Show PILGRIMAGE AGE OF SWARM THROUGH TOWN READING Pa Sept S For S.-For For twenty four hours on Saturday an almost endless end end- less procession of gnats gnat p passed along the at this point Nothing like It was ever ever- Experienced before At o'clock the swarm was so dense that it f formed a dark dart animated mist Men Ien women and children suffered from the strange visitation Finally the c cloud of Insects settled so low that they struck the water and Invariably were drowned In this va way the surface o of the river was soon covered with a layer of oC the gnats which looked like a black scum There were millions upon millions of them them them-litera them literally literally 11 without number During th their lr flight Might people took refuge In their houses and doors and windows win win- dews dows had t tp tO b be closed For hours they made lifo life along alonlo the river unbearable and then the they disappeared ared as rapidly as they came |