The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-18

man who had slipped pair of gloves
 into her huff. The mere look in her
 eyes told him that she was thief
 On another occasion he saw a woman
 with an unrolled umbrella that seemed
 to bulge suspiciously down around the
 middle. He found that she had slipped a silver backed hairbrush and three me napkin rings into her cleyerly arranged
 receptacle. Triumphs of this kind were
 of almost daily occurrence, and Stand
 ish Foote was complimented by his em-
 ployers.
 The f1oorWalker was leaning agalnst showcase, wondering if he was not en-
 titled to a raise of salary for what ne had done, when his attention became
 fixed upon man of about 60 years or age who kept a hand carefully placed upon one of his overcoat pockets, Wh ch bulged like q terrier pup after lapplng up quart of milk. Standish Foote had the mans measure taken in moment. There was something in his look that said sneak as plainly as it is printed here. He went from counter to courier, handling things and apparently watch
 
 them At last he reached the jewelry department and asked to be allowed to See some diamonds rings. Foote stood behind him and told the clerk in pan- tomine that dangerous customer was 1 being dealt with. The man saw the clerk nod her head and wink, so he l looked around, and seeing MT. Foote motioning like an orchestra leader with InoiI tHs pcIy at shown signs of nervousness. A moment later he started toward the door, The floorwalker realized that the time to act had arrived, and rushing forward said
 "Just 2 moment, please. I'd like to have you step back to the private office with me-"
 What for?" the man demanded, try ing to edge little nearer the door.
 NO matter. You come with me, and the less fuss you make about it the better it'll be for you
 II want you to explain yourself" the ! stranger replied. ''Who wishes to see i, me in your private office?'
 1T do' said Standish Foote,
 Well what's your husiness?"
 You know; what have you got in that pocket?" i
 The old man was scared. He tried to back toward the door, but a crowd had begun to gather and haunted look crept into his eyes.
 Foote was in his glory. It was evil dent that he had made an important capture.
 After a moments hesitation the thief said:
 Come on, I'll go to the private office with you"
 When they got there the manager of the store and detective were sent for and in five minutes the criminal was commanded to empty his pockets.
 Very nervous, and with face that
 was as red as an anarchist flag he began by taking out his knife and a bunch of keys and some loose change, when the fioorwalker said; Come, we don't care for those things Let's see what you have in that over- coat pocket The man hesitated and tried to stam- ner something. Then he produced sev- a.aal packages. One was labeled: Dye Or the hair and whiskers." Another $ vas a lotion guaranteed to remove z and third contained a hair 1 OilIC WdiThuleu LO cause q Iutl SIVWlD # hair on the boldest head in six { veeks." There was also wash for the g complexion and massage glove with l directions for filling out hollow cheeks 2 md reducing fabby chins," not to men, c ion a package of tablets for sweeten- Y ng the breath. c The manager and the detective looked lelplessly at Foote, and the foorwall1- I 1T, pale and wild-eyed, gazed at the r packages which had been unwrapped r md piled in front of him. As for the il he tried to avoid looking at nybody, and still had the general air of h ne who would have been willing to 0 ump through a window to get away. s 1t last Standish Foote asked: f. Why did you want to look at rines?" b TT thought of buying one for the T irl--T mean the lady-I expect to tl larry,' the man replied, little above e, whisper. h Standish Foote wilted down into a s hair the manager looked for a lad a CT on which to crawl out and the de- T active said: ar Well, if you're willing to let it go tf ell agree not to say anything about V, The compact was made and Standish oote returned to his work without the cT lad hope of receiving a raise of salary Christmas present-Chicago Rec- 'd-Herald.