7 1 I p.m. Sound, Meleda BA 54 was thunder but the atmosphere I 2-13 In Issue of 18th and before - extending Yz mile L T 1838 Jan at least to the IIth day or so. of the heavens m the display at (reverse) but see June 7, 1839. was too serene. LT. 30, p. 6. other accounts of this aurora and :q, p. 7· August whole month. Etna 111 eruption. London (reverse) Too rapid to I I & 12 31 12:58 a.m. Morcia, Spain. Quake. no mention of meteors. 22 Great quake Transylvania, Tur­ Iceland. Heavy quake. LT Oct 3, p. 5· count. ature 7I-93· Atmosphere suffocatingl y hot. BA 14 Aurora. A. J. Sci. 34-267. key, Russia said that at Berso\'a, 18 At Arras, Great number of little 2 Ncar Ncufchald, Switzerland, ] 2-13 Philadelphia night clear bet I :45 6-212 . '54· 16 p. 2. Dec. g, p. 6. R;ua A vis. Hungary flames (reYerse ) were frogs. L'Institut flight of birds s1zc of (reverse) and 2 a.m. and one meteor seen 23 Pesaro - 9:45 p.m., Venice - Nov Milan. Fireball. BA '6o. 18 to Quakes in Mexico every time just seen issuing from earth BA 'i4 pigeons ac to some - or smoke / 14-15 clear until 2:30 a.m. but 1 o 10:18 p.m. quakes. At Pcsaro 7 Chile. Severe quake. 23 at ( reverse) p.m. and again 23 Incip. vole. Transylvania quake ac to others. Said been gnats. also few seen at Princeton, Univ. many large meteors ( reverse) 7 Evening :1 11d night. A. ). Sci. at midnigh t. Reg. Early Nov. and flames from earth. C. 6/ LT 18, p. o. of Virginia, and Kenyon College, 37-358. High waves Sandwich t839· 2.j.J BA 11. Rmsia (revers seen fi r:-.t/ At Venice torrents of 2-3 Night. Ftn:t and Vesuvius In Ohio (reverse) not even an or­ '54. Isles 20 feet high one place 6:30 Nov Auror:.�. London. Am. J. Sci. 54/274 Tides Deb. Feb. 1 hail and rain BA eruption not :-.ay when start (rc­ dinary average number of meteors p.m. (reverse) quake, Chile, I 34/283. 26, 27. Pesaro (It) "Many shooting stars, \'Crse) BA 5-1· seen. Proc. Amcr. Phil. Soc. I-6o think. 22 Mexico. Great quake. 1 1. S. W. Russia, Hungary, Ba rather brilliant and of large size g, 10 Obs many places 1n U.S. upon p. 69. The PERFECT GIFT WORLD EVEN

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