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STEALING IN STORES
The Ingenuity Thai Is Shown by
the Woman Thief
iTRICKS OF THE SHOPLIFTER
The Satchel With a False Bottom and
the Slit In the Dress Near the Belt
Some Schemes Successful Because of
1 Their Very Simplicity
As numerous as they are Ingenious
are the tricks of the modern shoplift
ers declare store detectives It keeps
the detectives busy to get on to the
devices of the men and women who
live by their wits in stealing from
Btores For tricks that are canny few
classes of criminals it is said ap
proach them
The method of stealing by using the
satchel with a false bottom Is one of
the cleverest of the tricks
Well disguised the shoplifter enters
a store Her eyes run over the coun
ters She perceives the object shr
wants usually something small and
valuable sometimes a purse a custom
er has left lying on the counter
Over the object the shoplifter places
her satchel Pretending to delve into
the satchel to extract a purse or hand
kerchief the thief lifts a false bonom
In the bag reaches under it draws In
side the desired article adjusts the
false bottom closes the satchel and
walks away
Rut this is only one of many clever
ruses employed declared a deteciive
the other day The women especially
are ingenious Their dress of course
helps them
One of the methods of stealing Is
for the shoplifter to have a slit in her
dress near the belt As she stands near
the counter she can deftly seize the
article desired be it a piece of lace
or costly fabric or a bit of jewelry
and slip It into the skirt The folds of
the skirt are voluminous and couc eal
the thing stolen
Some tricks are successful because
of their simplicity A fashionably
dressed woman may walk into rhe
clothing department look over coat
suits pick up one fold it neatly up
place it under her coat and walk
away
If she is detected she will indig
nantly declare that she bought the suit
some time before and that she lias
brought it back to be altered
Or a woman her hands glittering
with rings and dressed in the latest
style may walk into the store some
winter day She wears only a rich
coat of dark fabric
In the coat department she will ask
to see some fur lined coats Oh she is
very particular and tries on one after
another Other customers come up and
the saleslady gets busy with them
while madam is trying to suit herself
While the saleslady is turned she
puts on one of the richest sable trim
med coats turns on her heel and
walks away Perhaps the salesgirl
may not notice the loss until there is
an account of stock
Each month from fifty to sixty ar
rests are made in the average large
department store The detectives must
be extremely careful for a false charge
would precipitate a suit for damages
which would mean many thousands
Certain departments hold especial
lures for shoplifters The jewelry de
partment is invariably guarded When
the furs come in we have sleuths who
keep their eyes open for the woman
who likes to take a fur to the window
to examine It then running for the
door the woman with the false skirt
and the woman who puts a fur on and
audaciously walks away
Although the sales departments and
the detective departments work to
gether there exists between them a
spirit of justifiable rivalry If a de
tective perceives some one getting
away with goods it casts discredit on
the person behind the counter from
which the goods were stolen There
fore the sales folk keep an alert watch
for shoplifters
One might imagine that goods are
dumped pellmell on the counters of
the big stores As a matter of fact the
efficient saleslady will have everything
so arranged that she will notice the
disappearance of an article almost im
mediately
If a saleswoman suspects a person
she immediately notifies the head de
tective If it is a woman a woman
detective is usually put on the job It
is said store managers usually find
women more efficient than men
Few arrests are ever made in the
stores as an arrest gives only unde
sirable publicity The detective usual
ly follows suspected persons from the
store and arrests him or her outside
It is said that arrests for shoplifting
in New York exceed 3000 a year In
that city a full description of all shop
lifters caught are sent to the Retail
Dry Goods association which in turn
distributes the information to the va
rious members
Only by concerted action and with
highly organized staffs of detectives
ran the stores cope with the ingenious
Bhoplifters
The defective system of the big
stores however is now so perfect
that it is langerous to attempt shop
lifting I von the cleverest shoplifter
faces a r iail terra in the pursuit of
her nefirjus work
More thv that If a shoplifter for
any should escape paying the
penalty or Time in one city she may
not he so I in another De
scriptions ox all suspected persons are
sent out broadcast and arrest in an
other city may mean a jail term even
though the thief may have escaped
punish men t previously Philadelphia
North American
PLANT BAROMETERS
The Dandelion Clover Leaves and the
Scarlet Pimpernel
The dandelion Is a dandy barometer
Hie of the commonest and most relia
ble It is when the blooms have seed
d and are In the Huffy feathery coa
lition that the weather prophet facul
ties come to the fore In One weather
the hall extends to the full but when
rain approaches it shuts like an um
brella if the weather is Inclined to
be showery it keeps shut all the time
anly opening when the danger from
he wet is past says the Chicago Trib
une
The ordinary clover and all Its va
rieties including the trefoil and the
3bamrock are also barometers When
rain Is coming the leaves shut together
like the shells of an oyster and dqnot
open again until tine weather is as
sured For a day or two before raiu
comes their stems swell to an ap
preciable extent and stiffen so that the
leaves are borne more upright than
usual This stem swelling when rain
Is expected is a feature ot mauy flow
pring grasses
The fingers of which the leaves of
the horse chestnut are made up keep
flat and fanlike so long as tine weath
er is likely to continue With the com
ing of rain however they droop as if
to offer less resistance to the weather
The scarlet pimpernel Is nicknamed
the poor mans weather glass or
wind cope and opens its flowers only
to tine weather As soon as rain is in
the air It shuts up and remains closed
until the shower or storm is over
INSECT STINGS
Dangerous Always and Especially
When One Is Run Down
Stings and bites of insects are ex
tremely datigerous at all times and
especially when the system is not In a
condition to resist the poison injected
In many insects the nature ot the
poison has not been ascertained while
in most or them it is of an acid irri
tant nature in others it may contain a
powerful cardiac sedative and depres
sant and in still others organisms In
pure or mixed cultures may be intro
duced with the sting or bite Apart
from the natural poison used by in
sects it should not be forgotten that
flies and other insects that live on
carrion may easily carry contagion
and inoculate the persons whom they
bite or sting
In the case of ordinary bites and
stings the chemical antidote is an
alkaline solution such as a strong so
lution of bicarbonate of soda or pot
ash which counteracts the acid of the
sting Suction at the wound in all
these varieties of stings and bites will
draw out some of the poison and until
some antitoxin treatment can be found
which will prove an antidote to the
bacterial poison introduced little can
be done beyond a stimulating and sup
porting treatment with attention to
symptoms Health
Old Mail Box
Among the treasures held by the
Antiquarian society in Portsmouth
N EL there is an old box the history
of which is given on a label which It
bears The box is of tin painted
green and shows signs of much usage
which is not surprising when one con
siders that it carried the Onited States
mail between Portsmouth and Boston
during the UoTolutiou It is about
nine inches long four and a half
inches wide and a little more than
that in height It was carried on
horseback by Captain John Noble
otherwise known as Deacon Noble
who was post rider until 1783 This
box contained all the mail and made
every week one round trip occupying
three days in the journey from Ports
mouth to Boston the first of the week
and three days at the end ot the week
from Boston to Portsmouth The dis
tance between the two places is a lit
tle more than fifty miles
He Knew No Fear
Prince Metternicb was driving in
Vienna one day during the congress of
1S15 when the horses bolted the car
riage was overturned and Metternicb
was thrown into the roadway Finding
he had no bones broken he picked him
self up and walked quietly away The
same evening he met the king of Na
ples who had seen the accident
How horribly frightened you must
have been said the king
Not at all answered Metternlch
It is no merit of mine but I am con
stitutionally inaccessible to fear
It is as I thought replied the king
You are a supernatural being
Hard to Get
Not long ago at a village near Dur
ham a quack doctor was selling recipes
for rheumatism so a pitman bought
one It told him to catch a common
housefly and tickle its ribs with a
clothes prop until it cried Then catch
the tears in a teaspoon and rub the
part affected and he would get instant
relief London Express
Praise
Your glasses she said have
made a great difference in your ap
pearance
Do you think so he asked
Yes You look so intelligent with
them on Chicago Record Herald
Th Retort Unkind
Gerald A gentleman Is defined as
one who nevr gives pain Geraldine
Then youre no gentleman you give
me a pain i ery time you call New
York Press
Fi ding His Level
A man a us finds his level son
said Uncle hen an yous lucky to
be let dowt easy by experience in
stead of aiTin wlf a Jolt Wash
ington Star
LO
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They Were Once Important Im
plements of Warfare
TREASURED AS HEIRLOOMS
Handed Down From Father to Son and
From Friend to Friend Engraved
and Ornamented They Were Used as
Gifts Instead of Jeweled Swords
Modern Inventions have robbed war
fare of much of Its romance and the
soldier of much of his old time pictur
esqueness Although the powderhorn
as an Implement of war disappeared
long before the magazine gun of today
was dreamed of It wasnt so very long
ago as a matter of fact that men
were carrying powderhorns Some oi
the soldiers in the Mexican war for
example used them
The powderhorns carried by the
fighters in the early days of this coun
try were often of comparatively sim
ple workmanship but they were cher
ished and handed down from father
to son and from friend to friend
Strange to saj though cherished in
this manner collectors have had a
very hard time in locating any great
number of the powderhorns used iti
this country and this in spite of the
large numbers used In the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries
In the French and Indian war the
English and Americans carried jIO000
powderhorns it has been estimated
to say nothing of the number carried
by those on the French side In the
Revolution there were according to
the best estimates about 10000 pow
derhorns in use in the American
army without counting those on the
British side The European troops had
long discarded them of course but
their colonial allies naturally were
equipped with them
A few years ago Isaac J Greenwood
presented to the New York Historical
society a collection of water color pic
tures of powderhorns he had found
still in existence
Although the search was prosecuted
with great diligence the number of pow
derhorns actually located and sketched
was not much more than 400 showing
how quickly the horns have been dis
appearing
Powderhorns are supposed to have
come into use almost simultaneously
with the invention of gunpowder A
way had to be found to carry the pow
der and keep it dry and men quickly
round that there wasnt anything bet
ter or cheaper in mediaeval times for
this purpose than the horns of an ani
mal
They were in general use in the six
teenth century and were brought to
this country by rhe first settlers The
oldest horn whose picture appears in
the collection was found near Schenec
tady N Y and bears the date of 1GS3
It was generally the horns of their
own cattle that the farmer lighters of
America used The loss of a horn in
nowise impaired the usefulness of the
animal and bulls frequently were
called upon to make the sacrifice Such
horns were easily obtained and
wouldnt rust and cculd he carried in
the rain and through streams without
the powder in them getting wet
They were always worn under the
left arm by a strap that went over the
right shoulder the curve in the horn
conforming to the shape of the body
and serving to keep it out of the way
of the wearer There was a stopple in
the small end and without being mi
slung the powder could be poured into
the right hand and thence into the gun
Boiled scraped and cleaned and col
ored with an orange or yellow dye
which was the way most of the pow
derhorns were prepared they lent
themselves more readily to ornamenta
tion by the owner than did any other
part of his equipment and it is this
fact which has made them particularly
interesting as historical relics Admir
ing friends in the days when powder
horns were in general use instead of
presenting a hero with an engraved
sword gave him a finely decorated
powderhorn
Sometimes the horns were made to
order and the engraving done by pro
fessionals Many of these horns were
beautifully colored the most popular
shade being a sort of orange tint
Perhaps the most remarkable exam
ples of the engraving are to be seen
on the geographical horns whose pic
tures appear in the Greenwood collec
tion These geographical horns took
the place of pocket maps for the early
pioneers They were the work of pro
fessional engravers in places like New
York and Boston
Some of the horns in the collection
contain practically complete maps of
the old trails and waterways One of
the best of these bears the date of
1707 and shows New York with its
harbor filled with ships and New York
state as far as Lake Champlain and
Ontario The Hudson valley with its
settlements appears on most of the
geographical horns discovered One
horn shows the country between Eliz
abethtown and Pittsburg each little
settlement being carefully noted
The horus thus filled a double pur
pose supplying the traveler with a
map and carrying his powder for him
One of the best specimens in the col
lection shows Havana as well as the
trail from Albany to Oswego It is
believed to have been owned by a sol
dier in the English army which cap
tured the Cuban city and who later
served in the colonies Washington
Post
Make hay while the sun shines and
the sun never shines so steadily and
bright as when you are joumz
- SANGER FROM ICE
No Article of Food Is So Carelessly
Handled
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly
emphasizes one cause of the danger
of infection from Ice
Scarcely another article of human
consumption receives so much direct
handling Just before Its use as does
this food Milk aud wuter tea ami
toffee are poured Bread meat aud
butter are cut Bread probably han
dled more than any other food on the
list has a hard crust which offers a
rather unfavorable lodging place for
germ life Ice on the contrary
washes the hands of every person who
haudles it and affords au ever ready
liquid medium for the immediate ab
sorption of the hosts of bacteria which
hands may carry The carelessness of
the handlers of ice their utter disre
gard of the resting places where it
may receive infection may he partly
due to their lack of realization that ice
is a food as real a food as meat
Whatever the cause few substances
which pass through the digestive proc
esses ot man receive such treatment
its surface contaminated by the pas
sage ot men aud horses in the cutting
its sides and base fouled by muddled
platforms qud smirched straw cover
ed with the tilth of black ice cars aud
dust swept freight stations your cake
of ice commonly receives its only
cleaning just before it enters the ice
chest So far as the iceman is con
cerned this is generally a hasty brush
with a time worn whisk broom well
filled with the dust ot the street and
blackened with constant use Accord
ing to the personal testimony of vari
ous icemen not even the precaution of
a momentary washing beueath the
faucet is ordinarily taken
MISSION OF THE LAND
To Produce Commodities For the Serv
ice of Mankind
The mission of the land is to pro
duce and keep on producing food live
stock lumber and other commodities
for the service of man Up who owns
land and is indifferent to this is guilty
of a moral wrong and he who takes
good laud out ot commission and suf
fers it to lie unproductive and useless
is guilty of a greater one This Is the
only criterion by which we can prop
erly judge of the right of an Individual
to own land in large tracts
The good results attendant upon
small individual holdings are natural
The purposes of nature in the upward
pvolution of man are usually better
carried out in this way and not he
cause as is so frequently argued
every man has an inherent right to its
ownership The lazy the incapable
and the densely ignorant assuredly
have no such right and land is too
precious and its mission too high to be
thus wasted
If the owner of a great country es
tate can farm his land as well as or
bettpr than it it were in small hold
ings if following the precept ot Swift
hp made two ears of corn or two
blades of grass grow where one grew
before if he supply his section with a
better breed of horses cattle or sheep
well and good No one with any
knowledge of economics could say he
was doing any injury to the world or
mankind it is not the amount of land
that he owns but what he does with
it for which he is morally responsible
David Buff urn In Atlantic
The Invention of the Panorama
The panorama was invented by a
Scotchman nauiPd Kobert Barker who
obtained a license in London in 17S7
and erected a rotunda on Leicester
squarp He was associated with Kob
ert Fulton the practical inventor of
the steamboat who introduced pano
ramas into Paris in 1795 but resigned
in favor of Thayer pprhaps in order
to give his attention to the application
of steam to boats Thayer raised a
rotunda on thp Boulevard Montraartre
whence comes the name ot the Pas
sage des Panoramas Bonaparte caused
plans to be drawn up for eight pano
ramas in which his conquests were to
bp shown to thp Parisians whom he
always tried to Impress with the mag
nitude of the achievements in order to
keep then faithful to his star But
these projpets wpre npver realized
Calves Screaming
1 could tak for hours about my coun
try and my own people I am so fond
ot both On my birthday many ot them
came in procession to see me and I
danced wbat is called the bourree
with them They say such quaint
things An old woman once hearing
me sing asked Doesnt it hurt you
to scream like thatV A peasant once
told me he was sure the proprietor of
the grotto would give me 5 francs a
day to sing there Calve in London
Standard
The Hater of Quietude
That man says jie will create some
real excitement if he gets into con
gress
Yes answered Senator Sorghum
he is one of those peculiar patriots
who want to climb on board the ship
of state simply tor the pleasure of
rocking the boat Washington Star
Suspicious Circumstances
Do you know they suspect that old
man of leading a double life
What gives rise to thatV
Why hes so mean and cross around
home that they tnink he must be
pleasant and agreeable somewhere
Exchange
Ought to Have Known Better
Whafs the matter
Just quarreled with my wife
What about
She said that a woman whom ws
met was beautiful and 1 agreed with
her Houston Post
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Congregational Sunday school nt
10 u m Piajor meeting Wednesday
evening at eight oclock The public
is cordially invitod to these sorvices
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11 a m and 730 p
m Sunday school at 10 a m All
are welcome to these services
E R JSable Rector
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunda
school 230 p m Every Sunday
Wat J Kirwin O M 1
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Sermons by pastor at 11 and 8 Class
at 12 Junior League at 3 Epworth
League at 645 Prayer meeting Wed
nesday night at 745
M B Carman Pastor
Baptist Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching service at 1100 a m Even
ing service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p m
A most cordial invitation is extended to
all to worship with us
E Burton Pa3tor
Evangelical Lutheran Regular
German preaching services in frame
building of East Ward every Sunday
morning at 1000 All Germans cordial
ly invited Rev Wm Brueggeman
607 5th st East
Christian Science 219 Main Ave
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Wednesday at 8 p m Reading Room
open all the time Science literature
on sale Subject for next Sunday
Substance
Evangelical Lutheran Congrega
tional Sunday School at 930 a m
Preaching at 1030 a m and 730 p m
oy pastor Junior C E at 130 p m
Senior C E at 400 p m Prayer
neetings every Wednesday and Satur
Jay evenings at 730 All Germant
jordially invited to these services
Rev GustavIIenkelmann
505 3rd street West
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