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XO PROFIT IX CRIME. (Continued from page 3, column 1.) for the State; who was one of the top-notchers of highly specialized burglary. Courtney got out of prison the other day broken in health, broken in spirit, watched by the police, with no friends except grafters, without a cent to his name. He applied for a hack license, hoping to get a job as chauffeur of a taxicab. He told a headquarters detective that , he was "through." Whether he spoke the truth or not doesn't matter. It isn't Courtney's words that count, it is what the old burglar is now? penniless, dejected, an outcast. There is Jimmy Farrell, forger and counterfeiter, said by the police to have realized $200,000 in 30 years nf rriminal Dractices. Farrell is just out of prison after serving a term of five years for grand laceny. He was seen in Pak Row a few days ago begging?and he looked as if he needed the food he asked for. What has Farrell got out of it, anyhow? Where is the $200,000 he got by fraud and guile? Where are the flash friends he had in the days of prosperity? The best friend he has is an old detective sergeant at police headquarters for whom he once did a decent service. Every so often Far- , rell drops around and gets a few dollars from the old detective. Women fare no better than men ] at the hopeless trade. A week or , two ago it was discovered that the , "Mrs. James Montague Sharp," held , in the Tombs for attempting to shoot . Bill Avery, was none other than May . Churchill, "Diamond May," "Chicago j May," hotel thief, confidence woman j . and associate of the most dangerous ? international thieves in the books of j the police. The first record of the ] lady's convictions is dated Christmas \ Day 3 years ago, but the Waldorf \ ?nd t.hp Tmnerial and other hotels i had ample cause in years' to come to \ , lament her light fingered abilities. She was a great friend of Eddie Guerin, the bank burglar, and she helped Guerin to escape from Devil's Island that time such a stir was made in the world. Also she tried to kill * him, for once her affections are en s gaged she stands nc\ masculine non- c sense. But crime has paid her small ( returns. Men used her and discarded 2 her. Thousands she got her hands* ( upon were spent to "spring" male s crooks. The diamonds she was so 1 fond of and which she used to dis- T play "so lavishly have long since dis- c appeared. Going on to 50 years of 1 age she finds herself merely in prison ^ once more and hard pressed for funds 1 to pay a lawyer. They say at police t headquarters that Diamond May 1 "earned" at least $250,000 in 20 * years. No Real Intellectual Power. 4 So the list of wasted lives runs on ?Joseph Fay, Mott Haven Red ' O'Brien, burglars, swindlers and cheats of every shade and variety. Q Not one of them alive does more ? than eke out a miserable, harried, a armrehensive existence. They that j are dead are the truly fortunate n Here are examples enough to prove i: the contention. The same thread of c futility runs through the life story e of every broken crook. There is a curious similarity throughout. t Police Lieut. John H. Allen, who b has spent a lifetime in criminal in- \ vestigation, who is a student of the b trade of crime, presides, under In- tl spector Joseph Faurot, over the ba- p reau of criminal investigations. He h is the keeper of the Morgue of Souls, s ? Year after year he has noted this b singularity; that'crooks have no real 1< intellectual pow^r. That is to say, c they cannot reason with perfect ciar- c ity. Inevitably their judgment goes f< off at a tangent, even when the ob- n stacle to simple reasoning is simple, 1< just as a spike laid upon a rail in a ii certain way will ditch a train. Crooks c may be shrewd as sin, very nimble e wTitted, very quick mentally?but in- i] tellectually they are children. Allen e believes that this explains the curi- p ous fact that crooks will continue to t travel the road which leads to ruin b even wnen tney can see pais just r ahead sinking into the quicksand. A a certain vanity impels them to believe d that this experience of others cannot a possibly descend upon them. They t forge along with their eyes open, a They simply cannot reason out in ad- b vance the inevitability of the law's v triumph, of the impossibility of sue- o ceeding in the long run at the trade' d of crime. The first time or so they 1< believe. Thereafter it is police per- p secution. The police won't let them a alone. The police are framing them. A The police won't give them a chance 1 to earn an honest living. Lies in e 99 cases out of a hundred?lies and t inverted, twisted reasoning. 1 Allen hasn't much confidence in "v the protestations of ''reformed crim- t inals.'' All policemen are more or ? less cynical, it is true, but this one 1 goes pretty far toward proving out of the multitudinous records of the i bureau that pretty talk following a 1 long procession of ugly deeds usual- c ly amounts to nothing at all. He can t cite instances of men whose promises t TRAINLOAD OF TRAGEDY. Work of Huns Seen Among Repatriated French Girls at Evian. (Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith in Youth's Companion.) The last convoy that I saw at Evian (the French border town where the civilians from the territory occupied by the Germans were repatriated) was one of children, 300 or 400 of them, many quite young. Most of their mothers were held in Germany. They were emaciated beyond belief. 1 1 mm X. 1 T Y*r? Al /I l joined a gin auoiu m >caio uiu,, with a terrible calm about her. There was a golden halo of hair round her head; she had gentle, sweet manners and voice. I longed to put my arm around her and try to make her a girl again, but that was impossible. There was another girl of 17, I should say, with a beautiful face, but she was quite crazy. A number of the children were lying in the train waiting for burial. They were mostly girls between 15 and 18, and perhaps it is for the best that their troubles were at an end. A French officer, with a look of intense agony in his face, distracted my attention from the children. I stopped beside him. "What is it?" T asked almost involuntarily. "My wife has just died* in the enemy's liands, also my girl of 1 7 at last. Thank God! Three times T have been here to meet my boys, whom I have not seen for four years. They were two and three years old then, and today ?" he paused, with a look of horror in his face. "Not dead?" I asked, feeling I could not stand the answer. 'No; but they do not know me, theii rather, whose soul yearns for them., [ thought I was prepared for everything the enemy could do to me, but this is unbearable." And he broke into convulsive weeping, completely jnnerved. ? < ^ Practical Table Runner. (Christian Scienc Monitor.) With the return to simplicity in aome decoration, which is making it;elf felt so decidedly on every hand, ;omes an appreciation of the modest jotton and jute fiber table runners md scarfs, woven in exotic patterns )f Indian or Mexican design. These strips are usually found in dull com)inations of reds, browns and greens, vith an occasional glint of yellow or )range to give the required relieving lote to the whole composition. Whether or not they are planned mrposely for this end, it is certain hat they blend harmoniously in alnost any living room, library or dinng room. Squeaks. "A whole lot o' de talk dat goes round," said Uncle Eben, "am* no no' help in movin' forward dan de queak in an axle."?Washington !tar. nd protests softened the severity of udges and moisten the eyes of juryaen, where offenders escaped punshment and which were followed by riminal acts as flagrant as any that ver went before. Crime is a fairly constant factor in he life of a great city. There has een no notable improvement in New 'ork. Certain kinds of crime have een made more difficult to practice, hat is all. There are fewer pick I ockets because the trade is getting arder and harder and the proceeds linimer and slimmer. There is less urglary?that is to say, there was ?ss before demobilization, for the hart now shows a distinct upward urve. There were fewer holdups beDre the end of the war produced abormal conditions such as always fol3w the end of a war. But swindling i its innumerable varieties has inreased. There is no evidence that xperience or good counsel is attainag any great results. The pickpockt's trade has fallen off for the very ractical reason that most men put heir spare money in the savings ank or invest it in low priced bonds ather than carry it around in fat nd obvious wallets as they used to isplay gold watches not too openly nd to secure them more adequately han by a dangling fob. Burglaries re fewer in normal times because ouseholders don't advertise their ulnerability so helpfully as they nee did. Not so many people pull own the window shades when tjiey eave home, among other things. The olice have been helpful in bringing ,bout these improvements. Arthur Voods, as commissioner, got out a ist of "Don'f's for apartment dwellirs which was a bad thing for the mrglarly trade, and since that pubication the police have been issuing -arious "Don't" lists addressed to >ank messengers, department stores, utomobile owners and various other finds of persons with likely goods. Therefore every step and tendeney s to make a poor trade pay worse. Thre isn't a prospect in any form of :ommercial crime which ought to inerest man or woman of average inelligence. I 666 quickly relieves Constipation, | Biliousness, Loss of Appetite and; Headaches, due to Torpid Liver.? Adv. J. WESLEY CHUM, JR., ATT* (RXEY-AT-LAW Bamberg, S. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts. ; Loans negotiated. 11T ISjiERIOUS I Some Bamberg People Fail to Realize ' the Seriousness of a Bad Back. The constant aching of a bad hack, j The weariness, the tired feeling, i The pains and aches of kidney Ills May result seriously if neglected. Dangerous urinary troubles often fnllnxr A Bamberg citizen shows you what to do. Mrs. J. A. Miller, Main St., Bam> j berg, says: "I know from experience i j that Doan's Kidney Pills are a right good remedy and I am only too glad to endorse them. One of the first symptoms of kidney trouble in my case was sharp, digging pains in the small of my back. Every day the trouble became more and more ag- j gravating until I could harcflv stand [ It. I felt miserable. I could hardly get around to attend to my housework, as I always telt weak and irrltablt. j My kidneys needed attention Jn . the worst way and when Doan's Kidney j Pills were recommended to me I used them. I only took about three j boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills, hut j they got down to the seat of the I trouble and put my kidneys In good i condition again." 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Mllbuni j Co.. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y. I iSl OH I fflgiFranEpm RIA] | f-T? ERI ' iff) T Castles In become concrete realities if you found your success upon a bank book. A small sum de- j posited weekly will insure you / against the inevitable "rainy i day." The man with the bank account has a feeling of securi- \ ty sadly lacking in the "hail- \ fellow-well-met." A dollar n opens an account with us and forms the habit. Enterpri 5 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savii I Mother Goose Cffi| Jack and Jill, and Tom at Went motoring up the SH They set out to reach tlv To take a "lofty" peep Pm They went to the top as 03 Without a hitch or a j H They had "GREEN FLAG pfl So there wasn't a cha (gj While climbing mountain Be more the exception than the x BjR have the satisfaction of know BS oil that will keep your engine PH and with the least possible d< BB in efficiency, and power, wh want to "take a shine" up th? (tain. Remember, the oil for p GREEN FLAG MOTOR I Whether you're running on thei up and down the hill, you'll find iefaction, "GREEN FLAG" w the bill" DON'T FORGET THAT OIL IS THE LIFE OF YOUR MOTOR. More than that? it requires the best grade of oil to keep it "living" longest. There are some "lire" dealers in this County who are exclusive agents in their town for "GREEN FLAG" MOTOR OIL. It will pay you well to hunt around town till you find him. Because he sells "GREEN FLAG" MOTOR OIL, the best you can buy. HJH "GREEN M-Aii" MU i uiv M OIL is for sale in this CounBb ty by the following well* H known and reliable dealers: dB 'L B. Brickie, Bambrg, S. C. SB J. 55. Brooker, Denmark, S. C SB Ayer's Garage, 01ar,S. C. We are proud of the confidence doctors, druggists and the public have in 666 Chill and Fever Tonic.?Adv. A FAMILY MEDICINE In Her Mother's Home, Says This Georgia Lady, Regarding BlackDraught. Relief From Headache, Malaria, Chills, Etc. 1 -i r* - *>r /n ttinggoia, *jra.? ivirs. v^nas. uabLuu, of this place, writes: "I am a user of Thedford's Black-Draught; in fact, it was one of our family medicines. Also in my mother's home, when I was a child. When any of us children complained of headache, usually caused by constipation, she gave us a dose of Black-Draught, which would rectify the trouble. Often in the Spring, we would have malaria and chills, or troubles of this kind, we would take Black-Draught pretty regular until the liver acted, well, and we would soon be up and around again. We would not be without it, for it certainly has saved us lots of doctor bills. Just a dose of BlackDraught when not so well saves a lot of days in bed." Thedford's Black-Draught has been in use for many years in the treatment of stomach, liver and bowel troubles, and the popularity which it now enjoys is proof of its merit If your liver is not doing its duty, you will suffer from such disagreeable symptoms as headache, biliousness, constipation, indigestion, etc., and unless something is done, serious trouble may result Thedford's Black-Draught has been found a valuable remedy for these troubles. It is purely vegetable, and acts in a prompt and natural way, -roamlo'Hrity fhp KvPr tf> its DTODer 1 V^UittViUQ ? ? ? ? ? _ ^ ^ functions and cleansing the bowels of impurities. Try it. 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B The good judgment used in curing B and ageing the tobaccos used in TOM fl KEEXE and the good judgment in B the making of the cigars is supervised B by experts who have devoted tneir B lives to the manufacturing of quality B cigars. B TOM KEEXE the cigar made with g good judgment. 7c Each?3 for 20c B Phone 15 I Itom duckerI 1 BAMBERG, S. C. I BHBQBBBnBBBHHHHH^HHHHHI "Yo^Jtefi *will be ^^ rPrwiM of i jn rp^Youp ftet | flfctt wheri^ouweap | ^^^/rMTTTb JTPOTir^mr J KAL VU'lUl^ ^JU. OLJUiLWVJUL SHOES = / :-M Ladi es^>?Sj The wearing of short skirts demand more than ever before that your V -M . v shoes be stylish and your hose dainty. In our store you will find the IV-j* nifty footwear so necessary to being \ properly dressed. We have the correct shades in shoes and hose. You simply "must" liave them right. You can get them I right from us?right in style and right in price. 1 w ii ri r 11 r. n. i/. roiK i^o. BAMBERG, S. C. v /l ' BUY W. 8. S. BUT W. 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