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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY ATKMIST, 27, 18.01. OLD THINGS ARE BEST. OU things arc lies;. Wo wamior So stran;;.'iy ;inri so lo-.x-'.y From hurt- to Ihut wrUl yur.dor, Why not t'ov fond a:ul fumler Iu trti'J ;iiIi:oI!oiih only. Old friends are bos-t. Their faces Each year seem iVli:-;". d"ur"r, Atld ylow with new IV.uid graces! Then, u!i! These v:'i-;nit i.laees Hut liri:is 'he :lv:n;.- nearer. Old homes are W-.it. Tin' laughter That tells of dilklhood' ; ;lc;iin-i's lieneath the ancse:,; ru.'ter, Surpasses all thU's a;.er And all ol rna::hood's ir-uyurcs. Old love is host. Its sweetness Makes pleasant sorrow's eliallco, And spite of Time's dread lleetness It gains in calm completeness And laughs at A.-e's malice. Old faith is best: tlie teachin? Of heart enshi l:ed mothers, What profits untitle preaching. Or blind and eager rs acliir.n For doubt that n oelis and smotriersl Old ways are best : the gladness Of simpler lives and titter, lire wealth liad como with madness, Or folly left its sadness. And sin its lessons hitter. Old tilings are best. The slimmer Of u'e forbids new choices. Oh, as mine eyes crow dimmer, Faintly across the shimmer Waft me the old, sweet voices! (.leorye llorton, in t'litcmjo Herald SHOPLIFTERS. Some of Their Clavcr Tricks Ingenious Dovices. and "Every vestige, of the fashionable 'kick' has disappeared," said a detec tive to m the other day, when I re quested his views regarding :t certain phase of metropolitan life. The shoplifter's "kick" is the technic al name for the capacious bap or pocket she w ho prefers to "buy" when the clerk has his back turned has con cealed under her cloak, or, rather, sewed to the same on the left side, or which men have under the left coat tail. It is not by reason of an edict by Beau McAllister that the old "kick" is going out of use, but because section 508 of the penal code makes it a crimi nal offense for anyone to have it iu his or her possession. It is both in sorrow and in anger that shoplifters are parting with it; but the "cops" having "pot on" to it it had to po, fur it stood as conclu sive proof apainst it3 owner. From several stores detective- learned that tho methods used In "workinp" the old "kick" had become so well known to them and to salesgirls that shoplifters saw the necessity of keep ing pace with a progressive age. Ho a more convenient contrivance was got tcn up. It is called a "hoisting kick." This consists of a regular dress skirt, so far as appearance goes, covered by an apron overskirt, which is short, and can be raised easily. In the front of the underskirt is a wide vertical slit which is but the open ing to the immense bag which tho. underskirt consists of, it going around the entire body and down to the heels. This was found more convenient than the side "kick," from the fact that it necessitated less movement and a mo tion that aroused little suspicion. The thief would stand close to a counter where small articles are ex posed, generally lace or silk handker chiefs or stockings. She would take) one in her hands, examine it. hold it on i the edpe in front f her, call for some thing else, and while the salesgirl had her back turned would slip it into tha slit. As the "kick" is made of paper mus lin the stolen articles would slip down easily. Should the thief miss the aperture a rare occurrence, for they are persons of nerve the article would fall on the floor and the thief would pick it up, replace it on the counter and claim that it was an accident, which it really was. This worked well, until several shop lifters using this "kick" were arrested and searched, which exposed the wholo thing, and now there are few of them in existence. So the evil-doer's genius had again to be called into requisition, and a woman who was arrested in a Sixth avenue store showed how she had improved on that style. She wore a beautiful flounced dress, covered with a short apron overskirt, draped and eaupht up here and there in such a va.y as to form natural-looking puffs. This went around the entire body, and a little to the right was a pocket, rendered absolutely invisible by the drapery. When searched an in credible amount of articles of all sorts, stolen from different stores, were found in the underskirt. A detective told me at a notorious shoplifter was oucn caught who had in her "kick" two pieces of laee of twenty-five yards each, worth twenty-nine dollars a yard; two pairs of silk stock ings, ono silk and one lace handker chief, a piece of sceutud soap and a ynimmagem scarfpin worth forty-eight cents, all of which she had stolen in various stores in Sixth avenue. And, htrmige to say, it wus the cheapest of "rt!les that retr her the ta? iltio(J at i-i "e Wi 1 rat i d'etre, so to ;pcal, ami worked no :rl:::ir;ibly, that, it wns a longtime bo-f-iv the iltfteetivos 'V;ur,rht on," luaiiy thousand dollars' u i M'tli of arti cles were stolen by this means before un arrest was made. Tlte !irt capture was eauseil by a salesgirl at a laee wmnter in a Twenty-third .street store. She had not seen the shoplifter put nny tliin r in the bandbox, but had been attracted by the singular manner in which the cover was closed -apparently of itself. She notified a tloorwalker. Tlie woman was. called into a private room, accused and searched, and in the bandbox were articles enough to start, a miniature- country fanev jfooils store. Among other things she had thirteen scarfs, an inkstand, a cinr holder and u dice box, stolen from dilTerei.t stores which showed that her tastes ex tended over a wide tiehl. Wei!, the bandbox has had a brilliant but comparatively brief career, and few arrests were caused by its use, but those that were mad.1 occurred within a few days, and t'.ie workers of the con trivance saw that the panic was up and (rave up the ghost. There is no record of any having been used recently. This was in time succeeded by a simpler trick, one that has long been worked with success, because it creates no suspicion. It i.i the satchel pirao. Although store detectives say it is com paratively dormant just now, it wnscx ter .sively worked during the holidays. These are used for stealing pocket books as well as poods. They are, in appearance, like, ordi nary hand satchels, but they open and close by means of a spring. The thief's right hand presses a button, and the left, which 1;; always unploved, does j the rest. It is by this means that 1 poekethooks are oftenest stolen in crowded dry poods stores, and this has j served to make trouble for mwny sales I girls. The pickpocket (for such he or she is) generally works with a confederate. She first espies a woman with a pocket book in her hand and they are legion. Sho will follow that woman in the pen erally pratilled expectation that she will ere long deposit it on the counter where she stops to examine goods. The thief will crowd near and snatch the poeketbook in a twinkling at the first opportunity and pass it to the eon federate, who disappears and has not been noticed near. The real thief can remain beside the victim with safety, as, should she be nnested, nothing can be found ou her. As the best, inventions are penerally the simplest so are the latest and mo6t successful method of shoplifting. These are three. One. is done hy means of the cloak known as the connemara. This is made somewhat like a circular. It is a lonp, loose oioak, covering even the hands. It enables the thief not only to steal with a preater deprce of safety but also to conceal her booty. All she has to do is to pet near a crowded counter, throw the edpe of her cloak partly over the article which sho covets, slip her hand underneath the cloak, take the article, step back niul hold it in her hand, t'nless she is eaupht in the act she cannot be arrested or even suspected. Another is still simpler. The thief !ws her handkerchief carelessly on some, small article she wants to steal, f.dpns a desire to buy something else, is not suited, and while the saleslady replaces the poods on the shelf the thief picks up her booty with her handker- chief. If she should happen to be caught she naturally claims that she did not know that she had the stolen article in her possession. The third one is worked by means of a handbag containing twine and wrap ping paper. This bag is carried in the left hand and filled with whatever goods the shoplifter can secure; then she will go Into the toilet room or some side street, take out tho goods, paper and twine, wrap them up in a neat par cel and try again or go away unmo lested. Hut perhaps the cleverest of the shop lifters' tricks is the "pennyweighter1' game. It is known to but few and practised by a still smaller number, for it is a difficult one. It has been most successfully worked by a pretty little blonde, with a baby face, blue eyes, curly hair and the general appearance of a bewitching souhrvtto. Her profes sional name is "Little Seotty." She came to grief in Boston aud was given three years. Her mode of working is to go to a jewelry store and ask to be shown looso diamonds on a tray. She pre tends to bo very shortsighted and bends over and very close to tho tray, exam ining the diamonds through an eye- glass. She exposes her left hand so as not to b.? suspected, and at a propitious moment dr ip.", a one-e.irat diamond into th;; trav, and with her tongue, on the point of which she hr.s pulverized alum, shj lic'.is up a two-c.-.r.'.t diamond. She cannot fin! the exact counterpart of the one she wantj to r.iateh (which sho has not v itli her) and goes into another stor; where sho exchanges her tw carat diamond in a similar manner for a ttif.'c-ezrat, and so on ad Infinitum, v hen she was caught she had started 1th a one-carat diamond and had c'n-d six and a half carats, making e or four hundred dollars in a few i. re detectives say that there aro actively few professional shop s in the city now, and once they aught they disappear as soon as law permits and never return. y go to other cities. They say that jposedly respectable women now ive them more trouble than thieves. I found out, to my astonishment, that there aro comparatively lew ol our large stores who employ detectives, the majority of them training their sales girls and floorwalkers to do that work, Still, I found one which, besides hav ing a man detective, also employed a oman, who mixes among customers '11 street costume. all store thieves are caught, and vho are captured aro not always ed. And this entails a loss to class store which runs up into ands, and which has a place rout and loss" account.- N. N K W A 1 V E 1 ITI Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, the favorite cough cure, relieves Asthma, cures Bronchitis, and, if taken during the earlier 6ymptoms of the disease, prevents Consumption of the lungs. Even in the later stages of that malady, this preparation eases the distressing cough, and induces refreshing sleep. Asthma, ' "Asthma and lung troubles are here.litai y in my family. My father, mother, sisteis. and hrollH-is all sum-red from pulmonary diseases and ilinl nearly forty years a no. About that time, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral was recommended in me as a relief for asthma. commenced using this medicine mid was astonished to tiiul that the sense of sitlfo,-.i-tion ami difficulty of bicathini; quickly ills iippeaieil. Indeed 1 am satislied that with out Ayer's Cherry Pectoral I should never have attained my present ace, 77 years. I have recommended the use of this medicine to hundreds of x-rso;is suffering from asthma mill diseases of the throat ninl luncs. and have never known it fad to iillord speedy re-Uk1."-H. U While, l oad dti I.ac, Mich. Bronchitis. "Suffering for seme time from chronic bronchitis, which would not yield to any medicine, I was at lust recommended hy my druggist lo try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Two bottlcsof this preparation restored ti it- to per- ' feet health." Knriipie Alotizo, San Domingo, j "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cured me ol a had ! cough and my partner of bronchitis. I know j of numerous cases In which this preparation has proved very beneficial iu families of ! young cleldren, so that the medicine! is known among them as the consoler ol the ' afflicted.' "-Jan. Kuilel, Saucho, V. Va. I Consumption. I have been a life-long sulTerer from I weak lungs, nud, till I used Ayer's Cherry 1'eetoral, was scarcely ever free from a' cough. This medicine always relieves my rough and strengthens my lungs, as no other I medicine ever did. 1 have induced many to use it in throat and lung troubles, and it always proved beneficial, pariicnl ar!y so in the case of my son-in-law. Mr. A. Snow, of I'ns place, who was cured of a severe cough its use."-Mrs. I,. I. ( loud, lienton, Ark. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, Prepared by .DR. J. C. Ater & Co.. Lowell, Mass. Sold by all DrugtfisU. Price $1. 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Within a month I have sent some of this preparation loa friend sulTering from bronchitis and asthma. II has done him so much good that he w rote for more. I do all Iu my power to recommend this medicine." Charles V. lMimterville, I'lymouth, hug. 'Having thoroughly tested the properties ol Ayer's Cherry I'ecloral as a remedy lor bron chial and throat allcctions, 1 am glad to tes tify to the merits of this preparation."-!. .1, Macmurray, Author and Lecturer, Jiipb-y, O, "In the w inter of issi I took a severe cold, which, in spite of every known remedy, grew worse, so that the family physician consid ered me Incurable, supposing me to be in consumption. As a last resort, 1 tneii Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and, in a short time, the cure was complete. Since then I have never been without this medicine. I am fifty years of age. weigli ovei ISO pounds, aim attribute my good health to Ayer's Cher "' Pectoral." (1. W. Youkcr, Salem, X. ,1. 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