Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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 f.u.K. REGISTERED F. S. Royster Guano Cos. 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.” PROFESSIONAL CARDS LEWIS C. lII’SSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Winder, Cm. Offices over First National Batik. G. A. JOHNS, ATTORNEY AT I.AW, \V illder, ( i;t. Office <>ver Smith it Caritlv rs’ Bank Practice in State and U. S. Courts. W. H. QUARTERN!AN ATTORNEY AT LAW Winder, Ga. Practice in all the courts Commercial law a specialty. W. L. DeLaPKRRIKRE DENTAL SURGERY. Winder - - Georgia Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work done in most scientific and satis factory wav. Offices on Broad St. SPURGEON WILLIAMS 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. DR. R. P. ADAMS, BETHLEHEM, OA. General Practice. Telephone. Office Hours—7 to 9 a m ; 7 to 9 pm. ALLEN’S ART STUDIO. All kinds of Photographs made by latest methods. All work an d promptly. Office on Candler St., Winder Ga When is a fowl’s neck like a bell? when it is rung for dinner. Ex.