He is known to be worth fifty thousand dollars to-day.

How did he make this large sum?
By the profits of his bar?
No one believes this.
It has been by robbing his drunken and criminal customers whenever he could get them in his power." "I am oppressed by all this," said Mr.Dinneford.

"I never dreamed of such a state of things." "Nor does one in a hundred of our good citizens, who live in quiet unconcern with this pest-house of crime and disease in their midst.

And speaking of disease, let me give you another fact that should be widely known.

Every obnoxious epidemic with which our city has been visited in the last twenty years has originated here--ship fever, relapsing fever and small-pox--and so, getting a lodgment in the body politic, have poured their malignant poisons into the blood and diseased the whole.
Death has found his way into the homes of hundreds of our best citizens through the door opened for him here." "Can this be so ?" exclaimed Mr.Dinneford.
"It is just as I have said," was replied.