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THK OA MR LKKn LEGACY. (Continued from page 2. column '. >f for LOUlSVllle V/hCll thing-. ere "ripe." "It would bo a shame to let :none;. ! like thia get av/&v," the herener.t wrote. "You could v. in I!,0 vat a Hitting. A chance like that docket come often." He inclosed a '-ode for; u?e in exchanging telegram?-. In the gambler >. trunk t.oe admin-j istrator found more striking evidence of hla life. an well an an explanation j of how he managed to accumulate' $ 0,000 In currency. Attached to an j old vest was a cornplicarod pOKerj "hold-out," a device for slipping cards up the sleeve and concealing them: for use In an emergency. The holdout was equipped with delicate} springs and adjustments. A slight} movement of the knee would bring! the extra cards instantly into play. There were twenty-five or thirty decks of marked cards, a machine like j tobacco cutter with a razor edge for i trimming the edge3 of cards. There! was a catalogue from a firm in San j Francisco listing more than seventy-} five crooked gambling devices?from a tiny thumbnail prick used to scratch I a rough spot on aces, listed at 50: cents, to a combination poker and dice table with electric wiring and holdout attachments, which sold for $350. In the game which the partners ran in the upper floors of a small ho tel here, the sky was the limit. Tneir i "customers" were farmers and stockmen and oil men from Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas. Whatever elements of mystery surround the gambler's death there is no mystery in the way he built his fortune. In one of his trunks was an interi esting collection of books. There was j an old family Bible inscribed on the! fly-leaf: "To Dear Mother, Christmas, 181^8." Here are some of the books which he possessed: A Little Book of Old Time Verse. Science and Health, with a Key to the Scriptures. Illustrated South America. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. Thanatopsis. In a small pasteboard box was a collection of newspaper clippings, mostly poems. They were happy-golucky Jitle poems, full of the bubble philosophy of life. Here is one ex tract: Oh, I worry over this thing and I worry over that, But I notice when the atmosphere is cleared That the bad luck I had looked for didn't come and knock me flat; And I didn't have the trouble that I feared. This is another: A little bit of life, a little bit of love, A little bit of happiness and money Just to shove Up the hill and over to make our Journey sweet? # And yet we do not ask too much, we say to all we meet: Not much, not much, only there isj Of richness and of beauty in a world j like this. Perhaps the gambler had clipped them out himself; but it seems more likely that his wife clipped them and sent them to him in her letters, for some of them are underscored and interlined with remarks^ At ?ny rate he saved them, and there they were when the public administrator and his assistants searched through his trunks. The gambler's money probably will *" * ?1 J -J 1 nl n j m a n t a nrVirt DO QlVlliea ueiweeii iuc tiaiiiiauva nuu are scrambling for it in the courts, but his real legacy is found in the object lesson which he left behind him. ?Kansas City Star. AUTOMOHILKS MUST STOP. ~ Text of Act Adopted by Last General Assembly. Columbia, April 17.?The following is the text of an act adopted at the recent session of the Legislature which is of special interest to all automobilists: "An act to make it unlawful for any person driving a motor vehicle which strikes any person to fail to stop and render assistance, and the failure to stop prima facie evidence of negligence in any suit against any person in such motor vehicle. "Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, every person driving a motor vehicle which strikes or hits any person or another vehicle shall stop such motor vehicle at once and render such assistance as he or she can. and shall, upon request, give his or her name and postofflce address and the license number of his motor vehicle. "Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year or both." 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