Year: 1861

n Penitentiary furnishes the Phila
: delphia Inquirer with the follow


ing advice as precaution agains
t being robbed:


e 81 will begin with burglary. Ii
the first place most robberies az.
what is called put up, i. e., some
; one has given information where
| money is kept in private dwelling
houses, or that they can get SC


much by entering some particular
place, or, if it is a store, where all
+; the best goods are to be found, OF


where the safe key is hidden, il


any are so foolish as to leave one


in their store. Persons should


never let servants or even acquain-


tances, know where they keep


their money; not that they would


be the means Intentionally of get


ting them robbed, but they might


merely say 10 some one else, what


a nice place Mr.. or Mrs, So-and-so


has for keeping their money


This, perhaps, goes the rounds un-


I'll some burglar hears of it HIM


self, or he is told by some one else.


But now for the remedy. | hope


so far, | am understood in specify


ing as to the manner of keeping


your money, and what keeps yours
money safe.


''The remedy is very simple
in private dwell ings and stores,


keep dog; also light all night


There is nothing a burglar dislikes


to find so much as a light burning


and dog. In private dwelling


a small dog will answer-if he


but barks at the approach of any


one; if he does not he is useless.
Keep him in day time where no
one can make his acquaintance,
and where he will not get acquain-
ted with any ones voice but your
own, or some one you can place !
the greatest confidence in. L
would advise those having silver
plate to keep it in their bedrooms,
and when they 60 to bed lcck the
door; have couple Of good bolts
on the door besides the lock-
Burglars can open the door from
the outside if the key is left in,
and if taken out they can enter
with false ones; but if there are
good bolts they will have to pry
the door, and in so doing will be
sure to awaken you. | say they
will pry the door, mean, if there
are bolts on the door they would
have to force an entrance, and
this all burglars will not do, in
all cases. Burglars are more
afraid of being detected than you
are of being robbed and murdered.
If you hear any noise, just ask
who is that?' and if there is no
man about the house, say, John,
you had better see what's the
cause of the noise down stairs, or
whatever it is; before any one /,
could get there they would be !
gone, rest assured of this, for they
are as afraid of coming in contact
with you as you are with coming
in contact with them.


A word to storekeepers and
merchants, and then we are done ,
on burglary. Storekeepers and ,
merchants residing in other parts ;
Of the city than where they keep
their store will adopt the same {
means that | have pointed out to
those living in private houses, with /
this exception: instead of small
dog they should have a good large
Watchdog; bitch is the best, for !.
many reasons Take the same
that / have already ]
mentioned in keeping it where no q
one will make its acquaintance. '


1t may be a mystery to some !
to know how stores are
'weeded" of their best goods
silks, laces. sc. The mystery is t
very easily explained. No one {
Else but some onethat is employed t
,bout the store could well give 7
his information, and such is the
,ase. It's your porter, clerk, or
ome one of the employees, that {
las your place robbed of the best n
foods. If you have fast young 0
nen, or old men that frequent t