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Show I NEW YORK CITY IS A WILD PLACE. There never was a western city I quite so wild as Is New York. The dispatches tell us that on Tuesday twenty sharpshooter armed with re-ipeatlm; re-ipeatlm; rifles, drove through the streets of New York searching for bandits and they were Instructed in SDOOl any one attempting to gpf be-ond be-ond their reach. Although the citizens are equipping themselves with guns and police are being placed everywhere, holdups and robberies continue Storekeepers, and even bankers ate robbed in their places of business and women arp i liloroformcd In their homes. Chicago also has Us wave of crime A sailor and three men in army uniforms uni-forms turned bandits in order to get a little Christmas spending money. There Is evidence that our code of morals is failing to impress many men in the United States. It was the exception years ago for men to lightly regard the strict letter of the law. Today radicals are preaching preach-ing violence and reckless fellows are turning bandit rr i I |