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' ' vsmmmt.m in in, i zmsstweeBeatmmm CHANCK MADK HIM MILLIONS "Gambling King" "V& and Downs" ? Killed by HihwtynMMi. Nt. l-ouib.- Like the luTif^iu ??l V?* M tunoo* Hotion, the "Gambling King." Henry Hwkrr. row fnni ?ewtdwy lo mil lionaire through M*> darling flight* with chance, an^ finally became a national figure In racing and other ^porting circle*. ^ ' ' . r, v After having woo ami lust ? number of fortune#, aomc at a siugle turn of f the dice. llecker wan reputed to be worth a quarter of a million dollar* when he wp? #h<d Ut dearth near hi* home here ' recently by three highwaymen. One highwayman, who prvwted a re volver against Mocker's body, pulled the 1 trigger ?* Becker wan putming over Jfcl?' W*ll*t of $1,000. ' "Thin i? a crime to shoot me. when; I*ve given all I've gtrt/aald looker as he crumbled to the gmund, mortally wouttd?$j, , ' ? , ~-?ha pictureuqu* carevr of tha "Oomt l>lii?K K!hk" began on the streets of 8t. Louia, where Becker pitched pennies 1 wltfli other newwiea. finally ho acquired j f20, entered <a professional game and v won $100. tmjt thi* was swept away in a twinkling ami ait 10 he beat his way to ( 'iiiciiinutti with the capital of 20 cent*.. Here H wa* that he made his debut as w "professional". for the story U told that iie watered ? dfece game with the aingle quarter and .emerged "with 100,000. He noon turned to other games ami as his bank roll soared he became a galne keeper. Time ami again his fortune f cnunbled, Imt he always gained a fresh start. It was fifteen years apt at Hot Bfiriugs, Ark., that his fortune com* t ' ' ' . ' ~ . " . pletrty dWmwared. Ha frprmwtd 99 00, woo 110,000 uo tb# *W?. and then, protesting ,*bat h<? could nbt * ? ? ? > card*, but th*t home racing waa hi? ipo^ ; entered a i>okrr ganve which went broke two d&>'? wtob the "Gambling KJuir $100,000 wluncr. ? ' ' . ^ 7 Wbfrt Hinktr wttinffd %U. /oul* \**i winner after having1 1*4 $100X100 at the Saratoga race trm* he laughingly told friend* tie had bad "more than *100,000 worth of f?a arntvhlug the |ivu?Jw xtomble around the twk,"; Tbe "Kid" ai HfHcer wan known among Ilia (:*^k-Ih4w<, would take. any bat If odd* [ *;f. re fair ; be wagvred huge aunia o!? < jtffiitlcal elwtloua and ba*et)?li , aertea. : ?ni l. at oa* tkbe la aald to bara loat V5'),000 pitching $20 gold piecea at ??[ MiiaH- bucket with a <'hkago gambler. 'Thf game coufl'uued aeveral hours and elerka were engaged to keep acore. Becker i# eatd to have purchased $125, 000 worth of bond* while the fourttt lib erty Ipau campaign wan In progreaa. .... Becker, wlrn waa 90 yearn old, la ayr ii i u j??1 l.ii 44 . ? ? 1 .1... u 44 fC ii Aa y virnl try n w mow vntt n tryrBr-ttln uatiin' ter. Hog Ralalng In Barnwell. <Mem??>u College, May O.?r-BnrnWcll <?>ui*ty Ih "videirtly determined to fight the boll weevil witfh hogw. Already with in Hie pant tteaaou many fanners have given greater attention to hogs aa a profitable caah crqp, and now many oth era are preparing to take oirt this form of insurance ogalnat boll weevil* damage. L < VuMty agent* H. O. Boylaton report* that already three cara of ?hog* have h*e"u ahipf>ed by farmer* in the w'eatern part of tin- county. One of these cara waf? shipped on March 2, frotn Duni barton, and- w?a conaigned to <the Bal 1 1 more market in the name of one of ?&-LS . ? X .SZ.'X:. vri: . . jt-l tfaf fwiuew. Two other **ra were ?Wi> pod on Manto 81, to ? ???? fUohmoad mar k*t Alt of thwe wero coitperative ahlp inout* and ?lu?w what cau bo done whou fanner* who have too little material to *hi]> Knj^rtrt^ly will gtft together. realised we?t 15 C*nta to. Iff cents per pound, thr grower* *re Well |)l?*a*?d with tbla miwUI but gpfnl# l>??tuiilug. Mawy ?eam to conaider It one of the Im-hc ylecvfc *>f J2xU*u*iou work yet done tbrougbHbe tld 'of the < 'oiiutjr SAgent i An a meaua of further pualilng hog raining in l>ar?w?Jl County, the {jojinrty Agent arranged a *ale ? of pure bred Duroc* at Allendale on April SO. At wliirli fgrniftj* bought flue material to | | further * togk the oouuty with high claaa I breeder stuff. j Grow Your Own FseC * (?l.nu .. .. t'-nllvgr, ,\t?y 12.? Hay at j $88.00 A tou, ooru Alt $2.00 prr l?n?lu-l. i ? in.! fwd oats at .95 cents per bushel ?do n<* look good to the farmer who mint buy them foeda for fittr livestock, however good they may look bo the f Ar mor who has thetii to mil. Vet these are pikw wihich Mmi? must pay to get feeds. Men, itano have cattle cannot af ford not to. rate? twenty of foed. V. 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Week of Mav 26 to 31 mackey mercantile company CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA THE PORT OF FIUMR ? r Stumbling Block of Treaty Described lu National Geographic Bulletin. , ) ' i . " ? ? ?; ? ? " "If Trieste was the Bremen of All** trla, Fiume was the Hamburg: of the Hungarian kingdom.. a dose rival for the ? ? brisk Adriatic trade of the period be fore the war,'1 says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. The bulletin on Fiume is the third in a series of -geographic news bulle tins dealing with places* of the former dual empire whuiji may fall either to Italy or to the Jugo-Slav nation. "Fiume Is another of those footholds on the eastern Adriatic? where Italians dung fast detjpite the steady influx of Blavs in the interior, and, in -this case even into). Fiume itself. Thus the city t bears evidence of early Italian culture, it figured as a potent Slav factor in the turatoil of Ba^an politics, and it fe It strongly the influence of Hungary upon its thriving Industrie* and fast growing commerce. r \ "Magyar gerrymandering caused it^ to be annexed to Hungary in 1870, despite the protest of Croatia to which H had belonged since the revolution oit 1848-49. Tender consideration tor its value as a seaport, rather than for its dtizens, prompted its establishment as a royal free town, making it a geographical slice of about seven square miles out of T ? . ' ? ? ; ? : ? r ? : Croatia. t . "Despite the ' Hungarian Interest in the city its pre-war population was 90 per cent Italian ^nd Slav, with the Italians slightly predominant Only about half the ropnaining tenth wore Hun garians. The Shtvs included Croats, Serbs and Slovenes. As important to Hungary as ar$ New York or Boston to the United States, Flume's total pop ulation is nat much greater than such suburbs of thos^ American ]>orts as East Orange, N. or Brockton, Mass. VFiume is situated on the northeast shores of the Gulf of Quarnero, only 70 miles. by rati, southeast of ts trade rival, ^Trieste. Across the bay is the popular summer resont,, Abbazia, famed for it? evergreen laurel and profusion of roses, to ?which tens of thousands of visitore formerly thronged each summer. "The older town, distinctively Italian, is built on the hillside, overlooking the Rulfy The newer city lies nearer the waterfront. ' There are three harbors. The largest, accommodating 150 large vessels, is protected by a breakwater half a mile long. The quay is nearly two miles ,long. * "Before the war Piume'a manufactur ing plants included a' government tobac co factory, the Whitehead torped<^ Works, a rl<*e shelling factory, a petroleum re fin and many smaller plants, among which wer<^ sawmfU* a?idr paper mills. Its fipherifes constituted an important inUuytry. It exported sugar, grain, flour, horses and timber. * UL, ' . - . . "Fiuine had a governor, who w?i Mffltfber of the upper house of the Ho garian parliament, four representatta in the lower house, and two represent! tiv?? in the diet of the Croatia** it Slovenes. "Originating in Roman times, Fiua was destroyed by Charlemagne in 7ft The Fptake^niled It for a eonsiderah pe'rio^f Then it gassed to feudal Ioh until the Emperor Frederick III mac it a. part of Austria. "This emtperor, who was Frederi< V, as archduke of Austria, was the ? of Ernestv the 'man of lroft' and Oyi burga, a Polish woman, from whom t! Ifapsburgs ate thdughrt to have inhe# the protruding lowor lip which som'etitt became a disfigurement. His long and i consequential reign let recalled cbiei because hq puz^ed lextfeoographera I leaving on his books, pottery, ?nd hi ing^ inscribed on his tomb, the iaitii ,4A. *E. I. O. U,\ a promissory note' future Austrian greatness which Fw eriek did little to realize. The m? generally accepted explanation is w the initiate stood for the I/atin, 'Auatri E fcfc Imperari Orbi Universo,' meanh 'AH the earthi^lB subjct to Austria.' "Ohartes y* proclaimed Fimne a ft port. Maria Theresa Irst united it wi v ely by * French anil British it reverted to. ?} tria and later vaa restored to Hunga before it- was ceded to Croatia." *?' . '? ^ iC. h.,. I AFTER THE FIRE, IT IS TOO LATE mm ? ?r:? **& * <* r If You Had a Fi ??' ?lr ? i_ f Ho^gwould it le#yig^ou ? Affd you have no assurance thjit your property ? 773 - ? r J ^ '* r-m ?:-? ? isl'jfT^p^rantee of safety.