Show ROBBERY IS RIFE the woolda fair city is having a hard bard time of it w ith the lawless gangs which make it their heal headquarters quarters thus far in advance of the big show and the question now is ia where it will end andhor and how in IB addition to the open and nefarious work of the highwaymen it seems seem as if robberies of various kinds were rife ife and nobody is ia safe eafe not even the policemen the papers cry out against it call on the officers for increased vigilance and treat the subject in all manner of ways waye denunciation reproach rial ridicule cule ex erz postulation and calm reasoning but all to no purpose the gold burglar still burgles bur glee 11 the footpad makes his all but regular nocturnal calls calla the read agent is as audacious as an ever I 1 and even the various departments of sneak thieving seem to be doing a flourish ing business A recent issue of the chicago rewa news record after moralizing moral izing on the last named branch of the suck such reflections are called up by the report of an alleged attempt on the part of an aim investment company to beguile young women clerking in big stores on a weekly wage into placing their money in a lottery scheme like all lottery schemes this one it is said saidi has baa jut but one prize drawing and that to is made by the company money digap pears in its investments as an water vanishes through a 4 sieve yet are there many men as well as women who cannot resist the specious promises of quick wealth by any scheme whatsoever W h A t it if as is said several of chi bagoe s young saleswomen have been cheated out of their dollars it is be cause they did not pause to think that investment companies are not lying awake nights thinking how to make other people rich the antidote for tae specific complaint herein outlined is contained contain ej in 11 the last few lines if people would only use such judgment as an they have or at least not rely exclusively upon that of people who have a scheme on hand the design of which is to secure them something for nothing I 1 there would be lose less of that class of robbery committed there are too many of our race who are as harmless harmle ag as a dove without being as wise as a serpent |