A Modern Sodom

According to the New York Mail and Express, there are 100,000 petty thieves in New York city, - a promising situation, truly. There 8 a vast floating army of men and women, well dressed and apparently respectable, who live by their wits. All the dry goods stores now employ detectives to watch customers, and still their losses from shoplifters are rnany. A pólice sergeant told a reporter of the Mail and Express : "There Í8n't a bank, insurance office, dry goods store, restaurant, or hotel that does not ernploy men to watch their customers, and there is hardly a business house in this city that has not some systemof watching its employés." What a str.te of affairs in a Christian (?) city in this century ! All distrust ! One peraon in every twenty a thief warring against society ! Count in all these thieves, the prisoners, the idiotie and insane, and the paupers, beggars and drunkards, and they probably will number almost One quarter of the population. __