Show STREET THIEVES AND BURGLARS are arc coming to a bretty pretty pass when it it is not safe to walk 1 the streets of this city ata ats at a night and before bedtime bed time too foo without danger of being beset by armed robbers with the reque 11 money or cr your life lifty this is the kind of civilization of which our citizens are getting a great deal too much nowadays now a days or rather now a nights 1 and som some vigorous measures wil will have to be taken ta to check it as it is getting near a point that is absolutely unbearable if things go on at the present rate every citizen oud at night will take na no money with him or put it where thieves will not be likely to look for it and will feel compelled insela in self seif defence to go armed and t act with determined decision when assaulted or suspiciously accosted hitherto the residents generally of this city have been uncommonly unsuspicious and forbearing concerning and towards burglars and street robbers but it is evident that a difre reut spirl t must be manifested by the citizens and it would be well for those lawless characters to know talat there are somo some persons in the community who will shoot when so attacked and shoot with the intent to hit and to hurt taking aim not at one qua end but hut at the middle of tile the target asking no odds of their villainous as saulters a fact which some of the street pads may find out to their cost one of these eventful nights night C these cases agrenot thin things s to be trifle I with and p e will applaud the nul nui n nr ul ui aho ho strikes down on the in biant and utterly disables disable any sany street robber when assaulted by him sharp shorland short shor tand and decisive hould should F bo be the response e these vile characters should meet every timo time when they ask a peaceable citizen to throw throw up his hands these street robbers and burglars havo have no claim to compassionate consideration they are not honest industrious hard working men they belong to another and a very different class they are the kind of people who do not work for a I 1 living but who set bet thease themselves ives to obtain a living by hooker by crook oil better men who do work fora living for themselves and their families these burglars ant and street robbers are beasts of prey they prey upon the better portions of the tile com eom community mu they tildy are worse than beasts of prey because a beast of prey only acts out its natural instincts and gets its living in the only way known or to it but these lawless characters know how to obtain a living in a lawful way yet they viciously choose to obtain it in an unlawful and violent way by doing wrong to others therefore such characters do not deserve t the he consideration that might i be shown to the beast of prey but should bo be struck down promptly and relentlessly when caught in the act wiped out of or existence as by a thunderbolt when practicable let lot them know that such is the determination of the community and they will speedily become much scarcer hereabouts than they are their death feath under such circumstance cum eum stance would be a gain and not a loss to the community dead they wb would u ld enrich the soil suppose awo two wo or three men were to try the experiment of going along 7 the streets heavily armed and aud lightly shod say with a double shotgun shot gun and one or og two good seven shooters each one of the party going a little ahead of the others and the latter keeping within active supporting distance would it be at a healthy thing for two or three brigands brigande bri gands to ill iLi assault sault either of those men not very it would do the brigande brigands bri gands good to ask one of those hose men to throw up his hands it if there must be encounters with street thieves clat Is 19 tho the klad mad of encounter that everybody would like to hear of or every time street thieves would not last long under that treatment and burglaries would soon become few and far between |