| Show STEALING FRUIT IT in Is not a pleasant thing to recur to infractions of the law and of the proper of and apil but hut L wo we do it on the impulsion of circumstances which we had no hand in bringing about and the like of which every right minded person perdon regrets tho other day as is frequez frequently 17 tile the case now no w it was wag I 1 in it order to say a word upon the pro valence of or burgt burgl ailous but the thieving of bonie some bome portions of the community or so socio ate aie characters wio vilo find IS nd themselves in the community extend also to theste the stealing alim allm of fruie fruit A good deal of fruit of various kinds is ral rai raised in this city and at the tho cost of much care labor and means kome komo of our citizens depend upon eales salea of their fruit to bring them in in tile tilo wherewith to purchase a fe fow iv necess arlei arici conveniences or coul comforts lorts for tile tho winter winten how pro provoking vol drig dilg how aggravating batill g to such buch industrious citizens it must bo be to discover one of these those nine fine mornings that thieves have broken into their orchard or garden and taken their little but hut precious harvest of choice ripe fruit to raise which they had been striving stil ming ving for months and years and upon the returns for which they had been anxiously and hopefully hopeful y making calculations for some lew few needed thins thlu things s towards a comfortable sub for gome bome long dedred desired ad to their personal apparel or household furni furnishings bilings and hstings lit Ht tings yet this tah is the tile experience of not nod a sow fow iw of our citizens at tho the presen present L they ean can not leave their lots in tile the day time nor go to sleep in ili their houses without it harassing ar assing ampre honti bouzi ons uns of the rifling of their trees of their loads of fruit in the tile meantime under these circumstances were ond off derm dere discovered in the act of theft and dealt with painfully and the public sympathy could gothelp nol not help heip but ret rel wilh with llie the victims of the thieves the other day wo we heard of a poor widow who had iome tome ripening grapes to raise which bho sho had tolled toiled and watched a and n d on oil the sale of which she was depending a for some nome things 0 which she really needed but lint one night her vines were cleared of fruit by thee theo miserable sneak thieves thi evua evea and tile the morning found berwith her hen with wilh lier her hopes blasted the thief who wiio steals from the tho rich is worthy of tile the punishment due by luw liw bat but the who steals from the poor and the needy the tile widow and oile clio orp orphan hati hail is worthy not only to be punished with the utmost t ri rigor 0 or of tile tilo law lavy but to be despised by the entire community there isa is a way to put a stopper to tle tre so orchard thieves as well as to the burglars burg itra lira and some of them ril ill nuy ay find it c gut cut one Oft of ilese these nights unless their seats favati of lio llo honor norare aro are iron claland clid ini tui pepper popper proof |
