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DEATH OF MR. J. H. HAIR. The End Came at the Riverside In firmary, In Charleston, On Last Friday Morning. .. Joseph I. Hair died at the rihverside Inttrmnary. lin ihIarleston, fe:.oek. Ir. 11air was a n:izve of be rry fo Veps ii eZ1yer,4o nore. havin c onducted a barber shop here. lie was about 52 elrs of age. He had been seriously ill for some months, and for a. considerable while past there had been little hope of his recovery. He had gone to Riverside Infirmary, in Charleston, several weeks ago, in the hope of improving his condition. Mr. Hair had many warm friends in Newberry, who will sincerely mor.urn .hi. death. He was prominent in secret orders, and was one of the founders of Bergell Tribe. No. 24, Improved Order of Red Men, in New berry, and was Past Great Sachem and Past Great Representative of the Great Council. Improved Order of Red Men, of South Carolina. Sachem 0. o. Smith, of Bergell Tribe, and Mr. Henry Havird. of Ber gell Tribe, accompanied the family to Charleston upon the receipt of the news of Mr. Hair's death, and from Charleston to Graniteville, where the remains were interred. Great Junior Sagamore Otto Klett ner, of Bergell Tribe, went to Gran iteville, leaving Newberry on Satur day night, and reaching Graniteville on Sunday morning for the funeral. T,he funeral at Graniteville was largely attended by representatives of the four tribes of Red Men of the Horse Creek valley, and by the people of the community generally. The fu neral services were held in the Bap tist church at Graniteville at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, Mr. Hair having been *a member of the West End Baptist church. of Newberry. The funeral was preached by the Rev. J. W. Blanton. who delivered a beau tiful and tender etilogy upon t.he life of Mr. Hair. trweing his career from early childhioocn through young man hood up until the time of his death. Tlrose who heard the sermon say that it was one of the most eloquent and tender to which t.hev ever listened. Mr. Blanton emphasized the point that Mr. Hair was a man of character. and around( this central point he grouped his tribute. Following the services in the church the remains were carried to the Gipn iteville cemetery, where four of Mr. Hair's children and where his mother are buried. Representatives of Choc taw tribe, No. 8, of Langley; Kicka poo tribe. No. 19, of Vaneluse; Sit ting BuIl tribe, No. 28, of Warifen ville, v:d Black Hawk tribe, No.#5 of Graniteville. Imporved Order of Red Men, were in the line of march from the churchi to the eemetery, and each tribe was largely represented, making an imposing procession of the members of the order whi.eh Mr. Hair had loved. Accompanying the remsains also were hosts of friends, showing the esteem in which the deceased was held in the place of his nativity. The services in the church had been at tended by a congregation which had completely packed the building. The funeral, after the services in +b% chureh. was taken in charge by the Red Men. Past Great Sachenm J. D . Harris. of Choetaw tribe. No. 8, nid H. B. Cogburn, of Black Hawk ribe, No. 55, officiating. The inter ment took place at noon. Mr. Hair is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Hair, and daughter. Miss Marie Hair, of this city. and by a number of relatives at Graniteville. Mrs. B. WV. Hunter. of Charleston. accompanied thie family from Char leston to Graniteville, and the family desire to thank her for her kindly interest and attentions. A( Cruel Girl.j5~ dtab Said Cholly- Speec is sall aob THE GRAFTER AND HIS PREY. A Frank Talk on Sure Things in the Far West.-"Camel Backs" and Other Games. The grafter had got away with a bundle. This i- confided to a fellow travller witli w1homl i, hiad ot .ium m ofn a Union Pac-lfic trai muill East. Ile was dressed fit to kill ani with lis lilac gloves was a sig"t for the prairie dogs. le had just bireezed in. he said. f-rom Trisco and after drop ping about two hundred to the swell tailors for an outfit was on the trail to see old pals in Chicago. He got confidential when the train struck the race track of the Union Pacific, that is to say from North Platte this way for a thousand miles or so, with a drop of seven feet to the mile, and little for the engineer to do but hold her back as he whirled on with 125 miles Or so between water tanks. "Flat jointS are always good for a killing,' said lie. with an air of a Boston man. refined, alert. keen tori good language: a Boston man bue eaneering in the mining camps and thereabouts. None of your "does'' and doe'' and Bowerv "dems'' in his dialogue. but good enough Eng lisih from the Hub. "What the mischief is there in the life for a man of your education and refinement.'' asked the tourist. He was, he frankly admitted. sim ply scalping the West to make his bundle and light out. See the point? But it was a -rough. hard life, he con ceded. and lie hated it from the heart, but nerved himself to go through it, for the dough, the easy dough. which he needed just like anybody else. Then he went oil with his story. "Went .down one day." -he began, "to a place in Utah. Had a camel back with a squeeze oil it. a sure out it to take the money from the bubes. "The sqtueeze which throws the spindle where you wish works from under the table. A camel back is about three feet long and is on a table ten feet lon. around which the bubes gather to give me their money in hope of winning their everlasting fortunes from the peck of coin that I jingle in plain sight of their hungry eyes. Of course at the right time the squeeze will stop the spindle anywhere I wish. "On the table is a circle and on some gsp4~es are five boxes and three boxes and so on, and in another space is DU and in another JP. The mean ing of DU is simply this: If a bube pts down two bits the boost.er on the end who works the squeeze stops it on the DU and the next time it costs the player half a dollar to keep his interest alive, but it forces me, the house, to put a dollar where the bube canl see. I tell him, 'Should this spindle stop on 5 this time or on 2 or 3 you get double the amount. accord ingZ to ihe numbers.' Savvy ? "'The trouble with a spindle and squeeze outfit is to get it in a place where you can work it, but this time I happened to be in such a place. Here everthin g geos if you square your self with the righlt men of the town on a percentage basis. "Are vou on? I paid a certain party fifty bones for the privilege of working on t:he fair grouids and lie tipped the wink to the chief of police to give me plenty of time to light out in case of trouble. So far, good. "On this day I took in eight or ten bbes for various amounts from $20 to $30 and was feeling pretty good when up came a fellow Shorty, who ran a restaurant, and he said, 'What have you got there?' "There amn't no police around here at this moment?' I said, peeking sus pisiously around. and at the same time we were under t.he protection of tle police. I knew that would get Mister Man going. Under my breath I whispered: " 'Kindly step over close and I will put you wise.' "I went on and explained it to him,' and he said. 'By Gee, I'll try it for two bits.' "To make a long story short, I doubled him for 25 cents to $16, and if you take out your p)eneil and figure it that means hle loses for a quarter. then for a half, then for a dollar, then for two, then for four, next for eiht anld then for sixteen. or $.31J.75 while von draw a few breaths. If he keeps on doubling every loss to keep his interest good it doesn't take long to get good fat money. and two Or three such players means $300 to $.500 an hou-r or so, or even if you get only one who loses for $150 you can close up for the day. Savvy ? Oh, it 's a snug thing, these flat joints. "As I was saying. I got Shorty where he was in for something like $32. I say right here, by tile by. that t.here may be no mistake. I never al toedthe squeeze on JP. So I turn ei remLd io him anid -za!*: -Now see here, von understand of course how to play the American game of poker ? You win this time. but as a condition and bet that just forces me to put down $64 and it will cost you $32 more if you wish to stay. Should you win. voU win it all.' "He looked a Ine. rel in the face. and1 ;ztared to erspire. -By George, I a Tn't Ejt tilt ne wIIIe h I . i l von wait ten minutes while I go dwln town to get it?' "I said: 'Oh. no. nei--hlbor: the only percentage I have is to freeze a man out; I'm telling you this square ly. Had you enough in your pocket to stay vou are bound to beat me.' "Just then my booster speaks up and says, 'Say, mister, can I take his chance?' "Oh. no.' I reply; don't try to cheat the devil .himself,' which brings a laugh. "Then my booster whispers to the bube. 'Shorty. he's trying to bluff yOu. Of course Shorty gets sore and rips out. 'By hell. you ve simply got to wait ten minutes while I go down and-' "Azainst the rules. neighbor.' I cut in. 'but rather than have a fuss or a ;scene I will, as a special favor to you. wait ten minutes: but remem ber if you are not back in ten minutes you must certainly lose your interest in this pot.' "S:horty hollered to a friend who had a rig tied there, jumped into the rig and I never expected to see him again. 'Imagine my surprise when. ex .actly nine minutes later, he came rushing up with thirty-two silver dol lars. I grabbed him by the hand and in order to make a very great show of squareness said: .-Here. neighbor, You turn the spindle yourself this "He g"ave the spindle a vicious zip-p-. and I could tell by :his looks that his reart was in his neck. He made all kinds of facial con.tortions and his eyes stuck out a foot. The spindle crept forward slowly and it looked as though it would stop on five boxes, just missed five, slipped over two, under one-and stopped on DU. "For thirty seconds Shorty could not speak. Then he blurted ).it, 'Well, how much does it cost me this time?' " 'Do you mean,' I said, 'to double up ? It costs you, of course, just $64 this time, but remember you sha'! re tain your interest in t:he bet. It f->:ees me, neighbor to put down $128. Of course should she stop on the 1, 2, 3, 4. 5 you win the amount propo-rt ion ately.' "'By gad, I've not got that much with me,' he replie'd. "In the mantime I had the booster playing along with aim and a lot of outsiders were aL~o playing small bets and edging him on. He reluctant l. decided to drop out, and, of course my booster covered his interest--and promtly won the big pot. Wh'en with a great clatter of silver I handed the booster over the money I thought Shorty would drop dead in his tracks. ''He decided to s.tart all over again and asked. ''Well, what will it cost me now?' And he began again at two bits and little by little he raised it to .$12 and then dropped out, skinned as clean as a ,whistle. ''After I got that Shorty' went around and made it so hot with my boosters t.hat I de.rided to close the house for the day. We got a rig and started for Springville, a town on the main line of the Denver and Rio Grande. "'We were just in time to get a train for a point down the line, and as the tr:ain pulled out I stood on the back platform and saw Shorty com ing down the road in a rig. with three or four tough looking friends and a deputy sheriff. I waved my hand and A~miled."' And now the talk drifted to various forms of ''flat joints'' and the man 5viti thAlila.e gloves and the nobby San Francisco clothes going home to friens in Chicago who may or may not know his t-rade-grew deeply in terested in his craft and discussed with expert information many of~ its subtl: ties. 'The uobrella game is a bit mild er. he said reminiscently. '"It's a wheel wvith colors. but there is a squeeze of course as in the other form of camel hack. We couldn't do busi iess without the plan of stopping it when and where we please. could we?' "Of course not, pal, certainly not,' the tourist cut in, and he looked re lieved. "Everv man to his own trade," he returned with a sigh; "yvou have ytur way of skinning the public, I have mine. We all live off the public. I say. How is that. eh ? Candidly, now, how nie ad intheIn! 1i1 n the 1alk i ( Say there are six colors. Ley put money down on a color. but there is a booster who goes with them. see, and Iputs down on the colors not cov ered. Five or six people ean play this game. - Ne w . if a dim e alls a color. he is sulpposcl. to uret a dollar umbrella. baclk I., 111V 6(11. : L. A WOit l ' calledl brlinu- a 2.50 umbrelli. whlich I uv hack at that. figure. -The umbrellas are just a stall to evade the law. They cost w;holesale $4 a dozen. If a man wins a $2.50 um brella he receives the same umbrella as he does for $1; for. with slight va riations in the handles, the umbrellas are all alike. The limit of wins is ten umbrellas, or $25 for the best, or $10 for the supposedly poorer umbrellas. We take them all back of course. 'The man that works the squeeze always stops it on the color that has the lowest bet. If there is $2 on the blue. $5 on the red. $1 on the black, 10 cents on the green and $10 on the yellow, he stop; it on the green. The percent.Ae is six to one, so strong that the player has no chance to win. "The cloth is a variation of the spindle. A green clot:h. with twelve miniature pins like bowling alley pins, comprises the outfit. The pins are cut square with four number, one on each side. There is a board on the order of a blackboard, with numbers on it, for prizes. Then, t-here are several numbers that mean JP and DU, or double up if you wish to retain your interest. "The idea is for the bube to knock down pins. and with lightning rapid ity the grafter counts the numbers in view. or miscounts them. He thas pecu liar combinations, uses/rather mvste rious language. "Here is the way of it: 'Ah, ha, ah, ha! 2 and 2 is 22, and 3 is 24.' And then the player says. 'What's that!' and the grafter takes a stiek and gor-s over it a(ain. with a. show of fairness., but keeps miscounting. 'Why. my neighbor, look, 2, 4. 6, 8, 10 and 12 is 14. and 8 is 28,' and to distract attention, adds in a loud tri umpihant voice, 'Ha ha! Look on the board. neighbor, and see where 28 is!' It means DU again, and he must dou ble to stay. Holy Moses!" "And the grafter chuckled in spite of himself; it was very real to him. "Well, stick 'em up again, and aain the player knocks them down. He says, 'By gee, neighbor, this time you win! Yes, you win.! Do you hear it ? A-re you alive ? Are you gamey ? , 6, 9, 12, and 14, 18, 21 an~d you win ! i-Look on the board and see where 21 is?' And hie looks up delighted to find, with surprise, that it is the cursed JP. "Holy Moses! how he roars! Well. if he can 't double to protect his in terest he drops out, and that means Ithat he is cleaned as slick as a whis tle and the booster takes his default-' ed interest, plays it an.dl with sur piigease wins the pot.'' ''But, my friend.," the tourist iln Iterjeted, ''how do you watch t:he boosters from getting a.way with the douh?'' "Are you a bube, too ?' And he alared at tile tourist. ''Didn't you ever notire at camel back affairs and other doings in the mining country that there is a mysterious guy on the outside? He's also in my pay and he is called the cleaner. '"He cleans the b)oosters for me as soon as they get it. He costs me big money, for he must be a reliable man. His pay is usually $10 a day and ex penses. He knows the game as well as I do, only~ he hasn't the capital to be il for himself. -Savvy?" "I 've heard some mighty queer slang around flat joints,'' the tourist put in, trying to put the best face on it that he could after his error. 'Yes, the talk is all but incom-pre hensible to the layman," asserted the man wit:h the lilac gloves.,"Here are a few: "'I pay the ick day!' What does that mean'?" 'Give it up.'' ''Why. 'Pipe the detective.' And this one: 'I'll slay the oint jay! A-re you niext?'' "'Not in a thousand years.'" 'Simple as a. b, c, that is, 'Slough the joint, close up'. And this one: 'The old bear is at your ap-pre!' Savvy that?'' "Simply this : " Tile police. v'am ose :hike!'" The tourist happened to know some of the slang from Reno, and cut in briskly: 'Yes, but if a bube drops $300 and starts to make a rumble. (noise) what do you do then, old pal?" 'The grafter walks away and aban (1o11 his layout. which at best is worth. say. $10. Tile mlinulte the bube en after a copper tile zratter beats l!erafer UP. '11kv ieher1 O t w ir tAell assistanlee. You bet our weetlif w'wil ficcht hack Moving to We will vacate the cupy September 1 pay freight to Colu our entire stock of Buggies, Wagot and at cost for the r Money saved is m us and save mone3 large stock of Second Han that must go at sc 14 pair 36 x 36 Wi need of any, see u. cost. a. C. WiIIial IMPORTANT I We carry a large stock GANDY BELTING, LEA W HANG, GIN BRISTI STEAM FITTINGE and in good shape on RU matter what you are ( above, don't buy until y will save you money. Summer to back if we have to. ''The greatest trouble is to get squared wit:h the local police, but it can be done. For 15 per cent. rakeoff the chief gives us time to get out should a bube make a holler. He tips us off, but meantime pretends to be overflowing with righteous indigna tion.' "Spin us another, pal; it's miles and miles to Chicago; we're still in the cow country. No, passed it by a long stretch. You eertainly are a brick." "Thanks, fellow. I am proud of my success, but not of my business. But as I told you, we all need the coin. I am educating two lovely sisters in one of t:he best schools in this old U. S. A. And don 't you forget it. theirI low down brother is there with the coin. Never mind where he gets it. So isn 't there something good in the worst of us, eh?' "Sure thing, pal." .At the Tailor's. "'Andl how shall I make your suit, "'Make it as unlike those fashion plates as possible.''--Louisville Cour ier-Journal. More Than Likely. "What would you do if you had a lot of money" "I s'pos'e I'd begin to worry about ow I'd get along if I hadn't.' ansas City Journal. Interest Aroused. "I think I shall retire from hig~h I inm-e.' said Mr. ('urorx. "I want store we now oc st. Rather than mbia, we will sell is Harness ext fifteen days. oney made. See r. We also have d Furniture ime price. Have ndow Sash. If in and get them at [11$ & Sons. O0 GINS AND AW MIL4LS. of the genuine original LTHER BELTING and LES, BELT HOOKS, REPAIRS, also we are BBER BELTING. No iuoted on any of the ou see us, our prices BrQs. Co. BLUE RIDGE SCHEDULES. Eastbound. No. 18, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. mn., for connection at Belton with. Southern for Greenville. No. 12, from Waihalla, leaves An derson at 10.15 a. in., for connectionA at Belton with Southern Railway for No. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.20? p. mn., for connections at Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, from Waihalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. mn., with connections at Seneca with Southern Railway from points south. No. 10, from Walhalla, leaves An. ~rcmon at 4.57 p. mn., ?or connect'ons at Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville and Columbia. Westbound. No. 17. arrives at Anderson at 7.50 *. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Anderson at 12.24 p. mn., from Belton with connections Erom Greenville and Columbia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 . mn., from Belton with connec.tions !rom Greenville. No. 11, arrives at Anderson at 5.29 p. in., from Belton with eon 1ections from Greenville and Colum.m >ia. Goes to Walhalla. No. '7, daily except Sunday, leaves A.nderson at 9.20 a. in., for Walhalla, vith connections at Seneca for local >oinlts south. Nos. 17, 18, 19, and 20 are mixed rans between Anderson and Belton. Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight rains, carrying passengers, between L.nderson and Walhalla and between XValhn11a anA~ Andmesn