Show GHOSTS WANDER ABOUT GREAT J I Ever since the war began there have been een persistent tales from the battle bathe front ont of ot ghosts hosts that stalked abroad at I night Ight sometimes In la whole companies Despite the incredulity with which these hese stories were at first received the le men who had bad seen what they believed believed be believed be- be to be wraiths insisted so strongly strong strong- I ly that thaI their statements have come to tobe tobe tobe be more titan than half hail believed Many a 3 I French soldier has been een positive that he saw Joan of Arc riding between sword of oC the lines JInes waving aloft the tIle victory British soldiers have been St. St equally positive that they saw George and the cro cross S hovering over the field Now comes cornea Professor ProCessor Charles E. E of George Washington university sit sity who is an e explosive expert for the government and sa says that these after all ghosts host ma may be quite real Professor Profesor Munroe offers an explanation that Is highly Interesting Phosphorus always Is luminous In 11 I the time dark A mans man's bod body contains about five fifty ounces of phosphorus Upon a a. hard fought field where many bodies bodle lay exposed this phosphorus would begin to rise after a time A warm night would be especially fa favorable favorable fa- fa for a spectral performance Suppose that a gentle wind was blowin blowing blow blow- in ing gathering just enough of the phOsphorus phosphorus together to look like IIlo a woman t or saint with flowing robes rohl EVer Every sephyr would seemingly move these theRe robes b giving the the- Impression of ot walk walks I I ing or This probably 8 reason why all aU ghosts are a. a as being heln wrapped in a a. sheet 1 Jj The No o Mans Man's Land between trendiest trenches would be the very ery i p where a 3 procession of wraiths mi ml be he expected With many bodies fag InE about some seine of them theft long lOng i burled buried the amount of passing into the tho air would be con com enable erable It Is easy to conceive f war waI worn wont soldier mistaking SC strange shape of ot f the night fo for revered Joan or the knightly Geor What hat more natural than that that brain should evoke a memory memory of nations nation's most heroic spirit cloth It anew with a a. ghostly form IP The late Professor W. W J. J MCGee o 0 undertook to establish tho the truth Jo many stories about a haunted gra sra greyard yard Going there thero at night he eft himself an a a. flat tomb and waited 1 a long time nothing he be seemed to see a a. draped fi fig moving before his eyes Ces a few y yat awa away Gripping his bis COu courage professor advanced ready to grap with anything that he ho might ter But Jut there therena was na nothing to ba barf way Ho lIe could no longer see the ft ur ure Returning to his tomb the once more made out the ghostly I Watching It carefully he 0 that it was a a. kind of vapor s 8 examination the next day clay shO that there was an open grave e near neall from which phosphorus fumes 4 ably had escaped This in alt w hood is the tho simple W belief that spirits wa old age-old about stout graveyards ards at night H 1 |