Show The Flame Clad Mountains A WEIRD mantle mantIe of flame that enfolds A Brown Mountain l North Korth Carolina sometimes slipping from the shoulders of the gaunt crags almost to the valley has for years startled the natives of that locality and given rise to innumerable superstitious stories It was for a long time thought by tourists to be a cunningly devised scheme of to frighten off those who might find their still but recently it has come into its own as an accredited electrical electrical elec elec- phenomenon Scientific Investigators have bave studied the theron Brown ro-n ro Mountain light carefully an and ac according according according ac- ac cording to the investigators it is what hat is known as brush lightning Brown Mountain lies seventeen miles mlles from Blowing Rock in the Blue Ridge Mountains Mountains Moun Moun- in the western part of th the State and andIs andis is In an uninhabited and sparsely wooded section Suddenly and without warning a light sometimes blazes out outon on ion the crest of the mountain slowly moves down its tide side I ide and then fades out sometimes it seems to rise from the top of t the e mountain and hang suspended in the air where It fades It has as ns many whims and moods as as a temperamental artist sometimes appearing several times during one night now stationary stationary stationary sta sta- now nov slow again swift in its it flight and sometimes It cannot be seen f for r a comparatively comparatively coin coin- com com- ely long period of time but it usually is most active when the sky is clearing after a arain rain Those who have studied it In all it its gu guises guises' say that it often is not unlike the star from a bursting sky-rocket sky though much brighter and that it Is sometimes red and sometimes yellow due probably to th the condition of the atmosphere Scientists were ere at first prone to cavil il at the stories which wh ch came out o t of the mountains mountains moun moun- with the tourists thinking perhaps that locomotive headlights or wily mountaineers mountaineers mountaineers moun moun- were playing tricks on active imaginations imaginations imag imag- but but today Dr W. W J. J Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Hum Hum- physicist of the United States Weather Yea ther Bureau and other meteorologists of note believe that there occurs around the thra mountains mountain's crest a n brush discharge of lightning lightning light light- ning similar to the famous Andes lightning or the St. St Elmos Elmo's fire fire which gave rise among the ancient Greeks to the myth of Castor and Pollux That glow which accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied the slow discharge of electricity to the earth earth from the atmosphere in southern southern southern south south- ern climates during thunderstorms thunder storms seen Een on the tops of masts spires or othet othel pointed o objects was named St. St Elmos Elmo's fire by sailors after fter one of their patron saints because they felt that when the sign appeared they had nothing further to fear tear from the storm Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the electrical discharge which takes place either from the tale earth to the clouds or from the clouds to the earth around Brown Drown Mountain Moun Moun- tain taia is that it it itis is silent The same thing is true of the electrical displays in the tha Andes which have long been known to scientists and travelers In hi the the- South American American Ameri Amerl- can Continent as the Andes lightning It appears as a silent but very luminous lumino 9 discharge discharge dis db- dis- dis charge of electricity along the crest of the tho Cordillera Real in Chile in a region where thunder storms are practically unknown Its visibility Is 15 sometimes very marked having baving been noted by the former director of the Meteorological l and Geophysical In Institute Institute Institute In- In of Chile while chile he was out at sea more more than miles from the head cor- cor The actual discharge In which the mountain sets acts as a lightning rod between the clouds and the earth resembles a glimmer gUmmer glimmer glim gUm mer but sometimes the flashes which take place at the point of origin are strong and powerful then gradually diminish In intensity intensity intensity sity and finally disappear into the night The light flashes over the mountain from rom late spring to fall faU and the displays grow south less brilliant as one goes farther The same phenomenon has bas also been noted in the Swiss Alps One observer after a along alo along lo long g period of ot hot and dry weather re reported reported reported re- re ported that he be had bad seen a ft succession of semicircular semicircular semi semi- circular flashes which shot up from a n mountain moun mown tain tamp In the Bernese Oberland occasionally lighting the group Such displays di lays are notable for their likeness In appearance to the aurora except that they do not reach such heights or The Safest Way RS has a mania for MRS all manner mann r of things sanitary In the tho interesting interesting interesting interest- interest evening ening paper she chanced upon an ing item which she at on once e brought to the tha attention of Mr Ir An n eminent medical authority she aha I read contends conten 8 that a dentists dentist's fingers carry disease germs Whereupon the husband offered the tha following fol 4 lowing observation In that case my dear theres there's but one OM safe rule rule boil boil your dentist Had the Proof teacher in Pennsyl Pennsyl- A SUNDAY school a A A- A Avania vania town did pot not seem inclined to toa a accept the assertion ot of one of her girl pupils that hat she had been christened in the orthodox way How do you know you have asked 1 the t teacher acher with a 11 smile Because said the little girl I have havethe havethe the marks on my arm II |