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SANDERSV1LLE HERALD
BUYING THE WIND.
Some Points of Peril That Are
Dreaded by Seamen.
MERCILESS KENTISH KNOCK.
Thi* Real Davy Jones’ Locker Is a
Vast Cemetery For All Ships That
Are Gripped by Its Relentless Sands.
Sable Island’s Fingers of Death.
The exact location of Davy .Tones’
locker Is not shown on any ocenti chart
extant, principally because It Is a state
and not a plnce, hut If any one ocean
death trnp deserves the title It Is the I flcn captain willing to Invest In some-
Iceland “Wizards” Who Used to Sell
to Superstitious Mariners.
Ill the old days of sailing ships It
was a common thing for a sen captain
to “buy the wind” for his voyage,
though, strangely enough, the only peo
ple supposed to deal In It were the
Icelanders. When a constant succes
sion of baffling winds or dead cnltns
had persistently followed a ship for
more than one cruise, It was not at all
unusual for the skipper of n big wind
jammer to pay a visit to Iceland for
the sole purpose of purchasing wind
enough to last him on Ills next voyage
or two.
In every port In Icelnnd one or more
“wind wizards" were to be found, who
were ready to sell a favorable wind for
the next six months or a year to any
Thames estuary. The British nnval
department has a chnrt upon which
It marks the position of wrecks with
a hlack dot. On this chnrt the Thames
mouth tract is a solid black spot. So
numerous have l>eon the wrecks that
the dots run together. The point
where the black dots actually pile one
on top of another is the Kentish Knock,
and this Is the place among all of the
ocean’s danger spots that deserves the
title of Davy Jones' locker.
At the Kentish Knock It Is not keel
shattering rocks of piercing points of
coral that wreck the ocean travelers.
It Is sand, treacherous, clinging sand,
that grasps the doomed ship with a
griji of steel and holds it firmly while
the angry sen bents It to fragments.
Many a vessel posted at Lloyd’s as
thing he could not see. The sailor, hav
ing found his way to the magician's
house, first proceeded to spread out
upon the floor the articles ottered In
payment for the wind—tallow candles,
cloth, bends, knives, powder and lend.
After a good deni of haggling and
many times adding to or taking away
from the little pile of merchandise be
tween them the price was finally
agreed upon, and the captain passed
over his handkerchief to the Icelander.
The wind merchnnt muttered certain
words Into it, tying a knot In the hand
kerchief at the end of each incanta
tion. This was done to keep the mnglc
words from evaporating. When a cer
tain number of knots had been tied,
the # handkerchief was returned to Its
owner, with a strict charge to keep it
Grand Jury.
Grand and Traverse .Tnrv drawn
missing would be duly accounted for ! knotted and guard it with extraordl-
if the Knock sand would give up Its , nary care until he arrived at the de
sired port, and at ench port a knot was
! to be taken out.
| One old captain hnd been so bothered
1 with head winds that ho kept crying
booty. There is no hope for ship or
man when Father Neptune aHks toll at
the Kentish Knock, for the nearest
land is twenty miles away and the
nearest lifeboat at Margate, thirty
miles away.
The sands of the ocean are far more
dangerous than the rocks. The sand
banks extend over more space, there
fore offer more points of contact than
the rocks, which usually rise iu one
slender pinnacle. The waters flow r over
them In smooth waves, and there are
no warning breakers.
Next to the
point of danger Is the Ilugli, the salt
water river on which Calcutta stands, j
The most trying part of a large vessel’s
voyage from New York to Calcutta Is
the last few miles of this calm river.
In this strange river In windless weath
er and flat, calm water vessels have
been lost, dashed to pieces on the ever
shifting sand banks by the force of
the tides. The sands grasp the keel of
the marked vessel, and she stops, but
the tide moves on with relentless force,
and the helpless ship is carried over
on her beam ends. She careens over
and founders with all on board. One
of the worst shoals in the Ilugli bears
the name James nml Mary. It was
the name of a great Indian merchant
shipwrecked on the sunken sand banks.
Another danger point dreaded by the
muster mariner has neither sand nor
rocks, but a great submarine waterfall.
In the English channel there is a point
just beyond the Shambles banks where
there is a sudden drop In the sea bot
tom. The channel tides sweep over
the banks and down this sudden drop,
creating rapids equal in fury to those
of Niagara. The American shipGoorglan
foundered in l’ortlaud race, the name
by which this danger point is known,
and all hands went down with her.
Ships bound to New York from Eu
rope pass quite near a deadly hidden
shoal which runs out from Sable is
land, lying oil Snble enpe, in Nova
Scotia. The shoal runs out for miles in
five directions like the fingers of a
grent hand reaching out for what it
can destroy. When the gales blow,
heavy seas boom upon the shoals with
sufficient force to shatter the stanchest
vessel ufloat, and when the wind ceases
the beaches are strewn with wreckage
and the bodies of those who have per
ished. The distance from the shore is
too great and the surf too heavy for
the life savers to reach a struggling
vessel, and few lives are saved at this
point. Ten vessels hnve been wrecked
in this trap in a single day.
The rocky danger poluts in the ocean
have nearly all been tagged, and light
houses have been erected on the most
dangerous—all except one. There is no
lighthouse on the Virgin rock, and
there never will be. Out in the mid-At
lantic a giant pinnacle rears its head
up from the ocean floor and endeavors
vainly to reach the surface of the sea.
It is too short by about eighteen feet.
There It stands with its sharp point
hidden by the ocean waves, waiting to
pierce the bottom of some unsuspecting
vessel nnd send It down to Join the pile
of ships’ ribs and dead men’s bones
that litter the floor around Its base.
The waves’seem to be in league with
the rock, for if a vessel of light draft
tries to pass over its head the waves
shoot it down into a trough at the bot
tom of which the point of the rock is
waiting to rip out her keel.
These dange^ spots, however, are but
annexes to the real Davy Jones’ locker,
the Kentish Knock, that cemetery of
ships anil men where dripping ghosts
of master mariners and their men flit
over the ruins of their vessels.—B. R.
Winslow in Los Angeles Times.
out to the Icelander to tie another knot
in the handkerchief nnd nnothcr nnd
another, so ns to be sure of plenty of
the wished for zephyrs, until finally
there was no room for any more knots
nnd three knives and thirty candles
had been ndcled to the heap on the
floor. But when the wind greedy cap
tain was two days at sea a terrific gale
began to hurl the ship ahead of it,
Thames mouth tract iu ovor Increasing in fury, until she
! plunged along under bare poles, with
I her nose deep in the brine nnd tons of
j water washing her decks. Dnrker and
darker grew the sky, nnd higher nnd
higher rose the racing, foam crested
wnves, hammering the laboring vessel
with censeless blows until her seams
began to open under the strain nnd let
in the sea.
Then, believing he hnd the devil in
his pocket, the bndly frightened skip
per drew forth the much knotted hand
kerchief and threw it overboard. In a
short time the tempest abated, the
clouds cleared nway, nnd the waters
subsided, but one seamnn never again
bought wind. He was content with the
kind that comes by chance.—New York
Times.
French Oyster Gatherers.
The work of oyster collecting nnd
culture is most unsuitable for women,
but in France, owing to its tedious na
ture, it does not appeal to men. Often
from an early hour In the morning till
late into the evening the women are
standing up to the knees in water,
with a strong sun beating down on
them. The result is that never a year
passes without some of them going
mad and having to be hurried away to
the asylums. The work is well paid,
ns, indeed, it ought to be, while in the
case of the few who own beds the
profits are large, and small fortunes
are quickly amassed.
far next term of court.
J. W. Barksdale
T. C. Adamson
E. W. Waller
1). L. Christian
J. D. New
J. Davis
M. 1). Mills
J. S. Gibbs
L. O. McBride
T. Wnrthen
G. L. Armstrong
J. R. Burdette
A. L. Thigpen
11. M. King
T. J. Orr
A. Y. 11. Jordan
11. J. Iv.-y
T. J. Beck
(). L. Rogers
E P Bedingfield
John T. Oato
J. C. Hamilton
A. Chamlee
T. Wells StttUli
A. W. J. Wood
Jhb. A. Mobley
U. B. Walker
M. T. Swint
W. T. Salter
J. K. Henderson
F. J. Garbutt.
Traverse
Jury.
U. L. Edwards
U. L. Lockhart
Mark Newman
W. J. Joiner Jr.
11. B. Smith
J. T. Burgamy
A. L. Spicer
R. A. Sowell
Archie Wummack
E. L. Sheppnrd
.1. W. Smith
R. S. Wiggins
I. W. Newman
L. G. Shurling
N. S.Josey
T. T. 1 luttaway
Francis M. Jackson
John A. Kelly
O. P. Stephens
W. II. Franks
Thus. U. Brooks
Andrew S Mathis
S. 11. Mollis
J. R. Hitt
Walter Stephens
O. T. Gibbs
Joseph M.Jackson
II. F. Wood
0. M. Duggan
Geo. Gilmore
John H. Taylor
E. II. Veal
Hen F. Chambers
E. L. Ne>v
J. C. Brown
Lonnie L. Garner
Loan Investments.
1 can loan your
money to good
parties on ample
real estate se-
curity. First-class
risks. No com-
munication with borrowers unti
loan approved by investors; all
costs of loans paid by borrowers.
If you contemplate loaning money
ook over my list of applicants
or loans and security offered.
Loans made from one to five
years; interest payable annually
G, H. Howard, Att’y.
Office over First National Bank
We have old newspapers /or
sale at Thk IIkkai.o office at 25 cents
per hundred.
OVERALLS
Are you a Union Man ?
CARHART’S are Union
made.
Wear them and be
loyal to the trust.
Paid For.
An Irishman entered a country Inn
and called for a glass of the best Irish
whisky. After being supplied he drank
It nnd was about to walk out when the
following conversation took place:
Landlord—Here, sir; you haven’
paid for that whisky you ordered.
Irlshmari—What’s that you say? Land
lord—I said you hadn’t paid for that
whisky you ordered. Irishman—Did
you pay for it? Landlord—Of course I
did. Irishman—Well, then, what’s the
good of both of us paying for it?—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
The Swiss Republic.
The Swiss republic, with various
changes, has survived from the year
1308, though its present constitution
dntes only from 1874. It now embraces
three nationalities — German, French
and Italian. The original nucleus of
the state, however, was German, and
even now considerably more than half
the population is German. Federated
under the constitution of 1874 are
twenty-two distinct states.
Bridge Builders.
We read of the heroes of the battle
field, the ocean and various other call
ings, but there is another class of men
whose work is also heroic, but who
are seldom heard of—men who face
death high in the air. They are what
the engineer calls “riggers” and are
the creators of the world’s big bridges
and the huge skyscrapers of American
cities. Without their bravery and skill
the towering structures which span
the _world’s great rivers and gorges
could not be put together.—Wide World
Magazine.
He Preferred One Girl.
When J. M. Barrie, the author of
"Peter Pan," addressed an audience of
a thousand girls at Smith college dur
ing his American visit of last year, a
friend asked him how he had found
the experience.
“Well," replied Mr. Barrie, “to tell
you the truth. I’d much rather talk a
thousand times to one girl than to talk
one time to a thousand girls.”
Safety of the Stupid.
“Bliggins says that’ he has no re
grets for anything he ever said.”
“Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “that
is a satisfaction enjoyed only by peo
ple who never sny anything of the
least Importance.”—Washington Star.
Hustle in Life and Death.
The American grows quickly, works
quickly, eats quickly, makes up his
mind quickly, gets rich quickly and
dies quickly. He is even buried quick
ly.—Paris Revue.
PRICE $1.00
Sole Agency
t. y. McCarty
SHOE CO.
Phone 29.
Baby Restless 0
And Fretful •
Baby Tonic Digestive
is what the baby needs when
fretful, restless and suffer
ing from indigestion and dis
ordered stomach.
It is the result of many
years experience in the treat
ment of baliies and is a tri
umph in this line, because it
brings relief, ease and com
fort and contains absolutely
no opiates or other harmful
drug. The youngest infant
can take it with safety and
it will relieve the older chil
dren as well.
In this warm weather
mothers will find it an in
valuable remedy because the
cases of indigestion are apt
to lie more severe and it is
important to take care of the
digestion.
25c. and 50c.
Drive prejudices out by the door,
they will re-enter by the window.—
Frederick the Great
SANDERSV1LLE
DRUG COMPANY
ommunity Silver!
29,375 Hours of Your Life
* n the next twenty.
five years will be
spent at the table.
COiiiiaNITX
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THE AVALON PATTEEN
will do much to
make those thous
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by makingthat table
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more than triple-
plated ware has the
style and appear
ance of the best
Sterling. It is ar
tistic andyet simple,
is more than triple plated, and each piece will
last a lifetime.
WATCHES, DIAMONDS and JEWELRY
Spectacles SCIENTIFICALLY Fitted
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Cut Glass, Hand Painted China, Dinner
Plates and Chocolate Sets IMPORTED.
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TABLE SILVERWARE.
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Jewelers and Opticians.
:«: Sandersville, Ga.
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FOR FIRST-CLASS
GROCERIES.
I don’t claim to be a statesman or a banker or
a minister; neither do I claim to know everything.
But if there is one thing that I do know, it is how
to buy the Best Groceries at the Lowest Prices,
and that places me in position to sell them to you
at a price that can not be duplicated.
If You Are Not a Customer of The Day-
Light Corner Yon are Missing the Best.
I want every lady in Sandersville and this section
to come to my store and look at the quality of my
goods and get my prices before you trade else*
where. I know I can please you and save you
money at the same time.
THE COUNTRY MAN IN A CITY STORE,
Sandersville, Georgia.
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