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The Satche! With a False Bottom and |
the Slit In the Dress Near the Belt. !
Some Schemes Successful Because of
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
stores. 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 tficks.
Well disguised, the shoplifter enters
a store. Her eyes run over the coun- |
ters. She perceives the object she |
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 bottom |
in the bag. reaches under it, draws in-
side the desired article, adjusts the
false bottom, closes the satchel and
walks away.
“But this is only one of many clever |
ruses employed.” declared a detective |
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 pear
the counter she can deftly seize the
article desired. be it a plece of lace
or costly fabric or a bit of jewelry,
and slip it into the skirt. The folds of
the skirt are voluminous and conceal
the thing stolen.
“Some tricks are successful because
of their simplicity. A fashionably
dressed woman may walk into the
clothing department, look over coat
suits, pick up one, fold it peatly up.’
place it under her coat and walk
away.
“If she Is detected she will indig-
nantly declare that she bought the sait
some time before and that she has
brought it back to be altered.
“Or a woman, her hands glittering
with rings aud 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. Perbaps 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 justitiable 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 3.000 a year. Ia
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
can the stores cope with the ingenious
shoplifters.
The detective system of the big
‘stores, however, is now so perfect
that It is dangerous to attempt shop
lifting. Even the cleverest shoplifter
faces a long jail term in the pursuit of
her nefarious work.
More than that, if a shoplifter for
any reason should escape paying the
penalty of crime in one city she may
not be so fortunate in another. De
weriptions of all suspected persons are
sent out broadcast, and arrest in an
other city may mean a jail term, evec
though the thief may have escaped
t previously. — Philadelphia
North American.
Rare Exception.
“I rather pride myself on cne thing,”
sald the young father. “Although I
have the brightest, smartest, cutest,
best youngster I ever saw. | never
brag about him.”—Kansas City Times.
. same time
i wit.
The Key Under the Door.
“It is customary for the back door
. key to be put halfway under the door
so that | can reach it when coming
off duty late at night,” remarked an
artist to a Londen Tit-Bits writer. |
*The other morning at breakfast my |
landlady said to me, ‘Do you know, 1]
had ap awful fright last night. I put
| the key balfway under the door, as |
usual, when, to my horror, | saw it
drawn slowly out of sight. | of course
thought some one had got the key and |
would unlock the door and come in, |
so 1 quickly bolted it and shouted
throuzh the keyhole, “My word. if you
don’t Lring that key back!" Not daring |
to retire to rest, 1 sat quietly listening '
for a time. Then | got a table knife
| and pushed it under the door to see it!
the key had really been taken right |
away and to my surprise drew the key
back aguin. So, very cautiously, | un-
locked and unbolted the door, looked |
out and found not a burglar, but our
own wicked cat, who. while sitting on |
the doorstep and seeing the key pushed |
under the door. must have drawn the |
key ont of sight with her paws. think- |
ing 1 was playing with bher.'”
An American Joke From England.
The typical American, says a con-
tributor to the English Illustrated
Magazine, although partial to making |
jokes, is often quick tempered and un- |
able to recognize a joke made by an-
other, with results that are sometimes |
unpleasant. |
Thus, a senator was once at a fash- |
fonable dinner party at Washington |
when be was asked what fish be would |
take.
“Waal,” be said, “1 reckon I'll take |
plaice.”
A wit who chanced to be present re-
marked, with a twinkle in his eye,
“Ah, senator, still a place seeker?"
*Yans." answered the senator, at the
whipping out a revolver
and shooting the wit dead. “but what's
that to you, you dern’d stranger?”
Afterward, when the joke was ex-
plained to him, the senator confessed
that he had acted rather hastily, and
to show that he bore no grudge he
went to the funeral of the inopportune
A Queen Elizabeth Joke.
Queen Elizabeth liked ber jokes, and.
although her pleasantries were of a
less sanguinary turn than her father's,
she must have been even more for-
midable than nsual when disposed to
be froliccome. A tale may be found
in one of Lord Essex's letters with
regard to n new dress belonging to one
of her maids of honor, over the pos-
session of which the owner bad been
rash enough to exhibit some elation.
The young lady, it seems, was several
inches taller than her majesty, hardly
perhaps quite a nice or loyal thing to
be. Having desired that the dress
should be made over to her custody,
the queen, first carefully selecting an
extremely wet day, was pleased to put
it on and trail it for yards behind her
in the mud. the owner of the hu-
miliated garment having to appear as
delighted with the royal fun and con-
descension as the rest of the lookers-
on.— London Tatler.
And All With Company Thera.
“Now, children,” said the mother as
a whole roomful of company had come
in, “suppose you run off and play by
yourselves."
“All right, mother,” replied Edith.
“Can we go up and play Hamlet and
Ophelia?"
“Certainly.” smiled the mother, while
ber guests looked on at the tableau.
“Goody,” replied Edith. Then, turn-
ing to her sister, she said, “Now,
Maude, you run up to mamma's room
and get all her false hair that you can
find.” —Ladies' Home Journal.
Love.
Properly there is only one verb for
Jove. It is not “amo.” It is not
“gimer.” It is not the softest Italian
verb. No printed language of man
knows it. But the violin knows it,
and the wild bird knows it; even the
sea knows it. The rose is it, and the
moon is it, and the look of a man’s
eyes into a woman's is it, and the look
of a woman's eyes back again is it
But no man or woman can say it in
any language that endures.—“Love Let-
ters of the King."
Wanted No Trimmings.
Little Ollie was much frightened at
a thunder shower, and her father told
her she shouldn't be, as the rain was
good for the grass and her flowers.
Looking up through her tears, Ollie
said, “W-well, why c-cant we have
j-just plain r-rain?’—Exchange.
The Intricacies of It.
“Why don't you study the time ta-
ble, and then you wouldn't have miss-
ed your train?’
“That was the trouble. While 1 was
trying to translate the time table the
train pulled out.”"—New York Herald.
At His Best.
Blobbs—The doctor told Guzzler
drinking was the very worst thing he
could do. Slobbs—I guess that doctor
didn't know Guzzler or he would have
realized that drinking is the best thing
he does.—Philadelphia Record.
Strong Proof.
“Sued for a breach of promise. eh?”
“Yep.
“Any defense?” .
“Temporary insanity, and 1 expect
to prove it by the love letters I wrote.”
—~Washington Herald.
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Utter Contempt.
“1 s'pose you wouldn't marry me if
1 were the only man on earth?’
“1 woulin't even be engaged to you,”
responded the girl, “if you were the
oniy wan at a summer resort.”—Kan-
sas City Journal,
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'" AFTER THE BATTLE.
An Incident That Seemed to Explain
Joshua's Miracle.
There was an incident in our life at
Brandy, connected with Gettysburg,
which is worth relating. Batchelder,
whose map of the battlefield of Gettys- |
bury is authority and whom we had
fallen in with while we were there,
asked to join our mess at Brandy when
he came to the army to verify the po-
sitions of the various commands. One
night we had just sat down to dinner |
when he entered our big hospital tent, |
quite tired. |
“Well.” be announced after taking '
his place at the table, “I have been |
down in the Second corps today, and I |
believe I have discovered how Joshua |
made the sun stand still. I first went
to — regiment and had the officers |
mark on the map the hour of their |
position at a certain point. Then 1!
went to — regiment in the same bri
gade. They declared positively it we
one or two hours earlier or later than
that given by the other. So it went
on, no two regiments or brigades
agreeing, and if I hinted that some of
them must certainly be mistaken they
wonld set me down by saying with
severe dignity, ‘We were there, Batch-
elder, and we ought to know, I guess.
and I made up my mind that it would
take a day of at least twenty hours
instead of thirteen at Gettysburg to
satisfy their accounts. So when Josh-
ua’s captains got around him after th-
fight and they began to talk it over
the only way under the heavens that
he could ever harmonize their state.
ments was to make the sun stand stil!
and give them all a chance.”
Any one who has ever tried to estal-
lish the exact position or hour when
anything took place in an engagement
will confirm Batchelder's experience
and possibly, If not too orthodox, se-
cept his explanation of Joshua's feat.
—Morris Schaff in Atlantic.
A MONSTER SKULL.
One That Was Said to Be Bigger Than
a Bushel Basket.
One of the most remarkable finds of
gigantic human remains of which we
have any record was that said to have
been made at Palermo, Sicily, in the
year 1516, when an entire skeleton of
unheard of proportions was unearthed
by some marble quarry men. These
mammoth remains measured exactly
thirty-four feet from head to foot and
nine feet seven inches from point to
point of the shoulders.
A stone ax buried with this old time
giant may still be seen at Palermo in
section “Z” of the St. Isorent museum.
It is made of a bluish looking, fine
grained bowlder and appears to be
about two feet eight inches long by one
foot broad and nine inches through in
the thickest place. A musty, rusty look-
ing tag attached to the relic informs
the visitor that it weighs fifty-two
pounds, but the general verdict is that
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it could not weigh over thirty or thir-
ty-five pounds.
The skeleton was burned by a mob
in the year 1662 during the prevalence
of the black death at Palermo, the
ignorant, superstitious people believ-
ing that it was connected in some mys.
terious way with the death dealing dis-
temper. The skull of this giant, ac-
cording to Abbe Ferregus, “was large-
ly excessive of the baskets sayd to
hold the bushel, being fitted above and
belowe withe teeth to the number of
sixty-foure, the each of which would
have weighed two ounces.”
Cavalier Scroy claimed to have found
a skull on Tenerife that had sixt
teeth.— Westminster Gazette.
Animal Mimicry.
Observers of nature are frequently
struck with the singular resemblances
of insects to leaves, dried sticks, etc
and these likenesses are supposed t-
have grown out of the necessity of
protection against or concealinent
from enemies. An interesting exampl:
of this
tomological society in London by a |
naturalist, who exhibited a spider |
near |
found inhabiting some rocks
Cannes, on which were also fastened
the cases of a species of moth. When
at rest the spider exhibited almost
precisely the same form and color as
the moth cases surrounding it.
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OF ALL SUMMER GOODS.
We will continue our
all Summer Goods. We
the hot weather stuffs Must be Sold now.
great Clearance Sale of
must have room and all
We
are making large reductions on all the prices.
Goods that have been sold and small lots left,and
short ends of dress patterns and less, must be sold
regardless of their cost.
You can buy the best
qualities now at the price of a cheap grade.
ABOUT 12 WASHABLE COAT SUITS,
white and all colors ; all
less than cost
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| also for sale a large collection of real aad imita.
sizes in the lot. Prices
to sew them.
Still all sizes in those
Fine Shirt Waists.
Price so low it would not pay for the material in
the waist.
We are showing new
FALL DRESS GOODS
Coat Suits, and Rain Coats which makes us anx-
ious to have the room of summer stuffs.
See our new Fall lines and get the great bar-
gains in our Summer stocks. Everything must
Fall goods are pushing them out.
be sold now.
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