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LENOIR, N. C. LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1919 Page Three THE "MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS" NEAR LINVILLE FALLS (CoL Fred A. Olds in Orphans' Friend) Many people think the beautiful Linville river breaks through the Blue Ridge. Really it doesn't It is all on the seutheast side, in a fun ny kind of a pocket, and twists, about so it fools even the mountain which hedge it in. Now you see it and now you don't, for it dodges about like a scared rabbit Finally it executes the biggest stunt goes over the falls and the a races away, running like a mill suice in time of flood all the way down to the lowlands and passing be tween two enormous mountains which form a gateway, their fore heads rising on either side to the clouds. Then the river goes into the Catawba to be of use in generating power in many a town and factory. It is in the gorge that the finest fish, rainbow trout, are taken. This sum mer one was brought to Mr. Stokes Penland to be weighed, and it stood at 5 pounds. It had swallowed, evidently a few minutes before it was caught, a brook trout seven inches long, so there was a double feast. It will be interesting to fisher men to know that only seven miles north of Linville Falls is the Toe river, which runs into the Gulf of Mexico, and in this there is splendid bass fishing with high records for weight and gameness. In recent years, beginning, say, ten years ago, there has been a great deal of talk of what some people call "the mysterious lights" a few miles from Linville Falls, these being also visible from a palce known as Cold Spring, or Loven's. on the road on which teams go to Morganton from Blue Ridge. A party was made up to see these lights and after an early supper we left Linville Falls and hiked first along the road, then on a trail through lonely woods, and final ly struck the real thing, the world set up on edge., and as we went up we n doubt looked to the big muon tains like flies climbing up the slop ing side of a wall. In the party was a bride of a few days, weighing something more than a hundred pounds, which you know is a rare thing for a bride to do. Up we went, then down and then up higher and steeper places until finally the dear bride, nearly at her last gasp and yet determined to see the sights, called for help. So guide Stewart and the writer took hold of a stout stick and pulled her up the most staggering climb of all. Five minutes later she was sitting on the top of the moun tain a mile high, looking at what seemed half the world, and eating chocolate caramels. She wasn't tired at all. That atmosphere is as re freshing as any shower bath. There came to us from the neigh borhood Postmaster Franklin and a lot of folks, including ladies and children. The mountain top on which we were has long been known as the B.i J Field and is on Jonas Ridge, a spur of the Blue Ridge. It is as bare of vegetation as the palm of your hand and has always been so It is a fine place from which to see the lights. Punctually at 9 o'clock, just as it became dark, the light flamed out, almost due east, apparently ten or fifteen miles distant, and one one of f.ve rather lower mountains. It was precisely like a bonfire and lasted perhaps three seconds. The bottom was of the apparent diameter of a large hogshead and the upper part rose in a pyramid above it at an ap parent height of, say, ten feet, all of this of course being comparative. The light was bright but not of elec trical brightness, and was clearly due to fire. Some minutes passed before more light? appeared, though the writeT led a regular volley of applause and cried out for more. Preesntly a lit tle feilow off to the northeast gave flash. Altogether, there were about twenty-five appearances and these were about seventy degrees of a great circle. It was learned that they do not appear outside of this area. Mr. Franklin said sometimes that as many as four lights are seen at once, but we saw only one at a time. Some of these were mere flashes, looking for the world as though they were made by some giant of a firefly, which the darkies call "lightning bugs." At 1Q:30 the show was over, run ning about the same length of time as a high class movie picture, and very correct and punctual as to be ginning and ending. Sometimes there is a double performancelast ing hours' later. Mr Franklin, like the rest of us, of course knew that Mrs. Nature was putting on the show and that in these mountains, so Sull of caves, as Already staed, she a sher chemists at work making gas. This escapes and when it gets enough oxygen outside to bring it to the combustion point it flashes; a big flash or a lttle flash accordng to the amount of gas evolved. rhdscJ like'sshrdlup shrdlup shrdl Mr. Franklin told a most interest ing story, saying that some years ago one of his suns ran into the house and said, "Papa, the sun has fallen into our wheat field and exploded." Mr. Franklin ran out and saw a light so vivdi that he had to shield his ,eyes with his hands. In a few sec onds it was gone, and when he went to the spot he found the oats had been lightly scorched. They showed it, and there was also an odor of . scorching vegetation. He remarked that for a hundred years these lights have been seen, but that only lately has there 'been bo much talk about them. Of course they appear all day, but are rare! yvisible in daylight There are thousands of caves and crevices in those mountains and it is no wonder that this peculiar phenom enon develpps there. Some people actually thought the lights are due to engine headlights, but the natives laughed at this. They know what causes them. ; ,. ' ; .- , In all the hike from Blowing Rock to Linville Falls not a single negro was seen, nor did any of them appear until Marion was reached. In perhaps half of Mitchell county there has PAUSES. MIC Eugene ' Mitchell Says Teniae Has Made Hi. Wife Like a New Womaa I wouldn't take anything on earth for what Tanlac has done for my wife," said Eugene Mitchell of 114 West 13th street Chattanooga, Tenn. "For two years," he continued, "my wife suffered terribly with aw ful pains in her stomach. After eat ing anything gas would form and she would become so nauseated that she could hardly retain what she had eaten. She had no strength to do anything and just dragged herself around all day, feeling perfectly miserable. "One of our neighbors strongly advised her to take Tanlac and she gained eight pounds shortly after finishing her first bottle. She has gotten over her stomach trouble, eats what she wants and digests her food without any after distress. She is alst strong and healthy enough now to do all her house work, and the way she gets ariund you would never think she had been sick at all. We have so much faith in Tanlac that we have already got several of our friends to take it with gratify ing results." PERFIDY OF GERMAN MISSION ARY REVEALED IN RUINS Probably many years will elapse before the black perfidy of the Teu tonci champions of "kultur" within the Ottoman empire comes fully to light, says William T. Ellis, writing from Urfa, Mesopomtamia, to the Greensboro Daily News. Quite re cently the city of Urfa, in upper Mesopotamia, east of the Euphrates river, has been opened to foreigners, including American relief workers, and unexpected horrors have come to light. What has been found has created a fresh scepticism concerning the re ported "suicide" of American Vice Consul Lesley, who died at Urfa dur ing the war under mysterious cir cumstances, when Urfa could not be reached by Americans or other for eigners who might make an investi gation. The fact that Lesley, who was an American board missionary, was the only representative of neu tral powers who had witnessed the deeds of the Germans may explain why his "elimination" was deemed essential by them. Careful Americans who have gone into all the facts in the case and ex- ! amined the cryptic letter in which i Lesley told of his approaching end I unhesitatingly declare their belief i that he was murdered, and that the letter, with its un-American phrase ology, if in his handwriting at all, was penned at the point of a pistol. There is almost an unbelievable story of German perfidy unearthed here, but before telling it Urfa itself should be placed in the reader's mind. Like every other natural city , site, in this part of the world, it is a ! place of layered ruins. On ita rock tombs and cave dwellings are inscrip tions of unknown antiquity. It has throughout the centuries bent its neck to the yoke of Assyria, Byzan tium, Persia, Egypt, Macedonia, Ara bia, Armenia, Tartary, Crusader and Turk. Long its name was Edessa, which students of the classics will recall. It was the eastern outpost of the Crusaders' kingdom. Two of Urfa's many legends are famous. Edessa's fifteenth king, Ab- I gar, who was contemporaneous with never been a negro. If you don't believe it ask the folks who live on Rock creek there. No tobacco was seen execpt two tiny little patches many miles apart. It is hardly worth while to try to raise tobacco there, as the frost generally catches it. There used to be leaf warehouses in the mountains, but now these are only a memory. How great is the snowy beauty of the fields of buck wheat in bloom, most numerous in Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany and Aver, where two crops can be grown in a season, for it matures in about-sixty days. The gay and festive moonshiner was not seen and but little heard of. Sheriff Pritchard of Mitchell, whose father was the late noted Sheriff George D. Pritchard, assured the writer that there is not an illicit still in Yancey county, but that he got one. now and then in Mitchell. A few of these were seen in the jail at Ba-kersville. Christ is said to have conducted a correspondence with Jesus, and the letters are accepted as genunie by some of the eastern churches. This is the only tradition of any letter or other1 document penned by Jesus. The king wrote entreating the Mas ter to come to Edessa 'to cure him of his leprosy; Jesus replied that while he could not go himself he would send his disciples and grant the healing. St Thaddeus is said to have cured the king and converted the people. The other legend concerns Abra ham, who is said to have lived here, after leaving Ur of the Chaldees and the neighboring district of Haran. His life and good works so won the people of Edessa that they asked Abraham to remain and be their king. He declined, having heard God's call to Canaan. The citizens were insistent; Abraham was obdu rate. At length the Edessites de clared that the saint and patriarch would have to stay with them, if not alive, then dead. They took him to the top of the mountains at the edge of the town and threatened to throw him down. When Abraham refused to disobey his heavenly vision he was precipi tated from the craggy height, and where his two feet struck th,e earth there gushed forth huge springs real lakes, in fact and he arose un hurt. The people let him go, but the lakes have been deemed sacred to this day. When a person draws near to the end of the lake the fish swim toward him and actually crowd one another out of the water. oS hckitraeshrd out of the wtaer. So thick are they that I put in the handle of my stick and pulled fish up into the air, until some Moslem mosque attaches saw me and gave signs of getting into ac tion. It is not wise to interfere with local religious beliefs, and those fish may not safely be profaned by infi del touch. Before the war Urfa was a thriv ing town of between 25,000 and 30, 000 population, mostly Armenians, with a considerable sprinkling of Ja cobite Christians. The American board maintained here a notable in dustrial school, begun by the famous Miss Shattuck and carried on by George F. Gracey, who, after adven turous experiences at Van, Erivan and in Russia, was captured by the bolsheviks and kept in prison for nearly a year. There also was a Swedish mission and a German indus trial mission in Urfa. The last named was directed by a man named Eckhardt, who was on most friendly terms with his fellow missionaries. Twice during adven tures in this region of turmoil Eck hardt's life was saved by Gracey. Eckhardt taught a Bible class in the leading Armenian church, and his family were members of the congre gation. His children were baptized by the Armenian pastor. His rug factory for such was the form of his industrial work was in the cen ter of the Armenian quarter of the city. When wa rbroke Eckhardt proved to be a German spy and artillery of ficer. He led the troops to his strat egically placed rug factory and es I tablished them there as a base. From ! that point of vantage he bombarded the Armenian church and residences and the American mission. ! The savagery of Eckhardt knew no bounds. When the killing of the Armenians was at its height he dressed his children in their best clothes, gave each a Turkish and a German flag, and led them out to see the body of their Armenian friend and pastor, a Yale graduate, hanging from a tree, and to gloat over the spectacle as an evidence of German triumph. Eckhardt is now under arrest and likely to be hanged. Investigator sreturning to Urfa find evidences of horrible work. Of the more than 4,000 Armenian houses of the city only 50 remain. Of the 25,000 Armenian inhabitants only 2,500 have come back. Eye-witnesses of atrocities tell of horribl edeeds. Eight hundred Ar menians were killed in one cave One group of men were tied togeth er and then bayonetted. Another large company were taken to the hill side and used for mcahine.gun prac tice. Several hundred were burned, and the heaps of grisly remains are to be seen to this day. Yet the allies have punished no body for these crimes. The near east relief committee has established a center of work at Urfa to facilitate the rehabilitation and repatriation of the sufferers. pS2SHS2SZS2SESZSZSZS25ZS25BS2S2S2S5 CALLED HER FAMILY TO HER BEDSIDE Six Tears Ago, Thinking She Might Die, Says Texas Lady, Bat Now She Is a Well, Strong Woman and Praises Cardui For Her Recovery. Royse City, Tex. Mrs. Mary Hit man, of this place, says; ."After the birth of mjr little girl. . .my side com menced to hurt me. I had to go back to bed, We called the doctor. He treated me... but I got no better. I got worse and worse until the misery was unbearable... I was In bed for three months and suffered such agony that I was just drawn up In a knot... I told my husband it he would get - me a bottle of Cardui I would try It, . . I commenced taking it, however, that evening I called my family about me... for knew I could not last many days unless I had a change for the better. That was six years ago and I am still here and am a well. strong woman, and I owe my life to Cardui. I had only taken half the bottle when I began to feel better. The misery in my side got less... continued right on taking the Cardui until I had taken three bottles and I did not need any more for I was well and never felt better in my life.., bare never had any trouble from that day to this." Do you suffer from headache, back ache, pains In sides, or other dlscom forts, each month? Or do you feel weak, nervous and fagged-out? It so, give Cardui, the : woman's tonic, a MaV;.:'V-; NORTH CAROLINA LITE STOCK AND EE I Goldsboro, N. C. Damn ,10,11,12 This is the most important meeting of its kind held in the State. Come and bring your neighbors. 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