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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1925.

THE CHINA MAIL.

VAMPIRES are as

Old as the World's History

In Early Times They Were Supposed To Be Demons of a.Numerous Breed-The Horrible Superstition That Attributed Con- sumption To Their Activities-The

tine is

Real Vampires Are Bats.

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(By Rena Bache:)

Wine was the Fed "camper" Thỏ quas, baina silmnswered, Her name was Tikish

and She was Achine's tires, wine, That vesikang betone, bye speare oni 1.j '2:11:±+ She bre with Adam que hontund and thirty grans: thing bes Far away mean bian and berune a demon.

This mes mention of kilith in the Battle, hat the ancient calisten? literature ( d thus Hebrews fills abwat her. She is sqidoru ozia the Talmark,

Nebon-hanetene, if that sannurch were five day would tell you about Li'ith Shwe iliarly age to the anciens Babylonians anal Assyrians. Term Mens night a

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an outbreak of vampirisin" 5 Bhode Island, whore, in hawdzen tam fona. Šumperk, eseiges of Jawas Hod dong person were "Mug op 'trog" their graves, and then hearts learned, in wader to ported them mau preying van pets upon Surviving" "thembody 2 Their rawn functies,

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Glended as mu' epidemic re is, which reached its height to fungury sad Sexīna, schere malitary catamisrions were appoint - end tu open tar prøves et suspected varie pires. The tuethod usully adopted a such a wam to driva e płake through the chest of the corpse mal burn the heart, Gentse torchop the body into small pierese #onfirupation of the drendiak berdiet samar

Redones person' bad med, at vom i givia puil is alleged by the exhumatioai..

Arsending to forul papailu ↑ in a number (instance, of bodies wige members of his or her own in vampires land sarked their hood igri a filelike appearance, at whick, inueham family. Thy offlicted individgid. inutil they rented. The only way t

prevent them to an lang samppis, in ¦ lege turn, and destroying in like"

their surviving relative, is an isseen their

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Geserted as angest" met "i

To lo the vigins of a vangle is bad She was the shiel, tl kirei chins sit wing! deunt, dungenes at. Thesh, but the most horrible feature id thi anerent per-tition M. the belief that

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into more

Then

at night. Weighing only a few onera; im with a wingspirab of twå fest, they have sharp, chisel-like teeth, with which they cin, ant a piece of steal clean out.

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profound ropore. fastening upon a soe, lų sieks until full, disgarging the blood thereupon, "and pi peating the performaner mutil the hou prey is nearly dead from loss of vitu! Auic.

Happily, we have no vampire bats in the t'hitis States; but other species are: plentiful muugh. In New Oricuma and elsewhere in the Southern Mates purely mesagerndered aninhabitable by then: They got into lofts, between walise under car elaphards, and other plu

difient to disludge them. from which it

There is record of 640 bats killed in one hausner Charlestown, Maryland.

One of the greatest but colonies, per At the samis tine, the wound is inflicted¦ haps the greatest, in this country inhabits

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vations that they were based ut fact, When meg bollecting experțition'in chile, S poses "slowed traces of fresh brush was "enstettel de be the recipient of, and entaping near Coquimbo, one et lús | vir their lips manifestly derigait Fightly Visits

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Blend-sucking poses was restless at night, and n but Presumably this video was like, later att, to become a vampire hisu serent langust on some living perseel motater, singed Bank, hairy, and would be of the aperies known to the antives, es

the empire" was found sucting blod so cleanly and quickly tha: thể vietiņ, is Wundatie Cave, in Crawford County. Strated; but, it tray, it might b

Ind. It mumbers millions. In the day- taleyindawalha de alt panic i ufum bredbury and to findiniai's Marak, exiting te

newwwwvils unterd : Trơn derybe the wall of the caxeru condition.

What stiprstition † sistues or purely!

with the little are thickly Sean years later, another gitaralist, slumber, thas closely, states death, and the was over sightly? No wilder this, F. F. Thora, was travelling la the region pist before envering copias

able terug filled all hearts.

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neens whjek bi Amstrinithe sufferer after being done read Unrica, { "usulptic canal idle the net while the epidemic, lastel was quispe the Drinovo, delta, where, as it seutus, in Like Lilith ami her goblin crew, and animals, nanging by their hit feet, and..

1. Fragas d by th-purs F

sleep alone in a house at sight, Test Jos in ained by of the

Te morical Holslimia nad Asyrin echo

upon the persons tended and deniest to hi in life The Rhode 1-brud district | here reterred"to is in scue ways very pri

native, inhabitants are mostly

2 annipting was, dixensa ns match dreaded

Credito-day. It was supposed to be descendants of people who settled there th

just as they l day other life, b many of the right to death

wa aliouts that thes Fliert having their Wood shaked Ly night. with giggling eyes and lips pages so came clueen as a vanqire's victim, Slowly but surely he was destined in inde and sicken thereupon, after his demice, to become a vampire and seek

ey-mong the living.

is a pleasant that our is glad to escape In the tristed atmosphere,

Flying Bat Armiss."

voje whispering whing,

Very Nights" are called ghouls. They figure it is himselt compelled to arise aighis tim

there are great numbers of these hats, le like, the vampires of friental folklore, the air is filled with the plaintive, Ons Walpais Night in tivosti", "Post" The metal semmectite ride of a Bużnie.

The vampires, or clouds, in thisaitel Junwell was never stacked, hit the always tack at right.. Thaily and the odour from their bodies The Tulmad warns that no pé pang-kuwald J sacking polstre, preying by prefergara antes - Ficonsription Rosaly, dovla tolkie-the whole superstition, includits by whe oertanganiss him was, indeed, is the only time at which has of

ing the myth of lilith, being of Assyrio, bled nearly to death by fhean,

as lonial erigin-are lager besa maised,

Vampirs Bats Are Nocturnal. with bhosal-sucking bats, Turled, the duous of Lilith's horrid hes itv Yet amther unturalist, nauwd Water presented in the likeness of hats it

ton, anxious to investigate the problem, B, There An at

load-sacking buts in the Oil World; and open it, which was entered every night

! 9 years haturaliats were cone by dozens of vampire hats. They never fident in denying that any species of touched hiri bal an Indian belonging lum addicted to such a hault was to be his party suffered grin and again from fend anywhere.

their attacks, and an English fad in, the True, there were many stories told of same house was bitten.. the blood-thir of a kind of bat native to tropical Amerien; but these tales were pooh-findhed as fiction, it the elder Darwin discovered by personal

Page lay these demons, which visited the ↑ Purly Cabosaini times, anel mix of their for their life-thuid. Sa lupa existed for the altares that data back 5,000 years wiegt for months in a hummock in an being spreindly modified for that diet. I expeditions in purvni-of moths and other sufferers at sight med sucked their bland, ja beliefs, Il give its it possible to aerumnt for when theys to tham d

the Musting tally, the victim of which | England. bermain steadily, hante bloodless, weil namre fablet

Vampirism In New England. Belted in this iden hug, not yet wlly passed away. It finds devaquin terday even in prits of antightened New Eng lal. Within the last low prins there has

sigre bortantį

in Nave

Sopetition Connected With Ests.

A Craze Of European Origin. Ancestors at dieser Blade Island Folk brought the viperstition with theru frome. Eunipre where, at the perical when they n this way vampirism was indefinitely entre to this momtry, bölefax vampiristis propagated. "Nobody was safe. Any per- was widespread apil even general. Fronson who showed symptoms suggestive of 1727 1735. there was he might be consumption was looked upras with horne,

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I Datter of act, ny!

These buts eroep into houses and week the exposed feet of slopers. Nearly always they attack the font, which in a wart climate are likely to be uncovefer

any species venture afiriad fpon'their hid. ing places, Darwin found that the ram pire bat fed exclusively on blood, its At the beginning of twilight the winged Intestiran--nneb sharter than in any other citizens of this great bat town hurt to speriak. Beranse local in ensily digested leave the cave for their nightly hunting can run as swiftly in rat, whereas bats of right-lying insects. According to one other kinds are awkward on level grond, description, a colum thirty to sixty fest wide and wo or three miles long is then Ib in a tropical species, ranging as

seen to move in a straight line from the north us weathern, Mexico, and is numer. ons in Chile, Peru, Elivia and Feuador. mouth the cavern northward. A few Is tanke istries popular belief minutes later, another column quite ap that the vampire bat. Balling A large issue forth, directed to another sleeper, polkes itself above the victim's point of the compass, and, a Kttle later, foot gud fans with its wings, producing yet another. Just before daybreak they thereby dessiness which helper to lull hin return, but in small flocks.

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THE GREATEST SCREEN TRIUMPH

Goldwyn presents KING VIDOR'S Froduction

3 WISH FOOLS

A Goldwyn Pictura

John Golden's Broadway. Stage Triumph Now The

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A FEW OF THE THRILLS:

ENTERTAINING.

the break from jail of hundreds of convicts; the mad dash for freedom in an armoured car; the pursuit by a bombing airplans; the attempt at vengeance by an escaped convict, and may other great moments.

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A big spectacular scene in the King Vidor was the one direc- picture is the jail-break on the tor to make this picture, as he has part of Benny the Duck and other 'shown in his past work the ability convicts who use an armoured. to combine charm and. quaint motor car. This armoured car comedy in characters and in- later dashes over an embankment. cidents which are at the same and is wrecked, adding thrill upon time very realistic. The persons thrill to the picture. The produc- in the present picture, "Three tion is one of the most entertain- Wise Fools," are very human, ing and artistic of the season's very homely, but yet possess that photoplays. It is a picture which peculiar charm that is charac- can be counted upon to prove teristic of whimsical characters | satisfactory to every person who and situations.

sees it because of the variety of The story concerns three crusty its moods and action. old bachelors, to whom is con- Goldwyn gave Director Vidor fided, on the deathbed of the one of the super-casts for which woman they had all vainly loved it is famous. Eleanor Boardman, in their youth, the care of her fresh from her triumph in “Souls. daughter. One of the three wise for Sale," is featured in the Claude Gilling- fools Judge Trumbull, Afteen feminine lead. years before, had sent the notori- water acts the role of Findley, ous criminal, Benny the Duck, to which he played with such con- the penitentiary for burglary. epicuous success on the stage. Benny had vowed to get the judge William H. Crane is cast as Judge when he got out and now word Trumbull and Alec Francis as comes that he has broken jail with Dr. Gaunt. John Sainpolis acts Crawshay, a man who has been the role of Sydney's-father, sentenced on the charge of William Haines that of her lover forgery, and other convicts. While Brinsley Shaw lands a Sydney, the girl who was confided sinister quality to Benny the Martha Mattox, Fred to the care of the three men, is Duck. greatly interested when she hears Esmelton, Fred. J. Butler, Za8u that Crawskay was one of the Pitta, Lucien Littlefield and Crane; and Raymond Hatton in Cedric Gibbons, Goldwyn's art

Alec Fruncis part.

director, and are all that picture A Charles Hickman have minor men to escape with Renny.

The flash-back sequence The cameraman, Charles Van settings should be. Taking all in. message is conveyed to har rolca, through the personal column of a showing the three wise fools as Enger, has done some of his all, "Three Wise Fools" in a pic- newspaper to come to a Mott youths, has Craig Biddle, Jr., in finest work in this production, ture that will not disappoint, and Street address, and there she Gillingwater's part; Creighton The photography is clear and one that many fans will want to finds Crawshay, who is in reality, Hale in that of William H. beautiful. The settings were by see again and again.

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