It is a life thrown away, one of God's best gifts.

But if stern justice be meted out here in this world, what must the unrepenting sinner, who has trampled the divine law under foot, expect in the world to come?
San Francisco teaches a lesson which reaches farther than an earthly tribunal.

The judge on his bench is an image of the Judge who weighs human life in His balances.
There is of course crime in San Francisco as in all other cities.
Indeed crime is universal, whether in the Orient or the Occident.

The Chief of Police Wittman accounts for highway robbery, to the extent in which it prevails, from the fact that San Francisco is a garrison city.

Here are numerous recruits and discharged soldiers, and, as a seaport, it draws to itself the scum and offscourings of all nations, Hindoos, Chinese, Malays, and all other kinds of people.
The police force is hardly adequate to patrol the entire city.