Davis County Clipper | 1917-08-03 | Page 4 | Rain Has Followed Gunless Battles

rain has followed battles that rein follows great battles Is a tradition hat has persisted lor for centuries and the tact fact it if fact it be bc has hag usually boon been attributed to the copins co incus sion of the air caused by heavy artil lery firing cut but a correspondent of nature cites cills a passage froia plutarch Ilu tarch telling of a battle of calus marius against the in 13 C in which that ancient historian wrote it is well known that extraordinary rains generally follow great battles at as it if the gods decided to wash and purify atie earth or as if blood and corruption by the moisture and heavy vapors they engendered thickened the tha air which Is changed by the most trifling causes