The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-06-21


much with their hook and line as full grown
man would in the cornheld.
We have fine hstchinv establishment and
y Board Of State Fish Commissions =. who
are only too anxious that people should a, MI
themselvts Of this important addi' ion to the
already long list or Profitable farm products.
ROBBERY AS A FINE ART.
New York does nothing by halves except
mind her own business. She sits on Two Of
the IN jst magnificent water fronts in the world
and sings "pnalore," while ten miles Of
wretched, rotten, rat-eaten wharves drive
away her commerce. That's her business
Thousands Of her little children are murder
ell by oyer,crOwded and lily ventilated school.
rooms, and she seems satisfied. That is 'hvr
business" too She-wel, both sides Of your
paper would not begin to tell how goriously
she leaves undone whatever In her corporate
capacity she ought to do; and II I must draw
the line somewhere, 1t might rs well be over
her poor chldren's graves as anywhere. hut
when you come to private enterprise the scene
changes. Fabulous sums aud boundless ener-
pies are poure like water upon the thunder
ing dripping wheel that drives the furious,
overstimuated civilization of the hour 1t
matters little whether the enterprise be Z ,ud
or evil, It is elevated by sharp competition and
the attrition of acute minds to u fine arr or
science. Robbery Is one fthese fine arts now
being rescued from mediocrity. 1t Is indeed
entitled to be classed among the exact
sciences. Our thieves are skillful, trained,
ambitious; and are the one body of men not
to be disparagcd. They know when every
banker pu's up his exchanges; when every
merchant sends his cash to banl when every
manufacturer draws out his wage-money, and
the habits Of nearly every man worth 'obbing.
They are content to wait weeks or months tOr
the safest and latest time lor pluudering their
victims. Court records have proved all these
thousand times. In sober earnest | aver
that whomsooyer they deem it profitable and
safe to rob iUW be robbed and he who boasts
he cannot be robbed simply SHOWS how little
he knows of life in great cities An acquain-
tance Of mine who had frequently made that
boast was robbed twice in one day last month,
Men who are lawfully smart" may baffl5 the
thieves, provided they wear valuableS only in
the waist-coat, button up tight, resolutely re-
fuse to think ofanythng else, and are incap-
able of being thrown off their guard. But
II nm cannot - throu-h lite with no thought
but of "pickpockets" in his mind. If these
gentry think it worth while to have your
watch or pocketbook, they are going TO have
it-that's all.
All these thieves are well known to the po-
lice, but the blue coats are believcd to be often
in alliance with them, and several recent in
vestigations develop the fact that there are
professional burglars on the police force,
known to have piled their nearious arts on
their own beats, and yet are neither imprison-
ed nor even removed from the iOrccl There are
many excellent and noble men on the force,
but as body they have sadly degenerated in
the past few years; and VIII II Gotham, some-
time in the dim future, makes up its mind to
attend to its own business, it will have live
ly time looking after the accomplished crim-
inals who have graduated during the present
reign ofpolce ineltclency. MoRLEY.