A man or a woman thirsting for liquor will steal anything to get money for whisky.

The article stolen may be a coat, a pair of boots or a dress--something worth from five to twenty dollars.

It is taken to one of these harpies, and sold for fifty cents or a dollar--anything to get enough for a drunken spree.

I am speaking only of what I know.

Then, again, a man or a woman gets stupidly drunk in one of the whisky-shops.