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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
THE LAST OF THE GANG.
Only One Old Pauper Remains OF
Chicago Crime Society.

The last survivor of Chicago's
first fully organized band of crimi-
mails, who fiourished generation ago
under the leadership of picturesque
Mollie Mott, passed from the stage
recently. Michael Sage, white of hair
and showing every one of his 63
years, made no defense against a
sentence of one year in the house OF
correction. His active days are over
in the opinion Of the police, even If
he lives out his sentence.
Half of Sage's life has been spent
in prison. He began stealing when
he was 12 years old and never learn
ed anything else. The old man was
arrested for attempting to rob a
house.
4 didn't get in, judge" he said,
and then added as if to excuse his
failure, Il guess 1 am getting too
old and stiff. I won't mind year;
| am more at home in prison than
out, anyway
The Mott gang of Pickpockets,
thieves, burglars, holdup men and
general utility thugs 20 years ago
lived the scenes that usually are
found in dime novels, and no mem
ber of the gang was more resource
full in crime than Sage. Molie Mott
by her beauty and personality, led
the gang and was the cause of more
than one affray between jealous fol-
lowers.
The gangs success bred emulation
and other criminals formed them
selves into a band known in police
annals as the Shelvin gang. The
gangs fought the police and each
other until Mollie's charms conquer
ed one of the Shelvin gang and
brought the two tribes under he1
harmonious sceptre. Relentless war
with the police, disease and prison
cells in the succeeding years broke
up the band, and all its members for
the most part are dead or at least
passed from the ken of the local po-
lice. Sage is the last one they know
Of and they fear him no more
Philadelphia Record.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
get away with it every time.
Not An Exception.

If you have doubts, examine the
records. You can find a hundred
examples, and perhaps some to beat Il
club l knew of, that makes up club
roll of $500, and yet can show on
ly $50 primary voters.
Many delegate has sat in a coun-
ty convention representing a grave
yard.
In the first instance We have q
method of carrying club against its
will, in the second a willing club in
creaSes it's power.
Summing Up.
The article published a few days
ago showed the wide spread disre.
gard of the rules we have. This one
gives two of the vast number of oc'
currences that show the rules We
have to be vitality defective. There
can be no doubt that the party regu'
lations have fallen into disrepute in
large measure because they are sc
defective.
The legislature has passed laws /!
assist in enforcing the rules. But il
has been like driving nails in rotte1
planks, they won't hold. Rip OF
everything to the good timbers ant
! build with sound statutes.
LEGISLATOR.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
JURY ACQUITS HEBERT.
Blease Will Pardon Former Head Of
Seminole Company.

Columbia, S. c., January 1O.-C
J. Hebert, of Chattanooga, was ac'
quilted today of the charge of con
spiracy and obtaining S9S,000 un'
der false pretences.
Hebert was accused of securing
$4,000 in the deal by which the de-
funct Seminole Securities Company
obtained the majority stock in the
Southern Life Insurance County
Hebert declared that he had honest
ly earned anything he got and claim
ed that the companies involved real
ly owe him money.
The jury, after remaining out
since $50 o'clock Friday night, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty this
morning about 1890 o'clock.
Two days were consumed in trying
the case in Richland county court OF
general sessions.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
A Dog is Property.

An action at law in Tennessee,
involving the seizure and sale at
public auction of two coon dogs for
debt has brought from the Supreme
Court of the State ruling that L
dog is property; although, as the re-
port goes on to say, previous rul-
ings. have been to the contrary. II
there is any other part of the globe
that denies to the dog the manifest
right to be property, the error should
promptly be corrected. In this in
stance the dogs were all the earthly
treasures the man possessed, ex-
cept the clothes on his back. 9th
erwise, of course the sheriff would
never have levied on them. The
hardest hearted officer of the law
would not deprive man of his
dog if anything else could be found
to take away. The thief in the
night, who occasionally lifts one, is
not a fit associate for a yeggman.
There is another aspect OF the
matter, which, in fact, has been a
bone of legal contention from very
ancient times. AS the Supreme
Court of one State observed, 1T
bears a tinge Of the ridiculous TO
contend that however many and
however valuable dogs a man may
own, he cannot be made to pay his
debts if he will only invest his
money in dogs" That a dog is not
property has usually been argued
on the ground either that from its
ancestry it remains wild animal
in such sense as not to be a levia-
BILE possession, or that an animal
which is not good to eat has no III
trinsic value. But menageries or
recently tanned, or only Gagged, Wiio
animals would probably be regard
ed everywhere as property subject
to attachment by creditors of tie
proprietor; while the suggestion that
a domestic animal must be good to
cat in order to have value would
hardly be advanced nowadays.-Pro.
vidence, r. l., Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
THIEVES BEAT AGED WOMAN.
Ransack Home of Dying Person III
Search of Gold.

Baltimore, Md, January 12.-Af-
ter dragging dying woman, IS
years old, from her bed, and tying
her to a chair and beating into in
sensibility her 60-year-old son, who
went to her rescue, two masked men
tonight ransacked the home OF
Charles Kimmel at Middle River,
near here, in search of a quantity
of gold reputed to be hidden in the
house.
Kimmel and his mother were
found an hour afterwards by ply
sician who had been summoned to
the house to attend the aged wo-
man.
The robbers obtained only a
small amount Of money.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
NIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS.
Buggy Demolished in Collision With
Engine at Denmark.

Denmark, January 12.-Whal
nearly resulted in. serious accident
occurred here yesterday morning
when a shifting engine on the Sea-
board Aair Line Railroad collidef
with horse and buggy driven BY
Mr.. Texas Sanford, Of Orangeburg
The accident occurred at the cross
ing near the Ice Factory. The fac
tory obstructed Mr.. Lanford's view
and he did not see the engine until
it was upon him. He turned his
horse, and as he did the engine hit
the buggy, demolishing it. Fortu'
nately Mr.. Sanford escaped with
few bruises and the horse was moi
badly hurt.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15
As Described.

At a fancy dress ball two ladies,
who were attired in ordinary even
ing dress, were present. The butler
asked in what characters he should
announce them.
'Oh, no particular character said
one of the new corners.
Whereupon the servant announced
loudly.
Two ladies of no particular char
acter!"- Telegraph.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-01-15

Uncle Joe Cannon, in recen!
political argument, said:
That excuse is not good enough
1t reminds me of Danville bartend-
er. He came to work in a Danville
bar and as soon as he arrived, the
receipts began to diminish. The boss
at the end of the week said to the
newcomer.
Look here, do you take money
out of the till?'
oh, no sir sid the bartender
No, indeed, sir.
Now said the boss, you mus1
be taking money. l know it,
"'Of course, said the man, 1 take
out my car fare every night.
"'Oh, YOU do. eh?' said the boss
And where do you live? In San
Francisco?'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
a Novel Suggestion

Here's something which, we believe, is absolutely
new upon the subject of what to do for the unem-
poyed.
newspaper of big western city published a
very affecting story about a locomotive engineer
named Jones' who through Sickness had lost his job
and finally found himself, wife and children,
without home or food There thousands of un-
employed in the city, but wouldn't somebody please
give this deserving man something to do? The
newspaper got the following letter:
''Edtor: l am pretty close pressed myself and
control no ordinary jobs, but will give Jones 81
day, for time to keep me from using too much
tobacco. The doctor says I'm ovedong the habit,
my family is worrying and myself know I'm using
too much, but l forget and the first think know
my old pipe is in my mouth and there is stays until
meals make me remove it. Now, if Jones will keep
after me and send up kick every time go at the
weed, I'll give a dollar day as long as L can. May
be it be cheaper than doctors, in the end. Now
my bad habit may be only $1habit, but isn't there
some man with So bad habit who will hire Jones
to help him break off? JOHN SMITH,
After you've had your smile over this suggestion
give it bit of serious thought. You've got some
bad habits being human. Suppose that every time
you to indulge that habit consciously or other
wise, you got pointed reminder that you hurt
ing yourself, promoting paralysis arterioscerOsis,
future Doctors bills and things like that
Bad habits are rarely suddenly acquired but are
cumulative and due to repeated lapses that appear
to be insignificant and easily controlled. A lot of
bad habits persisted in solely through indiffer-
Perhaps way to cure them is to be repeat
eddy reminded of their final evil effects, and there
lot of habits the cure of which is dirt cheap
at 81 day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
Il EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE TACOMA TINES Il
Are You Going to Discover
Am erica This Year,

Hundreds of thousands--yes, millions-of Amer
leans are going to discover America during the year
which will be born in few days. That's going to
be one of the few fine effects of the far we
folks in this country are concerned.
"Seeing America" will be the slogan from the At
lantc to the Pacific for another year, anyway. Are
you planning your vacation-are you saving your
dimes for that United States seeing trip in 1915?
The greatest incentive to this patriotic movement
to get acquainted with our own country will come
from the land of sunshine California-where two
wonderful expositions will open early in the year
While it has taken years to build these great world
fairs they opening just in the nick of time, just
when they most needed to attract the people in
the eastern half of the United States to the wonders
of their own land If the people who started these
expos were prophets and the sons of prophets they
could hardly have buded more timely.
Today The Times prints the first of series of ar
ticles on the two coast fairs These articles by
trusted correspondents who commissioned for
the purpose and who instructed to pass up the
press agents and boosters and tell only the truth
In this connection The Times will, during the COM
ing months, print numerous articles for the benefit
Of those who propose to ''see America" next year.
The United States is full of places of the greatest in
terest, and this paper expects to tell its readers
something about them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Prof. Starr, Chicago university's expert on apes
and things, says he expects to live to be 120 years
DID, His recipe for long life is very simple "Just
be placid always smile and keep the job all the
time
1t may well be doubted though whether years are
the true measure of life The best measure of life
is experience-the things one has thought out and
thus made his own; the feelings one has had; the
lessons one has learned
In themselves few years more or less count for
little. Unless each day brings interesting task,
contribution to experience, an addition to the sum
Of worldly knowledge or to spiritual insight and ripe
ness of outlook Of what value is it?
The mere routine of living, the chalking on lifes
scoreboard. Of uneventful vegetable exist
snce''-is unimportant
1T is excepting on the job" that COMMISSIONING
alert keeping interested being always in the of
the progress of the times.
The time to die, could it be fixed by choice is when
living to be growth; when it begins to become
just dead weight loaded ON the younger generation
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
S1lVERS TALKS ABOUT
The PIANO BUSINESS
To Those Who Remember Those Famous Cartoons
This May Be Interesting Special
Bargain to Close 1914

81 heard how started to buy piano from YOU
the words of piano
last Wednesday.
Encouraging? Well, should say it was We all like a little
er you know and especially if there enough
properly tickle the funny bone in makeup
without osentation store
three and half
by one OF our then the piano
the snort space OF three months to live That
friends have quit business Suf-
flee to state that glad spread our
TACOMA OWNERSHIP
Ours is the Big
Most people like to trade with Tacoma in business
into the homes of the wealthy
with equal pride High school and the Lin
aoma churches have by their patronage contributed
BEAUTIFUL STORE
The store of the Svers Piano Co.
most conveniently shopping
soundproof parors demonstrating
and records and the famous Vuoo
people abundant
have done their make this
the most popular musical establishment n
SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR THE LAST -FOUR DAYS OF 1914
An accumulation of good dependable
used pianos including Fisher Gabler Kmb
alet Davis Lester Lndemann during
the next four days close them $780, $3.50
upward depending style etc These are
worth least half much again
low as IS a month
SEVERAL FINE PLAYER PIANOS
Slightly used SS-note player
from renting or returned for will
third less than their actual values any
PIANOS
Special terms will be piano
now and January s 1915 An opportunity for
Bring $40 to That to send
this next
evening at 6 o'clock
$t7e1zgplaase#
5dcomaS1ome Owned Music Store
oi' " street Tacoma, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
BIG CHORUS READY TO sing
THE MESSIAH" TUESDAY EVE

1.-THE Messiah" will be sung in
the Tacoma theater tomorrow
evening by Tacoma chorus of
200 voices, supported by a 81
piece orchestra and II of the best
known vocalists in the city.
Witbal 1.-THE Messiah" promises to
be the most pretentious musical
affair ever staged in this city.
Frederick w. Wallis, Jason
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Moore, Per OLSON, Frank CRUDE
and Robert Schofield have been
engaged for weeks in directing
the rehearsals. They have unit
ed all the city's largest choirs and
their soloists in the undertaking.
Jason Moore, it is feared, may
not be able to appear, owing to
Illness which he contracted about
week ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

She makes me feel so small
when she begins to talk about her
ancestors. And we have no an
cestors."
Never mind, my dear. Come
back at her with the pedigree OF
your dog. louisville Courier.
Journal.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
SOUNDED DOUBTFUL

you don't seem pleased when
| suggest that you have a loveiy
disposition"
I'm not" replied Miss Cay
enne. Telling a girl she has a
lovely disposition is usually a sort
OF apology for not being able to
say she is either good looking
or interesting" - Washington
Star.
Head the CIassfrSe1 as 80
l'age SIX.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Woodrow Wilson executive session
Washington the only president who
he sad I'm damned if again."
This history We hate il when good old George issued
the senatorial of lions actually like father
miles home with the
busted
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

After spending last summer
abroad sketching the peaceful
landscapes of France, the war
must be terrible blow to your"
How so?"
why, you won't be able to sell
such pictures now"
"Oh, | sell them right along
after painting in a few bayonet
charges.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
READY To PLEASE.

Eggerton-It's easy to make
friends, but hard to keep them.
.Easymark--Oh, ] don't know.
I've got number of friends who
seem perfectly willing to let me
keep them.-Chicago News.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
AN ARIsTOCRAT

Said the dainty little squirrel
To the big polecat,
you could hardly call yourself
an aristoerati"
To the dainty little squirrel
You wait till I'm martyred--
They'll fight for my hide,"
New York Evening Sun.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Russian staff satisfactory
1.-THE first period the that's satisfactory
to everybody those who aren't fighting
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Maybe Japan's going % She has import much rice that
economists consumption 20 million bushels
of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

for nothingi" q.
How so?" ~
II spent all morning trying to
get them back from the postmast7
er because | had things in them
| didn't want to say" !,
us
VERY SIMILAR. n
Close Analogy-Pa. what's a re-
tainer?
What you pay a lawyer before
he does any work for you, my
son.
"Oh, csc. It's like the quar-
ter you put In the gas meter be-
fore you get any gas. Boston
Transcript.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

As a measure boycott
tobacco when
we thought it from New Jersey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Though the United States has 3O5,OOO corporations,
one-seventh of the property value of the nation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Why doesn't someone interview the Mad Mullah and
views the European war?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

San Mateo Cal grand jury. with eight clubwomen on
been summarily discharged for exceeding its functions
that jury having things said to them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

him travelling brother
him travelling father presented him
mileage book he be justified In thinking
hint somewhere ese
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

few of the poor having been handed Christmas
presume their stomachs will be full for the coming year
clothed and the rent paid.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28

Manchester N mourning the loss of Harry Tha
which reminds ticket the other
sympathize Manchester.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-28
ERV ATOMS

growing fecundiy, allowing
slaughter which has
and half Of Austria Hungary
century possible lifetime child
inhabitants spread than
earhs empire which, given free schools would
be incomparably the most powerful that ever lived
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-17

and again add to the Golfers of the
philanthropist.
You would think the scheme sufff-
GENTLY contemplate to stop there,
perhaps. But it goes further. This
charity by which the stuff is to be
sold to the poor, at a slight profit, is
to be guarded by the organized chart
ties and the poor must be investigat-
ed and recommended by some of
these Statistical" cold blooded
guardians of charity before they will
be permitted to buy your discarded,
work-endowed furniture, at a profit
to the 'philanthropists."
Even a public wood pile is contem-
plated, where the out-of-work man
may toll for a pittance and the wood
be sold again through the statistical
charities.
The benevolent fathers of this idea
held a meeting yesterday to raise
capital to perfect the organization
and they should have no trouble rails
ing the capital, for it is an invest
ment that has proven by past practice
to yield enormous returns.
But one wonders YEARLY how long
the misery of the world is to be ex-
plotted by those who already possess
so much that very shame should pre-
vent their schemes to get still more
in the name of misery.
And one wonders, too, how long it
will be before the down-trodden
awake to the thing that is being done
to them, how long before they will
realize that every money-making
scheme like this foisted by the phil
anthropist" only drives them deeper
and deeper in the mire of CONNER
cial slavery.
And one wonders, too, how long it
will be before the public, that por-
ton of it that is still honest and
justice-loving, will rise in protest
against embracing big, ugly, furry
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-17

Flatbush, N. Y.-Despite the recent
frequently circulated rumOr that the
tango and the trot are on the wane,
along comes another pretty maid
with the announcement that the old
dances-two-step and waltz-are not
to have any place in her club. This
girl is Miss Elenore Lilley, president
of junior political league. She says
her club is going to put ban on the
old dances and that in half century
the dreamy waltz will have been COM
D1etpIv fOroOtteO
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-17

W!gwag-What do you find to be
--0---s ~~oate~+ inSDiratiOn in writing?
Scribbler-The fact that need the
money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-08-28
Clearwater

Floyd Wheeler came up Tues
DAY from Laona Jet.
Worden heller arrived Fri
day from Catfish lake.
A party was given in honor of
Miss Estelle Lolendroff Tuesday
evening.
Lee Gilman and family will
leave soon to take chang of a
church in Milwaukee.
A party Of Indian tourists from
Oklahoma are spending their va
cation at the Colman resort.
Estelle Lolendroff of Clinton
vile, is a guest at the Henise
home, she formerly attended
school here.
Mrs. Hyde and daughter, who
have been visiting Prof. Armi-
tage recently, left Tuesday for
Africa.
A surprise party was given on
Wednesday evening in honor Of
the l:yde's departure for their
field OF labor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-08-28
News From Our
Neighboring Towns.
MateTSmcet.

Miss Reney Apker returned to
her home a Amigo, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. "ulk re-
turned home Monday from Mar
ion where they were visiting.
Born to Nh. and Mrs. Geo.
Hendricks Saturday Aug. 22nd a
IL pound boy who promises to
grow up to be a successful train
baggage like his dad.
Mrs. VIM. Maher received a
telegram Sunday morning an
nouncing the death OF her broth
er John at Rochester, Mimi
where he recently went for
treatment.
Word was received Nonday
from Mrs. J. 3. Mcdonald who
went to Rochester for an opera
ton to remove goitre from her
neck, that she was recovering
very nicely.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-08-28

Office OF County Clerk, Villas County,
Wisconsin, August 24th, 1914.
TO the Electors Of Villas County:
Notice is hereby given that Pri-
mary Election is 70 he held in the
several Towns and Villages Of Villas
County, on the first day Of Sep, en-
Der, 1914, at which the officers named
below are to be chosen: the names Of
voted for whose nominations have
been certified to or filed in this office
are given under the title Of the office
and under the appropriate party,
each in it's proper column.
A voter upon entering the polling
place and giving his name and resi-
dence, will receive ballot from the
Ballot Clerk Which must have en-
dOrsed thereon the names or Initials
OF both Ba Mot Clerks, and no other
ballot can be used. Upon receiving
his ballot. the voter must retire alone
in a booth or comp artment and pre-
pare the same for voting. A Ballot
Clerk may inform the voter as to the
proper manner of marking ballot,
but he must not advise or Indicate in
any manner whom to vote for.
70 vote for person whose name is
printed on the ballot, make Il (N) az
ter his name in the proper column as
follows:
Mark your first choice with a cross
(X) in the first choice column. Mark
your second choice with d cross (X) in
the second choice column. 70 vote
for person whose name is not print
ed on the ballot. write Ills name in
the blank space under the printed
names and mark your first and second
choice as above
If the voter finds on his bal cot more
than two candidates for the same Of
ice, lie should vote for two. for one