Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — NOT WHAT RSS PICTURED. [ARTICLE]

NOT WHAT RSS PICTURED.

YHc Detective Not Such * Wonderful Urt,,. After All. The ever-watchful, ever present, wij ; nd vary detective, whose doings as do j icio-i m the pages of dime novels h-.vi. , >a?» lived the ambiticu as they h .vo i ap..used the heart of the small hoy, i iots only in the imaginatio < of the v iters of those novels. The detoeti es •j :o-riay are much inferior to ihe « v'.uns who-ve pictures are so v'tidly c 7,-(i for iiie delight of the ->i>u h of ‘ & icn»’. Noli* that men are not b* uuvad.-vS with natures well‘fUxl 4 jo v 111 ferreting out a.great taysi. <3 l ;uc i.i her because men w li su h uau.ea riml im». h more lucrative f e ds of j.cploymi ni. other than the < jragrocdilcoi.eo, hwnding oovvn c oohs '.nc ! ill-eves Tiio a:o of well-lighted streets, <..! teleg a. liy and telephones, o r.igti j iiic iii anu »0 operative otatr tysns iiii.K sit a most ..a possible o j j. iH.t 1 ark n ystbvy to occur The nits, id Siii 0.6 <nd o u cation a’, ami i.et lo tuiiiy oi l uiu a iust tu ions m;\s' ',ur>: %t:i ’* j»o >t the downward path mu \ - a; r ,..t oiiii; yo ith, who, if bill ,<s. lor •. wo i I soon succeed in l'U'v.Hii* :,; (J 1, iVine-i oe.n e of’oials, and so • rot o d-utiii. d for clever detective wo ■i - steru - there are that da lyoc i:r. 1 n.t l ■ n:e an deep as the oepths of the hn 1.11 s u.. an t nothing but self-con-fut, ion ii.ii ever solve them. Tu • <1 1 1< uth of dime-novel fa ne vus rredi'.ot wifc.i possessing a won ..mi war 1 obe of the vilest combi 11 a io ,s and physical aspects. He ci a ed ,>e liinUv “that still pursues her” o er h 11 iii.d dale, into uiiu.ng camp and out 1 c,rii. among thieves banded togbthoi , a:,i. .11 otin,' in grewtome eaves uiJ jointly, vllainous-#i.oMng houses. i.iu i’v,r • veniually “downing his man" T ; .tli clock-worn prec sion and banging him m st thoroughly and trmmphan 13' but such mo 1 never lived. In the great cities of the Union de oe vc work is fast < i mmingling with the o iinarv work of ihe routine offlci r. P. y arc if:ere emergency men, liaile :> bo <lre serl in uniform and placed on a. ft’-o ary dot/ in the absence of th oiiiu-r Tlirir work is stric.ly ftNo tra .elin.g over the country it •c soar , e.vceptin cases where tdonti 1, at 0:1 is nece sary or a criminal is U be. !' 0 gilt bnnlr