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THEHE BALDiCnippewa Falls* Wisconsin.FRIDA Y, JAXUARYM, 1885UNSETTLEDLight in the head—it seems to me 1‘tn losing, somewhat, my decision, And if these moods refuse to (ice 0 1 v brain will need a close revision.Before I saw her, all the States Were not too vast for me to stray ;u; But now the limits of her gates ...Are not too small for me stay in.Otic© to my sight the violet s blue Was all that poet ever ranted;But now her eye’s diviner hue Has my bewildered sight enchanted.Bed roses blushing by a bed ;4;- tt.Of snow-white lilies held my glances,Hiat grace is lost, that eharm is tied § Her lit s and cheeks shame former fapoeS.rho moroins: noiig of morning bird Was sweetest music and tho clearosv., But now my deepest soul is stom ,By her low voice that is the dearest.h, if this heart desert me yet,^Tni well aware that I should flnd ItEntangled in a golden net.Where her rich tresses brightly bind it![f when I ask she should reject—No, no, that thought shall not disarm me,TO claim her as myAnd trust her answer will not harm mel—C. L. Cleveland, in Chicago Ourrent.SHOP-LIFTING.Tho Extent to Which it is Carriedon in New York City.Crime to Which Women arc rarticu larly Addicted-How the Thieve* are Detected—Pitiful Case# of Kleptomania.saleswoman ;n a Bowery *fcr©suspected two young women lt;f op-lifting. Watching them clos^.y ho saw one of them stnll a d rc«+* into a large pocket, carried under her clrrs.%-skirt. where it was' found when sheAras arrested. The other girl pretended to le respectable, and said that she hadmet the thief in the street. Shu hadaccompanied her tg tive.store to see l«*rbuy a silk dress. They were both sentto the penitentiary.In all sorts of ways the Shoplifter tries to escape' detection: Even whenshe is seen taking articles from the counters the stolen things may not be found 'upon her unless'she is thoroughly searched. Nearly every shoplifter has her false pocket, where she secreteswhat is not hers by purchase or right. Besides this, she does the trick of putting small articles in the folds of her shalvl or dress. A detective suspecting a woman of shoplifting in a shoe-s-ere on fcbxth avenue arrested her after she had left the place and took her back. The store-keeper said t|iat he did not have any reason to suspect the prisoner. The detective insisted upon her being• JVi 1Isearched by the store-kceper\s wife, pair of shoes were found hanging to a ii/mir the woman s irarter.*hook attached to the woman s garter.•With some women shoplifting is amania. Although comfortably off they will steal as often as they get an opportunity^ The store-keepers do not arrest ymmen of this class, because they have ways of recovering the value of the stolen articles. The husband is made aware of the facts in the case, and he alwaj^s makes good the loss.The most pitiful cases are those in which the woman, otherwise .respectable, is caught in her first attempt. She can not tell why she was guilty of her crime; all that she can say s that She was. tempted, and in a moment of weakness . committed the act. When tliocn ivnmpn nn* n.rmi.omed in court forr-A
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Chippewa Falls Herald

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, US

Fri, Jan 30, 1885

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