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WONDERFUL RETRIBUTION.
An Incident of the Workings of Can
ada’s Government Protection.
In September, ISJO-4. two white men
entered the Lesser Slave lake country,
in the Canadian northwest, ostensibly
prospecting for gold. Subsequently the
Indians reported that one of the men
seemed to be traveling alone, an ob
servant Cree boy adding. “The white
man’s dog won't follow that fellow
any more.” The answers given by
Charles King of .Mount Pleasant, Utah,
regarding Ids lost companion, Hay
ward. were rf>r satisfactory. King was
arrested, and there began one of the
most splendid bits of detective work
of which Canada lias record.
Sergeant Anderson turned over the
ashes of a caiuptire and found three
hard lumps of flesh and a small piece
of skull bone. In trout stretched a
little slough’, or lake, which seemed
a likely place in which to look for evi
dence. Setting Indian wm***u to tish
up with their toes any hard substance
they might feel in the ooze. Anderson
secured a stickpin of unusual make
and a sovereign case. He systematical
ly drained the lake and found a shoe
with a broken eyed needle sticking in
it. The campfire ashes examined with
the microscope yielded the missing
part of a needle’s broken eye and es
tablished unmistakable connection be
tween lake and camp.
The maker of the stickpin in London.
England, was communicated with by
cable, and the Canadian government
summoned a Mr. Hayward to come
from England to identify the trinkets
of his murdered brother. Link by link
the chain grew, it took eleven months
for Sergeant Anderson to get his com
plete case in shape. The mounted po
lice brought from Lesser Slave lake
to Edmonton forty Indian and half
breed witnesses. The evidence was
placed before the jury, and the Indians
returned to their homes. A legal tech
nicality cropping up. the trial had to
be repeated in its entirety, and once
more those forty men. women and
children left their traps and fishing
nets and came into Edmonton to tell
their story.
The result was that Charles King
was found guilty of the murder of Ed
ward Hayward and paid the deatli
penalty. The trial cost the govern
ment of Canada over S3U.UOO —all to
avenge the death of one of the wan
dering units to be found in every cor
ner of the silent places, an unknown
prospector.—Agnes Dean Cameron in
Century.
QUEER VILLAGES.
Some Peculiar Ones That May Be Seen
In England.
Tlie English village is very dear to
the hearts of poets and painters, and
thousands of them are certainly charm
ing. A few. however, are more amus
ing than anything else—as, for in
stance, one which consists entirely of
old railway carriages, even the chapel
being composed of four horse trucks.
Another village, with a population of
1,100 and taxed at tlie valuation of
SB,OOO, has neither school, church nor
other public building, the only thing of
the sort being a letter box on a pillar.
Villages with hut a single inhabitant
are not unknown, one of them being
Skiddaw. in Cumberland. The single
villager complains bitterly because he
cannot vote, there being no overseer to
prepare a voters' list and no church or
other public building on which to pub
lish one. as the law requires. The
lonely rate payer iu a Northumber
land village has declined to contribute
money to maintain the roads, remark
ing that the one he has is quite good
enough for its use. in the isle of Ely
is a little parish with about a dozen
Inhabitants that has no rates, as there
are no roads or public institutions of
auy kind and consequently no ex
penses.
Ivempton. near Bradford, can proba
bly lay successful claim to the distinc
tion of being the longest village iu the
world, as it straggles along the road
for a distance of seven miles.
Sometimes a village will entirely
disappear, having been built either on
the edge of the crumbling cliffs that
make part of the coast line or over an
ancient mine. One of the latter class
is iu Shropshire, and each year one
or more of the cottages tumbles as the
earth sinks beneath It. Harper’s
Weekly.
Didn’t Liko th# Walk.
A north country pitman went with
his wife one Saturday night to do a
little shopping. They visited a large
drapery establishment, and the obse
quious shopwalker, having ascertain
ed their requirements, said to the cou
ple politely. “Will you please walk this
way?*' But unfortunately be walked
very lame.
"No, mistor.** said the pitman. **Aa
nlvvor hev waaked that way. an’ Aa’m
not gannin’ te try!**—London Scraps.
Not Doceivod.
“Never in my life have I deceived
my wife."
"Same here. Mine only pretends to
believe the yarns I tell.”—Loulsvtlle
Courier-Journal.
’Tls the mind that makes the body
itch.—Shakespeare.
BLOODSUCKING BATS
These Pests Are Plentiful In the
Forests of Erazil.
THEY ARE TRUE VAMPIRES.
But Cattle and Horses Are Their Chief
Victims, Which They Prefer to Hu
man Beings—Their Chisel-like Teeth
and Peculiar Interior Anatomy.
flulf a dozen of us had been telling
what we thought we knew about
bloodsucking bats, but our conversa
tion had developed only an astonish
ing amount of misinformation atm tr
reeoncilahie differences. So we called
in tlie doctor who had lived some
ye.-fs in Brazil and asked him to comb
out our tangled ideas.
"I’m not surprised at your confu
sion. ’’ lie began, "for at one time or
another l have believed above every
thing your guestnms would suggest.
When l was a schoolboy the vampire
was a bat as large as a crow, had a
horn on his nose aud was described as
sitting on his victim’s feet, fanning
him with his wings while he worked
his pumping apparatus. There is such
a bat. but when it was proved that it
was a fruit eater many of us doubted
the whole bat legend along with the
old mythology. There is a bloodsucking
vampire, however—millions of them.
"The old Spanish conquistadors
found proof of its existence in sore
great toes, which looked as if the skin
bad been delicately shaved off. just
deep enough to ooze blood, but they
never caught one and naturally laid
the blame lo the biggest ones they
found, which are nearly all vegetari
ans. The real thing is a small reddish
brown creature closely resembling bats
of the same color caught here not in
frequently.
"The naturalist finds, however, some
surprising differences. They have uo
teeth for any purpose save for thin
ning the skin - not enough for the
blood to flow freely, but just sufficient
to enable them to draw it by suction.
The wound rarely bleeds after they
leave it. This preparation is done with
a pair of chisel-like teeth, sharp as a
knife. Their interior anatomy differs
from other animals as well as their
teeth. All the other animals, so far as
1 know, have a stomach and necessary
organs for converting food into blood
The true vampire has only an elon
gated sacklike intestine for the storage
of the blood taken, which requires no
digestion till it is taken up into the
circulatory system. With neither teeth
nor stomach, it has uo alternative, it
must find nourishment ready made.
"This peculiarity may or may not
account for one very strange thing
about its selection of victims. Cattle
and horses are the chief ones. Not
one human being in a hundred entire
ly satisfies their taste. Not half the
people who live among them all their
lives are ever bitten. But if one of a
family, for instance, just suits them
they’ll follow that person to any part
of the house, and no matter how care
fully he may be covered or screened
they will find their particular tipple.,
"The stories of their bleeding people
almost to death tire true only partly.
I have known of one boy who was so
persistently followed that, while the
loss of blood was small from a single
attack, after months of the draiu he
was greatly reduced in vitality. He
was always bitten in the same place—
the end of the great toe— and it be
came so lacerated that there was con
siderable subsequent hemorrhage. This
lad was the youngest of four broth
ers. They ail slept in the same room
and sometimes changed beds, but none
of the others was ever bitten.
"Cattle and horses are attacked al
ways at a spot on the spine just back
of the shoulders, where the hair sep
arates iu a starlike spot. This in the
case of a horse is just where the front
end of the saddle comes, and the at
tack therefore makes a vast deal of
trouble where every one rides horse
back. A majority of the Brazilian
horses and nearly ail the cows are bit
ten by these plugues.
"Fortunately the pest* are most!)
confined to the forest country. They
give comparatively little trouble in cit
ies and villages, though the construc
tion of bouses makes it impossible to
keep them out. In cities tiles are ex
clusively used for roofs and iu the
country palm leaf thatching, and all
kinds of bats come and go at pleasure.
One rarely goes to sleep without from
one to a dozen flying about the room.
They are nearly all harmless aud are
welcome because tuey catch insects.
They all look so much alike that one
does not know which to attack.
"How the genuine vampires eluded
scientific research so long is a mys
tery. The species was set positively
identified nntil the visit of Darwin in
the Beagle. It was in the seventies. I
think, snd there is not at the javsent
day, so far as 1 can learn, a single
well authenticated case iwcorded in
the natural historlea of a true vam
pire being captured wbKe feeding on
a human being.’’—Dewey Austin Cobb
in New York Tribune.
Why do chimneys smoke? Be
cause they cannot chew. —Ex.
TRAVELERS’ TALES.
The Blunders In Books That Describe
Foreign Countries.
A lively article on the amusing mis
takes to be found iu books appears in
the London Academy. The author in
referring to the blunders often made
in books that describe foreign coun
tries notes that a traveler's ignorance
of the manners and customs of strange
; peoples or deliberate imposition by bis
informants are both supposed to have
given a somewhat fabulous character
| to some parts of the writings of tlerod
| otus. He quotes these lines, which he
i found written on bis desk when he
was attending lectures at Oxford:
Herodotus. Herodotus.
You could not spell, you ancient cuss.
The priests in Egypt gammoned you.
It was not very hard to do.
But don't you think you’ll gammon us.
Herodotus. Herodotus.
The author adds: "The second line is
presumably a reference to the spelling
of lonic Greek. What follows alludes
to the story of the Nile issuing from
between the mountains Crophi and Mo
phi. which certainly sounds like a nurs
ery tale. Iu justice, however, to the
historian we must remember that re
cent investigations have discovered
that many of his narratives once re
garded as mythical have beeu found to
have some foundation in fact.
“This is more than can be said of
most mediaeval travelers’ tales. Some,
however, admit of explanation, as, for
instance, Othello’s account of ’men
whose heads do grow beneath their
shoulders.’ Raleigh is convinced that
the wonder Ms true, because every
child In the provinces of Arromaia and
Canuri affirms the same.’ The origin
of the belief in such prodigies has
been found in the account given by
Olearius of the Saniojeds of northern
Muscovy, whose •garments are made
like those that are called cosaques,
open only at the necks. When the cold
Is extraordinary they put their co
saques over their heads and let the
sleeves hang down, their faces being
not to be seen but at the cleft which is
at the neck. Whence some have taken
occasion to write that in these north
era countries there are people without
heads, having their faces iu theii
breasts.’ ”
FREAK CATALOGUING.
British Museum Has a System Thai
Few Can Fathom.
Tt may seem ungrateful in an old
reader who has reaped so many bene
fits from the great library in Blooms
bury to find fault with the arrange
ments, and if 1 stood alone in this
complaint 1 would retain my isolation,
but the grievance is ventilated by
many.
Id the first place. I and J are treated
as the same letter, as D and V are
That was all right when the catalogue
was begun and was in manuscript, hut
now that printing has superseded
handwriting the obsolete fashion ot
cataloguing Jones and Ives under the
same letter or Vale and Unwin as hav
ing the same initial might be discon
tinued and the modern usage adopted
In the second place, anonymous
works are catalogued according to a
bewildering system, the object ot which
seems to be to hide the identity of the
work.
Take the case of the valuable liitle
book with the following title: “An Ac
count of the Origin of Steamboats, In
Spain. Great Britain and America and
of Their Introduction and Employment
Upon the River Thames Between Lon
don ami Gravesend to the l'resent
Time"—i. e.. 1831. One would think
that It would be catalogued under
“Steamboats,” that being the main
subject, but no—it is catalogued under
“Bpain." 1 am told the rule is to take
the first proper name.
That rule, however. Is not applied in
the next case. A well written little
book published in 1907 is entitled
“Devon, the Shire of the Sea Kings.”
“Devon" would seem to be the natural
heading, but no—in the catalogue it
will be found under “Great Western
Railway.”—London Notes and yuories
Broke the Combination.
The father of Judge W. H. Wad
bama bad a chicken coop and a dog
and a stable hand. It began to look
to Mr. Wad ha ms as though someone
had discovered the combination. So
he kept the coop and the stable hand,
but he got anew dog. Next day the
bent old negro who groomed the Wad
hams horses came to him.
“You I os’ you affection foh me, boss?"
he asked.
“No. Scipio,” said Mr. Wadhams. “1
like yon as well as ever.”
"Then,” asked Sciplo peevishly,
“w’yot you tie old Rover in de chicken
coop add of dat new dorg?"—Argonaut.
Psalms Not Barred.
The other evening Mias Y.. a marfdeci
lady of uncertain years, suspecting the
rook was entertaining her beau down
stairs. called Martha and inquired
whether she did not hear someone
talking with her.
“Oh. no, ma’am!” cried‘the quick wit
ted Martha. “It was only me singing a
psalm.”
“Very good.” returned Miss Y. sig
nificantly. "You may amuse yourself
with psalms, but let’s no bims.”
Are You
With your land when for the
sake of saving a few dollars
you use a fertilizer whose
only recommendation is its
analysis. It requires no spe
cial knowledge to mix mate
rials to analyses. The value
of a fertilizer lies in the ma
terials used, so as not to
over feed the plant at one
time and starve at another.
This is why Royster brands
are so popular. Every in
gredient has its particular
work to do. Twenty-five
years experience in making
goods for Southern crops has
enabled us to know what is
required.
See that trade mark is on every bag
TRADE HARK
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REGISTERED
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NORFOLK, VA.
OUR SENSE CF SFACE.
Experiments With Infrnts to Show
That It Is inr.ate.
There are many optical illusions
which show that our perception ot d<s
tauce, height and space are acquired
rather than instinctive, and in the do
main of psychological physioiogj one
of tlie standing controversies touches
this point Ibe German school of
Leipzig is inclined to affirm that all
our |>erceptious of distance, area and
solidity and our ability to distinguish
between right and left, up and down,
before and behind, are acquired as u
result of long practice and experience.
A person blind from birth who
has learned to distinguish triangles,
squares, circles and objects of other
forms by touch is not able immediate
ly after the acquisition of sight to
distinguish these familiar objects by
sight alone. He or she is still com
pelled to rely on feeling, iu the be
ginning all objects api>ear to such a
person (and perhaps they do so iu the
case of babiesi as shapeless, tremulous
spots of color situated close to the
eye.
In the course of the debate that
raged in Germany some experiments
were made with babies. It appeared
that in babies what must be described
for want of a better term as a sense
of space seems to exist. The Infant
was held In the arms of the experi
menters for about a minute, at the
end of wbicb Interval the child was
permitted to drop upon Its bed. In
every inetanee the child exhibited a
dread or panic wbeD It felt the arms
of the persons bolding It relax. The
babe, even at the age of one month,
seemed to understand that its sup
port was departing, it held, or. rarber,
clutched, at anything it could reach,
whether the arm, neck or collar of the
person holding It.
From these experiments it has been
Inferred Hurt there must exist a sense
of space almost from lufancy. What
is the dread of falling but a manifesta
tion of an innate sense of space?—
Loudon Fost.
The Kind It Was.
“So poor Banks’ firm had to sus
pend payment on account of his
wife's gambling at bridge parties.”
“So they say.”
“What kind of game could she
have played?”
“To judge from the result to her
husband it must have been a kind
of suspension bridge.”
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Winder, Cm.
Offices over First National Batik.
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ATTORNEY AT I.AW,
\V illder, ( i;t.
Office <>ver Smith it Caritlv rs’
Bank Practice in State and U.
S. Courts.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Winder, Ga.
Practice in all the courts
Commercial law a specialty.
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DENTAL SURGERY.
Winder - - Georgia
Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work
done in most scientific and satis
factory wav.
Offices on Broad St.
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DENTIST,
Winder ... Georgia
Offices over Smith & Oarithers
bank. All work done satisfac
torily,
Phone 81.
RALPH FREEMAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Hoschton, Ga-
All calls promptly aswered day and
night.
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General Practice. Telephone.
Office Hours—7 to 9 a m ; 7 to
9 pm.
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by latest methods. All work an d
promptly. Office on Candler St.,
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When is a fowl’s neck like a bell?
when it is rung for dinner. Ex.