Year: 1874

thousand reasons it is to be hoped that we are not
to have an Epidemic of Child Stealing. In the first
place. 1t is u felony easy of accomplishment Unless
children are kept in burgar-proof safes, they Will
wander away from their guardians, and they will
go oil with strangers who make them pretty promises.
We shall not attempt to depict the agony of parent
thus bereaved and feeling the hope of recovery
becomes smaller and smaller that the death of
the child would have been less ntolerabe. Another
painful feature of the matter is the necessity which
it may entail of making terms with the childsealer.
This may be the only resource, though, after ALL it
is compounding of felony. But what is q parent
to dof Under such circumstances, he must make
the best bargain possible. How can he be expected
to wait patiently for the necessarily slow processes
of the policei In nine out of ten he will,
if able buy back his lost child at any price. The
thief knows this-it the uncomfortable feeling
upon which he has been speculating from the very
first. There seems to he no resource save the
prompt and severe punishment of the child-stealer
whenever he can DO apprehended. Imprisonment
for life appears be the least penalty adequate TO
such a horrible crime. Thousands of wretches have
been hanged for offenses infinitely smaller.


Before and after-it is always the same story! The
other day in Detroit an individual from the rural
districts having considerable money in his possess
sion and being moderately drunk was warned by a
policeman to take care of himself To which the
self-cOnfident bacchanal responded: "You bet l
will Why, Mister, I'm chain lightning rolled up
in ball and stuck full OF red hot bowie knives
I'm thunderbolt from the North I'm regular
rip-up thunderbolt! Folks want to let me alone,
they dol" Alas that such dream of invincibility
should be dissipatedl When the next morning
dawned, the drinker where was hef Well, he was
discoveredby the same policeman fast asleep in a
coal-shed. His eyes were in mourning, and there
was q non-natural hole In his head. Watch gone
Money gone The policeman, arousing the slum-
bcrer, with a touch of irony in his tone, inquired :
Aren't you the Thunderbolt from the North ~
Then the Thunderbolt sat up, and slowly and sadly
replied: "No, haint 'zackly thunderbolt, but Pm
the burned fool who thought he wasp


The syndicates by which the new loan has been
carried of to have been organized by the First
National Bank. represented by Mr.. Fahnestock
who managed the Government business of Jay Cooke
g. Co.. and kept his hands unspotted from railroad
schemes). and by the Seligmans. The Rothschilds
were brought in by direct negotiations with their
London house. 1t has long been known that they
were greatly discontented at their ll-luck in failing
to negotiate any of the earlier United States loans
and that they made secret of their belief that it
due to the political prejudces of their American
agent. The head Of their London house said as
much. and in many words, to prominent public
man Of this country only month or two ago. This
time they communicated direct with New Workers,
experienced IN GQYerllnent loans. aad have W.