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Show Fox Fires No Longer Cause Childish Fear Boys and girls nowadays seldom experience ex-perience the thrill of seeing a mysterious mysteri-ous light glowing dimly in the depths of the forest or gleaming from some half-buried rotten log in a lonely swamp. The cutting away of the forests for-ests nnd the draining of swampy land have cleared from much of the landscape land-scape the causes which produce fox fire. In early days, however, the feet of pioneer children often were sent scampering home In the twilight when their owners came unexpectedly upon a light which seemed to have no source, says the Indianapolis News. Ghosts and goblins and all sorts of evil omens ever have been associate! with the appearance of fox fire and will-o'-the-wisps. There lorg has been a difference of opinion regarding the cause of fox fire, but now it is generally gen-erally conceded to be due to a living rangus growth which permeates oecar-lng oecar-lng vegetable matter and which possesses pos-sesses the power of emitting waves of llfibt No sensible bHt waves are thrown out, and In this respect fox ! lire resembles the light emitted by I fireflies and glowworms. Many a , ghost might have been traced to its lair bad the origin of phosphorescence been understood better, especially In the countries where the wlll-o'-the-wlsps tire reputed to be of frequent occurrence. |