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T H E 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 SILVER THE AVALON PATTEEN will do much to make those thous ands of hours happy by makingthat table attractive. This 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 ? J Cut Glass, Hand Painted China, Dinner Plates and Chocolate Sets IMPORTED. KB- TABLE SILVERWARE. * Scarborough and Garbutt $ t * i Phone 67 Jewelers and Opticians. :«: Sandersville, Ga. { I The Herald and Tribune One Year $1.00 The Daylight Corner m •in 5JJ 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. •m* ■Ilf •wi •w •IK* i sffi#