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Show Set a Detective on Higaself. A curious story is told concerning a prominent merchant of our sister city, Troy. This gentleman was blessed with as good a stock of this world's goods as could be desired, but he was a kleptomaniac. klepto-maniac. Webster defines kleptomania as "a morbid desire or impulse to steal." Try as hard as he could, this unfortunate man found it impossible to restrain himself him-self from purloining knickknacks here and there. If he wentinto a lady's house and she stepped out of the room for a moment, as sure as fate an oddity in the shape of a paper knife, a paper weight, or in fact almost any trifle that came to his eye went into his pocket. He knew he was stealing. He did not need to do so. He did not wish to, but he could not help it. He is now cured. How? Ho finally hit upon a splendid plan. He hired a companion to attend his every footstep, a shadow, aa it were, and a substantial and preventive shadow. This shadow was none other than a private pri-vate detective. Where his substance would endeavor to mako away with things which he saw the shadow would quietly and easily prevent him. For nearly two years this treatment was followed. fol-lowed. And his friends never suspected? It is said, no. Albany Argus. |