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MODERN THIEVES HAVE NEW TRICKS Growth of Banking Habit Drives Crooks to Holdups - ? -Try Many Schemes* New York - *H'hlVve?. willi tow ex ception.*. prefer hurd, cohi cnsh to ftu> tilin. else, illl'1 I'illltM" molicy, slltCO it i* i.iuht mill easy t<> curry,' is j ?r<* 2\*r ubie to, silver coin, \\ bleb, It theivi* much ojf Hi is hetvy mid UOWll'llly, 'ii.i<\? > nl^iivs like Uj get cash It' Villi* - The> < ?n u^nuJ!) fj? t riii of u without trouble.. Next to i iinviir) t hey prefer Jewelry. especially tpins of (|Ullllty' <? They tike Jewelry bec;Wse n 'h'ii.? tf 1 inonot uty vu lu?', iiihI like paper money It is easy t ? > handle, , A small none yvorth $f>,(MX) or more takes up little space in ii vest pocket. Hut Jew elry is not ax easily disposed of as money, even if ?ohl to a "fence." The purchaser, as a rule, will, not jjl.ve the seller anything like what he should receive for the hauble, ami, then the fence Jh liable to he taken in by the police ami "squeal'' on his customer, The ordinary burglar steals Jewelry purciy for mercenary retisons. He (toes not know much about precious stone*, but tie t*-n poor burtfl.Tr tf he cannot tell the difference between ? paste diamond and a real one; and he kuows that a real tfom has a ready market. Experience also lias taught him that the average apartment-house dweller no longer keeps hlHtnoneyln a tuick or taddnd the family clock on I lie parlor mantel. He knowa the licnd of i lie family carries a check book ijnd puts his cash In the bank every week, and does not leave loose change for snooping Intruders to pick up. Hunts for Jewelry. So the thief often Is disappointed in h i ^ visits to apart inents ill not tiiul 1 1 ik the coveted cash and turns to other tilings *?r value., If people have beeonie more <?;? i*t* I'ti I in handling money, they have not greatly im proved in protecting otlter valuables. And If the thler depa rt s with little rush ho visually ciiii pU'U up ;i few ar t of Jewelry; n whiHi or two. a few rin^s ii 1 1 d stickpins. A pair of apart inent dwellers re t timing from the t hoiit iM" or a late su|> per or dance are usually tlrod ; lien- e iM their tired and sleepy condition t hoy do not take the pains to pluee. their valuables in a family trunk or vault, hut leave them rurelessly "ii bureau or laid", or in a ^?ai tl> dosed dresser drawer. And when tin* buriipir pays the couple a vidt lit* knows just whero to Mud the nrtielos ho is after. II is tho opinion of an old time de tective that tin- ii l holdup man. un known in t ! >4* -met ropolis" until a tew v i>ars ago, is ,1 product -of tho recent school of criminals, .who believe in ?taking tho cash iiid lotting l ho orodit ;;o." Most' of these virions oriiniuals nil- Out purely I'1" the cash Notice tlieir visits |o cij-.u' stores, small shops, j 1 nd .similar places; and tin* practice of a ?bolder t>pe to j;<> at'ler pay rolls, largo and small. Follow Victims Home, Not infrequently these thieves In de scending on a drug store or shop have robbed the rash regisl or. ami golU' through t he pocket ^ of proprietors and elerks, without making an otVort to take articles ..f Jewelry from- these persons. In a recent store holdup the thieves took what irtieles of Jewelry they believed were valuable from tlieir victims Mild "passed up" article* that they considered of small or doubt fill value 1 me of the clerks in tldn establishment wore a small diamond v t U'k pin Tlie holdup man examined If ami l lien shook his head doubtfully, ?iv mi; Ii as to s.i,. "It s l ? ? ? I worth much." Kecen 1 1 > holdup men have turned their attention to new schemes which have given the pop. e no little con ceril It Is ctia radons! ic ot thieves to think up new and original methods of procedure ? ?to* of tlieir recent opera tioi.s !* to lo'ow vv elldros.sed men mid ,.em hedei kc ! women to their holm's and ' f 1 ? ? 1 1 tiol-i t hem up A few months itfo two men and two women, aflei vi.-.liiii?? m cabaret down town. dropped in a* in iM n*cht lunch room for >1 1 1 -_r 1 1 1 emisi before il'.'ltlg home It h.tppi'oed .hat thieve* Were dinine In the same Pmciiroom Tfiey ..|i?M't'Vi'd tie' t"!'l> 'he vvo|n??n were w earing and the w ? dtess.-d prosper ? mjs a 1 ?peji ra tico of j!n*ir es< >rt ?* When )|,e f?tlir b'f in a ' t\ 'he thieves 1 1 ; I i 1 c 1 1 Tl. ?' I ' 1 X i .-nd them fii t ' ie . ? p 1 1 * Me "tl ! I o'|sc I 1 1 two , ..lii.,, . II I. I no sooner . 111. red the 'ofe y n' the 'toils.* t loin ill'1 Jioliii:, 1 1 ? r ? ?*pl ?'< t th?Mii. b-H thevt i:p v!::; pe?l them ' monev ,i- ! v* 11 ? ! ] I - StorirU -epfr la Trcksd I ; v . 1,,.ii'.'k.-|'iT 'ti ? Mf Hon , ;?> . | \.*ii\ * i f ? J ? s'rie' v as i;lniie ? , |, \ v ? . j , '..1 ? 1 ."it e:: cri'i 1 and . ,r, | .. ?. J ? . ie > ? ?.(?!' -? lift.! rffi w n >evc! ii < o. n*. nio-t hi them "f'< nines, took !h.? . ides uti'l departed Tlu> *!orekee| e. -uintln^ up the chnti^r ? found that ? customer had ma yi\en loin er?o ;'i fJutodn^ from ? hp store he inter ..pt^d h:rn in the tfre?t "!tey s >n " siii! Ut<? store keeper. "\<?n arc '.1 ''tils sliorf. The looked mii i'() 1 scd lid d'l^ down in h.s pocket for ! lie I ><? 1 a nee In do I t\g he di oj?j?e I several pennie-s oj? the sidewalk, whirli rolled out of >< ij/h t . "I haven i tn ?re change." I ?' Mpoh^i/e'l "Here are your razor blades." He hurried nvvny. and when the nt<irekee(.er re* utiv?d to Ma ?hop ht* thmnivrni^ tt?nt f??l>te >?ne had M? ?fVv' H" rtbagorj* and h.nl "?oiiched" tW ea*i, register for TRANSFUSE OWN BLOOD TO 2 Eastern Physician* 3ave the Uvea of Two Patlerte by Nov?il ( Oper, tloni^ 0 Lives of two patients who would otherwise have succumbed from luterr nul hvmorrhage wore saved by drain* hig off their own blood and reinject* Jng It: lit m rure operation, made at the New llu von hospital, according to ? dispatch to tlit> Now York World. Ono of the remarkable transfusion oi>ei'?i t IciiH wan performed on a wom an by thektaff In obstetric*. The other wan hy the surgical staff, upon a man apparently mortally Injured In an au tomobile accident. The woman, according to the an nouncement, suffered from a severe abdominal hemorrhage from which patients rarely recover. Quick work was required by t h<$ obstetrical staff. The hospital blood expert was sum moned the blood drawn from the ab dominal cavity, the wounded vessels tied and the blood almost Immediately Altered and reinjected Into the dying woman's veins. The effect was almost instantaneous. An hour afterward the male vic tim of the automobile accident was brought to the hospital in aft ambu lance with a punctured liver, result ing In abdominal hemorrhage. An op eration was decided upon. The wound In the liver, was mended by the use of rubber, a familiar operation. The blood was then drawn from the abdominal cavity and reinjected to the man's veins after flltratjfon. In both -cases the citrate method was used, that is, citrate was added to the blood to prevent coagulation. ;? DISEASE TERRORS" PASSING Theory Advanced That Germ Species May Die Out as Did Mammoths and Dinosaurs. Is it not likely, speaking as a lay man and without medical erudition, that germ species originate, grow to maturity, then pass on to Benillty and die out, like so many families of crea tures have done on this earth? The last Methuselahs of certain diseases may now be moving on to oblivion. Did riot the mammoths and the dinosaurs rise, flourish and disappear? Then why not the microscopic terrors thnt men ace mankind? Yell/Jw fever Is passing beyond the horizon. It Is waving Its last saffron farewell to uk. Soon It will be history only, Its battles with humanity, its mas sacres, as remote as those of Semlram Is or the llnhylonlnn kings. .Finding no place to lay Its fatal linger, It will give up the ghost. Typhoid, dislodged from its last country well and village drains, has be come a flight Ive, pursued by health boards who bombard it with serums and germicides. It is In full llight. It cannot pause anywhere to- organize the smallest epidemic. The seed of it will perish from the earth. Why Worry. "Serenity of mind IS the most val uable asset of the present ago," de clanM! Senator Lodge of Massachu setts recently, "it Is the only way to keep young, the only way to preserve health and, while we laugh at the maid Sarah, we really should envy her. "Sarah harl Just resigned hor posi tion to got married and when Ivor mistress- learned that she was shortly to go to Canada and mak'e her home there, she nsflted : "'Hut. Sarah, aren't you rather nervous about going Into a strange country like that?" "'No, tnadam. ' " answered the girl. 'That's my husband's lookout. I be long to him, and If anything happens to me It'll be his loss, not mine.'" Radio Wave Fourteen Mile6 Long. I.ong wave lengths are used to cover great distance, sueh ?s transatlantic communication, chiefly because, absorp tion of energy is much less on long wave lengths than on short ones. The big station near Bordeaux. France, sets a wave of ether In vibration that Is meters in length, or approxl1 mat fly fourteen miles from cro*t to crest. When Uroadcant Central on Long Island flashes a message -1,000 miles across the sea to flermany, the wave length used Is about twelve miles long Station NSS at Annapolis, broad- ! casting time signals from 3 :fS.*> to 4 a. m. dally, hns h ward length equiva lent to nbout ten and a half miles. 1 I'oz, Nauen, (Jermany, radiates a wave approximately eight miles long. Save His Money. An Irishman boarded a car the other ! day, but alter a word with the con ; ductor made for the door again. An inspector w ho happened to be on t h- car said to him: "Surely rou don't want to got otY again so soon, ? aiiil besidos, you haven t paid your ! fare " "< d want to go to Southern street,": .said the Irishman, "an' the conductor! says there ain't no su.'h plate." "Well, there i.^n t," answered the In j spector. "Then, faith, an' pwhat's the good of going there, then?*' One More Look. On our return to the lorker room a j young woman with one shoe and stock- ! Ing on was distractedly going from looker to locker and finally appealed to u?. "Has any one an extra storking In her lo<-1cer?" "Not In mine,** we anawered after searching our lock em In turn. Imagine m/ embarrassment when I found the missing stocking in my bag ?Chicago l'ribur.p MARS BLUFF BKUXiK Toll Bridge I'ayin* Propoaition For Florence and Marlon. (Ftom the Marion Star) Mars Muff Bridge' was opened for traffic by Florence and Marion Coun ties 7 a.m., May 16, 1923. At th?j close of buaines* 0 a.m., May 10, 11)21, many interesting thing* are seen in the yearly report of the Sec retary;' Total vehicles passed: 80,201, '?? which 781 or less than 1 per cent were horse drawn vehicles; 2,00ft, or about 2 1-2 per cent, wore trucks an I 77,475 or 96 1-2 per cent were auto mobiles. Total gross icvciiuc for the first year was $40,179.75, or slightl^' less than one-fourth the .total cost of the bridge, approaches, rights of .way, toll keeper's residence and real estate, toll station and overhead expenses. To get ,an idea of the increase in traffic*^ Receipts for first half-month after opening was $1,065, o? at the rate of $25,536. per annum. Receipts for last half-month of the year were $2,164., or at the rate of $51,936., showing that traffic had , about doubled in one year. An approximate calculation based on the elapsed por tion of May, 1924, the traffic is now passing at the raty of $55,000., per annum. / The greatest number of passages during the frrst~yeaT^were 538, which occurred one Sunday last summer, when sen-shore travel was at its heighth. This number has already been exceeded during the first half month of the second year; 544 passed on May 20, 1924. During the construction of the Mars Bluff Bridge, which was com pleted in 15 months under adverse conditions ( much criticism was heard as to low^vater and high water types of construction. The bridge has been open a year arid traffic has not been stopped for any cause whatsoever. Water has not approached the road surface at any point. The owners of the bridge (Florence and Marion Counties) should remem ber, when considering the income from tolls that bridges of this sort cost money and necessarily have to be paid for from taxes levied on their citizens only, or from taxes levied on the users of the bridge, regardless of their place of residence and that the only difference between tolls ami taxes is that the former is a tax levied on the person deceiving the service, while the latter is a tax levied on everyone regardless of whi'thcr or' not lu- receives a service. Much discussion was had also as to Federal Aid when this bridge was under consideration. With Federal Aid, Florence and Marion Counties would have made the same invest ment for construction, as their share of the total cost. They would have been required to defray all expenses of maintenance. All of which ex penditures would have had to be met through additional taxes. As built they have invested the same amount of money. The tolls maintain the road, pay all expenses and intez'est and will repay the investment in about four and one half year, and Florence and Marion Counties will not levy one cent of additional taxes. On the other hand the revenue from the bridge will enable them to levy a lower rate of taxes. The two coun ties at no cost to themselves have added to their property a value of over $1,000,000., as the bridge is, at this time, paying 5 per cent on that sum of money. There should be, to appreciate the benefits accruing to the counties, a comparison to the benefits accruing from Federal Aid. y In the five yeav period last passed, Marion County has been allotted from Federal Aid, /ETNA-1ZE $60,000.00 DAMAGES were awarded Rpse Cattani when both hapds were crushed in an automobile ac cident. Is your Auto Liability Pol icy Big Enough to take care of a loss like this? For very small additional cost w,e can supply you with a policy that adequately protects you. CAMDEN LOAN & REALTY CO. AETNA-IZERS Phone 62 Camden, S. C. i '/ v. J . ?: ; ? we are informed, approximately $15,500., or $3,100., per year. Marion County received, net during the last year from Mars Bluff Bridge $23, ?102., or $10,362., more than she has recoivod from Federal Aid for the year. For five years, at the low rnte of the first year, she would have received $77,310, as compared to. $13,462., from Federal Aid. This shows for five years in favor of Mars Bluff as a source of income compared to Federal Aid $63,848. The above comparison is from the first year's receipts. The revenue is rapidly im creasing and later comparisons show even more flattering results for Mars Bluff Bridge. Ransom J. Williams_ was elected mayor of Mullins over Joe Kirby Tuesday by a vote of 333 to 305. Nine of New York city's leading cabarets and restaurants were pad' locked last Thursday by prohibition officers for persistent violations of the Volstead law. The places will be " kept cloned for a year. More than" 3000 employes are affected by the closing, ' In a mock national convention held at Washington and Lee University^ Lexington, Va.f last week, John W. Davis, was nominated as the Demo cratic presidential nominee after twenty-three ballots. . Leah Ellenberger, 19, and Harry Ganat^r, 20, high school pupils, were found dead on the road near Maryt ville, Pa. early Saturday morning They had gone riding the night be fore in an automobile. -They had been murdered. ' Such popularity must be deserved OLD rccords to break, new ones to make! Grilling tests of speed, stamina, power! And for the winner ? f>ot>ttlarity, hard' won and deserved. So with everything else. To win popularity even a cigarette must deserve it. Chesterfield, for example, has Ion*; been winning an average of over 1000 smokers a day. One thing alone ? Chesterfield's better taste ? can account for such popularity. Chesterfield CIGARETTES^ |> mm tass Copyright 1%24- Liggett ie Mycw ^poWeo Co.