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THK OA MR LKKn LEGACY.
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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?
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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
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are scrambling for it in the courts,
but his real legacy is found in the object
lesson which he left behind him.
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Text of Act Adopted by Last General
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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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