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Winder Train Schedules Gainksvili.e Midland Raii.way SOUTH BOUNU No. 11—Lv s;4O n. m. No. i;‘, —IjV. 8:25 p. m. No. 15 —Lv. 10:85 u ni; Sunday only. NORTH BOUND No. 12—At. 11:80 m. N<>. | \ —A l. 0 :20 |i m. No. I(>—A.. 5:28 p m: Sun.onlv. No. 12 will run to Belmont re gard tees of No. 13. Yard limits at Winder are ex tended ‘‘south” to Seaboard Air Line junction- All trains going through Winder vard must Lie under full control. The Biggest and the Best Net For Getting Results. In seining fish to get results You have to take the net resuits. In business, too, to get results You figure on the net results. Netting fish and netting profits sug gest each other. In each case you must put out a net that moves around and gathers up the results. So far as business goes, the local newspaper is the biggest and best net for getting results. It circulates around town and in the country also. Are you advertising? __,. „„ THE THIEVESOF JAPAN Ingenious Rascals, Among ths Cleverest In the World. ONE OF THEIR FOXY TRICKS. The Method by Which Tney Steal the Shoes Off the Women’s Feed. In the Public Streets —How a Miser’s Money Chest Was Bared and Looted. An Englishman entered a first class car of one of the railroad trains that run between Tokyo and Yokohama, lie was a little red in the face and ap parently ruffled in temper. lie had just discovered that his pocket had been picked in the station, and lie ex claimed bitterly against thieves in gen eral and Japanese thieves in particu lar. An American who had been engaged in Yokohama for a number of years noticed the Englishman’s quandary. Turning round to me, he said: “Our English friend seems a hit excited. If he growls at having ids pocket picked, what would he say if he had Ihe shoes stolen off his feet?” “That Is clearly an impossibility,” I laughed. “1 don’t know about tHat,” he re turned. “It may not happen with our western style of shoes, hutfou and lace; but, ail the same, I have heard and I know it to be a fact that the sandals of Japanese have been stolen off tiieir feet.” “Weil, how is It done?” 1 asked. “Very simply,” he answered. “Sup pose a Japanese woman who has a particularly fine pair of lacquered clogs is one of a great crowd that is watching a passing procession or a re ligious celebration of priests in front of a temple. Along comes an expert pickpocket—or pick foot, I don’t know which you want to call him. Ilis keen eyes, fastened on the ground, dis cover those desirable clogs. There upon he makes up his mind that he wants them. “The first thing she knows the own er of the clogs feels an unpleasant sensation in her left foot. Naturally she wants to stop It, and quite me chanically and almost absently site slips her right foot out of its clog and begins to scratch that uncomforta ble spot In her left foot with her toes. She feels relieved. Forget ling all about the Incident, she becomes ab sorlied in the spectacle again. Soon the irritation crosses over to a sim ilar spot in her right foot. Absently, once more, she slides her left foot out of Its clog and begins to soothe the troublesome spot with her toes.” “The thief was responsible for the Irritation and walked off with the clogs,” I said. “Certainly. The rascal caused the trouble with a bit of straw or wire," he returned. “But one would think that the mo ment the foot of, the victim touched the grouud Its clog would he missed aud the thief would run the chance of being caught before the second couid be stolen.” “Oh, that is one of the cleverest parts of the trick.” explain**! my friend. “The thief comes supplied with a pair of cheap wooden clogs costing but a few sen. and the owner of the lacquered footgear goes away with them and never notices the dif ference, at least not until It Is too late to profit from the knowledge.” “Are Japanese thieves so very clev er, then?” 1 asked. “Oh. very!” he returned. “Some time ago I heard of one of them who used to carry a handful of watch riugs to fit into the stems of all sorts of watches that he might come by dis honestly. Once he lifted a watch In a train, and the owner, missing it, but not knowing who the thief was, set up a shout and had a poHceman sum moned. The police, to satisfy the vic tim, insisted that every one In the train show his watch. When the turn of the thief came he drew out of his pocket the stolen timepiece, and its original possessor, not recognizing it on account of the changed ring, missed an easy chance to regain his property. “It was the same fellow, 1 believe,” he continued, “who v nlfcringed by the expenditure of a little money to have himself enrolled under different names In the various lists of different towns. When arrested Le gave one of these various names to the authorities. The police, on looking up the record of the name given, were unable to find any black marks against It. Thus he al ways managed to escape with a light punishment for bis first offense, com mitted I don’t know how 7 many times. “But I don’t know that any of these fellows were as clever as another thief I heard about. You know many of the Japanese sleep on a sort of bed made jip on the floor, called a feuton. Well, nn old Japanese miser kept his money In the house, concealed In a small chest of drawers. _ In the daytime he never took his eyes off his treasure, and at night he had his feuton pushed tightly against it, so no robber could get at his money without awakening him. a "way ‘of "steaiitig The hoard without being detected. Well, on n certain night one of them entered the house and gently, little by little, pulled the bed.on which the miser lay away from the chest of drawers. Then he quickly emptied the drawers of their cur rency, shored the bed hack to its orig inal position and made his escape. “Several days passed before the un fortunate miser detected his loss.”— Chicago News. A wise skepticism is the first attri bute of a good critic.—Shakespeare. HIS ALIBI. It Cleared the Accused, but Furnijhed an Odd Sequel. A highly respectable gentleman ar rived at York one evening with lug gage and dined well, went to bed early, rose in good time and hud a substantial breakfast. After this meal he casually asked the landlord if there was anything of special Interest In York. “The assizes are on, but I do not know if there Is anything particu larly Interesting in the list,” was the response. “Thanks,” drawled the stranger “I’ll look in if 1 happen to pass the court and see.” He did look lu and heard u follower of Dick Turpin In the dock, charg'd with highway robbery, pleading his innocence vehemently to a stolid judge and jury, who, with firm faces, did not look as if they placed much ere deuce in the prisoner’s profession of innocence. Suddeuly the prisoner eaugh* sight of tlie stranger, who had strolled in from tlie hotel out of curt oslty. “Here, thank God. is someone who can prove my innocence!” cried the prisoner, pointing to the stranger, who was aghast at becoming the center of Interest so unexpectedly. He seemed astonished and shook ids head. “Oh, yes,” cried the accused: “Just think! You were at Dover-a long way from here. You came out of the Ship hotel, aud I took your luggage lu a wheelbarrow to the Calais packet at the pier. That was the day I am supposed to have committed the crljme up here.” The stranger seemed bewildered The judge, struck with the tragic ear nestness of the prisoner, questioned the stranger, hut the latter could not assist him much. “Have you any notebooks, *’ asked the judge—“any memorandum of your movements on that day?” “I am a merchant,” replied the stran ger, “connected with an old established firm of bankers lu London. I travel a lot and of course enter everything in my books. Here are my keys if the court cares to send to my lmtcl and bring' here the books out of my case. 1 can easily settle tin* point.” The books were fetched. The gentle man had been in Dover that day and had left by the Calais packet. This was sufficient for the judge ami jury. The prisoner was acquitted. Comic sequel: Both the “hanker from London” and the highwayman were placed lu the same dock shortly after ward charged with daring burglaries in tiie neighborhood. Harry Furniss In Ixindou Standard. The Usher Woke Up. At a certain county court the Judge Is lu his private capacity a kind heart ed man. The usher of the court is aged—very aged—but as he had been a faithful servant for many years he was retained in that capacity; One morning he fell asleep in court and began to snore. The noise lie made naturally disturbed court proceedings, but the judge displayed great tact In dealing with the matter. “Usher Jones,” he called out loudly, “someone is shoring.” The usher woke tip. lie jumped to his feet and glared ferociously round. “Silence!” he roared. “There must be no snoring in court!” Exchange. Without Imagination. There is a certain New York busi ness man of a rather waggish disposi tion who contends that ills wife lias no imagination. At dinner one night lie chanced to mentldb a tragic circumstance he had read In the evening paper on ids way home. A passenger on a transatlantic steamer had falien overboard in mid ocean and had never been seen again. “Was he drowned?*’ asked the wife. “Of course not," answered the irre pressible hubby, “but he sprained his ankle, I believe.”—l.lppincott’s. Hearties* Gamblers. The rage for gambling at Whie’s and Almack s clubs In London in other days led to most outrageous betting, as to which Walpole tells what he calls a good tale; A mau dropped down In a fit before the door and watt car ried Inside. The club instantly made bets as to whether he w 7 ould die or not, and when a doctor w 7 as called in to attend him ills ministrations were interfered with by the members be cause, they said,’ these w’ould affect the fairness of the bets. docks' Tn T r : : talc prerjues many a pitiful sight. Most of the lots are contained id the regular sailor’s sen chest, all marked with the name of the ship from which they come. It is not unusual for those who have lost friends or relatives at sea to attend these auctions, and there are times when the first news of such a loss comes through the recognition of fa miliar objects. A Fair Offer. Small boy (who lias been watching amateur gunner’s failures for an hour or more)-Say, mister. Sportsman—Well, what is it, boy? “Gimme a nickel an’ a start as far as the fence an’ you kin have one at me.” -I,ife. Reformed. “I hear your son is something of an aviator, Mrs. Comeup.” “Well, to tell tho truth, ho was a bit that way, but lie’s taken the pledge,” —Baltimore American. Flowers are the sweetest tilings that God over made and forgot to put a soul into.—Beecher. H WAS A”FINE COO. A Little* Story of William M. Chase, the Portrait Painter. Several years ago I bud a studio at Hammersmith and was hurrying Into London one morulug to transact some business. Just as I swung around a corner occupied by a fishmonger's market my eye was attracted to a magnificent cod stretched out for ex hibition on a dean slab of white mar ble. Whatever my mood for color was that morning, that fish completely Bt fed and filled it. I must paint it, 1 de cided. I called out the proprietor and told him what I wanted. I was a bachelor, I explained, and did not want to buy the big fish. I only wished the use of it os a model. Could I rent it? “Ow, now, sir,” he said, with true British stolidity. “11l never rents my fish. You see. It’s Saturday, too, sir. Hi must sell him today, sir.” However, I explained that I needed the fish for only a few hours, nml di rectly wo strmk a bargain. If after two hours I still wished to keep the fish I should buy it. At the end of the stipulated time the boy came. I was not quite finished. “In n few minutes,” I said, and when I looked up he was gone. Shortly afterward the proprietor came, tiptoeing in and peeping over my shoulder. I could hear lilm softly sighing, and 1 said nervously, “In a few minutes now, in a few minutes.” “Don’t ’urrv. sir: don’t ’urry,” ho urged. “She’s gettin’ on! Ill’ll tako my chances, sir!” When the painting was finished he refused at first to accept any remu neration, but at length, with a mut tered upology. he charged -a shilling! The painting was hung and shortly afterward purchased by tlie Corcoran Art gallery for a very substantial sum. On my next trip to Lot doit I deter mined to call up my fishmonger, tell him of the good fortune that had at tended the paint lug and tender him some fitting reward. To my great stir prise he not only refused again any sort of fee, hut evinced no surprise whatever at the figure the painting had brought, though the price paid represented several times over the In vestment of Ills shop. “Alt, hut it was a fine cod, sir!” ho said, and ids eyes glowed with pride. "Now, wasn’t it?”—William M. Chasa in Delineator. •* Partner* In Debts. “My tooth is just killing me,” she complained. “Why don’t you go to the dentist, about It?” asked he. . “Recanse,” said she, “I owe him money." “You and I seem to be in hard luck,” said lie. “Now, look nt me. Every time I go out in m.v automobile it breaks down right in front of some store where I owe a lot of money.”— New York Press. Honeyed Word*. “How are you getting along at home? The last time I called your wife was giVing you the dickens.” “Quite true. I had been a bad boy. Hut she relaxed. I.ast night she came very near calling me honey.” “You don’t mean it! How was that?” “She called me old beeswax.”—New York Press. No Hurry. “Of course, Tommy,” sa*id the Sun day school teacher, “you’d like to be an angel, wouldn’t you?” “Well—er—yes’m,” replied Tommy, “but I’d like to wait till I cau be a. full grown angel with gray whiskers.” —Philadelphia Press. Didn’t Agree With Him. "You should never take anything, that doesn't agree with you," the phy sician toM him. “If I’d always followed that rule, Marla,’.’ (he remarked to UU wife, “where wvuld you be -Loudon