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Show The Philadelphia Ltdyer points the moral of a recent commercial transaction developed in a New York criminal court recently. A dry goods clerk was on trial on a charge of dishonesty, dis-honesty, preferred by bis employer. The latter gave a woman two One-dollar One-dollar notes, which she was o hand the young man, aa if by mistake for a tingle note. The trap was well baited, and tho youth fell into it, putting put-ting tho odd dollar into bis pocket. But he was not without a defence. In his own behalf be stated that he had been educated to dishorn sty. Ilia employers had been selling "damagi d goods," representing that they had been welted at a fire, when in fact the hydrant in the cellar had been biought into requisition to damage' them. The cltiiks were compelled to J tell falsehoods about the goods, aod were thus trained in a school of rascality. ras-cality. If law and justice were aj nonymous, the young man, who1 simply fcllowed out bis employer's teachings, ought to have been in- j vitted to step down ana out of tho j prisoner's dock and his employer' should have beeu sent to jail. As it : was, tho accused was acquitted. But ; the moral of tho trial ij worth its cost. A business man who cheats hid ! customers may be sure that his clerks will rob him. " ! |